Thunder never strikes twice!

"So..Team rocket got even more active as of late." Lance said, folding his arms.He was in the champions room with the elite 4 and some of the gym leaders.

"Ever since red's disappearance…."

"Where's Surge and Misty?" Lance asked looking around the room if he could identify them.

"Surge is dealing with an incident that happened at the pokecenter in his city- and Misty…we haven't heard from her in a while."

Mutters and whispers began to fill the room.

"She told me she was going to one of the islands on Granite islands….to find out what this new evil team is about." Koga spoke.

His hair was black and spiky.

He wears a uniform of skilled ninjas.

"Right…Team paradox-" Lance sighs.

"We can't keep track of the activities of both evil teams; they're doing too much too fast.."

"We're going to have to call him….a trainer stronger and more skilled than me…"

"The only one who can rival red."

"Are you certain he would help us?" Lorelei, a woman with glasses and red hair tied into a long ponytail questioned his new found course of action.

"Of course...and with Giovanni out of the picture I'm pretty sure what his reward will be as a result."

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"So if i beat these guys one more time-" Blue tried to make sense of the offer that was being presented by him.

"You'll give me the title of 8th gym leader?"

Koga nodded at the question.

They were meeting in saffron city right outside the pokecenter. The streets were busy so no one noticed them or gave them much thought.

Blue gave it some thought.

"Am I going alone?"

"Only if you wish." Koga informed him.

"You have three days to get comrades to go with you to the Unova region, otherwise you go alone."

"Three days? Dang you guys are in a hurry." Gary scratched his head.

"So what happened to the boy, I wonder? Surely you didn't come to me first when he existed."

"We've lost touch with the champion a long time ago…He gave the role of champion back to Lance as soon as he became one."

'The nerve of that guy…he took the champion role from me and gave it back to lance almost immediately. Did he just do that for kicks and laughs??'

"Oh and one more thing." Gary reached into his bag to look for something.

"Your guys are gonna pay for my boat trip right?"

He looked back at Koga with an SS.Anne brochure in hand but Koga was already gone.

"Cheap skates.." Gary muttered under his breath before putting the brochure back into his bag.

"Well ..i guess i have to find someone to go with me-"

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It's been a week since the incident at the pokemon center …the gym was closed for a while because of the incident and as i said before i refused to leave this city without my gym badge.

That day I woke up early to challenge him, Chloe was still asleep.

I throw on my scarf and gloves ready for my battle with him.

"Ready Zorua?" I turned to my partner as we approached the gym doors. Zorua was as ready as I am for a rematch.

I pushed through the doors, eyes focused on one thing and one thing only.

Surge looked like he was expecting me.

"Welcome back, challenger!" Surge said his voice boomed through the gym.

"Zorua…" when Zorua heard her name she jumped onto the battlefield ready.

"Go Voltorb!" Surge sent out his pokemon from last time.

"Zorua use shadow ball!" Zorua charged a ball of shadow in its mouth sending it flying at voltorb!

Voltorb couldn't dodge the attack and took the hit directly.

"Voltorb! Use Swift!!" Surge commanded.

Voltorb started to shoot stars at Zorua hitting her, the attack seemed to do more damage than usual.

"Now use dark pulse!"

Zorua uses dark pulse hitting the voltorb and making it unable to battle.

"Good job Zorua!" We won the first one and now it's time for the real deal..

"Zorua..step back would you?" Zorua looked up to me and nodded before coming to my side one more time.

"Go Charmeleon!" I tossed my pokeball.

Charmeleon breathes fire into the air as soon as it's released on the field.

"I'm fired up too." I said , throwing my scarf over my shoulder ready to battle.

"GO! Raichu!!" Surge sent out his final pokemon, the very pokemon that caused us trouble the first time.. But this time will be different! This time me and Charmeleon will be on the same wavelength!

"Charmeleon use flamethrower!!" I commanded, pointing at the Raichu with full force!

Charmeleon leaned back charging a mouth full of powerful flames, flames so hot I could feel them from where i'm standing.

"Raichu use thunder punch!" Raichu tried to get as close as possible to Charmeleon to attack him.

"Charmeleon release it now!!" I commanded opening my palm as he released a mouth full of flames at the Raichu!

Raichu got hit and was forced to step back but still getting hit by the attack.

Raichu seemed like it was about to faint from it's burns.

It seems to be in constant pain from the attack.

"Charmeleon metal claw!!" Charmeleon on command charged in with a metal claw attacking the Raichu.

Raichu, seeing the attack, barely got out of range and was scratched once.

"Raichu use Thunder!!" Raichu stood still charging a lot of electricity around the area. The atmosphere began to change as we grew more and more careful of what's about to happen.

"Raichu do it now!!!"

"Charmeleon dodge it!!"

Charmeleon tried to dodge the attack but was unfortunately struck by lightning making him unable to battle.

I sighed as I returned my Charmeleon.

"You did great." I said putting his pokeball on my belt.

"Zorua you're up again."

Zorua jumped on the battlefield once more with high hopes of winning, sharing those feelings I went straight in with the attacks.

The burns on Raichu are slowing down his movement's!

"Zorua, use shadow ball and put all your might into it!!" Zorua as commanded charged a ball of shadow aimed directly at Raichu.

"Raichu IRON TAIL!"

Raichu quickly used Iron tail slicing the shadow ball in half.

"Zorua copycat!!" Zorua turns its tail into iron before swinging it at the Raichu.

"Iron tail again!!"

Raichu turned its tail into iron, blocking the attack from Zorua.

"Zorua, Now! Use shadow ball at close range!!" Zorua uses shadow ball on Raichu who was unable to dodge or block ….got hit ..and he was unable to battle.

"Yeah!!" I cheered at the top of my lungs. Zorua who was also overjoyed and jumped into my arms as we shared this victory.

Surge returned his Raichu and took out the thunder badge.

"You earned this." Surge said, tossing the thunder badge at me which i caught successfully.

I couldn't help but smile at this! I finally won!

I can't wait to share the news to chloe!

I ran out the door with high spirits.

"I can't wait to show Chloe thi-"

"I already know-" I heard Chloe's voice which cut me off.

She was holding a cake and had a huge smile.

"Happy birthday Ayuna…"