The grass type gym

Dust watched as a Shiftry fell down on the ground, unconscious.

Thinking back, This battle wasn't worth all those hours of shop detour... He had to buy a few perfumes just to get them in the arena.

Erika's first pokemon, A Carnivine, went down to his Growlith and Shiftry got taken out by Riolu's force palm.

This was kind of disappointing.

"Come on out, Gogoat!"

And this matchup went from Boring to mildly intrigued.

Without saying a word, He called back Riolu and clipped the ball back into the belt. Moving his hand to the next Pokeball, he let out Luxio, who immediately used charge.

"Gogoat, Use Razor leaf!"

Luxio used Swift as a counter and the smoke that erupted from the collision was used to gain two more charges by the electric type.

"Use Vine Whip!"

"Use bite, Grab onto the vines."

Narrowing his eyes, Luxio sidestepped the vine coming for him and channelled dark energy into his fangs, biting down on the grassy appendage.

"Now, Discharge."

The lightning was shot through the vine and electrocuted Gogoat, due to having three charges, the attack laster longer than it originally would have.

When the attack ended, the grass type was paralysed judging from the electricity running around its body.

"Gogoat, Use synthesis!"

Dust Raised an eyebrow, Using a healing move right now was stupid, Luxio was still holding onto the vine after all.

"Discharge."

Not letting go of The vine, Luxio released another wave of electricity.

"Gogoat, Make him release the vine by using-"

"Discharge."

"Gog-"

"Thundershock."

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Looking at the rainbow badge, he sighed. This battle was so bad that he never wanted to come back to Celedon again.

(Ash is going to be here soon... Fuck this shit, Im out!)

He had five months left until the silver conference... He wanted to get to Mt. Moon and train up his pokemon until then. But first, he had to get rid of these Perfumes.

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"Hello~?"

Nessa Answered her Pokédex, bringing it up to her ear.

[Hey, Nessa? Where are you right now?]

She tilted her head, even though Dust couldn't see it. Why would he need her location?

"uh... I'm on Cinnabar Island, On a shoot right now though, what do you need?"

[How long are you staying there?]

"Maybe a week or so. Why?"

[Alright, Say, Do you like perfume that smells like... uh... Sea or something?]

"...You were at the Celedon weren't you?"

[...Noooo... Okay, I had to buy a few perfumes just to get a chance to battle.]

"ah, there is going to be a new video for that on the Pokenet."

She sat down on the nearby bench as they talked. She had to admit, Dust was good if a bit unusual, Not giving orders to his pokemon was a first, one needed a few years of bonding to try something like that And they still don't, preferring to give pokemon orders.

"Do you know How many memes there are about you? You're a new trend."

[... Im a meme?]

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As soon as he finished his talk with Nessa, he immediately looked up himself on the internet.

| When you save a whole city and its gym leader disrespects you in a fight. |

below that was a picture of him sitting down crosslegged and giving a smirk while Greninja was decimating the enemy team.

"How do they find this funny?"

That was what happened, its like saying that a carrot is a carrot.

there were some reviews of his fights... He was not watching those, No need to get mad at the unimportant opinions of others...

| Interview with lance about the newest trainer in the pokemon world, Dust Storm! |

... Goddamnit.

He didn't understand what was so special about him. So what if he could curvestomp the pillars of regions, So what if he beat a raging Gyrados with relative ease, making sure there were no casualties. So what if got five badges in four months? Anyone can do that if they work hard enough, They're are just impressed that a child can be better than them.

With a sigh, he pocketed his Pokedex and opened his bag for s change of clothes...

"..."

(...)

"...Oh... I had a firestone... How did I forget that?"

Ignoring the stone for now, until Growlith learned all of his speed attacks, he took out his military clothes.

Calling out his Pidgeot, He started flying toward Fuchsia city, he looked up all the pokemon that could be encountered on the way there and none of them interested him, so considering he had two weeks to reach Cinnabar island.

But first... He needs to but a damn hair tie... or just cut his hair...

Nah, Hair tie it is.