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PART TWENTY EIGHT.

Spending their tie warming up Blaze, Bunny and Oni calmed their minds the best they could, they were rested well sort off or at least well enough for the Gym Battle but mostly they had a game plan.

They wouldn't be just rushing in without any idea of what to do and trying to wing it like they did most of the time, which worked for them but this was not against poachers or wild Pokémon.

It was an official league sanctioned battle which there where rules that had to be followed and thing that could and could not be done so the normal style of getting the job done would not be tolerated and cause them to forfeit the match through disqualification.

It also meant they needed to be in their damned Pokéballs, true they were heal ball's now, since Jack had allowed them to destroy their first original red and white Pokéballs which admitted had been a lot of fun; before catching themselves in their new ones.

The idea had been if they had been poisoned or burned and so forth that a short spell in their Heal ball would cure them of any such aliment, but still none of the three females enjoyed being in them.

It wasn't only because of a sense of being confined, rather that they couldn't protect Jack if he blundered into something he couldn't handle on his own and for their Trainer that was quite common place.

Eventually a voice came over the old somewhat tatty speaker above the door that led from the challenger's cramped changing room to the battling area crackled to life.

+The Gym Leader is ready accept your challenge now, please make your way through the door!+

Jack looked at the three of them and nodded holding up the three heal balls receiving a determined nod back from each of them as one by one they reached out and tapped their ball becoming bursts of red light as the devices opened and drew them back in as digital energy.

"Okay here goes!....Wish me Luck Toph"

He whispers taking a few deep breaths only to be replied by a few snorts and snores from the Espeon, shaking his head slowly with a smirk he reaches out and pushes down on the bar that kept the door closed before pushing it open with a loud creaking sound.

All most instantly he was awash with colour and sounds so vibrant it all most disoriented him.

Along the middle of the area was a large stream that split in two to surround the arena at the centre of the vast chamber before emerging back into a single large stream leading to the other side.

Along the sides of the otherwise grass laden room there where dwarf trees that rose up a good eight feet in to the air but no further while amongst them different types of berry bushes could be seen it was a perfect for Bug Type's especially with the green house like roof.

Around the garden Jack could see over twenty types of Vivillon fluttering about the massive room but none ever crossed over the arena if anything they moved around it as if superstition about doing so.

The same could be said about the small ground based Bug Pokémon that lacked wings to fly, in front of him was a narrow gravel path leading from one end to the other, half way Jack could see a small bridge that allowed access onto the arena itself.

"Okay you can do this Jack!"

He whispers to himself trying to calm himself down with a few deep breaths before hearing the crunch of the tiny pebble like stones beneath his trainers with every step he took.

Several of the bugs paused to look up at him one a Leavanny paused mid sewing to watch him curiously wondering who the next foolish human was to change the gym was, then went right back to sewing new outfits for a couple of Sewaddle whose leaves had become tattered and broken.

Reaching the bridged Jack spotted a Surskit moving across the surface of the wide stream unlike the Leavanny it pretty much ignored him as it busied itself with whatever it was doing.

A few more steps and he stepped onto the grass arena, the outlines white marked out in white not to unsimilar to a Football pitch or how a one or two of Regions called it soccer even when most of the world didn't call it that.

"WELCOME CHALANGER!"

A loud voice calls out sounding quite energetic yet with under tones that could only be described as squeaky, it was the Gym Leader Guy Maxwell, he was dressed in a long flowing robe that was made Jack wince from all the bright psychedelic colours that made Tie-Dye seem drab.

"ARE YOU READY TO BATTLE?"

Maxwell laughs with a genuinely jolly voice as he for no reason at all other than for the sheer sake of it began to pirouette and curtsy like some princess, jack was dumbfounded unable to keep his focus for a second at the strange performance.

Carried in by two Ledian a women dressed up as a Vivillon or rather the replica wings and a black catsuit coupled with high heeled stilettos and a headband sporting a pair of antennas.

Over all though she was extremely attractive even if she did look like she was into some form of butterfly fetish as her short black hair just about hid the the plastic strap of the headband.

"This match will be a one on one match, the challenger may substitute their Pokémon at any time as many times as they wish!"

The woman announces into a small microphone leading down from her headband to her mouth, Jack give a nod in acknowledgement of this as he draws one his heal balls from his belt, depressing the perturbing button it expands in his hand.

"The challenger will go first, BEGIN!"

The Referee calls out into her mic', to which Jack launched his Pokéball into the arena causing a flash of cyan light as Blaze takes form bellowing letting out a shriek like challenge at the gym leader.

"Oh how dull......Yet another fire type how predictable!"

Maxwell yawned with a bored voice before lazily tossing his own Pokéball into the arena, a burst of cyan light erupts as a Vivillon is given shape, it large vibrant colourful wings took Jack's breath away.

The shades of pink where awe inspiring as the odd shade of blue and white complimented the overall pattern, all framed in a soft black tone that just finished off the overall effect perfectly.

"Is she not beautiful?"

The Gym Leader sighs in sheer admiration for his Pokémon as it flutters in place before turning around in a full circle to show itself off.

"Snap out of it Jack, we're in a battle, you can fuck her latter!"

Blaze snorted making her Trainer blush brightly but her sarcasm had shocked him out of his near mesmerised state, narrowing his eyes he nods his thanks to the Blaziken who replies by clicked her neck to the left then right as she limbers herself up in readiness.

"Okay Blaze, Bulk Up!"

Jack Call's out starting the battle, Blaze grunts as she tenses her body forcing every muscle on and inside of her powerful frame to bulge and expand so it might better absorb any physical blows made against it while for a while increasing her own direct attacks.

He could not help but watch how her rear cheeks clench and lift making him wonder how tight her passage way would be right now, shaking such thoughts from his head he focused on the task at hand.

"Shame I had hoped to dazzle you with the acrobatically skills of Beautiful Pokémon as they avoid your Pokémon's laughable flames but oh well, Vivi dear use Powder on this Crass Neanderthal!"

The Vivillon looks down from her lofty advantage point and sneers at the Blaziken before moving at a suddenly alarming turn of speed.

"BLAZE"

Jack had started to shout out a direction but the Fire come Fighting type was already on the move, it was not that she was ignoring her Trainer far from it, she like the others had been traveling and sharing their lives with jack for so long they knew each other inside and out, to the point they could literally more or less predict what each other was feeling or would do in most situations.

Well save for Toph who was new to the team but even then it wasn't hard to predict what a lazy assed snob she was and could plan their little schemes accordingly even with a little bribery get her involved. Right now in this battle though and hearing her Jacks tone of voice along with what the opponent was she could tell she needed to either avoid the incoming attack or get in under the over sized butterfly and launch her own attack preferably a none fire based move.

Blaze's wasn't blessed with amazing speed like some of the other Blaziken's, she was built more for taking a solid blow before returning it with interest, skidding to a halt moments before the Vivillon was over top of her she crunches down while twisting her torso and clenching her fist to become a preverbal coiled spring before launching herself skywards towards her flying opponent with considerable momentum and irresistible force.

She could feel the powder sprinkling down like some fine rain getting into her red feathery coat but at the same time her fist sored onwards and upwards before making full contact with the mid-section of her opponents body knocking the air out of its lungs as well as to render it out cold.

Dropping back to the ground pleased she had pulled her blow significantly since it wasn't exactly a life or death battle, Blaze grunts as she lands on one knee the Blaziken could hear the flat thump of her opponent's body hitting the grass a little ways behind her with a sense of satisfaction of a job well done.

"Vivillon is unable to battle this round goes to the challenger!"

The Referee announces gesturing to Jacks side of the arena.

"Hmnnn I seem to have underestimated you young man, something I shall not do again!"

Guy spat as if the words were leaving a bad taste in his mouth, casing Blaze to feel a sense of pride to which she without thinking allowed the flame s around her wrists to ignite.

"BLA..."

[SHI...]

She began to say realizing far too late what she had just done, instantly the powder that had secreted itself in her feathers reacted in the same explosive manner as gunpowder through Blaze backwards across the ground injuring her.

Shaking her head as she douses her flames she staggers to her feet still able to fight but somewhat weakened from her own carelessness.

"You okay to fight still?"

Jack asked her but she raises a dismissive talon like hand pretending she was perfectly okay, truth was she wasn't she could still feel pain in her muscles from her lapse in judgment.

"Arrogance my dear Balziken is a fighters greatest flaw!"

Maxwell laughed at her making her feel like shoving her fist down his throat but she forced herself to focus, she could not allow herself to get distracted from the task at hand.

"Okay Vivi dear you where truly beautiful out there, you've earned a nice rest now"

The Gym leader sighed holding out the Vivillon's Pokéball as a beam of red light digitized and stored the Pokémon with in it, swapping it for another the man sends out his next Pokémon.

** ***"Okay Veno my sweet moth let us avenge dear Vivi!"*

He grins wickedly with a renewed sense of arrogance which only caused to gall Blaze even more though she manages to keep from let even a slight ember flare into life, she was on to him now.

The Opposing Human was trying to provoke her into getting annoyed and flaring up her flames like most fire types would, she could understand now how all those other Pokémon she had seen coming into the Pokémon Centre where so badly injured now.

Blaze gave a deep continuous screech that was not to unsimilar to a growl as her eyes locked with the compound eyes of the Venomoth as it formed from the release of blue energy.