Capítulo 3: Aspertia Gym
April 1st. Calendar Year 2012
Over the last two weeks, Richard has been training with Simon, the Family Butler. Both his Pokemon lost every fight against Simon's Pokemon though that is to be expected as Simon is a Veteran Elite Class Trainer with over 40 years experience while Richard is just graduated last year and is still considered a fledgling trainer.
The TMs Richard bought for Gallade have been brought under a controllable range, at least it is enough to use in battle a handful of times. Gallade also levelled up once which happened during one of the battles against Simon. The pressure brought by fighting an Elite Ranked Conkeldurr allowed the minor breakthrough to happen.
Boldore rapidly grew due to this intensive training time as Richard put more focus into training it during this time. It grew a whole six levels, learned Stealth Rock and added the TM Bulldoze to its arsenal. Bulldoze is a move that strikes everything around the user by stomping on the ground, it was also quite cheap at a price tag of 30,000. Bringing the total amount of money Richard spent on TMs to 200,000 during the last month.
Boldore faced an Elite Ranked Beartic and Hariyama during the course of the training and the pressure allowed for rapid growth to happen. Boldore was able to improve each battle, mainly evasion during battle and how to tank several super effective hits in a row.
Richard also registered for the Unova League a few days prior at the local Pokemon Center and it was quite uneventful as there was no cliche bullying scene, where an older trainer or some rich kid bullies the protagonist like in some of the stories he read in his old life. Also there was no judgmental Nurse Joy or attack on the center by a Crime Syndicate.
Though Terror attacks on key buildings like a Pokemon Center have happened in the past, Unova has been quiet in this regard. He got his trainer card, which doubles as a bank card as well and downloaded the Pokedex Application on his phone as actual Pokedex's are outdated tech. Richard is now able to take League Missions if he wanted to earn extra money. These missions range from D-Grade to S-Grade. From collection to exploration missions. As Richard is classified as a C-Grade Trainer, he can only take C-Grade and below missions.
Trainer Card:
Name: Richard Rutherford
Grade: C--Intermediate Class
Region/City: Aspertia City, Unova
Registered Pokemon: Gallade, Boldore
Carry Limit: 6
Pokedollars: 28,000,000
[Note: Can be used as a Bank Card and Drivers License]
Richard was re-checking his new Silph Co. Space Bag to make sure he had everything he needed for his journey, the bag contains a two shrink trunks, one that contains camping/survival gear and three months worth of high quality food for both his Pokemon. The other trunk contains about a months worth of shoes, clothing and undergarments for all occasions. Twenty Full Restores are packed into the Potions Pocket and Twenty Ultra Balls/Thirty Pokeballs packed into the Pokeball Pocket of the Space Bag. Also packed in the bag is a laptop, some chargers for Richard's electronic devices and a Unovan Badge Case one gets from the Pokemon Center during registration.
[Shrink Trunk: A storage item that can compress itself to a palm size through the use of technology, Developed by the Devon Corporation]
After Richard checked everything he said a short goodbye to the old butler to which Simon replied "Safe Travels Young Master". Richard waved as he hopped onto his blue motorcycle and headed towards the Aspertia Gym.
As April 1st is a major day in the Pokemon world as it is the first day trainers can register to challenge the Gym Circuit, Richard was one of the first to register to challenge the Aspertia Gym and decisively chose the 11am slot.
The Aspertia City Gym changed Leaders last year as Cheren Bell took over at the age of 18, which quite young as compared to the games. Though from what Richard has learned from the internet, some of the characters ages are different than they were in canon, like Cheren as he is a few years older than his game portrayal, same goes for Bianca, Hilbert and Hilda as they are Cheren's same-aged former classmates. While I graduated with Rosa, Nathan and Alder's grandson Benga. Cheren does specialize in Normal Types as he did in the game.
Richard parked his vehicle, walked into the gym and strode up to the counter and said to the plain-looking red-headed receptionist.
"I am here to check in for my match at 11."
"Okay, let me check that for you. Can I get your trainer card?" she said.
Richard handed his trainer card for her to verify with the system.
"Please place the Pokeball containing the Pokemon you will be using during your challenge today into the strength measuring device, so the Leader can bring out a Pokemon appropriate for your level." the receptionist said.
....beep...beep...beep.....
"Okay, so it looks like your Gallade's Strength is at the Upper Intermediate Rank(Level 37-39), you may move to the stadium stands and the referee will call you when Leader Cheren is ready." she said with a polite smile.
It was about 10:40am as Richard sat down into one of the spectator seats, He saw Cheren's Watchdog(Silver Grade Level 22) battle a young male trainer and his Timburr(Silver Grade Level 21).
Though the young trainer had a type advantage he was struggling a bit against Cheren's battle experience. The Timburr eventually got the upper hand as it mercilessly slapped the Watchdog with it's square log loaded with fighting energy, which sent the Pokemon flying back. After a minute the young man erupted in a cheer as the referee called it in his favor.
"And the winner is....Eric from Floccesy Town!" said the referee.
And a grand total of ten people including myself clapped at that declaration, Cheren shook Eric's hand and gave him the Basic Badge.
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"Challenger Richard Rutherford please make your way to the stadium." the referee called out via a megaphone promptly at 11am.
Richard walked up to the stage, looked out onto the plain battlefield and greeted both the referee and Cheren by saying
"Let's have a good match." to which Cheren replied with a serious look on his face "Likewise".
"The rules for this match is one versus one, both trainers cannot switch out their Pokemon once it is sent out onto the field". Said the referee.
"3...2....1.....Start the match!"
Cheren sent out a Stoutland and Richard his Gallade. The Stoutland status was as follows:
Stoutland(F)
Type: Normal
Level: 38 Upper Intermediate Rank
Ability: Scrappy
Talent: Gold
Moves: Work Up(E), Crunch(E), Take Down(E), Roar(I), Retaliate(I)
Innate: Fire Fang(E)
TM: Double Team, Snarl
"Stoutland use Work Up" | "Gallade use Swords Dance" the two trainers said in unison.
"Gallade quickly get in close and use Psycho Cut" Richard shouted.
"Stoutland evade and use Work Up again!" Cheren commanded
The Gallade gathered Psychic Power in the tonfa blade on its arms, got in close and slashed out towards Stoutland. The Stoutland could not completely evade it and took some damage.
"Follow up with Low Sweep" Richard commanded.
"Use Crunch when Gallade is in close" Cheren ordered.
Both attacks landed respectively and did some damage but while Stoutland was biting onto the Gallade's left arm, Richard quickly ordered Gallade to use Drain Punch. Which connected and dealt massive damage to it allowing Gallade to free his arm. Building up on his advantage Richard had Gallade Teleport in close and land another Drain Punch to finish the battle. Which allowed Richard and Gallade to win their first Badge.
"And the winner is Richard Rutherford from Aspertia City!" said the referee.
"Though the battle was quick, I learned from it. Thank you Richard." Cheren said as he extended his hand to give Richard the badge. Richard gave a slight nod in response, shook Cheren's hand and collected his Basic Badge.
It was 11:12 as Richard checked the clock on his phone as he was leaving the gym.
Richard quickly went to the Pokemon Center to heal his Gallade up. Which did not take that long, he made a quick call to Simon to update him on the victory and then he set out on his Motorcycle toward Virbank City at full speed.
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