In the Early morning, Dean was in front of the laboratory saying goodbyes to the Oak family, well specifically to Professor and Daisy who was about to cry. He just patted her head and said

"We will meet soon" Daisy just nodded without a word. He gave Gary just a nod who just simply stared at him 'I guess he has come a long way but he still needs to work on his attitude' and he finally gave a handshake to the professor

Dean: "Thank you for everything professor" professor also smiled

Prof.Oak: "It's my pleasure, Dean. I wish you success in your journey" Dean smiled hearing this and said

Dean: "Goodbye" after saying that he just walked without turning back.

Professor: "Oh Damn! I forgot to tell him about the Egg that will be delivered a few days from now" he mumbled as looked at his granddaughter who was upset about dean leaving and sighed.

'If I stay there I might become too attached to the family' Dean thought as he walked into the viridian forest and finally reached pewter city just before the sunset. he went straight to the pokemon centre and nurse joy was happy to see Dean again. he asked for the room and went straight to the room as he was tired. he already thought of which pokemon to use during the journey so he had a quick shower and went to sleep.

In the morning he woke up did a morning jog, had breakfast and went out of the pokemon centre for the gym battle. He was pretty excited for his first gym battle. He walked in the direction of the gym as he already knows the way towards the pewter city gym. He entered the gym

Dean: " Hello" he looked at the man who sat there reading a book. After hearing that someone greeting him Brock stood up and glanced at him.

Brook: " Yes?"

Dean: " I'm Dean and I'm here for the gym battle" he introduced himself ' Has he opened his eyes or closed, I can't even tell' he thought as looked at the spiky-haired gym leader.

Brock: " I'm Brock, The gym leader of this gym and I accept your challenge" he glanced at him 'Why does he look familiar' he shook his head and put that thought to the back of his head. " This will be 2 vs 2 battle and only the challenger is allowed to substitute " seeing that Dean was nodding "Let's go"

Brock: " Go Geodude" he called his pokemon.

Geodude gave a cry. Dean released his pokemon

machop loudly announced after entering. Machop has grown over the past three months, he also put on quite a muscles as he trained his body everyday without caring for the weather and that training bore fruit in the form of muscles.

Brock: 'That machop looks bigger than the normal ones, looking at the muscles on the machop this trainer should have trained it hard. I see he is the trainer from three months ago. Interesting' he started "Let's start the match. Geodude Use Rock throw"

Dean just said: " Take cover"

Geodude starts throwing the rocks it had gathered from its surroundings but Machop was taking cover behind the rock which was barely covering his body.

Dean: " Come out machop" he lightly said before sighing ' I thought Rock throw would come out with greater speed'

Brock: ' What is he thinking calling machop out of hiding?' but the next actions of machop made him surprised.

machop started catching stones and dropping it by his feet.

geodude started hurling rocks at machop at even greater speed but machop caught every single stone

Brock: ' I can't go on like this as machop has a great stamina, geodude will wear out after some time' he frowned " Use Rollout". Geodude threw the last rock at machop's face but machop caught it just as it was about to hit his face and crushed the stone with his right hand with a grin on his face.

Dean: "Dodge it".

Geodude came rolling crushing the small stones along its path, Machop just sidestepped as soon it reached in front of him, geodude continued to roll even crushing the rocks machop collected from the rock throw and hit the rock where machop was hiding earlier

Brock cried: "Full powered Tackle" Brock knew the rollout had failed so he thought to do some damage with tackle since machop was close enough

Dean: " Catch it" he ordered 'I could have karate chopped when it was turning towards machop but lets test machop's strength"

Brock: ' What's with this trainer, is he deliberately trying to injure his machop by asking it to catch the tackle' brock couldn't understand dean.

Machop extended its hands and caught the full-powered tackle. Machop was pushed back continuously but slowly stopped after skidding back 10 steps. Dean seeing this

Dean: " Throw it up". machop suddenly put its hands below geodude's arms and sent it flying upwards. ' Machop can even lift graveler so sending geodude flying would be no problem' he thought

Brock: " Use defense curl" Brock was astonished by the machop's strength as it caught the tackle just like that and before he gave the command geodude was already in the air so he was hoping to reduce the damage to geodude using the defense curl

Dean watched geodude fall from the air and knew what to do so he asked machop.

Dean: "Get close" machop dashed towards the general area where geodude will fall. Brock seeing this panicked lightly.

Brock: "Geodude as soon as you hit the ground Use roll out" But Dean already foresaw it, just as it was few inches above the ground

Dean: "Give geodude a good low sweep" he indifferently said. Machop who was already near to the geodude slightly bent its right leg and extended the left leg back and did a full sweep with its left leg hitting the curled up pokemon before it touched the ground. Geodude was swept from the field and smashed onto the wall on Brock's side like a football. Brock was shocked and he lightly turned his head to see his pokemon stuck to the wall creating a small hole and it was knocked out.

Dean witnessing this also smiled "Good job buddy". Brock came out of his shock quickly and said seriously

Brock: "You have a strong machop there" he looked at the machop that might give onix a tough battle but he was confident in his onix "You've won this round. I'm sending my final pokemon" he returned his geodude and released his pokemon

Onix came out of the Pokeball

Dean returned his machop gaining a raised eyebrows from brock. He called out his second pokemon

Brock seeing this paled lightly as it was water pokemon and observed the pokemon to find that this pokemon was also bigger than normal poliwags. 'Where does he get his pokemon or what does he feed his pokemon?' his curiosity was picked.

Brock: "This will be a tough battle partner Get ready" onix roared after hearing Brock "Onix Use rock Thr- , No Use rock slide, " He guessed Dean's pokemon might be strong so he switched to rock slide. Dean hearing it just smiled

Onix smashed it's tail on the hard ground creating a small pit and dust, Onix picked up the large rock it created from it's smashing and flung them at poliwag one after an another. Dean simply looked at the strong Onix and said

Dean: "Smash it using water gun" Poliwag didn't even flinch seeing the boulders it only inhaled a little air and pushed the water out of his mouth, water came out like a bullet, gushing out hitting the larger rocks smashing it into a medium sized pieces which were scattered all across the battlefield. Water gun after demolishing the two boulders one after another hit onix pushing it back a little. Onix was still harmed from the weakened water gun. Dean looked at the powerful water gun and was proud to have helped poliwag increase its power behind it.

Brock: 'He said water gun right? That looked like a mini-hydro pump!' he was already getting tired of battling this outrageous trainer "Onix Use Tackle"

onix looked at the poliwag from the top and rushed down with speed to hit the water pokemon.

Dean: "Use bubble beam and dodge", as soon as Onix came close, a spray of bubbles came from poliwag's mouth hitting the large body of Onix reducing its speed and injuring it in the process. Poliwag just jumped to the side when Onix came crashing its upper body.

Brock: "Use dig" he smiled lightly as he thought he could give a surprise attack from the dig, Onix immediately went into the ground. Dean glanced at Brock and then at the ground waiting

Dean: "Be alert". Both Dean and poliwag inspected the ground intently for any tremors. Brock after observing that poliwag had no idea where Onix might be so he called

Brock: "Full power tackle from the ground". As soon as he said that the ground started to shake lightly at first and it got bigger and bigger. Dean just waited till one point and called

Dean: "Use water gun to propel yourself up". poliwag used water gun below to push itself in the air like a rocket. Just as poliwag was few feet away from the ground Onix came rushing out of the ground from underneath destroying the medium sized rocks stuck on the ground along the way creating a hole in the battlefield. It went straight towards Poliwag but poliwag was already in the air and it increased the power of water gun to go higher to escape the tackle. Poliwag stopped using water gun as it was finally out of reach of the fully extended onix

Dean: "Mud shot to its eyes"Poliwag threw a ball of mud to its eyes as Onix was relatively close to poliwag in the air. Mud shot hit its eyes accurately temporarily blinding the onix. Brock instead of panicking started to laugh

Brock: "You may have escaped the tackle from the ground, how will poliwag gonna came down safely. Onix Dig once again," he thought 'I'm going to attack as soon as poliwag touches the ground besides that water gun is dangerous for Onix to stay above ground' Dean just looked at the poliwag as it started to fall and he looked at the ceiling and smiled

Dean: "Like this. Poliwag looks right above your head and uses water gun on the ceiling" Poliwag looked up and used the water gun which hit the ceiling pushing poliwag vertically downwards from a greater height. When it was rushing the towards the ground

Dean: "Body Slam" he smiled after saying but Brock was shocked seeing this as he had never even heard anything like this but he recovered rapidly "Onix Use harden quick," Dean thought 'Good thinking on harden but Is onix fast enough to execute it at this stage' Onix which was halfway down the dig tried to abandon the Dig but the Bodyslam powered by water gun of Poliwag came crashing down on the middle of the Onix's snake like body.

Brock: "ONIX!"

Onix gave a cry and the force from the body slam pushed Onix's mid part of the body further into the ground creating a huge crater, dust from the collision started to spread across the battleground Brock covered his eyes to prevent the dust from entering but Dean squinted staring at the battlefield and a few moments later one could see Onix's tail and head sticking out from the ground looking unconscious. Poliwag stood beside the Onix's head

Dean: " I guess it must have taken the damage from earlier moves" he muttered 'Onix and their ridiculous defences' he shook his head.

poliwag was jumping happily. Dean was just about to say a something but he suddenly heard a faint noise.

*Creak* he glanced up and watched the central beam intently for few seconds before thinking 'SHIT'