Mossdeep Gym

The word about Team Aqua and Magma finally being defeated spread across the Hoenn region like wildfire. People were relieved that the two teams were finally arrested, especially those who had trouble with them before. Archie, Shelly, Maxie and Harlan were condemned to stay in prison for forty years and the grunts were for twenty years. So now the Hoenn region was safe again.

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By now Ashlyn and the gang were now at Mossdeep City, thanks to Lance of given them a lift, and Ashlyn was ready to face the gym leader of Mossdeep Gym. Mossdeep City was famous for its space center and the launch of the space rockets. Ashlyn knew that the Mossdeep Gym had two gym leaders; twin brother and sister named Liza and Tate. She also knew that Tate used a Solrock and Liza used a Lunatone. As Solrock and Lunatone were both Rock and Psychic type, Ashlyn decided to use Kazuki (Grovyle) and Lela (Mightyena) against them.

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The Mossdeep Gum building was shaped like a space dome and the battlefield was something Ember had never seen before; the battlefield was three-dimensional, and it had planet-like objects floating in the air. It was like the moon with planets flying around it. The gang thought this was very clever. The gym leaders Tate and Liza were twins all right; despite being a boy and girl they actually looked the same as well as dressed the same. The referee was their mother, Rachel. Rachel explained that the battle would be a double and the opponent who knocks out the other opponent's two Pokémon first wins.

"Let the battle begin!" Rachel announced.

"Kazuki, Lela, let's go!" Ashlyn sent out her Wood Gecko Pokémon and Bite Pokémon.

"Grov!" Kazuki appeared onto the field.

Lela growled as she appeared next to Kazuki.

"Solrock, come on out!" Tate released his Sun Shaped Meteorite Pokémon.

"Lunatone, let's do it!" Liza released her Crescent Moon Meteorite Pokémon.

Solrock and Lunatone appeared on the field.

"Solrock, Tackle on Grovyle!" Solrock rushed towards Tsuki.

"Lunatone, Tackle on Mightyena!" Lunatone rushed towards Lela.

"Dodge!" Kazuki and Lela dodged Solrock and Lunatone's attack.

"Kazuki, hit Solrock with Energy Ball! Lela, use Crunch on Lunatone!" Kazuki fired an Energy Ball at Solrock and Lela jumped towards Lunatone to bite down on it. But Solrock and Lunatone had a clever trick; they were floating near some of the planet objects, so when the Pokémon dodged, Kazuki's Energy Ball just hit one of the planets and Lela just bit down on another planet.

"Those two are good." Ashlyn admitted.

"Lunatone, use Ice Beam!" Liza ordered.

"Solrock, Solar Beam!" Tate ordered.

Ashlyn was about to order Kazuki and Lela to use Protect to escape the attacks, but they didn't need to do anything. The Ice Beam and Solar Beam attacks ended up colliding with each other, leaving Kazuki and Lela unharmed.

"Hey you messed up my Solar Beam attack!" Tate shouted at Liza, "my Solrock was in perfect precision, but you interfered with it!"

"Oh please!" Liza argued back, "You were too slow!"

Ashlyn, Kazuki, and Lela sweat-dropped at this with blank expressions. Alain and the others had the same expression. They couldn't believe that the twins were having an argument right in the middle of a gym battle.

This was clear to the gang that Tate and Liza were not fully in sync with each other yet, and that they were the arguing pair. Ashlyn saw this as an opportunity to attack.

"Kazuki, Leafage! Lela, Dark Pulse!" Kazuki and Lela fired their attacks which struck Solrock and Lunatone and those two Pokémon didn't have the chance to dodge this time.

Liza gasped, "Aah! What just happened?"

She and Tate didn't realize about the attack until it was too late.

"What happened was that you two were busy arguing, giving Ashlyn the chance to attack you," Rachel remarked, a bit crossly, "You two should think about this gym battle first and save the arguments later."

Rachel may have been the referee, but it still didn't stop her motherly duty of making her son and daughter to stop arguing.

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"Wow she's good," Max commented, impressed, "She's like our mum when she tells us to stop fighting, May."

"You're right, Max." May agreed.

"From what I've heard, mothers can be very scary when they're angry." Alain commented.

"That's definitely true." Brock, May and Max confirmed.

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So Tate and Liza got back to their battle instead of continuing their arguing. Even though Lunatone and Solrock both got hit by Leafage and Dark Pulse, they were still willing to battle.

"Okay Kazuki, let's use Bullet Seed this time on Solrock!" Ashlyn ordered.

Kazuki fired multiple seeds from her mouth towards Solrock, but then Lunatone came out in front of Solrock and used Light Screen. The seeds bounced off the Light Screen, leaving Lunatone unharmed.

'So that Lunatone knows Light Screen,' Ashlyn thought, 'but I know what to do.'

"Lela, Swift!" Lela released multiple gold stars from her mouth which were aimed at Solrock and Lunatone.

"Lunatone, Light Screen!" Lunatone's eyes glow light blue and a glass wall appears in front of it.

"Brick Break!" Kazuki's hands glowed white and struck the Light Screen attack. It was smashed like a mirror and then Kazuki hit Lunatone with the Brick Break attack.

"Sorry Liza," Ashlyn apologized, "but the move Brick Break has the ability to destroy moves like Light Screen and Reflect."

Tate and Liza were surprised by that; they clearly didn't know that.

"Okay now, Kazuki, Bullet Seed on Solrock! Lela, use Dark Pulse on Lunatone!" Kazuki and Lela fire their respective attacks at Solrock and Lunatone. This time the attacks hit them with direct hits. Solrock and Lunatone couldn't take any more after the attacks and fainted.

"Solrock and Lunatone are unable to battle! The victory goes to Kazuki and Lela! So the winner of this gym battle goes to Ashlyn Ketchum!" Rachel announced.

Kazuki and Lela ran over to Ashlyn who hugged her two Pokémon, "Great job, Kazuki, Lela." Ashlyn smiled at the two as Kazuki nuzzled against her cheek as Lela nuzzled against while Ashlyn petted her head.

Tate and Liza returned their Pokémon and went over to Ashlyn.

"I must admit Ashlyn, you are one strong Pokémon trainer," Tate complimented, "and we ended up learning new things from you."

"It made us realize that Tate and I still have a lot to learn about battling and still need to work on our combination moves." Liza added.

"I thought your combination moves were brilliant and you nearly had me with them. But I have to admit you two still need more work on teamwork, especially on trying not to argue while battling." Ashlyn advised.

Tate and Liza blushed sheepishly.

"Yeah, you're right." Liza agreed.

"As the gym leaders of the Mossdeep gym, we present you with the Mind Badge." Tate held out a badge in his hand.

The Mind Badge and it was pink in the shape of a heart with two sides closing in.

"Thank you, Tate, Liza." Ashlyn slightly bowed and gently took the badge from Tate's hand.

"Alright! We got the Mind Badge!" Ashlyn posed with Tesla, Kazuki and Lela.

"Raichu! (Badge number seven!)" Tesla cheered.

Lela howled with delight and Kazuki crossed as he nodded with approval.

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With the gym battle all over with, it was now time for the gang to leave Mossdeep City for their next destination. So the gang said goodbye to Tate and Liza and left the city.

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Pokémon Caught: Mightyena (Lela)(F), Marshtomp (Finn)(M), Shiny Blaziken (Hestia)(F), Kirlia (Miku)(F), Kirlia (Lancelot)(M), Swellow (Percy)(M), Linoone (Ziggy)(M), Grovyle (Kazuki)(M), Beautifly (Willow)(F), Shiny Milotic (Ula)(F), Crawdaunt (Sebastian)(M), Lairon (Hagane)(M), Sableye (Jacinth)(M), Shiny Flygon (Libelle)(F), Shiny Manectric (Damini)(F), Shiny Shelgon (Idris)(F), Torkoal (Shula)(F), Swablu (Alta)(F), Mawile (Trixie)(F), Clamperl (Coral)(F), Spoink (Sumire)(F)