Persona swap?

Sky and his Pokemons did the spartan training for the next two days before they departed to the Veilstone City.

During this time, Looker was able to get the information about the dealings of the Team Plasma and the reason why Masked man was late.

The Masked man was sent to capture a variant Moltres from the ancient tombs of Hoenn and had set off to kill Sky a few days ago.

There was still no news of the variant Moltres but since the masked man was coming after Sky, it could be speculated that the Moltres had been caught.

On the other hand, N had been appointed as the king of Team Plasma and some Team Aqua members found the ancient Aqua tombs in the Hoenn. This caused the Pokemons to attack the coastal cities and wipe out the nearby towns along with it.

But this is not the important stuff. The important thing was that Sky finally got to battle in his second Gym.

Truthfully he wasn't feeling that excited as Maylene is quite weak.

So onto the continuation the time where all the Pokemons were standing in front of the Veilstone City Gym and comparing the city environment to the Gym.

"All of you get ready, even though just the three of you would fight but who cares. So are you ready to pummel the Pokemons of a trainer that is still green."

Sky asked his Pokemons causing the other Challengers and the Gym staff to look at him weirdly.

"Rioooo."

"Treec."

"Mimikyu."

"Ga byte."

"Sol."

"Las Froslass."

"Except please hold back a little because if we broke her self confidence then that would be a problem."

All the Pokemons nodded thrice.

"You really are in sync. The training was worth it." Sky muttered making his Pokemons shiver at the reminder of it

"Don't forget that you are strong. Far stronger that other. I trained you to become that and you trained so that you can kill me when needed ☺️. Now let's go and defeat her with dignity."

Sky said while entering the Veilstone City Gym ground.

....

Maylene is a young girl with pale skin and short, pink hair. She wears a sleeveless purple and black top and plain, white pants. She also wears blue fingerless gloves on her hands. Her feet and arms are bare. She wears two bandages, one on her left arm, and one covering her nose.

It can be inferred by her appearance that Maylene is very young, likely still a child due to her very slim structure, short stature and little female development. Despite being named a fighting genius, Maylene isn't very muscular and her structure is very skinny and feminine.

....

Upon entering the ancient fighting style Gym stadium with , Sky looked at his surroundings.

He was currently in a wooden room, big enough to hold the Gym Battle. 12 buff men were standing in a line and then went near the wall to look out. A skinny refree that stuck out as the sore thumb among the muscular buff men and finally, on th opposite side of the Fighting type battle ground, stood Maylene in her usual clothes.

"Here comes the new challenger."

"He is the 17 one today, right?"

"Yeah, today is the third day and Maylene-sama hadn't lost even once."

"Plus look at the Challenger, he had just four weak Pokemons with him. One of them is even a Pure Dark type Pokemon as well. This one will also lose."

Sky heard the murmurs of all the Gym staff but chose to ignore it. Darkrai, Froslass and Mimikyu were hiding in his shadow.

'I can think of Froslass and Mimikyu as they are Ghost types but how can you hide in the shadows as well?' Sky thought in his mind. He felt like it was not fair.

As if lifting 50 tons with stick like hands is fair.

Darkrai gave a snort.

Sky went towards the Challenger ring and confirmed the list of his Pokemons and other League related things like insurance and other stuff.

"Welcome Challenger, I am Maylene, the Gym leader Veilstone City, My speciality is Fighting type Pokemon. I hope that you can give me a good fight."

"I will try to fight with dignity." Sky also replied with a smile.

"I like your confidence. They too were confident... they were... I hope that you can give me a good fight."

Maylene said in a tone that reminded Sky of the Anime version of Paul.

"Did their personalities got swapped when they fought(in the Anime) or something. The Paul that I met was a good natured introvert."

Sky mumbled to himself in a low voice.

"There is no point in regretting the fact that you are going to face me. Your loss had been decided before the fight even began, For I haven't lost a single battle since my coronation as the Gym leader."

"I think Paul did the right thing. He would have fought her ten days day later according to the actual events(anime) and she must have won all the battles before Paul. That's a better reason for her crushing defeat and depression."

Sky mumbled again, completely ignoring the existence of Maylene. He can use multiple thought at the same time so his was still hearing her all and all the murmurings of the other Gym staff as well.

Sky was standing there for next ten seconds. Maylene was also staring him for the next ten seconds.

"When are you going to start the match procedures?"

Sky asked the referee. He had been waiting for the referee to start the match.

"Ohh! I forgot! So Challenger Sky initiates a Gym battle to the Veilstone City Gym Leader Maylene. The battle is a three on three and whoever side defeats all the opponent's Pokemons first wins the battle. Now on my mark, begin the battle in 3..."

Sky and Maylene both sent their Pokemons to the battle ring.

–2

Both the Pokemons got ready for the battle.

–1

"Gabite, Dig and Dragon pulse."

"Meditite, Detect."