Chapter 15: Couldn't make an apple pun

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Gloria's POV

The next day came and it was time to finally battle the grass gym leader Milo

I was slightly worried for Altyrei because lf her team not being super effective against grass save for her Caterpie but that wasn't going to be enough

She did leave the room late last night without telling us and seemed pumped to fight Milo

I could only guess she had a plan in mind and didn't want to spoil me so I just had to watch her battle to find out

Speaking of which we were asked to stay in a different locker room than yesterday's, I guess its because it was to separate the ones who are still challenging the trial part and the ones who are supposed to battle

Me, Altyrei and Hop were sitting together again waiting for Dan to brief us or something when I noticed Hibiki walking up to us

"H-hello everyone! Good morning!" She greeted

"Good morning to you too, Hibiki" Altyrei greeted back

"I w-wanna ask if y-you're prepared for the battle"

"You bet we are!" Hop beamed which caused Hibiki to step back

"Don't worry about him, he's just very enthusiastic about the gym challenge" I said trying to calm Hibiki down

"I-I see"

"How about Hibiki? Do you have a plan to beat Milo?" Altyrei asked the shy girl

Hibiki nodded before replying

"I specialize in using bug types, even though other people might not like bug types I think its because they take one look and think bug types are weak when in fact some bug types can put up a fight against their predators and also some bug types can even---" Hibiki stopped herself by covering her mouth "I apologize, I just really like bug types so much that I usually can't stop talking about them"

"Woah! Thats amazing! Are you aiming to be a gym leader someday?" Hop asked

Hibiki shook her head "N-no I just want tobprove to everyone that Bug types aren't weak by taking on the gym challenge with my friend, sadly he lost the challenge yesterday and is trying to retry today"

Oh yeah she mentioned that she was waiting for someone yesterday, I wonder what kind of person they were

As we continued our conversation a whistle took everyones attention to the door opposite from where we entered

Dan stood on a small podium inorder to allow everyone to see him and cleared his throat before speaking

"Yesterday's trial was to filter those who are strong enough to face the gym leader by testing not only their strengths but also their resourcefulness"

Dan paused inorder to take a clipboard from one of the league staff

"Today all of you are to face the gym leader, Milo, and do not worry for if you are defeated you are able to challenge him again without having to retake the trial"

After saying this everyone seemed to be relieved, I can understand, having to go through the trial again just because you lost to the gym leader would be tiring and time consuming, now the only question I have that I'm afraid to ask

"Now, as for who goes first to battle the gym leader, it'll be by their uniform number"

I swear I nearly turned white after he finished his sentence

"The one who battles first is challenger 12, challenger Altyrei!"

Nevermind, I did turn white

Altyrei's POV

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Okay, what were the chances, of me not only being the first to do the trial, but also the battle?!

Well just like yesterday, everyone looked at me because they already saw me yesterday and Gloria seemed to have paled again while Hop slumped again since he wasn't first

"G-goodluck" Hibiki said before I had to get going

"I apologise for how things turned out" Dan whispered to me when I got near "I had no idea how they were going to arrange who gets to challenge first"

Despite all that though I was fairly confident with my team

Dan led me to pitch and I can hear the crowd outside cheering despite being far from the end

I tried to calm my nerves by taking big breathes then exhaling a couple times then walked towards the field

Once I got outside I could see the field was massive and had an outline of a pokeball at the center large enough for two pokemon to stand and fight in but what I didn't understand was why the field had such an open space that they even had no ceiling

Anyways I continue to walk towards the center and I saw the gym leader Milo walk from the other side towards the center as well

When we were both there we turned to each other and he formally introduced himself

"My name's Milo, and I'm rather partial to grass type pokemon"

Then he walked towards the edge of the circle and I followed by going towards the opposite end

(Play the gym leader theme here if you want)
All of a sudden, music started playing causing the crowd to cheer and yell as Milo sent out his first pokemon which was a small green pokemon with a big yellow flower on the its head with red petals beneath

Wanting to preserve my strength I sent out Zigzagoon first

He seemed surprised by how big the field was but saw his opponent in front of him and prepared to battle

"Zigzagoon use Snarl!"

"Razor Leaf!"

Zigzagoon let out a cry with darkly energy which hits Milo's pokemon causing it to reel back and have some cottons fly around before throwing two pairs of fast leaves towards Zigzagoon

Luckily Zigzagoon's speed allowed him to dodge the attack and was waiting my next command

"Get in close then use Headbutt!"

As I commanded Zigzagoon manuevered towards Milo's pokemon and focusing his power on his head, headbutted the poor grass type making it reel back again and release some more cotton around the field

"Gossifleur, use Rapid Spin!" Milo commanded his pokemon which stared spinning rapidly in place and hit Zigzagoon

"Zigzagoon fall back and Leer!"

"Don't let it escape! Use Sweet Scent!"

The Gossifleur followed Milo's command and released a sweet smelling scent causing Zigzagoon to not run away because he was too entranced by the smell but he managed to leer towards the Gossifleur causing it to lose defence

"Headbutt once more!" I commanded and Zigzagoon zigzagged and headbutted the Gossifleur and fainting it

The crowd cheered Zigzagoon's victory over Gossifleur but the battle wasn't done yet

Milo smiled as he returned his pokemon and prepared his final pokemon's ball

"You're quite good, let's see if you can win against this"

After saying that he threw the pokeball up into the air and out came a big green lizard like pokemon with a large part of its body resembling apple pie

Since I didn't know what it was I decided to let Zigzagoon stay in and try to weaken it a bit but before I could Milo said something

"It seems that if I want to win, I have to Gigantamax my pokemon"

What?

Milo held out his pokeball and returned his pokemon causing me confusion and let it get engulfed by red lights and thr pokeball enlarged itself

I had no idea what was going on and Milo turned around and threw the enlarged pokeball high into the air and out came a slowly but surely enlarged apple with the green lizard coming out from the top

It let out a deafening cry which shook the entire stadium and looked down towards Zigzagoon who seemed to be concerned

I mean who wouldn't?

"Why don't you get a load of this move?" Milo said before he commanded his Pokemon "Appletun, use G-max Sweetness!"

The giant apple pokemon produced three large seeds and threw them towards Zigzagoon

"Zigzagoon get away from the seeds!" I tried to yell but I noticed that the cottons from before were stuck onto Zigzagoon and they slowed his movements down

Because of this the seeds landed around Zigzagoon and instantly turned into three large apples and exploded

I covered my eyes from the aftermath and when I opened them all I saw was the large Appletun looking down on my now fainted Zigzagoon covered in apple juice

I had no other choice left, I returned Zigzagoon and took out my ace in the hole's pokeball

"Go Butterfree!"

Out came the Butterfly Pokemon and even after seeing the large Appletun being its opponent he did not falter but instead awaited for my command

"Alright, Butterfree fly around and use Stun Spore!"

Butterfree cried out before flying up high while release yellow powder upon the Appletun inflicting paralysis causing some of the crowd to cheer

Milo tried to make it attack but it couldn't move from the paralysis

I took this chance to make Butterfree attack again "Now use Gust!"

"Freeeeee!" It cried as it flapped its wings creating a force of wind to hit the paralyzed apple

As soon as the attack connected the Appletun started to shrink back down to its original size and form

Some of the crowd gasped or became worried

"Appletun!"

"Don't let up Butterfree, use Confusion to end it!"

Butterfree used a little bit of psychic energy to attack the weak Appletun and managed to faint it

The stadium was suddenly silent until they realized that I had won and burst out into a loud cheer

Hey guys! How ya'll doing so far? I apologise for taking so long to update, I was trying to think of how I should write the battle scene whether I would make Gloria go first or Altyrei, and also I decided to give Milo G-max Appletun because it didn't made sense that he didn't have a gigantamax along with Nessa even though other gym leaders had them,
Yes I know gigantamax is powerful hence why I chose Appletun instead of Flapple because I looked it up and saw that Flapple doesnt learn any grass move until 32, but Appletun gets one on 20 the same as Milo's Eldegoss ingame(yeah I do my research), and also I don't have plans to let Altyrei have dynamax since I have something special in store for her

I'm not entirely sure when the next chapters are coming out but stick around for them and if you haven't done so then read my Sun and Moon fanfic since I plan to add Moon and Lillie in the next chapter or so

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P.S. CosmicEevee456 I'll try to add your character in a later part of the story

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