Doug's Gym Challenge Log: Skyrider Badge

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Alexei Ivanov
Doug's Gym Challenge Log: Skyrider Badge
POSTED ON Apr 25, 2021 15:58:55 GMT
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The Flygon came streaking out of the localized Sandstorm, and the moment both were clear, the weather came to a swirling halt behind them.

Right at that first comment, Alexei turned around and shook sand out of his hair as well.

“When I have my other Pokémon kick up the weather changes—you think I have the money for a weather machine, hell no, I do this the natural way—some of the other staffers down at the Sanctuary who aren’t too busy keep an eye on them while they let loose. Apparently,” he trailed off as he heard another burst of tinny laughter through his earpiece, “…they decided to go all-out this time.”

More laughter from the earpiece, because he was letting them hear everything he was saying.

“Reason why I have my Pokémon whip up the weather obstacles is to let ‘em practice and stretch their wings, so to speak,” he added a few moments afterward.

It was at this point he then heard a Salamence snorting through the tinny reception; right then and there he knew who one of the instigators of this insanity was.

Gabe, you ass, he thought with a grin, before continuing.

“You had some fantastic flying out there—specially the part where you dive-bombed, I thought you were legit going to fall off! You did a split-second recovery and came out of the sudden dive just fine. Points to that,” he went on with a grin.

“Now that the first part’s over, second’s simple: aerial tag. Yes, we aren’t going to be flying through another sandstorm, they’re crazy,” he continued with a chuckle, and heard complaints bleeding on the other end.

“However, this time, though—I highly suggest you shake off as much sand as you can because—” he broke off, before looking up at the heavens and seeing several storm clouds pooling over the section of the open-air arena, before rumbling shook the air.

“…it’s going to get real wet, now.”

He had a few seconds to pull up his hood before a torrential Rain Dance started wreaking havoc through the area.

If Alexei had to guess, the other staffers had brought out most of his Water-types, because the normal visibility between him and John had gone from perfectly fine to ‘holy shit what the fuck’ in the span of a few moments.

“Tag me, and you win!” he shouted over the downpour, before another peal of thunder reverberated through the area.

After the next thunder shook the nearby area, Alexei was gone—having flown off deep into the near-zero visibility rainstorm.

But this wasn’t any ordinary rainstorm, either.

Flashes of Thunder would shake the area from time to time, along with powerful, howling winds caused by haphazardly-thrown Hurricane-force gales that were definitely enough to blow someone off their mount if they weren’t careful—



Part 2: Aerial Tag!

Catch Alexei within the torrential downpour, tag ‘im and you win the challenge!

(1 / ?)


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POSTED ON Apr 27, 2021 0:30:17 GMT
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He tried not to let Alexei's praise get to his head- tried being the keyword. Being told your flying was great by the flying themed Gym Leader?

That was an ego boost and a half.

"Thank you!" He said, grinning back at the man, tipping his straw hat at the man, before giving it a good few shakes once he noticed the tiny sand particles dripping from between the straws.

A good idea, as it turned out- things got very wet only a few seconds later, following the Leader's ominous words. With almost comedic timing, the afternoon went from sunny to downpour in the blink of an eye.

The brim of his hat now hugging his ears like a bomber hat, the youth blew some of the torrential water constantly pouring down his face as he gave the Leader a dirty look.

"Oh, your guys must think they're real funny." The youth said, brow twitching slightly, his wet clothes now hugging his frame.

Good thing he was no longer obsessed with wearing those fancy suits, seeing how often the world conspired to ruin his clothes.

"YEAH, YOU BETTER RUN!" The youth shouted playfully as the gym leader disappeared into the almost blinding downpour, squinting his eyes. After a moment, he grumpled and yanked off the goggles off his face, swinging his arm sharply to shake off the rest of sand from his hat before setting it atop his head.

"Awright." Doug said, patting Guirus. "How do we do this...?"

Annoying as the rain was, the rest of the weather was somehow even worse. Gales threatened to throw him off, which made him wonder if a: they thought he could survive a 100 feet down fall, in which case he would have been flattered but they were wrong, and b: how was he supposed to find a man he couldn't see, hear, smell or touch?

Lightning clapped in the distance, illuminating the otherwise dark downpour and showing him a distinctly contrasting, shadowed silhouette in the distance.

Oh, that's how. Thank you, random thunder user!

"Awright, saw 'em for a good sec!" Said Doug as he swung the reigns towards the general direction. "Let's go, Guirus! Full speed ahead!"




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POSTED ON Apr 27, 2021 12:01:09 GMT
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Thank the unholy he’d decided to get those waterproof earpieces from way back then.

Sure, flying through a bizarre variety of weather conditions was bound to ruin electronic gadgetry down the road, however water damage was the single worst thing that could ever happen.

The laughter crackling on the other end made Alexei huff a bit before he pulled a face.

“Tell them they’re doing their job too well. And no, Zelle isn’t allowed to join for a reason,” he said as a sudden Hurricane-force wind nearly unseated him.

Forced to do a barrel roll in order to avoid the column of air, he very nearly got zapped by the flash of Thunder that came pealing down a few moments later.

Today was going to be a day for barrel rolls, it seemed.

And Rai’s going bananas with the Thunder. I don’t blame her, though! he thought as he was forced to fly upside-down for a few moments, very barely missing another sudden wall of wind that threatened to knock him off.

More rumbling shook the area, before crashing bolts of Thunder illuminated his silhouette… literally flying upside-down at the moment some distance ahead.

Another powerful blast of wind shook the area, almost like there was a solid wall of wind coming down through the area. Were the Hurricane-users intent on knocking them both down, or was this just their way of combining their efforts?



Part 2: Aerial Tag!

Catch Alexei within the torrential downpour, tag ‘im and you win the challenge!

(2 / ?)


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POSTED ON Apr 29, 2021 18:52:43 GMT
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Go go go go go!

The flygon zoomed through the air at high speed, spurred by his eager trainer, a beeline straight for the silhouetted gym leader.

Only to be forced to pull skyward as Doug yanked onto his reigns, a yelp leaving his throat as thunder and lightning cut through their path. Doug felt the searing heat of lightning sizzling at his darned pores, felt the static building up make his locks stand on end, and was damned near deafened as the thunder rocked the area shortly after.

Darnation, that was the closest a bolt lightning had ever come to putting the youth in the hospital- if not a shallow grave.

His heart still pumping madly in his chest, he remained still and staring wide eyed at the space were the lightning had striked before slowly forcing himself to throw his gaze elsewhere.

The rain being as heavy as it was, and the winds being as powerful as disorienting as they were, he had pretty much lost sight of the Gym Leader once again.

Goddamn it.

"Urgh... Come on, Guirus." Doug said as he pulled on the reigns, swinging the blinded Flygon around to look over the area, brow furrowed and eyes narrowed.

His hat helped ever so slightly since it kept the water off his eyes, but that was about it.

He would need more lightning to see- but that wasn't an efficient way of handling the challenge...

"Go up, Guirus!" The youth suddenly ordered, pulling up on the reigns as the Dragon heeded his command, wings flapping rapidly as it began to ascend towards the dark clouds in the sky.


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POSTED ON Apr 30, 2021 19:01:58 GMT
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He could hear the tinny laughing crackling as he flew deeper into the thunderstorm, the lightning flashing and illuminating the area for the briefest of moments.

He thought he saw something flying out of the corner of his eye and made to change locations.

“You asshats are going all-out,” he hissed into the earpiece, before a peal of Thunder came too close for his liking. The Braviary let out a shocked screech, before moving against the wind current that was blowing all over the place.

As he hovered in mid-air for a few moments, a surprise wall of Hurricane almost unseated him, barely hanging on as the Braviary did a barrel-roll to avoid the maneuver.

“Shit, that was too close, he said as he hung upside-down in mid-air.

Now, where was the Flygon at? The rain had rendered visibility almost-zero here, had it not been for the sudden flashes of Thunder illuminating the area here and there.



Part 2: Aerial Tag!

Catch Alexei within the torrential downpour, tag ‘im and you win the challenge!

(3 / ?)


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POSTED ON May 3, 2021 18:58:40 GMT
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Far above where he had traveled, the rain got heavier, and colder. He dealt with it, promising himself to bring a coat if there ever was a next time while hoping there didn't need to be.

"Far enough." The youth said as he weakened his pull on the reigns, Guirus slowing to a stop in the hair, flapping wings keeping them in the air as Doug looked down upon the land.

It was the oldest trick; if you needed to see, to control the entire battlefield, then take the highest point in it. No such thing in the air, but he was hoping the Gym Leader hadn't deemed it necessary to go up as well.

Lightning clapped in the distance, near, just about everywhere underneath the clouds, really- and his hopes were answered.

A silhouette was illuminated somewhere down there, and the youth's gaze zeroid into it. The lightning was gone soon after, but the youth's gaze remained narrowed and focused, trying to track the Gym Leader below.

The thunder would be the key. As someone who had once (foolishly) made some thunder and lightning to accompany rainfall himself, he knew a pokemon couldn't simply launch thunders as it pleased.

He kept his eyes and ears sharp, seeking to understand the rhythm of the pokemon's thunderstorm...


Several rounds of thunder had occurred when he finally made his move.

As deafening thunder rang through the air, a blur dived down like a bullet. Wings folded against its body, Doug and his Flygon used the thunder to mask the sound of the wind being cut by the fly's body, zeroing into Alexei, a new lightning clap casting a dark shadow over the Gym leader as Doug extended out his arm, his finger, as far as he could.

Just one touch...!



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POSTED ON May 4, 2021 18:58:17 GMT
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The weather lulled for a bit—he wondered if his Manectric was getting tired of throwing off an endless barrage of Thunder to illuminate the skies.

However, the ones that were throwing out the Hurricane-force winds weren’t letting up.

And for Alexei to stay still in mid-air for too long was a bad idea. He knew that his Braviary was just about done with the insane shit he’d flown through so far—unlike his Salamence, who was more accustomed to flying these weird challenges through the shifting weather, his Braviary wasn’t as experienced yet.

So when a wall of wind suddenly caught him off-guard, he was forced to flip over right-side up again—and got buffeted by the winds and almost crashed into the Flygon, who had somehow ended up behind him…

“Oh, crap,” he said with a grin as he felt something tap him on the back. Wheeling around the Braviary, he was met with the blindfolded Flygon.

“I did say you had to catch me, and that’s what you did,” he continued as he tapped the earpiece and said a few words across the line.

The torrential downpour eventually came to a stop, before he finally pulled down the hood of his jacket and shook whatever wet hair was on his forehead out of his face.

“Normally I’d award this back down on the ground, but seeing as we’re already up here—”

Reaching into a pocket of his jacket, he fiddled around until he fished out what he was looking for, before eventually holding out his hand, for the other to take what lay waiting in it—



“Don’t take this too hard, but you still got some growing-up to do. However, you have the will and the drive to think quickly on your feet even if you’re in a disadvantageous situation. Thinking on the fly, literally, can mean the difference between life and death. Keep that with you, got that?”


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POSTED ON May 5, 2021 2:14:00 GMT
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Doug grinned as he grasped the badge, holding it up to the (thankfully) sunny sky and watching the rays of the sun gleam off its shiny, new surface before slipping it into his sleeve with a little sleigh of hand.

"I think I'm all tapped out on growth spurts, personally." The youth in good humour, though he nodded. "But I'll try and do something 'bout everythin' else!"

He had learned a thing or two about being a gym leader from the experience- so even if it had been painful and miserable, he was glad he had taken it.

And hey- usually it was only painful and miserable for his pokemon. It did good to spread the misery around every once in a while just so he wouldn't get too callous when sending his pokemon out to battle.

"Thanks for everything, Mr. Alexei. Think I'll be glad to work with ya soon." He said with a teasing grin, unwilling to explain what he meant.



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Doug's Gym Challenge Log: Skyrider Badge
POSTED ON May 5, 2021 4:29:28 GMT
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