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She had been nervous the first time she stepped in Josh's gym, but that felt like years ago rather than months. She had been painfully uncertain while he showed her around. It had been scary to try different mounts, but she had learned a lot. Now, seasoned by a culmination of odd events and strict training under the wings of gym leaders and high-ranking Rangers, she felt more confident in her step.

"How formal is this challenge? Should I call you Mr. Devlin?" She's only half teasing. They've been on several missions, but she doesn't want to overstep during the challenge. Her experiences for the valor badge (victory) and aurum badge (failure) were with folks she had rarely or never seen. Josh was far more familiar. She even recalled the names of most of the pokemon she met.

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Mauville Racing Grounds' facility was enormous indeed; while the office space had little signage due to its size being on the smaller side, the property where the action took place, just outside the city proper, was enormous. Luckily, Josh had experienced staff who knew the facility well, and signage that could guide challengers to the correct location. The voice of ANDREW WEISS, Josh's scheduler, echoed over the Gym's loudspeakers:

"Challenger , please report to the Main Sector. Challenger Coello, to the Main Sector. Thank you!"

Provided Robin followed the ample signage to get to the Main Sector, where the facility's battle courts were located, she would find Josh removing the saddle from Crash, a Boltund whose tail was wagging as fast as a lightning bolt. "Hi, Robin!" Josh greeted the Ranger. "Please, Josh is fine! I'm excited; this is my first Gym match since becoming a Champion!" While most Gyms' battle courts had some variance to how large they were, Mauville's was notable for being extremely large; it was triple regulation size, and it was wide open, with plenty of channels for aquatic Pokémon to swim. Pokémon had plenty of room to run and nowhere to hide, playing into the ultrafast Pokémon on Josh's Gym squad and giving them quite the home field advantage.

The Gym Leader and Champion directed the challenger toward the west side of the triple-sized court, toward the Trainer's Box on the challenger's side. "According to your application, this will be a two-Pokémon Doubles match. The first side to incapacitate their opponent's entire Pokémon will be the winner. This match will have a seven-minute time limit, and ties will be broken by sudden death. Good luck to you; you'll need it."

Once the two trainers were positioned, the small gallery cheered, primarily for Josh, as the platforms rose to a height of roughly ten feet. The Gym Leader pointed toward the circular pool surrounding the inner ring of the battle court, the Boltund ready to do battle. He wouldn't be fighting alone; with a whistle from the Gym Leader, a black Charizard swooped in next to the giant, yellow dog, his tail burning brightly. "Now, bring forth your Pokémon and ponder your opening move. I can assure you it will be the only decision you will have time to think on," Josh taunted.






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NAME            SPECIES           STATUS
Ares            Charizard**       Good  
Crash           Boltund           Good  
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She took a deep breath as she walked to where she was instructed. It was totally okay to lose the battle because she was here to learn, not necessarily to win. She had to take being a Ranger more seriously in order to protect her home and her loved ones. "Congrats," she said earnestly to hearing about his Champion status. "I hope to follow in your footsteps." She didn't want to focus on gyms, but they were good learning opportunities. It would take her years to challenge all of them, but she did think she was capable of standing as Josh's equal some day.

His teasing only made her more excited for the match. She liked a bit of trash talk, at least when it wasn't coming from . "I guess I better make the first move a good one, huh?" Toxtricity and Sinistea appeared before her. She knew Sinistea was solid for strategic approaches, but Toxtricity wasn't one she battled with often. She chose him because he was her fastest pokemon, and it might very well be necessary to fight fire with fire.

"Set us up," she instructed. Sinistea created aromatic mist to improve Toxtricity's defense while Toxtricity used shift gear to prepare himself for the speed and strength necessary for this battle. She had learned a lot about not just relying on damage-dealing moves; here, her opening gambit was likely her only chance to improve her pokemons' performance before they were fighting to keep up with Josh's team.

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1. Sinistea used AROMATIC MIST (sp. def increase for Tox)
2. Toxtricity used SHIFT GEAR (spd +2, atk +1 for Tox)
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Such was the purpose of the Gym circuit. Each Gym had its own list of precepts to pass onto new trainers, and a particular type of obstacle to overcome. Mauville's lessons to teach Robin included trust of one's instincts and the ability to act well under extreme time pressure. "Thanks. It means a lot to me to have made it so far," Josh answered. He wished he could have shared the other reason for his happiness, but that had to remain under wraps for at least the next several months.

What a passive start; Josh had once battled like this relying on finding a moment to charge up power and ending the battle in one strike. Not anymore. "Trying to beat me at my own game, are you? Try again," he began trash-talking the challenger. "Ares, DRAGON DANCE!" The fire-type's tail turned a dragon purple, the black Charizard jetting above the battle court faster than a Charizard had the right to fly.

Crash was fully aware of what the Toxtricity could do; he had sparred with Amp several times to get the Gym Leader's own ready for battle. He had the perfect counter ready: baring his teeth at his fellow electric-type, the Boltund chomped down with PSYCHIC FANGS, trying to prevent the Toxtricity from being able to play its natural instrument.







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NAME            SPECIES           STATUS
Ares            Charizard**       Good  
Crash           Boltund           Good  
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Josh's pokemon are fast, just as she suspected. Charizard doubling down on his speed was bad news, but she didn't have easy means to bring him down. She could, however, aim for an area-based attack. Boltund charged for Toxtricity, but ever-sacrificing Sinistea used ally switch to take his place and take the bite. "Bring the party to 'em!" Toxtricity almost shivered at the command, excited to do what he did best.

He generated a loud room-filling noise with boom burst, something she was glad she had witnessed several times prior so it no longer caused her vertigo upon exposure. She was very sympathetic to Loudred trainers...

"Don't keep that Charizard outta reach for long!" She shouts. It's not great to egg on Josh, as he's got a decent advantage as a well-established and awarded trainer, but she loves a little bit of trash talk, and she is curious to see what his Charizard can do.

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1. Sinistea used ALLY SWITCH on Toxtricity
2. Toxtricity used BOOM BURST on all pokemon (Sinistea is immune)
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"Now, Ares, DRAGON CLAW!" Josh shouted, tilting his head skyward. With him too busy spiraling through the sky to notice the Sinistea had intercepted Crash's PSYCHIC FANGS, the dragon was unaware his extra-powerful flyby attack would likely not down the poison-type, leaving him in point-blank range of the unavoidable sonic burst. Crash didn't get off easy, either; the dog's sensitive hearing made his head thump. Even Josh himself could feel the vibrations of the strengthened shockwave. Had he not been around so much, he would have had a migraine from being so near it.

The disturbed air grounded Ares for a moment: long enough to get one goot shot on him before he could get back into the air. Crash wouldn't make it easy, though; bounding toward the Sinistea, he would bury his face into the adorable steel-type, NUZZLING it in an effort to prevent Robin's Pokémon from protecting the Toxtricity again.






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NAME            SPECIES           STATUS
Ares            Charizard**       Fair  
Crash           Boltund           Fair  
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Sinistea was unlucky and could not take advantage of Boltund's close quarters to launch an immediate responding attack. She flinched as he struck her with electricity; it paralyzed her, leaving her unable to move. "Tox, you need to protect Sinistea!" The pokemon gave no indication of listening.

His eyes were set on the rapid-approaching Charizard who only fired him up more. Of his own volition, he launched a poison jab as the Charizard struck him with a dragon claw, unwilling to attempt to dodge to give Sinistea some support against Boltund. No, Toxtricity was locked into combat with this Charizard and his ego would not allow him to succumb to the dragon's strength. "Tox! Get distance from Charizard!" But he only seemed to care about what else he could strike the dragon with.


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1. Sinistea is hit by NUZZLE and PARALYZED, unable to move.
2. Toxtricity uses POISON JAB as Charizard hits him with DRAGON CLAW.
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"Gotcha," Josh mumbled as his DYNAMAX BAND began to glow red. His fears doused after his long discussions and training sessions with and , he recalled Ares into its Poké Ball after Robin's Pokémon had slammed its venom-laden fist into the dragon. Surrounded with DYNERGY, the Poké Ball grew to half his size, Josh needing two hands to hurl it back toward the battle court.

Joining Crash was the now-colossified GIGANTAMAX Charizard, who immediately swiped toward the Sinistea with hut-sized claws coated in MAX LIGHTNING. The ELECTRIC TERRAIN that followed made the Boltund even faster than before, giving the Toxtricity far less time to react to PSYCHIC FANGS aiming to put its musical act on notice!






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NAME            SPECIES           STATUS
Ares            Charizard**       Poison [][]  
Crash           Boltund           Fair  
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Oh.

Dynamax was new. Robin flinched as the large Charizard re-appeared on the field; he swiped at Sinistea with a claw full of electricity, and the ghost had no defense. The terrain was lit with electricity. "TERASTALLIZE!" Sinistea used the power of her nineteen shards to activate tera, taking on a crystalline appearance as different colored shards floated around her form. "Shadow on Boltund!" Sinistea used her boosted shadow ball on the canine.

Robin had no idea where to start with Charizard. Limiting Boltund's capacity to hurt her pokemon seemed like the best initial strategy. Toxtricity yelped as the Boltund closed his jaw around Tox's throat. He used POISON JAB to push the canine back and reach for his injured throat. "Tox, get distance!" But Tox refused to retreat even an inch, planting his feet on the ground as if daring the Boltund to get close again and eat a powerful attack.

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1. Sinistea is hit with MAX LIGHTNING. Sinistea TERASTALLIZES and uses SHADOW BALL, boosted because of stellar.
2. Toxtricity is struck with PSYCHIC FANG and returns with POISON JAB.
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The SHADOW BALL was coming, fast and with greatly amplified strength thanks to the STELLAR form Robin's Pokémon sported. "Not fast enough, Robin!" Josh taunted. "Crash, QUICK ATTACK!" The Champion knew of the Stellar Tera Type, having used it in his match with Kyle. To his understanding, the Pokémon that invoked it shed all its type affinities, becoming the Stellar type itself.

How wrong he was, the lightning-fast lunge passing right through the ghost-type's ethereal body. The SHADOW BALL surrounded and assimilated the Boltund, leaving him no more than an eldritch heap in the GIGANTAMAX Charizard's shadow.

Ares sounded a roar whose volume was so great that it knocked Josh off his feet: a sign of just how dangerous the Dynamax phenomenon was. Shrugging off the effects of Tox's poison thanks to his enormous size and bring inebriated with DYNERGY after his Dynergy Barrier broke, his claws, arms, and wings began to glow with a yellow-white inferno. Deeply inhaling and ingesting grass like a vacuum cleaner, the dragon beat his wings and exhaled a G-MAX WILDFIRE in a gigantic cone all in front of him.







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NAME            SPECIES           STATUS
Ares            Charizard**       Poison []  
Crash           Boltund           KO 
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Boltund was a good KO, but that Charizard was a huge problem. Sinistea was more defensive when terastallized, but her offensive capabilities were innately not stacked against the Charizard. Her boost in power might not be enough. Toxtricity, disobedient as ever, was really acting as bad as he had when he first evolved and the shadow energy had meshed terribly with his newfound evolved energy.

Charizard was lighting the field on fire. Sinistea cried out under the attack; she couldn't keep taking hits after her skirmish with Boltund earlier in the battle, so she succumbed to the attack and fainted.

Robin had to think fast, as Josh's Charizard was powerful and fast as ever, and her windows of opportunity were going to continue to close. She had learned all about ruthlessness and unexpected attacks to hold the upper hand, and she wasn't about to forget those lessons now. Tox needed a moment to find his voice, so his powerful sound moves were out, and she needed a real showstopper to put a dent in Charizard.

If Toxtricity wanted to be a bad shadow mon, then she'd lean into it. "Tox, bring the party! Start a rave!" Tox perked at the command, finally getting her blessing to rock out, even if he couldn't rely on his usual sound attacks with his injured throat. Even as the fierce flames of Charizard's attack licked at his limbs, he generated a powerful shadow rave throughout the terrain.

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1. Sinistea is hit with WILDFIRE and faints.
2. Toxtricity is hit with WILDFIRE and uses SHADOW RAVE.
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The SHADOW RAVE not only melted through the rest of Ares' DYNERGY BARRIER, but also ate into the Charizard's colossal scales. With a loud roar, the dragon reverted from his GIGANTAMAXED state. Where Robin may have expected a congratulations, he instead received the unbridled fury of the Mauville Gym Leader. "Stop the match right now!" he ordered.

"Robin!" he sternly shouted across the battle court now swirling in the cloud of darkness Tox created. "Using a Shadow Pokémon in a Gym Challenge?! Despicable. Unthinkable. You should be ashamed of yourself!" His voice rumbled across the Racing Grounds, loud as thunder, like a parent who had discovered their child had downed an entire jar of peanut butter in a single day. "What did you do to that poor Pokémon?!"







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NAME            SPECIES           STATUS
Ares            Charizard**       KO 
Crash           Boltund           KO 
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The elation and relief of victory was short-lived. Josh's anger was unexpected and, based on her experiences with him, completely uncharacteristic. Stop the match? It was over.

She felt terribly small under his booming voice. Despicable. Unthinkable. She blinked owlishly, feeling lost and afraid, until he asked what she had done to her pokemon. She had struggled to raise Toxel for the longest time, and many months ago, she had pushed him to his limit trying to get him to be stronger after her near abduction on the ocean routes by a Rocket. She had woken up to see Toxel shrouded in shadow. The guilt had eaten at her for months until February when Toxel was suddenly shadow Toxtricity, though his shadow coloring was very faint. She had figured the darkness surrounding him had mostly abated as the trust between them had grown again.

To have that guilt brought back to the forefront...

"I raised him! I made him stronger! You think I have some magical device that grants him the capacity for shadow moves?! How dare you!" Righteous anger filled her in the face of his disgust. "I won. That's what I'm supposed to do, right? I have to be strong. To protect Hoenn? To fight Rocket? You're angry that I'm doing what it takes to keep them back!?" Hot tears threatened to fall, but she didn't hold back.

For her battle with Navy to teach her that war and fairness didn't coexist, her battle with Gwyar to teach her to think through her opponent's capacities and counter them, her training with Annalise about going so far in combat as to attack a trainer if it is necessary for survival, and for Greyson to show her that the threats against Hoenn like DRK Triad would never fight with one hand tied behind her back... she was a result of her mentors, and they had all contributed to her ability to survive. She couldn't tolerate being questioned and shamed for fighting with her all when that's what gym leaders should foster in their pupils.

"You're a sore loser! That's all! To call a stop to a match that I finished is unfair. You're a cheater!" All the while, her Toxtricity was quite, but angry, and eyeing Josh like he wanted to start the rave again. Even in her anger, she knew the punishment for attacking an unarmed trainer - and one of Josh's status at that - would be criminal. She drew Toxtricity into his pokeball. She wiped at her face and smeared her heated tears. "They just give Champion to anyone, huh? You're not even worthy of being a gym leader."

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Josh listened to Robin's monologue completely before giving his retort, a counter-argument that could have stung like a Beedrill's rear barb. Who knows how Tox would have reacted, Josh fearing the unpredictability of a shadow Pokémon? It would not be a pleasant retort, either; Josh was livid. He could not stand Shadow Pokémon, bred for only one nefarious purpose.

"Robin, Shadow Pokémon... they're only good at one thing. War. Destruction. Robin, do you understand what Shadow Pokémon are?" He absorbed the righteous anger, reciprocating it with his own. "You raise Pokémon for all the right reasons. But using a Shadow Pokémon to do it makes you no different than Rocket. That's why I'm upset. They are Pokémon that have had the door to their hearts artificially closed. You can't bond with them like normal Pokémon. They only listen to one thing, and that is blood. Death. Devastation. The upending of lives."

Josh sobbed. He wanted to give Robin the Quick Badge so badly. But to use a Shadow Pokémon to do so? "Robin, you can never truly be one with a Shadow Pokémon. I went through this myself. Though it was only for a short time, Saber, my Manectric, was a Shadow Pokémon. The door to his heart slammed shut so tightly that it broke the unbreakable bond of Infinity Energy that a Sygna Suit serves as the conduit of. They know only war. And if they can't feed that... they'll feed on you. Attack you. You won't be able to control your Toxtricity. It could kill you."

Thoughts of 's Shadow Pokémon came to mind from their last visit to the Jagged Pass. It was his last great memory of the Volatile before he fell from grace, in the Gym Leader's eyes. He didn't want the same thing to happen. "Robin, you're welcome to issue another challenge in six weeks' time. But promise me this. Don't bring another Shadow Pokémon here, okay?"





NOTE: This was done with Ghostfinch's express permission!

NOTE: will be able to re-challenge Mauville Gym no earlier than May 26, 2024.



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NAME            SPECIES           STATUS
Ares            Charizard**       KO 
Crash           Boltund           KO 
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She stared at Toxtricity's pokeball in her hand as Josh lectured her, angry beyond belief that he thought this was what she needed to hear. When he offered he a retry, she shook her head. "You don't get it. Tox isn't like that." She pocketed the pokeball and turned from Josh, leaving. Before leaving, she had to leave a final remark. He'd wasted her time and poked at her shortcomings all the while. "Just because you can't control your pokemon doesn't mean I can't." She wasn't going to leave Toxtricity behind; he didn't seek violence, just chaos. It was a fine difference...

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