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noah arrives as soon as he can. quietly, he stores his anxiety over the loved ones he knows are fighting within the all-obscuring veil of white. shards of ice spear through the winds. snowflakes as dense as feathers weigh down his eyelids, but he dare not lose focus.[break][break]

noah heaves himself ahead of Eko Darling and Victor Haas.[break][break]

"i got you two covered!" noah shouts.[break][break]

his hitmonlee kicks several chunks of ice away, each clap from its soles resonating for a HELPING HAND to assist eko's PIDGEOT.

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when matias enters, noah's eyes mimic the poliwrath's.[break][break]

"oh, you were serious." the gym leader says. "i'm all for spicing it up, but—" he enters the ring with a metal clang.[break][break]

as he walks further into the square, he summons his grapploct. the octopus hisses as it crawls across the canvas with its muscular mop of tentacles.[break][break]

"are you sure about this?" he presses his hand into his neck to crack it. "kyle might kill you if you bruise me."[break][break]

noah laughs.

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"wow." [break][break]

a blush rises to noah's cheeks already pinched by the cold. gwen's ardent confession flutters like butterfree within this unfeeling cavern—and the chambers of his heart.[break][break]

he wonders how kyle lopez is at work.[break][break]

"you really care about her." noah says. "i can relate. i came to hoenn for the same kinda reason. didn't want to lose the world to rocket."[break][break]

his iron hands cracks a stalactite obstructing a tunnel. it's dark here. foreboding. cacnea needles continue to clatter lightly on cold, ancient stone.[break][break]

he turns to gwen, arms folded thick.[break][break]

"if you wanna make them pay, then you gotta get through this cave first, right? make that backbone of yours stronger."

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"not as cute as this."[break][break]

noah rolls out of the bedroom closet, knocking clumsily against one of its doors in the process. the hinges squeak as he leaps to his feet. he wears a hoodie. a hand-me-down or thrift store steal. thin fabric. odd design.[break][break]

it hangs tight on his body, perhaps a couple sizes too small. the seams are in danger of tearing.[break][break]

"y'know, i was never a big poochyena fan before i met you." he eyes the man's beanie softly and scratches his thigh through his boxers.

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"i don't mind a little trip." like a hariyama, noah claps his face with both hands. "maybe it'll wake me up."[break][break]

when the gym leader strings one leg through the portal, he peers back at his home. briefly, he is stunned by how unremarkable it all looks. it's all four corners. four walls. scratches, chips, worn down corners and all.[break][break]

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with a loud call, he informs the house's pokemon of their imminent departure. lets his voice settle in each room's recess before slipping past the threshold.

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"hey you finally made it! have you thought about what you'd do if you became champ?"[break][break]

noah shouts from the other side of the ring. it's caged. enclosed by metal-link fencing. to be within its confines means to be forced into confrontation.[break][break]

no looking back.[break][break]

noah throws his pokeball. the capsule cracks against the rattling fence and a red bolt lunges out from its mouth. as the pokeball falls to the ground, a CRABOMINABLE emerges onto the canvas of the ring.[break][break]

"for my gym, you gotta know how to deal with close quarters combat." the gym leader says. "but for you, if you don't show me through your battle why you wanna be champ other than to get the title..."[break][break]

he fishes out his badge: two interlocking boxing gloves.[break][break]

"then i don't think you deserve this."

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the DAZZLING GLEAM buffets the annihilape like brilliant murmurations. if smoke could billow out from the ape's nostrils, it would.[break][break]

as pink fractals fade from its vision, the annihilape storms toward BAGLE BITE fist first.[break][break]

a RAGE FIST lunges toward the dog. and then another. and then another. a relentless charge through space—and blurred sight.[break][break]

"backed up against the corner now, are ya?" noah taunts. "when we're one-on-one instead of doubles?"[break][break]

still, the fighting-type gym leader understands that his annihilape is on its last cuffed legs.

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noah exchanges his machamp for an iron hands. from the red bolt of a pokeball, the robotic hariyama lands with a tinny clank.[break][break]

its disembodied hands thrust outward. yellow, glowing fluid swirls around within smooth panel palms, bestowing light as it leads the way.[break][break]

"honesty. i like that." noah says as he follows his iron hands. "what do you wanna be... do then? how'll you know when you achieve your goal?"

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