after the last battle against Samuel Alex would be on the forest with his pokemons talking about a strategy about the battle against the gym leader gardenia "gardenia specializes in grass typeso the one who will be fighting will be scyther and lucario, Scyther I want you to close in and use bug bite when you can but preferably use air slash and maintain the distance, and you Lucario I want you to use bullet punch when the fight starts and then use metal claw to do a one-shot combo" both Lucario and scyhter would nod accepting alex's indication
"well then let's train a little before going to the gym, and Lucario you can challenge milotic to a spar now" Lucario would smile looking at milotic and milotic would accept getting in front of Lucario "ok begin!" milotic would coil around the trees using it's flexible body to camouflage on the trees and wood but Lucario using the aura would sensei where milotic was and it would use aura sphere but milotic would block it using hydro pump
then milotic would continue moving around the trees and Lucario would continuously use aura sphere to try and hit milotic but milotic would block it or dodge it behind a tree, and while milotic was moving she would use disarming voice, Lucario would cover his ears but milotic would use that moment to jump and coil around Lucario using hydro pump but Lucario would roughly grab milotic trowing it to a tree
but still milotic would have made good damage with that hydro pump on the face but Lucario would look intensely at milotic and when she tried to do the same move Lucario would jump using bullet punch and punching milotic straight on theface and then is would use metal claw trying to finish the battle but milotic would punch his hands with his tail making Lucario fail the attack using metal claw against a tree
and then milotic it would use another hydro pump but Lucario would endure it growling before using metal claw, and milotic would get hit directly by the double metal claw milotic would faint followed by Lucario who would faint too
"Wow that sure was an intense fight" Alex would say smiling and proud of the power his pokemons have right now while all the other Pokemons would be surprised and excited wanting to reach the level their leaders have even the proud scyther would want to train even harder to get as strong as milotic and Lucario "well then go train I will cure this two"
the others would begin to train harder than before and Alex would just sigh while beginning to cure both milotic and lucario's wounds they did while fighting
after training and curing his Pokemons at the Pokemon center Alex would be in front of the gym's entrance, Alex would open the door entering and sitting on the couch waiting for his turn while being excited and nervous
after some minutes Alex would be called to the arena, he would stand up grab a big breath before entering the arena looking at gardenia "hello challenger I see you have already win you're first badge so I will use my Pokemons according to the 2 badge level so be prepared!" gardenia would take out a PokeBall "go grotle" *gardenia would take out a grotle "so the sinnoh grass starter? well then go scyther!"
scyhter would get out of his pokeball looking at the grotle in front of him "air slash!" remembering Alex's plan Scyther would mantain the distance while using air slash "grote use you're back to protect yourself and then use vine whip grab it and stomp it to the floor!" grotle would use it's back like a shield taking damage but not too much then it would use vine whip grabbing Scyther "scyhter now use bug bite!" scyther would use bug bite freeing himself from the vine whip
"now us air slash!" "grotle protect yourself again!" grotle would try to protect itself again with it's back but it would be too late and it would get hit by the air slash "now don't let him breathe! use bug bite!" scyhter would get close to grotle and then it would bite grotle making super effective damage "continue don't let him go!" "Grotle use vine whip and try to get scyhter off you!" grotle would hear gardenia and then it would use it's vine whip to try and take Scyther off him "Scyther use air slash!" "Now grotle use poison powder!" scyther would use air slash hitting grotle directly and making bid damage but grotle would endure it using poison powder
"Scyther use air slash against the poison powder!" Scyther would use air slash making a wind burst that would throw away the poison powder "now Scyther use air slash again!" Scyther would again use air slash defeating grotle "yes! first one down!"
"Good one challenger I have to admit that using the wind burst created by the air slash to disperse the poison powder and not get poisoned was a good strategy but it won't work twice now go cherrim!" "cherrim use leech seed!"
"scyther dodge it!" but Scyther couldn't dodge it on time being seeded by cherrim "shit this is a battle against time now, Scyther change the strategy go all out now!" scyther would begin to go aggressively against cherrim using bug bite and air slash trying to finish the battle quickly, and in one of cherrim oversights Scyther would connect a bullet punch
"cherrim maintain the distance and let that Scyther faint for the leech seed"
"Scyther continue attacking no backing down!"
scyhter would get even more aggressive wanting to take away cherrim along with him he would continue using bullet punch and bug bite going fully on the offensive
"cherrim use magical leaf don't let him get close!"
"scyhter continue the offensive! don't let him cure with leech seed!"
cherrim would be overloaded by scyther attacks being hit from everywhere
"good now use bug bite and finish him!"
"cherrim use grass knot!"
both attacks would connect against each other and then both of them would faint falling onto the floor "you did well scyhter come back" Alex would put Scyther back on it's PokeBall while looking at gardenia "take out you're last Pokemon I Wanna finish this up right now"
gardenia would smile "ok challenger then let's begin! go Roserade!" gardenia would take out roserade and Alex would look at it
"it looks well taken care, well then go Lucario!" Alex would take out Lucario who would immediately look at roserade "Lucario" Lucario would say that this was going to be a hard battle
"let's begin!" Alex would smile "Lucario bullet punch!" Lucario would disappear using bullet punch and punching roserade on the chest
"Roserade don't let him go and use stun spore!" roserade would let out some spores that Lucario couldn't dodge and it would get hit by the spores being paralyzed by the spores
"Shit Lucario is now slower, Lucario use metal claw now that you are close to roserade!" Lucario would get close using metal claw and hitting roserade directly and making big damage but before continuing the paralysis effect would not let Lucario move giving roserade and opportunity to attack Lucario with grass knot
"Lucario don't back down his attacks won't be effective against you!"
lucario would use metal claw again and this time it would connect making big damage to roserade and defeating him
gardenia would smile awkwardly "Well there's nothing I could do that Lucario of your's is the perfect counter against my roserade, but that's no excuse so here is the forest badge" gardenia would give Alex the forest badge " and here's the TM 86 this TM contains grass knot, well that's all good battle"
gardenia would smile giving Alex her hand and Alex would shake it "thanks for the battle" Alex would say before getting out of the gym and seeing his second badge "two out of eight"