Goldenrod city.
Noah walked in the busy streets filled with people and Pokemon alike while avoiding bumping into some lest he repeats the same mistake that happened yesterday.
He was in his usual attire.
His Pokemon were by his side with a new addition of mareep.
Mareep joyfully hopped forward with all his injuries healed.
Turtwig stood on top of mareep's fluffy wool.
'Today's the day I beat whitney.' He planned to leave goldenrod after obtaining the gym badge.
He then took out a pill box from his bag filled with plain white pills and examined it closely.
'If this doesn't work I don't know what I am supposed to do.' Noah sighed and stored the box back into the bag.
The pill box was filled with sleeping pills.
His sleeping condition have worsened and he hadn't slept since Monday.
Today was Thursday.
He hadn't slept for three days.
'I don't understand how my body is still functioning.'
Noah browsed the internet and found nothing.
'I mean I did find something but mine is different.'
Noah stopped and stood infront a huge building with the word 'Gym' written on top the door.
He had reached the gym.
'I will use turtwig and magikarp for this.' He was planning to forcefully evolve magikarp.
'Even though that sounds cruel, as a magikarp he is weak.'
Noah opened the door and stepped inside.
He soon spotted a huge dome with many trainers with normal-type Pokemon training inside.
A little girl looked towards the newcomer curiously and was a bit suprised to see it was the trainer from yesterday.
'He didn't visit the farm?' She thought as she approached him.
"Hey there." She greeted him.
"Hello." Noah replied.
"Umm... Do you want me to take you to the gym leader?" She asked nervously.
Infact because of the gym leader's personality most of the trainer here have been yelled at or have been cursed at by the challengers.
Well who can blame them?
The gym leader wanders around the gym and gets lost.
When trainers visit goldenrod city to challenge her and finds out about it won't they feel betrayed?
"Sure." Noah replied.
The girl started to lead him towards Whitney.
'I am pretty sure she has a miltank and a clefairy.'
'Turtwig against clefairy and magikarp against miltank.'
Finally he entered a door which revealed a huge battleground suitable for a Pokemon battle.
On the other side was a pink haired girl with a miltank by her side.
"Oh a new challenger, would you please enter the stage?" She asked meekly.
But a little urgency could be sensed from her voice.
Noah nodded and entered the stage.
The little girl that led him here was appointed to be the referee of this match.
"Okay on the count of three the match will start!" The girl reminded.
"One!"
"Two."
"Three, start!"
Noah picked up turtwig from mareep's wool and chucked him into the stage.
Whitney released a white coloured rhino-like Pokemon from her pokeball.
It was a female nidorino.
'Since when did nidorino become a normal type?' Noah was perplexed but he did not voice out his question.
Right now in the battleground both nidorino and turtwig were having a staredown.
They did not blink and they did not back down.
The battle started as Whitney ordered:"Nidorino poison sting!"
"Turtwig withdraw!" Noah shouted in unison.
A needle coated in poison shot out from nidorino's horn towards turtwig but it bounced off of his hard turtle shell.
"Nidorino tackle!" Whitney wanted to take advantage of turtwig's passive state while he was in his turtle shell.
Nidorino charged towards turtwig and crashed into him with her strong horn which sent the turtle shell flying.
"Turtwig razor leaf!"
As he was in mid-air,
razor sharp leaves were shot out from the turtle shell like a machine gun.
"Nidorino dodge!"
Nidorino started dodging left and right trying to not get hit by the leaves.
But this machine gun had sentience and followed her every movement.
Some managed to hit her and bruises formed around her body.
Finally the turtle shell plummeted into the ground from the air.
"Nidorino double kick!"
Nidorino was right under the turtle shell as she stood on her front legs and kicked at turtwig with her hind legs.
"Absorb!"
The turtle shell was sent flying again but vines flew out from it and tangled around the nidorino which stopped it.
The vines started to absorb energy and stamina from the nidorino as she winced in pain.
"Nidorino peck!"
Nidorino instantly bit of all the vines around her using peck.
But the vines were just a distraction so she could not see the razor leaves right above.
Turtwig used razor leaves.
And almost all of them successfully hit the target.
Some of them hit the ground and whipped up a cloud of dust.
Turtwig came out from his shell and retreated from the dust cloud.
'Come on faint.' Noah was praying in his mind.
'You can do it nidorino!' Whitney still had some hope.
The clouds of dust subsided to reveal the fainted nidorino filled with bruises.
Noah won the first match.
"Don't worry nidorino, you were amazing."
Whitney said in a encouraging tone as she recalled nidorino back into it's pokeball.
"Turtwig come back." Noah also recalled back his Pokemon.
"Go clefairy!" Whitney released a light-pink ball shaped Pokemon from her pokeball.
"Go mareep!" Noah sent out his newly obtained Pokemon.
The blue sheep hopped into the battle field and started at the pink ball menacingly.
"Awww! Your mareep is so cute!" Whitney squealed upon seeing mareep.
'Turtwig is also cute!' Noah was clearly offended.
Turtwig didn't care and went to play around with combusken.
Even though combusken was ignoring him while leaning against the wall with closed eyes.
"Yeah I caught him yesterday." Noah informed.
The memory of nurse Joy frantically running around to heal mareep appeared in his mind.
'I thought he still needed rest, but common sense in the pokemon world is a bit different.'
Noah was a bit suprised on seeing mareep's fast recovery and how nurse Joy told him that it was okay for mareep to fight again.
The second match started.
"Clefairy metronome!"
"Mareep charge!"
Clefairy shook her index finger as a ball of shadow appeared infront of her.
Metronome turned into shadow ball.
Mareep's wool started to produce static electricity as it started to crackle with yellow lightning.
"Mareep dodge!"
Noah was a bit late.
And mareep never dodged an attack in his life.
The clefairy have already thrown the shadow ball towards mareep and it successfully hit.
But mareep didn't even flinch because when he was with his previous trainer this was a daily occurance for him.
He turned his head and smiled at Noah to show that he was okay.
'Damn I really feel bad right now.' Noah cursed his past self for thinking that it was a good idea to sent out mareep.
'Well regrets for later or I will lose.'
"Mareep electro ball!"
All the built-up electricity in mareep's wool started to focus on his tail as a huge yellow lightning ball formed.
Mareep immediately swung his tail towards clefairy as the electro ball flew towards it.
"Clefairy metronome!"
Clefairy shook her index finger and prayed for a good move because she knew she won't survive this.
Unfortunately for clefairy, her body started to shine in a bright intense light.
Clefairy used flash.
But how could that stop mareep's electro ball?
The electro ball crashed into clefairy as a huge explosion occured.
The explosion caused was so bright that everyone present has to close their eyes.
And when they opened their eyes they saw a crator formed on the ground filled with crackling electricity as clefairy was found unconscious.
Noah won the second match.
"Your mareep was excellent but now it's time for my trump card!" Whitney recalled her clefairy and released another Pokemon.
It was a pink cow standing upright like a human.
A miltank.
"Mareep that's enough come back!" Noah recalled mareep back and released a Pokemon from his pokeball.
This was a huge orange coloured magikarp with a massive scar tilted horizontally on it's face.
The scar started from its left eye.
'That guy should've been a painter instead of a scammer.' Noah still couldn't comprehend how some paint could hide that massive scar.
'Why a magikarp?' This question lingered in the minds of both Whitney and the referee.
'I hope he evolves.' Noah prayed to Arceus.
"Miltank rollout!"
'I should make him take a hit and use splash to build up his rage.'
Miltank curled into a ball and rolled around magikarp to build up its speed.
As time went on miltank got faster and faster.
'I hope magikarp can survive the rollout.' Noah knew magikarps are normally weak so he didn't have much hope.
Only if he knew how wrong he was.
Meanwhile, magikarp was reminiscing his past while miltank rolled around.
He had been ostracized by his pack because of his size.
So he beat up his pack leader who was a gyarados.
Either the gyarados was too weak or magikarp was too strong.
But this incident made them hate him more so he left his pack thinking it wasn't worth it.
From then on he participated in any battles that happened near him.
You have to know this was the Johto ocean not some random rivers so the Pokemon there were insanely strong.
He wrestled against many Pokemon and even won many of them.
Some of them he lost.
He even defeated a pack of water turtles and their leader had cannons on his back.
But battle strength doesn't mean survival.
He eventually got lost in the deep ocean wandering around for food.
He starved for almost a month and no energy was left in him.
But finally he found a small pokemon for food.
Even though it was small he didn't care.
The Pokemon in question was a small blue coloured and almost humanoid Pokemon.
It was very cute.
But being cute won't relieve magikarp's hunger.
As he got closer to the Pokemon huge torrents started whipping and he was blown away.
When he looked towards where he previously stood he saw a group of almost all kinds of sea Pokemon protecting the small one.
A huge battle ensued.
They all attacked him in unison and a aqua tail from a milotic hit his face which caused his scar.
He eventually lost and was left for dead.
But his tenacity didn't allow him to die as he started to swim towards the shore.
During the battle he bit off some peaces of flesh from other Pokemon so his hunger issue was solved.
Magikarp was snapped back to his senses as he felt something on his stomach.
He looked towards it and saw a pink cow trying to push him away.
He had fought against beasts thrice his size and a random cow used to make dairy products tried to defeat him?
This hurt his pride.
At this moment he heard his trainer's order.
"MAGIKARP SPLASH!"
That was all he needed to hear.
He jumped into the air and immediately crashed down.
His body weight whipped up air currents and dust and everyone used their hands to protect their eyes.
Noah hair was fluttering from the wind but his eyes sparkled as he thought:'I am never underestimating a steroid-fed magikarp ever again!'
Finally the winds quieted down to reveal a huge crator with a fainted miltank inside.
Magikarp was laying on the side.
"Good job bro!" Noah recalled magikarp back into his pokeball.
Whitney's fist clenched as she gritted her teeth.
Noah was about to ask for the badge but she started throwing a tantrum.
"NO! NO! YOU CHEATED! I WONT GIVE IT TO YOU!!!!" Her screams could be heard all around the gym.
Losing to a magikarp made her embarassed.
'This bitch woke up larvesta.' Noah was pretty sure that the burning smell was larvesta's ember grilling his hair.
As Noah was preparing to slap Whitney across the gym the little girl from before jumped infront of and said:"I am deeply sorry for the leader's temper tantrum but if you can come tomorrow and defeat her again we will reward you with the badge."
While she was turned towards Noah she secretly slipped a badge into his hands.
Her face seems to be conveying the word 'sorry'.
It seems she was used to this.
"Okay fine!" Noah snorted and decided to follow along.
He started walking away and when he reached the door he looked back and yelled:"I will come again tomorrow!"
He won't.
He then slammed the door and left the gym.
'Next destination- the gym.' With that thought he started walking the busy streets.