12 of June 2019 Anyway I'm getting out of my writers block recently. This story will be two years old in 9 days which is my deadline. Last time my story had it's 1 year anniversary I missed it by 2 days updating in 23 of June 2018. I'm not sure how this chapter will go yet but hopefully it will be good. Anyway hopefully you enjoy this chapter and this story. Now let's get to the story.

I woke up to hear a loud banging from the door. Yet it was so hard to open my eyes. The banging kept continuing but I didn't want to get up. "Just five more minutes." I mumbled in my half sleep state. "Ash if you don't come out of your room I'll make you go out!" I heard Hilda yell from outside.

Still I kept my eyes closed and stayed in bed. "Pikachu thundershock him to awake him!" I heard her yell from outside. As soon as I heard that my eyes shot open. "Pikaaaa" He was saying while he was charging up. "Pikachu no!" I managed to yell but too late. "CHUUUUU!" As I felt painful amount of electricity go through my body.

"You really didn't have to do that." I managed to mumble in the floor. After that I put on my clothes and exited the room to find Hilda waiting for me outside. We then ate breakfast in the pokemon center and after the breakfast we left the pokemon center.

"So Ash what are we gonna do today?" She asked me.

"Well I think i'm gonna face the gym leader today." I answered her. "Don't you think it's a bit too soon? I heard Elesa is a pretty good gym leader." In some ways this situation does remind me of when I faced Brock and Lt Surge. In both times I just went in to the gym as soon as I entered the city and in both cases when I first thought I could beat them and in both cases it did not end well for me.

But there are many differences between those two cases and this one. I have had a head start. Due to the fact that I had already beaten 3 gyms in Kanto before going to Unova I have a nice head start That provides me with an advantage. Then again this is the first gym i'm going to face that happened after I had gone through the gyms with similar experience levels to the Kanto equivalent so this could mean that my head start advantage ends here.

"No Hilda I think i'm ready for this one." I said to her. "Ok but don't say I did not warn you." She answered me. We then looked around the place for the gym. It wasn't in downtown we spent hours of trying to find it in the outskirts with no luck.

"Where can the gym be?" I asked her and she looked at her town map but since it only gave the locations of towns and cities it wasn't much of a use. "I don't know we have been looking everywhere and I can't find it." We asked some locals for directions but I'm pretty sure they were not trainers so they could not help me.

"At least Castellia had a map in it to tell the location of the gym. I haven't seen one in Nimbasa at all." She said. We then looked around for a local who looked like a trainer but still with no luck.

"So Hilda I was wondering what type of gym it is?" It was pretty important knowledge considering that if I go there completely clueless about the type and pick the wrong pokemon. "I don't remember what her pokemon's were but it's an electric gym." She answered. Electric gym just like LT Surge's.

"Which puts you in a bad position because the last gym leader used 3 pokemon this one is gonna probably use 3 or more as well and 4 out of 6 of your pokemons are weak to electric types." 4/6 of my pokemon weak to electrics? This is not good because i'm gonna have to pick up at least one that is weak.

"Well Ash who are you gonna use? Bulbasaur and Pikachu are not weak to electrics but which one are you gonna use that is weak?" She asked while looking at my pokebelt. Squirtle was obviously out of the question and so was Pidgeotto. Which left Charizard and Butterfree. Charizard was obviously stronger out of the two so I decided to go with it.

"Charizard I'm gonna use Charizard." I said to her. She looked like she expected that but that she didn't approve of my decision. "Hasn't Charizard recently started to disobey you?" She asked. "What do you mean?" I asked her. "After you won the incest badge while we were training it took Charizard some time to obey your commands and sometimes you had to tell him twice for him to do as you said."

I do remember that shortly after I won the 3rd badge that Charizard did seem to take some time to process what I said. "He probably just didn't hear me correctly besides he always did as I said and never did otherwise." I told Hilda but she still seemed to think otherwise.

"Perhaps it was that but I have my suspicions." She said. Then we finally found what we were looking for a trainer. And this one did know where the gym is and it was in the only place we didn't look for near the Ferris wheel.

It took us an hour to get there since when we found out where it was we were in the other side of the city. "This is it." I say as I look at the entrance to the gym. "Hey Ash." Hilda says. "I want you to borrow this for this match." She says and then hands her pokedex to me. "Since your pokedex clearly is outdated and doesn't show all of the pokemon so with this you can have a pretty good idea what her pokemon are." She explained.

"Thanks Hilda."

Looking around in awe at the high tech gym with it's electric theme as light of different colors ran through the panels all looking like electricity.

I confronted the Gym leader and she agreed to battle. Hilda went to the viewing area to watch me do this battle. One thing I can say about the gym leader is that she is pretty but Hilda said she is a supermodel so no wonder why she is so pretty.

After the referee explained the rules which were that we were allowed to use 3 pokemon and the gym leader cannot change her pokemon we began.

"Bulbasaur I choose you!" I then released the grass starter from it's ball and it seemed to be excited to battle.

She then took a pokeball and threw it. "Emolga time to shine!" I took the Pokedex that Hilda borrowed me and scanned Emolga.

"Emolga, the Sky Squirrel Pok mon. Emolga lives in trees and uses its cape-like membrane to glide through the air." The pokedex explained. Then I noticed something. Something very concerning. Emolga was both electric and flying type which meant that Bulbasaur is weak to it.

Well now my strategy just went out of the window.

"Bulbasaur use tackle!" I ordered and Bulbasaur who jumped and tried to hit Emolga. "Emolga dodge and use aerial ace!" Elesa ordered. Before I or Bulbasaur had any time to react Bulbasaur was hit with aerial ace and looked really hurt.

'I have to somehow get Bulbasaurs energy back.' I looked around and saw Hilda looking at me with a concerned look I just gave her a confident smile trying to reassure her that I can do this.

"Bulbasaur use leech seed!"

With the seeds in place now it was the second part of my plan dodge the emolga as much as possible until leech seed has done it's thing. "Emolga use aerial ace on it!" Elesa commanded. "Bulbasaur dodge it!" Bulbasaur barely managed dodge emolga's aerial ace.

"Aerial ace again!"

"Dodge Bulbasaur and then use razor leaf!" Like first time Bulbasaur barely managed to dodge this one and then it used razor leaf damaging the Emolga a little but not much due to the type disadvantage.

The battle continued going on like this Bulbasaur dodging Emolga's aerial aces while the leech seed would drain the Emolga slowly. Eventually Bulbasaur seemed to have recovered enough from the first aerial ace "Bulbasaur use tackle!"

"Emolga try to dodge it!"

Bulbasaur jumped again and this time hit the already tired Emolga. It seemed that all it would take is one more tackle and Bulbasaur would have beaten Emolga.

"Emolga volt switch!" Elesa ordered and with no time to react it hit Bulbasaur. "Bulbasaur you ok?" I asked him and in return he nodded. Then Emolga went back to Elesa. "Hey I thought gym leaders aren't suposed to switch their pokemon."

"This does not apply to moves in which after the attack is performed the pokemon goes back to the trainer. Moves such as U-turn and volt switch." All that work on beating the Emolga for nothing.

She then released an another Emolga who was in much better shape than the one before.

"Bulbasaur use tackle!" I ordered and Bulbasaur who jumped and tried to hit the Emolga. "Counter it with aerial ace!" Elesa ordered and with one switch movement my Bulbasaur fell from the air and fainted.

"Bulbasaur cannot continue the victory goes to Emolga!" The referee announced. "Bulbasaur you did well." I said as I returned it to his pokeball.

This battle is not over yet. "Go Charizard!" The orange dragon was released from his pokeball who let out a raw roar. "Charizard use flamethrower on Emolga." Charizard flapped it's wings and went into the air and charged towards Emolga.

"Emolga dodge!" But the Emolga was not fast enough and got crisped by the flamethrower. The attack did not cause it to faint. "Quick Emolga volt switch!" She ordered quickly and Charizard tried to dodge it without me orderign him only for it to hit him anyway.

She then released her Emolga who Bulbasaur had already damaged it. "Ok Charizard this should be an easy one." I said. "Charizard use flamethrower!" Only this time it just spit a small fireball to the ground.

"Charizard why are you doing this?" I asked but before I could go further the Emolga was already charging at Charizard with a quick attack. It hit Charizard but this made Charizard angry and it let out a loud roar.

Before the Emolga could get away from Charizard he was burned to crisp by a flamethrower.

"Emolga is unable to continue the winner is Charizard." The referee said. Elesa then released her other Emolga. "Charizard use leer on it!" But instead of doing that Charizard just flew into the air and began using flamethrower.

What ensued was a fight between the Emolga and Charizard. While Charizard just blindly tried to land a flamethrower on it Emolga used variety of moves such as quick attack and spark both which tired the Charizard.

"Emolga now spark!" Elesa ordered. Charizard answered it by using flamethrower. Both moves ended up hitting each other causing both to fall down and causing a dust cloud. When the dust cloud cleared you could see that both were fainted.

"Emolga and Charizard cannot continue. Both trainers have a one pokemon left!" The referee said.

I still have a chance to win. All I gotta do is take on her next pokemon. "Are you ready Pikachu?" I asked him and he nodded.

Elesa threw her pokemon and which looked like a electric version of Rapidash. I took the Hilda's pokedex and scanned it. "Zebstrika, the Thunderbolt Pokemon and the evolved form of Blitzle. Zebstrika can be dangerous when angry, shooting lightning in all directions from its mane. It is lightning fast and when running at full gallop, thunder echos through the air." It said.

Just electric this time though it is evolved which means it is tough.

"Pikachu I choose you!" I exclaimed and pointed my finger forwards as Pikachu jumped from my shoulder. "Pikachu use quick attack!" I ordered. "Zebstrika dodge it and use flame charge!" Elesa ordered.

While the quick attack did land on Zebstrika so did the Zebstrika's flame charge and it was clear that Pikachu was more hurt than Zebstrika.

"Pikachu quick attack again!" I ordered and Pikachu charged at Zebstrika very quickly. "You want speed? Fine Zebstrika also use Quick attack!" Both of the electric pokemon ended up hitting each other and again Pikachu seemed more hurt from it than Zebstrika.

Zebstrika was faster than Pikachu and could also use quick attack meaning Zebstrika could easily beat Pikachu in that case. I needed to increase Pikachu's speed before Zebstrika can get Pikachu before Pikachu even knew what hit him.

"Pikachu avoid Zebstrika and use agility!" I ordered. "Quick attack Zebstrika!" Elesa ordered and Pikachu just managed to dodge this one. "Pikachu agility again!" When the next quick attack came Pikachu was fast enough to avoid it.

"Now Pikachu quick attack!"

"Zebstrika flame charge!"

Pikachu hit Zebstrika with quick attack and with it's new gained speed avoided the flame charge much more easily.

I looked at the crowd and there I saw Hilda cheering for me. Despite how this match started now it seems that I might win and even Hilda believes me as well. Come on Ash focus on the match and think about that later.

"Quick attack Pikachu!"

"Flame charge!"

Pikachu hit this quick attack as well and Zebstrika looked very tired that all it would take is one quick attack to take it down. Then disaster happened. Pikachu didn't manage to dodge the flame charge and hit face first to the arena.

"Pikachu!" I yelled as I went to pick him up to look at his condition. "Pikachu is unable to continue and the winner is Elesa!" The referee said. "Pikachu are you alright?" I asked and Pikachu could let out a small whimper.

Back at the pokemon center after getting the Pokemon healed I went to my room to think about my loss. "I was this close." I said to myself. "One more quick attack and the battle would have been over."

I really should have listened to Hilda when she said that it was too soon and I was not ready yet. But silly me thought otherwise and the same thing happened as with Brock and Lt Surge.

My Pokemon were not to blame (well other than Charizard maybe) They did the best they could and it was almost enough. The blame lied on me. I went too soon to the gym thinking after I beat the three earlier gyms so quickly that I could do the same here. But my head-start also ended in Nimbasa city and then I lost.

I heard a knock on my door. "Hey Ash can I come in?" I heard Hilda ask from the other side of the door.

"Sure." I replied.

Hilda then went through the door to my room. "You know you did very well considering in what situation you were in." She said trying to make me feel better.

"That doesn't change the fact that I lost." I replied to her.

At that she just smiled at me aa reassuring smile. "Most trainers won't make past her Emolga's and you did that with getting caught off guard and with a charizard that didn't obey you and you nearly won."

I tried to believe what she said but it was hard for me after that loss. "Like I said Ash all you need was a little bit more training and perhaps a proper strategy and there is no chance that you will lose."

"But what if I do?" I asked her. Her face seemed to change from reassuring to reassuring and angry at the same time. "Ash that is how losers think and I know you and you are not a loser. Don't think about but what if I lose that is an attitude that makes you lose."

I turned away from her trying to take everything she said to the heart. "Most trainers in your situation wouldn't have beaten the first Emolga yet you almost won. Next time with little training Elesa won't even see what's coming for her."

This one caused me to smile. Yeah she is right with just a bit of training and I'm all set. While I didn't say any words Hilda with just my expression almost seemed to read what I was thinking. "That's the spirit Ash."

21st of June 2019. Well I got this finished just at the deadline. Hey I actually finished something within the deadline. Last year I missed the two year anniversary by two days releasing it at 23rd of June. Anyway if this seems a bit rushed might be. Currently it's 2:26am where I live so I might be little tired while writing the story and all. Anyway what did you think? I think this turned out quite well considering my skills and all. I also decided that Ash got Charizard to obey him was more of a temporary solution for Ash than a long lasting one and that while Ash mainly chilled while Hilda was training for the 3rd badge that Charizard slowly started to disobey Ash from that point on. Also Ash's charizard did evolve early like in the anime since Ash's charizard evolved from Charmeleon 3 episodes after he evolved into Charmeleon.

A bit of an announcement. I hope that with this chapter my writers block finally ended (I last uploaded something in December 2018). My plan is to finish the Bakugan story split second which will be 6 chapters long. Right now 2 chapters are released and 3rd is half written. Though since I have gotten stuck on the 3rd chapter I'll write the 4th, 5th and 6th first and then the 3rd. Also I'll also finish my NFS story despite no one reading it and it'll be about 4 chapters long. After this my full attention is directed at this story and one other story though mainly this story.

Viva out