"Each side will have the use of three pokemon and only the challenger is allowed to substitute pokemon," the referee calls as Leon and Roark faced each other.

"Obviously can't go all out and come up with the craziest plan ever," Leon says smiling as he takes out a pokeball.

"So this is a pokemon league gym," Lana says in the stands, watching with Zoey and Gardenia who had gotten an earful from Roark not long ago.

"Yeah. Way different, huh?" Zoey asks smiling, enjoying the look of Gardenia.

"We don't have these in Alola. The island kahunas may be comparable, but most just can't beat them," Lana informs.

"There are still some great trainers here who do nothing but battle," Zoey points out.

"The Kahunas are more like each island's leader," Lana says.

"Still, something to consider," Zoey adds as they watch Roark throw out geodude. "Wonder what crazy plan he will come up with?"

"Geodude, huh? Well then, time to battle Ippo," Leon calls before bringing out his machop.

"Okay. Strength against weakness. Maybe powerhouse it," Zoey concludes.

"Ippo, are you ready?" Leon asks.

Ippo grunts and holds up his fists, ready for a fight.

"Begin!" the referee calls.

"Geodude rollout!" Roark calls immediately, not giving Leon a chance to attack.

"Seismic toss the ground and hold it up," Leon calls out quickly and Ippo punches the ground before lifting it as geodude kept rolling and then rolls up the makeshift ramp. "Now toss!" Leon calls and Ippo tosses the piece of ground at geodude and hits it square on.

"Yeah, that is Leon's style alright. Always using the battlefield to his advantage and his unorthodox style," Zoey says as Gardenia smiles as Roark was taken completely off guard.

"Did you think I would keep beating my head against a rock till it broke? I would use other rocks to my advantage," Leon says grinning as Ippo kept throwing rocks as geodude as he came back down.

"Geodude, grab those rocks and correct yourself!" Roark says in a bit of desperation.

"Ippo, run now and do the thing," Leon calls out as Zoey gets why he told Amber back in the cave that line. It was his pokemon's choice. And so Ippo runs at geodude as it grabs some rocks and rights itself before crying out when Ippo actually punches through a rock it grabbed and then grabs its arm before tossing it into the air. "I feel a theme song playing now," Leon says humorously as Ippo jumps after him and then grabs one of its arms before tossing geodude into the ground and makes a hole as he lands next to it. "Nice choice there bud," Leon gives a thumbs up to Ippo who gives one back.

Everyone waits as the smoke cleared and they saw geodude unconscious. "Geodude is unable to battle. The winner is machop," the referee declares as Ippo jumps up and down cheering.

"Nice job bud," Leon congratulates as Ippo runs up and gives a low five to him while Rorack returns his pokemon.

"Go onix," Roark calls, bringing out his second pokemon.

"Ok, Ippo. You sit this one out," Leon says bringing out another pokeball before bringing out shellder.

"Oh, he's bringing out his water pokemon now," Lana says.

"Still playing weakness. But I wonder how he will do this since he barely trained with shellder," Zoey noted.

"Shellder, you remember the plan, right?" Leon asks.

"Shell," shellder grunts and seems to give a glare to onix.

"Alright on…" Roark had barely started when shellder let out a high pitch sound.

Everyone covers their ears as shellder kept screaming before stopping and onix shakes its head, somewhat confused. "Water gun, if you please," Leon requested and shellder lets off a stream of water that hits onix, pushing it back a little with some groans of pain. "Don't let it even have time to breathe. Keep pouring the water on!" Leon calls.

"Oh, he has grasped Roark's style now," Gardenia says, getting what is going on.

"That's our Leon," Zoey says proudly.

"I don't get it," Lana says.

"You see, Roark's batting style can be summed up as the unstoppable spear. Once it gets rolling, it's hard to stop, but Leon took notice of that from this battle and watching him yesterday and isn't letting him get going," Gardenia explained as onix finally faints.

Roark hums as he returns onix. "Onix is unable to battle. Shellder is the winner," the referee calls.

"Come here you pearl," Leon calls and shellder jumps into his arms and gets a hug from him. "Not bad at all."

"Now it's down to Roark's ace. He played right into Leon's hands trying to go for an early assault to make Leon unable to respond," Gardenia says looking to Zoey to see if she had anything to add.

"Not only that but Leon probably figured out the style of Roark might handle things with this pokemon in the cave when we went to help," Zoey adds.

"So unless he mixes up his batting style, then he can't beat Leon?" Lana asks as Roark brings out his Rampardo.

Leon hums as he taps his chin. "Should I…? Or maybe…?" he says to himself as he reaches for a pokeball before taking one and throws it out. "Amber, time to shine."

"Wait, he's not playing the weakness set anymore?" Lana asks surprised.

"Take a look at Roark," Gardenia says as even he looked like he was thrown again.

"Thrown off? That's the game here, huh?" Lana asks, very interested in what Leon has planned.

"You ready Amber?" Leon asks as Amber cracks her knuckles excitedly.

"Mon," Amber grunts and pounds her fists together.

Roark stares at Leon, waiting for him to call out an attack while the two pokemon stare each other down. "Now this is a poker game," Zoey whispers as they all watch for one of them to break. "First move, in this case, is not for winning, but to trap."

Leon grins all the while Roark starts to sweat at the waiting stress this is giving off.

Soon, Leon's eyes darted around the field, almost looking for something and Roark grins at the break he has. "Zen headbutt!" Rampardo roars as its head lights up bright blue before charging.

"Mach punch…and miss," Leon whispers the last part and Amber cries out as her fists glow bright blue before jumping and aiming for rampardos. Roark smirks as he sees what the target is, only for his smirk to vanish when Amber spins to the side and hits the ground, making a large hole before jumping out on the other side as rampardos slides to a stop and his head stops glowing.

Roark frowns now as he wonders what crazy idea he has now. "Flamethrower and then zen headbutt," he calls out and rampardos breathes in hard before firing off a stream of fire at Amber, before quickly stopping and charging after it, it's head glowing brightly again.

"Again and make sure rampardos doesn't hit you!" Leon calls and Amber charges up her fist again before going for a punch and keeps missing, hitting the ground and making some hole after another while rampardos kept trying to charge at her.

'It can't be this bad at accuracy. I saw it fight that onix in the cave and was able to hit it with a helmet,' Roark thinks until he comes to the conclusion that it is still adjusting to its evolution and just maybe learned mach punch.

"Flamethrower and make sure to cover her!" Roark calls out and rampardos stops before breathing in and firing off another stream of fire that covers Amber. "That's it. Now charge," Roark orders and rampardos growls before charging at where Amber was and plows through the blaze of fire to hit nothing and makes it slide to a stop as it looks back to see that Amber is gone. "What? But…no. The field!" Roark realized as there are holes all over the field.

"Use your head for smarts, not hitting the rock itself," Leon recites. "Now Amber, flame wheel!"

"Watch it rampardos. She can come from anywhere," Roark calls out and rampardos starts to look around as they hear rumbling and grunting from the holes.

Soon, the heat starts to rise before a fire starts to come out everywhere and the ground cracks in bright flames before the cracks spread from the holes and reach each other, connecting many of them. "Keep going!" Leon calls out as Roark now knows the true plan. Stop his signature move. "And do it! Mach punch!" Leon orders before they hear a loud cry and then a bang that shook the whole area. The ground then bursts open and Amber came flying out, covered in flames from her flame wheel as the ground finally broken apart and flew into the air with rampardos losing its footing and gets thrown along with it. "Now, make Ippo proud!"

Amber punches some rocks by swinging her hands around and then hits some rocks behind her, swinging forward and right into rampardos before grabbing on its neck and spins around with a flame wheel before throwing it into the ground before the rocks finally came down and lands on top of it, making it buried among the heated rock while Amber lands on top and mach punches the pile hard, breaking it apart and causes the rocks to explode outwards while sending rampardos to the ground more. "Is he out Amber?" Leon asks as Amber lands on a loose boulder.

"Mon," Amber says nodding as Roark was in stunned silence. This challenger just swept his team.

"Hey…sorry about the field. I'm not going to be billed for this, am I?" Leon asks, trying to smile as Amber jumps back to him and onto his shoulders.

"No," Roark says snapping out of it at last. "The league covers this."

"Oh…guess you must have challengers who break the field a lot," Leon tries to chuckle and Amber only knocks on his head once with a fist.

"Mon," Amber huffs.

"You did good girl," Leon informs.

"Mon," Amber says proudly.

"Amber was never bad at accuracy, was she?" Roark asks, walking up to them as he returns rampardos.

"Nah. Just told her to and well…she's use to my crazy plans, right girl?" Leon admits looking at her and Amber gives a happy cry as she hugs his head.

"I will admit, your style is unorthodox. One of the most unorthodox I have ever seen," Roark says before the referee returned with the coal badge, surprising Leon as he never noticed the guy had left.

"Well…I pride myself on it," Leon admits as he takes the coal badge and looks it over. "Looks cool, huh Amber?"

"Mon," Amber cheers as she dances around him now.

"There is one last thing I wish to discuss," Roark says.

"And that is?" Leon asks, looking at him.

"I want to thank you for helping save the mine yesterday," Roark says.

"It was no problem," Leon reassures.

"I still want to give your group a reward," Roark says.

'Well, this never happened in the games or anime,' Leon thought interested.

"Ah…a reward?" Leon asks curiously.

"Yes, could all of you come down here?" Roark requests.

Zoey hums as she gets up and starts to walk down to the field with the others. "Wonder what's the prize?"

"Please accept these fossils as my way of saying thanks," Roark says as four fossils were brought out.

"…you are basically giving us fossils to revive into pokemon?" Leon asks surprised.

Roark chuckles. "Yeah. Of course. So, who wants a first-hand demonstration of our technology?"

"Any chance you will tell us what these fossils are to?" Leon asks trying to remember what the fossils looked like in the game or in the anime.

Roark just gives a smirk. "How about we revive them and find out?"

"You know and want to troll us, huh?" Leon asks sweatdropping.

"Yep," Gardenia says with the same expression and sweat drop.

Leon sighs. "Okay. Let's go see what we have." 'I can't believe I'm talking about a fossil pokemon this way. I'm treating this pokemon like a toy.'

"Fossils are great as you never know what you are going to get with some," Roark says.

"So like a chance cube…I hate to be blown up though as soon as the pokemon is revived," Leon voices worried now at the thought of being incinerated.

"Chance cube? Is that a new pokemon?" Lana asks.

Leon sighs. 'Note to self, keep Minecraft suggestions away from Lana…but maybe tease Zoey on how to punch wood from a tree,' he thinks almost grinning at the thought of Zoey trying to get a tree block.

"So here we go," Leon says anxiously as the four fossils were being revived.

"So…what do you think yours is going to be?" Zoey asks as the process is taking a while.

"Well, to my knowledge, only eleven pokemon fossils have been found and successfully been revived. So it has to be one of them…let's hope one doesn't come out a giant," Leon says, thinking of something like Godzilla emerging from the machine.

"I would think that is a two out of eleven chances of that happening. So maybe you would get lucky and get a kabuto," Zoey reassures.

"Let's not hope for a giant one as I am imagining a giant hungry pokemon and us being bite-sized to it," Leon says, getting horrified looks now.

"You must be afraid of fossil types then," Gardenia voices after a while.

"Only if they are giant and untamed," Leon says as many started to whisper about this in a corner.

"Hope for the best," Zoey pats his back before quickly hugging him.

"Whoa…was not expecting such contact," Leon says before Zoey realized what she just did.

Zoey quickly lets him go and brushes herself off. "Any case, I doubt that we would have much trouble. I mean, we got a four-person team of pokemon here to take it down if need be."

"…I will be right back," Leon says, getting up and goes to a scientist and talks to them before he is directed to somewhere. When he returned, it was with a cart of different foods.

"Okay…that's one way," Zoey observed as she looks to the cooked meat on the first layer of the cart.

"They are most likely going to be hungry," Leon says.

"I figured that," Gardenia says as Lana looks at all the meat.

"So what are you planning?" Zoey asks before seeing him place a bit of meat and non-meat foods in front of each chamber.

"Entice with the sample then throwing them more of what they want," Leon says.

"Not half bad of an idea…but if they know what we taste like?" Gardenia questions.

"I don't. So I am covering all bases. Yes, that was a baseball reference," Leon says.

"You are full of surprises," Zoey says simply before there were four dings. "Now the real fun begins."

"Yeah…I am handling my own fossil. The other ones are yours," Leon says waiting.

"Already figure that," Zoey says, placing her hand on one of the fruits.

"I hope it's a water type," Lana says waiting patiently.

"I think five of them were water types," Leon says unsure as the doors slowly opened and some heavy steam wafted out onto the ground.

"Well, look at you," Zoey says as a Cranidos starts to look around.

"Cra?" Cranidos says before smelling the meat and goes right for it.

Zoey sighs in relief as she grabs more meat while Lana looks around the tube for her Pokemon before some chittering is heard and looks down to see a scurrying rock and water type eating away at the fruit. "It's…cute?"

"It's a rock and water," Zoey says as the cranidos ate away at the meat like it was starving.

Gardenia hums as she looks at her lileep and sees it moving around before spotting the meat pieces and leans its bud down and sucks the meat into the black area. "Wow. Cool plant type."

"Beacon!" Leon calls as they heard a roar from the pod Leon was in front of.

His pokeball bursts out and Beacon cries, ready to fight as the door opens up and shows the rock and flying type pokemon spreading its wings and roaring defiantly at them.

"Guess the meat didn't work?" Zoey calls as she stands between her carindos and aerodactyl.

"It's an aerodactyl. It's a very aggressive omnivore," Leon calls as the scientist started to evacuate.

"Leon?!" Gardenia calls before seeing Beacon and him blown back from a strong gust by the aerodactyl.

Leon growls as he plants his feet hard and catches Beacon. "Beacon, do not back down and be careful. This one wants to eat and it will try and eat us," Leon says holding on tight.

"Ffy!" Beacon cries, almost angry he got blown away and jumps out of his arms before standing in front of Leon and glares down the ancient pokemon.

"Show him your power Beacon. Show it the power of electricity," Leon says, not backing down like Beacon.

"Flaaf!" Beacon yells out as sparks fly over his coat before it travels over his body. A large bolt of lightning then flew out and went straight for aerodactyl, hitting it straight on and making it come to a dead stop as its body stiffens from the sudden attack.

A few moments passed under the assault before aerodactyl roared in defiance as it was enduring the attack and even advancing.

Leon blinks surprised before frowning heavily. "Okay…"

Then a water gun was shot, hitting aerodactyl from the side, followed by a magic leaf and another thunderbolt. Aerodactyl roars in pain and anger as it tried to throw off the attacks while Leon looks around to see Zoey's glameow using thunderbolt, Gardenia's roserade using magical leaf, and Lana's cloyster using water gun.

"Pour it on Beacon. All our friends are here to help," Leon says.

"Flaaf!" Beacon yells as his thunderbolt increased in output, making aerodactyl roar louder before finally collapsing after enduring this combined assault for over a minute.

Leon sighs in relief before taking out an empty pokeball and throws it at the fossil Pokemon, sucking and catching it into the ball. It starts to shake and beep, before it stops and dings. Leon smiles as he walks over before picking up the pokeball and smiles before collapsing to a sitting position. "Oh, thank goodness that is over…I think my heart stopped beating there for a moment," Leon says, feeling very drained as it was never that scary in the anime or games.

"You okay?" Zoey asks walking over as Leon takes out his pokedex and scans the aerodactyl pokeball.

"…female…no wonder it was cranky," Leon just said and all the girls looked offended. "What? Let me joke. That Pokemon wanted to literally eat me and scared me badly, ok?" Leon says before seeing the other revived pokemon were cowering from the aerodactyl.

"So what are you going to name her?" Zoey asks as she sits down next to him.

"Fury maybe," Leon says before Beacon looks very proud of himself and Leon lets gravity take him to laying down on the floor as police in riot armor started to rush in with pokemon, looking ready to deal with a threat. "Too late. Took care of it…where's the nearest pokemon center?" Leon calls from the ground.