It begins as Reshon rushes from the Pokemon Center toward the Viridian City's Gym. Her black hair whips in the wind as her four pokemon followed in her wake.

The power of Earth

Inside the Viridian City's Gym, the main event begins… the battle for leadership of the Viridian Gym. For this once in lifetime event the entire city had came out to watch. Some with the hope of having a new Gym leader, while others were hoping for the old Gym leader to prevail. Here in all this excitement our heroes were trying to make their way to their seats.

"Come on, Reshon this way," Michelle urged as she pulled Reshon toward the first row of seats.

"Ok, but what about my pokemon," Reshon whine as Black Dratini on Growlithe's back, and Arbok with Eevee on it head was trying to make their way through the crowd toward her.

"Oh, call them back," Michelle snapped as she search for Norman.

Reshon then reached underneath her short green dress, and grabbed two pokeballs from the purple belt connected to her black pants.

"Eevee, Arbok return," she yelled as a beam of red light shot out and transfer the two pokemon back into their pokeballs. "Ok, your turn Growlithe," she whispered as she replace the other two pokeballs, and pulled out another pokeball from her belt. "Growlithe, return," Reshon repeated as Growlithe disappeared into a reddish light and was suck back into the pokeball.

"Come on, Reshon, I found him," Michelle yelled as she grabbed Reshon's collar and drags her away.

"Black Dratini, teleport," Reshon commanded as she was drag into the bleachers," to me!"

"Dratini," answered Black Dratini, as her body was cover with a bright white light. Then the pokemon disappeared from the crowd, and she reappeared on Reshon's head.

"Good, Black Dratini," commented Reshon as they finally reach Norman and their sits.

Then the battle began as the special announcer for this match started to talk.

"Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to Viridian City Gym. Today the gym leader, Geo, and the challenger, Giovanni, shall battle for the leadership of this gym." The voice over the loud speaker bellow as two people enters the gym arena.

Reshon and her two companions looked down upon the site of battle. The floor of arena was made up of actual dirt like what you would find outside, but it was without a single patch of grass. Perfect, the room was made in a rectangular shape, with a white rectangular stripe that follow the walls. Here inside the rectangular stripe the pokemon will duel, while high above in the plate forms that rest outside the stripe the two pokemon trainers will help their own pokemon to win.

The two men then went to their plate forms. Geo, the gym leader, look to be a man in his mid-thirties, while Giovanni looked to be a younger man of twenty. They both had a darkness about them that went further than just the color of their clothing. It was more like the darkness of their souls, but it was out in the open like it wasn't afraid to be seen. This image chill Reshon as she stared down on the two from her seat. She knew that they would do whatever it takes to get what they want, and that included sacrificing their own pokemon. Geo spoke first as the tension in the air began to rise.

"Show me your eight badges young man, and then we will battle in a three on three match," commanded the Gym Leader.

The challenger open his black jacket to show Geo the eight shining badges underneath. These badges meant that he had the right to challenge Geo to leadership of the gym. The challenger then closed his jacket and smiled at Geo, and he then decided to also say a few words before the match.

"Hello, Geo, do you remember me?" "I killed your Machamp!" The challenger smiled at the man.

Then Giovanni watch in glee as the true realization of whom Geo was battling finally dawn on the older man.

"You're that sick little @$%&^*," Geo yelled as the crowd stared at him in disbelief. "Let's go, Giovanni!"

With those words one of the shortest battles began. Giovanni start the match with his Rhyhorn, Crusher, meanwhile Geo had decided to send out his Sandslash, Cutter. The two-pokemon turn to face each other in the arena as their trainers tried to size the others pokemon up.

"Humph, this shouldn't be a problem," Giovanni said," as he study Geo's pokemon."

"Oh yeah, Cutter," Geo yelled," use you slash attack on Rhyhorn."

"Crusher, harden," Giovanni commanded with complete confidences.

The ground-type rodent rushed toward the stone rhino like pokemon. In its tiny black eyes there was a gleam of a deadly intent. This particular Sandslash was a very good friend of the Machamp Giovanni had killed, and it had every intention of getting revenge. Its long white claws shine in the arena's lights as it jump high into the air, and came down with a hard strike on the back of the gray rock pokemon. And it was then at this moment that the crowd reacted in shock as Cutter's claws shattered on impact against the hard skin of the Rhyhorn.

"Slllaaaassss," the pokemon howl in pain as it held its now clawless paws up to its face.

"Rhyhorn, finish it," Giovanni yelled in excitement," use your water gun attack."

This was a very unsuspected attack coming from a rock-type pokemon, and this would had normally taken a trainer by surprise, but not a gym leader like Geo. He was ready for this, and called his pokemon back before the water had a chance to strike the pokemon.

"Ok, it is up to you now," Geo said to the pokeball he had undid from his belt around his waist. Geo threw the pokeball out, and it erupted into a huge Onix. This pokemon massive body covered most of the area between him, and the line that divided the two pokemon in the middle.

"Hmm," Giovanni thought to himself," he must be getting desperate to pull out his Onix." " I know he plans to wrap Crusher to death, but if Onix is too slow then it will be take out by one blow from Water Gun." "Oh, well, the quicker we end this the sooner I can begin phase 2 of my plan." "Crusher, Water Gun," Giovanni shouted as Onix tried to wrap its tail around the smaller Rhyhorn.

The move by Onix failed, and it was hit with Water Gun, which quickly put it out of action. Now the tidy was against Geo, whom only had one pokemon left! Things were looking really bad for Geo, but as long as he had one pokemon still active he had a chance.

"Go, Golem," Geo yelled as he threw his Ultra Ball high into the air.

The ball split open just before it hit the ground releasing a huge ball like pokemon with its head, legs, and hands sticking out of the ball.

"Gooooo," the pokemon roared as it faces its opponent.

Giovanni broke out in laughter as he commanded his Rhyhorn to finish it with a Water Gun attack. Rhyhorn then shot a full gush of water out of its mouth straight toward Golem. It knew that in a few seconds the match would be over, but it wasn't suspecting what happen next. Golem ran head long into the water, taking a lot of damage, and plow straight into Rhyhorn. This move sent Rhyhorn from its position on the ground toward Giovanni's position on the platform. The rhino like pokemon collided with Giovanni sending them both into the ground with the very heavy Rhyhorn on top.

"Huh, Giovanni, I have the last laugh," Geo yelled as people rush to his platform to try and get the 1,000 pound pokemon off of its trainer. Geo knew without looking that his pokemon had faint from the injuries, but he didn't care. He had save his title as Gym Leader from Giovanni, but he had lost his dignity by killing the other trainer. "Golem, return," Geo replies sadly as ten men continued to try and get the heavy pokemon off of Giovanni.

In seconds, Giovanni's world had been turn upside down. He was being crush to death by his own pokemon. Things were going black for Giovanni when suddenly the enormous weight was lifted from his body. He looked to the side in hopes of getting a glimpse of what had happen as a small girl stood amazing still and a blue color aura lift the pokemon higher into the air, and then slowly yet surely set the unconscious creature down beside him.

"She is here," he thought as he looks at her?

Three of the men that had attempted to get the Rhyhorn off of Giovanni turn and look at her.

"How in the hell did you do that," one of the men asked as he looked at her.

The girl look nervously at the men and reply," My pokemon did it, Sir." That is when a black serpent like pokemon slither up on top of her head from her backpack. "I guess Black Dratini has just learn Confusion," the girl shouted with glee.

Giovanni looked at the girl, it was something about her that told him that she wasn't exactly telling them the complete truth, but for now he wouldn't question her about it. "Thank you," he said as he sat up from the ground trying to hide the fact that he was in a lot of pain. "I owe you my life, and anything you wish of me is yours."

"Ok, the girl laughed," when you get better you have to promise to battle me for this gym's badge."

Giovanni smiled. "The girl knows I' m hurt, and that I won't be able to battle for a while," he thought to himself. " Fine, it is a deal…umm," Giovanni stop in mid-sentence as he realize he didn't know her name.

"My name is Reshon Wallace," the girl said with confidences.

"Thank you, Reshon," Giovanni said as the crowd unnoticed by both of them began to swarm around them, and before Giovanni could continue his speech he was drag away from the girl by some of Geo's ex-underlings.

They had no plan of letting the new gym leader be crush again by either the crowd or a pokemon. The only place he was going that day was to the hospital.

Meanwhile Geo watched Giovanni leave with his ex-underlings in both relief and sorrow. His title was now gone, and the one he had tried to kill still lives, and it was all thanks to that little girl. Unlike most of the people in the arena he had saw what had truly happen, and he wasn't exactly sure that that girl's pokemon had anything to do with getting that Rhyhorn off of Giovanni. Yet, he had also witness weirder things than that happening during battles, and just decided to dismiss it as another one of those weird occurrences. For now, he owe her his dignity and his revenge for saving Giovanni, which he hope to repay someday, but tonight he must disappear from this chaos before someone decides to question him about his own actions. With that he disappeared from the scene, and the curtains closed as Reshon rejoins her friends and Giovanni was rush to the hospital. On that day, the true power of Earth had been revealed, and now it was only a matter of time before it is discover for what it truly was.

…To be continued!!!!