The next day "Well Mister Vaillancourt there is nothing wrong with you and your free to go right after we give you your boosters shot"closing the door to Dustin's room, the doctor proceeds to give Dustin's his booster shots. The peace and quiet of the hospital is shattered with one bloodcurdling scream from Dustin's. inside the room we hear Dustin's cussing out the doctor. fifteen min later Dustin is walking out of the hospital with Sparky on his shoulder heading towards the pokemon center. Dustin arrived at the pokemon center and went through the front doors. Excuse me nurse joy I would like to pick up my pokemon asked Dustin. Certainly, are you feeling any better? Asked nurse joy. Yes I am thank you replied Dustin. "Well look who is here" said Mary. "You ready to go to the gym asked pat? "Yes I'm ready for the gym, seeing as I’ve had a few days to think of a few battle plans" replied Dustin. with that said Dustin's walked out of the pokemon center heading towards the gym..."how long do you think it will be, before he remember that he doesn't have his pokemon, pat?" asked Mary. glancing at his watch and then at the sun, "oh i say about five or six minutes" he remarked, handing Mary a bottle of soda. "did he leave already?" asked joy coming out of the back room with Dustin's belt. "oh dear...well i guess I'll just keep this with me until he returns" Six minutes later, Dustin's came running back to the center "forget something Dustin's" asked Mary. With a mareepish look on his face he mumbled something under his breath forgetting that Mary was close by. walking over to the counter, Dustin's asked nurse joy if she still had his pokemon. "Here are your pokemon," said nurse joy. "Thank you for taking care of them said Dustin "Your welcome" replied nurse joy. "Well since we don't want you to get lost again we are going to take you to the gym" said pat. Thanks.... I think replied Dustin. Ten min later the three of them were at the doors to the gym. As the three of them enter the gym a voice yells out "you were suppose to be here two days ago." "Err sorry about being late I was umm kind of indisposed for the last three days said Dustin in a nervous voice. "Well you better have been for your sake," said pyre. " rules for this gym battle are a three on three match. pokemon battle until knocked out. no trainer items allowed, and no side line help. and pat thanks for the snow, my pokemon enjoyed playing in it." walking over to her platform, and stepping on it. pyre faced Dustin's, "well come on, I haven't got all day you know." "sorry" replied Dustin's as he walked over to his platform. "gooooood mooorrrrnnnning slate city, we are here at slate city, where we have a morning match between pyre the gym leader and a new trainer just starting the blue mount. league" this coming from the PA system, whose operator must have just had his first cup of the morning. "I have to remember to put decaf, in the back room in the morning..."mumbled pyre. "ok now i'm worried about these guys, if they act this way every morning, I'd hate to see them with their coffee." whispered Mary, "you and me both" replied pat as both Dustin's and pyre tossed out their first pokemon. "Magmar, I choose you " shouted pyre. "I choose you Lapras" yelled Dustin. "pyre the gym leader has chosen to start with Magmar, the challenger has started with Lapras. Began" shouted the announcer into his mike. "Quick Lapras use hydro pump," yelled Dustin. "Magmar hide yourself with smoke screen," yelled pyre. Magmar taking measures into it's own hands not only hides itself with smoke screen but uses mud-slap as well, blocking Lapras's sight causing the hydro pump to miss and crash into the wall behind pyre, spraying her with ice cold water. "all right, now i'm cold, soaked, and your dead. Magmar, fire blast." shouted a very wet pyre. breathing out the symbol for fire, Magmar's attack not only surprised Dustin's, but also showed how pissed off pyre was. unlike Lapras's attack Magmar's's fire blast was a direct hit on Lapras's chest. "nice shot Magmar's" called pyre "Lapras use bubble beam," yelled Dustin. Pyre tried to yell out a warning to have Magmar to get out of the way but it was too late for her to do so because the moment she opened her mouth, her Magmar was struck by the attack and fainted on the spot. Pyre recalled Magmar and replaced it with slugma. Slugma fire blast," yelled pyre. Lapras use hyper beam," yelled Dustin. slugma released the fire attack at the beam of energy coming from Lapras, both attacks passed right through each other and continued on towards their targets. Slugma weathered the hyper beam without to much trouble, while Lapras's was hit by slugma's blast and fainted. "Well like i told your friends, I'll take some of your pokemon down with me before you win my badge" called pyre. Both recalled their pokemon and released two new ones. Pyre chose a charmeleon and Dustin chose a rapidash and the battle continued on. Rapidash finish this quickly use extreme speed and finish it of with a stomp attack. Rapidash disappeared and struck charmeleon and then pounded it with one of its hooves. Charmeleon wobbled and fainted. Well you one said pyre tossing a bag in Dustin’s direction. Dustin walks over to it and picks up the bag and saw a badge on the outside and from the weight a thousand yen on the inside. Ten minutes later the three of them were walking into the pokemon center. Looking up from her computer "how did it go at the gym? asked nurse joy as she took Dustin's pokeballs, and placed them in the rejuvenator