<div class="floatleft">(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/2/20/VSMisty.png)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Misty<br/><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Douglasberg Casino<br/><br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Draven, Elly, Marco<br/><br/><strong>Current Pokemon:</strong>Starmie<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Misty thought she had had the edge with Starmie's intelligence advantage, but the mistress of Water-type pokemon was starting to see that these three greenhorns were no slouches. Even when they got to the next stage of the challenge, the riddles where they had to decipher the specific pokemon being written about, they were figuring it out faster than she had expected. Lucille reached her riddle a few moments ahead of Starmie, but Misty put all of her determination into solving her own as quickly as possible; she wasn't going to lose to a Fire-type Gym Leader, that was for sure.<br/><br/><em>At first they call me lady<br/>Then they call me lord<br/>I travel with the flowers past the snow<br/>To get my life's reward</em><br/><br/>Too easy. Again, Misty didn't even need to say a word to Starmie before the mysterious pokemon launched itself straight forward toward the path marked by a lightning bolt. Goldeen was often called a "Sea Queen," and once one involved into Seaking, it would travel upriver with the flowers of spring to mate, and get "life's reward": children. It almost felt like cheating that they gave her a riddle about a Water pokemon, but that was Ellie's fault if she didn't want it to be that way.<br/><br/>Things got a little more serious when each of the trainers had passed their riddle and all of their paths ended up at corners of the same large chamber, with one exit door at the north of the room. Before each of the four pokemon sat three large, black panels, each only visible to the pokemon, and above each one was a large screen. Consequently four control panels rose up in front of the Gym Leaders themselves, hidden to each others view. As soon as all four pokemon were in position, each panel in front of each pokemon lit up with a Type, and the screens in front of the Gym Leaders showed the same thing.<br/><br/>Even without an explanation, Misty quickly figured out the goal; to pick the Type that would be able to beat out whichever ones your opponents picked, or at least do the best against most of them. Before her, she had Electric, Rock, and Steel. While not offensively the strongest, she knew Steel was easily the safest option to start with and touched the symbol on her screen with confidence. Down below, the panel displaying Steel brightened for Starmie and the pokemon instinctively tapped the panel itself, upon which all four screens above the pokemon lit up and started counting down from 5. With one red light above each pokemon, it looked like losing one round meant going out.<br/><br/>===<br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://moe.animecharactersdatabase.com/uploads/chars/5688-670803075.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Doctor Cedony Pierce<br/><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Old Douglasberg, Ruins<br/><br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Hibana, Skylar, Lexi<br/><br/><strong>Current Pokémon:</strong>None<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Not anticipating the double-team it would be getting from both Bagon and Vibrava, the wild Drilbur took Vibrava's strike right on its head, the solid thwack making a decent echo in the vast, empty sunken city. Its fighting definitely looked like it was over; the Ground-type pokemon wavered back and forth on its stubby legs, heavily dazed before it flopped forward onto its round belly, its muzzle sticking out in an expression of near-unconsciousness. It didn't move before the pokeball landed straight on its back and pulled it out, the cheap yet incredible piece of technology sucking it in and falling to the walkway with a soft clang.<br/><br/>Even the blind Doctor Pierce seemed to be watching intently as the little red and white ball rocked back and forth a couple times, twitching as the wild pokemon tried to free itself again. After several tries, though, the pokeball finally slowed and then stopped, a few tense seconds passing before it let out the sound to show Drilbur had been caught. The blonde woman smiled, as even she recognized that sound. "Congratulations. I hope you'll take good care of him after all of that."<br/><br/>===<br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://moe.animecharactersdatabase.com/uploads/chars/thumbs/200/5688-2026575884.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>? ? ?<br/><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Ferry Restaurant<br/><br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Elektra<br/><br/><strong>Current Pokemon:</strong>Drowzee,<em>Wobbuffet</em><br/><br/><hr/><br/>The fact that the Psybeam hadn't done the job and just knocked the baby pokemon out in one hit was infuriating to the woman. With her Drowzee's attack expended, she could only watch as her Psychic type took another Thundershock to the chest, wailing as it got shocked yet again. This time, though, the hit put it down, dropping the stout pokemon fat on its back, where it muttered its name one more time before fainting.<br/><br/>Scowling fiercely, the female called Drowzee back to its pokeball without a consideration of its condition after that attack, tucking the ball into her bag. "Looks like Wobbuffet and Drowzee weren't enough for you, huh? Well, I'll tell you what..." she sneered, keeping her hand in her bag until she pulled out one more pokeball, one that was black on both top and bottom, and with silver symbols etched all over its surface. "Let me leave now, and I won't 'hurt' anyone else or take anything. Try to take me in, and I release what's inside here and really do some damage. Your choice," she threatened, thinking the timid woman before her wouldn't want to see any more harm being done, even if that meant letting her go.