<div align="center">Cinnabar Island Volcano<br/>Audrey and Slowpoke</div><br/>The combination of the Rhyhorn being fatigued to the point where it can barely stand, combined with the fact that Slowpoke was hitting it with an attack that would deal 4 times regular damage, came out to the end result of the Rhyhorn collapsing before it could even begin it's attacking charge towards her slowpoke. The rock rhino collapsed, and the team rocket grunt behind it started to back away in fear. "Aah, That slowpoke is... it's..." Obviously, this particular grunt knew next to nothing about pokemon type advantages, all he saw was a blast of water putting his companion on the ground. "It's a monster!!! Rhyhorn return!!!" In yet another display of how inept a trainer he was, he actually manually ripped the pokeball open with his fingers, rather then push the button in the center first. This caused the entire pokeball to flare red for a few seconds before snapping in half, freeing the Rhyhorn from the rocket grunt. "Ack! This has not gone according to plan at all! I must run away and hope that the boss is able to forgive me!" With that, the grunt actively took a few steps back before sprinting out the door.<br/><br/>With the battle over, Dr. Fuji would step forward and adjust his glasses. "My, well that was exciting. Come, let's retrieve the samples and be gone before any more of those hoodlums come back. With that, he would walk by the unconscious Magmar and Rhyhorn, and begin to extract a rather large chunk of Cinnabar from the magma core. "Yes... this is exactly what we came here for... perfect..." During this time, Audrey could potentially remember that she had an empty pokeball in her pocket, and she could make her choice of capturing either the Magmar or the Rhyhorn. Which ever one she chose, it would be an extremely easy catch since the Pokemon couldn't resist at all.<br/><br/>Once the Cinnabar was extracted, and Audrey chose rather or not she wanted to catch one of the two Pokemon available, Fuji would lead the way out of the cave through the back door that the blue haired boy with the eye patch motioned to before. This would lead the two of them to a small and slick downhill slope that would be extremely hard to navigate back up, and out to a back entrance to the cave, only a few minute's walk away from the boat they used to get here.<br/>"Hmm... So you were able to defeat that coward. I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised, he's the most inept person I've ever met in my life."<br/><br/>The blue haired boy in question, Maxim was his name, suddenly spoke, having been propped up against the side of the mountain by the back entrance.<br/>"But just because you were able to defeat that inept child, that doesn't mean that you have talent. I may have been wrong about you though..."<br/><br/>He pulled himself off the wall, casting her a serious glance as he began to walk away.<br/>"Become stronger. Because the next time that we meet, we are going to fight. If you're not ready when that day comes, your journey will end and your precious Pokemon will be mine."<br/><br/>With that, the blue haired boy was gone.<br/><br/>...<br/><br/><div align="center">Goldenrod city<br/>Julian Arrowind</div><br/>Julian had just caught his breath and took a few moments to feed his Dratini a couple of berries to help it recover from the battle, the paralysis taking priority in particular, before he made his way into town. Of course, as soon as he stepped inside, he found a cute little brunette girl, one of the former 'lass' trainers of the town Gym leader, handing him a letter before she went off about her own business. Curious, Julian opened it to find an invitation from Whitney to challenge the gym, since it was so long since she had a proper challenge from a fellow trainer. Julian smiled, Whitney had been a good person on the few instances where they met, though she was always a crybaby whenever she lost, something that traveling trainers in Blackthorn had a tendency to bring up.<br/><br/>Now he had something else to assess though. The sun was starting to set in Goldenrod, and the paths weren't even safe to navigate during the daytime. He did have to get to Mahogany town though... Eh... that could wait until tomorrow. Besides, it would be rude of him to decline the invitation of an old friend. With a confident nod, Julian made his way to the Gym to meet up with Whitney and give her the challenge that she deserved. Thankfully, after he gave Mac a once over to make sure that the little dragon worm would be okay, it seemed that he made a full recovery from the battle in the forest. Then again, the only thing that it really suffered was a lick, so there wasn't a whole lot of damage done.<br/><br/>Julian stepped into Goldenrod's Gym, looking around to see how the layout might have changed, and what awaited him inside.