Dan sighed as he raised a hand of protest, he didn't want to do this. He wanted to battle, get his badge and leave, but arguing would just make it much longer.

"Fine." Dan said as he grabbed a bag.

"These smell like shit." He said quietly to himself

[b]"Be careful! You don't want what's in those bags on your clothing."[/b] Jomo said.

With two people as opposed to one working, the work got relatively quick, but not quick enough.

"Damn those feel like rocks, after awhile." He said as he walked up to Jomo "Can we battle now?" Dan said
[b]"Yea, yea. First things first. How many badges do you have?"[/b] Jomo said

"This would be the first one."
[b]"First. Got it. Okay. You ready? It'll be a 3-on-3. League rules."[/b]

"As ready as I'll ever be." Dan said as he picked three Pokémon out, Twiggy, Rat, and Exeggcute.

And thus the battle had started.

Dan grabbed onto Twiggy's ball, but, he refused to throw it out. Only mouthing another 'I'm sorry, I wont get you hurt again.' Instead he threw out Exeggcute, as Jomo threw out Cubone, a cute dyno-looking Pokémon with a skull on its head.

Exeggcute was the only one Dan could look in the eye. He didn't know how bad of a trainer he belonged to. Yet.

"Okay, use Stun spore!" Dan said, as the egg-cluster Pokémon let out a flurry of Yellow dust. It had hit and paralyzed the Cubone.

Cubone retaliated with a headbutt before seizing up due to the spore.

"Now, use Hypnosis!" Dan screamed, while though Exeggcute tried to Hypnotize his opponent to fall asleep, it didn't work."

[b]"Hey! You know you cant paralyze and have a Pokémon sleep at the same time!"[/b] Jomo said, as Dan cursed himself out
"Damn it, I should've know that. What am I doing?" He said, as he ordered his Pokémon to use confusion injuring the Cubone greatly.

Cubone had caught a break in his paralyzation and hit Exeggcute with another headbutt, not doing much damage.

With one more Confusion Cubone went down.

"Got him! Nice!" Dan said, as Jomo threw out his next Pokémon, a Sandshrew.

Before the Sandshrew got a chance to strike he was put to sleep by another Hypnosis.

"Now! While he's asleep, use confusion!" Dan said. It hurt Sandshrew, but woke him up, Allowing him to use a swift.

With one more Confusion, Sandshrew feinted.

"Exeggcute 2, Jomo 0" Dan said, confidently, but Dan knew he couldn't get cocky. That's what got Twiggy hurt.

Phampy was the last one. Dan withdrew his Exeggcute, as it had suffered damage from its last two battles.

"Let's see what you can do Raticate." Dan said as he threw out the Rat. Rat gave him a side look, one Dan hated but one they gave ever since the museum, a cold look.

Only with a small combo of Super Fangs and crunch's, and Rat had already won.


[b]"You trained them well! Well then!"[/b] Jomo said as he withdrew a feinted Phamphy, and grabbed a box of medals. [b]"With your victory, I present to you the EARTH BADGE"[/b] Jomo said as he handed it to Dan.

Dan didn't say anything, he just looked at the badge and saw something he didn't deserve.

After a quick farewell, Dan left and headed back to the Pokecenter to get his Pokémon healed, and seclude himself yet again.