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"Now Onix." Brock shouted, seeing the Cloyster over the hole. The Onix took the Razor Shell, grunting in pain as it did, but it used this moment as a way to capture Tesei off guard, by controlling the rock around it via Secret Power, as the land around it rose up and enclosed it. And for the pies de resistance a jagged rock would shoot up from underneath Tesei, aiming to crush it from inside its stony prison.

And thus Onix was washed out by the Hydro Pump, barely managing to poke its head out of the ground for air, but took too much damage to hang in to battle. Brock immediately recalled his Pokemon as he noticed it trying to breath, now turning his attention to Reno. "You managed to put a rock in our rock solid willpower, I now recongize you as a worthy opponent. Come here, I wish to give you a symbol of your own willpower, the Boulder Badge." Brock said as he held out a tiny gray badge in his right palm.

"A rock is an immobile object of pure willpower, never budging, never surrendering to any force that attempts to move it. When you leave this gym I hope you take with you some of my own willpower. Use the power of the rock to collect the rest of the badges and take on the Pokemon League, I'll be cheering you on from here." Brock told Reno, giving him a thumbs up, it was the best he could do, since smiling was not an option.

"Excuse me, did you say something?" A young man said as he pulled himself out of the Olympic side swimming pool, which took up most the gym. The man was dressed in nothing more than a small black speedo and a swimmer's cap with goggles over his eyes. "Sorry I was underwater, didn't hear you. I assume you are here to face the gym leader?" He asked Reno, his hands on his hips.

"Oh, okay then, sure. Let me just..." The swimmer said as he began to fumble around in his speedo for awhile. What was he doing? "Ah ha! Here it is! Okay, I'm ready to battle!" He said, holding a Pokeball into the air which he pulled out from his speedo. The swimmer then proceeded to dive back into the water, swimming to the other side of the pool where he could pull himself out of, and then hurl the Pokeball into the water. In a show of light the ball would release from within a white Pokemon, who poked its head out from underneath the water, raising up and clapping its fins as it did. "Seel! Time to battle!" The swimmer cried.

"It's simple really, I just-oh I guess we're starting already okay then, I'll tell you after the battle, Icy Wind, Seel." The swimmer said as he tossed the now empty pokeball back into his speedo, disappearing from sight. Meanwhile the Seel stopped clapping in the water, pulling back a bit so just its head poked out, and then release from its mouth a gust of chilling, speed dropping, wind at Snips as it came down on it. It was unknown if the Icy Wind would stop its assault, but they were going to try any ways.

The Seel took a swipe from the Leaf Blade, wincing in pain as it did, but its trainer wasn't going to let it go down that easily. "Brine, Seel!" The swimmer commanded as he began to stretch, as if preparing to dive in. Now this next attack was a defense and an offense at the same time, and could cripple Snips if one knows their botany. The Seel could release a torrent of salt water from its mouth, which arched over and created a dome of water, soaking both its self and Snips. Now while the intentions was to knock Snips away and protect the Seel, there was one nasty side effect to all this, it was salt water, and Snips being a Grass type, a living plant, meant that salt water was extremely harmful to it. In plants salt water interferes with osmosis and will cause the plant to dehydrate and wither, and plants absorb water through their cell membranes, meaning, on contact.