It was obvious.
The early League Conference entrants weren't particularly strong.
At least, they were no match for the armored boy with his family's knowledge behind him. Scizor barely broke a sweat defeating their Pokémon.
The one-sided display crushed the other boys' spirits.
[You saw this and knew someone was bound to step in.]
Sure enough, the Lumiose Gym Leader appeared and invited the armored boy to take the "test" used to screen League Conference entrants.
A Gym Challenge.
[You understood exactly what he had in mind, but this was one of your goals too.]
When the Gym Leader explained that both sides needed three Pokémon, however, the armored boy grew awkward.
[You declined his proposal, saying you could win with one Pokémon.]
The Gym Leader tried to postpone the challenge so the armored boy could acquire more Pokémon.
But he refused.
The armored boy was clearly confident.
Anyone willing to go against the tide had to have something to back it up.
The battle began.
Scizor faced Drapion. Bug and Steel against Poison and Dark—the disadvantage was plain to see.
But in the armored boy's era, classifying Pokémon by type probably wasn't common knowledge yet. Professor Oak hadn't even been born!
Before long, though, Baimu realized that despite the limited Pokémon research of the previous century, the Gym Leader was no pushover.
Scizor should have held the advantage across the board, yet Drapion's Confuse Ray stopped it cold.
Scizor had to spend far more energy fighting through the confusion.
[Your Scizor defeated its opponent.]
It had been a hard-fought battle.
An exhausted expression appeared above Scizor's head on the screen.
A bad start?
Baimu suspected the armored boy was in trouble. When Talonflame appeared next, he felt sure of it.
"Gym Leaders didn't even specialize in a type back