Looks like someone's here

Like a tomb finally opened after being closed for hundreds of years, the large doors separated, with all the stereotypical sounds expected with it. Large gears grinding together somewhere within the place and the doors sliding apart and showing a big gouge in the ground where they stood unmoved, revealing a dark cavernous room. A bright light coming from a open doorway in the far side above two stairs forming a C up to it. As you make your way in you can see several pillars dotting around the place with miniature and surprisingly realistic looking Ryhdon statues on top. You just barely keep yourself from jumping as a muscular man wearing centurion armor seem to appear from nowhere and stand in front of you.

"Welcome trainer. Please present your pokedex so that your worth can be evaluated."

You slowly hand him your pokedex and he retrieves a silver copy of one from his hip, easily hooking them together, the silver one fitting on top of yours like it was a cap. After some blinking lights he unhooked them and returned your pokedex back to you. After this his voice seemed to lose the military edge.

"Since this is saying this will be your first gym, I'll tell you. The having your dex scanned it is pretty standard with every gym, that way the gym leader is better able to choose Pokemon within your ability range. It wouldn't be a very fair test of your skills if a fully evolved Nidoking was going up against a starter after all."

You give him a relieved smile as he gestured you forward as you make your way deeper in you finally noice a certain detail about the little doorway. There was someone sitting on a big chair against the bright light making him very hard to make out. but there was someone standing beside him as well, but the biggest detail you only now noticed. They were having an argument.

"Look dad I know your concerned for my safety. But I'm not your little princess anymore. If I don't go out there and learn to be a better trainer, with my OWN pokemon and skills then how could I ever eventually take over being a gym leader let alone the "family business" as you so put it."

As your eyes adjusted to the bright light you could see what she looked like. Her hair was pure white, and even though it was cut short and framed her face it was jagged and untamed her eyes wear a sharp icy blue and the shape alone was naturally sharp and piercing, like her default look was a glare, her sleeveless black high collar shirt was accented by a couple strips of white leading down to a pair of white cut off jean shorts leaving her long legs bare ending at a pair of white sneakers and black socks.

"I would be willing to allow you to go, if you would at least take some of my trusted people, women of course, with you. This isn't like back home with your mom at the Alolan region. Here if you loose in battle it's expected of the looser to except any caveat from the winner. There sex may be as common and excepted as a handshake, but here the victor is aloud by law to take what they want as winner whether you like it or not."

You just stood their fidgeting a little from side to side as they apparently haven't noticed you yet and you didn't want to interrupt.

"Well for one, Alola doesn't HAVE a Pokémon league representative station yet so me training to be a trainer there is pointless right now, and two I need to train and be recognized in this region if I wish to take over your job here, maybe then this place could be open at a semi-normal time frame. I mean there's a reason why most trainers wait until the very end to come here, and it's not because victory Road is just west of here. It's because you've been way too busy with other things to reliably look after this place."

You could hear a little rumble of a growl coming from the father as he sat forward in his chair....and finally noticed you. With his face no longer shrouded in bright light the first thing you noticed was he had the same eagle eyed stare as his daughter that coupled with the slick back hair and business suit made Giovanni looked every bit the cutthroat business tycoon you had heard about. Without saying anything and with his daughters curious gaze he simply tapped a few buttons from the keypad on the arm of his chair and quickly glanced at a flipped up screen, before nodding to himself.

"Ok. Ebony how about this, we seem to have a brand new trainer come to challenge for an Earth badge. I will lend you The 3 pokemon I have for just such a situation, if you should win I will let you go out on your own without any protection from me. However if you loose, then your are not to leave on any training without at least two people with you. Understood?"

The now named Ebony looked down at you like she was a Spearow and you wear a tasty Caterpie, before shaking her fathers hand to seal the deal.

"I except. I'm shore even with your old and Infirmed joke of a roster, this scrub will be no problem."