She's your rival, so yes!

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Town Whore Emilia – What a ridiculous greeting! I guess rude girls are always rude after all!

• Dugtrio – Fairly Strong, Healthy
• Vileplume – Strong, Injured
• Primeape – Fairly Strong, Fainted
• Onix – Fairly Strong, Healthy
• Golduck – Fairly Strong, Healthy

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VS

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Rich Girl Gina – And cuntlickers are always cuntlickers! Shut up and battle me, loser!

• Arcanine – Strong, Healthy
• Fearow – Fairly Strong, Healthy
• ???

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Triggered by the word “loser”, you reach into your backpack aggressively, only to gulp when you realize one important fact: you haven’t been to the Pokemon Center since your Gym battles. That means Primeape can’t battle, and Vileplume wouldn’t be a good choice, either.

“What’s wrong?” Gina mocks. “Did you lose your nerve after realizing you have no chance of winning?”

A group of cheerleaders suddenly appears from the aether. “Gina, Gina, she’s our girl! If she smells you, she’s gonna hurl!”

“Still volunteers?” you ask dryly.

Gina responds, “Still volunteers. Anyway, I don’t wanna waste too much time on this, so let’s make it a 2v2 battle. If you’re too chicken to send out a pokemon, I’ll go first. Go, Arcanine!”

Gina’s frighteningly big dog pokemon appears in the middle of the street. Your legs shake a bit as you remember how easily it defeated your entire team on the S.S. Anne. This time, though, things are different. “Golduck, go!”

Gina holds her chin appreciatively. “A Golduck, huh? That’s new, but it’s not the quick ticket to victory you think it is. Arcanine, use Take Down!”

“Golduck, Water Pulse!”

Arcanine winces as it charges through the rings of water, but it still maintains enough speed to crash into Golduck, doing a fair amount of damage. Gina’s pokemon may be tough, but if Golduck can recover quickly enough, this is your chance!

“Golduck, use Aqua Tail!”

Arcanine tries to dodge, but the attack just barely connects. It’s seriously hurt, but Gina’s pokemon is still standing. That is, until she calls it back to its pokeball. She says, “I’m not about to let you KO one of my pokemon just because of a lucky matchup. Instead, try this on for size! Exeggutor, go!”

A coconut tree emerges onto the battlefield. Well, not really. It’s just Gina’s pokemon, but you’ve never seen an Exeggutor in person before. It’s so exotic!

“Exeggutor, Seed Bomb!”

“Bomb!? Golduck, dodge!”

It’s a pretty silly command, all things considered. The open road leaves nowhere for Golduck to hide, so it inevitably gets hit by the explosion of seeds and faints. Who can you send out against a Grass-type now…? Your best bet might be to hope that Dugtrio can avoid Exeggutor’s attacks well enough to beat it.

“Dugtrio, go! Use Dig!”

“Exeggutor, ready with Wood Hammer!”

Dugtrio burrows towards its target while staying safely underground. Exeggutor, meanwhile, stretches upwards, gaining a few extra feet of height. When Dugtrio emerges underneath Exeggutor, it seems to do little damage, and it doesn’t shake the target’s balance. Once Dugtrio has surfaced, though, Exeggutor jumps into the air and slams its head into the ground, using itself as a hammer to do massive damage to Dugtrio. Unfortunately, the window after Dugtrio attacked was the only window Exeggutor needed to score a KO… You call Dugtrio back, having now learned that you should’ve been more afraid of the palm tree than the giant dog.

For all the progress you’ve made, Gina still beats you like it’s easy. While you’re ruminating in your defeat, she runs over to you, suddenly very upbeat. “You know, you’ve gotten better at this. Your team doesn’t look like an amateur’s anymore, either.”

“Yeah, but I still lost,” you sulk. “What do I have to do now? Follow you around the city all day in my underwear or something?”

“What? No, you just have to let me help you shop.”

You stare in disbelief. “You… just wanted to help me shop for bras?”

“Yeah.” Gina looks away shifty-eyed, clearly realizing her lack of success in making her behavior seem normal.

“You could’ve just asked! That’s all you wanted!? You’re so weird! This entire battle was pointless!”

“Yeah, well, if you have time to complain, you have time to try on bras! Into the changing room, dork!”