A Secret Battle

### Summary

Cirrus may not be allowed to train his Pokemon yet in school, but that's not going to stop him from battling you.

### Next

Discipline

"A Secret Battle" is one of the side story events in Pokemon Alabaster. It is available after the protagonist first enters into Nyejo Academy, but only for a short time

## Summary

You have finally passed your exam in school, allowing you to get permission to train your Pokemon within the campus. Your rival Cirrus, on the other hand, still needs to pass his exam in two weeks before he can train his Pokemon too.

However, after a heated argument about your lost to him in a Pokemon battle two years ago, Cirrus decided to settle this with a Pokemon battle. He tells you to meet him behind the dormitories so that you and him can fight. The question is... do you take up his challenge?

## Event

As soon as you exit the dormitories at the start of the game, you will be greeted by Cirrus. He congratulates you on passing your exam and being able to finally train your Pokemon in the school. He reassures that he will catch up as soon as he passes his exam in two weeks. But he starts lamenting on how they are supposed to be rivals, even though they only fought once two years ago.

Cirrus claims that he was the one to win that fight, but you made excuses like his victory was a fluke or you don't remember the fight. This angers Cirrus enough into challenging you for a Pokemon battle behind the school's dormitories.

This fight is both optional and missable. If you progress the main story without fighting him, you will miss the battle. Cirrus will later go up to you to complain on how you ditched him, and he could in trouble with the faculty for trying to start a Pokemon battle without a permit.

If you do fight him, whether you win or lose, you guys will be caught by the disciplinary after the fight. You will be let go because you have a permit, but Cirrus will be taken to the faculty for battling without a permit.

Completing this event will unlock the Discipline event.

## Strategy

This battle differs on what starter you chose. Because of the nature of this event, there are only a handful of Pokemon battles you can access before fighting Cirrus. You can only fight a handful of trainers inside the school's gym, as the school's competition as well as the wild Pokemon area is locked until you progress the story. And progressing the story will result in you missing the battle.

Both you and Cirrus will have one Level 5 Pokemon, but the battle will be drastically different depending on your Starter Pokemon.

If you chose Beldum as your starter, you will unfortunately likely to lose. At the start of the game, our Beldum will only have Take Down, which will deal only some damage while inflicting your Pokemon with recoil damage. Cirrus, on the other hand, will have a Larvesta who can use a super effective Ember. This will lead to Cirrus cutting your Pokemon's health down more than health in one move, and you being unable to finish him off before your Pokemon is taken down. And because of how much damage Larvesta can do to Beldum in one attack, healing your Pokemon will not be enough to help win this battle.

If you want to have a fighting chance, you need to capture the Purrloin from the event "A Cat's Night Life" and grind your Pokemon using the school's gym.

If you chose Larvesta as your starter, than you have the best chance of winning against Cirrus. Cirrus will have a Togepi, so both Pokemon can do moderate damage to each other. This results in a fair fight where you can definitely win, especially if you use a healing item.

If you chose Togepi as your starter, you will still be able to win but not as easily. Cirrus will be using a Beldum. While Beldum has no super effective moves against Togepi, Togepi's move set aren't the best. Togepi's Magical Leaf is not very effective against Beldum's Steel typing, and Togepi's Metronome will result in a random move. A saving grace in this situation is that Beldum only has Take Down, so it will be damaging itself each time it attacks you. So while Togepi can take down Beldum, it will require move healing items as the fight can last much longer.

## Characters Involved

### Main Characters

* Alabaster (Protagonist)
* Robin

## Trivia

* If you win the fight against Cirrus, you will win P250.

## Gallery

Cirrus waiting for the protagonist behind the dormitories.