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Time to get the ball rolling, so to speak....

Here, we have the female Gym leaders from each generation from first to fifth. They have each been tricked into coming to an abandoned dojo for pokemon battles, but all their pokemon have secretly been switched with ringers, who immediately turn on the unsuspecting females as soon as they are released, holding the women down while the bad guys tie them up. They are then locked inside the dojo, in a room with no cellular signal. Thus, even if they could somehow free themselves, they won't be able to call for help, or warn the other trainers of the Pokemon League about the sinister machinations of Pokemon Hunter M....

So goes the story I came up with. Pokemon remains one of my primary interests, and I'd like to revisit this concept in greater detail in the future, if I can ever find the time. This picture was supposed to be a panel for a comic page, but I thought it was too good to keep in storage, so here it is.