Dunno. This seems to be written pretty well but not to be connected with pokemon, even by the end - the logistics don't make much sense, since the idea gym leaders are the ones fighting is hard to square with the idea they're relying on guns - the reason guns were first popularized being that they let you train a lot of people really fast to be relatively lethal, which is a completely different set of assumptions than having a tiny handful of highly trained elites do your fighting.