pokemon adventure

chapter four

Chapter 4

Pewter City and Mt Moon

Travelling through the forest was quite a time for Ash and Misty. Apart from Misty being afraid of bugs, Viridian Forest was so big so getting lost was easy, but they finally made it to Pewter City. Some good things happened though; Ash caught a caterpie and weedle, they made a new friend, Samurai, and when Ash trained his pokemon some more caterpie evolved to metapod, then to butterfree, weedle evolved to kakuna, then to beedrill and Pidgey evolved to pidgeotto.

When they reached Pewter City they were tired and exhausted. "Phew," Ash sighed "I thought that we were never going to get out of that forest". "Me too, I'm just glad we're away from those bugs at last" said Misty. They headed straight for the pokemon center to get some rest.

Ash gave his pokemon to Nurse Joy right away, to make sure that his pokemon were in tip top shape for the gym battle. "Thank you Nurse Joy" he said. "Think nothing of it Ash" said Nurse Joy. "Huh, how do you know my name?" asked Ash "this isn't Viridian City". "My sister told me about you," replied Nurse Joy. She even told me about the encounter with Team Rocket. Oh and there's a poster on the wall beside me you should see". The poster said that the Indigo league was going to be held this year. "Wow I am so entering this tournament" said Ash.

While Ash's pokemon were recovering, he and Misty were having a meal at a nearby café. "So you're going to enter pokemon indigo league?" asked Misty. "Of course," answered Ash ''I've always wanted to enter that, so now's my chance". "Will you be alright?'' asked Misty "I mean you will need to earn eight gym badges and the gym leaders can be very strong you know". "Don't worry Misty," said Ash "I know how this entire thing works. Besides, I looked up the gym leaders before I left home. So I know the Pewter Gym uses rock type and don't forget I have been training my pokemon for this''. Misty was impressed with Ash; she thought he would be one of those typical little kids, but Ash wasn't at all. "So what are you going to do about this gym?" she asked. "You will have to wait and see" replied Ash, with a smile. He didn't want to reveal his battle strategy to Misty until they got to the gym.

After finishing their meal at the restaurant, Ash and Misty headed right for the Pewter Gym. The Pewter Gym was a building made out of stone. "Well here I go" said Ash, he opened the gym door. "Who goes there?" said a voice from inside the gym. "My name is Ash," Ash spoke up "and I'm here for a gym battle to win your badge". "Very well," said the voice "I'm the gym leader Brock and I accepted your challenge". Brock led Ash to the battlefield; the battlefield was a sandy floor with big pointy rocks on it. Misty walked to the side lines to watch.

"This battle is between Brock the Pewter Gym leader and Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town," said the referee, which Brock introduced as his brother Forrest, "both challengers will use two pokemon each. And who defeats both two pokemon first wins. Let the battle begin!" "All right, pidgeotto I choose you!" shouted Ash. 'A pidgeotto?' thought Brock 'that's a really big mistake. Surely this kid knows that rock beat flying'. "Okay go Geodude!" he shouted.

Ash looked up geodude on his pokedex: Geodude, the rock pokemon. Geodude is often found on mountain roads with half of its body buried in the ground so it can observe mountain travelers.

Brock ordered his geodude to do a rock throw, but Ash told his pidgeotto to use aerial ace to dodge the rocks. Ash told Pidgeotto to use sand attack to slow down geodude. Then he told Pidgeotto to use the steel wing continuously on the geodude. After being hit by pidgeotto's steel wing six times, geodude fainted. "Geodude is unable to battle," said Forrest, "this battle goes to Pidgeotto". Brock was amazed with Ash. 'He taught his pokemon a move that beats rock types,' he thought 'this kid is good'. "Okay geodude return," said Brock "go onix!"