pokemon adventure

chapter twenty two

Chapter 22

Valencia Island and Tangelo Island

Ash and the gang soon reached Valencia Island. "Wow look at that," said Misty, looking out of the blimp's window, "it's like a tropical island". "It did say in the brochure that the Orange Islands are a lot of islands" said Brock. The blimp soon landed on the ground, and Ash and the gang got off the blimp. "Say Ash," said Misty "how do we get to Prof Ivy's lab?" "I'm afraid I don't know," said Ash "we need to ask someone". They found a pokemon center and asked Nurse Joy where Prof Ivy's lab was. "You'll find the lab at the back of the island next to the beach," she said.

Thanks to Nurse Joy's directions, the gang did find the lab. Ash knocked on the door and three triplet girls answered. "Hi I'm Charity" said one. "I'm Faith," said another. "I'm Hope" said the third. "And we're Prof Ivy's assistants" they said together. "Well I'm Ash," said Ash "and me and my friends here would like to see Prof Ivy please". "Of course" said Charity. "Prof Ivy is working with the pokemon" said Faith. "We'll take her to you," said Hope. The triplet girls led Ash and the gang to a beach. Just then a Gyarados came out from under water, which made Ash and the gang very surprised. "You do very well Gyarados" said a voice. The voice belonged to a purple haired woman and she was swimming with the Gyarados, a Cloyster and a Poliwhirl in the sea. "You three get stronger everyday" the woman said. When she saw Ash and the gang, she got out of the ocean to greet them. "Welcome," she said, putting on a lab coat, "I am Prof Ivy". "The gang introduced themselves to her. "Prof Oak told me that you had something for him," said Ash. "Yes I do, please follow me" said Prof Ivy.

Prof Ivy led the gang back to her lab. In a corner of the room there laid a pokeball, on a transporter. This pokeball was a gold and white pokeball, with the letters G and S on it. "This is what we call the GS ball," said Prof Ivy "we call it that because of the words G and S on it. The reason why I want you to deliver it to Prof Oak for me is because we can't seem to transfer it or open it". "That's right," said Faith "we tried everything to open it." "We used hammers, crowbars, flamethrowers, screwdrivers and even dynamite, but nothing worked" said Hope. "Did you try throwing it like a regular pokeball?" asked Ash. "We did," said Charity "but that didn't work either". Ash took a good look at the GS ball. 'I sense something mysterious about that ball, but I don't know what yet' he thought. "So," said Prof Ivy, "I trust you to deliver this safely to Prof Oak for me Ash ''. She picked up the ball and gave it to Ash, and then Ash placed it safely in his rucksack.

Next Prof Ivy and her assistants showed Ash and the gang the back forest, where all the pokemon stay. Misty spotted some Vileplumes.

Ash looked at the Vileplume on his pokedex: Vileplume, the flower pokemon. The final evolved form of Oddish. Its petals are the largest in the world. As it walks, it scatters extremely allergenic pollen.

"Wow those Vileplumes are a bit of a different colour compared to the Vileplume on the pokedex'' said Ash. Other pokemon, which lived at Prof Ivy's lab, were also a different colour. There was a Raticate with dark brown fur, a Nidoran couple with a darker version of their normal colour, some coloured red paras and a Weepinbell with a golden tan body. "Wow, how come all of these pokemon are different coloured?" asked Misty. "Well you see," said Prof Ivy "the tropical climates of this island and the other Orange Islands are different from the climates in Kanto. Naturally the different environment creates differences in the pokemon that we've raised here. I'm now collecting data and studying how the environment causes variation in all our pokemon". Brock was impressed with all of this. Charity, Faith and Hope were giving the pokemon lunch. "Professor we have a problem," said Hope "this Butterfree will still not eat". The Butterfree was different coloured too. It had beige coloured wings with a red spot. "That Butterfree hasn't eaten anything in days," sighed Prof Ivy "and we've tried all sorts of nutrients''. Brock took a sample of the food. "I see the problem," he said. He got some sweet berries out from his rucksack, crushed them and sprinkled them onto Butterfree's food. Butterfree smelt the food, flew over to it and began to eat it. "That's amazing," said Prof Ivy ''what did you put on the food?" "Some crushed sweet berries," explained Brock ''some bug pokemon, like Butterfree, like their sweet food. And your food didn't have that much sweetness on it, which is why the Butterfree wouldn't eat". Prof Ivy and her assistants were very impressed by Brock's skills and knowledge about pokemon. "That's Brock for ya" said Ash, and explained to Prof Ivy about Brock wanting to become a great pokemon doctor.