pokemon adventure

chapter thirty nine

Chapter 39

The Burned Tower and Ecruteak City Gym

After going through many adventures, the gang finally made it to Ecruteak City. "Finally we are here" sighed Misty, who was tired. Ash, Tomo and Brock were tired too and they all agreed that it was time for a rest in the pokemon center. They gave their pokemon to Nurse Joy and they all took relaxing baths and had a nice nap in the bedrooms of the pokemon center. After napping for two hours, the gang was refreshed again. "Phew I needed that rest" sighed Misty. "Yeah so did I," said Brock "especially our pokemon". "Speaking of pokemon, I've been thinking about something," said Ash "since I got that item metal coat from my new Steelix from the swap meet, I've been thinking about evolving my Scyther into a Scizor". "I call that a good idea," said Misty, "besides your Scyther is very strong, so I think it is time for Scyther to evolve into Scizor". "Yeah, do it big brother," said Tomo. Brock then thought that it was time for his Onix to evolve into a Steelix, so he and Ash decided to evolve their Scyther and Onix now.

Ash got his Scyther from Prof Oak and told Scyther about becoming a Scizor. Ash showed Scyther a picture of Scizor on the pokedex and Scyther became eager to evolve into that. Brock asked Onix if he wanted to evolve into a Steelix and Onix did. Ash and Brock gave their pokemon metal coats to hold, returned the pokemon to their pokeballs, and went to the pokemon centre's trading machine to trade their pokemon. Once they were traded, Ash and Brock released Scyther and Onix from their pokeballs, and as soon as the pokemon were out of their pokeballs they began to glow. Onix evolved into a Steelix and Scyther evolved into a red pokemon, with wings and two big pincers. "Scyther is now a Scizor," said Brock. After the evolution, Brock and Ash traded their pokemon back. Brock was happy with Steelix just as Ash was happy with his new Scizor.

Ash looked at Scizor on the pokedex: Scizor, the pincer pokemon. The evolved form of Scyther. It raises its pincers with eyelike markings for intimidation. It also swings them down dangerously. Bug and Steel type. Male.

Attacks: Quick Attack, double team, razor wind, slash, aerial ace, air slash, x-scissor, bug buzz, bug bite, night slash, bullet punch, steel wing, flash cannon and iron head.

"Wow I can't wait to use Scizor in a battle with these moves" said Ash.

Once the trade was over with, the gang had to decide what to do next. Ash did want to go to the gym for his next badge, but he wanted to visit the old burned tower first. "Why do you want to visit that old burnt tower Ash?" asked Misty. "Well Misty," said Ash "in the book of legendary pokemon of Johto, the old burned tower was home to the legendary pokemon Ho-Oh a long time ago". "You certainly are interested in legendary pokemon Ash" said Brock. "Well don't forget Brock I have run into legendary pokemon a couple of times on my journey," said Ash "and don't forget I do own two legendary pokemon myself". Tomo, Misty and Brock understood; they remember seeing the legendary pokemon themselves and they also remembered about Ash having a Lugia and Mewtwo. So everyone agreed to go to the burned tower.

The burned tower was located in the far east of Ecruteak City, and it was indeed burned. "Wow it really is a burnt tower" said Misty. "Yeah it says that this tower has been like this for 150 years," said Brock "I'm surprised it's still standing after all this time". Ash opened the door and the gang all went inside. Inside, the burnt tower was more burnt inside than it was outside. "We better be careful here," said Brock, "I mean the wooden planks above us may be unstable and they might fall down on us". Ash was in awe at the moment; he was fascinated with the old burned tower.

Suddenly a fire occurred in the tower. "How did this happen?" gasped Misty. "I don't know," said Brock "but we need to get out of here fast. He grabbed Tomo to help him. Ash stared at the fire. "Hold on a minute," he said, and touched the fire, "this fire is an illusion". Brock touched the fire too. "Ash is right," he said "this fire isn't real at all". Ash released Noctowl from his pokeball and told him to use foresight. Noctowl's foresight move revealed that a lot of Gastly and Haunter were in the burned tower. "These Gastly and Haunter probably live here," said Brock "and they used that fiery illusion to scare us away". Ash spoke to the Ghastly and Haunter. "If we have invaded your home, we are sorry for doing that," he said "but we only came here to explore the burned tower". The Ghastly and Haunter stared at Ash. Ash returned Noctowl to his pokeball to prove to the ghost pokemon that they were not here to cause trouble.