pokemon adventure

chapter hundred - nineteen

Chapter 119

Ash's Gym battle 2,

Tomo's Gym Battle 2,

And Meeting Matt

Today it was time for Ash and Tomo to face Gardenia for their second gym badge. This time Ash was going to challenge the gym first and then Tomo would get his. The Eterna Gym was a dome shaped building and since Gardenia used grass type pokemon the gym had trees and bushes inside and out of the building. Even the battlefield had trees and bushes and grass. Ash and Gardenia took their places while Gardenia's assistant Yoko explained the match was a three on three pokemon battle. Tomo and Growlithe promised to play close attention to this battle, since it was Tomo's turn to battle Gardenia next.

First off Gardenia sent out her Cherubi and Ash sent out his Mothim. Ash took a quick look at the sky and saw the sun shining very bright. He reckoned that Gardenia's pokemon would use the sun to their advantage, especially when using solarbeam; he knew this because he had been there before. Ash started off by telling Mothim to use tackle, but Cherubi dodged it. Ash told Mothim to use psybeam next, but Cherubi dodged it at great speed. The reason why Cherubi was so fast was because it had the ability chlorophyll; an ability that raises a pokemon's speed in sunlight. Gardenia attacked next by telling Cherubi to use solarbeam. Thanks to the sun solarbeam didn't need recharging. "Protect Mothim" said Ash. Mothim protected itself from solarbeam with a protective barrier. "Now use aerial ace" said Ash. Mothim charged at Cherubi and tackled it hard. "Nice, but you'll need to do more than that Ash" said Gardenia. She ordered Cherubi to use solarbeam, but the sun had been covered up by clouds. So instead she ordered Cherubi to use magical leaf. "Counter that with hidden power Mothim" said Ash. The magical leaf and hidden power attacks collided with each other. "Wow, Ash's Mothim is getting good with this despite it wasn't that long ago he evolved from Burmy" said Dawn. "That's because Mothim had been spending time with Ash's Dustox, Beautifly, Butterfree and Venomoth at Prof Oak's lab," said Tomo "so he ended up learning things from them". "It's as we said to you before Dawn, newer pokemon learn a lot of things from older pokemon" said Brock. Dawn started to understand that. "Okay Mothim let's use aerial ace again" said Ash. Before Cherubi could do anything, Mothim charged and tackled it. "Now time to use psybeam". Mothim fired a psybeam attack and Cherubi got hit by it. Cherubi couldn't take anymore after that and fainted. So Ash was the winner of the first round.

Gardenia returned her Cherubi. "Well Ash, you certainly knew what to do despite the sun being out" she said. "I've been in battles with trainers using the weather to their advantages; rain, sun, snow and even the wind" said Ash. Gardenia sent out her Turtwig next. Mothim remembered when he battled Gardenia's Turtwig before. "Let's show that Turtwig how strong you are now Mothim," said Ash "use confusion". Mothim held Turtwig in place with confusion, and then Mothim used psybeam and Turtwig got hit by it. "Your Mothim has gotten strong ever since I last battled it Ash," said Gardenia "but we are not through yet". She ordered Turtwig to use leech seed and Mothim got trapped from the vines before Ash could tell Mothim to do anything. "Quick move in with poison powder Mothim" said Ash. Mothim quickly released poison powder from his wings. Turtwig tried to get away from it, but it got poisoned by the poison powder. "The poison will certainly bring that Turtwig down a notch" said Tomo. "Ash must have known that Turtwig would use leech seed like it did last time, so he planned to use poison powder to help a bit" said Brock. Despite being poisoned Turtwig could still fight and it tackled Mothim very hard. The tackle and the leech seed were too much for Mothim and he fainted. So Gardenia was the winner of the second round.

Ash returned Mothim and sent out Leafeon. "Oh wow Ash," said Gardenia, liking Leafeon, "did you evolve that from an Eevee?" "Well I got him as an Eevee when he was an egg," said Ash "and then I had an old friend of mine to evolve Eevee into Leafeon for me with the moss rock in Eterna Forest, since he was coming here to Sinnoh". Ash and the gang saw the moss rock that evolved Eevees into Leafeons back when they were still in Eterna Forest. Seeing Leafeon made Gardenia decide to get herself an Eevee and evolve it to Leafeon.