pokemon adventure

chapter hundred forty four

Chapter 144

Iron Island

On an island called Iron Island Barry was training his Empoleon and his newest pokemon Heracross. Everything was going well, but then something odd happened to Empoleon. First blue electric sparkles appeared over Empoleon, making it paralyzed. Then its eyes glowed blue and it started to attack Barry and Heracross. "What's going on?!" gasped Barry "what's gotten into you Empoleon?" Empoleon didn't answer and just attacked again. Something was wrong.

Meanwhile, back on Canalave City, the gang were waiting for the boat for Chocovine Town in the pokemon center. Ash was explaining to Dawn that the next gym battle will be at Snowpoint City. So the gang would head to Snowpoint city after the Chocovine contest. Just then Nurse Joy came up to the gang and she told Ash he had a phone call.

The phone call was from Barry. Ash showed him his Mine Badge and Tomo did the same. Barry was impressed and officially called Ash and Tomo his rivals. Then Barry told the gang about his problem his Empoleon and that other steel type pokemon on Iron Island were causing havoc too. "How about you, are your pokemon okay?" Barry asked the gang. "We're fine over here" replied Ash. "Then that means it's only happening over here" said Barry. Ash felt something must be wrong. "Barry stay right where you are," he said "we are coming over to help you. Right Dawn, Tomo and Brock?" "Yes of course" replied Dawn. "Definitely" said Tomo. "Yeah" said Brock. Despite the plan for heading off to Chocovine Town would be delayed, the gang wanted to know what was going on.

At the pier Team Rocket was in their submarine, waiting for the gang to come out and leave on a boat. This was their way of following them. Right now they saw the gang heading for a ferry that would take them to Iron Island. The ferry was soon on its way and of course Team Rocket followed the ferry in the submarine. Ash was feeling worried about what Barry said and so were the others.

Once the ferry arrived at Iron Island the gang headed for the pokemon center at once to meet up with Barry. But Barry wasn't there. Nurse Joy told them he went to find out what was going on with the pokemon. The gang saw lots of steel pokemon in the center and they were in a lot of pain. It was a horrible sight. "I'm glad I sent Probopass back home some time ago" said Brock. Ash and Tomo were glad they didn't have any of their steel type pokemon either. "Come on," Ash said to the others "let's go find Barry at once and figure out what's happening here". The others agreed and they left the center at once.

The gang were soon walking up the rocky terrains of Iron Island. Ash knelt down onto the ground and placed his hand onto the ground. "What are you doing Ash?" asked Dawn. "I'm going to see if I can feel anything strange about this island," answered Ash "just in case there's something about Iron Island that may be the cause of the pokemon's strange behaviours". Everyone kept quiet while Ash closed his eyes and concentrated with using his psychic power first and then used his aura power next. "You felt anything Ash?" asked Brock. "Yes and I was right, I felt something weird within the ground" said Ash. "What is it Ash?" asked Dawn.

Before Ash could answer some Digletts popped out of the ground and they were running away from something. A Lairon who had gone berserk came out of the ground and it was tackling rocks. The gang took cover at once to not get hit by the rocks. "That Lairon is in pain" said Ash. "It's like the other steel type," said Brock "Lairon must be running a rampage to block out all of its pain". Ash didn't want to sit around and just let Lairon continue its rampaging. "Come on Pikachu" he said. Ash and Pikachu ran towards Lairon. "Pikachu use hidden power" said Ash. Pikachu released a hidden power and it hit Lairon. "Now brick break". Pikachu struck Lairon hard with his hand and poor Lairon went unconscious. "I'm sorry that I did that to you Lairon," said Ash guiltily "but I had to stop you from going on a rampage like that". Unfortunately more trouble came the gang's way. A Steelix, a Metang and some Skarmory turned up and rock pokemon were running away from them. "This is bad" said Dawn. "What do we do?" asked Tomo. "We need to find Barry quick and then find out what's going on here" said Ash. It was far too dangerous for the gang to stay where they were now. And it got worse when an Aggron turned up.