pokemon adventure

chapter hundred fifty eight

Chapter 158

Meeting Flint,

The Sunnyshore Tower

And The Neighborly Contest

Today the gang finally made it to Sunnyshore City. Sunnyshore city was a real modern city; there were moving escalators, robots and modern buildings everywhere. On top of all the buildings were solar panels. The gang was amazed by the sights of the city. Ash remembered all the modern cities he had seen in the past. "So this is where we'll get our badges right?" Tomo asked Ash. "Yes but I'm still concerned about what Lucas said before" said Ash. "You mean about the gym leader giving out gym badges for free?" asked Dawn. ""Yes if that gym leader is just giving away the badges, we need to do something about it" said Ash. "I agree;" said Brock "just giving away badges for free will give other gyms a bad name". Brock didn't like how gym leaders handled their jobs irresponsibly.

Thanks to Brock's pokegear the gang found the Sunnyshore Gym. It was a big dome shaped building and it had solar panels around it. An automatic voice speaker spoke to the gang when they got to the doors. "I am here to challenge the gym leader to earn a badge" said Ash. A container, standing next to the door, opened a lid and inside was lots of gym badges. They were the Beacon Badges and they were coloured yellow and grey and shaped like a lighthouse. "Please take one" said the automatic voice. "Huh?!" gasped Ash. "Lucas wasn't kidding when he told us about the gym badge being given out for free," said Dawn "what are we going to do Ash?" "Talk to the gym leader of course," said Ash "I'm the type of trainer who would never want to earn a badge for free. Besides you wouldn't want to earn a contest ribbon for free, would you Dawn?" "Absolutely not" said Dawn. She was the type who wouldn't want to earn a ribbon for free. "I want to talk to the gym leader!" Ash shouted to the building. Unfortunately for Ash, the system ignored Ash's words and asked him to leave. "This is outrageous," said Ash, crossly, "I want to talk to the gym leader and I want to do it now!" "If you want to talk to Volkner I'll take you to him" said a voice.

The voice came from a red haired man. "Hello there, I'm Flint of the elite four" said the man. The gang couldn't believe their ears and eyes, seeing another elite 4 member of Sinnoh. "If you come with me I'll take you to Volkner because he and I are old friends," said Flint "he'll be up there". Flint pointed to a tall tower. This tower was called Sunnyshore tower and it was the tallest building in all of Sunnyshore City. Flint and the gang went into an elevator of the tower to go all the way to the top. Flint explained Volkner was the one who built Sunnyshore tower and all of the solar panels. "Really?" said Ash. He was surprised that Volkner was great as a builder, but why wasn't he acting like a great gym leader? Once they were up the top, the gang looked at the view at once.

Suddenly a Raichu turned up. "Hi there" Flint said to Raichu. Raichu ran up to Flint and hugged him. "Where's your partner?" asked Flint. Just then a blond haired man appeared; he was Volkner. "Hey Flint, who are the kids?" said Volkner. "You have a gym battle challenger Volkner" said Flint. Ash introduced himself to Volkner and asked him for a gym battle. "You saw the gym badges at the gym so just take one" said Volkner, gloomily. "No way;" said Ash "I'm the type of trainer who wants to earn his gym badges the right way by battling. Why aren't you accepting real gym battles?" "I have completely lost interest in battling" said Volkner. "Volkner I can tell that Ash is an electrifying trainer, so please give him a chance" said Flint. Volkner ignored Flint's words and looked up at the sky. "I would like you to leave" said Volkner. He was one of those gym leaders with an empty soul and Flint didn't like this and neither did Ash and Tomo.

Flint took the gang to a café for coffee and sandwiches. The café owner was an old friend of Flint and Volkner. Ash didn't feel like eating or drinking because of what just happened with Volkner. "Flint why is Volkner like that?" said Ash "a friend of ours named Lucas told us he battled Volkner a year ago and said Volkner was a really tough gym leader. But Volkner looked nothing like what I imagined". Flint sighed. "Volkner wasn't always like this" he said. "It's true," said the café owner "Volkner used to be known as the shining shocking star". "He always battled with a bolt of lightning, he was electrifying" said Flint.