Chapter 4: Fighting rock with fire
"Red tomorrow we leave for Pallet Town." "Mom I like New Bark Town. It has a nice view of the Ocean." "I know sweetie but Pallet Town has a school and stuff and the professor there said you could even have a pokemon when you grew up." "Really? Pallet Town sounds awesome then I cant wait to go!" Before I knew it we were on a ship and had arrived in Pallet Town. "You must be Red's mom. Hello my name is Professor Oak and this is my Grandson Blue." Blue looked the same age as I was and looked over at me laughing." What's so funny Blue?" "You. You have the face of a chimpanzee and your as ugly as a slowpoke." I started to cry and ran into our new house. Professor Oak looked at Blue and said, "Now Blue that wasn't nice. Go apologize to Red." "Ok. Gramps." I was on the floor crying when Blue had walked in and was still laughing. "Cheer up Red. Were both 4 years old. Your acting like a kid. Here lets have a simple game." "Ok, What kind of game?" "The first one to cry loses, oh look I already won. Red you are weak and pathetic. You will never beat me at anything cause of how feeble you are." Blue left my house after kicking the boxes my stuff was in from the move and went back outside. My mom came in excitedly and said, "Oh I see you and Blue are the same age. You two will be good friends I bet." A friend isn't the word I used to describe Blue from that day on, I used the word rival.
"Red wake up you lazy sloth!"
Green stood over me throwing pillows at me. Pichu was hoping up and down on my stomach trying to help wake me up.
"Were going to be late to fight the gym leader! And I want that badge!"
"Sorry Green I was having a dream. Lets go."
"Oh, What was the dream about?"
"It was when me and my mom moved from New Bark Town to Pallet and I met Blue and how he made me cry when I was 4."
Green looked at me and then laughed.
"Red you're a softy. I could probably even beat you up, hehe. Plus Blues just a big jerk face. You showed him yesterday when you beat him in battle."
"True. Alright lets go battle the gym leader."
We exited the room of the pokemon center and walked out into the lobby.
"Cant fight a gym leader on a empty stomach."
Green spoke up with a wink and was eating some of the food the nurse had out in the lobby. We both released out our pokemon and we all ate till we were full. After we finished eating we returned them back to there poke balls and walked out of the pokemon center. Just then a large man with a white and black lab coat and circular glasses walked up to us.
"Hello. I have been looking for you two. I am Professor Oaks assistant. He found two eggs the other day and wanted the two of you to have them. He says they contain rare Pokémon."
He handed us both a egg and then ran off.
"Oh wow cool! I wonder what pokemon it will hatch into."
"I don't know Green. He said Oak said they were rare pokemon so it might be pokemon not found in Kanto."
"Well whatever it is I hope it is cute!"
We placed the eggs into our bags out of harms way and headed for the gym.
The gym had a large brownish gold roof with blue windows and two large blue doors to enter the gym at. The sign out in front of the gym said that Pewter City Pokemon Gym Leader was: Brock, The rock-solid pokemon trainer. We walked inside and the entire gym was covered in rocks. It looked like we was inside of a cave that had caved in. There was a small spot in the middle of all the rocks with two white poke ball circles on each side. It looked like a battlefield so that's where we headed to. I spoke up and said,
"Hmm, Where is Brock at. The sign said he was the gym leader."
Just then we saw a large boulder coming out of the air flying down at us. We both ran back away to avoid getting squashed by it. On top of the boulder stood a man with brown wavy hair, an orange top, and green pants.
"So, you're here. I'm Brock. I'm Pewter's Gym Leader. My rock-hard willpower is evident even in my Pokémon. My Pokémon are all rock hard, and have true-grit determination. That's right - my Pokémon are all the Rock type! Fuhaha! You're going to challenge me knowing that you'll lose? That's the Trainer's honor that compels you to challenge me. Fine, then! Show me your best!"
"Soooo, Who's gonna challenge Brock first?"
Green asked me.
"You can Green, I will watch and go after you do."
"Alrighty, lets win this pichu!"
Brock and Green lined up on the battlefield across from one another.
"We'll have a 2 on 2 battle. First person to knock out both trainers pokemon wins the battle."
The referee stated as they both got there poke balls ready. Green with a determined look on her face held her first ball in hand and threw it.
"Go Butterfree!" Butterfree appeared flapping its little wings and sparkling with a pleasant glow to it."
Go Geodude."
A small pokemon that looked like a large boulder with arms appeared out pumping its muscles ready to fight.
"Ok, Butterfree use tackle."
Brock just sit there and let Butterfree tackle Geodude. The tackle didn't even faze it at all.
"Rock type pokemon are immune to normal type attacks."
Brock stated with a laugh.
"Geodude use defense curl."
Geodude bulked down and sharpened its defensive state even more.
"Now use tackle."
Geodude charged toward Butterfree ready to ram it into all of the large boulders in this arena.
"I guess were gonna have to try a different route. Butterfree use Psychic."
Butterfree let out pulse waves right at Geodude right before it hit the tackle knocking Geodude back into several rocks.
"Good move Green. But this isn't over yet. Geodude use defense curl again."
Geodude curled up to raise its defense even higher then it already was.
"Butterfree use Psychic again."
The pulse waves shot out at Geodude while it was curled up and knocked into more rocks which caused it to be knocked out cold.
"Way to go Butterfree."
Brock threw out his next pokemon. A giant rock pokemon appeared before Butterfree with several large rocks as its body with a large head and no arms.
"This fight is far from over. Say hello to Onix. Now lets get right to it. Onix use rock tomb."
Large boulders appeared and slammed hard down on Butterfree squishing it and knocking it out cold in just that one move.
"Wow. That Onix sure is something. Ok well lets win this. Go Bulbasaur."
Bulbasaur came out and looked terrified as it stared up at the gigantic pokemon before it with its huge rock body.
"Ok Bulbasaur lets beat this Onix and win the badge. Bulbasaur use leech seed."
Bulbasaur seeded the ground and sapped health from Onix.
"Onix use tackle."
Onix rammed bulbasaur hard into the wall but bulbasaur got back up.
"Bulbasaur use vine whip."
Bulbasaur smacked vines down right on Onix head. It wasn't hard to hit the colossal pokemon and it seemed to faze the Onix as it flinched back.
"Onix use bind."
Onix constricted Bulbasaur like a snake and was squeezing the life out of it.
"Now lets finish this. Onix use rock tomb."
Green looked frightened to see Bulbasaur squished but then Bulbasaur started to glow and its leaves on its head grew larger. It had evolved into Ivysaur. "Congratulations on evolving Bulbasaur!"
Green stated seeming happy that it didn't get flattened into a pancake when the rocks hit it.
"The pokedex says you learned a new move so lets try it out. Ivysaur use Razor leaf."
Large leaves shot out like they were being fired from a gun and struck Onix several times in the head. This allowed Ivysaur to free itself from the constricting bind it was in. Onix seemed hurt and fell onto the ground.
"Onix lets use tackle on that Ivysaur."
Green waited in place waiting for Onix to get closer and shouted,
"One more time. Ivysaur use Razor leaf."
The leaves struck Onix right in the center of the head but Onix tackle had also knocked Ivysaur into the rocks. Both Pokemon was still standing when Onix fell over and was knocked out.
"We did it! Way to go Ivysaur!"
"Congratulations Green." Brock spoke. "That was a good battle. You deserve this. Take it as a symbol that you beat me. it's the Boulder Badge."
Green happily accepted the badge.
"Ok your turn Red. Win you one of these."
"Well normally trainers come in here alone."
Brock stated.
"Since both of you decided to come at the same time I need to heal my pokemon from Green and my fight before I can fight Red. Return in a hour or so and I will be ready to face Red."
Green and I left the Gym and went back to the pokemon center to heal her pokemon from the gym battle.
"So Red what do you want to do for a hour while we wait for the gym fight."
"It doesn't matter to me Green. We can do whatever you want."
"Oh I know! Lets go to the pokemon mart and see what they have for sale."
We left the pokemon center after Green got back her pokemon and walked inside the pokemon mart. They had shelves after shelves of all assorted medicines, containers, poke balls, assorted goods, and several other things. Green walked up to the counter.
"Um yes, I would like to buy some poke balls and a fishing rod."
The man behind the register handed Green the poke balls and a fishing rod. I also bought a few poke balls for later in case I ran into something I wanted to catch. "Use the rod in large streams of water ma'am. You never know what you might fish up."
Green paid the man and we left the pokemon mart.
"How about we check out Pewter City's Museum while we wait Red."
The museum had all kinds of art displays and several paintings on the walls. They had displays of ancient pokemon that had become extinct. The bones of those were displayed as statues. There were several some small and some large. The small ones had the shape of a circular pattern with large bones sticking out in a shape that made it look spider like in appearance. The larger displays were of huge dinosaur like pokemon that had once roamed the lands. One of them was in the shape of a pterodactyl. You could see where it used to have wings and how large it body was compared to that of a human. The paintings on the wall represented several different pokemon. Some native to Kanto and some native to other areas. I recognized a few but most of them I had never seen before. Of the ones I recognized there was a picture of a Pikachu and two smaller pichu running threw a meadow. Green was on her toes admiring the photo painting of Butterfree and how beautiful it looked. They had the sun rise right over it making its wings glisten and sparkle out while its tail was sparkling from the rays of the sun. There was another photo of a pokemon neither Green nor I had ever seen before. It had a yellow goldish snake like body with red on its head and a blue and white tail. The pokemon was in a water like stream with a river flowing down above its head and the sun shining over the water at the pokemon really bringing out its divine beauty.
"Well its been an hour Green lets head back to the gym so I can have my battle and win my badge."
"Ok lets go. Red which pokemon are you gonna use?"
I hadn't thought about that yet. Pidgey had a type disadvantage and Metapod didn't have but one attack that did damage and that was tackle which is a normal move so it wouldn't do much damage. Charmander did know metal claw which is a steel type move and according to my pokedex steel type moves were super effective to rock type pokemon.
"Well Charmander knows metal claw which is good against Brocks rock types so I will use him and pidgey has a type disadvantage so I will go with Metapod for this one."
"Good choice Red. I would of used pichu in my fight with Brock but rock type pokemon are immune to electric moves. Luckily Bulbasaur is grass type so it was super effective."
When we got back inside of the pokemon gym we headed for the battlefield once more.
"Brock isn't here yet? Hmm, Maybe he is still healing his pokemon."
Just like before a large boulder fell down from the roof and me and Green ran back to avoid being smashed into pieces.
"I see you have returned. My pokemon are healed and ready to fight. I shall not lose this time around."
Me and Brock lined up across from one another on the battlefield. I heard Green speak up from where she was watching the fight at and say,
"Come on Red. I know you can win this. Win you a boulder badge."
The referee said that this fight would also be a 2 on 2 battle. Brock with poke ball in hand held out his first pokemon and the same as before he started the fight with Geodude.
"Go Geodude."
He exclaimed and Geodude was out ready to fight. I held out my poke ball and threw it releasing my first pokemon of the fight also.
"Go Charmander."
Charmander came out with his tail flaming ready for a good fight.
"Alright Charmander lets start this off with scratch."
Charmanders nails glowed bright and he charged at Geodude ready to scratch it. Scratch was a normal move so it wouldn't do much to Geodude anyways and Brock knew that but instead of doing like before and letting it hit he waited till charmander was close and said,
"Geodude use tackle."
Geodude tackled charmander after charmander had struck it with the scratch and knocked charmander down. Charmander got back up and was awaiting its next command.
"Ok Geodude now use tackle again."
Geodude charged out towards charmander ready to strike it again.
"Charmander use ember."
Flames shot out at Geodude knocking it back in its tracks.
"Now follow up with metal claw."
Charmanders nails glowed silver and it charged toward Geodude ready to strike it.
"Geodude use defense curl."
but before Geodude could even curl down charmander had it right across the face with the metal claw knocking it backwards threw several large boulders. Geodude was out cold.
"Geodude return."
I had knocked Brock down to one pokemon but I knew what was next thanks to Green fighting before me.
"Lets see how you verse off against my Onix this time around."
Brock threw out his Onix and it looked like it had gotten even taller since its fight with Green.
"I put Onix threw some special training after this fight with your friend making it even tougher then it was before."
Charmander looked ready to fight the Onix but I wanted him to rest up so I could use him in case I needed him.
"Charmander return."
Charmander went back into his poke ball and I held out my next poke ball.
"Go Metapod."
Metapod stood out like an ant would compared to the colossal physique of Onix.
"Onix use tackle."
Onix charged forward ready to tackle Metapod.
"Metapod use string shot."
Metapod shot out strings but they were not nearly strong enough to constrict an Onix and Onix hit Metapod hard with the tackle knocking it back. Metapod then started to glow and just like that Metapod had evolved into Butterfree and he also knew Psychic like Greens did.
"Awesome Metapod evolved."
I heard Green say as I looked at what to do next.
"Ok Butterfree use Psychic."
"Onix use bind."
The Psychic hit Onix causing it to flinch some but Onix slithered around Butterfree like a snake and constricted it. He was squeezing the life out of Butterfree and I could tell Butterfree looked hurt.
"Butterfree hang in there and use Psychic."
He used psychic again but it wasn't as powerful cause of being constricted.
"Alright Onix lets finish off Butterfree. Use Rock Tomb."
Large rocky boulders came flying down from the sky and smashed Butterfree knocking him out cold.
"1 and 1. Now this is the kind of fight I like to have."
Brock said cockily as I returned Butterfree back to his poke ball.
"Charmander its up to you."
Charmander came back out and looked up at the gigantic Onix.
"Onix lets finish this off quickly. Use tackle."
Onix shot out and charged Charmander ready to ram him head on. I waited till Onix was close up and said,
"Charmander use metal claw."
Charmander hit the metal claw right when Onix was in front of him about to tackle him. It knocked Onix back some feet but he was still on the ground. " "Charmander use ember."
Flames shot out and engulfed the Onix and when they dispersed Onix was just standing there like it was unharmed.
"Onix use rock tomb."
The rocks appeared again out of the sky and fell on top of charmander crushing him. Charmander luckily got back up but he was heavily breathing. That rock tomb had done a number on him.
"Onix lets end this. Use tackle."
"Charmander lets fight back also. Use metal claw."
Both pokemon charged out toward one another Onix went to tackle charmander but it had jumped into the air to hit Onix face and that caused Onix to tackle the ground stunning him a moment. Charmander took advantage of the situation and hit Onix with the metal claw. After that though charmander was to close to the Onix and Brock told him to use bind which constricted charmander in place.
"Lets finish it off like we did Butterfree. Onix use Rock tomb."
Charmander with no room to run held his hands over his eyes. I spoke up then though and said,
"Charmander use metal claw where Onix is constricting you at."
This caused Onix to break its hold and charmander broke free and moved away. The boulders still coming down nailed Onix right on the head stunning him. "Charmander great job now lets finish it. Use metal claw one more time."
Charmander stuck the metal claw at Onix again knocking it out finally.
"Great job charmander. Rest up buddy."
I said to charmander as the fight ended and returned him to his poke ball.
"I don't believe I lost after the special training I gave Onix. Great battle Red. You deserve this badge."
Brock handed me the badge and Green walked up.
"Great job Red. That sure is some charmander you got there."
Brock looked at us both and said,
"Since both of you beat me you should continue on collecting the badges. The next badge is in Cerulean City but it's a long ways away."
We both nodded and left the gym and went to the pokemon center to heal up my pokemon from the long battle we had with Brock. By the time the pokemon center had healed my pokemon it was night time again.
"I guess we have to spend another night here and we will head to route 3 towards Cerulean city tomorrow Green. And try to not over sleep this time around."
I said to Green with a smile on my face.
"Oh whatever Red, you're the one that overslept! I'm surprised Brock was still there by the time we got there today."
We went into the room with the 2 beds and like before sit our stuff on the large desk.
"Red the road to Cerulean City is long Brock said. I looked at the map and we have to go threw Route 3 and Route 4 and a cave to get back on Route 4 to get to Cerulean City."
"Sounds like we got a long journey to go Green."
Green got under her covers and went to sleep. I exhausted from the fight with Brock laid down to rest up for the long trip also. I reached over onto the table and looked at my badge I had won from Brock. I spoke softly trying to not wake up Green and said,
"My first signs as a true Pokemon trainer and its all thanks to my Pokemon. Thank you guys."
I put the badge back down where it was and pulled the covers over my head but I couldn't seem to sleep. After staring up into the ceiling for about 20 minutes thinking about how long it would take to get to Cerulean City and what pokemon could be on the routes 3 and 4 and in the cave. I started to finally tire out and pulled my covers over my head. And like before I was out asleep.