Austin returned to the Pokemon center, broken and disappointed. He gave his Pokemon to the nurse at the front counter and as they healed he called Professor Oak.
"Hello?" the professor answered on the video screen, "Austin it's good to see you, made it to Pewter city I assume?" Austin looked down and bit his lip, "Yeah, I'm here, and I lost at that stupid gym!" Austin said trying to hold back tears. Oak looked at him and chuckled a bit, "I tried to tell you Austin, Brock at Pewter City uses Rock type Pokemon, and when I told you picking Charmander was hard I meant because Bulbasaur or Squirtle would have been a great deal easier to win with, Water and Grass types both hold advantages over Rock Pokemon."
"It doesn't matter, this isn't worth it, I'm quitting this," Austin started being very whiney, "I can't even beat the first gym leader what's the point?!" With this the professor grew irritated, "Austin!" He said anger in his voice, "I remember growing up all you ever wanted was to be a Pokemon trainer, you're 10 years old, your journey has just started! You can't give up because you had one loss!"
"That's not what I'm doing!" Austin said back. "Then tell me," Oak queried, "How many losses have you had before Brock?" Austin's face grew red with embarrassment, Brock had been his first loss. "Well, um," Austin tried but knew it would be a lie, "Okay fine he was my first loss. But professor, all my Pokemon have a disadvantage against both of Brock's Pokemon."
"Now, now," Oak reassured him, "Let me hear what you have to work with, maybe I can help." Austin then thought about it and told him. "Well other than Charmander I've got a Pidgey, a Rattata, a Pikachu, a Beedril and a Metapod." The professor listened and followed up with, "What was that last one?"
"A Metapod, why?" Austin asked and the professor just laughed a bit. "While yes all your Pokemon do have a disadvantage but they all sound strong, and I'm especially surprised that you have a Beedril already! The true answer to your problems lies within that Metapod of yours."
"Metapod?" Austin said, "Why him?" the professor looked at him and said, "You are aware of how a Beedril evolves quickly aren't you?" Oak asked, and Austin nodded, "Well, Metapods to the same, they will evolve into a Pokemon that can do just what you need to defeat those Rock Pokemon, but that's all I'm going to tell you, you have to figure the rest out yourself, good luck Austin." Then the Professor hung up.
"Metapod?" Austin thought again, "Well, if the professor says it can help, I'll get to training it!" Austin yelled with excitement, then sat down with embarrassment as he realized everyone in the center was looking at him. He walked up to the counter when the chimer went off alarming him his Pokemon had recovered. He headed outside and out of town to the South. He cast all his Pokeballs and said, "Come on out, everyone!" Out came all his Pokemon, they all seemed ready to fight, except his Metapod, which couldn't move very well, still being in its shell. "How can this guy be so tough," Austin thought to himself. "Well, no matter," He now said out loud, "We gotta get to training guys, Charmander, you learned a powerful move during battle, so you have to be my toughest fighter, Beedril, you are my first stage 2 Pokemon, so I know you're tough, Pidgey and Pikachu, you two are fast, Rattata, you never give up, and Metapod, the professor said you have untapped potential."
Metapod, Metapod." The Metapod said with somewhat of a joyous look in it's eyes. "So lets get to training!" Austin called out, the battled mainly some wild Pokemon, many Pidgeys and Rattatas, they are plentiful, but Austin could see the power of his team increase, his own Pidgey even learned quick attack and his Rattata learned a new skill as well, he couldn't wait to try them out. Beedril leaned it's Twineedle attack, a powerful dive bomb with use of it's two powerful lance-like arms. Charmander worked on it's flamethrower attack to get it perfected and last to train was Metapod. Relying mainly on tackle was tough, but Austin stuck to it, he even noticed a slight speed increase from Metapod, then after one fight against a particularly strong Pidgey metapod began to glow!
"It's happening, Metapod," Austin said excitedly, "you're evolving!" The Metapod changed shape greatly, into in small figure eight it seemed, and then it unfolded large wings. When the glowing stopped there stood Austin's newly evolved Pokemon, a purple butterfly, about to Austin's waist, a Butterfree. "Reeee reeeeee." The Butterfree called out as Austin checked the Pokedex and went to move, Butterfree did have good moves, Gust, Sleep Power, Stun Spore and…. It was the move Austin had beed waiting for and he headed back to the Pokemon center to rest up his Pokemon and get a good night's sleep before his rematch.
The next day Austin walked into the gym with a look of confidence in his face, "Brock, I'm back and I want a rematch!" Austin said in an almost demanding way. Brock appeared shortly after saying "Of course Austin, if you think you can go again." The battle was on, Brock once again called his Geodude. This time, Austin started with Rattata. "You're trying that again, how many times must I tell you, it won't work!" brock called out as a warning, but Austin had a special technique to show Brock. "Rattata, super fang go!" Rattata jumped at geodude and it's front fangs glew as it clamped on to Geodude. Geo dude looked hurt from the bite, "A Normal attack shouldn't do that much!" Brock called in disbelief. "That's because," Austin started, "Super fang will drain half your opponents HP no matter what! But unfortunately for Austin the Geodude started charging when it saw the attack coming. "Geodude, now Bide!" the Geodude threw a powerful punch and the hit nearly took out Rattata that was all the damage it had just done doubled. "Rattata, try quick attack!" Austin called out but the Geodude took the hit unscathed and returned fire with a rock throw attack.
"Rattata, return!" Austin said as he called it back into it's ball, proud for the damage it had done to geodude. "Now Charmander, you're up!" Austin called out as he threw Charmander's Pokeball, it was primed for battle. "you're using the fire type again?" Brock asked almost mockingly. "yes, because he's mastered this attack now," Austin started, "Charmander, flamethrower!" Charmander shot a much more powerful blast of flames than the first time he tried and took out Brock's Geodude. "Well…. That was surprising," Brock said in disbelief, "No matter, I still have, Onix, go!" Onix came out of it's Pokeball ready to fight, just as intimidating as before. "Charmander, take a rest!" Austin called it back. "Now's when my strategy comes into play," Austin said under his breath, "Pidgey go!"
The small bird cooed toughly in a display of strength, still a bit frightened of the Onix. "Pidgey, use quick attack and gust any way you can get a hit on it!" the Pidgey was doing little, but the Onix was, it was also charging, "That's enough Onix, use bide!" Brock called out. "Not again!" Austin said and his Pidgey was taken out, next he sent out Beedril, since Pikachu couldn't do anything to it. "Beedril, hit a Twineedle and look out for that Bide attack!" The large bee pokemon nodded as it went into battle and used the attack, this did some damage, nothing sufficient, but Onix was definitely being warn down. Beedril began to tire and Onix took it out with a tackle attack. "Now," Austin said, "let's do it, Butterfree, go!"
The ball popped open and out came Butterfree, "Ree reeeeee!" it shrieked as it headed into battle, "Butterfree, use stun spore!" the Butterfly Pokemon flapped a yellow powder from it's wings, causing the Rock snake to become immobile, "Now Butterfree use confusion attack!" this was the attack Oak had told him about, the psychic type confusion attack a powerful psychic wave that could cause confusion, though it had no type advantage, it was not at a disadvantage and was a very powerful move. Onix was hurt, badly, but it Brock free from Paralysis when Brock shouted, "Rock throw Onix!" Butterfree could not take that and fainted, being part flting the Rock type move hit hard, Austin's final gamble was up.
"Charmander, we can do it!" Austin called on Charmander who jumped into battle, "Flamethrower!" Austin called out and it did, the powerful move hurt Onix, and it was just standing there again. Brock laughed, Austin knew what was up, "Onix," Brock started, "BIDE ATTACK!" The Onix roared, but couldn't move, the paralysis was to strong, and Austin called one more, "Flamethrower, Chamander, hurry!" Charmander shot flames at the Onix and it was defeated, Austin had just won his first gym match.
"I…..I did it," Austin said in disbelief, "I won!, Charmander we did it!" Austin ran out to the field and hugged Charmander, who was also overjoyed at the victory. Then Brock recalled his Onix and walked over to Austin. "Austin, you defeated me, to show proof of your victory, I hereby give you this Boulder Badge!" Austin smiled and accepted the Badge from Brock. It was a small octagonal badge grey in color, and Austin's first gym badge. "Austin, I didn't mean to be so harsh on you," Brock said, "It's just the gym leader way, try to get you off balance, but you were able to come back and defeat me, congratulations."
"Thank you Brock," Austin started, "I'll do even better from now on, and you were a great challenge." Austin shook Brock's hand and headed off to the Pokemon center, and then, to Mt. Moon, which would take him to Cerulean City and his next Pokemon gym.