Chapter (10): My Battle with Misty
The next day after the performance, I asked Misty to battle me since I wanted the Cerulean Gym badge. Misty accepted my challenge since she was a gym leader. She must accept every challenge. Now there was a pool in the middle of where we were standing. There were some small islands in the middle since the challenger might use some land pokemons. The gym leader must be fair, you know. Dylan was standing next to me, carefully observing our positions and what we would do.
"This will be a two on two pokemon battle. Now I will choose my first pokemon." She said, throwing a pokeball out. A Corsola emerged from the ball with white light and growling happily.
"Crosola, crosola" It repeated its name over and over in a happy tone. I chose Butterfree which I caught as a pokemon.
"Spike cannon!" Misty shouted. Crosola laughed several glowing spikes to Butterfree who dodged them.
"Steel Wing, Butterfree!" I shouted. Butterfree's wings glowed as she struck Crosola with them. Crosola took the damage and flew a few feet backwards into water.
I must knock out that Crosola before it uses 'Recover'. According to her records, she ordered her Crosola to use 'Recover' whenever it is worn out. I wanted to use the effective powders such as Sleep Powder and Stun Spore. But it will not be effective since spores can be dissolved into water. So I ordered Butterfree to use Whirl Wind which was effective even in the water.
The damaged Crosola was thrown backwards and slammed against the wall, followed by some water. IT was suffering from the pain and scratches.
"Crosola, recover!" Misty shouted as the Crosola was slowly beginning to faint.
"Not so first! Butterfree, use String Shot to warp Crosola and throw her against another wall." I shouted. Butterfree took the chance and released some white web like strings from her mouth, warping the water pokemon and swung around with force, and releasing her from the string, throwing her against a wall again. This time, Crosola remained unconscious and the battle went to Butterfree with barely a scratch on her body.
I did not plan to use Butterfree anymore since she already was tired a bit. So I called out Pikachu and returned the tired butterfly.
"You will win this time!" Misty grinned widely as she returned her Crosola. She called out her Garydos. A blue serpent emerged from the pokeball that Misty shot into the air.
"Garydos, use Flame Thrower!" I knew it. Misty would use that move since electric pokemons were strong against water.
"Use Agility to dodge it!" Pikachu moved side to side to dodge the flamethrower. But in his way, Garydos slammed its tail, throwing Pikachu backwards into the water. My eyes narrowed.
"Pikachu, use Thundershock in water!" Pikachu tried his best to release Thundershock in water, conductively shocking Garydos who roared in pain as the shock went through his body painfully. Pikachu was very intelligent. Without me having to give an order, he climbed onto the small island and ran towards Garydos, grabbing its neck in arms. You can imagine how Pikachu would look like on Garydos's
neck, very small. Pikachu then used Thunderbolt to shock Garydos. Garydos, weak against electric attacks as well as, electric conducted by water took the damage greatly and now was shaking his neck to shake Pikachu off. He could not take the pain from the Pikachu's thunderbolt.
"Pikachu, let go of him and use Iron Tail to knock him down." Pikachu did as I said. He let go of Garydos and gave him an Iron Tail in the face. I was pretty surprised by this though. Both of my pokemons won without a single scratch on them. It was pretty good to win though.
After the battle, I finally got another badge from Misty. When I was about to leave, Misty called on to me.
"Hold on, Emily! I have something else to give to you." She said, handing out a pokeball,
"This is Buizel. A trainer abandoned it since it lost a battle." She said. I was very surprised by this comment. I never thought that trainers would abandon his pokemon because of a loss.
"Are you sure about that?" I said and Misty nodded. I took the pokeball from her hand went out with Dylan. Dylan smiled in satisfactory since I won my own gym badge that is no one gave it to me but my efforts. I guess being a trainer ain't half bad. But now I started to think about it because of the abandoned Buizel.