Ch 25:
Tristan enters the Fuschia Gym, which seems quite lively with trainer practising all over the arena. He shouts he is a trainer who wants to battle the gym Leader known as Koga. A man dressed in purple comes over to him and shakes his hand, saying Tristan better be ready for the greatest battle of his life. Tristan immediately likes this man, who introduces himself as Koga the Gym Leader of Fushcia City and he deals with Poison Types. He will hand out the Soul Badge to anyone who defeats him. Tristan says he is ready to fight and both take their places with an audience supporting Koga. Tristan has never battled at a gym with an audience before. Koga throws out his Koffing and Tristan uses Golem. Golem uses Rollout and Koffing dodges and uses Smokescreen to dover the arena in smoke. Golem is hit by a Sludge Bomb and poisoned, taking huge damage. Golem uses Rock Slide to cover the arena in rocks and even though it cannot see Koffing, it hears it gasping for breath under rocks. Koffing is pronounced unable to battle and Koga uses Muk which uses Poison gas which makes Golem unable to breathe properly and then defeats it with Minimize and covering Golem with its body to knock it out. Tristan says he needs to watch that and uses Alakazam. Alakazam uses Disable to block Minimise but is hit Poison Gas and evidently poisoned. Muk uses Disable to prevent Tri Attack and Alakazam takes poison damage before being hit by Sludge. Muk uses Sludge again but Alakazam Teleports and uses Psychic to throw muk against the wall. However Muk is not affected badly and covers Alakazam with its body and uses Sludge by shedding its body. Alakazam holds its nose and uses Psychic to throw Muk repeatedly up and down and shrink its body which causes Muk to faint. Alakazam then faints from the smell and damage. Tristan sends in Haunter and Koga chooses his Weezing for the last Pokemon each and Haunter begins to glow. It evolves into Gengar and Tristan and Koga are both impressed. Weezing begins with Smokescreen but Gengar uses Hypnosis to send Weezing to sleep and uses Dream Eater. Weezing takes critical damage but it wakes up and uses Smog to poison Gengar then uses Toxic. Gengar takes poison damage and Koga has Weezing use Explosion which takes both Pokemon out of the battle with the match ending as a draw. Koga says Tristan deserves the badge for putting up a great fight and Tristan is ecstatic after Koga hands him the Soul Badge. Tristan thanks Koga and moves on to the next gym.