After the incident with Team Bomb, Nils, Ren, and Firenze left Pewter City and started the trip to Mt. Tormen. After three hours of walking, Ren started complaining over the fact that he was tired and started saying, "Can we take a break?"
"The Pokemon Center is nearby," said Firenze, "You can handle it a little longer right?"
"No," answered Ren.
"Fine," said Firenze, "But only for ten minutes," "Is that ok Nils?"
"I suppose," answered Nils who was both tired and annoyed.
Just as the trio started to take a break, they let all of their Pokemon out. One of these Pokemon happened to be a Rapidash that belonged to Firenze.
"I didn't know you had a Rapidash," said Nils.
"Yup," responded Firenze, "She's my strongest Pokemon and the only one I brought with me on my journey besides Litleo."
Just then, The trio heard something from the other side of a nearby bush and decided to check it out because they were curious. As they looked through the bush, they saw a field. And on that field was a Machop and a Makuhita that were battling each other.
The Makuhita attacked with a Force Palm but the Machop dodged by jumping over Makuhita and then used Karate Chop while flipping. As the Machop landed, the Makuhita got back up and used Tackle from behind which successfully hit. After successfully hitting Machop, Makuhita started to use Arm Thrust. Machop waited and then used Low Kick just as the Arm Thrust hit it.
As both Pokemon fell to the ground after they both got hit by each other's attacks. Ren gasped and asked "What are we going to do?"
"I think we should take them to the Pokemon Center." answered Nils.
"Good idea," said Firenze.
Nils then picked up Machop while Ren and Firenze both picked up Makuhita and ran to the Pokemon Center. A few minutes later, the trio entered the Pokemon Center and showed the two Pokemon to Nurse Joy.
"I was wondering when they would come here again," said Nurse Joy as she took Machop and Makuhita to where they would recover.
"You mean they were here before," asked Nils.
"Yes," answered Nurse Joy, "These two fight each other all the time so they can become stronger." "Sometimes they fight so fiercely, they get seriously hurt and trainers that notice them take Makuhita and Machop over here so I can heal their injuries."
"Have any of the trainers tried to catch them," asked Nils.
"Some have," explained the nurse, "But Machop and Makuhita are too strong for any of them to catch."
Later, Nils, Ren and Firenze each took a seat and started talking.
" I would like to catch that Machop," said Nils "It was very skillful when it did that flip and was patient when it used Low Kick."
"Well I want the Makuhita," said Ren, "It seemed like it knew it was taking a risk when it used both Force Palm and Arm thrust which means it's really brave." "That's the kind of Pokemon that I want."
"But you heard Nurse Joy," said Firenze, "They're both too powerful."
"Then I guess we'll have to do some training," said Nils, "I've been meaning to give Ledyba some training."
"And I want to see how Rattata and I do in a battle," said Ren.
After the conversation, the trio went to the Pokemon Center's battlefield and started to train by having a practice battle.
"Go Ledyba," said Nils as he sent out Ledyba.
"Go Rattata," said Ren as he sent out Rattata.
"Battle begin," shouted Firenze who was acting as referee.
"Use Super Sonic," shouted Nils and Ledyba started using the selected move.
"Dodge it Rattata," commanded Ren and Rattata dodged Super Sonic at a high speed.
"Woah," said Nils, "I didn't know Rattata was that fast."
"Well," explained Ren, "Rattatta has spent a long time running away from pursuers as he stole food for me." "Anyway, use Quick Attack,"
Rattata used Quick Attack as commanded and successfully hit Ledyba with a lot of power.
Angered by the damage he took, Ledyba got up and used an unfamiliar move on Rattata which successfully hit.
"That was Silver Wind," explained Firenze who briefly forgot she was refereeing.
After a bit more battling, Nurse Joy appeared and told the trio that Machop and Makuhita completely recovered and went to their homes.
"It's getting late," said Nils who noticed the sky change color, "Why don't we sleep for the night and catch those two in the morning."
"Good idea," said Firenze and the three of them went to bed.
The next morning, the trio woke up and went to see Nurse Joy to ask her where to find Machop and Makuhita.
"Well," said the nurse, "Machop lives under a tree by a nearby river while Makuhita lives in a nearby cave."
"Thanks Nurse Joy," said Nils and he left for the tree while Ren and Firenze headed towards the cave.
Nils quickly found the river and followed it until he saw a tree with a hole at the bottom of the trunk. As he got near the tree, The Machop from before came out and realized Nils wanted to catch it. Nils then sent out Ledyba and the battle began.
Meanwhile, Ren and Firenze found the cave and went inside in order to find Makuhita. However the cave was so dark neither of them could see anything. After a minute of searching, Ren bumped into something which turned out to be the Makuhita from the previous day.
"Um hi," said Ren, I would like to have a battle with you but since it's dark in here can we do it outside?"
The Makuhita nodded and they went outside. Once outside, Ren sent out Rattata and the battle began.
Back at Nils, Ledyba was ordered to start the battle with Super Sonic but Machop dodged by jumping over Ledyba and then used Karate Chop while flipping just as it had done the day before.
"Ledyba use Silver Wind," said Nils believing it was time to use the new move.
Ledyba used the chosen move and it hit Machop but didn't do much damage. Just then, Machop used Revenge which did a good amount of damage despite not being very effective.
"Use Comet Punch," said Nils who became worried due to the way the battle was going.
As Ledyba used Comet Punch, Nils noticed Ledyba was moving faster than usual and Machop was taking a lot of damage. Nils realized that the reason why was because the earlier Silver Wind raised all of Ledyba's stats which gave him an idea.
"Ledyba use Silver wind again," commanded Nils and Ledyba once again used his new move. "Now use Comet Punch again," and as Nils hoped, the second Comet Punch did more damage than the last one." "Go Pokeball," shouted Nils as he threw a Pokeball at Machop which successfully caught it. "Yes," said Nils, Now back to the Pokemon Center to heal Machop and see if Ren succeeded with his capture."
Back at Ren and Firenze, Ren allowed Makuhita to attack first and it started with Force Palm.
"Dodge it Rattata," commanded Ren and Rattata dodged the attack with his incredible speed. "Now use Quick Attack," and Rattata hit Makuhita with the selected move which knocked it down due to the speed Rattata used. "Now use Bite," and Rattata used the chosen move on Makuhita which made it flinch. "Use Tail Whip while it's flinching," commanded Ren and Rattata used Tail Whip which lowered Makuhita's defense. "One more Quick Attack," said Ren and Rattata use Quick Attack which did more damage than the last one due to Makuhita's lowered defense. "Go Pokeball," Ren shouted as he threw a Pokeball at Makuhita and it caught it successfully.
"Nice job," said Firenze.
"Thanks," said Ren.
"Anyway," said Firenze, "Why don't we go heal Makuhita and find out if Nils managed to catch Machop.
After the two successful captures, the trio reunited at the Pokemon Center and gave their new Pokemon to Nurse Joy so she could heal them one last time.
"Here are Machop and Makuhita," said the nurse a little while later, "I'm actually going to miss them but I know you will take great care of them."
"We will," said Nils, "And we are gonna put them in many awesome battles that they will enjoy."
Nils, Ren, and Firenze then left the Pokemon Center and resumed their journey to Mt. Tormen
