Chapter 3
After having his battle with Ty, the group went to heal their Pokemon at the Pokemon Center.
"Hey Nurse Joy, can you heal my Pokemon please, they took quite a beating." Said Ash as he glared at Ty. Ty just smiled back nonchalantly. While his Pokemon where getting healed the three went to sit down.
"So…" asked Dawn "How are you so strong?"
"Well…" began Ty " I'll tell you if Ash wins his Gym battle against Gardenia. I'm sure it's a safe bet" teased Ty.
" Ha Ha, now if your done with all this bull…" started Ash.
"Excuse me, Mr. Ketchum? Your Pokemon are ready" interrupted Nurse Joy.
"Oh, thank you."
They left the Pokemon Center and started walking down the street to the Eterna Gym, and Ash's second Sinnoh badge.
" Hey, Dawn?" asked Ty.
"Huh?"
"What other Pokemon do you have?"
"Oh, come on out guys!" happily shouted Dawn. Before her appeared a Piplup, an Ambipom, a Buneary a Pachirisu and a Mamoswine. "These are my faithful companions!' smiled Dawn.
"Cool, well these are mine." Said Ty as he released his Pokemon team, which was made up of a Steelix, a Luxray, an Infernape, a Roserade, a Floatzel and finally a Gliscor. "Gliscor here was my first Pokemon, let me tell you how I met him."
"I was around 7 years old; I lived in Heartrome city at the time. My biggest dream was to become the greatest Pokemon Trainer in existence. Anyways, I didn't have many friends at the time, so I used to hang out under the cycling road. Everyday I would go there just to relax under the shade of some trees.
This one day I was pissed off at some kid for stealing this headband I used to wear all the time, so I went there to cool off. When I got to my usual place I saw a pack of Staraptor attacking an egg, so I scared them away and took the egg with me, under my tree. Minutes later, the egg started moving, I couldn't believe my eyes when it hatched into a small Gligar. He immediately jumped on my leg and hung on until I got back to my place. I remember begging my mom to keep him for 3 hours straight, finally she agreed, so long as I feed him and look after him.
The next day I went to school and I saw the kid who stole my headband. I was getting a little mad. I guess Gligar sensed this because he went and scared the kid. After that he gave me back my headband and he never bothered me again. So along the years Gligar and I became great friends," explained Ty.
"Wow, Gligar was sure lucky that you showed up when you did, or he might not have made it," said Dawn. "Oh lets stop here to eat before we head to the Gym."
"Sounds great!" said Ash. "I'm starving!"
They settled down on the side of the road where there were fewer trees than usual. Dawn made sandwiches for everyone. "Hey, these are great! Who came up with the recipe?" asked Ty.
"An old friend of ours named Brock, he left the day before we met you," explained Dawn.
"Oh…"
After they where done eating, they packed up and went to the Gym.
"Gardenia, I challenge you to a battle!" shouted Ash, as he ran into the Gym. The Gym was average sized and filled with all kinds of flowers, some grass type Pokemon walked around while a young lady stood up.
"I am Gardenia and I accept your challenge. GO! Cherrim!" shouted Gardenia as she released a small bell shaped flower.
"This is gonna be easy, GO! Chimchar!" said Ash as the small monkey appeared in front of Ash. "Chimchar Flame Wheel!" the monkey was soon covered I flames and ran towards the flower Pokemon.
"Dodge and use Grass Knot!" commanded Gardenia. Cherrim jumped out of the way and tripped Chimchar with some vines.
"Chimchar re you Ok?" asked Ash. The monkey nodded "Good now lets try another Flame Wheel!" Chimchar once again ran towards the flower Pokemon and caught fire only this time, is managed to hit the target. Cherrim was knocked out.
"Cherrim return. Go Turtwig!" said Gardenia. "Use Sunny Day!"
"Watch out it's about to use Solarbeam!" warned Ash. Chimchar jumped out of the way just in time to dodge the beam coming its way. "NOW! Flame Wheel again, while its exposed!" The fire monkey once again hit its target, which was also knocked out.
"Time for my last Pokemon! GO! Roserade!" said Gardenia as she sent out her final Pokemon. "Poison Jab!" Chimchar didn't have enough time to dodge and it was knocked out cold.
"NO! Chimchar return. GO! Staravia!" shouted Ash as he sent out the bird Pokemon. Use Arial Ace!" commanded Ash. The bird quickly flew by Roserade hitting it with its wing.
"Roserade don't give up! Use Poison Jab again!" said Gardenia.
"Dodge and use Wing Attack!" Staravia did a loop around Roserade and hit it strongly with its wing. It was knocked out. "Yes! We did it Staravia!" cheered Ash as he recalled his Pokemon.
"Congratulations, you have won the Forest Badge." Smiled Gardenia as she handed Ash his badge.
Later, o the road to cycling road, they stopped under a few trees. "So, now that I got my Badge are you gonna tell me how you are so strong?"
"Fine, do you really want to know?"
"YES!" they shouted in unison.
"Okay, fine, well the reason my Pokemon are so strong is because I have already beaten all the Sinnoh Gyms, and beaten the Elite Four and Cynthia."
"Then why didn't you stay as the Champion?" asked Dawn.
"Too much work and I don't think my Pokemon would like to just wait until someone challenges them. They would rather be out adventuring." Explained Ty.
"Oh.." said Ash "Well if I want to beat Cynthia one day I'll have to train harder so I can beat you!" shouted Ash.
"Yeah, good luck with that" said Ty as he stuck his tongue out at Ash.
"Come on, stop fighting you too!" pleaded Dawn. After several minutes of continued argument Dawn said "Oh I give up."