Pewter City Gym Battle
Tom, Sparky and Squirtle looked at the front entrance of the Pewter City Gym. After hours of scouting the town for information all that they could gather was that this was the first gym in the pokemon league and that the gym leader was Brock, a rock type specialist. They couldn't find out any personal weaknesses that could be an advantage or even what pokemon he had but Tom was fairly confident that he had this victory in the bag. One reason was that Squirtle was a water type pokemon which gave him the type advantage, the second reason was because Squirtle was a small and agile pokemon and Brock was most likely using big, sluggish rock pokemon. The automatic gym doors opened and they stepped inside.
The gym was just a large rocky battling field with an upstairs viewing area. Tom tried to think of some strategies he could use but couldn't think of anything worth using. He turned to Squirtle. 'Think we got this one?' he asked the pokemon.
'Squirtle!' the pokemon replied with enthusiasm.
A young looking kid with short brown hair came over to the trio. 'hey there, are one of you here to fight my brother?'
'Well if your brother is Brock then yes I am' Tom replied feeling cool
'Right this way, by the way my name is Liam'
'I'm Tom and this is my friend Sparky'
The boy lead the trio to a man who was sitting on a couch with a magazine called 'Pokemon Medicinal Monthly' 'Why hello there' the man said with a smile 'My name is Brock, I am the leader of this gym. The rules we will be playing with today is a simple one on one pokemon match. The first one to surrender or have their pokemon faint is the loser. If you defeat me you will be rewarded with the Boulder Badge which is the first step to joining the pokemon league. Meet me down at the arena in five minutes'
Brock and Tom stood on opposite sides of the arena and both threw their pokeballs in the air. Squirtle emerged from Tom's pokeball and an Onix came out of Brock's pokeball. Tom flipped open his pokedex to analyse the pokemon
'Onix the rock snake pokemon. Onix is well known for its strength and suprising agility for a rock type pokemon.'
'Onix use tackle' Brock ordered
'Look out Squirtle!' Tom warned
Squirtle dove out of the way as Onix crashed into the ground and quickly reared back up again and let out a roar.
'Squirtle use bubble'
Squirtle opened his mouth as several bubbles came out and burst on the Onix.
'Haha nice try Squirtle but you need more firepower to take down Onix' Brock taunted
'Use bind Onix'
Onix swept up Squirtle with his tail and put him in a constrictive choke hold. Squirtle tried to fight his way out using water gun but the hold was so strong all he could manage was a few puny little bubbles. Tom was running out of ideas and Squirtle was rapidly losing air, then suddenly he had an idea.
'Squirtle use withdrawal!'
Squirtle went into its shell and slipped through the gap in the strangle hold and dove out of the way as Onix slammed its tail.
'Ok Squirtle, use water gun, as hard as you can'
Squirtle sent a jet of water into Onix's face and Onix let out a loud roar
'Body Slam Onix!' Brock yelled looking panicked.
Onix went to slam it's body on Squirtle but Squirtle dodged and Onix injured itself.
'Ok Squirtle grab onto the horn on its head and use water gun once more!'
Squirtle grabbed on and used water gun. Onix thrashed all around the arena but it could not shake off Squirtle. Onix gave up with a roar and thumped into the ground and fainted.
'Onix fails to continue, Tom wins the battle!' Liam announced from the viewing area.
Tom received the Boulder Badge from Brock and left the gym. Tom, Sparky and Squirtle went into the pokemon centre and booked their rooms to stay in that night. As soon as they had booked Liam ran into the pokemon centre and ran over to Tom and Sparky.
'Can I please please please come with you on your journey?' Liam begged 'I won't be annoying, plus I can cook and build emergency shelters if we get in trouble, plus I already have a pokemon'
Liam opened his pokeball and out came a Sandshrew. The Sandshrew looked happy and walked over to Squirtle and they began to play. Sparky sent out her Elekid and it too began to play.
'Of course you can' Tom and Sparky both said as they watched the pokemon trio run around and play.