Our heroes with Lucario, Pichu, Pikachu, and Raichu are looking at the theme of Ecruteak City. Our heroes see the Burned Tower and then the Tin Tower.
"Why haven't they fix the tower?" Lucario asks.
"They won't because the three legendary dogs died in this tower until Ho-Oh resurrected the three," Stephen states.
"Raikou, Suicune, and Entei," Melissa says.
"Light, water, and fire," Rob states.
"Defiantly different than Sinnoh," Lucario says.
Stephen's Pikachu jumps on his shoulder and runs into the Burned Tower as Pichu follows behind as well.
"Pikachu!" Stephen shouts.
Pichu!" Melissa shouts
Melissa and Stephen run after Pikachu and Pichu as the Rob, Raichu, and Lucario follow behind. Inside the Burned Tower our heroes see Team Rocket walking towards the Tin Tower.
"What are they doing here?" Lucario asks.
At the top of the Tim Tower Rob spots Ho-Oh.
"We got to hurry because they're after Ho-Oh," Rob replies.
Our heroes start running for the Tin Tower. Team Rocket is now rushing up the stairs to Ho-Oh.
"Why do they want Ho-Oh?" Melissa asks.
"It's a rare Pokémon and they probably want to sale it or use it," Stephen replies.
"We need to stop them before they reach Ho-Oh then," Lucario states.
"Let's pick up the speed!" Rob shouts.
Our heroes start running up the stairs faster and within minutes our heroes reach the top where Team Rocket is attacking Ho-Oh with Cloyster and Tentacruel.
"Stop this now Team Rocket!" Stephen shouts.
Team Rocket turns around.
"It's that guy who was trying to attack me," Melissa states.
"The name is Xavier," Xavier explains.
"I don't care if you are James or Jessie," Stephen announces, "Now why are you attacking Ho-Oh?"
"Well we are going to use it to control the world of course," Xavier replies.
"We won't let that happen," Rob states.
"Oh really?" Xavier questions.
Xavier throws their Poké Balls. Typhlosion, Feraligatr, and Meganium appear from out of the Poké Balls. Stephen, Rob, and Melissa each throw a Poké Ball bringing out Typhlosion, Feraligatr, and Bayleef. All six start fighting.
"They're all busy so I'll stop the others," Lucario declares.
Lucario and then Raichu, Pikachu, and Pichu run to go help Ohio. Raichu, Pikachu, and Pichu fight off the Tentacruel and Cloyster. Lucario mentally calms Ho-Oh down and soon Ho-Oh flies off. Team Rocket tries to capture it but Lucario, Pikachu, Raichu, and Pichu attack Team Rocket sending them blasting off. Xavier and his three Pokémon are the only ones left.
"Finish them off!" Rob and Stephen shout.
Typhlosion, Feraligatr, and Bayleef finish off Xavier's Pokémon. Bayleef starts to glows and evolves into Meganium. To send Xavier and his Pokémon flying Pikachu and Raichu use Thunderbolt. Team Rocket is now gone from Tin Tower so our heroes return their Pokémon.
"We should head back to the Pokémon Center," Melissa says.
Pichu jumps on Melissa's shoulder as Pikachu jumps onto Stephen's shoulder. Our heroes now head off to the Pokémon Center and when they arrive they eat, shower, and sleep. The next morning our heroes head off for the Ecruteak Gym for Melissa's rematch. Stephen, Rob, Raichu, and Lucario go off to the side as Pichu jumps off Melissa's shoulder. Morty and Gengar are in the room.
"So you've come back again," Morty says, "This time you will only be facing my Gengar to make it far."
"Thanks," Melissa says.
Melissa throws her Poké Ball and out comes Meganium.
"Shadow Ball!" Morty shouts.
"Magical Leaf!" Melissa shouts.
Meganium dodges Shadow Ball and then hits Gengar with Magical Leaf.
"Petal Dance!" Melissa shouts.
"Night Shade!" Morty shouts.
Meganium gets hit with Night Shade but uses Petal Dance and hits Gengar.
"Finish off with SolarBeam!" Melissa shouts.
"Stop it with Confuse Ray!" Morty shouts.
Meganium charges up for SolarBeam as Gengar uses Confuse Ray. Nothing happens so Gengar gets hit by SolarBeam. Gengar faints so Morty returns Gengar and goes to Melissa who cheers with her Meganium. The rest of our heroes go to Melissa as Pichu jumps onto her shoulder.
"For doing great and beating me this time I'll give you this Fog Badge," Morty says.
Morty hands over the Fog Badge which Melissa happily takes and then cheers with Meganium again.
"Good luck in your future battles Melissa," Morty says.
Morty waves bye as our heroes leave the gym.
"Olivine City is next," Rob states.
"Yeah and so is my fifth gym battle," Melissa says.
"You'll be facing Rick," Stephen announces.
"Finally we get to see Rick again," Lucario says with a smile.
Lucario runs off as our heroes follow behind. Our heroes walk along the path until they see Moo Moo Farm where they decide to stop for a few. Melissa sees many Miltank and then a huge explosion. Our heroes run to the explosion. When our heroes reach the area they see an Onix.
"What's an Onix doing here?" Rob asks.
"Isn't that JJ's Onix?" Lucario asks.
"Oh no I thought we lost them for good," Melissa replies.
Coming out of the Moo Moo Farm is JJ and Sarah.
"Put all that back this second!" Stephen shouts.
"Make me," JJ says laughing.
"Fine then," Lucario says.
Lucario sends an Aura Sphere and hits JJ knocking him to his knees. JJ drops the milk which angers Sarah. Sarah throws the milk down and then throws her Poké Ball. Azumarill appears in front of our heroes.
"BubbleBeam!" Sarah shouts.
BubbleBeam hits Lucario.
"Meganium come on out," Melissa says throwing her Poké Ball.
Meganium appears in front of Azumarill.
"Use…" Melissa goes to say.
"Frenzy Plant!" Stephen shouts.
Meganium starts shaking the ground and from underneath comes huge roots that smack Azumarill around. Azumarill faints as JJ stands up and throws his Poké Ball. Gyarados comes out as Sarah returns Azumarill.
"Hurt them bad!" Sarah shouts.
"It will be my pleasure," JJ says, "Onix and Gyarados use Hyper Beam!"
Rob goes to grab his Poké Ball. The two Hyper Beams collide and aim for our heroes but an Aura Sphere explodes the Hyper Beam and covers the area in a thick smoke. When the smoke clears our heroes see Rick, his Lucario, and Steelix.
"It's Rick!" Stephen shouts.
"You guys back down I got this here," Ricks states.
"Lucario use Bone Rush!" Rick shouts, "Steelix use Hyper Beam!"
Melissa returns Meganium as Rick's Lucario beats down Onix with Bone Rush and Steelix uses Hyper Beam on Gyarados. Onix faints right away.
"Gyarados use Flamethrower!" JJ shouts returning Onix.
"Lucario use ExtremeSpeed and Steelix use Crunch!" Rick shouts.
Lucario makes Gyarados follow it so Gyarados uses Flamethrower after Lucario. Steelix then gets a hold of Gyarados with Crunch. Officer Jenny and her troops arrive with the fire squad of Corsola. Gyarados faints as JJ returns Gyarados. Officer Jenny and her troops arrest JJ and Sarah as the Corsola put the fire out. JJ and Sarah are put inside a police car as Officer Jenny walks over to Rick who is with our heroes.
"I thank you for helping us Rick," Officer Jenny says.
"All in the works duty of a gym leader," Rick says, "If that's how you say it."
Rob rushes to Officer Jenny.
"Please lock me up because I committed the crime of loving you," Rob states.
Stephen tosses his Poké Ball bringing Toxicroak out. Toxicroak uses Poison Jab and then drags Rob away.
"Anyway those two won't be causing any more problems," Officer Jenny says.
"That's good to hear," Melissa says.
"I'll see you around Rick, bye," Officer Jenny says.
"See ya," Rick says.
Officer Jenny and her team head off.
"So Rick how does it feel to be gym leader?" Melissa asks.
"Pretty good since the gym is finally all done," Rick replies.
"When could Melissa try for the Mineral Badge?" Stephen asks.
"Well Jasmine is in Sinnoh still so she may be facing me but she should train before then," Rick replies.
"Where is there another gym?" Lucario asks.
"Cianwood City," Rob says popping up.
"That was fast," Stephen says.
"You get used to it," Rob states.
"So tomorrow we will be heading off to Cianwood City?" Lucario asks.
"Yep, but let's stay here with Rick and help him," Stephen replies.
"Thanks guys," Rick says.
Our heroes all walk to Olivine City and then into Olivine Gym. Once our heroes enter the gym they eat lunch and then decide to walk around the gym and then around Olivine City. After a while our heroes go back to the gym eat, shower, and then head off to bed. The next morning our heroes wake up and have breakfast, and then walk along the shore of Olivine City. Nurse Joy randomly comes to Rick. Rob rushes to Nurse Joy but she walks passed Rob hurting Rob. Rob kneels down tapping his fingers together.
"Rick there is a challenge waiting for you at the gym," Nurse Joy says.
"Alright thank you Nurse Joy," Rick says.
Nurse Joy walks back off to the Pokémon Center.
"Guess we'll be seeing you around?" Lucario asks.
"Yep now take care everyone," Rick replies.
Our heroes wave bye to Rick as he walk back to the Olivine Gym.
"We need to catch a shop to Cianwood City," Rob states.
"Let's hurry up or we'll miss it," Stephen announces.
Our heroes go to the shipping dock, purchase their tickets, and aboard the S.S. Johto.