Chapter 9: Pewter City

While walking in Viridian Forest Roger and Kate found two trainers ready for a battle. "Hey, we want to battle you!"

"Ok!" Roger said. "Kate I will take this one and you can take on the other one."

"Ok." Kate walked up to the other trainer.

"Alright." The trainer Roger was battling said. "Go Pinsir!" She threw a pokeball and a pinsir appeared.

"Pinsir." He closed the pincers on his head ready for a fight.

"Whoa." Roger scanned it with his Pokephone. "Ok, go Squirtle!"

"Squirtle!" Squirtle did a flip out of her pokeball. "Squirtle squirt."

"Okay Pinsir use vice grip!" The trainer said. Pinsir jumped and brought his pincers toward Squirtle.

"Dodge it, and then use bite!" Squirtle jumped away from Pinsir's pincers and bit his back. "Now use tail whip." Pinsir was slapped by Squirtle's tail lowering down the Pinsir's defense.

"He's good." The trainer said. "Ok Pinisr use seismic toss!" The Pinsir launched himself at Squirtle.

"Not so fast!" Roger said. "Squirtle right when he spreads his arms use tackle!" When Pinsir spread his arms he was tackled and sent flying. "Great now let's try out your bubble attack!" Squirtle blew a bunch of bubbles at Pinsir causing him to give in. "We did it!"

"Pinsir come back." The trainer said. "Here you earned this." She handed Roger 500 dollars.

"Thanks." Roger said. "That was fun!"

Meanwhile a Kate's battle her opponent sent out a Pokémon. "Go Scyther!" He threw a pokeball and a Scyther appeared. Roger scanned the Pokémon.

"Go Jasper!" Kate threw a pokeball and her Pikachu appeared. "Use Thunder Wave!" Jasper hit Scyther with Thunder Wave and paralyzed him.

"Scyther try using slash." The Scyther flew to Jasper but stopped because he was paralyzed. "Oh, no!"

"Great now Scyther can't move and he's close to Jasper." Kate said making a plan. "Now that he is up close use thundershock and then hit him with quick attack." Jasper shocked Scyther with thundershock and then slammed into Scyther with quick attack. Scyther gave in. "We did it Jasper!"

"Pika pika!" Jasper started dancing in victory.

"You're really strong." The trainer handed her 200 dollars. "Thanks for a good battle." The trainer called back his Scyther and left.

"How was your battle?" Roger asked.

"Great!" Kate said. "I used Jasper and we won 200 dollars."

"Pikachu!" Jasper said still dancing in victory.

"Well Squirtle and I won 500 dollars." Roger said.

"Squirtle." Squirtle did a flip.

"Ok you did great take a good rest." Roger called back his Squirtle. "I think Pikachu should meet Jasper." Roger threw a pokeball in the air and Pikachu appeared.

"Good idea." Kate said. "Jasper meet Pikachu."

"Pika pika!" Jasper said.

"Pika pi!" Pikachu started to play with Jasper.

"Aw, they get along perfectly." Kate said.

"That's good." Roger linked arms with Kate. "I think we are almost at Pewter City! "Let's go!" They started running with their Pikachu until they reached the exit of the forest.

"Finally the sun!" Kate was happy to see the sun again.

"And Pewter City!" Roger pointed at the city a head of them. It took them about fifteen minutes to get there. When they got there they ran into Ace. "Hey there Ace."

"Hey." He responded a little annoyed.

"Have you challenged the gym yet?" Roger asked.

"Yeah, I lost." Ace said. "He's really strong you will surely loose."

"How about you watch my battle and you will see?" Roger invited him. "You might learn a thing or two."

"You have to challenge him the day before you actually have the battle." Ace said. "But I will be happy to watch you lose." Ace taunted. "And a piece of advice, the gym leader specializes in rock type. He also knows a lot about Pokémon so type alone won't help you defeat him. Good luck, you're gonna need it." Ace walked to the Pokémon center.

"Well he seemed calmer than usual." Kate said.

"Yeah, I guess he wasn't mad anymore." Roger said. "But let's go ask the gym leader for a battle tomorrow."

"Good idea." Kate said and they walked to the gym and found a kid at the door.

"Hi I'm Forrest." The kid introduced himself. "Sorry Brock isn't here now he is at the Pewter City Museum of Science."

"Thanks." Roger said and walked away with Kate.

"So Brock is the gym leader here." Kate said.

"Yeah so Ace did tell the truth. I thought he hated us."

"Of course I did." Ace walked by. "And I don't hate you. I just know that I'm the best trainer ever."

"Sure." Kate said unimpressed. "Anyway we got to go find Brock at the Museum."

"Wait!" Ace went to them. "I should come with you, I want to ask Brock for another gym battle."

"Yeah sure why not." Roger said. Twenty minutes later they made it to the Museum. "Wow this is cool."

"Sure is." Ace said. "You guys can check out all this stuff and I will find Brock." Ace left.

"Is that an Amber fossil?" Kate pressed her face against the glass. "So cool."

"Yeah and that's a Helix Fossil!" Roger ran to it. "Awesome."

Then Ace came back. "He's upstairs. I'm gonna catch some more Pokémon if you don't mind. Later Rookies." Ace left.

"Well let's go upstairs and find him." Kate said.

"Yeah let's go!" Roger said. They went upstairs and saw Brock talking to a girl.

"Maybe you can visit my gym sometime." He said romantically.

"Maybe." She winked and left.

"Hello Brock." Roger walked up to him. "I'm here to challenge you to a gym battle."

"Ok we can have one tomorrow I will spread the word." He said.

"Wait what do you mean?" Kate asked.

"Some gym leaders like telling their town that they are having a gym battle so they can watch." Brock answered.

"Just like Winona." Roger said. "Watching those battles were fun but now I'm gonna be in one!"

"You know Winona!" Brock said. "The Fortree gym leader!"

"Yeah." Kate said. "Why?"

"Never mind that!" Brock said. "You just have to bring me to her!"

"Wait, we have to explore Kanto you know." Roger said. "We don't have time for that."

"Fine after you finish your adventure in Kanto, then can you?" Brock asked. Then pictures fell out his pocket.

Kate picked them up. "Oh, that's why." She said unimpressed. She found pictures of Kate at the beach surfing. "Why am I not surprised."

"I'm her biggest fan." Brock said taking back the pictures.

"I see." Kate said. "Should we bring him to Fortree City Roger?"

"Sure." Roger said. "I guess we could, Winona could use a new friend." Roger didn't understand that Brock liked Winona.

"Ok fine, but I you flirt with the Nurse Joy there I'm going to kill you." Kate threated him.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Brock said.

Then they heard Jason's voice from down stairs. "Bellsprout use wrap!" People started screaming.

"Let's check it out." Roger said. They went downstairs and saw people tied up by Bellsprout's wrap and Debra with a dome fossil.

"Hey what do you think you're doing?" Kate yelled.

"Look who it is." Debra said. "Why don't you just mind your own business?"

"Hey let them go!" Brock yelled.

"Oh, how intimidating." Jason said. "A gym leader is going to stop us. We will see about that. Go Diglett!" Jason threw a pokeball and Diglett appeared.

"Go beedrill!" Kate threw a pokeball and beedrill appeared.

"Go geodude!" Brock threw a pokeball and a geodude appeared.

"Let me help." Roger said." Roger threw a pokeball and Mercedes appeared. "Go Mercedes! Use flamethrower on Beedrill and don't stop until he gives in."

"Dodge it Beedrill!" Debra said. But he was too late Mercedes hit him with flamethrower and Beedrill gave in.

"Geodude use rollout!" Brock said. Geodude rolled on Diglett back and forth until he gave in."

"That's it!" Jason said. "Bellsprout squeeze them tighter!" Then everyone started screaming louder.

"Stop!" Roger yelled. "Mercedes use flamethrower!"

"Don't do it!" Brock said. "If you use flamethrower the fire will travel up Bellsprout's vines and burn them.

"You're right." Roger said. "What are we going to do?"

"I will take care of this!" Kate said. "Go Bulbasaur!" She threw a pokeball and Bulbasaur appeared.

"Bulba!" Bulbasaur was happy to come out.

"Use sleep powder!" She said.

"We will stop you!" Debra and Jason ran towards Kate.

"Pika pika!" Pikachu and Jasper combined a thunderbolt to stop them.

"Thanks guys." Kate said. "Now Bulbasaur use sleep powder!" Bulbasaur sprayed powder all over Bellsprout and he fell asleep releasing his captives.

"Well we still have this! Nice try!" Team Shadow showed their dome fossil, called back their Pokémon, and retreated with their dirt bikes.

"Don't worry about a thing." A man walked up to Roger, Kate, and Brock. "We have more Dome Fossils in Cinnabar Island everything is fine thank you. My name is Mr. Fossil."

"No problem. I'm Roger." Roger said.

"Yeah don't mention it. I'm Kate." Kate said.

"Well here take this as a reward." Mr. Fossil gave them both helix fossils. "You guys can go to Cinnabar Island to revive them.

"Thanks but what about Brock?" Roger asked. "He helped us."

"Don't worry about me." He said. "I have a fossil Pokémon of my own that I will be using in our battle tomorrow."

"Awesome." Roger said. "I can't wait to see it. But first can I scan your geodude?"

"Sure." Brock said.

Roger scanned geodude with his Pokephone. "Thank you."

"Come back Geodude." Brock called back Geodude. "Well, I'm going back to the gym. Nice meeting you two." Brock left.

"We should get going too." Kate said. "We still have to go to the Pokémon Center."

"That's right let's go." Roger and Kate left the Museum and walked to the Pokémon center.

"We forgot to heal our Pokémon after we came out of the Viridian Forest." Kate said. "We were lucky to beat Team Shadow so quickly." They walked up to Nurse Joy. "Can you heal our Pokémon?"

"No problem." She took their pokeballs and went to a room. Five minutes later she came back. "Here you go."

"Thanks." Roger said. "Do you think we can get a room too?"

"No problem." She handed them a key. "You're in room 112."

"Thank you." Kate said. They walked into their room and unpacked. "So which Pokémon are you using for the gym battle?"

"Hmm. Let me think." Roger sat in his bed for five minutes. "I got it! I'm using Squirtle, Lapras, and Torchie in that order!"

"Why Torchie?" Kate asked. "He is a fire type."

"I know." Roger said. "But I took some of Ace's advice. He said you can't win by type alone. Well neither can Brock. He is probably so used to battling grass, water, fighting, and ground type Pokémon that he probably has a perfect strategy to use against those types. He probably doesn't go against fire type often so Torchie will throw him off."

"Great idea!" Kate said. "Plus Torchie has fighting type egg moves and can learn dig. But why in a certain order?"

"Because using Squirtle might make Brock underestimate me. Then Lapras might cause him to take me more seriously. Using Pokémon with the same type and completely different sizes Brock might be a little cautious about what water type I will use next. Then when I send out Torchie Brock will be completely thrown off."

"Good strategy." Kate said. "Using psychology to confuse and defeat Brock. You got that from Sabrina didn't you?"

"Yeah, I wonder where she is." Roger said. "I heard she moved to this region but she wouldn't say why or where."

"I miss her." Kate said. "I remember when we had lunch together at school. It was you, me, Sabrina, and Catherine, it was so fun!"

"Yeah, who knows?" Roger said. "Maybe we might run into her. Even if we don't find her she will see me on television once I compete in the Pokémon League."

"You mean once you become League Champion." Kate said being confident that he will.

"Well that's a hard task." Roger said. "I don't even know the set up for this tournament."

"I know it." Kate said. "Three will be five separate tournaments. The winner of those tournaments can face the Elite Four. Then they face the champion to become League Champion. If two or more people defeat the champion then they have to battle one on one. Finally the winner must battle the champion again, one on one and the winner is League Champion."

"That sounds similar to the Hoenn League rules." Roger said.

"Yeah, they are basically the same thing." Kate said. "But the Hoenn region has double battles."

"True." Roger said. "Well I'm going to start training. Can you watch Pikachu and Mercedes for me?" Roger handed her their pokeballs.

"Yeah sure." Kate said taking the pokeballs.

"Ok thank you." Roger ran out the room and outside to train. "Alright guys come out!" Roger threw out three pokeballs and Torchie, Lapras, and Squirtle appeared.

"Torchic!" Torchie jumped onto Roger's shoulder.

"Lapras." Lapras was cheered.

"Squirtle!" Squirtle did a flip.

"Alright guys go to the pond for some training." Roger walked to the pond with Squirtle and Lapras following him. "Ok guys we are training because all of us have a gym battle tomorrow." His Pokémon cheered. "Alright let's start with that tree. Lapras use water pulse, Squirtle use water gun, and Torchie go up close and use Low kick!" The Pokémon listened and knocked over the tree. "Great job." Then a horde of beedrill flew out. "Run!" The Pokémon started running. "Torchie use rock tomb, Squirtle use bubble, and Lapras use water gun!" The Pokémon attacked and the beedrill fled. "Great job guys take a rest." Roger called back Squirtle and Lapras.

"Torchic." Torchie wondered why he wasn't called back.

"We are gonna practice some more." Roger said. "Use dig!" Torchie went underground. Roger did his best to sense where Torchie was. "Now pop out!" Torchie jumped out from underground. "Good job now come back." Roger said. Torchie came back. "Now we are gonna play a game." Roger placed Torchie's orange pokeball on the ground. "You are gonna use dig and when I say pop out you are gonna hit your pokeball to go back in it. Ok?"

"Tor tor tor!" Torchie liked the idea of the game.

"Use dig!" Roger commanded. Torchie burrowed underground and Roger sensed that he went under the pokeball. "Now pop out!" Torchie jumped out and hit his pokeball to go back in it. Roger caught the ball. "I will take you out after I bring you to Nurse Joy. Roger walked to the Pokémon Center by himself. "Nurse Joy can you heal my Pokémon again.

"Ok sure." She took the pokeballs and came back in one minute. "Here you go." She gave him his pokeballs.

"Thanks." Roger said. "Come out buddy!" Roger threw an orange pokeball and Torchie appeared.

"Tor Torchic!" Torchie was happy that Roger kept his promise.

"Let's go back to our room pal." Roger walked to his room with Torchie behind him. When he walked back in he saw Kate taking care of all her Pokémon and Mercedes and Pikachu. His Pokémon ran to him. "Hey guys, did you miss me?"

"Growlithe!" Mercedes licked him.

"Pikachu!" Pikachu jumped onto Roger's head.

"I missed you too." Roger said hugging his Pokémon. "Did you guys behave?"

"Yeah." Kate said. "We had a lot of fun. Right guys." The Pokémon cheered.

"Great." Roger placed his Pokémon down and changed to his pajamas. Then he noticed Pikachu and Jasper playing with each other. "Hey Kate. I think Pikachu and Jasper like each other."

"Yeah they were like this the whole entire time." She said. "Apparently Pikachu taught Jasper thunderbolt."

"Well Pokémon do pick up after their trainer." Roger said. "So they probably picked up after our relationship."

"Aw that's so cute!" Kate said. "I think we should leave them alone."

"Good idea." Roger said. "Since we have all our Pokémon, I think Squirtle should come out." He threw a pokeball and Squirtle appeared.

"Squirtle squirt!" Squirtle went to play with Butterfree and Mercedes.

"Well we should go to sleep now." Kate said. "The Pokémon are playing on the other beds so we have to share one." Kate went only bed left.

"I don't have a problem with that." Roger went on the bed too. "Goodnight love you." Roger kissed her.

"Love you too." Kate kissed him back.

Roger turned off the light but Torchie made his beak glow for a little bit of light. "Ok, you're allowed to use cut for some light." Roger said. "Goodnight." Roger went to sleep thinking about his gym battle. And his Pokémon where thinking about the gym battle too.