Chapter 4: Interesting discoveries and Pewter Gym

Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon

A/N: Thanks for all of the support I've been given during the first few chapters of the story. I thought only like 3 people would see it and there would be nothing but negative comments. I was pleasantly surprised to see how much support I've gotten with only a small amount done. So, from me to all of you, I thank you all. I just had an interview so I might not be updating as recently.

Thank you, Galaxy War, for being the only vote. You are the deciding vote, so, the fossil pokemon will be regular size instead of giant versions.

So, thanks a lot for the support and let's get on with the next chapter.

Viridian Forest

It has been six days since Ash and his team had entered Viridian Forest. Most have that time has been spent training. They mainly faced the usual bug-trainer that Viridian forest is famous for, and they have faced a couple with rarer bug type pokemon. There has been the occasional trainer with a young scythe or even a pinsir which is rare for Viridian forest. Because of this, his pokemon had been getting stronger and stronger and were almost ready for the gym battle in Pewter.

With all of the training, a couple of his pokemon were nearing evolution. Zephyr has been growing and her feathers have been getting a little longer along with some feathers on the top of her head turning a golden color. She has also been getting a lot faster. For the untrained eye, it was hard to follow her when she flew full speed. She can only maintain full speed for a short amount of time. When she evolves, she will not only be faster, but she will be able to fly for longer.

Mudkip has also been showing signs of evolving despite being with him for a short amount of time. He had jumped right into training when they started and he loved every second of it. When Ash had asked him about a nickname, he had declined having one. With all the training Mudkip had been doing, his skin was starting to become a lighter blue, his leg muscles were gaining more strength in order to walk on two legs when he evolves, and his tail was darkening and getting thicker. He and elekid have become rivals when it comes to being the strongest on the team. Because of this rivalry between the two, both elekid and Mudkip are growing at a faster rate.

The group was nearing Pewter city with everyone out of their pokeballs. Elekid was walking besides Ash, Zephyr was perched on top of Ash's head, and Mudkip was happily swimming in the stream they were walking by. Ash guessed that there was about an hour until they reached Pewter City, two hours at most.

The group decided to take one more break to refill supplies and eat. During this break, Ash decided to do one more study session on Brock. He was surprised to see that Brock no longer did the two on two battle style. He upgraded to a three on three battle style with a new powerhouse to the team.

Brock used to use a geodude and an onix for a two on two and because of that,the gym was considered too easy to beat so he was ordered by the league to make the gym more difficult. He left a week ago in order to find another rock type to use for the gym and he got back earlier this morning. This new team powerhouse is currently unknown as nobody has challenged Brock yet. All Ash knew is that it had to be powerful to surpass his famous onix as the powerhouse of his gym team.

When they were all done eating, he recalled his team to let them get some rest in their pokeballs and set on the road again. After about ten minutes, he was passing by some bushes and he suddenly saw a sword in his face. With his reaction time, he managed to grab the assailants arm and grabbed the sword from him.

He pointed the sword at the attacker, and demanded, "What are you doing you psychopath!? Pointing a sword at someone? Are you absolutely insane?"

"I'M SO SORRY! I was trying to ask for a battle from a trainer from Pallet Town!"

"That's not how you ask for a battle! Just ask for a battle if you want a battle!" yelled Ash angrily.

"I-I will remember that for next time.", said the samurai.

"Let's battle then!"

Both trainers got into battling positions on opposite ends of the battlefield and the samurai said, "How does a 3 on 3 sound?" Ash nodded and sent out his first pokemon, "Come out Mudkip"

Mudkip landed on the field with an excited look on its face because it knew it was about to battle. The samurai sent out his own pokemon which ended up being a butterfree. The butterfree right off the bat sent out a cloud of sleep and stun spores from its wings.

"Quick use ancient power around yourself to stop the powder and then launch the rocks at butterfree!" Mudkip did what he was told and made a dome of rocks around himself. The spores landed on the rocks and left Mudkip safe, the rocks then moved into the air and launched at butterfree. The butterfree was too surprised to move and was helplessly bombarded by the giant rocks. The butterfree fell to the ground with swirls for eyes after the rocks stopped flying at it. Both Mudkip and Ash sweat-dropped at this because it was such a quick defeat.

The samurai saw this and explained, "He just evolved this morning and we haven't had time to improve his defenses yet.

Ash just nodded and recalled Mudkip and sent out Zephyr.

The samurai recalled his unconscious pokemon and sent out a pokemon that surprised Ash. It was a scyther and it was ready to battle.

The samurai ordered a quick attack and Zephyr was only slightly able to dodge. She was sent spinning by the glancing blow and slammed into a tree. "Are you alright?" asked Ash worried. Zephyr got up and nodded quickly but he could see her cringe in pain slightly. "Fly up and use whirlwind and heatwave!" Zephyr flew up and flapped her wings hard to create a fast-moving wind that was moving scyther around and then she blew a gust of fiery air into the whirlwind. Poor scyther was being moved around by the whirlwind and then the heatwave hit it and hurt the poor bug type ruthlessly. The scyther then landed on the ground and got up with small burns and a very angry look on its face. It then shot at Zephyr and slammed into her with a night slash. Zephyr barely got up after that attack and flew up.

"Can you still battle?"

Zephyr nodded and then began to fly at the scyther very quickly and the clearing was bathed in a bright, white light. Ash knew what was happening instantly and watched intensely. Zephyr's body began to grow and expand at a fast pace. When it was done, a larger bird was in her place. The bird let out a loud screech and flew at the scyther covered in a blue fire.

"That was brave bird, she finally unlocked it."

Zephyr slammed into the scyther and it was immediately knocked out from the super-effective attack and Zephyr cringed from the recoil of the move.

Ash pulled out his pokedex and scanned Zephyr.

Pidgeotto- The Bird Pokemon and the Evolved Form of Pidgey

Pidgeotto claims a large area as its own territory. This pokemon flies around, patrolling its living space. If its territory is violated, it shows no mercy in thoroughly punishing the foe with its sharp claws.

New Moves- Twister, ominous wind, and Brave Bird has been unlocked.

"Wow, learned ominous wind and twister. Good job."

"Shall we continue?" asked the samurai.

Ash sent out his partner elekid, while the samurai sent out a powerful looking Pinsir. It had large claws on its head and looked to have a strong carapace. Both pokemon charged at each other and exchanged blows in order to test each other's strength. After the hits, they both backed away from each other and awaited their trainers order.

"Vice Grip Pinsir!" ordered the samurai.

Pinsir began to charge at elekid at a moderately slow pace which shocked Ash. He then figured that they trained exclusively on attack and defense and completely ignored speed training. This would prove to be a fatal mistake because Ash ordered a combination that will send Pinsir spinning.

"Use shock wave to stop it in its tracks. Then use teleport repeatedly and use thunder and fire punch as many times as you can."

Elekid released a wave of electricity that slammed into Pinsir and make it stop charging covered in electricity to show that it was paralyzed. Elekid then began to quick cycle of teleporting to pinsir and slamming into it with either fire punch, thunder punch or both. Whenever the pinsir was almost able to hit elekid with Brick Break, the pokemon would teleport either above or behind him and continued to hit him with the punches. After a minute of this, pinsir was covered in electricity and scorch marks so, Ash decided to end this.
"Use quick attack and slam into it with Mega Kick!"

Elekid took off right at the pinsir and the pinsir was too tired to do anything so it just watched as elekid jumped up and slammed into its torso with its glowing foot. Almost in slow motion, pinsir was kicked in the chest and was sent flying into a smaller tree and made the tree crack and fall over.

The samurai quickly recalled his fallen pokemon. "I do not understand, the other trainer with the Squirtle said that you would be an easy victory but you were the strongest of all of the Pallet Trainers."

"Thank you, but I have to go so I reach Pewter before sundown."

The two trainers said their farewells and Ash recalled his pokemon and got back on the road again. Hopefully this time, he can avoid anymore distractions.

After about an hour, Ash was nearing Pewter City and decided to take a quick break so when he saw some rocks, he went and sat on one. He began to drink some water and was suddenly scared when heard someone behind him say, "You're sitting on my merchandise young man." Ash jumped into the air suddenly off of the rock and saw a man on a large boulder staring at him with his arms crossed.

"What are you talking about?" asked Ash disbelievingly.

"The rocks, I am selling the rocks. Would you like to buy any?"

Ash was about to politely decline when he saw two rocks that looked slightly different from all of the others. One of them was a light grayish color which appeared to be older than the others and he could see what locked kind of like a large jaw bone in it.. The rock next to it was a light greenish color with what appeared to be a plate or sail of something stuck in it. Ash knew what those were, they were fossils and he wasn't quite sure which pokemon they were yet. He had an idea, but he wasn't sure yet; all he could tell was that these fossils were amazingly well preserved.

"Can I buy those two over there"

The man looked at the rocks that he was pointing at and said, "Finally, someone noticed the special qualities of those rocks. They've been there for so long, I was beginning to worry to DNA would break down more and become unusable. I'll give them to you for half price. That'll be fifty dollars."

Ash happily handed over the money and shrunk down the fossils to store in his bag. It's remarkable what modern technology can do. There are machines that will shrink down items to store nearly anywhere which is why trainers can store so much stuff in their travel bags. There are machines that can restore pokemon to perfect health within minutes, and there are machines that can bring back pokemon from millions of years ago with only a small amount of DNA.

After Ash was all packed with the fossils, the strange man bid farewell, and Ash began to travel to Pewter again. He expected that he'd be able to get there within 15 minutes.

Ash ended up being correct and he walked into the pokemon center and saw that the time was 9:00 at night so he decided that he'd challenge the gym tomorrow.

"Hello, Nurse Joy, can you take a look at my pokemon?"

"Of course, young man."

Nurse Joy took his pokeballs and Ash went over to the vidcom to call his mother.

"Hello, Ketchum household, who is this?" answered the phone.

"Hi, Mom, it's me."

"Oh Ashy, I'm so glad to hear from you again, how has your journey been going? Have you caught any new pokemon since I last talked to you?"

"It's been going really good, Mom. And I had a Mudkip given to me by Giovanni, the gym leader of Viridian City. He's really powerful."

Delia got a dark look on her face when she heard Giovanni's name and responded with, "O-Oh that was nice of him."

"Yeah it was, my pokemon are done being checked on, so I have to go get them. Love you, Mom, Bye."

"Bye Honey."

Ash went and collected his pokemon and rented a room. He went to his room and let out all of his pokemon.

"Hey, everybody, we'll be having two new teammates soon." His pokemon looked at him confused so, he pulled out the two fossils. "These two rocks are actually fossils of ancient pokemon." His pokemon looked on in wonder and he kept going, "We can restore the fossils at the museum her in Pewter. It will bring the two fossils back to life and they'll become a part of the team." His team were very excited to meet pokemon from ancient times and Mudkip was looking forward to training with a dinosaur pokemon.

Ash and his pokemon decided to go to sleep so they were fully rested for the gym battle tomorrow.

Next Day- Pewter City Gym

It was 4:00 the next afternoon and Ash and elekid were standing outside of the Pewter City Gym nervously. They have never faced a gym before and they were nervous because of the type disadvantages they were going to have. They talked about it before they went to sleep and they decided that Mudkip will face the mysterious pokemon that nobody knows about. It would be challenging but they were going to take the risk. They have been training especially for this battle and Mudkip looked to be very close to evolving and might evolve during the gym battle.

Ash opened the door and walked to the challenger's box. As soon as he stepped foot into the challenger's area, a spotlight appeared and showed a young man with spikey hair, squinty eyes, wearing a green vest.

"Greetings! Are you her to challenge my gym?"

"I am, and I plan on winning."

"We will see about that. I have been a trainer for much longer, and I have a trump card that no one will expect."

Both trainers sent out their first pokemon. Brock sent out his geodude which Ash expected and in retaliation, he sent out Zephyr.

Brock reacted like anybody would when their opponent sent out a major type disadvantage. "You do not know very much about pokemon if you are sending out a flying type against a rock type gym leader. Let's make this quick geodude. Use Rock Slide!"

"Use steel wing, and slice through any rocks in your way!"

Zephyr did as commanded and sped through the rocks with her speed and steel wing and slammed both steel covered wings into the Pokémon's face and stunned it.

"Use defense curl and rollout."

Geodude curled up real tight and then began to roll around the field quickly and rolled up a rock to get into the air to hit Zephyr. Zephyr surprised the airborne pokemon by flapping her wings with a lot of power and unleashed ominous wind, and heat wave at the same time. The ghostly energy carried the poor pokemon around in the air for a minute while the heat wave was burning it a lot.

"Geodude, if you can, use rock slide to take out the Pidgeotto!" ordered brock caringly.

The geodude was able to pull enough energy and summoned rocks and slammed them all into Zephyr. The sudden attack left her completely unprepared and buried her under a large pile of rocks.

When the dust settled, it showed an unconscious geodude, and a pile of rocks. The pile of rocks then began to move and Zephyr flew into the sky and gave a loud screech, and fell to the ground unconscious."

"Both Pokemon are unable to battle, please call out next pokemon." called the mechanical voice of the computer that each gym had.

Both trainers recalled their unconscious pokemon and nodded to each other. Brock called out to Ash, "I am surprised, it has been a long time since one of my rock types has been beaten by a flying type of all things. Congratulations, now you won't be able to get past this next pokemon." Brock then sent out his most famous pokemon which was his Onix. The rock snake pokemon let out an intimidating roar and glared at Ash in challenge to which Ash smiled and elekid ran out to the field.

"I'd normally question your type choice but from what I saw in your Pidgeotto, I won't make any assumptions. Onix, start off with Rock Polish to gain some speed and use Body Slam!"

The Onix glowed for a brief second and then sped at elekid. Before it could hit him, it raised its body into the air and tried to slam its body into elekid. Elekid naturally panicked and used teleport to get away. Neither Brock or onix noticed that elekid wasn't under onix, so they assumed that it was a one hit K.O. so they left their defenses down. What neither of them noticed was that elekid had teleported onto Onix's head and was hiding behind its large head-fin.

"Use Power-up Punch and Mega Punch in the same fist for extra power!"

Both Brock's and Onix's eyes widened in surprise and elekid slammed his fist into the top of Onix's head. The surprise punch plus the super-effective move hurt onix a lot and elekid glowed as his attack rose. "Use ice punch on its horn! Freese your arm to its horn to make sure you won't be thrown off.". Onix was still too hurt to react to elekid being on his head and then elekid punched the horn with an icy fist and froze his arm to the horn to make sure he wouldn't let go on accident and be thrown off.

Onix was in agony at this point because its head was being slowly frozen and it still felt the punch from earlier. Brock was running out of ideas so he yelled, "I'm so sorry onix, use Explosion!" Ash and elekid began to panic as onix began to glow as it was gathering energy. Elekid tried to separate his fist from the horn and almost got it free when onix had enough energy. Onix then unleashed all of the energy and knocked itself out immediately and sent elekid flying in pain. When the light cleared, it showed an unconscious onix next to a somehow standing elekid.

Elekid turned and looked at Ash, gave a thumb up, and fell to the ground unconscious. Ash smiled at his faithful starter and recalled him to the luxury ball he transferred him to the previous night after noticing the rest of his team had special pokeballs except for his starter. He smiled at the ball and mouthed a quick Thank you.

Brock recalled his onix and smiled at his ball. "Alright, Ash, let's finish this. Come Out My Friend." Brock threw out the pokeball and what came out of the ball surprised Ash. It was a tyrunt, a rock/dragon type that lived millions of years ago and was more commonly seen in the Kalos region in the military.

"How did you get a tyrunt?" asked Ash in confusion

"I found the fossil in Mount Moon and have been training him for the past week during my absence."

"Ah, after our battle, can you look at something really quick?"

"Of course, it'll have to be tomorrow because I have stuff to do for the rest of the day. Just come around tomorrow and I'll check whatever you need. Now please send out your final pokemon." Said Brock

Ash nodded and threw the Dive ball and Mudkip formed in front of Tyrunt, and despite being half of tyrunt's size didn't falter in his glare at the larger pokemon. Tyrunt was somewhat surprised at the fearless expression because even his teammate onix hesitated when facing him because Tyrunt is stronger than onix. Tyrunt immediately knew this was going to be a tough battle.

Brock saw Mudkip and said, "A Mudkip huh? They are rare in Kanto and yours has a lot of muscle so it is going to be very strong. Let's do this Tyrunt, "Use Dragon Dance, Earth Power, and attack with thunder fang!"

Tyrunt was surrounded by a swirling mass of purple and red energy which boosted his attack and speed up. While Mudkip was focusing on this, a brown circle began to form under him when he saw it, he tried to jump away but a blast of ground-type energy slammed into him from below. When this happened, Tyrunt finished his Dragon Dance and jumped into the air with his mouth sparking with electricity. He managed to grab Mudkip with the super-effective move and shook him around before throwing him back into the ground while Mudkip struggled to get away. Mudkip slammed into the ground hard and formed a small crater. When the dust cleared it showed Mudkip crawling out of the crater covered in scratches and bruises.

"Are you alright, Mudkip?" Mudkip nodded and yelled his name really quickly.

Brock interrupted, "Use Dragon pulse while he's down!"

Tyrunt gathered dragon energy into his mouth and launched a large orb at Mudkip and Ash saw this. "Use Mirror Coat, quickly!". Right as the orb was about to slam into Mudkip, a large mirror-like barrier formed and the dragon pulse was absorbed into the barrier. After a couple of second, the barrier began to glow and a dragon pulse that was twice the size of the original shot out at Tyrunt. Tyrunt tried to dodge the large orb but it was too fast and it slammed into him…hard.

Tyrunt was carried by the dragon pulse before it exploded and launched him into a wall. Tyrunt slowly fell down the wall and fell to the ground behind Brock. After a few seconds, the Tyrunt got up with a pained expression on its face and jumped back on the field and roared at Mudkip.

"Use Iron Head and Strength Tyrunt, finish him!" yelled Brock.

Tyrunt began to run at Mudkip with his muscles expanded and his head glowing while roaring as loud as he can to intimidate Mudkip. Ash yelled, "We can't dodge this one! Try to stop him with Superpower!". Mudkip glowed a brownish-red and his muscles slightly grew, and he charged right back at Tyrunt. The two pokemon met in the middle and slammed together head first. With both of their heads together, the two pokemon tried to push the other away and get the upper hand. Neither pokemon was able to beat the other for more than two minutes until Mudkip began to slowly be pushed back. Tyrunt noticed this and began to push harder and so did Mudkip but he was losing too much ground. He began to push as hard as he possibly could while yelling his name in a makeshift roar and then suddenly, Mudkip began to glow a bright white. His body grew, he stood on his hind legs, his head fin grew and extended, his tail fin grew and split into two separate fins, the gills on his cheeks merged together and expanded into a long spike, his front legs became arms and he placed them on Tyrunt's head and the glowing stopped.

In Mudkip's place stood a bipedal blue pokemon with black fins and an orange stomach. This pokemon is called Marshtomp and this one was currently holding back an angry, surprised Tyrunt with little difficulty. Mudkip smirked and grabbed Tyrunt and lifted him above his head with no trouble. Tyrunt began to panic at this point (which is not surprising) and began to flail desperately to get away but with no success. Marshtomp then slammed Tyrunt into the ground repeatedly with fighting type energy covering him. After this vicious assault, he threw Tyrunt across the field and when he landed, Marshtomp used Earth Power to finish him off. Tyrunt then fell to the ground completely unconscious.

Brock looked on in complete shock at the display of pure physical power, and then recalled him unconscious pokemon. He then walked over to Ash who was congratulating Marshtomp on the evolution and impressive comeback. "Good Job Ash, that was the first time Tyrunt has been beaten since I started to train him. I now give you the Boulder Badge. The first step to many trainer's journey." Brock then handed Ash a small, grey, stone-like badge.

"Thank you, Brock, we've never been pushed to our limits like this before. Thank you for the battle." said Ash humbly.

"Of course, I expect a rematch one day, I'm sure that Tyrunt and Marshtomp will want a rematch one day."

"I'm looking forward to the day. I'll see you tomorrow to go over the thing I want you to check out." said Ash.

"I will see you then. Now go get your pokemon healed."

Ash nodded and left the gym and walked back to the pokemon center to get his pokemon healed and eat.

Later that night, Ash let out all of his pokemon and showed them the badge and elekid and Zephyr were surprised to see that the Mudkip they had gotten used to had evolved. It wasn't too unexpected but it was interesting to see nonetheless. Elekid and Marshtomp locked eyes and they each got a happy, competitive look on their faces as their rivalry had gotten more heated. They were looking forward to testing their strength against each other.

Ash looked at the clock and noticed that it was nearly 11:00. "Let's go to sleep guys, we begin to travel again tomorrow and we'll hopefully meet our new teammates.

His pokemon have a small cheer and all went to sleep. Ash sat there thinking about the battle and what he could apply to future battles. Such as, don't have elekid freeze himself to an enemy who could possibly the move explosion or self-destruct. Ash slowly fell asleep while thinking of new battle strategies he could use in the future.

Tell me what you guy's think of the gym battle and the reason Mudkip evolved the chapter after he was obtained is due to the fact that starters evolve relatively quickly the first time and mine always evolve by the first gym unless it was too early. How about the whole fossil thing? What do you guys think? Ash anything you want and I'll try to answer in the beginning of the next chapter.