Chapter 39: Viridian Gym!
The gang had just arrived at Viridian, and Lyra was looking forward to battling the Viridian Gym.
"I can't believe that I only need one more badge to enter the Indigo League," Lyra said. She was staring at her seven badges and remembering each battle like yesterday.
"You sure seem excited, Lu," Misty said.
"Of course I am, Mist," Lyra answered, "I have always wanted to take part in the Indigo League ever since I first saw it on TV as a little kid."
Misty smiled. "It is nice to dream," she admitted.
They arrived at Viridian Gym. The Gym was a light brown building and looked like a Roman temple.
Lyra was just about to head for the doors when her rival Gary turned up. "Hi, Lyra," Gary said in his cocky voice.
"Gary, what are you doing here?" Lyra asked.
"I'm here for a Gym battle," said Gary. "What are you here for?"
"I'm here to get my eighth badge," Lyra said and showed Gary her seven badges in her case.
Gary smirked and showed Lyra his ten badges. "I'm battling this Gym first," he said and entered the Gym.
Lyra wanted to enter the Gym too, but the guards at the door said that they would only take one challenger at a time. Lyra had to wait for Gary to come out for her turn.
Lyra sighed. "I think I'll stop by the Pokémon Centre for a while then," she said.
They went to the Pokémon Centre. Nurse Joy was happy to see Lyra and Misty again.
Lyra was planning to use Gyarados, Salamence, and Kangaskhan for the Gym battle because she heard the Viridian Gym was one of the toughest Gyms in Kanto. So she had Nurse Joy check them out. She was now having tea in the Pokémon Centre café with the others.
"I just realized that it has been nearly a whole year since we left Viridian City," Misty said to Lyra.
Lyra smiled. "You're right," she said, "and it will be my 11th birthday in a couple of weeks too. Wow, we have been traveling for so long, I've lost track a bit of how many days have flown by."
Brock laughed. "That's normal, because it's easy to ignore the fact that time flies by so quickly when you're enjoying your good life," he said.
Just then Lyra felt a Psychic aura in the air.
"What's wrong, big sister?" Tomo asked.
"I don't know," Lyra said, "but I'm sensing Psychic powers in this city."
"Is it a Psychic Pokémon?" Brock asked.
"I'm not sure," Lyra replied, "I mean it feels like a Psychic Pokémon, but it feels stronger though."
The gang were all puzzled by this.
Half an hour later, the gang decided to head over to the Gym again.
When they got there, the guards were no longer there, and the Gym sign said "CLOSED".
"Something's not right," said Brock, "we need to get into the Gym at once."
Good news was, the Gym doors were not locked. The gang barged through the doors, ran through the corridors, until at last they found the battle arena.
To their horror, they saw Gary and his two Pokémon, Nidoking and Arcanine, unconscious on the floor.
Lyra ran over to Gary to see if he was all right. "Gary, are you alright? What happened?" she asked.
Gary woke up and explained, "The Gym Leader used a Pokémon that I have never seen before," Gary said weakly, "and it was so strong that my Pokémon never stood a chance."
Lyra grabbed a PokéBall. "Lucario, I need your help," she said. Her aura Pokémon appeared.
Gary was shocked by Lucario's appearance, since he had never seen one before.
"Lyra?" Lucario blinked and saw the two heavily injured Pokémon. "What happened?"
"I'm not sure, but I need you to use Heal Pulse to help Nidoking and Arcanine, or else they may not make it."
Lucario nodded and used Heal Pulse on them.
Lyra focused her aura on the area. The Psychic waves came from here, and it's powerful, she thought.
Just then they heard laughter.
"Who's there?" Misty asked.
Team Rocket appeared.
"What are you doing here?" Lyra asked.
"Our boss had something to do," Jessie said, "so while he's dealing with his business, we are the Gym Leaders at the moment."
Lyra's eyes widened for a second. Then this means Viridian Gym is under the control of Team Rocket, she thought. A bad guy is a Gym Leader—great.
"If you want this badge," Jessie said, holding the Earth Badge in her left hand, "you will have to battle me first."
"I accept the battle," Lyra said, and told Lucario to watch out and look after everyone. She even released her Vigoroth and Infernape for backup.
Gary was amazed by them again, but he didn't say anything.
Just before the battle began, James made two platforms appear on the battlefield.
"The trainers will stand on these platforms," he explained.
Lyra stood on the green platform, and Jessie stood on the red platform.
Jessie threw three PokéBalls. A Machamp, a Kingler, and a Rhydon popped out.
Giovanni, the real Gym Leader, had given them to Jessie.
Lyra tossed out Salamence, Gyarados, and Kangaskhan.
Gary was shell-shocked by all of Lyra's Pokémon again. He had never seen them before, except for Gyarados, but it was an odd color, and he realized that she had more than six Pokémon with her.
It was now time for the Gym battle.
The first match was between Machamp and Salamence.
Jessie had Machamp attack Gyarados with Karate Chop.
When Gyarados got hit, she didn't feel it—but Lyra got shocked by the platform all of a sudden. She shook off the electric shock.
"What happened?" Misty gasped.
Team Rocket laughed.
"I had the platform rigged so that the trainer feels all the pain their Pokémon feels," Meowth smirked.
Lyra and her Pokémon got furious after hearing that.
"You dirty low-life crooks!" she shouted. "You are that low to not play fair and square!"
Tomo, Misty, and Brock were furious too, and even Gary thought that this was dirty.
"Fine! If that's how you want to play, then it's war!" Lyra shouted, and her Pokémon on the field roared loudly in response to their trainer's anger.
Misty, Brock, and Tomo almost felt sorry for the Pokémon battling against them. They knew what Lyra's temper was like—she is not the type to get angry, but when someone plays dirty, she snaps.
"Gyarados, hit Kingler with Dragon Tail, then Thunder it full blast! Salamence, Aerial Ace on Machamp, then Dragon Pulse! Kangaskhan, use Double Hit, then Fire Punch on Rhydon!" Lyra commanded.
Gyarados, Salamence, and Kangaskhan hit Kingler, Machamp, and Rhydon instantly, knocking them out. They all fainted at the same time.
Everyone in the Gym was speechless. Team Rocket was shocked their Pokémon got knocked out so quickly with just two attacks.
Gary was shocked even more. Infernape, Vigoroth, and Lucario smiled—at all that training paying off, but maybe a bit too much.
Then Jessie got badly shocked. "Ahhhh! What are you doing making me get shocked!?" she shouted at Meowth, who was in charge of the control.
Jessie became frustrated. She sent out Arbok and Weezing.
"Hey, you can't use new Pokémon!" Misty shouted. "That's against the rules!"
"I'm the Gym Leader," Jessie said cockily, "so I make the rules."
"I see then," Lyra said as her front bangs covered her eyes, "Pichu, why don't we show them that it's not nice to mess with the rules?"
Gyarados, Kangaskhan, and Salamence moved aside for the little Electric-type Pokémon.
"Pichu, use Agility, then Iron Tail!"
Pichu disappeared and reappeared in front of Weezing, hitting it with Iron Tail. Weezing flew back and crashed into Arbok, making it faint quickly, and Jessie got shocked for the second time. Then Pichu appeared in front of Weezing and Arbok angrily.
Tomo, Misty, and Brock shivered at the quick defeat of Jessie's Pokémon, but then cheered for her.
Even Gary thought that Lyra was an impressive and powerful trainer.
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