Chapter 55 - The Viridian Gym Battle ( Part 1)

A new morning brings a new round of fresh energy and hopes. Today Alex decided to do something completely foolish yet brave.

He remembered from his time that during Ash's journey the Viridian Gym was undisputed strongest gym in whole Kanto, but now this honor belonged to the Cerulean gym.

He remembered that before leaving Giovanni gave all three of them a chance of three on three battle and if they won they would be granted the gym badge.

So he woke up early in the morning, went to the telephone in the pokemon center and dialed home.

The phone rang for some time then an image of an old man came in the display. It was his grandpa Michael along with his trusted Pikachu on his shoulder.

Eevee yeepec at them in greeting as she took note of the crippled old man and scarred old pikachu.

This Pikachu was old and had a slightly worn out fur and had a big cut mark on it's stomach from that Pidgeot battle.

"Good morning, grandpa, Pikachu. How are you? How is everything going on there? " He greeted him.

Seeing his grandson Alex his eyes brightened and Pikachu waved hid hands happily and he happily replied," Good morning to you too. and you young man forgot your dear old grandpa. You called so many times yet you never talked to me. I am hurt." And he made a hurtful face.

Alex knew that his grandpa was joking so he said," Don't joke like this grandpa. Anyway, I had made a deal with someone from the league and they will supply food ingredients for the Pokemon at home. So now I will start sending back some of the pokemons and can you look after their diet and training grandpa."

Michael was bored and either his condition it was difficult for him to do anything but sit back and relax and with Alex giving him something interesting to do made him very happy.

" So did you get the recipe for pokemons?" he inquired but didn't ask how he made the deal because he trusted his grandson enough not to ask unnecessary questions.

" Yes I did. " But his face turned hurtful saying," But boy are they expensive. After seeing those prices and cost, I almost hope to become a single type and kind of Pokemon trainer so I can invest my time , energy and money on that only and save excess expenditure."

Michael just looked at him blankly and asked curious," Were they really that expensive."

He replied," The recipe for Gastly line cost me 200 million."

" What ? so much ." he shouted.

This shout attracted the attention of the other awake members in the house and then Alex's father , Arthur and his mother,Gwen cane running towards the phone .

Arthur shouted," Dad what Happened? are you hurt ? tell me, I will immediately take you to the doctor?".

But Michael snorted," Nothing happened to me. See Pikachu Is with me and as long as he is with me nothing will happen to me."

meanwhile Pikachu just uplifted his c_h_e_s_t and patted it to show ' leave it to me '

" And I shouted because of your son's extravagant spending."

On his mentioning of Alex, They saw that the phone was connected and had Alex's image on it.

" Dad, Alex called and you didn't even tell us" Gwen asked him.

" Didn't you talked to him last time while I was left out." He countered.

while they talked about this, Arthur had noticed the mention of spending so he asked Alex directly," Alex, what is your grandpa talking about? I thought your mother and I thought you to save money and not to spend it blindly."

Alex was alert. He knew though his father was lenient in terms of spending his mother was like a mother dragon protecting her egg in terms of money savings.

So he meekly said," Dad it was so that I can buy recipe for healthy food of my Pokemon. You know grandpa always told that the diet dragged down him, Pidgeot and slowking's growth. So I spent some in it ."

Both parents nodded as they remembered the oldest person in the family mentioning it multiple times.

Seeing their expression Alex breathe out the air he held back unconsciously. But his grandpa didn't let him be relieved

He snorted softly," Yeah, 200 Million is a small amount. hmm."

But His parents heard him clearly.

" What " they both shouted. Arthur being familiar with his wife's habit stepped back along with Michael and she put her head close to the camera asking Alex softly," Alex, what did I tell you about money spending?"

Seeing her soft smiling face but a fearsome aura surrounding her, Alex and Eevee shuddered in fear.

Eevee yeeppped loudly and digged her head on Alex c_h_e_s_t so as to hide her face on Alex's c_h_e_s_t but Alex who bore the full impact just shivered and tried to console his mother by saying," Mom, listen. it was very important. I had to do it for better growth of my Pokemon. You know him, Slowking and Pidgeot are growing slowly because of lack of required energy and so I thought it was worth it. So I bought all the recipe for my Pokemons."

Hearing she calmed down but she then remembered that he told her that he bought as much as he could.

She softly asked ," How much did you spend on their food ,Alex?"

Alex first considered lying but he remembered whenever he lied she immediately caught his lie and punished him severely.

She left a shadow on Alex in his childhood. So he softly replied," One billion."

This shocked the hell out of them. They never thought Alex would spend so much in a single day. They hadn't even spent 200 million their entire life but now he spent One billion.

They were shocked, and this time knowing that his mother was going to thunder at him Arthur asked," So why did you call us now so early I. the morning ,Alex?"

" I have a match with a very strong trainer and I need both him, Pidgeot and slowking for this. I also want to work on the bond between my Pokemons so I thought why not challenge and then do this too. I will also start their new diet and later after some time , I will start sending some of my Pokemon back, if I couldn't take care of them myself. " He quickly said.

They all nodded and agreed to his request.

Michael then said," Wait for sometime and stay there. I will sent them back to you."

As early as he got Gastly he recaptured them both in his name but left them behind so that he could focus on these and layer introduce them. Another reason was that were strong and will probably affect the early growth of his pokemons. If not for challenging Giovanni he wouldn't bring them back.

Soon three pokeballs one after another came and then told them," I got them. I gotta go. Bye." And he disconnected the call.

He with Eevee and his pokeball left the pokemon center for the free space behind it to release his older pokemons.

So Alex will soon challenge Giovanni? What will be the outcome if this battle and what is the third pokemons of Alex. Stay tuned

to be continued.....