Edge's Aerodactyl

**Edge's Aerodactyl** (Japanese: **えっじのプテラ** *Etsuji's Ptera*) is the sixth Pokémon that Edge captured after embarking on his journey, and his seventh overall.

## **History**

### **Kanto**

When Edge first met Giovanni (not knowing the latter was the leader of Team Rocket, he gave Edge an ancient fossil known as the Old Amber, which contained a DNA sample of an ancient, now extinct Pokémon, as a reward for stopping two wild Magmar that were causing a fire at the Pewter Museum of Science. When Edge later encountered Blaine at Cinnabar Island, they were faced with the Legendary Pokémon Moltres, which was under the control of Team Rocket. After Edge's Gyarados was unable to defeat the Legendary Fire-type, and Blaine realized that to stand a chance against the Flying-type Pokémon, they needed a Flying-type of their own. When seeing Edge's Old Amber, Blaine sent him to the Island's laboratory, where Edge was able to revive the Amber into an Aerodactyl.

Defeated by Moltres, Blaine struggles valiantly as he reaffirms his urgent mission: to capture his escaped creation, Mewtwo. Just as Moltres attempts to finish him off, Edge makes his appearance and rescues Blaine with Aerodactyl; the Gym Leader congratulating Edge on his success. Countering Moltres's attack, Aerodactyl succeeds in crippling Moltres's left wing with Hyper Beam, and the Rocket grunts beat a hasty retreat.

When Edge later met up with Blaine again, he joined him in a battle against the Legendary Genetic Pokémon Mewtwo. Although Mewtwo seemed practically impossible to stop, Edge finally managed to use Aerodactyl to glide through Mewtwo's Psywave tornado in order to get close enough to send Pikachu in with Blaine's Master Ball, successfully catching Mewtwo.

Aerodactyl battled against Giovanni at the Viridian Gym. When Edge was pushed into a corner, he managed to call Aerodactyl out and attack Giovanni's Beedrill with Hyper Beam, knocking him out. Giovanni then switched to his type specialty of Ground Pokémon and had his Rhydon use Iron Tail to take Aerodactyl out of the fight.

### **Two Years Later**

Edge tried to get Aerodactyl to fly him away from the Kanto Elite Four, but he was stopped by Lorelei's Jynx. He was then defeated alongside the rest of his teammates.

### **Crisis of Deoxys**

Aerodactyl battled alongside Pikachu as his last two Pokémon in his battle against Robyn. Edge had Aerodactyl use Take Down on Pinsir, which dealt no recoil damage due to his Rock Head Ability. Aerodactyl followed up with Dragon Claw on Pinsir, so Robyn switched him out for Rhydon. Seeing an opening, Edge has Pikachu attack Machamp with Thunderbolt. To Edge's surprise, the attack is suddenly redirected. Robyn smirks and reveals that Rhydon has the Lightning Rod Ability, which causes all Electric-type moves to be redirected towards him. Since Pikachu's Electric attacks had no effect, Pikachu jumps into the air and delivers an Iron Tail onto Machamp's head. The battle then ends in a tie.

Later, Edge sent Aerodactyl out in his battle against Deoxys. However, the DNA Pokémon proved to be too strong for the Fossil Pokémon, as he was first badly slugged by Deoxys's powerful punch and then had his wings pierced by **Attack Forme** Deoxys's tentacles. He was soon nearly killed along with Edge's other Pokémon while defending his Trainer from Deoxys's Psycho Boost. Due to his injuries, Aerodactyl had to remain in his Poké Ball afterwards, and as a result, Edge had to temporarily trade Robyn's Charizard into his team to use as transportation, as Aerodactyl could not fly in his current condition.

Later, Aerodactyl was seen joining Edge's other Pokémon, Robyn's Charizard, and Chuchu to take down the ten Forretress that Carr had placed inside the Team Rocket airship that were set to explode.

## **Personality and Characteristics**

Aerodactyl appears to love the outside world, as the first thing he did when he got resurrected was to look outside through the window in Blaine's laboratory. He is shown to be reckless as he often rushes into situations without giving it much thought or concern. He is also very generous as he rushed to help Blaine and Edge even though they'd just met moments earlier.

## **Moves used**

 A **†** shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.