Pokeathlon

After obtaining the Plain Badge, Ash and the others had one more look around Goldenrod City before they left. They even got the chance to meet the famous DJ Mary in the Goldenrod Radio Tower. DJ Mary was a famous radio host and she was also an acquaintance of Prof. Oak. She and Prof. Oak always held talks about Pokemon on the radio together. Now the gang was ready to leave Goldenrod City. Just then Misty noticed a sign on the wall.

"This sign is about Pokeathlon." She said. "And it says that you get a prize if you win an event."

"Why don't we enter the Pokeathlon?" Ash questioned. "Besides this might be our only time to try it while we're in Johto."

"I agree with that idea." Brock said. "And who knows? We might even win a prize."

Misty liked the idea of entering too. Tomo was a bit young to enter, but he wanted to check out the Pokeathlon too. So the gang decided to go to the Pokeathlon.

The Pokeathlon was located next to National Park and was held inside a big dome shaped building. Outside the Pokeathlon dome there was a stand that sold aprijuice. Brock checked out the aprijuice and learned how to make aprijuice using an apriblender and different colored apricorns. He also learned what the different flavors of aprijuice were; red was spicy, blue was dry, yellow was sour, green was bitter and pink was sweet. Brock was fascinated by this and thought about buying an apriblender for himself in the future.

The gang went inside to sign up for the Pokeathlon events. There were ten events and each trainer had to pick three events and one Pokemon for each event. And the trainer who gets the highest score after the three events gets to choose their prize. The prizes were a bag of apricorns, a King's Rock or an evolutionary stone. Ash signed up for the hurdle dash, lamp jump and disc catch events and he chose Mareep, Sentret and Tyrouge for the events. Misty signed up for the goal roll, snow throw and pennant capture events and chose Gloom, Poliwhirl and Staryu for the events. Brock signed up for the block smash, circle push and ring drop events and chose Geodude, Sandslash and Vulpix for the events. Tomo went into the stadium seats to watch all the events and Misty left her Togepi with him.

Soon it was time for the events to begin. Ash was up first with the disc catch event; an event where the Pokemon had to catch as many flying discs as possible. Tyrouge had no problem catching the discs that came at him and Ash wound that round in a second. Next came Misty's first event; the goal roll which was an event where the Pokemon had to kick balls in the net to score a goal and Gloom won that for Misty easily with her feet. The block smash event was an event where a Pokemon had to smash as many blocks as it could was easy for Brock's Geodude and Brock won.

Soon the Pokeathlon events came to a end. Ash, Misty and Brock won all three events they entered and got to choose a prize for themselves. Brock chose the bag of apricorns so he could make his own aprijuice. Ash chose an Everstone, so he could stop Tyrouge from evolving. Tyrouge didn't want to become Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan or Hitmontop. Misty chose the King's Rock; so she could evolve her two Poliwhirl at some point. She learned from her book of water type Pokemon that Poliwhirl evolves into Politoed through a King's Rock; Politoed was a big green frog Pokemon. Misty thought that Politoed looked really cute, so she wanted to evolve her two Poliwhirl into that.

With the Pokeathlon concluded, the gang left to head to their next destination.