Chapter Summaries

After arriving in Cerulean City, Tetsuya spoke with Professor Rowan and Professor Oak, then revised his lesson plans for the Pokemon School. The next morning, he went to the grand Cerulean Gym, preparing to begin his Gym Battle.

• Tetsuya finished sightseeing by boat and returned Blaziken to his room in Cerulean City.
• Tetsuya called Professor Rowan and spoke with him and Professor Oak, who praised his Blaziken and his promise as a Trainer.
• Tetsuya ended the call so the professors could return to their research, then revised his Pokemon School lesson plans.
• The next morning, Tetsuya skipped his usual training, collected his three Luxury Balls, and set out for the Cerulean Gym.
• Tetsuya admired the Gym's grand building and crossed a bridge before pushing open its doors.

Tetsuya began his Cerulean Gym Battle against Sakura, who sent out Goldeen against his Blaziken. Blaziken’s repeated Flamethrowers filled the pool field with mist, and the chapter ended as Sakura’s underwater Water Pulse attack sent waves toward Blaziken.

• Sakura welcomed Tetsuya to the Cerulean Gym and invited him to join the Gym, but he declined to commit.
• The referee announced a standard 2v2 Gym Battle, and Sakura sent out Goldeen while Tetsuya chose Blaziken.
• Tetsuya ordered Blaziken to use repeated Flamethrowers as Goldeen dodged underwater, heating the pool and filling the field with mist.
• Sakura commanded Goldeen to use Water Pulse underwater to create waves that rushed toward Blaziken.
• Tetsuya ordered Blaziken to counter with Heat Wave.

Tetsuya’s Blaziken defeated Sakura’s Goldeen by releasing Thunder Punch’s electricity through the mist and water, then faced Sakura’s Dewgong. The chapter ended as Dewgong’s Aqua Jet collided with Blaziken’s Fire Spin.

• Tetsuya reflected on how difficult it was to modify Pokémon moves as Blaziken’s Heat Wave met Goldeen’s water-based attack.
• Tetsuya ordered Thunder Punch, and Blaziken released arcs of electricity through the mist, knocking out Goldeen.
• Sakura asked how Blaziken had released the electricity, and Tetsuya explained its training method and the attack’s limitations.
• Sakura sent out Dewgong and ordered it to use Aqua Jet, while Tetsuya had Blaziken counter with Fire Spin.
• Dewgong’s Aqua Jet and Blaziken’s Fire Spin collided in midair.

Tetsuya defeated Sakura’s Dewgong with Blaziken and earned Cerulean Gym’s Blue Badge. As he left the Gym, he noticed another trainer, Toru Suzuki, collecting the same Badge.

• Blaziken countered Dewgong’s Aqua Jet with Fire Spin, then used Rock Slide to pressure it underwater.
• Blaziken dodged Dewgong’s Dive Attack and struck it with Blaze Kick, followed by a combo that ended with Thunder Punch.
• The referee declared Dewgong unable to battle, making Tetsuya the winner of the Gym Battle.
• Sakura congratulated Tetsuya and told him to collect Cerulean Gym’s Blue Badge at the front desk.
• Tetsuya received the Blue Badge and passed Toru Suzuki, who was also collecting one.

Tetsuya recovered Blaziken after the Cerulean Gym battle and learned from Brock about the Gym’s succession worries and Misty’s early training. At the Pokémon Center’s battle field, he spotted an arrogant seventeen-year-old offering a check to anyone who could defeat him, and watched as a Trainer stepped forward to challenge him.

• Tetsuya had Blaziken treated at the Pokémon Center, where it quickly regained its stamina.
• Brock called Tetsuya to ask what had happened to Sakura, who had complained that Tetsuya bullied her after their Gym battle.
• Brock explained that the Cerulean Gym lacked a likely successor, while its youngest descendant, Misty, had recently begun learning to be a Trainer.
• Tetsuya and Brock discussed his upcoming visit to the Pokémon School, then ended the call so Tetsuya could feed his Pokémon.
• Tetsuya went to the Pokémon Center’s battle field and saw a seventeen-year-old offer a check to anyone who could beat him.
• A Trainer stepped forward to challenge the young man after growing tired of his boasts and becoming interested in the money.

Tetsuya defeated Yezang in a Pokemon battle by using Gravity to briefly disrupt Golbat and land every hit from Boldore’s Rock Blast, then took the 800,000 check. Unbeknownst to Tetsuya, a League insider began watching him, while an old woman decided Yezang should learn from future losses.

• Tetsuya challenged Yezang and sent out Boldore against Yezang’s Golbat.
• Tetsuya used Gravity to briefly freeze Golbat in midair, allowing Boldore’s Rock Blast to hit five times and knock it out.
• Yezang handed Tetsuya the 800,000 check, and Tetsuya left before Yezang could question him.
• Tetsuya returned to his room and prepared lesson materials for the following week.
• A League official reported Tetsuya’s victory to an old woman, who ordered him not to tell Yezang and let the young Trainer learn from losing.

Tetsuya left Cerulean City and found naturally shed Slowpoke Tails, which he cooked and shared with Blaziken and Pidgeot while Boldore ate silver ore. Afterward, he continued toward the Pokemon School and arrived at its towering gate.

• Tetsuya spotted a Slowpoke fishing with its tail and followed its tracks to a nearby group.
• Tetsuya sent Pidgeot to retrieve three naturally shed Slowpoke Tails from the group’s territory.
• Tetsuya cooked the tails and shared them with Blaziken and Pidgeot, while Boldore snacked on silver ore.
• Tetsuya finished eating, packed up, and headed toward the Pokemon School with his Pokémon.
• Tetsuya and Blaziken reached the seven-or-eight-meter-tall gate of the Pokemon School.

Tetsuya Tamaki arrived at the Kanto Pokemon Research School to begin a temporary Breeder instructor job arranged by Professor Oak. After a powerful instructor named Chen assessed Blaziken and impressed them both, Tetsuya met the principal, whom he already knew as a former teacher.

• Tetsuya arrived at the school’s gate and verified his identity as a temporary instructor sent by Professor Oak.
• A sightseeing-cart driver named Chen picked up Tetsuya and Blaziken, then accurately assessed Blaziken’s strength and training by sight.
• Chen dropped Tetsuya and Blaziken at the principal’s building, and Blaziken told Tetsuya that Chen was far too strong for it to defeat.
• Tetsuya went to the principal’s office and greeted the elderly principal respectfully, recalling how well the man had treated him before.

Tetsuya reunited with his former teacher, Sasaki Gota, at Viridian City Pokemon School and learned more about Chen, the League's Chief Instructor. His teacher arranged for Yezang to show Tetsuya around the campus during his week as a temporary Breeder teacher.

• Sasaki Gota warmly welcomed Tetsuya and praised the condition and temperament of his Blaziken.
• Tetsuya asked about Chen, and Sasaki Gota explained that Chen was the League's Chief Instructor, had Aura, and was nearly as strong as his mentor Bruno.
• Tetsuya declined Sasaki Gota's offer to show him around, so the principal called Yezang to his office.
• Tetsuya recounted some of his recent achievements to Sasaki Gota while keeping the hardships mostly to himself.
• Yezang entered and recognized Tetsuya, who praised Yezang's Golbat, and Sasaki Gota asked Yezang to show Tetsuya around the campus.

Tetsuya toured the campus with Yezang, learning about the school’s student levels and facilities before settling into his teachers’ dorm. A blonde woman noticed him arrive and mistook him for a new temporary teacher.

• Tetsuya asked Yezang why students wore four different uniform colors, and Yezang explained the provisional, junior, intermediate, and senior levels.
• Yezang explained that the school’s strength classifications reflected knowledge and potential rather than actual badge-level battling ability, and warned Tetsuya that wealthy junior students might hassle him.
• Tetsuya questioned Yezang about the school’s assessments and older intermediate students while criticizing his explanations.
• Yezang showed Tetsuya the teaching buildings, training grounds, Pokemon facilities, and teachers’ dormitory, then left.
• Tetsuya entered his furnished room, released his three Pokemon, and rested.
• A blonde woman eating ice cream watched Tetsuya enter the room next door and guessed that a new temporary teacher had arrived.

Tetsuya began his one-week substitute teaching assignment at the Pokemon School by meeting his sixteen students and leading their introductions. He started a lesson on Grass-type Pokemon while Ghost Feather Yezang struggled through battle training under Teacher Cynthia.

• Tetsuya introduced himself to the class and explained that he was substituting for their Breeder teacher for one week.
• Shizuyo Uto introduced herself, then Ghost Feather Eagle introduced himself and asked Tetsuya to teach his brother, Ghost Feather Yezang, a lesson.
• Tetsuya called attendance and began teaching cultivation methods for common Grass-type Pokemon, asking Shirona a question about Three-Pattern Grass.
• Ghost Feather Yezang sneezed during battle training, and Teacher Cynthia warned that she would suspend his training if he was unwell.
• Ghost Feather Yezang apologized to Teacher Cynthia and said the sneeze had been an accident.

Cynthia replaced Chen as instructor and challenged ten talented students to fight her Garchomp at once. Garchomp defeated all ten Pokemon with one Draco Meteor, and Chen began questioning the students about their performance.

• Yezang and his classmates resented Cynthia's appointment because she was only two years older than they were.
• At Chen's urging, ten students sent out their ace Pokemon, including Yezang's Pawniard.
• Cynthia sent out Garchomp and ordered it to use Draco Meteor against all ten opponents.
• Garchomp's Draco Meteor overwhelmed the students' attacks and knocked out all ten Pokemon.
• Chen healed the defeated Pokemon with Gallade, then told the students he was disappointed and asked them why.

Chen used Cynthia’s demonstration to teach ten students that real battles demanded decisive, unconventional tactics, while Tetsuya assigned his class a Bulbasaur training-plan exercise. The chapter ended with Shirona asking Tetsuya a question.

• Chen told the ten students their battle performance lacked decisiveness and warned them that graduation required completing five A-rank missions with at least an eighty-percent completion rate.
• Cynthia’s Roserade bound the students and took Yezang’s Poke Ball as Chen explained how they should have acted when facing an opponent outside normal arena rules.
• Chen continued the students’ training, and Yezang returned to his exercises after the demonstration.
• Tetsuya taught his students about Grass-type immunity to powder moves and assigned them to write a Bulbasaur training plan.
• Shirona approached Tetsuya after class and asked him a question.

Tetsuya collected his teaching allowance and reviewed the heavy costs of training his Pokémon, then took Boldore and Blaziken to a mountain range for training. The chapter left him setting off with the two Pokémon while Pidgeot rested.

• Tetsuya received 7 million Alliance Coins in weekly reimbursement for breeding expenses.
• Principal Gangtai revealed that he had secretly supplemented Tetsuya’s allowance and considered preparing a gift for his grandson Kojiro.
• Tetsuya calculated his expenses and funds, noting that he expected a chance to make a large profit in about two months.
• Tetsuya tried to use the school’s Training Ground but found it reserved for student lessons, so he changed into his Explorer Suit and flew out with Pidgeot.
• Tetsuya landed near a Mountain Range, let Pidgeot rest, and brought out Boldore and Blaziken to begin training.

Tetsuya returned to Mt. Moon with Blaziken and Boldore to take revenge on Rhyperior and the Nidoking and Nidoqueen. He tracked a lone female Rhyperior to its cave, but after finding it asleep, he backed away instead of attacking.

• Tetsuya told Blaziken to stay cautious and chose to target the lone Rhyperior before the Nidoking and Nidoqueen.
• Tetsuya examined the damaged cave entrance and used the tracks to estimate the Rhyperior's size, injury, and abilities.
• Tetsuya found black powder that resembled Moon Stone powder and guessed that the Rhyperior had eaten and excreted Moon Stones.
• Tetsuya left Boldore outside as backup and sneaked into the cave with Blaziken.
• Tetsuya spotted the sleeping Rhyperior, then quietly backed out, confusing Blaziken.

Tetsuya changed his plan to wait until Rhyperior woke up, hoping to learn whether more Moon Stones were nearby before capturing it. He challenged Rhyperior to a proper battle and named Blaziken as his fighter.

• Tetsuya reasoned that Rhyperior could be useful at Pewter Gym and might earn him money if he deposited it there.
• Tetsuya decided to wait for Rhyperior to wake up so he could challenge it properly and ask it to help search for Moon Stones.
• Tetsuya and Blaziken rested beside Boldore until Rhyperior woke inside its cave.
• Tetsuya threw a stone into the cave to draw Rhyperior outside.
• Rhyperior emerged and accepted Tetsuya's capture challenge.
• Tetsuya chose Blaziken to battle Rhyperior.

Tetsuya had Blaziken battle Rhyperior and defeated it with a combination of Fighting-type moves. After capturing Rhyperior in a Great Ball, he released it again because it seemed not to recognize him.

• Rhyperior attacked Blaziken with Smack Down, and Blaziken shattered the rocks before using Swords Dance.
• Blaziken dodged Rhyperior's Iron Tail and struck it with Brick Break, Double Kick, and Low Kick.
• Rhyperior used Hammer Arm to trigger an Earthquake, then charged at Blaziken with Take Down.
• Tetsuya had Blaziken evade the charge and finish Rhyperior with Superpower.
• Tetsuya captured Rhyperior in a Great Ball, then released it again when he realized it seemed to have forgotten him.

Tetsuya treated and recruited Rhyperior, then learned that it had seen Moon Stones near a Nidoking and Nidoqueen nest. He followed Rhyperior there with Blaziken and Boldore, where they prepared to confront the Pokémon guarding it.

• Tetsuya treated Rhyperior's injuries and waited with Boldore while Blaziken ate a Sitrus Berry.
• Rhyperior woke, accepted berries, and agreed to become Tetsuya's Pokémon after acknowledging Blaziken's strength.
• Tetsuya showed Rhyperior a picture of a Moon Stone, and Rhyperior recalled eating one and seeing three at the Nidoking and Nidoqueen's nest.
• Tetsuya took Rhyperior, Blaziken, and Boldore to the nest, explaining to Rhyperior how Blaziken had stayed steady during their fight.
• Boldore sensed six Pokémon ahead, including two large ones, a Zubat, two Paras, and a Parasect, and Tetsuya sent Rhyperior forward to provoke them.

Tetsuya and his Pokémon confronted Nidoking and Nidoqueen in their dark cave, with Rhyperior leading them to its old rivals. Tetsuya’s team trapped the pair and struck them with coordinated attacks, leaving them howling as the battle continued.

• Rhyperior provoked Nidoking and Nidoqueen, and Tetsuya used Blaziken’s Flamethrower to illuminate the cave and reveal them.
• Nidoking and Nidoqueen recognized Tetsuya and Blaziken, then attacked the group with Rock Slide and hurled chunks of stone from the walls.
• Tetsuya ordered Rhyperior to use Drill Run on Nidoking, Boldore to restrain both opponents with Arena Trap, and Blaziken to attack Nidoqueen with Blast Burn.
• Boldore’s Arena Trap caught Nidoking and Nidoqueen, while Rhyperior charged Nidoking with Drill Run and Blaziken’s Blast Burn struck Nidoqueen.

Tetsuya defeated Nidoking and Nidoqueen, captured them, and searched their cave for valuable resources. He found Hard Rock and a patch of unusual glowing green moss, leaving him pleased with the haul.

• Tetsuya's Rhyperior, Blaziken, and Boldore overwhelmed Nidoking and Nidoqueen, and Tetsuya captured the defeated pair in locked Poke Balls.
• Rhyperior knocked out a charging Zubat, while Parasect fled with its two Little Brothers.
• Tetsuya considered trading the captured Pokémon through Pewter Gym instead of repeatedly using the Black Market.
• Tetsuya followed Rhyperior into the brightly lit cave and searched it while his Pokémon guarded the entrances.
• Tetsuya found Hard Rock for Boldore and then discovered unusual glowing green moss among the Fluorescent Grass.