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{{PokémonAdventuresInfobox
|title_en=The Secret of Kangaskhan
|title_ja=VS ガルーラ
|title_ro=VS Garura
|image=PS003.png
|chapter=Red, Green & Blue
|volume=1
|number=3
|location=[[Viridian City]]<br>[[Viridian Forest]]
|prev_round=Bulbasaur, Come Home!
|next_round=Wanted: Pikachu!
}}

'''The Secret of Kangaskhan''' (Japanese: '''VS ガルーラ''' ''VS {{tt|Garura|Kangaskhan}}'') is the third round of the [[Pokémon Adventures]] manga.

==Plot==
{{spoilers}}
In a flashback, {{adv|Professor Oak}} suggests that {{adv|Red}} go to [[Viridian Forest]] to complete the [[Pokédex]]. Back in the present, Red, [[Poli]], and [[Saur]] enter Viridian Forest. Meanwhile, [[Blue's Charmander]] defeats a {{p|Venomoth}}, much to {{adv|Blue}}'s disappointment as he already has one.

Meanwhile, Red is looking for a {{p|Caterpie}} when he sees movement in a bush and sends Poli to attack. However, he is attacked first by Blue's Charmander, who believed Poliwhirl was a [[wild Pokémon]]. Red becomes angry, but recognizes the boy as the one that found the Phantom Pokémon, {{p|Mew}}. Suddenly, they hear a loud noise and Blue states that he found what he was looking for. A {{p|Kangaskhan}} shows up; Blue doesn't lose any time and attacks her with Charmander. Blue takes out his Pokédex, in order to see her information. When Red shows his Pokédex, they realize that they are rivals with the same mission. Red also learns that Blue is the grandson of the famous Professor Oak.

The fire causes a lot of damage to the Kangaskhan and Blue tries to capture her a couple of times with [[Poké Ball]]s but she escapes them; however, she doesn't attack. Red perceives that something is wrong and stops Charmander's attack, and then runs to the wild Pokémon and looks at her belly. Her baby Kangaskhan in her pouch was poisoned, so Red uses an {{DL|Status condition healing item|Antidote}} to cure it. The mother Kangaskhan thanks him and leaves. Blue is mad at Red's intervention and they "formally" present themselves. With the same goal, they go in different directions.

==Major events==
* {{adv|Blue}} is revealed to own a [[Pokédex]].
* Blue is revealed to own a {{p|Venomoth}}.
* {{adv|Red}} and Blue start their journeys.

{{endspoilers}}
===Debuts===
====Pokémon debuts====
* {{p|Venomoth}}
* {{p|Kangaskhan}}

==Characters==
===Humans===
* {{adv|Red}}
* {{adv|Blue}}
* {{adv|Professor Oak}} (flashback)

===Pokémon===
* {{p|Poliwhirl}} ([[Poli]]; {{adv|Red}}'s)
* {{p|Bulbasaur}} ([[Saur]]; {{adv|Red}}'s)
* {{p|Charmander}} ({{OP|Blue|Charmander}})
* {{p|Kangaskhan}}
* {{p|Venomoth}}
* {{p|Caterpie}} (fantasy)
* {{p|Mew}} ({{adv|Mew|Adventures}}; flashback)

==Trivia==
* This chapter is included in [[The Best of Pokémon Adventures: Red]].
* Although not shown, it is revealed that {{Adv|Blue}} has captured a {{p|Venomoth}}.
* The image of the Venomoth in Blue's [[Pokédex]] is its [[Pokémon Red and Blue Versions|Red and Blue Versions]] sprite flipped horizontally, as are the Pokédex entries of the other Pokémon in the {{adv|Red, Green & Blue chapter}}.

==In other languages==
{{Epilang|color=AAFFAA|bordercolor=FFAAAA
|zh_cmn={{tt|VS 袋龍|VS Kangaskhan}} (Taiwan)<br>{{tt|VS 袋龙|VS Kangaskhan}} (Mainland China)
|fi={{tt|Red vastaan Kangaskhan|Red versus Kangaskhan}}
|fr_eu={{tt|Kangourex|Kangaskhan}}{{tt|*|Glénat translation}}<br>{{tt|La Forêt de Jade|The Viridian Forest}}{{tt|*|Kurokawa translation}}
|de={{tt|Kangamas Geheimnis|Kangaskhan's Secret}}{{tt|*|Egmont Manga & Anime translation}}<br>{{tt|VS. Kangama|VS. Kangaskhan}}{{tt|*|Panini Comics translation}}
|it={{tt|Il Segreto Di Kangaskhan|The Secret of Kangaskhan}}
|ko={{tt|VS 캥카|VS Kangaskhan}}
|pt_br=VS Kangaskhan
|es_eu={{tt|Contra Kangaskhan|VS Kangaskhan}}
|th={{tt|VS การูร่า|VS Kangaskhan}}
|vi={{tt|VS Garura|VS Kangaskhan}}
}}
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