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VS Kirlia (Japanese: VS キルリア VS Kirlia) is the 308th round of the Pokémon Adventures manga, and the sixth round of the Emerald arc.

Synopsis

Outside, Latias and Latios approach Emerald and Todd and telepathically ask Emerald to release the Sceptile he stole from the Battle Factory from its Poké Ball. After he does, they ask him to check Sceptile's level with his PokéNav. All this time, Todd stands aside and can't believe his eyes, as he can't hear what the two Eon Pokémon are saying. Emerald finds out that Sceptile is at Level 51, which shouldn't be possible, since Emerald battled the Battle Factory in the Level 50 category. Todd says the system couldn't have made an error like this, but Emerald says that machines don't lie, and reminds him that when Noland's Glalie used Sheer Cold, it didn't work. Sheer Cold in a move that will miss if the opponent is even one level higher. Emerald tells Todd he didn't know about Sceptile's level until now, and Todd says Noland didn't appear to know what's going on either. Emerald then concludes that Sceptile is not a rental Pokémon to begin with - someone slipped it inside the Battle Factory under Noland's nose.

Suddenly, Latias warns Emerald that someone's coming - Brandon and Tucker. Latias hurries to use Mist Ball to hide the three Pokémon in a cloud of mist before the two Frontier Brains arrive and start picking on Emerald, making fun of his short height. They ask the young boy which facility he's going to challenge tomorrow, and Emerald replies that he doesn't feel like going to either of their facilities, because the two of them really get on his nerves. With that, Emerald uses his extending mechanical hands to bang the two mens' heads together, and then runs away. Furious, Tucker and Brandon give chase and manage to grab Emerald, but he keeps using his machines to trick them, tying them up to two poles with his mechanical hands. Emerald himself then stays hanging in the air between the poles, and just goes to sleep without releasing the Frontier Brains.

After the sun rises, Todd goes looking for Emerald, holding Sceptile's Poké Ball. He arrives at the Battle Pike, and is shocked to find Emerald there, still sleeping in mid-air. As it turns out, the "poles" Brandon and Tucker were tied to were really the fangs of the Seviper statue that forms the entrance to the Battle Pike. Lucy then arrives from within the Battle Pike and orders her Seviper to use Poison Tail to release the men. Lucy reprimands Tucker and Brandon, and tells Emerald that he must be quite "lucky" if he managed to find her Battle Pike while running around in the dark. She introduces herself to him and asks if he'll want to challenge her today.

Emerald agrees, while Todd reads about the Battle Pike: a facility that tests one's luck, a Trainer enters it with 3 Pokémon on hand. He will enter a series of halls with 3 doors. To progress, he must go through one of these doors until he reaches the final room. Each door leads into a room. Each room can have one of eight types of events. Each set consists of six halls and seven rooms. The challenger can only battle Pike Queen Lucy herself in the final room of the tenth set - which is the 129th room.

As the members of the press arrive, Emerald runs off to get prepared. Todd runs after him and asks him what he's going to do - after all, he needs Pokémon of his own, and Emerald once told Todd that he doesn't own any Pokémon. Emerald then explains that the person who sent him to the Battle Frontier owns every single sort of Pokémon, and they're all available for him to use. When they reach a comupter, Emerald sends a message to that person in the Pokémon Research Laboratory in Hoenn, who then sends the requested Pokémon to Emerald.

Emerald hurries back to the Battle Pike and tells Lucy he's ready, choosing his first door. As Todd, Lucy, and the other reporters watch via large screens, Emerald is challenged to a Double Battle with two virtual Trainers using a Dusclops and a Kirlia. Kirlia then gets ready to use Screech.

Major Events

• Emerald starts battling the Battle Pike.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Emerald
• Todd Snap
• Factory Head Noland (flashback)
• Pyramid King Brandon
• Dome Ace Tucker
• Pike Queen Lucy
• Reporters (many)
• Person in Hoenn Research Laboratory

Pokémon

• Latias
• Latios
• Sceptile (Emerald's)
• Glalie (Battle Factory's; flashback)
• Salamence (Tucker's)
• Seviper (Lucy's)
• Dusclops (Battle Pike's)
• Kirlia (Battle Pike's)

Trivia

Errors

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