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That Awful Arbok!

VSアーボック

VS. Arbok

Info

Series

Pokémon Adventures

Other

Location

Lavender Town

That Awful Arbok! (Japanese: VSアーボック VS. Arbok) is the fourteenth round in the Red, Green & Blue arc of the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Synopsis

Red finds Blue being controlled by the fog in Pokémon Tower. While possessed, Blue battles Red's Bulbasaur with his Charmeleon. In the midst of the battle, Red deduces that Blue is being controlled by a Gastly and tries to stop it by using Razor Leaf, which doesn't work because of Gastly's gassy body. Just then, Charmeleon gets ready to subdue Saur with a massive Fire Spin attack.

In order to escape this dillema, Red has Bulbasaur use Absorb which not only sucks in the Gastly but also frees all of the undead Pokémon in the fog it created (as well as Blue). He then checks to see if Blue is alright. Blue shows his thanks (though he didn't exactly mean it) and then goes further up the tower to find the person responsible for casting spells on the town's people and creating all of those undead Pokémon using that Gastly.

The culprit came out to be Koga. Blue has his Charmeleon attack him; however, it is only a projection. The real Koga is controlling his Pokémon from a distance and sends his Arbok after Red and Blue. Arbok sends an Acid attack but Charmeleon defends with Reflect. Afterwards, the reflect breaks and Charmeleon reacts by slicing through Arbok. Koga, defeated, leaves (determined to pay these two "brats" back), and Red and Blue leave the Pokémon Tower.

Mr. Fuji thanks Red, but Red then acts modest and credits Blue for what happened. At the same time, the citizens of Lavender Town, now back to normal, gather around the Pokémon Tower to bury all of the leftover corpses of the undead Pokémon while Mr. Fuji finally finds a spot to bury is dead Duduo, knowing that it'll be forever in peace.

Major Events

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Gastly

Characters

Humans

• Red
• Blue
• Mr. Fuji
• Koga

Cameos

Pokémon

• Bulbasaur (Saur, Red's)
• Charmeleon (Blue's)
• Arbok (Koga's)
• Gastly

Cameos

• Zombie Psyduck
• Golbat (Koga's)
• Rhyhorn

Trivia

• This was the last round of the Pokémon Adventures manga to be translated into Polish.
• This round focuses heavily on death, even showing Charmeleon (presumably) killing Koga's Arbok by slicing it into two pieces.

Errors

• When Red encounters Ninja Koga, Koga states that, "...You'd think that an Evil Crime Syndicate could built a simple base...". Koga could have meant "...could have built a simple base..." or "...could build a simple base..."

This article is part of Project Manga, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each series of Pokémon manga.