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Sandstorm

VSキリキザン VS Kirikizan

Info Chapter Black & White Collected in Vol. 46 Round number 481

Other Location Castelia Gate Route 4

Rounds Previous Round At Liberty on Liberty Garden Next Round To Make a Musical

Sandstorm (Japanese: VSキリキザン VS Kirikizan or 砂漠 Desert) is the 481st round of the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Plot

Black and White arrive here after finding their next target is Nimbasa City. However, the sandstorm proves to be quite dangerous, and as White runs off to go buy sandstorm gear, Black sits at the library to study for his next Gym battle. He quickly runs into a group of Workers taking a break, playing a game of card flip. After a brief chat, the person who organized the card flip points at a Drilbur in the site, and tells Black to guess which side of the line his Bisharp created the Drilbur will pop up next. However, after a Worker falls in the holes dug by Drilbur, the person organizing the game realizes that he must be a fake worker. After a short battle with his Maractus defeated by Bisharp, the fake worker's identity is revealed as a Team Plasma Grunt. Shortly after, Black figures out the person organizing the Drilbur game is Grimsley. He asks for a battle to get information, but if Black loses, his badges will be lost.

Major events

• Black and White arrive at Route 4, but are unable to pass because of a violent sandstorm.
• Black meets Elite Four member Grimsley.
• Grimsley battles a Team Plasma Grunt that had sneaked into the construction site.

For a list of all major events in the Pokémon Adventures manga, please see the timeline of events.

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Debuts

• Grimsley

Pokémon debuts

• Swadloon
• Maractus
• Bisharp

Characters

Humans

• Black
• White
• Grimsley
• Team Plasma Grunt
• Workers

Pokémon

• Munna (Musha; Black's)
• Bisharp (Grimsley's)
• Maractus (Team Plasma Grunt's)
• Petilil (Worker's)
• Swadloon (Worker's)
• Drilbur

Trivia

• In the VIZ Media mini-volumes of the Black & White chapter, this round was collected in Volume 7.
• In the Kurokawa translation from France, this round was released in Pokémon Black and White volume 3.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		VS 劈斬司令 - 沙漠
European French		Pari ensablé
German		VS. Caesurio - Die Wüste
Italian		VS Bisharp - Deserto
Korean		VS 절각참
Brazilian Portuguese		VS Bisharp - Deserto
European Spanish		Contra Bisharp
Vietnamese		VS Kirikizan - Sa mạc

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