Chapter 40: The Volcano

Mike and the gang woke up and ate some breakfast, ready to go to Route 12. They exited Pentham Town and entered Route 12. When they first saw it, The route was filled with brown grass, like a safari. Until the old man appeared magically. He gave Mike another quote, the old man said "Get ready to beat the heat!" Mike thought that the weather was going to be scorching later and walked off. They battled some trainers until they walked up a steep hill.

When they finally reached the top of the hill, they saw a Volcano around 2 kilometers in front of them. They continued to walk until they saw a Team Boom Grunt in the route. The grunt ran away towards the volcano quickly. The 3 of them ran towards the volcano, it was getting hotter and hotter getting close to the volcano. There, they saw a giant bulldozer with the Team Boom logo printed largely on it. Mike saw that there was a chisel connected to it. There was an entrance to the volcano. It looked like Team Boom used the chisel to precisely carve out an entrance to the volcano. Then, a Team Boom Grunt said that there was important business happening in the volcano.

Mike demanded a battle with the Team Boom Grunt to enter. Mike sent out Lampent and the grunt sent out a Linoone. Mike ordered Lampent to use Flame Burst and the Linoone came back with a Slash. Lampent finished off Linoone with another Flame burst. The grunt sent out a Graveler. Mike sent back Lampent and brought Decidueye in. Graveler used Rock Throw, which did some damage to Decidueye. Decidueye used Leaf Blade, but Graveler was able to live with its ability Sturdy. Graveler used Rock Slide, then Decidueye finished it off with Spirit Shackle.

Mike then entered the Volcano alongside Georgia and Carson, in the volcano was extremely hot. Inside the volcano, there was an upper level that was inaccessible where they were right now. On the upper level was a masked man training his Charizard with the Pokemon in the volcano. Mike realized he was the Team Boom Leader. The masked man recognized the three of them and retreated. Mike realized it was too dangerous to continue and decided to surrender and leave the volcano. Then, the man told all the grunts to get into the van and the leader ran off.

Then, Mike decided to find who that leader was and was determined to save his mom. They then made their way through Route 12 until they saw a raging Pokemon...