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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 on Route 4 after finding their next target is Nimbasa City. However, a sandstorm hinders their progress, 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 where Maractus is 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 of the Elite Four. He asks for a battle to get information, but if Black loses, he'll have to give up all of his Badges.

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.

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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.