The Journey: Book 1- The Kanto Region

[YankeeFan2]

I made a trainer fic a couple of months ago, and I left it there. I hope this doesn't get flamed. I never like flames ever!

DISCLAIMER: I don’t own Pokemon.


The Journey: Book 1- The Kanto Region

He was on time. He was never too early, never too late. He was waiting for this day for a good three months. He was finally going to be a Pokemon Trainer. He always thought that Indigo Plateau was the best place in Kanto, ever. He said goodbye to his parents and friends on the cell phone his mom got for him for his birthday because his father works at the telephone company in Cinnabar Island. That day before he left, his mom was being very nervous. She packed him $3000 poke dollars, three potions, a couple of antidotes and paralyze heals, some pajamas and all the hygienic items she could find. His mom works at the Pallet Town Grocery Store, so she bought mostly everything there.

He was at the gates of Professor Oak’s lab waiting for his Pokemon. The green hair was sticking up from his forehead, because this event made him feel nervous. Many legends started here, like Ash Ketchum who is now somewhere in the Hoenn League and Gary Oak who is now a researcher like his grandfather. After that, everything was cool at Pallet. The gates opened and the noble trainer who’s going to start his own journey went inside the famous Professor Oak’s laboratory.

“Hey, Jimmy,” said Tracey. Tracey was Professor Oak’s assistant and an excellent Pokemon watcher.

“Hey, Tracey,” said Jimmy. “How are ya?”

“Good, starting off?”

“Yeah. You know what they say, the early Pidgey gets the Caterpie,” he said.

“True enough,” an authorative voice sounded, as a doorway opened, the figure of Professor Oak emerging. “Good morning James, I guess you’d like your Pokemon so you can begin collecting all those badges to be had.”

“Oh I sure am Professor…Professor, thanks a lot for giving me a Pokemon, I’m really grateful, honest.”

He laughed. “I’m always glad to give you a Pokemon, after all without trainers sending me their Pokemon, how would I ever complete my research.”

He smiled. “Then I’ll be sure to send you lots of cool ones Professor, just you wait and see.”

“Heh, you remind me a little of Ash,” Tracey said in an almost reminiscent tone.

“Well except you can wake up on time.”

The Professor laughed also. “Yes that is true. Well I have one other trainer due, but it looks like you get next pick James, which Pokemon do you wish to choose?”

“I put a lot of thought into this Professor,” Jimmy smiled. “You see if I chose Bulbasaur I’d have an easy time at the first two gym’s I plan to visit, but it’ll get harder after that, especially at Saffron City, I hear Sabrina wields a pretty mean Kadabra and Bulbasaur would be weak against him, due to the dual type.”

“Sounds like you’ve been doing your research,” Oak said. “I’m impressed.”

“Thanks,” Jimmy smiled, before continuing. “Squirtle would be an advantage in Pewter but by the time I get to Vermillion, Squirtle would just get fried, so I choose Charmander.”

“Josie, you can catch other Pokemon you know,” Tracey laughed. “Plus Charmander won’t be much use to you in Pewter or Cerulean.”

“Like you said Tracey, I can catch other Pokemon,” Jimmy said. “Plus Charmander evolves into Charizard eventually and I love Charizard!”

Tracey sweat dropped a bit as he remembered how hard a time Ash had gaining his Charizard’s respect. “Yeah, true enough I guess. Still you could’ve just said that in the first place.”

“But I wanted to show that I knew something,” he smiled.

Tracey laughed. “Well, you did. Off to a good start already then.”

“Then here you go,” Oak smiled, handing over a poke ball and his pokedex.

“I wish you good luck on your journey, and don’t forget to phone in from time to time, I’d like a progress report.”

“Will do,” she waved. “And thanks again.”

Tracy and Oak waved the young girl down the path, before Tracey turned to Oak.

“Hey Professor, guess its time to feed the Pokemon.”

Oak looked at his watch. “By gosh you’re…” he never finished his sentence as he was smothered by the purple mass that was Ash Ketchum’s Muk.

“Some things never change…” Tracey sighed.

Walking up the hill, Jimmy studied his new Poke ball. Guess it was time to meet his new best friend.

“Come on out, Charmander,” he said throwing the ball into the air.

The ball opened and in a brilliant flash of white light, there stood her new fire lizard Pokemon. He smiled broadly as she caught the ball, crouching down to his level.

“Hey there Charmander, I’m your new trainer, my name’s Jimmy and I’m so glad to be your partner.”

The Charmander looked at him bemused for a second, before jumping up and down exclaiming it’s greeting in the only way a Pokemon knows how.
“Char, Charmander!” It…well sort of grinned, happily at least. It seemed they were off to a good start.

“We’re gonna make a great team Charmander just you wait and see, and we’ll have lots of fun, adventure and make new friends all the way. Sound cool?”

The Pokemon nodded smiling. “Char!”

“Then, lets begin our journey,”

He took one long, last look at his home town, as did the Charmander, before resolutely turning round with her new friend and walking towards the road to Viridian City, adventure, and new Pokemon.

Don't flame me "too" bad. Later!

 

[~*Mudkip Fantastic*~]

Good. I'm not good at ratings but about 7/10 so far. I see potential but thats just me others may think different

 

[HB5squared]

This story is very close to the GBA style, which everyone hates. Be realistic, whose mother packs them 3000$? I know mine doesn't! Just because in the GBA series everything is so high priced doesn't mean that it actually is. Try and stay as far away from that plot as possible!

I really like the way you write but this plot is bad unless you make some drastic changes.

If you'd like a strong detailed review, than PM me.

HB5squared!

 

[YankeeFan2]

On The Road

Sorry about the money mix-up. In the meantime, here's the next chapter while I try thinking of something to change the plot.


On The Road

Phew! They’d made good time so far as he saw the sun reaching it’s peak in the sky, his pack had a few days food supplies in it, both human and Pokemon, and he had about $100 with him. He put most of it in his bank at home, makes things a lot easier for him. He winced slightly there, he hoped not to run into any trainers before getting Charmander some battle experience, and it was money he could not afford to lose because of battle inexperience. He looked down at his partner walking along happily by his side. He’d asked him if he wanted a rest in his ball but he’d shook his head, and he thanked him for keeping him company. Still now was as good a time as any to rest, must be lunchtime at least.

“Say Charmander,” he looked down at his little Pokemon. “Wanna stop and grab a bite to eat, I dunno about you but I’m hungry.”

The Charmander danced happily as if he had read his mind.

“Well ok then,” he smiled, looking around. He spotted a nice tall tree, not too far off the path. “How about we rest here?”

The Charmander eagerly followed him, sitting in-between his stretched out legs after he’d removed his backpack and sat down. He reached into his bags main pocket. As ditsy as Jimmy knew he could be, he’d spent ages organizing himself, he had a pocket for food supplies, which was the main pocket, a section inside the main pocket for his poke balls, a pocket for berries that he found, he knew after all that Pokemon loved berries, and a spare pocket to keep any other items of interest he found. At the moment that pocket only contained his cell phone, and a PokeNav that he got from his aunt in Rustboro, but you never know what you’ll find on a long journey, that was his reasoning anyway. He also had a sleeping bag, with spare clothes rolled into it, but that tied well atop the main bag itself thankfully.

“So, what would you like Charmander?” he asked his friend. He took five different types of poke food. “Which one do you like best?”

The Pokemon sniffed each one eagerly, before jumping up and down at the second one. “Char! Char!”

“Right you are,” he smiled, pouring out a nice serving for the Pokemon. “So this is your favorite, I’ll remember that…any you don’t like the smell of?”

The Charmander pointed only at the fourth one, a look of slight disgust on his face.

“OK, I’ll make a note of that one,” he said, actually doing so on a notepad he produced from the pocket of his jean jacket. “Best keep it though, you never know, one of the friends we meet might like it eh Charmander?”

The Charmander smiled happily nodding in agreement, before tucking into the food he’d given him.

Jimmy smiled, putting the notebook and other foods away, producing a vacuum-packed sandwich for himself. That notebook was going to be his reference for a long time. He thought, he’d already written into it type advantages and disadvantages, but he also planned on writing about his Pokemon's habits and create battle tactics with it, after all type advantages weren’t everything. He’d once heard Ash Ketchum beat a Geodude and an Onix with a Pikachu of all things!

‘Tactics were important to’ he thought as he took a bite out of his ham sandwich, smiling happily at his chowing down partner, perhaps Charmander would beat a water type one day.


Later, after a nice hearty meal, the two partners set off on the road to Viridian city, but on the look out for other things too.

“Careful Charmander,” Jimmy whispered, as they searched a grassy area. “I think there are some Pidgey and Rattata around here.”

“Char,” the Pokemon nodded quietly.

“I should probably get a poke ball re…wo-oh!”

He had to jump aside quickly as a clearly enraged Spearow jumped at him from the bushes.

“A Spearow?” he questioned. “I didn’t think they were on this route.” He had to shake that thought of quickly as the Spearow furiously tried to peck at him.

“A fury attack eh?” he almost laughed. “You want a battle Spearow, we’ll give you one! Charmander, tackle that Spearow!”

His Charmander charged with surprising speed knocking the Spearow dead in it’s side. The Spearow tumbled a few feet before getting up roaring its name in fury.

“Charmander, follow up with ember,” Jimmy shouted.

The Charmander’s flame on it’s tail slightly increased as it opened up it’s mouth and let loose a spray of fire. The Spearow, caught up in the fire was obviously surprised, and on fire as it ran around in a panic trying to get its tail feathers out.
“Now Charmander finish it off with a scratch attack.”

“Char-man-der,” it shouted as it scratched the panicking Pokemon, which promptly fell to the ground, twitching.

“Alright,” Jimmy shouted. “Poke ball go!”

She threw the ball at the Spearow, hitting it head on, in a flurry of red light the Pokemon was in the ball, which began shaking furiously. Both Josie and Charmander watched the ball intently as it continued shaking, but the ping sound confirmed the inevitably.

“Yay,” Jimmy said running up to Charmander and hugging it. “We caught a Spearow Charmander, good work.”
“Char,” it smiled happily, walking over and picking up the ball, handing it to Jimmy.
He studied the ball carefully. “You put up a heck of an attack on me Spearow, I hope you’ll attack just as hard for me, welcome to the team.” He threw the ball. “Now come on out so I can treat those burns.”

The Spearow reappeared in a flash of white light. Jimmy was aware it would probably be wary of him at first. So he knelt down with the burn heal in his hand and looked seriously at the Spearow.

“Hi, I’m Jimmy,” it only blinked so he continued. “This is a burn heal, if you want me too I can heal that burn my Charmander gave you.”

The Spearow hopped over and sniffed the burn heal, before nodding. “Spear-ow.”

“Ok then,” he smiled. “Just hold still a second.”

He sprayed the potion on the Spearow. It obviously felt better really easy because it jumped about shouting its name in joy.

“Welcome to my team Spearow, you’re a good attacker, so I hope we can be friends?”

“Spearow, spear,” it nodded.

“Cool, our first new friend Charmander.”

“Char,” the Charmander smiled up at the Spearow, who returned its greeting.

“Then lets continue on our way guys,” she smiled. “Spearow return!”

The Pokemon returned to its poke ball in a flash of red light.

Jimmy spent the next few days scouring the route thoroughly. As he predicted he was able to capture a Pidgey and a Rattata. They also encountered them in numerous numbers so they were able to gain a lot of battle experience. Jimmy now felt ready to challenge other trainers, and so did his Pokemon.

“Look Charmander!” Jimmy exclaimed as they walked out of a dense patch of undergrowth having dispatched of a few more Pidgey. “Viridian City!”

There it was, a neon glow in the night sky confirmed the Pokemon center just inside the city’s entrance and the tall buildings, still lit up the early night sky. Jimmy had to admit he couldn’t wait for a hot meal, a bath and a good night’s sleep in a bed at the center. He could call his parents and Professor Oak in the morning.

“Come on Charmander,” Jimmy laughed. “Race ya!”

“Char” the Pokemon shouted following him lead into the city.

 

[~*Mudkip Fantastic*~]

Good. Still keeping to the anime style plot, what with the spearows and Tracey. Very good

 

[Boonge]

Looks the good so far only 1 mistake that i found that you said she threw the pokeball. Its a he is'nt it?

 

[YankeeFan2]

Chapter 3

Oops. I was typing too fast and must have forgot about it. Anyway, here is the next chappie.

Chapter 3: Jimmy's Stuck-Up Rival

Jimmy strode into the Pokemon center just as the ever-present Nurse Joy was handing a Growlithe back to Viridian’s resident Officer Jenny.

“Here you go Officer,” Joy said, smiling as ever as she handed the Pokemon over. “Fit and ready for duty.”

“Well that’s good,” Jenny replied, patting the happy Growlithe. “I hear Team Rocket may be planning something up on Mount Moon past Pewter City. The force up there wants ever available Growlithe for duty up there.”

“Oh I do hope those horrible two that were here a couple of years ago aren’t behind that. Those two, honestly, my poor centre…” It was then that she noticed Jimmy. “Oh hello dear, is there anything I can do for you?”

Jimmy, who had been homing in on their conversation, brought himself back to reality. “Oh yeah, sorry Nurse Joy, I kind of zoned out there for a second. Urm, could I get my Pokemon checked out and a bed for the night?”

“Of course dear,” she smiled, accepting the young trainer’s poke balls and Charmander. “No problem.”

“Are you a new trainer?” Officer Jenny asked as Nurse Joy put his Pokemon away to be checked.

“Sure am Officer,” he smiled. “Jimmy Masterson, fresh from Pallet Town ma’am.”

“Well be warned, Team Rocket, a group who steal Pokemon and use them for nefarious purposes are around again, they’ve been quiet here in Kanto for a while but seems as they’re back it’s only fair to warn you.”

“Thank you officer, I’ll be careful.”

“I’m sure you will,” Jenny smiled turning to Nurse Joy. “I’d better get going, see you soon Joy.”

“Yes,” Nurse Joy nodded. “See you soon.”

As the officer left, Joy turned to the young trainer. “Jimmy was it? From Pallet Town? Sorry I overheard you say so.”

“That’s right Nurse Joy,” he said. “Hoping to do as well as some of my fellow Pallet Towner’s too.”

“Oh you mean like Ash Ketchum?” she asked. “He has such great empathy with his Pokemon, I hear he’s done very well for himself. Know him?”

“No, not really,” Jimmy sighed. “I tried to meet him every time he was home, but I always just missed him…I hear a lot about him though, his mother frequents my mom when she works at the grocery store back home.”

“Oh well, maybe you’ll meet some day on your journey,” she smiled. “Are you planning to go to the Viridian gym?”

“Viridian gym?” Jimmy questioned. “I heard it was blown up,”

“That’s why I asked. It always is this time of year, I don’t know the leader, and they're very mysterious. I don’t know where he…or she goes actually. They rebuilt the stadium, but it was still closed,”

“Oh well, it’ll be open by the time I get back from the rest of my journey, just in time to get the badge and go to the league.”

“Confident aren’t you?” Joy mused, giggling a little.

“Yeah, Charmander and all my other Pokemon are going to be great, you just wait and see Nurse Joy.”

She smiled. “Anyway, I’m sure you’re tired after travelling here, the rooms are over that way,” she pointed to a set of doors. “You should have a bath and get ready, supper is in an hour.”

“Thanks a lot,” he smiled, heading that way. “See you later Nurse Joy.”

The nurse smiled as the trainer went on his way to the dormitory, and then went on about her ministrations; there were Pokemon to take care of after all.
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The next morning after a refreshing hot meal and good night’s sleep, as well as a reuniting with his growing team at breakfast, Jimmy thought it was about time he called home. The vid-phone blinked into life extremely quick once he’d dialled the home number, too quick if you asked him.

“Hey mom,” Jimmy smiled, as the visage of his mother appeared on the screen. “How’s it going?”

“Jimmy,” her mother almost screamed down the phone. “How are you? What Pokemon have you caught? Are you eating right? Are you taking care of yourself? Are you in Viridian City? Hey Joe, Jimmy’s calling.”

That last one was obviously to get the attention of his father to come to the phone, but geez how'd she get all that out in one breath. “Heh, slow down mom, one thing at a time please,” he blushed.

“Hello Jimmy,” his father came to the phone. “At Viridian I see.”

He smiled. His father had been a trainer in his younger years but had settled down when he met his mother. He must’ve recognized the Pokemon center, it was rebuilt to the exact same specifications as the one that’d been destroyed so nothing had changed in effect. “Yeah dad, I got here last night, got to meet Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny.”

“Yeah, get used to that,” he laughed. “I swear there’s at least one of each in every town. How are your Pokemon? Which one did you choose?”

“Oh yeah, I chose Charmander,” he said. “And I caught a Pidgey, Spearow and a Rattata on the way here.”

“Oh well done honey,” his mother said excitedly. “You’re doing great!”

“Mom, settle down, I’ve only just started.” Jimmy said, blushing furiously. Honestly his mother had more confidence in him than he did!

“Jimmy’s right, Joan,” his father said. “Still a Spearow on the way to Viridian City is a rare catch, I’ll give you that one Jimmy.”

“Yeah but I would’ve caught one sooner or later dad,” Jimmy reminded him. “They are pretty common after Viridian City.”

“True enough…anyways a Charmander? I always figured you would, a fiery girl like you deserves a partner to suit.”

“Char,” his Charmander spoke from his feet, where he’d been standing all this time, still not staying in his poke ball.

“Oh,” Jimmy smiled, picking him up. “Charmander, meet my parents.”

“Char!” the Pokemon smiled.

“Aww what a cutie,” his mother intoned as Jimmy and Charmander sweat dropped.

“Looks like you’re taking good care of him,” his father said. “You take good care of him too Charmander, ok?”

“Char-man-der!” the Pokemon replied.

“Good,” his father smiled. “Anyways, I better get to Cinnabar Island and open up the store, have a great journey you two and call us when you get to Pewter. Oh and I’m transporting a few antidotes and Paralyse heals, you’ll need these in the Viridian Forest.”

“Ok dad,” Jimmy smiled. “See you soon.”

“Bye dear,” his mother squealed again, just before the screen went blank.
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“Phew,” Jimmy said, hanging up the phone. “My mom’s very enthusiastic isn’t she Charmander?”

“Char char,” the Pokemon kind of laughed.

“Hey it’s so not funny,” he said, almost sensing what he was doing, but still smiling. “Its embarrassing!”

The Pokemon continued to what can only be described as laughing as Jimmy again picked up the phone. “Aw come on Charmander, we’ve got to call Professor Oak yet.”

He eventually calmed himself down as he dialled Professor Oak’s number. The vid-phone again kicked into life, after a few rings at least, to show the visual image of Tracey.

“Heya Tracey,” Jimmy smiled. “Is Professor Oak around?”

“He sure is Jimmy,” Tracey smiled. A noise and intonations of ‘Muk’ could be heard in the background. “Err just give him a minute,” Tracey sweat dropped. “You at Viridian?”

“We sure are,” both him and his Charmander smiled. “Caught a Rattata, Pidgey and Spearow too.”

“That’s a great start Jimmy,” Tracey said. “Looks like you’re taking good care of Charmander too.”

“We’re taking care of each other, aren’t we Charmander?”

“Char!” the Pokemon replied, nodding.

“That’s the way it should be,” Professor Oak said, appearing on the screen, still struggling with Ash’s Muk. “Pokemon and people, working together. I hear you’ve caught three already.”

“Yes Professor,” he smiled.

“Well remember you can only carry six at any one time, any caught after that will automatically transport to me.”

“I’ll remember that Professor,” he said, mentally reminding himself to put that in his notebook. “So if I want to change Pokemon at any time I just call you to exchange them right?”

“That’s correct,” he said, finally pushing the Muk off. You can do this at any Pokemon center. Actually, you may want to go visit the program’s creator Bill once you reach Cerulean City, he lives in a lighthouse on the cape just North of there.”

“I think I will,” Jimmy said…another thing for ‘The Book’. “Thanks for the advice Professor, I’ll call in again soon ok?”

“That’d be great,” Oak smiled. “Have fun.”

“Bye,” Tracey waved.

Just before the screen went blank, a wave of purple engulfed the Professor again…Heh, that Muk really must love him!
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“Thanks for everything Nurse Joy,” Jimmy waved as he was about to leave the center. Nurse Joy had given him some sandwiches, wraps, popcorn balls and more Pokemon food as well as a few potions. 'Especially' the food and potions.

“That’s what we’re here for,” she smiled. “You and Charmander be safe now.”

“We will,” Jimmy reassured.

“Char,” his Pokemon agreed.

Nurse Joy watched them go, she wished them good times silently, before going back to work. Something told her other Pallet Town trainers would be arriving soon.
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Wow they were lost. He hadn’t realised Viridian City was such a big place. He looked at his map with Charmander.

“Err, I’m no good with maps,” Jimmy smiled, embarrassed. Charmander almost fell over with shock. “Don’t sweat it Charmander, we’ll just ask someone.” He seemed better at that idea.

Jimmy looked around, before spotting a middle-aged man just ahead of her; perhaps he would help him0. He ran up to him.

“Excuse me sir,” he asked in a polite a tone as he could muster in his out of breath state. “Could you tell me the way to Viridian Forest from here?”

The old man turned to face him. “Why certainly young lady,” he smiled. pointing directly ahead. Viridian Forest is straight ahead.”

“Straight ahead of me the whole time,” he sweat dropped. “Guess I really need to lean to read maps better.”

“Char,” his Pokemon laughed.

“Hmm, new to this I see,” the man said. He pointed to his right. “If you want to go take a look at what you’re aiming for to inspire you, I suggest you go take a look at the Indigo plateau, it’s just a short walk down there. Watch out for Nidoran’s and Mankey’s though.”

“Inspiration huh?” Jimmy thought out loud. “What do you think Charmander?”

“Char,” he nodded.

“Well, seems as it’s only a short walk, why not?” Jimmy smiled. “Plus we might catch us some Nidoran and Mankey. Thank you sir," he shouted running off in the direction he had just pointed in.

“Not a problem young one,” the man shouted at her. Little did he know, he had just sent his young grandson that way, he was a new trainer too. They can battle each other for experience, he thought as he went about his daily routine. 'Extra, extra, read all about it.' How the kid hadn’t taken the time to take a paper he’d never know, kids these days.
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'Wow' Jimmy thought as he saw the stadium complex he could be fighting in in a year’s time. Definitely inspiring, even his Charmander looked in awe at it. They hadn’t seen any Pokemon but oh well.

“Cool,” he said. “I’m pumped, what about you Charmander?”

“Charmander!” he exclaimed loudly,

“Well, a Charmander eh?” a voice from behind caused them both to turn. A boy no older than her with perfectly groomed hair, and dressed all in demin stood before them. “I’ll take it you’re a trainer then?”

“Yep,” Jimmy smiled. “Jimmy Masterson of Pallet Town.

“Well I’m Kendo Travis of Viridian City,” he said, certainly not smiling though. “Don’t see why you’re here, unless you’re here to look at what you’ll never reach!” He laughed to himself.

Charmander’s flame on his tail grew slightly as a scowl crossed his face.

“Hey,” Jimmy said. “We have as much a chance as anyone else.”

“Not while I’m around,” he laughed. “How about it, one on one?”

Jimmy didn’t hesitate, he’d made him angry now. “You’re on, ready Charmander?”

“Char,” he growled, stepping up.

“Wrong choice,” Kendo said confident. “I choose you,” he said, producing a poke ball. “Squirtle!”

The Squirtle was released in a brilliant white light. “Squirtle, squirt!”

'Aww man,' Jimmy thought, 'a water type,' he shook it off though. A Pikachu can beat rock types then a Charmander can beat a water type.

“Squirtle, end this quickly with bubble,” Kendo ordered.

The Squirtle obeyed a spray of bubbles protruding from it’s mouth.

“Charmander, dodge it and use leer,” Jimmy ordered.

“Char!” it shouted running quickly to its right and using leer, which caused the Squirtle to pause a second.

“Now full speed tackle attack!”

The Charmander slammed straight into Squirtle’s front throwing it back onto its back. Squirtle panicked it tried to roll over to get up.

“Quickly Charmander, scratch him then use ember,” Jimmy said.

Just before Charmander’s combination could have caused maximum damage however…

“Withdraw Squirtle,” Kendo ordered. The Squirtle immediately withdrew into its shell, making Charmander’s attacks only half as effective. “Just give up now,” Kendo said, flicking his hair a little. “I have the type advantage.”

“Type isn’t everything!” Jimmy said, "And as long as your Squirtle’s in that shell, it isn’t gonna bubble us, Charmander keep scratching that Squirtle!”

“”Huh?” Kendo said, as he watched the Charmander chip away slowly at his Squirtle. “Squirtle come on out and use bubble!”

“Charmander, jump back quick.”

Charmander jumped back a bit waiting for the Squirtle to pop out and attack. It didn’t.

“Squirtle!” Kendo ran up to it. “Are you ok?”

“Squir…tle,” the Pokemon withdrew from the shell but was obviously too weak to continue battling.

“Ahh Squirtle,” Kendo said hugging it. “I should never have sent you out to battle a trainer on your first time, I’m sorry.”

“You mean, this is like your first battle ever, you haven’t even fought wild Pokemon?”

“What’s it to you, you won, happy?” Kendo shouted.

“Not really now…sure winning a battle is great but…your Squirtle put up a great defence for a first battle against a Charmander with experience,” he tried to reassure him.

“I’ll beat you next time,” he said, calling Squirtle back to its ball. “I’ll catch some strong Pokemon and beat you down!” He left with that.

Jimmy and Charmander watched him go. “Guess you can’t be friends with everyone.”

“Charmander,” the Pokemon agreed.

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[YankeeFan2]

Chapter 4

Sorry for double posting, but since no one is reviewing the fic after my last one, I guess I will continue...

Out of Poison types and Bugs...

Jimmy was walking, disappointed that there were Pokemon that keep popping up. It's good that Pokemon do that, that way his Pokemon can get experience, but the bad news is that he hasn't seen any new Pokemon. The middle-aged man at Viridian City must've lied about Mankey and Nidoran being in these parts, but he doesn't see any new Pokemon near Indigo Plateau on the way to Pewter City, until now...

"I guess he wasn't lying after all,"

A little Mankey was in the forest, ready to battle.

"Pidgey, go!"

Pidgey came out of its Poke Ball. Mankey kicked Pidgey in its ribs, Pidgey fell back onto its feet.

"Pidgey, use Quick Attack!" yelled Jimmy.

Pidgey tackled into Mankey's chest. Mankey fell backwards a little bit. Jimmy could tell by its eyes, he could tell he's getting dizzy, he has been like that before when his cousin came to Pallet Town and he was tossed and turned so much that he felt really dizzy, about to faint, just like Mankey.

"Go, Poke Ball!"

Jimmy threw the Poke Ball, enclosing Mankey inside. The ball started to wiggle like usual. The ball stopped wiggling and the whirling sound of the Poke Ball stopped. To Jimmy, it was like music to his ears.

"I got a Mankey," said Jimmy.

Pidgey nodded and stood next to its trainer with Charmander jumping for joy.

"Okay, get back in your Poke Ball and get some rest," said Jimmy. Pidgey nodded and went back inside the ball. Jimmy sighed with relief and walked inside the entrance to the dark Viridian Forest with Charmander close behind.

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It wasn’t long before they saw the imposing tree line of Viridian forest come into view. Having been sidetracked by visiting the stadium at the Indigo Plateau, that guy Kendo and catching his Mankey, it seemed it was already getting dark. A short walk had ended up taking most of the day! This realisation also seemed to make Jimmy's stomach rumble. Man, he hadn’t eaten either. Still he had those fresh sandwiches and popcorn balls Joy had given him to look forward too.

“Reckon we should camp for the night Charmander?” he asked his companion. “I think it’d be best if we tackled the forest in daylight hours and…well I’m hungry.”

The Charmander sweat dropped a little at the hungry comment but did agree with him. “Char!”

“Cool!” he said, setting down his pack and taking off his sleeping bag ready. Before diving into the bag for his food, and his Pokemon’s. He already knew which one’s Charmander did and didn’t like and had labelled the tins with colors, with the help and advice of Joy to help herself remember. The first one he had, labelled blue was Rattata’s favorite, so he set out a serving for him. The second, now orange, was Charmander’s favorite, and he set out a serving for him, the third was no ones favorite yet, but had a green label, Mankey may like it though. The fourth, red, was both Pidgey and Spearow’s favorite, so two servings of that were set out, she had to admit she was glad that you could fill up at every Pokemon centre if it was going to be like this! The final one, yellow, was also no one’s favorite. He set all five tins out for them to inspect before grabbing her poke balls.

“Alright everyone,” he called. “Dinner time come on out!”

The whole group came out, dazing him with the brightness of the light. Maybe he should call them out one at a time in future.

“Charmander, Rattata, Pidgey, Spearow, your foods out, so chow down.” Those Pokemon duly went to their food and began eating happily. “Mankey, I hope you like this kind of Poke Food,"

Jimmy had put each tin in order; blue, orange, green, red and yellow. Mankey took his time sniffing them before deciding on the yellow one. “Mankey!” he said.

“Okay,” Jimmy mused almost dreamily, before shaking it off blushing and pouring their servings and setting then down with the rest of his team. “Enjoy, everyone.”

As he sat down, getting out his own sandwiches and popcorn balls, he assured herself that all the random calls meant ‘thanks’ or something to that effect anyway.

After their meal, the Pokemon seemed content to lay around a little, to help their food go down. Jimmy had finished before them, it amazed him that he could eat faster than his Pokemon, maybe he was a pig, like his ma had always said. He had gathered some wood for a fire, and Charmander, before resting had graciously lit it. It was around that fire they all lay now. Jimmy in his sleeping bag, watching his Pokemon, and, periodically, the dancing of the flames. Spearow, had roosted low in the branches of a nearby tree with Pidgey, they seemed to be asleep already, Mankey was sleeping on the other side of the fire, also seemingly asleep. Charmander was to the side of Jimmy, curled up watching his creation dance about in the night and Rattata had curled up at Jimmy’s feet, he admitted to himself that, that made him feel warm. Every night should be like this he mused, the whole team, sleeping outside together, like a ritual thing, a team builder. Charmander looked at him as though it was reading his mind, smiling. Yeah, he thought as he drifted slowly off to sleep, that was what he was going to do in the future. Build the perfect team, through love and friendship…a boy could dare to dream.


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God he was stiff he thought as he finally