Pokémon RP Kanto Quest, the adventure begins.

[Prpl_Mage]

Kanto, a region with a very special wildlife. And lately - another kind of wild life. The reformed Team Rocket who wreaked havoc across towns and routes alike.
They were strong and when they showed up - they did so as a gang with an Admin leading them, the result of a useful lesson from past mistakes.


Frank stood at the Poké centre at Viridian city, he'd travelled through an underground pass from Vermillion to get there all the way from Saffron where he heard the news. "The pokémon professor of Pallet town is held hostage in his lab by a mysterious group".
And here he stood, Frank the cooltrainer, a trainer who lost all of his hard work to those Team rockets.
Only his Murkrow remained and he had no money to get new balls.

In the distance he could see how a pair of grunts where blocking the entrance to Pallet and also the commotion beyond. There was probably at least a Rocket Admin leading the group over there, and he would probably carry one strong pokémon that would have the same strength as all those grunts' pokés combined. That was the way of the new Team rocket.
He wanted revenge on the rockets and this could prove to be a small and yet meaningful start of that fight. The good fight.
Frank couldn't let it go, how could he just stand there and watch team rocket bully people around? It was time for someone to act, so he took action.

He made his way towards the city entrance, past some ledges and tall grass. There was a group of upset people in the crowd gathered outside and Frank could notice at least some people with pokéballs of their own.
He made his way into the crowd when someone tried to get past the grunts once more only to the met by
-"This area is team rocket property right now, stand back or face a real beating your pokémon won't forget!"
It was burning him up, there were many grunts in the town at the moment, but the Admin must still be in the lab.
Frank knew it would be safe to battle as long as the Admin was inside, but he wouldn't be able to stand countless battles against all these grunts himself. He had to find an ally in the battle to come.

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[drenrin2120]

Chris stared at the TV. They were talking about Team Rocket again. "Their occupation spreads through Saffron, Vermillion, and Celadon." The anchor man said, he was standing in front of a huge building. SilfCo. "Now they've taken over SilfCo. It's been years since Team Rocket has been seen. They've been working underground for many years. Now they've finally returned, and they're not playing around anymore. Several trainers have reported their pokemon being stolen. There has even been multiple cases of pokemon being stolen right off of PCs. A system once thought to be of the highest security. Several people who have challenged a rocket have been severely beaten after the pokemon fight in what is clearly being used a scare tactic against future rebels. Reports indicate..."

The reporter prattled on. chris's eyes drifted away from the TV. Your mom prattled on. Something about how terrible those men were. She suspected that several gym leaders were gathering in secret meetings now, planning to overthrow Team Rocket. She was talking about the ones who had recently abandoned their posts as gym leaders. Vermillion, Cerulean, Saffron, Celadon and even Pewter City. All the gymleaders for those cities had turned up missing in the past few months. She was talking about Richard, her husband. Chris didn't have the same idea.

"Mom." Chris spoke quietly, but firmly.
"Yes dear? What is it?"
"I think I'll be leaving very soon."
Chris's mom, Elliot, was very quiet. The jigglypuff, Ploof, by her side became very sullen. Her pink mouth agape and quietly staring at Chris.
"I suppose... I mean..." Elliot began saying. Then, she abruptly dropped what she was doing and walked out of the room.

Chris didn't mean to hurt her. It had been a long time coming. They both knew Chris was going to leave soon. Chris didn't know why he hadn't left sooner.

That's when the Reporter interrupted Chris's thought.

"Breaking News out of Pallet Town!" he sang into his mic.

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I'm posting the rest because I feel this is necessary. I'm sorry! I know it's a text wall, but this is an introduction post afterall, so lengthiness is too be expected.

Chris didn’t wait long to hear what the reporter had to say. He’d made up his mind. He didn’t know what he was expecting to see. Or what he was expecting to do. But he had to go.

He walked upstairs and into his room. He grabbed his favorite bag. It was a traveler’s dream backpack. It had a 1 L camelpack, slots for various tools, and was made out of durable material. He stuffed his secret stash of poke balls he rarely used in the ball pocket. 4 Pokeballs and 1 Greatball. “Some secret stash”, he thought to himself. He had one potion on him and an antidote. Other provisions included a sleeping bag and a pan for boiling water. “So damn prepared it’s ridiculous…” He mumbled. Elliot walked in.

“What are you doing honey?” she asked

“I’m leaving as soon as possible.”
“Where are you going?”
“I don’t know.”
“What are you going to do?”
“I don’t know.”
Elliot put her hand on her face as if in shock, staring at the wall as if it were the most interesting thing she’d ever seen.
Chris turned to her and finally started to feel bad for her, “I’m sorry mom. But I can’t sit around here anymore.”
“And why not?” she snapped suddenly. Chris was taken aback. His mom was usually calm and complacent.
“You think I’m stupid? I know the other gym leaders would never care about anything but their stupid training! I know the Pewter City Gym’s been locked up for 3 months now with trainers camping outside it waiting for Richard’s return!”

Chris felt awful. All he could do was hug her. “I’m sorry mom. I’m going to find him.”
She sobbed gently into his shoulder. There wasn’t much else to do.

Chris left that day. Elliot gave him 500 yen. He was headed south to Pallet town.

[drenrin2120]

It was a short walk through Viridian forest. Only a few hours. It was getting late, all the annoying youngsters and their damned shorts had gone home for the night. There weren't even bug catchers around. Reaching the edge of the forest with the lights of veridian in sight, Chris set up camp. Why pay for lodging? He was limited as it was and he hadn't slept outside in a while. He chowed down on some provisions his mom had given him. Night was setting in fast as Chris curled up in his bag.

[X_marks_the_ed]

"After him!"

Three rockets ran up the rocky path after a wiry youth in a white coat. The leader of the trio seemed especially agitated. "Give me back that Pokemon!" They eventually came upon a cave at the top of the cliff side. Sure enough, the fleeing man entered without hesitation.

One of the trio stops the leader. "It's no use, you won't last against those Gravelers without any Pokemon. We'll get it back!" The leader gives a threatening look and goes in with the other two.

"Hey!"

The trio look up from the entrance to a higher platform where the man stood. "You never cease to amaze me, Eddy boy. You know you can't win, so you have to stoop to snatching a Pokeball from right under my nose." The leader was enraged.

"I think your little dog needs to go on a walk, to the bottom of the lake. If all you intend to use it for is to make other lives miserable."

"We gave you a chance, but you had to play hero. If you had just joined us, I would have helped you get better." Edwin tossed the ball back at the leader. He catches it, never taking his eye off Edwin. "I have nothing to improve on. You and me, we settle this now."

One of the Rockets intervene. "We can't, we gotta get back to Cerulean. We could get an order any minute now." The three leave, the leader still does not take his eyes off of him. "Someday, we WILL finish this, you thieving bastard."

"I look forward to it, Rocket filth."

[A Forgotten Legend]

Outside it was a nasty sight. Team Rocket had taken over the town, and Joseph and his mother was stuck inside their house.  Why did I have to move from Olivine at a time like this? Joseph though to himself.  As they waited, they could hear yelling from outside.  People were trying to get into town, but the grunts were having none of it.  The invasion of Pallet Town happened very quickly.  They barely had enough time to hide when Rocket Grunts had busted down their door.  Luckily, they had a hidden closet behind the television and they thought no one was home.  When Joseph had moved in he had asked about it.
'I don't really like the look of the closet... and its so small, what use could it have?  That's why I hid it behind the television.' is what she told him.  Little did he know that the closet hadn't existed until after Team Rocket had become a major threat.

Then they heard something outside, "This area is team rocket property right now, stand back or face a real beating your Pokémon won't forget!"  At that moment, they questioned how they were going to get out Pallet Town.

"Quick, go through here!" Joseph's mother said.
"What is this?"
"Its a tunnel leading outside Pallet Town!  Now go!  I can't fit, please go!"
It was at that moment Joseph's journey would begin.

"Who's voices are that?  Is someone in here?" a Rocket grunt yelled from another room.  They hadn't left yet!
"Go!  Now!" said Joseph's mother.  Joseph crawled down the tunnel.  As a door shut behind him, he heard his mother being taken out of the closet by the grunt.
"Who was in there with you?"
"No one!  Honest!"
"Liar!  You, take her outside.  We'll deal with her later."

And that would be the last Joseph would see of his mother.

[X_marks_the_ed]

Realizing the mistake he made, Edwin decided that he couldn't just head back to Cerulean, so he started through the cave on the way to Pewter. He kept one of his Pokeballs in his hand, even though it was already attached to his belt. "Clefairy isn't strong enough for those Gravelers."

Luckily the cave was pretty barren, as the Rockets had already taken all that they could. The most one could expect was a Zubat or two. But the Gravelers here were too strong for even the Rockets who came through.

Hours later, he stopped and sat by a cliff wall for a short breath. He took out one of his empty Pokeballs and began to consider why he even had them in the first place. He was never any good at catching Pokemon. They just never seemed to stay in the balls. He decided to get rid of them, so he threw the one he was holding across the path.

"EEEEEEE!!!"

Bad idea. A Zubat flew from atop the nearby surface and fluttered around in circles screaming at the top of it's lungs. Panicked, Edwin decided to flee past the noise maker, but upon doing so, it started following him, screaming as it gradually started to catch up. Edwin stopped and the Zubat flew right past him, turned around and started circling above him. Soon enough, Edwin could hear more of them. Losing focus, the one above him swooped down and tore into his arm. Without thinking, Edwin grabbed a blunt object and started battering the rodent with it. He had to silence it quickly, and he did. The object glowed and the Zubat was sucked inside. Ed dropped it. It was one of his Pokeballs.

The ball shook violently, and ready for it he sent out Clefairy. Just before Clefairy could even adjust to the darkness, the ball stopped.

"..."

[coreystranick]

Corey arrived from at Vermillion from the Sinnoh Region early in the morning.

Having battled with other passengers the whole trip he got very comfortable with his new Starly. He had decided to name it Ace, due to the fact he wanted to remember his old friend.  

As he exited the boat it slowly started away. He saw a boy running from the area near the Gym, figured he must have lost to the Leader here.

Corey noticed a lot people walking in fear of these guys in Black uniforms with what appeared to be an 'R' on it. It reminded him much of Team Galactic that was seen around Sinnoh, though without the spacey outfits.

He sent Ace out of the Pokeball and let him rest on his shoulder.
"Ah, ready to start our new Life Ace?"
*Ace shakes his head in approval and caws (are we doing Pokemon Anime crys or game Crys?)*

A member wearing the black uniform comes over and notices Ace.
"Nice Poke you got there. Ain't none of them 'round here. I would like you to hand it over."

"What? I'm sorry I didn't understand you. It sounded as though you said you want me to hand over Ace?"

"Why yes, yes I did boy. So you going to do it peacefully?" *Rocket member reaches towards his belt holding his Pokemon.

"I'm sorry but I can't do that."

"Well, looks like you will have a short life boy!" *Sends out Scyther*
"Get him Scyther!! Use Fury Cutter!"

"Ready Ace?" *Ace shakes head*
"Ace use Quick Attack followed by a Wing Attack!"

*Scyther's Fury Cutter connects gaining power for the next hit.*
*Ace uses the quick attack to get around Scyther. As Soon as his back is visible Ace uses a Wing Attack*

"I may be new to this. But I learned from a few fellow trainers on the boat ride here that a bug can't take too many flying attacks. Looks like I have the advantage!"

"Haha, stupid boy. Scyther may be my only Pokemon. But he is a higher level than your little bird."

"You aren't going to be taking my Starly!"

"We will see. Scyther  use Fury Cutter!"

"The same move again? What that the only one you got!"

"Boy don't you know? Fury Cutter gets stronger with each successive hit."

*Scyther Lunges and connects once more*
*Ace it unable to fly now, Wing Attack is useless*

"Ace. no!"

"Looks like it is bye-byes to you and your Starly. I'd take it but it is too weak for me.Scyther Fury Cutter!"

"Ace Use Endure!"

*Ace braces for the attack. It is successful, leaving him with 1hp but badly injured and unable to move*

"Ace, don't move. I'll get you"

"Oh looks like your bird fainted. (Rocket member clueless that Endure just saved Ace's life) Scyther use a Fury Cutter on this boy, let him know and fear Team Rocket!"

*As Corey turned to shield his Starly his was hit by Fury Cutter. Knocking him out. As the Rocket member walks away Corey vows to seek revenge on them*

*Corey blacks out*

*Corey wakes up to the feeling of being dragged. Still unable to speak or move he blacks out once more.*

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[Prpl_Mage]

Vermillion was lately a great place for many of Team Rocket's business. It had the best harbour in Kanto and was constantly used to export resources to the other parts of the world. Boats entered as well with young trainers who wanted to have a go with the Kanto Elite four.
But the truth was that few of those trainers would be allowed to leave Vermillion by boat since team rocket had most of the harbour taken over lately. If someone with interesting pokémon tried to leave - team rocket would probably suddenly stop the boat and board it right away.
But the truth is that most parts of Vermillion was theirs now. Even the Gym.

"Dude, I mean sir! We just received word from the Silph building." A rocket grunt entered the back room of the gym.
"Well speak up you toll." A Rocket admin - Arnel sat at the chair with his legs up on the table.
"A-alright, we've managed to bypass the first security check so the infiltration should continue as planned." The grunt said doing a late salute.
Arnel closed his eyes, Nodded and stood up.
"Brilliant, anything new about the port? Exports doing all right? Any interesting 'imports'?"
The grunt took a couple of seconds to think things through.
"All of the exports are going according to plan sir-dude. A new shipment is coming in later today with those stones from Mt moon." He then closed his eyes and poked in the air.
"We also had some new imports... Some common ones, some I don't know the name off.. And this Starleh bird, and an Awrron"
Arnel sighed and shook his head. "Starley and Aron?"
"Yes dude - sir. That's the one."
"Isn't Starley a Sinnoh pokémon? I heard that there are some strong and interesting specimen over there... Did he have anything beside the Starley?"
"Dude, I donno. I mean erhm... No sir, not that I'm aware of." The grunt scratched his head.
"What does 'intel' means you piece of Taurus turd. Sheesh - What do we even pay you guys for..." Arnel walked to the door and raised a hand.
"Send the word that operation PowerTraining is proceeding as planned. With or without any unique, rare or exceptional pokémon."
"Yes sir."


Meanwhile at Pallet town

The growlithe was sent flying a bit back by the force of the geodude.
A hiker was the one to throw the first blow against the Rockets at the entrance.
It didn't take long before the other guard assisted his shocked grunt-buddy. A Machoke now blocked the path in front of the guards.
"What are you doin' ya stupid pup?! Get up and fight dammit!" One of the guards said and yelled at his growlithe.
"What's your problem? Just get out a better one already!" The more experienced grunt with the machoke was clearly getting annoyed.
"Oh right.."
"Hey, what's the problem over there?" Another grunt joined the first two at the entrance.
"No problem at all, just some punk thinking he can break through." At the wink of a hand the Machoke unleashed a Mach punch in the gravelers face which tipped him over.
"Graveler!" The Hiker yelled and got down on his knees beside it.
The reaction was the same with all the trainers in the crowd - a wall of pokémon was sent out in protest and the tension was high. A Pidgeotto, a Gloom, Zubats, Geodude, Kadabra, Magnemite, Nidorino and few others.
The grunts looked at each other.
"Heh. You two take care of this for now." The third rocket said and walked out of town with all the trainers' eyes on him. Then as soon as he passed them, he ran.
The two grunts unleashed what they had. Another Growlithe appered next to the Machoke, poliwhirl, Fearow, Weezing, ekans, Houndour and Quilfish aslo joined the fight.

The battle soon erupted with more of the grunts stationed in town joining in.
The Hiker who were next to Frank called him over after his Murkrow took out a Kakuna in the middle of the chaos.
"Get that rocket who fled, he'll call for reinforcements. We can take care of this ourselves." The Hiker told his Onix to build his rage the moment after.
"This is where I should be, fighting the Rockets!" Frank said as Murkow returned to his shoulder.
"You're needed elsewhere now kid. Go go!"
Frank shook his head but began to walk the trail back to Viridian to find that Rocket.
He spotted two people in the distance, one looked like he was in trouble. He just hoped that the other guy didn't have any crazy-strong pokémon like Houndour or Muk.

[drenrin2120]

Just at the north edge of veridian. Chris slept peacefully in his sleeping bag, cozy by the dying embers of the fire. Blissfully unaware of the drama erupting to the south of town.

[X_marks_the_ed]

Outside of the building in which Ed hid, he could hear the muffled shouting of the beast outside. It was angry that he had managed to flee. He was safe for now. The building was torn apart. Furniture strewn across the room, and only one working light on the ceiling. This was the Pokecenter. Unfolding his arms he had a look at his partner. She was still out. His attention turned to the machine behind the counter. Sure enough, it wasn't working.

Angrily, he pummeled the machine, flailing all limbs at it. It was in vain. But, the noise did do something. The Graveler shouted again, a few minutes later, another thud against the door. But, he could hear something else. "Who's in there!?" Clutching Clefairy, Edwin dove under the counter. A loud howl pierced into the building.

The door flew into the machine, smoldering and in flames. "I recommend coming out, or else I'll have to torch you out!" Edwin arose, knowing he'd find him anyway.

"You're the one Cerulean team called about?" Edwin nodded. He probably was. "Seems you don't know how to keep your mouth shut. Hand over your Pokemon before I take them." "I have no Pokemon of value. Just a Clefairy....and a Zubat."

"I don't care. Hand them over." It was hopeless. For what stood before him was not some common Rocket. This one wielded a full-grown Houndoom, and it looked ready to pounce. "You'll have to take them, then! Go, Zubat!"

The Zubat, sure enough, appeared. But it only made things worse. The rodent continued to fly around in circles in front of the Rocket. "Houndoom, Flamethrower!"

But it missed. Houndoom was having trouble keeping track of the thing, let alone hitting it. "I gotta strike back, if this thing can evade as well as that, I may stand a chance. If only I could remember what Zubats can do." Without any instruction, Zubat screeched even louder than before. Ed and the Rocket had to cover their ears, but Houndoom had to take it. Soon, Houndoom started tripping over itself. '....Supersonic!" The Rocket was angry. "Stand up, you worthless creature!" But it couldn't. "Zubat, Leech Life that thing while you have the chance!" Instead, the Zubat sliced by his arm again. "Dammit, it won't listen to me!" Edwin called it back and fled the building, leaving the Rocket to scold his Pokemon for 'falling prey to such petty tactics.'

[coreystranick]

Corey awoke in a white room. Still dazed he starting to look around the room. He saw his clothes sitting on a table to his right and a few books.
All of a sudden he jumped, and then cried out from the pain.

"Where is Ace...?"

Corey got up weakly and shuffled to his clothes. Searching though them he found only 5 out of 6 pokeballs.

"So they took Ace... Well at least I still have Spark ( A Shinx he captured right before leaving Sinnoh )"

Corey sends out Spark.

"Looks like we won't be seeing Ace anymore fella. Now, let's get going and figure out where we are"

Corey proceeds to get dressed. Repacking his bag after noticing it has been rummaged. He recounted his items.
3 potions, 4 empty pokeballs and 1 Greatball he found in a trash can on the ship, as well as some leftovers, though not sure what these were for. Also he found the empty TM Endure..bringing tears as he thought of Ace. He zipped the bag and Grabbed Spark's Pokeball.

"Alright boy come out. Let's do some searching."

He sends out Spark and goes towards the door. As he reaches for the handle it suddenly opens. Spark (I hoping everyone just oversees the fact the he already knows the move Spark though he is not a Luxio yet. **** Pickachi did in the anime haha) being startled shocked both Corey and whoever opened the door.

"Wow what a powerful electric pokemon you got."

"I'm sorry who are you?"

The person walks fully into the room with a bird pokemon on his shoulder. This person is elderly, way over the hill. He seems very full of knowledge.

"I'm Peter. I was the one who dragged you here. To recover. This guy here is Farfetch'd."

"Oh, thank you for saving me. But were thereany other pokemon with me. I am missing one. Did those Rocket guys take him. Where is he? Where? Please tell me!"

"Oh ho ho. Your Starly is fine boy. Still healing up though. I was able to grab him while that Rocket member walked away. Usually they steal the pokemon of the defeated. But he seemed to have more joy in cutting you up."

"Yeah I can tell" Corey winces in pain once again."Please take me to my Starly."

"I will boy I will. I just have one question. How do you plan to get out of Vermillion once you have your Pokemon? You are no where near as strong as these Rockets. And that has been proved."

"I don't know. But I will fight if I have to. To avenge what they did to Ace."

"And once your out. Do you plan on helping the others? This region is about to be completely overrun by these Rockets."

"I don't know again. I came here to start a new life not fight in a war. I just want to get that Rocket with the Scyther back for what he did."

"Oh oh ho. Well, in these times you have to think more than about yourself. Here, let us get your Pokemon and I will show you a way out of town. That should not involve fighting."

As they walked Corey noticed a lot of items relating to bird Pokemon. "I'm sorry, sir, but it appears your know a lot about birds."

"Yes, yes I do son. My boy was the Gym leader of Violet City in Johoto the last I heard."

"Wow. I have a question can you help me train my Starly. I don't want to lose him again."

"I think I can that for you."


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[drenrin2120]

Okay, I think we got a little confused with our times. I fell asleep the first day the same time Lucas passed out? Then he woke up the next day I'm assuming? THEN prpl mage's character came to Veridian? That's what i'm going with.

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Chris yawned lightly and rolled over in his sleeping bag. He was half asleep, but clearly felt the stick jab into his side.

"Go away... I don't wanna go to school today..." Chris mumbled in his sleep. The stick jabbed him again. Chris came out of his sleep.

"Hey, what's the big idea!" Chris rolled over and groggily sneered at a little kid poking him in the side with a stick.

"Boy, you sure are strange." The kid replied. He was young, no more than 9 years old. He had short shirts and a bug catching net. "You've been out here all day," the young kid said, "I've passed you three times going back and forth from the woods. Aren't you gonna wake up anytime now? Lazy kid!"

Chris looked up and noticed the sun was high in the sky. He'd slept very late. "Huh, thanks I guess..."

The bug catching kid shrugged his shoulders and said, "I already got the early worm." then walked off.

Chris watched him go a bit perplexed. "... the hell does that mean?"

Within twenty minutes, Chris was ready to go. He'd packed his bag up, eaten the rest of the very limited provisions, properly covered the ashes of the fire, brushed his teeth, and was on his way south. It was a nice day, maybe a little past 11 AM, Chris judged by the angle of the sun. He walked through town a bit, venturing into shops and taking his time. Chris managed to buy some healing powder for only 100 yen at a farmer's market. He stored it neatly in the bottle it came in with his potion and antidote. Now, Chris thought, no more playing around, time to get to Pallet.

He hoped everyone was okay, but he couldn't imagine Team Rocket would find a need to kill anyone in Pallet town. He assumed they were there for the Professor. But why? The Professor was doing humble research. He had only a few pokemon these days which he kept around for company. He was an old man and his pokemon were just as old. They were no good for fighting so what did Team Rocket want?

Suddenly, Chris noticed figured up ahead on route 1 to Pallet town. One was on the ground, he was kind of lanky and wore thick soda cap glasses. A man was standing over him, "A rocket!" Chris said outloud, stunned. The rocket had a muk poised to attack the kid on the ground. The third man was behind the two, he hadn't been noticed by the rocket or the stunned kid on the ground. Suddenly the rocket looked up, locking his eyes directly on Chris.

"Hey you! The hell you lookin' at? You want some trouble too?" The rocket yelled to chris. The kid on the ground turned to look.  Chris didn't say anything, he was shocked at just how brazen this rocket was. "What? You nervous?" He said again. His Muk was menacing and disgusting. The look in its eyes was as intimidating as its master.

The rocket grunted in disgust then shouted, "Fine then. Looks like you got some pokemon on you, care to hand 'em over? Muk, will you please disable that kid?" The Muk began to move towards Chris.

Chris knew he had the type advantage, but that Muk was powerful. One blow from its giga impact and his geodude was finished. He had little choice. "Dudley, go!"

"A geodude? What the hell. All you kids have the weakest pokemon! Muk, pound on that lump of rocks!"

The rocket's muk sprang forward with frightening velocity for a puddle of toxic goo.

"Dudley! Defend yourself with defense curl!" Dudley obeyed, curling up into a tight ball. The Muk's liquid body encapsulated Dudley. "Dudley!" Chris gasped

"Haha! C'mon kid, what are you going to do now?"

"Dudley, use your magnitude! Quickly!" Dudley heard, and the ground began to shake around the Muk. With some surprise the muk remove itself from the geodude. Not before the ground around it cracked and collapsed.

"Dudley, are you okay?" Chris rushed over. Dudley was badly poisoned. The Muk had taken some severe damage but was still rearing to go.

"Nice try kid, but muk here's a wall. He won't come down very easily." The Rocket was laughing.

Chris quickly used his antidote on Dudley. With the poison gone, Dudley was still feeling chipper. The physical attack on him while in a defense curl wasn't very effective, if he could just avoid Muk's powerful attacks and from touching it.


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Hm... I seem to have misinterpretted prpl's post as having left to go to pallet town... muh bad.=\

[Prpl_Mage]

The battle was fierce between the Rocket and the sudden trainer. A tactical magnitude put a stop to the Muk's charge but it still had a little fight in it. And to make things worse. There seemed to be some Black Sludge recovering the damages.
Frank realized that it would take some real challenge for the trainer to beat the Muk with the state his Geodude was in - he doubted that it would end well.

-"Murkrow, you ready to do some damage?" Frank said as saw his opportunity to finally score the kind of training the bird needed.
The Murkrow rose into the air and attacked the Muk from behind with a peck. The Muk wobbled a little before a slab of acid was sent in response to the meek attack. The acid hit Murkrow on the way back but didn't defeat it just yet.
-"By the love of Entei! Murkrow, can you do anything right?" Frank sighed as the Murkrow returned from the 'successful attack'.
Once more the sludge seemed to repair the damage it took.
-"Alright, new plan you. There's something healing the Muk, find it and grab it!" The Murkrow sent out once more against the Muk.
-"Hey kid! What's this? You some kind of leech hoping to score a big win? Guess what? Not gonna happen!"
The Murkrow dived once more, but it didn't peck this time instead it seemed to simply swoop by. But as it returned it did so with a prize - a blob of Black Sludge.
-"Hey hey hey! Kid whatcha' doin' you can't just steal from team rocket like that! Muk don't be a damn fool and get that damn bird!"
Murkrow let go of the Black sludge and Frank grabbed it.
-"Time to finally fight fair then. Murkrow astonish it!"
The Muk moved in closer but without the Black Sludge it didn't have much energy left, it raised an arm to pound Murkrow but a sudden sound flinched it. Astonished the Muk stared and the slimy arm retracted into the massive body.
-"Oh hell no. I don't like this one bit kid. Muk get your slimy *** back in the ball!"
The ball of the rocket opened up and was just about to send Muk back when Murkrow dived in and scored a surprise attack at the switching opponent. And something must've been Super Lucky since the Muk completely sacked over.

-"Kid, that's so cheap. This just burns me up!" The rocket was so frustrated and clenched his fist.
-"Cheap? I'm more impressed that I actually pulled this off.
The grunt looked around at what he faced, a trainer with a geodude who seemed eager to send in something else and that pesky cooltrainer with the Murkrow.
-"Go koffing!" The koffing appeared and Frank was just glad that it wasn't something worse like a Houndour.
-"Too bad I can't stay to chat but I gottago!" The grunt said as the air was suddenly filled with a thick black smoke.
By the time the smoke thinned out, the Rocket grunt was nowhere to be seen. Only Frank himself and the other two trainers.

-"You guys alright? Gonna head back down to Pallet and see how the liberation is going."

[drenrin2120]

Chris watched as the lone trainer ran back south down route 1. Chris didn't even get to say thanks or goodbye, or even ask his name. Chris didn't want to generalize, but he was acting like a proper cooltrainer would. "hmph." Chris sighed a bit.

Then he thought about the fight. "Damn." He muttered, glancing over at geodude. "Black sludge?" Chris was decently educated with pokemon, but when it came to items, he was practically illiterate. "If he hadn't come along, we never would've beaten that Muk. I need to find some more info on held items. They seem cheap. Just like Rocket's style."

Dudley made a grunting sound, something like agreeing.

"Hey," Chris walked over to the kid on the ground, he was dusting himself off. "The name's Chris, you okay?"

The kid was adjusting his glasses when he noticed Chris had outstretched his hand. "Yes. Thank you. My name's Lucas. Who was that other trainer?"

Chris briefly scanned the south path, "I don't know. He was in a hurry though."

"Where?" Lucas asked.

"South to Pallet town, it's been taken over by Team Rocket."

"Hm..." The nerdy kid said, "No doubt they've kidnapped the Professor."

"Yeah." Chris started off south without saying a word.

"Hey! Where are you going?" Lucas asks.

"Oh, sorry!" Chris said, "I'm going to see what's happening. I'm sure you know, but you're pokemon are really hurt. You should get them to a pokecenter. Stay safe!"

"My pokemon?" It was then Lucas noticed the fainted Nidoran, who had inexplicably tried to protect him. Or perhaps just protect Aron.  Chris waved to the kid and called Dudley back into his ball. Leaving Lucas to his own and taking off south.

[Prpl_Mage]

Frank was stopped once more, this time at the same place the commotion took place before. But there was no commotion, just a nerd without Revives.
-"It's Frank. The coolest trainer you'll ever see. Did ya' ditch that other trainer back there?" He tried to avoid the puppy eyes of sympathy that the kid was giving away but couldn't stand it for much longer.
-"...So, you need a hand with that? Can't say I got anything to help you out with, this Black sludge will hyst make things worse... But sure I could carry one of your... erhm fellas." He looked at his choices, the purple poisonous bunny or the small egg shaped thingmajing.
-"I'll just grabb these... Ears right ... There." Frank grabbed the ears of the Nidoran and gave the kid a quick forced smile.
-"I have like NO idea why you don't just send them back into their balls but... umm... All the better without the weight huh?" Unknowingly what Aron was he felt like he'd done another good deed and returned his stride towards the gates of Pallet.
-"You better keep up the pace if you don't want to be left behind."

As Frank got closer he saw the smoke coming from one of the houses. Just as he was about to say something along the line of "Oh crap, some slugma just hit the fan" he heard a strange noise comming from a pair of bushes.
-"Hey kid, whatch'a doing over there?" Frank shouted at the kid.
The kid straitened up and appeared to be wearing an exercise outfit - like the one you would wear riding a bike and such.
-"Hey, I'm talking to you." The kid seemed distracted by the sight of Pallet in smoke.
He finally turned his head but gave the two trainers a strange look as they stood there holding two pokémon.
-"What are you doing with those pokémon?"
Frank realized that it must look pretty stupid and thought of dropping the Nidoran.
-"Carrying them... Since they fainted. Ask the kid for details. I'm Frank and that kid is Lucas. It seems we got here too late to help out." Frank managed a cocky nod and grinned.
-"I'm Joseph, Pallet is my hometown." Quick and effective.
-"****, I'm sorry kid. I'm pretty sure there are some people getting things under control by now though."
-"Not likely... You know what they say about Magikarp ... they're only good on opposite day."

Frank and the crew turned around and saw a woman dressed in an expensive looking suit and sunglasses stepping out from the smoke. But the suit wouldn't be complete without the red R emblem, and next to it a symbol that marked the Rocket Admins.
-"Oh crap, this ain't good." Thoughts raced through Frank's head but not a single good one came to mind.
-"The best part about this all is that we got what we came for... And you failed. Us, win. You, lose. Simple as that." She grinned and the smoke started to wear off. Revealing most of the trainers from before lying unconscious on the ground beside their pokémon.
-"All of them?" Frank asked mistrustful at the horrible sight.
-"All of them and three more." With a hand raised she sent out a Gyarados that occupied a large part of the town.
-"Kids, you better skedaddle quick if you value your pokés, 'cuz this can't turn up well. No matter how much we try it." Frank was holding the Nidoran back to Lucas when the Gyarados began to draw power.
-"You have one choice right now. Giving up and wait for the strike. Or let your pokémon do the talking." The Admin said and held out a hand to sign the challenge.
-"That's two choices?!" Frank shouted as the intimidating Gyarados raised its' head.
-"Not if I'll have my way."