Pokémon RP Kanto Quest, the adventure begins.

[X_marks_the_ed]

Lyle was closing up the shutters while Edwin watched. "Hey, Ed, do me a favor and grab five sleeping bags from the closet over there." He tilted his head in the direction of what was actually a set of lockers. One of which was labeled with a sheet of paper "Utilities". He assumed that was the one he meant. Inside was, among other tools and such, a stack of folded up bags. He grabbed five of them like he asked and passed them around. He ended up with two, though. As he started on his way back to the locker, the door opened once more.

Outside, the wind was picking up. A gentle roar was rushing by. Sally stood in the doorway. "Welcome back," Lyle said in his usual cheerfulness. "The Center is packed. Mind if I stay here instead?" Lyle nodded. "Sure, Ed here's got your sleeping bag for you already." So he did. He handed one to her. "The storm's gonna last until morning, so I think we can expect more soon, as it picks up. Near hurricane-speed winds, the news says." He then gestured to his healing machine. "Heal your Weepinbell if you need to, Sally." She walked towards the machine, but kept glancing back at Ed. Suddenly, as soon as the machine stopped beeping, she picked up her Pokes and ran back.

"Now I remember! You're that Clefairy guy the Rocket was talking about!" Edwin was startled by her sudden giddiness. "Can I see it?" Hesitating, Edwin eventually released Clefairy. Sally scooped her up and hugged it. Clefairy was nearly scared to death. "Ohmygod! These things are soooooooo cute!!♥" Edwin turned his attention setting up his sleeping bag. "When are you gonna evolve it?" He stopped. "Evolve Clefairy?"

"Yeah!" Clefairy was struggling to get out of the girl's crushing grip.

"Well, I didn't know Clefairys evolved." Sally was shocked. "Oh my gooooooood!! Are you serious!?" She started digging around in her bag, clenching Clefairy with one arm. She pulled out a shiny, black stone. "Don't you have one of these?"

"I... don't think so." But he remembered something. He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out his own stone. "OH! MY! GOD!!" Edwin actually flinched at that one. She nearly dropped Clefairy on her head as she got closer. "That's a leaf stone!"

"That's what the hiker said."

"Bradley!? Oh my god! Bradley is such a nice guy!!♥"

Edwin reached for Clefairy, and the girl seemed to drop her into his reach. By this time, Lyle had wandered over. "Hey guys, what's going on over here?" Before Edwin could speak, Sally was already mid-sentence. "We both bought our evolution stones from the same hiker! Isn't that sooo cool!?" Lyle laughed. "Yeah, sounds like a really cool coincidence."

"Hey....."

"Edw..."

"Hey Ed, let's trade stones!" Considering that he had no use for Leaf Stone, he agreed and the two exchanged stones. "Yay!♥" Without hesitation, she whipped out Weepinbell and placed the Leaf Stone against it. Weepinbell began to glow, so bright Edwin had to squint a little. When he re-opened his eyes, what stood before him was not Weepinbell, but a bigger and more vicious-looking creature. Sally hugged the monstrosity. "Victreebel." It said, bluntly. Edwin looked at the stone and then at Clefairy, whom was clenching his coat tightly. He wasn't sure if she was scared of the Pokemon or the girl.

"Well, go ahead. Use it on her like I did!♥" She was eagerly awaiting the Pokemon's transformation. The last thing Edwin wanted was for his mother's Pokemon to be turned into some kind of monster, so he pocketed the stone instead. "I'm still thinking about it..."

"Awwwwwww..." Ignoring the girl's sudden change in mood, he was ready to sleep in anything but a Pokecenter floor for once. He took off his coat and squeezed into the bag. He wasn't tired, but he just wanted to be comfortable. He laid his coat on top of the bag and Clefairy walked over and sat next to him. Lyle was on his way back to his bag on the battling platform. He was talking on the phone, which was unusual for Lyle. "...some hiker named 'Bradley'.....okay....bring me back two water stones.....see ya."

[SaiKar]

It was dark when Saiar went outside. She didn't expect to get any real legitimate sleuthing done that night. She mostly just wanted a reprieve from the grunts. Sure, they were coming along okay, but man was it a handful keeping them in line. When she had asked for personnel, she hadn't expected a half dozen kids that belonged better in a middle school classroom than on an expedition to hunt legendary Pokemon.

She shook her head. "If only he was still here... he'd have known what to do," she said to nobody in particular, which was convenient since nobody else was around.

The wind howled, cold and icy. "Articuno is somewhere nearby..." she murmured, looking around at the night's sky. It was a useless search - the sky was pitch black, completely clouded over. In the east lightning glowed, briefly casting shadows all around, but the occasional flash light wasn't enough to see anything in detail. The only thing she could see was what looked like a rough storm coming in fast from over Mt Moon.

The wind picked up even more, whistling in the swaying branches, and a few drops began to fall. Saiar had to hold her clothing down over her legs. "Lousy slutty admin dress..." she mumbled. It didn't take long for her to have had enough.

She found the grunts in the Pokecenter's lobby, playing ping pong and arcade games and making the rest of the storm's refugees feel very uncomfortable. They'd disobeyed her command to stay in their rooms, but at least had the sense not to leave the center. With a look she sent them upstairs and followed them quickly. It was a bit early to be going to sleep, but she had the feeling that tomorrow would be a very long day...

[drenrin2120]

The trio had been walking for a long while inside the cave. Chris looked at his watch, it read 8 AM. It was around 7 AM when they entered the cave. Chris and the gang were tired, so they stopped for a rest. Joseph and Corey were chatting up a storm. Chris was beside himself. Just when he thought he was making progress, Sandy just up and ran away. Was he a bad trainer? He hadn't thought so, until now.

"I'm sorry about Sandy." Corey said, snapping Chris out of his thinking.
"Oh, uh... thanks."

After a couple minutes, they got up and started walking again. They battled a few hikers, but otherwise, there wasn't a lot of people on the trail. One of them was kind fellow, he didn't want to fight. "Ah'd be careful iffin I was y'all three." (god I'm awful with accents xD)

"Why? What's wrong?" Joseph pressed for more information.

"Ya see," he began, "Thur be a Rocket roadblock at thee end o' this here tunnel. They ain't been lettin' a soul through wit'out givin' 'em a 'ard time."

"Thanks, what did you say your name was again?" Chris asked.

"Bradley! The name's Bradley. As a matter of fact, before ya go. Any o' you be int'risted in buyin' an eevuhlewshun stone? Only 1500 yen a whack!"

No one had that kind of money to blow on them, which was sad, because it wasn't really that much. The trio thanked Bradley for being so kind and continued on their way. The first sign of trouble was the lights that had been inextricably hung to the ceiling of the cave by a crude network of electric cables. "Only Rocket would think of something so crude..." but it was effective. They all shut their flashlights off and walked through the now illuminated cavern with caution.

"How do you like the lighting? We put it up recently, got tired of people sneaking up on us." A rocket stepped from behind a huge boulder. This was the teams first encounter with Rocket since pallet.

"What do you want?" Chris said, actually sounding annoyed.

"Just for you to pay the toll, just like every other good citizen... or else." The Rocket flexed his fingers then brought them down to his belt where various pokeballs lie attached.

"I guess you're going to have to 'arrest' me for not being your toll." Chris said and sent out Dudley.

"Geo!" It cried excitedly.

The rocket laughed. "You think I'm scared of your stupid Geodude? Jeez kid, I'm stealing people's money not asking for donations. What kind of pokemon do you think I'm wielding?" With that he threw a pokeball. Out of it came a formidable Graveler. The rocket laughed again, "Rock against Rock! This should be interesting! Got any money to cough up now?"

Chris clenched his fist. He was about to say something when the ground began to shake. It was very slight at first, but began to grow exponentially more violent and louder. "The hell?" Yelled the rocket. Corey and Joseph looked behind them, it seemed to be coming from where they just came. On second thought, it could be coming from behind them.

"What the hell kind of trick is this, kid?" The rocket was furious. A few other grunts had showed up by now and were unsettled by the light quaking. Then, it suddenly stopped. Everyone stood silent, not sure what was next. Then out of a while in the wall, dozens of sandshrew poured out and surrounded the graveler. The rocket nearly screamed in terror. "Get out of here! Goddamn shrews! Aiyyeee!" He screamed like a little girl when one of them came up to him and threw sand in his face.

The others were making short work of the Graveler. All of them were working together, using mudslap, to take down the giant beast. The Graveller fought back valiantly, but there were so many of them. Finally, the rocket called back his Graveller. That's when the sandshrew turned on the rockets. A familiar sandshrew seemed to be leading the attack. They all lined up facing the rocket and the grunts. Chris, Corey and Joseph watched in astonishment as the sandshrews charged the unsuspecting rocketeers.

"Ahhh!" They all screamed in unison and ran away from the wave of mudslaps.

The three kids stood in shock for a few minutes, then finally, Chris said, "Was that-?

Corey: "Yes... some how... the answer is yes."

The three kids started running up ahead. Around the corner was sunlight and fresh air. The rockets were nowhere in sight. The gang of sandshrew stood at the entrance to Mt. Moon. None of the trio knew what to do. Chris made an attempt. "hey... uhh, little sandshrews!" They all turned to look at him. Chris got on one knee, "thank you so much! That was awesome!"

The sandshrews didn't say much, just looked at eachother and clammered. One of them came forward, the leader of the charge of mudslaps. Chris recognized her, "You! You little devil. Sandy, I had a feeling it was you!" Chris hugged Sandy and Sandy seemed to do her best to give Chris what would be called a "sandshrew" hug. When they left their embrace, the whole gang of Sandshrews was headed back into the caverns of Mt. Moon. Sandy looked on anxiously. A single young Sandshrew pup, not more than 6 months old stood staring at Sandy. Sandy's eyes were locked on its. Chris picked up on this quick. "Sandy... you're a mother? I had no idea..."

Chris sat fully on the ground and thought about this for a moment. "Sandy. You need to do what you feel is best." he said to Sandy, who looked at him now. After a few more moments, Sandy went over to the pup and turned to look at Chris, who was waving at her. "Sandshrew!" It said quickly, then bolted off into the dark after the mob of other sandshrew.

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Chris was happy to be in the sunlight. Everyone else seemed to be in a good mood, too. They'd made it through Mt. Moon without having to fight team rocket. It did come at a cost though. Chris only had two pokemon now. He needed to catch some new ones, maybe take this chance to diversify his team. The three kids entered Cerulean and the pokecenter.

[Prpl_Mage]

Frank had gotten some nice sleep and were sure that he saw some odd people at the centre when he arrived. But he was too exhausted to care much for that, he got himself a room on the second floor and escaped the presence of people.

The next day Frank woke up refreshed, he greeted the nurse and watched Lucas sleep like a baby. He walked over to him and wrote a note on the kid's arm.
-"Call Frank." Then he stepped out into what he thought was a beautiful morning.
But it wasn't.
Outside raged a torn storm, it was chilly and it was damp, the sky felt looming while the wind pushed and pulled.
-"Goddamn birds ruining my morning..." Frank mumbled with a Grin as he searched for them. Frank thought that Zapdos would be the only trophy he was hunting. Hell, few people had seen one of these birds - Lucas thought there would be another one."

Frank walked north of town, he could see the Gym but didn't feel like checking in, according to the sign outside it was a gym for 'Superior Water types'. And Frank didn't carry grass or electric types.
He walked on a bridge when an odd man wearing a coat and sunglasses walked up to him.
-"Hey hey hey! Care to take a challenge?" The man said and stopped Frank.
-"What is the challenge?" Frank asked and put his hand on his balls.
-"It's easy, you defeat all of the trainers on this bridge and win a prize."
-"That's all?" Frank asked and grinned.
-"You have to defeat them in a row." The man said and shrugged.
-"No sweat" Frank said and watched the trainers in the distance, they didn't look strong at all.
-"When do I start?" Frank asked and sent out Primeape.
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Pokémon advantages had worked in his favour. Bugs, plants, rats and rocks didn't really stood a chance against his party. His grown Mankey shown even more rage than before and liked to deliver a beating. Frank liked that.
The trainers fell one by one until only the man stood there. He grinned and looked uncomfortable, maybe he didn't think someone would get that far.
-"Good job. I guess you're a strong trainer."
-"I'm simply the best." Frank said and looked annoyed .
-"Y'know, we usually give people who lose the offer to join us to become stronger. But I'm giving the same offer to you." The man smiled and picked up a nugget from his bag.
-"Will you join us?" Frank looked at him suspiciously.
-"The bridge buddies?" Frank asked and grinned.
-"No, team rocket." The man said and looked more serious this time.
Frank stared at him for a moment. They did have his old pokés and could probably get everything he needed. He could easily get more powerful with all those Bitter items they could use, he could fight the elite four and get back home. Also, battling wasn't a hard thing and he pretty much already bullied youngsters around as it was. And maybe, just maybe he would...
-"No." Frank answered calmly and took the Nugget from his hand.
-"All right, no problamoz. Just remember that I did ask you. The offer still stands" The man said and gestured with his hand.
-"Get out of here." Frank said shortly and the man disappeared.
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Frank spent the morning training past the bridge. Sometimes he'd see Abras in the grass, but he had no interest in a pokémon that couldn't fight. They blinked around to avoid damage but spent little time doing anything. Sometimes his Murkrow managed to pin them down though.
There were no new interesting pokémon here either, some Oddish, some Bellsprout. But from experience he knew that the moves they learned wouldn't be enough to beat the gym in town just like that. Absorb and Vine whip were two pretty useless moves when everything came around.
And that's were he spent his morning - training and experiencing the worst storm of his life. He hoped that Lucas(or anyone else who passed the sleeping nerd) would notice the note on his arm so he had a reason to return to town.

[X_marks_the_ed]

"Still as stubborn as ever, Eddy Boy. What's this, four to zip? You should just accept the fact that it's useless." The boy smirked. His friend outright laughed. "I wonder what we should do with it." He turned to the laughing friend. After a while, the hyena started tapping his head. "Maybe we can feed it to teacher's pet."

Edwin nearly drowned. "Wake up, Eddy Boy!" Lyle was standing over him with an empty bucket. "Really!?" Edwin stared angrily at his wet clothing. Lyle turned to one of the fishermen. "Told ya he would be mad." Lyle helped Edwin up and out of his sopping wet bag. Edwin took a look at his clothes, and then at Lyle, noticing that Sally was still asleep in the corner. "I get to do it to the girl, then." He took the bucket from Lyle. "Shame on you." Ed was confused. "She doesn't need to be up this early. But you do."

"What for?"

"The Gym will be opening soon. And as a trainer of this gym, you'll need to be ready to test these newcomers. Today we're doing things a little differently because of the storm, though. It wouldn't surprise me if a bunch of new applicants are shoved inside the center, ready to get going. So, I decided to wake you up now."

"What time is it?"

"6 AM." Edwin facepalmed. "Normally, we don't get up until 7, but today's a special case." Ed handed the bucket back to Lyle. "Where's Clefairy?" Ed looked around. "Oh, she's over there, by the platform." That was not Clefairy. This thing had pointy ears and was much taller. "What?"

"I'm pretty sure that's it." Ed walked up to the creature. "Claire?" She turned her head towards him. He put his hand on her head. He could do so now without having to kneel. "I guess it's her." He checked his pocket. The stone was gone. The door to the gym opened up. "Looks like this is your first run, Eddy. Remember, it's a water gym, so only use Barboach."

[coreystranick]

"Too bad about Sandy, Chris. But it is good to she will be doing fine here."

"Yeah."

The three had entered the Pokecenter after Frank and Lucas had left not knowing they were there.

"So, was I the only one to see the fish out there or what?" Corey asked.

"No I saw it too, weird. If Lucas were here he would know why they were on land," replied Joseph.

"The little guys with the antenna on the sides of their head were neat looking. I may go after one later, what about you Chris?"

Chris was just sitting, stuck in thought it seemed. He looked up when asked the question,"Well, I need to go catch a new Pokemon."

"Want to go out I saw a bridge on the way in, looked to be an area where Pokemon would be over there, and possibly that area before Cerulean outsitde Mt. Moon."

"Maybe."

"Well, I'm heading out to do some training and possible catch a new Pokemon."Corey said.

Joseph paused then asked, "Wait how many do you have? Three?"

"I have four, but you guys have only seen three."

"What is the fourth one?"

"No idea."

"Wait...how do you not know?"

"I don't know what it is, I've never seen it before, it isn't something common in Sinnoh."

"Well send it out and let's take a look." Joseph was excited.

"Well, alright. Let's go outside and head to that bridge. You coming Chris?"

"No, I think I'll do something on my own."

"Alright." With that Joseph and Corey left for the bridge.

There were trainers there. Corey looked at Joseph "Well I guess I'll see you on the other side. I'll go first, let me know how you did when you get there. I'll wait."

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Corey's Starly 'Ace' took care of the bugs, he was getting stronger and even learned a new move 'Featherdance' it seemed to lower the attack of the opposing Pokemon. It helped a lot.
Corey's Mankey 'Thrasher or T." took care of anything Ace couldn't. It hadn't learned new moves yet, but seemed to be trying out that 'Seismic Toss' that Frank's Mankey was doing.

Corey reached the end and the last trainer.
"So you beat the bridge?"
"Yes, yes I did."
"Great job. Normally I would ask people like you to join our team, but we are currently trying to recruit the last person who came through. So we are all full."
"Well, I don't think I would have joined anyway I'm just traveling with some friends I don't need to be a part of your group. I wouldn't want to satnd on a bridge in the freezing cold all day."
"Fine, well, go on I have no time for you."
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Corey went on ahead and waited for Joesph.

[A Forgotten Legend]

"Alright, let's see how this goes."

He had been able to see the pokémon the first few trainers on the bridge had and thought of some ways to take care of them quick.  Pidgey did well against the Bug types, and whatever was left, Jigglypuff put to sleep and pounded them until they couldn't be pounded anymore.  If that didn't work, his Totodile finished them off.  When he made it he saw a man waiting, all he did was hand Joseph a nugget and told him to scram.  Joseph didn't complain, he was very creepy and didn't seem very friendly to begin with.

"Alright, where do you want to head off to then?  I hear the creator of the Pokémon storage system's house is around here.  I wonder if he is still alive?"

[Prpl_Mage]

The head of the "bridge buddies" watched as Joseph and Corey walked away. Shortly afterwards Frank returned back to town.
The rocket member Nigel (who was the guy handing over nuggets at the end of the bridge) picked up his phone.

-"Yeah?"
-"He's comming back now."
-"How was he?"
-"They didn't lie about him that's for sure. He got a pretty odd team of pokés though. Nothing that evolves anytime soon."
-"I guess. You asked him"
-"Yeah, he seemed to think about it actually."
-"Really now?"
-"Ya, he did."
-"Well, I've obeyed the boss's orders. Now for my own fun, and after that I might do my brother's favour..."
-"So yeah, he's heading back to town now."
-"Anything else up there?"
-"Well, there was this trainer who used an uncommon bird, but overall he seemed like a weak version of the guy we're after. Also this kid with a Totodile - guess he's from Jotho as well."
-"Allright, great great. So, if we move in - will you hold them off?"
-"Send me some backup and we got a deal Darren."
-"Still that weak huh? But yeah sure, I'll send someone to back you up. But try to keep that tentacruel under control this time Nigh'."
-"No problamoz, I got one of the Obedience balls earlier. This will be cake."

-"Change of subject. What of Saiar and her goons?"
-"The lovely admin is hogging a Poké center. She doesn't really seem to be much for the taking over-business. I think I've seen her grunts around though."
-"Great, I bet I can get their backup. I'm not a schemer like my brother, I'll use force. And it's about time that I can do it the right way for once."
-"Well you know me, I prefer to-"
-"Yeah yeah, this ain't some gossip hour man. I'm leaving! Talk to ya later."
He closed his phone and pulled his coat closer. The kid was right about standing on a bridge freezing. Wasn't the best of missions.
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Darren closed his phone and called his grunts over.
-"Alright stupids, captain speaking We're moving in. I got a visual of the man we're after. Also, we're taking this place over." He said and enjoyed his new power, especially getting called 'captain' over and over.
-"Why?" One of the grunts asked.
-"Why? Well, how 'bout... We're team friggin rocket!?"
-"Chillax already captain." Another of the grunts said and gave him a friendly smile.
-"Fine... Here's the mission. Find the guy; beat him up. Get attention of the town's trainers; beat them up. Find the gym; beat it up. Find the legendary bird and beat it up."
The grunts stared at him for a moment.
-"How?"
Darren looked him sharply and shook his head.
-"We fight you morons... We all have pokés, so I'd say we use them. We stride in, declare our reasons and we fight.
-"But what if there are good trainers in town?"
-"Then we'll fight them." He felt very repeative.
-"But what if they kick our ***?"
-"Then I'll fight them..." He raised his fist as a signal of attention.
-"We're moving in. And when we do, you can take care of all the small fry and mediocre trainers. I'll deal with the one who actually pose a threat. Hell, Tyranitar is one helluva' pokémon." All 4 of them nodded.
-"Got it memorized?"
-"Yes captain!"
They were the very word 'grunt' personified, 4 people with less-than-average pokémon. They'd take care of the youngsters, but he'd need more help to beat actual trainers. Well not him, he did just fine with the new team -  but they needed it. Luckily, there were more grunts in town.
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They began their stride towards town and received a lot of attention. Trainers looked at them sleepily and Darren was amazed that there even were trainers out in this blasted storm.
-"You're not welcome here!" One of the trainers shouted as they passed the gym.
-"Yeah! The team rocket quota is already filled in this town!"
-"Go back to Saffron ya' creeps!"
Darren smiled a villainous smile as trainers began to block their path towards the mart and center.
-"You dare to get in team rockets way?" He asked calmly and gave the first trainer the evil eye. He knew that the awesome updated black outfit with his red hair made him the very stereotype of Rockets but it was good.

He also knew that at the slightest sign of trouble he'd just have to yell "For team rocket!" Or something like it and Saiars goons would slip out of their hiding spots no matter how disciplined she thought them to be.
His target was in that center and he had possible back up inside.
It was a great random happen stance. He got all these trainers locked in a pincer trap without them knowing.
-"Bob, get up to the bridge and help Nigel." Darren said before he made his move.

[coreystranick]

Corey and Joseph set off to the Storage creator's house. It was a little weird that there were no trainers here.
Though Corey did stop to read a few signs. None offered help in the direction they should head only saying things that were irrelevant to what they were doing.
In a short while they made it to a house; it appeared to be the only one in the area. They went towards the door and Corey knocked.
The door creaked open, Corey decided to push the door open and go on in. Joseph paused and then followed on in behind Corey.
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There were a bunch of computers and two giant machines with a door. A computer was still blinking over on the left side of the room.
Corey went over and inspected it.
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[Pokemon Transfer System Initiation Sequence]
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[Transfer could not be completed please assess situation]
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Corey and Joseph looked at each other.
Corey--"Um what? Organic Blockage?"

Joseph--"I'm not sure, I heard of him doing a lot of weird stuff. One kid heard that he once got stuck in a Pokemon's body and needed the help of a passerby to get him back to normal. In return he got a gift."

"Well, let's go check out what is inside those two machines, I'll look in the left you look in the right. OKay?"

"Alright."

Corey inspected his....Nothing.

"Joe! You see anything?"

"There is something come here and look."

Corey proceeded to walk across the room and see what Joesph was looking at.

"Shh..Don't make a lot of noise,"Joseph instructed.

Corey peered in and saw a a sleeping family of Pikachu and Pichu.

"They seem peaceful must have wandered in during the storm. But this couldn't be the blockage. Should we give them some food? found some berries on the way hear." Corey couldn't keep his eyes off of the sleeping animals.

Joesph reached into Corey's bag and grabbed out the berries, they put them down next to the sleeping group.

While Corey and Joesph were watching the small electric mice something began moving towards them. It was slimy, had no shape and came from the pipe in between the two machines.

Corey stopped for one second and turned from the animals. He spotted the mass coming towards them.

"Joseph get ready, something is coming."

"Alright."

They stood up and readied their Pokemon, Corey sent out his Starly 'Ace' and Joseph sent out Pineco.

"We have to protect this little family."

With the small amount of light in the room they could barely see what was coming. It was dangerously close before they could identify it.
The battle was about to begin.
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[X_marks_the_ed]

Edwin was not down about being beaten so easily. He barely knew how to use this new Pokemon. After using Lyle's machine, he decided to head out and work on it a little. Even he knew that Pokemon fresh out of the wild don't stand a chance against hardened opponents, regardless of experience. Before he left, he saw Lyle playing with the kid as he normally does to his opponents. He nodded his head. Lyle noticed and nodded back. That way he knew he'd be back.

Almost as soon as  he closed the door behind him, his phone started ringing. "Hello?"

"Hey, Eddy boy." It was him. "Guess what? It's happening." He had his suspicions, but he asked anyway. "What's happening?"

"Cerulean. It's ours now." Edwin's eyes grew twice their size. "Now?"

"Now. I think I'll start with a visit to my favorite little runt and his twitchy little friend. Bowser wants to say hi to his long lost playmate, too. Especially after that little stunt at Mt. Moon."

"I'm surprised you even keep that mongrel around, you rat. You've got Pokes twice as strong as that thing."

"All just to piss you off. Can't wait. Tell Lyle he can start packing his things now to save time later."

"Leave the gym alone!"

"Can't do. Orders from above me. Well, we're approaching Cerulean now, see ya in a few minutes." He disconnected.

Sure enough, he could see them approach up the hill. A few townsfolk noticed this and tried to get them to turn around, but to no avail. The one who appeared to be the leader pointed at the bridge and issued a command to one of the Rockets, who started down towards the bridge. Edwin just stood there waiting for one of them to try for the gym. It seemed that the group was more interested in the Center.

"He's not in this group. Is another one coming?"

[drenrin2120]

"Aiyyeee!"

The nurse screamed when she saw the mob of rockets outside the window, moving closer. Chris had stayed inside the center when Corey and Joseph had left. He'd taken a nap and now was rudely awaken by the nurse's screech. He stood up and looked out the window. There had to be at least ten of them. There was no way he could fight off that many. Let alone with only two pokemon.

"Hey! Is there a back entrance to this place?"

The nurse looked at him and said, "Yes! Come this way!"

There was only one other trainer in the center. He was young, maybe 15. He stood his ground. "You're just gonna run like that?"

Chris turned to him, "There's no point in fighting a battle you can't win. They'll take your pokemon after they humiliate you. How will you do anything then?"

The kid just huffed, agitated. "Run then. I'll distract them." He said solemnly.

"Kid!" Chris pleaded, but he was adamant. The rockets were moments from bursting through the pokecenter. There was no time to argue. Chris ran behind the counter and into a back room just as the rockets entered. He listened for a moment. He heard the familiar swoosh of pokemon being sent out of their balls. There was some yelling. The sound of furniture being scattered around as pokemon fought.

Chris turned to the nurse, who was terrified. "Come on, where's that door?"

She led him to the back of the pokecenter where they stored boxes of things. Chris noticed a box of potions and Full Heal. "I'm taking some of these."

"Hey!" The nurse protested, but Chris ignored her. He quickly stuffed what he could into his bag. (4 potions, 3 full heals) "You can't do that!" She exclaimed.

"Better me than Team Rocket." Was all Chris said. The door burst open from behind them. The rockets were yelling now. "Go!"

The nurse opened the door and Chris and her escaped. She clearly didn't know what to do with herself. Chris grabbed her by the hand, "Follow me!" But Chris wasn't entirely sure where he was going to go either. Were there more of them? Would they infiltrate Cerulean entirely? Had they already? Chris wasn't sure. But he was willing to bet by how brazenly the Rockets had taken the Pokecenter that they wanted to take Cerulean entirely under control.

The nurse was slowing Chris down. He couldn't run too fast and was almost dragging her around. Not sure where he was going, he found himself in front of the gym. At the entrance stood a familiar figure. "Hey... We've met before... right?" He said to Ed.

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Edwin had barely any time to respond to the question when the kid inside the gym came back out. "You two are in that group with the Murkrow kid, right?" Chris nodded his head. "Well, where is he? He likes to fight, get him here."

"I think he's in the center." Corey pointed to the ruckus going on inside. Edwin opened the gym door and peeked inside. "Lyle, they're here!" He looked over from his machine. "Rockets!?"

"Yeah. They're in the center now." Lyle just looked at him. "I'll keep the gym safe, you go take care of them." He didn't know what to say. Lyle just went back to his machine. "We'll be fine here. Just take care of the center." Ed nodded and closed the to the gym. He turned to Lucas and Chris. "We're on our own."

"The leader's not gonna help us?" Lucas already had his hand on the door. "No. He says he wants to protect the gym."

"Then we gotta help Frank!" Lucas was already halfway to the center. Ed followed close behind. The center wasn't that far from the gym. If anything happened, he'd be able to see it from there. As he ran, he sent out Zubat. "Gotta save Claire for old Bruce."

"Zubat! Supersonic!" The Zubat screeched loudly, turning the attention of the Rockets in back towards both him and Lucas. Aron was out as well, but it seemed unaffected by the shrieking. He was not its target, but half of the rockets' Pokemon were, and both an Arcanine and Graveler started stumbling over themselves.

[Prpl_Mage]

Things happened very suddenly.
Frank entered the pokécenter and noticed Chris, unsure of how Chris felt he avoided him and managed to sneak upstairs. Great move he thought and wondered where the nerd was at.
He walked over to his room and heard some heated voices , he didn't mind and closed the door behind him. That's when he realised that whatever it was were getting out of control.
-"Graveler magnitude!" Shouted a voice outside and people exclaimed in reaction. Afterwards there were several pokémon noises and battles going on.
Frank packed his stuff and looked out, there were rockets in town.
He betted that they were after Zapdos or whatshisface.
He was about to go down and do his annual mockingly speech when he heard the cry of a Tyranitar, those things were huge. Huge and awesome. And beside the huge and awesome part - they were strong, and durable and almost impossible to beat. He knew from own experience.

He was unsure what to do when there was shouting downstairs. Frank ran up to the stairs and watched as Chris and the nurse sneaked out back. They left a kid there, your classic youngsters.
Frank watched his raticate getting obliterated by a Persian and shoved aside.
-"There he is!" The grunt yelled as he saw Frank in the stairs.
-"Who the hell did I piss off this time?" Frank wondered loudly as he sent out Kabuto.
The persian nimbly made it up the stairs and Kabuto began fighting claws with claws.
-"This is too slow!" The grunt below shouted as he noticed the ineffectiveness of Persians claws against Kabuto's shell.
He sent out another pokémon, an ekans which attacked as well.
-"No guts!" Frank shouted from above and eyed the trainer as he sent out his Primape.
Then in the middle of the battle his phone rang.

-"Huh, hey man. Whats up?"
"We have a situation." Frank said as he gestured his pokémon to do right.
"Where are you? Need any help?"
"Center. And nope, but you might want to work out a little." Frank had the situation under control but the kid could use some more practice.
"Eh... Sure, I was going there anyway. Just a second."
Then he hung up. Frank glared at the phone for a second before folding it and placing it in his pocket again.

The Primeape made short work of the Persian and they both brought Ekans down afterwards.
-"Hey buddy!" Frank shouted from upstairs.
The grunt looked up unsatisfied as he recalled his pokémon.
-"You should of course know this already but Team rocket sucks!" Frank shouted down at him and grinned.
But he really shouldn't.

A door busted up down the corridor and a team rocket grunt appeared.
-"The hell?" Frank said worrisomely as the grunt sent out a Mareep and sent him to attack.
Frank sent Kabuto to deal with it, it had some good moves.
At the same time he noticed that the previous grunt was heading for the healing machine downstairs.
Frank didn't waste a moment and called his Murkrow.
-"Stop him quickly!" Frank shouted and focused back on the battle against the Mareep. He had made a crucial mistake - Kabuto was water, and rock gave no protection whatsoever against electric attacks.
He was taking heavy damage and was barely moving.

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The grunt - Albert, only had about 2 steps from the healing machines when the shape of a Murkrow appeared in front of him, it was blocking his path and it had a dangerous look in his eyes.
-"Allright, calm down birdy..." Albert said and backed a little and tried to find his revives.
He just found them and were about to use them on his Persian when someone crashed down behind the Murkrow. It was that trainer, Frank. He gave Albert a scary look before placing his balls in the machine.
Albert began hurrying up with his reviving and was about to do something about it when a Scarmory dived down upon Murkrow.
-"Whoa!" Albert said and backed a little looking for the owner of the Scarmory. Upstairs stood another grunt, but not of his team. He remembered this one from Saffron earlier, one of the grunts travelling with Admin Saiar Karat.
-"Who are you?" The grunt asked as he noticed Albert.
-"Team rocket is taking this place over. Let the word get out!" He shouted at him and grinned.
The trainer looked distressed and needed a way out.
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-"Primeape now!" Frank shouted and lifted Murkrow's ball up.
His furry ape leaped and gave Sarmory a nice Karate chop to the face. It staggered backwards and loosened the grip of Murkrow.
Frank quickly returned it to his ball and inserted it into the machine as he took out his healed Kabuto.
-"Rock slide them!" Frank shouted as Alberts Persian was out now as well.
Rocks rained down upon the bird and the cat but Frank knew that the bird in question was a real pain in the -.
Godamn thing. Weak to fighting but flying prevents full damage, weak to rock but steel prevents that as well. Godamn combination of suck...
Primeape gave Persian a taste of his fist and it fainted again.
The Scarmory rose into the air and dived like an arrow against Kabuto striking it with it's metal wing.
Kabuto buckled under the strength.
-"Steel vs rock..." Frank shook his head and thought he heard more footsteps.

Frank needed help, and he needed it soon. He could heal all he wanted but this bird wouldn't go down any time soon.

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Chris gritted his teeth. "I guess I don't get to choose when to fight." Even with two pokemon, chris had lucas, ed and frank on his side. There really wasn't much of a decision to made. Chris followed lucas and ed as they made there way into the back of the center. The nurse had gone inside the gym.

Chris pointed out the boxes of items to ed and lucas. "Potions, full heals. Oh! And some revives."

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It didn't take long for the Arcanine to straighten itself up. While the Graveler remained confused, Arcanine's owner sent out a Mightyena. "You know what to do, make sure that thing doesn't get a chance to breathe!"

The Arcanie sprayed a jet of fire at Zubat, but it dodged quickly. The Mightyena just watched. "Zubat, bite it till it's down!" Zubat tryed to propel itself at the the beast, but it just swiped Zubat down. Almost immediately, Mightyena slashed at it with a shadowy claw. "No pesky Zubat's gonna break my team! Arcanine, Helping Hand!" The Arcanine shot a blast of fire at the Mightyena, setting it ablaze, but it seemed to like it. "Mightyena, Howl until you can't no more!"

"I gotta stop him, what was that move that kid did? Maybe Zubat can do it too. Zubat, Astonish!" The Zubat began spinning around like a top in midair, on top of that it spun around the Mightyena, striking it with it's wings at random intervals. The Mightyena had barely enough time to react. "Arcanine, Flamethrower!" Regardless of Mightyena's position, the Arcanine sprayed a blast of fire at both of them. The Mightyena lept through the flames, tackling Zubat on the way out. The Graveler came out of nowhere with a tackle right into it. Zubat was down for good.

"If that's it, scram before we..." Edwin had already sent out Clefable and Barboach. "Sorry Bruce, I'll have to get you back later." He knew there was no way he could take them all on.