Pokémon RP Kanto Quest, the adventure begins.

[drenrin2120]

Chris had been hiding in the tall grass to the side of the road when the three trainers came into view. "****. ****! no, turn around!" he whispered to himself vainly.  But it was too late, the rocket executive had spotted them.

Chris had saw the smoke and rushed as fast as he could to Pallet. Arriving in Pallet, he walked around for a little bit. It was very quiet, but there was no sign of any Rockets. The Laboratory was ablaze. Chris had cautiously made his way towards the lab. Hugging close to one side of a nearby house, he held back the urge to charge in through the front door. Suddenly, the front door burst open, and Professor (someone else pick a name) fell out in a heap. He was coughing hard as he fell to his knees, smoke pouring out from the door. He had a pokeball in his hand.

From seemingly no where, the Rocket admin dressed in nice clothes stepped up to the wheezing old man and snatched the pokeball from his hand.

"You..." the professor hacked and wheezed, he could barely speak he was so weak. Chris wanted to run out and help him, but was too afraid. "You... don't know..."

"don't know what, old man?" the rocket admin leaned in close to the professor's face. "When to give up, perhaps?" Two more burly looking grunts appeared at the admins side. "Take him." She barked.

Seeing there was absolutely nothing Chris could do, he took off as fast as he could to get out of Pallet. Finding his way into the tall grass where he now hid. Chris recognized two of the trainers from the earlier battle with the Muk. As he was trying to get a better look at who the third member was, his footing slipped, kicking a rock down a small embankment. Immediately, the gyarados's eyes were on him.

"Oh boy..." Chris gulped hard. "Hey!" He said lightly, standing up. "Don't shoot!"

The Admin looked at him hard, "What the hell are you doing? Are you trying to become fish food?"

Chris looked awkwardly from the admin to her massive gyarados. He was silent for a while before plainly replying, "No... no."

"Get out of there!" the admin ordered impatiently. Chris quietly surrendered. Seeing no other recourse he joined the three other trainers. "Goddamn clumsy..." he muttered to himself.

[drenrin2120]

"Man... we should be toast." Chris said. "There's no way that Gyarados missed by accident. That close?"

No one really said anything about it. All four trainers sat silent on the ground in a circle, exhausted and in a bit of shock. Frank stood up first. "Can we get this Nidoran to a pokecenter."

"Yes, and my Aron." Lucas said sadly, holding it.

"Yes... I think my Dudley could use some rest too." Chris said, getting up. He approached the third kid and said, "Hey, you okay?"

The kid didn't say anything for a while. He was looking south. Then he spoke suddenly, "Should we go back?"

"The lab is the only thing that burnt down. I think everyone else is okay." Chris said.

"But Pallet is my hometown." the kid said.

"Oh..." Chris was quiet. "I don't know if it's safe. I think you should come with us for now." The kid was quiet again. "What's your name?" Chris asked. "Joseph." He replied. "Well..." Chris said, trying to think of something to say. "Come on, the others are waiting up ahead." was what came out.

Joseph nodded and followed Chris as he met up with Frank and Lucas. All four walked into Veridian, headed straight for the pokecenter, quite a pitiful looking group of kids.

[X_marks_the_ed]

The two couldn't have been any older than 18. But here they were, in full Rocket attire. The one seemed to fondle the money as Edwin handed it to him. "I don't think I'd go out of my way to forge a mere fifty Pokedollars. Can I go now?" Edwin was getting impatient. "Sure, sure, man." He didn't even bother to look back up from the cash.

Fifty to enter, two hundred for the center, and fifty to leave - Owen claims to have never seen you in town. Owen was not like other leaders. A little human, but Edwin was sure he'd turn on anyone for a superior....or more money. That, and he was lazy. From the looks of it, you wouldn't even realize that Pewter was Rocket Territory in the first place, give or take the entrance guards.

Fully spent, Edwin journeyed beyond Pewter's walls and towards Viridian Forest. There's someone waiting for him. An old friend. Hopefully he has better news.

Next to the entrance stood an interesting sight. A wall of shrubs, but with a small hole, as if something once stood in its spot, but was now gone. Edwin decided to wander through the hole. On the other side was a cave. It was a shame he could not explore it, he would have to meet his acquaintance in an hour and a half. Instead, Edwin sat beside the wall of shrubs and decided to rest for a bit. He sent out Zubat.

"EEEEEEEEEE!!"

It was even more energetic than usual, it probably didn't like how bright it was outside. Edwin just watched it shoot around the air in front of him. It'll tire itself out eventually.

[coreystranick]

I'm going to start this from the time you guys were fighting to when the admin leaves that way you know i'm on track with you guys ;]
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Unaware of the battle that was raging in Pallet Town Corey trains hard with Ace and Spark.
Through the rough couple hours of training Ace grew awfully close to evolving. Spark as well. Training with an ex-gym leader was and is tough training. But Corey wished to do whatever he could to get the job done, all he saw was the downfall of that Rocket member with the Scyther.

"Now, your Starly know Double Team, Wing Attack, Quick Attack and Endure. You have a decent set of skills with him. As you know Double Team will raise his evasiveness, possibly saving him from a low accuracy move. This will come in handy when even going against that scyther. Fury Cutter does not always connect, and won't be powerful unless it does. Use this in that fight!"

"I will. I feel safe with Ace now. But I don't know what I should do now. Is this training over for now?"

"I can't help you anymore that is correct. There are matters that need my attention more and there are some that you should attend to. There is a battle going on right now in another town. It will most likely be taken over anytime, and the inhabitants will need help."

"Ho...How do you know this?"

"I have an informant at the scene. He has told me there are trainers there helping. Battling Team Rocket. But there is no way to be sure if they will survive or not. I need you to go and find them. There is no point heading towards Pallet Town. Go to Pewter City. Hopefully it is not over run by Rocket yet."

"Um..yeah sure. I said I didn't really want to fight though."

"If you want to get that Rocket back with the Scyther....I think you should do as I say. That person is no longer in Vermillion. He left shortly after kicking your butt."

"Grr....Alright I'll head to Pewter City."

Corey rushes to the door then suddenly halts.

"How do I get there?"

"I'll show you here, take this map as well."

Peter leads Corey to a cave and tells him that it will lead to Pewter City.

Corey sets off towards Pewter.

-------Inside the Cave-------

The cave was dark but Corey could still see. Surprised by the fact this was called Diglett Cavel and yet none were in sight.
The tunnel was longer than he expected, every time he rounded on of the turns thinking to see the exit, there was just more dark tunnel.
As he walked he noticed markings of what looked like a recent battle and a Pokeball sitting on the ground. He picked it up, not checking whether or not is had a Pokemon in it or not.

At long last he saw the end of the cave...but to his surprise there was a rope ladder leading to the exit.

"Wait...why is there a ladder when they could have just made steps....whatever." Corey sends out Spark and Ace.
"Alright guys, this is it, soon we will be in Pewter. You are both stronger from the extreme training we had went through but I don't want you guys to be heros, I don't want to lose one of you when I shouldn't."

Spark fur dazzles with electricity showing approval.
Ace nods and flaps his wings.

"Alright let's go!!" Ace and Spark are sent back in to the respective Pokeballs.

Corey climbs the ladder towards Pewter, one rung closer to his revenge, one rung closer to possibly helping save this region.

"Here goes to starting a new life."

[Prpl_Mage]

Viridian City, a quite quiet place. Home to a gym and the closest town to the Indigo plateau but nowadays - there wasn't much traffic with the impossibility to gain the badges.

But today it was also home to a group of young trainers. A bunch of young trainers who were happy to have gotten out okay.
-"Well kiddos, we got out allright." Frank said at the awful quiet group of people sitting at the hall of the pokémon centre. Kinda cozy with the trademark music going over and over again.
-"Name's Frank by the way. Murkrow is the only thing I got left after a Rocket scam. And that's Lucas the guy with the egghead pokémon which doesn't look local. And I understood that your name was Chris seen your Geodude in action and admires it. And last we have Joseph who recently got out of Pallet safe. We're one pathetic team huh?" Frank grinned and the others showed a mixed feeling of irony and annoyance.
-"We couldn't save Pallet." Joseph said and looked at Frank.
-"How could we when a real rocket admin wrapped things up like that? If she wiped out all those trainers who tried to liberate the city - how can we expect to do any better." Frank said and shrugged, there really was no surprise that things went down the way they did once the admin showed up, those where crazy-strong.
-"What about the professor?" Lucas asked.
-"It all depends on really. I guess we could try to return once team rocket moves out, but that won't be for some time I guess. They have a whole laboratory to go through."
That's when the newscast flashed once more.

*dundundudndundudndudndudidndindDUN*
"This is the Kanto newscast, I'm Maria with today's breaking news."
The news anchor looked down and turned to the camera.
"Our latest news is concerning the Pokémon professor and Pallet town. Recent reports state that Pallet was indeed attacked by the local crime syndicate Team Rocket earlier and their actions shocks many."
The newscast kept going for a moment with citizens saying what they thought of team rocket before coming back to the news.
-"We also have a witness claiming to see team rocket members taking the famous professor to the water of Pallet and leaving by sea. We have no reports whatsoever concerning the whereabouts of the professor. Our team rocket expert have said that we can expect team rocket to demand money or services in exchange for the pokémon professor." Frank thought it sounded a bit too extreme, they wouldn't use the manpower they had if they just wanted to preform a kidnapping and then demand a ransom.
-"Next up, how can you tell that your Parasect have been infected with leech seed?..."

-"I guess we won't be able to save the professor any time soon then... Frank said and leaned back.
-"Shouldn't we do anything to help him?"
-"I can't think of anything we can do, no water pokémon that can surf, and even if we did - we have no idea where we are supposed to be going." He sighed and shook his head.
-"I think we're better off here resting up before we set out again. There's a gym in this town but I'm not sure we can take it. So I think I'm either gonna head up to pewter to check on the events there. Or I'll return through the underground tunnel to Vermilion and look for traces of my lost party."
-"But we'll stay here for now." He added.

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Someone was watching the group from the shadows of the centre before stepping out and walking towards them. He'd listened to their conversations for the last hour or so and finally decided what to do.

-"Excuse me sirs. I heard you where at Pallet?"

Frank looked up and saw the man who dressed even more nerdy than that Lucas kid.

-"What if we are?"

-"I'm one of the professor's researchers I was ordered to escape the moment Team rocket entered town."

-"Why didn't you just let the professor escape?" Frank asked with a grin.

-"Um... Well, he wanted to take care of the research for as long as he could. Like his pokémon cataloguing for example."

-"The pokédex?" Lucas asked.

-"Yes, the pokédex, but the latest model. One which lets you know the weaknesses and strength of pokémon instead of just habitual information. Really."

-"No surprise Team rocket showed up when they did then..." Frank stated and shook his head.

-"Well yes, with the information from the new pokédex Team rocket could really optimize their work. Not only where they can find the pokémon but also how they evolve, strengths, weaknesses and much more."

-"No kidding, hell I'd like one of those."

-"That's actually my request... The professor separated these from the main CPU and tried to override the system."

-"I hope you realize that what you just said makes no sense to a guy like me..."

-"Oh yes. Of course. All the information that's gathered by the dexes are sent and stored in a large CPU um computer. And these versions will not send the information there. Instead it will be stored locally BUT could be shared among people wireless."

-"Okay, and the professor tried to delete the information on that computer so the rockets can't get their hands on it? Good professor."

-"Yes, and that's why most of our work has gone to waste, I hope the professor will return to us soon and when he does I don't want him to return to nothing."

-"So you want us to take these dexes and gather the information about pokés, the information you hopefully lost back at Pallet?"

-"That's correct. I have this package with 7 dexes in it. I want you to take it. When the professor is returned to Pallet I want you to return there so we can take care of the research you've collected."

-"Sounds like something that will make both of us happy then. We get one of these new dexes that will gather a crazy amount of information and later on you'll get the research."

-"Yes, that's correct. You don't have to do this for the professor but you could do it to resist those pesky rockets. I think I made the right choice, so I'm leaving them here with you.
Phew, I can finally move around without the fear of getting jumped by the rockets... um... I'll contact you later, good luck and may your effort bring research."

And with that the man walked out of the centre leaving the packade with the dexes behind on the table where the 4 trainers sat.
-"Now, this was an interesting turn of events..." Frank said and grabbed one of the dexes from the package.

[coreystranick]

Corey pops his head from the whole where the ladder was. He scans and sees no one around. He then leaves the cave entrance.
Upon exiting the cave..

"EEEEEEEEE."

Corey runs south to a fence and a little tree. Ignoring the tree he hops over the fence.

"Why would someone plant the tree there?"

He spys a house. It looked abandoned. He rushes inside to stay safe. Trying to not to get noticed by whoever had the Zubat.
He stares through a window and notices someone...the trainer with the Zubat. He sees that if he just hugs the eastern side of the woods that trainer shouldn't see him.

[drenrin2120]

"Damn, a real life pokedex." Chris said to himself. He also reached into the package and grabbed one. Lucas and joseph followed suit. All four of them sat examining the pokedex for a while.

"Hey, just so you know there's no gymleader at pewter." Chris said to frank.

"What? Why not?"

"He disappeared a few months ago, just like the other four gymleaders." Chris replied.

Frank frowned in disapproval, "that doesn't make sense. The other four gymleaders were in rocket central. What could possibly be so important about pewter?"

Chris winced a bit at that last statement, "you wouldn't have been able to beat him anyway." Chris laughed a bit.

"How do you know?"

"Pewter is my home town. Gotta love that museum!" Chris said facetiously. "So anyway, that leaves only three gymleaders who you can fight for badges. Veridian, fuscia and cinnabar. Veridian forest is a decent place to train."

"Hey, do any of you guys have cell numbers?" Frank asked.

They all did and they sapped numbers. "Just in case we get separated or uh, something."

[X_marks_the_ed]

BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP

A loud screech shortly followed.
Edwin's watch was going off, five minutes to meet her. He got up and called the scared Zubat back into the ball. Edwin shortly after entered the Viridian Forest. It wasn't as big or confusing as he thought it would be. He followed the path of trees into a split, where a woman was standing.

"Edwin, nice to see you."

"You too. Any word from father?"

"No, sorry. He still hasn't returned any calls or requests."

"Does he even know about mother?"

"We don't know. He never responded to those letters either."

"I see. You'd think with the activity, he'd do something about it."

"Reports say he continues to play every tournament taking place, regardless."

"Thanks."

"No problem. How is Claire?"

"She's fine. We had a snag for a while, but we're fine."

"A snag is not fine. Your mother's will clearly stated that if she falls into danger, she's to be placed in better hands."

"I said I'm doing fine."

"I hope you are. I still recommend staying in Viridian until she's ready for cerulean. Speaking of which, I need to see her to confirm your statements."

Edwin complied and sent out Clefairy. The woman then pulled out a sheet of paper. She studied it carefully, taking peeks at Clefairy. "I thought so." She walked over and grabbed Edwin's arm. "I'm gonna have to take you in."

"What?"

"You've been meddling in their affairs haven't you? Not only are you putting this Pokemon in danger, but yourself as well. You'll have to come with me."

"You joined."

"I had to."

Edwin pulled loose, grabbed Clefairy and ran for it. She did not follow. "You're making a mistake! He won't stop until he gets you back!" While running, Edwin juggled Clefairy and the Pokeball, eventually returning her to it. Now the forest was a maze.

[Prpl_Mage]

Frank faced a problem. He now had a pokédex, a neat piece of equipment that would make his life a lot easier. No more studying old pokémon literature and magazines to read about weaknesses, pros and cons of his enemies.
It was a comfortable addition to his trainer life but the problem was that he still didn't have any pokéballs to catch anything with.

The nerd - Lucas went outside to fight himself. If what he said was true . None of the pokés where captured so it was a miracle they were as passive as they were. It would be one hell'uva prank if Frank got himself a pokéball and captured the kid's Aron. Hilarious.
The other two stayed inside at the pokémon centre for now. Joseph seemed to be in a better mood now but didn't seem to care too much about what to do, he seemed quite comfortable as it were.

Frank decided that if he couldn't capture any new pokés at least he could attempt training the Murkrow of his. But he already knew it was a lost cause, the bird knew a few moves, but many of them were useless. The classic bird Peck, the sneaky Thief and the more or less useless Atonish attack. It did come in handy against the Muk earlier but still worse than the pesky Pursuit which scored a clean hit in the previous battle.
He wandered around thinking about if he should enter the Woods or not. It would probably be full of bugs, and bugs would easily fall. But fighting one trainer would probably be 20 times as effective as poking bugs for hours.

-"Hey kid!" Some old man was walking towards him.
-"Huh..? Me?" Frank was surprised that the guy could even see.
-"I know that look in your eye. You want me to teach you newbie how to catch a pokémon?" The old man just seemed to assume that Frank was new with this whole pokémon business.
-"Erhmm Actual- Yeah sure my good sir. Please show me how to capture the pokémon, I'm new on this journey and have little money to get balls of my own." The guy was probably senile and would be dead in a week or two unless he tripped and fell right away. Why refrain from using the opportunity?
-"Well don't you worry son, I'll teach you!" The old man made his way to a patch of grass and began scouting for a wild pokémon.

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About 2 hour later Frank finally left the patch of grass. He questioned his own decision to ask the old man for help since it took him ages to do anything.
But now he "knew how to catch pokémon"  (yeah- like people didn't learn that in kindergarten) and also got 3 balls as a gift. A kind gift indeed when one is a trainer without any money and not a single trainer in sight.

He wanted to sit down, sit down and sigh 'cuz his head hurt from the endless ramblings but he still walked. Up ahead was a sign that said "Indigo Plateau, home of the Elite 4" Frank was certain there was something wrong with the sign but it unfortunately brought back some flashbacks of his old awesome party. The one he lost because he wanted to fight this Elite 4. It would take him ages to reach the same kind of quality party again he realized and wondered where or how his old pokémon were.
If they were here he would've entered those doors and challenged the Elite 4. Although according to that Chris fellow, one needed the gym badges to gain entrance. And with the gyms pretty much barred up he would still be standing here with or without the old party.
Something had to be done with team rocket so he might as well start the building of a new strong team that might just be average compared to the last one once he is free to enter the Indigo Plateau.

Franks daydreaming came to a halt as he noticed a beige creature moving in the grass. He tossed his ball and Murkrow appeared.
-"Just attack it will ya?" Frank said and shoo'd the Murkrow at it.
With the kind of slow gliding it always used Murkrow swooped down and pecked the creature. The creature looked up and seemed frustrated. It wasn't something Frank could remember seeing in Jotho.
It lashed out against Murkrow with a series of furious swipes but each of the swiped luckily didn't deal too much damage. The Murkrow rose into the air and dived once more, but the creature leaped to the side and avoided the attack. With Murkrow's back clear it used it's arms to Scratch it. (not the kind way)
Frank knew that his bird couldn't take more of this beating and grabbed one of his free balls.
-"You better be worth this you ugly ape!" Frank stated before letting go of the pokéball and watching it flying in an perfect arc against the creature. It connected and swallowed the pokémon in a bright light.
The ball wobbled a little, then it wobbled more fiercely, then it stopped.

Frank walked up and grabbed the ball, he sent it out and let his pokédex do the thinking.
"Mankey, pig monkey pokémon. Fighting type.
Light and agile on its feet, and ferocious in temperament. When angered, it flies into an uncon-" And that's when the interest faded. The dex continued to give away unnecessary information so he stashed it.
-"Looks like both of these could use some medical help..." Frank realized and went back to the pokémon centre.

At the door the group looked up at him and he simply stated; "Did some catching. Nothing good though." as he lended over his balls to the woman at the counter.
-"I'm heading out again, gonna check out the woods. Might just find something useful in there although I doubt it." He declared as the balls were returned to him.
He stashed them and went over to the table with the other guys.
-"I'll be back in a bit. Give me a call if anything comes up".
Without any more delays he made his way towards Viridian forest.

[coreystranick]

EDITED TO FIT STORY ARC.
Wow i'm dumb haha
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Corey awoke to darkness.

"Shoot. I must have dosed off. Stupid training"

Peeked outside and noticed no one was there. He grabbed his things and left for Pewter.
**Not noticing he had went the wrong way he was actually heading south towards Veridian City. No direction from Peter besides go to Pewter did little to help this Sinnoh boy know where he should head.**


Corey walks into town and spots the Pokecenter. He sees a group of trainers sitting at one of the tables and another at the counter complaing about useless Pokemon or something.

Corey walks over to the table.

"Hey here fellas. I'm new here, I just wanted to know if you guys knew anything about this town and Pallet town."

[drenrin2120]

Not sure if you realize cory, but we're in veridian.

Thisll be quick, ill update it later.
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" Spare pokeballs? Yeah, sure, I have a few." Chris half reluctantly rummaged through his bag and handed them to a very greatful nerd.

"Thanks chris!"

"Its fine, I'm not interested in catching any pokemon round here."

[Prpl_Mage]

"Spare balls" How could anyone have spare balls these days?
On the other hand, he didn't capture a lot back in the days when he had his old party. There was just no need when the party he had rocked the Barboach out of most trainers.

Frank left the centre as another guy entered, that guy smelled odd. Kinda like how the Lucas kid did.
They didn't smell like pine trees and fresh air like himself, neither did they smell like wet dog (which kanto pretty much smelled like), Lucas had more of a salty aroma - a mix of kelp and ashes. This guy on the other hand smelled like... well kinda like something damp. Interesting indeed

As he was outside the centre he could hear the nerd mention something about caring about pokémon. But what's the point in caring for something that's useless? It's not like a caterpie will stand a chance against a Butterfree. No matter how loved it is. It was although obvious that it can from a kid who had two uncaught pokémon following him around like stray dogs.

He passed a house that said "Trainer centre" which apparently were a place to fight strong trainers, but it was unfortunately closed at the moment. The thought of challenging the gym came into mind but getting whipped by strong trainers with the pansys he carried didn't fall well with his coolness.
-"Viridian forest it is." Frank said and sighed.
-"Oh boy, I can't wait to bomb some kakunas." He said with as much irony as he could and got his Murkrow out.
Might as well let it do as it wanted once he got there, there were bugs and Murkrow was a bird.

After walking for a couple of minutes he arrived at the entrance of the woods. the sign said "Viridian forest. Watch out for dropped items lying on the ground."
He went inside and it didn't take long before Murkrow fond a couple of Caterpies to fight. The moment it struck one of them  - the other fled. Murkrow kept flying around swooping at caterpies and Frank followed it around. Wouldn't like to lose it just like that.
It was a large and bushy forest after all, one with many trees that more or less blocked out the sun. It was kinda cozy and yet at the same time creepy. In other words; he liked it.

[drenrin2120]

Chris had two pokeballs left and one great ball. He didn't feel too bad though because he knew Lucas really needed them, so atleast they were going to good use. He watched as Frank wordlessly left the group. He had a good idea of Frank's type. Quiet, strong, and a loner. Or if not a loner, too cool for his own good. But Chris noticed he didn't seem to like his pokemon very much. There was something else about Frank Chris couldn't put his finger on.

Chris looked at his cell, it was 2:30 PM. Hm... Just then, another kid approached the group. Chris noticed that he, Lucas, and Joseph were the only other trainers around, Frank had left somewhere. The new kid introduced himself as Corey. He was a little timid, but everyone was nice enough to him. He warmed up quick though. The group struck up a conversation. Chris had things on his mind though, his mom was probably worried sick. And he really didn't feel much like sitting around considering what he'd seen in Pallet.

"Hey, look." Everyone turned to Chris as he stood up suddenly. "I think I'm gonna take a walk."

"Don't you want to try and fight the gym leader here?" Lucas asked.

"Yes, I do. But not right now. I need to train some of my pokes." Chris said. He was thinking of his Sandshrew, the one that didn't like him very much. He knew the veridian city gym was the Earthbadge, he wondered if his pokemon would be enough.

With that Chris walked off to Veridian forest. It was the only decent place to train around here. The path through the forest was very straightforward, but if one were to venture off the path, getting lost becomes a very real possibility. When Chris was out of ear reach of the others, he got out his phone and called his mom. "Hey, I just wanted to let you know I'm alright."

"Goddamn! I'm so glad you're okay!" She responded, "I was watching the news, they said the whole of Pallet was on fire!"

"No, just the lab." Chris said.

"Oh, no. Is the professor okay?"

"No, the rockets kidnapped him."

"Oh..."

"I'm sorry mom. I don't know why this is happening."

"Yes..."

"You okay?"

"I'm fine, I just hope he's okay. Someone has to do something. It's like these damn rockets can do whatever they want! The police don't stop them! And even the strongest trainers seem beaten down by them!"

"Yes, I know."

"Well, I gotta go. What's your plan?"

"Me? I think I'm going to take the gym challenge."

"Oh, Chris..."

"I know, but if I can get strong enough to fight the gymleaders, I should be able to fight team rocket. I'll find dad and the professor."

"Oh..."

"I gotta go now though. Bye mom! Love ya."

"Bye sweetie, you stay safe! Visit me before you leave for good!"

*click*

Chris was deep in Veridian forest by now, he was surprised he'd had service as long as he had. He sent out his sandshrew. "Go sandy!" a stream of light flashed and then Sandy appeared. She stretched and yawned loudly. Chris was a little nervous about this. "I have an idea Sandy." The sandshrew grunted at him questioningly. "I'll let you stay outside of your ball as long as its safe." The Sandshrew sounded interested, but shot Chris a disbelieving look. Chris had heard of pokemon becoming more fond of their trainers by walking with them, he hoped it was enough to turn Sandy's heart around.

He pointed his pokedex at it.

[coreystranick]

I edited my last post to fit the direction of the story.
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Corey looked around. The groups friend Frank was gone. Chris whom he just met was gone.  Both apparently heading for Veridian forest. Which was north of their current location.
The only ones who were left were Lucas, who carried two Pokemon with him an Aron and Nidoran weird that they weren't in Pokeballs. He eyed the one he found in the Diglett Cave.

Maybe I should let him use it I mean, it isn't mine nor do I need it

The other trainer was Joseph, whom Corey hadn't talked to much. Corey looked around again. Lucas was sleeping and well, snoring very loudly.

I wonder if he knows how loud he snores

None of the trainers seemed to want to talk about Pallet town much. It seems they were there during the fight. None had recalled seeing a Scyther though. Everyone also seemed to be heading to Pewter. Corey was shocked to have not noticed that he went the wrong way but figured he would stick around with this group. They each had a Pokedex.  It seemed they had extras but Corey didn't want to ask for one, he figured he would just wait until one was offered.

"Well, I guess I'll go train some or possibly catch a new Pokemon," he said seemingly talking to no one.

I don't know how powerful these guys are. But I may need a new addition to the team or get my guys leveled more to stay on par.

As it was now Ace was level 13 and Spark was level 11. Peter had told Corey during training that Ace would gain levels faster due to being a trade from his friend. Peter also had noted that Spark had learned Spark before he technically should have, most likely due to living with a pack of tougher Luxio and Luxrays.

Corey left the Pokecenter and headed to wards the North. He spotted a path to the west and decided to head there. Seems that this place wasn't taking him to the forest but he noted the patch of grass and entered.

He took a few steps and heard a rustle coming from behind.
He turned.

"Nothing."

Corey kept walking hearing more noise and cry that sounded like a monkey.

"I wonder what that noise is. I know it can't be a Chimchar or anything."

Suddenly what looked like a monkey pig jumped at Corey.

"Shoot. Go Spark. Use Tackle!"

The attack hit the wild Pokemon dead on. Seemed that this Pokemon was a way lower level than Spark as it started to limp.

"Tackle again!"

This time the Pokemon was able to to move a little but Spark had clipped it.

The wild Pokemon began to scratch Spark but did major damage.

"But it looked weak! Still I don't think it could take another attack"
Corey tossed a Pokeball.

It enveloped the Pokemon in red light.
The ball fell to the ground and shook.
....
....
It shook more violently
....
....
The ball stopped.

"Yes! A new Pokemon. Let's take it back to the Pokecenter and heal it Spark. Maybe someone else knows what it is."

They headed back to the Pokecenter and Corey healed everyone.
He turned around and saw Joseph.

"Catch anything Corey?"

"Yeah this.." Corey sends out the Pokemon"Do you know what it is?"

Joseph pointed the Pokedex at it.

"Yeah that is a Mankey. It is a Pig Mokey Pokemon. Seems to have an ability that allows it not to fall asleep under Sing, Sleep Powder and such. Also looks like it gets an attack boost when hit by a critical hit. Yours seems to be a male and about level 4 with Low kick, Scratch, Covet, and Leer."

"Wow, thanks Joseph. That certainly explains why it did so much damage when Spark attacked it. Man wish I had one of those things. I think I'll name you Thrasher how is that?"

The newly caught Mankey looked at Corey, gave him a quick kick to the shin and bounced around.

"Owwww! Well, I take it you don't like the name?"

The Mankey scratched him this time and made an agnry face.

"Oh you do like it. Well I'll have to wear shin guards around you if you like something."

Corey returned Thrasher to his ball and sat down waiting to see where the group went next.

[drenrin2120]

Sorry, Lucas, I somehow skipped over your post. =X
thanks for the entry.

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"You're a tough pokemon, says here level 8. With a brazen/unruly nature. Huh... I wonder how it knows that. I wonder what level that Muk was at." Chris said outloud, reading the pokedex entry for Sandy. (I'm just going with pokedex telling us pokemon levels cuz it makes its way easy to compare strength and such.)

Chris kept exploring the settings of the pokedex. He came across a note in regards to level tracking. "Level tracking is a number 1 out of a 100 that is used to place a pokemon in a range of known strengths and abilities. However, level tracking isn't entirely accurate. If a trainer decides to use level tracking, he/she should use his/her experience in reference with level tracking to gauge how powerful the target pokemon really is."

Chris sent out his Geodude and pointed the pokedex at it.

"Found in fields and mountains. Mistaking them for boulders, people often step or trip on them. It uses its arms to steadily climb steep mountain paths. It swings its fists around if angered. When Geodude sleeps deeply, it buries itself halfway into the ground. It will not awaken even if hikers step on it unwittingly. In the morning, this Pokémon rolls downhill in search of food.

Personal specs:
Male
Level 15
Nature: Calm, reserved."

"Hm." Chris pondered, "I could really get used to this pokedex.

Chris brought Dudley back into his ball and began scouring the forest with Sandy at his side. There was really no trouble fighting the bug pokemon, a couple of caterpies, some weedles, occasional pidgey. They were all low level and with Sandy's type advantage, were easily ground to dust. Sandy was merely perfecting her technique rather than strength training. After a few pokemon though, Chris pointed the pokedex back at Sandy.

"Personal specs:
Level 9"

"Oh, wow!" Chris said jubilantly, "You've gained a level, Sandy! You're such a good pokemon!" Sandy seemed pleased with herself. Chris went to hug her, Sandy took it with a grunt. She squirmed unhappily in Chris's grip, he let go. "Okay, so you don't like hugs. No problem then."

Just then, there was a rustle in the grass behind them. Out of no where a Hoot-hoot dive bombed Sandy, mistaking her for an easy meal.

"Watch out!" Chris cried.

Sandy curled into a tight ball and took the pecks and scratches of the Hoot-Hoots talons. Realizing it had picked the wrong potential prey, it began to fly away. "Let's get 'em, Sandy!"

Sandy and Chris charged off after the Hoot-Hoot, following its noisy cries. They found it in a large tree. "Sandy," Chris ordered, "Knock him out of there with a good sand-attack!"

Sandy obeyed, kicking hard as he could, a stream of dust and dirt started kicking up into the tree at the Hoot-Hoot. The bird began squawking up a storm. Just as it began to fly away, Sandy kicked a rock into the tree. A loud yelp of sorts pierced the forest followed by a thump as the Hoot-Hoot collapsed to the ground. Sandy and Chris ran over to it. Sandy was about ready to jump on it with her claws. When Chris commanded her to back down, she ignored him. "Sandy! Leave it alone!" Sandy continued to ignore Chris. Just as she was about to pounce, the Hoot-Hoot livened up and released a wave of Hypnosis on Sandy. Sandy immediately stumbled over on her side, asleep. The Hoot-Hoot was too weak to fly away, so Chris threw a pokeball.

It bounced off the surprised Hoot-Hoot then sucked it inside with a red flash of light. The ball trembled lightly, then stopped. Chris walked over to his dozing Sandy and pat her on the head. "Silly, I told you to leave it alone." Calling her back into the ball, he pointed his pokedex at the ball the Hoot-Hoot was in.

"#163: It has a perfect sense of time. Whatever happens, it keeps rhythm by precisely tilting its head in time. It begins to hoot at the same time every day. Some trainers use them in place of clocks. This pokemon has even been reported to possess psychic capabilities, though it is not a psychic type pokemon."

Personal Specs:
Female
Level 7
Jolly Nature

"Interesting, I wasn't planning on catching you but I like the way you fought. You fought smart." Chris put his pokemon safely on his belt and began walking towards the path out of Viridian Forest.