Pokémon RP Johto Stories

[A Forgotten Legend]

It didn't take very long for Joseph to make it back to Cherrygrove.  A few battles with some Sentret didn't go too well, and his pokémon were weak.  'I need to head to the Pokémon center...'  As he entered, he saw the two trainers from earlier.
"Hey!  You two!"  The two turned around confused." The aide in Professor Gold's lab said you had something to hand out?"
The breeder spoke.  "Yeah, it's a pokédex upgrade.  I take it you would like one?"
"I would."
"Take this then." The breeder handed him the upgrade.
"Thanks."
"Do you need your pokémon healed?" The nurse smiled and took his three pokéballs.
"So..."
The nurse came back with the pokéballs. "Here you are. Be careful that your pokémon don't get badly injured while you're out, and always carry some potions with you."
"Thanks!"  With that, Joseph left the Pokémon Center. "Next stop, Violet City!"

[Prpl_Mage]

Barry walked with the two chaps. Nice guys and all that, but they had such strong pokémon.
Barry usually sent out his Shroomish - Sishohorm against any pokémon he wanted to capture. The he let his enemies attack it since they would suffer from Effect Spores and his buddy would simply use absorb till the battle was over. But if the enemy was really strong Barry would be sure to give him a Lemonade or a Sitrus Berry he couldn't risk them disliking him.

Then he had a great idea, what if he caught something new? Something that could perhaps do better in a fight? Like that awesome Sentret? His party was super-duper loved and maxed with apricorn juices, berries, poffins and pokéblocks. But apparently none of that actually made them stronger.

"Sishohorm use Headbutt on that tree!" Barry called his Shroomish and the blobby fungus went all out on the closest pine. There was a large *smack* noise coming from the tree as Sishohorm bounced off and landed on the grass.
"Nice job buddy!" Barry said and chuckled as a wild Spinarak fell down into the grass.
"Now what is this? A spider? I haven't seen one of these before!" Barry exclaimed happily and chuckled as the pokémon got up from its back.

"Give your pokédex a shot!" Lucas called from the distance and Joe joined in.
"It will give you all kinds of useful information when you fight something!"
"Right!" Barry called back and fumbled with his pokédex and scanned the creature before him.
Unfortunately, his upgraded Kanto pokédex lacked the cool sound and voice option thatthe old version had.
He read the information and decided to let Sishohorm do his thing.

"Sishohorm wear it out!" Barry called and watched as the Spinarak tried its' best to defeat Shroomish and Shroomish silly attempts at stealing energy from it with absorb.
He decided to throw a pokéball and watched the Spinarak get sucked in; It barely closed before it broke open again.
"Darn, let's give it another chance..." He said and threw a new ball, the same thing happened.
"Try to wear it down with some real attacks or give it a status problem!" Lucas said as he and Joe stopped to wait for him.
"I guess I just have to wait for it to get paralyzed or something." He said and shrugged.

And as a blessing from above - Spinarak did indeed get a status abnormality - but as all fate knows - it doesn't always turn out the be the one you're hoping for.
"It's poisoned" Joe said and saw Barry's disappointment.
"I guess I can't rely on the status effect then..." He mumbled and exclaimed "Sishohorm use Headbutt!"

The fungus charged the spider and bonked it silly with it's enormous head. The Spinarak fainted.

"Darn it all." Barry said and looked at his Shroomish which looked just as bitter as he did.
"That's too bad Barry but you can't always succeed!" Joe said and and smiled friendly.
"Yeah.... I guess so." He said and called for his pokémon to follow him again as he ran up to his companions.

------------------------------------------------

It didn't take too long before they saw the Bellsprout tower in Violet, Barry also noticed an apricorn tree next to a cave but the other two told him to stay the Muk out till he got something called Flash. After checking the move up on his pokédex he couldn't understand what good an Sand attack substitute would do in a dark cave.

[Prpl_Mage]

Barry realized one thing. He didn't knew enough about pokémon. Sure, he knew what most pokémon could learn and how cool their moves looked while using them in contests. He knew abilities and he knew power. But what he knew was all facts, the meaning of what he knew about each pokémon was nothing.
He knew that effect spore could leave them paralyzed but last time they got poisoned. He knows that headbutt is stronger than absorb but didn't know it made such difference as it did last time.

In other words. Barry needed training, some education perhaps. Maybe he simply needed a mentor to let him know all about what a pokémon's type represented or what moves were good when and with what...

"Guys, I'm gonna go on ahead and see if there's something here that can help me train." Barry said happily and waved goodbye to the other two as he jogged the last bit to Violet City.

------------------------------------------------

Violet city was a lot larger than Cherrygrove and New Bark town, but not as much a city as Celadon where he spent most of his time. There were small houses, a large tower and some sign mentioning ruins.
He didn't care much for tourist attractions right now though as he noticed the sign that read "Trainer Academy - Pokémon School"

"I'll be damned, I think I just found exactly what I'm looking for!" Barry chuckled as he returned his party to their balls and entered the academy to learn something new. Something he could use to actually win battles and get stronger.

[coreystranick]

Corey had finally made it down the stairs of the tower. It seemed to take longer going down, than it did going up.

"Phew that was tiring."

Corey spied a trainer, looking more so like a breeder with his pale and all, walking up to the Training Academy and saw him make face as he read the sign.

Must be a new trainer

Corey headed off towards the Pokecenter wondering about his journey and his reasons for it.

I wonder how old man Lando is doing

[coreystranick]

Corey was sitting down inside the Pokecenter wondering about Lando.
Had been doing so for a while and just kept reassuring himself that this is what he needs to do to help the old man.
I have to find a Pokemon that isn't psychic or ghost, I'm going to get stomped at a few of the gyms if not. But what should I get, there isn't anything around this area.

Corey concluded his thoughts by deciding when he was done with the gym he would go and do some searching....or trading.

When he got done his thoughts on the present and future situation he noticed an musician walking in, one he vaguely noticed on his way out of the tower.

[Prpl_Mage]

Barry spent a couple of hours asking questions and listening to lectures from the people at the academy, it was all pretty hard. But he did take notes on the effects of status problems and type advantages. He felt ready to go now since he kinda realized that this was all "battles in theory" and not actual battles.
He bought a book about the class that was held there and said his goodbyes.

----------------------------------

Barry saw the large tower in the distance but decided to skip it, he wanted to try the gym right away. He knew that his grass type moves would have little effect against birds but lucky him that he had moves such as Headbutt.
He skipped the pokémon centre and went straight for the gym and gasped at the challenged ahead. It was time to prove that he was more than just a breeder; that he was indeed a trainer.

[A Forgotten Legend]

Joseph took his time looking around.  For it being so close, he had never been in Violet City before.  The tower looked like a good place to train, and the gym shouldn't be too bad with Flaffy... but the outskirts of town had something very intriguing.  The ruins.  He had read about them, and had always wanted to vist, but never had the chance.  What mysteries were there for him to explore?  He quickly left town towards the Ruins.

[Prpl_Mage]

Barry was impressed by the trainer's performance. He just wished the trainer would play a battle theme next time.

"I guess I'm next" Barry said confident as he walked over to the gym leader after he healed his pokés.
The leader looked pissed and Barry was a bit nervous. Lucas used electric type moves and it had an advantage towards the flying type.
Barry had to use something beside grass moves or he wouldn't deal any damage.

"I'd like yo challenge you to a fight leader type!" He said and bowed.
"Another one?" The leader said and shook off his bitterness.
"Yepp, I'm hyped up and ready to go."

----------------------------

Barry sent out Oddish, he would try to use poison powder since he wasn't going for a catch and then tackle.
"Go Starraptor!" Falkner called as the large bird erupted from the ball.
It's sharp eyes pierced any bravery his tough looking Oddish might have shown.

"Use poisonpowder!" Barry called and the oddish began to chant.
"Take it out!" Falkner called and a moment passed before the bird slapped the oddish silly with its' wing.
"Aw darn it." Barry mumbled as he withrew Oddish and sent out Lotad.

"Tadol use Water gun!" Barry called but an Aerial Ace completely sundered the bouncy creature.
"Aw... Well, last try." Barry said as he shrugged and sent out Shroomish.
"I'm tired of games." Falkner said and waved at his Starraptor.

The bird soared high and dived right in front of the mushroom. Shroomish braced for impact but the bird crashed down next to it and clenched it's wing.
"I can't watch this..." Barry said as the Starraptor unleashed punch after punch with it's graceful Close Combat.
The Mushroom pokémon was far more than fainted as it collapsed to the floor - but Starraptor was at least poisoned.

------------------------------------------
"Well, that's all I could offer." Barry said with a sad smile, he thought it would go a lot better now that he knew more. But apparently there was more to fighting than just picking the right move to use.
"Thanks for the battle, I really needed that." Falkner said and walked up and shook Barry's hand.
"Oh well, it seems like you're just too strong for me." Barry said and flushed.
"You know what? Take this badge for the effort." Falkner said and held out a badge.
"What really?" Barry said and smiled.
"No, of course not..." Falkner said and grinned as he put it back in the pocket.
"Darn man, that's mean." Barry said and chuckled.
"Return here once you've trained your pokémon a little more, and perhaps get something aside from grass types. My Flying types will always have the advantage against them.

With those words Barry walked over to Lucas and shrugged.
"I guess I wasn't ready for this after all." He smiled and wondered that maybe he should just give up the whole elite four dream of his.
"You just need to get stronger, train like crazy." Lucas said as he played a familiar tone on the guitar.
"Would you teach me how to get stronger?" Barry asked and chuckled, then looked at Lucas pleadingly.
Lucas stopped playing right in the song and turned to the breeder.

[coreystranick]

Corey had finally gotten up from his chair in the Pokecenter.

"Well, guess it's about time to go to the gym and see what I can do."

Corey walked into the gym, he noticed two trainers talking that he had seen around town before. The breeder looked disappointed, must have lost.

"Well, do you wish to battle as well?"
"Yes, I've come to take down your birds."
"Well, we will see about that Staraptor!"

The Pokemon came soaring out of the Pokeball. Corey waited and decided to send out Gira.
"Gira Agility!"
"Close Combat Staraptor"
The bird came in close but with Gira's speed raised he was able to dodge.
"Confusion!"
Gira sent out waves of psychic power towards the bird hitting firmly on the head. Solid hit, but it did not confuse the bird.
"Brave Bird now!"
Staraptor landing into Gira's side. The hit hurt Gira but also the bird.
"Quick before it flys back out of range use Stomp!"
Gira kicked his back hooves, but just barely hit the bird before it flew off.
"Agility agian, we gotta get faster."
Gira raised his speed once more.
"Now use Confusion!"
"Close Combat again Staraptor"
"Great! Now that he is close use Stomp!"
The two Pokemon exchanged blows, but since Staraptor was already weakened it didn't take long before Gira was the winner, though a badly hurt one.

"Pelipper your turn."
"Gira use Confusion."
With the raised speed he was able to land the hit before Falkner's Pokemon could.
"Tailwind Pelipper."
The bird began to raise it's speed to match Gira's. Soon they were equal.
"Confusion!"
"Ice Beam."
The two beams smacked together, Gira couldn't hold on and lost, the ice beam knocking him out.

"Hmm, Wy-guy your turn. Use Mirror Coat."
Pelipper came in for another Ice Beam. It hit Wy-guy but Mirror Coat returned the damage two fold.
"Encore Wy-guy."
Pelipper began to use another move, but all of a sudden an Ice beam shot out.
"Mirror Coat quick!"
Wy-guy was hit, he wouldn't take much more but Pelipper was doing worse since he was taking double the damage he was doing to Wy-guy.
"Destiny Bond Wy-guy!"
Pelipper came in for the final hit, taking out the poor little guy.
Falkner smiled, but then a small ball of light came and hit Pelipper, both Pokemon were fainted.
"Nice move kid."

"Now for my final Pokemon. Pidgeot!"
"Goldie go!"
"Quick attack Pidgeot."
The bird came in and Sableye just stood there. Sableye was unaffected.
"Foresight."
As  the bird came in Goldie turned and his eyes glowed peering into the bird. He had taken away any evasion that was imposed.
"Astonish!"
Goldie was hit by  a Wing Attack but the bird was taking hits as well.
"Now Night Shade!"
Pidegot took a lot of damage since it was a more experienced than the Bellsprout.
Goldie and the bird were both getting tired.
"Goldie as it comes in use Zen Headbutt."
Goldie took the Wing Attack that followed and hit the bird squarely on it's head.
Pidegot was dazed.
"Quick before it regains composure finish it with fury swipes."
Goldie began scratching the bird over and over.
"Use return"
"Zen Headbutt!!"
Both Pokemon hit, both fainted. But Pidegot just slightly before Goldie.

"You got lucky, I don't even wanna give you the badge."
"But I won!"
"By a few seconds!"
"It matters in races why not here!?"
"Because this is my gym!"
"Well no, it is your father's Falkner!"
"He isn't here, so it is mine and I won't give you this badge."
"What a sore loser."

Corey turned and stormed out, not even noticing if the other two trainers were still there.

[A Forgotten Legend]

The Ruins of Alph

----------
The ruins have been a mystery for years.  A strange group of pokémon were discovered here in the ruins, given the name Unknown.  They seemed to be in shapes of letters.  Joseph had seen a documentary on the rocket invasion of the ruins not too long ago.  They were looking for the hidden secrets of the ruins, because they had heard tales of a powerful rare pokémon that inhabited it.  These came from people hearing an interference in their pokégear radio.  Apparently, they thought it was the cry of the legendary pokémon, Ho-oh.  When they got there, they destroyed much of the ruins in the process.  All that was left was one cave, and unknown scattered everywhere.  The people who had been studying the ruins were forced to join Team Rocket, and became slave researchers at their bidding.  Now that Team Rocket is out of Johto, they were able to return, and their research has begun again.  Unfortunately, since most of the records of the ruins were destroyed, they have made little progress of late.

"This place is eerie..." The ruins had a mist all around.  It seemed almost like a graveyard.  From what he had heard, the place was crawling with ghost pokémon. "What was that?!" A pokémon came up in front of his face out of thin air.  It looked at him, and then backed up.  It looked puzzled as why Joseph was just standing there frozen.
"Dusk!"
"Duskull, the Requiem Pokémon. Duskull wanders lost among the deep darkness of midnight. There is an oft-told admonishment given to misbehaving children that this Pokémon will spirit away bad children who earn scoldings from their mothers."
"Duskull, eh?"  The pokédex was very useful.  He had never seen a Duskull before.  "Go, Teddiursa!" Teddiursa got quick a shock when it saw the ghost pokémon. "Teddiursa, don't be scared! We can do this!  ...Teddiursa should be okay as long as I don't use any normal type moves... Teddiursa!  Use Fake Tears!"
Teddiursa started to produce tears, the Duskull became very uncomfortably, and looked open for an attack.
"Faint Attack!" Teddiursa distracted Duskull and hit it with the move.  It was a good hit and the Duskull flew back a few feet.  It took a bit of damage.  It wasn't through yet.  The Duskull used Night Shade, and quickly realized it had no effect on Teddiursa.
"Teddiursa, use Lick!"  It didn't do much, but it did something at least.  The Duskull used Disable before Teddiursa could get another lick.  "Darn it! Use Faint Attack!"  Again, it tried to distract Duskull.  It worked, and Teddiursa managed to get another nice blow.  
"Now use Fake Tears!"  The Duskull used Astonish, but it didn't have any effect, and was caught off-guard by Teddiursa's tears.
"Give it another Faint Attack!" This time Duskull was having none of it.  It used Confuse Ray just as Teddiursa got near.  In its confusion it accidentally hit itself.  "Teddiursa! Come back!  Good job! Now what... let's try Flaffy! Go, Flaffy!"
The sheep-like pokémon came out of the ball and looked at the Duskull.  Duskull was weak, and didn't have much will to fight.
"Flaffy!  Use Thunder Wave!"  Flaffy shot a shock of electricity, just enough to paralyze the Duskull.  It seemed to almost give up.  "Pokéball, go!"  In a flash of light, the Duskull was in the pokéball. It moved once.  Twice.  Thrice.  And another time before it stopped.  "We did it!  We caught a pokémon Flaffy!" Flaffy began to cheer along with Joseph.  He returned Flaffy and released his newly caught Duskull.  "So, anything cool around here?"  The Duskull was still weak, but it bobbed happily and began floating towards something in the distance.

After a few minutes of walking, Duskull stopped.  It looked like it heard something.  A few Rattata rushed passed.  I don't enjoy those things... the teeth just creep me out...  Joseph looked at Duskull.  It bobbed and began floating in a different direction.  It was only a few more paces before he came to a old building.  It seemed to have rubble on it from the explosions the Rockets used to destroy the ruins.  He walked inside to find a working laboratory with a few scientist working.  One of them noticed him and called for him to come over.

"I see you made a new friend, Duskull!"
"Huh?  You know him?"
"He wanders in here all the time.  He's quite friendly.  Surprising for a ghost pokémon.  I think he was brought here by a Rocket Grunt and released because he was too weak.  So he would roam around the ruins of the ruins.  I see you must have caught him.  Good for you."
"Thanks...?  What are you guys studying now, anyway?"
"Well, mostly why this fog appeared here.  After the explosion, the fog set in and many pokémon began to appear.  Lately there have been some sightings of a few pokémon not native to the region."
"Cool."
"It is. Do me to show you around the lab?"
"That would be really awesome!"
"Come on then"

[Prpl_Mage]

Barry left Lucas and wondered where that other trainer had went. And he also realized that Lucas was stronger than him, who was weaker than Falkner BUT that cooltrainer was stronger than Lucas. It all made little sense. Barry thought that the gym leaders where the strong trainers.

He wanted to beat Falkner pretty badly but pulled out his notebook. "Flying beats grass, bug and fighting."
Turned the page. "Flying gets beaten by electric, ice and rock. NOTE: most bird types are also normal".
An electric pokémon like those Lucas had would do wonders in other words. Maybe if he breed the electabuzz to gain an elekid? Nah, he couldn't ask that of a complete stranger. Ice types then? Nope, probably none of those around...
That left one thing.

"Rock types, guys, we're gonna get a rock type!" He said as he released his pokémon from their balls so they could accompany him

--------------------------

He strode through the grass and meet a bunch of rattatas, when it happened he had to call back those not fighting to make sure that he had control of everything.
Shroomish fared best, seemed like he was the most battle-able of his crew. Then it was Lotad, it had been breed with water gun which made an amazing difference compared to Oddish Tackle.
He was learning and he would be better. Learning moves, what his opponents might know. Learning their types, learning move-types. His notebook was so littered with scribbles that he was getting dizzy.

He passed some sign that said "Ruins of Alph" And figured it was nothing good over there, why would anyone visit ruins after all?
He continued down and avoided trainers and some creepy bearded madman who stood on a hill and screamed his lungs out.
In the end he arrived at a cave. The Onion cave, odd name indeed. Then he realized that someone had drawn on the sign, the original name was Union cave.

He stepped inside and it was dark, he heard movements but his eyes adjusted at last.
He walked for a while and met Geodudes left and right. He knew that he had the advantage and let his Shroomish and Lotad do their thing. Water and grass moves were really good against these.
He stayed in the cave for a while and trained, he had plenty of Sitrus and Leppa berries that he handed out.
When he felt okay with the training he gave them all a haircut and started to head out.
But his Shroomish stayed where it was.

"What's the matter? You see another geodude?" But as Barry looked, there was a large rocky snake in front of him - Onix.
"Whoa, you sure you can fight that?" Barry asked and his Shromish answered with the useful bitter expression.

---------------------
Shroomish steeled himself from the blow and took the Rock Throw with ease, the Onix was strong but it didn't do much against the fungus.
"Keep using Absorb took keep your health up if you want to!" Barry called as Shroomish charged his attack.
The onix was struck by the attack and parts of his energy slowly seeped into the fungal creation in front of him.
There was no reason for his behaviour the next couple of turns though. First it polished itself to make it move faster, then it increased its' defense with harden. But Barry now knew that Absord was a special attack.
"You're doing great!" Barry called as the Onix seemed weaker and weaker.
The he remembered.
"Oh yeah, I came here to find a rock pokémon..." And so he dug through his bag to find his pokéballs.

He weighted the ball in his hand and threw it at the Onix, it was sucked in and the ball wobbled, then it wobbled some more - but it broke.
"Drats, I guess it needs some kind of status problem then, huh? Don't do anything, wait for it to attack you with it's body so it can get effected by your spores!" Barry called and smiled at the Shroomish, who looked back at him like he was dumb.

Shroomish disobeyed orders and began charging an attack.
"Aww, c'mon, don't do this. I wanna catch that thing y'know?" Barry pleaded as he threw another ball at the solid serpent.
Shroomish unleashed his attack, but it was not an attack. Spores filled the air and struck Onix. He seemed to be restrained by some unseen force.
"Paralyze? But he didn't even hit you..?" Barry said confused.
The Shroomish hopped in place to signal Barry to snap out of it.
"Right, capture!"

He threw another ball and it hit its' mark, Onix was sucked into it and the ball wobbled, then it wobbled some more before a clicking noise was heard and it was stuck.

Barry leaped up in joy and shouted 'yay's, he cheered at his Shroomish and hugged it.
"Good job buddy."
And then he heard the sound of shrieks, lots of them. In the ceiling.

He looked up and saw a horde of Zubats waking up, he panicked - grabbed the ball and ran for the exit still hugging Shroomish.

[coreystranick]

Corey walked off from the Gym. Pissed that he could not get the badge he had to get another pokemon. Something that would do well against the birds.

He took off back towards Ecruteak. He had to try and find an Ice, Rock, or electric type.

Corey had remembered where he could find Magnemites. Near the port town Olivine. He decided to head that way.

I'll beat that man, maybe I'll go and stop by the gym in Ecruteak and talk with some old friends there, they can help me.

[Prpl_Mage]

Barry strode with his new Onix and cherished the company of the large solid snake.
"So how am I going to train you guy?" Barry pondered as he felt himself filled with a lot more confident now that he had a somewhat more intimidating pokémon such as Onix. It was huge.

"Hey! I saw you through this tall grass!" A chilidsh voice called from the tall grass nearby. Barry turned around and saw a hat moving closer.
"Who goes there?" Barry asked friendly as he tried to make out the person.
Out from the grass stepped a teenager wearing the universal picnicker outfit.
"I'm Joy and I'm challenging you to a battle tall guy!" The trainer said and sent out a hoothoot.
"Really? Me? Wow, this is so exciting! My first battle against a trainer, I better not screw this up... who to choose who to choose..." Barry began as he picked up his notepad and remembered his training. Rock beats flying.

Barry tried to figure out what his Onix knew with the rest of his team called back.
"Wing attack hottie!" The picnicker called and the bird flew off excited. It struck Onix with the wing but it seemed oblivious to the attack.
"Can you create an earthquake? Or throw some mud at it? Perhaps a rock?" Barry asked uncertain of this new type of pokémon.
The Onix reacted to the last suggestion and pulled out a rock from the ground and coldly threw it right at the bird.
The hoothoot was struck and bashed to the ground by the large boulder - it didn't get up.

"Hey! Great job Onix!" Barry said and went on ahead to pat his boulderline.
"Hello? I'm not done just yet!" Joy said and glared at Barry.
"Oh right, erhm. Sorry just got a bit carried away."
She sighed and sent out a Marril.

"Okay, you seemed to have a good attack there. Throw another rock Onix." Barry suggested and the Onix did as he was asked. Another boulder was lifted and sent flying at the mouse pokémon this time. It struck and the Marril toppled over.
But it got up.
"Way to go Mary! Now beat that bully up!" Joy called.
The marril inhaled and then released a spray of bubbles at Onix. The bubbles hit hard and the Onix sacked.
"That thing took out my Onix?" Barry asked surprised and returned it to the ball.
"Well duh! It's a water type..."
Barry thought for a while and then it struck him.
"Water is weak to grass. And I have 3 of them..." He held his hand over his balls and decided to give Lotad another shot.

"Mary focus on Rollout, your water moves really won't bite on that thing." Joy called as barry learned something new.
"Well, water gun won't do you much good here buddy, so try that grass move you got."
Lotad charged power and used Absorb to drain energy from the Marril.
The Marril was struck but got back on its' feet, it raised the hands into the air and began rolling against lotad. It struck and the Lotad bounced into the air from the force.
"Keep using your move Lotad, you'll probably win this!" Barry called.
The lotad landed softly and quickly attacked Marril as it rolled against him.
The absorb struck and stopped the spin of the Marril for just a few seconds.
The struck again and made its' way back with a u-turn (not the move).
"One more time buddy!" Barry called and raised his hands in excitement.
Absorb struck marril but it kept going striking Lotad.
Marril fainted from the attack and Lotad was getting really hurt - then the energy recovered through absorb made it a little better.
"Allright! My first victory and my first successful capture in the same day!" Barry cheered and hugged the Lotad.

"Aw gosh, I can't believe that I lost to such a newbie." Joy said but stopped as Lotad began to wobble and shine.
"Whats happening buddy?" Barry said but chuckled as he realised it. Evolution. It didn't happen often but now was the time.
A blinding light erupted from his partner and a new pokémon stood in its' place.
"Welcome to the team Lotad... Although I guess I should say Lombre!" Barry chuckled and talked to Joy for a bit of advice on battles and how to pick opponents.

---------------------
With all that behind him, Barry went back to Violet city to heal up and challenge the gym again. The he got off track, forgot about the gym and decided to check out the ruins.

[coreystranick]

Corey was on his way to Olivine City when for some reason he felt compelled to take a turn and head towards the ruins.

He saw the man with the guitar heading that way.

"Hmm, I wonder what he is up to."

[Prpl_Mage]

Barry strode into the area where the Ruins of Alph were at. But it seemed that there was barely anything worth calling "ruins" left.
"Pretty darn worn out." Barry said as he and his Onix walked along the area, he noticed the lab and decided to check it out. Labs usually had research and any research or hints would make him a stronger trainer.
"Sorry guys, but y'know the rules. No pokémon indoors unless we're home." Barry said as he withdrew his party into their balls.
With that done he checked his Berry Pot and entered the lab.

-----------------

There seemed to be work done in here but most scientists looked busy, then he noticed the guy from before. The Joe guy.
Barry waited at the doorsteps and tried to get some attention but it seemed like the other guy had all of that.
He decided to wait... Wasn't he supposed to find Joe either way? Or maybe it was something else he set out to do. Either way he wanted to check out those ruins, might just be some hidden paths.