I woke to a load clap of thunder. My eyes flipped open and I rolled off of my bed, hitting my shoulder against my dresser. I hit the floor hard, making me groan. I pulled myself into a sitting position and leaned against my dresser. My alarm clock had apparently been pushed to the edge of the dresser when I fell; causing it to start to fall off the dresser, which it of course it did, right on to my head. I groaned again, and grabbed at the clock to see the time.
"4:00 A.M?!" I exclaimed, shocked. I once again groaned. So far, this morning had not been fun. I got up and walked over to the window. Out side, Pallet town was facing one of the worst storms it had had in years.
"Sure hope that storm dies down, don't want it ruining today," I mumbled.
I turned around and walked over to my closet. I grabbed a black shirt, and my favorite red jacket. Then I went back over to my dresser, and took out a pair of jeans and a pair of socks. The thunder rumbled again. Once I finished changing out of my pajamas and into my clothes, I walked over to my desk. Upon it was my red hat, which I wore everywhere. Hanging over it was a square mirror. Also on my desk was a lamp, a computer and a few pieces of paper. I switched the lamp on, lighting up the room. I looked into the mirror, and looked at my reflection. I have untidy black hair that spiked up in some spots. My eyes were blue, with a slight shade of green. With my hat on, my hair spiked out under the front of my hat. I was at the normal height for most thirteen (as of today, fourteen) year old boys, but I was still shorter than my rival-for-life Blue. He's only two or three inches taller than me though, not to large of a difference.
I walked over to the door to my room, and opened it. I walked through it, and went down the stairs directly in front of it. I sneaked past my mothers' room, not wanting to wake her up. I then reached my destination; the kitchen. I scurried over to the fridge and opened the door. There wasn't much in there, so I decided to just make some eggs. After about twenty minutes, they were done, and ready to me eaten. I scooped them off of the pan, and onto my play. I inhaled my eggs in a record time of one minute, even though they burned my throat as they went down. I checked my watch; it was still only 4:30. I walked over to the T.V, deciding to watch the Pallet town news channel.
"And so shockingly, only three graduates of the trainer school applied to get their starter pokemon from professor oak," one of the two news reporters said.
"Is that so? Who were these three graduates?" The other news reporter asked.
"Blue Oak, the professors very own grandson, Green Jones, and Red Walker," The news reporter said.
I smiled as my name was listed. Blue, Green and I had graduated from Trainer School with high marks. Green with and A- me with an A and Blue with an A+ of course.
"So those are the only three teens that will be getting their pokemon this month?"
"Yes, they will be," the news reporter. "Now to Chad with the weather."
"Thank you Ken. Now as you all see here on this chart, this storm is-"
I turned the channel. I didn't need a weather forecast to tell me it was raining outside. I checked my watch again. The time was now 5:30. My mom would be getting up in an hour. To pass the time, I started trying to decide what pokemon to pick. I had heard that Bulbasaur was good with afflicting status ailments. I wasn't really interested in that, so I decided that Bulbasaur wouldn't be my choice. Squirtle and its evolutions had high defense, and would probably be a good choice for a physical wall. Though I don't really need a physical wall, I'd rather have a fast and offensive pokemon to start out with. Finally, Charmander and its evolution were strong and speedy. Though I heard they got harder to train as they got stronger. I didn't really care about that though, so I decided that Charmander would be my choice.
"Red? You're awake already?" My mom asked. She had apparently walked in while I was lost in thought.
"Yeah mom. The storm woke me up early in the morning," I replied.
"Have you had breakfast yet?" She asked.
"Yeah, I have," I answered.
"Well if that's the case, start packing up your things. I'm going to get some supplies for your adventure from the poke mart," She said.
"Okay mom," I said.
"Bye."
"Bye."
With that she walked out the door, and I was left alone with nothing to do. The storm had died out earlier, so the house wasn't filled with the sounds of thunder any more. I walked up to my room, and grabbed my backpack. It was time to start packing for my journey. From my room, I grabbed some spare clothes, a flashlight (just in case I ended up traveling through a cave); a spare hat and all my savings in poke dollars since I was in second grade. After this, I walked back down stairs to start packing some food. First, I got six pokemon bowls. My pokemon would eat out of these during my journey. Next, I grabbed a box of poke food. This would be my pokemons' food. I packed these two things into my backpack. Now it was time to get some people food. I took out a box of trail mix. This snack would probably keep me full when I wasn't anywhere near a city or town where there was a pokemon center or a restaurant.
"Red, I'm back!" My mom yelled through the front door. "Could you open the door? I dropped my keys and I'm holding to much stuff to pick them up!"
"Sure mom!" I replied. I walked over to the door and opened it to reveal my mom holding about six bags all filled an assortment of things.
"Thanks Red," she said, and walked through the door. I picked her keys off the ground and followed her inside, pulling the door closed behind me. She laid the bags on the kitchen counter and started to unload them.
"Alright, this is what I bought for your pokemon adventure," she said. "First, I got you a pokemon trainer starter kit. This has all the essentials for beginning trainers. I got five pokeballs and five potions of course. Also, I got five antidotes. I heard that all beginning trainers go through the Viridian Forest. The place is full of bug type pokemon that will poison your pokemon. This antidote will heal your pokemon. Also in the kit are a few berries like oran berries, chesto berries and cheri berries. That's everything inside it. I recommend you buy another one of these at Viridian City if you run out of potions or berries."
"Wow! Thanks mom!" I exclaimed. I took the kit from her and put it in the front pocket of my backpack.
"I also got a pre made ham sandwich, which you can have for lunch today," she said. "Along with that I bought some bread and peanut butter, as neither of these have to be refrigerated. I got a mini box of cereal for breakfast tomorrow. Oh yeah, I got you this new piece if technology called the poke gear. This can be used for different things; you just have to insert a pokemon data card into it. For example, it comes with a phone card. This will allow you to call home whenever you want! Just insert it in the slot here. Isn't that useful? Here, I got you this belt holder for it."
"Thanks mom!" I exclaimed. I strapped it to my belt and placed the phone card in my pocket.
"Also, I got you a pokemon ball belt holder. You can strap up to six pokeballs onto it. Which of course is for the six pokemon you're allowed to have at a time," she said.
"Thanks again mom," I said.
"Everything else I bought is just groceries for me," she said.
I looked at my watch. It was already 7:00 A.M. "I better head over to the professors lab now," I said.
"I'll miss you Red," she said sadly.
"I'll miss you too, mom" I said. With that I walked out the door.
The professors' lab was a two minute walk away from my house. Thanks to this, I arrived right on time. I opened the doors to the lab, and walked inside.
"Hey, are you here professor?" I yelled.
"I'm right over here, Red," the professor replied. He was standing next to a table with three pokballs on it.
"Hey professor. Are Blue and Green here yet?" I asked.
"No, but they should arrive in a minute," professor Oak replied.
"Okay then," I said. A few minutes later the door to the lab opened and Blue and Green walked through.
"Ah you two are here now," professor Oak said.
"Can I have my pokemon now, gramps?" Blue asked.
"Yes Blue, you can have one now," professor Oak replied. "Green, you choose first."
"I want Bulbasaur," Green said.
"Very well. Take him." Professor Oak tossed the pokeball on the right to her.
"Thank you professor!" Green exclaimed.
"You next Red."
"I want a Charmander!" I exclaimed.
"Very well, Red," professor Oak said. He tossed the pokeball on the left to me.
"Thanks professor," I said.
"Blue, you wanted Squirtle right? Here you go," professor Oak said. He tossed the final pokeball in the middle to Blue.
"Huh, thanks gramps," Blue said.
"Well, bye you guys!" I exclaimed. I turned around and started running towards the door.
"Where do you think you're going Red?" Blue asked.
"To route one, which leads to Viridian City," I said.
"You aren't leaving until I beat you in a battle!" Blue said.
"Then I'm going to be here for a couple years," I said. "Even then, you still probably won't have beaten me actually."
"Oh really? Let's see about that, go Squirtle!" He yelled.
"You'll never win, Blue! Go Charmander!" I yelled in response.
A blue turtle came out of Blues pokeball- Squirtle.
A red lizard came out of mine- Charmander.
"Maybe you haven't noticed Red, but I have the type advantage!"
"I noticed. It doesn't matter though, both of our pokemon are still low-leveled, and don't know any moves that match their type," I said.
"Didn't you pay attention in the last lesson we had at the trainer school Blue?" Green asked. "They told us if we got starter pokemon, they wouldn't know any powerful moves yet."
"Yeah, yeah, I know," Blue said.
"Let's begin. Charmander, use scratch!" I ordered my pokemon.
"Hide inside your shell Squirtle!" Blue commanded.
My Charmander rushed forward at Blues Squirtle, and raised his arm to scratch him. Before Charmander could strike though, Squirtle pulled himself into his shell. Charmanders scratch bounced of it weakly, leaving a light streak across the shell.
"Now, Squirtle, use tackle!" Blue yelled
Since Charmander was so close to Squirtle, he didn't get a chance to dodge, and the attack hit him square in the stomach.
"Charmander, no!" I exclaimed.
Charmander fell backwards, with a gasp.
"Squirtle, follow up with tail whip," Blue said.
"Charmander, roll to the side!" I said hurriedly.
Squirtle jumped forward and did a spin, and tried to strike Charmander with its tail. This attack would lower Charmanders defense, making him easier to defeat. Charmander rolled to the side, narrowly avoiding the attack.
"Now, Charmander use scratch while his guard is down!"
"Squirtle, dodge the attack," Blue said.
Charmanders attack came down to fast for Squirtle to dodge. Squirtle cried out in pain as the attack slashed his face.
"Don't you remember Blue? We learned this in class. Squirtle has a low speed stat. It could never dodge my scratch attack!" I exclaimed.
"But you must have forgotten Squirtle has great defense stat," Blue replied.
It was true; Squirtle had already recovered and was ready to continue fighting.
"Charmander, hurry and use another scratch!" I exclaimed.
"Squirtle, turn around," Blue said calmly.
Squirtle did so; causing Charmanders' attack to scrape Squirtles' shell.
"Now let's try this again. Squirtle, use tail whip again," Blue said.
"Charmander, use scratch on his tail!"
When Squirtle whipped his tail, Charmander raised his arm and scratched at it. Squirtle yelled in pain, and fell down, unconscious.
"I win," I said.
"What? How is that possible?" Blue asked, in shock.
"Squirtles' tail is his weak point. We spent an entire lesson on this, Blue," I said.
"Oh yeah," Blue said.
"Now, before anyone tries to leave again, I need to ask a favor of all of you," professor Oak said.
"What is it professor?" Green asked.
"Well, as the three of you know, I am a leading professor on information about the different types of pokemon," the professor said.
"Yeah, we know," I said.
"Well, I need to create a complete encyclopedia of all the pokemon in the world. But I'm too old to go out and collect information on pokemon. So that's where all of you come in. I need you three to travel around Kanto catching pokemon and marking data on them. By the time you have collected data on all of the world's pokemon, you may have become one of the greatest pokemon trainers of all time."
"I'm in," I said.
"So am I," said Green.
"I'll do it, I guess," Blue said.
"That's great. I have created the pokedex, which will help you in your research. You must simply point the pokedex at any pokemon you catch to get data on them. If you haven't caught the pokemon yet, it will just show its name."
"This will make the job a piece of cake!" Green exclaimed.
The professor handed us each a red device.
"Good luck to each of you," the professor said.
"Well, now that that's over with, I think I'll go toughen up my Squirtle!" Blue exclaimed.
With that, Blue ran to the door.
"I won't let you get ahead of me Blue!" I yelled, racing after him.
It was time to begin the adventure of a life time. To journey across the world of pokemon. Little did I know, I would soon be involved in a fight that would decide the fate of the Kanto region.
This is my first fan fiction, so I had some trouble with this. Please R&R!
