Disclaimer- I do not own pokemon or the characters from the show, the oc's James Catra, Daniel Griffith, and Ben Eastman are mine as well as most of the other named characters unless otherwise mentioned. The characters Frank Stein, Todd, Emily, Derrick, Christine were crated by chaosblazer. There is some occasional fowl language in this fic. Oh and if you see this symbol() it means I have some notes at the end
Chapter 1
welcome to pokemerica
five years ago, it was decided to bring pokemon to America. Since then work has been done not only to establish habitats for the pokemon but also to set gyms and a safer method for transporting trainers. After five long years work is completed, starting today trainers will be allowed to begin training. Down in Houston Texas a 15 year old boy ran towards the new trainer center to receive his first pokemon. He was average hight wearing jeans and a green t-shirt under his black trench coat, his short brown hair was covered by a green bandana with a black star symbol on it(). He also had a large backpack on his back. When he arrived at the trainer center he ran strait for the front desk.
"Welcome to the trainer center, how can I help you." the lady behind the desk asked him.
"I'm here to get my first pokemon." the boy said panting.
"Ok I'll just need to get your name and you can choose from any of the starter pokemon from any of the Japanese regions." she said
"Cool, my name is James Catra, and I want to get a charmander." he replied.
"Ok James you've been registered in the system, here is you pokegear and pokedex, and here is your new pokemon, if you would like to do a little training here we have training rooms right around the corner. There will be an orientation meeting for all trainers in an hour so make sure your at the auditorium." she said handing him his pokemon and items.
"Thanks a lot." he said as he made his way over to the training room, there was a small number of trainers already in the room and there were no open fields yet.
"While I wait I guess ill introduce myself to charmander." he picked up his pokeball and released the charmander who looked at him intently, he looked closely at his charmander and noticed another one at one of the battle stations was darker red, his looked more yellow than red.
"Wow a shiny charmander, here little guy want some food." he unzipped his backpack and much to his surprise the charmander jumped into the pack leaving only his tail out, when James managed to pull him out he had grabbed a bandana that was identical to the one James wore and put it on his own head.
"Ha that's a good look for you... how bout a nickname ...hmm how bout blaze." the charmander snorted and looked away crossing its arms.
"Ok I get it your to much of a badass for such a simple name. I've got it... ifreet." charmander grinned evilly and gave him the thumbs up.
"Excellent, look a battle field has opened up lets get some training in." they made there way over to the empty side of the field and turned to face their opponent.
"Hello, I'm James Catra who are you."
"Oh im Daniel griffith nice to meet you." said the boy, he was average hight with jeans and a blue t-shirt his mid length black hair was covered by a black ball cap.
"You up for a battle Daniel" James said nudging ifreet forward.
"Always, go blaze." he threw a pokeball revealing a torchic.
"Hmm guess it's a good thing I didn't name you blaze isn't it ifreet" James said, ifreet nodded eyeing blaze with interest.
Battle situation:
James's ifreet vs Daniel's blaze
conditions: one on one, with no time limit
"Ifreet use scratch." ifreet ran forward with its claws out.
"Blaze dodge and use peck." blaze bairley managed to avoid the scratch and started to peck ifreet on the head.
"Quick use smoke screen to get it away." James yelled, ifreet created a large puff of smoke blinding blaze.
"Now use ember." tiny fire balls came flying out of the smoke and hit blaze doing very little damage.
"Ok end it with scratch." James yelled
"You do a scratch as well." Daniel yelled. Both pokemon ran at each other and scratched each other hard. After a second both pokemon collapsed on the ground.
"Both pokemon are unable to battle this match is a draw." the referee yelled both boys called their pokemon back and walked over to the nearby pokecenter machine.
"That was a great match, you headed to the auditorium soon." Daniel asked James.
"Yea it looks like its time for the orientation to start, I want to see how the gyms are gonna work." they both followed a group of trainers to a small auditorium. On the stage was a man in a business suit and slicked back brown hair.
"Welcome ladies and gentlemen to Pokemerica. My name is Sam and im the CEO of this organization. I know your are all ready to get started on your journeys so ill be quick. As you all are probably aware for the past 5 years we have been transporting pokemon from all regions here, in that time we have established 8 gyms, they are, the egg gym located in Dallas Texas and run by Amy Carrington, the ancient gym in New Orleans Louisiana run by Rick Maru, the surf and turf gym located in Miami Florida run by Johnny Suno, the metal gym located in Nashville Tennessee run by Janet Cash, the speed gym located in Indianapolis Indiana run by Lacy Pety, the mountaineer gym located in Denver Colorado run by Ethan Pike, the dragon gym located in phoenix Arizona run by Andrea Dragonheart, and the dark gym located in Las Vegas Nevada run by Frank Stein. There is also an elite 4 located in Olympia Washington, the members are Todd, Emily Derrick, and Christine. We also have a mode of transportation for all those trainers too young to drive, out back there are some specialized triple decker tour busses, level 1 provides compartments for sleeping, level 2 is a social lounge, café, and shop, level 3 is an open air battle platform complete with pokecenter machines and trade machines. These busses will hold up to 6 trainers and move from gym to gym stopping at well established pokemon habitats so you can train and gather new pokemon. For those who are interested meet at the back of the building after this meeting. And to all of you good luck, have fun, and train hard."
"Great, tour busses, for a minuet there I thought I was gonna have to ride my bike all over the U.S." James exclaimed as he started to head toward the exit. Daniel followed him out and they both headed for the back of the building. Once outside they were grouped together one group of 6 for each bus. Their group had 1 other guy and 3 girls, the driver was an older guy named Max.
"Alright everyone if you'll get on board we can get everyone settled in and get this show on the road" Max yelled cheerfully to the group. They all grabbed their stuff and got in the nearest bus, much to their surprise and delight the busses interior seemed a lot roomier than it did from the out side. They made their way to their individual compartment and got settled in.
"Ok trainers welcome aboard our first stop will be a pokemon habitat a little ways outside of town for this part of the trip I ask you all stay in your rooms until we arrive due to the request of local law enforcement, however after this stop you will be allowed to move about and train at your leisure, thank you." Max said over the loudspeaker and with that the first pokemerica trainers adventure began.
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next time the training truly begins and new friends and rivals are made
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