Sunlight shone in through my window and hit my right in the face. I groaned and rolled over in bed, before my mom opened the blinds on the window even further. "Xeno. It's time to wake up. You were going to help Oak, weren't you?"
I slowly got out of bed and sat up. "Yeah, I should probably get going, shouldn't I?" I chuckled at my own laziness and got out of bed. Mom went back downstairs as I got dressed. Once dressed, I headed over to Oak's Lab. Who I found there was the last person, I wanted you see, Gary Oak.
"Hey, loser! If you're looking for Gramps, he's not here. Something about heading to Viridian to pick up a package of some sort." A smug grin grew across his face. "You should go tell him to hurry up. Oh… Wait. That's right. You don't have a Pokémon yet." He fiddled with a pokeball that he was holding.
At that moment, Oak walked in carrying a box, the size of two tissue boxes. Gary quickly put the pokeball back on the table next to him and acted like he hadn't touched it. "Oh. Welcome, Xeno. What impeccable timing! Come over here. Both of you." He motioned both me and Gary over towards the table containing the pokeballs. "Here I have 3 Pokemon. I would like you both to have one." I looked at the three semitransparent balls on the table and saw Gary grab one containing a tough looking turtle Pokemon that I identified as Squirtle. I looked at the other two. There was a strong and confident looking Bulbasaur. I knew that it would make a strong and reliable partner, but the last one caught my eye. A young looking Charmander that didn't seem to have enough confidence to look at me.
"If it's okay, I'll take this one, professor." I reached out and grabbed the Charmander and sent him out of his pokeball. He moved backwards afraid to even look at me.
"What a loser!" I turned around and glared at Gary as he sent out his Pokémon. His squirtle stood there with a smirk matching its trainer's.
"Wow. You must be pretty stupid to pick him over Bulbasaur. I can't tell you how many times I've beat that guy." It was truly impressive that both Gary and his Pokémon were pretty much the same person.
I decided to ignore them both and returned to my own Pokémon. I reached out and grabbed the Charmander under the arms and lifted him up into the air. "Hey, there. My name is Xeno. I assume you don't have a name, do you?" Charmander nodded at me slowly. "Alright, then let's give you one… How about I call you, Cal?"
The eyes of the fire type Pokémon lit up and the fire on his tail started to burn more brightly. "I like it… Thank you…"
"You're welcome." I smiled at my new partner.