Pokémon Hexagon Chapter 1
The Journey Begins
Fours kids sat around a TV, watching a Pokémon battle with each other.
"Man, I wish could be Pokémon trainer," one kid complained.
"Hate to break it to you but you need to wait another ten years yet," another kid said
"Yeah, you're lucky you only have to wait seven year. It stinks that they raised the age from ten to seventeen."
"Yeah, you two are lucky. We have to wait three more years," another kid chimed in.
Then the fourth kid stood up with a determined look in his eye. "Then it's settled. In ten years, we will all travel to the professor's lab and get ourselves each a Pokémon and start our journey together." He announced.
The other three nodded in agreement.
Ten years later...
The school bell rang and Nate rush out of the classroom. As he ran down the hall, he passed a beautiful girl with long brown hair and clear blue eyes.
"Hey, today is the day, so make sure you're not late." the girl shouted as he passed by.
"I know" he shouted back as he ran out the front door of the school.
Nate is 17 years old, he has brown hair, brown eyes, has broad shoulders, and is about average height.
He ran out of the school building and hopped on his bike and rode home.
When he got home he ran inside. "Mom, I'm home" he said as he took off his shoes.
"Hey, how was school?" his mom asked
"Good," he said as he went up the stairs.
"You know you got that appointment today. Don't forget."
"I know, I'm getting ready now," he shouted down from his room.
Nate got his backpack and started placing items inside, including his collapsible tent, a change of clothes, and other items.
Once he was done he put his backpack in the corner of his room, so he wouldn't forget it and headed downstairs again.
"Well, I'm off. I'll see you in a bit," Nate said as he opened the front door.
"Okay, see you later," Nate's mom said and Nate ran out the door and down the road.
Nate ran down a couple of blocks till he came across a small building on top of a hill.
"Finally here," he thought to himself as he started up the hill.
As he got towards the top he noticed someone was standing in front of the entrance to the building. It was the girl again, she turned to him and frowned. "You're late, " she snapped.
Nate chuckled nervously. "Yeah, sorry about that, Karen."
"Well you should be" Karen said with her hands on her hips. "Anyway, let's head inside."
They walked inside, the inside was full of all sorts of machines, computers, and papers were all scattered across the floor.
"Hello? Anybody home?" Karen said
"I told you I don't want any!" a voice shouted from the back of the building. And old man emerged from a room in the back; he had a gray beard and a scraggy look to his face.
"Oh you're not the local salesman. Why are you here?"
"Um, this is Nate and I'm Karen. You called us here."
The old man thought for a moment and then said "Oh yes! I remember now. Yes, yes-come on in and make yourselves at home. I'll be with you shortly," he said as he walked back inside the room he once came out of.
The two waited about five minutes when the old man reappeared again. "Right this way please." The old man motioned them inside and the two followed. They entered a room with a table in the center.
"Wait here for a second please," the professor said. "I'll be right back"
The professor walked out of the room.
After a few minutes the professor remerged with a box in his hands.
He opened the box and inside were three Pokéballs. He grabbed them out of the box and opened them. Three Pokémon emerged from the balls, one Bulbasaur, one was a Charmander, and one was a Squirtle.
"You may choose one of these Pokémon. Choose wisely."
Karen started to scan each of the Pokémon. She looked back and forth between the three Pokémon and stopped at the Charmander.
"I think I'll take this one," she said.
"Good choice. Would you like to give it a nickname?"
"Yeah I think Blaze will be good." She knelt next to the Charmander. "How do you like the sound of that?"
Blaze gave her a happy grin.
Nate looked up and down the remaining two Pokémon and stopped at Bulbasaur... "Hmm..." And then he stopped at Squirtle. "I think I'll take this one."
"Alright, would you like to nickname it?"
"Sure, how about Niagara?"
The professor approached the two and held out his hands and in each were five other Pokéballs. "And here are Blaze's and Niagara's Pokéballs," the professor said.
"I also have an assignment for you."
"What is it?"
"I want you to go around the region and register all the different kinds of Pokémon." He held out two small devices.
"I expect great things out of you two," the professor said. "You two should get some rest for the big day tomorrow." The new trainers headed home with their Pokémon in hand.
The next day Nate got his bag ready, said goodbye to his mother, and headed out.
He met Karen at the entrance of route 1.
"You're late again," she scowled.
"Yeah, sorry about that. My alarm went off a little late," Nate said in embarrassment.
"Whatever. Let's go, " Karen said
"Right " Nate nodded and the two headed out on their journey.
Route 1 is a flat route with rolling plains with few trees and many Pokémon.
"So are there any Pokemon you want to catch on this route?" Nate asked.
"Not really it's mostly full of Pidgey and Rattata. I'm not really interested in them. How about you?"
"Yeah, same here. I'm not really interested"
"Well, I guess we can just head straight to Viridian City," Karen said
"Yeah, but we might need to do a little training before we get there," Nate suggested.
"Maybe we can find some trainers along the way?"
"Yeah," Nate said. "Hey do you think we should let out our Pokémon? They could use some fresh air," Nate continued.
"That's a good idea."
"Go Niagara!" Nate shouted.
"Go Blaze!" Karen shouted and they threw their Pokéballs and the two Pokémon appeared in the flash of white light.
"Morning Niagara," Nate said as he placed his hand on top of his head.
Niagara grinned happily
Karen looked down at Blaze. "And how are we today?"
Blaze let out a little cry as an answer.
The four walked down the path when they came across two trainers who were cradling their Pokémon in their arms.
Nate and Karen ran up to them. "What happened?" Nate asked.
"This really strong trainer beat us," one of them said.
"If I were you I would take a different way around," the other said
"Why? He can't be that tough," Karen said
"He took us both down in one shot"
"You two won't stand a chance," the other added.
Nate shrugged. "Well, we won't know until we try I guess." He looked at Karen. "Let's go."
"Right behind ya." Karen nodded.
"Don't go," one of the trainers begged, but the two were already out of earshot.
"There done for..." the other said.
The two and their Pokémon walked a couple miles until they saw a shadow in the middle of the road, as they approached the shadow it greeted them. Nate squinted his eyes. "Why does he look familiar?"
The trainer had brown hair, which flipped up at the ends. He also had brown eyes and freckles and was the same height as Nate.
"Hello, where are you headed?"
"Viridian City. Could you please let us through?" Karen asked politely
"Sure, I'll let you through, once you have beaten me in a battle," the trainer said.
"Alright who's first?" he continued.
"I will," Karen stepped forward.
"Alright." The trainer nodded. "Let's begin." He pulled out a pokeball and threw it and out of the pokeball emerged a Charmander. It let out a cry ready for battle.
"Another Charmander? This should be interesting." She looked at Blaze. "Alright, let's give it our best."
Blaze nodded and stepped forward.
"Oh, so you have Charmander as well? Good, this should be fun, so let's begin. I'll let you have the first move."
"Blaze use scratch!" Karen commanded.
Blaze ran toward Charmander.
"Dodge it!" the trainer said
And before Blaze could make contact with Charmander, it stepped to the side.
"Alright counter with your scratch attack!"
Charmander took a swipe at Blaze, who was still off guard, and sent it stumbling backwards.
"Blaze, are you alright?" Karen asked
Blaze looked like it was still ready to battle, but Karen knew something was wrong. "This isn't good. This is Blaze's first battle, so I don't think he'll last much longer."
"Alright, let's finish this up, Charmander. Use scratch one more time," the trainer ordered and Charmander ran forward.
"Blaze, dodge quickly," Karen said.
Blaze managed to dodge it, but barely.
"Scratch again!" Charmander turned towards Blaze and hit him with another scratch. Blaze stumbled backwards again, but this time it couldn't stand back on its feet.
"Blaze no!" Karen shouted.
"Well, it looks like that's match," the trainer said
Karen quickly ran over to Blaze and scooped him up in her arms. "Are you okay?"
Blazes opened his eyes.
Karen sighed in relief . "You did a good job and deserve a rest," she said. She pulled out a pokeball and Blaze disappeared in a flash of red light.
The trainer looked towards Nate "It looks like it's your turn."
Nate nodded and looked down to Niagara. "Let's go." Niagara nodded in agreement and stepped forward.
"Alright, let's begin," the trainer said.
"Tackle, Niagara," Nate commanded and Niagara launched forward.
"Charmander, dodge." And once again, Charmander stepped to side "Now, scratch!"
"Niagara, jump back!" Niagara jumped backwards to avoid the claws.
"Not bad," the trainer said, quite impressed.
"You're not bad, yourself," said Nate.
"Charmander, scratch again!" Charmander dashed forward.
"Niagara, dodge!" But it was too late, the scratch connected.
"Good, Charmander. Keep it up." Charmander continued scratching Niagara.
Niagara was unable to get away from the scratches and it was hit continuously.
"Come on, Niagara, dodge." But, Niagara continued being hit.
"Well, it looks like that's it. Finish it!"
And Charmander jumped back and ran forward for a final scratch.
"Come on Niagara, you can do it!" Suddenly, Niagara took in a deep breath and little bubbles started shooting out of its mouth.
The bubbles collided with Charmander, which caused him to stop dead in its tracks.
"What!" the trainer shouted.
Nate without missing a beat, shouted, "Tackle, now!"
And Niagara ran forward and hit Charmander with all its might.
Charmander flew backwards and crashed to the ground in a daze.
"Yeah, we did it!" Nate shouted in excitement and he ran to Niagara and picked him up.
"Good job," he said and Niagara smiled.
"Way to go, Nate, " Karen said.
Nate turned towards her. "Hehehe, thanks!" Nate chuckled.
"Yeah, you did a great job," the trainer agreed.
"Thanks, so did you."
"Thanks. Hey, would you mind telling me your name?"
"Nate."
"Nate, say you wouldn't be from Pallet Town, would you?"
"Yeah, why?"
The trainer eye's widened "So, it is you. It's been a long time, huh?"
"Huh?" Nate was confused.
"Come on, you don't recognize me?" the trainer asked.
Nate stared at him for a couple seconds and then his eyes widened. "Alan, is that you?"
"You got it."
"Oh man it's been ages how've you been?"
"Not bad. A lot of things have happened since I left pallet town," Alan explained. "How about you man? What you been up to?"
"Not much, just the usual," Nate said.
Karen looked confused. "Who is this guy?"
"Oh, this is Alan. We were childhood friends until he moved out of Pallet five years ago," Nate explained.
"How's it going?" Alan greeted.
"It's nice to meet you too," Karen said.
"Well, we better head onwards to Viridian. It's starting to get dark" Alan said. Then, the three continued forward to Viridian City.