Chapter 2
Lance walked out of his house and when he looked to his front yard he saw his three best friends standing there waiting for him. There was also a carriage that looked like it could hold eight people comfortably parked in front of his house. It was drawn by two rapidash with a man feeding them apples. He walked up to his friends with a smile. "What are you guys doing here? I thought I was gonna wait in pallet town for all of you to get there." Lance asked. "I thought that was the plan to until I saw Percival ride up next to me in his carriage and gave me a lift." Elliot said with a grin. "Same here, they were waiting at my door when I was leaving." Sebastian added. "I saw the speed the rapidash could do so I said why not speed up the process? They'll leave though after we make it to pallet town." Percival said with a smirk. Lance shrugged and smiled "then let's get going!" he said with a grin while racing his friends to the carriage.
As they pass through digletts cave they start talking about how their days have been so far. Sebastian Lance and Percival send out Sandshrew, Zigzagoon, and pichu. The Pokémon played in the carriage while the boys talk. "So you guys know what type of Pokémon you wanna stay in the range in? I'm striving for poison. That's why I'm getting Bulbasaur." Elliot said with a smile. "Im going for ground and rock types." Lance said proudly while petting Sandshrew. "We all know that brown, I'm going for electric types." Sebastian said while giving pichu thumbs up. "The obvious and logical chose for any smart trainer is to specialize in normal type Pokémon." Percival said without looking up from his book. Elliot flicked him in the head while rolling his eyes. "Don't be a snob." He said playfully. Out of nowhere the ground under the carriage suddenly collapses and the carriage gets stuck. "What the heck was that?" drake asked in a concerned tone. "I don't know but let's get out of here." Elliot said as he pulled himself out of the carriage. He helped the others out and when he turned he saw dozens of diglett and dugtrio staring angrily at them. The boys all hesitated by just the sheer amount of them all. "Was it you guys that dug that hole under our carriage?" lance asked angrily. He was answered with a diglett sending a sand attack straight into his face. "AHH!" he exclaimed loudly as his eyes started to burn. Sandshrew saw this and got upset and attacked the diglett with a scratch attack. "Elli go and help out Marvin and the rapidash to get out of that hole!" Percival commanded as he got ready to defend his friends. The diglett and dugtrio weren't happy that Sandshrew had attacked one of their own. One of the dugtrio shot a tri attack at Sandshrew. "Pichu use thundershock!" Sebastian said loudly. Pichu jumped in front of Sandshrew and canceled out the attack with a shock of electricity. Drake got up brushing the left of sand out of his eyes. "Thanks guys… now let's show these bullies they messed with the wrong trainers." Drake said with a grin. One of the digletts buried itself underground then popped up right under pichu sending him flying. "Zigzagoon, use tackle!" Percival commanded. Zigzagoon ran at the diglett and tackled him hard sending him crashing through the ground. Sandshrew, zigzagoon, and pichu continued to fend off the digletts and dugtrio until the carriage was out and one of the rapidash used flamethrower on the digletts. Sebastian, lance and Percival quickly called back their Pokémon and rushed into the carriage as the rapidash galloped out of the cave. "You guys ok?" Elliot asked as he saw the beads of sweat on his friends' faces. "We would have been toast if it weren't for our Pokémon" lance said with a grin. "Man I can't wait to get mine!" Elliot commented happily. They came out of digletts cave trough a secret passage the Common family had made to bypass viridian forest. As they came out of the forest, the Rapidash trotted trough route two, not in a hurry as much. The boys talked about what had just happened and why the diglett family had attacked them. "Maybe they were just cranky…" Elliot said as they arrived in viridian city. The boys tried not to look too much because they wanted it to be their first time when they officially went on their journey. They then went along route one seeing trainers camping out there from the day that had passed. "I wonder if any of them are a threat..." lance said with a smirk. "Shut up brown, anybody can beat you." Sebastian said with a snicker. "Wanna test that theory? I do have a type advantage you know?" lance retorted with a snort. "Please... both of you are incapable of strategy… ill be surprised if you can catch a Pokémon." Percival said calmly. Lance and Sebastian just stoke their tongues out at him. Percival just winked back. Elliot just burst out laughing. They then made it into pallet town. It was a very small town as they could see every building from where they were. They passed a few houses, a pokemart and the pokelab. They then stopped and parked the rapidash to the side of a pokecenter. The get out of the carriage and go to the front desk. "Hi my name is Percival common… I have a reservation for a suite with five rooms and three baths." He said as he smiled at the nurse. "Yes, here you are! Your room number 368." Nurse joy said with a smile. The boys took their packs to the room and gazed in awe at the interior of the suite. It was unimaginably huge. The boys chose their rooms and left their packs their as they went to the food court of the center. Lance got nachos, Percival got ramen, Elliot got calamari, and Sebastian got a BLT sandwich. They let out their Pokémon and gave them some pokefood the nurse had lent them. After the Pokémon finished eating Sandshrew laid on one of the booths and fell asleep while pichu and zigzagoon played around. "Today was crazy!" lance said as he took a bite of his nachos. "We haven't even started our journey yet!" Elliot said as he drank from his soda. "We seem to have a knack for attracting trouble." Percival said with a chuckle as he calmly sipped his ramen. "I can't wait until tomorrow." Sebastian said between mouthfuls. All of them nodded in agreement. The finished eating and recalled their Pokémon and went up to their rooms as they said goodnight to the nurse. They got up in their suite and got into their night clothes. They then went into the living room and sat in a circle. "All right, let's go." Elliot said as all four of them put their hands one on top of the other and they pumped it twice and exploded as they saluted each other. They had completed their signature handshake and were ready for bed. The next day was going to be very long. They said goodnight to each other as they went their separate ways into their different rooms.
Lance went into his room and called his parents house number with the landline that was in his room. To his surprise it was his sister that answered. "Hello?" she said drowsily over the phone. "Tiffany? What are you doing awake at this hour? Where's mom and dad?" he questioned. "I was waiting for your phone call brown… mom and dad are in dads office so they didn't hear the phone ring." She said innocently. Lance sighed with a grin. "So how are you?" he asked surprised at how much he missed her. "I miss you so much… when are you coming back?" she asked sadly. "While I'm not permanently moving back ever… but when I come to fight Brock and when I'm on my way down to fight Giovanni I'll probably stay a night." He said honestly. He never liked lying. "Ok big bro, I'll let you talk to mom." She said as she went to their dads office and handed the phone to her mom. "Hello?" the mom asked a bit hesitantly. "Hey mom how are you?" lance asked with a smile from hearing his mother's voice. "Oh I'm doing just fine sweetheart and you?" she asked almost on the verge of tears. "I'm fine mom; I just got to the pokecenter in pallet town." He said with a smile. "Well ok then honey… I love you, here I'll pass you to your dad… goodnight." She said as she passed the phone to his father. "Hello son? How are you doing?" his father asked. "I'm doing good dad but I didn't want to tell mom or tiffany this but on our way to pallet town we got attacked by a bunch of diglett and dugtrio in digletts cave; I'm fine but Sandshrew was a wrecking machine out there and I wanted to ask you if he was special at all." Lance said. His dad instantly got a frown but recovered. "No lance… I just caught him the day before… maybe you two just have a special bond." His dad said in a cool tone. "Yeah you're probably right… well I gotta get some rest dad. Goodnight." He said. "Night son." his dad said as he hung up. Lance took one last glance at his pokeball then went to sleep.