Chapter 3

Red's Pokemon

Charmander: Level 6

Pidgey: Level 5

As I walked into the city, I noticed a tall building. In front of it was a large red ribbon, which the mayor of the city had just cut.

"I am happy to announce that the grand opening of the pokemon trainer training club. Here, you will be matched up with a battling partner of your level, then battle with them," the mayor said into a microphone.

The crowd cheered. This seemed like an ideal place for a beginning trainer to become good, so when the doors opened, I went in among the other trainers who wanted to get stronger. The room was lined up with machines that looked like atm's, except with pokeball holders. I walked up to one of these. On the screen were the words 'Put your pokeballs into the slot.' That's exactly what I did. The screen lit up, and was completely blank for a few seconds. Then some more text appeared. 'You may now take your pokeballs,' it said, 'your battle will take place on battle arena 23.' As I didn't know where this was, I walked over to an attendant and asked how to get to the arena.

She smiled and said, "Well, battle arena 23 is on the third floor, it will have a sign in front of it. You'll know when you see it. Just go up those stairs there."

"Thank you," I said.

I walked over to the stairs and went up them. Once I reached the second floor, I walked over to the arena that had a 23 sign in front of it.

After a minute, my opponent showed up. He had black hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a white tea shirt, and blue jeans. He looked to be about twelve.

"Hey, my name's Red," I said.

"Hey Red, my name's Evan," he replied.

"You ready?" I asked.

"You bet I am!" He exclaimed.

"Go Pidgey!" I yelled. I threw Pidgeys pokeball, and Pidgey came out in a flash.

"Go Rattatta!" Evan yelled. A Rattatta came out of his pokeball.

"Pidgey, use tackle!" I yelled.

"Dodge Rattatta!" Evan ordered.

Pidgey charged at Rattatta, about to land a tackle attack. Rattatta jumped out of the way at the last second though.

"Now use tackle Rattatta!" Evan commanded.

"Hurry and dodge Pidgey!" I yelled.

Rattatta charged at Pidgey from the side. Pidgey flew up in the air to avoid the attack.

"Now, use tackle," I said.

Pidgey flew down at Rattatta and tackled him. Rattatta started to run away, but my Pidgey gave chase. Eventually Pidgey landed another tackle and ended the battle.

My pokedex dinged. I opened it to see that Pidgey had leveled up again. Now she was level six. I was surprised to see she had leveled up in one battle. I checked out Rattatta's stats to see that he was level seven.

"That was a good battle. You're an awesome trainer," I said.

"Thanks, you too," Evan replied. I walked back over to stairs and went back down to the lobby. I walked out the building with my hands in my pockets. It was getting dark out. I had arrived at Viridian City a few hours ago. I decided to go back to the pokemon center, where I had rented a free room. All the pokemon centers across the Kanto region gave people free food, and allowed people to stay there the night for free.

Once I arrived back, I gave Nurse Joy my pokemon, which she placed on a healing machine. After a few seconds, she gave them back to me. I went over to the pc there, and sent over my Spearow to Professor Oak.

Then I walked up stairs and went to my room. There was a small bed, a lamp and a television inside of it. I got into the pair of pajamas I had packed, and lied down on the bed. Tomorrow I was going to go to the Viridian gym to challenge the leader to a battle.

The next day I had a quick breakfast and headed over to the gym. Once I got there, I saw that there was an angry mob standing in front of the doors.

"Hey, what's going on?" I asked one of the guys in front of it.

"The gym's closed and I need my eighth badge!" He yelled at me. "Hey, haven't I seen you on television? Oh wait, that's right, you're one of the three graduates of trainer school who just got his pokemon, right?"

"Yep, that's me," I replied.

"Well then get out of here. This is the eighth gym. The first gym is in Pewter city," he said.

"Oh, I didn't know that," I replied.

"Everyone knows that! And you call yourself a graduate?" He yelled at me annoyed.

"Hey, hold on. You're the guy who came to this exact gym a year ago when you didn't have a badge yet aren't you?" A man piped up.

"Well, um, yeah," he replied, turning a little pink.

"And you're the first person in a century who didn't graduate from trainer school!" The guy exclaimed.

The guys face was now completely red. His head looked kind of like a cherry.

"Wow. Now that's embarrassing," I said.

"You shut up!" He yelled in response.

"Jeez you're immature..." I said.

"That's it, I'm going to go train," the guy said. "The gym leader obviously isn't going to show up."

Then man stalked off, annoyed.

Suddenly someone yelled from behind me, "Yo, Red!"

I turned around to be met by spiky orange hair and brown eyes. It was Blue. He was wearing a dark blue shirt and purple jeans.

"Hey Blue," I replied.

"I'm guessing you were dumb enough to try and get into the gym, huh? You do realize this is the eighth gym, right?" He asked.

"I know that. But I'm guessing you don't, seeing as you're here," I said.

"Hey, you're here too!" He exclaimed.

"Whatever," I said.

"Hey, Red, meet me on the route 22. I want to talk to you," he said.

"Sure, but where's route 22?" I asked.

"It's to the west!" He replied. "Everyone knows that!"

"Shut up Blue," I said, annoyed.

"Heh, I'll see you later," he said, walking off.

I clenched my teeth together. Why did Blue always have to act so superior?

"Hey, kid," a guy from behind me said.

"What is it?" I asked.

"I was wondering, do you happen to have a Rattatta?" He asked.

I turned, only to see the man I was talking to was actually a very old man. He had a long white beard, and a bald head.

"Yeah, why do you ask?" I asked.

"Well, would you be interested in trading it for a Weedle?" He asked.

"Sorry, no. Bug type pokemon aren't that strong," I said.

"Is that so? Well you listen here! I spend all day every day teaching new trainers how to catch pokemon! But they don't watch unless I'm catching a decent pokemon! I've been fake catching this Weedle for years, and people keep telling me Weedle is too weak! I need a better pokemon to catch or the pokemon league federation is going to fire me! And if I lose my job, my life is over!" He yelled.

I stared at him, completely perplexed.

"Dad? Would you stop harassing people!" A woman exclaimed, running up to him.

"I can do what I want!" The old man yelled.

"I'm extremely sorry, my father hasn't had his coffee yet, and he's really cranky," the woman said to me, apologetically.

"It's okay. Here old man, I'll trade you the Rattatta," I said.

"R-really?" The old man said, obviously happy.

"Yeah, sure. Let's go to the pokemon center to trade them," I said.

We headed over to the pokemon center and traded our pokemon.

"Thank you, young man!" He exclaimed. "You've saved hopes and dreams!"

"Yeah, okay dad. Let's get you your coffee now," the woman said.

"Bye," I said.

"Bye, and thanks for helping my dad out," she said, walking off.

"It feels good to do something nice for someone," I said.

I stood there for a moment before realizing I had forgotten about Blue. I needed to meet him on route 22.

I ran as fast as humanly possible to the west, hoping I wasn't too late. Finally after ten minutes of running, a sigh came into view that said 'route 22: Road to the pokemon league.' I sped past it, eventually running into a tree. I fell down, rubbing my head which now sported a huge bump.

"Be careful Red, you already only have as much brain cells as a Mankey, don't want to lose anymore," someone said.

I jumped up and looked behind me, only to see Blue standing their, a sly grin plastered on his face.

"Shut up Blue," I said angrily.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you stupid," he said.

"Alright, enough name calling, what did you want to talk about?" I asked in an annoyed tone. Blue always seemed to want to mess with my head.

"I didn't want to talk, I wanted to battle!" He yelled.

"A battle? I don't have the time, I need to get to Pewter city," I stated.

"For what? To visit the museum?" He asked ignorantly.

"No, to battle the gym leader obviously you idiot!" I yelled.

Blue stared at me shocked. "What? I thought you being at the Viridian gym today was just a coincidence, I didn't realize you were actually going to try and take on a gym leader!" He exclaimed.

"Well I am!" I said.

"You? Try and take on the pokemon league? By the time you have your first badge I'll be pokemon league champ!" He exclaimed in between fits of laughter.

"Did you call me here to laugh at me or battle me?" I asked, annoyed.

"Battle you of course," he said. "I need to pay you back for what happened at the lab."

"Okay then, let's go!" I yelled.

"Go Spearow!" He yelled.

"Go Pidgey!" I yelled.

I took out my pokedex to check the Spearows level. It was level 9!

"Oh no," I said, suddenly scared for my pokemon. Not only was Spearow a higher level then Pidgey, but I new for a fact that Spearows' were much more aggressive pokemon then Pidgeys' were.

"Spearow, wipe the floor with that weak Pidgey!" Blue yelled out.

"Pidgey, get out of there!" I yelled.

A/N

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