Brian: Time for chapter 3, and this is gonna get a bit weird.

Humans, towns, forests, buildings. Nova seemed to have a name for everything, and I personally thought she was making some of them up. Speaking of forests, this place called Viridian Forest was what Nova calls a natural maze.

"Many idiots get lost here, so we can expect Zack to get lost."

"Man, where is the exit?"

After what was three to five hours of wandering and being the same place at the end of it, we managed to actually proceed past the gate, as Nova calls it. Soon another human shouted at us.

"Hey you! I challenge you!" The human was shorter than Zack, and had on a strange thing on the top of his head. "Go Caterpie!"

"Sparkplug, let's show him what we can do!" I went in front of Zack, while the smaller human threw a ball and let out a green being. "Use Thundershock!" I sent a lightning bolt, as Nova calls them, at the green thing, and it hit.

"OW! What is your problem?! Are you anti-worm or something?!"

"Caterpie, use Tackle!" The Caterpie charged at me and it hit me, but it didn't hurt much.

"Use Thudershock again!" I repeated the Thudershock process, and this time the Caterpie went down. The other human sent out another Caterpie, and Nova took it down in two hits. "Awesome, we won!" Nova just shook her head.

"He must realize that we're fighting Caterpies." Soon after that, we got lost again. Nova and I also sometimes had to knock out a wild Caterpie, and Zack was trying to, as Nova says, read a map. "Does he even have half a brain cell?"

Most of the time spent in this forest was spent on getting lost, getting back on the path, beating wild and trained Caterpies, getting lost again, and making a rude comment. Nova was the only one that did the last one. After a lot of walking, I thought I heard something.

"Nova, did you say something?"

"Nope. Your ears must be spazing out."

Then I heard another sound. "Nova, are you-"

"I hear something; if that's what you were gonna ask."

Suddenly, a tall human dropped from the trees. "Hello, Zack."

"Hi! How do you know my name?"

"You have what we want, so we know all about you."

I instantly figured out that this human was a tracker. "Nova! This is one of the trackers I told you about!"

Nova got this look on her face. "You sure?"

"Give us back our experiment, and you'll get off Scot free." I decided to use my special move, with involved sending a lightning bolt into the ground and having it blast the human from the ground, only…it didn't work. "Stupid experiment. We learn from the past. I have rubber on my boots, which cancels out any super shock you might make."

"Damn it, I can't handle him myself."

"Kowabunga!" Nova leapt into the fray, and proceeded to hit the tracker with fists that I couldn't see due to the velocity that they were traveling at. I also noticed her eyes were glowing red. She stopped to take a breath on the tracker ran away. "What just happened?"

"You pretty much beat the tracker and sent him running away." Nova looked nervous.

"Can I tell you a secret? I'm not a normal Clefairy. When I face an opponent with a pure evil heart, I go into this frenzy."

"Well that was weird, but let's get to Pewter City!"

Getting out of the forest was simpler due to the trail of, as Nova calls it, blood left by the tracker. We soon came to another town, and we went to a building that Nova says is a Pokèmon Center. We got healed and went to this other building called a gym.

"Time to get out first badge!" We entered the gym, and it had a lot of rocks. "Where is the gym leader?"

This place was even more of a maze, for Zack at least. I often saw this human with spiky hair, and he was tapping his foot for some reason. Nova just groaned and mentioned something about Zack's lack of intellect.

Frank: Nova's frenzy thing was made up on the spot, but the rest wasn't.

Brian: Zack's IQ is probably less than zero in general, but the next chapter will revel he has hidden talents.

Frank: Join us tomorrow for the next chapter!