Hello again. Sorry I've waited so long to update this. The average, hard working author would say that they couldn't update due to the fact that school is in and they have homework, projects, etc. My truely honest reason is simply that I was too lazy. I'm honestly going to try to fix this and get a new chapter up at least every weekend.

Thank you loads for the reviews, I can't believe I actually have as many as I do. Since some of you don't have accounts, I'm going to go ahead and try to answer any questions at the beginning of each chapter.

Darkside:

Ouch, that was harsh. Though it was honest, and for that I thank you. Jason's fanboying will definately go down, but can you honestly tell me you wouldn't do at least a little fanboying in Jason's position? The chapters will be longer if I can get enough detail to make them long. I have a little trouble when it comes to great amounts of detail, but as I have said, this is pretty much my first fic. As for the title, I'm not all too creative in titles and names. If anyone would like to give suggestions for a new title, please do.

Jarkes:

Romance...yeah, it's sorta planned, but I'm not sure how it'll come out. I haven't tried it yet, but then again I haven't tried most things as, once again, this is my first fic. So, I can only answer with a definite maybe.

Gotta remember that I shouldn't count this in the word count. Ok, here's chapter three, hope you like it.

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Chapter 3

First Day on the Job

As Jason was heading to the edge of town, he went into the Pokemart to buy supplies. "Lets see," he thought, entering the store, "If I'm gonna take this seriously, I guess the first things to get should be a sleeping bag, Pokemon food, potions, (he looked at his backpack which couldn't hold much more) and a bigger backpack. He would have bought a tent, but he didn't feel like having to set it up and take it down over and over again. Plus it was too expensive.

As he browsed through the different kinds of Pokemon food, he realized that he had absolutety no idea what Charmander would like to eat. So, thinking of the most simple solution, he pulled Charmander's pokeball out of his pocket, enlarged it, and opened the ball. In a short flash of red light, the lizard pokemon stood infront of him. "Char!" it said happily. "Heh," Jason said to his pokemon while rubbing it's head. "I still can't get over how awesome that is. But I can't keep geeking out everytime something I think is cool happens. If I do, people will think I'm wierd, though they'd be right."

"Anyways, back on topic. I want you to smell these and tell me which one you like," he said holding out a few cans of food. Charmander to a few seconds to smell each can and then taped a steak flavored brand. "Haha, good taste." Jason grabbed a few cans and about five potions, leaving Charmander out of it's ball. He looked over at the backpacks and picked out a large duffle bag with quite a few pockets. He paid for the purchases at the cash register. "Have a nice day," said the cashier, looking glad that the pokemon with an open flame on it's tail was leaving the store.

"Geez," said Jason looking at the eight dollars he had left, "that stuff nearly wiped me out." Charmander was still out of it's ball and was walking next to it's trainer. He looked down at the pokemon. " I sure hope were good at battling, or we might have a hard time with money." he said alittle worridly. "Char charrrr!" Charmander replied confidently. "Alright, then lets go!" Jason said, as he and Charmander headed out of town and on to route 202.

Almost as soon as they were out of sight of the town, a wild Bidoof came out of the grass and started running at Charmander for a Tackle. "Okay, first battle. Let's do this! Charmander dodge to the right!" Charmander jumped out of the way of Bidoof's tackle, but Bidoof just turned and started another attack. "Alright, we have to attack. Charmander, dodge again, but use Scratch as it passes you!" The lizard pokemon did as it was told and moved out of the way, but hit Bidoof with it's claw as it passed, knocking it a few feet back. The injured Bidoof got back up, breathing harder than before. "Okay, lets finish it up with Ember!" Charmander spit out a shower of tiny flames that burned Bidoof as they hit. Defeated, Bidoof ran off into the grass. "Alright!" Jason exclaimed. "We beat our first pokemon!" "Charmander char!" said Charmander, happy he could win for his trainer.

After they calmed down, they started heading through the forest, defeating a few wild pokemon here and there, with similar results as their first battle. After a few hours, they got hungry and stopped near a small pond. Charmander got to eat it's pokemon food and Jason used some of the water from the pond for a cup of instant noodles and cooked it with the flame on Charmander's tail. "I really couldn't have asked for a better pokemon to start with, could I? Great inside and outside of battle." He told his pokemon. "Char char." it replied scratching the back of it's head.

As they finished their meals and got ready to start walking again, they heard a noise come from behind them. They turned around to see three kids, two boys and a girl, coming out from behind the trees. "Hey big guy," said one of the children. "Wanna battle?" "C'mon Tristan," the girl of the group said. "You're not going to win. You saw how he beat all those pokemon." "You don't understand Natalie. It's because he's so good that we want to battle him." said the second boy. "But Logan, neither of you even have your trainers license yet." "It doesn't mean we're bad battlers!"

"Um," Jason said, interupting the arguement. "I'll battle if you want." "Really? Cool!" the boys said. "Me first, me first!" said the first boy, pushing the other out of the way. "Okay, Tristan right? I'm Jason." "Alright, lets battle! Go, Starly!" Tristan said, throwing his pokeball and releasing the small bird pokemon. "Starly!" it shouted. "Lets go Charmander! It's our first trainer battle!" Jason told his pokemon. "Charmander!" It exclaimed excitedly. "Starly, use Quick Attack!" said Tristan, taking the initiative. "Charmander, Ember!" shouted Jason. As Charmander was about to attack, Starly slammed into it and knocked it down. 'Darn,' thought Jason, 'I should've figured it would be faster than a wild one.' "Charmander, use Scratch!" "Starly, fly up!" As Charmander ran to attack it, Starly flew too high for it to reach. "Looks like you aren't as good as we thought." said the kid. "You think so, huh? Charmander, use Ember straight up in the air!" Charmander did as it was told and blew flames at Starly. The bird moved out of the way, but as the embers reached their maximum hieght, they spread apart like a water spout. They rained down on Starly, burning it and causing it to lose altitude. "Oh yeah, now use Scratch!" Charmander ran up to it just as it was low eoungh and clawed it, knocking it to the ground and making it faint.

"Yes! We won our first trainer battle! Thank you Charmander!" Jason shouted with Charmander jumping with happiness right beside him. "Aw man, that sucks." said Tristan, returning his defeated Starly back to it's ball. "Thanks, big guy, that was lotsa fun! Here," he sadi holding out some loose change. "I can't take that," Jason said, not wanting to feel like a bully beating up kids for money. "But then it won't be like a real battle," said the kid pouting. "Well, fine. But only cause it was a real battle." he said taking the money. "I think you said you wanted to battle too, right?" he said adressing the second boy. "Naw," he said. "I can't even beat Tristan, so I know I really can't beat you." "Okay then, I have to give Charmander a rest anyways. Would you mind ponting me in the direction of the nearest city?"he asked the kids. "Sure," said the girl, as she pointed to some trees. "If you go through these trees, you'll get to a path that goes right to Jubilife." "Okay, thanks. C'mon Charmander." He returned the lizard pokemon to it's pokeball and started to walk off. "See you later, take care!" "See ya later big guy!"

After leaving the kids, Jason was still walking for about an hour. "I really hope they didn't put me on the road back to Sandgem." he said to himself. After a few more minutes, the trees started thinning and Jason walked through the entrance to Jubilife City. "Alright, I'm finally here! I thought I was going to have to camp out for sure." He checked his watch for the time...it read 1:47 AM. As it was still very much light out, he decided to put his watch in his pocket and fix it later. He headed straight for the Pokemon Center and as he walked up to the doors, they flew open and someone ran into him hard, causing them both to fall over.

"Ow, what was that about?" the person said. He got up and Jason could see that he had a striped shirt, a red scarf, and oddly shaped blond hair. "Oh," the boy said, spotting Jason. "Uh, sorry about that." He ran off as quickly as possible, as if his life depended on it. 'Was that the rival?' Jason thought, recognizing him. 'Guess that means all of the game characters are real.' He got up and went inside. "Hello, how may I help you?" asked the Nurse Joy at the counter. 'And the whole large identical Nurse Joy family thing is real.' "May I have my pokemon healed, please? And are there any rooms open for tonight?" he asked, pulling out Charmander's pokeball. "Is this the only one?" she asked. "Yeah, why is that a problem?" "No, no. I'm just used to seeing trainer's carry more pokemon." she told him, turning to the machine for healing pokemon. After about a minute, she turned back around and handed him the pokeball. "All done. Now I'll just check and...okay, there are still rooms available for tonight." "Okay, thank you very much." he said and went outside.

Almost as soon as he left, a man appeared in front of him smilling. "Hello there. You appear to be a pokemon trainer, right?" "Uh, yeah. Why?" Jason asked, taken suprise by the man's sudden appearence. "Well, I'm the president of the Poketch company. I'm having a free Poketch campaign." the man said. "Oh, thats right. You get the poketch here." said Jason, not realizing he said it outloud. "Excuse me?" asked the man, wondering how the boy knew of his campaign. "Oh, um, I uh, my friend told me!" Jason said making an excuse for his knowing. "Well then, you probably already know how to get me to give you a Poketch." "Yeah, get the coupons from the clowns right?" "Bingo, you are correct! But you might want to hurry, it's getting late." "Right, I'll be back." Jason said running off to find the clowns.

Two of the clowns were easy to find, as they were infront of the biggest buildings in the city. The questions weren't hard either, but the third clown was nowhere in sight and it was getting dark. As was running around, he spotted an old man struggling with some bags. Forgetting about looking for the clown, he ran over to the man. "Need a hand?" Jason asked. "Oh, yes please." he replied. "I was just thinking that I wasn't going to make it home with all of these groceries, I'm sorry to bother you." "Oh, it's no trouble." Jason said. "So where is your house?" "Just outside of the city. Follow me." They walked for a few minutes untill they finally reached the old man's house. Just as the he was about to open the door, a wild Bibarel ran out of the woods. Smelling the groceries, it used Water Gun, to try to knock them out of the old man's hands.

The man barely moved out of the way and Bibarel started to charge at him. "I'll get this, go Charmander!" Jason shouted, throwing his pokeball. "Char!" Charmander said, glad to be out in the open. The appearence of Charmander startled the beaver pokemon, and Jason used that to his advantage. "Charmander, use Scratch!" Charmander ran up to Bibarel and hit it with its claw. Bibarel stepped back a bit, but didn't seem very hurt. 'Guess I can't expect much better against an evolved Pokemon.' he thought as Charmander was dodging Water Guns. "Move in and keep using Scratch!" he told Charmander. The lizard managed to land two more attacks before Bibarel finally hit it and sent Charmander flying back to Jason. "Are you okay?!" he asked, worried for his Pokemon. "Charmander char," it said getting back up. It was breathing heavy and probably couldn't take another hit. 'We're going to have to finish this now, but Scratch is our only effective attack since its a water type.' Jason thought. "Alright, use Scratch as strong as you can!" Charmander started running towards its opponent as Bibarel shot at it with another Water Gun. Before the attack could hit, Charmander's claw began to shine and looked metallic. It slashed through the Water Gun, splitting the blast in half, and proceeded to hit Bibarel and knock it back into the forest.

"Awesome! Good job Charmander!" Jason exclaimed. "Charmander!" the lizard pokemon said, happy to have beaten an evolved pokemon. "That wasn't Scratch, so by the look of it, you must've learned Metal Claw! That's great since the first gym's the rock type, and steel beats rock." he told his pokemon. "Thank you so much." said the old man, who watched the whole thing. "If you hadn't came along, I'd be late getting here and all my food would be wet." "It was nothing, really." Jason said. "Here, I want you to have this for helping me." the man said, handing Jason a fishing rod. "You're a trainer, right? There are many streams and lakes out there. This way you can catch the pokemon in them." "Sweet, thanks," Jason said. "Well I've got to go. See you later, and thanks for the rod!" he said and ran back to the city.

As he got back to the Pokemon Center, he saw the Poketch company president waiting for him. "Sorry," Jason said. "I couldn't find that third clown." "Ah, that doesn't matter. I saw what you did for that man back there, and decided, forget the third coupon! Here, you can have it now." the man said handing Jason a brand new Poketch. "I must be going now, keep up the good work." the Poketch president said, and walked off. 'Wow, that was corny. But whatever works, I guess.' thought Jason. He went inside the Pokemon Center and went up to Nurse Joy. "Hello," she said. "I was beginning to think that you weren't coming." "I got alittle sidetracked. Would you please heal my pokemon again?" Jason said, pulling out Charmander's pokeball. "Of course." said Joy, turning to the machine.

As she began the machine, a boy walked in, looking tired. He had short black hair, a red hat, and a red scarf. "Has anyone seen a strange guy with wierd looking blonde hair?" "I have," said Jason. "You could say we ran into eachother." "Knowing Barry, you probably mean that literaly. I swear, he couldn't hold still to save his life." "He sure seemed that way. Hi, I'm Jason." he said holding out his hand. "Lucas." the boy said, shaking Jason's hand. "Well, you missed your friend by a few hours." "Yeah, looks like I'm staying here tonight." said Lucas as he went to ask Joy for a room.

Jason left towards his own room after getting Charmander from Nurse Joy, and got on the bed as soon as he entered. 'Let's see,' he thought. 'I'm set for Roark. If I leave early tomorrow, I might make it all the way to Orebugh. And with that thought, he fell asleep, exhausted from the days many, many events.

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Thank God. It's over. Hopefully that was long enough for you. The battling scenes came out nicely in my opinion, but it's your opinion that matters. I hope anyone reading this far is hooked and will stay with me all the way through this.

Two things

1.) About the title, if you have any suggestions, I'll look at them. I need your help, as I am not all too creative. So please, any suggestions are appreciated.

2.) I am considering making a drawing for each chapter. Now, mind you I'm only considering this as I am about as good of an artist as I am an author (which is bad by my standards). If you would like to see this, please let me know. If enough of you say so, I really won't have a choice now will I?

Please read and review, and if you're actually reading this, thank you for reading this far.