#And so, chapter 3 is here. How I managed to spend 2 chapters in Pallet Town, I will never know.#

As Green walked along Route 1, Ralts perched upon her shoulder, she scowled. She didn't see a single damn wild Pokemon anywhere! Not even a single damn Ratatta! What the hell was going on? It was getting dark, and if she ran into Blue before having a single wild Pokemon battle, he was gonna wipe her across the floor, and then rub it in her face.

As if in answer to her question, a Patrat scurried out from behind a bush, Causing her to blink in confusion. Then she shook her head, recalling God's words about Pokemon from other generations being in this world, and stepped in front of the Patrat, Ralts teleporting down from her shoulder. Ralts was still level 5, but she had a plan to get that experience he needed to level and learn confusion.

The Patrat charged Ralts, who teleported behind it right before it made contact, causing it to run right into Green... Or rather, Green's foot. Green kicked the little Pokemon halfway across the field. It picked itself up and glared at them, and made a run for them again. "Ralts, use Growl!" Green commanded, and when it did, the Patrat faltered a bit, and Green used the opening to jump on it, and pin it down. "Ralts, use Growl again" Green said as she reached for one of 5 pokeballs given to her by Professor Oak. The Growl caused the Patrat to start whimpering a little bit, and Green finally ended its torture by activating the pokeball and tapping it on the Patrat's forehead. It was sucked inside, and after 3 shakes, a red light flashed signaling the capture.

Green smiled bitterly and said "Not the most graceful capture ever, but it'll do" and as she spoke, Ralts gave off a faint white flash of light, and then returned to normal. Concerned by it, Green opened up the Pokemon Analyzer on her Pokegear, and turned it towards Ralts, to find that Ralts had grown to Lvl 6, and now knew Confusion, causing Green to breathe a sigh of relief. She didn't plan to train that Patrat, and had only caught it to fill out the pokedex, but it would be useful if something happened to Ralts before they reached Viridian.

Green looked up at the night sky, and noticed that it had turned dark during their scuffle with Patrat. So she found a tree by the side of the road, and laid down a blanket from her pack right next to it, and laid down, using the tree to prop herself up. Ralts came over and got into her lap, laying against her stomach, his head just touching the underside of her breasts, and fell asleep. Smiling, she patted the little guy, and then slipped a can of beer out from her pack, and downed it, deciding that sleep would come easier if she had a bit of a buzz.

About 3 hours later, Green awoke with a start. A bush about 10 feet from the tree was rustling loudly. She watched it apprehensively, but it settled down and stopped moving. She watched for a couple more minutes, and when it didn't move again, she started closing her eyes once more. But it started rustling again, this time louder. Green's eyes snapped back open and she glared at it. The rustling bush even woke up Ralts, who got up and looked around drowsily, rubbing one eye with his hand. the bush quietened for a second, and the rustled one last time, before a Makuhita came tumbling out of the bush and fell flat on his face in front of Green and Ralts. Green grabbed a pokeball out of her bag, while Ralts hopped off of Green, both suddenly alert and fully awake.

The Makuhita got up and looked at them, then fell into a fighting stance, and charged at them, hitting Ralts with its tackle. "Ralts, use confusion" Green said calmly, seeing that Ralts was not overly hurt. Ralts send a mental wave of energy at Makuhita, who then clutched its head in pain. "Again" Green said, and Makuhita was brought to its knees by the resulting attack, just barely hanging onto consciousness. Green threw the pokeball she had grabbed at it, and successfully caught the fighting-type. After she retrieved the pokeball, she released Makuhita, who had calmed down, and ran the Pokemon Analyzer on it. Turned out the Makuhita was a level 7 female knowing Tackle, Focus Energy, Sand Attack and Arm Thrust. Being a fighting type, it would be a good cover for Ralts' dark-type weakness, so Green decided to train her. Returning Makuhita to her ball, Green and Ralts took up their earlier position, and slept through the rest of the night without interruption.

The next day, they were woken up at about 7 in the morning by harsh sunlight. Green, who back when she was still Shawn usually never got up earlier then 10, squinted as she looked up at the sky, cursing the sun for being so damn bright so damn early. Ralts hopped off of her, and she stood up, shielding her eyes with one hand, and packing up her blanket and empty beer cans with another. She may be a drunken waste half the time, but she'd be dammed if she was a litterer. After she finished packing up, she and Ralts headed up the road once more, occasionally having to stop to deal with a wild Pokemon, but she didn't catch anything to save on balls (pun intended) and she wasn't sure exactly how to gain money, as it seemed unlikely that people would actually fork over X amount of cash every time they lost a Pokemon battle, and even if they did, Green had yet to meet another trainer besides Red and Blue... Come to think of it, she didn't even know what money looked like in this world.

After walking a little bit farther, they came across a boy heading towards Pallet Town. When he saw them, he looked away, trying not to make eye contact, but kept walking. Green shrugged and stepped in front of the boy, who walked right into her, causing himself to fall to the ground while she remained balanced and on her feet. "Hiya there" she said cheerfully, having a hunch that this boy was a Pokemon trainer. Sure enough, he reflexively looked at her when she spoke, making eye contact, and then groaned. He got up and drew a single pokeball from his belt and said, "I was trying not to make eye contact with you because I'm down to one Pokemon left, but now I see I have no choice." He then released a Sneasel, which according to Green's Pokemon Analyzer, was level 10, a tall order when Ralts was level 8 (having leveled up twice against wild Pokemon) and Makuhita was level 7. She didn't care what level the Patrat was. Knowing that Ralts couldn't do a thing against Sneasel, Green recalled him, realizing that she had not done so since first letting him out, and sent out Makuhita, whom she had healed with a Potion. Ralts may have been useless against a Sneasel, but fighting type moves, like Makuhita's Arm Thrust, did 4x damage against them, on account of their dark/ice typing.

Seeing the Makuhita, the boy groaned again, and said "Sneasel, use Feint Attack" to which Green replied, "Arm Thrust" and the two attacks clashed together, hitting at the same time, but Arm Thrust was a multi hit move, and Makuhita proceeded to repeatedly pound Sneasel into the ground with it, creating a small hole in the road. Sneasel climbed out the hole when, "Sneasel, use Quick attack to get get behind him and strike him there." The boy said, but his voice lacked conviction and Sneasel showed a unwilling expression, not using the attack, and instead glared at his trainer. Seeing the opening, Makuhita used another Arm Thrust without being told to do so, thoroughly smashing Sneasel into the ground once more, creating a second hole right next to the first. This time though, Sneasel did not get back up from that hole.

The boy kicked the ground, and returned the unconscious Sneasel, not even bothering to make sure it was alright, or even still alive after that beating. He then walked past Green and Makuhita, grumbling angrily to himself. "Ah hey, wait a minute, aren't you at least going to make sure it's alright?" Green called after the boy, who spun around angrily and yelled "What do I care? The damn thing doesn't even listen to me! And it would be alright, if you hadn't gone out of your way to make eye contact with me, so fuck you," his words were laced with venom, and he immediately turned back around, and went on his not-so-merry way. Exchanging a confused look with Makuhita, Green released Ralts again, and now with the two Pokemon out and by her side, continued back towards Viridian, but silently hoped that Oak found that boy and did something about his obvious neglectful attitude towards his Pokemon, which was most likely the reason they had disobeyed them in the first place, or, failing that, found a way to separate him and the pokemon, before any further harm came to them.

#another thing I always hated about the games was how everyone not in a evil gang or terrorist organization practically worship Pokemon. I have yet to find a NPC that isn't one of the major bad guys in the games that says anything even remotely anti-good-will-towards-Pokemon. Silver from gold, silver, and crystal doesn't count by the way, as he could be considered a bad guy that eventually learns the error of his ways and then is all "Pokemon are awesome" just like everyone else. Anyways, that's route 1 for you, next time, Viridian, and Douchebag, errr, Blue.#