After multiple hours of fighting our way through the forest we came across a large gate. Pokemon Battle Frontier the sign above the door read. "I've heard about this place" said Britten. "Trainers from all over the world come here to battle with their highly trained pokemon. It takes real skill to even be attempting to battle here" she finished explaining.
"Well my team is good enough for it" I proclaimed. At the moment Venonat came out of his ball and fell on his face. "Dammit Murphy can you at least try to look cool"
"Good luck battling here" Britten said. "You haven't even won a battle yet, you lost your battle with me and Dark ran off before the battle finished. You've got no experience under your bet yet. If anyone's gonna battle here it'll be me"
"Psh you think you're an amazing trainer because you were able to beat my venonat. A strong breeze is able to knock out my Venonat, don't feel to confident that your ledian was able to." I came back saying.
"Alright then Farfetch'd vs. ledian one on one" she said furiously, "Go Ledian" the little bug came out of its ball.
"Dubbs you know what to do!" I called out to him. He prepared holding his leek like a sword.
"Woah kids no battling here" said a tall man with spiky blonde hair. He wore a green shirt and seemed very confident. Britten's mouth was gaping open. "You can choose to battle in one of the facilities but no battling out in the streets, that looks bad for business" he said.
"Alright sir, sorry about that" I said. "What kind of facilities are here."
"Well the main one is the battle factory, you take 3 of your pokemon and battle your way up to the top of the tower where you battle the frontier brain" he said with a smirk at the end of his statement.
"Well we only have 2 pokemon each" I said nervously.
"Then you guys should go check out the battle hall. There you use one pokemon to complete challenges that are dependent on their type."
"Thank you for the help sir" I said as he walked away. Britten finally was able to speak again.
"Do you have any idea who that was" she asked me.
"Umm no? Should I" I replied.
"Yes you should, that is the tower tycoon, Palmer. He's the master of the battle tower he's only been beaten in that position 3 times out of a couple hundred battles. He's like the icon of Sinnoh and Johto how do you not know him?"
I felt embarrassed at first for not knowing who he was but then it came across to me that I just talked to a celebrity! "Come on guys lets go check out the battle hall." I yelled as the 3 of us went of into the facility at the left of the frontier. We waked up the stairs with pride. The doorman talked to us. Which pokemon would you like to enter in the battle hall challenge" he said with no enthusiasm.
"Well I have a Farfetch'd and a venonat I would like to enter." I said. I sent Venonat out of his ball. The doorman just stared at them. "Well Farfetch'd I assume you would enter in the flying category and venonat in the bug" he said.
"Sure" I said.
"Well then here would be the pokemon they'd be competing against. He showed me two pictures. One was a giant eagle. "That's a wargle" then he pulled out the second picture and it was a giant monster with tusks "That's a drapion. So after looking at those pictures you want to honestly tell me that your pokemon are as good as those 2. Venonat obviously wouldn't stand a chance against a monster of that size and I mean that wargle looked so well trained. I didn't want to under compensate my pokemon but if I stuck them in these challenges they were bound to get hurt.
"Here's my advise to you kid" the doorman said. "Get out of here, but I want to see you come back one day. These 2 pokemon have potential but they don't even look like you've bothered to train them yet. I want you to get out into the world of pokemon and train these 2 up to be powerful enough to beat the wargle and the scizor. And on top of that pokemon can be any of 17 different types. I want you to collect one pokemon of every type so I can enter you in every challenge giving you a better chance of being able to beat some, but I wont allow you to catch 15 more pokemon off the streets and expect to win with them. You must train them hard as well. Really reach out to your pokemon and they will reach out to you and train hard for you. Once you have 17 pokemon or more I want you back here and I want you to take the challenge because as hard as it may be it will truly test your abillities as a trainer and what you need to work on. Same goes for your cute lady friend and that Mexican over there shining his shoes. The 3 of you have potential to be great trainers, so I wanna see some effort. Now get out of here and go start a real journey."
We all walked down those stairs. That guy was right. When I saw Britten in the woods she was training her ledian and chickorita. I haven't bothered to train once I have just assumed that if I kept battling trainers I'd win eventually but that's not how this is going to work. The words that the doorman said were tattooed into my brain. 'You'll see what your pokemon need to work on'. Well Farfetch'd had a bad temper and venonat was clumsy. I don't think I can train them to break those habits but I sure as hell can train to use those habits to an advantage. Venonat stepped on the back of farfetchd's foot. Farfetchd turned around and smacked him with his leek and Murphy tumbled down the stairs. Training the temper and the clumsy to my advantage is going to take a lot of work but that's what being a trainer is all about.