I went back to the pokemon center to treat my injured pokemon. After one of the nurses healed my pokemon I sat down on one of the benches. Tochi and Osamu walked up to me. "Ready to go?" Osamu said while he slung his backpack over his shoulder. "Ya but I'm not sure if Piplup is strong enough to hold me." I said worried about my pokemon. Just as I said that my pokeball popped open and a large amount of bubbles exploded in my face. "Hahahaha!" Osamu and Tochi cried. "Piplup pip pi piplup." the little blue penguin exclaimed. "Ok, ok, I get it buddy! Haha!" I laughed.
When we got to the pier we saw the Rent-a-Lapras that Tochi was talking about and went over to rent the water type Pokemon. "Lapras the Transport Pokemon. This intellectually advanced pokémon is able to understand human speech. With its mild temperament, Lapras prefers to carry humans on its back, rather than engage in pokémon battles." Dexter said as I checked out the blue pokemon with my pokedex. As we rode our pokemon to the next island we had a race. "I'm gonna beat you Takumi!" Tochi shouted over the roaring waves. We were all wearing bathing suits in case we fell into the water. Osamu and I were balancing on these raft like boards while a harness was tied to our water type pokemon.
"Oh no you won't, Piplup bubble on Lapras." I said to Tochi. "Prisss!" Lapras shouted in confusion as the bubbles popped in its face. "Hey that's cheating. If you want to play that way it's fine by me. Lapras ice beam on the water." Tochi shouted to the pokemon she was riding. "Lapras travel faster on ice anyway." Tochi said while she slid away on the ice. We were really close to the Seafoam Islands. As Tochi was making her way to the island, Osamu and I hopped on to the ice bridge Tochi made.
"Hey is that a Swablu?" Osamu asked as he looked up to the sky. A small blue bird Pokemon was flying around in circles above us. "I'm gonna catch it!" I exclaimed. "Piplup use bubble on that Swablu up there!" I said to my pokemon who had previously been in the water. "Pip- lup." the water type said as it fell over in exhaustion. "Oh, come on! Piplup return. Go Eevee use thunder wave." I said as I attempted to attack the flying type once more. My little brown buddy came out of his pokeball and sparks flew from him to Swablu. "Swaaa!" The flying type cried in distress as it fell from the sky. "Go pokeball!" I said as I threw the red and white sphere. A red light appeared and sucked up the blue bird into it. It fell onto the ice. It rocked 3 times and finally clicked.
"Ya I caught a Swablu!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. As Osamu and I made our way towards the island, I let Swablu fly next to us. I took out my pokedex to examine my new pokemon. "Swablu, the Cotton Bird Pokémon. Swablu loves cleanliness and is quick to wipe off any unclean surface with its cotton-like wings." Dexter said. It had aerial ace, peck, sing, and fury attack. My Swablu was a girl, which was a surprise because all of my other Pokemon were males. "Hey, what took you two so long?" Tochi asked when we finally caught up to her. "I caught a Swablu." I said to the red haired girl. "Awesome! I transferred a check over to the Rent-a-Lapras on Cinnabar Island and I bought Lapras. This way whenever we travel by water I can use her." Tochi said as she pet her new pokemon on the nose.
While walking in one of the caves we came to an opening with a large boulder in front of it, blocking our path. "Oh no, what are we gonna do!" Tochi exclaimed, throwing her hands over her mouth in a panic. "Don't worry guys, I got this." Osamu said as he clicked open a pokeball. A small pink pokemon appeared from the bright flashing light the pokeball released. I naturally took out my pokedex to check out the pokemon. "Diglett, the Mole Pokémon. Diglett love to create underground tunnels." Dexter said in his usual monotonic voice.
"Osamu, why is your Diglett pink?" I asked looking back and forth from the pokedex picture to the actual pokemon. "I got Diglett before I met you on the boat that day. I was coming to Kanto from the Orange Archipelago. There is an island there that has fruit that causes the pokemon to turn pink. I rescued this Diglett from a pack of wild Mankey. Diglett decided he wanted to travel with me after that and I asked a ranger on the island if I could take him and they let me!" Osamu explained. "Diglett use bulldoze on that boulder." Osamu said to his unique little friend. The mole pokemon charged toward the giant rock. When Diglett touched it the rock crumbled into a bunch of little pieces. "Thanks buddy!" Osamu said as he called back his pokemon.
When we finally got through to the other side the light blinded us when we went through the exit. "Ahh, its so nice to be out of that cave, I hate the cold!" Tochi said in relief as she stretched her arms over her head. "Hey look I can see Vermillion City from here." I said, pointing toward the large port city. "Come on let's go!" Osamu said as he took out our rafts. "Lapras come and help out!" Tochi called out her pokemon. In a few short minutes we rode our pokemon to the next city.
As we made our way to the next city, we looked through the markets by the ports. We even got to see the SS Anne II go off for the first time. "The leader of this gym uses-" Tochi began to say. "Electric types!" I finished, "I know this city very well my cousins and grandparents live here." I explained. We went to the pokemon center again to heal our pokemon. I was going to challenge this gym but I don't think any of my pokemon had a type advantage against electric types. "You can use Diglett if you want." Osamu told me. "No, it's ok, I want to beat this gym fair and square." I said to my grey haired friend.
After we went to the pokemon center the gym would be next. "So why do you want to beat this gym all on your own Takumi?" Tochi wondered. "Well, the gym leader is my-" I started to say. All of the sudden the doors flew open. A boy with blonde hair walked out. He a blue hat, a pokeball necklace, a white t shirt with a blue vest, and some jeans on. He looked about 12 and had a Pikachu on his shoulder. As soon as he walked out he look up to me. "Hey cuz!" he said with a huge smile on his face. "Guys this is my cousin, Tōmasu, he's the gym leader here!" I said to my two friends. "WHAT!" they both shouted. This should be interesting.
