Immediately after leaving Misty's gym Austin headed to the Pokemon center, Bellsprout needed rest and Charmander took a few hard hits itself, but on the way he passed by a house, and outside there was a girl standing there, who called Austin over. "Excuse me sir, I just saw you leave the Cerulean gym, does that mean you beat Misty?" Austin got a smile across his face, and opened his jacket, showing his two badges pinned to the inside. "Yep!" Austin said excitedly, "That was my second badge!" The girl looked surprised, and then smiled, "Well, I was going to be a Pokemon trainer," She started, "But I really don't have the will for it, but I have a Bulbasaur here with me, that I would really like if you'd take it with you, it's strong and will fight proudly for you, and I want to know it became as strong as it can be." Then the Bulbasaur she was talking about peeked behind her leg, "Saur!" It said happily looking at Austin. "Ooh," Austin said, "It's so cool; sure, I'd be happy to raise it!" Austin thanked the girl and then headed to the Pokemon center, and called Professor Oak while his Pokemon healed.
"Hey Professor!" Austin said. "Why hello there Austin," the Professor started, "I can only assume by that look you won your gym match!" Austin smiled at the professor and said, that's not all, this girl on my way here gave me a Bulbasaur!" This perked the professor's interest, "A Bulbasaur you say, well that is a coincidence," the professor started, "I gave the Bulbasaur that was here after you and Jack left to a trainer just the other day!"
"Huh," Austin asked, "Who did you give it to Professor?" Oak just kind of chuckled and said, "Oh, you'll meet them sooner or later, I can promise you that, now, you have more badges to get, your next one is in Vermillion city, get going." And on that note, the Professor signed off.
Austin headed out of town, but saw a house that had been broken into, he went to check it out. As he entered he noticed the place had been destroyed, and the man inside was giving a police report. "Yes, he was in all black cloths, took my valuables and left!" The officer wrote it down and then saw Austin to the left of him, "GET OUT OF HERE KID, THIS IS A CRIME SCENE!" Austin ran out the back door, and heard laughing.
"Heh heh, he didn't have any valuable Pokemon," the kid started, "but he sure had some good cash!" It was a man dressed all in black, he was a young black kid with glasses and bushy hair, he was only about Austin's age. "Hey!" Austin shouted, "Give that guy his stuff back!" The kid turned around, "You don't know what happens when you mess with Team Rocket's Danny do you!?" He shouted, "Either way, you want it, you're gonna have to battle! Lefty, you're up!" Danny threw his Pokeball and out came what looked like a larger Pokeball, but it was a Pokemon, a Voltorb, and electric type Pokemon incapable of electric attacks on its own. "Alright fine, Bulbasaur, come on out!" Austin sent out his newest Pokemon, "Use Vine Whip!" Bulbasaur shot vines from the bulb on its back and smacked the ball Pokemon, "Torb!" it shouted in pain. "Lefty, use sonic boom!" The Voltorb shot a sound wave at Bulbasaur, hurting it in the process, "now use tackle!" The Voltorb leapt at Bulbasaur, "Quick Bulbasaur, dodge and use Razor Leaf!" Bulbasaur jumped to the side and shot leaves at the Voltorb, knocking it out.
"Damn," Danny said, "Alright fine, Danakonda, you're up!" Danny's next Pokemon was an Arbok, the evolved form of Ekans. "Bulbasaur, return," Austin called, "Go Butterfree!" Butterfree came into battle, but Austin intended to end this quick, "Butterfree, sleep powder!" Butterfree flapped its wings and sent the powder at Arbok, knocking it out soon after. "This is bad," Danny said to himself, "I have to give this one up!" Danny dropped the stolen goods and called his last Pokemon, "Righty, go!" This time it was an Electrode, and evolved Voltorb, "Self-Destruct now!" Electrode began to glow and exploded, when the smoke cleared Danny was gone, but the stuff was still there.
Austin returned it to the man inside and told them of the intruder, who he was and told them of the name "Team Rocket." The Police man told Austin that was an organization dedicated to stealing Pokemon, and to look out for them in the future. After the encounter Austin headed on his way South to Vermillion city. On the way he passed a Pokemon daycare, a place where they would raise Pokemon for you, this seemed like a way around training, so he went on, but was able to find a Meowth, and cat Pokemon, and captured it, then he found a Mankey, this was Austin's first fighting type Pokemon, it was classified as a Pig Monkey, a Monkey with a pig snout, and was very strong, but he added it to his collection as well. "I hope the professor likes all these Pokemon!" Austin said laughing, and shortly after found his way to vermillion city, there was a town on the way, but he couldn't go there, it was called Saffron city, they wouldn't let him enter for some reason, so he had to take an underground route to Vermillion. He made it to his new location, ready for his next gym!