Viridian City
Chapter 2
Viridian City
The three friends started to walk away from the spot where Verde caught his rattata called buck, they headed north following the signposts for viridian city. As they drew closer to the end of route 1, rooftops of city's buildings came into view.
"We're almost their guys" Nathan said pointing to the rooftops. Suddenly a flock of wild pidgy flew past the three trainers, one of the pidgy flew out of the flock and started attacking Nathan. Nathan quickly grabbed Charmander's Pokéball and sent him into battle shouting " Charmander, I choose you!" The Pokéball opened letting Charmander emerge ready for battle, Nathan grabbed his Pokédex to identify the wild Pokémon's type.
Pokédex: "Pidgy, the pidgin Pokémon, Pidgy are common sights in forests and woods. It flaps its wings at ground level to kick up blinding sand. Pidgy is a normal and flying type Pokémon"
"Charmander doesn't have any super effective moves to hit it with" Nathan exclaimed as the Pidgy circled Charmander in the air. Suddenly the Pidgy stopped circling and flew straight down and collided with Charmander knocking him into the air, the Pidgy still on the attack followed Charmander through the air and hit him into the ground with its wings. Charmander raised himself off the ground as the Pidgy circled round for another attack, the Pidgy flew down aiming to hit Charmander with its wings again.
"Charmander now use metal claw" Nathan ordered, Charmander nodded and then hardened his claws and struck the Pidgy just before its own attack could hit, Charmander's attack knocked Pidgy onto the ground hurting the Pidgy greatly. "Quickly Charmander, pin Pidgy to the ground so it can't escape!" Nathan shouted, Charmander ran towards where Pidgy had landed and pinned it to the ground "use metal claw again and then follow it up with ember" Nathan shouted. Charmander once again stuck Pidgy with after hardening his claws and then began to charge small fireballs in his mouth, once charged Charmander launched the fireballs from his mouth at close range to Pidgy scoring multiple direct hits. After Charmander used ember, the Pidgy fainted and Nathan took out an empty Pokéball and threw it at Pidgy. Pidgy disappeared into the Pokéball and the Pokéball then closed, it fell to the floor and rolled once, the Pokéball then rolled a second time all three trainers stared at the rolling Pokéball in anticipation, finally the Pokéball rolled a third time showing the capture was a success, Nathan walked to the Pokéball containing the newly caught Pidgy and picked it up. Nathan chose not to nickname the Pidgy when given the opportunity by the Pokédex, both Verde and Yuudai congratulated Nathan on his first capture as they started to walk towards the rooftops of Viridian city that were in the distance as the sky started growing darker.
Finally after hours of walking the three trainers had arrived at Veridian city after nightfall. All three trainers were blinded by the glowing light of the city's towering skyscrapers and street lights as they'd only ever been used to the small amount of light that came from the homes of pallet town. Once their eyes adjusted to the light from the city they focused on a red and white building that stood out from the grey buildings that made up the city, this building was the Pokémon centre.
"Hey guys that's the Pokémon centre, I remember professor oak telling me about it before you two started battling." Verde said looking towards the others. "What did he say about it Verde?" Nathan asked, Verde responded by explaining that the Pokémon centre was a place where trainers could get their Pokémon healed and that it was free. "I'm going to get Squirtle healed up, then we should try and get through the Veridian forest" Yuudai said as the three trainers walked towards the Pokémon centre. When they arrived the automatic doors opened to reveal a woman stood their smiling at them, this woman had pink hair and blue eyes and was wearing a white nurse's outfit that had bits of pink at the end of each arm. She also was wearing a white nurse's hat with a pink cross on the front of it, the three trainers walked into the Pokémon centre and were greeted by the nurse. "Hi, I'm nurse Joy it's nice to meet you, I run the Pokémon centre here in Veridian city" said nurse joy to Verde, Nathan and Yuudai. The three trainers all replied in unison "nice to meet you too, could you heal my Pokémon?" "Of course I can I just need you to pass me the Pokéballs" nurse Joy responded, the three trainers gave their Pokéballs to the nurse, so she could heal the Pokémon inside them, " excuse me is there anywhere we can stay the night?" Verde asked nurse Joy. "Yes we have some rooms you can stay in while we heal your Pokémon" replied nurse Joy, the three trainers thanked the nurse and went up to the rooms to rest until the morning.
Nathan woke up to the sound of Pidgy's and Spearow's as daylight started to shine into his room and the Pokémon centre, all was calm and peaceful until he heard a knock at his door. Nathan still in his pyjamas walked to the door and opened it to find Verde and Yuudai already dressed and Yuudai holding his fully healed Squirtle, Yuudai took his Pokémon and started to walk away from his friends while saying "Alright buddy boy and hothead let's get moving. Viridian forest is just down that way. I'm going to catch myself a Pikachu."
"You go ahead, I need to collect my healed Charmander and Pidgy plus I need to get changed" Nathan said, " and I want to talk to professor Oak and get my Pokémon before I leave Verde replied to Yuudai. "We'll meet you there" Nathan and Verde said in unison, Yuudai nodded and then left his friends to head for Veridian forest. Nathan closed the door and started getting changed while Verde walked over to the Centre PC to contact Professor Oak. Oak picked up saying "Why hello there Verde, I didn't expect to hear from you so soon. How are you?" Verde then responded "I'm good thanks, me and the others arrived in Viridian City and stayed the night. But that's not the only reason I called, you see a caught a Rattata that I named Buck and well I hadn't really intended to use this Pokémon for combat and instead caught him to keep him out of harm's way. Could you possibly care for him? At least for now." Oak then smiled and said "Yes, I'd happily care for any of your or your friends Pokémon as it all helps with my research anyway. Just call anytime you may want to add him back to your team." "Thanks Professor." Verde responded then proceeding to transport Buck's Pokéball to the Professor and hung up the call. Verde after leaving the Pokémon centre now proceeded to Viridian Forest while Nathan finally finished changing.
Meanwhile Yuudai had arrived and entered Veridian forest. As he searched around, he saw something yellow in a bush that was rustling. Yuudai called upon Squirtle shouting "come out Squirtle and use bite to drag it out into the open!" Squirtle jumped into the air and landed near the moving bush and then sank its teeth into the Pokémon dragging it out when it was finally revealed the Pokémon turned out to be a Weedle. "Stupid luck! Whatever I'll catch it anyway. Squirtle water gun!" yautia shouted. Squirtle obeyed and fired a torrent of water at the already weakened Weedle, Weedle tried to fire a poison sting to defend itself but Squirtle's water gun attack brushed away and then collided with Weedle. Yuudai threw a Pokéball at the Weedle, as the Ball trembled, Yuudai counted down in his head '3...2...1...' while the Pokéball rolled. Then the ball stopped moving showing that Weedle had been captured, Yuudai picked up the ball as his Pokédex activated. "Would you like to nickname your Pokémon?" Yuudai thought for a minute "No nickname. I doubt it'll be around long." Yuudai said as he began digging through the forest trying to find just one Pikachu. "Nathan, both Charmander and Pidgy are in perfect health" nurse joy said giving both Pokéballs back to Nathan. Nathan thanked the nurse and ran off towards viridian forest to join up with Verde and Yuudai.
Verde now proceeded to Viridian Forest where he immediately noticed a wide variety of Pokémon in the trees, bushes and roaming in the grass. Among these Pokémon he saw was a Caterpie that had crawled into view and so he called upon Buddy shouting "Now I choose you, use Tackle!" and so Buddy leapt out of the Pokéball moving swiftly toward the Caterpie striking it with a heavy blow knocking it into its back. The wild Caterpie got back up and charged towards Buddy using its own tackle attack, "Buddy, use vine whip!" shouted Verde as the Caterpie came within striking distance, Buddy nodded and then extended a pair of vines and continuously smacked the Caterpie until it was sent flying against a tree knocking it out. Verde now seeing the opportunity threw a Pokéball at the Pokémon with the Pokéball rocking 3 times and confirming the capture of the Caterpie, which Verde nicknamed Rorschach with the Pokédex feature. Nathan finally entered the forest and found both Verde and Yuudai holding Pokéballs and asked, "Hey guys, what Pokémon did you catch?"
"Hey Nathan, I caught a Caterpie." Verde responded.
"I got a Weedle. But I want to get a Pikachu before we leave." Yuudai said still digging through bushes.
" Do you what any help looking? Because I'm still looking for a Nidoran before I leave the area" Nathan asked. "Sure. That'd be a big help." Yuudai said still digging through the bushes for a single Pikachu. "Urgh! Why are these things so hard to find?" At that moment Yuudai's hand touched something it almost felt like a needle. "Another stupid Weedle." Yuudai uttered.