I entered the forest west of Azalea Town called Ilex Forest. I met a boy there who was searching for his lost Pokémon, a Farfetch'd. He asked me to go search for it for him because he didn't want to go far into the woods. Fuckin' pussy. Soon I found his bird and in return he gave me a Charcoal. I burned down the tree that was blocking the path and continued on until I reached the exit to the forest. I fought trainers on Route 34, getting stronger along with my Pokémon. I kept heading north until I reached Goldenrod City.

Remember when I said that with every new place I went to, everything was always bigger? Yeah, Goldenrod City was the biggest yet. There was almost too much to do there. There was a casino, (ahem, underage gambling) an underground tunnel with even more trainers, a department store much like Veilstone City, a name rater, a flower shop, a radio tower, and the gym. There was also a bike shop, but it was rather inconspicuous and hidden from the public's eye. I was more focused on winning the badge from Goldenrod City's gym, however. So I made my way to the gym and fought the trainers there until I got to the gym leader, Whitney. I easily defeated her and obtained the Goldenrod City Plain Badge and TM45, Attract. I exited the gym and headed up north to Route 35, constantly training my Pokémon and myself. At the end of the Route 35, I entered a gate and went for a stroll in the National Park and participated in a catching game until the sun went down. I exited the park and continued forth on Route 36.

I came across a weird looking tree blocking the path. I tried burning it down, but oddly, it was only slightly charred when I finished attacking. Then suddenly, the tree fell over. I then realized that it was a Pokémon, but it had fainted from my attack. I caught it anyway and sent it to my PC. After that, I continued on to Route 37 and the next city.

Ecruteak City. A smaller city than Goldenrod, but still big enough to be a city. To the northwest was a burned tower, while to the northeast there was a tower bigger than any other I had ever seen. There were other buildings in the city, the usual Pokémon Center and Pokémart, a ramen stand, the gym, and a dance theater. I went to the gym first, obviously, and beat the gym leader, Morty (M-m-m-Morty!) and obtained the Ecruteak City Fog Badge and TM30, Shadow Ball. After that, I checked out the dance theater and defeated the kimono girls who were waiting to challenge me. I defeated them all and they gave me a Tidal Bell and told me to ring it in Whirl Islands.

After the theater, I decided to look inside the Burned Tower to the northeast, in which I encountered Silver, in which I kicked his ass again. At the base of the tower, three Pokémon were sitting there, but all ran away when they noticed me. One of them stayed back, checking me out, and sniffing me, in which I felt uncomfortable. Soon, it left like the rest of the dogs. They must've been legendary Pokémon, I thought. I also went to check out the Bell Tower, ignoring the stupid assholes who tried to stop me. I just told Fearow to fly to the top, where I saw another legendary Pokémon which I later identified in my PC as Ho-oh. I exited Ecruteak City to the west onto Route 38. I traveled past a farm on Route 39 and entered Olivine City.

I couldn't enter the gym because it was closed, as the gym leader was out at the moment. Silver was there, and said that the gym leader was off at the lighthouse, taking care of a Pokémon. So I made my way up the lighthouse, fighting constantly and when I got to the top, I was shocked to find out that the gym leader was Jasmine, Volkner's girlfriend. She was taking care of a sick Ampharos and then asked me if I could travel to Cianwood CIty to get a bag of Secret Potion to cure "Amphy". I did use up the bag that Cynthia gave to me, so I took the journey to Cianwood, across the ocean on Route 40. I fought trainers on Gyarados' back with Pikachu and soon made it to Cianwood City in a few hours' time.

Cianwood City was rather a rather small coastal city, but whatever. I entered the building to the south of the city and asked to get some Secret Potion. The guy there said it would take some time to make it, and that I should go do something in the meantime. So I went to the gym. The leader, Chuck, had a waterfall crashing down on his head, so I had to turn off the mechanism by making it to a higher level and pressing a button on a machine. I fought Chuck, who in return gave me the Cianwood City Storm Badge and TM01, Focus Punch.

In the time that the battle took, the medicine guy gave me a small bag of Secret Potion and I left for Olivine City, but got sidetracked and saw a bunch of islands called the Whirl Islands, and for a good reason too. There were tons of whirlpools around the islands, but I made it past anyway. After hours of backtracking and frustration, I finally made it to the heart of the islands and found a large room with the biggest waterfall I had ever seen. Remembering what the kimono girls told me, I rang the Tidal Bell and the waterfall rumbled. Then with a mighty roar and a crashing of the waterfall, the legendary Pokémon, Lugia, appeared out of the waterfall and waited to challenge me. I did so, and soon I caught it and sent it back to my PC.

Back in Olivine Lighthouse, I gave the Secret Potion to Jasmine, who fed it to Amphy. Amphy seemed much better, and Jasmine returned to the gym. I followed, and soon fought her and defeated her, in which she gave me the Olivine City Mineral Badge and TM23, Iron Tail. I then returned to Ecruteak City and exited to the east side, completely ignoring Mt. Mortar and continuing on to Route 42 and Mahogany Town. The gym leader wasn't there, again, so I decided to look around for a bit. I entered the gate to Route 43 but I got stopped by some Team Rocket douchebags who wanted my money "in order to pass through the gate. I ended up throwing them out of there and burying their heads in the ground.

I made my way up to the Lake of Rage fighting trainers along the way. Rain was pouring down at the lake and after talking to a few people, I found the cause of the heavy rain to be a red Gyarados in the center of the lake. I surfed to the center of the lake and took down the shiny Gyarados. When I had done so, my Gyarados spit on the fainted Gyarados and surfed back to land. Standing there was a trainer with red spiky hair and a cape. He introduced himself as Lance and told me about Team Rocket's plans and other stupid shit I didn't care about. He told me to follow him back to Mahogany Town where he uncovered the entrance to Team Rocket's hideout in a gift shop.

A few hours later, I came out of the hideout with Lance, covered in blood stains (not mine). Lance flew off on his Dragonite, leaving me to face the gym. I stepped inside the ice-cold gym and faced every trainer and Pryce, who, after defeat gave me the Mahogany Town Glacier Badge and TM07, Hail. I stepped out of the gym and got a call from Elm telling me that the Goldenrod City Radio Tower was taken over by Team Rocket.

I flew over to Goldenrod and immediately noticed the Team Rocket Grunts everywhere. A few were blocking the path to the Radio Tower, so I took the Underground Path to get past the grunts. However, the Underground Path wasn't much better. There were still Grunts there, but they took over the place where the picture guys took pictures of people wearing Team Rocket uniforms for fun. That got me thinking, though. What if I disguised myself as a grunt and infiltrated the Radio Tower? Sort of like an infiltration of an infiltration. I walked over to the Grunts and told the Grunts that I was a new recruit. And wouldn't you know it, those idiots actually bought it! They handed me a uniform and told me to go to the Radio Tower.

I made it up to the Radio Tower, but I was stopped by Silver, who almost gave me away. He told me that he actually despised Team Rocket, but he never told me why. He left, leaving me to take on Team Rocket. I fought my way past every Grunt and met the phony Radio Director. He was actually a Team Rocket Executive, but I never caught his name because I threw him out the window to his death. I didn't bother getting the Basement Key, so I made a shortcut to the roof by breaking through the window in the studio. On the roof, I fought the head Executive, Ariana, and completely ridded the tower and Goldenrod City of Team Rocket.

After that was taken care of, I flew back to Mahogany Town and exited east to Route 44, but not before I got a free Rage Candy Bar. I seeked out every trainer and then entered Ice Path. After a few hours of frustration and busting my ass on ice, I made it to the final city of Johto, Blackthorn City. It was an old city, but had had just a touch of modern to it. I went to go challenge the gym immediately. It was a piece of cake, really, because Gyarados knew Dragon Pulse. I got to the gym leader, Clair and in defeat, she gave me... nothing. She said that I wasn't mentally strong enough to obtain the badge. She told me that I had to first complete some dumb challenge in the Dragon's Den. So a few minutes later, I met up with Clair in a little hut in the den. Some old guy just had me answer some questions about the bonds of Pokémon, and then Clair gave me the Blackthorn City Rising Badge. She didn't give me the Technical Machine because I already taught it to Gyarados, but she gave me Gyaradosite (a Mega Evolution stone) instead. I traveled south along Route 45 and found myself back on Route 29 and soon I was back in Newbark Town. I showed my badges to Elm and my training record. Elm took a look at the record and thanked me dearly for it and told me to go east to Route 26 and to the Pokémon League. I surfed along the lake, watching the sunrise as I took my first step into Kanto.

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Do you know that feeling of satisfaction when you just finish a test in math class, or when you just finish washing all the dishes in the sink? That is the exact feeling I felt when I first stepped onto land. A man stood there and he said, "Do you know what you've just done? You just took your first step into Kanto! Check your map on your Pokégear!" I did, and he was absolutely right. I continued, jumping another upward ledge, because fuck physics. I fought all trainers on Route 26 and 27, which was no challenge at all. My feeling of happiness faded slightly. I traveled north, going through Pokémon battles like it was nothing. And at last, I reached the gate to Victory Road.

Victory Road was basically a big maze in a cave. It took a few hours, but I got to the exit where I was confronted by Silver. His team had gotten stronger, much stronger, but not strong enough. After the battle, I continued north to the Johto/Kanto Pokémon League. I entered the building, healed up and stocked up on items and entered into the first room where I fought the first of the Elite Four, Will who used Psychic Types. He started out with a Xatu and then another Xatu, both taken down by Pikachu. Then he sent out Exeggutor, obliterated by my Flare Blast. Next was Jynx, wiped out by my Flame Ball, and then Slowbro, electrocuted by Pikachu. I moved on to the next room.

Next up was Koga who used Poison Types. First was Ariados, defeated by Fearow. Next was Forretress, burned by my Flame Crosschop. Then there was Muk, split apart by Tyranitar's Earthquake, and then Venomoth, incinerated by my Flame Ball. Last was Crobat, who was shocked out of the air by Pikachu. I moved on to the next room.

Third in line was Bruno who used Fighting Types. He was a piece of cake, really. I used Fearow to take out his Hitmontop, then went his Hitmonlee, his Hitmonchan didn't last a few seconds, and then his Machamp turned out to be a Ma-chump. His Onix, Gyarados doused with Hydro Pump. I entered the next room.

The last of the Elite Four was a woman named Karen, who used Dark Types. First was Umbreon, pummeled by Breloom. Next was Murkrow, shocked by Pikachu. Then Vileplume, burned to a crisp by me, and then Gengar, shaken, not stirred, by Tyranitar. Last was Houndoom, drowned out by Gyarados. I headed into the room with the champion.

Well, I was shocked to find out that the champion was Lance, the spiky haired trainer from Mahogany Town, the one who helped me infiltrate Team Rocket's hideout. I walked up to him and started our battle. First to go was Gyarados, who couldn't stand Pikachu's voltage. Next was a Dragonite, a Dragonite, and another Dragonite, all frozen solid by Gyarados' Ice Fang. Next was Aerodactyl, doused by Gyarados' Surf. Last to go was Charizard, also meeting the same fate as Aerodactyl. Lance admitted defeat, and we walked up to the Johto Hall of Fame. I registered into the Hall of Fame and became the champion of Johto. But my journey wasn't over.

After registering my name, I walked back to the entrance of the Pokémon League building and walked back to the exit of Victory Road. I walked past the guards and walked left out to Route 22 and walked to Viridian City. The gym leader wasn't there, so I walked south onto Route 1. There were some trainers there, but I easily defeated them. I kept going south until I reached Pallet Town. Prof. Oak's lab was there, along with a few other houses. I entered the lab and told Oak of my great achievement. He seemed pleased to hear it and told me to try to collect the badges in Kanto as well and come back to him. I set out for Pewter City first. I traveled up north to Viridian Forest and winded through the natural maze. While doing so, I pondered my now month and a half journey in Johto.

It was long.

It was rather easy.

I had experienced new things along the way as well. I snapped back to reality once I got close to the exit. I exited the forest and continued onto Pewter City.