Dates,Badges, and old friends /

Me, and Roary ate some food, and decided that it was time to go to bed so we said goodnight to nurse Joy, and headed to our room in the Pokemon center.I plopped my stuff down on the bed when one of my poke balls fell out I quickly picked up, and noticed it was the Squirtels poke ball I then looked at the other side of the room their was another bed instead of a desk also since we were on the second floor their was a balcony.

I tilted my head side to side and finally spoke "I wonder why their is a-"

"Austin its you." said a familiar voice I knew it was Nages

"Hey Nage so were staying in the same room?" I asked slightly confused

"Yeah some of the Poke centers do this so they have more room." Nage said as he put his stuff down on the bed with his Bulbasaur who had already fallen asleep on the floor.

"That makes sense anyways what are you doing here in Pewter city?" I asked

"Well I wanted to beat the rouge, but when I went to the forest it wasnt there I think I scared it off." Nage said as he flexed his muscles (Which weren't really mussels).

"Actually I caught it." I said

"I knew it you are so cool can I see it." Nage said as he jumped up, and down

"I dont know it got really mad when I caught." I whispered

"Well I will do it instead." Nage said as he picked up Squirtels poke ball

He then proceeded to release the Squirtel it looked around its new surroundings, and when it caught sight of me it launched a powerful water gun this time it wasn't so powerful.

"See what I mean Nage." I said as I dried myself with a towel

"I got an idea you should get the pewter city gym badge." Nage said as Squirtel, and Bulbasaur seemed to get along well.

"How will a piece of metal help me?" I asked

"Well if you get a badge it makes your Pokemon respect you alot more." Nage said

I sighed"I guess I could give it a shot."

"Now that's the spirit anyways have you thought of a nickname for Squirtel?" Nage said as we high fived

"Well I have been thinking about it, and I think im going to call him Shellshocker." I said cleverly, but only to be me with a tackle attack from Shellshocker.

"That's a cool name." Nage said

"Well it getting late Nage we better go to bed." I said as I curled up under the covers

Me, and Nage talked for about fifteen minutes until he fell asleep, Roary for some reason stayed near the door,but after a while I fell asleep.

Roary POV

Finally Austin fell asleep, and I rushed over to a small Pokemon dressing room I had a date tonight, and I was excited I quickly grabbed a nice Pokemon tuxedo, then I headed back to the room I jumped, and flicked the light on, and began dressing myself it took me a few minutes to put on the tuxedo, but I got it on, and looked at myself in the mirror.

"Looking good Roary." I said as I straightened my bow tie

Earlier today I had seen her at the Pokemon center here in Pewter city, and we decided we were going to have our date on the balcony of this room.I quickly hurried to the balcony to prepare some food we were going to have pokeblocks,apricorn juice, and some poffins after about ten minutes of waiting I heard a knock at the door I quickly hurried to open the door up.

"Hello Nina come inside." I said as Nina walked inside she had a Pokemon dress fit for a Torchic

"Hello Roary,nice tuxedo." Nina complimented as I showed her to the balcony

"So are we ready to eat." I said as I opened up some apricorn juice she just giggled

The dinner went great we looked at the stars, and the moon, although their were some close calls with Austin like when he woke up to go to the bathroom or when he noticed I wasn't around but he was so tierd he fell right back to sleep, Great friend I thought.

"Roary doesn't the moon look so pretty tonight?" Nina said as she fixed her eyes on the moon

"Yeah its pretty." I said,admiring the moon

It was probably the most beautiful moon ever it was blue and full and the stars just added to the beutiness of it I was glad I had chosen this night for a date it was worth every second of it.

"Well Roary that was a nice date." Nina said

Fifteen minutes later

"Yeah I enjoyed it, when will I be able to see you again?" I asked

"Well my trainer, and I will be going to vermillion tomorrow we will be staying at relatives for about a month or two until we go to Hoenn." she said

"Great when I get their I will try and find you for another date." I said trying to cheer myself up

"I had a great time Roary,well see you later." Nina said as she kissed me, and left.

"I just got my first kiss" I said happily.

Austin POV

This morning me, and Nage woke up early so their wouldn't be to many challengers at the gym I was a little worried because Roary was weak to rock types so I would have to use Shellshocker hopefully he would listen to me .Whenwe finally got to the gym I looked at it with my mouth hung open(Not that it looked good it was plain) it was a huge white building.

"I thought Gym leaders had cool places to battle." I said with a frown

"Me to well any-" Nage didn't get finish his sentence

"Austie is that you." A voice said for some reason it sounded familiar.I turned around to see a girl with Burnett hair, with caramel colerd eyes wearing jeans, and black converse, next to her was a Glaceon

"Do I know you?" I asked puzzled Roary himself started to yap.

"Don't you remember Goldenrod city." She said happily

"Wait a minute is that really you Elena." I said curiously

"Yes its me im glad you remember me Austie." She said as she hugged me

"Hold on a sec im confused I thought you lived in pallet town." Nage said confused

"I do but I lived in Goldenrod until I was five that was the year my sister disappeared." I said sadly

"That's right, Austie was my best friend before he moved." she said like she was still five

"Elena stop calling me Austie its Austin." I said quite annoyed

"Whatever you say Austie." She said

"I see Eevee evolved." I said, petting its icy fur

"Yeah and who is this little cutie." Elena said as she stroked Roarys fur

"Well I just started my adventure here recently why are you here?" I asked hoping to get an answer

"I thought it would be nice to travel in Kanto, see I already have my first badge." She said as she showed me the badge (That was the only one in the case)

"Austin we got to get in the gym quickly or you will never be able to battle the gym leader." Nage said

"Your going to battle the gym leader can I watch?" Elena asked with her puppy dog eyes

"Sure come on lets go." I said as we rushed into the gym.

We got in just in time I signed my name, and got a number we waited in the stands patiently I didn't want to be a trainer, but I didn't have a choice, but if their was a chance that this would make Shellshocker obey it was worth a shot while waiting in the stands we got to see the battles most of the trainers won but their was the occasional loss.

"Trainer 43#Austin." a referee called

"Well that's me wish me luck." I said as I came down the stands, I left Roary their so he could watch

The arena was just a plain circle with a picture of a poke ball in the center, and the gym leaders name was Brock, and he didnt look scary just a little perverted.

"This will be a one on one match pick your Pokemon." the referee called

"Go Onix." Brock yelled as a rock snake Pokemon emerged

"Shellshocker go." I yelled as Shellshocker appeared

"Begin!" the referre yelled

"Onix use bind." Brock said as Onix picked Shellshocker up and binded it

"Shellshocker use water gun." I yelled but as usual it did nothing the bind though didn't seem to hurt him that much

"Looks like you got a lot to learn now Onix use rock tomb." Brock yelled the Onix put Shellshocker down and attacked, but this time the attack seemed to hurt.

"Now finish it off with one last rock tomb." Brock yelled Onix compiled, and even though I kept yelling use water gun Shellshocker wouldn't listen, but all of a sudden Shellshocker got really mad at Onix, and unleashed a huge water gun knocking Onix out.

"Onix is unable to battle Austin wins." the referee yelled, and the crowd roared especially Elena, and Roary who were cheering me on. I withdrew Shellshocker as Brock came up to me

"Great battle here you have earned this hopefully it will make you Squirtel obey." Brock said as he handed me the badge and some money.

Back outside Austin, and Elena congratulated me on the victory and Roary seemed to like me alot more. We then went back to the pokemon center to eat.

"I cant belive it little wimpy Austie beat Brock." Elena said as we sat down at a table for three

"I know I never thought that Austin would be able to beat a gym leader." Nage joked

"Hey dont act suprised im strong." I said

"Sure,hey I got an idea lets introduce our Pokemon." Elena said as she held up two poke balls.

"I only have one pokemon, and that's my Bulbasaur." Nage said as he pointed to his Bulbasaur who was eating a bunch of Pokemon food.

"I have two Roary, and Shellshocker who you have already met." I said proudly

"Hey maybe you should let Shellshocker eat some food like Roary." Elena said as she pointed to a hungry Roary gobbling down his food.

"I dont know what if he attacks me." I said with a scared voice.

"Trust me the badge works." she said

"Fine,Shellshocker come on out." I said as I released him

To my surprise he started giving me respect he didn't attack me except for maybe the occasional bubble, but other than that this badge really worked.

"Told you." Elena said like she had just answered a million dollar question

"Oh yeah if you so smart why don't you bring your Pokemon out." Nage said

"Fine I will, go." she said as she released two Pokemon

"See Glaceon isn't my only Pokemon." she said as her Glaceon sighed

"What are they?" Nage asked curiously

"That one over their is a Snorunt, and the other one is an Eevee." She said admiringly

"So last I heard you started your adventure when you were twelve, but how come you only have one badge." I said

"Well I know its been two years since then, but what happened was that I decided to come home to train the obstacles in Sinnoh were to fierce, what about you Austie?." she shuddered

"Well um I dont you know its complicated." I said trying to hide the real reason

"Yeah I was going to ask the same thing." Nage said

"Well..."

I explained everything to them about mom about Roary, and even that I wasn't even interested in battling.

"I'm sorry to hear that can we help?" Elena asked worryingly

"Yeah should we call the cops?" Nage asked as he comforted me

"No I'm afraid that might make it worse for her." I said with tears in my eyes even Roary, and Shellshocker were crying at the sad tale.

"I know what we can do we will go with Austie to save his mom." Elena cheered

"Yeah it would be really cool, and plus you need some backup." Nage said

"Thanks guys but I dont want to have to babysit you." I said

"What!" Elena yelled furiously

"Okay,okay you guys can come." I said in defeat

"Great we leave for tomorrow." Nage said as he jumped in the air.

I know will be difficult to climb, but now that I have back up im confident we will win.