Chapter 3

The First Battle

"Pidgey use Sand-Attack!" called Quartz. The Pidgey flapped its wings; spraying sand at Bud. Bud shook his head to clear the sand from his eyes then tried to tackle Pidgey. He missed be a long shot and the Pidgey tackled him as he tried to regain his senses. Kaito saw that Bud was losing so he called,

"Bud! Use growl!" Bud took a deep breath and growled so pathetically the Pidgey fainted laughing.

"Wow! What a technique!" gasped Quartz, amazing! Then he handed Kaito 100pokè. When they were out of earshot, Dex started laughing in a strange digital way.

"Hah, hah, hah, he said, that was the worst growl ever. My laugh sounds awful doesn't it? When are you going to get me voice tones?"

"We haven't even got to Viridian yet and your behaviour doesn't deserve it anyway," Kaito pointed out, "be patient."

"Fine, I'll be patient. But in the meantime, like it or not I'm your Pokèdex and I'm meant to help you, so open me."

"Ok," replied Kaito nervously. He slid Dex open and was confronted by a pale blue screen with three icons on it. Dex highlighted the first one. It was a green 'i' for information.

"This is the Pokèdex itself, where the information about the Pokémon you've caught so far is stored," explained Dex.

"Yeah...Dex...I've been meaning to ask you...Why did you tell me about Quartz's Pidgey when Pokèdexes are only meant to tell trainers about their own Pokémon?" asked Kaito.

"Well let's just have a look and we might be able to figure out what happened," replied Dex. So Kaito pressed the Pokèdex icon. Up came a screen showing a search box, a scroll bar and some Pokémon names. They were Bulbasaur, Rattata and Pidgey. Kaito pressed 'Pidgey' and another screen came up, it showed all the data about Pidgeys. From the footprint to the description, it was all there. "I guess it must be another mistake in my programming," said Dex. "Anyway, on to the next one," he said, going back to the menu and highlighting the second icon; a red Pokèball sign. Kaito selected it and was confronted by a screen showing the miniature icons of a Bulbasaur and a Rattata. They were labelled Bud and Cheese.

"You can record their nicknames?" asked Kaito.

"Of course," replied Dex, "though most Pokèdexes need to have it done manually, they can all show the nicknames you give your Pokémon. Now, this one shows all the stats and stuff about your own Pokémon." Kaito selected Bud and it showed his stats, gender, nature ability and moves. Then he looked at Cheese's profile.

"So you're cheerful," he said to Bud.

"Bulb-a," replied Bud cheerfully, "bulb-a-saur."

"And you're timid," he said to Cheese, who hid behind a tree.

"Rat-tat," she replied nervously"

"Lastly," began Dex.

"Wait!" called Kaito, "let me put away my money first. He opened his Magnetite purse and out fell two addresses. One was labelled 'Haruko' and the other 'Dad'. Dex said,

"Touch the third icon and I'll show you where they are." The third icon was a yellow "x" for x marks the spot. Kaito touched it and a map of the Kanto region came up. On two of the towns there were yellow dots. "There are the locations," said Dex.

"That must be where my dad and sister are then," replied Kaito. "It looks like I'll be seeing Haruko soon then."

"Well, it looks like we both learned something today." said Dex.

"Yes. I learned that you're actually better than the average Pokèdex."

"And you not as stupid as I first thought,"

"Thanks."

"You're stupider. L-O-L you almost lost to a Pidgey."

Dex

Bulbasaur, Rattata, Pidgey