"Town that smells vividly of flowers"
Floaroma town sign, (not changed since June 14th, 2204)
Chapter three
Enter Bob
After another delicious breakfast Josh and I decided on walking a little faster to get to Floaroma Town (And civilisation) faster but before we could leave I had another 15-minute talk with my (still) hysterical mom.
We kept our pokèmon in their balls this time because both of us didn't want a repeat of yesterday.
"Shrimp look !" Josh exclaimed while pointing.
"Where ?" came my bored reply.
"There ! next to that bush !"
"What bush ?"
"That one !"
"Ugh." after looking closer I saw it, there next to one of the many bushes sat a starly, a shiny Starly.
"First one gets it !" Josh yelled while rummaging trough his backpack and grabbing a pokèball.
I cursed between clenched teeth and searched for one of my own pokèballs, quickly grabbing one I saw Josh throwing his, missing majorly, and threw mine.
With a cloud of feathers I saw my ball hit the wing and then it disappeared in the bush, the Starly flying away with an angry squeak.
A click could be heard from inside the bushes and Josh and I shared a look.
"Did you catch it ?''
"No, did you ?" an unnecessary question.
"No, what did you catch then ?"
"Let's find out .. "
I walked to the bushes and grabbed around until my fingers felt the familiar cool texture of the pokèball.
I grabbed it and looked at expectantly.
Josh looked at me "Come on Jacob, Get it out of that ball I want to see it! "
I sighed and threw the red-and-white sphere up in the air "Get out, whatever you are .. "
In a flash of red light ... brown body .. pink nose .. big teeth.
A bidoof.
I Jacob Danes caught the only pokèmon I thought was more useless than a Magikarp (Once it's a Gyarados it's dangerous then so kinda awesome as well, before that? No.) a freaking Bidoof.
Josh started laughing again until he became slightly purple-ish and started breathing heavy.
Then after regaining his breath he said solemnly "Bidoof you are now named Bob !" before starting to laugh again.
I found it less enjoyable and growled "What are you doing ? you just named my Bidoof Bob ? even I wouldn't name a Bidoof Bob ?"
"I think it fits, Nate the Nidoran and Bob the Bidoof" he grinned while nodding to himself.
"but .. but"
"No buts"
"But .. It's my Bidoof I wanted to name him even though I don't wanted him in the first place .."
Josh sighed "is it that hard to understand Jacob ? You would have released poor Bob immediately after seeing him so I named him Bob so you would keep him because your best friend ever named him oh so graciously Bob, do you get my logic ? "
I frowned and thought for a while before shaking my head "I don't"
He laughed "Neither do I"
I face palmed.
Bob sneezed.
We decided to let both our pokèmon out their pokèballs to introduce them to Bob.
Nate grunted something before walking over to a tree and looking bored, Lola happily skipped around poor Bob while occasionally spraying him with her weak waterbeam.
Bob let it all happen, but after 15 minutes of being sprayed by Lola he walked away to eat some bark from a random tree.
That means no wasting money on food for the unwanted Bob, The whole population of Bidoof just went from being dead last on my list to last but one (magikarp being the last one now)
After eating lunch when it became around noon, canned bread again, we walked further only to see the entrance of a cave.
We grinned, happy to have gotten flashlights and went in.
After walking around for a while we scared some Zubats sleeping on the ceiling and nearly getting killed by a grumpy Geodude only to have it roll away thanks to Lola using her waterbeam.
Then we had to climb up some old and worn steps carved in the stone, after doing that we saw water in front of us and rocks to our right.
After inspecting the rocks we saw a sign that read 'Floaroma town this way'.
"that's nice and all but how do we get past these rocks ?"
"We climb of course !" Josh said airily.
For the second time today I face palmed.
We returned our pokèmon and decided to wear those ugly gloves my dad gave us (they were usefull for more than one purpose)
And started climbing.
It went rather slow but we weren't the most active guys from Jubilife so we tried not to complain.
"This is annoying" I started.
"I hate caves" Josh added.
"Argh- A Zubat just bit me !"
"I believe I hear a- AAAAHH !" Josh fell from the rock, thankfully, to the other side.
I decided to let myself get down a little more graceful and just let myself slide down the side.
"that wasn't that hard" I mumbled while rubbing the spot of my neck where a Zubat bit me.
After walking for a few more minutes we were out of the damned cave and Josh promptly fell to the earth and kissed it "grass,oh grass how I love thee !"
A few people that were sitting in the grass nearby (The first other people we met on the road) raised their eyebrows "just got trough the cave didn't ya ?" a cowboy-hat wearing guy asked.
"yeah, It was hell, we didn't have any pokèmon to get us over those big rocks there so we had to climb"
"You don't have a pokèmon with the move rock-smash then?" another asked his green eyes widening.
Josh scratched his head "Nah, didn't know there were these big boulders in the way"
A girl stood up and dusted her skirt off "I think you are both idiots for trying that"
"Now now Serlena don't be mean they're rookies like us, we're allowed to make mistakes" green-eyed guy said while giving the girl-Serlena a pat on the shoulder.
"Mistakes can kill you Abraham, like when going in those mines when that.. Onix it killed Marcel it killed him Abraham, just like that" Serlena yelled with her fists in the air before walking away with eyes that started looking blurry.
"We apologize for Serlena, her boyfriend Marcel was killed two weeks ago when they got in a battle with a wild Onix that eventually slammed Marcels pokèmon and himself with his tail into a wall, it was horrible" Abraham explained.
"After that the lass has been real' angry 'bout people doing things that could kill ya so .." cowboy-hat guy said.
"Anyway" Abraham continued "You know my name already, that was Serlena and the guy here is Eduardo-" "Ed." "-and we've been travelling for three weeks now and have been on the road for a few days now after burying Marcel and going back to Roark to battle him"
We both said our hello's before Josh introduced us "I'm Josh and this Shrimp here is Jacob, we've been travelling for about two days now and are going to Floaroma Town from Jubilife City"
Ed nodded "Rookies as well arn't ya ?"
I smiled "Yeah, We're pretty clueless about all this except for what we've read but you have been travelling for three weeks already ? that's not a rookie to me .. "
Ed sighed and slightly shook his head "We've been away from home for three weeks but we have travelled for only 12 days now, because of Marcel .. "
"We're sorry man but that's the risk we all have" Josh murmured.
I sighed.
After some more talking Ed offered to show us their pokèmon and we would show them ours.
"This" Abraham said proudly "Is my starter, Venice, she's a Staravia and next to her Roland my Psyduck" Venice looked proud while Roland just fell to the side, asleep.
Ed snorted "Ye call that pokèmon, meet V,my Roselia and Arr my Sandshrew"
V the Roselia ignored us and proceeded to shove her flowers to Arr who ignored V and sniffed the ground instead.
"A Sandshrew wow, those are not native to Sinnoh are they ? "
"Y're right, Arr comes from Kanto costs quite a few but he's a good fella"
"Ah, well err,, this is Nathaniel,Nate for short, my starter and the Bidoof over there is Bob"
Abraham looked at Bob and actually lifted him in the air and turned him around before stating "This is a female Bidoof"
My jaw opened before I turned to Josh "You idiot, he's a she and you called hi-her Bob?"
Josh shrugged "Maybe you can turn the name around ?"
"Bob Josh, Bob backwards is still Bob !"
Josh just shrugged again.
"Anyway this is my starter, Lola, she's a Lotad and the cutest pokèmon ever!" Lola seemed to agree as she was being cuddled by Josh and didn't complain.
After showing our pokèmon we saw Serlena walking back to us, she walked straight at Abraham.
She and Abraham talked for a while before he announced "If you want to walk the last bit to Floaroma with us it's fine"
I immediately accepted and returned Bob, she isn't a fast walker (No way I would carry her, she weighs at least 44lbs, 20kg)
Josh continued to hold Lola and Nate just walked along while Arr walked next to him, both of their faces stoic and bored but neither made any move to get away from each other.
Ed walked up to me "Those two look like they get along don't ya think ?"
"Well Nate didn't immediately walk away so I'd say they do"
"Why did ye call yer err, Bidoof Bob ?"
"I didn't Josh did, I didn't even want to catch it but my pokèball hit Bob instead of the shiny Starly we both tried to catch"
"That sucks"
It took us another hour or so to reach the gate of Floaroma Town, the town that smells vividly of flowers (it really does).
We said our goodbyes to Ed and his group as we headed straight to the pokèmoncenter and they wanted to meet some old friends.
"Welcome to the Floaroma Town pokèmoncenter, how can I help you on this beautiful day ?"
Josh was the first to answer "I want to have our pokèmon checked out and my friend here has to make a change to his trainer ID"
"Well sweetie, what is it that you need to change ?"
I released Bob on the counter "Bob, my Bidoof here, needs to be put on my list" and I gave her my ID.
The center went silent as all eyes went to me and Bob before some guy asked loudly "You caught a Bidoof ? those are really weak you know"
Others agreed but one little blond haired girl looked angry "Bidoof are the best !"
Nurse Joy leaned to me over the counter and whispered "You do know that this is a female Bidoof do you ?"
"I do"
She seemed surprised with my answer and nodded while scribbling something on the computer before giving me back my ID now with 'Female Bidoof 'Bob" printed on it.
"There you go, now give me those pokèmon so I can check them for injury or illness"
Josh handed over Lola and I gave her Nate, after she brought the pokèmon to some room in the back of the center we set out to explore and rent a room for the night.
After finding the toilet I actually yelled "YES!" while Josh just hugged the toilet which earned both of us a weir look from others.
The room we rented was your standard free pokècenter room that almost every center has and gives to trainers for use, nothing fance but it has a toilet so we were ecstatic.
Then we went back to the main floor and sat on one of the chairs there just watching people when the little blond girl walked up to me and looked me right in the eyes.
"Hello, my name is Laura Marie and I heard you when you talked with nurse Joy about your Bidoof" she chirped.
"Err, that's right .. I guess"
"Well I have like 26 Bidoof myself and I want to battle you ! "
"you have 26 Bidoof ?"
"Yes !" she said with an annoyingly high voice while beaming up to me.
"Well erm .. "
"he would love to!" Josh decided for me.
"I didn't say that"
"Yes you did" he said simply as if stating a fact.
"Well okay, Laura Marie I'll battle you"
"YAY!" she chirped again while hopping off to get her pokèmon ready (or something like that) and I went to get Nate and Bob back from Nurse Joy.
Five minutes later I stood in front of Laura Marie in one of the flowery meadows Floaroma Town has.
"This will be a two pokèmon battle and the first one without any pokèmon left will lose, man I always wanted to say that"
"Sure err, Laura, I can call you just Laura right ?, are you ready ?"
"Of course you silly"
"O..kay then, Bob you start this battle .. "
Bob appeared from her pokèball looking as happy and energetic as a Bidoof possibly can.
"Go Eliminator !" Laura Marie yelled while trowing a pokèball in the air.
Out of it came a Bidoof (what else?) with a big cape attached to it.
Josh immediately doubled over and laughed hysterically "Oh my god that's a" laugh "Bidoof with a " more laughing "Cape !"
Laura Marie huffed and put her hands on her hips "So what, Eliminator eliminate that Bidoof"
Eliminator took one look at Bob before charging towards her with a loud battle cry.
"Bob I don't know what you can do but just run away from that other Bidoof!"
Bob let out a startled cry as she started running away (Hey she listened!) and started running in circles around a tree before stopping, closing her eyes and charging right at the still coming after her Eliminator.
With a loud crash both Bidoof clashed into each other before falling to the ground.
"Both Bidoof can't get up, use your next pokèmon" Josh yelled.
I returned Bob and let Nate out "Nate please don't charge at others again and listen" I said to him.
"Go Starr !" Laura yelled releasing another Bidoof, this one sporting a pink ribbon on its neck.
"Nate us Leer on it!"
Nate looked at me for a second with an unreadable expression before listening and looked straight at Starrs eyes.
A chilly aura seemed to surround my Nidoran as he glared at Starr who in turn shuddered and softly whimpered.
"Starr use Rollout !"
My eyes widened this would not go well.
Starr started running before curling up and rolling straight at Nate.
"Nate erm.. erm.. Jump over it !"
Nate looked at me like I was some idiot before ignoring my order and started running away.
"Hey Nate stop ignoring me !"
Starrs rolling body turned around and followed Nate before crashing in my Nidoran (Nate apparently isn't faster than a rolling Bidoof) which caused him to be knocked out.
Josh sighed "Laura Marie wins the battle"
I returned Nate as well before walking over to Laura "Good job, eh .. don't you need to give the winner money or something ?"
Laura Marie beamed at me while returning her Starr "I know, my team is the best and no you don't have to give me money 'cause I'm the best and will win more from others than you could possibly give me"
My eye twitched before I hastily said "Goodbye" and dragged Josh with me to the pokècenter to heal my pokèmon.
And that's how I lost my first pokèmon battle to a little brat with 26 Bidoof.
Disclaimer: Nope, I still don't own pokèmon *goes of to cry*
As I said last chapter I already had this one outlined for a few weeks so it was easy to write which is why I uploaded it so fast.
It's probably the longest or second longest chapter yet (depends on how long I can go on with this Authors Note)
Let me explain something more:
1; *Looks horrified again* oh noes the hero lost his first battle *cries*, Yes he lost, Yes he lost to some brat that's probably a Mary-Sue except for the fact that she has an army of noob-pokèmon instead of legendaries.
Why did he lose ? 'cause he's new to this, did you win your very first (insert here) after doing it for the minimum amount of time (I actually did win a horseriding competition on my first try ..) and because of Laura having 26 Bidoof so she could challenge him again and again until he loses.
2; Why did that guy Marcel die ? because an Onix using tail whip could actually slam you into a wall so an Onix really batteling would kill you.
3; A shiny Starly ... ? Yep I like shiny pokèmon (He won't ever get one) so I inserted a shiny Starly.
4; Arr and V ? Yes I am very good at creating nicknames, think people; Lola the Lotad ? Nate the Nidoran ? Bob the (female) Bidoof ?
5; Those big rocks, the rocksmash rocks ? Yes but I changed them, imagine some big rocks (taller than a human) you can actually climb over to get to the other side because I want rocksmash to be more than just 'smashing' some small rock I want the huge power blast and pebbles flying everywhere, same will go with cut instead of slicing some little tree you could probably snap yourself it'll be different.
Reviewers of the last chapter:
Omega the Omniscient:
Yes the details of surviving annoy me too in the games and anime, it isn't easy so I wanted to draw some attention to that.
Bob friend or foe ? well Bob is a friend I guess ..
And I have Ryan all planned out for the next chapter or the one after that because he will come back *Insert mad cackling and thunder*
Oh I want your opinion on Ed because my brother and I just love Ed (I don't know from what accent the whole 'ye,ya,fella etc' comes but we both liked it) and the battlescene, first time writing one was it too short/long/not detailed enough etc?
Oh and the most important thing *Gives you another cookie and a container with the myserious something in it* Enjoy your meal ! :)
Chapter was spellchecked and all but I was pretty fast with my writing so mistakes will probably be still in it, point them out please :)
Next chapter will be something with the Valley Windworks and maybe Ryan, Maybe not.
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