Mmkay Chapter five. I wonder what took me so long to start this, probably because I only got three votes for Jake's starter so I guess I'm gonna have to pick one of the three. Anyways, let's start Jake's journey.
"Okay, so this is Sandgem Town," I said, looking around almost not believing that I was here. But of course, I was, so I walked into the city and immediately ran into someone.
The 'someone' in question was a girl who had blue hair, wore a white knit-cap, and a black top that ended in a short pink skirt. She had a red scarf wrapped around her neck and black knee-high socks that were barely visible under her pink boots. Immediately I recognized her.
"Dawn," I breathed, then, realizing that I had bumped into her rather rudely, I apologized.
"It's okay," she said eyeing me wierdly, "How do you know my name?"
Aww damn, I thought. "Uhh, you work for Professor Rowan right?" I asked quickly, mentally patting myself on the back for remembering that.
"Yeah," she answered as her her now-noticeably tense shoulders relaxed, "Can I help you with something?"
I contemplated that for a minute. I had a mission that I whole-heartedly accepthed and I knew that, but on the other hand, if this went the way I wanted it to, I could get a pokemon of my own. I figured that I couldn't save this world by myself so I asked Dawn where the Professor was.
"He's out in the field doing research," Dawn said "Why do you ask?"
"I want to become a Pokemon Trainer," I said with confidence, thinking that this would be it, this was really the start of my journey.
"Oh!" Dawn said, "Come with me then."
She walked toward what could only be the Professor's lab and I followed. We entered the building and the first thing I noticed were the two adults, a woman and man, huddled around a computer at the opposite side of the room that looked remarkably like Dawn. They had to be her parents.
"Mom," Dawn called.
The woman turned and smiled when she saw Dawn. "Hi honey, what's up?" she asked.
"Well this boy here-" Dawn started but was cut off by her mom.
"Does he have a name?" Dawn's mom asked pointedly.
"Jake," I called, silently scolding myself for being stupid enough to forget to tell Dawn my name.
"Thanks, I'm sorry, I should have asked," Dawn apologized, "Jake here, wants to become a trainer."
"That is good news," a gruff voice answered from behind me. I turned to see an old man with a long snow-white mustache and snow-white hair. He wore a brown trench coat over a blue vest and white long sleeve shirt. He was carrying a briefcase that hung next to his black pants.
"Professor Rowan," Dawn greeted him smiling.
"Well if he is serious about becoming a trainer, we should waste no time," Rowan said walking toward a desk not far to my right. He placed the briefcase on the desk next to a computer.
"What you need," he announced, "Is a starter Pokemon and a trainer license, am I right?"
License? What was he talking about? He couldn't mean the Trainer Card in the game could he?
"Um, yeah," I said, finally reaching the pinnacle of my intelligent replies.
"Well, Jake," the professor started then he eyed me, "It is Jake, isn't it?"
"Yes," I answered, after which he turned to the computer, typed in a few commands and clicked around for about three minutes. After that time a card slid out of an opening in the front of the hard drive. Professor Rowan grabbed it and walked over to me, holding it out.
"This is your trainer's license, don't lose it, because you can't go into the gyms or contests without them. Do you understand?" he asked.
"Yes," I answered realizing that if this were a test of my intelligence it probably wasn't going very well.
"Good," Professor Rowan grunted as he walked to briefcase and opened it, "Now for you to choose-"
But the Professor was cut off as two wild Bibarel came crashing through the door. They immediately went into a frenzy and began destroying the lab, knocking over tables with hundreds of papers on them, breaking expensive looking equipment. Dawn immediately threw a pokeball, releasing a Piplup.
What ensued was a long battle between the two Bibarel and two Bibarel rotated attacks, one using Hyper Fang and the other using Headbutt. I could see that Piplup was losing and that it would not hold up for very long so I ran to the briefcase, picked up a pokeball and threw it.
Out came a Turtwig, the very pokemon I always start my adventure with in Platinum. Luck was definitely on my side today.
"Turtwig!" I called. It turned and looked at me, waiting for a command. "Help Piplup, use Tackle!"
It turned quickly and rushed toward the two Bibarel, aiming for the one that was using Headbutt, and hit the Bibarel square in the chest. It flew backward, into the wall.
I cheered as Turtwig turned on the other Bibarel and immediately attacked, while Dawn used a Potion on Piplup.
When the second Bibarel hit the ground, Turtwig backed up.
"Great job Turtwig," I praised with a smile on my face.
The smile dissappeared as I looked back at the two Bibarel, now getting up, with a look of fury in their eyes.
"Oh damn, Turtwig?" I called.
It looked at me with a fierce determination, and I didn't need to speak its language to know it wanted to continue battling. I nodded.
"Okay Turtwig, let's see what you can do."
Dawn looked at the two Bibarel in horror as they got up. She saw Jake and Turtwig preparing to battle again and turned to Piplup.
"You ready?" she asked. Piplup nodded. "Okay let's go."
She started towards Jake, but Professor Rowan stopped her. "Dawn, if you don't mind, I would like to see how he can handle this situation."
"But Turtwig could get hurt," she said.
"If that happens, then you may join the battle, but I want to see some of his potential," the Professor said scruffly.
She looked at Jake, who was now shouting commands to Turtwig. Even though he had never been in a battle before, he looked absolutely in his element. She thought about what the Professor said and said "Piplup, wait. Let them have this one."
The battle was getting a little harder, I could see that Turtwig was tiring and the Bibarel showed no signs of relenting. So far I had counted on nothing but the strength and speed of Turtwig's attacks, but if I wanted to win I needed to get smarter. I needed to play to some of the Bibarel's weaknesses.
Think, what are Bibarel weak against? I thought to myself. Well Bibarel were Normal and Water typed, but that doesn't help because Turtwig doesn't yet know Absorb, so type-weakness isn't something I can play on.
Okay so instead of type-trumping, I can play on the first Bibarels limp and the others bum arm. I noticed both a few minutes after this battle started.
"Turtwig!" I called, "Aim for the legs and arms!"
Turtwig listened and immediately tackled the Bibarel with the limp. The Bibarel tried to jump away but was not fast enough and it hit the ground and laid there.
"Sweet, critical hit!" I said under my breath. That Bibarel wasn't going to get up in a hurry after that.
So Turtwig wouldn't have to worry about two opponents, where it had a clear disadvantage, but just one where the playing field is a little more level. Besides the obvious difference in level. But I prefer to look on the bright side in situations like this.
"Turtwig aim for its hurt arm!" I commanded, and Turtwig did, but the Bibarel was wise now and not a bit slower than the first one, who was considerably faster than Turtwig, and quite angry.
Turtwig aimed a tackle, but the Bibarel jumped out of the way, causing Turtwig to hit the wall head-on. Ouch. The Bibarel quickly aimed a Hyper Fang at Turtwig's head. I wasn't sure what level Turtwig would be considered but I didn't care. "Withdraw!"
Apparently, the Turtwig was at least level five. I was so happy becuz if it wasn't, that definitely would have been the battle, but Turtwig pulled itself in just in time, and the Bibarel got a Fangful of shell. Then I saw an opportunity I could not pass up, the Bibarel was wide open!
"Tackle!" I yelled quickly, and Turtwig did not miss it.
It was almost poetic the way Turtwig jumped out of its shell just as the Bibarel let go, and tackled it. The Bibarel, caught square in the center of its chest, seemed to lose its breath and stumbled backwards, opening itself for another attack.
"AGAIN!" I commanded smiling from cheek to cheek.
There was a strange feeling of happiness as I saw the Bibarel defeated. I won my first battle! Something in my chest just inflated. I mean those were some mean looking, powerful, pokemon. They were at least level 18 and I had a level 5 or 6 Turtwig. How in Arceus' name did I do that?
"Bravo!" A voice said from behind me. I turned to see Professor Rowan clapping and Dawn beaming at me. I'd forgotten they were there. "Please forgive me, but I asked Dawn not to join you, that battle was spectacular!"
I smiled, feeling pleased with myself. Turtwig walked up beside me with a big smile on its face. "You were great buddy," I commended it.
Then I blacked out.
...:) Well what did you think.? I'm sorry it took so long but i was grounded for quite a while and i had no access to the computer at all. Tell me what you thought of the battle scene especially if youre feeling nice and want to leave a review. See ya next chapter! :)