Chapter 6: Kate's First Pokemon
"Wake up, wake up, wake up!" Kate shook Roger to wake him up.
"Huh?" Roger said waking along with Torchie, Mercedes, and Pikachu.
"We have to meet Professor Oak today." She said. Kate said already dressed up and packed up. She also packed up Roger's stuff to make things run quicker. "Come one. Call back your Pokémon and get dressed."
Roger returned all his Pokémon except Pikachu. He wanted to have time to bond with him. Once Roger got out of the bathroom from changing he got his stuff and went to the cafeteria to eat. Kate was already there
"Here, I got your favorites and some food for Pikachu." Kate said handing him pancakes with syrup and electric type Pokémon food.
"Thanks." He said to Kate. "Here you go." Roger handed Pikachu the Pokémon food.
"Pi Pikachu!" Coming from the wild, Pikachu never had food like this before.
"Cool, glad you like it." Roger said pulling out his Pokephone.
"Pikachu, the mouse Pokémon. "This forest-dwelling Pokémon stores electricity in the pouches of is cheeks." The Pokephone said showing Pikachu's current moves.
"Whoa it knows volt tackle!" Roger said.
"Really cool." Kate said. "The only way that move can be learned is if the mother had a light orb, which could be rare. Also, you should teach him thunderbolt with the TM Lt. Surge gave you."
"Good idea Kate." Roger said pulling out the TM. "How about learning the move Thunderbolt?"
"Pika Pika!" Pikachu said trying to show off his muscles.
"Aw, that's adorable." Kate said. "Now let's go." Kate, Roger and Pikachu left the Pokemon center to route one.
"Hey Pikachu, I heard Pokemon like you like to stay out of their pokeball sometimes. So I will let you stay out for a while." Roger said.
"Pika!" Pikachu was happy that he was allowed to stay out of his pokeball for a while. Then they ran into a ten foot ledge.
"Wow that's really deep." Kate said.
"Yeah, that's how we are getting to Pallet Town." Roger said.
"What? Are you crazy?" Kate said.
"No, trainers do it all the time." Roger said. "And if you want to get to Pallet Town today we have to."
"I'm scared." Kate said.
"Come on it's just a little ledge." Roger grabbed Kate's hand. "Pikachu go in your pokeball. I promise I will take you out soon."
"Pika." Pikachu went back in his pokeball a little disappointed.
"Alright let's jump." Roger and Kate jumped off landing safely.
"Wow that wasn't so bad." Kate said squeezing Roger's hand tightly.
"Right." Roger said. "Alright you two come out!" Roger threw two pokeballs in the air and Torchie and Pikachu appeared.
"Torchic." Torchie jumped onto Roger's shoulder.
"Pika pika!" Pikachu was happy to be out. As they were walking Kate found a stream of water.
"Hey Roger, I bet your Lapras can get us there faster if he knows surf." She said.
"Good idea. Come out Lapras!" Roger threw a pokeball and Lapras appeared.
"Pras!" He said.
"Hey Lapras, do you know surf?" Roger asked. Lapras nodded his head. "Cool hop on." Roger grabbed Kate's hand and put her on Lapras, then hopped on with Pikachu and Torchie. "Lapras use surf." Lapras swam to Pallet Town knowing exactly where to stop without Roger telling her. "Lapras how did you know where to stop?"
"Lapras." Lapras told Roger and he knew exactly what she was saying. She reminded him that Lapras and people can sometimes communicate.
"Whoa." Roger said surprised. "That's cool."
Kate and the other Pokémon jumped off. "Come on Roger!"
"Oh right." Roger remembered about Kate's first Pokémon. "Take a good rest." Roger called back Lapras. "Let's go." They walked into the Pokémon Lab and an assistant came.
"Hello, I'm Tracey." A guy with black hair, a green shirt, and a lab coat walked to them with his Marill. "You must be Kate, you're here to see Professor Oak right?"
"Yep, I'm getting my first Pokémon today!" She said.
"Follow me." Tracy said. They walked into a room and found Professor Oak and another kid with red hair black eyes, and a black jacket with brown jeans.
"Hello Kate." Professor Oak said. "This is Ace." He pointed at the kid.
"What took you so long?" He said angrily. "You kept me waiting for a whole week, I could've had my first badge by now!"
"Hey, leave her alone!" Roger yelled back at him. "We are here from Hoenn so you can shut up."
"Why so far?" Ace said. "The Professor there knew she wasn't good enough."
"Not at all." Professor Oak said. "I called her here because I wanted a trainer with a Hoenn background. But since both of you are finally here allow me to show me the options you have." Professor Oak threw three pokeballs and Charmander, Bulbasaur, and Squirtle appeared.
"Cool." Roger scanned the three Pokémon with his Pokephone.
"Charmander, the lizard Pokémon. If Charmander is healthy, the fire on its tail burns intensely. Bulbasaur, the seed Pokémon. Shortly after being born, this Pokémon can obtain nourishment from the seed on its back. Squirtle, the water Pokémon. Striking regularly with spouts of water, Squirtle can be tricky to see, since it hides within its shell a lot." The Pokephone informed.
"Squirtle is pretty cool." Roger said.
"He is pretty elusive." Professor Oak said. "Now since Ace was here first he gets to pick first."
"Of course I'm picking Charmander." Ace grabbed him and his pokeball. "He is the only one worth taking. Now you can take the trashy ones." He said to Kate.
"Great, I didn't want that lame thing anyway." Kate was not bluffing she really was thinking between Bulbasaur and Squirtle the whole entire time. She took about two minutes to finally pick one. "I choose Bulbasaur!" She took Bulbasaur and his pokeball.
"And I choose Squirtle!" Debra said out of nowhere putting Squirtle and his pokeball in a cage.
"Oh, no!" Roger said. "Team Shadow, give back Squirtle right now!"
"No, Spearow stop them." Debra threw a pokeball and Spearow appeared.
"You too Diglett." Jason dropped a pokeball and Diglett appeared.
"Hey, that's not fair!" Tracy said. "You can't use two Pokémon in one battle like that."
"Don't worry." Roger said. "We are from the Hoenn region, double battling is in our blood. Right Kate?"
"Yeah, go Bulbasaur!" Kate called Bulbasaur down from the table he was on.
"You too Pikachu!" Roger called Pikachu over. "Kate they probably captured all the Spearow that tried to drown Pikachu. I think Pikachu wants to get revenge."
"Okay, that's probably a Diglett they captured from the Diglett Cave. I will battle that." Kate said. "Bulbasaur use tackle on Diglett!" Bulbasaur nailed Diglett with a tackle.
"Pikachu use thunderbolt on Spearow!" Roger commanded. Pikachu hit Spearow with a bolt of lightning. "Nice!"
"Diglett use dig on Pikachu!" Jason said. Diglett dug underground but Bulbasaur brought him back up with his vines.
"Wow that was vine whip!" Kate said.
"Great this calls for a combination." Roger said.
"You're right!" Kate said. "Bulbasaur throw Pikachu at them using vine whip." Bulbasaur grabbed Pikachu with his vines and threw him.
"Great, Pikachu use volt tackle!" Roger said. Pikachu slammed the two Pokémon causing them both to give in.
"Genius!" Professor Oak said. "Using Bulbasaur's vine whip to throw Pikachu to build momentum to make his attack stronger and faster, just perfect."
"We're not done yet!" Debra and Jason got up.
"Yes you are!" Roger used take down on Debra and jump kick on Jason.
"Wow, I didn't know you knew Pokémon moves." Kate said jokingly.
"Haha, Torchie has seen them before, right buddy?" Roger said.
"Torchic." Torchie jumped up and down.
"Go Mercedes!" Roger threw a pokeball and Mercedes appeared. "Use flamethrower on that cage to free Squirtle."
"Growl!" Mercedes breathed fire out his mouth and melted the cage.
"Squirtle." Squirtle jumped into Roger's arms.
"Your safe now!" Roger said.
"Let's leave with this thing." Jason picked up a pokeball.
"Yeah the boss should like that." Debra said and they both escaped in their dirt bikes.
"Aw. That was one of my eevee that I hatched. At least I still have the other ones." Professor Oak said. "But thanks for saving Squirtle Roger, I've seen she has found a liking towards you."
"Ha, whatever, those two were either really lucky to beat Team Shadow, or Team Shadow is really weak." Ace said. "If I went against Team Shadow, I would've beat them five time faster by myself and they would've never stole that eevee.
"That's it!" Kate said. "Outside now. You're going to battle me!"
"Ha, a trainer like you isn't worth the battle but whatever." Ace said as they walked outside. "Charmander let's finish this quick."
"Bulbasaur let's do this!" Kate said. "Use growl." Bulbasaur growled at Charmander lowering down his attack stat.
"Ha what did that do?" Ace said unaware of what really happened. "This will be easy. Charmander use scratch." Charmander scratched Bulbasaur but he didn't feel a thing. "What!"
"Wow, you really are clueless." Kate said. "Bulbasaur grab him with your vines and then use tackle." Bulbasaur wrapped his vines around Charmander and threw Charmander at himself using his vines, then followed it up with tackle. Charmander had no choice but to give in. "Piece of cake."
"Wow Kate, you really know your stuff to use an attack like that." Tracy said.
"Thanks, Roger and I studied stuff like this before we became trainers." She said.
"I told you it was worth it." Roger said.
"Yeah, you were right." Kate said.
"You see Kate studied Pokémon attacks and combinations. While I did some researching with my Aunt and Uncle Birch off of the computer."
"You're related to Dean Birch?" Professor Oak asked." Did he give you your first Pokémon?"
"No my Aunt Birch did." Roger said.
"Really? What invention did she make this time?" Professor Oak asked.
"Take a look for yourself." Roger handed him the Pokephone.
"Wow, a pokedex in a phone. I can't believe I didn't think of that." Professor Oak gave back the Pokephone.
"A relative of a Pokémon professor." Ace said. "He is definitely worth my time. Professor please prepare my Charmander."
"Really?" Roger laughed. "Because I would say you're not worth a magikarp's time right now.
"How dare you insult the best Pokémon master around!" Ace yelled. "You will be creamed! Go Charmander!" He sent out his Charmander.
"No one talks to my girlfriend the way you did! Not if I can help it! Come on buddy let's do this!" Roger let Torchie stay on his shoulder.
"Charmander use ember!" Ace demanded. Roger simply turned his neck and Torchie jumped to dodge it.
"Really dude, fix your speed and accuracy and might have actually been able to hit Torchie. But even if you hit him, it probably wouldn't hurt." Roger taunted.
"That's it use scratch on both of them!" Ace said angrily. Charmander lunged at them.
"Torchie it's time to give Charmander a TKO." Roger said calmly.
"Torchic." Torchie nodded knowing exactly what Roger was talking about and used flame burst. The force hit Charmander so hard he slammed into Ace and they both fainted.
"Wow Torchie, double whammy." Roger laughed.
"I got to say Roger, how did your Torchie know that?" Tracy asked.
"You see Torchie knows every single egg move it can learn." Kate said.
"But that's too much for a Pokémon to remember." Professor Oak said.
"That's why Torchie can't evolve." Roger said petting Torchie. "He doesn't know how."
"Ha, what a pathetic Pokémon." Ace got up.
"I should say that about your Charmander but I think we should all remember that the Pokémon picks up after the trainer." Roger said.
"He is right you know." Professor Oak said.
"That's it! I'm going to win the Pokemon League this year, beat the elite four, and the Kanto Champion!" Ace declared. "And a punk like you won't stop me." He charged out the door and left.
"He forgot his Pokeballs, but I guess he will have to buy some." Tracy said.
"Yeah so I guess so you get twice the amount of pokeballs, Kate." Professor handed her the pokeballs. "I also made an invention that I would like you to try."
"What is it?" Kate asked.
"Here you go." Professor Oak handed her a bag with a tent in it with a remote. "Hit the red button and the tent unfolds, hit the green button and the tent folds back in."
"Cool thanks." Kate put it in her bag.
"I would also like to give you a pokedex." Tracy handed her one.
"Thanks." Kate took it.
"You don't have to use it." Professor Oak said. "I already have two trainers helping me with that."
"Yeah, I remember them." Tracy said. "They're really powerful."
"Who are they?" Roger asked.
"Ash Ketchum and Gary Oak." Professor Oak said.
"No way you mean Ash the Frontier Champion and Gary your nephew?" Kate asked.
"Yep, two great trainers with completely different but correct concepts about Pokémon." Tracy said.
"Well we better get going." Kate said. "Thanks for everything Professor and Tracy."
"Wait!" Professor Oak said. "Why not stop by Delia Ketchum's house and stay there."
"She doesn't know us." Roger said.
"Don't worry I will take you there." Tracy said.
"Thanks." Katie said as they got in a golf cart and took off.
"So are you the Tracy that travelled with Ash in the Orange League?" Roger asked.
"Yep that's me!" He said.
"Wow, how was it?" Kate asked.
"It was great!" Tracy said. "I was able to sketch a lot of the Pokémon we saw."
"Awesome so you're a Pokémon journalist?" Roger asked.
"Sure am!" Tracy said. They finally made it to Delia Ketchum's house. "Here we are."
Delia came out. "Hello Tracy! Is there anything you need?"
"Yeah I'm just dropping off a few kids to spend the night if that's ok." Tracey walked to the door with Roger and Kate.
"Yeah sure, you're welcome to stay if you want." Delia said.
"Ok sure!" Tracey walked in the house. "I will just go to my room and you two can get settled."
"So who are you two guys?" Delia asked.
"I'm Roger." Roger said. "And this is Torchie." He pointed at Torchie.
"Hi, I'm Kate." Kate said. "And this is my bulbasaur." She pointed at Bulbasaur. "We are huge fans of your son."
"Aw thank you." Delia said. "How would you like to sleep in his room?"
"That would be great!" Roger said.
"Mr. Mime!" A Mr. Mime popped out of nowhere.
"Don't mind him, that's my Mr. Mime." Delia said.
"Whoa." Roger scanned it with Pokephone. "Cool."
"Well you two should get some sleep it is late." Delia said.
"Ok thank you!" Kate said and walked up stairs with Roger. "She is really nice."
"Yeah sure is." Roger said changing into his pajamas. "I should let Pikachu out now." Roger threw up a pokeball and Pikachu appear but he was already sleeping. "Well goodnight." Roger got in bed.
"Goodnight." Kate went in bed too and everyone fell asleep.