Chapter 7: Squirtle

Roger woke up and found a Squirtle on top of him. "Huh!" He got up.

"What happened?" Kate got up next to him just waking up.

"Look at this!" Roger said pointing at the Squirtle.

"Squirtle!" Squirtle was happy to see Roger.

"Oh, I know you." Roger said. "You're the Squirtle from Professor Oak's lab."

"I think you're right." Kate said petting the Pokémon.

Tracy came in the room. "Squirtle what are you doing here?" He was surprised to see her.

"Squirtle!" Squirtle hoped on Roger's head.

"He must have snuck in here over night." Roger said. "But why? He should be in the lab."

"Pika?" Pikachu got up.

"Torchic?" Torchie got up too.

"Hey guys look who we found." Roger showed them Squirtle.

"Squirtle squirt!" Squirtle jumped off Roger's shoulder to play with them.

"Wait!" Kate screamed. "Where is Bulbasaur?"

"Oh, he is in the garden out front. You can't blame a grass Pokémon for going to a garden like Delia's." Tracy said.

"We should go see him." Kate said. Kate and Roger changed their clothes and went to the garden with Torchie, Pikachu and Squirtle. "Hey Bulbasaur. How are you?"

"Saur Bulbasaur!" Bulbasaur stopped sniffing and jumped into Kate's arms. "Bulba!"

"Aw." Kate said hugging him. "You're so cute!"

"Good morning guys." Delia came out. "Do you guys want some food before you leave?"

"Yes ma'am." Roger said. "Let's eat guys!" Roger and everyone else went to the kitchen.

"Here I made you all omelets." Delia passed out some omelets.

"Yummy, thank you!" Kate said eating.

"I can also give your Pokémon food." Delia said pulling out a box of Pokémon food.

"Thanks." Roger threw a pokeball and Mercedes appeared next to Torchie, Pikachu, Squirtle, and Bulbasaur. "My other Pokémon is a Lapras and she might be too big for this room.

"You can put her in the backyard." Delia said opening the windows.

"Good idea." Roger went outside and threw a pokeball for Lapras to appear. "Here you go." Roger handed Lapras a bowl of Pokémon food.

"Pras!" Lapras ate the Pokémon food. She told Roger that she liked it.

"Glad you like it." Roger went back inside. Then the doorbell rang.

"I will check that." Delia went to the door and found Professor Oak.

"I think my Squirtle ended up here." He said.

"Yeah I think she is in the kitchen." She said bringing him to the kitchen. "There she is."

"Oh Squirtle there you are." Professor Oak said. "Why did you runoff here?"

"Squirtle, squirt." She jumped onto Roger's lap.

"Huh?" Roger looked down. "What's up Squirtle?"

"Roger, I think Squirtle wants to join you and Kate." Professor Oak said. "I do owe you for taking Team Shadow out of my lab so how about Squirtle as a gift?" He handed Squirtle's pokeball to Roger. "I know you will take great care of her."

"Thanks Professor." Roger took the pokeball. "How about joining me Squirtle?"

"Squirtle!" Squirtle called back herself into her pokeball in excitement.

"I guess she is mine." Roger put Squirtle's pokeball in the fifth pokeball slot in Roger's pokeball holder on his belt.

"Cool, now we have one of Bulbasaur's friends coming along." Kate said.

"Yep and it looks like Torchie and Bulbasaur are becoming great friends." Tracy pointed at them playing. "By the way Roger, can I draw a few sketches of Torchie? He is just so healthy looking."

"Yeah sure." Roger said. While Tracy was drawing Torchie, Roger called back Mercedes and Lapras and started packing up with Kate to get ready to leave. "Alright thank you guys for everything."

"And thanks for the Bulbasaur!" Kate said.

"No problem take care of Squirtle for me." Professor Oak said.

"And thank you for allowing me to draw a picture of Torchie!" Tracy said.

"Come back soon, maybe Ash will be around." Delia said.

"Will do, bye." Roger waved and walked away with Kate and their Pokémon. Then they went to the stream that they went to Pallet Town with. "Go Lapras." Roger threw a pokeball and Lapras appeared. "Alright everyone hop on. Lapras use surf." It took Lapras about fifteen minutes to get to the ledge.

"I guess we have to walk around it to get to Viridian City." Kate said.

"Yeah, there should be pidgey and rattata here if you want one." Roger said.

"Well the pidgey here should know gust so Bulbasaur shouldn't battle them and you know I don't like rattata." Kate said.

"Oh yeah, that's right." Roger remembered. "So how about I catch you a pidgey." Roger said calling back Lapras.

"No thanks, I want to catch my first Pokémon by myself." Kate said.

"Well I can't blame you." Roger said. "I caught my first Pokémon with Torchie." Roger looked at Mercedes' pokeball. About two hours later they walked into Viridian City. They saw Ace walking to the Pokémon center with two pokeballs. "He must have caught something."

"Yeah, I feel sorry for whatever it is." Kate said.

"Me too but since we are here, we should go to the Pokemart." Roger said. "We are gonna need some supplies."

"Yeah good idea." Kate said. When they went in Kate noticed Roger getting fire wood, Pokémon food for fire, electric, water, and grass types, he also got some canned food and some water for them to share. Kate decided to by some potions just in case they needed it.

When they put all their items on the table the clerk said. "That will be 1,000 dollars."

"Good think we won most of our battles." Roger said pulling out 1,000 dollars. "Here you go."

"Thank you sir, come again." The clerk said.

"I think it's time for you two to take a rest." Roger called back both Torchie and Pikachu.

"Yeah good idea." Kate called back her bulbasaur. "Roger can I borrow your Pokephone to call my mom, she doesn't know about Bulbasaur."

"Ok, here you go." Roger handed her the Pokephone.

"Thanks." She took the phone and called her mom.

"Hello, this is the Nurse Joy of Fortree City. How may I help you?" Her mom asked.

"Hey mom it's me Kate." Kate said to Nurse Joy.

"Oh, hello. How is the Kanto Region going for you?" She asked. "Did Roger come with you?"

"Yeah, isn't he great?" Kate said. "Anyway I got my first Pokémon yesterday!"

"Really, which one did you get?" Nurse Joy asked.

"I got a bulbasaur!" Kate said.

"That's great! So when you come back here I can use Bulbasaur to find me some herbs that I can make medicine with." Nurse Joy said a bit excited.

"Yeah that sounds fun but that is gonna be awhile because we are having some much fun in our adventure in the Kanto region." Kate said.

"Well I don't want to rush you." Nurse Joy said. "Have fun and tell Roger I said good luck. Bye."

"Bye." Kate hung up. "Thanks." She gave Roger his Pokephone back. "Now we should go to Pewter City so you can win your first badge."

"Yeah, I can't wait, this is gonna be so fun!" Roger grabbed Kate's hand and ran to the Viridian Forest which took them ten minutes.

"This place should have bug type Pokémon like weedle, kakuna, caterpie, and metapod." Kate said. "There can even be some Pikachu in here, I want one of those."

"Well, let's go find one." Roger said. They were walking around and found a caterpie, but it was a bit bigger than a normal one. "Whoa." Roger scanned it with the Pokephone.

"Caterpie, the worm Pokémon. Caterpie grow by shedding their skin and survives by releasing a horrible stench from its antennae." The Pokephone informed.

"It's so cute!" Kate cheered. "Since they are weak I'm catching it without a battle!" She threw a pokeball. The ball shook twice but Caterpie got out. "What!"

"Wow, this one is definitely stronger than most Caterpie." Roger said.

"Go Bulbasaur!" Kate threw a pokeball and Bulbasaur appeared. "Caterpie knows string shot, so we have to wait to dodge it. Caterpie shot out a string shot. "Dodge and use leech seed!" Bulbasaur jumped and shot a seed at Caterpie causing her to give bulbasaur some energy. Then Caterpie tried using tackle. "Bulbasaur use your vines to slam her into the tree." Bulbasaur hit Caterpie with his vines and slammed her into a tree. Caterpie had to give in. "Go pokeball!" Kate threw a pokeball at caterpie and heard three twitches and a click. "We did it!"

"Bulbasaur." Bulbasaur was happy to get a new friend.

"Nice job." Roger said. "That was a really tough Caterpie."

"Thanks. Come out Caterpie." Kate threw a pokeball and an exhausted Caterpie appeared. "Hey use this." Kate sprayed Caterpie with a potion. "There all better."

"Wow what a pathetic Pokémon." Ace walked by. "I bet it couldn't beat my Mankey."

"It obviously can, a Pokémon coming from you shouldn't be that hard to beat." Kate said. "Ready Caterpie?"

"Pi." Caterpie crawled up.

"Haha, Mankey let's get this over with." Ace opened a pokeball and Mankey appeared.

"Mankey." The Pokémon jumped ready for battle.

"Use scratch!" The Mankey charged full speed.

"Caterpie use string shot." Kate commanded. Caterpie shot some string out and slowed down Mankey just a little. However, Mankey still hit Caterpie, but tripped from the string. "Now Caterpie use tackle and follow up with string shot on his hands!" Caterpie tackled Mankey as he tried to get up and then put more string on his hands to keep him down.

"Mankey get out of those strings!" Ace got furious.

"Caterpie quick, use tackle!" Kate ordered. Caterpie hit Mankey right when he got up and he had to give in.

"No!" Ace yelled as he called back Mankey. "Lucky kid."

"Whoa, look at Caterpie!" Roger said. Caterpie wrapped herself in her strings and started to glow. Caterpie evolved into Metapod. "Cool, Caterpie evolved into a Metapod." Roger pulled out his Pokephone.

"Metapod, the cocoon Pokémon. Metapod has the power of patience, using its hardened shell to repel attacks awaiting its evolution. Metapod is also one of the fastest evolving Pokémon." The Pokephone informed.

"Well since you know harden you're a little bit heavy." Kate said trying to pick Metapod up.

"That's it I'm out of here." Ace said. "I'm wasting my time watching your stupid Pokémon evolve." Ace marched away towards Pewter City.

Kate and Roger walked for about thirty minutes until they found a good place to camp. "This looks like a good spot." Roger said pointing at some land near a tree.

"Ok." Kate pulled out her special tent and hit the red button for the tent to unfold. "Cool."

Roger placed down the fire wood and threw a pokeball for Torchie to appear. "Use ember on the wood."

"Tor." Torchie spit some fire out and the wood caught on fire.

"Thanks buddy." Roger grabbed Torchie and walked into the tent with Kate and Bulbasaur. "I should bring out Squirtle." Roger placed a pokeball down and Squirtle came out.

"Squirtle." Squirtle, Torchie, and Bulbasaur went to a corner to sleep.

"Well I guess we should sleep too." Kate said getting in her sleeping bag.

"Yeah good night I love you." Roger said getting in his sleeping bag next to Kate.

"I love you too." She kissed Roger and they went to sleep. It was hard for Roger to sleep because he was exited for his first gym battle but he managed to sleep because he was near a fire to keep him warm and next to Kate which made him comfortable.