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If you couldn't tell from the last chapter I want to make jokes about everything strange that there is in Pokémon, for example your mom never leaving the kitchen. Please leave some suggestions by either messaging me or leaving them in a review.
Also, this is based off of Pokémon Leaf Green and Fire Red rather than the originals. I did this so we can have better TMs for our Pokémon, and in some cases better learn sets. We will not receive a National Pokédex in this series so we will not be able to catch generation 2 or 3 Pokémon.
If you're Ashley or Alicia, don't worry, you'll be in a chapter fairly shortly. You're going to be the star of a joke!
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Disclaimer: Pokémon, along with any people, places or things from it are not mine, nor do I claim it to be. The only thing I do own is myself and the dream this all started from.
I looked back over my shoulder to where my house, along with my friends' houses, and Oak's lab stood. It felt weird to be leaving here. Not only was it a dream come true to take the first steps out of Pallet Town, but it was also very strange. I never thought I'd actually be walking out of here in reality, rather than just in a game. Inhaling deeply I stepped into the tall grass surrounding the quaint town, prepared for anything.
"Ouch!" I yelped. I looked down to see a Rattata biting my shoe. Apparently I wasn't ready to be literally attacked by the Pokémon-.
'Time for my first wild battle!' my mind raced with excitement. I threw out Bulbasaur's Pokéball eagerly.
"Ready buddy?" I asked him.
"Bulba!" he responded.
"I'll take that as a yes," I said, "Bulbasaur use..."
I hesitated, thinking back to the games, thinking I remembered Bulbasaur started with Tackle. I didn't need to think long though, and not for the obvious reason of making up my mind.
As I was thinking my arm started to get warmer. Confused brought my arm to my face. My eyes rested on my watch and to my surprise it looked different. Not only wasn't it the normal light blue colour, it was also glowing. A beam of light shot out of my watch making a hologram at my eye level. The beam of light disappeared almost as soon as I saw it, but the hologram was still there.
The hologram was a partially see-through white. Near the bottom were two words in boxes with the words Tackle and Growl printed in them, beneath those two boxes were two empty ones. Above this was what looked like two health and experience gages, one for each Pokémon, accompanied by the level. It sort of resembled the screen in a Pokémon battle in the games, minus the Pokémon.
"How is this even possible?" I exclaimed, completely baffled by what just happened. I glanced down at my wrist, which was now by my waist since I had let my arm drop. It looked like I was wearing a normal watch, which I obviously wasn't.
I reached out at the screen like thing that was sitting only a ruler's length in front of my face. Expecting my hand to go right through it I was startled when I touched it. It felt like glass! I pushed on it and it moved, I pushed it off to the side so I could glance at it if I needed to, but it wasn't right in my face.
"Er, Bulbasaur use Tackle," I said less enthusiastic than I had been before since I had been startled by this floating glass panel popping up out of nowhere.
Bulbasaur gave a grunt, sounding like his name while slamming himself into the Rattata.
I watched the glass screen as the Rattata's health bar fell about a third of the way. This would be an easy battle.
The Rattata used Tail Whip, which my Bulbasaur didn't seem to particularly enjoy.
Again I glanced over at the weird glass panel, a message telling me Bulbasaur's Defence fell popped up in a part of the screen that wasn't covered by other things.
The battle continued in this manner for another turn before Bulbasaur landed the third blow, making the Rattata faint.
After a message about the Rattata fainting disappeared from the screen the screen itself vanished. I gave the air where the glass was just hovering a confused glanced but brushed it off; it wasn't any weirder than it appearing in the first place.
Before making my way through the rest of the grass patch I returned Bulbasaur, who seemed un-phased from the battle back to his Pokéball. Just past the grass was a rather small ledge. I studied it as I walked over to it, it was only about two feet tall, plenty small enough to hoist myself onto. I put my hands onto the ledge, ready to swing my legs up.
"Hey, you down there," a voice called as their lower body walked into my view.
"Down here?" I asked, "You're not much higher up than I am."
Seeming to ignore my question he responded with, "You can't just climb up these ledges."
"Why not, it's easy enough," I argued, "Look, I can just sit on the ledge without any effort at all!" I sat down.
"That may be true, but it's just not done," he said authoritatively.
"Fine," I sighed, walking into the tall grass blocking the gap between the two ledges. "Ouch! Oh come on!" I growled as a Pidgey jumped at me.
I glanced over at the man who had stopped me from jumping over the ledge. He just shrugged at me.
"You know, I wouldn't have been attacked by this Pidgey if you had just let me climb that thing," I said, venom dripping from each word.
The battle was a little tougher on Bulbasaur since the only thing the Pidgy did was Tackle him. It took four Tackles from Bulbasaur to finally get the Pidgey to faint. I glanced over at the glass, which for some reason was still hadn't disappeared. In big bold letters in the center of the screen it said 'Your Bulbasaur has reached level 6!".
"Your Bulbasaur wouldn't have gotten stronger if I had just let you climb over the ledge either," the man retorted.
"Oh, you can see the screen too," I said, "I thought I was just crazy."
He laughed at that, "You know," he said, "Today many young trainers like you came by here and all of them just complained about me. It's a real treat to find someone who can look past my enforcing things."
"Thanks," I said surprised, "Most of my friends often are more likely to humour someone than I am."
"Just for that I'll give you a free sample of a supply from the store I work at, don't worry I'll pay for it when I get back," he said as he reached into his pocket, pulled out a Potion, and handed it to me.
I nodded gratefully before parting ways with this friendly stranger. After another few wild battles not only did Bulbasaur grow to level 7 and learn Leech Seed, we also made it to Viridian City, though it was nearly dark. Deciding to end my journey for the day I decided to head to the Pokémon Center.
"Hey Jenn!" a voice called as the doors of the Pokémon Center slid open. Glancing toward the table to my right I identified the voice as Dana's, though Samantha and Paula were also sitting with her.
"I'm glad I managed to catch up to you guys!" I said happily as I strolled over to join them, "I decided to bring you the Potions you left at home."
"Ah, sweet, thanks!" Samantha said reaching into my bag to claim one of the now seven Potions.
"Was it hard to figure out how to take these things out of the computer?" Paula asked grabbing her Potion.
"Not really, it just took some fiddling," I replied.
"Get into any battles along the way here?" Dana asked.
"Of course, I assume you did as well," I said.
"We all did," Samantha chipped in, "Those screens are really strange, aren't they?"
I glanced down at their wrists; they all had the same watch as I did, "Yeah. Do you think Jirachi gave them to us so we wouldn't need to look for these things ourselves?"
"I didn't think these things existed beyond ours," Dana said.
"Well there was a guy on the route, the guy who wouldn't let us," I said us because the man told me that some people had tried to hop the ledge earlier, "Climb over the ledge. He watched me get into a Pokémon battle and commented on Bulbasaur's level. I assumed he'd seen them before."
Paula glanced down at her new watch, "It's getting late, and we'd better get to sleep if we want to get an early start tomorrow."
"Sounds good," I replied, "Where are we sleeping?"
"I asked Nurse Joy about it, she said we could sleep in that room over there," Samantha said pointing to a door that hadn't existed in the games.
"Okay, there'd better be a bathroom back there as well," I responded, thinking back to the games where there are no beds or bathrooms.
Dana laughed, "Yes, there is. That was the first thing I checked when I got here because of the games."
With that we all walked into this room, each took one of the many beds and went to sleep.