On time today! Anyway, no guesses on my next Pokémon? You still have a few chapters left until it happens if you want to guess.
I spent a lot of time writing yesterday. I wrote my second longest chapter yesterday! It is 1,500 something words long. Yes, a lot of my chapters around the beginning have much more than that, but only one of them is longer, the others just seem long because of my notes.
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.
The next morning Alicia, Ashley and I exited the Pokémon Center. I thought I knew how I could get them out of the town. I remembered that there was a house that had been broken in to, and there was a hole out of the back that led out of town. It was the only way to exit the town without cheating in the games.
I told the two girls my plan, which they hated themselves for forgetting. I handed them their shoes and Potions that I was still carrying in my bag as we walked over to the house.
To our disappointment a police officer stood outside of the door and wouldn't let us through.
"Maybe we need to beat Misty first," I suggested, not remembering how to get the guy to move.
"But that'll be impossible!" Alicia exclaimed, "We haven't really done any training with our Pokémon!"
I sighed, "I'll get the badge," I knew they were going to ask anyway.
"Thanks!" the two of them squealed, reaching for a hug before they both remembered my hate of hugs.
"Air hug," Ashley said, faking a hug.
I smiled, "Well, let's go!"
We all jumped down the ledge to the south of us to save time then entered the water gym. Ashley and Alicia walked along the ledge around the pool that was in the center of the ledge, which was a viewing area, like the elevated platform in Pewter Gym.
I continued forward onto the platforms that were in the water until I wandered up to the first Gym trainer.
"Splash," the trainer, treading water beside the platform said, "I'm first up! Let's do it!"
"You may want to consider rephrasing that," I said as the battle started.
The first Pokémon the trainer, Luis, sent out was a level 16 Horsea. One Vine Whip from Ivysaur easily took out the little sea horse.
His second and final Pokémon was a Shellder, also at level 16. It also took only one Vine Whip to cause it to faint. The battle was already over and Ivysaur grew up to level 19.
Without any need to heal I continued on across the pathway and ran into the other trainer, besides the leader, in the Gym, Diana.
Diana's Pokémon, a level 19 Goldeen was slightly harder to take out, but it was still no more than a small obstacle for Ivysaur. After this battle I did leave to heal at the Pokémon Center, just to make sure I wouldn't find out the hard way how many times Ivysaur could use Vine Whip.
I returned to the Gym, once my Pokéballs were returned to me, to defeat Misty, the leader. I knew it couldn't be too challenging to beat her with my Ivysaur. I walked up to the platform she stood on, waiting for my challenge.
"Hi, you're a new face!" she said, "Only those trainers who have a policy about Pokémon can turn pro. What is your approach when you catch and train Pokémon? My policy is an all-out offensive with Water type Pokémon!"
"Wow!" I exclaimed, "Only eleven seconds! I like your speech!"
"Um, okay," Misty replied, "Shall we battle?"
"Oh, of course," my watch heated up and the screen popped out of it.
Misty sent out a level 18 Staryu, which was faster than Ivysaur. It managed to use Harden before I landed an attack.
"Um," I started, "You said an-all out offensive. You're raising your defence..."
"Your point?" she asked.
"You just broke your 'policy'," I responded.
"Whatever. Just do something," she said, annoyed.
I had Ivysaur use Vine Whip, which almost took out the Staryu. The Staryu landed a weak Tackle before Ivysaur finished it off. This caused Ivysaur to grow another level, to level 20.
Misty brought out her final Pokémon, a level 21 Starmie. Though its level was higher than Ivysaur's I was confident that Ivysaur could handle it.
Starmie landed a Swift before Ivysaur used Vine Whip. I looked at my screen and figured it should only take two or three more hits to finish this thing off. Ivysaur could definitely live another two Swifts.
Ivysaur stuck it out through another Swift and hit it with another Vine Whip. Unfortunately it brought Starmie into the red zone, which I knew Misty would heal with a Super Potion.
The next turn Misty had Starmie use Swift again. I watched my screen, the message "Critical hit!" appeared and Ivysaur fainted.
I brought out Spearow, and with my next turn I revived Ivysaur with my Revive. Starmie then knocked out Spearow with a Water Pulse.
I brought my revived Ivysaur back out and used Leech Seed on Starmie, then on my next turn used a Vine Whip, which, because of the damage done with Leech Seed, knocked it out. Ivysaur grew another level after the Starmie fainted.
Misty handed me a Cascade Badge once she had returned Starmie to its Pokéball, "The Cascade Badge makes all Pokémon up to level 30 obey," she said, "That includes even outsiders you got in trades. There's more. You can now use Cut anytime, even out of battle. You can cut down small trees to open new pathways. You can also have my favourite TM."
Misty handed me the TM for Water Pulse, "Thanks, now you would happen to have the Cut HM on you, would you?"
"No," Misty replied, "I've heard this guy on some boat has it though."
"Great," I said, unhappy that getting Cut was the same as in the games.
I met Ashley and Alicia by the door of the Gym and the three of us walked back to the house after I had healed my Pokémon.
"He's still here!" Ashley said, looking at the house as we walked over to it.
"I could make him move," Alicia commented.
"Alicia, that's a police officer," Ashley pointed out, "It would be less illegal to hop the fence to the south than to beat him."
"But that's not as fun!" Alicia whined.
"I don't know what your definition of fun is," I said, "But I don't think that any form of breaking the law is any more fun than the other."
"What should we do now?" Ashley asked.
"I guess we have to go visit Bill before that guy moves," I commented.
"Screw that," Alicia said, grabbing Ashley's arm and dragging her south, "We're just hopping the fence."
I laughed, "Alright, fine."