Well, I'm now behind in writing. I couldn't write anything yesterday because I felt really sick starting just a little bit after lunch, which is normally when I write. It wasn't sick from the food; I had a really bad headache which made me dizzy, causing me to feel nauseous. I couldn't look at the computer screen for more than a minute before the words started blurring together.

I feel much better today though, so I hope to catch up!

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.

Though my friends wanted to take the easy way through the city I was eager to meet Bill. He was such an interesting character in the games, since he did always change himself into a Pokémon in the first generation games.

I walked to the north up to the bridge that led to the route that Bill lived on and was stopped by a yell from someone on the bridge.

"Hey, you!" the voice called. The owner of this voice ran across the bridge toward me, his spiky hair becoming visible.

"Hey Blue," I called back, recognizing the trademark hairstyle, "I didn't expect to see you here." Though you always fought Blue before going on the bridge I really hadn't expected to see him. Red was the one to fight Blue, so I figured it would be the same, "And I can't believe you recognized me."

"Yeah," he commented, "You were one of the girls from Route 22, right?"

I nodded, "The less crazy one," I said, "Sorry about my friend."

"Not a problem," Blue laughed, "It was definitely...interesting have someone be that..."

"Fan-girl-ish?" I suggested.

"That sounds right," he replied.

"Can I interest you in a battle?" I asked him, eager to battle one of the trainers I had fought throughout the game.

"Sure thing," he said as his and my watches produced the glass panels.

I sent out my Ivysaur first, hoping to get a Leech Seed, Poisonpowder combo on his first Pokémon, which was always a level 17 Pidgeotto. It was a risky strategy, I knew, but it was one I always loved to use this strategy.

Once my strategy was in place, and the Pidgeotto had taken none of Ivysaur's health because of using Sand Attack, I switched over to my slightly lower levelled Spearow, who I knew could withstand the attacks much more effectively.

It only took a Fury Attack to cause the Pidgeotto to faint because of the help from Leech Seed and Poisonpowder.

I kept Spearow in to deal with Blue's level 15 Rattata which went down in one Fury Attack because of a critical hit.

I also kept Spearow in the battle when Blue sent out his Charmander. Spearow managed to take three quarters of Charmander's health before she fainted.

I needed to let Ivysaur in the battle to finish the Charmander off. Ivysaur fared well, taking down Charmander before half of his health was depleted.

Blue's last Pokémon was his Abra, which was rather simple to take care of. All it knew was Teleport, but Teleport couldn't be used in battle. As such, I defeated Blue's last Pokémon with ease.

"Hey! Take it easy!" he said as I caused his last Pokémon.

"What?" I asked, "Am I too god for you?"

He chuckled, "I do have to admit, you're good."

I smiled, "Well thanks. And thanks for the great battle."

"No problem," he said.

He started to walk down to Cerulean City, then stopped and turned around, "You know, I may as well give you this."

He walked back over to me and handed me a small orange and white device, "It's a Fame Checker," he said, "See you later." He then walked down into Cerulean.

I smiled and followed, needing to buy a few more items and heal my Pokémon. My first stop was the Mart to buy some better healing items and sell the ones I didn't need any more. I sold my two remaining Potions, Star Piece, and Rare Candy and bought five Super Potions. I then stopped quickly at the PokéCenter and then left to take the bridge up to Route 24 again. I remembered that this was called the Nugget Bridge because you had to fight five trainers to get a Nugget in the games. I wondered if this was the case in reality.

"People call this the Nugget Bridge," one a trainer on the bridge who I walked in front of decided to voice an answer about my question I had thought, though I hadn't actually said it.

"Do they?" I asked.

"Beat us five trainers and win a fabulous prize!" he said enthusiastically.

"I wonder what that could be!" I exclaimed sarcastically.

My battle with this trainer, Cale, a bug catcher was easy for Spearow, as all he used were an assortment of level 10 Bug Pokémon.

The other four battles on the bridge progressed slightly in the level of challenge the posed, but it was still rather easy.

Lass Ali, the second trainer used level 12s, a Pidgey, and Oddish, and a Bellsprout. In this battle Spearow learned Pursuit because she reached level 19. I replaced Growl to teach my Pokémon the new move.

The third trainer, a youngster named Timmy, used level 14s, a Sandshrew and an Ekans. I decided to go heal at the Pokémon Center before continuing after this battle because Spearow's health dropped below half.

The fourth trainer was Lass Reli, the names on the bridge getting weirder and the levels getting higher because she used level 16s. Her Pokémon were a male and a female Nidoran. The male poisoned Spearow, so I let Ivysaur take the female on. In this battle Spearow grew to level 20, which caused her Pokéball to glow at the end of the battle.

I let her out of the Pokéball, finding out she was the thing that was glowing. I squealed in delight, Spearow was evolving, and I loved Fearows because of the first time I played through my Pokémon Crystal game. As I had known, Spearow evolved into Fearow.

I hugged Fearow, "Congratulations!" I exclaimed.

Fearow let out a chirp before I remembered her poison. I rushed her back to the Pokémon Center, not wanting to use my items while so close to a free service.

Once Fearow's poison was cured I battled the last trainer on the bridge, Ethan, a camper. He only had one Pokémon, but it was at level 18. It was a Mankey though, making it weak to Fearow's Peck. Only one Peck took the little, fighting monkey down.

I moved on to the last person, who was not standing on the bridge, the person who was supposed to give me my prize for defeating the five bridge trainers.

"Congratulations!" he exclaimed, "You beat out five contest trainers! You just earned a fabulous prize!"

"Gee," I said dryly, "What could it be?"

The man handed me a Nugget, which I put into my bag. I was going to sell it when the next chance came around, which would likely be after I visited with Bill.

"By the way," the man continued, "how would you like to join Team Rocket?"