I've been panicking for the past 24 hours or so. I lost my memory stick. Not a big deal, right? No, it was a huge deal. This story is saved only on my memory stick. Luckily I found it now!

...Wow, is this really chapter 50?

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 decided I was up for the challenge of raising a Rhyhorn, so I threw a Safari Ball at the level 26, male Rhyhorn. Unlike the Dratini, it was an easy catch, being captured by the first Safari Ball.

Now that I had all of the Pokémon to use for my team I decided to just retire from the Safari Zone. There wasn't a point to wandering around anymore, since I wasn't worrying about my Pokédex. Professor Oak already had a ton of new information from me because of Mew.

I went over to the Pokémon Center and swapped Meowth for my new Rhyhorn. I was quite excited to start training him and Dratini. Dratini would be an easy Pokémon to raise in comparison to Rhyhorn, but still difficult because it wouldn't evolve into its final form until level 55.

I went back out onto Route 15 and followed it back to Route 14. There was a part of the route with many trainers on it that I saved for when I caught my new Pokémon. Since Rhyhorn was resistant to Poison types, which I figured all of these trainers would use, being Bikers, I decided to see how he did.

Before I jumped right into battle I decided to take a look at Rhyhorn's moves. The only move that was of any use was Stomp, the other moves: Tail Whip, Scary Face, and Fury Attack were either fairly useless or very weak. I replaced all of his moves, though, with Rock Tomb, Dig, Ice Beam, and Thunderbolt. Though the last two moves I gave him were special in type, which was Rhyhorn's disadvantage I figured that their high power would make up for it. Already, just before his first battle, Rhyhorn had all but one of the moves I wanted for him for his final move set.

Once I was prepared I took on all of the trainers along the western part of Route 14. Like I had predicted, Bikers Gerald, Lukas, Malik, and Isaac all used Poison types. At first Rhyhorn struggled to defeat the Pokémon he was pitted against, especially Grimers, who liked to use Minimize so Rock Tomb became even less accurate. But he managed, and gained two levels, growing to level 28.

I figured I should continue Rhyhorn's training before taking on the Gym leader of Fuchsia City, so I headed out of town in the opposite direction, onto Route 18 to fight the Bird Keepers, Jacob, Wilton and Ramiro, in the patch of grass beside the gatehouse. They were no problem for Rhyhorn who had three super effective moves against the Flying types. He gained another level in these battles.

I went back to Fuchsia City and healed before continuing onto the part of Route 18 that required the Bike. I got onto my Bike once I was through the gatehouse and went along this route, and then up Route 17 to battle more trainers.

Along the route I battled many Bikers: William, Jaxon, Nikolas, Billy and Virgil, and Cue Balls: Corey, Zeek, Jamal, Raul, and Isaiah. Along this route Rhyhorn grew to level 32, Poliwrath grew to level 37, and Kadabra grew to level 39.

I headed onto Route 16, avoided all of the people and went to Celadon City to heal and sleep. Riding uphill all day certainly takes a lot out of you, especially when you have to battle while trying not to slip as well.

The next morning I went back out to Route 16 and fought all of the trainers I had skipped the day before: Bikers Lao, Ruben and Hideo, and Cue Balls Luke, Koji and Camron. Rhyhorn had no problems knocking all of their Pokémon out; accept for one Weezing who used Smoke Screen many, many times so that Rhyhorn ran out of PP for all of his moves.

Rhyhorn was now at level 34, which wasn't quite where my other Pokémon, with exception of Dratini, were at. I was content though, since I knew I could get his levels up in the Fuchsia Gym as well. Dratini, on the other hand, was still at level 20. I figured I would just use a switching out strategy to have her gain levels, since there weren't any trainers around for me to battle.

I decided that it was now time to take on the Gym, so I flew back to Fuchsia and entered the Gym.

I didn't remember this Gym very well from the games, but I knew with some work I would be able to get through it, though it was another maze, which I had trouble with.

I found out soon that the trainers around Fuchsia City weren't a good indication of the levels in the Gym, like other trainers were. The first trainer I battled, Juggler Kayden had a level 38 Hypno, which gave me a ton of trouble.

Because of this huge wakeup call, I decided to do some good, old fashioned grinding on wild Pokémon to get my Pokémon up to a higher level. My goal level was 45, since I figured that would be the highest level Pokémon that Koga had.

I knew it would take a while to get my level 37s, 38s, 34, and level 20 Pokémon up to level 45, but I needed to if I was going to stand a chance against the Gym trainers, even.

I trained for many days, and into the night, only stopping to rest at the Pokémon Center at nights or heal my Pokémon. I headed to bed as late as I could manage as well, to make sure I was getting as much training as I could into a day. This went on for three days, and finally my Pokémon were all at level 40. All I had to do was get them up another 5 levels each.

While it seemed like it wouldn't take a long time, five levels when up as high as my Pokémon were was very hard to do, and took a very long time, especially because the Pokémon I was fighting against were only, at most, level 28.

It took another couple of days, but finally I managed.