Chapter 3: New Kory City and New Friends
***The exit to the forest***
"Wow look at it, New Kory City, I've never seen anything bigger or taller." as Ben looked up at the skyscrapers with Eevee at his side. "I can barely even think."
***At the New Kory City Dock***
"Wow, it's just like Slateport city but 10 times as big and tall" said Selena while she was staring off the side of the boat. "Well it's time to start our adventure Mawile", as Mawile looked back at her as excited as she was.
As Selena got off the boat she became so overwhelmed, she didn't even know what to do 'Shop first or go watch some Pokémon Contests?' she thought, however after losing her train of thought she looked down to see Mawile's reaction to the big city but she had vanished, and at that moment Selena had gone from a state of excitement to anger. "How am I going to explain this to dad, he's going to think I'm a child." She ran to the nearest pokemon center to see if anyone had found her with tears in her eyes
***Center New Kory City***
"Well this map is terrible, I can't seem to find a pokemon center anywhere?" ben said with a blank face while Eevee looked disappointed.
"Maw, Mawile." "What was that eevee" as Ben and his partner looked over at an alley to see a sad looking mawile.
Mawile, the Deceiver Pokémon, It uses its docile-looking face to lull foes into complacency, then bites with its huge, relentless jaws.
"Wow a mawile, I'm going to catch it" as he threw a pokeball at the lost creature, however it did nothing it practical just bounced of her like it was nothing. "Oh this must be someone's Pokemon then, and they must have lost it then. I'll take it to the nearest Pokémon center, right that's a smart idea?" Eevee nodded in agreement
Ben then grabbed mawile and ran in the direction he thought the Pokémon center was in with Eevee following
***Outside of the Pokémon Center***
As Ben ran full speed toward the Pokémon center in the opposite direction Selena was sprinting while blinded by her tears.
"Ouch!" screamed the two
"What's your problem"
"No what's your problem"
"I asked you First"
As the two angrily yelled at each other, they failed to realize what had happened until mawile tugged on Selena's skirt. "Oh My God, I was worried sick about you, never scare me like that again."
"Oh was that your Mawile" as Ben said that the mood had changed to a friendly vibe. Ben began to share his story about finding mawile, eventually the two continued into the Pokémon center explaining each other their stories about their journeys.
"So you want to become champion of the Mericos Region? That's so cool" said Selena with a smile, "I want to be a star coordinator", and then Ben asked "What's a coordinator?" Selena looked at him like he had three eyes and then began explaining it to him. "wow that is actually pretty cool, but what brings you to the Mericos Region?"
"Well I've already seen most of the Hoenn region and I wanted to see new things and travel so I came here, but I don't really know what to do it's kinda scary on your own." As Selena said this, Ben thought the same thing and blurted out "Why don't we travel together?" Selena looked at him like he was crazy but realized it made sense so she said "Sure!" and a new friendship was forged
"How about we heal our Pokemon and then head straight to the gym, we can use my pokenav for direction."
"Wow, you have a pokenav, I've had to use this crappy map for the past few days, thank god I ran into you!" As the two gave their Pokemon to nurse joy
***As their walking to the Gym***
"So what Pokémon are you going to use Ben?"
"Well I only have two, so I have to use my Eevee and Kricketune." As the two continued their conversation over Ben's battle strategy they heard a noise somewhere near them. Then all the sudden a wild charmander sprinted past them. As Ben and Selena both turned around slowly he said "I think I found my third Pokémon!" and ran in the direction charmander had went with Selena frantically following behind. After minutes of following, the charmander eventually backed itself into a corner, and at that moment Ben released Eevee from his ball.
"Eevee use quick attack" but charmander quickly dodged and retaliated with a flamethrower
"Eevee doge that flamethrower and use swift" however eevee had failed to dodge and flamethrower had gotten a direct hit. Strangely enough though Eevee appeared fine and continued battling even hitting charmander with a powerful swift. Ben then threw an empty ball at the charmander, "Alright go pokeball!" and after a few seconds Ben caught Charmander, "Yes I caught a Charmander!"
However right after Ben had caught his new Pokémon, a group of rangers ran up to them "Have you two seen a wild charmander running around, it had set fire to a nearby hotdog cart."
Ben and Selena both looked at each other with a blank face and said "No" at the exact same time
"Okay well be on the lookout then" as the continued to ran
"Well lets continue to the gym then?" Selena asked kindly, with Ben answering excitingly "Yes!"