Quartz and Lapis started their walk through route one, approaching the tall grass where pokémon would attack you in. Stepping into it, hoping that they would run into a wild pokémon, they continued on, just then a wild Titua appeared. A Titua was a turtle pokémon, and a normal and ground type, usually traveling alone, they would wait for trainers to come by, some just let them pass, but others would bite either the trainer or the pokémon, whichever they got to first, for fun. It started eyeing Quartz carefully.
"Alright then, my first battle, let's get started! The best move I could make would be to use Dratinsplash to get him some experience in battle, alright then, go Dratinsplash!" said Quartz.
The pokèball, solid on the bottom, but clear on the top was thrown, and out popped Dratinsplash, ready to fight.
"Ok then let's see what you can do, since the government banned pokedexes to get us to study moves and pokémon ourselves for the PRT, Professor Pine each put sticky notes on their pokèballs to tell us their moves. So you know, water gun and growl, sounds good! Dratinsplash, water gun on Titua!" said Quartz.
So it did, Dratinsplash's water gun soared through the air and hit Titua right on its shell. Just as that was happening Titua hid inside it's shell, since it was a turtle pokémon it had strong defense, but Dratinsplash was a water type, so that put Titua at a disadvantage anyway. To Quartz' surprise, Titua came out looking slightly weakened, but still ready to fight. Titua made the next move, a very hurtful move, shell shock was a move known to Titua and its evolution, Tortika, only, passed on by the ancient Tortika, shell shock was a move where a Titua or Tortika spun across at very fast rate (surprising for a ground type) and hit the pokémon it was attacking, the ancient technic was the shell could paralyze the attacked pokémon. Quartz, hoping that the side effect didn't happen, waited for Dratinsplash's reaction, Dratinsplash turned out fine.
"Alright, good defense bud, now use water gun!" said Quartz.
This time Titua was finished off and fell down unconscious.
"Alright, good job bud, you're learning already." said Quartz, not surprised, but satisfied with his victory.
What Quartz had forgotten about Tituas and Tortikas, was that they were fast healers, a few seconds later, the Titua readied its teeth and began towards Quartz, not paying attention, Lapis halfway through the short battle was attacked by a wild Stickalis, a stick insect bug and grass type pokémon with remarkable speed and respectable other stats, no problem for Lapis' Singebark. She finished when the Titua was almost to Quartz.
"Quartz, look out!" shouted Lapis.
Just then Dratinsplash used his claws and made a claw mark in Titua's shell, Titua let out a hiss like sound and walked away.
"Thanks Dratinsplash, my left leg would have really been feeling it for the next day or so if you didn't do that, I hear Tituas have sharp teeth." he said.
For the rest of the way they didn't meet any wild pokémon but on route two they ran into some, mainly the regular pokémon you see at first like Goldfiein, a gold finch normal flying type with the same kind of stats you see on normal flying types. They also fought one or two more pokémon, but the other ones were only Stickalises and Tituas. The trainers were nothing special either, they were the typical first routes of region trainers, and with the pokémon you see on the routes. After a few minutes they reached Alalop town.
"Well that was certainly interesting, for one we Dratinsplash learned scratch and put quite a good dent in that Titua's shell, and all of our pokémon earned quite some experience." said Quartz.
"Yep, well, how about we go to the pokémon center? You know heal up and stuff." said Lapis.
So they walked through the streets of Alalop Town to the pokémon center. Alalop town had nothing special about it, it was still a nice place though, Kopaka Town was a bit more visited because of its mountain location and the fact that Professor Pine was situated there. They entered the pokémon center and walked up to the front desk, to the left side of the desk was a row of machines with pokèball shaped holes in all of them, since pokedexes were outlawed, everyone needed some way to check his or hers pokémon's moves, so Gabbro's government invented the Move Checker, a device witch let you check your pokémon's moves if you put it in the slot.
"Hi can we get our pokémon healed?" asked Lapis nicely.
"Why sure! Just hand them to me and I'll put them on the machine." said the nurse.
She healed the pokémon and let them be on their way. Quartz and Lapis went to the mart next to buy some supplies like pokèball and potions, the regular. They then set out to split up at the entrance to route three. Just as they were going to the entrance a strange man with a shiny grey and black uniform with a big m in the middle ran into them.
"Sorry for that man, I'll help pick that up for you." said Quartz, bending down to pick up the flash drive that the strange man dropped, but then the man flipped out.
"NO, I'LL GET IT, DON'T TOUCH IT! Umm, sorry for that, don't know what came over me… I'll get that." said the man, picking it up.
Quartz stood with a face of slight shock because of the man's outburst. The man ran through the town into route two, and then approached a rock in the hill.
"Probably shouldn't of done that, but running from Pohatu city to the south up here and the fact being that I've been trusted to guard this flash drive with information we stole on it, makes it much more stressful." said the man.
Next he reached for his right hand and pushed a button on his glove to make a bingo looking pad pop up. Pointing it at the rock he said,
"One, seven, sixteen, three." and the rock slid open to reveal a tunnel.
"Well got a long walk a head of me, but Lord Darrius will be pleased to find out I've gotten it back safely." said the Team Mecha grunt as he started his walk through the tunnel, the large rock closing behind him.
Quartz and Lapis approached the entrance gate to route three.
"Thanks for accompanying me to route three Quartz!" said Lapis.
"No problem, besides we'll run into each other plenty of times and then we can catch up on all the things we've done." said Quartz, trying to comfort Lapis, because for whatever reason he knew she wanted them to travel together.
"Yep, you're right, well, probably see you after I get my first gym badge!" said Lapis as she raced off before he could start.
"There she goes, oh well, anyway Lapis was right, the first gym IS in the next city. Better get moving then!" said Quartz as he too ran off into route three.