Pokémon RP Kanto Quest, the adventure begins.

[drenrin2120]

Okay, I think we got a little confused with our times. I fell asleep the first day the same time Lucas passed out? Then he woke up the next day I'm assuming? THEN prpl mage's character came to Veridian? That's what i'm going with.

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Chris yawned lightly and rolled over in his sleeping bag. He was half asleep, but clearly felt the stick jab into his side.

"Go away... I don't wanna go to school today..." Chris mumbled in his sleep. The stick jabbed him again. Chris came out of his sleep.

"Hey, what's the big idea!" Chris rolled over and groggily sneered at a little kid poking him in the side with a stick.

"Boy, you sure are strange." The kid replied. He was young, no more than 9 years old. He had short shirts and a bug catching net. "You've been out here all day," the young kid said, "I've passed you three times going back and forth from the woods. Aren't you gonna wake up anytime now? Lazy kid!"

Chris looked up and noticed the sun was high in the sky. He'd slept very late. "Huh, thanks I guess..."

The bug catching kid shrugged his shoulders and said, "I already got the early worm." then walked off.

Chris watched him go a bit perplexed. "... the hell does that mean?"

Within twenty minutes, Chris was ready to go. He'd packed his bag up, eaten the rest of the very limited provisions, properly covered the ashes of the fire, brushed his teeth, and was on his way south. It was a nice day, maybe a little past 11 AM, Chris judged by the angle of the sun. He walked through town a bit, venturing into shops and taking his time. Chris managed to buy some healing powder for only 100 yen at a farmer's market. He stored it neatly in the bottle it came in with his potion and antidote. Now, Chris thought, no more playing around, time to get to Pallet.

He hoped everyone was okay, but he couldn't imagine Team Rocket would find a need to kill anyone in Pallet town. He assumed they were there for the Professor. But why? The Professor was doing humble research. He had only a few pokemon these days which he kept around for company. He was an old man and his pokemon were just as old. They were no good for fighting so what did Team Rocket want?

Suddenly, Chris noticed figured up ahead on route 1 to Pallet town. One was on the ground, he was kind of lanky and wore thick soda cap glasses. A man was standing over him, "A rocket!" Chris said outloud, stunned. The rocket had a muk poised to attack the kid on the ground. The third man was behind the two, he hadn't been noticed by the rocket or the stunned kid on the ground. Suddenly the rocket looked up, locking his eyes directly on Chris.

"Hey you! The hell you lookin' at? You want some trouble too?" The rocket yelled to chris. The kid on the ground turned to look.  Chris didn't say anything, he was shocked at just how brazen this rocket was. "What? You nervous?" He said again. His Muk was menacing and disgusting. The look in its eyes was as intimidating as its master.

The rocket grunted in disgust then shouted, "Fine then. Looks like you got some pokemon on you, care to hand 'em over? Muk, will you please disable that kid?" The Muk began to move towards Chris.

Chris knew he had the type advantage, but that Muk was powerful. One blow from its giga impact and his geodude was finished. He had little choice. "Dudley, go!"

"A geodude? What the hell. All you kids have the weakest pokemon! Muk, pound on that lump of rocks!"

The rocket's muk sprang forward with frightening velocity for a puddle of toxic goo.

"Dudley! Defend yourself with defense curl!" Dudley obeyed, curling up into a tight ball. The Muk's liquid body encapsulated Dudley. "Dudley!" Chris gasped

"Haha! C'mon kid, what are you going to do now?"

"Dudley, use your magnitude! Quickly!" Dudley heard, and the ground began to shake around the Muk. With some surprise the muk remove itself from the geodude. Not before the ground around it cracked and collapsed.

"Dudley, are you okay?" Chris rushed over. Dudley was badly poisoned. The Muk had taken some severe damage but was still rearing to go.

"Nice try kid, but muk here's a wall. He won't come down very easily." The Rocket was laughing.

Chris quickly used his antidote on Dudley. With the poison gone, Dudley was still feeling chipper. The physical attack on him while in a defense curl wasn't very effective, if he could just avoid Muk's powerful attacks and from touching it.


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Hm... I seem to have misinterpretted prpl's post as having left to go to pallet town... muh bad.=\

[Prpl_Mage]

The battle was fierce between the Rocket and the sudden trainer. A tactical magnitude put a stop to the Muk's charge but it still had a little fight in it. And to make things worse. There seemed to be some Black Sludge recovering the damages.
Frank realized that it would take some real challenge for the trainer to beat the Muk with the state his Geodude was in - he doubted that it would end well.

-"Murkrow, you ready to do some damage?" Frank said as saw his opportunity to finally score the kind of training the bird needed.
The Murkrow rose into the air and attacked the Muk from behind with a peck. The Muk wobbled a little before a slab of acid was sent in response to the meek attack. The acid hit Murkrow on the way back but didn't defeat it just yet.
-"By the love of Entei! Murkrow, can you do anything right?" Frank sighed as the Murkrow returned from the 'successful attack'.
Once more the sludge seemed to repair the damage it took.
-"Alright, new plan you. There's something healing the Muk, find it and grab it!" The Murkrow sent out once more against the Muk.
-"Hey kid! What's this? You some kind of leech hoping to score a big win? Guess what? Not gonna happen!"
The Murkrow dived once more, but it didn't peck this time instead it seemed to simply swoop by. But as it returned it did so with a prize - a blob of Black Sludge.
-"Hey hey hey! Kid whatcha' doin' you can't just steal from team rocket like that! Muk don't be a damn fool and get that damn bird!"
Murkrow let go of the Black sludge and Frank grabbed it.
-"Time to finally fight fair then. Murkrow astonish it!"
The Muk moved in closer but without the Black Sludge it didn't have much energy left, it raised an arm to pound Murkrow but a sudden sound flinched it. Astonished the Muk stared and the slimy arm retracted into the massive body.
-"Oh hell no. I don't like this one bit kid. Muk get your slimy *** back in the ball!"
The ball of the rocket opened up and was just about to send Muk back when Murkrow dived in and scored a surprise attack at the switching opponent. And something must've been Super Lucky since the Muk completely sacked over.

-"Kid, that's so cheap. This just burns me up!" The rocket was so frustrated and clenched his fist.
-"Cheap? I'm more impressed that I actually pulled this off.
The grunt looked around at what he faced, a trainer with a geodude who seemed eager to send in something else and that pesky cooltrainer with the Murkrow.
-"Go koffing!" The koffing appeared and Frank was just glad that it wasn't something worse like a Houndour.
-"Too bad I can't stay to chat but I gottago!" The grunt said as the air was suddenly filled with a thick black smoke.
By the time the smoke thinned out, the Rocket grunt was nowhere to be seen. Only Frank himself and the other two trainers.

-"You guys alright? Gonna head back down to Pallet and see how the liberation is going."

[drenrin2120]

Chris watched as the lone trainer ran back south down route 1. Chris didn't even get to say thanks or goodbye, or even ask his name. Chris didn't want to generalize, but he was acting like a proper cooltrainer would. "hmph." Chris sighed a bit.

Then he thought about the fight. "Damn." He muttered, glancing over at geodude. "Black sludge?" Chris was decently educated with pokemon, but when it came to items, he was practically illiterate. "If he hadn't come along, we never would've beaten that Muk. I need to find some more info on held items. They seem cheap. Just like Rocket's style."

Dudley made a grunting sound, something like agreeing.

"Hey," Chris walked over to the kid on the ground, he was dusting himself off. "The name's Chris, you okay?"

The kid was adjusting his glasses when he noticed Chris had outstretched his hand. "Yes. Thank you. My name's Lucas. Who was that other trainer?"

Chris briefly scanned the south path, "I don't know. He was in a hurry though."

"Where?" Lucas asked.

"South to Pallet town, it's been taken over by Team Rocket."

"Hm..." The nerdy kid said, "No doubt they've kidnapped the Professor."

"Yeah." Chris started off south without saying a word.

"Hey! Where are you going?" Lucas asks.

"Oh, sorry!" Chris said, "I'm going to see what's happening. I'm sure you know, but you're pokemon are really hurt. You should get them to a pokecenter. Stay safe!"

"My pokemon?" It was then Lucas noticed the fainted Nidoran, who had inexplicably tried to protect him. Or perhaps just protect Aron.  Chris waved to the kid and called Dudley back into his ball. Leaving Lucas to his own and taking off south.

[ellie-is]

"Shit... I almost died here. I gotta be more careful. And my poké is hurt... Aron, can you hear me?"
The pokémon blinked. It was still alive and conscious.
Lucas turned his attention the the Nidoran.
"Hey little buddy, you doing alright? Thanks a lot for that... Me and Aron appreciate it. I will get you two to a Pokémon center, don't you worry."

Lucas wasn't aware that there isn't a Pokémon center in Pallet, so he decided to go there.
Carrying both of them was the hardest thing he had ever done in his life. Nidoran wasn't heavy, it was ten kilos at most. Aron, on the other hand, weighed more than he did, and for a nerd, it was no easy task. He was practicality dragging them at that point. Luckly, he saw someone in the distance. This time, it was no rocket. It was the Cool trainer who helped him earlier.
"Hey man! Wait!"
Lucas ran towards the trainer.
"Man, thanks a lot for helping me. I'd be screwed without your help."
The trainer grinned.
"You think you could give me a hand here? He's really heavy. By the way, I'm Lucas. Whats your name?"

[Prpl_Mage]

Frank was stopped once more, this time at the same place the commotion took place before. But there was no commotion, just a nerd without Revives.
-"It's Frank. The coolest trainer you'll ever see. Did ya' ditch that other trainer back there?" He tried to avoid the puppy eyes of sympathy that the kid was giving away but couldn't stand it for much longer.
-"...So, you need a hand with that? Can't say I got anything to help you out with, this Black sludge will hyst make things worse... But sure I could carry one of your... erhm fellas." He looked at his choices, the purple poisonous bunny or the small egg shaped thingmajing.
-"I'll just grabb these... Ears right ... There." Frank grabbed the ears of the Nidoran and gave the kid a quick forced smile.
-"I have like NO idea why you don't just send them back into their balls but... umm... All the better without the weight huh?" Unknowingly what Aron was he felt like he'd done another good deed and returned his stride towards the gates of Pallet.
-"You better keep up the pace if you don't want to be left behind."

As Frank got closer he saw the smoke coming from one of the houses. Just as he was about to say something along the line of "Oh crap, some slugma just hit the fan" he heard a strange noise comming from a pair of bushes.
-"Hey kid, whatch'a doing over there?" Frank shouted at the kid.
The kid straitened up and appeared to be wearing an exercise outfit - like the one you would wear riding a bike and such.
-"Hey, I'm talking to you." The kid seemed distracted by the sight of Pallet in smoke.
He finally turned his head but gave the two trainers a strange look as they stood there holding two pokémon.
-"What are you doing with those pokémon?"
Frank realized that it must look pretty stupid and thought of dropping the Nidoran.
-"Carrying them... Since they fainted. Ask the kid for details. I'm Frank and that kid is Lucas. It seems we got here too late to help out." Frank managed a cocky nod and grinned.
-"I'm Joseph, Pallet is my hometown." Quick and effective.
-"****, I'm sorry kid. I'm pretty sure there are some people getting things under control by now though."
-"Not likely... You know what they say about Magikarp ... they're only good on opposite day."

Frank and the crew turned around and saw a woman dressed in an expensive looking suit and sunglasses stepping out from the smoke. But the suit wouldn't be complete without the red R emblem, and next to it a symbol that marked the Rocket Admins.
-"Oh crap, this ain't good." Thoughts raced through Frank's head but not a single good one came to mind.
-"The best part about this all is that we got what we came for... And you failed. Us, win. You, lose. Simple as that." She grinned and the smoke started to wear off. Revealing most of the trainers from before lying unconscious on the ground beside their pokémon.
-"All of them?" Frank asked mistrustful at the horrible sight.
-"All of them and three more." With a hand raised she sent out a Gyarados that occupied a large part of the town.
-"Kids, you better skedaddle quick if you value your pokés, 'cuz this can't turn up well. No matter how much we try it." Frank was holding the Nidoran back to Lucas when the Gyarados began to draw power.
-"You have one choice right now. Giving up and wait for the strike. Or let your pokémon do the talking." The Admin said and held out a hand to sign the challenge.
-"That's two choices?!" Frank shouted as the intimidating Gyarados raised its' head.
-"Not if I'll have my way."

[drenrin2120]

Chris had been hiding in the tall grass to the side of the road when the three trainers came into view. "****. ****! no, turn around!" he whispered to himself vainly.  But it was too late, the rocket executive had spotted them.

Chris had saw the smoke and rushed as fast as he could to Pallet. Arriving in Pallet, he walked around for a little bit. It was very quiet, but there was no sign of any Rockets. The Laboratory was ablaze. Chris had cautiously made his way towards the lab. Hugging close to one side of a nearby house, he held back the urge to charge in through the front door. Suddenly, the front door burst open, and Professor (someone else pick a name) fell out in a heap. He was coughing hard as he fell to his knees, smoke pouring out from the door. He had a pokeball in his hand.

From seemingly no where, the Rocket admin dressed in nice clothes stepped up to the wheezing old man and snatched the pokeball from his hand.

"You..." the professor hacked and wheezed, he could barely speak he was so weak. Chris wanted to run out and help him, but was too afraid. "You... don't know..."

"don't know what, old man?" the rocket admin leaned in close to the professor's face. "When to give up, perhaps?" Two more burly looking grunts appeared at the admins side. "Take him." She barked.

Seeing there was absolutely nothing Chris could do, he took off as fast as he could to get out of Pallet. Finding his way into the tall grass where he now hid. Chris recognized two of the trainers from the earlier battle with the Muk. As he was trying to get a better look at who the third member was, his footing slipped, kicking a rock down a small embankment. Immediately, the gyarados's eyes were on him.

"Oh boy..." Chris gulped hard. "Hey!" He said lightly, standing up. "Don't shoot!"

The Admin looked at him hard, "What the hell are you doing? Are you trying to become fish food?"

Chris looked awkwardly from the admin to her massive gyarados. He was silent for a while before plainly replying, "No... no."

"Get out of there!" the admin ordered impatiently. Chris quietly surrendered. Seeing no other recourse he joined the three other trainers. "Goddamn clumsy..." he muttered to himself.

[ellie-is]

"Guys... You should run. I will try to go as fast as I can with these two. If we become separated, we will meet up on Viridian, okay?"
The other two nodded and began to run. Frank was still carrying Nidoran, and seemed quite uncomfortable doing something as stupid as carrying a fainted Pokémon instead of returning it to the ball.

Then the Gyarados shot. The Hyper Beam didn't hit them, but the shockwave caused them all to fall to the ground. Chris and Frank managed to get up and get out of sight before the dust settled. Lucas, on the other hand, was having a hard time moving around with Aron. The admin saw him as he tried to get away.

"You know what... I have more urgent matters to handle. Plus, what harm could a little kid and that pathetic Pokémon do.", she thought to herself, as she returned the massive Water poké back into its pokéball, and sent away a Salamence, which she used to fly away from Pallet.


About half an hour later, and Lucas found the other two resting in a spot in the forest. They had decided to wait for him.
"Thanks guys, it means a lot", Lucas said as he placed Aron in the ground and sit down to get some rest.
Frank gave him a sarcastic grin
"What took you so long?"

[drenrin2120]

"Man... we should be toast." Chris said. "There's no way that Gyarados missed by accident. That close?"

No one really said anything about it. All four trainers sat silent on the ground in a circle, exhausted and in a bit of shock. Frank stood up first. "Can we get this Nidoran to a pokecenter."

"Yes, and my Aron." Lucas said sadly, holding it.

"Yes... I think my Dudley could use some rest too." Chris said, getting up. He approached the third kid and said, "Hey, you okay?"

The kid didn't say anything for a while. He was looking south. Then he spoke suddenly, "Should we go back?"

"The lab is the only thing that burnt down. I think everyone else is okay." Chris said.

"But Pallet is my hometown." the kid said.

"Oh..." Chris was quiet. "I don't know if it's safe. I think you should come with us for now." The kid was quiet again. "What's your name?" Chris asked. "Joseph." He replied. "Well..." Chris said, trying to think of something to say. "Come on, the others are waiting up ahead." was what came out.

Joseph nodded and followed Chris as he met up with Frank and Lucas. All four walked into Veridian, headed straight for the pokecenter, quite a pitiful looking group of kids.

[X_marks_the_ed]

The two couldn't have been any older than 18. But here they were, in full Rocket attire. The one seemed to fondle the money as Edwin handed it to him. "I don't think I'd go out of my way to forge a mere fifty Pokedollars. Can I go now?" Edwin was getting impatient. "Sure, sure, man." He didn't even bother to look back up from the cash.

Fifty to enter, two hundred for the center, and fifty to leave - Owen claims to have never seen you in town. Owen was not like other leaders. A little human, but Edwin was sure he'd turn on anyone for a superior....or more money. That, and he was lazy. From the looks of it, you wouldn't even realize that Pewter was Rocket Territory in the first place, give or take the entrance guards.

Fully spent, Edwin journeyed beyond Pewter's walls and towards Viridian Forest. There's someone waiting for him. An old friend. Hopefully he has better news.

Next to the entrance stood an interesting sight. A wall of shrubs, but with a small hole, as if something once stood in its spot, but was now gone. Edwin decided to wander through the hole. On the other side was a cave. It was a shame he could not explore it, he would have to meet his acquaintance in an hour and a half. Instead, Edwin sat beside the wall of shrubs and decided to rest for a bit. He sent out Zubat.

"EEEEEEEEEE!!"

It was even more energetic than usual, it probably didn't like how bright it was outside. Edwin just watched it shoot around the air in front of him. It'll tire itself out eventually.

[coreystranick]

I'm going to start this from the time you guys were fighting to when the admin leaves that way you know i'm on track with you guys ;]
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Unaware of the battle that was raging in Pallet Town Corey trains hard with Ace and Spark.
Through the rough couple hours of training Ace grew awfully close to evolving. Spark as well. Training with an ex-gym leader was and is tough training. But Corey wished to do whatever he could to get the job done, all he saw was the downfall of that Rocket member with the Scyther.

"Now, your Starly know Double Team, Wing Attack, Quick Attack and Endure. You have a decent set of skills with him. As you know Double Team will raise his evasiveness, possibly saving him from a low accuracy move. This will come in handy when even going against that scyther. Fury Cutter does not always connect, and won't be powerful unless it does. Use this in that fight!"

"I will. I feel safe with Ace now. But I don't know what I should do now. Is this training over for now?"

"I can't help you anymore that is correct. There are matters that need my attention more and there are some that you should attend to. There is a battle going on right now in another town. It will most likely be taken over anytime, and the inhabitants will need help."

"Ho...How do you know this?"

"I have an informant at the scene. He has told me there are trainers there helping. Battling Team Rocket. But there is no way to be sure if they will survive or not. I need you to go and find them. There is no point heading towards Pallet Town. Go to Pewter City. Hopefully it is not over run by Rocket yet."

"Um..yeah sure. I said I didn't really want to fight though."

"If you want to get that Rocket back with the Scyther....I think you should do as I say. That person is no longer in Vermillion. He left shortly after kicking your butt."

"Grr....Alright I'll head to Pewter City."

Corey rushes to the door then suddenly halts.

"How do I get there?"

"I'll show you here, take this map as well."

Peter leads Corey to a cave and tells him that it will lead to Pewter City.

Corey sets off towards Pewter.

-------Inside the Cave-------

The cave was dark but Corey could still see. Surprised by the fact this was called Diglett Cavel and yet none were in sight.
The tunnel was longer than he expected, every time he rounded on of the turns thinking to see the exit, there was just more dark tunnel.
As he walked he noticed markings of what looked like a recent battle and a Pokeball sitting on the ground. He picked it up, not checking whether or not is had a Pokemon in it or not.

At long last he saw the end of the cave...but to his surprise there was a rope ladder leading to the exit.

"Wait...why is there a ladder when they could have just made steps....whatever." Corey sends out Spark and Ace.
"Alright guys, this is it, soon we will be in Pewter. You are both stronger from the extreme training we had went through but I don't want you guys to be heros, I don't want to lose one of you when I shouldn't."

Spark fur dazzles with electricity showing approval.
Ace nods and flaps his wings.

"Alright let's go!!" Ace and Spark are sent back in to the respective Pokeballs.

Corey climbs the ladder towards Pewter, one rung closer to his revenge, one rung closer to possibly helping save this region.

"Here goes to starting a new life."

[Prpl_Mage]

Viridian City, a quite quiet place. Home to a gym and the closest town to the Indigo plateau but nowadays - there wasn't much traffic with the impossibility to gain the badges.

But today it was also home to a group of young trainers. A bunch of young trainers who were happy to have gotten out okay.
-"Well kiddos, we got out allright." Frank said at the awful quiet group of people sitting at the hall of the pokémon centre. Kinda cozy with the trademark music going over and over again.
-"Name's Frank by the way. Murkrow is the only thing I got left after a Rocket scam. And that's Lucas the guy with the egghead pokémon which doesn't look local. And I understood that your name was Chris seen your Geodude in action and admires it. And last we have Joseph who recently got out of Pallet safe. We're one pathetic team huh?" Frank grinned and the others showed a mixed feeling of irony and annoyance.
-"We couldn't save Pallet." Joseph said and looked at Frank.
-"How could we when a real rocket admin wrapped things up like that? If she wiped out all those trainers who tried to liberate the city - how can we expect to do any better." Frank said and shrugged, there really was no surprise that things went down the way they did once the admin showed up, those where crazy-strong.
-"What about the professor?" Lucas asked.
-"It all depends on really. I guess we could try to return once team rocket moves out, but that won't be for some time I guess. They have a whole laboratory to go through."
That's when the newscast flashed once more.

*dundundudndundudndudndudidndindDUN*
"This is the Kanto newscast, I'm Maria with today's breaking news."
The news anchor looked down and turned to the camera.
"Our latest news is concerning the Pokémon professor and Pallet town. Recent reports state that Pallet was indeed attacked by the local crime syndicate Team Rocket earlier and their actions shocks many."
The newscast kept going for a moment with citizens saying what they thought of team rocket before coming back to the news.
-"We also have a witness claiming to see team rocket members taking the famous professor to the water of Pallet and leaving by sea. We have no reports whatsoever concerning the whereabouts of the professor. Our team rocket expert have said that we can expect team rocket to demand money or services in exchange for the pokémon professor." Frank thought it sounded a bit too extreme, they wouldn't use the manpower they had if they just wanted to preform a kidnapping and then demand a ransom.
-"Next up, how can you tell that your Parasect have been infected with leech seed?..."

-"I guess we won't be able to save the professor any time soon then... Frank said and leaned back.
-"Shouldn't we do anything to help him?"
-"I can't think of anything we can do, no water pokémon that can surf, and even if we did - we have no idea where we are supposed to be going." He sighed and shook his head.
-"I think we're better off here resting up before we set out again. There's a gym in this town but I'm not sure we can take it. So I think I'm either gonna head up to pewter to check on the events there. Or I'll return through the underground tunnel to Vermilion and look for traces of my lost party."
-"But we'll stay here for now." He added.

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Someone was watching the group from the shadows of the centre before stepping out and walking towards them. He'd listened to their conversations for the last hour or so and finally decided what to do.

-"Excuse me sirs. I heard you where at Pallet?"

Frank looked up and saw the man who dressed even more nerdy than that Lucas kid.

-"What if we are?"

-"I'm one of the professor's researchers I was ordered to escape the moment Team rocket entered town."

-"Why didn't you just let the professor escape?" Frank asked with a grin.

-"Um... Well, he wanted to take care of the research for as long as he could. Like his pokémon cataloguing for example."

-"The pokédex?" Lucas asked.

-"Yes, the pokédex, but the latest model. One which lets you know the weaknesses and strength of pokémon instead of just habitual information. Really."

-"No surprise Team rocket showed up when they did then..." Frank stated and shook his head.

-"Well yes, with the information from the new pokédex Team rocket could really optimize their work. Not only where they can find the pokémon but also how they evolve, strengths, weaknesses and much more."

-"No kidding, hell I'd like one of those."

-"That's actually my request... The professor separated these from the main CPU and tried to override the system."

-"I hope you realize that what you just said makes no sense to a guy like me..."

-"Oh yes. Of course. All the information that's gathered by the dexes are sent and stored in a large CPU um computer. And these versions will not send the information there. Instead it will be stored locally BUT could be shared among people wireless."

-"Okay, and the professor tried to delete the information on that computer so the rockets can't get their hands on it? Good professor."

-"Yes, and that's why most of our work has gone to waste, I hope the professor will return to us soon and when he does I don't want him to return to nothing."

-"So you want us to take these dexes and gather the information about pokés, the information you hopefully lost back at Pallet?"

-"That's correct. I have this package with 7 dexes in it. I want you to take it. When the professor is returned to Pallet I want you to return there so we can take care of the research you've collected."

-"Sounds like something that will make both of us happy then. We get one of these new dexes that will gather a crazy amount of information and later on you'll get the research."

-"Yes, that's correct. You don't have to do this for the professor but you could do it to resist those pesky rockets. I think I made the right choice, so I'm leaving them here with you.
Phew, I can finally move around without the fear of getting jumped by the rockets... um... I'll contact you later, good luck and may your effort bring research."

And with that the man walked out of the centre leaving the packade with the dexes behind on the table where the 4 trainers sat.
-"Now, this was an interesting turn of events..." Frank said and grabbed one of the dexes from the package.

[coreystranick]

Corey pops his head from the whole where the ladder was. He scans and sees no one around. He then leaves the cave entrance.
Upon exiting the cave..

"EEEEEEEEE."

Corey runs south to a fence and a little tree. Ignoring the tree he hops over the fence.

"Why would someone plant the tree there?"

He spys a house. It looked abandoned. He rushes inside to stay safe. Trying to not to get noticed by whoever had the Zubat.
He stares through a window and notices someone...the trainer with the Zubat. He sees that if he just hugs the eastern side of the woods that trainer shouldn't see him.

[drenrin2120]

"Damn, a real life pokedex." Chris said to himself. He also reached into the package and grabbed one. Lucas and joseph followed suit. All four of them sat examining the pokedex for a while.

"Hey, just so you know there's no gymleader at pewter." Chris said to frank.

"What? Why not?"

"He disappeared a few months ago, just like the other four gymleaders." Chris replied.

Frank frowned in disapproval, "that doesn't make sense. The other four gymleaders were in rocket central. What could possibly be so important about pewter?"

Chris winced a bit at that last statement, "you wouldn't have been able to beat him anyway." Chris laughed a bit.

"How do you know?"

"Pewter is my home town. Gotta love that museum!" Chris said facetiously. "So anyway, that leaves only three gymleaders who you can fight for badges. Veridian, fuscia and cinnabar. Veridian forest is a decent place to train."

"Hey, do any of you guys have cell numbers?" Frank asked.

They all did and they sapped numbers. "Just in case we get separated or uh, something."

[ellie-is]

"Hehe, a Pokédex... Fufufufu." Lucas was giggling in excitement. A Pokédex, even more if it was such an advanced model, was every nerd's dream.
He pointed it at his Aron, who had just returned from the healing.

"Aron, the Iron Armor Pokémon. It has a body of steel. With one all-out charge, this Pokémon can demolish even a heavy dump truck. The destroyed dump truck then becomes a handy meal for the Pokémon. Occasionally, it causes major trouble by eating bridges and rails. This Pokémon is clad in steel armor. A new suit of armor is made when it evolves. The old, discarded armor is salvaged as metal for making iron products.
Aron is a Steel/Rock type. It possesses a double weakness to Fighting and Rock types, that should be avoided. Water is a single weakness but should also be avoided due to his low special defense stat. Normal and Flying attacks will usually cause little to no damage, and he is completely immune to poison. Rock, Bug, Ghost, Psychic, Ice, Dragon and Dark moves will be resisted by it.
Aron's unique physiology allows it to not be harmed by the so called "One hit KO" moves, and he takes no recoil damage from moves that would usually damage other Pokémon. It's number is 304 on the national dex."

Lucas said "Oh. Nothing that I didn't already know."
"You already knew all that?" Chris seemed surprised.
"Nerd.", Frank let out.
"Hey, when you live in an island, you gotta keep yourself entertained with something."
"Why not go swimming, surf, chill at the beach, and stuff like that, like normal people?" Franked was the surprised one this time.
"Heh. Thats just not my style."

The nurse came and was holding the Nidoran.
"Whose Pokémon is this?"
"His." Frank pointed at Lucas.
"Huh... Its not really mine. I-I don't know."
The nurse handed him the Nidoran and left.
"Its not yours?" Joseph asked

Lucas looked at the Nidoran. It seemed happy to be there.
"hey little fella... You wanna travel along with us?"
The Nidoran didn't seem to mind. After wondering for a bit, it nodded."
Lucas was happy. He just caught his second Pokémon, or something. He never actually caught any of them. But he knew that they were both his now, and thats what mattered. You could tell how happy he was by looking at his face.
"Hey guys, I will go outside and give them some training. I will be just right off the door if you need me."
"What kind of training could you possibly do outside of the door?" Frank was used fighting other trainer's pokémon, or at least kicking some butt of wild pokés.

Outside, Lucas ordered his Aron to Harden his body to the max.
"Nidoran, now use Horn Attack!" he wanted to train Nidoran's attack, and Aron's defense.  The Nidoran gave him a slightly confused look.
"Oh. I guess you can't use that yet, huh? Peck, maybe?"
Nidoran charged at Aron with his horn. None of them seemed to feel the attack that much.
"Good, now keep doing it! Lets see how far you can go."
About fifteen rounds later, and Nidoran seemed to be really tired. Aron's body was as hard as he could be, and Peck barely hurt him.
"Good boy! Now lets see how hard Aron is. Nidoran, Double Kick! You can do that, right?"
Nidoran nodded, jumped into the air, and delivered two strong kicks to Aron. As he landed back into the ground, he was happy that he had finally landed a good one. Aron fell down from the damage, but quickly got up. That one did damage him, though.
"Good job, everyone! Now lets head inside the center. You guys gotta get healed again." He petted both of them in the head and went inside.
"Tomorrow, I'm gonna let Aron beat you up instead!" He looked at Nidoran, laughing. Aron laughed with him, and Nidoran gave them a forced smile.

"How did it go?" Joseph asked.
"Great, great. My Pokés are awesome." Lucas hadn't felt that happy in ages. He sat down near the other trainers, and hugged his pokés.

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BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP

A loud screech shortly followed.
Edwin's watch was going off, five minutes to meet her. He got up and called the scared Zubat back into the ball. Edwin shortly after entered the Viridian Forest. It wasn't as big or confusing as he thought it would be. He followed the path of trees into a split, where a woman was standing.

"Edwin, nice to see you."

"You too. Any word from father?"

"No, sorry. He still hasn't returned any calls or requests."

"Does he even know about mother?"

"We don't know. He never responded to those letters either."

"I see. You'd think with the activity, he'd do something about it."

"Reports say he continues to play every tournament taking place, regardless."

"Thanks."

"No problem. How is Claire?"

"She's fine. We had a snag for a while, but we're fine."

"A snag is not fine. Your mother's will clearly stated that if she falls into danger, she's to be placed in better hands."

"I said I'm doing fine."

"I hope you are. I still recommend staying in Viridian until she's ready for cerulean. Speaking of which, I need to see her to confirm your statements."

Edwin complied and sent out Clefairy. The woman then pulled out a sheet of paper. She studied it carefully, taking peeks at Clefairy. "I thought so." She walked over and grabbed Edwin's arm. "I'm gonna have to take you in."

"What?"

"You've been meddling in their affairs haven't you? Not only are you putting this Pokemon in danger, but yourself as well. You'll have to come with me."

"You joined."

"I had to."

Edwin pulled loose, grabbed Clefairy and ran for it. She did not follow. "You're making a mistake! He won't stop until he gets you back!" While running, Edwin juggled Clefairy and the Pokeball, eventually returning her to it. Now the forest was a maze.