Pokémon RP Johto Stories

[ellie-is]

"And thats why you should never lie to a Magikarp!", Barry finished his story.
"That's... Interesting." Lucas said.
"I know, right? There was this one time -"
"Hey, hold on" Lucas interrupted him "I think I saw something there."
"Where? Its just a patch of grass. Can't see anything other than that."
"No, I'm sure I saw something."

A Sentret stood up in the grass.
"See, I knew there was something there!"
The startled pokémon got up on its tail, and started screaming on top of its lungs.
"Damn, what's he doing?" Barry asked

And then, Sentrets from all over the place started running away.
"Ah, it was warning others! Awesome behavior, its really interesting how th-"
"Hey, hold on Barry. I wanna catch this guy. Just a minute. Pichu, wanna give it a try?"

The little rat nodded, and got off Lucas' shoulder.
"Pichu, Charm!"
Pichu got closer to Sentret, trying to lower its attack, but Sentret quickly attacked with a Fury Swipes attack, knocking Pichu to the ground.
"Damn. Pichu, thundershock!"
Pichu started charging up energy for its first thundershock attack, but Sentret jumped on top of him and Slammed him with his large tail.
"Damn! Pichu, come back! You can't take this anymore."
"Wow, that Sentret sure is strong! He must have some nice genetics. Maybe if you bred him with other strong Sentrets..."
"Not now, man. Electabuzz, go!"

The big yellow ape jumped out of his Pokéball, ready to do some damage. Sentret stared at him, ready to attack.
"Let's not give him a chance to hit you. Low Kick!"
He dashed towards the Scout pokémon, who jumped to avoid the kick.
"Thunderpunch! Don't let him get away!"
Just as Sentret left the ground, Electabuzz turned around and hit it with a strong, electrified punch right on its stomach. It landed on the ground, unable to move.
"Awesome job! Come back, buddy." Electabuzz smiled as he was sucked into his pokéball by the red light. Lucas took an empty ball out of his pocket and threw it on the Sentret. It moved around for a bit. Then it stopped. Sentret was caught.
"Yay. I got him!"
"Nice, man!"

And then, they kept walking, while Barry entertained the two of them with his breeding talk.

[A Forgotten Legend]

Joseph had forgotten what he was heading towards for a few minutes after he lost that Sentret.  He decided that he really didn't want that Sentret anyway. 'Too common a pokemon...' After all, a Sentret isn't good for much.  And so he was back on his way to New Bark Town.  After a while, he noticed the sounds of one person talking coming closer.  He decided to hide behind a tree.  As Joseph did so, two trainers walked past, one had a guitar, and the other wouldn't shut up about some breeding nonsense about why such a tiny pokemon like Skitty is able to breed with such a large pok... he was too far away by that point to for Joseph to hear. 'If I wouldn't have hid, no telling what kind of battle I was in for.  By now, he was almost in New Bark Town when a man approached him.

"Do you want to learn how to catch a pokémon?"
"Uhm... no thank you.  I'm fine, I think."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah... I'm sure"
"Alright then..."

The man when by the title "Dude" and was very strange. As he entered New Bark Town, he saw it.  Professor Gold's lab.  It was fairly large, and it was just as Joseph remembered it.  As he walked in, one of the professor's aides came up to him.

"You didn't happen to pass by a breeder and a guitarist and they give you something did they?"
"No, they didn't see me as they walked by."
"Oh.  Well, there is something they have to update your pokédex technology.  I would suggest running after them and ask them for one.  They didn't leave too long ago..."
"Uh... uhm... yeah!  Thanks!"  And with that Joseph ran off into the tall grass. 'They couldn't have gone too far'

[coreystranick]

Violet City
A town known best for Sprout Tower. This small town houses a PokeMart, PokeCenter, Gym, as well as a Trainer Academy.
The local Gym is mastered by a Flying-type Leader named Falkner. He took over after his father gave up the profession. In his beginning years he did not fair well and was always complaing about losing battles even though he used his father's Pokemon. Now that he is getting on in his age and has finally reopened the gym, he expects to lose more.
The Training Academy is run by Earl. Most beginning trainer's coming from New Bark Town stop here to gain some helpful information on status ailments.
Finally Sprout Tower, run by Buddhist monks who train Pokémon, all the while teaching people that all living beings coexist through cooperation. These monks mostly train Bellsprout, although occasionally use Hoothoot. People believe the tower was made from a 100 ft Bellsprout.
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Corey arrived in Violet City, the trek did not take long but it was well worth it. Instead of heading towards the gym he made his way to Sprout Tower's entrance. He had to get some training in with his Pokemon. Had been some time since Gira, Wy-guy, and Goldie had fought in a battle.

(expect a battle scene next post, figured I'd be the first to Violet since I was a lot closer than anyone else. so sorry Prup if you wanted to do the town intro.)

[Prpl_Mage]

Barry chuckled as the Pichu failed his conquest and was surprised at the strength of a Sentret that seemingly did well against a Thunderpunch - from an Electabuzz.
Electabuzz was one of those pokémon he barely had the chance to see in his line of work, few people wanted Elekids. Although there was one person who claimed that Electabuzz could evolve - with no proof at all.

He shrugged it off and went along with the idea of that Sentret being the top percentage of Sentrets.

As they walked on, Barry shared another one of his breeding stories but interrupted himself as he noticed an Apricorn tree. He ran up and picked the green apricorn and palced it in his case. He loved to pick apricorns, and berries for that matter. They could make Apricorn juice, poffins and pokéblocks with these stuff. Great for increasing pokémons' abilities - but apparently not anything related to actual combat.
Which now - for the first time - struck him.

He had never fought a battle before.
Sure he had caught wilds and he had trained pokémon, but there was no such thing as combat where he came from, none entered the Daycare expecting to battle. This was the very reason that he never tried to join the Sacred Ash.
No combat experience, and after all. Hurting pokémon for the sake of fun was wrong. He loved pokémon and thought that all pokémon should be able to live in harmony with each other and humans, he wished for a world of no pokéballs or rare candys.

It was then that he realized that they had entered Cherrygrove and Lucas went for the pokémon center, Barry cleared his mind and jogged up to the guitarist.

[coreystranick]

Corey entered the swaying building. A few monks were pacing around and a few travelers were inspecting the statues and taking pictures.
"Ahh, time to get some battling done."

Corey started his trek to the top. He went up the stairs in the upper left corner after nodding towards a monk standing near.
He crowned the top of the stairway to find nothing in his site. He had heard of some random Pokemon in this tower, mainly Gastly and Rattata.
"Hmm gotta watch for Gastly here, if they use Ghost moves Wy-guy won't be any good. Should stick with Goldie here since both Wy-guy and Gira are weak to any kind of bug move that these monks' Bellsprout may use too. It's been so long since I've had to remember any of this. Wish my Pokedex still held all the information it used to hold."

Corey came upon a monk standing near the next set of stairs.

Sage:"Hello trainer I am Sage Nico, pleased to meet you."
Corey:"I take it I must battle you to get to the top?"
Sage:"Yes"

Corey sends out Goldie.
"Alright let's go."

Sage Nico sends out Bellsprout.
"Goldie use Fury Swipes." Goldie slashes once, twice, and the weak Bellsprout falls.
"Oh I guess I'm stronger than I thought."
Sage Nico recalls the fainted Bellsprout and sends out another.
"Hmm, Goldie come back, Wy-guy go!" Goldie disappears instead of going into the Pokeball. Wy-guy is released.
Dammit Goldie where did you go? Always doing this

While Corey thought about Goldie the Sage attacked Wy-Guy with a Leech Life. Even though it was a weak Pokemon the attack did double damage to Wy-Guy.
"Crap!. Wy-guy use Mirror Coat!" Wy-guy took out the Bellsprout in one hit, inflicting double the damage it had taken from the Leech Life. There was nothing the Bellsprout could do.
Sage Nico took out his last Bellsprout. And the battle went as it had done before, Corey let the Bellsprout hit and then sent Wy-guy with a Mirror Coat.

After collecting his earnings Corey went ahead to the next stairs and the next challenge. Again a Sage with three Bellsprout stood before him. Corey took them out with Gira's Confusion.
"Easy."

The last floor was now where Corey stood. Three more stood before him. Corey took out the first's lone Bellsprout with an Encore and Mirror Coat from Wy-guy. The second was taken out with Gira's Confusion. The third was different. He had a Hoothoot.

Corey sent out Gira. Had him use Agility to raise his speed and then as the Hoothoot landed a Peck Gira retaliated with a firm Stomp. Right on top of the little round bird's head. Gira easily dispersed of the Bellsprout the followed.

As Corey collected the last of the earning from the Sage he turned and noticed Goldie sitting next to the Elder.
"Goldie! Come here! I've been looking for you."

The elder stood and said."Looks like even though this Sableye loves you, you still cannot control it. The badge from this city will help you with that. But first you must prove yourself to me."

"Um....ok. Goldie come your gonna fight for me."
Goldie disappeared and reappeared next to Corey. Even though it wouldn't listen all the time, it would still fight.
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The Elder sent out a Bellsprout.
"Use Growth Bellsprout."
A light enveloped Bellsprout as it gained energy preparing for a Special Attack next round.
"Goldie use Night Shade." The Bellsprout was hit, not too much damnage was taken due to the Pokemon being somewhat weak.
Bellsprout returned the favor with a Leech Life.
"Goldie use Astonish this time." Goldie paused and was hit with another Leech Life.
"Darn it I forgot you always have to go last when fighting." Then just as it was said Goldie used Astonish.
The Bellsprout fainted. The Elder followed with another Bellsprout and the battle went as it just had. This time Corey ordered a Fury Swipe instead, taking the Bellsprout out in the first move.

"Oh, you are good, but we are not done. I now send out my last Pokemon. Noctowl!"
The bird was released and began flying high as it could and perched itself on top of a beam.

"Wait I was told you use a Hoothoot!'
"Hahaha don't you think after all the battles I have my Pokemon would evolve? I keep the Bellsprout just to fool trainers."

Darn it, Goldie is weak it may not be able to take this battle. I'll still have to try.
"Goldie...Do you think you can do this?" His favoured Pokemon looked at him, emotions were hard to tell with his big Jewel-like eyes, but Corey could swear he saw determination.
"Alright, use Foresight!" As Goldie took away any possible way the foe Noctowl could evade, it shot back with a Hypnosis.
Goldie took the hit, and fell asleep.
"Goldie, no. Return, you can't fight anymore. Gira it is your turn now." Gira came out of the Pokeball, stomping his hooves.
With his ablility to halve that time he sleeps this battle should be easy. And with Agility he can attack before that darn bird.
"Agility!" Gira focused and began moving faster able to get ahead of the next Hypnosis that was shot from the shrieking bird.
"Now use Confusion! Keep this up buddy."
The confusion nailed the bird halting his flying pattern for just a moment. Enough time for Gira to use another Agility.
"Again Confusion!" This time when the bird was hit, it became confused. His flying pattern now random, bumping into the pillar that held the building up.
The Noctowl came in for Sky Attack but was still confused. It ended up mistaking Corey for Gira and as he came in Corey jumped to the side and Noctowl slammed into the floor. It was unconscious.
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"Hmm well it seems you are a good trainer, please take this TM FLASH. It will help for those pesky unlit caves," the Elder said recalling his bird.
"Take on the gym, I hope your journey fairs well."

And with that Corey gave thanks for the battle and began his descent downwards towards town.
Haven't battled in so long. I'm just glad I could win. I must train some more, maybe I need a different Pokemon that isn't psychic or ghost....
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(BTW Sableye has the ability Stall which makes her attack after the foe no matter what move is used)

[A Forgotten Legend]

It didn't take very long for Joseph to make it back to Cherrygrove.  A few battles with some Sentret didn't go too well, and his pokémon were weak.  'I need to head to the Pokémon center...'  As he entered, he saw the two trainers from earlier.
"Hey!  You two!"  The two turned around confused." The aide in Professor Gold's lab said you had something to hand out?"
The breeder spoke.  "Yeah, it's a pokédex upgrade.  I take it you would like one?"
"I would."
"Take this then." The breeder handed him the upgrade.
"Thanks."
"Do you need your pokémon healed?" The nurse smiled and took his three pokéballs.
"So..."
The nurse came back with the pokéballs. "Here you are. Be careful that your pokémon don't get badly injured while you're out, and always carry some potions with you."
"Thanks!"  With that, Joseph left the Pokémon Center. "Next stop, Violet City!"

[ellie-is]

"Yo, Bro, wait." Lucas yelled  at the guy with the backpack.
"Oh. Hi, what's it?" Joeseph asked
"Where are you heading?"
"Violet City."
"Well, so are we. What if we go together?"
"Huh, sounds good, I guess!"
"C'mon Barry, let's go."
Barry finished up his things, and they left.

When Barry went on about his breeding stories, Joe started to wonder if it was a good idea to go with those two guys.
"Yeah man." Lucas said to Joseph "I know what you're thinking. I feel the same".
They laughed. Barry didn't get the joke. Pichu also seemed confused.

[Prpl_Mage]

Barry walked with the two chaps. Nice guys and all that, but they had such strong pokémon.
Barry usually sent out his Shroomish - Sishohorm against any pokémon he wanted to capture. The he let his enemies attack it since they would suffer from Effect Spores and his buddy would simply use absorb till the battle was over. But if the enemy was really strong Barry would be sure to give him a Lemonade or a Sitrus Berry he couldn't risk them disliking him.

Then he had a great idea, what if he caught something new? Something that could perhaps do better in a fight? Like that awesome Sentret? His party was super-duper loved and maxed with apricorn juices, berries, poffins and pokéblocks. But apparently none of that actually made them stronger.

"Sishohorm use Headbutt on that tree!" Barry called his Shroomish and the blobby fungus went all out on the closest pine. There was a large *smack* noise coming from the tree as Sishohorm bounced off and landed on the grass.
"Nice job buddy!" Barry said and chuckled as a wild Spinarak fell down into the grass.
"Now what is this? A spider? I haven't seen one of these before!" Barry exclaimed happily and chuckled as the pokémon got up from its back.

"Give your pokédex a shot!" Lucas called from the distance and Joe joined in.
"It will give you all kinds of useful information when you fight something!"
"Right!" Barry called back and fumbled with his pokédex and scanned the creature before him.
Unfortunately, his upgraded Kanto pokédex lacked the cool sound and voice option thatthe old version had.
He read the information and decided to let Sishohorm do his thing.

"Sishohorm wear it out!" Barry called and watched as the Spinarak tried its' best to defeat Shroomish and Shroomish silly attempts at stealing energy from it with absorb.
He decided to throw a pokéball and watched the Spinarak get sucked in; It barely closed before it broke open again.
"Darn, let's give it another chance..." He said and threw a new ball, the same thing happened.
"Try to wear it down with some real attacks or give it a status problem!" Lucas said as he and Joe stopped to wait for him.
"I guess I just have to wait for it to get paralyzed or something." He said and shrugged.

And as a blessing from above - Spinarak did indeed get a status abnormality - but as all fate knows - it doesn't always turn out the be the one you're hoping for.
"It's poisoned" Joe said and saw Barry's disappointment.
"I guess I can't rely on the status effect then..." He mumbled and exclaimed "Sishohorm use Headbutt!"

The fungus charged the spider and bonked it silly with it's enormous head. The Spinarak fainted.

"Darn it all." Barry said and looked at his Shroomish which looked just as bitter as he did.
"That's too bad Barry but you can't always succeed!" Joe said and and smiled friendly.
"Yeah.... I guess so." He said and called for his pokémon to follow him again as he ran up to his companions.

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It didn't take too long before they saw the Bellsprout tower in Violet, Barry also noticed an apricorn tree next to a cave but the other two told him to stay the Muk out till he got something called Flash. After checking the move up on his pokédex he couldn't understand what good an Sand attack substitute would do in a dark cave.

[ellie-is]

"So, what do you guys want to do in Violet City?", Lucas asked, while petting his Pichu.
"I want to take on their Gym challenge."
"Ah, I see man. Collecting badges and all that? Same here. What about you, Barry?"
"Yep, me too."
"Right. Hey, look, a Bellsprout!" Lucas pointed to the Pokémon hiding in the grass. "Anyone want to catch that?"
Nobody did.
"Alright. Parasect, lets get some work out!" He threw the Pokéball, and the Mushroom pokémon came out.

Bellsprout tried to hit it with a Vinewhip attack, but Parasect simply grabbed it's vine the big pincer.
"Good job buddy! Show him your X-Scissor attack!"
Parasect released Bellsprout, and crossed his two claws on it. The super effective attack made the little grass poké faint.
"Awesome! Come back, man." He returned Parasect.

"Wow, he sure is strong! Can you believe it took him down in one hit", said Barry.
"Yep, I train my Pokés a lot. But that was easy, really. It was a weak Grass type against a strong Bug type attack from a Bug type pokémon. No way to resist that."
"I see..."

[Prpl_Mage]

Barry realized one thing. He didn't knew enough about pokémon. Sure, he knew what most pokémon could learn and how cool their moves looked while using them in contests. He knew abilities and he knew power. But what he knew was all facts, the meaning of what he knew about each pokémon was nothing.
He knew that effect spore could leave them paralyzed but last time they got poisoned. He knows that headbutt is stronger than absorb but didn't know it made such difference as it did last time.

In other words. Barry needed training, some education perhaps. Maybe he simply needed a mentor to let him know all about what a pokémon's type represented or what moves were good when and with what...

"Guys, I'm gonna go on ahead and see if there's something here that can help me train." Barry said happily and waved goodbye to the other two as he jogged the last bit to Violet City.

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Violet city was a lot larger than Cherrygrove and New Bark town, but not as much a city as Celadon where he spent most of his time. There were small houses, a large tower and some sign mentioning ruins.
He didn't care much for tourist attractions right now though as he noticed the sign that read "Trainer Academy - Pokémon School"

"I'll be damned, I think I just found exactly what I'm looking for!" Barry chuckled as he returned his party to their balls and entered the academy to learn something new. Something he could use to actually win battles and get stronger.

[coreystranick]

Corey had finally made it down the stairs of the tower. It seemed to take longer going down, than it did going up.

"Phew that was tiring."

Corey spied a trainer, looking more so like a breeder with his pale and all, walking up to the Training Academy and saw him make face as he read the sign.

Must be a new trainer

Corey headed off towards the Pokecenter wondering about his journey and his reasons for it.

I wonder how old man Lando is doing

[ellie-is]

"Hey, Joe, I think I'm gonna try to climb up the tower. Bird gym will present no challenge to my electric Pokés, but at least the plant types will offer my Pokés the chance to do some training. If they still have all their weak Bellsprouts, Pichu might finally have a chance to battle. So meet ya later!"

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They said their goodbyes, and Lucas went inside the tower. As he got in, he saw this guy with a backwards cap walking out.

The first few levels were easy. Even his Pichu managed to deal with some trainers all by himself, and his new Sentret took care of others.

After a few monks on the last level, he met their leader.
"Welcome", said the Elder.
"Hello, Elder." Lucas bowed. "I've come here to train and get stronger. Please let me fight your strongest Pokémon."
"You seem determinate. I like that. I'll give you a challenge."

First he sent out a Weepinbell.
"Pichu, let's go! Time for you to do some fighting!"

The Sage ordered his Pokémon to attack. Razor leaf, Pichu took the full hit.

"Damn, that was a lot for my little guy. Thundershock!"

Pichu managed to land the hit, but Weepinbell didn't seem hurt. Not very effective.

"Damn... I'll never beat him like this."
The sage ordered Weepinbell to attack again.
"Alright, its all or nothing! Pichu, VOLT TACKLE!"

Pichu stopped to think for a bit, and then he started glowing. And after that he charged into Weepinbell with all his strenght. Big flashing lights everywhere, and then an explosion. Both fell down to the ground.

"Volt tackle... Interesting attack. Looks like your Pokémon couldn't take it, though."
"Well, with all due respect, neither could yours. Pichu was going to faint anyway. At least he didn't go down alone." Lucas smiled as he took Pichu back into his ball. He was also incredibly happy that it worked, since he had no idea if Pichu knew that move or not. But the buddy who gave him the Egg was a breeder, so he'd probably have given it some trick.

The elder sent out a Victreebel. "Time for Electabuzz", he thought, and sent out the angry monkey.
"You seem to like Electric types."
"Well, they need practice against grass types. Might not be the best choice, but if I don't train, they'll be helpless when they need to fight."
"Very well. Victreebel, Vinewhip!"

He took the hit and countered with a Thunder Punch. The attack didn't do a lot of damage, but left Victreebel paralysed.
"Great! Screech, and then quick attack!"
The Electric pokémon let out an earsplitting screech that reduced the defense of the paralysed flycatcher, and then hit it with a quick attack.
"Finish him with Swift!"
Before he had a chance to attack, Electabuzz quickly shot out dozens of star shaped rays that took him down.
"Great job! Come back!"
"I can see that you are an experienced trainer."

The Sage sent out a Noctowl for his last Pokémon, and Lucas sent Parasect.
"Might not be the best choice, but like I said, I'm here for the practice."

Each of them ordered their Pokémon to attack.
Parasect tried to hit the Owl Pokémon with his Spores, but they missed. Noctowl countered with a powerful psychic blast that left Parasect confused.
"Aw, damn it."

Noctowl proceeded to hit Parasect with a Wing Attack, that the confused poké was unable to dodge. Lastly, it used Hypnosis to put him to sleep, and ended the battle with a Dream Eater.

"Crap. I guess all these super effective moves were too much."
Lucas returned Parasect, and sent out Electabuzz again, who did short work of Noctowl with a single Thunder attack.

"Great battle. Thank you for the chance of fighting you, Elder." Lucas bowed again.
"It was my pleasure. Here, take this. It's HM05. I'm sure you know how it works?" The elder smiled.
"I do. Thank you."

Lucas climbed down the long stairs, and went back to the center to get his pokés healed. He then sat on the couch, and decided to wait for the others before going to the Gym. He also taught Flash to Pichu and Electabuzz. "Guess it won't hurt to teach them how to use this.".

[coreystranick]

Corey was sitting down inside the Pokecenter wondering about Lando.
Had been doing so for a while and just kept reassuring himself that this is what he needs to do to help the old man.
I have to find a Pokemon that isn't psychic or ghost, I'm going to get stomped at a few of the gyms if not. But what should I get, there isn't anything around this area.

Corey concluded his thoughts by deciding when he was done with the gym he would go and do some searching....or trading.

When he got done his thoughts on the present and future situation he noticed an musician walking in, one he vaguely noticed on his way out of the tower.

[Prpl_Mage]

Barry spent a couple of hours asking questions and listening to lectures from the people at the academy, it was all pretty hard. But he did take notes on the effects of status problems and type advantages. He felt ready to go now since he kinda realized that this was all "battles in theory" and not actual battles.
He bought a book about the class that was held there and said his goodbyes.

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Barry saw the large tower in the distance but decided to skip it, he wanted to try the gym right away. He knew that his grass type moves would have little effect against birds but lucky him that he had moves such as Headbutt.
He skipped the pokémon centre and went straight for the gym and gasped at the challenged ahead. It was time to prove that he was more than just a breeder; that he was indeed a trainer.

[A Forgotten Legend]

Joseph took his time looking around.  For it being so close, he had never been in Violet City before.  The tower looked like a good place to train, and the gym shouldn't be too bad with Flaffy... but the outskirts of town had something very intriguing.  The ruins.  He had read about them, and had always wanted to vist, but never had the chance.  What mysteries were there for him to explore?  He quickly left town towards the Ruins.