Pokémon RP Johto Stories

[ellie-is]

"Alright, this is it." It hadn't been five minutes yet, but Lucas got tired of waiting. He walked out of the door and headed for the Gym. On his way in, he noticed Barry.
"Hey man. How did it go at school?"
"Just fine, thanks! I'm about to try what I learned."
"Hey, you mind if I fight first? Just want to get this over with."
"I-"
"C'mon, it'll be quick. And you'll get to learn how the leader fights and all."
"Huh..."
"Please?"
"Sure."
"Thanks man. You rock."

"Hey. Falkner, right?"
"Yep, that's me. You here to challenge me?"
"You bet. I'm going to clip your flying types with a jolt of electricity!"
"...."
"I said anything wrong?"
"I won't allow such insults to my magnificent bird Pokémon!"
"...sure man. Let's go!"

They sent out their Pokémon. Electabuzz versus Pelipper.
"That looks too easy. Electabuzz, Thunder!"
"Tailwind!"

Electabuzz let out a powerful Electric blast, but Pelipper merely dodged it, while whipping up a turbulent wind and rasing it's speed.
"...cool. Electabuzz, hit him with a Quick Attack!"
"Pelipper, hit him with your Ice Beam!"

Electabuzz rushed towards Pelipper, while the bird shot the beam. Electabuzz managed to dodge, but missed quick attack while doing it.

"Thunderpunch!"
"Surf!"

Both Pokémon ran twoards each other, each charging their movies. However, Electabuzz couldn't hit the seagull Pokémon, who was faster after his speed boost, and hit Electabuzz with a gigantic wave, knocking it to the ground.

"So, what was it you said about Electric attacks?"
"Ah man, screw you. Electabuzz, get up buddy! Let's see what he can do without that extra speed! Discharge!"

Electabuzz focused its power and released electricity all over the place, causing great damage to the water/flying poké, while also paralyzing it.
"Now, Thunder!"
"No, Pelipper! Dodge!"

But it was too late. The paralyzed bird couldn't dodge the attack and fainted.

"Very well." Falkner returned his Pokémon. "Let's see what you can do about this. Staraptor, its your turn!"
"Oh my, another bird. I'm screwed." Lucas laughed, and smiled at Electabuzz.

"I'm not going to waste any time. Brave bird!"
"Hey, Electabuzz, just let him hit you."

The confused pokémon obeyed his trainers order, and took the full blow. He was greatly damaged now, and Staraptor didn't seem all that hurt from the attack.
"Why did you do that?" Barry asked
"...I was hoping Electabuzz's Static would paralyze Staraptor. Guess I can't always count on it." He looked at his hurt Pokémon "Sorry buddy! Next time he attacks, hit him with all you got!"

"Hmph. What a trainer you are! Staraptor, Close combat and finish him!"
"Its your chance, man! Get him!"

Staraptor ran near Electabuzz, and was ready to do some damage. It tried to cut Electabuzz's attack with his intimidating look, but the big ape, who was already mad for taking that first hit, only got angrier. As Staraptor tried to hit Electabuzz, he was struck by a powerful Thunder Punch to the face.

"There you go! Keep doing it!"

This time, Electabuzz was happy to follow the trainer's order. He tripped the Predator Pokémon with a not very effective low kick, but that was enough to make it flinch. Then, Electabuzz finished it off with a close range ThunderBolt.

"You rock, man!" Lucas hi-fived his Pokémon while Falkner returned his.

"I'm not losing without taking any of your Pokémon." Falkner let out a Pidgeot.
"Sure you aren't."
"This was my father's Pidgeot! This is the strongest Pokémon I have, and he will take you down for sure."
"Chill, bro. I mean, aren't these gym battles just ways of testing trainers to see if they deserve to fight in the league in the end?"
"It was, before you offended Flying type Pokémon. Now we will see how good you are!"
"Right..."

Pidgeot started with a double team near the ceiling.
"Right, he's not gonna get close enough for Electabuzz to hit him with a strong enough move, he's too smart for that... Electabuzz, use Screech, and keep using it over and over until he comes down from the air!"
"What, you're going to try winning by being annoying?"
"You bet."
"Use D-... No, his defense is going to get too low... Pidgeot, use Return! Show them how how well trained you are!"
"Electabuzz, Thundershock!"
But he missed, and got hit with Pidgeot's Return, which caused him to faint.

"Damn, I knew I should've gone with Swift instead. Parasect, go!"
"A Grass/Bug type against my bird?" Falkner laughed at the irony
"Hey, you aren't the only one who can fight with a type that isn't very effective and win. Parasect, show him your Spore attack!"
"No! Pidgeot, Quick attack!"

Pidgeot hit Parasect before he could release his Spores, but as he hit him, Parasect accidentally let out a cloud of toxic powder from his mushroom.

"Bastard! You know that you can't be put to sleep if you got another stat condition, and you knew that Parasect does that when he's hit... Damn you."
"I didn't become a Gym leader without studying, you know."
"C'mon, you only got this gym because your dad used to own it. I bet you never even beat the league." Lucas taunted him. And it seemed to work.
"Why, you! Take that back!"
"Nope. Parasect, Giga Drain!"

Parasect started sucking Pidgeot's energy into his mushroom, and Falkner ordered it to Roost to recover the lost life.

"Get him while he's down! Slash!"

Pidgeot to get off the ground, but not before he was hit with a powerful attack with Parasect's pincer. He might've been able to attack again if his trainer had ordered a move, but Falkner was too distracted thinking of a good insult for Lucas.
"His defense is down from that screech! One last Slash should be able to finish him!"
"No, wait, Pidgeot, get out of there! Use Swagger!"
Pidgeot dodged just in time, and taunted Parasect into confusion.
"Parasect, stop hitting the air and use Aromatherapy!"
"Pidgeot, hit him with a Wing Attack!"

But Parasect listened, and healed his status problem, though the attack boost didn't go away. As Pidgeot dashed towards him, Parasect landed his last Slash, ending the battle.

"Yay, dude! I'm so proud of you!" Lucas hugged the mold infested bug Pokémon.
"Ew.", thought Barry.

"Fine. You win. I accept my defeat. Take this badge."
"Thanks bro. You fought well. Don't I get a TM too?"
"Don't push your luck. I can't see what you would do with Roost, anyway."
"Yeah, you're right. But you never know. I might catch Zapdos one day." He laughed, and shook hands with Falkner after getting his badge.

"Your turn, Barry." Lucas sat on a chair near the exit, put his Pichu on the ground, and started playing around with his guitar while he waited for his friend's fight.

[Prpl_Mage]

Barry was impressed by the trainer's performance. He just wished the trainer would play a battle theme next time.

"I guess I'm next" Barry said confident as he walked over to the gym leader after he healed his pokés.
The leader looked pissed and Barry was a bit nervous. Lucas used electric type moves and it had an advantage towards the flying type.
Barry had to use something beside grass moves or he wouldn't deal any damage.

"I'd like yo challenge you to a fight leader type!" He said and bowed.
"Another one?" The leader said and shook off his bitterness.
"Yepp, I'm hyped up and ready to go."

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Barry sent out Oddish, he would try to use poison powder since he wasn't going for a catch and then tackle.
"Go Starraptor!" Falkner called as the large bird erupted from the ball.
It's sharp eyes pierced any bravery his tough looking Oddish might have shown.

"Use poisonpowder!" Barry called and the oddish began to chant.
"Take it out!" Falkner called and a moment passed before the bird slapped the oddish silly with its' wing.
"Aw darn it." Barry mumbled as he withrew Oddish and sent out Lotad.

"Tadol use Water gun!" Barry called but an Aerial Ace completely sundered the bouncy creature.
"Aw... Well, last try." Barry said as he shrugged and sent out Shroomish.
"I'm tired of games." Falkner said and waved at his Starraptor.

The bird soared high and dived right in front of the mushroom. Shroomish braced for impact but the bird crashed down next to it and clenched it's wing.
"I can't watch this..." Barry said as the Starraptor unleashed punch after punch with it's graceful Close Combat.
The Mushroom pokémon was far more than fainted as it collapsed to the floor - but Starraptor was at least poisoned.

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"Well, that's all I could offer." Barry said with a sad smile, he thought it would go a lot better now that he knew more. But apparently there was more to fighting than just picking the right move to use.
"Thanks for the battle, I really needed that." Falkner said and walked up and shook Barry's hand.
"Oh well, it seems like you're just too strong for me." Barry said and flushed.
"You know what? Take this badge for the effort." Falkner said and held out a badge.
"What really?" Barry said and smiled.
"No, of course not..." Falkner said and grinned as he put it back in the pocket.
"Darn man, that's mean." Barry said and chuckled.
"Return here once you've trained your pokémon a little more, and perhaps get something aside from grass types. My Flying types will always have the advantage against them.

With those words Barry walked over to Lucas and shrugged.
"I guess I wasn't ready for this after all." He smiled and wondered that maybe he should just give up the whole elite four dream of his.
"You just need to get stronger, train like crazy." Lucas said as he played a familiar tone on the guitar.
"Would you teach me how to get stronger?" Barry asked and chuckled, then looked at Lucas pleadingly.
Lucas stopped playing right in the song and turned to the breeder.

[coreystranick]

Corey had finally gotten up from his chair in the Pokecenter.

"Well, guess it's about time to go to the gym and see what I can do."

Corey walked into the gym, he noticed two trainers talking that he had seen around town before. The breeder looked disappointed, must have lost.

"Well, do you wish to battle as well?"
"Yes, I've come to take down your birds."
"Well, we will see about that Staraptor!"

The Pokemon came soaring out of the Pokeball. Corey waited and decided to send out Gira.
"Gira Agility!"
"Close Combat Staraptor"
The bird came in close but with Gira's speed raised he was able to dodge.
"Confusion!"
Gira sent out waves of psychic power towards the bird hitting firmly on the head. Solid hit, but it did not confuse the bird.
"Brave Bird now!"
Staraptor landing into Gira's side. The hit hurt Gira but also the bird.
"Quick before it flys back out of range use Stomp!"
Gira kicked his back hooves, but just barely hit the bird before it flew off.
"Agility agian, we gotta get faster."
Gira raised his speed once more.
"Now use Confusion!"
"Close Combat again Staraptor"
"Great! Now that he is close use Stomp!"
The two Pokemon exchanged blows, but since Staraptor was already weakened it didn't take long before Gira was the winner, though a badly hurt one.

"Pelipper your turn."
"Gira use Confusion."
With the raised speed he was able to land the hit before Falkner's Pokemon could.
"Tailwind Pelipper."
The bird began to raise it's speed to match Gira's. Soon they were equal.
"Confusion!"
"Ice Beam."
The two beams smacked together, Gira couldn't hold on and lost, the ice beam knocking him out.

"Hmm, Wy-guy your turn. Use Mirror Coat."
Pelipper came in for another Ice Beam. It hit Wy-guy but Mirror Coat returned the damage two fold.
"Encore Wy-guy."
Pelipper began to use another move, but all of a sudden an Ice beam shot out.
"Mirror Coat quick!"
Wy-guy was hit, he wouldn't take much more but Pelipper was doing worse since he was taking double the damage he was doing to Wy-guy.
"Destiny Bond Wy-guy!"
Pelipper came in for the final hit, taking out the poor little guy.
Falkner smiled, but then a small ball of light came and hit Pelipper, both Pokemon were fainted.
"Nice move kid."

"Now for my final Pokemon. Pidgeot!"
"Goldie go!"
"Quick attack Pidgeot."
The bird came in and Sableye just stood there. Sableye was unaffected.
"Foresight."
As  the bird came in Goldie turned and his eyes glowed peering into the bird. He had taken away any evasion that was imposed.
"Astonish!"
Goldie was hit by  a Wing Attack but the bird was taking hits as well.
"Now Night Shade!"
Pidegot took a lot of damage since it was a more experienced than the Bellsprout.
Goldie and the bird were both getting tired.
"Goldie as it comes in use Zen Headbutt."
Goldie took the Wing Attack that followed and hit the bird squarely on it's head.
Pidegot was dazed.
"Quick before it regains composure finish it with fury swipes."
Goldie began scratching the bird over and over.
"Use return"
"Zen Headbutt!!"
Both Pokemon hit, both fainted. But Pidegot just slightly before Goldie.

"You got lucky, I don't even wanna give you the badge."
"But I won!"
"By a few seconds!"
"It matters in races why not here!?"
"Because this is my gym!"
"Well no, it is your father's Falkner!"
"He isn't here, so it is mine and I won't give you this badge."
"What a sore loser."

Corey turned and stormed out, not even noticing if the other two trainers were still there.

[ellie-is]

"Wow." Barry was surprised at how much of a jerk Falkner was.
"Well, he's kinda right. Not a victory if your pokémon aren't standing anymore."
"I guess..."
"Well, let's go man. We should get our pokés healed and all."

Lucas then walked out of the door, and Barry followed. Soon they reached the center and were ready to on an adventure once again.

[A Forgotten Legend]

The Ruins of Alph

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The ruins have been a mystery for years.  A strange group of pokémon were discovered here in the ruins, given the name Unknown.  They seemed to be in shapes of letters.  Joseph had seen a documentary on the rocket invasion of the ruins not too long ago.  They were looking for the hidden secrets of the ruins, because they had heard tales of a powerful rare pokémon that inhabited it.  These came from people hearing an interference in their pokégear radio.  Apparently, they thought it was the cry of the legendary pokémon, Ho-oh.  When they got there, they destroyed much of the ruins in the process.  All that was left was one cave, and unknown scattered everywhere.  The people who had been studying the ruins were forced to join Team Rocket, and became slave researchers at their bidding.  Now that Team Rocket is out of Johto, they were able to return, and their research has begun again.  Unfortunately, since most of the records of the ruins were destroyed, they have made little progress of late.

"This place is eerie..." The ruins had a mist all around.  It seemed almost like a graveyard.  From what he had heard, the place was crawling with ghost pokémon. "What was that?!" A pokémon came up in front of his face out of thin air.  It looked at him, and then backed up.  It looked puzzled as why Joseph was just standing there frozen.
"Dusk!"
"Duskull, the Requiem Pokémon. Duskull wanders lost among the deep darkness of midnight. There is an oft-told admonishment given to misbehaving children that this Pokémon will spirit away bad children who earn scoldings from their mothers."
"Duskull, eh?"  The pokédex was very useful.  He had never seen a Duskull before.  "Go, Teddiursa!" Teddiursa got quick a shock when it saw the ghost pokémon. "Teddiursa, don't be scared! We can do this!  ...Teddiursa should be okay as long as I don't use any normal type moves... Teddiursa!  Use Fake Tears!"
Teddiursa started to produce tears, the Duskull became very uncomfortably, and looked open for an attack.
"Faint Attack!" Teddiursa distracted Duskull and hit it with the move.  It was a good hit and the Duskull flew back a few feet.  It took a bit of damage.  It wasn't through yet.  The Duskull used Night Shade, and quickly realized it had no effect on Teddiursa.
"Teddiursa, use Lick!"  It didn't do much, but it did something at least.  The Duskull used Disable before Teddiursa could get another lick.  "Darn it! Use Faint Attack!"  Again, it tried to distract Duskull.  It worked, and Teddiursa managed to get another nice blow.  
"Now use Fake Tears!"  The Duskull used Astonish, but it didn't have any effect, and was caught off-guard by Teddiursa's tears.
"Give it another Faint Attack!" This time Duskull was having none of it.  It used Confuse Ray just as Teddiursa got near.  In its confusion it accidentally hit itself.  "Teddiursa! Come back!  Good job! Now what... let's try Flaffy! Go, Flaffy!"
The sheep-like pokémon came out of the ball and looked at the Duskull.  Duskull was weak, and didn't have much will to fight.
"Flaffy!  Use Thunder Wave!"  Flaffy shot a shock of electricity, just enough to paralyze the Duskull.  It seemed to almost give up.  "Pokéball, go!"  In a flash of light, the Duskull was in the pokéball. It moved once.  Twice.  Thrice.  And another time before it stopped.  "We did it!  We caught a pokémon Flaffy!" Flaffy began to cheer along with Joseph.  He returned Flaffy and released his newly caught Duskull.  "So, anything cool around here?"  The Duskull was still weak, but it bobbed happily and began floating towards something in the distance.

After a few minutes of walking, Duskull stopped.  It looked like it heard something.  A few Rattata rushed passed.  I don't enjoy those things... the teeth just creep me out...  Joseph looked at Duskull.  It bobbed and began floating in a different direction.  It was only a few more paces before he came to a old building.  It seemed to have rubble on it from the explosions the Rockets used to destroy the ruins.  He walked inside to find a working laboratory with a few scientist working.  One of them noticed him and called for him to come over.

"I see you made a new friend, Duskull!"
"Huh?  You know him?"
"He wanders in here all the time.  He's quite friendly.  Surprising for a ghost pokémon.  I think he was brought here by a Rocket Grunt and released because he was too weak.  So he would roam around the ruins of the ruins.  I see you must have caught him.  Good for you."
"Thanks...?  What are you guys studying now, anyway?"
"Well, mostly why this fog appeared here.  After the explosion, the fog set in and many pokémon began to appear.  Lately there have been some sightings of a few pokémon not native to the region."
"Cool."
"It is. Do me to show you around the lab?"
"That would be really awesome!"
"Come on then"

[ellie-is]

Lucas and Barry left the center, and headed off to the ruins, hoping to meet Joe. On the way there, as they walked down the road, they noticed a cool trainer type man walking up to them. An enormous Nidoking followed him.

"Hey, you! Pichu man! Care to battle?"
"Anytime, man!"

Lucas was ready to reach for Electabuzz's Pokéball when the trainer interrupted him.
"How about we make this interesting."
"I'm listening."
"How many Pokés you get there?" The man looked at Lucas's belt.
"Huh, four."
"Alright. So let's make this deal. If you can beat my Nidoking here with any of those Pokés, I'll give you a thousand bucks. If I beat all your pokémon, it's five hundred bucks for me."
"Dude, it sounds too good to be true. Don't do it." Barry said, worried.
"Chill, bro. I can take care of him just fine. Okay, you're up. Gotta, say, I only have 450 with me. Not that I'll be needing it."
"450 is okay. Go."

Lucas sent out Parasect first. Grass type. Should be easy.

"Parasect, start with Giga Drain!"
It started sucking out the energy of Nidoking, who countered with a powerful Flamethrower. Parasect's natural double weakness to fire, coupled with his Dry Skin caused him to faint.

"Damn, you're good." Lucas was smiling.
"I know." And the cool trainer had an even bigger grin.

Electabuzz went out, and he was told to start with a low kick. His greater speed allowed him to strike first. Nidoking fell, hurt by his own huge weight. But as soon as he got up, he started a powerful Earthquake, knocking Electabuzz out before he could land another Fighting type move.

"****, buddy. You're good." Lucas was starting to regret the bet, and told Pichu to enter the battlefield.
"I know, right?" The man was happy Lucas had accepted to battle.

"Okay, Pichu can't use Volt Tackle on a Ground type... Damnit. Okay, Pichu, pal, show him your Charm! Maybe Sentret will stand a chance if his attack goes down."

Pichu tried showing Nidoking how cute he was, but the Drill pokémon simply Slammed Pikachu away from him, knocking the little guy out cold.
"Shit." Lucas returned Pichu and sent out Sentret.

"Okay man, I know I haven't really used you yet, but this your turn to show how great you are at battling." Lucas told his Pokémon before ordering an attack "Now, Defense Curl, his attack should already be lower, at least you'll take a couple hits before going down."

Sentret listened. And then Nidoking attacked with the super effective Double Kick.
"Shit, I forgot he could do that. Shit, shit, shit. Sentret, dodge!"

The small scout pokémon managed to somehow dodge Nidoking's massive legs, but he was then caught by his tail. Nidoking proceeded to attack with Horn Drill, ignoring defense or attack, simply fainting Sentret.

"Okay. Here's your money." Lucas paid the trainer, who left with a big smile on his face without saying a word.

"Dude, I told you it was a bad idea." said Barry.
"Yeah, you're right. Okay, I'm going to run to the center to heal them. Go ahead and see if you can find Joe."
"Okay. By the way, did he take all your money?"
"No, I actually had a little more... But damn. It's gonna be hard buying me food now. And I sure as hell won't be getting any new potions and pokéballs anytime soon. I only have like, thirty or twenty bucks on me."
"Sounds bad."
"Sure is." And then he left, while Barry went to look for Joe.

[Prpl_Mage]

Barry left Lucas and wondered where that other trainer had went. And he also realized that Lucas was stronger than him, who was weaker than Falkner BUT that cooltrainer was stronger than Lucas. It all made little sense. Barry thought that the gym leaders where the strong trainers.

He wanted to beat Falkner pretty badly but pulled out his notebook. "Flying beats grass, bug and fighting."
Turned the page. "Flying gets beaten by electric, ice and rock. NOTE: most bird types are also normal".
An electric pokémon like those Lucas had would do wonders in other words. Maybe if he breed the electabuzz to gain an elekid? Nah, he couldn't ask that of a complete stranger. Ice types then? Nope, probably none of those around...
That left one thing.

"Rock types, guys, we're gonna get a rock type!" He said as he released his pokémon from their balls so they could accompany him

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He strode through the grass and meet a bunch of rattatas, when it happened he had to call back those not fighting to make sure that he had control of everything.
Shroomish fared best, seemed like he was the most battle-able of his crew. Then it was Lotad, it had been breed with water gun which made an amazing difference compared to Oddish Tackle.
He was learning and he would be better. Learning moves, what his opponents might know. Learning their types, learning move-types. His notebook was so littered with scribbles that he was getting dizzy.

He passed some sign that said "Ruins of Alph" And figured it was nothing good over there, why would anyone visit ruins after all?
He continued down and avoided trainers and some creepy bearded madman who stood on a hill and screamed his lungs out.
In the end he arrived at a cave. The Onion cave, odd name indeed. Then he realized that someone had drawn on the sign, the original name was Union cave.

He stepped inside and it was dark, he heard movements but his eyes adjusted at last.
He walked for a while and met Geodudes left and right. He knew that he had the advantage and let his Shroomish and Lotad do their thing. Water and grass moves were really good against these.
He stayed in the cave for a while and trained, he had plenty of Sitrus and Leppa berries that he handed out.
When he felt okay with the training he gave them all a haircut and started to head out.
But his Shroomish stayed where it was.

"What's the matter? You see another geodude?" But as Barry looked, there was a large rocky snake in front of him - Onix.
"Whoa, you sure you can fight that?" Barry asked and his Shromish answered with the useful bitter expression.

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Shroomish steeled himself from the blow and took the Rock Throw with ease, the Onix was strong but it didn't do much against the fungus.
"Keep using Absorb took keep your health up if you want to!" Barry called as Shroomish charged his attack.
The onix was struck by the attack and parts of his energy slowly seeped into the fungal creation in front of him.
There was no reason for his behaviour the next couple of turns though. First it polished itself to make it move faster, then it increased its' defense with harden. But Barry now knew that Absord was a special attack.
"You're doing great!" Barry called as the Onix seemed weaker and weaker.
The he remembered.
"Oh yeah, I came here to find a rock pokémon..." And so he dug through his bag to find his pokéballs.

He weighted the ball in his hand and threw it at the Onix, it was sucked in and the ball wobbled, then it wobbled some more - but it broke.
"Drats, I guess it needs some kind of status problem then, huh? Don't do anything, wait for it to attack you with it's body so it can get effected by your spores!" Barry called and smiled at the Shroomish, who looked back at him like he was dumb.

Shroomish disobeyed orders and began charging an attack.
"Aww, c'mon, don't do this. I wanna catch that thing y'know?" Barry pleaded as he threw another ball at the solid serpent.
Shroomish unleashed his attack, but it was not an attack. Spores filled the air and struck Onix. He seemed to be restrained by some unseen force.
"Paralyze? But he didn't even hit you..?" Barry said confused.
The Shroomish hopped in place to signal Barry to snap out of it.
"Right, capture!"

He threw another ball and it hit its' mark, Onix was sucked into it and the ball wobbled, then it wobbled some more before a clicking noise was heard and it was stuck.

Barry leaped up in joy and shouted 'yay's, he cheered at his Shroomish and hugged it.
"Good job buddy."
And then he heard the sound of shrieks, lots of them. In the ceiling.

He looked up and saw a horde of Zubats waking up, he panicked - grabbed the ball and ran for the exit still hugging Shroomish.

[coreystranick]

Corey walked off from the Gym. Pissed that he could not get the badge he had to get another pokemon. Something that would do well against the birds.

He took off back towards Ecruteak. He had to try and find an Ice, Rock, or electric type.

Corey had remembered where he could find Magnemites. Near the port town Olivine. He decided to head that way.

I'll beat that man, maybe I'll go and stop by the gym in Ecruteak and talk with some old friends there, they can help me.

[Prpl_Mage]

Barry strode with his new Onix and cherished the company of the large solid snake.
"So how am I going to train you guy?" Barry pondered as he felt himself filled with a lot more confident now that he had a somewhat more intimidating pokémon such as Onix. It was huge.

"Hey! I saw you through this tall grass!" A chilidsh voice called from the tall grass nearby. Barry turned around and saw a hat moving closer.
"Who goes there?" Barry asked friendly as he tried to make out the person.
Out from the grass stepped a teenager wearing the universal picnicker outfit.
"I'm Joy and I'm challenging you to a battle tall guy!" The trainer said and sent out a hoothoot.
"Really? Me? Wow, this is so exciting! My first battle against a trainer, I better not screw this up... who to choose who to choose..." Barry began as he picked up his notepad and remembered his training. Rock beats flying.

Barry tried to figure out what his Onix knew with the rest of his team called back.
"Wing attack hottie!" The picnicker called and the bird flew off excited. It struck Onix with the wing but it seemed oblivious to the attack.
"Can you create an earthquake? Or throw some mud at it? Perhaps a rock?" Barry asked uncertain of this new type of pokémon.
The Onix reacted to the last suggestion and pulled out a rock from the ground and coldly threw it right at the bird.
The hoothoot was struck and bashed to the ground by the large boulder - it didn't get up.

"Hey! Great job Onix!" Barry said and went on ahead to pat his boulderline.
"Hello? I'm not done just yet!" Joy said and glared at Barry.
"Oh right, erhm. Sorry just got a bit carried away."
She sighed and sent out a Marril.

"Okay, you seemed to have a good attack there. Throw another rock Onix." Barry suggested and the Onix did as he was asked. Another boulder was lifted and sent flying at the mouse pokémon this time. It struck and the Marril toppled over.
But it got up.
"Way to go Mary! Now beat that bully up!" Joy called.
The marril inhaled and then released a spray of bubbles at Onix. The bubbles hit hard and the Onix sacked.
"That thing took out my Onix?" Barry asked surprised and returned it to the ball.
"Well duh! It's a water type..."
Barry thought for a while and then it struck him.
"Water is weak to grass. And I have 3 of them..." He held his hand over his balls and decided to give Lotad another shot.

"Mary focus on Rollout, your water moves really won't bite on that thing." Joy called as barry learned something new.
"Well, water gun won't do you much good here buddy, so try that grass move you got."
Lotad charged power and used Absorb to drain energy from the Marril.
The Marril was struck but got back on its' feet, it raised the hands into the air and began rolling against lotad. It struck and the Lotad bounced into the air from the force.
"Keep using your move Lotad, you'll probably win this!" Barry called.
The lotad landed softly and quickly attacked Marril as it rolled against him.
The absorb struck and stopped the spin of the Marril for just a few seconds.
The struck again and made its' way back with a u-turn (not the move).
"One more time buddy!" Barry called and raised his hands in excitement.
Absorb struck marril but it kept going striking Lotad.
Marril fainted from the attack and Lotad was getting really hurt - then the energy recovered through absorb made it a little better.
"Allright! My first victory and my first successful capture in the same day!" Barry cheered and hugged the Lotad.

"Aw gosh, I can't believe that I lost to such a newbie." Joy said but stopped as Lotad began to wobble and shine.
"Whats happening buddy?" Barry said but chuckled as he realised it. Evolution. It didn't happen often but now was the time.
A blinding light erupted from his partner and a new pokémon stood in its' place.
"Welcome to the team Lotad... Although I guess I should say Lombre!" Barry chuckled and talked to Joy for a bit of advice on battles and how to pick opponents.

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With all that behind him, Barry went back to Violet city to heal up and challenge the gym again. The he got off track, forgot about the gym and decided to check out the ruins.

[ellie-is]

"Damnit."
Lucas finally reached the Pokémon center. He ran all the way there, for some reason. Seemed like a good idea at first, but he finally started to feel the weight of his guitar after he stopped running.
"Guess I better rest a bit before going to the ruins".

Lucas decided to head outside town, but stop to be with his Pokémon a bit before meeting Barry. Maybe get some training. Looks like he could use it.

After reaching a clear spot in the middle of a patch of tall grass, he let out his team and sat on the ground. Lucas took the acoustic guitar from his back, and started playing some slow instrumental song. Soon a couple Pokés stood near to listen, but he didn't mind. He didn't feel like fighting those guys, not now at least. Won't hurt to let them hear, he though.

After he finished the song, he noticed a large yellow Pokémon laying under the tall grass, also listening. He got up to take a better look at the mystery Pokémon. It quickly got up on all fours and ran away so fast that Lucas couldn't even see where it went.
"Whoa... Was that an Ampharos maybe? I hear that there are some around this area... Wait, no, those are bipedal, and not nearly as fast as this thing. Too big to be a Pikachu... It also had some white on him. Probably a Jolteon... Wait, no, no, Jolteons are tiny. Maybe it was nothing... It was all so fast. But no, I'm sure I saw something... Damn, I must be going crazy. Better get going to those ruins fast."

He called all his Pokémon back and put the guitar back on his back. On his way to the ruins, he didn't notice the large tiger shaped beast with thunderclouds on his back watching him from the tall grass not too far away.

[coreystranick]

Corey was on his way to Olivine City when for some reason he felt compelled to take a turn and head towards the ruins.

He saw the man with the guitar heading that way.

"Hmm, I wonder what he is up to."

[Prpl_Mage]

Barry strode into the area where the Ruins of Alph were at. But it seemed that there was barely anything worth calling "ruins" left.
"Pretty darn worn out." Barry said as he and his Onix walked along the area, he noticed the lab and decided to check it out. Labs usually had research and any research or hints would make him a stronger trainer.
"Sorry guys, but y'know the rules. No pokémon indoors unless we're home." Barry said as he withdrew his party into their balls.
With that done he checked his Berry Pot and entered the lab.

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There seemed to be work done in here but most scientists looked busy, then he noticed the guy from before. The Joe guy.
Barry waited at the doorsteps and tried to get some attention but it seemed like the other guy had all of that.
He decided to wait... Wasn't he supposed to find Joe either way? Or maybe it was something else he set out to do. Either way he wanted to check out those ruins, might just be some hidden paths.

[ellie-is]

Lucas reached the ruins at last. Big place. The other guys could be anywhere. Luckily, he decided to head for the lab first. He found Barry standing near the door.
"Hey dude. Found Joe yet?"
Barry pointed to Joseph, who was currently taking a lab tour with some scientists.
"Oh. Guess we wait here until he's done having fun. Hey, actually, hold on, there's patch of grass up ahead, I'm gonna see if I can do some training."
"Huh, okay."

Leaving Barry behind once more, Lucas went to the patch of grass nearby, to let his Pichu take down some Natus while Sentret decimated those Woopers near the water. Every once in a while a Geodude would appear, and either Electabuzz or Parasect would take care of it. Even more rare were the Smeargles, who were, though, not half as strong as they were rare, and could be taken out by anyone on his team, since most of them only knew how to use the Growls and Tailwhips that they learned by paying attention to other pokés in the area.

[coreystranick]

Corey strode into the ruins not long after Lucas.
He saw Lucas and his Pokemon beating up on a few of the local pokemon and decided to leave him alone.

He diverted his attention to the trainer standing at the lab door. It seemed to be the same one he saw back in Violet that was heading to the school.

He walked up,"Hey there I have seen you a few times in the last town I believe you were in the gym when I battled, I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Corey."

The breeder looked as though he remembered, "I'm Barry, I'm a Pokemon Breeder, I love how you have a rare colored Sableye, finding Pokemon of a different color is rare."

"Yeah I know, I can't really remember how I found her either, but Goldie is my best friend, though she likes to play tricks. What are you doing outside?"

"I'm waiting for a friend who is inside the lab."

"Oh, well mind if I wait with you?"

"Sure sure I don't mind."

[Prpl_Mage]

Barry stood around with the new trainer. The guy had a golden sableye and a Wynut. That was rare indeed, he'd only seen a few Sableye's in his life and after his visit about type advantages he'd learn that Sableye was one of 2 pokémon without weaknesses.
"I bet your Goldie is pretty good huh? Poor Shroomish had his fungal behind handed to him in the gym because of those type advantages." He smiled and Corey nodded in response.
"So a Wynut huh, I bet you had to breed that one, I haven't heard of a place that has wild Wynuts, and wubuffet is kinda hard to catch, did you know that they are rather rare and used as meatshields in battles? I read it in this one book about moves where it said that Wubbuffet could learn both counter and mirror coat."
Corey looked at Barry confused and Barry chuckled as he offered some Apricorn Drinks.