A Heart of Gold: A Pok?mon Story
Iridium - Part 2
I quickly said goodbye to my mother and off I went. Destination: Violet City. Lyra was waiting for me outside of town and she offered to teach me how to catch Pokemon. Unfortunately she went way too fast the first time, so she showed me again, catching a Rattata in the process. She gave me five Pokeballs and wished me luck on my journey
Route 29
After the lesson, I walked towards Cherrygrove City for the second time today. As I walked I came across a Sentret and thought I'd give this Pokemon catching thing a go. I weakened it with a Scratch attack from Totodile and threw a Pokeball. It hit and Sentret was pulled into the ball. After a few moments, the ball stopped moving. With that, I had caught my first Pokemon.
[SENTRET | M | Lvl 3]
Halfway between New Bark Town and Cherrygrove there was a gate house which led north. I decided to check it out.
Route 46
As I entered the route, the first thing I noticed was how rough the terrain was. The route snaked up towards the mountains but it was inaccessible from the south. My time wouldn't be a complete waste as there were Pokemon in the grass. I trained my Totodile by battling the Geodude that were there, picking one up for myself.
[GEODUDE | M | Lvl 3]. Totodile reached Lvl 9 at this stage.
As I was leaving this route, a Spearow flew out of nowhere and almost took my head off. It was quite a feisty customer, and I liked the fight it showed. Totodile managed to hit it with Water Gun and I took the opportunity to catch it.
Spearow | M | Lvl 2
Back on Route 29, I caught a Pidgey as well.
[PIDGEY | M | Lvl 3] This catching business was turning out to be pretty easy!
Cherrygrove City
I quickly healed my Pokemon and spent some money on more Pokeballs. They had a promotion on, with a "Buy 10, get one free" deal. Who am I to pass up a deal like that?
Route 30
As I was walking along, a Metapod fell out of a tree and gave me a right scare. I laughed as I saw what it was and threw a Pokeball at it. It didn't put up much of a fight.
[METAPOD | M | Lvl 4]
There was a few Trainers along the route, with Joey being my first opponent. I easily swept him aside along with the other Youngster. The Bug Catcher was a little trickier, with his Pokemon's String Shot entangling my Pokemon and slowing them right down. This did give me an opportunity to train my newly acquired Spearow. By the end of the battle, Spearow was Lvl 4.
Route 31
I had a battle with Bug Catcher Wade and Spearow easily overcame his Bugs, advancing one more level. Wade offered his phone number and said he would call if he found some berries. Who am I to pass up a deal like that? I also managed to nab a Caterpie just before I entered Violet City.
[CATERPIE | F | Lvl 4]
Violet City
Someone called out my name and reI turned around and saw it was Lyra. She gave a Vs. Recorder, which was some kind of PDA/camera thing which didn't work. Apple weren't going to be troubled with this piece of tat.
I rested in the Pokemon Centre and found my way to the gym. Upon entering, the guide said I wasn't ready to face the Leader. He suggested I go to Sprout Tower for some training. So guess where I went.
Sprout Tower
Yes I decided to take the guides advice and train for a bit in the tower. The sages seemed to be fascinated with Bellsprout for some reason. My Totodile wouldn't fare well against the Sages' grass type Pokemon but Spearow would dominate. And dominate it did. Spearow faced little resistance as he blew away the opposition. But boy were the sages a downer with all this talk of "I'm not worthy" and "Oh, I'm so weak". What a depressing bunch.
I made it to the top of the tower and saw the red-headed kid, Daniel, destroy the Elder. The Elder said he should be more kind to his Pokemon. He ignored the counsel, gave a little emo speech and left. Now it was my turn to face Elder Li.
-Elder Li-
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Iridium v Elder Li
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Spearow took care of his first Bellsprout and Li followed that up by sending out a Hoothoot. I responded by sending out Totodile and a Water Gun attack very nearly took it out in one hit. Hoothoot used Hypnosis and missed but it worked the second time around. Totodile fell asleep and Hoothoot started to Peck away at him. I yelled for Totodile to wake up and just as it seemed Hoothoot had the battle won, Totodile woke up and knocked out the owl with a Scratch. His last Bellsprout didn't do as much damage, with Spearow ending the battle.
Iridium defeated Elder Li
Spearow - 252 exp
Totodile - 123 exp
$1200
Elder Li commended me on my kind-hearted approach to Pokemon and gifted me with
TM70 (Flash). I thanked him for the battle and TM and made my way down, glad that I had made this small detour.
I now felt more than ready to challenge the Violet City Leader for my first badge.
Summary
Pokemon obtained
Pokedex
Seen: 12 | Obatained: 8
Party
Totodile - Lvl 11
Spearow - Lvl 10
