[Forever]

Originally Posted by Quasar Infinity

Perhaps you could walk downstairs and your mother is like, "Come here the news is on!" And it could work out that a wild pokemon is terrorizing the town. Maybe like in Emerald you choose which one it is at your mother's prompting, like with the Latis. Then you go out and catch with a borrowed 'insert common pokemon here'.

Or perhaps the wild Pokemon causing terror on the town is the actual STARTER? Wouldn't that be amusing that if it sees you it forms an instant bond with you and is calmed. And which starter it is, is determined by a phrase you answer the professor with, regarding how the weather is. Either raining, sunny, or "nothing in particular". :3