Girl player Karissa starts the game and chooses Bulbasaur as her starter. Inexperienced as I am, I wouldn't do well with the fragile Charmander... and I'm tired of Squirtle, somewhat.
Bulba is male and named BAZO.
After a rather dumb fight against rival Thomas Charmander (Tackle!... Tackle!... Tackle! Oh no, Potion! *uses* Ok, now... Tackle!) they won and set off out in Kanto.
After the package-for-Oak event and getting the pokédex and pokéballs, they go out into the grass, eager to find their first teammate... it's a Pidgey!
Caught it, named it PATO.
In the next area, they find a Spearow, catch it and name it SITA. They immediately realize Pato and Sita have feelings for each other, oh my...
All goes well until... they stumble upon another pokémon in the same area. Karissa lets Pato battle somewhat on his own, as she turns her attention to other stuff, but suddenly... Pato is down. Because Karissa didn't keep her attention up!
Swearing, she goes on, grinding to make Sita stronger. Sita is grieving though... and Karissa is mad. And before they know it, Sita goes down too... from a Tackle from a mere Pidgey!
Karissa's rage knows no boundaries, and she is about to let Bazo finish the bird who killed her friend... but she realizes it's herself she should be mad with. She didn't care enough about her pokémon, and that killed them.
Calming down, she catches this Pidgey instead, and promises to take well care of it, to at least to some point pay for what she caused Pato and Sita.
Pidgey is named PEJO.
They go into Viridian forest and Karissa is eager to catch a Pikachu or... a Caterpie, which they encounter! Pejo is a bit shy and can't yet control his abilities, so he accidentally kills the Caterpie. Oops. No poké from the forest... Karissa remembers her promise to herself and doesn't get mad. Not... too much at least...
Finally out of the forest, they stumble into a patch of grass, only to find a Caterpie! Pejo gets another chance, and they catch it!
Caterpie is named CATO.
Pewter Gym was mainly Bazo whipping around his Vine Whip until every boulder before him had turned to dust. Badge get!
On the next route, Cato evolved a few times and become a hasty, energetic male Butterfree.
A little too energetic perhaps, because the Spearow they encountered outside Mount Moon was sorta killed by this bug. No Poké from this road...
Mount moon was a great training ground. And they caught Zubat, named ZYXE. He was trained throughout the cave and his Supersonic and Astonish were good weapons. Even though he was a bit annoying at first, the others soon began respecting him. If only a little.
Out from the cave, they walked into grass and found another Spearow. It was female, and reminded Karissa of Sita... in remembrance, she caught her, and named her SYCA. A promise like the one made to Pato was given to Sita's memory. Syca and Pejo would prosper.
In Cerulean, Misty was a pushover. She and her stars completely fell into the water when Bazo, now and Ivysaur, whipped them up. Badge get!
So... Karissa heard there was a bridge around here... onwards!
With a team of Ivysaur and... flying pokémon...?
