"Wow Totodile, these buildings sure are big..."
"Toto..." Totodile replied, also flabbergasted by the size of the buildings.
" These are tons bigger then the ones in Sootopolis, and at least twice as big as Mossdeep."
Chris stood in the middle of the bustling street, staring straight up. All of the buildings seemed to go on forever.
"Hey kid, you gunna move anytime soon?"
Chris turned around, seeing a man in a sports car behind him. He was about 6' 1'' ft had a strong New Bark Town accent.
"City's dangerous enough without you playing in the street. Plenty of other stuff to hit. You a trainer?"
he asked, seeing the Totodile.
"Umm.. Yes Sir. My name's Koji"
"Alright, hop in. By the way, my names Chip. I'll give you a ride to the center."
"The what?"
" So your a rookie huh. Well the Pokemon Center or just center for short, is a place where trainers go to get their Pokemon healed and checked up on. Yous guys are pretty lucky. Trainers are free.
Chris then remembered there being a Pokemon Center in Sootopolis. He had been in there once or twice with his father and his Venusaur.
" I was just on my way to get my Machoke healed. You got anything else then that Totodile?"
" Yeah, a Pidgey i got at Route One."
"Hm, so your not a complete rookie after all. I remember i didn't capture my first Pokemon till Mt. Moon. Oh, looks like were here."
Chris and Chip got out of the car and walked to the entrance of the Pokemon center. The doors automatically opened as they walked through. The inside of the center looked like the inside of a normal hospital. A women with Reddish-Pink hair stood behind the counter.
"Welcome to the Pokemon Center! My name is Nurse Joy. How can I help you?
"Hello," Chip replied, "my friend and I would like to get our Pokemon healed."
" Ok, please put you Pokemon on the separate trays"
Chris returned Totodile to it's ball and placed Pidgey's pokeball and Totodile's ball on the tray. During this time Chris looked over and saw Chip place 4 balls on the tray. Afterward, they both sat down.
"So you used to be a trainer." asked Chris
" One of the best, made it all the way to the top 16 at the Indigo Plateau."
"Yeah, I was going to head to the gym of this city, you know where it is?
"Don't bother kid, the gym is closed."
"What why?!"
" I don't know, about a year ago, the gym closed and the leader vanished. Sorry kid, you'll have to get your badge at Pewter City."
" Pewter City? Where's that?"
"Wow kid, are you really that unprepared? Well, I was the same way. I suggest you go to a Poke Mart and buy the PokePhone V III. It's like a cell phone and a Poke Nav in one. There's a mart right next to the center, go visit it after you get your Pokemon healed."
"Ding Dong," a voice came over the intercom " Chip, your Pokemon are ready"
"Well looks like I'm done, see you around Koji"
"Right, see ya. Thanks for the advice."
<Geez> Chris thought <I ran away to get away from people telling me what to do, still, it was some good advice.> He looked at the clock, his Pokemon weren't due out for another half hour <I should head over to the store now before it's too late>
With that thought, Chris left the Poke Center and headed to the Poke Mart next door. After browsing around, he finally found what Chip was talking about, the Poke Phone V III. It was 5,000 P! He looked into his wallet, he only had 7,000 P, his life savings he brought along with him. He decided he would wait untill he got to the next town, since the phone was relatively new, it would probably go down in price by the time he got to Pewter. After all he just had to follow the signs, how hard could it be?
He returned to the Pokemon Center just in time to hear that his Pokemon were ready. He picked them up and quickly released Totodile out of it's ball.
"Toto! Toto!" it yelled angrily.
"Sorry Totodile, it was mandatory. Well, it's getting kind of late, we'll have to head to Pewter City tomorrow but for now, how bout some training?"
"Totodile!" replied Totodile, eager to get to training.
The pair headed outside.
"O.k. Come on out Pidgey"
In a flash of light, PIdgey flew out of the ball and landed on Chris's shoulder.
"Pidgey, I want to see how fast you can move through those trees, I'll be timing you. Ready...1...2...3...GO!"
Pidgey darted through the trees with great speed.
"Good job Pidgey! Keep it up!"
Turning it's head it cooed "Pidgey Pid"
But as soon as it turned it's head back, it slammed right into a tree and slammed into the ground.
Chris ran over to the fallen bird "Pidgey! You O.K?"
"Pidgey" it replied as it flapped it wings to get back upright.
"Pidgey, you've got to keep focus on what your doing at all times. You can't be side-tracted by noises. You've got to focus, lets try again."
This time, Pidgey darted through ten trees and back in 30 seconds. After a few more trys, they had trimmed it down to 25 seconds.
"Good job Pidgey!" complimented Chris, "Now lets try something else." Chris picked up a stick. "Now, I'm going to throw this stick up into the air. Pidgey I wan't you to use Gust. Totodile, I wan't you to try to use your Ice Beam."
Totodile looked at Chris sceptically.
"I know you are nervous, but this is the only way you can master it." Chris threw the stick up in the air, Pidgey then quickly used gust to blow it father in the air. "Now Totodile use Ice Beam!"
Totodile opened its mouth, but only a few snowflakes came out again. After a few more tries, they had escalated it to a stream of cold air.
The sun soon set, forcing them to turn in.
The next day Chris and Totodile headed off to Pewter City, eager to get their next badge.
