Lindsey on Route 1

[negrek]

After progressing a considerable distance from Flare Town and out into the scrubby grasslands beyond, Lindsey decided to rest for a moment beneath one of the few stunted trees that grew there. She searched through her pack until she found the lunch that she had packed before leaving the house, and digging farther down still, a canister of generic dry pokémon food.

She unclipped her slugma's pokéball from her belt. Here, away from all of the crowds of Flare Town, she felt safer letting the fire-type out. "Let's go, Slugma," she commanded as she flicked it a few feet in front of her.

The blobbish fire-type obligingly appeared from within the roiling energies the ball disgorged, lazily staring at his surroundings. "Hey, Slugma," Lindsey called to him, unscrewing the top of the pokéchow canister.

"Uggma?" the slugma gurgled in reply, blinking vaguely at her.

"You're hungry, aren't you?" Lindsey asked, offering him some food from the canister.

"Slug-ugma! Ug!" Slugma agreed enthusiastically, oozing a bit closer to his new trainer and accepting a bit of food.

For a while the two ate in general silence, and at last they had both finished their lunches. Crumpling her garbage up and stowing it back in her bag to throw out at the next town, Lindsey stood up and stretched.

"Well, what do you say, Slugma?" she asked. "Why don't we get a move on and see what sort of pokémon we can find out here?"

"Slugg..." Slugma replied, oozing along behind in Lindsey's wake as she started out along the route.

[Shinjiriko]

A few metres away from Lindsey and Slugma, a Pidgey was pecking on the ground searching for food. Doesn't seem like she was being very successful, it's footprints were leading away from behind her in a long line, with holes nearby. It may have been doing this all morning.

[negrek]

It took Lindsey a moment to notice the frustrated pidgey, but when she did she gasped with surprise. This was it--her first encounter with a wild pokémon. She slowly reached for her belt to unclip her pokédex, not making any sudden moves so as not to scare the flying-type. As the pidgey wasn't paying her the slightest bit of attention, Slugma thought that she looked rather ridiculous.

Holding the "silent" button on her pokédex so as not to betray her presence, Lindsey scanned the pidgey and read the data scrolling across the small LCD screen. Satisfied, she bent down a bit and whispered to Slugma, "All right, we're going to catch this one! Rock throw!"

Slugma oozed forward a bit preparing to engage pidgey. He confidently surveyed the battlefield. No rocks.

"Come on, rock throw," Lindsey hissed.

Slugma looked again. Still no rocks. He gave his new trainer an exasperated glare.

"What are you waiting for?" Lindsey asked in her most cutting whisper. "I said rock throw. Come on, I know you know the attack." Slugma glared back, refusing to back down. At that moment the pidgey looked up, spotting the two glaring at each other. Human and slug froze.

"Pid? Gey pidgey?" the bird asked, confused.

"Quick! Attack it with something!" Lindsey cried wildly, waving her arm in the direction of the bemused flying-type.

Confused and unsure of what to do but galvanized into action by his trainer's wild gesticulations, Slugma inched forward and attacked with the first thing that came to his mind. Opening his mouth, he breathed out a cloud of foul toxic gases, which drifted towards the confused wild pokémon.

[Shinjiriko]

The Pidgey cocked its head to its side, confused. Although it was amusing, the Pidgey hopped away, feeling quite hungry to say the least. However, she heard a great inhale coming from behind. It turned around and started flapping it's wings to blow the gas towards the Slugma.

[negrek]

Slugma sneezed as the foul gas was blown back in his face. Glaring irritably across at the pidgey, he responded by spitting a few glowing embers at the bird.

[Shinjiriko]

The attack hit the Pidgey on it's wings, causing some of it's feathers to blacken. Furious, it flew towards the Slugma and kicked some sand towards it's face, before circuling it and eventually coming at it with Quick Attack.

[negrek]

Slugma skidded back several feet as the pidgey slammed into him at a blinding speed, head spinning. Realizing that she was supposed to be giving her pokémon commands, Lindsey wracked her brain for a good countermove.

"Slugma, ummm..."--nothing was coming to her--"...uh, yawn?"

Slugma obliged with a wide yawn, wondering whether or not it would do anything.

[Shinjiriko]

The Pidgey blinked as the Slugma yawned at her. Did it consider her to be a bore? At first it was agitated, but mere seconds later she felt drowsy. Despite that, it flew up then dived down again for a Wing Attack, before skidding on the ground towards the Slugma, asleep.

[negrek]

"All right, Slugma, I think that's enough for now," Lindsey said worriedly. Young and inexperienced, she was as of yet not very good at judging how much energy pokémon had left.

Reaching into her pack for a pokéball, she lobbed it at the slumbering bird.

[DBZGTPokeDigiStar17]

Despite her self-proclaimed inexperience, the wild Pidgey disppeared into the Pokeball, and after several moments the ball was still with the Bird safely tucked inside.

You caught a Pidgey!
Gender: Female
Ability: Keen Eye
Moves:
Tackle
Sand-Attack
Gust
Quick Attack
Whirlwind
Wing Attack

[pokemonfan13]

*A Gardevoir sitting under a tree was silently watching this battle. When the Pidgey was caught she used psychic on the pokeball, and lifted it up. It hovered right infront of Lindsey's nose.*

[negrek]

Lindsey's elation at having captured the pidgey soon transformed into puzzlement as the now-full pokéball hovered up and in front of her nose. Bemused, she took a swipe at it, and it teasingly dodged her fingers.

Slugma snickered.

[pokemonfan13]

(Uh, I was just gonna have it be given back to her...)

*The Pokeball, still controlled by psychic, was clipped to her belt. The Gardevoir glided foward. You hear a voice in your head*

<Don't be afraid of this, this is the Gardevoir. I see you are a new trainer. I would like to travel with you for a while and give you some tips. I have a feeling that you could be quite a good trainer with some advice.>

*A Mew dodged out from behind the tree, it is smaller than normal, and it is bright blue.*

Mew: Sasha, stop playing with her!

Sasha: <I'm not just playing with her! You should know that I am not like that!>

Mew: Riiight...

[negrek]

((Ohhh... I'm too much of a prankster to pick up on subtleties like that, I'm afraid. *sweatdrop*))

Linsdey was confused as the pokéball was clipped to her belt, and only became progressively more confused as the Mew and gardevoir appeared.

"But...who...?" she stuttered, looking from one to the other.

[pokemonfan13]

(Uh, the Gardevoir was always visable, it was sitting under a tree, it just now came foward. The Mew was behind the tree.)

(text in <> is in your head. Also, just for clarification, the Mew is speaking english.)

Sasha: <I am Sasha, and this is Mew.>

Mew: Hiya!

Sasha: <I would like to travel with you for a bit, if that is ok with you.>