System In Pokemon World! - Chapter 2

Waking up early I got dressed and got down to see my mom making breakfast. She smiled and said “You’re up early Zane.” I nodded and said with a smile “Yeah, my pokemon trainer journey is about to start.” She sighed with a happy smile saying “I remember the day I met your father. He was also in love with being a pokemon trainer.”

I nodded and said “I know mom. Dad is a trainer traveling the world.” She laughed and said “Yeah, now eat up. Your sister might follow your steps in half a year though.” I nodded and said “Alright. Tell her to be safe.” Finishing my breakfast I walked out having all my gear ready. Unlike Ash I was prepared.

She waved and said “Goodbye Zane! Be safe!” I nodded and left the house. Arriving at professor Oak house I saw Gary. He was still arrogant but Ash wasn’t here. I guess he wasn’t born but whatever. I wonder what will happen in this world. Who knows. Ash can’t save anyone now though. I guess I better prepare for shit to hit the fan.

The other 3 trainers were still there and they caught their pokemon. I was the last one and was left without a pokemon. Professor Oak looked at me as if looking at a problem. I was annoyed as I said “Don’t look at me like that. I got here on time!” Professor Oak sighed and said “I know I know but I didn’t expect 5 trainers. I only had an Eevee for my grandson and the basic starters for the others.”

I face palmed and asked “Now what?” Professor Oak thought for a while and said “I got it!” I frowned and said “You better not be thinking of giving me a Pikachu old man.” The old man laughed and said “Never! Those things are so hard to train. Here is my idea. Go deal with it yourself kid. You look smart. I’m sure you can solve it. It’s not my problem anymore. I need to return to my research.”

He left the room just like that. Well, this was reality and some old man who was a researcher would of course not bother with some random kid. I bet he doesn’t even remember that I was stung by a male Nidoran. That is just how life works.

Looking around I searched the place until I found a few empty pokeballs and an old pokedex. I’m sure he wouldn’t mind me taking this after all he was the one who told me to solve the problem and I will. After looting the place of anything useful to a trainer I left.

Professor Oak who had a camera installed would later regret that he told me to solve it. I did though and all is fair since he never specified how. I could just claim I interpreted it as getting what I need before leaving.

Leaving the place I began walking towards Viridian City. Along the way I found several pokemon such as Mankey and Rattata but I wasn’t dumb enough to try and catch them. I will catch an easier pokemon like Caterpie or Metapod. Kakuna no since it would hate me for doing so as explained in the anime.

Arriving at the city I didn’t bother going to the pokemon center an instead just headed into Viridian forest. The police can deal with team rocket for all I care. Unless they get in my way I won’t interfere with them.

Walking through Viridian forest I began looking for a half decent pokemon in this place. I couldn’t aim too high due to the fact that I didn’t have a combat pokemon at the moment.

It took me several hours and many times running away from a mad Beedrill to find the perfect pokemon for this job. It was of course a Caterpie. This lone Caterpie strayed from the group so I stalked it.

Just as it stopped to eat I threw my pokeball and ran over with my foot raised. The pokeball shook while I warned the poor unsuspecting Caterpie “Escape and I will kick you.” The Caterpie who couldn’t hear still struggled a bit to escape but failed.

The cl.i.c.k.i.n.g sound was made and I just leaned down and grabbed it. It was at this time I heard.

-System initializing…

I shrugged it off and looked around since I didn’t want a stray Beedrill killing me after all. After making sure my surroundings were safe I began walking back to Viridian city since I didn’t want to pick a fight yet. I’m not certain if Caterpie is currently in a friendly mood towards me so I should wait for the system.

It took a few hours but I heard a ding while I was at a ice cream store.

-Store, Pokemon, Poke Space, Inventory, Quests

I calmly looked at the screen and though ‘How does this help me?’ I didn’t receive an answer so I began looking for it myself. I opened the store and found my answer. Currently I was stuck with a starting amount of 1k points which was enough to get the Friendly Aura.

In other terms it was just an aura that you will get which makes it easier for pokemon to withstand you. They won’t actively befriend you but they won’t outright attack you. In a game it would be like the spectator. The pokemon will just ignore you even if it is slightly aggressive to everyone.

Let me put it in an example. If I had this aura in the forest I would have a decent chance that the Beedrills would just ignore me rather than try to kill me. I say decent because I noticed a (weak) beside the aura.

I didn’t buy anything at the moment and checked the inventory. It was the correct action since I found a small gift box. Reading the description it read.

-Pokemon Trainer Starter Pack! 1k Poke Points! 6 Pokeballs! 1 Potion & Antidote.

It was a very poor starter pack but beggars can’t be choosers. I opened it and had a total of 11 pokeballs in my inventory and the potion & antidote. My money wasn’t too high since it was currently only 2360. The ice cream was delicious though.

Checking on quests I had a few.

-Capture 6 different pokemon. Reward: 10x great balls

-Battle Brock in Pewter City! Reward: 10k Poke Dollars, 1000 Poke Points!

-!!!Repeatable!!! Battle 5 trainers and win! 2.5k Poke Dollars, 250 Points!

-Searching for more quests…..

I nodded and said “Well, time to train. I will buy the Friendly Aura (Weak) since it can come in handy with ordering my pokemon. It didn’t mention it but it makes sense since pokemon wouldn’t mind so much.”

I bought it and just as I said the description updated but of course the effects were below average at the moment. Getting up I went to the pokemon center and asked for a place to train and was told where. There was a Pokemon Training Field nearby.

It was just a place where trainer could gather and train but she also said that almost no trainer uses it so it is not actively maintained. It made sense since almost no trainer every thinks of properly training their pokemon except an elect few but at that time they would have already reached a point where they don’t need the field.

Leaving I arrived at the Pokemon Training field which looked amazing. There was even a internet café which I used to get data on it since the place was pretty intimidating for starters. It was actually the opposite

The pokemon field hosted all kinds of fields where the pokemon can adapt to the environment to train their pokemon for nearly any scenario. There was also a picture of the person maintaining it with information of the field. It actually existed near every gym so trainers could prepare themselves. Sadly it was ignored by everyone.

The caretaker was a pretty cute girl with green hair and wore an outfit which was of overalls when you go cutting a bush and so on. I was honestly impressed all around. Deciding to stop delaying it I entered the place where I didn’t find the girl. I shrugged it off since I knew this place was ignored she must not be around the clock like Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny.

Going into the forest biome I took out Caterpie who didn’t look too upset about being captured. It just looked at me and said “Caterpie…” I smiled and said “Alright Caterpie. I will make you strong and then we will catch other pokemon together alright?” Caterpie turned its head wanting to ignore me. It seems this Caterpie nature was stubborn.

Shaking my head I said “Alright let us have a fight. If you win I will release you but if you lose you must listen to my orders.” Caterpie looked at me and nodded. Distancing myself I said “Alright! We will start on go. Three… two… one… Go!”

Cliffhanger-Kun: Never! Will Zane be able to defeat Caterpie? Stay tune in the next episode of Dra- I mean System in Pokemon World!