The next morning was darker than I had been the previous day, I started my walk after taking care of my Pokemon. Pineco was fine and hopping alongside me and pikachu was in its ball after I had healed and fed it. It wasn't hostile to me but was being ornery much like Ashes pikachu had been. I knew I'd have to let it out to actually train it and bond with it but right now I didn't trust it to follow me or not run off. I had to keep reminding myself that Pokemon were supernaturally powerful animals and had to be tamed to lessen their danger to oneself.
I continued my journey while training Pineco while sometime letting out pikachu to train. We didn't encounter much of interest and by midday Pineco was evolving. I quickly released pikachu and we watched as Pineco evolved in a blinding light to reveal a Forretress. He was a weird red creature inside a steel shell with cylindrical spike things and hovered in the air.
From there we continued the journey as I let pikachu stay out with us. When we got to Pewter I compared it to Viridian. It was less a city and more a large town. It looked like it had been built in an surface mine with houses on different tiers. I made my way into pewter and immediately got some supplies. With the supplies I tested to see if my pikachu liked ketchup like Ashes did. Pikachu upon tasting the ketchup chugged it like an addict who had been dry for days.
I bought some more for him and a few more bottles for the journey. As we walked through the town I got weird looks again and this time it wasn't because of my armor, it was because I had a forretress floating beside me with a pikachu lying on top drinking ketchup like he was drunk.
There was only one thing of interest to me in this city and it was the museum. In game you could bring fossil Pokemon items and revive them inside a machine here. I really wanted to know how they did something like that. The museum was easy to find and I spent a few dollars to get in. I searched the building and found only one way to the second floor, but it was guarded.
Circling the building I found a terrace area and scouted it from atop a nearby building. The door inside had a window and with a zoom of my eyes I scouted inside. Seeing no one I went to the building and climbed up with a loose grapple. I sliced the lock and slipped inside without making much noise. Inside was a single person, a scientist sitting at a desk tiredly staring at his computer with a cold coffee beside him.
I slipped by and into another room where I found some strange machines and other tech. I quickly plugged into a computer and hacked in as fast as I could. It wasn't long before I was downloading everything I could while actively scanning the machine the computer had recognized as the fossil revival machine. It was incredibly complicated and I couldn't scan most of it without taking it apart but I got as much as I could then snuck back out.
As I was leaving I found that the scientist at the computer had fallen asleep so I explored the room. There wasn't much besides computers and research stuff but I did find some fossils. I didn't recognize most of the fossils but at the bottom was one I easily recognized, the dome fossil. It was a shell like lump on a rock that had two dent shapes in it and reminded me of a horseshoe crabs shell.
I tossed the fossil in my bag and jumped out of the building. After leaving I updated my maps and went to the path to Mt.Moon. I fed my Pokemon and ate an energy bar then went into the caves. Most of the top levels were mapped out so I should be safe while traveling through as many trainers including Brock came here regularly.
A few hours into the caves I finally came upon something interesting. Most of what I'd encountered were zubats, with some geodudes and paras here and there but what I was looking at now was rare. Recordings of Pokemon in Mt.Moon were made public and the Sandslash I was looking at was nearly as rare as a Clefairy, Clefable or Onix. I definitely wanted the ground mouse as it was a Pokemon I had loved in my past life.
I ordered my Pokemon to attack at the same time from stealth as it hadn't seen us. The Sandslash was immediately hit by an iron tail and a giga drain. I had used a TM to help Forretress learn giga drain and used myself to help pikachu learn iron tail. The Sandslash slightly staggered but recovered quickly and hit Forretress with a crush claw. After tanking the attack Forretress hit Sandslash with another giga drain and it passed out from the drain of all its energy. I once again captured a strong Pokemon. I released it after capturing it and used a potion in it and gave it some food. It didn't seem all that bothered with being caught and dug into the food and berries I had given it. I tossed the remaining berries to Forretress and pikachu and they snatched them from the air.
We continued the journey through the caves while training and the Sandslash proved he was perfectly fine with me as its trainer. Sandslash dug up multiple things on our way out of the caves. I now had 4 gold nuggets, a moon stone, two pokeballs, a great ball, and an ultra ball. We left the caves at dark but I could still see the lights of Cerulean city cresting the trees from atop a large hill.
I couldn't remember much about cerulean city besides Misty and her sisters so I was planning to pass through to Saffron city as the Pokétch branch was my original target.
The city was distinctly water Pokemon themed and was covered in advertisements for Misty's sister's gym and competition thing. I quickly left the city after a stop for supplies as nothing here interested me. The nearby cave wasn't likely to have much in it and Bills lighthouse research center wasn't going to have much that I could use.
Saffron wasn't far from Cerulean and I hoped to make it halfway there before dark. I began my trek like normal however something quickly made itself known, and it wasn't a Pokemon. I staggered slightly as I set up camp and put my Pokemon on guard. This weakness, tiredness, fatigue, I had felt this pain before. Back when the civil war was beginning, when we were building the rebellion. Back when I found out my home state had been bombed for widespread governmental resistance. When I and my squad found out most of our families had died.
My squad and I were solo field operatives, we went behind enemy lines with some guns and supplies and only each other for support. We had been intercepting government transmissions for weeks and sending it to HQ and were some of the first to find out that our homes extreme resistance to government orders had earned the entire state a few nukes to wipe out all dissidents.
I had used my command position to order and all call to all rebel forces and told them of what we had intercepted. The few months afterward were what gave my squad and I bounties equal to the rebellion leaders.
The fatigue I was feeling now was after we had gotten back to HQ and had time to mourn. We had gotten our revenge by crippling enemy forces in our area and sending some of their own missiles at them. With our revenge partially taken we were left worn out. Three of my men took their own lives before we were all put on suicide watch. The remaining men were split up and made into the solos who terrorized the government for years without loss.
The fatigue I was feeling was bone deep and I passed out in my little camp. I laid in bed eating only when I was starving till one day at the end of the week in the wilderness that I felt an extreme hunger. I ate all my rations and even the berries I had collected. League mandates said humans are only to eat berries in extreme circumstances and I was pretty sure this stuff that was happening to me counted as such. After eating everything safe for human consumption I pulled out the poke food I had and then passed out.