A short piece from a Trainer’s POV

 

Summary: Camper Ivan. The guy you fight outside Goldenrod with 2 Diglett and a Zubat? How does he feel about getting beaten every time? I’m writing this because I’m playing Crystal… Hehehe…

 

Disclaimer: Do I own pokemon? Think carefully for 5 minutes and then tell me the answer, okay? This is non-profit, non-copyright infringing pokemon fanfiction written by me and I own it.

 

Title: Camper Ivan’s monologue

 

            It’s not fun being a pokemon trainer, especially not a licensed trainer without a pokédex and a powerful starter pokemon. No, sometimes, it’s downright awful. Like getting your butt kicked every time a new trainer walks out from Professor Elm’s lab with a Cyndaquil, Totodile, or Chikorita, or rarely, something else. And by the time they get to Goldenrod, it’s already a Quilava, Croconaw, or Bayleef at least!

            I was standing by the side of the road, just doing my duty. Twice, I had seen a girl with her blue hair in pigtails walking by me, not meeting my eyes. Didn’t she want to battle? Didn’t she know that trainers lived for this thrill? Apparently not since she snuck past everyone else on the way from Goldenrod to Ecruteak as well.

            Finally, the fifth time I saw her walking by, carrying an empty Squirtbottle, knowing that she had been the one to clear that wretched Sudowoodo from the path for the fiftieth time or so, why did it keep coming back, I challenged her.

            She didn’t seem to want to fight. Kept muttering about how she could fight me later to train the Eevee she was getting from Bill, but I persisted. Finally, she agreed. That cinched it. Every trainer that left Elm’s lab got an Eevee from Bill, and when I saw them on T.V. again fighting the Elite Four, it’d be an Espeon or an Umbreon. Usually an Espeon…

            I started off with my Lv. 10 Diglett. Hopefully, she would have Cyndaquil. If she sent out Chikorita or Totodile, I’d be toast unless I switched for Zubat. I cast a quick glance at her poke balls, but I couldn’t see what was inside, except that one was an Egg. Probably an un-hatched Togepi from Mr. Pokemon again…

            Her first poke ball appeared. She hadn’t called out anything, so the first one in her party came out. I saw myself face-to-face with a Level 27 Gyrados.

            “How did you get a Gyrados?!”

            She looked slightly bemused. “Caught a Lv. 10 Magikarp with the old Rod and trained it for hours. Trained my other pokemon too. I left my Bellsprout at the Daycare while I walked and trained around Goldenrod and when I got it back, it was seven levels higher.”

            Before I had time to call out an attack, her Gyrados blasted Diglett with Dragon Rage. Diglett fainted instantly.

            “Zubat, go!” I said, sending out my Level 10 Zubat. Hopefully he would fare a bit better, but a second Dragon Rage took him out.

            For my third and last pokemon, my Level 14 Diglett, she recalled her Gyrados and instead sent out a Level 20 Bellsprout. One good Vine Whip attack and it was all over. I swore as she fainted my last pokemon. What could I do? I handed over my money and said the speech again.

            She didn’t look very impressed and quickly hurried off to find Bill so she could get her Eevee. I managed to get a quick look at the rest of her pokemon though. Lv. 27 Gyrados, Lv. 27 Pidgeotto, Lv. 28 Quilava, Lv. 27 Butterfree, an Egg, and a Lv. 20 Bellsprout. Maybe next time I should just not challenge the trainers from New Bark at all…

            A bit later I saw her again, and her egg was hatching. So I took a peek, just out of slight curiosity. It was Elekid.

            It hurt. But I ignored her for the rest of the time she was in Johto. It just wasn’t fair! Really! But what could I do? I sighed, nothing could be done. Maybe I should petition Elm or something… maybe the pokemon league… but who would listen to a run-of-the-mill trainer like me?

 

End vignette! Well, I warned you it was short! But I think that’s what Camper Ivan would say if he could write something. Drop a review and tell me what you think! And yes, it is possible to train your pokemon up that high, you just need to walk and train A LOT. Yes, I know its kind of depressing, but Shadow started off by writing darkfic, you know!

Created 12/19/03, completed 12/30/03