I woke up in the morning surrounded by my sleeping pokemon. I put on my swimming trunk and go to the river for a short bath. After that I hang the wet trunk and towel. I prepare breakfast consist of instant rice porridge. I go for a light levelling nearby while waiting for the trunk to dry. Then I pack my stuff and go deeper inside the viridian forest.
As I went deeper I realise that this forest really is heaven for bug pokemon. Even if it rarely I still found other bug type pokemon like scythe, pinsir and heracross. It didn't mention in the guide so this must be the different between reality and game. But I didn't try to fight them since I don't know their level and I'm not interested in catching them.
My espeon reach level 16 and it learn confusion, its first psychic move. Eevee is really a hard pokemon for beginner since it learns it special move quite late compare with other pokemon. No wonder not many people choose to train it. Then the problem that I keep trying to avoid appeared espeon already learn four move and I need to make it forget a move. After thinking carefully, I decided to forget sand attack. Inside the game this move can be use everywhere but in real life it can only be us at a place with sand. The next time we battle wild pokemon I suddenly feel like trying since this place have a little sand. I first order it in my mind but nothing happen. But when I shout it to use sand attack it works. Then I feel relief since it did not really forget the move. Like this I can have more option in future battle.
Then I found it, those cute yellow creatures and the main mascot for pokemon game, Pikachu. First I save my game and challenge it. Since I spot it manually I'm worried if it levels too high but I'm lucky that it level is 12. I use confusion and slowly grind its hp using normal attack when its hp is critical I throw the pokeball after three attempt I succeed in capturing the Pikachu. It's the first pokemon I ever catch and I saw that Pikachu does not appear in pokemon section since I already have 6 pokemon. But I still have the pokeball with me since it reality and we can bring more than 6 pokemon. But it seems that it can't receive the GBA support. Maybe I need to withdraw it at the poke centre.
My espeon is already exhausted so I return it to the pokeball. Then I withdrew the 5 eevee and continue walking. I want to train the eevee until level 15 since level 16 is where they learn special attack, I won't level them up anymore until I could evolve them. We aim mostly for metapod and kakuna. I learn that if I attack the wild pokemon with more than one pokemon I won't get the exp, but if just one pokemon attack and the other just watch without interfering the attacking pokemon get the exp. I also found that the metapod and kakuna level is not limited to 15. I once found a level 22 metapod after a few round of harden my attack no longer work so we just run away.
Then I heard the sound of battle, at first I don't really care since it normal for battle to happen in this forest. But as I got nearer I saw the battle scene. A young man about the mid twenty is fighting against three people with weird clothing. I recognise it right away that they are those infamous team rocket. The man has four pokemon with him a butterfree, beedrill, heracross and scizor. Team rocket has more than 10 pokemon like arbok, muk, weezing, and zubat. At first glance I know that theres nothing I can do about it since they are far stronger than me. All their pokemon seem like level in the late 20 to 30. And the man almost lost. I tried to hide myself. All the man pokemon fainted then I saw team rocket take out a weird looking pokeball and he casually capture the scizor. The man yell at them but one of the team rocket knock him out with a punch.
Then he looks at the place that I hide and shout.
''Hey brat, why are you hiding there, do you want to get a beating"
''Just forget it, he is just a rookie trainer with just a bunch of weak eevee. He's not worth it. I'm already tired, this man put on more of a fight than I expected.''
''Okay I get it, brat you lucky this time, scram.''
All three of the move away, after a while I can no longer see them anymore. Then I rush to the man and I see that he is still alive, just knock out. The I drag him out of the forest. I instruct my eevee to drag his fainted pokemon. Based on the map there are a camping area nearby. I saw a tent there and I guess it must be his. Then I return to drag the heracross here with my pokemon since it's too heavy. Since its already late I also set my tent not far from his tent. I want to wait at least until he woke up.
While cooking rice and package chicken curry, I heard sound from the man tent. I look into the tent and ask.
''Brother are you ok''
''How about my Pokémon''
''They're outside but Scizor gone''
He moves outside and relief that his other pokemon safe. Then he felt sad for loosing scizor.
''So they took Scizor, I know that they are aiming for it but I never expected that they would find me here''.
After a while I share my food with him and we talk a bit.
'' Actually a few year ago there are rumour that team rocket has managed to create a pokeball that can steal other people pokemon. Since then they start stealing rare and strong pokemon all over Kanto. I heard they also active in Johto region.''
'' They don't dare to target those famous people like the gym master and the alite four but they are aiming for those up an coming newcomer. I don't expect them to come after me since I'm not that famous. But I guess they heard about scizor. I'm just lucky and found some special metal before after I give it to scyther it evolves recently.''
''What are you going to do about this brother"
'' There's nothing I can do about this, I guess I'll go out and report it to the police. But I don't really think it going to change anything since there are already here for ten years but team rocket can still do as they please''
''But what are you doing here''
''I'm training my pokemon. Do you know that training your pokemon in a suitable envirement can accelerate your pokemon training speed. They can also learn skill easier. Since Viridian Forest is the biggest home of bug pokemon, this is the best place to train for me since I focus on training bug type of pokemon.''
We talk about many things after that before I go to sleep. The next morning after I woke up I found that he already gone. I have my breakfast with simple white bread and sausage after that I pack up and leave. I've already quite use to camping. In this world camping is one of the basic course in trainer's camp. Even though its already a few years since then I still remember most of it.
I continue my journey and slowly move to the end of the forest. I have my map and the map in the GBA device is very clear so I don't need to worry about getting lost. But this forest is really big. Normal people will surely have got lost here. I took all the hidden item and fought all the trainers I can find in here. I also aim for metapot and kakuna. I once found level 23 kakuna and I manage to beat it with confusion since poison type is weak against psychic type.
When I got out from the viridian forest all of my Eevee has reach level 15 and my Espeon reach level 20. Espeon learn a new move Swift at leve 20. I guess I can barely be out of rookie category with my level 20 pokemon. After seeing the bright sunlight, I finally realise that I'm out of the forest. That place is dark all the time so it makes me kind a depress a little.
Outside the forest is route 2. I have no interest on the pokemon here so I head straight to Pewter City. The first thing in my mind is to find a restaurant and have a full meal. A few days of having ration and instant food make me crave for a properly cook food. But first I save my game.