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Robert gave a nod to Jake. "Same. We'll pry bump into each other on our journies, so we should battle to see each other's progress." Robert spoke before Nurse Joy handed him his Pidgey's pokeball. "Here you are, your Pidgey is all set." Robert took Krystal's pokeball as Ralts waved to the charmender. Robert headed out of the pokemon center and then took went over to Route 22, which led to Victory Road. It was obvious there was no way to get to Victory Road, and Robert knew this well. His reasons were to train and find a new pokemon friend. He had been through this area with his grandmother several times, and he knew what kind of pokemon could be found here. He wasn't interested in the common rattatas and spearows that lurked around the grasses, but rather his sights were set on finding and catching a nidoran. Posion typed, a properly trained nido would serve as a venomous tank on the pokemon battle field, especially if he could find a moon stone. Fortunately they weren't exactly rare, and Robert soon found himself with a female nidoran skipping past. Nidoran, the posion pin pokemon. While it perfers not to fight, even one drop of the posion it secreets from its barbs can be dangerous. Robert gave a coy smile. He knew psychic types had the advantage over posion types. "Lilly, use confusion." Robert spoke. Hopping down off of Ropbert's shoulder, the little ralts got into position and let loose a strong psychic wave through the little Nidoran's mind. Even as low level as Lilly was, the attack was super effective, draining the Nidoran's health to a dangerously low level. The nidoran tried to run away, but as soon as it did, Robert issued another order. "Lilly, Mean Look!" The attack caused Nidoran to stop in her tracks and turn to face Lilly. Without hesitation, Robert tossed his pokeball to catch the Nidoran, encapsuling it inside the ball as the red light swallowed it up. The ball rocked back and forth several times before the red light finally faded, the nidoran now a member of his ever growing pokemon team. And with Varidian Forest being the next obsticle to Pewter City, nidoran's posion type would come in handy agianst the venomous bug inhabitants. Taking a look at his pokedex, he saw that she already knew Scratch, Tail Whip, Posion Sting and Double Kick. Robert smiled even more. With a fighting type move at his disposal, getting through the mountains and thier rocky inhabitants would be made much easier. "Welcome to the team Julia. Now then, let's get you back to the pokemon center and heal you up. Then after that, I'll go and get some supplies for the forest trip. I doubt we'll get all the way through by nightfall, so we'll have to set up camp." Robert spoke to the captured Nidoran before heading back to the pokemon center with his new friend.

Robert went back into the pokecenter after catching Julia, the newest addition to his group. "Ah, welcome back. What can I do for you?" Joy asked. Robert handed Joy Julia's pokeball. "I just caught this Nidoran and I need tit brought back to full health." Robert spoke. "Very well, it will take a little while, but your Nidoran will be back to vibrant health in no time!" Joy said with a smile.

Robert left the pokecenter to do some shopping. "I'm just glad the pokemon center doesn't charge for thier services." Robert mused to himself. Entering the pokemart, Robert began to browse the goods there, holding a basket in one hand. "Let's see. I'll take some oran powder and pokebase to make some pokeblock food. Maybe some pecha powder as well. A few potions, a few antidotes, four pokeballs, some matches, some water purification tablets and some cans of stew. And finally some small orange cups for target practice. " With everything gathered, Robert went to the cashier to check out. With his weekly allowance money, Robert made his purchase and tucked everything into his backpack. WIth a quick trip back to the pokemon center to pick up Julia, Robert readied himself to travel through the forest. Taking out his pokedex, he figured he could make it through at least three miles before sundown. After that point he would need to set up camp.

Robert traveled into the Varidian Forest. The trees were dense with little light peering through the leaves. There were plenty of bug pokemon around. Weedle was not on his to get list however. He already had a poison pokemon. However, a butterfree would make a wonderful addition with it's sleep and stun powder attacks. And since bug pokemon were well known to level faster than any other type, it wouldn't take too long to take a Caterpie along it's evolutionary route. And since bug were weak to flying types, Robert already knew which pokemon to use. Even though Krystal didn't know any flying type moves yet, caterpies were normal prey for them.

Robert saw a caterpie wandering along the grassy floor of the forest. Takling out his pokeball, Robert held it out to release Krystal. "Krystal, come out and use Pursuit!" Robert commanded. Krystal soared at the Caterpie and slammed it with its claws, sending it rolling along the ground. With pokeball in hand, Robert tossed the ball, hitting caterpie in the head. The red light came out and sucked the little bug into it. Robert kept on the ready in case it got out, but bug pokemon weren't exactly a difficult capture, unles one was dumb enough to try and catch one at full health. Once the light went from red to white, Robert went over to pick up his pokeball. However, he was not alone in the forest. Before he could get close enough to the pokeball, someone came out and swipped it. "Who are you?" Robert spoke, his voice strong with a mix of anger. Standing before him and turning around was a man dressed in black, bearing a red 'R' insignia on his chest. "Thanks for the freebie chump." He spoke. However, Robert wasn't about to simply let the crook get away. The thug grinned. "You want to battle me punk? You're out of your league. Go, Beedrill!" The thug brought out his Beedrill. Robert knew this meant the thug's pokemon was higher in level than his Ralts. However, Lilly's psychic based attack would be super effective. He had to roll with that. He still had Julia and Krystal was already out. He would use Krystal to weaken it, and then Lilly to deal the coup de grac. "Krystal, quick attack!" Robert called out. "Beedrill, Posion sting! The two collided, Krystal getting struck in the wing with the pision sting attack, but not before digging it's claws into the beedrill. "Now, Pursuit!" Robert called. Krystal's claws glowed black with darkness as it flipped around and nailed the beedrill once more. However, Krystal was loking rather ill, barely able to remain flying. "Krystal return! Lilly, Confusion now!" Lilly jumped off of Robert's shoulder and sent a wave of painful psychic energy through Beedrill, scoring a super-effective hit and fainting it. The thug threw the pokeball with Robert's caterpie at Robert's head and ran off. Robert caught the pokeball before knealing down and taking out an antidote and a potion. "You both did a great job. I'm proud of you both." Robert said as he called out Krystal. Using the antidote and potion, Robert brought his pidgey back to full health. Checking the pokedex to see her condition, he saw that she had just learned Gust, her first actual flying type attack.

The sun was starting to set. Robert had to make camp. After finding a decent sized clearing in the forest, Robert set up camp and began to fix up a few pokeblocks and regular pokemon food for his four friends, as well as stew for himself after making a firepit and setting up the tripod for his small cooking pot. Afterwards, he checked his pokedex. Caterpie, the worm pokemon. It releases a stench from its red antenna to repel enemies. it grows by molting repeatedly. He found that Caterpie was a male with the Shield Dust ability and knew tackle and string shot.

Robert crawled into his tent after putting out the fire and cleaning his cooking gear. Lilly snuggled up agianst his chest while Juliaslept near his head. His new Caterpie, which he named Light, slept next to Lilly while Krystal perched herself atop the tent.
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Morning came, and the light of the sun slipped through the tent door. Krystal flew into the tent, being the first one up and began cooing loudly. Robert gave a yawn and sat himself up. After taking a head count to make sure everyone was still there, he slipped out of the tent. Using the powders and mixes, Robert cranked out four pokeblocks for his pokemon's breakfasts, before taking out a crumbcake for his own. After tearing down and packing everything back up with the help of his pokemon, Robert took out the orange cups and set them on rocks, up in the trees and along the ground. "Alright everyone, time for your morning excercises! Julia, hit the cups on that rock with posion needle! Krystal, hit each cup off of the branches with quick attack! Light, hit each cup that falls from the trees with string shot! Lilly, use confusion to lift and juggle the cups on the ground!"

Training went on for about an hour's time, his pokemon gradually getting more accurate with thier attacks, and Lilly becomming better at manipulating things with her psychic atack Confusion.

Once he was ready to go, Robert picked up and put away the cups before recalling his pokemon to thier pokeballs, except for Lilly, who levitated herself up onto his shoulder. "You're getting better with your spychic abilities Lilly." he complimented. Robert hiked through the forest for a bit. Pewter was still a good four hour travel on foot, and there were plenty of wild pokemon to practice on. The kakunas and metapods were the easiest, however attacking pokemon that were unable to fight back went agianst Robert's ethics. He wanted his pokemon to earn thier experience, and using unmovable pokemon like metapods and kakunahs would prove no test of his ability as a trainer. Agianst Weedles, he would use Krystal the Pidgey and Lilly the Ralts. Agianst Caterpies, he would use Light the Caterpie and Julia the Nidoran. Robert ended up in four fights with wild bug pokemon, one for each of his pokemon. Light took the most damage of the four because of the basics of his attacks and slow pace. Lilly and Pidgey had no problems in thier bouts, and Nidoran suffered only minor damage. Robert only needed to use one potion to bring his Caterpie back to full health.

After several minutes more of traveling, Robert saw two pwople blocking the path. Both of which wore the same uniform as the thug he took out before. In fact, one of them was the male that tried to swipe his caterpie from before.

"I underestimated you last time child. This time my partner and I will put you out of business and out of pokemon." The female counterpart grinned. "You were beaten by a child like this? You really are a newbie Kira darling. Go, Raticate!" The thug snarled at his partner. "Don't talk down to me. Beedrill, go!"

Robert spat onto the ground. "Child huh? Allow me to show you what a grandchild of one of the Elite Four is capable of. You picked the wrong person to pester. Krystal, Gust that Beedrill! Light, wrap up that Raticate with String Shot and tackle it!"

"Beedrill, Twin Needle that Caterpie!"

"Raticate, Hyper Fang that bird!"

Beedrill tried to nail Caterpie, but the stroong Gust attack sent it right into its trainer's face. Raticate managed to nail Krystal it Hyper fang, but Caterpie's String shot wrapped around it's feet. When it landed, the Raticate fell face first onto the ground. Caterpie then tackled it into the female rocket grunt. Robert could see that his Pidgey was very badly hurt. "Krystal return! Julia, send these clowns packing with posion sting!" The Nidoran came out at her master's command. Opening her mouth, Julia sent a multitude of tiny poison barbs at the dou and thier pokemon. Both recalled thier pokemon and fled. threatening revenge agianst him. Bringing Krystal back out, Robert used the second of his five potions to heal up his pidgey before returning her to her pokeball. However, before Robert could return Caterpie to his ball, silk began spraying like made from Light, showering the caterpie with it's own silk. When the silk stopped flowing, Robert saw that his Caterpie had evolved into a Metapod. Taking out his pokedex, he pointted it at the Metapod. Metapod, the cacoon pokemon. A steel-hard shell protects its tender body. It quietly endures hardships while awaiting evolution. Light had lost his original ability in place of a new one: Shed Skin. Also, it still had the original two attacks, String Shot and Tackle, but now had leanred the harden move as well. "Finally, my first evolved pokemon." Robert spoke before returning Light to his pokeball. "Lets take a break, then we can travel and train for a bit longer before we get to Pewter and our first gym battle." Robert spoke before sitting himself down on a rock.

Robert stood back up after a good hour's rest. As Robert and Co treked along the long road, they came in contact with a few more wild pokemon. This time, however, these were the evolved forms of Kakuna and Metapod: Beedrills and Butterfrees. In the distance, electricity could be heard, along with the buzzing of several Beedrills. Running over to the sound, he saw a pikachu was being assualted by five beedrills, and from the looks of it, the poor thing was almost done for.

"Julia, posion sting those Beedrill! Krystal, use gust to add more umph to Julia's posion sting!" Robert commanded. Krystal hovered over Julia and flapped her wings vigorously as Julia opened her mouth and let loose with a hail of posioned barbs. Although this drove off the five beedrills, the attention atracted even more beedrills. "This is not looking good." Robert said to himself. "Alright, everyone out! Light, wrap them up with string shot!, Lilly, blast as many as you can with Confusion! Krystal, keep Gusting them! Julia, keep up the posion sting attacks!" As all four worked as hard as they could to fend off the ever growing swarm of beedrill, Robert knelt down and took out an antidote, using it on the wild pikachu. With the posion in its system gone, it was out of immediate danger. But it was still very weak. Taking out a pokeball, Robert tapped the pikachu on the head, catching it without a struggle. Once the light indicated pikachu was caught, he called pikachu out of the ball and used his third potion on it. Meanwhile, the swarms began to wane in number as Robert's pokemon kept them at bay, fainting several. However, his pokemon were reaching thier limits. Robert used his pokedex to see what his new friend could do. Pikachu, the mouse pokemon. When several of these pokemon gather, thier electricity could build and cause lightning storms The Pikachu was female with the Static ability. He knew Growl, Tail Whip, Thunder Shock and Thunder Wave. "Alright buddy, it's time you showed those beedrill to give you more respect. Hit them with thunder shock!" Building up electricity in her cheeks, the Pikachu let loose a strong bolt of electricity at the remaining beedrill. Robert breathed a sigh of relief as the beedrill finally left. All but the newest member of Robert's team were exhausted from having used thier moves so much in such a continuous manner. Robert gathered everyone around. "Alright, I'm going to name you Sable. Sable, these are my friends and your fellow team mates: Julia, Lilly, Light and Krystal." Robert took out the pokeballs and returned everyone to them. Well, almost everyone. Lilly remained outside where she normally was. Sable had no desire to get back in her pokeball. Looking at the pokedex, he looked up further information on pikachu Pikachus normally do not like being confined inside a pokeball or other small spaces Robert chuckled a little. "Well then, looks like you and Lilly are going to be travelling outside your pokeballs for the remainer of our journey." Robert mused. "Now then, let's get out of the forest and rest for a little bit. We can continue training when everyone's good and rested. I want to at the very least get Metapod to evolve into a Butterfree before we take on Pewter Gym." With that, Robert and Co made thier way out of the forest and took a nice hour long rest. Getting all of th epokemon out of his pokeballs and taking out the pokebase and berry powder, Robert made five pokeblocks for his friends. Taking out a bag of trail mix, Robert began to enjoy a bit of a lunch for himself as well.

After a much needed rest, Robert headed back into the forest. Finding a Caterpie, Robert sent out Light for the battle. With all of the hard work he did agianst the beedrill swarm, Robert figured it wouldn't take much more to evolve his friend. "Light, use String Shot and then hit it with tackle!" Although the string shot hit without a hitch, it seemed to move a bit too slowly to be able to tackle. Instead, the back of the cocoon started to crack open, and the metapod cocoon shattered into pieces. In its place was a Buterfree. Butterfree lunged then at top speed and nailed the caterpie head-on, sending it flying into a tree. Robert smiled at this new evolution. Butterfree. The butterfly pokemon. It loves the honey of flowers and can locate flower patches that have even the tiniest amount of pollen Checking the pokedex, he saw that it had lost it's Shed Skin in exchange for Compound Eyes, and gained confusion attack, plus sleep powder, stun spore and poison powder. Now he had two pokemon with psychic type attacks, and a means to truly create chaos in battle. But in learning these moves, it lost its tackle and string shot attacks. For Robert, this was fine. Tackle was only a very basic atack, and string shot was nothing compared to the powder variety attacks.

Walking into town, Robert decided to do a bit of shopping. He wanted to get a few different berry powders for his pokemon food and pokeblocks. As he made hi way there, he could overhear a very strange conversation.

"Officer Jenny, you've stolen my heart and now I'm going to have to make a citizen's arrest for love larceny!"

As Robert looked down street, he could see a man with squinty eyes getting struck in the back and dragged towards the Pewter Gym by a Croagunk. Following behind him was another guy in his late teens.

"Brock, we are trying to find out about the robbery, not try and find you a date."

"Pikapi."

Robert blinked a bit. That was Brock? "I hope he's a better gym leader than he is a ladies man." Robert said to himself. Lilly nodded her head while Sable perked her ears and went running off towards the other pikachu. The other pikachu blinked as it looked at the approaching Sable, then jumped off of the other trainer's shoulder.

Robert ran after Sable before catching up to the group. "I'm sorry. Sable just ran off on her own." He spoke to the duo.

"It's no worry. It looks like your pikachu is just looking for new friends." the other trainer replied. "I'm Ash. Who might you be?"

Robert blionked a bit before remembering what Professor Oak told him. "Ah yes. Professor Oak told me about you. My name is Robert, I'm a trainer from Hoenn. My Pikachu there is Sable, and my Ralts here is Lilly."

Ash smiled to Robert and held out his hand in greeting. "Nice to meet you. So what brings you to Pewter City?" Ash asked. Robert looked to Brock and then to Ash. "Well two things. First, to challenge the Pewter City Gym leader, and secondly, I was advised by the professor to see you about a specific pokemon that I saw on my way to Kanto."

Ash blinked a bit. "Me? Why?"

"Because he said you had seen something similar on your travels. I'm just curious as to what it was. It flew through the sky, and it's body was rather smooth. it looked like it had a long neck. Primarily white with a red rear half and a red 'D' like shape on its chest." Robert explained

Ash and Brock thought for a moment before Ash finally remembered his own trip to Hoenn and the water race with Misty. "Was it headed towards here? To Kanto." Robert gave a nod. "Well, I know exactly what you saw. I'm not sure if it's the same one I met, but what you saw was a Latias. I met one when I was in Hoenn several years ago."

Brock laughed a bit. "I think Misty will get jealous if it is the same one." he mused before looking to Robert. "I'm the gym leader here. At least as long as I stay in Pewter. Any other time, my father Flint is in charge of the gym. But right now my pokemon are recovering from my last gym challenge. If you'd like, you can stay with us and we can have our battle tomarrow."

Robert smiled and gave a simple nod. "That sounds fine by me."

With that the trio headed to the house next to Pewter Gym.

Robert walked into Brock's house. To his amazement, the house was practically crowded with siblings, along with Brock's father Flint and his wife. "Dad, I've brought over some guests." Brock called out. Flint came out and offered a smile to the small group. "Ah, welcome to my humble home. Ash, it's good to see you agian. And who might you be young man?" Flint asked.

"My name is Robert. It's a pleasure to meet you." Robert said. "Same here. It's good to see my son making new friends. So Robert, what brings you here to Pewter?" Flint asked. "I'm entering the Indigo league, so I came to battle with Brock for the Boulder Badge. But I'm in no rush, and it seems like the three of us have at least one or two things in common." Robert said before looking back to Ash and Brock. "Well then, I'm going to start dinner, so just make yourself at home." Brock said before heading into the kitchen.

"Man, you haven't lived until you've had Brock's cooking. He can make a tasty meal out of anything. During our travels, he always made sure we were never hungry, and he makes all of his own pokemon food." Ash spoke as he sat down. Robert took a seat on the couch while the two pikachues played around and played with the children. "Sounds impressive. I'll have to ask him about pokemon food. I can make basic stuff, and my pokemon like it well enough, but I want to be able to make some real quality food." Robert replied.

After dinner was finished, Robert, Brock and Ash entered into the gym. The ground of the arena certainly fit a rock-type gym: boulders and stone mounds everywhere. "Come tomarrow, this is where we will have our battle." Brock said. Ash went over onto the field. "Well, how about we have a battle now? I'd like to see how good you are before you take on Brock. And I haven't had a battle in a while." Ash said. Robert smiled and stepped onto the field. "Sounds good. I could use more experience to hone my skills as well as toughen up my pokemon."

"How does three on three sound?" Ash asked. "Sounds good to me." Robert replied before taking out one of his pokeballs and enlarging it to normal size.

Brock took his place outside and center of the gym. "The battle between Ash and Robert will begin. This battle is three on three. Both sides may make substitutions. begin!"

"Alright Pikachu, let's go!" Ash said, sending Pikachu out onto the field.

Alright, Krystal and Light aren't going to last long agianst an electric type, and his Pikachu is probably more experienced than mine. That leaves Julia and Lilly. Robertgave a nod to Lilly. "Alright Lilly, let's do this!" With that, Lilly took to the field.

"Pikachu, Volt Tackle!" Pikachu began to race with extreame speed towards Lilly, electricity flowing around it. "Lilly, stop him in his tracks with confusion!" Lilly used confusion, tossing Pikachu away from her, but not before a few strands of electricity struck her, paralysing her and doing a sizable amount of damage.

"Now Pikachu, thuinder bolt!" Pikachu sent a thunderous attack straight for Lilly. "Lilly, Confusion on the thunderbolt! Try to send it into the ground!" Lilly's confusion attack connected with the thunderbolt and forcefully arced it into the ground, causing debris to fly in all directions. Robert stepped in front of Lilly and braced himself, shielding her from the flying debris while Ash protected Pikachu. When the smoke settled, Robert got back behind Lilly. "Now, use confusion on the debis and toss it all at Pikachu!" Using her power as best as she could, she hurled several small chucnks of stone at Pikachu.

"Pikachu, jump over it and use Iron Tail!" Ash called out. The stones passed underneath, but one hit pikachu in the foot, tossing it off balance. "Lilly, dodge and hit Pikachu with confision!" Robert called. However, Lilly was paralysed, unable to do anything. Although pikachu was knocked a bit off course frpom being hit by a stone, its Iron Tail slammed hard into the ground right in front of Lilly, hitting Lilly with the debris and hard. But not without recoil it seemed, because as Pikachu landed on its feet, the injury to its foot caused it to flinch. With Lilly fainted, Robert had to choose quickly to take advantage of Pikachu's injury. "Julia, Double Kick now!" Robert calle dout as he sent Julia out of her pokeball while Lilly, after regaining conciousness, went back to her master's side. As pikechu looked up, Robert's Nidoran was already on top of it, her hind feet slaming Pikachu hard and sending it flying at Ash. Ash caught his now fainted Pikachu. So far, the battle was even, both had taken out the other's first pokemon.

"Sceptile, go! Bullet Seed!" Ash tossed his pokeball, sending out his Sceptile. Opening its mouth, Sceptile launched a barrage of grass energy seeds at Julia. "Julia, remember your training. Hit those seeds with Posion Sting!" Julia countered, opening her mouth and releasing a hail of posionous barbs. The attacks collided, with several posion needles and bullet seeds finding thier marks. However, the efects were much different. Being Posion typed, Julia had strong defenses agianst grass type pokemon, whileAsh's grass type was weak to posion typed attacks. What's more, those barbs inflicted a posioned status on Sceptile. However, Sceptile was quite strong, and it would take more than that attack to take it down.

"Sceptile, Leaf Blade!" Ash called out. being the faster of the two, Sceptile was just about on top of Julia with Leaf Blade ready. "Julia, counter with Double Kick!" Robert called out. Julia jumped upwards and interceptedthe leaf blade with her feet, but Sceptile spun around and nailed Julia with the back end of the leaf blade attack. Julia passed out while Sceptile began to get a bit woozy from the posion. Robert recalled Julia into her pokeball before taking out his final choice. "It's all or nothing. Light, use Sleep Powder!" Robert called out, sending out his Butterfree. Light dusted Sceptile with a multitude of spores, putting it into a deep sleep. And with the posion continuing to chip away at Sceptile's health, Ash knew Sceptile was in trouble. "Now, hit Sceptile with Confusion!" Robert commanded. As Light's eyes lit up, psychic energies ripped through Sceptile's mind. With the combination of sleep, posion and now a psychic attack, Sceptile went from sleeping to fainted.

"Alright, this is getting good! Sceptile, return. Go, Staraptor!" The large bird pokemon came soaring out. This was trouble, and Robert knew it. However, he wasn't one to give up so easily. "Light, use Confusion, and then follow up with sleep powder!" Light sent psychic energies ripping through Staraptor's head, but the bird wasn't exactly weak to such an attack. "Staraptor, Whirlwind the sleep powder away and thenuse Areal Ace!". Light's sleep powder was sent right back at Light, causing it to fall asleep, and then the Areal Ace KO'd the sleeping Butterfree. "Butterfree is unable to battle. Ash wins!" Brock called out. Robert picked up Lilly in his arms and smiled to her. "You all did a great job. I'm proud of you all, even though we lost."

Ash approached Robert and held out his hand. "That was a great battle." Brock chuckled lightly. "I'm impressed too. Those pokemon weren't you used aren't as powerful as Ash's, yet you used them quite effectively and gave Ash a run for his money. I think tomarrow's match will be interesting." Brock spoke. Robert shook Ash's hand. "Well, I'd better get these three to the pokemon center and give them a much needed recharge and get ready for our battle tomarrow."

"I'll come with you. I need to pick up my pokemon from the center also." Brock replied

Ash sighed a bit. "And hit on Nurse Joy." he muttered.

Robert saw Jake at the pokemon center. Robert gave all of his pokemon to Nurse Joy for some much deserved R&R and healing to the three that needed it most. Robert then walked up to Jake. "Jake, good to see you made it through the forest." He spoke before motioning at the two behind him. Well...one behind his. The other had ran over to hit on Nurse Joy. "This is Ash, and..." Looking around, Robert saw Crogunk dragging Brock back towards the group. "...mister romantic over there is Brock, the Gym Leader of Pewter. Were you able to catch any new pokemon?" he asked.

((King Robert: I probably didn't make it clear enough, but as soon as I got to Pewter, Tommy ran to his house. No worries though.))

Jake turned to Ash and Brock, "Nice to meet you two. Hey Ash, you live in Pallet, right? I think I used to see you around there when I was younger."
Ash nodded, "Yeah, my mom is Delia, have you met her?"
Jake shook his head yes and turned his attention to Brock, "So Brock, its very nice to meet you." Brock smiled, "Yes, nice to meet you too. Are you here to battle me like your friend Robert?"
"Yeah, but not tomorrow, I've still got a little training to do tonight," Jake replied.
Brock spoke again, "Okay good, because I already promised Robert for a battle tomorrow."
Jake nodded at Brock and finally spoke to Robert, "Yeah, good to see you made it through the forest as well. How long ago did you arrive? And yeah, I was able to catch new pokemon. I caught a Weedle, who has evolved twice and is now a Beedrill, and an Oddish. Beedrill is really strong. I haven't really battled with Oddish yet, but she has some useful battle moves. How is your team coming along?"