Kartf's Grand Adventure - Chapter 1

Kartf's Grand Adventure - Chapter 1
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There once was a boy named Kartf.

Kartf decided one day to go on a Pokemon journey.

Along with his two derpy "friends", Cheren and Bianca.

When the Pokemon arrived, he hesitated. Which one should he pick?

His mind made up, Kartf reached into the gift box and pulled out the Poke ball containing the grass type, Snivy.

Bianca, like the dumbass she was, challenged Kartf to a battle IN HIS ROOM.

Kartf sent out Snivy and the serpent easily defeated Bianca's water type Oshawott.

Looking around, Kartf saw the wreck his room had become. Fuming, he barely registered Cheren was challenging him until the Tepig slammed into his Snivy.

It was a bit more difficult, but the Snivy managed to overcome the fire pig.

Kartf beamed, holding the Snivy up in the air. "You did it!"

The Snivy hid its face, surprised by the praise.

Kartf tried to sneak out of the house undetected, but his mother and so called "friends" caught him and all pressured him into going to thank Professor Juniper, who had delivered the Pokemon to Kartf's house.

Ever the obedient son, Kartf listened to what his mommy said.

Like a good boy.

Cheren made him follow Bianca to her house first for some reason, where he was forced to listen to the girl's father yelling at her about how she shouldn't be a trainer.

Kartf left with his ears ringing. The man was LOUD.

They finally made it to the lab.

Juniper, despite the kids knowing her for years, insisted on introducing herself, again, wasting more of Kartf's precious time.

Kartf tuned her out for the most part, but then she inspected the Pokemon.

"Have you decided what to name them?", she asked. Bianca and Cheren apparently already had names for theirs, but Kartf was stuck.

Kartf asked Juniper if she had any ideas. Juniper told him the Snivy was a male.

Kartf was about to christen the Snivy with the manly name of Sam, but for some reason, the song Bear Necessities from The Jungle Book popped into his head.

After humming the song for a few seconds, he decided on the name... SAMGLI.

Kartf smirked to himself. He truly was a genius.

Juniper then asked the kids to go on an adventure to fill the Pokedex.

Kartf told Juniper a very blatant no, to which she merely babbled about hearing "the courageous words of people who will blaze new paths around the world" or some crap.

Apparently the woman did not take no for an answer.

Why bother giving him a choice at all, if he HAD no choice? Kartf grudgingly muttered an unenthusiastic yes.

Juniper stuffed a Pokedex into his hands. He immediatley dropped it into his backpack, never to be seen again.

Samgli climbed up onto Kartf's shoulder as they made their way out of the lab, only to be confronted by... mommy.

Mommy gave Kartf and his friends some stupid X-Transiever thingy that Kartf just knew would one day be the bane of his existance.

Mommy started blubbering and crying at the thought of her precious baby boy leaving to become a man, much to Kartf's embarrassment and horror.

She squeezed him very tightly and planted a bunch of big kisses on his face. Kartf withstood it all, like a MAN.

Finally she went back home. Kartf ignored Cheren's teasing about him being a momma's boy and vowed he'd kick his ass later.

He and his friends ventured out into Route 1 for the very first time, only to be ambushed by Juniper as she forced them to watch her Pokemon-catching tutorial. As if Kartf hadn't seen the deed done on TV a million times!

After Juniper FINALLY left, Kartf accepted a challenge against Cheren and Bianca, see who catches the most Pokemon upon arrival in Accumula Town.

As the other two left to search for Pokemon, Kartf looked around. Tall grass everywhere. What could be lurking in its depths, other than Patrat?

Kartf shuddered. He hoped he didn't find a Patrat.

He began searching through the grass, Samgli beside him, when suddenly...

A Patrat leapt out of the grass and latched onto Kartf's hat. Screeching in a most unmanly fashion, Kartf ordered Samgli to attack.

Samgli Tackled the Patrat, but in doing so, also Tackled Kartf.

Kartf fell to the ground, dazed, and a Pokeball somehow fell out of his backpack and hit the also dazed Patrat on the head, sucking the creature inside and successfully capturing it.

Kartf shook his head and stood up on shaky legs. Pokemon were pretty dang strong.

He then saw his unintentional capture and cursed under his breath.

However, a catch was a catch, and after a few minuted of working up his courage, he let the Patrat out of the ball.

The Patrat glared up at him with undisguised malice.

Kartf studied the creature. "What should I name you?"

Studying the mask-like marking over the creature's eyes, he was reminded of a superhero.

"I dub thee... Patman!" Kartf shouted. He was truly clever.

The newly dubbed Patman hissed and wasted no time in chomping down on Kartf's nose.

After recalling the crazed rodent and bandaging his bleeding nose, Kartf looked around for another different kind of Pokemon, but all he was seeing were more Patrats.

He shrugged. "Might as well train what I got..."

And so he did.

Kartf met up a few hours later with his friends in front of Accumula Town.

Apparently, they'd shared his ill luck, as they'd each only gotten one Pokemon as well.

Kartf studied his Pokeballs proudly. 'Mine are the best ever', he thought to himself.

Suddenly, his Xtransceiver thing rang. It was Juniper calling about more tutorials. Swallowing his pride, Kartf did as the Professor bid, like the good boy he was.

After going through the annoying tutorial, and healing up his Pokemon (he also found out Patman was in fact a female), Kartf browsed the Poke Mart, built into the Pokemon Center for convenience.

Kartf was a bargain shopper. He knew very well from watching TV all the time and seeing millions of commercials that for every ten Pokeballs you bought, you'd get a Premier Ball, free. He bought two sets of ten, smiling at his own brilliance.

Heading back outside the Center, he saw a large crowd forming. Curious, he approached to see what all the ruckus was about.

Apparently, some old, green haired dude was making a speech.

Kartf listened, but quickly became bored. The man prattled on about "Pokemon Liberation", or some meaningless crap. Kartf tuned him out, having made up his mind this was a waste of time. He would have left, but he was trapped in the crowd, effectively forcing him to wait until the speech ended. When it finally did, and the people scattered, Kartf made to head to the town exit, leading to Route 2.

However, his plans were foiled again as a mysterious green haired bishie suddenly blocked his path.

The young man muttered something about Pokemon talking. Kartf was annoyed now. "What are you talking about? Pokemon can't talk!"

"So you can't hear them either..." the bishie said. "How sad..."

The bishie suddenly looked straight at Kartf, his bishieness almost overpowering our poor hero.

"My name is N."

Cheren suddenly popped up out of nowhere. "We're gonna complete the Pokedex!" he crowed proudly.

N's eyes darkened. "The Pokedex, eh? So you'll be trapping many Pokemon in those little balls of yours, huh?"

He focused back on Kartf. "You! Let me hear your Pokemon's voice again!"

A Purrloin appeared as if from nowhere, and leaped at Samgli, who had abandoned his perch on Kartf's shoulder, sensing the coming battle.

Samgli made short work of the feline. He eyed N ditrustfully, hissing at him.

N frowned. No Pokemon had ever said the things this one was saying to him.

He looked down at the ground. "As long as Pokemon are confined in Poke Balls, they will never become perfect beings..."

He began to walk off, mumbling, "I have to change the world for the Pokemon, for my precious friends..."

Kartf watched the bishie weirdo leave, quite unnerved.

Cheren suddenly speaking to him scared the crap out of Kartf and made him jump a foot in the air.

Listening to the guy's inane babble for a few minutes, Kartf FINALLY managed to get away.

Deciding Samgli was still healthy enough, Kartf chose not to return to the Pokemon Center, instead planning on catching a Pokemon on Route 2 before nightfall.

As soon as he entered Route 2, however...

He got a call from Mommy.

Within two seconds of saying hello, she hung up on him... and promptly tackle-glomped him from behind.

She went through her normal mom routine of hugging, kissing, fussing over him, trying to fix his hair, reminding him to change his undies, and then gave him a brand new pair of shoes and went back home.

Kartf took a moment to process all of this.

Finally his mind caught up, and he ventured once again into the tall grass.

Catching movement out of the corner of his eye after a few minutes of searching, he turned and spotted another Patrat.

With a curse, he debated whether or not he should catch the thing. Patman was pretty strong...

Deciding against catching a second Patrat, Kartf let Samgli battle and defeat it, then went in search of something new.

It wasn't long before he found a wild Purrloin.

Now this one looked promising. Kartf had Samgli use Wrap to trap the cat, then chucked a Poke ball at it.

After successfully catching the cat, he debated over a name.

Dubbing the less than pleased looking Purrloin Scratchy, he then decided to head back to the Pokemon Center in Accumula, and continue his grand adventure in the morning.