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Josh's Battle Frontier journey

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okay, here's the plot

Josh has a well earned vacation from his job at Team Guardian, and, although much to his dismay, decides to take on the battle frontier, as he hasn't done anything like it since he was fifteen.

the plot is two years from the event of any of my previous RPGs, and Josh's 20th birthday is comming up, and soon. he travels with his pokemon to take on the battle frontier. other trainers join him to either to do the same thing, or take part in the Kanto pokemon contests

this is a very long running RPG, designed for up to four people, with the basic plot as follows: challenge the battle frontier, join the crowd or challenge the Kanto pokemon contest.

however, there is a twist

at the end of the journey, at the Indigo plateau, a tournement is held for the champions to crown the ultimate champion of champions!

the form is easy to fill out, as per usual.

I'll fill in my info as an example

Name: Josh Vendradoff
Age: 19
personality: kind, welcoming, laid back, but becomes serious yet cool headed in a battle situation. preffers to let his pokemon battle for themselves rather than give them commands, unless he can see a perfect strategic move, or if they need help
physical appearance: wears a tweed waistcoat and striped shirt, jeans and trainers. However, he's being given a clothes change very soon.
Pokemon:
1. Blaziken (can talk, knows a wide variety of flying and psychic moves, stays out of pokeball unless it is a medical emergencey, has a similar personality to josh, but a bit more sarcastic)
2. charizard (abnormally large, bit of a prankster)
3. Pidgeot (headstrong and cocky)
4. Nidoking (has a major anger management problem, looses his temper very easily)
5. Feraligatr (happy go lucky, sees the bright side of every situation)
6. Manectric (stuck up and selfish, preffers to see herself as Josh's owner rather than the other way around)

reserves:
Houndoom (cowardly, and almost constantly upset)
Riolu (hatched from the egg given to Josh by the mother Lucario after a team Galaxy attack. looks up to Blaziken as a father figure)
Prinplup (evolved from the Piplup Josh recieved after beating the elite four in a friendly tournament. shares a friendly and cheerful rivalry with Houndoom)

friend pokemon: (my my, isn't this a new section? well, I'll explain. friend pokemon are wild pokemon which continuosly return in the character's lives because of a mutual friendship (like frontier brain Noland and Articuno, or Ash and Haunter in the first series). this can be any three pokemon from anywhere in the pokedex, including legendaries, but you have to remmember, these pokemon are your friends. you don't own them, so you can't use them in battle. they may do some battling, but they will do it for dramatic effect, rather than the progress of your character)
1.Moltres (befriended moltres while on a journey in the islands. helped her out when the rare occasion of a moltres community occured in a volcano, and she had trouble being impressing the alpha male (hey, dudes, you think legendaries are immortal? think again. the world wouldn't allow their cpature if there was only one of them, well, maybe except for mew or mewtwo))
2.Mewtwo (met once, Blaziken and mewtwo locked horns to match psychic skills, with mewtwo as the victor. Mewtwo said that he would find them one day to help Blaziken improve his psychic prowess)
3. Blazilord (Blaziken's more powerful clone, who uses dark and ice moves along with his own fire, fighting, psychic and flyingmoves who was freed from slavery of team rocket. when Josh met him again, the cloned pokemon had his own set of clothes, pokeballs and pokedex, and was one of the first pokemon on the planet to become an indpendant trainer. he usually carries six pokemon allies with him, but on certain occassions, he only carries five, making himself his sixth pokemon (wierd huh?))

anyway. oh yeah. you can only have ONE legendary as a usable pokemon. more than one will require me to ask you to edit your pokemon list or you cannot play

godmodding - how to avoid it: simple really. when in battle, don't type "slaking used shaddow ball, it was super effective" type "slaking used a shaddowball attack, with intent on hitting ralts" this shows that you have initianted an attack, allowing your player opponent to respond, rather than there being a certain hit. you also need to accept loss. Ash lost alot of his battles, as did alot of the champions of the pokemon leagues. Every great trainer looses some times. also, if another player initiates an event, that means they have to finish it in the way they intended it to end, so no taking over, because no one knows their idea better than the person who thought of it first.

phew, what a rant. anyway. let's begin. enter your info and I'll give the all clear before you can begin

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as Josh left his house in pallet town that spring morning, he took in a deep breath and sighed
"well, this looks like a good time for a vacation, right?" he asked. Blaziken staggered out the door behind him, yawned and stretched and stared at the sunny sky with josh
"yeah..." he started "but why did you have to get me up so early?"
"well, yeah. if we wanna get started on the battle frontier, we gotta start early" Josh explained, a smile on his face "besides, the Prof and Ash wanna talk to us first" Blaziken sighed and rubbed his eyes
"well, it better be worth it"

entering the lab, Josh and Blaziken wave to Professor Oak and Ash with smiles on their faces
"so what did you want to talk about, professor?" Josh asked
"well, I was thinking. your Riolu could do with some experience on the battle field" the professor explained "so, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind exchanging him for a pokemon of yours"
"hm... well, it will be tough, but Riolu should be with us. I give you manectric for now" Josh stated "we could do with a more positive attitude on our team"
"oh yeah" Ash started "I almost forgot" Ash presented Josh with a box. opening it, Josh saw a blue bandana, black t-shirt and jeans "your mom mailed them to me to give you yesterday. she says you need a new look for a while" Josh sweatdropped
"well, she's not wrong there" Blaziken stated
"Hey!" Josh exclaimed.

after Josh got changed and exchanged pokemon, the three left the lab, Riolu sitting on Blaziken's shoulder.

heading out of Pallet town, the three tried to imagine who they'd face first...
 
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((Sure, I'll join =D))

Name: Glenda Burns (Glen for short)
Age: Just turned 18
Personality: Extremely tomboyish and scrappy. She is usually kind to younger trainers, but she has been known to have a volatile temper.
Appearance: Short, scruffy dark blonde hair (looks like she chopped it off herself, because she did), olive skin and bright amber eyes. She usually wears boyish clothes, her particular favorite is a forest green hoodie and black cargo pants.
Pokemon: Torterra, Corsola, Umbreon, Glameow, Vespiquen, and Absol
 
((ok, you're ready to go, start when ready))
 
Glen set the time on her new, silver-colored pokétch.
8:00 AM. If she headed out now, she could probably make it to Mt. Moon by nightfall.
Even though she was eager to challenge the Battle Frontier Brains, she knew she would miss her dad and their cabin situated between Pallet Town and Viridian City.
She kissed her father on his bald spot and slung her camouflage-patterned backpack over one shoulder. "I promise to be back soon with all the frontier symbols, Dad!" she shouted, running out the door.
~~About an hour later~~
"Great!" moaned Glen. "I'm lost in the middle of this forest! So much for getting to Mt. Moon by nightfall!"
She noticed a boy in a black shirt walking down a nearby path.
Maybe they know where in the heck I am, she thought.
"Hey!" she called. "Hey, you, wait up!"
 
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Josh stopped and saw a girl with short hair calling out to him
"Hm?" he mumbled "oh, hi! you ok?" Riolu cowered behind Blaziken's mane as the girl approached. Blaziken plucked the little anubite like pokemon off his back and cradled it, smilling
"it's ok" he stated "your fine as long as you're with me" Rilolu's small, sweet smile stretched across his tiny face
"Rio!" he squeeked
 
She was a bit shaken by the fact Blaziken was able to speak, but she still managed to answer the boy.
"Yeah, I'm fine," she replied. "Just really, really lost."
She spotted the Riolu being cradled by the boy's blaziken.
"Oh my gosh! Is that really a Riolu?!" she gasped. "They're one of the rarest pokemon around!"
 
Rilou clambered out of Blaziken's arms and hid behind Blaziken, quivering due to the interest he was recieving. Josh scratched behind his head
"yeah, he's a bit shy. Treats Blaziken like a dad" Josh explained "so, you're headed for the battle factory, right? That's cool, we're headed the same way. it's just north to viridian city from here, wanna join us?"
"we'd like you to come, we havent met anyone new since team guardian asked a few kids to help us on a raid for team rocket, and that was three years ago" Blaziken explained, trying to calm down Riolu
"Ri!" Riolu squeeked in retaliation
 
"Thanks, that sounds great!" responded Glen, brushing her hair out of her eyes with her hand. "I'm Glen, by the way."
She took a few steps further only to disrupt a mother spearow and her eggs.
"Eek! I'm sorry!" she shouted, protecting her head with her arms as the spearow began angrily pecking it.
She managed to grab a hold of Corsola's pokeball and throw it into the air.
"Look, I really don't want to have to battle you!" Glen said to the spearow. "But if you attack me again, I'll have no other choice!"
The spearow gave her an angry glare, but returned to its nest, giving her a cock-eyed look. Glen stuck her tongue out at it, causing Corsola to roll its eyes exasperatedly at Glen.
 
Name:patrick
Age:16
Personality: Kind and trusting, he's always looking for fun.
Appearance: Wears an orange t-shirt covered up with a green vest and blue jeans that are slightly ripped at the bottom.
Pokemon: Infernape, Jumpluff, Octillery, Glaceon, Banette, Altaria
Reserves: Weavile, Gallade, Gardevoir, Ampharos, Rapidash
Friend pokemon:1. Delibird- (Found it injured near Snowpoint City and nursed it back to health. Delivers mail for Patrick and sometimes brings him gifts as thanks.)
2. Aggron-( Patrick helped to save its forest from a forest fire. It comes to his aid as soon as he blows a special whistle that Aggron gave to him. )
3. Blissey- (Patrick befriended it when it was still a Happiny. It wanders around Kanto a lot, but manages to run into him occasionally.)
 
((ok sticky, your clear to join in))

Josh gave a grin at the spectacle and almost chuckled
"I'm Josh" he said "this is Blaziken and Riolu, but I guess you knew that already" Blaziken gave a short wave
"It's nice to meet you Glen" Blaziken stated
"Shall we keep going? just a half an hour's walk till Viridian City" Josh explained as he tried to find north again on his compass
 
Name: Joey

Age: 14

Personality: Has a high temper and gets frustrated easily, but nice and calm when he has nothing to be mad about.

Appearance: Chestnut brown spiked hair, tanned skin, blueish-greenish eyes, blue slim square glasses, white t-shirt, black shoes, yellow and black backpack and army shorts.

Pokemon: Torterra Lv.70, Magnezone Lv.67, Skuntank Lv.65, Electivire Lv.67, Abomasnow Lv.68, Rampardos Lv. 65
 
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Glen brushed some sand off her clothes and tucked her hair behind her ears.
"Well, let's get going," she said a bit hastily, returning Corsola to its pokeball.

Fortunately, she didn't get lost again and they soon made it to Viridian city.
"Wow," she said. "I've been off traveling in Johto and Sinnoh, and haven't been here in awhile. It's certainly grown." She spotted the Viridian Gym, which was surprisingly less dark and intimidating than she'd remembered.
She ran over to check it out, but was halted by a large, heavy-set man.
"No-one enters the gym, the gymleader's out," he said loudly.
Glen glared at him, and willed herself to not make a rude retort.
"Well- fine!" she snapped, marching back to where Josh and his Pokémon were standing.
"Apparently entering the gym is prohibited," she sighed, placing her hand on her hips. "Oh well, let's just let our Pokémon rest up at the Pokémon Center and head up to Pewter City."
 
((ok, Stunky, you have the all clear. also, that's the most people we can have, so no more please. until someone drops out, we have reached maximum capacity for people))

"yeah. it should be evening by the time we get there, so we can get some sleep before heading to mount moon" Josh explained "I hear there are rather sinister pokemon roaming that area at night nowadays" as the group moved towards the pokemon centre, Blaziken stopped
"Blaziken, you ok?" Josh asked
"yeah, I'm fine" he explained, before turning back around to the trainers "something's not right about that gym... something about the leader..."

in the pokemon centre, the cool breeze of the air conditioning soothed the senses of the trainers
"alright, we'll put your pokemon in the recovery rooms for a quick refresher" Nurse Joy said
"cool, but could Blaziken and Riolu stay here with us? Riolu isn't comfortable on his own and Blaziken is the only one who can calm him down" Josh said
"okay, then I'll look after your other four pokemon" the nurse answered. Josh handed over the four pokeballs and smiled
"oh, becareful of Nidoking, he's a bit testy"
 
"finally, a pokemon center.." joey said in relief. he went in and went up to the nurse and said" id like to heal my pokemon please" "ok" the nurse answered
"oh yeah, and do you know where mt.moon is?" joey asked "yes, just north of here" the nurse answered "thank you" he was going to head to mt.moon but when he looked at the time on his poketech he decided he should rest. that night he couldnt sleep he was thinking about what his friends and family said "your too young" "your only 14" "you will get lost" "you will never defeat the battle frontier alone"... thats when he thought... maybe he could meet up with some trainers on the way there... his parents wouldnt let him go so he snuck away. "i can do it... ill show them..." he said as he drifted of too sleep. when he woke up he quickly got dressed and ran out of the pokemon center. he was half way there and then... "oh no, i forgot my pokemon!" as ran to the pokemon center he bumped into a girl, a boy, a blaziken and a riolu "oh sorry, i didnt see you i forgot my pokemon at the pokemon center"... "hey.. isnt that thing rare?..."
 
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Patrick stopped to sit on a bench in Pewter City's Pokemon Center. "Now which one to choose? Pokemon Contests of the Battle Frontier?" he mumbled to himself as he switched on his new Poketch and went to the coin toss application and flipped the coin. "Heads for Contests, and tails for the Battle Frontier." At that moment, a Delibird came flying through the doors with something in its tail. It waddled over to the young trainer and handed him a package. Patrick quickly opened it to find ball capsules and a sticker case full of stickers. Attached to the case was a small note: "Dear Patrick,

I hope you enjoy using those ball capsules during your journey through Kanto!

Mom"

Patrick thanked the Delibird as it flew off into the night sky. Patrick looked at the Poketch to find the coin on heads. "Here are your pokemon back!" Nurse Joy said with a warm smile. "Thank you." Patrick answered. "Now who will I use for the appeals?"

((Ack! I forgot where the contests were held, so is it okay if I make up the locations as the RP continues?))
 
((sure, go ahead))

Riolu cowered behind Blaziken again
"yeah, he's rare, but not completley. infact they are quite common in the shinnouh region" Josh explained "I'm Josh, this is Glen, Blaziken and Riolu"
"it's nice to meet you" Blaziken stated
 
Joey was stunned at the sight of Blaziken talking but still was able to respond.
"Wow! Blaziken can talk?!.... And whats up with your Riolu? It looks scared. I hope I didn't scare it. Oh yeah, and nice to meet you guys. Where are you heading?". Joey asked." I hope your going to battle frontier. I could sure use some friends. I've been lonely since I ran away from home...." Joey said with a sigh.
 
"yeah, we're headed for the battle frontier" Josh explained "and, yeah, I taught Blaziken how to talk. and don't worry about Riolu, he's a little scared when he meets new people"

((we should wait a bit for liberty to post, her character hasn't said anything for a while))
 
((Hi! I'm back! Sorry I hadn't posted in a while, I was busy lurking around some other forums :sweatlol:))
Glen raised an eyebrow. Ran away? she thought.
"We're going up to Pewter City now, but our destination is actually Cerulean City, where the Battle Factory is located," she said. "You should probably go with us, there's strength in numbers, afterall. And you can't be too safe in this day and age..." her voice trailed off, but she quickly perked up. "Anyway, let's get this show on the road! The sooner we get through the Viridian forest the better, I say."
 
"Cool. I'm headed the same place.... uh, Glen you really sounded like my mom when you said, there's strength in numbers, afterall, and you can't be too safe in this day and age." Joey started to think that Glen and Josh would start thinking he talks to much. When he mentioned his mom he started missing is family which has happend for the millionth time now. "Oops, i forgot i still havent picked up my Pokemon yet!" Joey was getting ready to run but then the nurse came with his Pokemon. "You forgot these." She said. "Oh, thanks." Joey replied. He looked up at Glen and Josh. "... Well what are you guys waiting for?... Let's head out!".
 
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