the ratty notebook under the bed [Rocket gRunt]

[breloom]

March 15th

I... didn't look good after leaving Mt. Moon.
But this guy picked me up after a few hours and we rode his Dragonite to Viridian Forest.
AWAY FROM THAT MEWFORSAKEN MOUNTAIN, THANK GOD.
It was hard to resist the urge to steal his Pokeball and run off; this guy didn't seem that attentive to detail, though, so I think I'm okay in that respect.
But anyway.
We were walking through the forest, and he told me exactly who he hated the most: Team Rocket.
And by extension, me.
I wasn't in uniform, though...

and this guy didn't really notice that I was insanely pale 'cept the bottom half of my face.
He asked about the Pipe, though.
'Self-defense', yeah right.
But then we met a load of other people. One kid seemed to be fangirling over him.
His name is Lance. He told me.
He's a...

a...

a Champion.
Ugh.

[breloom]

So while we were in that forest with the fangirling kid and everything, some other girl called him 'Mace'.
And then as Lance was gonna explain to fanboy who he was, he got a piece of paper whipped in his face. He read it.
It was an advertisement for a cruise.

A FREAKING CRUISE.

Lance therefore decided that he and I should go on it for the small, small price of 1000 Poke (I should have known this guy was loaded...).
We got on his Dragonite and headed towards Vermillion City to buy ourselves tickets.
As if I really wanted to go...
But hey, maybe I'll strike lucky and get some good loot out of it?



Oh yeah, and I've noticed this weird mutated Pikachu thing that has clothes on has been slinking around and following me and stuff.
And when I threaten it with the Pipe, it squeals happily and sings about love letters.
I think that Pikachu thing got hit VERY VERY HARD on the head when it was a few hours old.

So, like, it's insane and stuff.

[breloom]

So we're at Vermillion now.

Lance's Dragonite likes to sleep, apparently, because it was out cold as soon as we landed on the beach.
And then Lance hopped over to some other higher-up... Trainers... and started having fun with them. I kind of stayed out of the way because I figure that I should just stay to the sidelines and people will ignore me.
It worked.

But Lance didn't do that, so he had some psycho lady in black named Cynthia chasing after him.
We also saw - uh, heard - one of those guys who search for stuff on the beach with a metal detector. He was cursing like a maniac.
I also got a ticket from Giovanni requesting that I be on that cruise... that Lance invited me to go on with!
How am I going to get this ticket for two to someone else? Will somebody buy it, or what?