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“Holy shit,” I said, and I just knew my eyes were wide and mouth gaping open.

It hadn’t taken any more than another good fifteen minutes for me to reach Viridian City. what could I say about it? Nothing much to be honest, it was like any other city, I wasn’t much of an archtitect - the only thing I could really say, was it was clean. Not one piece of litter, not even a hint of graffity anywhere.

The people though, they were amazing. Not even just because of the varied hair colors - just walking down the street I’d seen hair ranging from green, to blue to even one white haired girl and I’d had to force myself not to follow her and focus on my objectives. Curse my white haired waifu adoration.

No, besides all the exotic people, what was even more amazing was seeing the odd pokemon accompanying their trainers. I hadn’t seen many of them while I followed the map towards the pokemon center, but even then, seeing a guy with an Electrike by his side had been an almost surreal experience.

It’d made me kinda glad I’d kept Pidgey out of his pokeball. I wanted to bond with the little guy, install loyalty and all that. But with Pidgey on my shoulder, I felt like I belonged here and wasn’t just some outsider.

It was a good feeling.

I’d reached a big gap in buildings, and to my surprise it was to show off the massive lake at the side of Viridian City, conntected to the stream, river or whatever it was that ran down Route 1 and the water I’d caught Poliwhirl at.

I knew this water front too. It was shown clearly in Pokemon Generations. Was this even really just the anime world? I can’t remember this lake from the main anime. Was this world like an amilgation of the pokemon worlds, what about the games? If it was, would things be in the same place? If so I knew where to get a Pidgeotite - but that was only hopeful thinking right? There’s no way it’d be there.

My thoughts didn’t really get to continue before a massive pillar of water burst upwards from the depths of the water, pulling back seconds later to reveal a massive blue serpent. The beast of a pokemon didn’t even look at me, instead it looked up into the darkening sky above us and roared  at the moon so loudly I had to clasp my hands to my ears to stop them from ringing.

It went quiet and the Gyarados just looked up at the gleaming moon.

“Holy shit,” I repeated. I had to withhold a gulp, I could even feel hysteria beginning to bubble up in my chest but I clamped down on it because one emotion won out over it.

Awe.

I want it. I want it so bad it hurts.

I was never a big Gyarados fan. I mean, I liked them, but never really all that much. Until I caught one in Pokemon Go, it alongside Pidgeot, the first pokemon I actually caught were my go to team members alone for the longest time. Charmander was my starter and I invested a lot of time getting candies for it by walking a lot and not long after Gyarados I caught the forth member of my at the time hopefully eventual Go team, a Lairon and after that a Treecko.

Pidgeot, Gyarados, Charizard, Aggron, Sceptile. I never found a sixth member for my team in Go before I ended up here. Well unless you count Articuno, and while I’d love to get my hands on one I doubt my chances. But just now I’ve come to a decision. I’m going to get all five of them no matter what it takes. And I’ll give Articuno a shot, I at least know where to find one, even if I know it would be nigh impossible to beat down.

Shouldn’t be too hard to find most of them. A bunch of Treecko live in Petalburg woods in the anime world. And it shouldn’t be too hard to find an Aron in a cave system - if the overworld itself isn’t limited while the story follows Ash, then I could probably find one in Mt. Moon.

I looked up at the Gyarados still staring almost forlonly up at the moon. This kind of guy would be the problem - I could catch a Magikarp and raise one up, but who knows how long that could take, Magikarp evolving were really sporadic in the anime world.

I turned to the bird that was surprisingly just staring up at the massive water serpent with cool, almost nochalant eyes, “Think you could take this guy?” I joked.

The little bird rolled his eyes and puffed up his chest. I’d learned a little bit about Pidgey in just the short amount of time since we battled Poliwhirl. He was both confident and brave. And he liked to fight, like a lot. I’d had to stop him from picking fights with a bunch of those Mankey in the trees in route 1 - and while I would have loved to catch one, I wasn’t so sure in my ability to handle a tempermental Primeape at this point.

Pidgey lifted his wings up, preparing to beat off and completely not to my surprise, launch himself at the Gyarados. I put a hand on his little head and kept him at bay, “We’ll save that for another time alright?” I said to him, “I don’t have enough to feed a Gyarados, so there’s no point in beating it down when I can’t capture it right now.”

Left unsaid was that I was damn sure Pidgey would lose. Strong as he was for a Pidgey, that was a freaking Gyarados. Mayve once both Poliwhirl and Spearow are healed up, a triple team on Gyarados would be enough, or I could maybe make friends with Ash, Pikachu would be a big help and Gyarados wasn’t exactly going anywhere.

Pidgey lowered his wings and sniffed in annoyance at me through his beak. I had to stop myself from grinning, the little bird had done the exact same when I’d stopped him from attacking a good dozen or so strong group of those Mankey.

I took one that admiring gaze of Gyarados before pulling my phone back up and following the map again. I can’t just waste time around here can I? Need to get to the Pokemon Center before it closes for the night.