Chapter 2 - Starter (1/2)
After entering the room he saw a middle-aged male sitting in the table in front of him. The man introduced himself as Jude and talked to Alex rudely,” Come quickly and get your registration going. Many more have to do it today. Don't waste others time.”
and also sneered ,” Damm county bumpkins wasting time. How unlucky I was to be assigned this task.” Hearing Jude Alex went up to him and stood up. Jude then said,” Put your hand on this pad it will take your finger print as your biometric and officially get yourself registered as a rookie trainer. I hope I don't have to explain the hierachy of trainers do I? ”
To this he replied,” Yes I know.”
The hierachy of trainers was not mentioned in the game but do exist in reality as we distinguish between lower class middle class and upper class and VIP and other aspects in reality. In the Pokemon world every trainer begins from the stage of rookie. At this level one is qualified to get free healing in Pokemon center and a lodgings of about 100 days a year altogether in the Pokemon centre.
Also in the shops of Pokemon center one can buy low grade potions, antidotes and other minial application. Of course if one's Pokemon is very badly injured then cost of the surgery and recovery etc all come out of the pocket of the trainers.
the grading helps as discount rate for treatment. The hierachy of Pokemon trainer is as follows:
a) Rookie trainer
b)Beginner trainer
c) Intermediate trainer
d)Advanced trainer
e)Master Trainer
f) Elite level trainer
g) Elites
This is the level of trainer popularly circulated. The Elites in the ranking regarded as the top as this is position of Elites 4 of each league. So many still yearn for it and follow it. Though Alex thought there might be other levels too but could not know now as he was weak.
Yes our hero here is of the belief that if you are weak the less you know the better and as you grow stronger you will know more. So this is the reason for his journey, it is not to be the champion or elite but to sate his curiosity about the world and learn more and discover the unknown. Now he is similar to a young kid curious about everything but he is not fearless like a kid but knows the danger so he wanted to be stronger so that he could protect himself and his family and dear ones.
Thinking all this he put his hands on the biometric scanner and then his data and information was uploaded in the Pokemon league server then a card similar to voter ID or credit card with one's photo name and the other data about his level was uploaded in the bar scanner strip. Then Jude the uploader asked him to pick up one of the ten pokeballs placed in front and said,” Each pokeballs has a Pokemon since you chose the lottery system so your Pokemon will be random. In this you will pick any one of these ten and that will be your starter. You have only one chance and you could pick anything from a widely found Caterpie, Weedle , pidgey or a rare Scyther. So this is mostly based on your luck.”
If it was anyone else he would yearn for a rare Pokemon but our hero follow the saying of one of the greatest comic writer of all times, One piece author,Eiichiro Oda about his devil fruits that,' THERE IS NO WASTE FRUIT BUT ONLY WASTE USER.” Similarly the trainer believes ,” THERE IS NO WASTE POKEMON BUT ONLY WASTE TRAINER.” He believes if he found a Caterpie the he could evolved it I'm to Butterfree and with it's psychic and bug type and his innovative knowledge ( knowledge from different anime and manga) he could still train it at least to battle the main team of gym leaders and with that strength he could still capture some strong Pokemon.
After some thought he picked a Pokemon marked as number 7 as he believes that numerically 7 is both lucky and strong number.
Then Jude said ,” So you chose number 7 then let me upload it to your profile then . Hmm.. number 7 ok so the Pokemon which will be your starter is....
well kid you lucked out. you got this as your starter at least with it you could at least become an intermediate level trainer in the future. Well then move along.” Thanking Jude Alex went out .