Mike had woken up. (I'm going to be really lazy for a bit) The same thing that happened to Tyler, Jack, and Jagged happened to him. Except, he didn't have a Pokemon from Oak. He'd expected a Pikachu from oak since that's what he got in Pokemon Yellow, but instead he got a Caterpie. "Whatever. Butterfree is good I guess," he said. Then he began his journey.
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From what Oak told him, there had been 3 other trainers from Pallet. Mike thought they weren't NPCs, considering there were 3 rivals, or so he thought of them as rivals. "Maybe they had the same thing as me," he thought. He thought it would be just like the games, and most of the time was proven right. His team began becoming filled, and Mike barely worked on his Pokedex. He finished both Pewter and Cerulean and saw another trainer nearly trip and shout. He looked at the trainer suspiciously,"NPC or real person?" he asked. Most people sounded confused afterwords, so Mike could tell the difference.