Benji Bonito

Please don’t take my lunch money...

Benji Bonito is a Pokemon Trainer from Cinnabar Island and the grandson of ex-gym leader Blaine. His anxiety and fears have always kept him from exploring the Pokemon World, but after a sudden outburst of confidence, he is on a quest to prove he can overcome his fears and that he is not a dissapointment.

## Personality

Despite his anxious and fearful nature, which can often hinder him from taking risks and cloud his judgement, Benji is a generally amicable and clever person. Nonetheless, his drive to change and improve often conflicts with his sedentary habits.

## History

### **Day 1**

#### Cinnabar Island

One night in Cinnabar Island, a young local did something uncharacteristic of himself and went outside. His goal: to finally experience a Pokemon Battle. After running out of his house, he'd spot a couple of Rattata scrumaging through the sands of Cinnabar Island. Benji would, quite literally, toss his prized Wimpod into battle.

   While Wimpod would initally show quite a bit of fear, and scurry to hide behind Benji's legs, a bit of encouragement would allow Wimpod to get back into it, just in time for one of the Rattata to leap in with a Bite! This was intercepted by Wimpod's powerful Aqua Jet. The other Rattata leaped to defend its comrade, to which Wimpod responded by digging and hiding under the sand. One of the Rattata would eventually find it and land a nasty Bite. However, Wimpod retaliated with Struggle Bug, hitting both Pokemon, and knocking out the weaker Rattata. The second rattata lunged forward, but was countered with a Sand-Attack, blindling it. This gave enoug time for Wimpod to finish the job with Aqua Jet, ending Benji and Tarrare's first fight with a wonderful 2-vs-1 victory!

Benji, perhaps too exhilirated by the events that unfolded, scurried back home and called it a night. This night would be the catalyst that catpulted Benji, the island hermit, into realizing his dream of becoming a Pokemon Trainer!

### **Day 2**

#### Cinnabar Island

The next morning, Benji confronts his father, intoxicated with what last night's battle had made him feel. His father, albeit a bit reluctantly, let Benji go ane xplore the Cinnabar Volcano with Wimpod. Even if he was worried, as the Bonitos tended to be, he was proud and happy his son was finally going out of the damn house for once.

#### Cinnabar Volcano

After renting out a Ride Magcargo, Benji began his exploration by climbing the walls of the dormant volcano into a little crevice. There, he found a sleeping Torkoal, seeming to be the only one around. Benji was familiar with this Pokemon, and thus, it was familiar with its weakness! He sent out Wimpod and quickly moved to set his plan in motion.

Wimpod, although taken aback by the fact they were not at home anymore, but rather an infernally hot cavern, eventually found his courage and rammed into the sleeping Torkoal's legs, flipping it over but waking it up. After, Wimpod shot like an arrow and hti the Torkoal right in the soft stomach. However, while it did take a heavy blow, it's Shell Armor ability defended it from the evideent Critical-Hit. It counterattacked by retracting to its shell and beginning to fumigate the area with Smokescreen. During the confusion, Wimpod was striked by a rouge Rapid Spin. It was now clear this Pokemon was no Rattata, and would be their first true puzzle.

Benji threw a Pokeball, to maybe get lucky and end the battle early, but mostly with the intention of buying Wimpod time to recover. Torkoal once again retreated to its shell and began to fire at Wimpod with Ember. Wimpod used Aqua Jet to fissle out the Embers, but didn't do much damage thanks to Torkoal's retreat. This, however, gave Benji an idea! He made Wimpod use Aqua Jet, with the intention of slowly but surely pushing the inactive Torkoal over the edge of the cliff the group found themselves in. Torkoal, however, wold counteract with Rapid Spin, forcing the two moves to clash like tops. Wimpod was getting more hurt in this exchange, but at the benefit of starting to closen the gap, before eventually finding a moment of hesitation and popping Torkoal against the wall. Torkoal got back up weakly, but before it could do anything, a Pokeball came its way and caught it after some struggle. Benji had caught his first Pokemon! With a victorious smile, and two very hurt Pokemon, Benji used Magcargo to climb back down and exit the volcano.

#### Cinnabar Island

After healing his Pokemon, Benji knew he had a choice to make. He clearly had the know-how necessary to possibly becoming a great trainer, but if he stayed cooped up in the island, it might go to waste. And thus, he decided it was time to embark to main land and follow his dream. He returned home and asked his parents for their blessing on the spot. To Benji's surprise, the two couldn't be happier with him taking the initiative! The two gave him a nice sum of money and sent him off on his way with heavy hearts! After their goodbye, Benji decided to take a Ride Feraligatr to Pallet Town, the place where all legendary trainers start their journey!

#### Route 1

After arriving on Route 21 via Pokemon, Benji takes a bit of time to enjoy the sights of the legendary Pallet Town, and also the very first civilization that wasn't the one in Cinnabar! However, he doesn't waste too much time! Any good trainer knows that moving onwards is the only way to go! Benji moved towards Route 1 and quickly looked for Pokemon to test his skills against. After a scuffle with a pesky Pidgeotto, a dangerous encounter with a hungry Fearow and a montage of Benji denying weak and common Pokemon, the trio spot an Ariados, being led like a queen by a group of adoring Spinarak!

Benji wasted no time, and commanded his new Torkoal to blast at the army with Ember. The Spinarak scrambled, leaving their queen to her lonesome. However, she reacted quickly, seeming to dissapear out of thin air. That is before, Torkoal was struck by a spider-shaped shadow, revealing Ariados' trick in Shadow Sneak. Ariados went on the offensive with Poison Sting, but Torkoal pushed back with a shell-retreated Ember, forcing Ariados back to a tree, now firing from a distance with String Shot. However, Benji saw an opportunity. Torkoal used Rapid Spin in place, wrapping itself in string over and over and over again. However, Eventually the Ariados was tethered by the spinning Ariados and crushed with Torkoal's spinning body. Ariados was able to escape the pin with Shadow Sneak. However, the damage was done, and it was enough for Benji to only need one Pokeball to close the deal! Feeling lucky, Benji continued to look in the Route.

Continuing on and reaching the edge of Viridian City, Benji found a Noctowl, noting how strange it was that one was out and about this early in the day. He decided to test his luck and try to capture it. However, he quickly found that even with the combined strengths of all three of his friends, Noctowl wasn't going to be overpowered that easily. Then, Benji would come up with an idea. After gathering some Oran Berries with the help of Ariados, Benji would offer them to Noctowl and in turn bribe him for his "future compliance". Noctowl would consider the offer and left Benji with what he interpreted as a maybe.

With the deal in place, and a quick pit stop in Vidian City, it was onwards to Viridian Forest!

Viridian Forest

After some searching, and with the combined efforts of Ariados and Wimpod, Benji is able to capture yet another Pokemon, a Ledian

## Pokemon Party

Benji has cool Pokemon. They seem to follow a theme of Pokemon that at first seem incapable or meek in their own rights, but evolve into powerful and terrifying Pokemon. Here are the Pokemon currently in Rotation:

Benji also has a PC established with Professor Seymour where he keeps the rest of his Pokemon in Route 3. Benji tends to rotate Pokemon semi-frequently to have everyone trainer up at around the same time.

Pokemon back at Seymour's Lab
Rapid Spin
Withdraw
Smokescreen

## Extras

### Theme Songs

Encounter Theme - Sunlight

Battle Theme - Bonito out of Water

Ringtone - Grass is Greener

### Fight Record

Overall Score 3-0

Overall Winrate: 100%

Vs Donny: 1-0

Vs Zeus: 1-0

Vs Bug Collector: 1-0