S1E1

**Season 1 Episode 1** of the Pokémon Friendlocke is the "pilot" episode of the entire series and the first episode of Season 1.

## Blurb

Nuzlockes are pretty hard. But what if it was Dungeons and Dragons tho.

## Plot

### Starting the Journey

Derek arrives in Littleroot Town where his Mom meets him. After telling her son about how much she likes Professor Birch, Derek goes up Route 101 to find the professor being attacked by a Zigzagoon. Picking up a Pokéball, Derek fights the Zigzagoon and wins. The Pokémon he fought with, a Mudkip named Tracey, stays with Derek after the fight, and the two become friends. In Tracey's subsequent battles, she feels a bit nervous, but as the two of them go through Route 101, she relaxes quite a bit.

On Route 103, SaltyDKDan stops the episode to jokingly discuss the *Five Nights at Freddy's* Lore. When the episode resumes, they they meet May on the same route and fight her Treeko. After they defeat her, they return to Professor Birch's Lab and receive some Pokéballs. Back on Route 101, they encounter a Poochyena and assume it will be their next friend, but when Tracey uses Mud-Slap, the Poochyena faints, forcing the two to move on to Route 103 to find their next friend. There, they catch Gerber, another Poochyena with an unusually large ass.

Back on Route 102, the group encounters a Lotad named Sara, who they also quickly become friends with. It is here where Salty explains the Reincarnation Rule, which scares Gerber when he gets put into a battle. However, Derek quickly begins to switch train with Gerber. Derek switches Tracy in, and when they come up against a Poochyena, Gerber recognizes it as one of his family members which Derek promptly orders Tracey to kill. Gerber is sad that he couldn't do anything to save his family, and Sara is upset when they come upon a Lotad that was a member of Sara's family, who is also promptly killed.

After a close call with a member of his family, Gerber watches as a member of his family that he doesn't like is killed by Tracey. It is then revealed that some of the Pokémon Derek has caught and encountered had been watching a funny monkey movie on phones that they had. Derek apologizes that Sara isn't getting much action as he grinds Gerber and Tracey, but Sara states that she's fine with it since she was knitting a Substitute Doll. She then jokes that she'd be Level 3 the entire journey.

### Meeting Norman and Wally

After grinding with the wild Pokémon and trainers on the way to Petalburg City, Derek goes with his Pokémon to talk to his dad. Derek asks for his alimony money, and Norman responds with a hearty "I hate you." Just then, Wally, Derek's step-brother, comes into the room and asks Norman for a Pokémon, and for good measure, Norman sends Derek with him to watch his ballet recital. Derek tries to trade Gerber for Wally's Zigzagoon, but he refuses to trade.

After Wally catches a Ralts and performs his recital, they return to Norman's Gym and Derek leaves the two of them. Just then BinjoMonkey, tea\_bubbled, and King\_\_Moosh start asking Derek to release Gerber. At the edge of town, Derek meets Scott the Woz, and as the two of them talk, Sara mentions how little she'd been in battles. On Route 104, they encounter and catch Mal, who Gerber immediately pokes fun at, sparking a rivalry between the two. Mal makes a joke about her ability, and Derek decides to start switch training Sara. Mal hides behind Tracey to avoid being put in the box, and she admits that if they were to put drywall in the box, she might go in to eat it.

Tracey grows to Level 10 and finally gets a real gun. After this, Derek decides to do a "team-bonding activity" where the group goes around and tells their favorite colors. Gerber's is orange, Tracey's is green, Mal's is magenta, and after being ignored by Derek, Sara says that he favorite color is blue. While training her, Derek becomes more and more aggressive to Sara, but after making fun of her while fighting a Magikarp, he apologizes for being edgy and backs down. The rivalry between Mal and Gerber goes stronger, so the group decides to have confessionals.

In the confessional, Gerber reveals that ever since they caught Mal, the in-fighting in the group got worse and worse, and he regrets that Derek caught her. In Mal's confessional, she reveals that she just came out to have a good time and honestly, she feels so attacked right now. In Derek's confessional, he asks if anyone still had Flappy Bird on their phone. During the group's next battle, Tracey apologizes for being out of it, as she was on her "Mudkip Phone" looking at Twitter.

### Petalburg Woods

In the Petalburg Woods, the group comes across Claire, and the group catches her. She is very confused, but Derek explains that she can't get enough of damp soil and won't stop talking about it. Claire is excited to hear that since Tracey, Sara, and Mal are all water types, she can have all the damp soil she wants. Suddenly, Mal starts eating mud. In her first fight, Mal beats up a Wurmple and the group makes their way through Petalburg Woods where they find a Devon Corporation employee being harassed by a Team Aqua grunt who had stolen their papers on Vaporeon Breeding. The employee hides behind Derek, and Derek fights the grunt.

While fighting the grunt, Gerber find one of his family working for Team Aqua, so he asks Tracey to kill it. Derek mocks the grunt for losing, stating that he needed to give him his clothes and kiss him on the mouth, causing the grunt to run away. While making their way through Petalburg Woods, the group makes more jokes about Mal's tail, poison in Gerber's ass, and Tracey's first one-hit KO. One the other side of Route 104, the group catches a WURMPLE named Joe, but when they realize that they were still on Route 104, they release the Wurmple and assign Joe to the next Pokémon they capture.

### Hunt for Food

The group starts to get hungry, asking for berries and chicken nuggets, and Derek gets mad at them, saying that they'll get food when they get back to Petalburg. Gerber then asks Derek to get Mal to stop krumping in his Pokéball, but she denies that she was doing anything. The group starts discussing the semantics of ordering and eating chicken nuggets, and Claire gets lost in her thoughts when she notices a patch of juicy dirt on the ground. Derek returns to Petalburg to heal, and the group asks for McDonalds, a chain Petalburg doesn't have.

Derek starts asking around for a Taco Bell, when he learns about Mr. Briney. Tracey asks what would happen if Mal drank a Baja Blast, and they assume that she would turn green. Derek decides to call for pick-up from Taco Bell, and Derek asks if anyone has a mask so he can pick it up. Gerber offers him one, but Derek doesn't take it, since he doesn't know where Gerber was storing it. Derek then decides to unload his thing in Sara's lilypad, pouring his drink on Sara and ruining her yarn in the process.

It is then that the group realizes that Derek is the only one who can understand his Pokémon, and they wonder how Sara was able to get her yarn in the first place. In Rustboro City, Tracey notices a person in the Pokémon Center, asking Derek if it's George Costanza. Derek returns to the center to slap the patron's head, and then leaves once more. As Derek leaves for Route 116, Gerber points out they they never picked up their Taco Bell, and Derek ignores him, walking into the grass. They encounter Joe the exceptionally large Whismur, and he is warned not to say anything racist. Joe calls Derek daddy, causing the group to gag, and they move on through Route 116.

### Vs. Roxanne

In a battle, Derek realizes that Sara's Bullet Seed might be the key to defeating Roxanne's Gym. Suddenly Salty pauses the stream to show some art that CitisStreets made of herself as Shroomish with long legs in stockings. Back in the game, Derek decides to leave Gerber, Mal, and Joe in the box to go fight they gym. Sara easily takes down the gym trainers, blaming her croqueting skills for her talent. Just then, Sara evolves from a Lotad to a Lombre, and the group goes to fight Roxanne.

Sara easily takes down Roxanne's Pokémon while the group continues to wonder about Taco Bell. Roxanne sends out her Nosepass, and Derek remarks that he used to think it was always pogging. Sara easily defeats it, and Derek receives the Stone Badge. Derek returns to the Pokémon Center and brings Gerber, Mal, and Joe back into his party, but only after pranking Joe by putting him in another box first. Derek gives Gerber a berry, and Sara complains. Inside Rusturf Tunnel, Derek finds Peeko, Mr. Briney's Wingull, and Derek asks if Briney knew where any Taco Bells were.

## Cast

* SaltyDKDan as Derek, Mom, Professor Birch, Himself
* TraceyTonight as Tracey (S1), Wally, Herself
* Gerbatron16 as Gerber (S1), Norman, Himself
* SleepySaraBear as Sara (S1), Herself
* tea\_bubbled as Mal (S1), Herself
* CitisStreets as Claire (S1), Herself
* King\_\_Moosh as WURMPLE, Himself, Joe (S1)
* Twitch Chat as Mom, Donations

## Other Crew

* Edited by TraceyTonight
* Character Sprites by One Punch Mudkip

## Trivia

* This is the first episode to contain an evolution, with Sara evolving from a Lotad to a Lombre.