Date: June 10, 2018
Yume had returned to Viridian City to check her Pokémon into the Pokémon Center. She arrived at around 5pm after finding her way back to the main road and meandering into the city. She gave her Pokémon to the Nurse and went to rest on one of the nearby beds. By 7pm, her Pokémon were ready to be returned to her. A quick rest and a nice massage were all the staff needed to help them feel better.
Yume left the Pokémon Center after deciding that she needed a better way of maintaining herself and her Pokémon.
She made her way to the Poké Mart and asked the first attendant she could find what they would suggest. They suggested to her that she rent a car from the League, which she could do just down the road at the Pokémon Trainer's Transportation Center. Their suggestion continued that after she rented the car she head across the street from the Transportation Center to the local sporting goods store. There she could buy a full tent, a better sleeping bag, and other needed supplies. However that would require her to dip into her personal funds as she was not allowed to use Pokémon Trainer credits in exchange for regular goods.
Yume thanked the attendant and made her way down the road to the Transportation Center, finding them still open for another hour. She walked inside and spoke to the attendant behind the counter and asked about a rental car. She was told that they had three packages to choose from: The Standard Package, The Quality Package, and The Master's Package.
The Standard Package came with a one of three cars: an SUV, a convertible, or a station wagon.
As well as the car, The Standard Package came with a two month free gas credit card which could be used at any local gas station until the card's expiration. The car was $500/month to rent, which was rather easy to afford presuming she could capture one Pokémon per month.
The Quality Package came with a choice of one of five vehicles: an SUV, a convertible, a station wagon, a truck, or a motorcycle.
It came with a four month free gas credit card, and cost $1,000/month. A bit pricey, but not too bad if she could capture two Pokémon per month.
The Master's Package was the most expensive, but it came with numerous other perks and add ons which the other two didn't.
It came with a choice of one of any kind of vehicle the Trainer wanted including sports and electric cars. It came with an eight month free gas credit card, the option to haul a small RV trailer to live in while on the road, and a number of additional options for storage boxes and items to fill those boxes, all of which came with a charge of some kind though most were fairly modest.
However... at $3,000/month, that was not really in Yume's league right now.
Yume chose the standard option, renting a white convertible mustang with a black convertible top (the coloring came as an added $50 charge). She received her two month free gas card, and paid $500 up front for the first month. She chose to pay at the end of the month in her agreement contract, giving her basically two months to come up with the $500 she needed to pay for the second month.
With her new car chosen and her card acquired, Yume had but to wait for her car to be ready which would take only a few minutes. She sat down to wait in the lobby, and twenty minutes later her car was ready. She walked outside, was handed the keys, and made sure they worked to lock and unlock the vehicle before heading across the street to the sporting goods store.
While inside, she purchased, using her regular money from her savings account, a new large tent, sleeping bag, pillow, thermal blanket, heating pad, and two pairs of hiking boots. It was pricey, coming in at a cost of around $820 in total, but Yume had more than enough in her savings account thanks to her father who had set up the account and filled it with $5,000 for her.
Thanks to her Standard Package rental, her Pokémon Trainer's Credit account was down to $8,950. Her non-trainer savings bank account was down to $4,180.
Not doing too shabby for a noob.
With her new car and supplies in hand, she packed what she could into the trunk and the rest into the back seat and drove off down the road as she headed for Viridian Forest. The drive to reach the forest entrance would take about a full day of driving if she began tomorrow morning, so she chose, for the time being, to simply drive a little ways North of the city and pitch camp just off the main road after locking her car for the night.
The tent was set, her sleeping bag unfurled, her pillow fluffed, and her Pokémon secured in their Poké Balls resting just next to her pillow inside of a small pouch attached to a bell which would jiggle if the bag moved.
Now 10:40pm, it was definitely time for Yume to sleep, and sleep she did.
With a car, her journey would become much, much easier.