[Ah, just like how Scott was to anybody from the future. These two are gonna be rad buds! :D]
Yeah, that's right! We've gotta train them up well, or they'll be losers and then you've gotta pay the other trainer, if it's a trainer battle.
So, what'd you get? You only start with one -- but you can catch others, too.
Knuckles -- I mean, the blue firey one was my starter, but it started off smaller and a lot different.