Lance was chilling in his apartment completely bored eating a slice of delicous pineapple deep dish pizza as he checking his email on his phone. He swiped away a bunch of emails from his job asking him to come at some social into the trash, but not before putting them into his spam filter. His pulse quickened when he saw a new email involving that contest he entered on a whim. It said that he'd won a spot and that a letter with some tickets to Kanto would be coming through the mail. Lance smiled as he took a big bite of his saucey pizza slice. Truthfully, he had forgotten about the contest due to his workload keeping him both busy and miserable.  

He'd soon begin to start preparing for the trip as he both packed his bags and went on a shopping trip for stuff to go for this trip. The days would soon pass quickly but not without their own hardship, as his coworkers were both congratulating him and annoying him incessantly with questions about his plans. 

"Hey Lance, you're gonna leave tomorrow. Come no tell us what are you planning for your adventure?" Mary one of his co-workers asked.

"I can tell you what I'd do-." Said John who was disappointed he didn't.

Lance interrupted with, "If I told you, that'd ruin the fun of the mystery wouldn't it?" He'd then finish working with his project group to squeeze out the finishing touches ahead of the deadline. As much as he was the least sociable in workplace they'd had to hand it to him that he was at least skilled in doing his job well and surprisingly quick. He then then idled around while waiting for his day to be over, eager to leave this overbearing workplace and get on the damn plane already.

Many hours later Lance found himself arriving in Pallet Town by ferry and made his way to very large building in the center of town. He adjusted his shades and slung his large backpack over his shoulder as he entered into the building ignoring everything in favor of getting this meeting or whatever they were going to do out of the way so he could start doing his own thing.  "I'm here for the orientation or whatever thing we're supposed to do." He said to the receptionist.  

"Thanks." He went on his way to find where he needed to go. Already this was starting to drag as he made his way through the nearly endless corridor that left him wondering why the hell did it needed to be shoved so far back. He wondered why they didn't go with the easy method of corralling them to some auditorium with a big speech and ceremony to go through before being set loose. Finally he saw a bunch of rooms where he'd be paired up with other people or something. Not wanting to walk anymore, he opened the first door and slumped into the chair listlessly as he started counting down the minutes he'd be waiting before this thing would start.