After getting Officer Jenny Meng's permission, Heath happily drove his food truck off to find a spot to do business that day. Generally, the best place to set up a stall in a small town was near the Gym, but Pallet Town had no Gym, so Heath could only choose another route.
Heath finally settled on a modest Pokémon Center. Unlike in the games, Pallet Town in the real world did have a Pokémon Center, and even a Nurse Joy. Heath did not go inside to look, but Nurse Joy spotted him when she came out to take out the trash.
The surprised Nurse Joy chatted with Heath for a bit, and Heath cheerfully made small talk with her, picking up quite a bit of information.
For instance, no one had moved to Pallet Town in a long time. The last person to move in had been a girl named Red.
"A girl?" Heath was completely taken aback. He really had not expected that Red to be a girl. But if Red was a girl, that proved this probably was not the world of the games. After all, the game world would not be like this at all, nor would the world of Pokémon Adventures. Red in that world was a boy, a powerful boy of few words.
"Yes, a girl. She does look a little boyish, but she really is a girl," Nurse Joy said with a smile as she ate the Jianbing Guozi Heath had made.
There were hardly any patients or Pokémon at Nurse Joy's Pokémon Center. Most of the trainers in Pallet Town were already getting on in years. Apart from coming in for their monthly checkups, hardly anyone entered the place at other times.
The young trainers had already set off on their journeys with