Unlike Pallet Town, which rapidly spat out prodigies, New Bark Town of Johto was only known as the home of Pokemon Professor Elm, who specialised in Pokemon Evolution and Breeding. But this is not 'The History of Johto'; this is the story of a 15-year-old girl called Jessica May Blackthorn who will become the best Pokemon Trainer in the world!

... she hopes.

BRIIING! BRIIING! BRIII

"Fuck alarm clocks." I muttered, rubbing the blurriness from my eyes while clambering out of bed. My clothes hung on my closet door and I wearily changed into them, movement sluggish. What did you expect from a girl who just got out of bed?

It was 7am and I really had nothing planned for the day, so I took my time wobbling down the staircase. My father, the TM Executive of the Kanto Silph Corporation, was all dressed up in his working suit while my mother, an artist, already had her painting apron on.
"Darling, Professor Elm wants you straight after you finish breakfast!" Mum cheerily exclaimed, a strange twinkle in her eye. Excited, I scoffed down my cereal, sprinted upstairs, brushed my teeth, pulled my black hair into a ponytail and came back down.
"See you later mum, dad!" I yelled, skipping out the door and towards the Professor's lab. Behind me, my father placed my present on the table - the brand new, state-of-art TM Case.

The trip to Elm's lab was short and I burst inside. The Professor was standing there, a box in hand. His face filled with relief as he placed the box onto the table in front of him.
"Thank god you made it!" he smiled widely in my direction.
"What did you want?" I asked, sending curious glances at the mystery box.
"You see, Jessica, there's a man called Mr Pine who lives in Cherrygrove City. He called me saying that he had a special delivery for me, but I can't leave my lab to get it. So I was wondering if you could go over and fetch it for me." Elm asked.
"Sure Professor - wait, there's wild pokemon down there!" I realised. Elm grinned and opened the box, revealing three neatly spaced out Pokeballs.
"That's where these come in handy. In those pokeballs are the three Johto starters; Cyndaquil, Totodile and Chikorita, represented by their elemental stickers. You may take one with you on your journey." he chuckled at my amazed face.
"I choose Cyndaquil, Professor! Be back soon!" I grabbed the flame-marked pokeball and rushed out the door and onto the route that lead to Cherrygrove City.

I let out Cyndaquil as soon as I found a nice, shady place on the side of the road. It blinked and looked around before spotting me.
"Hey Cyndaquil! My name's Jessica Blackthorn and I'm your new trainer! We're going to do this errand and then we're going to dominate the Indigo League and become Champions!" I cheered. Cyndaquil let out a happy "QUIL!"
"Hmmm... your final evolution is called the Volcano Pokemon... how about I name you Volcan?" I suggested.
"Cynda. Cyndaquil." Newly named Volcan said in happiness. Since starter's were nearly always male, I assumed he was a boy.
"Alright Volcan, show me your moves!" I pointed to the tree.

First, he did a sort of glare thing at the trunk.
"Alright, that was Leer!" I grinned and noted that one down in my head.
Then he leapt forward and tackled the tree hard.
"Tackle! Brilliant!" Thinking that was the last (after all, starter's only had 2 moves, right?) I stepped forward, but Volcan shook his head and performed one last move.
He looked at a nearby Weedle. His eyes glowed and the Weedle stopped in it's tracks. It didn't look as strong as a Psychic, so it must have been -
"Wow, Extrasensory! Must be an egg move, I guess. I really lucked out with you, didn't I?" I rubbed his head affectionately.
"Cyndaquil." he puffed out his chest proudly.

An hour and many injured wild Rattata and Weedle later, we arrived at Mr Pine's house. An elderly man opened the door and smiled at me weirdly.
"You must be the girl Elm sent." he noted.
"Yup! My name is Jessica Blackthorn and this here is my good buddy Volcan." I indicated towards the Cyndaquil, who was currently riding on my shoulder.
"Quil!" he gave his own greeting.
"Well, I've got a guest around already. He's quite famous, so you might like to meet him." Pine said, ushering me inside.
"Famous as in Professor famous or other famous?" I asked suspiciously as I walked inside.
"Both, I guess." A disembodied voice said. Said voice turned the corner and I was face to face with the Professor Oak. My jaw dropped.

"Holy shit, you're Professor Oak." I gaped. He chuckled.
"You're certainly a blunt one." he grinned.
"Uh yeah... anyway, my name is Jessica Blackthorn and this is Volcan!" I smiled.
"Tell you what, Jessica..." he pulled something out of his pocket. It was a strange red machine.
"This here is a PokeDex, a machine that records all the pokemon you battle, capture and scan. I want you to take this, Jessica, and go on a Pokemon Journey to make sure my records and as full as possible." he gave me the 'PokeDex'.
"Um... okay?" I said. Then, Mr Pine reappeared holding a box.
"In this is a Pokemon egg. Professor Elm is famous for being the expert at evolution and breeding, so I decided he should take care of it." Placing the PokeDex in my pocket, I gingerly grabbed the fragile box and started to walk away.
"Coolio! See you later, Pine, Oak!" I yelled.

Another hour and many more injured wild pokemon later, we were back in New Bark Town. Then some guy crashed into me roughly.
"Hey! Pokemon egg here!" I snapped. He rolled his eyes.
He had weird red hair and a very arrogant air around him.
"Watch where your going then." I glared.
"That's it, your going down." he snarled, throwing out his pokemon. It was a Totodile.
"Let's do this Volcan!" I grinned as the Cyndaquil took a battle stance.
"Totodile, Scratch!" the boy ordered. The water type lunged forward, claws glowing.
"Volcan, use Quick Attack to dodge and then Ember!" I said. Volcan sped out of the way and sent an Ember at Totodile's direction. Due to Volcan's prior training, the water type fainted instantly despite the type advantage. The boy silently recalled his pokemon and began to walk away.
"Hey! What's your name?" I demanded. He turned on his heel.
"Luke." he said shortly before continuing along the path. Volcan hopped onto my shoulder.

"Arrogant bitch." I muttered before arriving at the lab. The Professor was chatting with a policewoman.
"There!" the policewoman said dramatically before storming in my direction.
"Woah there, I didn't do anything!" I glared, carefully placing the box on the table.
"No officer, that's Jessica, not the thief." Elm said. I raised an eyebrow.
"Thief?" I asked. Elm nodded.
"A red haired boy broke in and stole Totodile." he said and I froze.
"I battled him on the way here!" I said.
"Did you get his name?" the officer (I now realised her name was Jenny from the nametag) demanded.
"He said his name was Luke." I told her. Jenny nodded.
"We'll put up a warning for a red head named Luke." she said and walked out after a farewell with Elm.
"I'm really sorry Professor. If I had known I would have dragged his sorry ass - ahem, butt - all the way back here." I apologised.
"No, no, it's okay. The delivery went well?" He glanced at the box.
"Yeah! It's some egg, and Professor Oak was there. He gave me a PokeDex!" I grinned, pulling out the queer machine. Elm's eyebrows flew upwards.
"He-he did? He only does that to trainers who he thinks has potential!" After showing me the ropes of the machine, he sent me on my way back home, allowing me to keep Volcan. My parents were both still there and some weird machine was on the table. I rushed upstairs and threw together a backpack before coming down and explaining the whole thing.
"We've actually got some gifts for you." they said. Mum gave me a gleaming new PokeGear with an equipped chain (I ended up hanging it around my neck) and dad gave me a 'TM Case', so I could use any TM's I got repeatedly. After tearful goodbyes, Volcan and I stepped back onto the route.

"Well Volcan, here we go." I grinned.
"Quil!" he said.

Watch out Champion Lance, because Jessica Blackthorn is coming your way.