Chapter 1: A runaway egg.
Kyle Ferris was sulking alone in his small room in Nuvema Town. Earlier that week he had watched the only other children in the village leave with their Pokemon. Now he was alone- almost.
He went downstairs and found Professor Juniper with his mother. Professor Juniper came over every day to help his mother since she was too weak to stand. Seven years ago Kyle's older brother, David, had died and ever since his mother had become ill. Now Kyle was fourteen and still had to wait two years before he could leave like Black and White had with their friends.
Kyle went back to his room before his mother or the Professor noticed him and tried to think. He really didn't know what he wanted to do, ever since his brother had died in Nimbasa city his mother wouldn't even talk about letting him leave. He didn't want to admit it but he had been thinking about leaving without telling her. The only thing that really stopped him was his lack of a Pokemon.
He turned on his television trying to repress the thought, he flipped through news stories until a bright add caught his attention. It was a live broadcast taking place in nearby Accumula town. Professor Fennel had reportedly just completed her dream syncing device and after a little trial and error it was running. The description of the system flashed by but what caught Kyle's attention was the celebration taking place. In Accumula they were handing out mystery eggs to trainers to celebrate and even in the background of the screen Kyle could see the trainers.
He turned off the television silently, he considered going but just as soon rejected it. Even if he could get there in time he would have to convince the people he was a trainer. He paced around his room but couldn't stop thinking about it, if he didn't try he would never get over the regret. Kyle locked his door and slipped out his window climbing down the tree the way his brother had shown him as an infant.
He ran to route one as fast as he could without stopping, even to look back. The spring air had melted the snow only a couple weeks before. Eventually he made it but he knew he would have to cross the Pokemon inhabited areas without a Pokemon of his own. He wandered through the grass slowly trying to avoid any possible Pokemon. He made it to the other side of the grass safely, as he relaxed ecstatic at his luck he didn't notice the boy about his age reading a book while walking before he crashed into Kyle.
The two boys collided and Kyle fell back into the grass startling a group of Lillipup. The Pokemon growled angrily and Kyle backed away frightened, the boy who had crashed into him was flipping through his book annoyed.
"Well are you going to fix this?" Kyle yelled.
"Fix what?" the boy asked confused only now noticing the Pokemon. "Oh, you probably shouldn't have made them angry."
Kyle glared at the boy's annoyingly vacant attitude. The Lillipup continued growling and started to press Kyle sensing his fear. The boy was still flipping through his book obliviously. The head of the Lillipup barked loudly threatening Kyle and then was thrown back forcefully. Kyle looked at the other boy who had released a Hoothoot.
"It's impossible to focus with all this noise." the boy complained.
Kyle left the weird kid and continued on the route, the trainer would be fine against a small group of Lillipup. Finally Kyle arrived in Accumula town, he was drained from running all the way but was happy to see they were still giving away eggs. He ran over to the line and waited anxiously, he wasn't sure how he could convince the spokesmen he was a trainer without a Pokemon or trainer card but panicked when he saw they were running out of eggs.
Eventually it was his turn and Kyle stepped up to get his egg, when the man asked for his trainer card he didn't speak. The trainer behind him was getting angry and complaining, somebody was watching the scene and walked over to intervene.
"Here you dropped your trainer card." the trainer said calmly.
Kyle took the card and looked at the trainer confused, he was a few years older than Kyle and had green hair. The trainer played with his odd necklace while the spokesman gave Kyle his egg without bothering to check the card. Kyle took the egg happily and returned the trainer card to its owner.
"Don't misunderstand, I didn't do that to help you." the trainer said smoothly. "I only did it so someone like that wouldn't get the egg."
Kyle looked back at the trainer that had been standing behind him as the man yelled loudly cursing the spokesman for running out of eggs. The trainer that had helped Kyle got a disgusted look on his face before walking away.
"Take good care of that egg," He called out seriously.
Kyle was put off by the trainer's odd behavior, he tried to recall what his trainer card had said but couldn't remember seeing an actual name. He decided to drop it just happy he had finally gotten his egg, now it was only a matter of time before had had his own Pokemon!
Meanwhile back in Nuvema town Professor Juniper was in her lab waiting for Fennel's shipment to arrive. She heard something crash into the lab's door and went to check it out. When she opened the door she found the boy Kyle had met on route one holding his head and trying to find a page in the book he had just dropped.
"I take it you're Ivan Lore?" she asked remembering Fennels description.
The boy only answered her after finding what he had been looking for in his book. He confirmed that he was Ivan Lore, one of Fennel's students. After completing the Dream Sync device Fennel had him bring several of the odd Pokemon the system had provided. Juniper took the delivery happily, since a week ago almost all of the children in Nuvema had all left at once she had given them all of her available Pokemon. She thanked the boy and asked if there was anything else.
"Professor Fennel wanted me to observe the Pokemon being used to document the differences between them and normal Pokemon. My Hoothoot's ability isn't particularly impressive enough to make a solid observation on." Ivan explained.
"I understand, that works fine since I already have someone who could use a Pokemon in mind." she responded happily.
She lead Ivan to Kyle's house and watched ridiculously as he continued to bump into things constantly. As she knocked on the door she wondered if Fennel was paying attention to her students. Kyle's mother opened the door wondering why the Professor had returned. Juniper asked Ivan to take the Pokemon to the boy in the house while she explained everything to his mother. Ivan nodded and went upstairs, when he tried to open the door he realized it was locked as he crashed into it dropping his book and ripping out a page.
Downstairs Kyle's mother listened as Professor Juniper told her she was giving Kyle a Pokemon. Kyle wasn't aware of it but his mother knew he was depressed having watched everyone else leave while he was stuck here. Suddenly they heard a crash from upstairs and Juniper ran up to check what had happened. Ivan had his Hoothoot demolish the door upset by his injured book.
Juniper was astonished by the boy's overreaction and then she noticed that Kyle wasn't even in the room. She found the window opened and heard Kyle's mother asking what was wrong, since she wasn't strong enough to make it upstairs. Ivan was sitting on Kyle's bed trying to repair his book and Juniper snapped at him telling him to do something.
Ivan looked up annoyed and noticed several pictures on the bed stand, one was of Kyle's brother, one was of his mother when she was healthy, and finally there was one of Kyle with his mother seeing Black and the others off earlier that week. Ivan looked at the picture of Kyle curiously while his Hoothoot exclaimed. Juniper noticed the Pokemon's reaction and walked over.
"What's going on?" she asked confused.
"No idea must of hit its head or something, so who are we looking for?" he asked looking back at his book while his Hoothoot stared at him angrily.
Kyle had spent the day wandering around Accumula town thinking of his next destination. He could go back to Nuvema and wait until his egg hatched but that would require explaining what he had done to his mother. He sighed and continued to drift around the small town, he decided to call home later and prayed his egg hatched soon.
He examined the egg closely, there was no way for him to know how long it had left but he swore it was warm and getting warmer over time. Kyle was staring out at route two from the lookout and listened to the music coming from the nearby house. The alternating sounds of the piano and drums was comforting as he tried to avoid thinking of what the future would bring.
"YOU!" somebody shouted.
Kyle turned around frightened by the tone and saw the man who had been behind him in the line for eggs. Kyle backed away seeing the man's face twisted in anger but all that was behind him was railing.
"You stole my egg you little punk!" the man slurred.
There was nowhere to go, the stairway only allowed two people and he couldn't just walk past the belligerent trainer. He looked back over the rail but all that was below him were trees. The man pulled out a Pokeball and called out his Herdier.
"Give me that egg," the man said now smug at Kyle's fear.
Kyle looked at the egg and thought about how much he had wanted to leave his home, to follow the other trainers.
"Screw you," Kyle spat disgusted.
The man was stunned by Kyle's response and his shock quickly turned to rage.
"Herdier Tackle," the man ordered furiously.
The dog Pokemon rammed Kyle throwing him over the edge overlooking route two. The drunk man laughed spitefully and hadn't noticed the green hair trainer from earlier had been watching the scene. The man turned around and saw that the green haired trainer had been watching him and jumped back.
"How much did you see?" he stuttered angrily.
"Pathetic human," N muttered disgusted. "I should have taken your Pokemon earlier.
"W-what are you talking about?" the drunk said confused by N's behavior still thinking about what the trainer would say about the kid he had attacked.
"Your going to release your Pokemon and pay for what you did to that unhatched egg." N said angrily releasing his Pokemon.
Kyle fell through the trees crashing into branches as he fell, he held the egg closely trying to shield it. He smashed into the ground an blacked out before he could see the Flamethrower burning the rail above him.