After the events that took place in Johto with the masked man, a whole new story was about to unfold in the slightly feared and beautiful Gabbro Region. In the northern snowy mountain location of Kopaka Town, a fifteen year old boy was just waking up in his nice warm bed. Knocking his alarm clock and pokèball, the pokèball popped open and out floated Quartz' first pokémon, Magikan, a Magikan was a pokémon that resembled a wizard's apprentice, you couldn't see anything of his face except for two glowing yellow eyes, his cloak and hat had stars covering parts of them, it had no legs but did have hands without arms just floating in the air along with the rest of it. At that moment Quartz' mother waltzed into the room.
"Wake up sleepyhead!" she said in that sweet voice those mothers usually have.
"Ugh… just a few minutes, an hour, a few hours…" said Quartz in that groggy "just woken up voice" to his mother.
"Now that would be believable Quartz any other day, but today that's not the answer, I trust I don't have to tell you what day it is now?"
Quartz, now realizing what day it was, sprang out of bed and ran to the clothes drawer. Today was the big pokémon test. Most other regions just had you start your journey without taking some stupid test, Quartz thought this was better, but his region's government decided that not just any eleven year old boy could go on a journey, so they invented the infamous "Pokémon Readiness Test" or the PRT for short. Normally this would be fine, IF they just taught you the basics like the trainer schools in other regions. However, that wasn't the case with Gabbro's government, they decided to ramp up the difficulty, so normally it took someone 2 years to pass, delaying their journey so they could be "ready", however some people like Quartz and his best friend, Lapis, probably because some questions were ramped up to "this is bullshit, I shouldn't have to answer this right off the bat" level. So Quartz changed out of his pajamas and into his clothes, ate his breakfast, hugged his mother as she wished him luck, and ran out the door to the PRT testing building in Kopaka Town.