Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon.

As I included in my summary the co-author for this story is Lyra Sprinkles. She wrote more then me on this story but I asked if I could post this story before posting it. We plan on making it about twenty chapters going through the whole Omega Ruby and Omega Sapphire walkthrough. Thanks for reading this.

Brandon's POV

We were not poor enough to not afford a moving van. Before me and my mom had to move to a house surrounded by trees we had neighbors moving into a house without a moving truck. Those two we never welcomed to the neighborhood.

I've never been good at making friends. Human friends, I mean. Pokémon were okay, but getting to know people took too much time and effort. So when Mom decided to send me over to welcome the neighbors, I immediately declined. It's not like I wanted to get to know them. If she wanted to make friends with them, she should just go there herself.

" Brendon, I am not taking any of that attitude. I raked leaves for five hours before we left so the least you can do is help me with something important."

"Ugh. FINE." Slamming the door loudly behind me, I made my way outside. Riding in that moving van had given me a headache, anyway, and I needed some fresh air.

I walked over to the house next door, just like Mom had asked me to. She hadn't said who lived there or what I was supposed to say to them, so I began practicing in my head. "My name is Brendan," I murmured to myself. Raising my hand, I knocked on the door loudly. "I just moved here from Johto. I - "

The door opened, and a woman with short hair blinked at me curiously.

" Hello there young boy. I have lentil soup if you want some."

My mother also likes making lentil soup. That was something they could talk about for hours.

"I'm Brendan," I announced, bowing. I had a feeling that this woman would get along well with my mother. "My mom and I just moved here from Johto. I'm twelve years old, and I - "

"Twelve?" The woman's eyes bulged out of her skull. "That's great! We have a daughter around the same age as you! May should be outside, I think. Why don't you go look for her?"

Um, no thank you, I wanted to say. I didn't want to meet YOU, much less your daughter. But of course, I couldn't say anything. I nodded and quietly walked out of the house.

Now, if only she had given me some idea as to where this "May" was other than, "she's outside."

I looked around the village until I spotted a path of grass. Chances were she went through that path of grass so I walked through it as I tried staying away from any part that could make a wild Pokemon attack me. Wouldn't I know it I saw a girl with a bandana on her head.

She was kinda pretty, I guess. She had brown hair and blue eyes and was wearing a red training outfit. Suddenly I understood why my mom wanted me to meet the neighbors and why May's mom wanted me to meet her daughter. I facepalmed.

Mothers, ladies and gentlemen. The ultimate shippers.

Well, whatever. I just wanted to get this over with. I walked over to her and stared.

The girl was squatting on the ground, her hand held out. A small Zigzagoon was watching her from the grass.

"Come on," she whispered gently. "I won't hurt you."

I wasn't in the mood to watch her make friends with this Pokémon, so I decided to make my presence known.

"Yo," I said loudly.

Before she even turned her head the Zigzagoon scattered away from her. What a horrible mistake I did right there. The girl stared up and glared at me. I didn't know what to say. Was I supposed to apologize?

"I'm so-"

"You idiot!" she yelled.

"I said I'm so-"

"You scared away that Pokémon! I was trying to catch it!"

"Again, I-"

"Alright, you're going down! I challenge you to a Pokémon battle!"

"But I don't have any-"

May reached for a Pokéball on her belt and pulled it out with a flourish. "Go!"

What appeared was a small blue Pokemon with small black eyes and a weird mouth. I never saw a Pokemon like it before.

"Wow! What kind of Pokémon is that?" I knelt down to the Pokémon's level. "I've never seen anything like it in Johto!"

"That's my Mudkip," May said proudly. "My dad gave it to me. Now, release your Pokémon so we can begin our battle!"

"Um," I shrugged. "If you had let me finish speaking earlier, you would've known that I don't have any Pokémon yet."

I tried to pet the Mudkip, but it bit my hand with it's weird mouth instead.

"You don't even have a Pokémon?" May sneered. "What a loser!"

What she just said mad me angry. Before I knew it I yelled back at her.

" I'm not a loser! I will get my own Pokemon and do better with it then you did with yours!"

"Yeah, right," she scoffed. "Tell you what, though: my dad's a Pokémon professor. Why don't you ask him to give you a Pokémon, and then battle me? I'm sure I can beat you either way though."

"Oh, it's on!" I shook my fist in her face. Who did that girl think she was, anyway? Just wait until she got her ass handed to her by me!

"My name is May," she said, holding out her hand "You better remember it, because I'm going to be the next Champion!"

"Oh yeah? Well I'm Brendan, and I'm gonna kick your ass before that happens!"

We shook hands. May was now officially my rival.

4fireking here again. Thank you Lyra Sprinkles for helping me write this chapter. The next chapter will have May's POV instead of Brandon's.