Dawn ran through the Eterna Forest from a pack of Mightyena. Team Aqua was active in Sinnoh, and no one knew why. Professor Rowan sent her and her friend, Lucas, to investigate.

Unfortunately, as soon as they got close to a squad of the team, a pack of Mightyena had been set on them. Then, Dawn remembered her Pokemon.

"What the heck?" she muttered. She threw a pokeball which was supposed to hold her Staraptor, but the pokeball just bounced harmlessly on the ground. She tried all her other pokeballs but they also just bounced.

Soon the Mightyena had her pinned against the moss rock. "N-nice d-doggies," she stammered. The head Mightyena, a shiny, growled fiercely. "Please don't hurt me. Heh." The Mightyena didn't back off. She was now on the ground. "Help!"

"Fire Blast!" shouted a voice. A star of fire blasted out of the trees. A couple of Mightyena yelped in pain as the attack made contact. The shiny turned around and used shadow ball in the direction of the attack. Then a pokemon landed on top of it. Dawn looked up and saw a Rapidash with a trainer riding it. The Mightyena was unconscious.

The trainer hopped off the Rapidash. He wore a black cloak and hat. May couldn't see anything but his mouth and fingers. He helped Dawn up. "Are you alright?" he asked.

"Yeah," Dawn said wiping off the dust. "I'm fine. Um… who are you?"

The trainer shook his head. "Can't tell you."

"How'd you do that with the Rapidash?"

"It's a move called Bounce."

Dawn held out her hand. "I'm Dawn," she said. "Can't you tell me your name?"

The trainer shook her hand. "Really, I wish I could, but I can't. My job doesn't permit it."

"Your job?"

"Coming through!" shouted Lucas' voice from above. He and his Pidgeot landed. "Hey, who's the weirdo?"

"I'm not a weirdo," the trainer said. "Just eccentric."

Lucas looked at the Mightyena under the Rapidash's foot. "Uhh… Dawn?" he asked. "Don't you have your own pokeballs?"

Dawn glared. "My pokeballs were replaced with fakes somehow."

"That right?" Lucas shrugged. "Mine weren't." He jumped off Pidgeot. "Return." The Pidgeot returned to it's pokeball.

"So I see," Dawn said coldly.

The trainer got back on his Rapidash. "Now that you have your friend back," he said. "Until we meet again, Dawn. Hyaaa!" He and the Rapidash dashed back into the woods.

Lucas watched him ride off. "Wow. What a loon."

"He saved my life, Lucas," Dawn sighed. "He isn't a loon."

"Right. We should probably tell the old guy about your missing pokemon."

"Proffesor Rowan. And yeah, we should."

"Unfortunately, my Pidgeot's tuckered out. We'll have to leg it."

Dawn sighed as they walked off. "I hate legging it."

"Don't worry," Lucas sniggered. "I'll protect you."

"Shut up."