Hey there party people! MBenz here with my first Pokémon story! This is actually something I've had on my mind for a while now but I didn't want to write it down until I got the Hoenn remakes (mostly for location reasons) but now that I have Alpha Sapphire I thought I would finally write this! But… I think I'll still get a couple things wrong so if something needs correcting let me know in the comments. I plan on making this a small series so when this story "ends" there might be more later on. Enjoy!

The sun shone brightly in the city of Rustboro in the Hoenn region and people and their Pokémon were already buzzing about with activity; especially two girls in particular coming out of the Pokémon Center.

"Come on Eve! We gotta hurry or we'll be late!" Called out one of the girls who looked to be about fourteen years old to the other who looked to be about the same age. She had short violet hair with small braids in the front held together with beads, small glasses in front of her silver eyes, wearing a light blue dress shirt, a matching darker blue shorts and black Mary Jane shoes. The most noticeable thing about her was that she had a Plusle and Minun riding on each of her shoulders.

"Ok ok! Geez Mackie, the Devon Corporation doesn't open for another twenty minutes!" Eve responded to her friend with a laugh. In contrast to Mackie's slightly nerdy appearance, Eve seemed to look more like a popular girl, minus the snobby attitude. She had wavy blond hair that reached her waist which seemed to pop with her bright green eyes, wore a sleeveless yellow sundress that faded to orange around the skirt area and white and red running shoes.

Mackie rolled her eyes playfully "I know that! But you know I can't wait to see what my dad has been working on for months ever since Devon Corp hired him for that special project and he promised to show me around for my birthday. Right guys?"

"Pra!/Mai!" Her Plusle and Minun squeaked happily in agreement

"Don't worry Mackenzie. I'm sure your father hasn't forgotten we were coming today." Said a middle age woman with violet hair like Mackie's done in a loose ponytail wearing a plain fuchsia shirt and khaki pants and slip on shoes. "By the way Eve, your parents are calling you from home."

"Ok, thanks Mrs. Russo." Eve thanked as she ran back inside the Pokémon Center, passed all the trainers with their Pokémon and Nurse Joy with her Chansey taking a Makuhita in a gurney and over to the video phones.

She sat over to an open chair to face a phone with a lit screen. "Hey Mom, hey Dad."

"Hi sweetie! Are you alright? Rustboro is a long drive from Fortree; did you sleep enough at the Pokémon Center?" fretted her brown haired mother over the screen until her husband put a hand on her shoulder.

"Nicole calm down, Eve's still in one piece and I'm sure the Russo's are taking care of her and more importantly that she's behaving. Isn't that right?" Said her father, more confirming the last part than asking.

"Yes Dad, I'm fine. Where's Lilly?"

"Right here!" Cheered a 7 year old girl popping out from the bottom of the screen; her curly brown locks slightly covering her eyes as she blew them out of her face. "Hi Evey! How's the big city?"

Eve giggled at her little sister's enthusiasm "Pretty awesome Lilly! I'm actually going to Devon Corp right now. We're going to see Mackie's dad and what invention he's working on!"

"Wow! That sounds cool! But…" Lilly trailed off as if waiting for Eve to figure out something.

"*Sigh* Yes I promise I'll bring you a souvenir." Eve exhaled jokingly as Lilly's little eyes brightened once again. In the background she noticed a certain Grumpig sweeping the floor behind her family. "Hi Gilbert! You miss me?"

"Grumpig! Grum!" Gilbert waved back with a smile.

"EVE! ARE YOU DONE YET?!" Eve heard Mackie yelling from outside.

Eve's mother chuckled a little. "Sounds like you better get going. Don't want to keep the birthday girl waiting! But promise me you'll be careful…"

"Don't worry Mom, I'll be fine. I'll see you guys in a couple days."

As Eve said goodbye to her family and hung up the phone she sighed at what her mom said. She was never overprotective but this is the first time she's gone this far from home without her family.

I wonder if she'll be this nervous for when I ACTUALLY start my journey… She thought to herself as she made her way out the Pokémon Center.

"Don't worry Mackie, I didn't forget you!" Eve said playfully as Mackie's Plusle and Minun jumped of their trainer's shoulders and circled her feet.

"Well come on! Let's go!" Mackie exclaimed as she dragged her by the arm as they ran off, with Mackie's mother telling them to be careful as she ran behind them.

As they ran, Eve thought once again about starting a Pokémon journey. She would've started at age ten, like pretty much everyone else but she broke her leg when she fell out of a tree and she missed her opportunity. Honestly she thought it was a good thing that happened, because she had no idea what she wanted to do for her journey, to try the Gyms, the Contests or something else. She hasn't even decided on what Starter Pokémon she wanted, so her parents suggested she wait a little bit longer until she decides what to do, luckily there was no age limit on when to start being a trainer. Although her primary reason to coming to Rustboro was to join her best friend, her other reason was to see if this trip can give her an idea on what to do.

They stopped in front of the Devon building to find a man with short black hair with glasses and a lab coat alongside another older man with silver hair and a purple suit.

"Hi Daddy!" Mackie greeted as she hugged her father.

"Happy Birthday sweetheart! You're excited about today are you?"

Mrs. Russo chuckled in agreement as she gave her husband a kiss "It was all she could talk about for the whole week, Jay."

"Yeah no kidding!" Eve joked as Mackie gave her punch in the shoulder.

"Well let's not keep anybody waiting, huh?" Spoke up the other man with them.

"Again, thank you so much for allow us to look around Mr. Devon." Mrs. Russo thanked as she bowed slightly to the Devon Corp president.

"Not a problem at all. Jay told me so much about his daughter wanting to be inventor, so why not help inspire a new generation?"

Mackie then started to blush a little. "Thanks sir, I'm trying the best I can. I have a little help from my Plusle and Minun." Her two Cheering Pokémon nodded enthusiastically.

Mr. Devon laughed heartily "Let's get started shall we?"

Later…

Mr. Devon led his guests into the building showing the process of a lot of what they develop everything from the Pokenav Plus to other inventions they haven't really finished; he noticed that the girl that was apparently a family friend was looking like she had something else on her mind. While the others were looking at something else he decided to talk to her.

"Poké for your thoughts?" He asked her suddenly making her jump a little. "It's ok, you can tell me."

Eve sighed a bit. "I don't know… Mackie is so sure of what her dream is, but… I don't. I'm 14 and I should've started my journey already, but I keep putting it off…"

The older man rubbed his chin with thought before he continued talking "Listen, Eve was it? No one wakes up one morning knowing what they want to do with their lives. For some it takes a little longer to find their calling, you'll find yours. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but I bet whatever it is it'll fit you to a tee." Mr. Devon said to her with an assuring smile which Eve returned.

"Now let me show you a very special project that I called Jay here over. Because of his years in Silph Co. in the Kanto region we were able to work off the plans for something like this."

Mr. Devon the gestured Eve and the Russo's over to a corner of the room that was lined with computers hooked up to something that looked like some kind of Pokéball but it was black on top with a green 'O' on top and the white bottom with blue lines crossing it.

"Say hello to the Omni Ball. For years Pokéballs were meant for carrying around Pokémon and nothing more but imagine us being able to store large objects in the palm of your hand. It would save space and time for traveling and transporting." Mr. Devon explained as Mackie looked at the Omni Ball with wonder in her eyes.

"That's amazing! Why didn't you tell me you were doing something like this Dad?"

Mr. Russo rubbed the back of his head. "Well I wanted it to be a surprise and besides there's still a few… kinks in the system."

Eve tilted her head in confusion "What do you mean?"

Before he could answer the room was suddenly clouded in smoke, obscuring everyone's vision and making them cough.

"W-What's going on here?!" Mr. Devon demanded.

What they didn't notice was that a Sableye running by their feet and swiping the Omni Ball from its perch. It wasn't until it accidently ran into Eve's foot was when she noticed what was going on.

"Hey!"

The Sableye yelped in fear and started to run out the door, with Eve running after it and Mackie noticed this as well.

"Eve!" She cried out as he ran after them with her Plusle and Minun close behind. When the smoke cleared everyone noticed what had transpired.

"Someone's stolen the Omni Ball!" Mr. Devon exclaimed with shock.

"W-Where are the girls?" Mrs. Russo looked around with worry.

Meanwhile…

Eve and Mackie ran after the thieving Sableye only to be stopped when a Koffing and a Golbat appeared in front of them.

"We got this! Get that Sableye!" Mackie assured as Plusle and Minun sparked their cheeks ready for a battle. Eve nodded and managed to run pass them, the Koffing was about to go after her but ultimately getting distracted with a Thundershock.

"Mai! Mai!" Minun taunted the Poison-Type to get its attention.

As the battle started to happen the Sableye got distracted when the alarms started to go off, allowing Eve to catch up to it and trying to grab the Omni Ball but manage to snap back into focus and got into some sort of tug-of-war with her

"Let...Go!" Eve stained as she kept pulling.

"Sableye!" the Ghost/Dark type protested as it pulled back.

Meanwhile Plusle managed to use Spark on the Golbat making the two of them push forward, knocking over Eve and onto the Omni Ball's button. The ball started to spark and open up as the unthinkable happened: it sucked Eve in!

"EVE!" Mackie screamed in horror of what happened as Mr. Devon, her parents and several security officers came down to see what was going on. The Golbat took advantage of the confusion and knocked Plusle off itself and used Sludge Bomb on both mice Pokémon, Suddenly a Kadabra appeared in front of them.

"Kadabra!" it commanded the Koffing to use Smokescreen again and used its cover to Teleport to transport it and its comrades away… along with the Omni Ball.

When the smoke cleared the Russo's noticed their daughter looking hysterical.

"Mackie what's wrong?" Mr. Russo asked trying to calm her down.

"T-the b-ball… E-Eve… sucked in…!" She blubbered out trying to speak coherently but her father's eyes widened when he realized what she was trying to say.

"Don't tell me…" He breathed hoping she was mistaken but Mackie's tears told him otherwise.

He frantically pulled out what looked like a (seemingly) toy chair from his pocket Oh no…If it's true that Eve really did get sucked in…

Welp… this is my start. Sorry if it feels awkward, this is my first time writing scenes like this and even I'm not sure how I feel about it, some pointers could really help me out. Oh by the way I should clear up now that this story (and any other story involving Pokémon) will have both game logic and anime logic so if you notice anything, now you know why.

Like what you see? Anything you wanna ask? Comment below and let me know! See ya!