This is a branch of demonickid247's "we have always been rivals, havn't we?" fanfic. The following story descibes Jared, a trainer whom Nicole and Amy met up not too far into their story...

Setting:Pewter City

Time: 9:57 PM

Location: Just outside the entrance to Mt. Moon

It was a normal day (or night) for me, slumming near the old path leading to Mt. Moon, watching the vigilante kids do their usual pokemon battles.

But tonight... would be much different than usual.

Current time: 10:00 PM- Thats the time I had on my watch, time to go and try to beat those vigilante kids into the dust they came from.

I had decided the day before to try and give some justice to one of the bullies, I managed to give him a bloody nose and a black eye, he ran and apparently told the rest of his gang, and they wanted revenge...

I dont back down when im challenged, by anyone.

But when I arrived, they decided to use their pokemon against me! I was beaten senseless by a tyrouge, machop, and a geodude, they mocked me, and I yelled at the top of my voice,"IF I HAD A POKEMON YOU WOULDNT BE LAUGHING RIGHT NOW!!" they just laughed harder.

Suddenly, I felt a hard object hit me in the head, it was a pokeball, and a really expenive-looking oe as well, the thrower was apparently the leader of the gang, he said,"thats a master ball, the best pokeball anyone can get, it catches 1 pokemon, no sweat, go get a pokemon and be back here at 10:00 PM tomorrow, back up that big mouth of yours. I just sneered "your funeral"

Setting: Inside Mt. Moon

Time: 11:00 AM

Location: Somewhere in the mountain

I had spent all night searching for a pokemon... and didnt find a single one... I decided to rest a bit, it was pretty hard trying to find somewhere comfortable to sleep inside a cave, but I managed to make a pretty simple bed out of some 'comfortable' rocks.

When I awoke, I found that I wasnt alone in my simple rockbed, there was a pokemon sleeping right next to me! What luck! I went to grab my master ball, but it was gone, I noticed that the pokemon wasnt really asleep, its eyes were shut, and I also noticed that it had MY masterball in its paw, I found myself yelling "GIVE IT BACK!", worst thing to do, since the pokemon decided to run as fast as it could, WITH MY MASTERBALL!!

I ran after it till we came to a small pond, the pokemon apparently didnt see it, because it fell in, I dived in after it, but only after I dived did I notice the pond was about 2 feet deep, I immediately started searching for my masterball, I searched for maybe hours on end, but I never found it, I was at the point of just bursting into tears when I noticed the pokemon was still here, sitting on a rock just about 5 feet away. -What will happen now that Jareds lost his only hope for catching any pokemon? Find out soon!