Hoenn Chronicles Chapter 1: The greatest Eevee-ning

It was a clear starry night. The pidgey were fast asleep and every now and then a hoot-hoot's soft hooting echoed through the wind. In the center of Isla Town's playground a red head little girl, about 10 years old, waited patiently while 2 boys about her age walked toward her.

"It's about time!!" the red head girl exclaimed

"So we're here, Jenny. What could you possibly want with us at 12:00 am?" the blondish little boy asked sarcastically.

"Cut the sarcasm Max, I don't see Chris being sarcastic" Jenny replied half laughing

"That's because I'm still asleep" Chris responded slowly moving his black spiky hair as he rubbed his eyes. "What did you say we were here for again?"

"To make a promise" Jenny said proudly as she cleared her throat to explain "all three of us want to become Pokémon masters, right?"

"More than anything!" Chris said excitedly as his sleepiness faded away in an instant.

"Were making a promise about what we already want?" Max asked

"No" Jenny said as she continued to explain "were making a promise that only us three will become the best. See, we all know there are lots of regions, all with rare, different and exiting Pokémon that we've never seen."

"I get it" Max interrupted "you want us to split up each into a different region, right?" he asked

"Exactly! Then well face each other once we become masters and well see who got the most out of their adventure" Jenny said quickly not being able to hold her excitement.

"That's awesome! Then well tell each other all about the region we went to, and well split up again each to another region and well conquer that one as well. 

Before we know it we'll be true Pokémon masters" Chris said as he jumped up and down from excitement.

"So, you guys up for it?" jenny asked

"YEAH!" Max and Chris said in unison

"I promise to give everything I got" Max said

"I promise to battle with all my heart and soul" Chris said

"I promise to never forget this day, or the promise that we made" Jenny said

"Well I'm not gonna let that happen" another boy said as he walked out of the darkness

"What do you want, Rudy?"

"I'm here to warn you, that you won't be able to keep that promise when the time comes." Rudy said menacingly

"Whatcha gonna do to stop us?" Chris asked

"I may not know now, but by the time your fifteen, ill be sixteen, and ill be a year smarter than you twerps. And I WILL make you fail in your promise" he said as he walked off into the shadows once more.

"Don't listen to him guys" Max said "he's just a bunch of hot air"

"Yeah, were gonna be Pokémon masters" jenny said

"All the way!" Chris said as they raised their hands in sign of victory

FIVE YEARS LATER



"Aw man! I can't believe I'm THIS late! Where is it? Where is it?" A boy with black spiky hair said as he shuffled through his belongings trying to find the pokédex his father had given to him as a gift for his fifteenth birthday.

"I can't believe I'm gonna be late on the most exiting day of my life. MOM, have you seen my…"

"It's in your pocket" his mother responded knowing what he was about to ask before he finished.

Chris reached inside his pocket and pulled out his shiny silver, Lugia edition pokédex. He turns it over to where the inscription was. Written in fancy calligraphy was "To Chris, from Dad. May your heart guide you everywhere you go." He puts the pokédex back inside his pocket and rushes down stairs skipping three steps every time. He was about to run out the door when his mother stops him.

"Where do you think your going mister?" she asked

"I'm late mom, my beginners Pokémon is waiting for me!" he exclaimed

"Without breakfast?" she asked again

"Ill have some when I get back" Chris responded

"All right. Just answer the phone before you go, it's for you" she said as she handed him the phone

"Hello?" he said confused

"Don't hello me mister" the person said slightly angrily

"Hi Jenny!" he answered

"We've been waiting for you for like ten minutes, are you coming or not?" Jenny said

"I am. Make sure you keep that water type safe for me, ok?" he asked her

"Ok, well be waiting" she said as she hung up.



Chris handed the phone back to his mother, kissed her on the cheek and ran out as fast as he could. To him, Isla towns beautiful sight seemed to be even more beautiful today. He ran as fast as he could, faster than he had ever before.

After about five minutes he reaches Isla towns own Pokémon research lab. He runs down the gentle slope and reaching the front door of the long wood house he rings the doorbell three times. The automatic door opens up and he walks in all the way toward the back of the lab.

A shorter red head girl was standing next to a tall, skinny, blondish boy. The owner of the lab, a tall man with spiky brown hair and small eyes approached Chris. Next to him a Foretress happily floated by.

"Good morning professor Brock, sorry I'm late" Chris said cheerfully

"No problem, as long as you're here. Now, lets get started" Brock said he directed the group next to a small platform with three Pokéballs.

Each Pokéball had a small design representing a type of Pokémon: fire, water and grass. Brock takes the Pokéballs and hands Jenny the grass type Pokéball, max the fire type Pokéball and Chris the water type Pokéball.

"Go on, try them out" Brock said

"Ill go first" Max said as he got ready "Fire Pokéball, Go!"

Max threw his Pokéball forward. It released in midair returning to his hand as the Pokémon inside landed softly on the floor with a soft "Too or-chic-chic!"

"No way, a Torchic! That's awesome!" Max yelled almost loud enough for the entire town to hear.

"Torchic is a Hoenn Region Pokémon. I knew you'd like it"

"All right my turn, Grass type Pokéball, Go!"

Jenny threw her Pokéball forward. It released then returned to her hand. The Pokémon started running around happily all over the place. It took her a while to realize her partner was a Chikorita.



"Oh my gosh, she's so cute" Jenny exclaimed picking Chikorita up and hugging her tightly.

"My turn" Chris said as he got ready, "Water Type Pokéball, GO!

Chris threw his Pokéball forward, but just as it was about to hit the ground, someone came from out of nowhere and caught it before it released.

"I told you I wasn't going to let that happen" he said as he pointed a menacing finger at Chris.

"Rudy!" Chris exclaimed in amazement, "How? Why?"

"Five years ago your father won that pokédex in a town contest!" Rudy shouted out.

"He did. And he promised he would give it to me once I was old enough to have a Pokémon." Chris responded

"And I'm guessing your fifteenth birthday was all that huh? Well guess what, I was supposed to win that pokédex. My dad and I sent 50 postcards. We were SUPPPOSED to win." He continued shouting at Chris.

"Well maybe it just wasn't meant to be. But what I would like to know is… what does that have to do with my Pokémon?" Chris asked

"Your father stole something from me so I'm stealing this from you!" Rudy responded

"Oh no you're not!" Chris said as he jumped on Rudy trying to get his Pokéball back.

Rudy held on to the Pokéball as hard as he could, clenching it tight.

"A little help here…Kadabra!" Rudy shouted.

Suddenly an invisible force pushed Chris away from Rudy.

"Now, use Barrier!" Rudy said as he walked toward a strange machine.



Professor Brock tried to stop him, but was stopped by an invisible wall. Max, Jenny and Chris tried their best to break the invisible wall, but nothing got through it. Rudy placed Chris's Pokéball on the machine and activated it.

"No, not there!" Brock shouted out

"What is it professor?" Jenny asked

"That machine is made to release Pokémon back into the wild" he answered

At the thought of this Chris ran toward Rudy. The barrier wasn't there and he managed to knock Rudy off his feet. But it was too late. The Pokémon release procedure had already finished. Chris fell to his knees, tears washing down his face. His beginners Pokémon was…gone.

"Lets go Kadabra, our work here is done" Rudy said

"No you don't!" Max shouted "Go Torchic!"

"Now you'll have to face US!" Jenny added "Go, Chikorita!"

"Torchic! Peck attack!" Max said as his Torchic jumped onto Kadabra's head pecking quickly

"Chikorita! Tackle!" Jenny said as her Chikorita ran into a tackle.

Kadabra was sent flying backwards.

"Now, combine ember with razor leaf!" Max said

"Burning leaf!" Jenny added

Chikorita shot razor leaf and Torchic's ember set them on fire hitting Kadabra with a double attack.

"Kadabra, teleport!" Rudy said. They both disappeared.

The guys call back their Pokémon and turn to Chris. He had an expression of hopelessness in his face. He walks quietly out of the lab and heads home. Max and Jenny walked beside him.



"You know Chris… sometimes bad thing are meant to happen, so that good things can come from it." Jenny said consoling him

"Yeah, and who knows, maybe you were destined to have a stronger, rarer Pokémon that the one inside that Pokéball" Max said

"You really think so?" Chris asked

"I don't think…I know" Max answered

They continued onward to Chris's house. They get there, but Chris didn't feel like speaking, so jenny explained everything. Chris's mom gives them the idea to camp out that night before Jenny and Max leave the next day. They get everything ready and leave early. The plan was to spend the night in the forest without any technology like they used to do when they were little.

They set everything up and spent their sunset looking at the orange and pink horizon as they remembered old times. Once the sun had set they accommodated themselves inside their sleeping bags and continued telling stories of their lives as children and the beginning of their teenage. The hours went by, and the hoot-hoot's soft hooting could be heard whispering between the tress, just like that night five years ago when they made their promise.

"You know guys…as long as I have friends like you…I don't need a beginners Pokémon" Chris said out of nowhere

Everyone remained quiet for a few second. But just when Max was about to add something the ground began to shake. Hoot-hoot, Pidgey and Pidgeotto began flying from the forest scared half to death. The guys got up to see what was happening and right in front of them they see a strange contraption with mechanical wheels and stretching arms moving through the forest grabbing Pokémon and trees alike and shoving them into a compartment on what seemed to be a mechanical stomach.

In the center of the machine there was a big red letter R, as well as on the machines butterfly net like arms. The machine stops moving, but its arms continued causing their damage and grabbing Pokémon from all around. Two men jump off and confront the guys, while two more split up in other directions.



"Who do you think you are?" the man asked

"Who do you think YOU are?" Max said, as a tone of anger invaded his voice

"Don't you know it's illegal to capture Pokémon with machines, not to mention unauthorized forest teardown?!" Chris said also somewhat angrily.

"Well were Team Rocket, and we aint caring bout no laws, were just following orders!" the other man said

"Yeah and if you got any problems, then settle it!" the first man said "Go, Poochyena!"

Both men call out a Poochyena. Max and Jenny call out their Pokémon. Chris however, knew he wasn't going to be able to help them, so he grabbed a tree branch.

"You guys hold em off ill go after the other crook" he said, but just as he was about to run off a whip grabbed the branch in his hand.

Chris held it tightly and pulled. The man holding the whip lost his grip and Chris managed to catch it. He then headed into the other side of the forest. He got there and saw two men, dressed in the same Team Rocket outfits as the other ones hurting the wild Pokémon with their whips. One of them saw Chris and ran toward him as if to attack, but Chris slashed the whip toward his leg and pulled causing the man to trip.

A bunch of wild Pokémon jumped him clawing and biting. They ran off leaving him bruised and dazed on the floor. The other man spotted Chris and slashing his whip took Chris's whip away. Just then a wild Eevee jumped and bit the mans arm tightly, not letting go. The man shook it off, but then Chris pushed him off with the branch he had.

"Eevee, get out of here!" Chris said, but the Eevee didn't move.

Chris told it to go, but it wouldn't move. It was then that Chris saw the wound on the Eevee's front leg. He dropped the branch and picked the Eevee up taking it with him to where he thought it would be safe. He got to where Jenny and Max 

were, who seemed to have won the battle against the other Team Rocket members. Suddenly a voice was heard.

"If you want something done" a man's voice said

"You better do it yourself" a woman's voice said

Out of the machine a Man and a Woman in different colored Team Rocket outfits walked out. The woman spoke first.

"Little children, do you see our bright red and white uniforms? This means we are Rocket Officials, unlike the black and red uniforms that are simply for…trainees." She said

"Which means; we are a lot tougher than you could imagine. So I suggest you give up now with dignity." The man said

"And leave you to destroy the forest and kidnap all the Pokémon? I don't think so." Jenny said righteously

"Then you're gonna have to face the wrath of, Jessibella!" the woman said

"And Jonathan!" the man added. "Go, Bellsprout!"

"Go, Quagsire!" Jessibella called.

"Quagsire?" Jonathan asked "he's a doof, use the other one!"

"All right, all right jeesh!" Jessibella said angrily "Go, Poochyena!" she called

"Hey! no fair!" Max said

"Who said life was fair, kid?" Jonathan asked

"No worries, we can take them all" Jenny said feeling confident.

The battle was about to begin, when Eevee jumped out of Chris's arms and placed himself in the middle of the battle.



"Eevee, no!" Chris called toward it, but it responded with a quirky "Vey" signaling Chris he actually wanted to battle. "All right, if you really want this then, go!"

"Bellsprout use Vine whip!" Jonathan called. His Bellsprout extended a whip like vine string at Torchic.

"Torchic! use scratch!" Max called. His Torchic attacked the whip.

Jessibella called her Quagsire to use water gun, which hit Chikorita, but being a grass type it had minimal effect. Jenny called Chikorita to use razor leaf which hit Quagsire strongly being its weakness. Jessibella's Poochyena was going to attack Chikorita with a tackle, but Chris called Eevee to counter Poochyena's tackle with a quick attack.

Torchic used peck on Bellsprout sending it flying backwards, crashing into Poochyena. Chikorita sent Quagsire flying into Bellsprout and Poochyena by using another razor leaf. The three were sent flying backwards into the machine. Max then called on Torchic to use ember. Jenny called Chikorita to use razor leaf. Chris called Eevee to use swift. The combination of the three attacks caused an explosion, finishing the battle.

From in between the smoke Jessibella's voice and Jonathan's voice were heard saying "retreat". Jenny and Max turned to Chris, who was celebrating the victory with Eevee.

"Chris…" jenny said as if in disbelief

"Yeah?" Chris answered

"You and Eevee…are you?" she asked

Just then Chris remembered Eevee had a wound on his leg. He rushed into town explaining everything to the guys as he ran as fast as he could toward Professor Brock's lab. They find a sleepwalking professor Brock asking what had happened. They explain everything and Brock quickly puts Eevee on a Pokémon center type healing machine. He told them Eevee would be fine by morning, but Chris wanted to stay with Eevee just to make sure. Meanwhile Jenny and Max went back into the forest to pick up their things and head back home.



"Do you want me to bring you anything Chris?" Professor Brock asked

"No, I'm ok." Chris responded

"Alright, Ill be down the hall, if you need anything just ask." He said

"Ok" Chris responded with a small smile

Chris remained fixed on Eevee. After Eevee had fallen completely asleep, Chris did too. When Eevee woke up the next morning he woke up to music. Chris was playing a coral flute his mother had given him as a gift for his fifteenth birthday. Eevee jumped out of the bed he was sleeping in and onto Chris's arms. After Eevee had some breakfast; decided to take it back to the wild, where he belonged.

Chris put him at the edge of the forest, but Eevee turned away from it whining at Chris's feet. Chris tried to leave him in the forest but Eevee kept jumping on Chris's shoulder and licked his face as he wagged his tail happily.

"Eevee, are you saying you want to come with me?" Chris asked. Eevee cried out loudly in an approving manner.

"Wait…you mean…Eevee…you want to be my beginners Pokémon?" Eevee approved once more.

"Then come on! We gotta tell everyone!" Chris yelled as he ran back into town.

He got to his house and just rushed in. his parents asked what was up but all he could say "give me a sec, ill explain everything". He searched through his closet for his journey clothes. Black pants, white undershirt with black over shirt, navy blue sneakers, and navy blue fingerless gloves. His backpack matched his clothing. When he got outside, his parents looked at him with confused written all over their faces.

Thant when he explained everything. The battle, Eevee, Team Rocket, every detail.

"And this is my partner, Eevee" he said holding him up.



"I see, well you better hurry and get your Pokéballs then" Jenny said as she walked in with Max

"Come on, it's getting late." Max said

Chris said his goodbye to his parents. And he headed out with his friends.

"So he became your partner after all" Jenny said

"And no Pokéball" Max added

"Yeah, thanks to Eevee we can keep our promise." Chris said

They get to the lab and once again Chris explains everything in more detail to Professor Brock.

"I see, well in that case here are your Pokéballs Chris. I can only give you 5 since only six Pokémon are allowed. If you buy anymore, once they are full they transfer themselves back here, where your Pokémon will rest and meet each other. If at any time you want to change a Pokémon in your party or send a Pokémon back here to the lab, just access a poke computer in any Pokémon center. Did you get all that?" Professor Brock explains

"Yeah, I got it." Chris answers

"All right, now you're all set. Your pokédex have been set up. Now you can all go. I wish you nothing but luck." Brock says.

They walk out and head toward the edge of the town where the road splits in four.

"Today we make keep promise" Jenny said "where are you guys going?"

"I'm going to the Johto Region. This road leads straight to it." Max answered

"I'm off to the Kanto Region. There's a mini plane leaving for there tonight." Jenny said



"I'm going to the Hoenn Region. Once I reach port there's a cruise that will take me there. My dad got me a ticket. Ill be in Hoenn in about two to three days." Chris said

They wish each other luck and said their final goodbyes. Chris and Eevee continue onward. Deep down in his heart Chris feels they will meet again sooner than they think. But who knows, maybe he will make new friends. Whatever happens next he knows hell come out victorious with Eevee by his side. Onward to the Hoenn Region.