Hi guys this is my first fanfic, I spent quite a bit of time writing it and I have a good idea of were I want it to go, I'd really like for you all to leave comments and show me tips on how I could do better, thanks!

"HOOT-HOOT, HOOT-HOOT" the clock bellowed. It was a sound that JK That had come to loathe as its connotations came with another boring day, however today was different, he leapt straight out of bed.

"It's finally arrived, today is the day!"

It had felt like it had taken forever, but he had finally turned 14 and his father had agreed that he was allowed to go on his pokemon journey and travel to new bark town to get his starter Pokemon from professor elm.

He yanked at the curtains and the light streamed in and he gazed out of the window and looked on into cherry grove city, him and his The family had lived there for a year now and his father had opened his own normal type gym there, he had always been overprotective and had kept back JK 3 years to gain experience.

He wasted no time in dressing into his combat jeans and his blue hoodie, he ruffled his auburn hair to the right that seemed to spike by itself, as the sun cut through his copper like locks , it made it look almost like a crackling fire. He raced down the stairs and skipped the last four steps, he scuttled straight into the kitchen to find both his sister Rosie and mother waiting for him.

"Happy birthday son" his mother said with a catch in her throat

Rosie wasted no time in giving him his present without saying a word. He ripped it open, mimicking her silence. Inside he found a bottle of moo-moo milk.

"Holy miltank Rosie this stuff cost a mint how did you afford it!?"

"She has been saving her pocket money and grooming the neighbours pokemon for weeks" her mother exclaimed

"Thanks so much Rosie I'm sure this will be an amazing help" she simply responded with a smile and left the room.

"She's so sad to see you go"

"At least she bothered to turn up to see me leave" JK responded bitterly

"You're dad is taking on a challenger, but he has gotten you this" JK's mum then pulled out a short white scarf from a small shuckle shell box

"It's a silk scarf, it powers up normal type moves"

"I'm sure I'll find some use for it" he responded. His mother then took out several other presents, it included a quick ball from his dad's brother, kurt a pokenav from his mom and an array of berries from his other friends.

"This also came in the post today, it's from professor elm" JK opened the small parcel to find a badge case, and a note from the professor;

Dear JK,

I am happy to congratulate you on your 13th birthday and to tell you that you have been accepted into the prestigious pokedex program. As you are part of this program it will become your job to gather information on Pokemon for me and catch them to be delivered to my lab. Normally this program is only available to those from new bark town, however your father has requested tenaciously that you be accepted. Unfortunately because of security reasons you must come to my lab to collect a pokedex yourself with some ID. Because of this you should know that you are also applicable to have one of the rare starters native to the johto region which are reserved for this pokedex holders. There are also two other trainers that are acquiring their Pokemon from me today and choices will be first come, first served so please arrive early to get your designated starter Pokemon.

"WHAT!?" JK jolted out of his chair and gathered his presents and packed them as swiftly as he could.

"Mom I've got to go NOW" before his mother could respond he darted out the house, his mother followed him as fast as she could, but by time she reached the garden, he was half way down the street.

"JK!, you didn't even tell me what Pokemon you've decided on!" She waited for a seemingly endless response but eventually heard a faint "Totodile!"

An hour later had past and JK's sprint had quickly phased out into a paced walk as he has already reached the middle of route 29 with relative ease, avoiding the Pokemon populated areas. "damn it's already 11 I bet Totodile has already gone I'm not even going to get a Pokemon at all if I take this long" his inner monologue was interrupted by a rustling in the tree a few yards in front of him. soon after a Pokemon fell straight out onto the path of the route.

"An aipom!" He said with a shocked tone, it looked badly wounded, as he got closer he noticed that it had an odd pink colouring to it "it's a shiny!, I better catch it and take it to a centre asap" he rummaged through his bag and found a quick ball from his uncle kurt "here it goes!" He threw the ball and it hit the wounded Pokemon with a thud. A red aura engulfed aipom and swallowed it into the ball, it barley shook and clicked to signify it had been caught.

He rushed over to his newly caught accomplice and picked it up gleefully, however it was quickly diminished by the fact that he had realised he was too far from a Pokemon centre.

"Dammit there has got to be something I can do" he then heard another vigorous rustle in the bush to his left, he quickly moved to the other side of the path and hid behind a tree.

He reared his head round partially and saw two figures in all black overalls with a red R on the front, the first was a woman with short dark hair with purple dye at the bottom, the second was a man of a similar height/age with similar length dark green hair, the two were squabbling over something which he pieced together as project 'A'.

"They're talking about this aipom" he realised, "and I bet they won't be too happy when they realise that I just caught their special project". He waited for several minutes as the two moved on, still bickering over how to find aipom. "I best keep out of the way of the path and walk through the woodland area" he decided and began to trek deeper through the Forrest like area, guiding himself with the pokenav.

When it reached 12 he decided to stop as the heat was beginning to make him feel nauseated and he released aipom from his pokeball, a bright light appeared and when it diminished the shiny aipom laid there, covered in grazes and bruises, it looked completely different to how his dad's Pokemon appeared when they where released to battle, "hey there buddy you ok?" he gestured as he went to pet the wounded Pokemon, however it quickly retaliated with its humanoid like tail and whacked his hand away with surprising force, hissing in the process. "It's terrified of humans" he thought. JK simply knelt to one knee and took his berry pouch out of his bag and found 4 Oran berries "here you go" and held a berry in his hand and remained completely still.

After some time aipom began to warm to JK as he remained patient, a trait he was not exactly known for. The first two berries aipom took and clambered up a tree to eat, the third it remained at the stump but still at a distance, as it returned for the fourth berry it remained in front of JK and munched on it slowly. He took the opportunity to take out his pokenav and use the scanner his mom had placed on it;

Pokemon: aipom

Gender: male

Ability: pickup, ?

Moves: cut, sand attack, swift

He lowered the nav to find aipom with its head tilted to a side with a puzzled look on his face. "It's ok aipom it's just a pokenav it won't hurt you"

Aipom then shook its head and used its tail to prise the nav out of his hand and used its free arms to point at the scanner sticking out of it.

"You mean the scanner? That was my mom, she is an inventor who used to work for sliph co, she said it would be helpful providing I didn't get a..." JK stopped mid sentence "how did you know that the scanner wasn't supposed to be there?" He queried. it was like that aipom was familiar with technology, a trait even trained Pokemon fail to grasp.

Aipom's nature had changed dramatically and it was shown to be a lot more playful and ignored JK completely, chasing its tail. They waited another 20 minutes as the sun bellowed overhead and JK continued to wonder why this aipom was so different. It's colour, intelligence, even its personally seemed split, not to mention how the scanner recorded aipom to have 2 abilities, one seemingly unrecognisable. He quickly debunked the latter as his mother not programming the scanner correctly.

JK then packed all his belongings back, in the process he pulled out the small shuckle shell box from his father he had come to loathe. Suddenly aipom appeared from behind him as JK opened the box "it's a silk scarf, it'll make your moves stronger, so I think you should have it" aipom looked reluctant

"I understand if you don't want to, but this scarf is for normal type Pokemon, I feel like it's fate that I was given this the same day I met you, so please take it" aipom then nodded its head and JK wrapped it firmly for him.

Aipom then leapt of his shoulder and disappeared into the nearby bushes, only to return a few minutes later with something in its grasp. It clambered back up a puzzled JK and opened its tail to reveal a dirty pokeball "hey, you found a pokeball with your ability, that's great!" He proclaimed "now how about we make it to good use by catching ourselves a Pokemon" aipom validated him by clenching its tail and punching towards the sky.

After a while of searching they spotted a weedle "hey, they're great for starting trainers, you ready aipom?" aipom jumped off his shoulder and took a battle stance, at this point the weedle noticed their presence and responded by raising itself to appear bigger.

"Wee!" the wild Pokemon fired an array of poison sting at the two of them.

"Sand attack!" JK responded, however, aipom looked confused at JK's command and was hit dead on, causing him to fall back.

"What are you doing?!, I said use sand attack!" Aipom leapt up at growled at him, however was interrupted by a secondary effect of poison. "Aipom!" JK's anger quickly turned to worry as his Pokemon looked in distress. "Can you go on?" He asked with a worried tone "Pom" he responded and turned back to weedle.

"Ok let's go, use swift now!" Aipom's tail became covered in a golden aura as he propelled himself to the air, he then swished his tail whilst rotating in the air, causing a direct stream of stars to hit its opponent, causing a small explosion.

The two waited as the smoke cleared, to reveal weedle on its back, knocked out. "Way to go aipom" JK exclaimed as he threw the pokeball with excessive force smashing into the weedle and capturing it, instantly.

JK and aipom celebrated with a victory dance and took another break to clean their new occupied pokeball. JK took the opportunity to talk to aipom whilst it ate on a pecha berry. "Hey aipom, I want to apologise for getting so high rated during the battle, I've been told I have a pretty demanding nature" aipom looked up at him to confirm he was listening "but if we are going to be a team, I need you to trust me when I command you to use certain moves. sand attack is a ground type move, and if you had of used it against poison sting it would have repelled it and you wouldn't have gotten poisoned" Aipom looked at JK with an essence of understanding, "partners?" JK proclaimed whilst raising his hand "aipom" aipom responded and shook his hand with its tail.

JK looked at the time on his pokenav "it's already 1 o'clock we gotta hurry!" The two then began to run on to new bark town.