Sam quickly climbed out of the window where Robbie and Jamie had just flown out of. His skin was wrinkling, due to the hard metal. Behind him he saw Flare walk back into their room, to wait for him.

Sam finally got out to see his surroundings, small buildings with trees around it. It seemed to be a town. In one corner, between the trees, was grass, the sailor, who went outside before Sam got a chance to, was standing

next to the grass, seeming scared.

Sam quickly trudged through the town, running towards the sailor.

"What's wrong?" Sam half yelled, half asked. Before the sailor could answer, Sam finally got to the grass' edge to find a man in the grass, apparently battling. He had a doctor's coat on, it was white with dark-brown buttons on it. His hair was brown and a little bit spiky. A pokemon was standing in front of him. It had a blue body and a fin-like flap on the top of its head. It looked extremely tired.

"Use Water Gun Mudkip!" The man yelled. The pokemon in front of him sprayed water all over another dog-ish pokemon in front of it, whom Sam had just noticed.

"Pooch! Pooch!" The dog-ish pokemon yelled as it bit the 'Mudkip', as the man had called it, fiercely.

"Wow! What are they?" Sam asked himself, pulling out his pokedex.

"Some pokemon cannot be identified yet" The poke-dex said in a mechanical voice before beeping of.

"They're Mudkip and Poochyena." The sailor said, keeping a straight face. "Welcome to Hoenn! But that Professor needs help!"

"Grab my bag! Pick a poke-ball and come help then!" The Professor said, pointing to his bag.

Sam quickly ran to the bag on the edge of the grass. "Hurry up!" The Professor continued, giving his pokemon directions all the while. Sam grabbed a poke-ball and threw it, not even caring witch one he got.

"Poke-ball…" Sam threw the poke-ball. "Go!"

A small red-and-orange pokemon popped out of the ball. It was shaped like a small bird-like pokemon. To Sam, it looked like a first evolution stage of a fire pokemon.

"Chi! Tor!" The pokemon exclaimed cutely as it jumped up and down.

Sam's eyes bulged at the pokemon. It was so cute!

"Torchic, good choice!" The Professor said, the sailor and Sam's eyes still on the cute pokemon. "Sam?"

"Uhh…" Sam shook himself out of the trance. "Yeah."

"It has the attacks Ember, Tackle, and Growl." The Professor continued, stealing glances at his pokemon to make sure it was alright. "Quick use an attack!"

"Okay." Sam perked up and pointed towards the Poochyena. "Torchic, use Ember on the Poochyena! Quick!"

"Tor!" The Torchic hold a high note for a while, spitting out flames. The Poochyena looked very weakened from this attack, fighting back with a loud Roar attack, seeming to frighten the other pokemon.

"Mudkip, finish it!" The Professor urged his pokemon. "Use Bubble Beam attack!"

The Mudkip's mouth foamed briefly the exploded with small, clear bubbles, immediately heading towards the Poochyena, causing it to nearly faint.

"Torchic!" Sam yelled. "Use your…"

"No, Sam." The Professor held Sam back with one of his arms.

"But!" Sam continued. " Professor aren't you going to catch it?"

"No." The Professor walked over to the weak pokemon, his Mudkip walking behind him, tired out. "By the way you can call me Birch." Birch continued, also continuing to the Poochyena. "Here you go little buddy." Birch fed the Poochyena various items from his pocket. Some looked like vitamins, some like bottles of liquid, and the final item he fed it looked like a piece of sweet candy. "There you go!" Birch now petted the fully healed, healthy, and happy pokemon slowly.

The Poochyena purred and slid behind Birch, seeming to want to come with him.

"Lets go back to the lab." Birch said heading back into the 'town', heading towards a white building behind the houses.

"Birch?" Sam asked walking beside the sailor, the Torchic chirping behind him.

"Yes…" Birch started. "What was your name again?"

"Oh, Sam" Sam said, taking a deep breath and picking up the Torchic. "Here's your Torchic back."

"Yes, yes, thank you Sam." Birch took the pokemon and put it back into its poke-ball. He also put his hand into his backpack. "Here, this is for your help." He pulled out a white egg from his backpack. "It's an egg. We couldn't hatch it at the lab so I want you to have it Sam." He pushed his hands out to Sam, handing him the egg. "Make sure to take good care of it!"

"Will do!" Sam said, turning towards the sailor, keeping the egg at hand. "Lets go open the doors to the ship, my Vulpix is in it waiting"

"Wait, here," Birch pulled a small machine out of his pocket. He gave it to Sam, who examined it then put it in his pocket. "It's a advanced poke-dex, made by my daughter and I. It has data on more than three-hundred fifty pokemon."

"Okay now, lets go, bye Birch." The sailor said, walking towards the ship.

"Yeah, bye! Thanks!" Sam said, having trouble waving because of the egg in his hands.

"Bye, take care!" Birch waved back to Sam. "Good luck!"

Sam and the sailor were now at the door of the ship, the sailor was taking out keys from his pocket, to unlock the door. "How long have you had this Vulpix?"

"You mean Flare? Less than a year." Sam replied, anxious to see Flare again. "Why?"

"We can't get in, the keys disappeared somehow, but wait. Call it." The sailor said, impressed with Sam's progress but not showing it.

"Flare!" Sam called through the door, scared for his pokemon now. A few long minutes passed and finally a response came, loud scratches on the door.

"Now have it use a fire attack on the door hinges." The sailor said, even more impressed.

"Flare?" Sam started, making sure the pokemon was there.

"Vu!"

"Use a Flamethrower to burn down the door. Again, long minutes pattack on the hinges!" Sam continued, stepping away from the door. Flare responded quickly, using it fire attack assed, until, finally, the door started to turn a light shade of red, getting darker by the second. Red sparks started to fly from the door, having Sam and the sailor both have to step back from the door. The door started to fall slowly, the hinges breaking off. The door fell flat on the ground, Flare walking out on top of it, casually, looking like nothing ever happened. It was holding Sam's blue backpack, giving it to him immediately after it got out of the ship.

"Well we better be going." Sam said, turning around and walking towards the grass, now invaded with wild pokemon. "Right Flare?"

"Pix!" Flare, replied now yards away from the ship, following Sam closely, also taking jumps at the egg to see what it was.

"Yeah," The sailor said, taking poke-ball off of his belt. "See you later!" He threw the poke-balls, revealing three, seemingly strong, pokemon. Sam knew two of them, Seadra, a sea-horse pokemon, and Pidgey, a bird pokemon, but the other one, on the right, was a new one he hadn't seen before. It had ruffles on its fur, it almost looked like a raccoon with jagged fur. Sam put the egg in his backpack, to keep it from Flare, turned around, then he dug through his pocket, grabbing his new poke-dex and opening it.

It seemed to glow red. It had all types of buttons on it, there were red, green, and blue, all dotted over the border. In the middle of it there was a black screen. "Poke-dex? What is that one on the right?" Sam asked, looking at the screen while pointing the machine at the pokemon.

"Zigzagoon," The Poke-dex started. "The raccoon pokemon, this pokemon enjoys crawling in small places to look for food, like air vents and dog's doors."

"Well… I got to fix this ship…" The sailor said, laughing afterwards. "Bye!"

"Bye." Sam said as he turned back to the grass and walked. "Sorry about the window!"

The sailor watched Sam go through the grass out of sight then wondered out loud; "Window?" He shook his head and walked inside the ship, immediately seeing the shattered window. "Guys…" He called his pokemon. "Get over here…" His jaw dropped, it was quite a terrible sight…