AN: TheAwesomePokespeAuthors don't own Pokemon. We do wish we could, but we aren't that awesome yet... *silent crying*

Chapter 1

Black

I always hate this part of a game. I'm in the middle of baseball game that had happened last season. I was the pitcher. We're playing a school in the regional tournament for nationals. We were facing off against Seido High School in the finals. Up to bat was their second baseman, a short runt with really long bubblegum pink hair that covered his eyes.

The game was tied 8-8 in the 9th inning and they were the home team. They had a man on third base and two outs. If we could hold them off and get one more out we knew that we could beat them because the top of our lineup would be coming up if we went into extra innings.

Everything about this kid's batting style was worrying to me. He was a righty hitter, but this kid had a bat that had to be almost three inches longer than he should have been batting with. As he settled into his batting stance he choked up on his bat the three extra inches that he had on his bat.

I shrugged off my uneasiness and went into a set position. I glanced over to third base to see that the runner was firmly planted on third base not wanting to be picked off. I looked back to my catcher, a junior by the name Gold Hibiki, he gave me a grin and signaled for me to throw a low, inside curveball. I started my windup and- WHAM...

I suddenly awoke to a throbbing saw my chemistry teacher, Ms. Juniper standing in front of me with a delightful smile, holding a baseball bat that looked like it was going to hit my head. Actually, it might be a second time based on the reasonably sized lump on my head. I jumped backwards and fell out of my seat, with my papers falling like snow and my writing utensils like a hail of arrows. In the background I could hear the rest of the class laughing at me.

"My. Touya, if you don't want your pitching arm to get blown off, I suggest you pay attention to the safety rules so that your so-called baseball career doesn't end with a bang here in the lab."

I feel the blood in my cheeks start to heat up as I hastily grab the papers that fell off, organizing it in a semi-neat pile. My friend Cheren sat next to me. He elbowed me as I tried to look as if I wasn't embarrassed.

"Honestly Black, this is the second time you fell asleep. If you think that you know what's going on right now, what was I just talking about thirty seconds ago?"

I looked around the class to make sure they weren't taking notes out of the blue. My peripheral vision saw some tickets for the entrance ceremony. Ahhh… Another Student Council announcement saying, "Let's have a great year! Blah blah blah…"

"Professor Juniper, we're working on the introduction to chemistry worksheet and after we turn it in, we get our ticket to the entrance ceremony," I say nonchalantly.

Juniper nods in approval and continues with her announcement. Of course, I just tune her out and daydream looking out the window at the school's baseball field and dreaming about the upcoming baseball season. Hopefully we win again; but that's a bit hard this year since we lost our top senior; looks like some of us need to step it up this year...

I finished the worksheet before I fell asleep, so two minutes after she made her announcement I turned in the assignment. She gave me a confused look and glanced at my paper, all completed just like she told me. Ms. Juniper gave me a weary look, handed me my ticket, and I smilingly left the lab, on my way to the assembly.

As I walked into the assembly, I saw a couple of my old friends from my middle school like Gold, Silver, Red, Cheren, and Bianca, but I didn't want to go towards them. I tried looking for someone, but to my dismay I didn't find them. I sit down quietly with people who are in the younger classes but they seem to avoid me. It's loud so I decide to drown out the talking and laughing with some music. One minute after I decided to be anti-social, the lights began to dim, and everyone fell silent; a sign that the assembly was starting. I sighed with disappointment as I pulled out my earbuds. So much for the peace I desired…