CHAPTER TWO: THE MASTER PLAN

"Maybe I will never be all these things that I wanna be."

-Oasis

When I was around the age of twelve I was sent to live in one of the most phenomenal places in Johto; Mahogany Town. It was a small town located in between Ecruteak City and Blackthorn City. The people there were incredibly friendly and they didn't ask many questions about who I was or my past. I met the Gym Leader Pryce; an old man full of wisdom who was hell bent on making the children of Mahogany remember the past. He told me and three other kids that "One day I'll be gone and the history I'll have to tell will gone with me". I thought he was the most intriguing person I had come across since the whole fiasco with Team Rocket. I made my first friend. A girl named Astoria. She was kind and made stomach flutter whenever I was near her. Yeah, she was my first crush ever. Mahogany Town was the first place I wanted to call my home.

And then, the Marshalls received intel that NeoRockets had a base of operations somewhere within the town. They said they needed to get me out of the town before one of them noticed me. And thus, my happiness shattered like glass and I was moved to Goldenrod. Remember the Radio Tower Crisis of 2007? I was there in Goldenrod when it happened. Rockets held a bunch of people hostage in the Radio Tower and I happened to be trying to win a brand new PokéTech. Luckily for me, I had just dyed my hair black and put on some glasses so the NeoRockets didn't recognize me.

I sat for three days with 59 other hostages until a 13 year old boy by the name of Gold came and liberated the tower with sheer force alone.

The Marshall Service moved me to one of the worst places on earth; Pacifidlog Town. It was a town in the middle of the ocean that laid on top of rafts. Wooden makeshift rafts. The entire idea that anyone would put their trust in a those rickety rafts made me feel uneasy. Walking about "town" was no easy feat either. I would often slip off the raft and take unexpected swims with the local water Pokemon. I hated Pacifidlog Town.

And then... the Legendary Pokemon Rayquaza was awaken by Team Aqua and Team Magma; two groups of lunatics bent on expanding the sea and land. Maybe someone didn't give them the memo that said "we need water to survive" and "we also need land to live on... and survive". Pretty sure their leaders failed Earth Science.

Anyway, when Rayquaza was awakened, it descended Sky Pillar and took out its rage on the nearest thing; Pacifidlog Town. Luckily for me, I had screwing around with a raft a little ways from the town. I got a second hand view of the horror that Legendaries were capable of.

During the time I floated in the little raft without so much as a cup of water to my name, I realized how much I did need a Pokemon to protect myself. Screw what the Marshalls said. Disaster followed me wherever I went and sooner or later it was going to get me killed.

The plan was to originally fake my death, but that idea seemed outrageous. Where would I get a body? Or for that matter anyone to help me? I didn't know anybody or trust anyone enough. So I settled on running away. But... there was a catch. I had to wait until I was in Unova. I heard that the region was dropping their isolation act so it was only a matter or time before I was shipped off there. No matter what, I would go back to Johto.

Eventually some fishermen picked me up and brought me back to the nearby town of Mauville, where I was admitted into the hospital for a couple of weeks while I recovered from a wide range of aliments.

The Marshalls moved me immediately after I was fully recovered. This time to Mossdeep City. Nothing particularly interesting happened there, but I did get to meet the region's current Champion; Steven Stone. Though I didn't say much to him because apparently I wasn't good enough to acknowledge since I didn't have a Pokemon. I started to save up all the money I received from my current caretakers. My plan was moving, slowly, but it was definitely moving.

I stayed in Mossdeep City for maybe a year and half before for absolutely no reason at all they moved me to Solaecon Town in Sinnoh. If I thought Pacifidlog Town was horrible, well, Solaecon laughed in my face and proved to me that there were worse places out there. I got to watch beady eyed ten year olds pass through. It killed me to know that kids so irresponsible were allowed to have Pokemon and I wasn't. I'd been good. I hadn't slipped up. Disaster just followed me places and it wasn't my fault. Or at least I hoped it wasn't.

Almsot a year into my stay, I decided I had enough of Solaecon Town and blabbed my identity to the loud mouth across the street. Needless to say, the Marshall Service was angry. But I didn't care. I couldn't take anymore of the stupid townspeople, the unown from the nearby ruin that had taken a liking to me and often floated around me saying things like "prophecy" and other cryptic things, and worst of all the greenhorn trainers that would come through town.

But it turned out to be one of the best things I had ever done, for I was moved to Unova. Nimbasa City was the name of the place I would be staying at. A while back I had done some research about the Pokemon that populated the region. All the powerful ones were much too far away for me to get to, and far to dangerous to go without Pokemon. So I settled on the bug/poison type, venipede.

As soon as I got to my new home, I applied for my Trainer's license. Unova was all against letting stupid people, much less ten year olds carry around dangerous Pokemon. The starting age here was 14, and luckily I was two years over that. I passed, thank Arceus, and the lab techs rewarded me with a Pokédex, a single pokéball, and my Trainer's license that I used a previous alias for. They offered to give me one of the region's starters, but I turned them down. I wanted to catch my own.

And step two to my master plan was complete. All that was left was three; obtaining a venipede, four; packing what I needed, and five; finding the perfect escape route from Unova that the Marshalls would not expect.

My dream was about to come to fruition and I could hardly wait.

Next chapter: The main character finally having gotten used to Unova sets off in search of a venipede, but as usual nothing goes as planned.