-Hidden Fear-

The two young girls simply approached young Kevin with eager; they really wanted something from…

-Could you please step back with your friends to take you a lovely picture? – Said one of them.

Kevin felt a bit awkward at this moment, Why wouldn't they get picture with him, why his friends? Still he didn't think about it much and simply posed right beside his friends. Although something made him doubt a lot.

-Say cheesy!!- Said the other girl with a manly voi… What?! Kevin didn't know what was going on, that is until, they all fell into a hole, Kevin however, managed to grab from the side of it still holding Riolu in his arm. He made sure to keep Riolu in his Pokéball. They where all stranded at the bottom, a little wounded but it was no big deal, or was it? Kevin got back up to the road panting at the moment. "What the hell is going on?" When he raised his sight he saw an air balloon with the shape of a Pokémon in it. And two guys with some really strange outfits that had an "R" design at the very center. He turned around to see that his friends made it safe and sound from the hole.

-Are you guys ok? - Kevin asked while he helped them to stand. Everyone nodded and then looked at the group. – What on earth just happened? – Kevin asked.

The strange group on top of the air balloon laughed while they began to take off.

-Prepare for trouble! - Said one of the two, she was a woman and she had an impressively long purple hair that was somehow capable to defy gravity. "Whoa… she must use a lot of hair gel!" Kevin thought for himself.

-And make it double! – Said a man.

-To protect the world from devastation! –

-To unite the people within our nation! –

-The worst rimes of all creation… - Interrupted Kevin. – Look, the presentation in Sunnyshore does not include a clown act. – Kevin finished.

-Who are you calling clowns, you twerp? – Said the woman with clenching her fist with anger in front of Kevin.

-Who are they? – Kevin asked to the guys hoping one of them would answer.

-That's Team Rocket! – Dawn said with anger.

-They are just a bunch of bandits that steal Pokémon! – Ash said with anger as well.

-Steal Pokémon?! – Kevin exclaimed, steal... Pokémon… those 2 words kept on echoing in his mind, an endless echo that kept on until another voice broke it apart.

- No! Pikachu! – Ash said as he saw his Pikachu trapped in a mechanical arm that came from the bottom of the balloon. – Pikachu thunderbolt! – Despite all the electricity Pikachu used, it didn't do anything.

The woman laughed. – Still falling with the same trick? You know our equipment is electricity-proof. – She said while laughing some more.

Kevin clenched his fist, hopefully no one could be able to see it, but Brock certainly did, Kevin lowered his head.

-Kevin, are you all right? – Brock asked to him as he placed his hand on his shoulder.

- No… - Kevin said as he pushed Brock's arm away and moved towards the balloon slowly, he stopped a couple of feet away from it. – Buizel! – Kevin said.

-Bu? – Buizel looked at his trainer, looking him seriously, the same look he gave when he was fighting Ash's Pikachu. Kevin nodded.

-Buizel! Use Hyper beam on that balloon!! – Kevin yelled while pointing at Team Rocket's balloon.

-Hyper beam?!- Ash, Dawn and Brock said with a mixture of surprise and fear.

Buizel separated his feet on the ground to be able to stand well after the Hyper beam, he looked at his target, and then he charged the hyper beam on his mouth. Then, he fired it at the balloon. The members of team rocket appeared to be scared to death. It made a direct hit at the basket. But, Buizel fell at the ground exhausted.

-Team rocket blast off again! – They said as they went trough the airs until they were not seen again.

Pikachu feel from high, but fortunately Ash was there to catch him.

-Whoa… - Ash said as he looked at the sky. – I had no idea that… - He was going to say to Kevin but what he saw wasn't good at all, Kevin was hugging Buizel with all his might while Kevin said that he did a good job, he wanted his Buizel to rest until he recovered energies.

-I think I need a potion… do you guys have any?- Kevin asked.

Brock handled a super potion to Kevin

-o-o-o-

Team rocket landed in some dense woods, they definitely got really hurt by Buizel's Hyper beam but the fall was what hurt the most. Jessie was boiling with anger.

-Who does that twerp and his stupid Pokémon think he is!? – Jessie asked as he clenched her fists with fury. – Interrupting our motto and then preventing us to steal the twerp's Pikachu! -

-Well, his Buizel could use Hyper beam, his Pokémon is powerful indeed. – James said.

After A while of thinking, Meowth had a plan.

-I know! - Meowth said, Jessie and James looked at Meowth to listen to his plan. – If we can capture that Pokeymon then we will be able to go after Pikachu! – Meowth said while Jessie and James wondered how. – We could use the Twerp's Pokeymon to use his attack against the twerps. Then we can take him to the boss as well. Imagine that the boss receives a visitor in front of his door. Let's say that it's a merchant that is trying to sell something to the boss, then that is where Buizel comes in to use his hyper beam to get rid of that merchant. The boss will say "Wow, now I don't have to listen to those dumb merchants, Jessie, James and Meowth deserve a raise. – He explained.

-Yes! We will finally be able to go after the twerps and we will steal Pikachu, it's going to be two for the price of one! – Jessie said.

-Sounds like a great plan! – James said while snapping his fingers.

-Then let's get that Buizel – Jessie said.

-Team rocket will definitely show music-boy a lesson. – James said.

-Team rocket back to action!! –

-Wobbuffet! -

-Mime! -

-o-o-o-

As it was getting dark Ash, Brock, Dawn and Kevin were all camping near the woods pretty close to Sunnyshore city. Kevin was taking care of his Pokémon sitting far from everyone else, he was letting him rest, Buizel was awake already. Then after 2 minutes or so, Ash got near Kevin to see if he could do anything.

-Hey Kevin, how's Buizel doin? – He asked.

-Bui. – Buizel said.

-That responds your question Ash, Buizel is much better now. – Kevin replied as he smiled at him.

Ash invited Kevin over to sit with the group so that they could talk, "And besides I want to ask ya something." Ash said as well, Kevin agreed and they went with Brock and Dawn, they were all enjoying of the small campfire they made.

-Hey Kevin, is Buizel Ok? – Dawn asked.

-Pretty much! – Kevin said.

-Although Kevin, you really shouldn't have made Buizel use Hyper beam, Team Rocket isn't precisely the most smart group of bandits. We basically ruin their plans all the time! – Dawn explained. – Anyway… that Hyper beam was awesome! – Dawn said.

-Yeah… But, it's really dangerous. You see, Buizel gets extremely tired after using it, and he actually faints most of the time. – Kevin explained.

-You could've won the battle with Pikachu. – Ash said surprised.

-Not really, your Pikachu is pretty fast. – Kevin said.

-Speaking of Pikachu's, why does your Pikachu have some strange cuts in his ear and tail? –

-It's a long story, and it has to do with the story about our first song too, as I promised I'll tell you guys! – Kevin said while he was getting his guitar bag, but, Buizel went for the guitar bag and took out a small red book, he gave it to Kevin and then he sat by his side.

-Is that a journal? – Brock asked.

-Yup, it's a journal I used to write when I was younger. I used to write the things that went wrong in my life here, but I tore away those pages and only have the story of how I met Buizel. – He smiled while opening the book.

-That's great! - Dawn said.

-Let me tell you the story of my first song…

You see, 4 years ago, my mom and dad wanted me to be a great traditional musician, so I practiced all day. I was most of the time alone in my room playing the same practice songs over and over, and whenever I wanted to play some improvisation… dad used to knock at the door and tell me to play only what I was meant to play. I didn't have that many friends because I was always alone. But most of the weekends mom and dad had their special presentations in where they leave for three days. I always took advantage of those moments to sneak out and go camping to the open taking my guitar to play whatever I want.

Sometimes I used to stay close to the ocean to listen to it, such a beautiful sound. But that day I listened something below. Someone was hurt, when I went down to check it out, it was Buizel, yeah, this Buizel. That is where we first met.

The next weekend I could go to the meadow I found Buizel again, we spent that weekend playing, exploring and we even managed to communicate a bit. The weekend, however, was ending, and I wasn't sure how I was going to recognize him. I gave him my special rock collar, I didn't know what kind of rock it was, but still, I gave it to him as a present and as a way to recognize him."

-Sounds like a good story! – Ash said.

-Yes, but the bad part starts now…

I met Buizel for about a year now, but my parents didn't go out to much, but luckily for me, they had to go out for a couple of months, of course, they didn't really care what would happen to me.

When I was looking for Buizel that day I saw something that had me worried, Buizel was fighting another Pokémon, I can't really remember what Pokémon it was. I had told him to leave him alone; despite I told him he was my friend he wanted to catch him. I defended Buizel, I got attacked by his Pokémon, but I stood, that trainer tried to throw his Pokéballs to catch Buizel but I blocked them all. Then he got tired of trying to get Buizel, and… I really don't think I want to talk about it…"

-That's okay Kevin. – Brock said. – You don't if you don't want to. –

-Well, then…

After that bad moment me and Buizel could relax, I took out my guitar and I decided to play to relax a bit, to forget everything I had to deal with today, Buizel was following the rhythm of the song, and he was actually humming too, and as I loved to improvise, he loved to improvise as well by his humming and he actually placed his paws on the guitar strings most of the time, helping me figure out some interesting notes…

And that is how we made our first song titled: "True friend of mine." It was the first song to be recognized by me. – Kevin finished.

-I like that song! – Brock said.

-Yes, when I played that song in the field, a Pikachu came by, he already had those cuts, apparently the older trainer made him those cuts to make him look "cooler" that was just so cruel. And then I figured out that his older trainer was the trainer that tried to STEAL Buizel. – Kevin said. – OH! Look at the time, I better be off or I'll be late! – Kevin said.

He got up in a hurry, he kept his little book in his guitar bag and he put in on his back.

-Shall we see again ash? – Kevin asked.

-Of course we will Kevin! – Ash said.

Kevin took Pikachu and Riolu out of their Pokéballs. They needed to walk a little and besides, they have to appear in the show.

-Good bye guys! Thanks for everything! Specially the food! – Kevin said as he waved back. – See ya tomorrow! –

Kevin is now going to Sunnyshore city while Ash, Dawn and Brock will have to stay and sleep, even so, Kevin awaits to see his new friends tomorrow.

To be continued…