I walked outside, Oshawatt bounding behind me like an energetic Lillipup. I watched Bianca enter her house as Cheren walked towards Professor Juniper's house/lab. I followed Bianca in order to make sure Cheren wouldn't leave her behind. If it had been just him and I, he could have told Professor Juniper that Bianca's father hadn't allowed her to go, but if was just him it would be near impossible to bluff that both she and I didn't get permission.

I walked in the door to hear, "NO, NO, and a thousand times, NO!"

"But dad! I'll be careful! And I'll even be with my friends! PLEEEEEEEAAAASSSSSE?"

"No, and I'm not telling you again."

Suddenly a voice a little higher than Bianca's came from upstairs.

"Dad! Could you come here a sec? I need you to help me get unstuck!"

"Fine I'll be right up," he called up the stairs. He looked at Bianca and shook his head warningly. "You're not going anywhere." He walked up the stairs to go help the owner of the young-sounding voice; Bianca's little sister.

"Come on, Thomas. We've gotta go now; before he comes back," Bianca whispered, looking at the stairs where her father had been before. She looked at me. "Wanna bet Cheren's already got permission and is at the professor's house already?"

"No; I know he's already there. There's no point of losing money on a bet you already know the answer to." I stated plainly as I turned and walked out the door, a paranoid-looking Bianca close behind.

We walked to the professor's house where Cheren was leaning on it outside. He gave us a cold grin, trying to be warm in front of Bianca.

"You guys ready?"

"Yeah!" Bianca and I said at the same time; though hers contained much more enthusiasm.

"Alright, let's all go in together." Cheren opened the door and we all held hands. Then we took a step into the professor's house/lab.

It looked a lot like a lab in the living room area, which was the room we stepped into. Giant machines and small test tubes were scattered around the small room. Randomly colored lights and buttons flashed, begging to be looked at or pressed.

In a corner stood the professor, her green dress and red hair reminding me of a TV show I had seen in my childhood; something about a magic school bus or something. What character did she remind me of? It was the teacher; Ms. Frazzle-Dazzle or something. It was a long time ago that I last saw the show.

Regardless, the human Christmas light bulb turned around as she heard us enter.

"Ah, hello everyone." She saw Oshawatt at my feet and Cheren's Snivy-filled Pokeball on his belt. "I see you have picked out your Pokémon. Have you battled at all yet?"

Cheren and I nodded, but Bianca blurted out, "We all had a blast, though Thomas won both rounds."

Cheren chuckled and I grinned sheepishly. Prof. Juniper looked at me with a "proud teacher" look.

"Wow, Thomas; I'm impressed. Congratulations." She praised, as I rubbed the back of my neck, embarrassed.

"Really, it was quite a fight, but my little buddy here is pretty tough." I tried to switch back on track. "Now, why have you called us here?"

Professor Juniper put her finger up as if she remembered something. "Ah yes. As Thomas said, you're probably wondering for what reason I called you here. Well, I've been testing a device that classifies Pokémon. It's called—"

"—The Pokedex. Yes, Professor; this isn't new."

The professor looked at Cheren—the one who had spoken out—with disdain, then opened her mouth to speak once more.

"As you said, this isn't new. My grandfather, Professor Oak, was the one who created this cool technological wonder. Professor Elm from Johto also helped. After a few other professors from other regions, it's finally my turn to help evolve this technological masterpiece. It's close to the original, but it does have a few other capabilities. For example, it will run off of cellphone towers, and you can also synch data with other users. It has a few other uses too and there will be future add-ons. Right honey?"

She turned to a man standing in a doorway just to the right of the main doorway behind us. He looked up, surprised, but nodded.

"Yeah, we intend to have a lot of cool features for this thing. As of now, there's a GPS, a phone, a clock, a bank, and video chat functionality; on top of things my wife mentioned, of course." Cedric, motioned to his wife to keep going.

"Thank you. Now…" She turned around and picked up the three devices on the workbench behind her. "Are you guys willing to take the challenge?"

Her back was still towards us, but we nodded anyway. Cheren was the one to realize that she wasn't hearing our heads rattle, so he answered, "Yes."

Bianca and I quickly followed suit and the professor turned back around.

"Hold out your hands then," she commanded, and we did as instructed.

She placed a small, red electronic the size of a children's book into our hands. It looked like it had a touch screen, and so I tapped it. Nothing happened. I looked over at Cheren, who had slid up on the flat surface. His screen showed a menu with eight icons. I looked back at my device and slid up. The same menu appeared, only his background color was black whereas mine was grey.

I tapped on the first one; Pokedex. A circle of grass appeared and an Oshawatt dropped onto it, bouncing as it hit. Some white text appeared in the top-right corner: "Osawatt – Water Pokémon."

It had some skills and attacks it could learn, as well as a small description. I looked past it and hit an arrow button in the bottom-middle of the screen. A shadow of a Tepig appeared where the Oshawatt had been. The text now read: "Tepig – Fire Pokémon." Below the text below it said, "Stats and skills, unknown."

I pressed the same arrow again and this time a Snivy's shadow appeared. The same text appeared under, "Snivy – Grass Pokémon." I shrugged and backed out of the Pokedex area and looked at the rest of the options. I didn't need GPS since I knew where I was, I didn't need to Phone or Video Call anyone, didn't need the Clock…however, synching with Cheren and Bianca seemed like a great idea.

"Hey guys, why don't we try synching?" I suggested, and the two looked at me. But then Bianca exited to her menu, which had a white background, and then clicked synch. I did the same. However, Cheren didn't. I looked at him questioningly and he shook his head.

"I don't need your guys' help. I'll fill all of the spots by myself." He shut off his Pokedex and walked towards the door. "Call when there's an update," he said at the professor, then walked out without a reply.

I shrugged, then looked at my Pokedex's screen to see that it had finished synching with Bianca. I exited and tapped the Pokedex icon on the main menu. Sure enough, Tepig showed up on the screen where the shadow had previously been. I looked up at the professor.

"So, why didn't you just add all the Pokémon so that they show up all at once?" I asked, curious to know why I had to do so much work even though the Pokedex has been handed out for the previous generations. I mean, why can't we have all but the next 150 filled out already? That seemed way simpler than to have one kid fill every single slot 5 times over. Professor Juniper had a simple, if not disheartening answer.

"Well, that would take all the fun out of going out to see and catch the Pokémon, now wouldn't it?" She said with a voice overflowing with mischief.

"Doesn't the synch function do that enough already?" I countered.

Professor Juniper blushed as she looked at Bianca. "I put that feature in for Bianca more than you or Cheren. However, there are some Pokémon that you can't Synch, but I'll let you find those for yourself," She whispered in my ear.

"Alright then." I turned to Bianca, satisfied. "Well, you ready to go?"

"Yep!"

We turned around and headed for the door. "Thanks, professor," I called behind me as we stepped out.

The first place we went was to Route 2, the only real exit out of town. Cheren was already there, a piece of grass sticking out of his mouth.

"So you couldn't leave without us, huh?"

"I can't be too heartless, can I?" He said this jokingly, but I could hear a little bit of seriousness in his tone. "Well, let's do this like we did the professor's house." He took Bianca's hand in one hand and mine in the other. "Ready? 1…2…3…STEP."

And in that instance, we all exited Nuvema Town at the same time.

AN:

I know, it's Ms. Frizzle, not Ms. Frazzle-Dazzle. I was trying to be funny.

Sorry it's been so long and only three chapters have been posted, I'm doing my best to work on this one now; it seems too good to go to waste.

This chapter….it only took a long time because I kept procrastinating. I was able to write a lot of it in a couple of hours, which kinda makes me feel like I wish I had done so sooner.

Anyway, I'll see you guys later!

Quick Update (10/15/2013): Changed "Tohya" to "Thomas" and made some small additions and changes