Disclaimer: Once again, I do not own pokemon and never will. But I did buy a Pearl version a few weeks ago... and I suck at it... Heh, heh...

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The figure threw down its cloak, revealing a very, very, VERY boy with spiky red hair clad in a dark red shirt, black slacks and a long orange scarf thrown over his shoulders. The purple clothed women laughed. The one with the Carvanha stepped forwards.

"Hey boy, how old are you? Eight?" The boy puffed up in agitation.

"I'm TWELVE for your information!" He shouted. "My name's Kaji, and I'm gonna be one of the best pokemon masters, ever! Go, Torchic!" Kaji threw out a red and white sphere that in a flash, revealed the orange chick pokemon.

"Carvanah, water gun." The woman said nonchalantly. The stream of water hit Torchic head on, knocking it out instantly.

"Aaahh!" Kaji cried in disbelief. "H-how did that happen?!?!"

"Torchic is a fire type. It got hit by a water attack. Water puts out fire, that simple enough for ya?" Kaji bit his lip.

"Go! Flet!" Suika yelled, letting out her newly named Shroomish. The women turned in surprise. "Absorb on Carvanha!" Small beads of green light attached themselves to the fish pokemon and began to suck the energy from it. In no time, it collapsed wearily.

"What?!" The purple-clad yelled.

"Who are you guys?" Suika asked, still rather confused.

"We are Team Aq-" One began.

"Team Mag-" The other paused. "Er, what were we again?"

"Team… Acro, I think. Anyways, don't you think we won't remember this! We'll meet again!" And with that, they leapt away into the dense bushes. The random guy popped out from behind Suika and bowed.

"Thank you so much for protecting me! And with such an adorable pokemon!" He exclaimed, picking up Flet and cuddling him.

"Um, no problem." Suika said, a little perturbed.

"I SMELL A CONSPIRACY!!!" Kaji yelled, jumping in front of Suika angrily. "How come your wimpy Shroomish beat them, but my awesome kick-butt Torchic couldn't?!?!"

"Fire types are weak to water, and water types are weak to grass." Random Guy explained. Kaji glared.

"Don't think you've seen the last of me, um, uh…"

"Suika."

"Right, don't think you've seen the last of me, Suika!" And with that, he swept on his black cloak and dashed off.

"Um, right, Miss Suika," Random Guy began. "You see, I really like Shroomish, but I've never been able to catch one, would you please trade your Flet with one of my pokemon?" Suika bit her lip and glanced at Flet. He obviously didn't care, he'd only been caught three minutes ago.

"A-alright." Suika agreed, smiling as she handed him her Shroomish's pokeball. "Flet-kun, be good, ne?" Shimizu sweatdropped in despair for his crazy trainer. Random Guy handed Suika another pokeball.

"This is Hikoboshii. He's very sweet, but don't underestimate him." The green-haired girl pushed the button to release the pokemon inside.

"Pix!" The orange-red fox pokemon leapt up cutely.

"Wow, it's a Vulpix! Thank you so much." Suika exclaimed, picking him up. "Hi Hiko-chan!"

"Vul, pix!" Hikoboshii barked in a happy tone.

"Mud…" Shimizu muttered, still despairing in vain. Suika blinked, noticing that Random Guy had run off.

"Hmm… guess he was busy or something." She mused, returning Hikoboshii. "Well, let's go, Shimi-chan, we're almost to Rustboro!"

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Notes: You can NOT trade a Shroomish for a Vulpix with the Random Guy, so don't try. I just put that in because in my Sapphire version I thought that he wanted a Shroomish, so I searched three hours for one and he didn't want to trade, so, yeah...