It's that time again! What time you say? TIME FOR AN UPDATE!

KaYlA's SeTeNcE~ If a tomato is a fruit, wouldn't ketchup be a smoothie?

WAS going to update on the weekend, but my brother got in a car accident, so yeah...

The song Backseat by New Boyz really helped writing this chapter, even though it has nothing to do with anything and made my mind want to listen to the music instead of write... so yea :P

Did anyone notice that in the first episode of Pokemon: Black and White, the announcer starts it off by say, "Ash, our TEN YEAR OLD hero..." I mean, jeez. How many years is he going to be TEN? Their treating it like it only takes him a month to travel across a region. I've liked pokemon since I could watch TV, plus my close cousin and brother were into it and I guess I just grew up with it. I've liked pokemon, what? 13 years now? Yeah, If I started a couple years after I was born. I got older. Ash stayed EXACTLY THE SAME. (Okay so his eyes are different)

I also don't like the new rival. I think their just trying to copy Paul, and failed. Paul is dark, thinking, honest kind of guy. While Trip is a cocky, arrogant, son of a gun.. (Who name's their kid Trip? That kid would never last in our society with that name.)

AH! Who saw Zoroark: Master of Illusions? I thought it was a pretty great movie, better then some of the ones that recently came out. But Heroes, The First One, and Wishmaker are my all time favorites!

CHAPTER! ATTEN-TION!


Sootopolis City,

Hoenn

OC Alex POV

"Swellow! Dodge!"

The bird Pokemon dipped at incredible speed, just barely missing the Ice Beam that was soaring it's way.

"Use Blizzard, Milotic!" called Juan in a fierce tone. His pokemon looked worn to the bone, just like my Swellow, and it took a lot of it's strength that was left to even recover from it's last Blizzard.

I growled. 'What the crap? How many ice attacks does it know?'

The air in the arena dropped dramatically, and I saw my best friend May hug her sides and shiver from her spot at the stands. Ice cracked in the windows of the dome over our heads at the frigid temperatures. Milotic gathered a beam in it's mouth from it's floating water raft.

"Miiiiiiii-LOTIC!" it cried as a blast of snow, ice and cold air shot out and head straight for my gliding Swellow.

I faltered slightly, and Juan smirked. My thoughts were scrambled as the attack closed in. An idea popped into my head.

"Double Team, then Wing Attack!" I called.

Swellow gracefully but tiredly spread it's wings as images of it appeared in a U against the on coming Blizzard. Their wing started flapping powerful waves of air towards the on coming move, forcing it to come to a stop. Juan and Milotic both had shocked faces.

The gust of wind moved the snow back towards them, before it could completely stop and fall in the water.

May stood up in excitement, though still clinging to her sides from the frost. I almost wanted to roll my eyes and tell her to tough it out; it's just a little cold. Her bandana whipped in the wind while my dark green cloak billowed out behind me from the winds.

The attack hit Milotic with tons of power, knocking it off the ramp and into the water. It took a second for the wind to calm down before we saw the unmistakable swirls in it's eyes.

"Milotic is unable to battle. The winner is Alex O'Conner and her Swellow!" called the referee.

"YES!" I fist pumped the air as Swellow landed on my head, chirping happily.

May waited for me to make it out of the gym (after I received my badge from a very crestfallen Juan) before jumping up and down in front of me and squealing.

I sweatdropped and grimaced a little at her...girliness.

"May, it's my first badge. I'm not sure how I feel about getting seven more with you around..." I mumbled and started walking down the cement walkway.

She didn't seem to hear me as she exclaimed, "That was even more exciting then last time I was at that gym! There's only one way to celebrate!"

I stiffened up and stopped walking, knowing exactly what she meant. My Vulpix on my head made a squeak of annoyance at the sudden stop. I coldly turned to face her smug face, whipping the brown hair out of my eyes.

"You don't mean..."She nodded.

There was a small pause when everything seemed to freeze, when suddenly I made a run for it. Vulpix yipped excitedly at the though of running, jumping down to sprint beside me. I could hear May shouting for me about ten feet back.

I kept running until the crowds became thick, forcing me to slow down. My pokemon ran ahead a little to lead the way, looking for the most accessible pathways to use through the mobs.

"Come back here! You probably just need to be warmed up to the idea of shopping! It's FUN!" she was screaming, and I could tell there was a lot of distance between us.

I looked back and laughed at her angry face. Sure enough, she was pushing past people in a attempt at keeping up with me. The strangers were either scowling or giving her some of the funniest looks I've ever seen.

I nearly had to stop I was laughing so hard, loving that if she was going to attempt to drag me shopping, I was going to lead her into a barrage of people and ditch her. Or something like that. I remember seeing a bird flying by the sun that was in my eyes. The sun almost made it look like it was on fire...

The crowded area was just starting to thin when I ran into someone unintentionally. In my defense they should know that people are...walking on these paths and move out of the way. Vulpix called it's name when it heard me fall on my back, knocking the wind out of me. The person I crashed into was spluttering from the same problem.

May finally got the chance to catch up. She came panting up to me, glaring down at me, not even helping me up. I glared right back until she looked at the person on the ground in front of me.

Her eyes lit up and she screamed, "BRENDAN!"

Just Outside Of Rustburo City,

Hoenn

Richi POV

I balled up Reese's map is frustration, growling. Then, I threw that piece of trash over the edge of the boat, and it landed with a soft splash!

"HEY!" she cried, annoyed and dangling over the railing to see her map wither into mush, "THAT WAS MY MAP! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?"

I shrugged and leaned against the bar. "It wasn't any help. All it said was Route names. I need to know how to get there."

She gripped her hair and turned her deadly eyes on me. "That's why your suppose to follow the direction of where the Routes ARE!" she yelled.

Smirking and flipping some red hair out of my face, I shrugged. The truth is, I knew exactly how to use the map. It was just so mush fun to see her get riled up.

"Oh."

Her eyes narrowed at my nonchalant way of answering. Her eyes flickered down once more to the disappeared map before she huffed and gave me the cold shoulder.

I laughed. "C'mon I was just kidding. I'll buy you another map in a minute," I joked and walked down the ramp that led off the boat.

She still gave me a little look before following me to the pier we docked at. My smirk couldn't get anymore wider. Otherwise It would be called something like a smile...

Reese smiled quickly at me, then her features went back to they're normal 'whatever' look. Mentally sighing when that happened, I rushing into the closet store (it wasn't that hard to find one. This is one of the largest cities in Hoenn we're talking about) and grabbed the most expensive maps they had. The cashier and Reese both raised their eyebrows at my choice before going back to identical monotone looks, and I almost burst out laughing.

With her new map, she could easily find the gym, and before I knew it, we were standing right in front of it. The afternoon Hoenn light made it look high and mighty, and I had to admit that it was kind of funny seeing her blonde-orange streaked hair reflecting the light like a fire ball.

She just stared right at it. I impatiently waited for her to stop just staring at it and just fight the leader. Since I wasn't going to challenge the chick, I thought that we would get this over quickly. I guessed wrong.

Right at the five minute mark, I was about to snap when. She finally sighed, grabbed a pokeball from her belt, and walked into the building.

Outer Foretree City,

Hoenn

Mckenzie POV

The tree was huge, hiding me and my Dragonite perfectly. I peeked over the side, and started humming the Mission Impossible theme song to myself. My pokemon followed my actions on the other end, but all was clear.

I tip toed to the sight before me.

There were some ripped up electrical cords that Team Plasma left behind, most likely because they didn't work anymore.

There were attack marks on most of the trees, most likely from Dark types. A large puddle was in the middle of the clearing, some dangerous electrical currents visibly running through it. Dragonite growled at all the damage that was done to this once beautiful meadow.

I sighed and dropped to my knees. I've been on the trail of Team Plasma for weeks now, always finding where they were hiding a day or two too late.

My pokemon automatically came to my side and we shared a sad look. I hung my head and let my straight black hair hang in front of my guilty brown/gray eyes.

For the longest time I just stared at my almost bare legs. There was a rustling in the leaves and my Dragonite and I jerked our heads that way to see nothing, probably just some Pokemon. I sounding like it was...hovering away anyways. But it didn't help my mood any.

How can one person take down the thing that they were once a part of?


Questions!~

1. Do you want your pokemon to evolve?

2. How does catching a new pokemon sound? Please don't tell me I can pick one for you! THAT'S HARD!

3. What's your favorite shipping?

Please remember that NO ONE chose Ash or Misty to be paired up with. You can still chose them if your new, but if by the time I get enough OCs and pairs like that (as in everyone pretty much agrees that they belong together...I think there's a name for that...) are left un chosen, I'll just put them together. Here's another example: DawnxPaul even though their both taken. Now, a full list of people that I've thought of using (remember when you send in your application you can tell me a character from the games or episodes and I'll use it for you to fall in love with/be bffs with/etc.)

Max(I don't really expect anyone to choose him but hey :)), Ash, Misty, Drew, Brock, Ethan, Kris, Wally, Dent( I'm going to call him by his English name in here), Almost All The Gym Leaders (C'mon guys their awesome. Who wouldn't want Falkner, Morty, Flannery, or Maylene? *wink*) and more!

HAHA none of you are noticing what I'm doing, because I've done it about 4 times now...let's keep it that way until the end.

You all had a good Valentines I hope?

.NachoFlavoredDoritos