The city was full of people from all over the world. tourist from Kalos, Kanto, and even Sinnoh. Jax was in awe by all of it. Never in his life had he seen so many people. He also knew that he was on an important mission to find the data requested by May and Hemway. The best place to start looking was The Stone Corporation. They had a large part to play in the final battle between Kyogre and Rayquaza. Steven Stone the current champion for the Hoenn region often visited the building. This was wide known by many people including May. May had been friends with Steven during her quest to complete the pokedex for her dad. Now Jax was going to see if he was in town.

He approached the building and walked inside. He found a large reception desk with many people. He walked up and asked if Steven was in town. "No i'm sorry he just left the other day. If you would like the next time he is in town we could arrange and appointment for you to talk to him."

"That would be helpful thank you." Jax replied.

"Alright we will just need your number."

Jax spat her the number and she entered it into the computer. "Thats odd." she said. "This pokenav belongs to a girl named May."

"Yes it does. She let me borrow it while I ran an errand for her." Jax countered.

"That makes sense. Alright, the next time steven is in town we will call you and you may meet him." She commented.

"Thank you." Jax said and walked out of the building.

Jax's next destination was the Rustboro city gym. Roxann was a rock type user so Alpha and Seedot would be the best pokemon to use in the battle. Jax made his way into the building, after asking several people how to get there. The large building had many statues of rock pokemon. Jax had a hard time focusing on his task because of them. He made his way to the gym's apex and found the woman. Roxann was about his age and was georgios. Jax put his game face on and challenged her to a battle. She accepted and the battle commenced.

She sent out her geodude first. Jax decided Seedot would be the best bet. Seedot was a grass type and had two advantages over the ground rock type pokemon. Jax let Roxann take first turn. The started with a rock polish and Jax countered with a bullet seed. The damage was massive. Geodude only survived the attack because of sturdy. Roxann used a supper potion and then used stone edge. Seedot was all but taken out of the fight. Jax knew he only had moments to make up what move he wanted to use and he was panicking. He finally decided on Bullet seed but was to late. Geodude hit lotad with a fierce tackle attack and Seedot was out of the game. Jax returned Seedot to it's ball and summoned Alpha. He easily dispatched Geodude and went on to fight nosepass. "Be proud not many trainers get to fight Nosepass. Now we will defeat you." She chimed.

"Not so fast. You see you are at a disadvantage and we are tied. Now I think I will defeat you." Jax tied to hide the uncertainty in his voice but he wasn't sure he succeeded. Continuing with the match Nosepass was a much tougher opponent that he first thought. Alpha was jumping around the field dodging the attacks and shooting water gun. Now with both pokemon in critical Jax saw the fatality in his plan. Now Nosepass had the upperhand. Nosepass hit the small blue pokemon with a stone edge and defeated it.

"You almost defeated me. That is impressive. Not many people would choose me as their first gym badge. I'm going to guess that you are the boy Norman sent word about." Roxann spoke in a soft tone.

"I am, and I didn't choose to fight you to gain my first gym badge." Jax countered.

"I know Norman sent you. He wanted you to learn about loosing and gaining from the loss. I want to help you defeat me. Along with all the other gym leaders. You have an important task ahead of you and if you can't win a gym battle maybe your aren't cut out to be a professor." She said.

"Alright how do I win. Norman said I lost to him because i didn't count slackoth's slowness into the battle. So what do I do?" Jax asked.

"You train. You must know how your pokemon fight and how to call movies in the blink of an eye. You need to know move typings. All of these factor into a battle." She lectured.

"Roxann I just want to find out about the legendary pokemon. How does battle account for that?"

"Easy if you want to find out about them then you must battle them. That is what were are here for. Now go train. Come back when you can beat me." Roxann stated.

Jax left the building and went north to a meadow. Pokemon were often seen in tall grass so Jax would go fight in tall grass. It wasn't long before he found a small racoon pokemon. The battle ended just as soon as it started with the racoon taking a critical hit to the side by a bullet seed. Going to the valley north of town Jax was determined to get a strategy down. He sent out Alpha and Seedot. He worked by improving accuracy with bullet seed and water gun. He set up many targets using sticks and tash he found in the grass. Knowing that his pokemon were growing stronger he decided to call it a night and he would challenge the gym the next day.

After a nice dinner at the pokemon center Jax decided to call May and report his progress. "Thats wonderful." She stated. "I'm so glad you have caught more pokemon."

"Yea but I also have an appointment with Steven Stone the next time he is in town." Jax agreed.

"Thats good I hope it goes well. Any way I'm glad you called. I wanted to let you know that I have decided to send you a little help. It should be there in a day or so. It is a mega key stone and Swamperts megastone. I know you wont be able to use it for a while, but it will come in handy. Well I have to go. Important research and all. See ya." And with that May hung up the phone.

Jax took a deep sigh. He summoned Alpha and started a pep talk. "Alright Alpha I am counting on you to pull us through the next fight. You will have the advantage on the Nosepass If we can keep from getting hit. Stone edge has a low hit ratio and if you can dodge it we will be able to win." Jax piped. Jax returned Alpha to he ball and then he curled up on the couch and slept.

When morning came, Jax was up and already on his way to the Gym. He opened the door and challenged Roxann to a battle. "I hope you are ready for a fight." She said.

"I am. Go Seedot." The seed pokemon was also prepared. As per usual Roxann started with a Geodude. "Seedot hit it with a bullet seed but only once." The seed did. The rock pokemon seemed unaffected by the attack, but Jax knew it nullified Sturdy. The rock came in for a tackle and missed. "Now Seedot use Bullet seed again, but hit it all five times. With the rock pokemon now fainted Roxann smirked.

"I see what you did. You nullified Sturdy and then finished it. I'm impressed. Now let us continue the fight." Summoning the Nosepass Roxann used Stone edge. The seed pokemon was no match for the strength of the Nose.

"Go Alpha you have this." Alpha sprang from it's ball and dodged the attack from Nosepass, while hitting it with water gun and mud shot. With the Nosepass unable to see Alpha quickly fainted it.

"You have beet me. I here by grant you this badge. Also take this tm it contains stone edge." Roxann couldn't contain the smile on her face. "I hope you surpass even Norman. He can be such a-" Her sentence was cut off by a man in a red hoodie.

"Now what do we have here?" the man asked. "Hemway's lapdog and a gym leader commercing. I was told I could find you here Jax. Now I will give you what you deserve for betraying Team Magma." The grunt started forward.

"I don't know or care who you are, but you best get out of my gym and leave my student alone." Roxann said as she summoned a massive Aggron from her belt. "Now why don't you walk away."

"I'm sorry missy, but you have no idea who you are messing with. My name is Ore, and I am the leader of Team Magma. Now I want you to put away your pokemon and let me have the boy." The man said.

"I wont let you risk your pokemon for me Roxann." Jax commented

"I don't think you have a choice Jax." Roxann said. "If this man is who he says then he is dangerous. I want you to go back to call norman tell him what is happening and then take cover."

"Alright." Since may had met all the gym leaders in the past all of them were on the pokenav. Jax called norman and told him what is transpiring.

"Alright I'm on my way." Norman said. Jax looked over his shoulder and saw Roxann and the man still arguing. Wandering what to do Jax summoned Poochyena. They hid behind a decorative rock and Jax tried to remember everything that had happened within the time he couldn't remember.

Norman showed up a few minutes later and found that the gym was surrounded by Magma Grunts and high end Magma workers. He fought his way into the gym and found Jax and Roxann at the apex and the man walking up the stairs in a slow fashion. He also saw aggron throwing rocks at the man to slow him down. That was when the man yelled. "Jax we have much to discus. That chip that you gave to Hemway had important data on it. And I want it back. Now you will get from Hemway and bring it to me. Then I will decide if you are still of use to me. You are a traitor to Team Magma and must be punished. And my man that you were so disrespectful to the other day was concerned that you may not even be redeemable."

Jax couldn't figure out what the man was talking about. Jax only knew that the chip that was inside his pokedex had updated it so that it could help find the legendary pokemon. Why would he give that back? "I won't help you, but i will fight you." The man laghed and agreed to the challenge. Summoning a Camerupt the man fought Jax for a few seconds before Jax submitted. He agreed that he would go with them to the Magma base only if they would let Roxann go.

"Of course I will. But not the old man behind me. The one that watched as you fell to your knees begging for mercy. For fighting against us he will be punished to. Now off we go." Ore commented.

"Not so fast." Norman said. "I'm not going any where with you. You who treat your own pokemon like scum."

"I don't think you have much of a choice." Ore threatened. "You can come with me or face my men. That is your choices."

"Why don't I choose neither." Norman said as he summoned a Ziggzagoon. "Now sand attack." The racoon did. Once the man was blind Norman turned to Jax and said, "Come on we don't have long. Lets go."

Jax agreed and ran out of the building with Norman. Norman summoned a Swellow and told it to deliver Jax to the petalburg gym. Norman rushed through the woods the get there. Once at the gym Norman said to Jax "That was a close call but we had to get you out. It is the duty of the gym leaders to protect the citizens of the region. Now do you mind telling me why he was after you?"

"Well I don't rightly know but it has something to do with the research im doing for May and a chip I gave to Hemway. Team Magma were the ones who stole May's torchic and a chip from some where. I believe I was tasked with the job of retrieving that chip for hemway. Or something." Jax answered.

"Well that explains a lot, but who is Hemway and what does the chip do?" Norman asked.

"Hemway is the leader of a group dedicated to stopping Team Magma. The chip upgrades the pokedex to be able to search for the legendary pokemon. My guess is that it does more when put into other devices with more computing power." Jax said.

"Hemway or Ore could use it to awaken the legendary pokemon, but why did the man say you were a traitor?"

"That is a story I am not entirely sure is true. See Hemway gave the chip to a lower grunt then the chip was stolen from him by a Magma. After that I got the chip from the Magma then put it in the dex's SD card slot to deliver it to Hemway. That is how I remember it anyway." Jax said.

"Well your not safe here or any where. How about I call up a few of my friends and see about a protection program."

"That won't be necessary. As long as I can lay low for a while I can still do my research and get back here for regular updates. The only problem is That a delivery boy has a package for me from May with important items that will help with my research." Jax said.

"I will send someone to pick it up. Then I will personally deliver it to you. Now I want you to go see Mr. Briney. He has a boat and will help you to get to a small Island with a pokemon gym on it. Defeat the gym and the go on to the next. Come back when you have five badges. Then we can battle." Norman instructed.