A.N.: Hey you wonderful readers, just a quick thing before we start. It was my birthday yesterday (Hooray for me) So if you are liking the story, feel free to follow and favorite, and if you really want to, leave a review. I love hearing from people who actually read my writing. This chapter will be the last of the "setup" for the story. Hopefully we can get to the awesome pokemon battles that I've planned out.

Anyway, that's my rant for the start this chapter. Let's get on with it.

Interviewer Applications

"Excuse me, are you pokemon trainer Nate?" The woman asked. The two trainers glanced at each other, and looked back to her.

"I am. Who would like to know?" Nate asked stepping through the doors from his house."

"My name is Roxy, I would like to ask you and pokemon trainer Rosa for an interview with Jubilife TV." Roxy said with a smile.

"Okay, let's go and find Rosa then." Nate said picking up his bag from a chair near the door.

"Well, we were going to interview you both individually." Roxy said calmly.

"Yeah, well, this will save time." Nate sighed. Nate and the small TV crew walked down the street to another house on the end of the block. Nate walked up to the door and gave a knock on it. The door opened and a girl opened the door with a wide smile plastered across her face.

"Oh! Hey Nate! What are you doing here?" Rosa asked as she opened the door.

"I don't mean to bother you Rosa, but there are some reporters here who want to have an interview with us." Nate said.

"Oh, cool!" Rosa happily said.

"Yeah, so I guess you grab some stuff and come outside." Nate sighed.

"What's up?" Rosa asked, catching Nate off guard.

"What are you talking about?" Nate asked with a sigh.

"It looks like you've lost your usual spark. It's like when an author gets writers block. It's kinda depressing." Rosa said in a calm voice.

"I don't know. I guess that it's been boring around here." Nate said with a sigh.

"Yeah, I've got to admit, compared to being on the road, it is quite uneventful." Rosa chuckled.

"Are you Pokemon trainer Rosa?" Roxy asked, walking up to the door.

"That I am. Are you the reporter person?" Rosa asked poking her head over Nate's shoulder.

"Yes, my name's Roxy. Could I ask you for an interview about entering the pokemon league?" Roxy asked looking like she was struggling to keep her cool.

"I don't think I've ever done one of these before, anything that I should know about before we start?" Rosa asked calmly.

"Well, if I could see the pokemon that you both used for the Pokemon League, that would be ideal. We'll start with that and then I'll give you both something new.

"Okay, so, all six?" Nate asked.

"Or if you want, you can just send out your ace, or favorite, whichever." Roxy explained.

"Okay, let's go out into the street." Rosa said grabbing one of her pokeballs from her bag.

"My thoughts exactly, hey Oli, is the camera setup yet?" Roxy asked.

"Yep, everything's good to go." Oli replied with a thumbs up.

"I think we're both ready." Rosa said giving a nod to Nate.

"Ready as I'll ever be." Nate sighed.

"Think of it as the pokemon league, you didn't have any trouble with the crowds watching then, it's no different now." Rosa said trying to give Nate some confidence.

"It's not the normal people that scare me." Nate sighed.

"Alright, we're going live in five." Roxy said taking a deep breath. She began to count down silently in her head, and on one, she put on her best smile and began talking. "Hello, my name is Roxy, one of Jubilife TV's reporters from the Sinnoh region. We're all the way out in the Unova region, and have been searching for great pokemon trainers to interview. It looks like today, that luck has been on our side as we're joined by two of the Unova champions, Nate and Rosa of Aspertia City."

Oli, the cameraman panned the camera bringing the two trainers into focus.

"Hello." Rosa said happily, while Nate gave a gentle smile.

"So, Rosa, how was your grand adventure in the Unova region?" Roxy asked, putting the microphone up to her mouth.

"Oh my gosh, it was amazing! I got to start off my adventure with my current best buddy Dewott, but he was still an Oshawott back then. Eventually, Oshawott and I challenged a pokemon gym. After that, our adventure began to take off. It was a lot of fun, and I got to meet a whole bunch of people, and pokemon." Rosa said happily.

"So, you chose Unova's water type, Oshawott when you started your journey? May we see him now?" Roxy asked.

"Sure thing!" Rosa exclaimed taking out Dewott's pokeball. She threw it up into the air, and the discipline pokemon launched out of the ball with an aqua jet behind it.

"So this is Dewott?" Roxy asked.

"Yep, he was my very first pokemon." Rosa smiled as she caught Dewott.

"And what about you Nate? How was your adventure through the Unova region?" Roxy asked with a tad amount of excitement.

"Well, unlike Rosa, I started out with a Snivy. Overtime, we became friends, met a bunch of other pokemon, and eventually challenged the Elite Four. On that Journey, Snivy evolved into a Servine, then into the great Serperior it is today." Nate said trying to sound a little excited.

"Now, I've seen the footage from the Pokemon League, and I know Serperior is kind of shy if front of other people." Roxy said away from her microphone.

"Yeah, I'll ask her." Nate replied taking out Serperior's pokeball. Nate rolled the pokeball on the ground and a red light flashed. Serperior appeared in the red light, and as the light disappeared.

"Hey, Serperior." Nate said with a smile.

"Serp Serp? (What's up, Nate?)" She asked.

"So, I know that you hate camera's and everything, but could you just make an appearance for an interview?" Nate asked.

"S-Serp Serper. (I-I guess I could.)" Serperior sighed.

"Alright, she's good with it." Nate said with a thumbs up.

"So then Nate, this is the Snivy you chose at the start of your journey?" Roxy asked.

"Yep, she's helped me in numerous battles, and we've gotten out of some of the close calls because of her." Nate said stroking the Pokemon's neck. Serperior responded by brushing its chin across Nates hair,causing him to smile.

"Now then, A question I have for both of you." Roxy said, briefly looking over her notes.

"Alright, let's hear it." Rosa said happily picking up Dewott.

"Now, you might not want to answer this one, but what do you think of Pokemon trainers Hilbert and Hilda?" The question caused a silence between the two trainers. Hilbert and Hilda were two trainers who originated from Nuvema Town in the same region of Unova. They were the two trainers who originally took down team Plasma and defeated the Pokemon League in Unova. After they both defeated the champion, Alder decided to step down as champion and begin to explore the world. The only problem was, neither Hilbert, or Hilda wanted to become the official League Champion. Due to the trouble, a gym leader by the name of Iris defeated the pokemon league and took the title as her own. Nate and Rosa both has intense matches with her, but in the end, they claimed victory. They both wanted to battle either Hilbert or Hilda, but were never given an opportunity too.

"That is, as you might say, a touchy subject. We both would like a chance to battle them, of course, but they are not only hard to track down, but the one time we did track down Hilda, she declined the offer by saying 'maybe one day, but we've all got work harder before that can happen'" Nate said with a sigh

"Yeah, after that, she flew away on her Swanna, and that was the last time we saw her." Rosa sighed.

"Well, here's another question." Roxy said taking a breath.

"Okay." Nate said giving Serperior a look of concern

"What if I told you that there is going to be a Pokemon tournament, and Hilbert, Hilda, plus you two were invited?" Roxy said with a cheery smile.

"W-w-wait a tournament?" Nate asked in slight shock.

"That's right." Roxy said handing them two envelopes.

"All the way in Sinnoh, that's quite a hike." Rosa said reading over the letter slowly.

"It's not just you four, but are you in?" Roxy asked.

"This whole interview was staged, just so you could give this to us, wasn't it?" Nate sighed.

"Well, no, I really did want an interview with the both of you, but I was also asked to deliver this to you two. I honestly was quite surprised when the professor asked me about it." Roxy said .

"Anyway, let's wrap this all up now." Nate said bringing Serperior back into its pokeball.

"I agree, anything else?" Rosa asked with her usual smile.

"The professor said to mail that application back to the return address." Roxy said as Oli cut the camera.

"I see, well, I'd better get home and send this off then." Nate said putting Serperior's pokeball away.

"Alright, thank you both for your time." Roxy said pulling Oli away.

"Okay, see you later Nate." Rosa said running back inside excitedly.

"Oh boy, things just can't stay calm nowadays, huh?" Nate sighed to himself as he walked down the street, back to his house.

A few weeks later.

"Alright, all of the applications should have been received and sent back by now." Piper said to herself, reading over the letters. She had been working with the pokemon professors for some time now, helping them send information to each other without need for concern. This was by far, one of the more interesting things she'd been asked to do.

"Okay, who's all agreed to go?" She said to herself as she looked over their names.

"Blue from Pallet, May from New Bark, Lucas from Twinleaf, Serena from Vaniville, Uni, from Twinleaf, Dawn, Lyra, Brendan, Calem, Lance, Cheren,-" She stopped reading out loud for a second as she questioned the next name. For all of the other trainers, they were all legends in their respective regions. She'd been watching trainers rise to fame over the last three years, but through all that time, this name never showed up.

"I've got to call the professor." She thought to herself, as she fumbled around for the phone. She picked it up and dialed the number the professor had given her.

"Hello?" The voice said from the other end of the phone.

"Professor Oak, how have you been?" She asked.

"Ah, I've been just fine. Have the letters from the trainers come in yet?" Oak asked slyly.

"That's the thing professor, I was reading over to verify them, but there is one trainer in here who I don't recognise." She said looking over the letter once again.

"And who might that be, Piper?" professor Oak asked.

"Well, the boy's name is Clancy, I've been monitoring a bunch of pokemon trainers and their rise to fame, but this boy, I've never heard of him." Piper stated. Professor Oak let out a small laugh causing her to give a sigh.

"I don't blame you for not knowing him. Clancy has never entered a tournament before, nor has he defeated a regional champion." Oak stated.

"And what makes him so special?" Piper bluntly asked.

"Well, out of all the trainers going, he's the only one to have taken on the Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, and Kalos regions. According to him, defeating gyms and earning badges is enough. As I understand it, he was planning on heading off to the Alola region, but my assistant caught him just in time." The professor explained.

Piper gave a sigh "Alright, I'll allow him to pass."

"Thank you Piper." The professor said. She could practically see his smile from the other side of the phone line.

"Okay, I guess I should get back to it." Piper sighed. She sat ddown again at her desk and began to search through the letters again, listing the names off as she went along. She gave a smile to one of the names and stopped again.

"Now that he's coming, this will be one interesting tournament."

A.N.: Well, if you were paying attention in the story, you would've noticed two important names. And assuming you did notice said names, you'll know the outcome of the voting. Anywho, I'm putting the gen 6 characters in the story (In case you missed that hint) but I don't plan on writing a chapter for them. As I said, this will be the last setup chapter. Due to this, I've had to increase the tournament bracket, so there is going to be another non OC character in the story now. I didn't actually plan on adding them, but it seemed like a good opprotunity to balance everything out. I wonder if anyone actually knows where they're from…

Anyway, I'm going to have everyone receive their letters for the tournament. That's why there was a little time skip. Well, if you guys are enjoying the story, like I said before, please feel free to follow/favorite the story. If you have any recommendations, or things you think I could've done better on something, leave a constructive review. I always love hearing from people, and it would make for a sweet Bday present. That's all for now, see you all in the next one.

*And thus we fade to black. The scene disappears before your very eyes, yet the sound of labored breathing remains. Not from the story in front of you, though. The excited and quickening breath seems to be coming from behind the author, lurking in his shadow that expands as darkness fills the world around him.