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Me: I don't own Pokemon or any of its characters except my OC's. If I did then the English dub episodes would be as epic as the Japanese ones.

Walking up Route 205, our magentette heroine smiled with her Drifloon in her arms. Crossing the bridge and battling trainers that cam across their path, the two bonded more than ever, so much that with all the battling and with some help from Aqua; Kaze learned Payback.

Before Jessie entered Eterna Forest, she looked into her bag and inside her medicine pouch to only find out that all of her antidotes and potions were all gone. She let out a scream as she fell down.

"I'M OUT OF POTIONS AND ANTIDOTES! I can't believe I forgot to stack up at Alamos' Pokemart." She said as she looked to her ghost pokemon.

"Loon…" (Sorry…) The Drifloon touched her head with one of its stringy arms to comfort his trainer. The magentette looked to the pokemon and smiled at it. "It's alright Kaze, we'll get through the forest safe."

Jessie then recalled the balloon pokemon inside its pokeball as she went into the forest. The lush green trees swayed back and forth at a slow pace as a little wind blew past, the grass were fresh and a soft dark green as groups of Beautifly, Dustox and Murkrow soared through the clear blue sky. The woman walked through the first part of the forest with no problems and a few encounters with wild pokemon here and there, she then stopped at a weirdly shaped rock to rest.

She pulled out a bottle of water and took a sip of it as she rested on the large rock to retaliate back when she felt something weird on her neck, she turned around to see moss on the rock. Jessie sighed as she placed a hand on the rock and smiled a little.

"CHANSEY? CHANSEY WHERE ARE YOU?" A voice shouted from a distance. The magentette looked around for the source of the voice however found a pink Chansey staring in her face, the two had a big stare down as Jessie raised her eyebrows in confusion.

'Why does this thing not move?…or at least frown..' She thought as the Chansey stared at her with a smile on its face.

"Oh Chansey, there you are." A female voice said as Jessie looked forward to see long green hair and a long green dress, Jessie soon remembered the female.

'The treasure hunter…'

The green haired female walked to her Chansey and hugged it, she then curtsied with a smile. "I'm sorry if my Chansey gave you any problems and I thank you for finding her. My name is Cheryl, and you are…"

Jessie hesitated so say her name to freak out the poor woman…but it was worth the shot. "Jessie Musashi.." She then cringed ready for an outburst from the woman but heard nothing, she opened one eye to see Cheryl giggling. The magentette raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms. "What's so funny?"

"You. If you think I would remember you from Team Rocket then you are correct. However I'm not going to run away for I knew that you would return back to Sinnoh on a new journey." Cheryl answered.

"How did you-" "My Alakazam told me."

Jessie sighed and nodded her head, she stood up and brushed her white pants. "Ok…. Cheryl, so why are you in the forest?, last time you were here you was looking for the Amber Caves right?"

Cheryl nodded. "Yes I was but this time is completely different. You see, I'm currently a grass and bug type pokemon researcher at the Eterna Laboratory in Eterna City. I was watching over a family of Beautifly when both Chansey and I heard a group of people conversating between each other, we hid behind a tree wondering whether the people were friends or enemies and it came to a conclusion that they were enemies."

"Meaning?" The magentette asked.

"The group of persons were Team Galactic."

Jessie gasped as she took a step back. "It couldn't be…James, Meowth and I watched Officer Jenny and her

Squad arrest those freaks….but their leader was…"

"Sucked into the distortion world. However now it appeared that he escaped and is trying to reform Team Galactic."

"Wow, so how an innocent little person like you ended up lost in this forest?"

"After we discovered Team Galactic, dear little Chansey got frightened and ran away. I ran after her but not before hearing that one of their headquarters is located in Eterna City. From then, I'm scared to traverse the forest alone."

Jessie sympathized with the green haired girl; there were times when she would get scared walking into unknown places, however James and Meowth were there with her and she had to keep up the tough act around them.

"Well, I'm heading to Eterna City as well, so if you want to come with me I would gladly accept…or something like that."

Cheryl's smile almost literally touched her ears as she hugged Jessie. "Oh thank you , thank you, thank you. I'm in your debt Jessie."

Jessie flinched at the sudden hug but patted Cheryl's head as she let out a crooked half-smile. "It's…no…problem.

The two ladies then traveled through the forest together, battling trainers and wild pokemon as they went along. Soon the sun was setting as the ladies fixed up their camp for the night.

Cheryl was brushing her long, green hair as she looked to Jessie sitting near the fire "If I can remember, If we start off again early tomorrow morning, we would reach Eterna by midday."

"That's great, at least we got through the majority of the forest without any major harm caused to us." Jessie then stood up and stretched her arms. "Now, let's head inside the tent a catch some sl- OOF!"

Jessie fell straight to the ground as she felt a certain amount of weight on her head. Cheryl ran to her side and suddenly released the weight off her head as she sat up rubbing her head.. "Are you ok Jessie?"

"Yea, I'm fine, but what crash landed on my head?" The magentette turned to see a fussing pokemon scratching its forehead to get a device like item strapped to it off.

"It has something onto its head…" With closer inspection, Jessie saw that the device was a bomb. "CHERYL GIVE ME IT!" The green haired woman handed the pokemon to Jessie as she quickly slashed the headband off the pokemon and threw it into the air, the band then exploded as the women ducked for cover.

"T-that was a-a bomb?" Cheryl asked nervously.

Jessie nodded as she looked to the sky. "Probably Team Galactic's doing." She then placed the pokemon on the ground as she pointed her pokedex at it.

"Buneary, the Rabbit pokemon. When it senses danger, it perks up its ears. On cold nights, it sleeps with its head tucked into its fur."

"A Buneary, it's so cute." Cheryl said as she pat the pokemon's head.

"It is. I'm sure it got lost from it's family when Team Galactic probably found it." Jessie answered as she held the Buneary in her arms. "Don't worry little one, tomorrow Cheryl and I will help you find your family."

The pokemon smiled and nuzzled its head in Jessie's stomach, the magentette blushed as she stroked the pokemon's back. The Buneary slept in between the two women but stayed a little closer to Jessie the whole night. Morning came as the two women and the rabbit pokemon traveled through the rest of the forest looking for the pokemon's family.

Cheryl then saw a river. "We're near the exit of the forest."

Jessie smiled but then frowned. "But we didn't find the Buneary's family.." She looked at the pokemon as it looked back at her.

Cheryl saw this and had a thought in her mind. "Excuse me, but since we didn't find its family, why don't you take it with you?"

Jessie raised an eyebrow as she looked to the pokemon in her arms, it smiled as Jessie sighed. "Do you really want to come with me?" The pokemon nodded its head as Jessie pulled out a poke ball and tapped its head, the light went off signaling the catch as Cheryl clapped her hands.

"That's so great Jessie, now let's go, Eterna City is just a few minutes away."

And it was, the ladies then reached Eterna City by midday, the city wasn't like Jubilife City, it expressed the love for History as it only had a few tall buildings here and there. Cheryl led Jessie to Eterna Condominiums which was next to the pokemon center.

"I live here, so until you're ready to leave the city you can stay with me." Cheryl said as she handed Jessie a key.

However Jessie shoved the key away. "No thanks Cheryl, I don't want to be such a burden to you."

"You won't be, think of it as a 'thank you' for helping me get through Eterna forest safe." The green haired woman then opened Jessie's hand and placed the key in it. "My place is 410, when you finish getting settled, you can explore the city. I'll be in the Eterna museum if you need me. Goodbye."

Cheryl walked away as Jessie held her key in annoyance, in the end she just sighed and went inside. After resting her items down, she carried her pokemon to the pokemon center to rest up except Aqua, whom she took to explore the city with her.

"This city looks so old, it really expresses the love for history don't you think Aqua?"

"Pip Piplup!" (Yes it does!)

Jessie then saw two big statues coming up on her way east of the city. She walked to the statues and looked at them carefully; they was a statue of a merged Dialga and Palkia. The magentette then closed her eyes as she remembered seeing the two legendary pokemon, the two were very powerful and just a roar from them made her cringed in fear, she opened her eyes as she inspected the statue.

"Hey Jessie? Is that you?" A voice shouted from a close range. The magentette turned to see long, ebony hair waving in the wind as the owner ran up to her.

The magentette then realized the person coming towards her. "Mya? Yes it's me. How are you?"

Mya stopped and smiled at Jessie. "I'm doing fine, I didn't know you were here."

"I just came here this morning. I was traveling through Eterna forest."

Mya raised an eyebrow. "Huh, Jessie going through a forest?...I wouldn't believe it."

Jessie blushed a little but shook her head. "Whatever. Anyways, how many ribbons you have so far?"

The ebonette reached for her ribbon case and clicked it open to reveal two ribbons; the Jubilife ribbon and another ribbon that had a mint green cloth with white tips, the gold plate was a rhombus and on the top was three spikes and a jewel. "Two so far, how about you?"

Jessie laughed a little a she reached for he ribbon case and popped it open to show both the Floraoma Ribbon and the Alamos Ribbon. "Two as well, I guess you and me are in the same boat."

Mya smiled as she looked at the ribbons. "Wow, that's great Jess, I guess you and me are-" She then paused as she looked at the Alamos ribbon and then pointed to it. "What is the Alamos Ribbon doing in the case?"

"Uh..I won it at their town's contest..duh." Jessie answered as she lowered her eyelids.

Mya scratched her head as she placed a hand on her hip. "Um, I don't know how to say it any other blunt way…but the Alamos Ribbon is not an eligible ribbon to enter into the Grand Festival." Soon Jessie got into her face with her eyes widened.

"WHAT?"

"It's the truth. I heard about the Alamos town yearly festival and their contest, so I researched into seeing if it was an official contest that would lead to the Grand Festival. Unfortunately, it wasn't so I crossed the town out of my destinations. That ribbon is just proof that you won their contest in their town's festival." Mya explained as Jessie slumped down on a bench.

"So….that means….."

"You still only have one ribbon." Mya concluded.

Jessie let out a cry as she slide onto the ground holding Aqua in her arms. "NOW I'M ONE STEP BEHIND! THIS ISN'T FAIR!"

The penguin pokemon squeezed out of her trainer's arms as she pat her head with her flippers, Mya also knelt down patting Jessie's back. "Hey, it's not the end of the world is it?"

"YES IT IS!" Jessie shot up to Mya's face as she raised an eyebrow. "I thought I was another step closer to be in the Grand Festival as quick as possible but then now this bomb just dropped on my head blowing up causing my hair to frizz saying that I still have one ribbon and my progress is going slower than ever and- OW OW OW OW OWWWW!"

"Jessie, will you shut up for about one second please?" Mya asked as she pinched Jessie's cheek to quiet her down. She released it as the magentette held her now sore cheek.

"Success doesn't happen overnight, it comes in time. Now of course you didn't know about the Alamos contest, and of course you didn't know about the ribbon being unofficial, however it's not the end of your coordinating path. Many other contests are coming up so that mans more opportunities to win more ribbons, the Grand Festival isn't until another nine months anyways. So do me a favor, don't worry about time and just do the best of your abilities for you and your pokemon to make it to the Grand Festival."

Jessie slowly slid her hand down as she blushed and looked to the ground. "What did I do….to deserve a rival like you?"

Mya smirked and leaned forward to give Jessie a hand up. "Meeting me at Jubilife City." She helped Jessie up as she dusted her pants and picked Aqua up.

"You're a really good person Mya, sad that I going to beat you at the next contest we're going to be in." She replied with a smirk.

"Oh, so you're entering the Hearthome Contest too?"

"The what?"

Mya sighed as she raised her arm that her poketch was strapped on too and touched it four times. "The Hearthome City contest is in a week, that's why I'm in Eterna now. Hearthome city is just east of route 205, which is south of the city. Don't tell me you didn't know about it."

The magentette scratched her head a little as Aqua sighed in her arm. "Well I know now."

"And that's suppose to help?" Whatever, just be prepared, cause if you're entering that contest I won't be holding back."

Jessie smirked as she and Mya shared a laugh together before heading down to the central part of Eterna City.

There they saw a group of people gathered around a bike shop where they were yelling and arguing about something. Jessie walked up to the nearest person and tapped his shoulder.

"Excuse us, but what's all the drama?"

"A group of freakishly dressed people came by and took a bunch of other people pokemon." The male then pointed to a sinister looking tower with a glowing yellow ring on top of it. "They then took them up there."

Mya placed a finger on her chin. "Hmm…I knew that building was suspicious…"

"YA THINK?" Jessie asked back while pointing to the building. "That thing spells 'weirdness' all over it."

Then a man walked over and placed his arm over his watery eyes. His outfit was a full red sport suit with a red helmet, tan fingerless gloves and tan running shoes. "My precious Cleffaries are inside that building, I tried my best to fight them off but in the end it was futile and my Cleffaries were taken from me."

Mya looked at Jessie. "Jess, we have to do something about this."

In response, Jessie looked at the building and then back to the weeping man, for the first time in her life she now knew how it felt to be near a person whom had been robbed of their prized pokemon. She then grabbed Mya's arm and dragged her along to the building where it was blocked by a tree.

"Crap, now how we're going to get in here now?" Jessie asked as she glared at the tree.

"ROSERADE, USE CUT ON THAT TREE!" A Roserade appeared from the sky and launched itself down cutting the tree and opened the path, Jessie and Mya turned to see Cheryl in a long sleeved white shirt, a black skirt, black flats and a gray sleeveless lab coat and a orange-and-black haired woman with the Roserade standing next to her.

Jessie did a double take of the woman. "G-Gardenia?"

Said woman smirked as she step forward. "The one and only!" She then got shocked as she looked at Jessie but the magentette stopped her.

"Explanations later, now we have to save the pokemon."

The four ladies entered as they saw two grunts with their pokemon ready and a flight of stairs leading to the next floor.

"You won't get any further than this." Grunt 1 said.

"Yea, we're going to stop you." Grunt 2 added.

Mya gripped her pokeball but Cheryl thrown her own in the air as it released a bulky fighting type pokemon known as Hariyama.

"You three go on ahead to the next floor, Hariyama and I will take care of these two." Cheryl said as she began fighting the grunts.

The three women looked at each other before agreeing and running up the stairs. "Good luck Cheryl." Mya added.

The ladies then reached the next floor where two more grunts were waiting.

"This is as far as you go ladies." Grunt 3 said.

"Your tour ends here." Grunt 4 concluded.

Gardenia smirked. "Says you, whoever makes trouble in my city will be punished! Roserade, GRASS KNOT!"

Roserade's eyes glowed green as leaves appeared and wrapped over the foe's pokemons' legs, Gardenia then looked to the two women. "Go on ahead, I'll be finished in no time."

Mya and Jessie nodded as they ran up the other flight of stairs where another grunt and a scientist was waiting.

"Hmm, so your group's number is decreasing rapidly." The scientist said.

"Before then, we'll be done with you all." The grunt added.

Mya gritted her teeth. "Not when I'm done with you." She then threw her pokeball in the air releasing a turtle-like pokemon, A Grotle. The ebonette looked at Jessie. "Go on ahead, I'll take care of these goons."

Jessie hesitated for a second but by seeing the determined look in Mya's mint green eyes, the magentette nodded and ran to the fourth floor where the boss was standing in front of a cage which held the two Cleffaries.

"Well well, I knew that there was a group of people coming up to save these pokemon, but I didn't think that it would be a mere woman." The commander said as she turned around; her platinum blonde hair was swept up to be over her shoulders and also to cover her right eye, her left amber eye was showing a sinister look as she placed a white gloved hand on her hip. She had on a Galactic shirt with the tall collar, a long sleeved dark gray undershirt, a light gray mini skirt, white stockings and light gray boots. On her waist was a yellow pouch as she reached in it and threw a pokeball in the ait revealing an electric dog-like pokemon, a Manetric. The name's Commander Mercury, may I ask my opponent her name as well?"

Jessie frowned as she stepped forward. "Jessie Musashi, you opponent and soon-to-be victor."

Mercury scoffed as she flipped her hair that was covering her right eye exposing her other amber colored eye. "Oh please, don't make me laugh."

The magentette help a pokeball in her hand as she was ready to release the pokemon but Aqua squirmed from her arm and stood on the battlefield. Jessie looked at the penguin pokemon in disbelief. "Aqua, are you sure you want to battle? This is an electric pokemon."

"Pip Pip Piplup!" (Of course trust me!)

Jessie sighed as she and Aqua got into a fighting stance. "Aqua, let's go with Bubblebeam!"

The pokemon let out a spray of bubbles towards the electric pokemon as Mercury scoffed. "Oh please, Manetric, IRON TAIL!" The pokemon swished its tail as it destroyed the bubbles, Jessie scoffed in return as Mercury pointed to the pokemon. "Spark!"

The Manetric then ran at a fast pace while in the process making its whole body charged with electricity. "DODGE!" Aqua did what she was told but she brushed a big piece of Manetric's fur thus getting paralyzed from the impact.

"Aqua!" Jessie cried as she saw the penguin pokemon fell down.

"Too easy, FINISH WITH THUNDERBOLT!"

The Manetric then charged up electricity as Aqua tried to stand up, Jessie saw that the pokemon was struggling to stand up and felt a few tears coming to her eyes.

"Aqua…I know….I KNOW YOU CAN DO THIS!" Jessie yelled as Aqua broke free from paralyzation.

"Too late….FIRE!" Mercury commanded as Manetric lat out a wicked thunderbolt.

"AQUA!" Jessie creamed out the pokemon's name as the penguin pokemon soon then held out it's flippers, a large ball of water was formed as she unleashed it towards the Manetric's thunderbolt, dispelling it and causing harm to the pokemon. It slammed back to the wall with swirls in it's eyes as it was unable to battle.

Commander Mercury was in shock that in one hit her Manetric was down. Jessie ran to the woman in thought of at least capturing her but she ran away in time to recall her pokemon.

"Tch! I was defeated by a worthless person. Boss Cyrus wouldn't be to happy..but oh well. When we meet again, you won't be that lucky, Jessie Musashi." Mercury then threw a smoke bomb on the ground concealing her escape.

Jessie coughed a little as she tried to see through the smoke. "Aqua! Aqua, where are you?"

"Pip Piplup!" (I'm over here)

The pokemon ran to her trainer as she pat it's head. "You were awesome Aqua, you looked like you even learnt a new move, I think it looked like Water Pulse."

Soon then the other three ladies ran upstairs with their pokemon. "Jessie we have to hurry!" Cheryl said as Gardenia released the pokemon.

"THIS BUILDING'S GOING TO BLOW!" Mya exclaimed.

"But we won't get out in time!" Gardenia added. Jessie stood in thought until she realized something, she threw her pokeball in the air releasing her Ralts.

"I knew I forgot someone to take to the pokemn center." Jessie said as the other women did an anime fall. "Alright Alice, use teleport to get us out of here!" Alice nodded as her eyes glowed blue and the women and pokemon teleported out of the building in time.

The Galactic building exploded but all the debris didn't flew over the city that much, the four women stood from the safety of the legendaries' statue as they hugged each other cheering for their victory. They returned the pokemon to the man known as Rad Rickshaw and he promised to pay them back, night fell as the four ladies were in Cheryl's condo.

Mya looked out a window. "Today was an intense day."

Gardenia nodded. "Yea it was, and it wasn't easy too. Those goons were making trouble over Eterna Forest as well."

"Yes they were, but now they're gone so Eterna's safe." Cheryl added.

Jessie sat on a white chair petting Aqua's head as the pokemon slept on her lap. "It was an experience, but I have a feeling that it wouldn't end here."

"That's right, I have to warn the other gym leaders about Team Galactic's return." Gardenia said as she stood up and look out the same window Mya was.

The magentette nodded as she looked at Aqua. 'I promise that we will grow stronger, not only in contests but in battling as well.' She then saw Gardenia appear in her face.

"So are you the person who I think you are?"

"Uh…..yes, but before you go off,..let me tell you how I got here. Mya, I think you need to hear this too."

...I don't have anything more to say...it's late in the night and I'm tired so Read and Review please.