Hey, anyone wanna submit an OC they want to travel with Anna? I have an idea…

He/she'll aid her through Mount Moon and stuff. Maybe more.


"Will you stop flashing that thing around everywhere?" Anna growled as she stormed in front of her companion on their way down to the Viridian Forest. The boy had been showing off his new boulder badge to everyone they came across and it was getting on the girl's nerves.

"I've only shown it to you…" He was about to start counting off a reasonably small list that was only a fraction of the real amount of people he had really shown. As he opened his mouth to continue, he pinned his badge back onto the bandana on his head, but was cut short. Annalyn had spun around suddenly, sheer irritation radiating from her face. Her forefinger jabbed into Kaiden's chest.

"Me, your pokémon, Neon, those kids at the gym, those students at the gym, officer Jenny, that crowd of people outside the museum, the two kids on the street, the trainers in the PokéMart, the PokéMart Keeper, Nurse Joy, the Pokémon Center chansey, the jigglypuff that was also in the Pokémon Center, that guy that was spraying repellent on his plants, the guy who couldn't control the nidoran he got traded to him, that homeless man who was feeding the pidgey back there, not to mention me again several times in between!"

"You're just jealo—"

"Jealous?" she spat, spinning back around. "Yes. Yes, I am. I'm not denying it. But I'm also getting annoyed with your showing off. Okay, you beat some guy, whatever."

"Everyone else seemed impressed by it…"

"Just shut up." They were now entering the thick wood, though no pokémon were deciding to appear yet. "Why aren't you going on to Cerulean, anyway? I'm sure you don't want to be dragged down by me."

"I want to stay with you," Kaiden muttered, going slightly pink. "Even if you're snappy –"

Anna inhaled furiously. What did he say?! WHAT DID HE SAY?!

"— I mean happy! Happy! Argh, I've totally messed this up."

"Yes, Kaiden, yes you did," Anna growled. She couldn't turn around. She was afraid that if she did, she would snap his neck. Why was she getting so infuriated anyway? After she spoke, she began to walk much faster, almost running, away from the boy. She could do this without him. He could do it without her. Muttering, "Screw him," and various other remarks, she found herself walking deeper and deeper into the forest, until she came to a small clearing, where she stopped and thought about what she had done.

Anna swore she had issues. She had just snapped at Kaiden for no reason. He was excited that he had won his first ever gym battle – who wouldn't have gone on a pride rampage like that? And Anna had to go and ruin it for him by having a psych at him for winning. What was with her? She literally smacked herself in the face for being so stupid and was about to turn around and run back to him when there was a rustle in the bushes before her. This was too much like a movie. Boy frustrates girl, girl runs away, girl gets into trouble. Typical, yes, but it didn't stop the sudden ominous atmosphere. Whatever was in those bushes was sure to be dangerous. Or was she overreacting?

Two large, pink ears appeared from the top of the bushes, and a long, pink tail came up next, whipping from side to side. Then, the rest of the body floated into view, and for a split second, a glowing, pink cat-like pokémon was floating in front of her. It then flew off into the sky, where it disappeared, camouflaging to the blue like a staryu on sand. She had never seen anything like it before – wait, that was wrong. She had seen it once. An entire day ago, in the Rocket Base under the museum, a large picture of a feline pokémon was carved into the wooden doors to the room she and Kaiden had found Fab in. Was this the same pokémon? If it was, Annalyn had just seen a pokémon of legends. How exciting.

Still freaked out by what the legendary cat pokémon could have been, the girl jolted as a hand fell onto her shoulder. She immediately calmed down, though, when she saw it was a human hand and turned. She had expected Kaiden to be smiling back at her, but instead, found a short boy with short, black hair, short shorts, a funny hat, a funny bag and a butterfly net. Anna gasped as the boy spoke.

"Sorry, did I scare you?" he asked, eyes shining an odd shade of green.

Annalyn shook her head and released her breath. "I'm fine. You just shocked me, that's all." She paused and let her brows come together. "Who are you?"

"The name's Ivan," the boy muttered, poking a thumb at himself, "and I'm aiming to be the world's greatest bug trainer!"

"… Bug trainer?" Anna repeated. The boy nodded.

"Yep! And to do that, I have to battle other trainers, like you!" He grinned and took three pokéballs from his bag. "I challenge you!"

"Oh. Well," she said, scratching the side of her head. "I guess I accept. One on one?"

"Oh, I have three pokémon, though. Who should I choose?" Ivan turned and began staring at his pokéballs in thought. Anna wandered to the other side of the clearing, taking Neon's pokéball. Before she turned back to face her opponent, however, she noticed something pale glistening on a leaf. It was odd, but when she turned her sight back to it, she realized there was actually a tiny lock of translucent pink hair. Only the pokémon upstairs knew how she had noticed something so minuscule. Shrugging, she pinched the hairs between her thumb and forefinger and lifted them to her eyes for examination. They must have come from that cat pokémon from before. She knew this had to be shown to Professor Oak, but it was impossible to put them anywhere they wouldn't get lost, so she shoved them in a small bag in her pocket anyway.

"Alright, I've chosen!" Ivan said from the other side of the clearing. "Let's get this going. Go, venonat!"

Anna turned back to face the boy as he threw the pokéball, which burst and caused a large, hairy, purple bug to appear. Its large, red eyes stared up at the girl as she threw her own pokéball, calling Neon's name. The ball hit the ground and from the light, the pink and blue duck-like pokémon appeared, floating weirdly at the venonat's level.

"Wow! Looks like we're gunna have to work real hard to beat this one, Venonat!" Ivan called, causing venonat to put on a determined demeanour and move into a defensive position. Neon floated a little higher. "Alright, let's start this off with Supersonic!"

"Veno – nat!" the insect pokémon cried, sending a series of soundwaves towards its opponent. At Anna's call, Neon attempted to float above the waves, or at least block them out. He failed, however, and became confused.

"Damn! Well," Annalyn muttered, searching around for an idea. "Uhh… use… tackle?"

Neon attempted to fly forward and slam into Venonat, but instead began zooming off sideways, slamming into a tree. Shaking it off, he floated back into the middle of the clearing and prepared to attack again.

"Venonat, use Confusion!"

The purple pokémon jumped forward and began to glow a bluey-purple colour. This same aura also surrounded Neon and the virtual pokémon began to shake roughly up and down into the ground, back into the sky, and then back into the ground again. The attack soon ceased and Neon was left dizzy.

"Damn it," Anna growled, "use that funny beam attack, Neon!"

Neon shook his head out of its confusion and looked determinedly as the purple-blue aura re-appeared. Ivan's eyes became tennis balls as the blue ball of psychic energy charged up.

"It's a Psybeam! Venonat, dodge it and use disable!"

So that's what the beam was called – Psybeam! Venonat attempted to jump out of the beam's way, but was a too slow and was hit critically. The insect pokémon was blown into a tree, from which it fell to the ground. It staggered weakly back up. That attack must have been super effective. Nonetheless, the pokémon's eyes began to glow, this time a pale blue, which surrounded Neon. As the bug-type's eyes faded, the glow did, too, but remained faintly outlining the normal-type.

He was no longer able to use his psybeam attack. Oh, well.

"Too bad your venonat is struggling," Anna said, folding her arms. She felt fairly powerful right now. "I think with another tackle, this might end."

"Damn! Well, weaken it as much as you can, then!" Ivan commanded. "Use your confusion attack again!"

Once more, Venonat and Neon both glowed a blue hue and the latter pokémon shook hysterically. When the attack stopped, Neon was left floating dizzily in various directions. Anna called for a tackle attack, but the virtual pokémon just fell. It hadn't fainted, it just fell. The Confusion attack had confused him. Great.

"Alright, now, use Tackle!" Ivan called. Venonat pounced at Neon, tackling it into the ground, weakening it further. "And another confusion!" The blue returned and the shaking commenced.

"Come on!" Anna yelled, frustrated. "Snap out of it and use tackle!"

Neon did exactly that, even though in his confused mind, her words were a jumble of gibberish. However, when he flicked to life, the venonat's next tackle was dodged and the virtual pokémon zoomed around, u-turning and crashing into the bug-type. With a cry, the insect pokémon landed upside down, defeated. The two trainers blinked once each before falling and jumping as they realised their outcome in the battle.

It was now that Anna noticed three or four pokémon observing. A rather small pidgey up on a thin tree branch behind Ivan next to a larger pidgey that made the branch bend, a curious weedle with its head tilted, looking kind-of admiringly at Neon and a small, yellow pokémon with a thunderbolt tail and red cheeks. Its ears twitched as the girl saw it – Anna's eyes grew.

"Oh, cutie!" she squealed, turning to Ivan. "You wouldn't have a spare pokéball, would you? I've got none and I wanna catch that pikachu, look how cuu-uu-ute it is!"

The boy shook his head and handed out his butterfly catcher, but by this time, the girl had turned back to the pikachu.

"Argh! I want it. Where's Kaiden?!"

"Here."

The girl spun around, excitement pooling in her eyes, to find her dark-haired friend. "Kaiden! Where'd you come from? Wait, that doesn't matter right now! Quick pass me a pokéball! I want to catch that pikachu!"

"You might want to weaken it first," Kaiden advised, shifting his weight and taking an empty pokéball from his bag. He threw the pokéball to the girl. "I knew you didn't have any money, so I bought extra."

"Right," she said, catching the ball in her right hand and pointing at the pikachu with her left. "Neon, let's use psybeam attack!"

That familiar glow appeared around Neon and the familiar psychic energy ball began to form at his beak. The attack shot, but just before hitting, the pikachu zipped off up a tree. Anna ordered her porygon to follow it. The virtual pokémon flicked his beam left and right, attempting to hit the electric mouse pokémon, but the pikachu would leap out of the way at every sign of danger.

"Neon's running out of power; make him use a different attack!"

Kaiden was right. Neon was beginning to look more and more tired by the flick of his head. His beam became slower and it was now as simple as a step and a jump for the pikachu to dodge. The psybeam came to an end and the pikachu squeaked happily before sending a thundershock towards Neon, who was hit head-on and was weakened further, emitting crackling electricity from every part of his body.

"Come on, we can do this!" Anna cried desperately. "Use Conversion 2, then tackle him!"

Neon began to glow a bright white, which faded to reveal an earthy porygon. Perfect! Earth types were totally unaffected by electric-type attacks! Nice choice, Neon! The virtual pokémon then crashed into the gob smacked mouse, slamming it into the trunk of a thick tree. A weedle and metapod fell from the branches above and the pikachi squeaked, eyes swirling.

"Alright! We've weakened it! Now," she said with a lowered tone before raising her volume as she threw Kaiden's pokéball, "go, pokéball!"

As soon as the smooth surface of the pokéball left her hands, the whole world slowed down. This would be her first capture ever. Ever. And as the red and white orb spun through the air, the girl hoped to anyone out there that the pikachu would stay inside the ball. The closer the ball got to the pikachu, the slower time would move. Anna was getting impatient.

And then… the pokéball missed.

However, as time sped back up, the pokéball landed behind a shrub and burst open. A pokémon squealed and was sucked inside by the light. Pikachu scampered off as Anna ran to find what she had accidentally caught. The pokéball wobbled, the white button glowed, and time was stopping again. One shake, two shakes, three shakes, four… and the pokéball clicked and went still. Annalyn immediately picked the pokéball up and spun around joyfully.

"Alright! I caught –" she stopped and blinked. What did she catch, exactly? "I caught whatever this is!" She pressed the previously-glowing button on the pokéball and in a burst of light her new pokémon appeared in front of her.

Every jaw dropped as Anna's new caterpie confoundedly stared up at her new trainer.


Solike, not completely fond of this chapter, but I love where it's going :'DDD You'll see soon. Please keep reviewing! And OCs are accepted now because I don't think I'll be able to make them up myself. I do have standards, though, so I probably wont use everything if I think they'd be annoying, so...