Ok, I've looked over the OC's sent in, and I've decided. Let's meet the rival…

The trainer, who had short, light brown hair and brown eyes, asked again, "I asked, what are your names?"

Sam said, "My name is Sam Kindle. Nice to meet you."

Kuro extended his hand. "Kurogasa Kururugi. You can call me Kuro, for short."

The trainer reached out and grabbed Kuro's hand, smiling warmly. "My name's Grant. Grant Stone." Grant noticed the way Sam and Kuro looked at him. "What?"

"Stone?" Sam asked. "Your last name…"

"…Is Stone?" Kurogasa finished.

Grant shrugged. "Yeah, so?"

Sam almost exploded. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN SO WHAT? IF YOUR LAST NAME IS STONE, YOUR DAD IS THE HOENN CHAMPION!"

Kuro was able to contain himself, unlike Sam, who was being restrained by Kuro."

Grant smiled modestly. "Actually, former champion. Two years ago, Wallace, the eighth Hoenn leader, beat him. Then, we moved back to my hometown of Rukon, out in Hokkaido. Then, he secured a position in the Elite Four, but nobody really gets past the second guy. He's number four, so he gets to travel a lot.

Sam and Kuro were slack-jawed. "You really have a powerful dad," said Kurogasa.

Sam's eyes glinted. "You wouldn't happen to be as powerful as him, would you?"

Grant shrugged. "Not quite. But really, if you want a battle…" Grant pulled out a pokeball. "…I'd be willing to oblige."

Sam pulled out his two pokeballs and said, "You bet! Let's—Hang on, did you hear that?"

Kuro listened carefully. "I don't hear any—Wait! It sounds like…"

Grant finished, "…Something splashing around."

Sam unclipped the PokeCom from his sleeve and looked at it. "We ARE close to a small pond, where Ninjater and Flipseal are known to live, and I need a water pokemon…"

Grant gestured. "We could pay them a visit. Plus, maybe there is some Hokkaido pokemon. There aren't that many water pokemon native to Yinji."

Kuro nodded. "True. Despite being around seventeen percent of the entire NationalDex, there are very few found here, and only here. I mean, you can still find a Corphish or a Marill here and there, but none are as common as Flipseal. We should check it out. We can all get water pokemon."

Grant looked at Sam. "I guess our battle is postponed until after our trip to the lake. That ok with you?"

Sam nodded. "Sure. Let's go get us some Water Pokemon!"

Kuro smiled thoughtfully. Grant noticed. "Hey, Kuro, what's up?"

"Oh, nothing. It would just be good for me to have a second Johto pokemon on my team. You know, homesickness."

Grant agreed. "I would go nuts if I didn't have a Hokkaido pokemon on my team."

Sam was already barreling through the bushes. "Well lucky me then, this is my home region, so I'm good! Now hurry up!"

Sam and Kuro were having the worst of luck. The fishing rods that Kurogasa had could barely catch anything, and they were running out of bait, catching nothing but Magikarp. Grant, on the other hand, had caught multiple Flipseal, and even found a Golduck and a Goldeen, which were both amazingly rare in Yinji, seeing as they aren't native to the region. But Grant rejected them all, opting instead to look even harder for a Hokkaido pokemon.

Kuro muttered to Sam, "If he wanted at Hokkaido pokemon so bad, just contact his hometown professor to get one. Jeez."

Sam agreed. "All we have are freaking Magikarp. The next time Grant snags something, I'm going to ask him for it." And Sam didn't have to wait long, because soon, Grant got his sixth bite of the day. Sam ran over, pulling on the rod. "I'll help you!"

Grant handed Sam the rod, and Sam pulled as hard as he could. "Careful," said Grant. "You might break the reel."

But the reel didn't break, and Sam was looking at… two pokemon. It was a double catch, and Sam felt like the luckiest little son of a bi**h to walk the earth, because he had hooked a Staryu and a Flipseal. Sam took a step back, watching as the two pokemon untangled themselves from the rod. "Oh my god," He breathed. "This is SO AWESOME!"

Grant butted in. "Screw the Hokkaido pokemon, I got dibs on the Flipseal!"

Sam drew two pokeballs; one with Redwing, the other was empty. He tossed Redwing's ball in the air, and the mini-cardinal appeared. "Then I've got the Staryu! GO, Redwing, use Wing Attack!"

Grant also pulled out pokeballs in the same manner as Sam. "Alright! Go, Larvow!" He tossed a pokeball, and out acme a pokemon that Sam had never even heard of before. It was shaped like a miniature Heracross without the horn, but colored a deep black. It stood on six legs, like a Spinarak, except they were extremely sharp, and fatal-looking, and it also had a jaw that looked strong enough to crack a Nanab berry with a single chomp.

Sam pulled out his pokedex. "What IS that?" He pointed the Pokedex. Larvow, the Vile Tick Pokemon. No further data provided. Sam closed it. "So THAT'S a Hokkaido pokemon! Grant, do you have a pokedex?"

Grant pulled out an identical looking pokedex. "What do you think?" Larvow, the Vile Tick Pokemon. Larvow gets all of its nourishment from the blood of its prey. By using its small, jaw-like pincers, it can latch onto any Ursaring without fail, sometimes draining it to death. If threatened, it scuttles into the shadows.

Sam looked at the machine. "You've got some pretty long Pokedex entries in Hokkaido, don't you?"

Grant grinned, but then he was alarmed. "Sam! Look at Redwing!"

Sam whirled around to see Redwing being beaten down by the Staryu, who was using Water Gun to beat Redwing around. "Redwing, use Quick Attack to escape the Water Guns and then use Wing Attack again!"

Redwing obliged, but it only succeeded in the Quick Attack, because at that moment, Staryu used Body Slam, which, with more power than Redwing, knocked her back and into a tree. "Redwing, use Quick Attack!" Redwing peeled herself from the bark, and flew directly at the Staryu, this time connecting solidly, with a resounding THUD. The red light on Staryu's stomach/body/whatever began to furiously blink red, and Sam shouted, "Alright! Go, Pokeball!" Sam threw the empty pokeball he had been holding, and it hit the Staryu, pulling it inside in a bright flash of red light. Sam ran up to the ball and clamped his hands down on it hard, in his manner of preventing the pokemon inside from escaping. Grant wasn't in the least surprised, actually having used the technique once or twice himself. Kuro was also complacent, having watched Sam catch Redwing this way. The ball clicked, and Sam was euphoric. "YES! I caught a Staryu, and it was all thanks to Redwing!"

Grant coughed. He had, by the way, already captured the Flipseal, in astonishing time, and he said, "Excuse me? You used my rod!"
Sam turned to Grant. "Who cares? We both got our pokemon. Kuro, still wanna have a go?"

"Nah, I'm good. I guess I'm not the water type guy. I'll stick with a grass type when we find one, ok?"

Sam shrugged. "Your loss. So Grant, still want that battle?"

Grant shook his head. "No thanks, Larvow is tired from taking down Flipseal. But maybe some other time, ok?"

Sam smiled a half-hearted smile. "Yeah, I guess so… You know what? I'm going to strengthen my team, then come after you and WIN!"

Grant laughed. "Whatever you say, Sam! See you around!"

Sam waved as Grant walked off in the direction of Crystalline City. Sam turned to Kuro. "It was nice meeting him, and I caught a Staryu! I guess I should name it."

Kuro snickered. "Name it something pathetic, like Squirt!"

Sam punched Kuro on the shoulder lightly. "Hey, stop joking. This Staryu IS pretty cool, and he DOES have a sweet look about him. He's like a star! And, he's deadly… I know!"

Kuro asked, "What's it going to be?"

"You know those throwing things that Ninjas carry?"

"You mean Shurikens?"

"Yeah! I'm going to call Staryu Shuriken! "

Kuro tapped the Pokeball. "Well then, welcome to the team, Shuriken."

Sam and Kuro started back down the road, but it wasn't very long until another complication arose. As they were walking, Kuro stepped on something. "Hey Sam, any idea what this is?"

Sam peered over Kuro's shoulder. "It looks like a Pokedex. You should know what the Yinji model looks like by now, shouldn't you? Anyways, we'd better check the Tariner ID, to see who this belongs to."

Sam flipped it open and expertly manipulated the buttons. Then, he heard the last words he expected to hear. This Pokedex, issued by Professor Willow, is the property of Susumu "Kin" Kindle. This is the end of the Trainer ID.

Sam was incredulous. "What the? How does a trainer like Kin loose his pokedex?"

Kuro was unfocused on Sam. "Umm… Sam? We've got a problem."

Sam turned around, and his face paled. An entire colony of… "STINGEE!"

WHO'S THAT POKEMON?

This pokemon, is the only known pokemon to not faint after a selfdestruct.