Sorry for the long wait! I was actually able to write all of this in 2 hours! So sorry if it's really bad!


For Megure Juzou, the day started out just like any other day. In the morning, he had coffee with his wife, Midori's, delectable cooking, and just as he was exiting the house for a good day's worth of work, Midori gave him a chaste kiss on the cheek. Feeling jolly, Megure enters the Petalburg Police Headquarters, ready for whatever the day was going to throw at him.

Well, everything except this..

Two boys, one with neat brown hair and pale skin and the other with a cap and tan skin, were barraging my poor subordinate, Takagi Wataru, with some sort of demand. The poor sap had both of his hands raised as if saying that he could do nothing and kept trying to keep the two calm, but the two boys seemed desperate—or unwilling—to listen.

How can he be such a pushover… Megure sighs, defeated, and decides to help his subordinate deal with the situation.

"Ahem!" The capped man approaches the scene, "Is there a problem here?"

Reacting to the new voice, the two boys turn their heads towards Megure. One of these boys—the pale one—caught Megure's eye. He felt as if he had seen this boy before. Or it was as if he resembled someone he knew very well.

The boy had a handsome face with neat brown hair and indigo eyes. Yes—it was as if he looked just like his good friend, Yusaku. Yusaku?

Suddenly, a light bulb goes off in Megure's head. He directs his attention to the pale-skinned kid. "You! You're Yusaku's boy, aren't you? Shinichi-kun!"

The boy gave Megure a smile, "Yes, I'm Kudo Shinichi. It's good to see you again Megure-keibu."

"Wow! It's been a long time!" Megure is delighted to see his old friend's son again. The last time he has seen him was when the boy was barely six. "You've grown, young man! How is your father?"

"He is doing well, still traveling and writing." Shinichi continues with a smile. However, this smile soon drops to a frown, and the boy's face darkens. "Actually, could we chat later, Megure-keibu? I have an emergency."

Megure is alarmed by the boy's sudden change in mood, but switches to work mode and listens tenativally. "An emergency? What happened?"

"Actually just about 45 minutes ago, we were on route 102 when a sudden flood washed through." Shinichi's indigo eyes flare, "It washed away my cousin, Kuroba Kaito, into the ocean."

"Kaito-kun?! You mean Toichi's kid?" Megure recalls Shinichi's cousin, a boy a bit younger than him but looked almost exactly identical to him. He recalls that he was a mischievous kid, always striving to be a great coordinator like his father.

"I'm afraid I was to late to save him…" Shinichi looks depressed. His tan-skinned companion puts a hand on his shoulder to try and cheer him up.

"An'ways, we came 'ere to see if ya could do somethin'." Heiji spoke for the first time.

Megure looks at the tan-skinned boy, surprised he had forgotten his presence. "I'm sorry, who are you exactly?"

"I'm Hattori Heiji! A pokemon trainer who was battlin' Kudou right before that water swept away his cousin." The hat-donning boy introduces himself. "Anyway, nevermind me! 'can you or can ya not search for that Kuroba guy!"

Takagi speaks up, "As I was telling you two, we don't have much trouble in putting a search request, but I'm afraid there's nothing much we can do besides that."

"'But we need to do somethin'! We can' just leave the guy out in the sea!" Heiji gets impatient.

Megure sighs. He shakes his head with his hand on his hat. He had not been expecting such a big problem when he had walked in this morning. He looks at Shinichi and observes the desperation in his eyes. He didn't want to let the poor boy down, but what Takagi said was the truth. The Petalburg PD didn't have much resources in the sea as they did on land.

If only there was someone who knew the sea inside and out that we could contact…

That's when the idea hit him.

Megure turns to Shinichi and Heiji, "Though we may not be able to help much… I think I may know someone who can."

"Really?!" Both boys focus onto Megure with enthusiasm.

"Yes," Megure explains, "There is an extremely skilled sailor who lives off the coast of Route 104, just a bit past here. He should know all the seas of Hoenn like the back of his head."

Shinichi perks up at this information, "What's his name, Megure-keibu?"

"I believe it was… Ida Iwao…"

Shinichi and Heiji bot bolt up and are ready to head out the door. "Thanks, Megure-keibu! I leave the search request to you!"

The tan-skinned boy adds in, "'leavin' it to you Keibu-han!"

"Uh—huh…" Megure and Takagi both stare at the door in disbelief at how fast the two boys had ran out.

It took a few silent seconds to pass before any of them took action. Megure places a hand on Takagi's shoulder with a sigh. "I leave filling out the search request form to you, Takagi-kun."

That jolts the poor man awake. He abruptly sits up, astonished, "Wha-what?!" He calls out an unclear protest, but Megure didn't bat an eye at him and continued to walk away.

I think I'm going to need another coffee.

Back to the two boys, as soon as they rushed out the Petalburg PD headquarters, Shinichi was about to walk toward route 104, but Heiji stops him.

"We'd better get our pokemon healed first." Heiji reasoned with the brunette, and that was enough to get him walking in the opposite direction—towards the familiar orange roof of the pokemon center.

Upon entering the pokemon center, the boys are greeted by Nurse Joy at the counter. Quickly the two leave their pokemon with her and withdraw towards the pc. Shinichi is tinkering with the machine as Heiji watches from the sidelines. "What're ya doin'?"

"I'm trying to get into contact with Agasa-Hakase," Shinichi answers curtly.

The name rings a bell in Heiji's mind, "Oh! Ya mean tha ol' guy from Littleroot?"

"Yeah, you know him?" Shinichi asks reflexively.

"Ye, he gave me my Treecko!" Heiji answers. Huh? Wait a sec'— "Kudou, you come from Littleroot, don't ya?"

"Yeah, what of it?"

"And yer name is 'Kudou Shinichi'…" Heiji trails off. Then, he suddenly outbursts, "Ahh! You!" He points at the neat haired boy, "Yer one 'f the guys that Hakase said he gave the pokedex to!"

From this statement, Shinichi looks up and meets Heiji's eyes. "The pokedex? Don't tell me you got one too?" Shinichi digs through his bag and pulls out his blue pokedex and shows it to Heiji.

Heiji mirrors him but pulls out a green one. "Ye. It's all starting to make sense now… why I thought I heard yer name somewhere before…" Heiji pauses for a second, before continuing. "Does that mean that 'Kuroba' guy has one too?"

"Yeah, but a red one." Shinichi stores his pokedex back into his backpack before bringing his attention back to the pc. He clicks a couple of times with the mouse, and types a few more things. Soon, the screen displays an image of a familiar old man—Agasa Hakase.

"Oh! Shinichi! You're already in Petalburg city huh!" Agasa greets the boy. He then notices the tan-skinned boy right next to him and laughs. "And I see you've met Heiji-kun!" And then he notices the lack of one presence. "Oh? But where's Kaito-kun?"

Shinichi gives a serious expression in reply. "Hakase, we have no time to chat. Kaito has been swept away by a flash flood on route 102 just about an hour ago. Do you have any way to contact him? Maybe through our pokedexes or something?"

Agasa jumps at the news, "What! Kaito-kun has been—what?!"

"I need you to not let Aoko or his mother know, that'd just worry them, and who knows what they'd do to find him."

"Yes—yes." Agasa puts a hand on his chin, "I might be able to track him Shinichi."

Shinichi's eyebrows rise in surprise. "You can, Hakase?!"

"Yeah, it might take a bit of time, but I might be able to tap into the pokedex's location system and track him down as long as he has his pokedex with him."

"That's it! Kaito keeps his pokedex in his backpack so it should still be on him since he was carried away with his backpack on!" Shinichi smiles at the possible hope.

Heiji then asks, "But, how long is it gonna take, Hakase? He might not have all the time in the world, ya know."

Agasa thinks for a second before giving an estimate. "It might take me at maximum a day to find his location…"

"Then that's settled!" Heiji grins, "While yer tinkerin with yer machines," Heiji drags Shinichi forward, "We'll search for this Ida sailor guy an' see if he can find 'im once ya give us his location!"

Shinichi gives Agasa a nod. Agasa nods back, "Okay, we'll do that. I'll be sure to contact you through Shinichi's Pokenav once I've found him."

"Thanks, Hakase." Shinichi smiles.

"No problem, Shinichi! Just leave everything to the best pokemon researcher—Agasa!" the old man laughs before he hangs up the call.

Heiji gives Shinichi a reassuring grin, "It's great ya have so many resources! Now we'll get'cher cousin back fer sure!"

"Yeah!"

Suddenly, the two hear the melodic voice of Nurse Joy calling over the intercom. "Kudo-san, Hattori-san, you're pokemon are ready."

Shinichi and Heiji exchange expressions: both have a smirk ish-type grin spread across their face. Then, the two boys make their way back to the counter to reclaim their now healed and rejuvenized pokemon.

Meanwhile, a bit southwest from Petalburg, a boat floats along the ocean's calm waves leisurely. An anchor held down the still bobbing boat, but it was still enough for the man on board to fish. The man wore a tan shirt and a white jacket tied around his color. His eyes were squinted and his eyebrows were thick as he waited for the catch of the day. He scratched the almost invisible growing beard on his face as he patiently watched the waves. A white bird with long wings perches on his shoulder, its long beak is yellow with the tip being black and its eyes were big and adorable. The pokemon's wings and tail feathers had an accent of blue as bright as the sky.

Ida Iwao glances at his partner pokemon, a wingull by the name of Peeko, and scratches under its beak. "Great weather today, isn't there Peeko."

Peeko cawed in agreement before taking off and soaring in the sky around the boat.

Ida smiles at the display of his partner happily gliding through the air.

However, then Peeko started circling around a particular area in the sky, and called out with a loud honk. Ida turns his attention to his fishing net, directly below Peeko. At first glance, Ida saw nothing wrong with the net.

At first glance, that is.

Ida takes a closer look at the fishing net, and sees that something is, very much, floating in it, caught by the enforced wires and strings of the net. With great force and strength, Ida begins pulling up the net, trying to see what Peeko was so agitated about.

The net is heavier than usual… Is it possibly a larger pokemon than usual? The experienced sailor ponders on the weight of the net. That's probably why Peeko is so bothered. He pushes the thoughts away to focus on lifting the net out of the water and into his boat.

Once the net had risen out of the sea, he could see what Peeko was making such a huge fuss about.

Caught in the net was no fish—

no

—It was a boy.


Duhn! Duhn! Duhn!

Will Shinichi and Heiji ever find Kaito?
Who did Ida catch in the fishing net?!
Also, who remembers who Ida Iwao is?!

What do you think will happen next?!

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