Chapter One: His First Pokemon
After a few months of rigorous training, the friends graduated from the training examination and were considered official members of the new counter-terrorist unit. It was called "MI6-SWAT" or M-SWAT for short since it was co-founded by MI6 and LAPD SWAT. With that, as graduation gifts, the MI6 organization intended to give them a Pokemon each. Unfortunately, there were only three Pokemon in MI6's inventory. Jared decided that he could find a Pokemon by himself since his intent was to go on a holiday since they would be taking a long break after their long training. Dannel, Jared's best friend, got a Ninetales. The Pokemon trainers at MI6 told him that her name was Carmen and that she is quite fussy; she would only respond if he called her by her name. Marc and Kyle, Jared's other two friends, got themselves better Pokemon than Dannel, which were Suicune and Charizard named Mary and Charlie respectively. Mark and Kyle were extremely happy with their choices but Dannel frowned. "Gee, why did I get a Pokemon that's so small and fussy when you guys got the better ones," he complained.
"Umm… maybe it was fated?" Kyle replied humorously. Mark laughed in amusement. After seeing their Pokemon, Jared knew that he would find a Pokemon that would be better than the rest, but what he didn't know was that he would meet a Pokemon that not only would be better, but a Pokemon that would understand him and love him. It will also understand and care for him so much that he would be able to tell his dark past to it.
Two weeks later, Jared said goodbye to his friends as he took a taxi to the airport and took a flight to Hoenn. Jared intended to go to a place he had heard of recently: the Water Capital named Alto Mare, the hometown of the legendary Pokemon Latios and Latias. At the Hoenn International Airport at Petalburg City, he took a bus to the City of Slateport where he could take the S.S. Tidal to Alto Mare. Jared felt very excited to be going there as he had high hopes of catching a Pokemon. What made him more excited was the thought that he was going to train it so that it could go on the many missions ahead. As Marc got his legendary Pokemon Suicune the easy way, Jared was determined to get his own the hard way, meaning that he was going to work his way to getting what he wanted. He always believed in working for his reward and now he was going to do it.
On the S.S. Tidal on the way to Alto Mare, Jared looked into the tourist's guide on the Water Capital. "This place is very interesting, very interesting indeed," he said to himself with enthusiasm as he looked at the pictures of some of the famous tourist spots of Alto Mare. However, the hot sun made him feel tired of reading the guide so he covered his face with his red-coloured hat and went to sleep.
Suddenly, somebody woke him up. It was a boy. Still groggy from his afternoon nap, Jared asked, "Yes, what is it?"
"Sir, the ship has reached ashore. Everyone is getting off." The little boy replied. Jared realized that the ship has docked and people were walking off the ship. He hurried to pack his bags and leave the ship, not forgetting to thank the boy who woke him up. He walked off the ship, excited but ready to find the Pokemon he had sought after.