I ran towards the Pokemon centre. It was besieged by men in green uniforms. A few police officers and some trainers were holding them off, but they were heavily outnumbered. I called out mudkip and used up my last potion on him.

"Let's help the police and the centre out, Mudkip!" I shouted. Mudkip nodded.

"HEY GREENHEAD!" I shouted to the nearest man in the green uniform. He was ganging up on a trainer with two other men in green. They all looked at me.

"Another one." He said. "I'll take him out, looks like a rookie. Poochyena, use bite!" he shouted.

"Mud-slap!" I ordered. Mudkip used its tail to shoot mud into the poochyena's face, causing it to miss.

"Now,Water Gun!" I yelled. Mudkip shot a jet of water at the dog without hesitating, knocking it out. The man hastily withdrew his Poochyena and called out to another grunt

"Hey, need some help ova here!"

Another man in a similar green suit rushed over, and sent out a Taillow.

"Use peck!"

Taillow dived towards Mudkip, preparing to strike him with his beak.

"Mud-Slap!" I ordered, then realized my stupid mistake. Mud-Slap won't do anything! I watched as mudkip flung mud in the taillow's eyes, and it had no effect on the pokemon. Taillow's peck connected with Mudkip, knocking him back.

"Sorry, Mudkip!" I said "Use Water Gun!"

Mudkip got back up on its feet, and shot a water gun. This time, taillow was knocked back, and knocked out.

"More help!" he said and a few grunts ran over to where I was

His associates drew the pokeballs, but were interrupted by a loud siren. Dozens of police bikes and cars had arrived and had swarmed the scene. The men were arrested.

"Thank you for holding them off" said a police officer to me "They would've taken over that centre if not for you."

"Don't mention it, officer" I replied "You know who were those guys?"

"Never seen them before. Inform the police if you see them, okay?"

I nodded, and went over to Alex.

"This is like team aqua all over again." He said "I doubt that's the last we'll see of them"

"Yeah, let's worry about that later" I replied.

The police left with the arrested grunts. I dropped of my Pokemon at Nurse Joy's for a quick rest and headed out to the small café that each centre has.

"Hey!" called a familiar, feminine voice. I looked over, and saw Melissa Adams, one of my classmates calling out. I went and sat at the table

"Did you see those green suit guys?" she enquired

"Yeah!" I replied "I took one of them on, managed to beat him"

"Yeah, I beat one too" she replied "Don't you think it's strange? We're rookie trainers. It's like they wanted to get caught."

"You're right!" I realized "Maybe it was some attention-seeking stunt."

"I hope its not gonna be like team aqua again." she said, with uncertainty in her voice "It was hell when they were around. Would've destroyed the planet if it weren't for Champion Birch"

"Let's hope." I replied. I knew little about this other than what appeared on the news.

"Well, got any gym badges yet?" said the brunette, changing the subject. She was obviously not very comfortable with talking about Team aqua.

"Nope, We're going to Lavaridge for my first. I've got a type advantage there." I replied. Better not to ask more questions about team aqua, though I was highly interested.

We kept on chatting. Alex joined us at one point. We continue the conversation until our Pokemon were healed. She left for Mauville (She wanted to take it on as her first gym) , while we stayed the night at the centre because the cable car would only open in the morning. From there, we would head down from the Jagged pas to Lavaridge.

And hopefully, get my badge collection started.