"I'm going to choose squirtle!" Said Ben with pride and joy after finally deciding on his first pokémon.

"That's a good choice Josh. Squirtle is a strong Pokémon that you can become good friends with." Said professor Oak. He had a big grin on his face, as he was happy for the new trainer.

"GO, SQUIRTLE!"

"SQUIRTLE SQUIRT!"

"Squirtle were going to become good friends and go on a big journey and catch heaps of other pokémon!"

"SQUIRTLE!"

Josh ran as fast as he could to the door of Oak's lab but didn't leave enough time to stop and smashed into the door. "Ouch, that hurt."

After Josh got up off the floor two people walked through the door. The first person through the door was Ben. He had a very casual attitude, long dark blond hair and was dressed in skate shoes, black tracksuit pants, a light green T-Shirt and a green, black and yellow hoddie.

"Hey Josh, how 'sit going?" Said Ben casually.

"Great Ben, I just got a squirtle." Replied Josh happily.

"Oh cool, hey, professor Oak could I please have the bulbasaur?" Inquired Ben.

"Of course you can, here is its pokéball." Said Oak while giving the pokéball to Ben.

"Thanks professor."

"Hey bulbasaur, were gonna become good friends ok?"

"SAUR BULBASAUR."

The second person through the door was a girl called Annabel. She had long curly blonde hair and was dressed in a white flowery skirt and a pink T-Shirt. She only likes the cutest of pokémon.

"Hello professor, could I please have that adorable eevee?" Asked Annabel

"Yes here you go."

"EEVEE" Said the eevee in admire of its new trainer.

"Hey Annabel, where is Alex?" Asked Josh. (A.N. Alex is Annabel's younger sister.)

"She got really upset when Mum and Dad said that she couldn't train any pokémon so she decided that she wouldn't come with us."

"Oh, ok, that's a shame." Said Josh and Ben in unison.

The trio started to walk towards the door but professor Oak called them back.

"Wait you three, I've got some thing for you. I'm giving you each a Pokédex, Pokénav, Pokégear and a Pokétch. I would like you to try and complete this Pokédex. You can do this by battling or finding data on all of the world's pokémon. You can use the Pokénav to navigate your way around and you can use the Pokégear to call other people that have a Pokénav and you can do other cool things with it like listen to the radio. Finally there is the Pokétch, you can use this for all sorts of things like counting the number of times you encounter a specific type of pokémon and heaps of other cool things. Good luck all of you."

"Thanks professor, talk to you later." Said the trio.

As the trio walked out of the lab the sun had just risen over the horizon. They headed towards the route to Viridian city.

Before they got on the route they stopped by Josh's house to say goodbye to his parents.

"Hi mum, hi dad." Josh greeted his parents, May and Ash and said his farewell. His parents gave him a bag packed with cloths food and pokéballs.

Next they stopped at Ben's house and he said goodbye to his parents Brock and Dawn. His parents also gave him a pack full of various items.

Finally they stopped at Annabel's house and she said bye to her parents, Misty and Max. (Completely random pairing there ^_^.) She also got a pack.

A short while down the route the trio set up camp, played some card games, had dinner and went to sleep.

… … … … …

"Come on Josh, it's time to get up!" Whispered Ben in Josh's ear at 4 A.M. in the morning.

"Whoa? Ben it's 4 A.M. WHY DID YOU WAKE ME UP AT 4 A.M.!" Shouted Josh at Ben.

"Shhhhhh, there's a wild spearow out there, I want to catch it." Said Ben Excitedly.

"Oh, cool I have to see this." Said Josh.

Ben turned down the volume on his Pokédex and looked at spearows information.

The Pokédex spoke in a computerised voice: "Spearow, the flying bird pokémon. Spearow has a terrible attitude, it is very wild and will sometimes attack other pokémon and humans."

The two boys ran out of the tent and say the spearow sitting in a nearby tree.

"Ok, lets go, Bulbasaur come on out!"

"Bulbasaur!"

"Hmmm, Bulbasaurs can't jump that high so tackle wont make it's mark. Bulbasaur hasn't mastered its growl so that only leaves me with one option. Bulbasaur, use power whip!"

Bulbasaur flung its vines at the sleeping spearow and slammed into the spearow. The spearow fell out of the tree and had fainted.

"Go, Pokéball!" Ben threw a Pokéball at the fainted spearow, the spearow flashed red and was engulfed by the Pokéball. The pokéball shook for a few moments then stopped.

"Alright, I just caught a Spearow." Said Ben with happiness and joy.

… … … … … … … …

A couple of trees a way a short, dark figure clad in grey jeans, black and white striped tank top, a grey sleeveless leather jacket, a grey bandanna and fingerless gloves, headphones in her ears and a riolu on her shoulder heard a voice say: "Bulbasaur use power whip." Impossible she thought. The only way a bulbasaur could use power whip is by being bred with a lickylicky, tangrowth or a carnivine, and the only people that know that are my parents and I.

The person walked over to where she heard the voice and saw two young boys not older then 10.

"Cool Ben, you just caught a spearow." Said Josh.

"I know, isn't it awesome!" Replied Ben

"Enough chit chat boys, where did you get that bulbasaur?" Said the girl.

"Um, Professor Oak gave it to me yesterday. Its my first pokémon."

"Oh yeah, how about I call him and find out?"

The girl pulled out a Pokégear and dialled Oak's number. Professor Oak's face appeared on screen and he spoke:

"Hello, Professor Oak speaking, who is calling?"

"Its me Oak, tell me, how does this boys bulbasaur know power whip? That's a strong move for a baby bulbasaur is it not?"

"Nice to see you to Brielle. This bulbasaur know power whip because your parents gave it to me."

"Oh, sorry, I just thought that he might have stolen it from my parents. Nice talking to you, Goodbye."

After being woken up by all the noise Annabel came out of the tent and saw Brielle's Riolu and screamed:

"Oh, look at you, you're so cute." Annabel ran up to the riolu and pulled it into a big hug. The riolu conjured an aura sphere in between its hand and forced it into Annabel's face.

"Nova, stop!" Shouted Brielle.

"RIOLU"

"You see Nova doesn't like being touched by people that haven't proven them selves."

"Proven them selves." Josh said as a question.

"You need to prove to her that you respect pokémon as equals, not as beings that you use as tools or pets."

"Oh." Said Josh.

"Sorry about before, I thought you might have stolen that bulbasaur from my parents breeding farm. They breed rare pokémon for a living." Explained Brielle. "By the way my names Gabrielle Mauch, but just call me Brielle.

"Hi Brielle, I'm Josh."

"I'm Annabel."

"And I'm Ben."

"Nice to meet you all."

Ok, that's it for now. I will tell you that Brielle with be travelling with the trio as a mentor. What pokémon should Josh catch next. -Josh