The place was a pretty rundown looking old barn. The roof was made from an ugly rusted metal and the wood looked old. Overall it was a ramshackle barn. I was suprised that the thing was still standing.

"What's this is where you keep your Pokemon?" I asked Mallie, judging by the looks on Link, Carter, Neri and Zelda's faces, they were having similar thoughts.

"Oh no, we've left this old place alone. All the Pokemon sleep in the newer barns, but my Dad naps here sometimes. It's also where we keep our tools. Let's go in and I'll ask him if you guys can stay."

However just before we even entered the shabby looking barn, we heard a couple of Ponyta neighing in fright.

We turned to see a huge Glaceon the size of a Purugly harrassing them. He was wearing a weird looking necklace.

"What is that?" I heard Link ask as he eyed the Eeveelution like it was some type of monster.

"I think it's a Glaceon...but why is it so big?" Carter asked turning to look at me.

Mallie turned to the commotion and then sighed. "Oh not again..."

"You know that thing?" Carter asked in amazement, I couldn't blame the knucklehead.

She nodded. "Yeah, that's a Mareep herding Glaceon, Mr. Freezie. He used to be really nice but well..."

I snorted at the name, it was just that silly. "Mr. Freezie?"

"Daddy named him as a boy. Anyways, he was my Dad's first Pokemon and he was really good at hearding our Mareep." Mallie explained, staring at the giantic Eeveelution.

"But why is he so mean? Did your Dad abandon him?" Carter asked.

Some Pokemon can turn bad when being abonded by their human partners. After a while, they could even take an ill attiude towards humans. I know because my own Glaceon, Bella, was tortured by Team Rocket when she was a young Eevee. Me and Carter rescued her, but she trusted humans little by then. But know after a few years, she's one of my closest partners.

Mallie, however shook her head. "No. You see, Mr. Freezie went through this odd growth spurt last week after eating some new Pokemon food that Dad bought. But the weird thing is, before that Freeze used to be really nice and friendly toward the Pokemon and the People...Now..." She looked miserable.

"Well I'd say he needs an attitude adjustment...Wouldn't you say so Blazer?" I asked as I threw a Pokeball into the air.

There was a flash of light and my very first Eevee and my first partner, very large Flareon nearly about the size of that Glaceon. He gave a yawn and shook his fur out.

"Hi Ivy...Oh my Zapdos, it's a blue Purugly!" Blazer cried in shock. Aside from other Pokemon, I was the only one who heard Blazer's shocked remark.

I bent down, (Zelda gave a shocked gasp and exclaimed, "Oh my Goddesses! It's really pretty!" Blazer blushed deep red at this.) and said, "Blazer, that's one of your cousins!"

Blazer looked shocked again, before saying, "OH MY MEW! THAT IS A FREAKING HUGE GLACEON! HOW CAN BELLA AND I BE RELATED TO THAT THING?"

I glared at him for swearing...only I could be allowed to swear like that!

"Oh, sorry Ivy, but Mr...?"

"Mr. Freezie." he replied. He sounded like a bored old man to me.

"Mr. Freezie, what have you been eating?"

"Well, I don't have much time to tell rude children such as yourselves, but my owner recently purchased the most delectable treats...They're called General Rockitt's Space Crunchies."

"General Rockitt's Space Crunchies?" I asked him, the name reeked of the Lunar-tics...and the Dorkets.

"Yes, I must say they are my new favorites, but I don't want this insufferable livestock taking my food!" he spat, he was giving the Ponyta a pretty fierce glare. "They even come with special prizes."

"If food does that to you, then I won't eat a bite!" Blazer replied. Mr. Freeze was glaring at him now.

"Blazer, shut up before you get us into a fight!" I hissed, I didn't feel like having my Pokemon kick this poor tubby Glaceon's butt.

Just then, I heard someone yawn loudly before asking in a hokey country accent. "What in tarnation is this racket?"

We turned around to see a balding man in blue overalls and a red shirt, yawning lazily and scratching his head. He stumbled over to Mr. Freeze and began to pet him. "Hey Freezie. You look to be in high spirits today."

"Thank you Master." Mr. Freeze said happily. It was as if he had forgotten that we existed.

Switching back to human speech I went to the man. "Excuse me sir, are you Mr. Tallos?"

"Yes I am. A real pleasure to meet you darlin'." He said extending a hand. "Welcome to Moo Lon Ranch, famous for the quality Miltank milk and our extra strong Pokemon."

"Extra strong?" Carter asked curiously. "So I take it you bred them to be like that."

"Not by m'self. Y'see I handle the Miltanks mostly as well as Freeze over here, my assistant Annie handles Torchic and all their evolutions, real popular with those Fire-specialist trainers. Lastly Mallie handles the Ponyta, her late mother used to do it, but my little girl seems to have picked up the knack for it." As he said this Mallie hugged him. It was sweet to see them so happy.

"Hey! What about Mr. Ingor?" Mallie asked.

"Oh yeah, without him we'd be sunk. Why he handles our finances, I trust the man like he was my own brother." Tallos laughed eartily, petting Freeze and holding Mallie. As lazy as he may have been he looked like the model family man.

"Well Mr. Talon it looks like you really care about this place. Like at home..." Link told him before he began to trail off. Was there something he wasn't telling us?

"Er...That's Tallos son, but anyway I do. So what brings y'all here?"

"Well it was me Dad. These guys saved me from a bad guy in a black costume and I wanted to thank them by letting them pend the night here." Mallie said, rejoining us.

"Izzat true?"

"Well, it was mostly Link and his Kirlia." Zelda said, making said kid blush.

"Really? Well thanks alot son...Say would you like to marry Mallie as part of the thanks."

We all stopped for a minute, except for Link who blushed even more. Mallie looked like she was caught between being happy or embarrassed, and Neri looked to Zelda, who appeared kind of mad. A second later Link began to reply

"W-well...I uh..."

"Haw haw, just kiddin'! You two are a little young for that, but play your cards right and I might really make the offer in a decade or so...If Mallies okay with it."

"Dad! You still haven't said if they could stay or not."

"Oh, well of course they can." Tallos laughed, "Well are y'all interested in taking a tour around the ranch?"

"Yeah!"

"Totallly!"

"Uh-huh!"

"Sure!"

And so we went off.

Carter's Perspective.

About an hour and a half later we had just finished the tour. It was pretty cool, but it would've been better if Tallos didn't fall asleep every five minutes. Was it me or did that dude have narcolepsy or something? Maybe he was part Snorlax.

Luckily Mallie was there to wake him up and we were able to keep trucking. We managed to see the barn where the Miltank were. They were actually pretty cute Pokemon, not as cute as my Miltank, Milzy, though. Neri seemed to like them and Ivy said something. For some reason she laughed afterwards and snickered when she looked at Tallos. She wouldn't tell me why though.

Next we went to meet Annie, she was a nice enough girl with fire red hair. She seemed to have alot of pet Torchics and a Blaziken for battle. While we were there she found out that one of her newly hatched Torchics were lost and Zelda found it under a desk.

"Oh thank you young lady." Annie said as she cuddled the infant Pokemon. "You returned my sweet lil' Firefluff to me."

"Oh it's nothing really..." the princess said gently.

"Here, let me repay you with this...It's an extra special egg of my brother's Blaziken Cojii had. I only give eggs to nice people like you, and Grogan would definitely approve."

"Why thank you! Hey Link, look it's a blue egg." the princess said holding it out. It must've been shiny...I've only seen ten shiny Pokemon in my life, including Neri.

"Y-yeah cute...Can we leave? Cuccos scare me." he stammered as more Torchic approached him. Those guys must really scare him.

"But these are Torchic Link." Mallie said lifting up another one, he backed away from her quickly.

"Exactly, although the name cucco sounds cute. Anywho the torchic won't attack-"

"Unless they're provoked?" Link guessed quickly.

"Right." Annie said, when she saw Tallos sleeping again. "Mr. Tallos, wake up!"

"Huh? Wazzat?" he began as he arose from a makeshift bed of hay he must've made. Mr. Freezie was sleeping right by him. "Oh...Musta fell asleep. Anyway thanks Annie, now we'll be going to the corral to see the Ponyta."

"Alright. I'll see you all later!" Annie said bidding farewell. We all said our byes, and Link was even the first one out the room.

As we left Mallie called out Epona again, and once again she began to ride her towards the corral.

"C'mon you guys I want to show you the other Ponyta. None of them is as good as Epona, but they're still awesome."

"Yeah! Ho- I mean Ponyta are something I can definitely handle!" Link cheered running up ahead, for some reason Neri even jumped down from Zelda's shoulder and followed him. That kid has energy to burn alright. He Mallie, Epona and Neri were out of sight when that Ingor dude showed up again. This time he looked like he had was tired though.

"Tallos! Those weird black wearing thugs from the news are on their way here and they want to take over the ranch.

"What?" Tallos cried out turning as red as his shirt. "C'mon then Freezie, kids, we're gonna show these jerks what happens when they mess with my little girl!"

"Yeah!" I cried out. This time we were gonna make these guys sorry they even came to this weird nation.

We all ran out to the front of the ranch and looked around but saw nothing except a ton of grass. It was a total lush wasteland with like two or three trees. Mr. Freezie was behind us with Ingor.

"Uh Ingor, there's no one out here." I said facing him, when an electrical net fell on all of us except for Freezie and Ingor. It paralyzed us entirely, a moment later A purple haired Dorket member and Cassie appeared near Ingor and Freezie who both looked smug.

"Actually there are a few idiot captives." the man said before looking at Ingor. "Good work, as agreed the ranch will be yours once we're done here."

"Good! Now I, the ingenious Ingor, shall become a sucessful business man, as I always was destined to be."

At that moment I realized two things. The first was that Ingor was an treacherous egotist, and secondly that I hated the Dorkets even more than before.