A/N: In italics means it's pokemon speech and thoughts for both people and pokemon.
The Strong Bond:
Team Plasma:
Ghetsis was told by one of the Shadow Triad that Professor Juniper has got a new batch of starter pokemon from the breeders and he planned on getting them.
He ordered one of his right hand men (The ones that have Genesect) and told him to infiltrate the lab to retrieve those pokemon since they're still hatchlings, which meant they're easy picking.
The Next Day:
It took Ruby and Sapphire a day and a half to reach Unova, thanks to Walo, but they were somewhat unsure if coming here is gonna accomplish anything, especially now that it's night time.
"Are you sure this is Unova, Ruby?" Sapphire asked looking around the unfamiliar region.
"I guess we should look for a village or a city and ask around." Ruby said, checking his map.
"We could use our pokemon to help search." The wild girl said, taking out one of her pokeballs.
"That's not such a bad idea." Ruby released his pokemon, except for Mimi.
The two trainers explained to their pokemon to search for a town and if they find a trace of Ruru and Valiant then they should come back to them as fast as they could.
Half an hour later:
Toro and Zuzu met up with each other in a forest, though the two chose different paths, but they continued their search together.
"That was the easiest heist we ever pulled!" the two pokemon heard a masculine voice come from behind the bushes. Toro carefully crept closer to the bushes, followed by her water starter colleague.
"They are still hatchlings so they're pretty useless when battling. Just wish we got those elusive Snivy!" another masculine voice said.
The two starter pokemon watched from behind the bushes and saw two men dressed in black uniforms with their faces covered and they had red bangs coming out of their black hats. The men were sitting around a fire in a forest clearing with a purple pokemon, that reminded Toro and Zuzu of their friend Coco.
Toro and Zuzu looked around and saw two cages containing two groups of pokemon! The pokemon looked like baby pokemon and they seemed to be scared and hurt! Anger boiled in the two fully evolved starters, they just had to do something! The two waited until the suspicious humans and pokemon fell asleep then they silently crept towards the cages.
The caged little pokemon woke up and were startled when they saw the large pokemon!
"Teee!" one of the fire pokemon blurted, but was silenced by Toro, who gave him a quiet gesture.
"We'll get you out, just be quiet." The female Blaziken whispered in a comforting voice.
"Yes, me too." The male Swampert said to his water starter brethren. The two grabbed two of the bars and bent them with all of their might. "Come on! Let's go!" Swampert whisper, ushering the pokemon to get out!
The fire and water pokemon slowly made it out of the clearing, trying not wake those humans or their pokemon.
With Ruby and Sapphire:
The two kids were still looking around for a sign of life, but they haven't seen a human or a pokemon for that matter, when this forest was very healthy and provided good food.
"Sapphire! Have you seen anything!?" Runy called out to Sapphire, whose looking from atop the trees to get a better view.
"Yes! I see tree, trees and more trees!" the girl yelled back, thus answering his question stupidly, which caused Ruby to face palm. "Hey wait! I can see Toro and your Zuzu! And they have company!"
"Where!?"
"That way!" she pointed north.
The two kids ran towards their pokemon and were surprised to see their new friends!
"What are these pokemon?" Sapphire asked, closely looking at the pokemon, examining them, but the pokemon hid behind Toro and Zuzu.
"What's wrong?" the scarred boy asked. He could see the frightened faces of the pokemon, but he did not know why exactly.
Toro and Zuzu looked at the pokemon and smiled. "You don't have to be afraid." Zuzu said, trying to calm the pokemon.
"Are you sure, sir?" one of the water pokemon said.
"That's my trainer. He's nice and that's his mate." The evolved water pokemon said, making Toro glare at him.
"She is not his mate! She's just my trainer and my friend!" Toro explained. "And she's really nice and exciting!"
Ruby and Sapphire did not know what the pokemon were talking about, but they hoped their pokemon would convince those new ones to trust them.
"I don't know what kind of pokemon are these, but they look really cute!" Ruby said, staring at the pokemon. Some of them blushed at his compliment, but they were still unsure if they should get near them, after all they were treated like crap from a group of hypocrites.
"I've got an idea!" Sapphire said, digging through her pocket and took an assorted flavors of berries! She lied on the ground and stretched her arm, the one that contained the berries, towards the pokemon. "Come on. It's okay! They're really good!"
The pokemon still hid behind each evolved starter, but still stared hungrily at the berries, which caught Toro and Zuzu's attention.
Toro came closer to her trainer and took a berry, proceeding to eat it with a satisfied look on her face. "See it's good!" Sapphire said, then Zuzu came and ate one with the same results.
The little pokemon seemed to trust the human children a little as one of the fire starters got closer to Sapphire. He sniffed the berries, then quickly took one of the berries and got back to his group. Sapphire then settled the berries on the ground for the rest.
"We should camp out here." Ruby said, rummaging through his backpack.
An hour later:
Ruby and Sapphire's pokemon all returned to them, since it was getting too late and they were tired that they wanted to return to their pokeballs to rest and reenergize, except for Zuzu and Toro, who were hanging around with the little pokemon.
"The red ones kinda look like mini Grumpigs." Sapphire chuckled, sitting under a tree.
"The blue ones look cuter to me. I wonder if they'll evolve into something beautiful and healthy." Ruby said, admiring the scene of friendship in front of him.
"I wonder why they're so close to our pokemon?" Sapphire asked, which was a very good question.
"Maybe they're the same type." The beauty boy said, which is half the truth. "We'd better get some sleep, if we're gonna go find Wally's Pokemon."
Sapphire nodded and lied down on the ground. "You'd better not do anything when I'm asleep." She threatened, remembering the time she saved him from the aggressive Mightyena, which made Ruby blush a little.
It didn't take Sapphire long to sleep, followed by Ruby, then Toro and Zuzu, who were guarding the sleeping baby pokemon.
The next morning:
The Two villainous men in black woke up to see that the Tepigs and Oshawotts were missing!
"Where the hell did they go!?" one of them yelled, searching around for the missing pokemon.
"Liepard! Gurrdurr! Watchog! Maractus! Go search for them now!" the second one commanded, releasing an army of menacing pokemon. The pokemon did as they were told and ran off to search for their captives.
"We have to find them!"
A few hours later:
Sapphire and Ruby were awake and were cooking breakfast. Their pokemon and their new pokemon friends are enjoying their meal of Pokefood and berries, since they didn't have enough.
"It's a good thing you got those berries, Sapphire." Ruby said, cooking grass and pebble soup. "I wish you could've let us eat as well." He grumbled.
"Our pokemon do more for us. This is the least thing we could do for them." Sapphire scolded. "Besides those little pokemon look like they haven't eaten since yesterday."
Ruby knew that the wild girl was right. Yesterday, those pokemon looked like they were about to cry when they saw the berries she got.
Grr!
Ruby then whipped his head over to see his Mightyena, Nana, looking at something in the bushes and growling.
"What is it, Nana?" he asked, he went over to his pokemon.
Bark! Bark! "I know you're there! Show yourself!"
Nyaaa!
Suddenly, something purple jumped out of the bushes!
"What the…!?" Ruby stumbled backwards, looking at the creature. "It kinda looks like a Delcatty… no matter! Nana use Tackle!"
The canine pokemon growl and jumped at the feline pokemon, who dodged it in the nick of time! "Try again, Nana!" the scarred boy commanded, for his pokemon to oblige, but the mysterious pokemon dodges again.
Nyaa! The pokemon roared, as if calling for someone.
Nyaa! Nyaa! Nyaa!
Suddenly three more similar pokemon, appeared next to their speedy comrade.
"Where did they come from, Sapphire asked staring at them.
"I don't know, but they look like they want to fight." Ruby answered.
"Liepard!" a voice called out, making the feline pokemon, look over at the source, and call out again.
Sapphire and Ruby looked at the direction of the voice as well and found two mysterious men, running towards them with a group of unknown pokemon following them.
"Have you found them!?" both men stopped, near their Liepards. The pokemon pointed at Toro and Zuzu's little friends. "We found them!"
"Excuse me. Are you their trainers?" Ruby asked, getting closer to the strange men.
The two looked at the children and their pokemon. They figured out that they were foreigners so that meant they can take the pokemon without the need to battle, plus those pokemon look unbelievingly powerful.
"Yes! We lost them." The man lied. "Thanks for finding them for us." He went over to the pokemon only for them to hide behind the Blaziken and the Swampert, staring at the man with fear, which Ruby and Sapphire noticed.
Toro and Zuzu glared at the man, ready to strike if the man tries to do anything to their little friends.
"Come on! We have to go!" the same man scolded, getting closer to them, but only for the fully evolved starters to growl ferociously. "Hey call back your pokemon!" he told Ruby and Sapphire, in which they responded by doing so.
"Toro let this guy through." Sapphire ordered.
"Come here Zuzu." Ruby called.
The two pokemon looked at their respective trainers and shook their heads, frantically, trying to tell them what's going on.
The wild girl and beauty boy were starting to understand but not completely, though they noticed their pokemon looked desperate and so are the little pokemon hiding behind them.
"I don't think these pokemon want to go with you." Ruby told the man, who was getting annoyed by all this.
"Well then I shall convince them to come with me!" he said and took out a whip with a metal piece on its end! "Alright! You're coming with me!" he tried to lash the pokemon but was stopped!
"HEY! You can't do that to pokemon!" Sapphire yelled, holding the man's whip!
"You stay out of this, girly!" he tried pulling the whip out of her grasp. Sapphire's pokemon glared at him, ready to attack if their trainer was in any form of trouble. "Liepards attack!" he yelled and the Liepards jumped at Sapphire, making her let go of the weapon!
Sapphire and Ruby's pokemon charged at the Unovan pokemon and began to engage in a battle!
"Coco use Attract on those Liepard!" Ruby commanded and his Delcatty nodded.
The Liepards' eyes have turned into hearts when they saw the cute pokemon in which Coco seemed afraid of.
"Maractus use Pin Missle!" the other man commanded a group of cactus-like pokemon. The pokemon fired jets of needles at them, but Sapphire's Rono jumped in to protect them. His rock-hard body was too strong to be penetrated by a simple needles.
WHOOSH!
Suddenly a gust of wind blew the Maractus away, along with their trainer. It was Sapphire's Pilo who did it!
Waaa!CHOG! The Watchogs jumped at Pilo and began biting him with no mercy.
Toro and Zuzu joined the battle, which meant that the little pokemon are defenseless in which Ruby noticed.
"Sapphire! Come on! We have to get these pokemon to a safe place!" Ruby ran towards the pokemon a grabbed as many as he could then ran. Sapphire did the same and followed.
Their pokemon ran behind them, being chased by the villainous men and pokemon. Ruby and Sapphire's pokemon fought them very well, but they were getting tired!
The group was now a large open field with no pokemon or human in sight! The two trainers returned their pokemon to their pokeballs to rest, except for Rono, Zuzu and Toro. The two starters ran over to the small pokemon to examine them, and were glad they were unharmed.
"Hand us the pokemon!" the villainous man said, catching his breath from the chase, along with his comrade.
"We won't give you anything!" Sapphire yelled, glaring at them. "You're pokemon can't fight any longer! Just look at them!" she pointed at the fallen strange pokemon.
"We don't care!" the comrade said. "Just hand over those pokemon AND yours!"
"WHAT! NO!" Ruby yelled.
"You give me no choice!" the man took out a special pokeball and threw it in the air, releasing a robotic looking pokemon that resembled a Scizor clashing with a Magnezone and a Yanmega! "Genesect use Hyper Beam!" the pokemon did as it was told and released a powerful beam from the cannon on top of its head!
BOOM!
The Hyper Beam was very strong that some people heard it from afar and could see the smoke coming from the forest!
The smoke cleared up to reveal Ruby, Sapphire, Rono, Zuzu, Toro and the rest of the tiny pokemon lying on the ground with a few minor injuries.
Cough! Cough!
"That was really powerful Hyper Beam." Ruby said.
"You think Genesect is a normal pokemon!? HA! Team Plasma created this pokemon and all their effort paid off." The man laughed. "This is your final warning, kids!" he threatened.
"Do your worst! I'd rather die than let a pokemon be trained by the likes of you!" the contest-loving boy said in determination, standing up against the evil-doers.
"I'm with Ruby!" Sapphire glared at the man intensely.
"Fine! Genesect use Hyper Beam again!" the Team Plasma member commanded, with the pokemon releasing another beam from his cannon!
RAAA! BOOM!
Rono cried jumping in front of the Hyper Beam only to be knocked out in one hit!
"RONO!" Sapphire yelled in worry and ran towards her Aggron to see if he's alright. "How can a Hyper Beam knock him out!? He's a Steel/Rock type! Normal moves should've this effective! Should they!?" the fiery girl questioned quickly as she was really startled by the power of this pokemon.
"I told you! Team Plasma modified this pokemon and turned in to a weapon of mass destruction! Now I'll take those pokemon and destroy you!" the man laughed, sadistically.
Ruby and Sapphire then looked back to see Toro and Zuzu were guarding the little starters. The small starter pokemon looked more frightened than before and looked like they were about to cry!
The two trainers then looked at each other and nodded, as if they understood what to do.
"Toro! Take your friends and get out of here!" Sapphire commanded.
"Yes! You too Zuzu!" Ruby commanded his pokemon as well. "We know you're strong but you can't fight Genesect."
Blaziken! Blaze! "No we don't want to leave!" Toro shook her head, trying to tell her trainer no.
Swamp! "We won't leave!" Zuzu said worriedly with wide eyes.
Ruby and Sapphire both understood what their pokemon wanted but they couldn't risk their lives like this.
"Listen. We love you so much that we can't bear the thought of you being captured by someone like him!" Ruby said, smiling, trying to ease them up a bit.
"Besides… all those little pokemon need you more than we do." Sapphire said, smiling as well, staring at the poor pokemon. "They need your protection. They can't defend themselves right now."
Pert. Swamp. "Don't worry. We'll be fine." Zuzu tried comforting the pokemon.
"Go on! GO!" Sapphire yelled, urging them to leave.
"We can fight this pokemon ourselves! Get out of here and don't look back!" Ruby urged.
Toro and Zuzu looked at each other, worriedly then shook their heads vigorously, as tears threatened to fall! They just couldn't leave the human friends, who trained them and went through many ordeal together!
"Do you want your friends to be captured by someone like them!? They will never last long!" the fiery wild girl tried convincing them.
"Just leave… now! Protect ..your.. friends!" Ruby almost cried.
Toro and Zuzu were unsure on what to do, but they suddenly became determined and turned around!
"Come on! Let's go!" Toro said.
"Fools! They're not going anywhere! Genesect!" the villain said, as the pokemon charged for another attack!
"TAKE THIS!" Sapphire charged and punched the Genesect which made it stop it's attack!
"Alright! SAPPHIRE!" Ruby cheered, but his cheerfulness did last long as the pokemon used another Hyper Beam, blasting Sapphire!
This attack made Toro and Zuzu stop in their tracks and look back at their trainers!
"Haha! You'll never last long without pokemon!" the same man laughed again.
"Then look at my fury swipes!" the wild girl attacked again, bearing her nails!
"Try my Mega Punch!" Ruby charged and attacked alongside his friend!
Toro, Zuzu and their friends were gawking at the scene in front of them. Their trainers were getting pummeled by a far stronger pokemon than them and they can't do anything! They turned their backs on them and started to leave, but not before they all shed streams of sorrowful tears for their trainers and the wonderful memories.