AN: I will be introducing the pokemon translator soon (so the humans can understand pokemon) which will allow for more characterization on the pokemon. If you were wondering why the Poipole is so boring, then just know that once it evolves later on, that will change. Don't worry, the main character will be getting his second pokemon soon, and that pokemon might have an eccentric personality :). Please enjoy and don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions/suggestions!

After eating lunch in the pokemon center cafeteria (and having to give up the last of my meager allowance money), I decided that I wanted a mobile phone. After all, the others in the group had one, and they used it for communication regularly. I didn't have the money though, so my great plan was to challenge someone to a pokemon battle with a phone as the stakes. Then I remembered I didn't have anything of equal value I wanted to give up, and that I had vowed to never cheat in a pokemon battle (not having what the stakes required is considered cheating, in my opinion).

So, I decided to go into the rooms to ask someone in the group how I could get a phone. I walked up the stairs of the pokemon center, afraid of having to talk to Tyson. I imagined it would be pretty awkward.

When I reached the second floor, I noticed a pretty boy walking down the hallway, his stride swift wand purposeful. He was wearing a posh navy blue suit and his hair was blonde and perfectly combed, sparking with such intensity that it nearly seemed like it was giving off its own light.

Then I looked down to his belt, and noticed two pokeballs clipped to it. A trainer? He seemed around my age, but since he has two pokemon, he must've been more experienced.

He suddenly turned around. "May I help you, young gentleman?" He said, his voice so sweet and fake it hurted.

"How old are you?" I blurted. Then I blushed, realizing how weird I must have seemed.

"I'm fourteen. And and and; may I mention that the Beast Ball in your hands is something I have taken an interest in..." The pretty boy said.

I raised an eyebrow. "My starter is in it."

"Oh? I'm sure there is a nice story behind that, but but but; I am a busy boy and I don't have time to waste." The pretty boy sniffed, and it took every fiber of my being to keep myself from just walking away. Rich snobs disgusted me. I wasn't even sure why this one was even here in Oldale Town.

"There is something I would very much love to do with you. A one on one pokemon battle. If you lose, you hand over the Beast Ball and your starter inside it. If you win, I will let you become my humble servant. Agreed?"

I laughed. "Both of those suck! How about if I win, you give me four pokemon translators and a phone?"

The pretty boy huffed. "That reward for you isn't nearly as appealing, but but but; all the better for me! Heh, poor kids are so stupid."

I smirked, ready to wipe the floor with the snob. Then I remembered he was a year older than me, and I face-palmed. Since we had already agreed on stakes, it would be against trainer protocol to back off with accepting defeat.

"Where are we battling anyway?" I asked as the pretty boy starting walking towards the stairs.

"My villa in Canalave City," The pretty boy said.

"What's Canalave City?"

The pretty boy turned to look at me and rolled his eyes. "A big city in Sinnoh."

I laughed nervously. "Sinnoh as in the Sinnoh region?"

"Yes."

"WHAT? There's no way can just - just go there! I mean, I'm part of a trainer group, I can't just travel across the world or something! That's not reasonable!"

The pretty boy looked back at me and laughed. "And yet it's reasonable for a green-bean trainer to challenge an ace trainer?"

I was taken aback. "Ace trainer?"

"Yes yes yes! Just because I'm fourteen years old doesn't mean I can't be an ace trainer," The pretty boy said, flipping his hair.

"heh heh... um... can we call off the battle?"

"Yes, of course. I'm not so cruel that I would take a new trainer's only pokemon. If someone took either my Purugly or my Luxray, I would be so devastated," The pretty boy said, pouting.

"Wow, thanks. Well... may I ask why you're here though? And thanks again for not being evil."

"It's nothing. And I'm here because I sensed a psychic shift down south of here. It's linked to a psychic shift in Castelia City, and it has some interesting implications. But but but; I've had enough fun talking to you. I'll take my leave; I need to get to work."

I nodded. "Thanks again. And could you tell me your name? I hope to challenge you on equal footing one day!"

The pretty boy smirked. "I'm Beaufort. I doubt you'll ever become an ace trainer, though."

I narrowed my eyes as I watched him leave. I would definitely make him frown one day.

"That was amusing," Arice said. I noticed Arice and Kyra standing off to the side. They must've seen and heard the whole conversation.

"Thanks for asking for four translators and keeping us in mind," Arice noted. "Too bad he didn't give us anything..."

"More importantly," Kyra said, adjusting her glasses. "he mentioned a psychic shift to the south of here. I would imagine that would be the aliens you said you saw yesterday, correct?"

I nodded. "Well, I guess."

Kyra clapped her hands together. "Siegal is then in Castelia City. I wouldn't know why, but if that rich kid had been telling the truth about the psychic change being linked to there, Siegal would be there."

"Wow! Exciting!" Arice exclaimed. "Shall that be our destination?"

I raised an eyebrow. "I thought you two wanted to become champions? Shouldn't you first clear Hoenn before going to another region? Not that I don't want to go though. If I can find Ray, that would be amazing!"

Arice shook her head vigorously. "Friends are more important than rushing to clear regions. Besides, we'll be going through tough training on our way there, won't we? We can start clearing gyms and stuff after finding Siegal!"

We all agreed on the plan, and decided to tell Tyson about it. Arice said Tyson wasn't that social and took his dream a bit too seriously. Apparently Arice and Kyra knew as much about his dream as I did.

We checked the room I had slept in the previous night; it was empty. We checked the other room, and there he was, watching the television.

"What are you watching?" I said. I wanted to make sure we would have a lasting friendship: starting off on a slightly bitter note wasn't exactly a way to make friends, so I would have to fix it.

Tyson looked at us and smiled. "Come. I'm watching the Pokemon League Finals from two months ago."

The three of us sat on the bed with him and checked it out. I hadn't actually seen it happen before, as my house didn't have a television, but I knew who was in it and who won.

I was mesmerized by the fluid action of the battling pokemon, and the shouts of the trainers Red and Blue, and the cheering of the immense crowd in the stadium. The entire group was quiet as we watched Red go down to his last pokemon; A Snorlax. Blue still had a fresh Charizard in addition to a slightly weakened Pidgeot which he was using.

After a few minutes, the battle was over. Red had won by taking a risk; his Snorlax had used Belly Drum. It meant the pokemon deals a lot of damage to itself, but its Physical moves would be extremely empowered.

"Blue was pretty close! You never know, next year he might defeat Red!" Arice said. I looked at her, and felt love... towards the group. Being together, watching things together... my journey hadn't really started yet, and despite all of annoying problems, focusing on the good things really helped me truly smile.

Tyson cleared his throat and offed the television with a remote. "Kyra already texted me the details of your discussion. I'm all right with going to Castelia City."

I looked at Tyson. I guessed he wasn't bitter about the loss after all . I resolved to just not mention it.

"When will we be setting out?" Kyra asked.

Tyson shrugged. "I think right after we decide how we're going to Castelia City. That's pretty important."

We all agreed, and Kyra went to the first floor of the pokemon center to print out a world map from her phone.

"I was wondering what pokemon you girls had? You already know about my starter," I said when Kyra left.

"Arice has a Mudkip. Kyra has an Abra," Tyson said, stretching his arms and legs.

We settled into small talk for the next few minutes, mostly talking about Ray. I found it annoying that they kept on calling him Siegal, even after knowing his real name, but I guess Ray was kind of a dumb name. My name was way better.

Kyra came back with a map printed on a standard-sized sheet of paper. She laid it on the table, and the four of us crowded around and peered at it.

"I was thinking we could go to Petalburg City and ride on a ship from there to Unova," Tyson said.

Kyra nodded. "Since Unova is at the lower east area of the mainland, the ship would be moving southwest. The closest city would be the northeastern-most city of Unova; Humilau City," she said, pointing to its location on the map. "It actually has a water type gym leader. The thing is, in Unova, the gym leaders are numbered by difficulty; and Humilau's gym is the last and hardest one; the tenth, I believe."

I raised an eyebrow. "I heard numbered gyms in regions exist because they correspond to the strength of wild pokemon in the area. If we can't compete against any pokemon there, it wouldn't be a good use of time."

"Yes. A closer and easier location to go to, also on the east coast of Unova, is Striaton City. It is home to the first gym. From there, we can follow the roads to reach Castelia City," Kyra said.

"Yay! That can be our first gym challenge!" Arice exclaimed.

"That does work," Tyson said. "We'll just need to get the money somehow."

"Oh, we can think of that later. Deal?" Arice said, a wide grin on her face.

We all agreed on packing our stuff for the rest of the day, and setting out first thing next morning to Petalburg City. The internet estimated it would take around a week to reach Petalburg City. As we went about working, I was happy that I could get to go on actual journey. And it would be in the western hemisphere. Castelia was considering to be the largest city in the world. And that's where I was headed.

With everything prepared, and all of us left without cash, we went to sleep in the same places as the night before, thinking positively about what the future had in store for us.

Atop the tallest building in the Ultra Planet, Reek, an old man in a white coat, grovelled before his god. The room they were in was at the highest story, and it had a floor and ceiling made completely of a rare black material. The absence of walls let in a ferociously cold wind that howled throughout the room, and at the same time, it overlooked the city of Ultra Megalopolis below.

"Please! It was an accident!" Reek exclaimed, grovelling before his god. His god's black body was made of a black crystalline material. It had disproportionate body parts, with large claws, prisms, and spikes everywhere jutting out from its body. Reek's god, and the god of everyone in the Ultra Planet, was Necrozma.

You are foolish to have betrayed us.

"No please! I'll fix it! I have a family!"

A few seconds passed before Necrozma responded. Very well. You will not be allowed to enter Ultra Megalopolis until you return with that baby Poipole. Is that understood?

"But my family will be-"

IS THAT UNDERSTOOD, IMBECILE!

Reek wiped away the tears on his face. "Yes master, I will devote myself completely to the task. Thank you for providing my lowly self with this opportunity."

Now leave.

Reek got up, bowed, and walked down the stairs. For my family... I must find that boy and get back that Poipole. At all costs.

Chapter 5 MC/age/pokemon changes:

new MC: Beaufort (age: 14) - Purugly, Luxray

Arice - found out to have a Mudkip

Kyra - found out to have an Abra

Red - found out to have a Snorlax

Blue - found out to have a Charizard and a Pidgeot

Reek made into a main character (age: ?) - possesses two Naganadel