Disclaimer: Pokemon is by Satoshi Tajiri

Pokemon BW: Yin-Yang Quest

At Accumula Town's Pokemon Center, Mia and Taylor took the time to rest there for a day. It was now morning, and the two of them were waiting for the city's nurse, who was treating their Pokemon. Mia had already registered for the league when they arrived there.

A mailman entered the Pokemon Center. "Ah, excuse me?" the mailman asked. An Audino approached the mailman. "Er, hi," he greeted. "I'm looking for someone named Mia. I have a package for her from a man named Richard."

"That's me!" Mia called as she went over to him.

"Here you go," the mailman said as he handed her the package.

"Thanks," she thanked.

"Have a nice day," he said and left the Center.

Mia went to a table and opened the letter that came with the package. Taylor got up from the wall he was leaning on and approached her. "What's this?" Taylor asked.

"Something from my Grandfather," Mia answered.

"'Dear Mia,'" Taylor read. "'I got your call last night on my answering machine. Sorry I didn't reply back, but it came late at night, so I'm sure you understand. Inside the package are a Town Map from me and a Badge Case from Professor Juniper. I hope you find them both useful. The first Gym is in Striaton City, which you'll easily be able to get to with help from this map. Good luck. From, Richard.'"

She took out a flip up map and opened it. A map of the Unova region was on it and showed it to Taylor. She next took out a pink and black Badge Case and opened it up.

"Battle Club?" Taylor read, looking at one portion of the map that showed Accumula Town.

Before Mia could ask him what he said, a chime went off.

"Mia, Taylor," the nurse announced from the loudspeaker. "We've restored your Pokemon to full health."

"The Battle Club? Yes, it's right here."

Mia, Taylor, and a trainer entered a green building. The two looked around the inside. "This is the reception hall," the trainer told them. "It's here that people use these computers to look up and contact other trainers for Pokemon Battles."

"Now I'm getting psyched!" Mia said with determination. She took out one of her Poke Balls. "Come on out, Emolga!"

She sent out Emolga from her Poke Ball. "Mo-ga!" he cheered.

"This'll be a perfect place to begin our training for the first Gym battle. You ready?" she asked.

Emolga punched the air with excitement and determination. "I see you are."

Emolga climbed up onto Mia's shoulder as the tour continued.

"Here's the main arena," the trainer said as the door slid open. "And it looks like the show's just begun!"

As the four of them entered, they saw that a battle was about to start. On the left was a trainer with a Dewott, on the right was a trainer with a Servine. "This should be interesting," Taylor said. Mia looked up Dewott while Taylor looked up Servine on their Pokedexes.

"Dewott, the Discipline Pokemon," Mia's Dex explained. "The kinds of mastered swordshell-attacks differ between Dewott. It never fails to keep its swordshell in shape."

"Servine, the Grass Snake Pokemon," Taylor's Dex explained. "It runs as if it is gliding over the ground. It bewilders enemies with its quick movements and brings them down with Vine Whip."

"Servine, use Leaf Blade!" the trainer on the right commanded. The leaf on Servine's tail glows green. It tries to slash the Dewott, but on the command of Dewott's trainer, it dodges.

"Now use Water Gun, Dewott!" the trainer on the left ordered. It squirted a blast of water from its mouth, hitting it hard.

"That's enough!" a man with brown hair, a mustache, and a black martial arts uniform declared. The battle stopped as everyone looked at the man. "Take Servine to a Pokemon Center to heal," he said to the trainer with the Servine.

"Are you okay, Servine?" the trainer asked.

"Servine," it replied with a bit of pain. The trainer picked it up and carried it away out of the arena. The man approached Mia and Taylor.

"Leave anything battle related to me," he introduced. "Welcome to the Pokemon Battle Club. I'm the Battle Manager, Don George."

"Name's Taylor," Taylor introduced. "This is Mia. She wants to train here for her upcoming Gym Battle."

"I see," Don George said. He noticed the Emolga on her shoulder. "Oh, that's an Emolga. They're quite uncommon in Unova."

"Is that Emolga yours?" the Trainer with the Dewott asked.

"Yes, he is," Mia answered.

"I'd like a battle with you," he requested.

"Um, Don George?" the Trainer who guided Mia and Taylor asked. "I saw something dash out back from the window!"

"You did, Graham?" asked the Don, curiosity piqued.

"Then it can wait," Mia told the other Trainer. She recalled Emolga into his Poke Ball. "This is a mystery I'm interested in solving! Don George, are there security cameras outside?" she asked the manager.

"In the warehouses, yes," he replied.

"Let's check there first. Retrace our steps."

In the office, Don George was searching through footage of the Battle Club for what Graham had seen. "I first noticed the security cameras when we came in," Taylor explained. "Always pays to be observant."

"Pause it here," Graham instructed. Don George did so and one TV screen containing footage of one of the warehouses outside paused. Taylor noticed something black looking as if it were running. "That's what I saw outside!"

"Person? Pokemon? You're the bookworm, Mia," Taylor questioned. Mia stepped on his foot.

"I think it's an Umbreon," Mia guessed.

"Umbreon?" Graham repeated, confused. "Never heard of it."

Mia looked up Umbreon on her Pokedex. As soon as she got the result, she showed it to everyone else. The screen showed profiles of the Pokemon. "This is what it looks like," she pointed out.

"Umbreon, the Moonlight Pokemon, and the evolved form of Eevee," the Dex explained. "When exposed to the moon's aura, the rings on its body glow faintly and it gains a mysterious power."

"Talk about smart!" Graham exclaimed in shock.

"I have an idea to lure it out," Mia said. "But I need permission to go to the warehouses first."

"If you can capture it, then I'll gladly allow you to do so," Don George agreed.

Outside, Mia filled up a dish with Pokemon food she brought along with her. Mia's idea was to lure the mystery Pokemon with food, battle it, and capture it.

"You got the Pokemon food set up?" Mia asked.

"Check!" Taylor called from another corner of the street.

Mia immediately ducked into the bush. 'My Grandfather made Pokemon food to suit each Pokemon's tastes,' she thought. 'Let's hope this lures out the Umbreon that's been roaming around the Battle Club.'

She soon spotted the silhouette of the mysterious Pokemon in question. In his corner, Taylor turned around to find the silhouette. 'That's it,' Taylor thought. 'I know you're hungry...'

The two noticed the shadow become clearer and saw a starving and dirty Tepig, an old rope around its mouth that muzzled it.

"Okay, so Mia's guess that it was an Umbreon was wrong," Taylor whispered as he looked up Tepig on his Pokedex. The screen showed profiles of the Pokemon.

"Tepig, the Fire Pig Pokemon," the Dex explained. "It nimbly dodges foes and shoots fireballs from its nose. It cooks berries with its flames before eating them."

"No wonder I mistook it for an Umbreon when I saw it," Mia whispered. "It's not only dirty, but hungry, too."

Tepig soon spotted Mia and panicked. "Hey, I won't bite," she said kindly, coming out of the bush slowly. "Here, let me help you with that rope."

Her assurance didn't help, and Tepig ran away from her. "W-wait!" she called out.

"You follow that Tepig," Taylor called as he stood up. "I'll try and cut it off 'round the corner."

The two of them ran in different directions, but after the same Pokemon.

Tepig dashed as fast as it could through the streets, but stopped right in an alley and at a dead end. It looked around, and then tried to get the rope off of its mouth. Tepig had been trying to get it off ever since it was abandoned. It proved to be a problem due to the fact that it was muzzling it shut, rendering it unable to speak and eat.

"Hey!" Mia called out. Tepig panicked upon hearing her voice and started backing away. Mia arrived at the alley and slowly approached it. Taylor followed her soon after. "You've got nothing to be afraid of, Tepig," she assured it. "Well, maybe Taylor, but you get the point."

She picked it up, and Tepig fired a smog cloud at her. Taylor jumped back. "I got hit with that trick before," Mia coughed. "It doesn't startle me. Here, let me undo that rope."

She began to tug away at the knot that held the binding. "Careful," Taylor warned.

"I'm going as gently as I can," Mia reminded him. "Can you get the Fire Pokemon food jar out of my purse and open it?"

"'Kay," Taylor said and unzipped the bag.

"There we go!" Mia declared as the rope fell off. "It's off now!"

"Hey, guys!" Graham called out from somewhere in the street. "Did you find that Umbreon?"

"We found it, but it's not an Umbreon!" Mia responded back.

"Ah, I saw that Tepig before!" Graham realized. Tepig was now cleaned and fed and was asleep in Mia's arms. "It was in the Battle Club and it lost to a Deerling in a battle. That's all I remember about it, though."

On the way back to the Battle Club, they encountered Graham, who offered to help nurse it back to health.

"Does this ring a few bells?" Taylor asked angrily as he showed him the rope. "It was wrapped around Tepig's mouth."

Graham immediately realized what he meant. "One day, a Trainer with this Tepig entered the Battle Club," he explained sternly. "It fought against a Deerling and lost. The Trainer tied Tepig to a post and abandoned it, calling it weak. It tried to go after him, but when the rope snapped, it tied around Tepig's mouth. I put that incident in the back of my head until you two showed up. I couldn't do anything because it got scared of me."

"That's just cruel of him," Mia noted.

"I should know. My Dad and I were raised around Pokemon that were mistreated by humans. Momo was one of them. It's not a pretty sight."

"Today, ladies and gentlemen," a voice echoes as the three walked by a stage. "I would like to talk to you about Pokemon liberation."

"...fu...well that was an eventful day!" Mia stated as they left the Battle Club.

"Yeah. Hope that Tepig will be better off now that we helped it out," Taylor said as he stretched.

"Tepig!"

The two looked behind them to find that Tepig was following them.

"It's Tepig!" Taylor noted.

"What's up?" Mia asked.

Tepig ran up to Mia and nuzzled her leg. "Tepig! Tepig Tepig!" it oinked.

"She says 'Thank you for the Pokemon food,'" Taylor translated.

"You're welcome," Mia replied. "Thank you for trusting me."

"Te-pig," she oinked back.

"She says 'You are welcome,'" Taylor interpreted.

"Te...Tepig, Tepig?" it said nervously.

"Hello!" he said in surprise. "She asked if she can come with you."

"That's fine by me!" Mia said as she took out a Poke Ball. She tapped it onto Tepig's head. The ball opened and Tepig turned to red energy and got sucked into the ball. A few flashes from the capture mechanism later, and Mia had caught a Tepig.

'Welcome to the team, Tepig,' she thought.