*DISCLAIMER* I DO NOT OWN POKEMON!
Author: For simplicities sakes, let's say all this happens at least a couple days after the previous chapter at different intervals.
If you announce it, they will come
High up in the clouds, a certain Gym Leader soars on her Steel Pokemon.
"How are you holding up Skarmory?" Winona asks her Pokemon. The bird squawks back energetically. "That's good to hear, we're still a little ways away from Sinnoh. Hmm?" Winona looks down below the clouds, she sees a school of Lapras travelling below. "Skarmory, can you fly lower?"
"Skar-skar!" The Steel bird chirps and drops below the clouds.
Winona watches closely at the herd of Lapras, but a Hyper Beam is fired right at them! She turns around to see a flock of Gyarados' chasing the Lapras.
"We have to help them," Winona tells her Pokemon. "Get in close!"
"Skaaar!"
"Swellow, Altaria and Pelipper! I need your help!" Winona tosses her Poke Balls into the sky.
A Hyper Beam hits the lead Gyarados, causing the whole flock to turn to Winona's Swellow. They charge at it firing their own Hyper Beams.
"Alright!" Winona calls from a safe distance on her Skarmory. "Swellow, use Aerial Ace! Pelipper, use Steel Wing! And Altaria, use Dragon Breath!"
Swellow charged the nearest serpents and attacked both of them, Pelipper emerged from the water and hit another, Altaria dove in from above and breathed on yet another. The wild Gyarados were going crazy trying to stop the three flying Pokemon. Eventually Winona's Pokemon were able to deal enough damage to force the sea serpents to retreat.
The Gym Leader and her Pokemon watch as the Gyarados disappear into the distance. "You did great everyone! Return!" Winona calls back her three Pokemon. She turns to see the leader of the Lapras come up to her and say its thanks.
"You're welcome!" Winona happily smiles and waves before instructing her Skarmory back into the clouds.
"Here you go Jasmine," Nurse Joy hands over the Poke Balls back to their owner.
"Thank you Nurse Joy," Jasmine thanks the nurse and turns to leave the Center. However, an out of place bug catching net grabs her attention. She walks over to it curiously seeing a boy looking at his digital camera, "Bugsy?"
"Jasmine!" Bugsy greeted his fellow Gym Leader. "Nice to see you again!"
"What are you doing here? The Pokethlon isn't for another week."
"I'm waiting for a boat to Sinnoh," Bugsy explains. "There's going to be a tag team tournament there soon."
"Sinnoh?" Jasmine suddenly starts thinking.
"Is something wrong?"
"Oh," Jasmine snaps out of it. "Sorry, Sinnoh was where the Wallace Cup was held."
"Wallace Cup?" Bugsy is confused. "What's that?"
"It's an international Pokemon Contest," Jasmine told him. "I've always wanted to go to Sinnoh."
"You like Contests, Jasmine?" Bugsy asks her.
"Of course," she smiles at him. "I even participated in a few around here whenever I could. There was one that was held nearby just yesterday, I think the winner of that was a girl named May. Hey, can I join you in going to Sinnoh?"
"Sure!" Bugsy rejoiced. "It'll be fun! But, why are you here anyway?"
"I had to let my Pokemon recover after an official gym battle," she tells him. "Her name was Lyra, I think, she just challenged my Gym."
"I remember her!" Bugsy yells out. "She beat me a couple weeks ago."
"Well," Jasmine giggles. "She didn't have the same luck against me. I'm sure she'll be back soon, I have to tell her I'm going away. I'll meet you on the ship!"
Bugsy waves before looking back at his camera, his collection of Bug pictures, including a Pink Butterfree and a Butterfree with a yellow scarf.
However, unbeknownst to them, a certain coordinator was unintentionally listening in on their conversation. She adjusts her green bandana and decides to hop on the boat as well. Look out Ash, she thinks to herself, giggling.
"Are you alright Lyra?" Khoury asks his friend. They were both on a path right next to the ocean, with Lyra looking out to see deep in thought.
"I was just thinking on how to beat that Steelix of hers," Lyra answers him.
"Yeah," Khoury reflected on her words. "Whitney and Morty were easy enough, but you don't have any Pokemon on you right now that can compete with a powerful Steel type like Steelix."
"Marrill, Bayleef, Girafarig, Ledian and Flaafy," Lyra calls their names, pondering.
"There you are!" They hear a familiar voice calling to them.
They turn to see Jasmine running towards them, waving.
"Jasmine?" Lyra asks.
"I'm glad I found you," Jasmine tells them. "Lyra, can we have our rematch some other time?"
"Some other time?"
"Bugsy is headed to Sinnoh to take part in a tag team tournament there," the Gym Leader tells them. "I've always wanted to visit Sinnoh, I thought I could use this opportunity to do just that."
"A tag team tournament?" Khoury questions.
"Yes," Jasmine bows "I'm sorry for the trouble."
"No problem!" Lyra says excitedly. "I'll be going too!"
"Whaaa-? Lyra!" Khoury exclaims.
"It'll be fun, right?" Lyra smiles.
"Well, if you say so," Khoury sighs. "But I think I'll head back home for a while, I'm a little homesick."
"Aww, how come?"
"Whenever I leave my father alone, he tends to make a big mess of things at home. I'll use this time to get back there and clean up. Just make sure you tell me when you get back."
"Alright!" Lyra follows Jasmine back to the Center. I can't wait to see him again.
Marley waits at a Poke Center for her Pokemon to recover. She accidently sits near a pair of noisy boys.
"So, Lucas," one of them starts. "Do you want to join me in this tag team tournament?"
"I don't know Brendan," the other boy replies. "One of the Elite Four is participating right?"
"Who cares?" Brendan tells him. "I'm sure we can take him together!"
"Haha!" Lucas laughs gently. "You're right, no one can stop us! So, where is this tournament again?"
"Weren't you listening? It's in Tili Bay!"
Tili Bay, Marley thought to herself. I wonder if I'll meet Ash again.
"Waaaaiiiit!" A much louder boy runs to where the first two were conversing. "There's a tournament where? If you don't tell me I'll fine you!"
"Um, Tili Bay," Lucas nervously answers. Marley tilts her head to see the third boy was a very tall blond.
"Alright! I'm off in 5... 4...- forget it, here I GOOOOOOO!"
"A tournament in Tili Bay?" a certain super nerd that was listening in looks at a map, adjusting his glasses. "If my calculations are correct, Dawn and her friends should be around that area. I'm certain that they won't let something like this get by without taking part in it."
"Excuse me," A Nurse Joy looks over the waiting room. "Is there a Zoey here?"
"That's me," Zoey stands up and walks over to the nurse.
"There's a call for you," the nurse directs her to a certain video phone.
Zoey presses a button.
"ZO-ZO!"
"Ah!" Zoey jumped back slightly. "Miss Senior! Don't scare me like that."
"Have you heard the news?" Candice yells from the other side.
"Heard what?"
"There's going to be a tag team tournament in Tili Bay hosted by one of the Elite Four!"
"Huh? An Elite Four is hosting a tournament?"
"Not just any tournament, a TAG TEAM tournament! Come on Zo-zo, this will be a good way to raise your keyai before the Grand Festival!"
"Wait-Miss Senior, you're going to enter the tournament?"
"Of course! I can't wait to fight some strong opponents!"
"Hehehe," Zoey sweatdrops. "Well, I'm in. I can use the practice. And I'm sure this is something Ash and his friends will be in too."
"Great! See you there Zo-zo!"
Me and Miss Senior in a tag team, I wonder what kind of combination we'll make, other than unstoppable. You better watch yourself Ash, it won't be like last time.
A swift figure jumps from tree to tree. The shadow speeds through the forest, hoping from branch to branch to branch. At the forest's edge, the figure jumps down and lands on both feet and one hand. The light of the sun reveals a young girl, her scarf blowing in the wind. She calmly walks up a hill overlooking a city.
"So that's Tili Bay," she mumbles to herself. "Time to see how far my training here has taken me."
The girl rushes down the hill towards the city.
"So this is where the tournament will be held soon," A boy with a Pikachu on his shoulder admires the building. "We still have a few days left Sparky, what do you say we do some exploring?"
"Pikachu!" his Pikachu agrees with him.
The boy turns around and walks past a few buildings, admiring the city. At the turn of a corner-
*POW*
"Owowowow..." The boy complains about the pain.
"Ugh," the one he ran into was a girl, dressed mostly in black and wearing a scarf. "I'm sorry about that."
"Chuuuu-" the Pikachu moaned.
They both got up together and his Pikachu climbed back up to the boy's shoulder.
"Why were you in a rush?" the boy asks her.
"I'm excited for the tournament coming up soon," she tells him. "I wanted to see the building it'll be held in."
"It's just over there," the boy pointed to a big, coliseum shaped building. "Are you going to enter the tournament?"
"I am," she answers him quickly. "I've been training here in Sinnoh with my Pokemon, this tournament is a great way to see how far I've gotten. What about you?"
"I'm entering it too," the boy replies. "I can't wait to battle some strong trainers."
"Do you want to have some practice?"
"Sure!"
"My name is Janine," the girl introduces herself. "Nice to meet you."
"I'm Ritchie," the boy replies. "It's my pleasure."
What kind of battles await at the Tili Bay tag team tournament? Tune in next time: Same Poke time, same Poke channel.
Author: I think that's all I'll put in for now, there may be some last minute additions in future chapters. For storyline purposes, I'll probably have to make a couple OCs too.
Jessie: Hold up. It's a tag team tournament and we're not going to participate in it? It's a perfect chance for us to jump right back into the story.
James: That's right, we should be given the chance to regain our honour in this fanfic.
Author: Alright, if you say so. I'll make you participants as well, but in disguise. You're too recognizable to all these characters. But first! Quiz time! Who is Janine's father?
Jessie: Wait, what? That ninja twerp never even mentioned having a father.
Author: Wrongo.
James: About what? Not mentioning about a father?
Author: You're right, she never did say she had a father, but you're wrong in answering.
Meowth: It must be that one ninja Gym Leader back in Kanto.
Author: I guess I'll give it to you for that. Janine is the daughter of the Fuchsia City Gym Leader, Koga.
James: How did you figure that out Meowth?
Meowth: I always try to keep a memento of our failed heists. Here's the one from that episode.
Meowth pulls out a Voltorb.
"Voltorb," it shines brightly and Self-Destructs.
Jessie: At least we'll be back into the story for a while.
Meowth: You do know we'll just end blasting out of it again right?
James: We better get some more lines at least.
TR: We're blasting off again!
Author: And there they go. Well, see you next time! Hopefully it won't be too long, Soul Silver is taking up a lot of my time XD.
Also, about Marley, I intended her to be in from the start but the episode she appears in hasn't aired when I uploaded this. So this Marley is mostly based on the one found in the games, but she already met Ash and co. in that episode. I'll adjust her if I need to but I'll keep her crush though.
