"God damn these unknown types." I mutter to myself as I manage to cut down the third one to attack me in the past hour. "I can't be that far from escaping this wooden deathtrap." 'As soon as I get to Rustborough, I'm looting the Pokemart for any Pokeballs I can find. Having a Pokemon would be especially nice.' I think to myself.

As I creep along the edge of the woods, making sure to stay out of the thick of the woods itself, but off the beaten trail, I can finally see some daylight coming from a gap in the trees. Excitedly, I make a short sprint through the trees and I'm out of the forest, but I'm greeted with a gruesome sight. Not only is the path riddled with death, but across the lake, where there should be the third largest city in the hoenn region, is instead i see a the crumbling remains of a once beautiful city. Fire burning from the top of Devon Tower, the roads are cracked with molten lave seeping up between them, and what other horrors lay within, only excite me.

Well, I should probably explain that part. You see, after the event occurred, my first Pokemon, my Mightyena, was eaten by one of those unknown Pokemon. Let's just say that that broke my mind into three pieces, the sane one, me, the devious one, who shall not be named, and my pure insanity became the third. That last one, was very excited.

As I advance cautiously past the old berry house, which I was warned held a rabid Sceptile within, I decided to get a drink from the freshwater lake in front of me before moving on. After a delightfully refreshing drink, I cross the bridge into Rustborough, passing the skeletons of two children, holding hands in an eternal sign of love.

Upon entering the city, I see a dreadful sight. The refuge I was hoping to find in the gym was nonexistent, as the gym itself was a pile of rubble. Then, I hear the bloodcurdling scream of a rabid Pokemon, followed by the terrified screams of a little girl by the sounds of it. I rush towards the screams to see a little girl and her Pichu, running from an apparently rabid Absol.

"HELP ME!" She shouts at the top of her lungs when she sees me, just before tripping over a piece of rubble. Within moments, the Absol will be on top of her, and it isn't like there's anything she can do to me, so I coil up like a spring, and launch myself at the Absol, my sword out, hoping to not have to be lethal to such a beautiful creature. By the time I get there, the Absol is just about to decapitate her when my sword meets the blade on Absol's head. The result from the impact is a blast of air that sends Pichu flying behind me, luckily, not into the lava.

"Girl, do you have a pokeball of some kind on you?" I ask her urgently as I position my blade underneath Absol's and throw the beast further into the road, away from us.

"I-I-I-I've g-got a heal ball." She stutters out, likely scared of what's going on.

"I'll be needing that." I say, grabbing it out of her hand and putting it into the pommel of my sword, button side down. It locks into place with the mechanism my old leader put into it, allowing me to hold a Pokemon there. "BRING IT ON YOU BEAUTIFUL MONSTROSITY!" I shout to the Absol, provoking it to charge at me, claws glowing white. When it reaches me, I deflect with my blade, but in such a way that the momentum is maintained and with a simple sidestep, it flies right past me and the girl, but not before I leave a clean gash in it's back, not lethal, but enough to do quite a bit of damage based on how much blood gushed out of the wound. I then jump towards the beast, and bring the flat of my blade down on it's head.

"STOP HURTING IT!" The girl shouts from behind me. "PICHU USE THUNDERSHOCK!" The little electric rat of hers looses a weak bold of lighting at me. Luckily, with my months of training, I jumped out of the way, letting the thundershock hit Absol in the gash I made, fully paralyzing it.

"You just may be helpful." I say before bring the pommel of my sword down on Absol's head, drawing it into the heal ball I placed there not only a few moments ago. When it is drawn in, the ball snaps shut, and claps come out of the pommel to hold it shut. "Guaranteed catching, but requires me to get right next to whatever beast im fighting. And no need to worry you sweet little head, the heal ball made this Absol good as new. It's not even rabid anymore."

"Sorry I attacked you mister. My name's Kate. What;s yours?"

"I don't have a name anymore. Just call me Dark. And I think I'll call this Absol, Luna. She was a female, horn wasn't as big as the males of the same age."

"How do you know this exactly?" She asks me, her tone completely going in a different direction.

"I used to be in a band of freedom fighters, if you could call us that. Our leader, was a guy by the name of Birch, rest his soul. He knew a crapton about Pokemon. And that is a metric crapton, not an standard craptop." I reply, getting a giggle out of her.

"So then, what are you doing out here?"

"I heard on a radio out in that cave that used to be full of Whismur that there was someone friendly coming to Rustborough. Wanted to see if you made it."

"Well thanks for caring, and thank you especially for that heal ball. Absol is one of my favorite Pokemon."

"Well just make sure you don't abuse it or I'll be forced to attack you."

"The only Pokemon I want to kill is Lucirex. And whether or not you decide to help me, I will take that bastard down."

"Is that the big Pokemon who ate the Sinnoh region."

I nod yes.

"Then count me in. I'm going with you if you want me or not."

"Glad to have you on board Kate. Now let's get out of here before any other Pokemon attack us. Absol normally live on the other side of the region, so I don't want to know whether more Pokemon from that side are over here."

AUTHORS NOTE

OK PEOPLE, I've gotten 3 oc's that I like and will use. I'll gladly take 2 more, but after that, I'll replace the OC form with a new one for antagonists.