Author Notes: This chapter is much shorter than the previous one and sorry about that. This is just supposed to be a mini chapter that will help develop some personalities.

Wendy, Aiden and Hibiki were all on a rough dirt, gravel path. Now behind them was Berry Grove and in front was the pure beauty of Yava's landscape. The rolling hills went on for what seemed like miles, and the soft breeze of the western wind was cool to the touch. The grass whistled in delight, and the wonderful weather really helped Wendy think back to the three days that flew by after the Aggron Festival.

3 Days Ago

Wendy stood in the pokemon center after another failed attempt against Donny. With the help of Aiden and Hibiki, she decided that it would no longer be beneficial to stay in Berry Grove. Donny was out of her league and was clearly too strong to take at the moment. Just as she was about to leave the pokemon center a familiar voice called out to her.

"Wendy wait!"

She turned around to see Justin standing there with that dumb smile of his. She folded her hands let out a loud annoyed sigh. "What do you want? My friends are waiting for me. You wanna rant or make fun of me losing against Donny? Say it now."

Justin rubbed the back of his head. "No, not at all. Why would I make fun of you, we are friends right? Anyway... I was thinking that maybe you could use another team member, you can only make it so far with one pokemon that wants to battle."

Justin walked up to his childhood friend, and like a dork placed a brand new pokeball on her trainer belt. "Don't worry I already did all the paperwork. Good luck out there!"

Back To Present

Wendy stared at the brand new pokeball that she had received from Justin. The ball itself glistened in the light, and it looked practically unused. Even though she knew the pokemon was supposed to be new she still had yet to see what kind of pokemon it was. She still had mixed feelings about receiving a pokemon this way, and she didn't even know if the pokemon inside this pokeball wanted to leave Justin. Either way Wendy looked at her sides and was glad to see that both Hibiki and Aiden agreed to travel with her. Despite her losses it seemed as if things were finally starting to shape up.

It had been some time since the three of them had departed from Berry Grove, in fact the town was no longer insight. The scenery had turned from rolling hills to a small freshwater stream and a few berry bushes dotted around the area. Wendy was quite impressed at the fact how well both Hibiki and Aiden knew how to use a map and compass, as if they had been on long lasting journeys before.

It was just a few more hours until Wendy could feel the souls on her feet burning and exhaustion beginning to take place. "Guys... I'm really sorry to say this, but could we stop. My feet are killing me! I'm not nearly as strong as the two of you are. Also I'm kinda hungry," Wendy said.

Aiden smiled and sat down beside Wendy who sat down beside her. "Hibiki... we should take a break."

Hibiki turned around with Rei in her arms. She gently put him down and looked at both of her friends. "So lunch break then?"

Once it was decided to have a lunch break Aiden got out a blanket and laid it out across the grass. He also brought out Kei, his murkrow to go ahead look around the area, but mainly to let him stretch his wings. Rei instantly found that it was fun to play tag with with Kei.

Hibiki sat down on the blanket right next to Aiden as she did want to talk to him about something that happened during the Aggron Festival. She took in a deep breath and exhaled. "So... uhm I just wanted to talk to you about the fact that I'm really sorry that I kept stepping on your toes during the Aggron dance! We paled in comparison to how in sync Justin and Wendy were."

Aiden let out a nervous laugh, he tilted his head completely down and nervously touched the tips of his fingers. "O-oh th-that! No... uhm... you don't ne-need to worry about that! It was all might fault! I'm not good a much of anything!"

There was a nervous blush that ran across Hibiki's face. "No, that was all my fault! I'm serious! I asked you to dance as a joke! I didn't expect you to dance with someone like me! I sort of just did it cause Wendy said dancing was fun!"

Aiden rubbed the back of his head. "I thought it was fun... did you?"

Hibiki placed both of her hands together. "I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it."

Wendy had finished her meal which simply consisted of a 'add hot water to dry power' for a makeshift oatmeal. When she was finished with her bland meal she had found a clearing beside the river in front of her was Pikachu and Riolu. She already debriefed Riolu on the fact that this was not a sparring match against Pikachu again.

"Alright you two. We have a new member on the team, make sure you treat them with respect." Wendy clenched the pokeball she received from Justin in her hand. She soon noticed that both Aiden and Hibiki were behind her, as well as their respective pokemon were beside Pikachu and Riolu. "Ok here goes nothing... come on out!"

The pokeball spun around in the air and opened up. A light blue light shot out from the pokeball and formed in front of everyone. The pokemon was about the same height as both Pikachu and Riolu, but its head and body began to round out. It had a round white head, two tiny white arms, a round turquoise body, small feet and tail. The standing feature of this pokemon was the shell that was locked onto the center of its body.

"An... OSHAWOTT!" Wendy squealed. She ran up and instantly picked up the pokemon in her arms, and spun around it rubbing her face into its cheek. "OMG OMG OMG! You guys have no idea how badly I've wanted an Oshawott all my life!" She squeezed the tiny otter pokemon in her arms, clearly making it very uncomfortable. "You and I are going to be the bestest of friends."

Wendy put down Oshawott leaving the pokemon in quite a confused state when she stood up straight and saluted towards the sky. "Captain Oshawott reporting for duty!" She kneeled down to look her new team member in the eye.

Hibiki who was watching from afar walked up to Wendy. "Wow an Oshawott huh. You seem really... really excited. So might I ask uhm... who's Captain Oshawott?"

There was a bright sparkle in Wendy's eyes, it was something that Hibiki hadn't seen before. When closed her eyes, put one hand on her hip and covered her eyes. "He is the defender of this world, the protector of everything that breaths, and the ambassador for all that is good! He is the great the wonderful Captain Oshawott!"

Wendy's final pose was bright wide eyes, a wide stance and both of her hands were making the stereotypical peace symbol. She squealed out "How can you not know who the great Captain Oshawott is!?"

Hibiki scratched the back of her head. "Back in Johto we didn't really get to see any shows that came from Unova. So I never got the chance to see anything related to that franchise."

Wendy quickly glanced at her surroundings. She took in a deep breath, wrapped her arm around Hibiki and started to drag her towards Aiden. "Well let me tell you friend to friend what you're missing out on. In fact let me also tell Aiden what he's missing out on!"

What followed was a long confusing conversation with Wendy about her the tv show she grew up with. Both Hibiki and Aiden understood the premise, but didn't understand why anyone would reasonably watch the show.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait! Let me get this straight... the first three seasons of the show which consisted of 150 episodes each were all comedic satire. Then only after that it became a series with a story?!" Hibiki yelled out.

"That's what you're concerned about? Wait more on the actual story itself... so it went from being a show without a story to one with a complex story like that. So what you're saying is that when the story elements were introduced you found out that Captain Oshawott was not an ordinary Oshawott. That he was actually a cyborg, created by Arceus himself, reincarnated from an unknown legendary pokemon, then was briefly given the body of a human because he was originally human from the start, then reverted back into a pokemon when the love of his life turned into a pidove and flew into the sky." Aiden taking in a deep breath. "Only to find out that the love of his life was actually behind all the evil in his world, now with the task at hand he has to take her down, and when he takes her down it turns out that it was all a dream?!"

With a big bright smile Wendy nodded. "Isn't it the best thing you ever heard!"

Both Hibiki and Aiden stared at their red headed friend and wondered if she was joking, or being serious.

Each of the pokemon were playing around with each other. Wendy's Pikachu, Riolu and Oshawott were all getting to know each other. While it seemed that Rei and Kei loved to hang around each other. The two of them despite loving to play together did also end up staying near their respective trainer.

While Pikachu and Riolu tried to get to know their new teammate a fight had quickly broken out between Pikachu and Oshawott. Behind Oshawott was Riolu who was shivering, Pikachu's body was angrily surrounded by sparks of electricity. Oshawott stood proudly in front of Riolu, he didn't understand the ideals of his teammate.

"Why are you forcing him to spar with you!" Oshawott yelled.

"Huh?! What about it! He started stepping out of line you piece of shit! I'll fucking kill you I'm at the clear type advantage a weak water type like you couldn't stand up to me." Pikachu yelled.

"I'm not here to prove who's stronger or weaker. I hate it when I see a pokemon like you pick on others who don't want to fight. You don't want to make me draw my blade." Oshawott scowled.

"You're pissing me off!" Pikachu yelled. His fists were completely surrounded by electricity. He lunged towards Oshawott.

Oshawott quickly grabbed onto Riolu and wrapped her body around him. Riolu felt cold to the touch on her fury skin. She tightly wrapped around the shiver in his body to try and calm him down, but a sharp, harsh pain shot up her spine. There was a large amount of electricity pulsing throughout her body.

Riolu looked up at Oshawott who had protected him from a thunder punch. She looked so heroic, so beautiful from that angle. She was someone to look up to. He trusted her to protect him. He couldn't say a single word at the time, he could only close his eyes in a mixture of fear and peace.

There was a loud pitter patter running towards the three of them. Pikachu looked over his shoulder and gave his trainer a respectful bow. Oshawott crossed her arms as she knew the order of following events. She had to endure an earful from her new trainer about respect, Pikachu received the same speech, but he seemed completely fine with it.

Wendy picked up Oshawott by the arms and held her by the arms. "Since you're the newest member of the team, I'll let you off with a warning, but there is also something that I'd like to do... it's something I've never done with a pokemon before. Is it alright if I give you a nickname?"

Oshawott thought on it for a little bit, her previous master Justin didn't really call her by anything special. The breeder she came from constantly called her by a code number and any others she met simply called her by her species name. She looked her trainer in the eye and waved a bright smile.

"Oh... I guess I should figure out if you're a boy or a girl then. Uh... raise your right arm if you're a boy and raise the other if you're a girl!" Wendy smiled.

Oshawott raised her left arm high up into the air with a big bright smile that Wendy found completely adorable.

Wendy smiled back. "Alright then how about I call you Laura!"

Author Notes: So this was just supposed to be a small mini chapter introducing a few things. Just let me know your thoughts and from here on out I want to develop the pokemon personalities a bit more if that's ok with you guys!