Sorry for taking so long, I was planning on working on this when I had woken up but then my dad needed my help, and by the time I got home, I was exhausted. Oh something amazing happen to me when I posted the last chapter on fanfiction. Turns out there are limits to the number of personal messages you can send. That's right, I send in a total of 100 pm's, the site wouldn't let me send any more. Luckily I had a backup account, Dranicus101, so I was able to get that was needed done. Now to make up for time, I will work really hard on this chapter, but I may skip some stuff from the game, I need to speed things up a bit. Now to the answers of last chapter's questions were Hoene, Kanto, and Unova, the winners are SuperDaikenki, The Perfect Replica, and pokemonpuppy23, so congratulations to them, prizes were nicknaming my pokemon, but one of them (not saying who) got a special prize, I will explain what that prize is later. Anyways, on with the chapter!

Disclaimer, I don't own pokemon!

With the addition of Skipper, I finally had my team, and nothing can take us down, but just before returning KingC, I notice something was on his mind, I'll make a note to ask him later. Right now I just want to get back to Rustboro City to see where to go next. But the moment I exit the route, I run into Shroomish guy, and the next thing I know, I'm being drag against my will to the tall building, now I'm suddenly in this big office talking with the Devon himself.

"So you are the one I've heard so much about!"

"Is that a bad thing?" Devon starts laughing, I really hope he isn't on battle goods.

"Nonsense, I am just grateful that you chose to help us. In fact, I have a favor for you."

Oh great, another favor, well maybe it won't be so bad. "Alright, I'm listening."

"I need you two deliver two things, a letter to a friend of mine in Dewford town, and some plans to another friend in Slateport city."

"Anything special about these towns?"

"One of them has a gym."

"Good enough for me!" I was about to go on my way, when suddenly Shroomish guy grabs my arms and puts a weird device in my hands. I look at Devon, expecting an answer, which he provides.

"That is a pokenav, has a map, and is a phone."

"Cool, the map feature will definitely help!" With that I finally leave the building, make sure to resupply, and was about to leave Rustboro city, when I suddenly ran into someone I was hoping to avoid.

"Oh hey TM!"

"…Hey May, look I would like to talk right now but I have to-" But she interrupts me by releasing one of her pokemon, a seagull, and get's into a battle position.

"Battle!"

"What?! No I mean-"

"Battle now!" I might as well just send in KingC, but I knew better than that, so instead I send out Skipper, "Alright Skipper, see what you're made of!"

"Now it's time to show you Americans how it's really done!" But before he could even tackle, Dash runs up and KO's the seagull with thunder punch. "What was that?!"

"You took too long, so I decided to finish it for you."

"Why you!" Soon the water and electric pokemon were fighting each other, I just face palm as May sends in her final pokemon, Treecko.

"Looks like someone is having trouble with their pokemon." She starts to laugh, and I thought it was time to burst her bubble, I look at Locsite, give him a nod, and jumps into battle position.

"So round two, I'll try and take you on serious this time." The Treecko uses quick attack and slams as hard as he can against Locsite's chest, but when he looks up, all he see's is Locsite grinning. "Guess it's my turn." He activates flame punch, but instead of hitting the grass pokemon, he simply flicks him on the head. Instant KO.

"Alright May, you lost, I have to go now, got to deliver a letter to some guy on Dewford town." I start making my way out of the town, until.

"Oh, then you should talk to Mr. Briney, he can help you get there, he has a boat on route 104!"

I suddenly stop in my tracks, "…Um thanks May." I turn but she's not there anymore. "…Yeah I'm leaving now." With that I leave the town, and start making my way towards route 104.

When I am halfway there, I look at my team, with Locsite and Nelipot laughing, laughing at the rivalry going on between Dash and Skipper, who were still fighting each other, until C-Run had enough and froze both of them, that's one way to get them to stop fighting, but then I look at the pokeball containing KingC, and I knew what I had to do, but that will be for later. Eventually we reach route 104 and we head towards the shack and to my surprise, Mr. Briney is the same old guy I met outside of the cave. After explaining to him my situation, he was more than happy to give me a ride, but he needed to do a check up on the boat, saying it will take about 10 minutes, and that's when I decide to talk to KingC. Without letting the others know, I go outside and let him out.

"TM? What's going on?"

"I realized something, and we both know what it is, so I'm gonna let you go." KingC was speechless, but I knew inside he was also happy. "You are always cooped up in a small ball, never really having a chance to see the outside world, and I realize that as long as I have you, I will really accomplish nothing on this journey. Let's be honest, who could possible beat me with you on my team. I want to challenge myself, but I'm afraid it has to be without you. Thanks for the times you helped me, but I know you have things that you need to do."

"…Thanks TM, if you ever need help with anything, just give me a shout and I will come."

"I'll remember that! Man, the team is sure gonna miss you, you always seem to brighten up their day.

"Well I hope that would be your last pun. Good luck on your journey!" With that, KingC goes back to where he belongs, but before he leaves, he shouts, "And who knows, maybe we will see each other again!" He finally leaves, but even though he's gone, I have a feeling I will be seeing him again.

Going back to the shack, I tell everyone that KingC has left, everyone starts asking questions, especially C-Run.

"Why would he go?! Why didn't you stop him?!" I start to explain why I let him go, most of the team were okay with it, Dash was a little disappointed, but C-Run was really depressed.

Mr. Briney finally is ready, and with that we start our voyage to Dewford town. We were about halfway there, when my pokenav suddenly starts to vibrate, and the boat stops for some reason.

"Um…why did we stop?"

"You need to answer that."

"But couldn't you drive while I answer-"

"Answer it!" No wander May knew this guy, oh well, might as well find out whose calling. As soon as I activate it, I am a little surprise at who was calling.

"Um yes, I would like to order the special package of the battle items, and before you ask why, they are for my pokemon."

"Dad?!"

"TM?!"

There was a moment of awkward silence, till I hear the other end hang up.

"…I wasn't expecting that. Okay Mr. Briney, can we go, I'm a little on a tight schedule." His reply is making the boat jump to high speed, forcing me to crash into the back railing. In what was supposed to take us hours, we reach Dewford town in seconds. "Um…thanks."

"No problem, I'll be waiting here when you are done."

After doing some research, I find out that the gym leader uses fighting types, I look at each of my pokemon, knowing fighting types, and they can deal some heavy damage.

"Okay guys, here's the game plan. It's still too early for Dash and Skipper, it would be suicidal for Nelipot, and my best choice would be C-Run. Can I count on you?" She just has he head down, she was still depressed about KingC. "Look, I know you miss him, but I really need your help right now, KingC wouldn't want you to be like this, he would want you to be strong, to continue forward. So I ask you again, can I count on you?!"

She looks up, and I see the determination return to her eyes, "Of course you can, one thing you should know about Italians is that we never give up! You can count on me!"

"Great, now let's take on that gym leader!" But before any one of us could take a step in the gym, we here a cry for help. We go towards the source to see a Nidorina drowning in the water. Looking around, I pick up an old fishing rod on the ground and use it to grab the pokemon. Luck must have been on my side for I was able to reel her in. We all surround her, seeing if she is okay, when suddenly she opens her eyes, and starts hugging everyone.

"Bolshoe spasilbo!" She kept on saying that over and over again, and from the sound of her voice I can tell she was Russian.

"Um…sorry, but we don't speak Russian."

"My bad, I was saying thank you."

"Well, I'm just glad to have help. So what's your name?"

"You may call me Lavender."

"Well I'm TM," I then start to introduce the other pokemon team to her, which she happily greets, but I notice she was glancing at Skipper a lot.

"Again thank you, is there any way I can repay you?"

"Well I have an open spot, would you like to join?"

"Nyet." Everyone has a confused look when she said this, "I mean no. You see, where I come from, we have honor. If you want me to join your team, you must beat me in battle!"

"Alright the, who wants to go against her?" Before anyone could answer Skipper rushes up to the Russian pokemon.

"I will challenge you!"

"Big words coming from a tiny pokemon. Try not to disappoint me." Being faster out of the two, Skipper rushes forward with a hard tackle, pushing her back a few feet. "Not bad, maybe I will enjoy this."

"This is only an appetizer to what I can do!" And so they begin going back and forth from tackle to scratch, both of them growing more fatigue by the second. Soon they were both breathing hard, but then Lavender rushes forward to deliver the finishing blow, but Skipper just smirks as he takes in a deep breath and shoots her with a powerful water gun. The force of the attack sent her flying a few feet, with her landing on her back. Soon Skipper jumps on top of her, "Do you submit?"

"…Yes."

Skipper helps her up, "Then I personally welcome you to the team."

"First let me make it official." I grab a pokeball and tap her with it, once she was captured I let her out. "Alright, let's go to the pokemon center then we will beat that gym leader!"

But as we are walking, I notice Lavender getting close to Skipper and I can barely hear her whisper, "You are very strong, and you are not afraid to speak your mind. I like that in a man." I then see her wink at him at she walks forward ahead, I also notice Skipper was blushing a bit.

"A nidorina and a mudkip…who would've guessed." After healing the team, we finally go to the gym, but for some reason the lights were out. "Okay, what's up with the major black out?!'

I heard someone's voice but I couldn't tell where it was coming from, "This is Brawly, the trainers here have gone on strike, they had turned off the power and will not turn them on unless someone beats them."

"That's kinda dum."

"I know dude, just help me out, then I will take you to the gym leader."

After wasting about 12 minutes of finding and beating all the trainers, the lights finally turn on. "Alright, I beat all the trainers, now take me to the gym leader!" Suddenly, I see a guy with blue hair, and orange shirt, blue shorts, and sandals exit a room.

"Righteous man, thanks for helping me back there. So I Brawly will totally accept your challenge."

Alright, this is it, my second gym battle, I had my plan made, he sends out a machop, "Alright Lavender, let's see what you're made of!"

"I will not disappoint you!" She begins with delivering double kick, but the attack barely seem to faze the pokemon, and he counters with karate chop, it's a good thing Lavender is poison type. "Hah, I've seen magikarps who can hit harder than you!" Soon it repeated, with them hitting each other with either double kick, or karate chop, but then the machop got the upper hand when he used seismic toss, Lavender was barely standing. The machop was about to attack again but then he suddenly faints, turns out he was poisoned when he attacked Lavender, good thing too, that was too close.

"Whoa dude, that was an awesome battle. But it's not over yet!" He sends out meditite.

"Alright Lavender, that's enough." She walks back and lies down, "Okay C-Run, ready for action?!"

"I will show them my might!" Meditite uses meditate, me and C-Run were waiting for it to make a move, but it just stood there. We look at each other and shrug, C-Run delivers a powerful gust attack that knocks out the pokemon, who was still meditating.

"Okay dude, now it's time to get serious! There is no way you can beat my Makuhita!" With that he sends out this fat pokemon, and I thought snorlax was big. C-Run once again delivers another gust attack but the fat pokemon stood his grounds, he then counters with a powerful vital throw that almost takes have of C-Run's health. She looks at me, and I give her the approving nod. She uses Mist, and suddenly vanishes from sight, the makuhita was trying his best to find the ice bird but no luck. Suddenly there was a figure behind him and by the time he turns around, it's too late, for C-Run freezes him with powder snow. "Wow, just wow. That was so epic, here's the badge man, congratulations!" With that he gives me my second badge!

"Alright, two down, two to go! Then I can finally fight my father!"

"Good luck with that man!"

We exit the gym, and after healing at the pokemon center, we get things ready, and go to Mr. Briney, but for some reason he doesn't let us on the boat.

"Aren't you forgetting something?"

"What?"

"The letter!"

"Oh yeah…wait, how did you know about the letter?"

"Go deliver it now or else I will leave you on this island! The man you are looking for is in the cave!" He gives me a good kick to the butt, sending me to the cave entrance.

"That's gonna hurt in the morning." When we enter the cave, I see that it's much bigger than the one by Rustboro City. "This is gonna take awhile."

"Then maybe I can help you!" A big like purple dinosaur pokemon that had a scar on his face that kinda made him look like he had a mustache pops out from the ground, and by his voice I can tell he was Japanese. "I am SirNido the 3rd, and I will be your guide for through this cave."

After walking for a long time, following the nidoking who clearly doesn't have any sense of directions, fighting off random pokemon, and I swear I thought I saw a floating pink cat nearby along with a big floating purple cat like pokemon but they quickly vanish into thin air, we eventually find a man that I assume is Devon's friend.

"Worst guide ever!"

"Thank you!"

I don't think his English is very good, I walk up to the man and tap him by the shoulder, "By any chance do you know Devon?"

"Hmm..Oh yes, I do, I'm Steven by the way." He was wearing a pretty nice suit, and had silver hair. Why does everyone have crazy hair?!

"Finally I find you, here's a little from him." I give him the letter and he doesn't even bother reading it.

"Well it was nice meeting you…"

"TM."

"What a weird name, anyways, I have to go, you be careful now."

With that he leaves, and thinking it was a great idea, I leave with my team as well. When we finally get out of the cave, I check my pokemon to see if there are all okay, but I jumped when I saw this big blue pokemon behind me. "Who the heck are you?!" Everyone else was also curious at who is this pokemon.

"You don't recognize me? It's me, Skipper."

"When did you evolve?!"

"While we were fighting off the random pokemon, didn't you see the bright light when I was evolving?"

"I think I hit a wall when that happened."

"Classic American." He then looks down at Dash, "Looks like we are in different leagues now."

"Just you wait, I will eventually evolve and then we will see whose league is better!"

"Bring it!"

I couldn't help laughing at these two, Locsite and Nelipot were also laughing, C-Run was just shaking her head, and I believe I saw Lavender having new admiration for Skipper. Anyways, we go back to the pokemon center, and rest through the night. "Okay SirNido, my team is full right now, but if there is a time when I need your help, I will get you."

"Thanks, I also think you smell great!"

I just face palm, give him Japanese to English book for dummies, and store him in the pc box. Once we are fully rested, we go to Mr. Briney. "So you delivered the letter?"

"Yup, now can we go to Slateport City now?"

"Yes, yes we can." We get into the boat and we go fast, just like last time. In less than 5 minutes, we pass route 107, 108, and finally stop at 109. "Alright, this is where we go our separate ways." We get off the boat and start inspecting place, up ahead I could see town.

"I know we didn't know each other long, but I just want to thank you for helping me get here Mr. Briney….Mr. Briney?" I turn to see him already leaving on his boat. "Talk about gratitude. Well guys, there seems to be a lot of trainers here, guess it's time for some training!" We all have determination in our eyes!

(Few minutes of beating up trainers, getting a whole bunch of money, and free soda)

Eventually we make it to Slateport City. Luckily, during the training montage, Mr. Devon called, letting me know that the person I'm looking for is name Stern and he owns a shipyard. After finding the building, to my disappointment, he wasn't there, but one of the workers did say that Mr. Stern went to the museum. Deciding that it was the best choice we go there. Once inside I was able to get a good view of all the many blueprints, models, and pictures. Before I could official enter, one of the workers at the desk stops me.

"Hello there, welcome to the museum, 350 pokedollors, please."

"What?! Why is it so expensive?!"

"Well normally it cost 50 pokedollors per entry, and I see there are seven of you, so 350 or get out!"

I was about to ague some more but then I hatch a plan, going back outside, I return all my pokemon back to their pokeballs, and go back inside and pay the very same person 50 pokedollors.

"I showed her!" Once inside, I see that there are many team aqua members, "Man, who knew there were into the museum." But it starts to get overcrowded, I manage to get upstairs where surprisingly, there is only one man there. "Excuse me, but are you Stern?"

"Who told you that?! Was it the FPI?!"

"The what?"

"The Federal Pokemon Investigation!"

"No, Devon sent me to give you these." This guy is has major paranoia problems, maybe he takes battle items.

"Oh Devon, well it's about time!" But just as I give him the parts, two aqua grunts come up the stairs.

"So that's where you've been hiding, give us the parts and we will hurt you!"

"No you idiot, its give us the parts and we will not hurt you!"

"So, it's not like we are gonna let them go once they give us the parts."

This was getting old quick, "How about this, you two walk away before I beat the sorry into those heads of yours!"

"Oh yeah, how about we just beat you!" That was a lame comeback, but they end up sending three pokemon at once, two of them being Carnavha, and one a zubat. I counter by sending in Lavender, Skipper and Dash. The battle was short and one sided, the grunts ended up losing. "What are we gonna do now?"

"I don't know, I never really read the handbook!" Just then a bearded man wearing all black except for a blue bandana walks in.

"Water good, land bad, we are evil! I am Archie, don't mess with us!" And just like that, he takes the two grunts and they leave the museum.

"…What was that about?"

"I don't know, but thanks again for the parts…bye now!"

He just rushes off, out the building, leaving me alone. "This has been one long day."

Pokemon Team:

Locsite: Male Magmar, brave, level 20, knows ember, smog, leer, fire punch, American.

Nelipot: Male Vigoroth, rash, level 19, knows cut, focus energy, uproar, fury swipes, holds silk scarf, Scottish.

Dash: Male Elekid, hardy, level 18, knows quick attack, thunder punch, leer, light screen, American.

C-Run: Female Articuno, mild, level 18, knows gust, powder snow, mist, and steel wing, Italian.

Skipper: Male Marshtomp, mild, level 19, knows water gun, tackle, mud-slap, mud shot, French.

Lavender: Female Nidorina, relaxed, level 20, knows poison sting, scratch, tail whip, double kick, Russian.

Pokemon PC:

KingC: Male Groudon, bold, knows mud shot, scary face, rock tomb, American.

SirNido the 3rd: Male Nidoking, rash, knows peck, focus energy, double kick, poison sting, Japanese.

And done, I hope I did you guys some justice with this chapter. So a quick recap, the special prize was that the winner got to choose who stays and who goes. (Again, will not reveal who) But don't worry, KingC didn't die, nor did I release him, right now he is in the pc box, but I preferred in the story that he went away. And if you haven't figured it out yet, I saw both Mew and Mewtwo, but I was not allowed to capture them. The battle with Brawly was easy, but I wanted to add a little spice to the story, so I did that little vanishing trick with C-Run and her mist attack. As for Archie, well I didn't really care what he said, so I just put what I think he said. Now for this chapter, there will be no question. Why? Because right now it's about 1 AM, and I will be busy today, I don't know when I get back so I am gonna post this right now. I won't be able to check anyone's answers because of this, so again no questions, Sorry. Oh and before I forget, I put up a poll, asking you which is your favorite pokemon on the team so far. It's my first one. Also, soon I will start posting my pokemon, who are in the pc, on my profile. Review if you want to.