Pokémon

I'm sorry about the delay in updating. I've been really busy lately as well as working on other story ideas.

I do not own pokemon or it's characters. I only own Alex and Ryan.


Chapter # 6 – Sandgem Stranger

Upon arriving in Sandgem town, I wasn't in much of a better mood. I picked up my pace as I headed straight to pokemon center to heal my pokemon.

"Hello, how may I help you?" Nurse Joy asked as I approached her.

I faked the best smile I could manage and held out my 4 pokeballs. "Could you take care of my pokemon please?"

"Of course. I'll call you when they're ready." She replied, putting my poke balls on a tray and walking away.

I headed towards the door thinking now might be a good time to see Professor Rowan about updating my pokedex.


A strange old man limped up to me on the way asking, "Excuse me young lady. Could I ask you for a favor?"

"Depends," I replied suspiciously, "What kind of favor?"

He slowly pulled a pokemon egg from his bag and answered, "I need someone to take this egg off my hands for me and take care of it. I'm far too old to be looking after such a young pokemon.

My eyes shone and I smiled from ear to ear. I absolutely loved hatching pokemon eggs, and the cute little baby pokemon too. Yes, I have a soft spot for cute things. "I'd love to!" I exclaimed snatching the egg and examining it all over. "Do you have any idea what it is?" I asked excitedly looking up, but the old man was already gone. 'Ok, again, weird'. Shrugging it off, I carefully placed it on the top of my book bag and pondered over what it could be for the rest of the trip to the lab.

Walking in the sliding doors, I stopped in my tracks looking around curiously. The place was a pig sty. "Is anybody here? Professor Rowan?" I asked raising my voice.

"Right here." He responded, peering out a doorway at me. "I'm sorry but if you're here for you're starter pokemon then you'll have to wait a little while."

"Actually, my names Alex, from Pallet Town and I was wondering if you could update my pokedex for me. That is, if you're not too busy." I glanced again at the broken window and the papers scattered around the floor.

"Oh. In that case it's no problem. It'll only take a second."

"That's great." I handed my blue pokedex to him and he walked into another room. A minute later he walked in and handed it back. "All done." He said.

"Thanks a lot professor." I smiled looking it over, then placing it back in my pocket.

"No problem at all. Take care of yourself there little missy."

"I'm not little." I muttered under my breath as I exited the lab and trekked back to the pokemon center.


My pokemon were waiting for my by the time I got back. Cubone and eevee were fine and well rested, charzard's wing was badly broken and was wrapped tight in a bandage and couldn't fly for quite a while until it healed. And the blue fish thing, which is apparently called a mantyke, also had an injured wing with bandages so she couldn't fly either. I thanked Nurse Joy and headed out of the town, down the road to Jubilife City to find a place to sleep as the sun was starting to set.

We stopped at a nice little clearing by the side of the road, a little less then halfway to Jubilife, and set up camp.

Eevee, cubone, mantyke and I all sat nibbling on apples I had picked off a nearby tree next to an open campfire. Charzard didn't feel very sociable tonight, annoyed with his broken wing and the fact that he couldn't fly, so he had only stayed out long enough to devour some apples and start the fire before returning to his pokeball.

The sky was pitch black now with no stars in sight, so I decided it was time my friends and I got some sleep. "Aqua, return." I said using the new nickname I gave mantyke. "Bedtime guys." I called crawling into my cozy purple sleeping bag. Cubone came over and lay down next to my stomach and eevee curled up at my head.

As I lay there, my mind wondered off to my new egg. I was usually really good at guessing what they would be, but this one puzzled me so it must have been a Sinnoh pokemon.

I then thought about the flyers I had seen advertising the upcoming contest in Jubilife. I pondered over entering but decided against it. We had just gotten to Sinnoh and I would have to come up with a performance routine and I just wasn't ready yet. So tomorrow I would just buy some supplies I would need and start heading off towards my first gym battle.

'The Oreburgh City gym. The rock type gym' I thought. 'Unless I catch a new pokemon on the way, I'll have to use eevee, charzard and cubone'. I knew mantyke would be a better match up with it being part water, but I didn't believe in match ups that much and with its lack of battling skill with me it would take a lot of training. Plus it had its injured wing so I planned on sending it back to Professor Oak in the morning for some rest.

Eevee was my strongest I would say and she loved to battle tough opponents. Even though charzard had a broken wing, I knew he could make it up in his strength and firepower, so he would be fine. Cubone was still little, but if it came down to it, I knew he could take on a gym, if need be.

I also decided to register in the Sinnoh league. I hadn't competed in any of the other regions but I always watched them and they looked like a lot of fun. I was getting the badges anyway so why not?

Finally, I let sleep overtake me and had a well earned good nights rest.


~Earlier that same day~

Ash's POV

I dialed my mom's number to thank her for my new clothes she sent me. 'I'm really glad I have pikachu back' I thought looking over at him sitting on my shoulder.

When she picked up I quickly thanked her and told her I was having a great time in Sinnoh.

"Well I can see that," she said smiling, "By the way, have you seen Alex yet? How is she?"

"What are you taking about mom? She's still with Ryan back in Pallet Town." I laughed, thinking she forgot already.

"Actually," she started, "Apparently she left early this morning to Sinnoh without telling anybody but Gary! It's all our little towns been going on about and I've been trying to calm Ryan down since he heard. Anyway don't forget to tell Professor Oak that pikachus ok. Love you honey." And she disconnected.

I stared at the blank screen. "What?" I asked. 'Alex is in Sinnoh? Why didn't she tell me? Maybe because I probably would have let it slip to Ryan. But why haven't I seen her yet?' All of these questions raced through my head. Actually, I don't think I had seen Alex since before I left Hoenn. Finally, I decided I should call the Professor.

After I told him pikachu was safe, I walked out to my friends Brock and Dawn in a daze.

"What's wrong Ash?" Brock asked concerned.

"Alex. Alex is in Sinnoh." I said softly, talking more to myself then to Brock.

"Really? Alex is here? Where?" Brock questioned looking around.

Dawn spoke up feeling very confused, "Um who's Alex?"

"Not here Brock," I answered, "But somewhere in Sinnoh. She's an old friend of ours."

I assured myself that wherever she was she was fine and could take care of herself.


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