Joey and June were walking down the road towards Violet City so Joey could take on the Gym Leader Falkner. June was looking through a map to verify where they currently were.

"Any clue how close we are to Violet City?" Joey asked.

"We're just reaching the halfway mark." She replied.

Joey looked up into the sky and saw the sun was getting low. He sighed. "Great, I was hoping to make some good progress today." He turned to June "And we would've made good progress if we didn't have to stop for you to fix your hair!" Joey blamed.

June's hair was now in a ponytail and was damp from Marill using Water Gun earlier. "My hair was getting frizzy," she shot back. "You probably would've done the same."

Joey turned his back to June. "I could care less about my hair, I have more important things to worry about. I seriously don't get why girls make such a big deal about that stuff." He took off his hat and a huge cow lick was standing up to the left on the top of his head.

June held back a laugh. "You're a boy, you're not suppose to. At least not yet." June couldn't handle it anymore and fell on the ground laughing.

"Hey, what are you laughing at!" Joey yelled letting his anger getting the best of him.

"You should really do something about that cow lick." June said wiping a tear away.

Joey sighed and felt the back of his head. He had always tried to control that cow lick, but gave up after it always refusing to stay down. "Shut up." Was all he said as he put his hat back on. Then something made Joey jump.

"Will you two shut up! I'm trying to train." A figure came through the bushes with two Pokemon by his side, one blue small reptilian creature and a dark blue bird with a head that looked like a hat.

"Hey, it's you." Joey said. The man was wearing the familiar black vest and red undershirt. His dirty-blonde hair was still spiked straight up.

"What are you doing here?" The boy asked.

"I could ask you the same thing?" Joey replied.

"Uh, Joey who is this?" June broke the silence.

"Um, some guy I met back in New Bark when I first started my journey. By the way I never caught your name." Joey said turning his attention back to the boy.

"Someone as weak as you doesn't deserve to know my name." He replied.

"Hey, stop calling me weak! I tell you my name if you tell me yours." Joey said, anger taking over again.

"Uh, Joey-" June tried to step in.

"Stay out of this, June!" June took a step back.

"Heh, so your name is Joey. So the name fits."

Joey growled in anger. "What's that suppose to mean!" Joey raised a fist and was about to charge before June grabbed his arm.

"Don't fight him. Settle this like real trainers and battle him."

Joey lowered his fist. Why didn't he think of that. "Hey, I still don't know your name but let's have a battle to settle this. Get ready for a fight Cyndaquil!" Joey grabbed Cyndaquil's Pokeball and threw it at the space between him and the boy. As Cyndaquil popped out of the sphere its flames flared signaling it was ready for battle.

"So you chose that weak Cyndaquil as your starter." He stated.

"If you think he's so weak then you shouldn't have any trouble battling him." Joey replied.

"Fine then, how about a two on two battle?"

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"Um, I only have Cyndaquil." Joey finally admitted.

"Are you serious. You're wasting the Pokemon Trainer prodigy, Rick's time." He talked about himself in third person. "Murkrow, Totodile, let's go." With that he walked off. This reminded Joey of all the times Rick had done that to him.

Joey turned to June who had her arms crossed. "What?" He asked.

"How do you expect to defeat Falkner with one Pokemon!" She screamed.

Joey cowered in fear, the realized something. "Hey, at least I accomplished something."

"And what would that be?"

"I learned that guy's name, Rick." Joey turned to the direction Rick walked off. I will battle you eventually Rick, because now, we're rivals.

Joey and June had set up camp for the night. They had let out Cyndaquil, Aipom, and Marill to rest.

Joey was sitting restlessly by the fire he and Cyndaquil had made. "Ugh, I really wanted to battle Rick!" he exclaimed.

"Catch a Pokemon and I'm sure he'll battle you." June said yawning. "I'm going to bed." With that she walked over to her sleeping bag and went to sleep.

Joey turned to Cyndaquil "You also want a new friend, don't you?" He said while scratching his head.

"Cynda!"

"Don't worry Cyndaquil we'll start looking as soon as we wake up tomorrow." With that he went to his sleeping bag and fell asleep.

While Joey, June, and their Pokemon slept during the night, a wild Hoothoot was wide awake watching out for any danger. It looked left to right and sighed feeling safe.

"Murkrow!"

The Hoothoot jumped and was hit by a Dark Pulse attack. The Hoothoot fell out of its tree and on top of Joey's head. He woke up immediately. He felt his head unaware of what happened. He looked around to see Hoothoot on the ground hurt. Joey pulled out his Pokedex and scanned it. "Hoothoot the Owl Pokemon. This Pokemon is a dual Normal and Flying Type Pokemon. It always stands on one foot. Even when attacked, it does not brace itself using both feet." The Pokedex closed and the noise it had made caused the others to wake up.

"What's going on?" June asked.

"I'm not sure." Joey answered.

Hoothoot looked scared and made an attempt to hop away.

"Hoothoot, wait! Why're you scared?"

Cyndaquil ran up and stopped it and tried to talk to it. "What do you think they're saying to each other?" June asked.

"Your guess is as good as mine."

"Krow!" Joey and June turned to see a flock of Murkrow glaring daggers at the group, especially at Hoothoot. Hoothoot cowered in fear and Joey and Cyndaquil stepped in front of it to protect it.

"What do you want with Hoothoot?" Joey demanded an answer.

"If you knew your stuff, you'd know that Murkrow are very territorial. And that Hoothoot has been in their territory for a long time, let alone you." Rick had walked from behind the flock with his Murkrow by his side.

"Then why aren't they angry at you?" Joey asked.

"Simple, my Murkrow is their leader." He stated.

The flock had started sending a variety of attacks at Joey and the others. "If your Murkrow is the leader, then stop them." Joey screamed as he was hit by a Peck attack.

"Not my problem." He walked off.

"Did he seriously just leave us here?" June screamed.

"We're gonna have to fight back! Cyndaquil use Ember now!" Joey commanded.

Cyndaquil sent out embers to multiple Murkrow knocking them out. Then headbutted one Murkrow and knocked it down. Cyndaquil then dodged a Peck attack and sent a Swift towards the owner. Joey was too busy giving orders to Cyndaquil to notice a Murkrow coming towards him with Peck. Hoothoot saw this and jumped in front of him and sent a beam from its eyes towards the Murkrow stopping it midair. Hoothoot then sent it into a nearby tree knocking it out.

"We can't keep battling like this. Cyndaquil use Smokescreen." Cyndaquil blew smoke out of his mouth. This created a cloud of smoke surrounding the battle. "Come on, run!" Joey, June, their Pokemon and Hoothoot ran out of the smoke cloud coughing.

When Joey was done with his coughing fit he turned to Hoothoot. "You're really strong Hoothoot. How would you like to come with us? I can even help you become stronger and take on their leader." Hoothoot looked at the smoke cloud then back at Joey. Joey had a hand out offering it to come with him. Hoothoot gave Joey a nod with "Hoot!"

"Okay." Joey pulled out a Pokeball and bumped Hoothoot on the head. Hoothoot was then engulfed in red light and sucked into the Pokeball. The Pokeball shook shook three times before settling in Joey's hand. A huge smile came across Joey's face. He started jumping around, shouting, and fist pumping. "I caught my first Pokemon! A Hoothoot!"

"Would you calm down. Geez, I didn't even get this excited when I caught Marill." June sighed.

"Come on, you can't say you weren't this excited when you got your first catch." Joey had calmed down a little bit.

"And someone as immature as you wants to be a Pokemon Master." Joey turned his head to see Rick again with Murkrow still by his side.

"How could you leave us there without-" June was cut off by Joey.

"Hey Rick, how about that battle now?"

"How do you know my name?"

"You said I was 'wasting the time of the great Rick'"

Rick growled in anger. "Fine, but this better not be a waste of time."

The sun was starting to come up as Joey and Rick stared each other down at their makeshift battlefield in the clearing in the woods.

"This will be a two on two battle between Joey and Rick." June stated. "Once both Pokemon are declared unable to battle on either side the match will be over."

"I'll start this off." Rick looked at Murkrow. "Go."

Joey pulled out his Pokedex "Murkrow, the Darkness Pokemon, dual Flying and Dark type. Murkrow confuse would-be attackers by luring them into dark mountain trails, where they are sure to get lost."

"I know who would love to battle you, let's go Hoothoot!" Joey sent out his recently captured Pokemon onto the battlefield.

"Begin!"

Rick wasted no time to start the battle. "Murkrow, Wing Attack." Murkrow's wings glowed white and started flying towards Hoothoot.

"Hoothoot, use Hypnosis." Joey commanded. Hoothoot stood still and stared into Murkrow's eyes. Wavelengths came out of Hoothoot's eyes sending them to Murkrow. The Darkness Pokemon fell on its face sleeping. "Great! Now use Dream Eater!" Wavelengths again were sent from Hoothoot's eyes to Murkrow.

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"Wait, what happened?" Joey asked, confused.

"You idiot. You didn't know that Psychic type attacks don't effect Dark type Pokemon."

"Then why did Hypnosis work?"

"Because Hypnosis is a status attack. Physical and special attacks are the only kind of attacks affected by types. Now Murkrow wake up!" Rick shouted at the top of his lungs.

Murkrow woke up and continued its Wing Attack. Hoothoot made an attempt to jump over the attack but was swept by its leg and was flipped onto its back.

"Hoothoot get back up and use Peck." Joey ordered.

"Murkrow, sweep back with your own Peck attack!" Hoothoot was up on its foot but before it could ready its Peck attack Murkrow had already knocked it over knocking it out.

Joey pulled out Hoothoot's Pokeball and pointed the ball towards it. "Return Hoothoot."

"I knew this would be a waste of time. Let's go Murkrow." Rick had started walking away.

"Hey what about our battle?" Joey stood there waiting for an answer.

Rick didn't stop walking. "There's no point in continuing, I already won."

"If you walk away from the battle it will count as a forfeit," June cut in. "Then we'll have to tell everyone that the great and powerful trainer, Rick lost to some random kid."

Joey turned to June. "Hey!"

June gave Joey a look as if saying 'shut up, I'm trying to help you.'

Rick stopped walked and turned around. "Fine." Was all he said before walking back to the battlefield.

"Murkrow get back out there."

"Krow!" Murkrow followed orders and flew back onto the battlefield.

"Cyndaquil, get ready for a fight!" Joey threw the sphere onto the field and Cyndaquil popped out of its Pokeball and squealed in excitement.

"The battle between Joey and Rick continues with Cyndaquil versus Murkrow. Begin!" June announced.

"Murkrow, Pursuit!" With Rick's orders, Murkrow flew at Cyndaquil with a great speed.

"Cyndaquil, counter with Headbutt!" Cyndaquil jumped towards Murkrow head first. They collided and both were sent backwards.

"Confuse Ray!" Rick ordered.

"Quick Smokescreen!"

Murkrow sent a ball of energy towards Cyndaquil and he sent a cloud of smoke out of his mouth. The smoke cleared and Cyndaquil was facing Murkrow's back. "Now a full power Ember at Murkrow while its unaware!" Cyndaquil blew large embers out of its mouth engulfing Murkrow in flames. The Flying type fell to the ground unable to battle anymore.

"Joey this is your first battle isn't it?" June asked. Joey answeredwith a nod. "Then how did you know how to pull off an attack like that?"

"I've spent countless hours watching battles on T.V. and I picked that move up from there."

Rick returned Murkrow. "Now for someone who won't be as worthless as you. Totodile show them your power!" The Totodile that Joey had met when he first started his journey appeared on the battlefield.

Joey once again pulled his Pokedex out. "Totodile, the Big Jaw Pokémon. Its highly developed jaw is so powerful, it can crushpractically anything. Trainers beware: this Pokémon loves to use its teeth."

Joey looked over to Cyndaquil. "You ready for a challenge, buddy?" Cyndaquil nodded. "Good, now use Headbutt!"

Cyndaqul dashed head first towards Totodile.

"You're just playing into his hands." June said under her breath.

Rick chuckled. "Totodile now Water Gun."

"Huh?" Joey watched as Cyndaquil was engulfed in a stream of water then scratched furiously. Cyndaquil slowly got back up. "Cyndaquil, can you continue?" Cyndaquil nodded again.

"Totodile, Bite!"

Totodile bit on Cyndaquil's side. All Cyndaquil could do was squeal. "Now, Water Gun!" Rick ordered. Totodile sent Cyndaquil flying out of its mouth straight into a tree. Cyndaquil slid down to the base of the tree with swirls in its eyes, indicating he was knocked out.

"Return, Cyndaquil." The red beam of light engulfed Cyndaquil and sucked him into the Pokeball.

"I told you this would be a waste of time. And that Cyndaquil is just as weak as I thought it would be." Rick returned Totodile and did his signature wave off of Joey.

Joey just stood there silently.

June had been getting ready to eat a sandwich for lunch when Aipom walked up to her. It pointed towards Joey, who had been sitting beside a tree, he had his arms holding his head while they were loosely around his legs. His hat was no longer backward, it was now forward, covering his face.

June walked up to him. "Alright, what's wrong?" He didn't answer. "If your not gonna answer me at least eat lunch." She held a sandwich out towards him.

"I don't deserve to eat lunch right now."

"Why not?"

"Because I lost."

"Look it was your first battle, besides Rick has had more experience than you and he had a type advantage. Now eat. No one doesn't not deserve to eat." (Everyone understands that sentence right?) She held the sandwich out again.

Joey looked up and smiled. He turned his hat backwards again. His stomach growled causing him to laugh when he took the sandwich. "Haha, you're right. Thanks June."

"No problem. After we eat what do you say take a nap and get in as much walking as we can before it gets dark again."

Joey nodded. They hadn't gotten much sleep the night before because of everything that happened so the were both extremely tired. "Yeah."

With that they both walked over to June's backpack,where all the food was.

So you finally met Joey's rival, Rick. And Joey caught his first Pokemon! A Hoothoot! Joey had also lost his first ever battle.

Alright so OC submissions are still up and will be up until I decide to close them. They'll be open and closed a lot throughout the story.

I'm thinking of doing something with Ash and characters of the anime, but i don't know because I really only do this stuff when I get really bored and have nothing else to do.