Yo! I know its been a lot longer than you guys would have liked me to update but I swear I was banging my head against the wall to finish this one. Luckily I'm pretty satisfied with this chapter and I'm eager to know what you guys think of the OC that you will finally get to meet. Plus this is the longest chapter I've written so far so you get more for waiting around to read it. Also by the time Sonic reaches the pokemon world five days have passed since Cynthia and Shadow left Birches lab. Traveling through dimensions means a difference in time.

My response to a few of your reviews:

supersonic: Ok so maybe it is a big shock to some of you to have Shadow caught but there are reasons why I did it. If you think about it, when you transfer Shadow or Sonics abilities over to pokemon there are quite a few "walls" to their usual strategy of using their speed to overcome their opponent. Examples: Paralysis, Burn (lowers attack), attacks that lower speed (string shot, sticky web, bubblebeam), priority moves (protect, detect, sucker punch), undodgeable moves (swift, faint attack), weather damage, flinching, moves that have nothing to do with a pokemon's speed but still pose a threat (Perish song, pain split, endeavor, destiny bond), entry hazards (stealth rock, spikes), battlefields (ice, sand, and water), rough skin and or rocky helmet damage, heres a big one, Trick Room. And there are probably more but my point is that with no knowledge of pokemon types, moves, or abilities they would have an extremely difficult time getting through the region without a partner to help strategize around it all. And since the fic will focus on journey aspects as well as the main conflict that means there will be pokemon battles and it would be boring to see only other pokemon battle instead of our two favorite hedgies. I think it would be unfair to use a pokemon you have not caught or registered to battle with unless it somehow pertains to the story and you can still make it enjoyable while keeping to most of both worlds logic. And yes that place where Palkia, Sonic and Mew were in is called the Spatial Dimension as is in Palkia's dex entry.

Matt: Have Sonic be a flying type? That's an interesting and unique suggestion but in all honesty I don't think it reflects his fighting style accurately. But I do have something in mind to help with his fear of water, but that's later.

I apologize for any mistakes as my new reader got busy but hopefully in the future he'll have more time to read and edit my chapters. I hadn't planned on taking this long to update this chapter but oh well. Better late than never they say.

Chapter 6:Welcome to the World Of Pokemon!

Mew was a little worried about its new companion. When he fainted after suffering a direct hit from Palkia it thought maybe the hedgehog was more injured than it thought. It floated above him impatient to see it awaken and get back up on its feet. The two of them were in an unfamiliar area. Mew had made a bed of leaves for the hedgehog to sleep on not sure what else it could do to make him comfortable. When the azure hedgehog began to stir in his sleep Mew moved close, its excitement growing.

Blue lids opened to reveal emerald eyes whose blurry vision caught sight of something pink. When his vision became more focused he sat up quickly, the events that occurred last flashing through his mind.

The dimensional portal...a spaceless void...a huge water dragon attacking...that pink cat thing...

"You're awake. I'm so happy! I was worried you were more hurt than you looked." Mew spoke in a cheery voice flying around the hedgehog happily. It took awhile for Sonic to register where he was but once he did the events that occurred in the spatial dimension all came back crystal clear and he sat up quickly his senses fully awakened now.

"Mew...I...what happened? I remembered you talking to that huge dragon, Palkia I think. And then it chased us and we were running away and then I got hit with water and it all goes black from there." Sonic said standing as he took in the sight and sounds of a forest.

"Palkia knocked you out so I teleported you here before it could attack again."

"Thanks a lot Mew but where exactly is here?" While emerald eyes scanned the area he caught a bit of movement out of the corner of his eyes. It looked like something small, furry, and brown but it moved before he could tell what it was.

Mew looked like it was about to say something more but footsteps and rustling leaves made both of them turn to focus on the noise.

"Now if I continue on this route it should take me straight to LittleRoot town- huh?" Walking towards the two unsuspecting pokemon was a kid. He had auburn hair that was neither short nor long but something in between and brown eyes. His clothing consisted of a black shirt with one white fringed striped pointing up from the bottom of his v-neck. He wore an emerald green jacket that stopped inches before his waist and a hood and short sleeves like a T-shirt. He had white shorts that went past his knees and black and white converse. The last things he wore were were black and white fingerless gloves, a black backpack with red lined edges and a green bandana tied around his arm that had the black outlines of pokeballs all over it.

Right now the kid was a bit dumbstruck unable recognize either of the two pokemon in front of him. He stood there frozen on the spot not sure how to approach but all the more curious.

He had heard all kinds of stories about rare and powerful pokemon and he was eager to meet one despite the fact that most of them tend to hide in mysterious places and avoid trainers.

As soon as he took a step forward Mew disappeared using teleport. "Hey wait! Mew come back!" White gloved hands had reached to grab the little pink creature before it disappeared but it was too late and Mew was nowhere in sight. Sonic sighed and emerald eyes cast their gaze upon the auburn haired kid with slight annoyance as he crossed his arms. The kid was too busy staring at the hedgehog who just spoke not really noticing the expression. He honestly thought his ears were playing tricks on him until the azure creature spoke again.

"Now look what ya did. Mew was my only help in this strange dimension and now it's gone." When he got no response from the boy he just rolled his eyes. "If you keep standing there like that with your mouth open you're gonna catch flies."

"Right… You can talk?" he said dumbly.

"Well considering that the last things that came out of my mouth weren't chirps, woofs, or meows yeah I think I can talk. " And he paused for effect. "Of course I can talk. Why wouldn't I be able to?" He answered like the kid had asked why water is wet or why the sky is blue. To Sonic it felt like a very dumb question but he had to remember he was in another dimension and things could be very different here.

The hedgehogs smart tone had snapped whatever trance the kid had been under as he tried to make sense of what was happening here. He had actually found a talking pokemon which was amazing! It was a shame he didn't have any pokemon of his own yet or he would've wasted no time trying to catch it.

"Well if you don't mind I kinda have something I need to do." The azure hedgehog turned away preparing to take off into the forest when he was stopped.

"Hold on!" The brown eyed kid said quickly coming closer to the strange creature. "You said you needed help didn't you?" Sonic paused something he rarely did to look at the kids face. He seemed a bit overeager to help and while he could have ran off and started looking for Shadow on his own he didn't fancy running into something like Palkia again and he was getting kinda hungry too.

"Well that depends, do you have any chili dogs?"

Meanwhile in an underwater base…

"So Maxie thinks he can get away with this does he?" A broad figure sat in a chair watching recorded clips from one of the golbat sent out to keep an eye on Team Magma. He smiled rubbing his beard while deep in thought.

Behind him stood a tall woman with dark toned skin and long black hair curved out to the sides. A few pieces of her hair were a sea blue with matching blue eyes and she wore white and yellow goggles on her head. Her outfit which was a tad bit revealing had long sleeves and a white symbol on her chest area. She wore long blue pants that only showed a bit of her thigh on the sides. The woman placed a hand on her hip as she too admired the work of Team Magma who tried oh so hard to keep the pokemon they found hidden in one of their most secure bases. She help couldn't but give a small laugh as she saw Cynthia confronting the stout man as he put on his best poker face.

"What shall we do it about it, Archie? The more time you spend watching video feeds of Team Magma's actions the more I noticed your interest was peeked," the woman said finding the matter just as curious as he did.

Archie sat back in his chair and closed his eyes. Though it did not progress his own plans he did somewhat enjoy screwing up Maxie's. The two leaders had a bit of a rivalry of their own between them ever since they can remember. Over the years they have spent countless times searching for ways to find Groudon and Kyogre so that they could use their power to make their ambitions a reality. If one of them seemed to be getting close to a discovery, then the other butted in or stole information for themselves. It wasn't too long ago that the two had found the orbs needed to control two of the legendary pokemon of Hoenn's trio. But after that they had come to a bit of a wall. They did not understand much about the orbs or how they worked and many times were unsuccessful in activating them.

Archie stood up and faced Shelly, one of the Admins of Team Aqua. "I tell you what we're going to do Shelley. We're going to have a closer look at this pokemon Maxie wanted so badly for himself." He had taken the blue orb out from his collar and gave it a long look while walking past Shelley. "And then we're going to go pay Maxie a visit."

Already the leader of Team Aqua was thinking up all sorts of possibilities that are suddenly possible after witnessing Maxies intentions. Using a pokemon with an ability to harness a different kind of energy seemed brilliant. It could be just the thing for activating the blue orb and he was bent on reaching this result first.

Now where could I find another pokemon like that?

Oldale town wasn't much to look at but it was certainly very peaceful and and quiet. The town smelled freshly of flowers as the the people who lived liked to liven up the atmosphere with colorful bunches. It was this town that the blue hero and the boy whose name he had learned was Callen had casually walked into.

"Remind me again why I'm wearing this hoodie that happens to be a bit itchy?" Sonic said only use to wearing his white gloves and shoes. The navy blue hoodie covered most of his body except his legs and was just big enough to cover his quills although he had to lower his ears to make it easier to stay on. He walked beside Callen who seemed to have a rather relaxed expression on his face despite Sonics slight discomfort with his hands in the hoodie's pockets.

"Because if people saw you, you would draw a lot of attention and that would be a problem." There were some men working on an old lady's house and a young girl who was using a wailmer pail to water the flowers in the center of town marked off by a fence. Despite Callens warning Sonic didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with getting a bit of attention. Hiding from others just wasn't his style but he listened to the kid anyway since he promised to buy him some food.

After entering the pokemon center and getting something to eat Callen felt like it was great time to start asking some questions that had been bothering him since the moment he saw the blue hedgehog.

"Sonic right? If you don't mind me asking, who was that pokemon you were with earlier?" He sat back in the booth with his arms crossed, his bag right beside him. The blue blur had munched on another french fry a little disappointed that he didn't get a chili dog but none the less grateful.

"Mew I think. And it was helping me escape from some large dragon with anger issues."

"A dragon? What did it look like?"

"White, purple, wings on its back, pearls on its shoulders, something like that." The brown eyed trainer could not place a picture with any of the things Sonic had said. He had never heard of pokemon like that but it peeked his interest all the more.

"So then what are you, and where did you come from?"

"What are you Sherlock Holmes? You keep asking questions like you're interrogating me. Did I do something bad?" He joked smirking at the kid.

"Sorry I-"

"Don't worry about it. I don't mind since it is about me. Besides you did buy me food. Anyways to answer your question, I'm a hedgehog and I came here in search of a friend of mine." Sonic ended up telling Callen quite a bit about himself and where he came from and what Shadow looked like. Seeking to go on an adventure himself, the soon to be trainer listened intently. However the more the hedgehog went on the more unrealistic and unbelievable it started to sound.

"No way you've got to be making this stuff up. C'mon water gods of destruction, Zeti, a fat egg shaped man."

"Do you honestly think someone with a face like this would lie to you?" Emerald eyes seemed to give off a glint as their owner pointed his thumb at himself.

"I wouldn't know. Is it natural for talking blue hedgehogs to tell tales taller than their height."

"About as natural as it is for a 15 year old to talk about a hedgehog when his hair looks almost as spiky as mine."

"What do you mean, my hair looks- Ow!" The kid rubbed his leg from being savagely kicked and the blue hero had managed to reach over with incredible speed and mess with his hair so that it spiked up in a ridiculous way. Sonic looked at his master piece and chuckled and after Callen realized what happened he found himself laughing as well. Unfortunately their laughter was cut short when a person with purple hair wearing a lab coat came rushing into the Pokemon center asking for help. Sonic and Callen who had snapped to attention looked on as the scientist began asking the few people who were in the center for help. However, it seemed the other trainers either didn't have healthy pokemon or simply didn't want to help.

Eventually he came rushing over to Sonic and Callens table. "Please I need help! A strange man in blue attire stole something important from our lab and I need to get it back."

Sonic had slid out of the booth and stood up. He was ready for a bit of action and this seemed like just what he needed. Besides he's never been one to ignore someone who needs help, no matter what dimension he was in.

"Tell me where he went."

"He was in route 103 north of this town. Thank you so-" And before he could finish the mysterious stranger whom he assumed was human had took off faster than anything he had ever seen.

"Sonic wait don't run off on your own!" Callen who took longer to react had quickly put his backpack on and ran out the center past the stunned scientist as well.

"-much?" The purple haired scientist stood there unmoving for a few more moments. Their was only one other pokemon he had seen that could move that fast or at least that's what he thought.

"That was too easy." Black gloves twirled what looked like a flash drive on a lanyard around his hand. He wore a white and blue striped shirt with light blue pants and a black sash around his waist. The white symbol of team aqua was proudly displayed on the black cap he wore on his head. He was just on his way to the motor boat situated on the end of route 103 when something blue and fast made a trail of dust right in front of him. He lifted his arm to his face to avoid the cloud of dirt wondering what it was that came out of nowhere.

"You know it seems like no matter where I go I always find petty thieves like you who really ruin a guys day." When the dust cleared Sonic stood there arms crossed, his confidence beginning to come off in waves. He had discarded the hoodie somewhere along the way revealing every inch of him for all to see.

"Wha- What kind of pokemon are you?"

"I don't know about being a pokemon but I do know that if you don't give back what took your going to get a major lesson in beat down 101.."

" Pest! Well if that's the way you wanna be then I'll just have to show what happens when you mess with Team Aqua!"

He took out a pokeball and tossed it to reveal a crawfish like pokemon with pincers like a crab and yellow star on its head. "Crawdaunt show this talking furball that he just made the biggest mistake of his life!"

"Bubble beam!" The crawfish pokemon opens one of its pincers shooting a stream of bubbles towards Sonic. The azure hedgehog easily side stepped before rushing in to attack. He became nothing but a light blue streak as his attacks hit one after another. The grunt was surprised to say the least. He had never battled such a fast pokemon before but he wasn't about to let it end so easily.

"Harden." Just when Sonic thought his consecutive attacks were about to end things he noticed that the red pokemons shell suddenly seemed a lot harder to hit all of sudden. He leapt back after one last hit with a bit of a serious expression on his face.

"Feeling a little less confident are we? You should be, I work hard to develop my Crawdaunts defense so that it can stand up to all kinds of attacks. "

"You should have worked hard to develop your instincts so you know how much I care." He jumped toward a tree and bounced off ready to deliver a kick from the air.

"Use crabhammer on the ground. " One of the Crawdaunts pincers began glowing white before it promptly slammed it down on the ground with a large amount of force sending small pieces of rock flying in Sonic's direction. Peach arms crossed each other in attempt to shield his face and body from the rock shards in mid air which gave him a few cuts before quickly using the rest of his momentum to spin into deadly ball of spikes.

"Use crabhammer to knock it back." The impact of crabhammer and the blue hero's spin dash were quite equal and while Sonic was sent backwards, he came out unharmed. The team aqua grunt gave the hedgehog a condescending look as if suspecting he would be surprised or stunned but he wasn't.

"Neat tricks but I've seen better." He was a bit miffed that his opponent had some kind of move that lessened the damage of his normal kicks and punches and that his spin dash was knocked back so easily but he still felt he had the upper hand with his speed. He started to spin into a ball again decided to go for an attack on the ground.

Just a few feet from where Sonic and Crawdaunt were battling, Callen had finally caught up panting a bit from his sprint. He had picked up his hoodie and ran in the direction he saw the cloud of dust disappear to only to end up spectating the battle between the blue pokemon and a crawdaunt. He was finally able to see the mysterious creature in action as he dashed towards his opponent, leapt high to attack from above and showed off his athleticism. In the young 15 year olds mind he could already see all the strategies and advantages to having a pokemon like him on his team. But while he daydreamed about winning battles he noticed that the blue speedster had taken quite a bit of damage. That grunt clearly knew what he was doing and no matter how fast Sonic was if he couldn't get in any critical damage his attacks were useless. He watched as bubblebeam made contact with the hedgehogs spindash that had been slowed down by the water type attack. By the time it had reached its intended target it had slowed down enough that the dark and water type pokemon was able to stop his rotation completely with a vice grip. It was quickly followed up with a crabhammer that hit the hero hard in his midsection knocking his breath out of him and sent him sprawling across dirt and grass, and eventually through bushes close to where Callen had been watching.

Callen quickly went to the hedgehogs side noticing the scratches and bruises accumulated from fighting Crawdaunt. The six huge blue quills on his head that had been so neat and smoothed out before were in a bit of disarray. Dirt and blades of grass clung to the azure pelt, proof that his battle was turning out be a bit more challenging than he originally thought. Callen gently lifted the the hedgehog up into a sitting up position as he groaned painfully.

"Are you alright?" He asked concerned about his bruises and scrapes.

"If you mean my body then yes I'm fine, but if you mean my pride which is hurt from the fact that I'm being beaten by a seafood dinner, no, " he said still sounding quite confident which unknowingly impressed Callen quite a bit.

"I just can't seem to put a dent in that thick shell. In fact it feels like I'm running in circles, dash in, get hit, get caught, and get hit again." He rubbed his eyes, which were slightly irritated after getting dirt in them.

"Don't bother trying to hide. The moment you challenged me, I decided that I would capture you and bring you back to the boss as a gift. I'm sure he'll promote me for bringing in a rare pokemon along with the data I was sent to get." Footsteps crunched against the dirt getting louder and louder as the grunt and his partner approached taking their time.

"Listen, I think you can take him but you're going to have to change up your fighting strategy a bit." Brown eyes bore into emerald ones seriously. "I saw the way you were battling and it looks like straightforward attacks aren't going to work."

"Well I'm about to make it work," he said already moving to get back up and face the oncoming threat.

"No listen." He pulled the hedgehog's arm making him fall back on his butt.

"What?" Sonic was slowly becoming exasperated. During a tough fight he prefers action to words and he's not much for strategy so being told to wait was making him impatient.

"I think I know how you can use your speed to gain an advantage but you have to listen exactly to what I say." Sonic was about to respond but the call of another bubble beam made the two of them dash out of the way.

"Hmph. Another nuisance come to interfere...fine by me," the grunt said twirling the flash drive around before catching it again. Sonic smiled and dashed in again ready to punch, not needing any other incentive to continue the attack.

"Crawdaunt use harden again." The red and white pokemon braced itself as Sonic closed in not surprised at all when his punch didn't even make it budge. The grunt gave an evil chuckle laughing at how pointless normal attacks like that are absolutely nothing against his partner. His crawdaunt also seemed to take pride in its defensive capabilities as it sneered down at the blue blur.

"Use Vice Grip and throw it down." At the command of its trainer a red pincer grabbed a peach colored arm in an excruciatingly strong grip before throwing the blue pokemon down as hard as it could on the rough and uneven ground. Sonic felt himself get thrown down with enough force that he bounced painfully off the ground and landed on his front face down unmoving.

Callen watched as the blue and peach furred body in front of him laid flat. It was silent for a moment as both the boy, the grunt and the crawdaunt watched to see if the hedgehog would make a move. To Callen's relief Sonic began picking himself up on one knee.

Why am I panting? I've taken much more damage than this before from flying through buildings and taking hits from deadly robots so why does it feel like I'm tiring faster than usual. Sonic was baffled by the fact that he was having a such a hard time. Did something happen to him when he crossed dimensions that he didn't know about? Now that he thinks about it there was something different. There was no chaos here. But he did feel something in its absence and it felt like he was running low on it.

"Sonic quick dodge it!" Blue ears immediately heard the command and Sonic jumped backwards almost before he saw it coming it, narrowly dodging a crabhammer. Sonic was taken aback at how close he had managed to let his opponent get while pondering the reason why he was weakened so fast.

"That was close. Are you alright to keep going?" Callen asked as the the hedgehog turned to look at the soon to be trainer. "I'm just fine." He gave a thumbs up and the boys worry seemed to dissolve a bit in his expression.

"I've had just about enough of playing around. Crawdaunt finish this up with a double crabhammer!" The crawfish pokemon raised both of its glowing pincers as it came in for a final strike.

"Roll out and circle around it!" Sonic was a bit confused at the command as he was preparing to make his own move against the grunts pokemon.

"What?"

"Just do it and trust me!"

The blue blur didn't know what a roll out was but he assumed the kid meant his spin dash. He curled into a ball and went charging right past the crawdaunt's double crabhammer as it struck the ground with quite a bit of force. Sonic quickly turned after passing the pokemon still in a spin dash unintentionally spraying the team aqua grunt with dirt and rocks during the drift. By the time the crawdaunt was in position to attack again Sonic spin dash was already too close and it crashed into the crawdaunt whose expression was ridden with shock. Unfortunately it was still able to withstand the attack and keep going thanks to the double harden.

I could have thought of that! He mused at how something so simple worked. It wasn't really his intention to take orders from the kid but with his sort of go with the flow attitude he didn't mind it so much. The kid's got a rhythm going so I might as well let him enjoy it.

Callen was growing excited as adrenaline pumped through his veins. Back at the Battle Institute where he spent much of his time learning to battle with rental pokemon the intensity of each match always made him truly appreciate tough opponents. Since the moment his dad left him to explore different regions and the secrets of Mega Evolution Callen had wanted to follow behind closely in his father's footsteps. And now even though he was battling with a strange pokemon that he had never seen nor heard of before, some how he know this experience would be even more significant than all of the other battles he previously participated in.

"Sonic dash straight towards crawdaunt." The blue blur smirked, the boys excitement and determination becoming so contagious that even with all his cuts and bruises he couldn't deny that he was starting to have fun. He rushed towards the crawfish, completely aware of the threats of vice grip and crabhammer but choosing to leave it up to Callen to know what to do next.

"Crawdaunt use crabhammer on the ground again then follow up with bubblebeam!" The crawfish pokemons red pincers began glowing white once again and slammed the ground sending bigger pieces of rock flying in the approaching hedgehogs direction.

"Drift and change direction in front of it quickly." Sonic quickly put on the breaks creating a dust cloud in front of the crawdaunt which muddled its accuracy as bubblebeam went way off target clearing part of the dust. Both the team aqua grunt and crawdaunt looked around unable to sight where their opponent had sped off to. Callen just grinned and casually pointed his thumb to the right where the gust from the blue pokemon's speed cleared up the rest of the upturned dirt.

"Over here!"Crawdaunt had no time to counter attack as the hedgehogs gloved hand began flowing white and his speed seemed to increase instantaneously as he punched the crawdaunt as hard as he could. This time it was the grunts partner who was sent flying by a powerful attack.

While the grunt was yelling at his pokemon to get up and fight Sonic took a moment to look at his hand. There was nothing wrong with it but he knew that this punch felt a lot different than the other ones.

"That was amazing! I think you learned mach punch! And it was super effective!" Callen said as the hedgehog turned back to the battle. It actually sounded pretty cool to the speedster. A move that lets you throw a punch at mach speed, you could say it was right up his alley in terms of fighting style.

Crawdaunt was back on its legs but it wasn't looking too strong now. Even though the double harden that took the bite out of Sonics consecutive attacks, it still doesn't change the fact that they made contact and caused damage. And now the damage from all those attacks were starting to add up and weaken it. The grunt was not liking how the tide of the battle had suddenly changed in the kids favor. Even with the hedgehog's speed he felt that with his experience of battling other trainers well trained pokemon could accurately allow him to guess a pokemon's level. He had a feeling some how when they first began fighting that this particular pokemon's level wasn't that high. In fact he knew for sure that it probably wasn't anywhere near the level his crawdaunts was and yet...he had the feeling he was about to lose.

Callen knew exactly what he was doing. The strategy he just had the hedgehog use involved using his speed to bait an attack, successfully dodge, then use the newly created opening to counter attack. It can be risky because it requires you to move within attacking range, narrowly dodge and land a blow. He knew from previous battles that he has to be certain the pokemon he was using can out speed his opponent or else he could risk losing from a point blank range move. After witnessing the hedgehogs incredible speed he knew he could easily pull off the baiting tactic easy.

"Sonic dash towards crawdaunt again!"

"Got it!" He took off straight for the dark and water type pokemon again just like last time.

"You brat, we're not falling for the same thing use bubblebeam to get high in the air." Just as Sonic was attempting to bait again he had to stop to avoid getting hit by a bubblebeam. However he knew this wouldn't stop him. He jumped high in the air surprising crawdaunt, Callen, and the grunt who had no idea the blue pokemons legs were strong enough to send him so far in the air.

If the fifteen year old wasn't impressed by this show of strength he was now as Sonic was now in the perfect position to finish this battle. "Use mach punch!" The blue hero had just had the same idea to finish things up with his new move. He felt the same energy build up in his hand turning it white and dealt the final blow. The crawdaunt went crashing down to the ground where it landed on its back, the cracked rocks around it proof of the power behind the hit. It laid there unmoving with spirals in its eyes, the sign of a fainted pokemon.

"Finally, now that that's over I think you should hand over what you took."

The team aqua grunt called his pokemon back in a red light and glared at the kid and hedgehog. He refused to accept that he had lost what should have been an easy battle but having no other pokemon he gave in. He threw the flash drive somewhere into the forest and jumped on to a one person speed boat with the team aqua symbol on it and sped away.

Sonic watched with satisfaction as the grunt was finally out of sight. When Callen came back he smiled at the hedgehog.

"Sonic you were amazing!" He said getting down on one knee to be level with emerald eyes. Before he knew it he rubbed his fingerless gloved hands through azure fur on the hedgehogs head ruffling it in a show of appreciation that he would show towards any pokemon who did well in battle.

"Hey hey, cut it out my fur and quills already lost a match with the ground. Are you trying go for round two? " Sonic was a bit annoyed at Callens sudden treatment which made him feel like a pet but he understood that the kid was just really happy that he won.

"Sorry guess I just got carried away," the auburn haired kid said rubbing the back of his neck.

"Did you get that purple haired guys stuff back?"

"Yeah its right here." He pulled out the small device attached to a lanyard for Sonic to see.

"Seems like alot of fuss for such a little thing. Well guess we better get it back before he starts to worry." The two began walking back the way they came when the blue hero suddenly collapsed to one knee, the pain of his injuries making itself known again.

Callen silently moved his back pack to his front and got down beside the azure hedgehog offering to let the injured pokemon hitch a ride on his back. "Need a lift?"

"No thanks." It would hurt Sonics pride too much to be carried around injured or not. He prefferred to walk off his injuries and act like he was fine because he can't stand others worrying about him. So imagine his surprise when Callen lifted him up anyway piggyback style and stood up forcing him to grab on to the boys shoulders.

"Hey!"

"Oh relax. You can stop playing tough guy. Besides every trainer knows its their number one duty to bring injured pokemon to a pokemon center and I'm not about to let you walk there in your condition."

"Its not even that far..." he pouted his muzzle slightly red, not used to someone showing such firm kindness and unable to do much about it. He winced as the arm that was caught in a vice grip began to sting a bit. Callen gave one last look over his shoulder to the azure hedgehog who laid his head on his back before walking back to the pokemon center.

So what did you think? I'm a bit nervous about how you like this one. Now that this chapter is done, the four core characters have all been introduced. This chapter also holds the first real pokemon battle between trainers. I hope you all are appreciating the moves I've give Sonic and Shadow access to. Somewhere in the next few chapters I'll include their detailed dex entries as it pertains to the world of pokemon.