Delta Adventures

The Delta region is beautiful and dangerous. Alongside it are countless people who live alongside Pokemon. You should likely know what Pokemon are by now, so I'm going to assume you do. Our story is about a young trainer named Reece, and his journey to become the best.

Prolouge I:The Absol and the Larvitar
Reece always loved Pokemon. That's no secret. His mother being a successful trainer, and his father (according to his mother) was also a great trainer. Reece got his first Pokemon on a faithful foggy afternoon when he was 4. He and his mother were in the yard at his home in Topsoil Town, when Reece saw 2 pairs of red eyes poking through the fog. Running over to it(and his mother following suit, he saw a glimpse of a white creature with a dark toned face and one horn on the side of its face.

"Mommy!" Reece called out. "It's a Pokemon." his mother came over, and prepared to send out one of her Pokemon. She knew it was an Absol, and while she knew the species tried to warn people of disasters, Absol was a dangerous Pokemon nonetheless.

Before Reece's mother could act, the Absol fled. Reece then heard a soft grumbling sound. running over to where the Absol stood. In its place, he found a small green and red pokemon only 2 feet tall. It also looked very badly injured.

"Mom!" Reece shouted. It's a pokemon, and it's hurt!" Reece's mother came over, seeing the injured Larvitar. "Oh my, it's a Larvitar." Knowing the species weighed over 158 pounds, she sent out her Hariyama. "C'mon Reece, we should get to the Pokemon Center."

Prolouge II:First Pokemon
"is Larvitar going to be Okay?" were Reece's first words when he got to the Pokemon Center. "He'll be just fine." The Pokemon Center Nurse replied. The lady had long blue hair, and a pink outfit. "Does he have a Trainer?"

"No Ma'am." Reece's mother answered. "He's wild." The nurse looked confused for a second until she took a pokeball, and called out an Audino. "Use Heal Pulse!" She ordered. A bright beam of energy flowed from the pink pokemon's hand and into Larvitar, healing it's wounds.

"Now, before I give Larvitar back to you, I wan't to know where you found it." The nurse asked. "Larvitar are only found on Mt Dust, and that area is mostly uninhabited."

"We found him with an Absol." reece answered before his mother could. "An Absol?" the nurse said worringly. "Those are just as rare."

"We found it in our backyard." Reece's mother said. The nurse paused for a second, and bit her lip. "May I ask you to keep him?" She said. "Judging by his low level, I don't even think he's seen his parents yet."

"Can we keep him?" Reece asked full of hopes. "I don't know." His mother replied with words that crushed the little boy like a vice. "I don't know what Larvitar's eat."

"Don't worry, they can survive on soil alone. Also, having a Larvitar is ideal fo fertile soil." the nurse said. "Then we can keep him Reece." The young child's mother said. "But if he wants to leave, we must let him."

Reece kept Larvitar. While the young Pokemon stayed and made friends with Reece, the boy took care of him. They were inseperable, and were always together. On Christmas that year, Reece's father visited with Reece's baby brother Ren.

"Daddy!" Reece hardly ever saw his father. Seeing him was a very joyous experience. "Hello son," he said as he looked over to Larvitar. "So this is the Larvitar your mom told me about."

"Ya dad, he's really cool." Reece replied. He watched as his father pulled out a PokeBall. This was not just any PokeBall, it was an Ultraball marked by Green stripes instead of yellow. "I had this Pokeball made specially for Larvitar." The man said. "Merry Christmas."

Reece took the Ultraball, and went over to Larvitar. "Larvitar, do you want to become my pokemon?" The young boy asked. Larvitar nodded, and Reece threw the Pokeball. The two sides opened up and engulfed the Rock Skin Pokemon. It shook once and Larvitar was caught.

Prolouge III:First Day of School
Reece's first day of School would play 2 major roles in his life. First, he would make friends, and second, he would discocer the thrill of battles.

"Stop it!" A girl younger than Reece yelled. Two older boys were kicking around her Zorua. The girl herself had orange hair, and was wearing a skirt. "HEY" Reece yelled and stepped infront of the 2 bullies with Larvitar. "Go away meanies!"

"Oh look, a puny boy and a stupid pokemon!" They said "Make us go away!" They said, sending out their own Pokemon:A Nincada and Gulpin.

"Oh Crud..." Reece exclaimed. "Two against one!" He was worried. He had never been in a battle before. He knew the basics, and he knew Larvitar's stats and moves. Level 3, Bite and Leer. But this was 2 on 1.

"Axew! Scratch! a voice called out. Reece saw as Nincada was hit by a green creature exactly as large as Larvitar. "Hey! Who did that!" The bully owning Nincada yelled out.

"I did!" A yellow haired kid yelled out. He was wearing a blue shirt, and looked very angry. He ran over to the girl and her Zorua. "Are you okay sis?"

"Yes..." Kara managed to say through sobs. The yellowed hair kid ran over to Reece and the bullies. "What is your problem?" He yelled.

"HEY!" Reece yelled back. "I've been trying to help your sis!" But before the yellow haired kid could respond, the 2 bullies yelled this. "That's it small fries! We challenge you two a pokemon battle!"

As if reading the other's movements, Reece and Kara's brother took on the Gulpin and Nincada with their pokemon respectively.

Prolouge IV:The very first Battle
"Gulpin!" Use pound!" The first bully ordered. The poison

pokemon lashed out at Larvitar, hitting the rock skin pokemon. "Larvitar! Leer!" Reece told his pokemon. Larvitar's eyes glowed, knocking down the Gulpin's defense in a green aura.

'Hah" Your attack did nothing." The bully said mockingly. "Wrong." Reece responded. "USE BITE."

Larvitar savagely bit on to Gulpin and the threw the Stomach pokemon into the air.

Kara's brother was using a similar strategy. Axew leered, and then sliced the the Nincada with scratch. "Now, finish it off!"

At the same time, both trainers ordered there pokemon to strike to finishing blow, knocking the 2 pokemon into their trainers.

"So.....that is what a pokemon battle is like." Kara's brother said.

"Yah....." Reece replied. "I can't believe this crud is legal."

Kara got up, still crying slightly with her Zorua in her arms. "Thanks Matt." She said. Kara turned to Reece. "Thank you to. What's your name?"

"I'm Reece." Reece replied. "My name is Kara LeBlanca. This is Matt, my brother." She said, pointing to her Brother. "And this is Machina." She continued pointing to her Zorua. Reece saw a very unusual thing right away. Machina's Right eye was black with 3 green stripes and a red iris.

"What happened to your Zorua?" Reece asked.

"She was in an accident, and we had to replace her eye with a mechanical replacement." Matt said. "Anyway, thanks. I won't forget that you helped us."

Reece became great friends with Matt and Kara. The three had some crazy adventures together. Matt and Reece became crazy rivals. They always went rounds with eachother. This continued until they were twelve. They were now officially old enough to start their Trainer journey.

Prolouge V:The last day at Topsoil Town
Reece was in his bed sleeping peacefully. Today was the day he would start his Pokemon Journey alongside Matt. He had grown to prefer a specific set of clothing:A black jacket with red, blue and green highlights, black pants, and an emerald backpack. His hair was platnnum-silver with a gold stripe going through it and was very anime stylish, with many spikes.

"Pwi pah! Pa pa pwa! (Translation:Dang it Reece! GET UP!)" His Larvitar shouted. "Five more minutes Larvitar....." was all the Rock Skin pokemon got from its trainer. Annoyed, Larvitar took his trainer and through him to the floor.

"Alright Larvitar...you have my attention." Reece said fully awake. "Wait, today is the day we start our journey!" Reece quickly retrieved Larvitar into his Pokeball. He brushed his teeth (Reece would never miss that) ran down stairs.

"Honey." Reece's mom said. "Can your mom get 1 last hug before you go." Reece came over and gave his mother a hug. "Be safe Reece." The woman said.

Getting ready to leave, armed with Larvitar, lot's of toothpaste, a town map, a toothbrush, and a Battle Scanner. A Battle Scanner is a vital tool to every Trainer. It allows them to see there Pokemon's summary, the level, health, and status condition of other pokemon, and has all the functions of a PokeNav.

"Mom, before I Leave to see Professer Fir, can I ask 1 thing?" Reece said. "Anything." His mother replied. Reece took a deep breath. "Why does dad not live with us?"

"I'll tell you when your older." She replied. "MOM!" Reece said angrily. "You might not see me or talk to me for months, and your giving the same excuse you've gave me every single time!"

His mother took a deep breath and said. "It's called exploiting the legal system. Goodbye honey." With that, Reece left, ready to get a pokemon from Prof Fir.

Chapter 1:Suprise
Reece was the type of person who had a seemingly endless amount of energy. He came up to Matt and Kara's house, knocked on the door. "MATT!" He yelled. The door opened revealing a yellow haired boy with a blue jacket and an M on it. "It's about time you got here Reece." Matt said.

"Let's get going. " Reece replied. He seemed to hesitate for a split second.

"Goodbye guys." a soft, feminine voice called out. Reece looked over to see Kara, now with an older body, longer hair, and wearing a black tank top with black sweatpants with white stripes. She looked like she was twelve, not 10. Kara was happy for the 2, but was pushing down huge tears. In the Delta Region, a person needed to be twelve to go on a Pokemon journey, and she wanted to like heck.

"You can at least come with us to Fir's Lab." Reece said. Professer Fir was the local pokemon expert. He specialized in Pokemon Genetics. When Kara heard this, her face lit up. "Really?"

"Sure. But only till we get our Pokemon." Matt replied. The 3 started walking to the local lab, talking about what they wanted to do on their journey. "What all trainers do." Reece said. "Gather the 8 Badges, face the Elite Four, become the Champion. "Don't get too cocky sparkle hair." Matt said. "If I remember correctly, almost noone's beaten the Elite Four in what, 25 years?"

"I'm going to be the next Champ if it kills me." Reece said with fire in his eyes.

"I personally want to be a Contest Master while I go on and collect the badges." Kara said. "What I wouldn't do to be 12 right now." Kara then pulled a book out of her Backpack. "Plus, I'll get to meet all the Trainers I've read about."

The book was titled 'Famous Female Trainers' It was Kara's personal guidebook. She kept it for inspiration. "So Reece, which Pokemon are you going to pick?" Matt asked.

"We still don't know who is going to pick first." Reece replied. "You can pick first." Matt answered. "Oh thanks, the platnum haired boy said. Reece then stopped for a second. "Wait...."

"You're just letting me go first because then you can pick the pokemon who is strong against mine!" Reece shouted at Matt.

"Well duh." Matt said while shrugging. If not, then I wouldn't be your rival."

The 3 continued till they came to a bright white building. This was Fir's Lab. The 3 kids knew the man personally, and he constantly gave them advice about Pokemon.

"Hello, Professer Fir?" Reece called out as he opened the door. "Oh Reece, Matt, I was waiting for you." A voice said. A young man with light brown hair wearing a lab coat. "Oh, and Kara too."

"Yah, we came for the Pokemon." Reece said. "It is natural for us to get a starter even if the trainer already has a pokemon."

Professer Fir brought up 2 cards. One green, one blue. He gave the cards to Reece and Matt. "Here you go, 2 trainer cards." Fir said. He then pressed a button causing a table with 3 pokeballs on it.

"It's time to choose." Fir said. "Treecko, Torchic, or Mudkip?" Reece went over to the table. He saw the 3 starters. After a few seconds of think, he picked Treecko. Holding up the ball, seeing through the translucent material. He saw the wood gecko, and smiled.

Without a second thought, Matt chose Torchic. "Well, this is it." the Yellow haired boy said. Reece looked back at Kara, who was smiling. "Oh well." She said. "I can't wait to start my journey."

"Good." Reece said while picking up Mudkip's Pokeball. "Because it starts today." He put the Pokeball in Kara's hand.

"What!?" Both Matt and Kara said in shock. Machina popped out of her Pokeball, saying 'say what?' in her own language.

Before Reece could respond, his mom and Mrs. LeBlanca stepped out from hiding in the dimly lit area of the room. "That's right sweety." Mrs LeBlanca said. "The four of us planned to get you out on your journey underaged."

"You look old enough." Professer Fir said. "And you can easily take care of yourself." Reece said. He meant that to, Kara had greatly matured in the time since he first met her.

"And it was all Reece's idea." Reece's mom said. Kara was crying tears of joy, but then it stopped. "But why?" she asked. "What if I get caught, what if..."

Mrs LeBlanca stopped her. "Because, we firmly believe you can do it on your own." She said with a hand on her shoulder.

Everyon agreed with this....except for one...........

Chapter 2:RIVAL BATTLE!
"Why wasn't I told about this!?" Matt yelled, shocking everyone.

"Because we knew you'd overreact." Reece said calmly. "From the sound of it, you're not too happy about this.

" I don't want Kara to get hurt." Matt said. Before he could object further, Kara spoke up. "MATT!" She shouted in an angry tone. "I can take care of myself, thank you very much."

Deep down Matt couldn't argue with that. He knew his sister better than anyone else, and she and Machina were brilliant, crafty, and self suffient. "Fine....." he said with regret.

"Now that thats over, Its time to go." Reece said walkng to the door. "Wait!" Matt yelled. "You think you can just walk out of here without battling me first?"

"I was hoping you'd say that." the spike haired boy said.

"WAIT!!!!!" Professer Fir screamed as he ran between the 2 trainer flailing his arms wildly. "Please! Fight outside. With any luck you two will blow up this lab!"

Reece, Matt, Kara, their parents, and Professer Fir were outside the lab, getting ready to watch the 2 young trainers battle.

Reece checked his Battle Scanner. Treecko had a Hasty Nature, knew Tackle, Leer, and oooh, Dragonbreath. That was strange. He decided to send out Treecko first. He actually picked Treecko for a reason. If he had picked Torchic, Matt would have picked Mudkip and had an advantage of 2 of his Pokemon. If he had picked Mudkip, the same thing would hav happened.

"GO TREECKO!" Reece yelled, sending out the green

Grass dragon. Matt, of course, sent out Torchic. When he did, the battle started.

"Treecko! DRAGONBREATH!" Treecko responded by blasting a beam of smokey energy at Torchic. Torchic took the hit.

"Crush Claw!" Matt ordered, retaliating the blow. The bird pokemon jumped at the chance, and gave a crushing blow to Treecko's head.

"Leer! Then use Pound!" Reece commanded. "Geckeko! (Translation:Take this!)" Treecko shouted making his eyes flash red. Before he could Tackle however, Torchic came at Treecko using Scratch at 50% more speed than before. Treecko responded by smashing the Orange chicken into a tree by Pounding it with his tail.

"DRAGONBREATH!" Reece ordered as Torchic hit the bark on the tree caving it in. A smoking beam of energy hit Torchic. Reece checked his Battle Scanner. Torchic's HP was in the Red. Before he could launch another attack, however, Torchic glowed blue, and charged at Treecko.

"Torchic's Speed rose." was the message displayed on the Scanner. Reece bolted at the conclusion that Torchic had the "Speed Boost" ability.

Reece attempted to finish it. "Pound" he ordered, but before Treecko could hit it, Torchic hit the grass dragon on the head, making its legs buckle. Treecko did not faint yet, and beat Torchic with pound.

"Dangit..." Matt said as he retrieved Torchic. "Time to get serious!" He yelled throwing out his Axew. "Now crsuh this loser with Scratch!"

"Treecko, Dragonbreath!" Reece ordered. Treecko blasted the breath at Axew, and it hit the dragon for massive damage. But, the tusk dragon went through and KO'ed Treecko.

The blast itself also blasted into the lab, causing an explosion that engulfed it, wrecking it to the ground. This got an "OH C'MON! I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS STUFF'S LEGAL!" from Proffeser Fir.

"Larvitar! Let's do this!" Reece exlaimed as he threw out Larvitar. "Lar, pwi vui Vitar! (Translation:Prepare yourself Axew)" was his faithful companions response.

"Shree Shree See! (Translation:This time will be different!)" Was the tusk dragon's reply. "Axew, use your Incinerate!" Axew was about to breath the fire, but then it stopped, electricity spazzing over its body.

"Hah! I paralyzed you!" Reece mocked. "Now, Larvitar, Sandstorm!" Larvitar breathed out a huge hurricane of Sand, covering Axew. "Now, use Bite!" he yelled. Larvitar responded by biting Axew's head, and flinging it into the air.

"Axew, Leer! Matt ordered. The dragon used leer in the air, covering Larvitar in green energy. "Larvitar, use your own Leer!" Larvitar covered Axew in the green aura. Matt then pulled out a Trump Card:

"Axew! Giga Impact!" Matt yelled. Axew got covered in an aura of purple spiraling power with orange streaks. The green pokemon crashed into its opponent at speed exceeding 200 miles per hour. The impact made an explosion, and left a massive crater.

"Larvitar!" Reece cried out. "Please be ok, please be okay." He said worringly as the smoke cleared. He then saw his winning path. Larvitar had hung on! "Larvitar, Bite! He ordered. Axew needed to recharge, and Reece saw his chance. "Bite again!" Reece ordered as Larvitar bit into Axew. Reece, to his horror, realized Axew still had a few Hit Points left.

"Axew is fully paralyzed." Was the message on the battle scanner.

"Finish it! Bite!" Reece ordered. Larvitar jumped and threw Axew to the ground with his teeth.

"I WIN!" Reece celebrated.

Proffeser Fir came over. He was covered in ash and sand, and his hair was a mess. "Hope you 2 enjoyed your first battle as Pokemon Trainers. To celebrate, I'm going to give you these special running shoes, along with 4 Pokeballs. Now, please never battle here ever again."

He fell to the ground. Kara came over and took a pair of running shoes. "Well," She said. this is going to be exciting." Reece's Mom and Mrs. Leblanca came over, healing their respective son's pokemon.

"Well, you 3 be careful on your........" Reece's mom started to say, but she was interrupted by a huge whoosh of compressed air created by her son running, his normal shoes lying on the ground....

Chapter 3:Plate Plains


Reece knew that the regoinal map by heart. He was heading for Treeton City. But first, he needed to grind for experience, catch a pokemon, and rip through Green Forest. Considering all the plain's native pokemon had attacks that Larvitar resisted. Treecko would be hard to train against Pidgey and Spearow, but all the Rattata would be defenseless against the little lizard.

Reece came across a Ratatta gnawing on some grass. "Go Treecko!" Reece exclaimed as he sent out his Grass Pokemon.

The Ratatta looked up just in time to see a green lizard/dragon/gecko thing smash it in the head. It got hit into a nearby patch of dirt. Reece through a PokeBall, and it split into 2 halves. It then encapsulated to little rat, and shook 3 times.

"I caught a Ratatta!" Reece exclaimed. Reece took out a potion and healed it.

"Okay, so we have 3 Pokemon. Half a team." Reece said to his three pokemon. They were walking alongside him.

Meanwhile...............

Professer Fir had just regained conciousness. He was in an unfamiliar white room. With a jolt, we awoke, seeing Reece's mom, Mrs Leblanca, and Matt and Kara.

"Where's Reece?" the scientists asked frantically. "He ran off to Plate Plains." Kara said. "We stayed here to make sure you were okay."

"This is terrible!" The scientist shrieked. "Listen, no time to explain, Matt, take this. He gave a red and silver device to Matt, then 2 to Kara. "These are the Regional Delta Pokedex's. They were made by Proffeser Oak, and I suggested you 3 as the 3 Delta Dex Holders."

"Kara, I need you to get that PokeDex to Reece." Fir said. "Okay!" Kara said while running out the door. She was far too hasty to start her journey.

"Why did you trust Kara to deliver that and not me?" Matt asked. "Because she won't go rounds with him 12 seconds after you lock eyes."

Speaking of going rounds.........

"Ratatta! Use Quick Attack! Reece ordered as his new rat rammed into a Pidgey, knocking it out. The opposing trainer (a Hiker) recalled his Pidgey. "Go Geodude!" He sent out the rock type, and the Geodude sized up its foe. "Ratatta, come back!" Reece ordered. "Crush 'em Treecko!" he said as he switched out for Treecko. Treecko took a rock throw upon switching in, but it was able to endure it.

"Treecko, crumble him with Absorb." The grass lizard engulfed Geodude with green lights, and scored a OHKO. "Uh....." the Hiker said. "GO! Pound em Onix!" He yelled, this time sending out a giant Rock Snake.

"Treecko, Retreat!" Reece said, he called the grass gecko back into its pokeball, and put out his trusty Larvitar. While the Rock Skin Pokemon got hit by a Rock upon the switch in, he barely took any damage.

"Larvitar, use Screech!" Reece ordered. Larvitar gave a horrifying screech. The Onix tackled it in response. "BITE!" Reece ordered, and his pokemon jumped on the Onix's head, and bit off the antenna on top of its head. This was an instant KO, and made Reece 367 Pokedollars richer.

The hiker retrieved his Onix, and then ran over to Reece. "Is that a Larvitar?" He asked. "Oh ya. He's my first pokemon." Reece replied.

The hiker stared at the Larvitar. "It's every hikers dream to have a Larvitar. Consider yourself lucky." Reece gave the man a quizzical look. "Why?"

"When Larvitar evolves, it becomes Pupitar, and when it evolves again, it becomes Tyranitar. Tyranitar is the ultimate Rock Type." The Hiker said.

"Wow...." Reece said, daydreaming. "I don't have the heart to tell him I evolve into Tyranitar at level 55." His Larvitar thought. "I'm only level 11."

Reece packed up, after his 6 battle long carnage. He was ready to step into Green Forest.

The first Dungeon.

Chapter 4:The Society of Shadows
Reece raced into Green Forest. That is almost never a smart move. EVER. Green Forest is filled with crazed Bug catchers trying to catch really strong bug types. Speaking of which, if you want a Bug type, this is the place to go.

But, this is Reece we are talking about. Ya know, the guy who wants to beat the near undefeated Elite Four?

Anyways, Tall Grass is also unavoidable. Four steps of running and Reece encounters his first Pokemon in the forest: Weedle

"Wedldle Deedeedul (Translation:Hello sir, do you want my friend?)" the adorable bug type asked.

"Go Treecko! Reece yelled as he sent out his grass lizard. "Use Absorb." Reece ordered, not wanting to make it faint. This continued for a few turns until Reece threw a Pokeball. It engulfed the Bug Type, and caught it.

"Yay!" Reece exclaimed. "4th Pokemon, Caught!"

With 4 pokemon in his arsenal Reece was getting slightly overconfident. But, he needed to raise his Weedle. It knew the Attacks Poison Sting, String Shot, and Electroweb.

However, our crazy haired Hero's wishes are not too simple to be respected. On the other end of the forest, several people with weird outfits with switchblades built in were planning and plotting......

"Okay Peons! We need to find that Sentry base." one figure said. "Failure is not an option!"

"Do we even know if it is here?" another asked. "No. But we have reason to believe that those Shine freaks are operating around here."

The figures walked off, searching for their target.

Reece, however, was going for his own goals. "Weedle! Use Poison Sting!" He ordered his newly own bug type to use. His bug hit the opposing Bug Catcher's Caterpie, knocking it out.

"You win..." the bug catcher said. He gave Reece half his money and Reece looked to his Weedle with his Battle Scanner. "Okay, so your level 7 now." He said.

All of a sudden his Weedle started to glow. Reece looked with sudden shock as his Weedle became incased in an Iron hard coating, and formed a shell.

"You evolved!" Reece said with bewilderment. He checked his Scanner, and saw that his Weedle had become a Kakuna, and learned Iron Defense.

Before he could celebrate however, he noticed the one thing that could stop him:It was night. "Oh darn it......." was his reply at first, but then realized night could be used to train uniterrupted. Reece decided training for at least a few hours. Maybe a Hoothoot or Murkrow or 40.

Meanwhile with Matt

"Seriously, where is Reece?" Matt said angrily. He had been working his butt off to find stronger Pokemon. He had one already: A Spearow. He had caught the flying type at Plate Plains. Knowing it was night he decided to camp out.

But, he knew deep down that Reece wasn't sleeping. Maybe he could catch something in Green Forest? He was starting to think that it wouldn't be a bad idea. "Lets get going." He told his Axew, Torchic and Spearow.

Back with Reece

"Staying up all night was the best idea i've had in a long time!" Reece said aloud. "I found this TM Bullet Seed!" He looked over at his 4 pokemon. "Okay Treecko, time to learn Bullet Seed." Treecko came up to Reece.

"Geck echo okoko. (Translation:How does that disc teach me a Move?) his Treecko asked. Reece took the disc and put it in a compartment in his Battle Scanner. He then retreived the grass lizard into its pokeball. He took the pokeball, and lined it up to his Battle Scanner. He then pressed a button saying 'Teach'.

Treecko learned Bullet Seed

His Pokemon now hit its 5 move capacity. Reece now needed to get out of the forest and challenge the gym. Simple. Right?

Reece's ears perked up. He could have sworn he heard something. He turned to a set of nearby bushes. Peeking through then he saw 5 figures in dark outfits. 2 girls, 3 guys, and one had a Honchkrow. The one with Honchkrow looked very powerful.

"Has anyone found anything worthwhile?" the Honchkrow one said. Reece assumed that this one was their leader. The others said no, except for one of the guys.

"I found this." he said. he pulled out a Pokeball. He opened it up, and it had a Combee inside it. Reece could tell it was female because of the Red mark on its forehead. "I stole this cruddy pokemon from some loser."

Stole was the one word that Reece needed to hear in order to jump out of the bushes in anger. "Give that pokemon back to its trainer right now!" Reece had heard of people who steal pokemon from others. He had no respect for people who tortured pokemon.

"Get out of here kid!" One of the grunts screamed.

Reece not only stood his ground, but reached for Ratatta's Pokeball.

"I'm warning you kid!" The grunt yelled again.

Reece threw the pokeball to the ground, revealing Ratatta. "That's it kid!" The grunt yelled.

"Stall him." The leader said. "We'll be on our way."

The grunt sent out a Poochyena. "Use Howl!" the grunt ordered. Poochyena howled in a way that boosted its Attack Stat.

"Tail Whip!" Reece ordered. "Now quick attack!"

The purple rat smashed into Poochyena with enough force to take 2/3 of the dark dog's HP. "Poochyena, use Tackle!" the grunt ordered.

While the little hyena followed its master's orders it could barely damage Ratatta. "Quick Attack!" Reece ordered again. Poochyena fell. Reece won.

"How the heck did ah lose to a brat?" the grunt yelled. Reece was too the point. "Where's that Combee?"

"I don't have to tell you anything!" The grunt yelled. Reece walked over to him with his Ratatta. "And you realize you have nothing to lose now that a 'brat' " He said with air quotes, "beat you and your and most likely going to be fired."

"Da masta took em." The grunt said. "But why do ya want dat worthless....." Reece had already ran off, his shoes blasting out air as he went.

...................

"That kid is catching up." One of the female grunts said. "WHAT?" the leader said. "You, slow him down. We must find that base and destroy it!" The female grunt stood her ground while the remaining 3 ran off.

Reece caught up in half a minute. "You can keep throwing grunts at me all you want but I'm getting back that Combee!" Reece said with that 'main character who's like 11 or something fighting off terrorist organizations' tone of voice.

The same thing happened as last time, just with different pokemon. The grunt sent out an Oddish, and reece proceeded to beat it with his Kakuna. "Kakuna! Poison Sting!" The cocoon shot a poisonous pin at the plant thing, knocking it down.

"Oddish, Absorb!" The grunt ordered. Green energy flowed from Kakuna into Oddish, but this was a futile move. With a 4x resistance to Grass, Kakuna took little damage. Since Kakuna's only other attack was Electroweb, Reece kept spamming Poison Sting until Oddish fell.

"Brat!" the grunt muttered as she retrieved Oddish. "If I didn't have this worthless peice of trash, I would've won. hope this one does better! Go! Tailow!"

Reece stayed with Kakuna, knowing that Electroweb could help handle Tailow. "Iron Defense!" Reece ordered. This was a smart move, as the enemy Tailow struck with Peck.

"Kakuna! Electroweb!" Reece called out. Kakuna shot a yellow web at Tailow, shooting it out of the sky. Reece took his money and raced ahead. 2 of his Pokemon were at half health. He had 3 battles to go. Reece couldn't stop now.

.....................

Kara was so focused on finding Reece that she had tracked him over half the forest. She decided that she may as well make a shelter and continue tommorow. "Crazy day." She thought. "You end up faking your age, tracking a sugar powered guy through a forest, and now your in a wooden hut thinking to yourself."

Kara got up. She could've sworn she heard something. She gently woke up Machina, being careful not to startle her. The cyber-eyed fox gave a 'this better be important, I'm tired' face. Kara reached for one of the 2 Pokeballs on her belt, one containing her Mudkip, the other containing a Ralts she caught earlier.

She got out of her wood hut. She definitely heard something. It sounded soft, and sad. Like.....crying? She looked around, walking for a few meters until she saw a boy about 12 or so. The child was crying his eyes out. "What happened?" Kara asked immediatly.

The boy looked up. "These people stole my *sob* Combee." He said, his voice hoarse from crying. Kara called out Mudkip, got a cup out of her backpack, and had Mudkip use Water Gun in it. "Here, have some water." the boy took the water, and thanked Kara.

As he finished, Kara turned to see a huge wall of sand blow right through the forest. "Are you f......" She was cut off by the sand burying her up to her midriff. "Kidding me...... MUDKIP! Water Gun!"

Her little mud fish got both her and the young boy out of their sand prisons. "What was that?" the boy asked. Kara sweatdropped, and she looked over. "The sound of someone starving themselves of sleep. C'mon, If we run now, we can see what's happening."

Do you know whats happening? Good Job!

"Larvitar, Screech on Poochyena! Treecko, Bullet Seed on Carvanha!" Reece ordered through the sandstorm. He was fighting his first double battle, on only his first day too. Treecko hit seed after seed at Carvanha, knocking it out. Poochyena was hurt by the sandstorm, but that didn't stop it from firing a watergun (Gen 1 TM) at Larvitar. Larvitar shook it off.

"How!?" The grunt controlling Poochyena yelled. Reece smirked. "Sandstorm beefs up the Special Defense of Rock Types, that's why I used it. " Reece commented. "Plus, Poochyena has low Special Attack. Now, Larvitar! Bite! Treecko, Pound!"

The 2 Pokemon hit Poochyena square in the face. Knocking it out. "Damn!" The two grunts said. The leader had been watching. "YOU IDIOTS ARE REALLY INCAPABLE OF BEATING A KID?" he yelled. "Stop screwing around a use your other Pokemo......."

Reece could only guess something was wrong by the fact that the 3 criminals in front of him had horrified looks on their faces. Reece slowly looked around to see what was so scary. He got his answer.

Towering behind him was a Gyarados, looking extremely angry. "GYARA DOS DOS!" The serpent screamed. With that, the grunts behind him ran off cursing in fear.

"Kara, I know its you doing that." Reece said unimpressed. The gyarados reverted into a Zorua with a mechanical eye, and Reece saw Kara and a small boy come out of a bush. "How did you know it was me?" She asked bewildered.

"This forest has no ponds big enough to support a Gyarados, if it belonged to a trainer, it would've attacked by now, and if it was a wild pokemon, I would've tried to catch it." Reece said. Kara couldn't tell if he was faking it or being serious. "Weren't you at least scared."

"Heck yes now don't do it again." Reece said changing the subject. "Who's the guy?"

"They.....stole my Combee....." The boy said. "My name is Gin." he spoke up.

"Reece, we need your help to get his Combee back from those people." Kara said, closing her eyes. "Since you were already fighting them, could you help us?" she paused. "Reece?" Reece was gone already. "He left as soon as you closed your eyes." Gin said.

"Gin, before we get going, do you know who these people are?" Kara asked the boy. Gin paused. He bit his lip, trying to supress tears. "They called themselves Team Abyss, the Society of Shadows."

Chapter 5:Battle of the Bees
Reece was going to get back that pokemon if it killed him. The other trhought in his head was why he was doing this in the first place. Well, the only thing that came to him was how he would feel if someone took one of his Pokemon.

He caught up to the three grunts, and threw Kakuna's pokeball foward. "Kakuna, use Electroweb so they can't escape!" the boy yelled. His Kakuna, with one shot, created a huge, yellow web in front of of the 3 escaping criminals. The leader was able to stop in time, but the two grunts were unlucky enough to run painfully into a not so stable, sticky web that collasped onto them and knocked them out with several hundred volts.

"Whoops......" Reece said. He changed his attention to the leader. "Hand over that Combee!" Reece demanded. "Or Else."

"Or else what?" The leader demanded. Reece retrieved Kakuna, and threw out Larvitar. "We battle!" Reece was likely making a huge mistake but was too focused to do anything else. "Ready?"

"GO! Mightyena!" The leader shouted.

The black hyena dog erupted from the Pokeball. reece checked his battle scanner. Level 12. Reece countered with Ratatta. "Quick Attack!" Reece ordered. The purple mouse dissapeared, Mightyena fell back, and Ratatta re-appeared.

"Mightyena!" The Leader ordered. "Bite!" the canine lunged forward, attemping to grab the Ratatta in its jaws.

"Ratatta, jump on its head and use Tail Whip!" Reece ordered. Ratatta ran behind Mightyena, and rammed its head with Taail Whip. This only angered the dog.

"Water Gun!" The Admin ordered. "Ratatta!" Reece cried out as his Pokemon was hit with a blast of water. The rat was knocked against a nearby tree. "Shadow Ball on the Tree!" The Mightyena's trainer ordered. The Bite pokemon blasted a shadowy lump right at the tree above Ratatta.

Thinking quick, Reece called to his pokemon. "Take a dive!" Reece yelled. His Ratatta threw himself into the Shadow Ball, and instead of getting hurt, the mouse absorbed the ball. "Now finish him with Quick Attack!" The Ratatta rammed the hyena with a speedy tackle followed by a trail of white energy. The Hyena fell.

"Brilliant thinking." The admin said bewildered. "Not many trainers would order their pokemon to tank an attack like that in the middle of battle." The admin looked at Reece. "But why?"

Reece smiled. "I know my type match-ups by heart." he said. "Plus, if you hit the tree, Ratatta would've been hurt more." The admin looked at Reece, and Reece got a better look at him as the moon shone on him. He had light eyes, black hair that curled into spikes pointing the same way his eyes did. He was in his mid 20's, and looked like a no nonsense person.

"Who are you?" he asked. Reece kept smiling. "Reece Falconer, and you are?" The admin looked at Reece. "I am honored to be able to adress a child with such skill. But, you can't leave here now." Reece became slightly worried about this statement. This guy was likely going to kill him. "My name is Raigen. I am an admin of Team Abyss."

"GO! Rhyhorn!" He yelled. Reece retrieved his pokemon at the same time as the the armor rhino popped out of its pokeball. "Go Treecko!" The grass lizard faced the rock rhino face-to-face. "Bullet Seed!" Reece ordered. "Charge with fury attack!"

The two multi hit attacks collided, Rhydon's idiot brain wouldn't let it stop, and four jets of seeds crashed into the rhino. Treecko was hurled into a tree, cratering it. This was in no way a bad thing, as Treecko was in his element. The gecko scaled the tree, and waited for Reece's command.

"Absorb!" Reece yelled. Treecko drained away Rhyhorn's health, healing itself. Rhyhorn fell. Raigen threw out his last Pokemon. GO! Honckrow! Reece was about to retrieve Treecko, but Raigen had other plans. "Pursuit!" He ordered from his Honchkrow. Before the grass lizard's pokeball could retrieve it, Honckrow knocked it out of the tree and into Reece's hands, unconcious.

"Oh crud." Reece said. Reece reached for another pokeball, thinking between Ratatta and Larvitar. Kakuna would be a death sentance. "GO! Ratatta!" Ratatta popped from the ball, and gave its trademark cry. "Tatata! (Translation:Let's go!)

"Quick Attack!" Reece yelled. Ratatta disappeared and reappeared, hitting Honchkrow in the proccess. "Sky Attack!" Raigen ordered. Honchkrow started to glow, and Reece knew this moment had to be used wisely. Reece checked his scanner.

Honchkrow had 30% HP left. Reece had to set this up perfectly. "Tail Whip!" Reece ordered. Ratatta charged towards the crow ready to strike, but Raigen had other plans. "Fall foward!" he ordered. Honchkrow dived foward in a fashion that its Sky Attack would charge before Reece could react.

"Go!" Raigen ordered. Honchkrow smashed into Ratatta covered in a light blue electrical aura. Ratatta fainted instantly. "Oh no......." Reece was worried. He was going to lose if some miracle didn't pop up. "Larvitar!" Reece said as he threw larvitar's pokeball to the ground, revealing his first pokemon.

"Pitar!" Larvitar yelled out. "Larvitar, use Screech!" Reece called to the Rock Skin pokemon. Larvitar gave out a horrible, ear shattering Screech that forced Raigen to cover his ears, leaving Honchkrow open to attack. "Now use Bite!" Reece ordered. Larvitar was just able to latch on to Honchkrows leg, dragging it to the ground.

Even though the bird resisted Dark-Type moves, its Defense had been lowered 3 levels. That, with the fact Larvitar dragged it to the ground, Honchkrow suffered just enough damage to be KO'ed.

"Looks like I win!" Reece said, moving his arm to do a victory pose. That battle was close. He had taken a big gamble there. But, he wasn't out of the woods yet. "GO! Combee!" Raigen said. Reece was both amused and angered by this. "Sending out a stolen Pokemon? That's low."

Reece switched to Kakuna. "Electroweb!" He ordered. The Cocoon Pokemon fired a yellow string that formed a cobweb pattern over Combee, snaring it on the ground. "I think that you were going to give me that Combee, were you not?"

Raigen took Combee. "I still have a trump card." He said. Raigen took a syringe out of his pocket, and slowly injected it into Combee. "What a better time to test this like the present."

Combee instantly woke up. It floated into the air, and started to glow. Without a second thought, it burst into a Vespiquen.

"What.....did you do?" Reece said in shock. The combee had now been forced to evolve by the injection. Reece checked his battle scanner, the pokemon had hardly changed in level, only now level 10, but had seemed to increase in 20 levels at once. Raigen smirked. "That serum forced evolution. Now you can feel what the wrath of Team Abyss really feels like!" He declared. "Vespiquen! Attack Order!"

Vespiquen's eyes glowed, and numerous amounts of Combee appeared from Vespiquen's Honeycomb abdomen, and charged at Reece.

Without hesitation, Kakuna jumped up and took the attack head on. Reece saw that he was saved. "Kakuna, Electroweb!" He ordered. The Cocoon pokemon shot web after web at the Combee soldiers.

"Vespiquen, slash that annoyance!" Raigen ordered. Vespiquen smashed into Kakuna with force, powered by the anger of its unatural evolution. The cocoon pokemon got knocked against the ground, shell cracking.

"Kakuna!" Reece screamed in fear. He had been adventuring for a day and already he was in the middle of a scarring battle. "Go......GAAK!" Reece was about to call out another Pokemon, but was thrown to the ground. "Kill him!" Raigen said. "We can't let him live!"

Reece barely dodged Vespiquens arm coming down like a guillotine at his neck. Reece was given his chance to survive by Vespiquen's arm becoming stuck in the ground. "Come on......" Reece was in a state of panic. Treecko had fainted, Larvitar and Ratatta were injured, and Kakuna was......

"Finish him with Attack Order!" Raigen yelled. Once again, several Combee charged at Reece, but this time, something stopped them cold. In seconds, the Combee were on the ground, discolored in a way that made them look poisoned.

"What the....." Raigen looked around. Reece had not sent out any other Pokemon. Then what was that? Reece did the same. Had Kara caught up? No, Reece saw his helper. His Kakuna's cocoon had been broken to peices, and in its place was a Beedrill.

His Beedrill.

"Beedrill!" Reece shouted. "Fury Attack!" He shouted. Beedrill shot its pins at Vespiquen, regenerating them and firing again in quick succesion. Raigen quickly took hold of the situation. "HEAL ORDER!" He commanded. The combee reappeared, healed.

"Iron Defense!" Reece ordered, taking this time to power up. "Now Poison Sting!" He yelled.

"Defend Order" Raigen yelled. The Combee created a wall to block the attack. Reece got frustrated at this. "Electroweb!" He ordered. Beedrill shot a web of lightning at the wall, knocking through and harming Vespiquen. "I need to disable that Combee squad." Reece thought to himself.

"Beedrill! Use Electroweb on the ground!" Reece ordered. Beedrill followed the command, firing webs to the ground. "Now Poison Sting!" Reece ordered. But his command didn't reach quick enough. Vespiquen slashed at Beedrill and pinned it to the ground.

"Fury attack to the face!" Reece called. Beedrill's right arm shot a missle of a needle at Vespiquen's face, causing the bee queen to lose her grip on beedrill.

"Get out of there!" Reece called to his Pokemon. Beedrill rocketed into the air, reaching away from Vespiquen. "Poison Sting!" Reece yelled.

"Attack Order!" Raigen yelled in retaliaton. Vespiquen once again had her combee minions charge at Beedrill. Beedrill shot poison pins at the Combee. the two collided, and the combee fell to the ground. However, the fell onto Beedrills Electrowebs. This caused them to become stuck, and then paralyzed.

"Yes!" Reece exclaimed. "Now your Combee army is history, and Vespiquen is weakened." Reece's plan had finally worked. "Now finish it with fury attack!"

Beedrill shot down with such speed that it nearly dissapeared. It reappeared in front of Vespiquen and shot its needles three times, causing a bit of gutty bloody to drip down as the bee queen fainted.

"Mission failed." Raigen said. "Take your pokemon." He threw the Vespiquen's pokeball to Reece. The child ran over and retrieved it.

Raigen turned around. "The master isn't going to be happy about this." He said as he literally dissapeared. Reece only noticed it out of the corner of his eyes. He was about to comment before Kara and the boy showed up. "Reece!" Kara yelled.

She laid eyes on the battlefeild. "What the heck happened here?" She said, giving a stare at Reece that Reece knew as her 'stare of blazing death'. She only stared like that when she was really annoyed.

"Oh nothing." Reece said. He turned to the boy. "I sorta got your pokemon back." He said, pointing to Vespiquen. "That guy injected her with something that made her evolve.

The boy ran over to his Vespiquen. "I don't care if she evolved, I'm just concerned if she's okay. Kara pulled out a super potion and sprayed the bee queen.

"Thank you Kara," he turned to Reece. "Thank you to. Reece if I'm correct." Reece smiled. "That's correct. What's your name?"

"Egioh." The boy said. "I can't thank you enough."

"Don't need to." Reece commented. "When they said your pokemon was stolen, I couldn't stop trying to get it back."

"Well, it's time for me to go." Egioh said, retreiving his Vespiquen.

As Egioh dissapeared, Reece decided he may as well rest forthe night. Any more excitement and his heart would explode. He retreived his new Beedrill, and turned to Kara.

"So.......do you have any spare potions?" he asked his friend. Kara was the type of person who held favors against people who owed her, so he had to be careful. Kara pulled her bag of her back, and pulled out 3 revives, 7 potions, 1 super potion, and 4 antidotes. "How much do you need?"

Reece was greatly shocked at what he saw. Kara somehow had all these healing items, and Reece left home with just one measly potion.

"Where the heck did you get all of that?" Reece said in shock. Kara kept her serious face. "A girl has to have her ways." She said with a hint of pride in her voice. Reece looked at her. "Can I have some?" Reece asked her with 'desperate' written all over him.

"One condition: You help build a tempory shelter for the night, and 'gaurd' me until we start up again tommorow." Kara said. Reece wasn't buying the helpless girl act. "Kara, you don't need me to defend you." Reece said. "Don't think I forgot what you did to the last guy who ticked you off."

Kara's faced brightned up at the 'happy' memories. "Yes, now you're gonna 'protect' me or I won't heal your pokemon." Reece decided that since he wanted to actually survive another day, he may as well listen to Kara. "Oh, and Prof. Fir told me to give this to you." Kara said.

Kara handed Reece a Red and silver device. "According to him, it's called a Pokedex." Reece took it. "I've heard of these. They record data about every species of pokemon caught or seen by the holder." Reece aimed it to his Pokemon.

In seconds, the machine scanned Reece's pokemon, giving him data on the six species of Pokemon he caught so far

Larvitar:

Rock Skin Pokemon

Height: 2'00 / 0.6 M

Weight:158.7 LB / 72.0 KG

''This pokemon feeds on soil to grow. One Larvitar can consume an entire mountain. They tend to be found at remote areas such as Mt. Silver or Sevault Canyon''

Treecko:

Wood Gecko

Height:1' 08 / 0.5 M

Weight:11 LB / 5 KG

''They are adapted to life in forests. They are very fast, and make perfect use of that speed. Their bodies are covered with tiny spikes to allow it to scale walls and ceilings.''

Ratatta:

Mouse Pokemon

Height:1'00 / 0.3 M

Weight:7.7 LB / 3.5 KG

''These pokemon may be small, but a they can easily fell an Onix in the hands of a skilled trainer. Their teeth are always growing, and thus these pokemon gnaw constantly to keep its teeth from overgrowing.''

Weedle:

Hairy Bug Pokemon

Height:1'00" / 0.3 M

Weight:7.1 LB / 3.2 KG

''This pokemon may be relatively weak, but its powerful poison in its stinger and quick evolution speed more than make up for it. They eats leaves. Lots of leaves.''

Kakuna:

Cocoon Pokemon

Height:2'00" / 0.6 M

Weight:2'00 / 0.6 M

''These pokemon are near immoble. They still can, however, fire poison pins at ememies. They evolve quickly, and when they do, they reveal the body stuck inside the cocoon.''

Beedrill:

Poison Bee Pokemon

Height: 3'03 / 1'00 M

Weight:65.0 LB / 29.5 KG

''These pokemon are deadly predators, flying fast and equipped with powerful poison. Their spear like limbs can be shot with great force and regenerated near instantly. These pokemon can fire these spears like machine guns. ''

Reece was so engrossed in his new pokedex that Kara had to snap him out of it. "Hello, Reece?" She said. "Are you going to help me or not? I can easily build a shelter myself and not heal your team."

"Fine." Reece said submissively. Kara healed up his pokemon, and they started to build their shelter. Larvitar ate the soil to make a base. Treecko gathered wood, Beedrill patrolled the area for pokemon and trainers, Ratatta chewed any sticks to big to use to manageable size.

Kara's Pokemon helped out to. Her Ralts used her Psychic powers to make a shelter, Mudkip supplied fresh water, Machina's eye helped pick out perfect proportions to the shelter.

After an hour, Kara and Reece had a perfect sized base to accomadate themselves and their pokemon. After getting rest areas ready, they finally got some well deserved rest.

Before going to sleep, Kara leaned over to Reece. "Oh, and if you sneak out, You'll regret it." The girl said before falling asleep with her 3 Pokemon cuddling up to her. Reece took that threat seriously, because Kara would carry it out.

Reece had some trouble falling asleep. "Who were those people?" He kept asking himself. He had heard of Pokemon based crime syndicates before, but never seen one in person. Reece would get answers eventually. He hoped.

Reece, before falling asleep himself, turned to his team. "Rest up guys." The trainer layed down. "Because tommorow, we're getting out of this forest."

End of Surviving the First Trials Arc

Treeton City Arc
Treecko was sitting outside, looking at the moon. In the span of 15 Hours, he had been chosen as a starter, been in a chaotic battle against his former 'friend', destroyed the lab he was in, fought numerous trainers, battled against a terrorist group, and now was looking up at the moon.

"Why are you awake?" Treecko heard. He looked behind him to see Larvitar. Treecko turned away. "What do you want?" Treecko said annoyed.

"Your awake, staring at the moon, and I'm starting to think you don't like us." Larvitar said. Treecko facepalmed. "What do you think?" He said. "Our Master is crazy, and I'm stuck with you losers. Even worse, we're slaves to him."

"Shut up." Larvitar yelled at Treecko. "I've been with Reece for 8 years, and he didn't treat me like a Pokemon, he treated me like I was a part of him. I put up with his desire to become a pokemon trainer for all that time, and now he is one." Larvitar calmed down. "And its our job to help him become the best."

Treecko laughed at that. "The best?" He sneered. "If he dosen't get himself killed, then maybe."

"Give him a chance Treecko." the two heard a voice say. Larvitar and Treecko turned to see Mudkip. "You again?" Treecko muttered. Mudkip's face curled into a frown. "You were always happy until Torchic started becoming a jerk." He said.

"Is there something I missed?" Larvitar asked.

"Me, Torchic, and Mudkip were friends until Torchic became a jerk because I beat him all the time." Treecko said. "Then he became my mortal enemy."

Mudkip turned to Larvitar. "Don't mind him. He's not used to having a Trainer." Treecko turnedd to Mudkip. "That's true." Treecko said. "I'll give Reece a chance Larvitar." He turned away. "He better not blow it."

"You'll learn having a Trainer is fun." The three heard a fourth voice say. They turned to see Machina. "I should know, Kara's the reason I'm still alive." The Zorua turned in a feminine fashion to reveal her mechanical eye, a black sclera with 3 green bars curving down the side from a red pupil.

"I lost this eye in an accident, and they gave me a replacement." She stated. "Now I'm Kara's loyal partner." She turned away. "And I suggest you get used to reece Treecko. Because he'll pour his heart and soul out for you."

Chapter 6:The Media (Anything but that!)
Reece spent all of the day getting to Treeton City. He had not encountered  much on his travel, except for miles of Forest.

As soon as he arrived in Treeton City, he was amazed. The entire city was a bustling nerve center. The town was covered in shops, Trees, houses and every building was covered in vines.

"Wow....." Reece said in wonder. He quickly snapped back to his goal. "Where's the pokemon center?"

Reece looked around and got his answer. It was not far from the exit to the forest. He ran over and rushed inside. He went up to the blue haired nurse. she was tall, thin and looked like she was in her late teens. "Oh Hello, she said. "You're here to get your pokemon healed, right?"

"Of course," Reece said. He knew what to do. He gave his four pokeballs to the nurse, and she took them, put them into the machine next to her, and in 2 minutes, they were totally healed. "Here you go." she said, giving the four Pokeballs back to Reece.

"Thank you." Reece said before he turned to leave. "Wait!" The nurse called out. "Are you going to challenge the gym?" She asked. Reece turned around. "Yes." he replied. "Why is the gym leader really tough?"

"For a begginer, yes." The blue haired woman replied. "Sakura specializes in Grass types. If you can beat her, you'll get the Cherry Blossom Badge, which will increase the Attack Stat of your Pokemon. Be careful."

Reece would heed that warning. However, he would soon come across his greatest trial. No, not Matt or Kara, but something he couldn't stand. Something so horrible, it can only be said with a face of fear.

The media. (Dramatic music plus lightning strike)

Reece walked by a woman in a green shirt with black hair and a man with a large camera.

"Recently there have been unconfirmed reports of strange people operating in Green Forest." The woman said. "We have been told by several trainers passing through the forest that there pokemon have been stolen. Last night there was a report of a sandstorm even."

The newswoman looked over at Reece, and ran over to him. "Excuse me sir, but did you come from Green Forest in th last few days?" Reece looked over. "Yeah." he replied. "I just got here from Green Forest yesterday."

"Did you come in contact with any strange people in that time?" The newswoman asked. "Uh, yeah." Reece hesitated, but he knew the media, and that if he didn't tell her what she wanted, she would never leave him alone.

"Yes, they called themselves Team Abyss and....." Reece was interupted by a stray Razor Leaf blowing up the reporters camera.

"Uh, Maddy, my camera just exploded." The man said. Maddy looked over. "What, how?" She asked.

A girl about 16 years of age came up with her Leafeon. She had a green komodo with flowers, and brown hair. "Sorry about that. my Leafeon was chasing a Ratatta when she used Razor Leaf." She pulled out some money. Here's 15500 Pokedollars. this should be enough to fix the camera."

"Oh it's okay." the Maddy said. "Lets go ClicK!" She called to the man. After they were gone, Reece turned to the girl. "Any reason why you did that?" He asked. "Because I'm not buying your 'chasing a Ratatta' excuse."

"Come to the Gym and I'll tell you there." The girl said, walking off.

Meanwhile

Kara had made her way through the forest and was sure she was almost out. "Okay, so maybe parting ways from Reece wasn't my best Idea." As soon as she said that, she came out of the forest and into Treeton City.

"That was highly convenient." The girl said. "Okay team, come on out!" She threw her three pokeballs into the air, revealing Machina, a Ralts, and her Mudkip. Machina looked around. Without warning, she jumped up into the air, and with a glow of purple light, transformed into a child.

The human form she had created was no more than a brilliant illusion. The girl was about seven years of age, had black hair with a red stripe that looked like it held her hair together. Her right eye was red, and her left blue. She wore a beige skirt and shirt, and her tail (the one part a Zorua has trouble with) stuck out. This was in no way out of the ordinary, as crazy fashion statements where very common in Delta. I mean seriously, look at Reece's hair. Who in their right mind has anime hair?

Speaking of Reece, Kara's eyes met Reece after walking for a bit. "I See you finally made it through the forest." Reece commented. "And that Machina has really improved her Illusions."

Machina smiled at the boy's comment. Kara looked at Reece. "I thought by now you'd have challenged the Gym." She said. "I was going to, then I saw you." The trainer replied.

"How about we battle, since we couldn't at Fir's Lab." Kara sugessted. Reece took Ratatta's Pokeball. "Let's Go!"

Kara retreived Machina, shuffled up her Pokeballs, and threw out her first Pokemon:Mudkip. "Go Ratatta!" He yelled as he threw out his Ratatta. "Use Tackle!" he ordered.

Kara's hair seemed to float up as if a gentle wind had blown from under it. Kara's eyes darkened, as if a shade was above it. Her face became a smile. Reece had noticed that this happened, without fail, whenever she battled.

"Ice Beam!" Kara retaliated. Ratatta got hit with a faceful of Ice Beam before its Tackle connected. "Darn it." Reece said. "Quick Attack!"

Quick Attack hit with great speed. Mudkip was unable to retaliate. "Now Tackle!" Ratatta slammed into the Mud Fish with great speed.

"Counter!" Kara ordered. Mudkip smashed Ratatta with such force that it flew high in the air. "Now Ice Beam!" Kara once again ordered. Her Mudkip fired the Ice Beam high into the air. Reece thought quickly. "Tail Whip upwards!" Reece yelled.

His little rat barely managed to pull it of, but it gained just enough air to dodge death at Ice Beam. "Hyper Fang!" Reece ordered. The Ratatta came down and bit onto Mudkip in a flash, the bite doing massive damage. Reece pulled out his Batttle Scanner.

IF Mudkip survived with as much as 1 Hit Point, Kara would destroy it with Counter. Mudkips HP bar fell down from green, to yellow to red......

Then stopped a very hard to see sliver one HP away from knocking it out.

"Oh Crud." Reece said with a very saddened look on his face.

"Counter!" Kara ordered. Mudkip glowed orange then hit poor Ratatta with twice as much force as the Ratatta hit him. Poor Ratatta was knocked unconcious. It also knocked Ratatta many meters away infront of a young woman who screamed in terror, ran away, and would later become a mental case who accurately predicted that a kid was stuck in a well, and because of that the child was saved before they died of exposure.

Reece retrieved his Pokemon, and then sent out his next one. "GO TREECKO!" He yelled. He knew that that Mudkip had Ice Beam, but Treecko had Bullet Seed and Absorb. However, another horrible thought reach his mind.

"Quick Treecko! Absorb before he heals up!" Treecko got into the range he needed to use Absorb. "Too late!" Kara said with a smile and her eyes closed, making her face looked innocent. Mudkip was instantly healed for all its Hit Points.

Treecko hit the mud fish with Absorb, subtracting half of its HP. "Bullet Seed!" Reece commanded. Treecko shot a bunch of Seeds at Mudkip, each dealing small but steady damage. Mudkip had only a little HP left.

"Ice Beam!" Kara commanded. Mudkip shot a beam of Grass Types ultimate nightmare out of his mouth at Treecko, freezing it solid.

"Crud!" Reece exclaimed. "How are you so good?" Reece asked his Rival's sister. Kara smiled, putting her arms into position that stretched far from her body and made her look innocent. "You and Matt rubbed off on me."

"Treecko, Retreat!" Reece said. He chose another Pokeball. "GO! Beedrill!" he threw out his pokeball revealing his powerful poison bee. "USE Electroweb!" He ordered as Beedrill shocked Mudkip. "Mudkip! Water Gun!" She ordered. The powerful water type move (taking STAB into account) edged towards the bee.

"DODGE IT!" Reece yelled. The bee flew upwards, dodging the Watergun. "Now, Poison Sting!" He yelled. The bee shot its stinger at Mudkip, causing it to (finally) faint.

Who's next?" Reece asked, retrieving Beedrill. He sent out Larvitar. Kara smiled evily. "Go Ralts!" She called out as she sent out her Ralts.

"Ralts, Fake Tears!" She ordered. Ralts looked at Larvitar, giving a sad face. Her eyes watered up, and she started crying. Larvitar got covered in a blue aura, signifying a huge Special Defense drop. "Larvitar, Screech!" Larvitar gave an ear peircing screech that made Kara's hair frizzy.

Kara got irratated, but her hair simply corrected itself. "Don't to that again." She muttered. At this point, a crowd of people had gathered to watch the battle.

"Now Bite!" Reece ordered. Larvitar moved foward slowly, getting just a bit of speed, and clamped on to Ralts. Reece expected it to do massive damage, but something was wrong. Ralts smiled evily, and then transformed into Machina.

"Machina! Use Shadow Ball!" The unfortunate Larvitar got a faceful of Shadow Ball from Machina, damage increased by Fake Tears. Kara had set her trap, and Reece fell for it. "Larvitar, Retreat!" Reece called out, and he switched out Larvitar for Beedrill.

"Beedrill!" Fury Attack!" He ordered. The Bee Pokemon shot its pins like a rocket, hitting the Zorua with hit after hit. "Pursuit!" Kara commanded. The Zorua chased after Beedrill, making no attempt to let her foe escape. "Wait for it, wait for it, NOW! Electroweb!"

The Bee pokemon shot the electroweb at Machina, causing her to fall to the ground. "Machina!" Kara called out. "Iron Defense!" Reece called for his Beedrill to perfrom. The Beedrills skin tensed up, becoming 2x as hard. "Now Poison Sting!"

Beedrill fired powerful shots at Machina, puncturing the skin causing her to bleed. (Signifying a Critical Hit) Machina's legs buckled, and the Zorua fainted.

"Okay, now, go Ralts!" Kara called out as she retrieved Machina and sent out her Ralts. Reece retrieved Beedrill and switched out to Larvitar. "Use Bite!" He ordered. Ralts was about to counter with a psychic attack, but failed, as Larvitar made her flinch. "Screech!"

Kara thought up her strategy real quick. "Teleport!" Ralts teleported to the side of Larvitar, dodging his deadly screech. Reece reacted to her next attack. "Sandstorm!"

Larvitar spun around creating a Sandstorm. "Confusion!" Kara screamed. Ralts floated into the air, and hit Larvitar with a psychic beam. "Larvitar, Screech!"

Larvitar scheeched a beam like screech at Ralts, causing the poor pokemon to hold it head in pain. Larvitar kept screeching till the feeling pokemon's ears bled, and she fell to the ground. "Now finish it with Bite!" Reece ordered. Larvitar crushed the poor psychic under his weight and bit her unconcious.

Kara fell on her knees, her hair returning to normal. Reece had so greatly taken control of the battle that she lost track of it. She was genuinely wooried about Reece's crazy plan. That was, until however, she saw a lot of older boys eying her.

Reece noticed this too and smiled. His crazy plan was working. He retrieved Larvitar, helped Kara up, and smiled. "See ya later Kara." the anime haired protagonist said.

Kara got up, and looked Reece in the eyes. "Thanks." she said. "Oh, and for beating me, I give you this:" Kara got her book out of her bag. "The gym leader here is named Sakura." she said.

"She's a grass master right?" Reece asked. Kara nodded. The crowd was dispersing. "She's a fairly new Gym Leader, but her challengers have reported she uses a passive-aggressive battle style. Sakura's known Pokemon are Rotom, Leafoen, and a Venomoth."

"Darn it" Reece said. "Now I owe you another favor."

Kara smiled. "Just give me directions to the Pokemon Center."

Chapter 7:When the Media Gets involved.........
Reece stepped into the Gym. His mother explained how they worked. You challenged several gym trainers, then you fought the leader. The Leader is very tough. You beat the leader, you get a badge.

He walked in and immediatly loved the smell of the gym. The gym smelled like sweet honey. He looked around, and saw 2 Aroma ladies. Reece thought they would be his first opponents.

"Excuse me, Do I have battle you before I fight the Gym Leader?" Reece asked one of them. They turned around and looked at Reece. "Oh hello, you must be a challenger, correct?"

Reece nodded. "I'm here for my first badge." Reece looked around. The gym looked like a park, and he saw many grass types and other pokemon like Venonat around. "Have you seen a girl with brown hair and a green kimono around?"

The two aroma ladies got a suprised look on their face. "You mean the gym leader?" The second one asked. the first looked over a the second. "I think he's the one who the Gym Leader wanted to see."

"Go through the hedges that way." The first Aroma lady said, pointing foward.

Reece, confused of course decided to go through the hedges. When he got through, he saw a medium sized stadium, on the other side was the Kimono Girl from earlier.

"So your the Gym Leader?" Reece asked. "And why did you blow up that camera?" Reece demanded. "And don't use that 'I Hate the media excuse' because everyone hates the media but you don't see them blowing cameras!

"Yes, I am the Gym Leader." the girl said. "My name is Sakura, the Flower Warrior. That camera was destroyed for a reason. You were in Green Forest recently, correct?" Sakura asked.

"Yes, and like I was going to say earlier, I ran into some people called Team Abyss." Reece said. Sakura's face immediatly snapped serious. "Did you really say Team Abyss?"

"Yes."

Sakura bit her lip. "Team Abyss is a terrorist organization that specializes in Pokemon. They only did petty, underground crimes, but recently, led an attack on Blaz Brigde. The league has ordered me to cover it up."

Reece could only ask one question. "Why?"

Sakura took a deep breath "Delta lacks a Champion. As you may know, the Champion is an important goverment figure."

This news was foreign to Reece. He knew that Delta lacked a Champion, but he never knew a Champion was so important. He allowed the gym leader to continue.

"As with every region, the gym leaders and elite four work to protect civilians. Delta, however, has lacked a Champion for years now." Sakura continued. "We shot ourselves in the foot, because the Elite Four were so powerful that noone has defeated them in years. And thus noone is powerful enough to assume an E4 position and allow one of them to become a the Champion."

"It's my job to prevent the media from finding out." Sakura said.

"But, you realize that when you don't want the media to get involved, they'll be there to Screw it up without fail." Reece said.

"Well, we still need a champion to defend the region." Sakura said.

Reece spoke up. "I'll be the one who will fill that gap!" Reece stated with detemination. Sakura looked away. "Do you know how many trainers aiming to become Champion have said that? All of them. Do you know how many trainers have failed to become the Champion? All of them!"

Reece's face sulked. He had started his journey just yesterday, and if thousands of other had failed, he had a lot on his plate. But, Reece snapped back to his old self. "It's time for what I came for! Sakura! I challenge you for the Cherry Blossom Badge!"

Sakura snapped her fingers. Immediately, an electronic board lit up with Sakura's and Reece's face on it. "We can use as many as six Pokemon in this battle. Also, healing items are allowed, but limited to one per side.

Reece sent out his first Pokemon, Beedrill. the bee pokemon would be his secret weapon in this battle, as it was the only pokemon he had that would have an advantage in this battle.

"Now, before I start, who do I have the pleasure of adressing?" Sakura asked. Reece smirked. "My name is Reece Falconer. And I'm your opponent!"

Chapter 8:Vs Treeton Gym Leader Sakura
Sakura sent out her first Pokemon, Rotom. The pokemon looked like a demented orange lawnmover. Reece kept with Beedrill.

On the Electric board, a Beedrill Icon showed up, with a status bar identical to the ones in the Video Games. Another appeared with Rotom on it. Rotom was Level 12, and Beedrill was Level 15. Beedrill's high level was a result of all its recent battles, especially Kara and Raigen.

"ThunderShock!" Sakura ordered. The plasma pokemon shot a jolt of electricity at Beedrill. Beedrill took the hit quite well. "Beedrill, Poison Sting!" Reece ordered to counter. Beedrill shot a powerful sting at Rotom, knocking it back.

"Press on with Fury Attack!" Reece yelled. "Be-drill! (Yes Reece!)" Beedrill said as it shot its stingers at Rotom. Beedrill managed to get four hits on the lawnmower.

"Rotom, Leaf Storm!" Sakura ordered. A hurricane of leaves ripped through the gym towards Beedrill. "Dodge It!" Reece called out. Beedrill started swiftly moving around to avoid the storm. Sakura was ready to counter that. "Thunder Wave!"

Beedrill now had Thunder Wave coming from its left, and Leaf Storm behind it. "Take the Leaf Storm!"

Beedrill braced himself to take the Leaf Storm and thus dodge the Thunder Wave. Beedrill was flung into the air in the barrage of leaves. "Electroweb on the leaves!" Reece commanded.

Beedrill shot the leaves with his sticky electric webs, causing the leaves to fall to the ground.

"Now finish it with Poison Sting!" Reece ordered. Beedrill shot his stinger with the marksmanship of a sniper, scoring a painful critical hit.

"Rotom, Return." Sakura said was a saddened face. "Now go! Venomoth!" The venomous moth came out, ready to strike. As Reece saw Rotom's icon fade out with a 'Fainted' mark and Venomoth's icon bar pop up under Rotom's. Venomoth was level 13, and Reece remembered Kara's advice. Venomoth was likely going to use a status move.

"Venomoth! Super Sonic!" Beedrill technically could just hover in place and the move would likely miss, but Reece wouldn't take a chance. "Beedrill! Fly up and strike with fury attack!"

Beedrill used his deadly speed to fly into the air to dodge, and got ready to fire his machine gun stingers, but to reece's horror, Venomoth had transitioned from Super Sonic to another move. "Venomoth!" Sakura yelled. "Confusion!"

The light above Beedrills head was blown out by the deadly psychic force. The spark hit Beedrills left wing, badly injuring it. The poison bee lost air too fast for comfort.

"Continue your attack!" Reece told his pokemon. "Drill dril bee! (Take this you screwy moth!)" Beedrill shouted as he shot 3 Pins at Venomoth.

"Take the hit and smash it with confusion!" Sakura yelled out. Venomoth braced itself and shot a direct hit with confusion. Reece screamed in terror. If beedrill went down, so did his chance of winning. "Beedrill, quick! Electroweb!

His injured bee shot a yellow web at Venomoth, scoring a speed drop. Reece hoped this would work. If Sakura switched, Reece would likely lose.

"Finish it with Swift!" Sakura ordered. Venomoth shot energy stars at Beedrill, kocking it into the ground formin a crater, scoring a critical hit in the process.

"Oh no." Reece said in horror.

Chapter 9:Cherry Blossom Shuriken
Larvitar, Treecko, or Ratatta? That choice could pick Reece back up, or screw him over. Ratatta had the best chance of taking Venomoth out in the least number of hits.

"GO! Ratatta!" Reece yelled as he threw the red pokeball containing his Ratatta. "Ratatta! (Let's Go) it said, echoing its cry. "Focus Energy!" Reece ordered. Ratatta became surrounded by an orange aura breifly.

"Venomoth!, PoisonPowder!" The moth pokemon showered down a purple dust, causing Ratatta to become poisoned. Reece had to end this quickly.

"Hyper Fang!" Reece ordered. The Ratatta's fangs glowed, and Ratatta charged at the moth, gaining air in the process. The Rat bit down on the moth, causing to guts to come out as Reece's Ratatta brought it to the ground. "Confusion!" Sakura ordered.

"Menonoth! (Take this!)" Venomoth said as it blasted an extreme psychic attack at Ratatta, blasting the poor Rat into the air. Venomoth, however, still fell.

"Good job boy." Reece said to Ratatta. The poor rat was poisoned, and there was no point in switching.

Sakura smiled. "Your a great opponent Reece." she chuckled. "Too bad your too young for me." Reece took this with a blush, but he was also clearly annoyed. "Just send out your Leafeon." The 12 year old replied.

"Go," Sakura said, arching her arm back with Leafeon's pokeball in it. "Leafeon!" She said as she threw out the Pokebal containing her camera destoying Eeveelution.

"Lets go Sakura!" Reece yelled. "Ratatta! Quick Attack!" The poisoned rat shot foward. Sakura grinned. "Counter with Quick Attack!" Leafeon shot foward, clashing with Ratatta and overpowering it. Reece looked at the board. Leafeon was level 14, the same level as Ratatta, Larvitar, and Treecko.

"Ratatta, use Hyper Fang!" Reece ordered. But something was wrong. To Reece's horror, Ratatta head was surrounded by small yellow ducks. Ratatta was confused. The little rat rammed its head into the ground, and then took the blunt of Leafeon's following Razor Leaf.

The poor rat then took the damage needed to knock it out by poison. "Ratatta, Retreat." Reece said in monotone as he retrieved his pokemon.

"Go, Treecko!" Reece called out. He wouldn't put his Larvitar into uneccessary danger, and Grass vs Rock and Ground as you know (and if you don't then feel very bad about it) is 4X the damage.

Treecko knew Quick Attack, Leer, Dragonbreath, Absorb, and Bullet Seed. (Yes, Pokemon can learn 5 moves in this FC, incase you didn't catch that earlier) It would be best for Reece to spam Dragonbreath, leer, and Quick Attack.

"Treecko, Leer, then Quick Attack!" Reece commanded from his pokemon. Treecko's eyes glowed, covering Leafeon in a green aura as its defense dropped. Before Leafeon could react, Treecko slammed into it with a trail of energy behind it.

"Dragonbreath!" Reece said. This battle might just end in a win for Reece. He just had to keep in control. A smokey blast of energy covered Leafeon.

"Leafeon, Razor Leaf!" Sakura ordered. Two sharp leaves crashed into Treecko. Leafeon then slammed into Treecko with all its weight. "Now, use Giga Drain!" The kimono girl ordered. The Eeveelutions eyes glowed as it drained Treecko's health, restoring its own.

Reece HAD to put a stop to this. "Bullet Seed!" Reece commanded frantically. "Geckeckecko! (Get off of ME!)" Treecko shouted as he blasted Leafeon with seeds. The seeds sprayed everywhere, making a garden of pits all over the ground.

"Quick Attack Leafeon!" Sakura ordered. The Grass Eeveelution charged towards Treecko, slamming it away. "Now Giga Drain!" The kimono girls ordered. Treecko was drained once again of his energy.

"Get that Leafeon with DragonBreath!" Reece yelled out. Leafeon was covered in energy and ash once again, this time getting a critical hit. "Quick Attack!" Sakura ordered. Treecko was once again slammed into the air, this time taking a Crit himself. He once again fell.

Reece looked at the board. Treecko had fainted. Reece Retrieved the pokemon. "Sorry Treecko."

Reece was very worried. His only remaining pokemon was Larvitar, who would go down in just a few turns, if not one hit.

"Go Larvitar!" Reece yelled. He sent out his Rock Skin Pokemon. Larvitar knew Bite, Leer, Screech, and Sandstorm. "Use Screech!" Reece ordered.

Larvitar gave an ear peircing screech in the form of a beam in Leafeon's direction. Leafeon, however, dodged it. Reece was worried. But that worry only grew tenfold.

"Leafeon! Solarbeam!" Sakura ordered. Leafeon started to absorb light. This would be checkmate for Reece, as this would be the equivelent of being hit by a 480 Base Power Attack. Larvitar would be slaughtered. Unless......

"Use Sandstorm!" Reece said frantically. Larvitar shot sand out of his mouth, wiping the feild in a sandstorm. Leafeon let loose with solarebeam, hitting Larvitar square in the face. This caused a huge explosion, dissapating the Sanstorm.

As by some miracle, Larvitar was still standing. Sakura was shocked at this. "How did your Larvitar brace that hit?" the Gym Leader asked with a shocked expression.

Reece smirked. "Solarbeam's power is reduced to half if the weather isn't clear or sunny." The anime haired boy chuckled. "And Rock Types also gain a 50% boost to Special Defense during Sandstorm. This made Solarbeam only have 120 power instead of 480."

Sakura was impressed with this. "You're really smart, I'll give you that." Her face changed again. "But, its time to lose! Razor Leaf!"

Leafeon shot 2 leaves at Larvitar, striking it down. Larvitar's hips buckled, and he started to fall. "Screech!" Reece ordered. Larvitar was just able to harshly lower Leafeons defense before the Rock Skin Pokemon fainted.

"It looks like I won." Sakura said. "You were a tough opponent, but it seems I won." Reece smirked. "Actually,, I think you should look closely at the Electric Board."

Sakura, confused, looked over to the board with the status of all the battles participants. What she saw shocked her to no end. Reece's Beedrill still had a few hit points left, and was level 16! Before she could react, Reece made his sneak attack.

"Beedrill! Twineedle!" Reece called out. Sakura's Leafeon was struck with four needles in its side. Without a second thought, it fell.

Sakura, still shocked, looked over to see Reece's Beedrill standing out of the pit Venomoth had put it in. "But...how?" Was all Sakura could bring herself to say.

Reece couldn't stop smiling. "When Venomoth slammed Beedrill into the ground, I knew I would lose if I kep Beedrill in. However, I knew if I switched, I would give you an advantage. So, since Beedrill was close to level 16 and would learn Twineedle at that level, I decided to rush the battle so you wouldn't notice I kept Beedrill in. This became the perfect plan B incase my other 3 Pokemon couldn't beat you. Also, since Beedrill didn't participate, I didn't break any rules!"

Sakura was wordless. Noone, in her short run as a Gym Leader, had ever done something so brilliant. She smiled. "Well, I'm honered to give you the Cherry Blossom Badge!" The teenage Gym Leader said.

Reece had finally gotten his first badge. "We did it!" the boy cheered. He high fived his Beedrill, and went to get his Badge."

"Also, have this TM Giga Grain." Sakura added, giving Reece the TM and the Badge. "I think you'll make an excellent trainer someday!"

Chapter 10:12 Seconds on the Clock
Reece left the gym with his first badge that day. He was ready for anything. That meant even the inevitable sneak attack from Matt. He had healed up his pokemon, met Kara on his way to the Pokemon Center.

Now, remember how Prof Fir said that Matt and Reece would get into a battle 12 seconds after they locked eyes? Well, lets test that. Matt is walking out of Green Forest and crossing Reece's path.

"I finally made it out of that dang forest!" Matt reveled. Reece looked over, and met Matt's gaze.

"Yeah, took you long enough." Reece said.

1 Second

"I bet you haven't beat the gym yet!" Matt said angrily.

3 seconds

Reece smirked. "I just did. Don't cry TOO hard when you lose!"

5 Seconds.

"That's it!" Matt said angrily. "YOU'RE GOING DOWN!"

7 Seconds. That's fast. Even for them.

Matt sent out his Spearow. "GO!" The blond yelled. Reece reached for Beedrills Pokeball. "GO! Beedrill!" The two pokemon looked at eachother, as if waiting fo the other to go at their throat.

"Spearow, Fury Attack!" Matt ordered. Spearow shot foward, pecking at Beedrill continously.

"Electroweb!" Reece commanded. The Bee shot at Spearow, hitting it face first with the Electric Attack.

"Leer then Peck!" Matt shouted out. Spearows eyes glowed, lowering Beedrills defense. Then it charged the bee, causing major damage.

"Beedrill, hit'em with Twineedle!"

Beedrill fired its strongest attack, hitting Spearow in the side. The attack repeated. Matt refused to give up. "Leer once again!" Spearows eyes glowed, causing Beedrill defense to fall.

"Beedrill, switch out!" Reece was about to retrieve his pokemon, but.....

"Spearow! Pursuit!"

Before Reece could retrieve his Pokemon, Spearow smashed into it, scoring a KO.

Reece wordlessly retrieved his Pokemon. "GO! Ratatta!" Reece called out the rat. The pokemon popped from its pokeball, ready to pounce.

"Quick Attack!" Reece ordered. Ratatta charged foward with such might, that Spearow got knocked out of its flight. "Focus Energy!" Reece yelled.

"Throw that rat into the sky!" Matt ordered from his Pokemon. Reece would not have this. "Ratatta! Hyper Fang!"

Ratatta did something amazing. It hit Spearow with its Hyper Fang, throwing it to the ground with excessive force. Reece checked his Battle Scanner. Ratatta didn't score a Crit. He then remembered that the Cherry Blossom Badge was supposed to increase his Pokemon's Attack. Was it really working?

"Pursuit!" Matt ordered. Spearow got up, and dive bombed Ratatta with the Dark Type move. "Ratatta! Quick Attack!" Reece commanded. His Ratatta crashed into Spearow, Knocking it out.

"Return!" Matt commanded. he retrieved his Spearow, and sento out his next Pokemon. "Crush him Gastly!"

"Pursuit!" Reece ordered. Ratatta was about to crunch Gastly, but Matt had planned ahead. "Sludge Bomb!" The blond yelled.

Gastly's poisonous Gases formed solid sludge that showered Ratatta, causing it to Faint.

Reece, now thoroughly annoyed, decided that this annoying ghost was going down. Reece decided he risk another crazy plan. Reece threw a pokeball, not saying who was inside, and it traveled till it hit Gastly, then opened. "Dragonbreath inside Gastly!"

Treecko popped out of the Pokeball, and used Dragonbreath INSIDE Gastly. Since Gastly is made out of gases, the spark from Dragonbreath caused the gas pokemon to burst like methane gas in a paper filled kiln.

"In your face Matt!" Reece gloated. He had just OHKO'ed his Gastly with his crazy plan. He only hoped Treecko was okay.

"Time to lose!" Matt yelled. He threw out the Pokeball containing (you guessed it!) Torchic. "Ember!" Matt ordered. "Dragonbreath!" Reece retaliated.

The resulting attacks collided, and Ember started to slightly overpower Dragonbreath before the attacks dissapated in a small explosion.

Torchic was in the middle of the dust when Treecko hit him from behind with Quick Attack. "Konchic, torckonhic! (Why can't I beat you?)" Torchic yelled in frustration.

"Geckeckecko? (Maybe because you have the intellegence of a Rhyhorn?" Treecko commented before throwing Torching into the Sky with pound.

"Treecko, Dragonbreath!" Reece ordered. Treecko hit the flying torchic with a painful blast of breath. "Crush Claw!" Matt commanded.

Torchic came down like a guillotine with glowing claws, landing on Treecko's head.

''Critical Hit! Treecko's defense fell.''

"Treecko, use Giga Drain!" Treecko glowed as shperes of HP went from Treecko to Torchic. Torchic was highly upset by this. "I'm Fire! You're Grass! I SHOULD BE WINNING!" The chicken complained.

"Ember!" Matt ordered. Treecko was hit in the face by fire. Reece and Matt checked their Scanner's. They both had about 35% of their HP left.

"Treecko! Dragonbreath!" Reece ordered. Treecko shot an incredible blast of Breath at Torchic.

"Ember!" Matt ordered. Torchic fired cinders of fire at the dragonbreath. The two attacks collided, this time random variables of pokemon working for Treecko.

Torchic fell down. "I hate you....." Was all the bird got out before he fell.

"Torchic Return! Go Axew!" Matt yelled as he did both actions in quick succession. His precious Axew stood looking at Treecko.

"Axew, use Giga Impact!" Axew shot foward with the power of a cannonball, almost slamming into Treecko, but the little lizard stepped to the side at the last second.

"Treecko, Retreat!" Reece said as he retrieved the little lizard. "Go Larvitar!" Reece said. He sent out his Larvitar, the Rock Skin larva and the Tusk Dragon looking face to face.

"What a pleasant suprise." Axew said sarcastically in Axew cries. Larvitar said nothing, but instead waited for his trainers command. "Screech!" Reece ordered. Larvitar gave a horrible screech, lowering Axew's Defense. "Axew, Dragon Rage!"

Larvitar had no choice but to dodge this. If the powerful tornado made by his Rival simply touched him, he would be OHKO'ed. "Refusing to get hit?" Matt yelled. "Dual Chop!"

Axew flew foward with his hands glowing in the same fire seen when using Dragon Claw (In Gen 3 mind you). The tusk dragon struck Larvitar twice. "Larvitar, Bite!" Reece called out frantically

The power of bite was enhanced by Reece's Cherry Blossom Badge and the Defense drop of Axew. Larvitar bit onto Axew's back, and flung Axew into the air, with blood dripping from the wound.

"You can't win Reece!" Matt said. "I know all your moves!"

Reece couldn't help but smile. "You can think what you want, but that dosen't make it true!" Larvitar, Screech at Axew!"

Larvitar screamed once again, this time making Axew's defense go dangerously low. "Now, Bite!" This moment would be important, as Reece would discover Larvitar's weakness. Larvitar ran up to Axew as fast as he could, but Axew was faster. Larvitar is a slow species in general, and Reece's had a Quiet Nature.

"Axew, Turn around and use Dual Chop!" Axew turned around, and slammed Larvitar with the power of a boosted Multi hit move.

"Bite!" Reece ordered. Axew couldn't react fast enough this time. Lartiar clamped on, threw Axew into the air, then the Rock Skin pokemon jumped onto his foe. Axew attempted to shake his foe loose, but to no avail, and passed out from the 157 Pounds pressing against his lungs.

Reece retrieved Larvitar. "My winnings Matt?" The silver haired boy asked. Matt dug out half the money he gathered in the last 48 hours. "I swear I'll win someday Reece!" Matt said.

"Ya, beat the Gym Leader first, and try not to cry too hard when you lose." Reece said, watching as Matt's face turned red.

"Oh I'm sorry, when you lose." He said walking off to the pokemon Center.

Some time later.

After healing his team, Reece called out everyone. "Hey everybody, great work on the Gym Battle." He told his team. He was met with a mix of chattering, clicking, growling, and buzzing from his four Pokemon in a fashion that seemed to say "Thank You."

"And since I have a ton of money, I've decided to bring you guys to a resturant to eat." He said. "How 'bout it?"

His team agreed. That was settled. Reece was able to find a great resturant that gave a 45% Trainer Discount (yes, those exist).

Reece ordered a lot of fast food, Beedrill got a honey covered extra meat cheeseburger, Treecko got some leaves, and Ratatta got a plate of popcorn. Larvitar kindly refused food (as he prefers a healthy diet of soil). Noone, however, refused the icecream Reece got for his team for desert.

While eating Larvitar asked Treecko something. "So, do you like Reece now?" The rock skin pokemon asked. The wood gecko replied: "Between making Torchic's life miserable, and being super nice to his Pokemon, Reece isn't that bad."

That's good."

"I still think he's crazy."

"Fair enough.

Treeton City Arc

The Light's too bright Arc
Reece went to the Pokemon Center before deciding to head out to the Aqua River. It would take a week or two before he reached the next city.

As he walked into the Pokemon Center, a delivery man came to his side. "Are you Reece Falconer?" The man asked.

Reece didn't expect this man wanted his autograph. He went in with caution. "Yes, that's me."

"Can I see your Trainer Card just to be sure?" The delivery man asked.

Reece reached for his Trainer Card, and Beedrill's pokeball. He just hoped he didn't need to use the latter. The delivry man looked at the card, and then gave it back.

"This is from your father." The deliveryman said. He handed Reece a box about the size of Larvitar.

Reece tooked the box, sat down on a bench, and opened it carefully. It had a pokeball and a letter in it. Reece opened the letter.

Dear Reece,

''I'm really sorry I couldn't see you off. That's my fault. To make up for it, I sent this Pokeball to Treeton City to make up for it. ''

Reece opened the Pokeball. Out came, at first, nothing. But then, Reece felt a weight on top of his head. He looked up to see a squinty-eyed, gold colered humanoid creature with a brown chesplate. He pulled out his pokedex.

Abra

Psi Pokemon

Height:2'11 / 0.9 M

Height: 43 LB / 19.5 Kilograms

''It has strong Psychic Powers. However, to properly control it, it needs to sleep 18 hours a day.''

Reece turned to the letter.

''He's an Abra. He knows Teleport, Confusion, Submission, Ice Punch, and Metronome. Let him get plenty of sleep, give him lots of liquids, give him just the right amount of food.''

And whatever you do, DO NOT TRY TO PULL HIM OFF YOUR HEAD!

Reece took the Pokeball. "Okay, uh Abra, can you get off my head?" Reece asked. Abra opened its left eye, looked at Reece, and then used his psychic powers to get a slip of paper and a pen, then gently wrote "NO" on the paper.

"Are you sure?" Reece asked.

Abra took the paper and turned it over. It said "YES"

Reece sighed. Abra was really heavy for such a small pokemon, especially one that wasn't a rock type. Reece walked outside. He was going to have to explain to EVERYONE he met why there was and Abra sleeping on his head.

Then Reece learned this wasn't such a bad thing.

"Oh, are you the person who beat the gym leader yesterday?" Reece turned to see Maddy, the Reporter from yesterday., and ClicK, who seemed to have a new camera.

"Can i skip this interview?" Reece asked nervously.

"I can't let you go!" Maddy said frantically. "This is a great news story!"

Abra, who was greatly annoyed by this disturbance in his sleep, decided to use Confusion to blow up ClicK's camera.

"Uh Maddy...." ClicK started to say.

Maddy didn't turn around. "Let's just be glad we insured that camera."

When they left, Reece looked at Abra. "I think were gonna get along just fine!"

Chapter 11:Dusk Cave
Yesterday

"Machina! Shadow ball!" Kara ordered. The Zorua blasted the Grass Eeveelution with the shadowy blob, and caused the Grass Type gym leader's final Pokemon to faint.

"Congrats!" Sakura said. "You won the Cherry Blossom Badge."

Some time later

"Axew!" Matt ordered. "Giga Impact!" Axew shot into Venomoth like a bullet, knocking it out. Sakura retrieved Venomoth and sent out Leafeon. "Giga Impact again!" Axew knocked into

Sakura was too shocked to comment. "Wait, why didn't your Axew have to recharge?" She asked.

Matt smiled cockily. "If the user of a move like Hyper Beam or Giga Impact KO's its opponent, they don't need to recharge.  "Axew return!"

Axew returned into its pokeball in a flash of light. "Go Torchic!"

Torchic came out of the pokeball, and faced Leafeon ferociously. "Ember!" Matt ordered, scoring a OHKO.

"Congrats, you got the Cherry Blossom Badge."

''Today. ''

Reece really found it useful that it only cost 100 Pokedollars to rent out a hotel room for a night. He made sure to enjoy it, as he wouldn't be in another one for some time. He randomly took a few things out of his bag, including his Scanner and his Pokedex.

He was about to call out his team, but then he heard a beeping noise. Thinking it was his Battle Scanner, he checked. only five people had his number, Professer Fir, his mom, Matt's mom, Kara, and Matt. He quickly discovered that it WASN'T his scanner, but instead his Pokedex.

"What?" He said bewildered. He then heard more beeping, one from the right, seemingly in an alley, and one from right behind.

"Reece!" Reece heard an all to familiar voice say. He turned to see Matt, holding his Pokedex, which was also beeping. Reece was about to challenge Matt to a battle, but then he heard another voice.

"Of course you 2 are here."

Both Matt and Reece turned to see Kara, who, although her hair was frizzled, she still managed to make it look fashionable. She was wearing new shoes, and Reece she was wearing Jeans. Of the 3, she was the only one to expirement with her looks. Reece just chose a look and stuck with it.

"So, I'm guessing you two have as much of an idea of why our Pokedexes are beeping as I do." Kara said. The boys nodded. Matt looked at Kara. "Have you been doing okay recently?'

"Of course I have Mr Doom, Gloom and Vileplume." Kara replied. She was obviously tired. Reece and Matt could tell because she had her 'Morning Style' look.

"Anyways, I'm off to get Coffee, If you find out why these things are beeping, call me." Kara put her Pokedex in her bag, and as soon as she did, the Beeping Stopped.

"It seems that the Pokedex's only beep when we're near eachother, and were all holding them." Matt suggested. Reece decided to agree with Matt (a rare occurence).

"Oh, before I go," Kara started to say. "I need your opinion: I need a pokemon who I can use for Beauty themed Pokemon Contests."

Reece spoke first. "I'm assuming that you have a Category for every all your Pokemon?" Kara nodded. "Ralts is Smartness, Mudkip is Toughness, and I'm keeping Machina battle based. As for the others, I have plans."

Matt spoke next. "Are you planning on making any Pokeblocks? Those are really important."

"I know." Kara replied. "There's a reason I spent all that time studying berries."

"Sorry, can't help you." Reece said sadly.

"That's alright." She changed the subject. "Who wants Coffee?"

No arguing with that suggestion.

At the coffee shop, Kara and Reece got their Coffee, but Matt got nothing (trying to watch his health). All of a sudden, the 3 heard a news report. It wasn't Maddy, but Reece could recall seeingher in the background.

"Due to a rock slide, the Lapis Path entrance to the Aqua River has been closed. There have been reports of a very bright explosion. None of these reports have been confirmed, but investigators have been doing there best to validate these reports if possible."

"There is no proof that these two events are related. All in all, police have blocked off any passage through the area, the only other way to other parts of the region is through the Metal Cave West of Treeton Town, however, it is believed that this path has been blocked too."

Reece's head slumped down on the table. It could be weeks before he could pass. Kara saw this, and felt pretty sorry for him. Matt just thought his normal gloomy thoughts.

However, the Bartender came over, with some valuable information. "Hey kids, if you have wait for the pass to open up, maybe you should go to the Dusk Cave at the edge of town. Lotsa rare pokemon in the area I've heard."

Reece looked to his 2 friends (well, one friend and a Rival). "Anyone interested?" Kara and Matt thought it over. "Sure!" Kara said.

"Why should I go to some dumb cave with my Arch-nemisis ever?" Matt said. Kara gave her death smile (she has a lot of death expressions. This one involves her closing her eyes). "Because your sister is going and you don't want her to surpass you, becoming inferior to both your Rival and blood relative." She said sweetly.

Matt did want to get stronger. He agreed.

The three went to the Lapis Path side route, which led to dusk cave. The three came arcoss the imposing rock formation. Stepping inside the cave, they came across a vast expanse of cave. "So, what pokemon do you think we'll find inside this cave?" Reece asked.

"Likley a lot of Zubat." Matt said. "Possibly some Paras. But there are probably a truckload of Trainers."

Kara looked around. "Hey Guys." she said softly. "Notice anything.....strange about this cave?"

Reece thought about it. "Yeah...." He said silently. "It's a bit bright. I didn't expect it to be so Dark we'd need flash, but not this bright either."

Matt decided to test if sometihng was wrong. "Gastly!" He called out. the ghost pokemon came out, ready for Matt's orderes.

"Gastly, phase through the walls to see if you find anyone, or anything." Matt ordered. Gastly nodded, and phased through the wall.

"Smart Idea." Reece said. "I should go up ahead to see If I find anything." Kara added her suggestion. "I'm great at finding things. I'll search too."

The three split up, and Reece was the first to find something. It was several pokemon acting very weird. The first was Paras. Reece saw a Paras hiding in a crevice. He thought it just this one, until he saw more and more. Some where even planting there mushrooms.

"This cant be good." Reece said. "Go Abra!" Reece yelled out as he threw Abra. The psychic pokemon came out, and Reece gave it paper and a pencil.

"Okay, so you know what's going on, right?" Reece asked. Abra looked at Reece. He took the paper and pencil, and wrote: "Just because I'm a Psychic Type makes it so I'm super smart?"

"Yes." Reece said.

"Well your right." Abra wrote. "There seems to be artificial light in this cave. Whatever it is, it isn't natural." The pokemon kept writing. "Be careful Master." Reece didn't take to kindly to 'Master'.

"Don't call me master, call me Reece." The boy said. "Master makes me sound like a slave driver."

Kara was looking around for sometihng. What did she find? She found several Nuggets, a Star Peice, a few Big Mushrooms, a bunch of healing items, and some keys. She had a knack for treasure hunting, but it sometimes got annoying.

She decided to see if she could listen for anything. She slowly closed her eyes, then listened..................... ................ ....................... ................ ................. ............... ............... ...............!

She heard something. It was faint, and she couldn't make it out. It was either the boys fighting like Quiche-eating old ladies, or someone, or something, was making it.

"Gastly!" Matt yelled. He waited a few seconds, then saw as his Ghost type returned. "Find a path?" Matt asked. "Gaaaaaaaaaastli lili ga (Yes, follow me)" It responded while nodding.

Gastly floated away, with Matt following suit. The two went through a set of twisting paths, eventually getting to a forked path. "Which way?"

Before Gastly could respond, he heard a masculine voice call out. "Halt! You are using an evil pokemon!" It said. "Let us destroy it now or we will execute you both infidel!"

Matt was a bit annoyed by whoever was out there calling him an 'infidel'. "Come out and face....." He turned to see a man in gold armour with blue highlights. The weirdest part was that he was shining.

"What do you mean, evil pokemon?" Matt said in his annoyed tone.

The man spoke again. "It is both a Ghost and Poison type. Those pokemon must be destroyed!"

Matt was now plain annoyed. "If you want my pokemon, you'll have to pry from my cold dead hands!"

"Time to meet justice infidel!" He yelled as he threw a pokeball. It opened up and revealed a Solosis.

"Hypnosis!" Matt ordered from his Gastly. A wave of psychic energy ebbed toward Solosis. "Counter with Psywave!" the man ordered.

The psywave tornado hit the hypnosis, however, when the blast hit, Gastly was gone. The man was angered. "Using cheap tricks?" He yelled. "Disgraceful!"

"Gastly! Lick! Matt ordered. Gastly rose from the floor and licked Solosis. Apparently, it liked the taste, as it started licking until Solosis was paralyzed.

"Finish it with Sludge Bomb!" Matt ordered. Gastly fired bullets of sludge that seeped straight through Solosis's cell membrane, KO'ing it.

"Go Girafarig!" The man ordered. The giraffe pokemon came from its pokeball. "This pokemon is immune to Ghost Type moves!" The man yelled. Matt was not amused. He crossed his arms. "Sludge Bomb!"

Gastly once again cascaded its foe with pure sludge, knocking it back. The man yelled out. "Girafarig, Confusion!" The giraffe pokemon shot a beam of blue energy at gastly, knocking it down.

Matt checked his scanner. Gastly still had a bit of it HP left. "Gastly, Return!" Matt said, returning the gas ghost to its pokeball.

"Take 'em down with Pursuit Spearow!" Matt ordered. "Aerororo! (Take this!)" Spearow yelled out. The bird crashed into Girafarig, knocking it out.

The man started to run away, but Matt sent out Gastly. "Get him!" Gastly slipped through the floor, and jumped up infront of the grunt fleeing out of the tunnels. The ghost type paralyzed the man, making him fall to the floor.

"Who the heck are you?" Matt asked aggressively. He had his foot on the man's chest, and Gastly was holding him down with its Ghostly powers.

"We are the Luminious Sentries!" The man yelled out with honor. "And we are to cover the world with neverending light! Pokemon of the shadows and of poison are evil!"

"We?" Matt said with some intrigue. "Tell me more." He demanded.

"NEVER INFIDEL!" The grunt said.

"Are you sure?" Matt asked

"I shall never reveal my secrets to infidels!" The man yelled.

Matt turned around. "Gastly, take care of him. Just make sure not to hurt him. Too much......."

Chapter 12:Light. Lots and lots of light.
Kara definitely heard something. It sounded melodious, but at the same time, foreboding. She ran through the cave. As she continued, she reached for one of her Pokeballs. Likely, whatever was making that noise was a pokemon. She didn't possess much firepower, but she found a really nice TM Shock Wave that she used on Machina and Ralts.

As she went further down the cave, and closer to the noise, she noticed that the cave was brighter. That wasn't right. Unless she was coming arcoss some strange crystal that glowed like a star (which she would enjoy alot) or some surface magma, she was likely going to meet a pokemon. She got to where she was sure the noise was coming from. She could feel her hair tingling, which usually meant she was about to fight someone.

She turned a corner to see what was making the light. A pokemon. It was in a pool of water, and was blue and black. It had the aspects of a butterfly in fish form.

Kara checked her Pokedex. the device called it Lumineon. She checked her Scanner. To her surprise (not really) she saw it was not wild.

This alerted the girl instantly. She thought why this pokemon would be here. It came up like punch to the face. This pokemon was placed here on purpose to illuminate the cave. This caused the wild pokemon to go out of control from light pain. "I better KO this thing!"

She sent out Ralts. "Shock Wave!" She ordered against the Lumineon. The psychic type shot a bolt of thunder at Lumineon at the speed of sound. However, the blast was redirected at another target.

"Wait, what the heck?" Kara yelled out.

She looked around and saw that the electric attack hit a rhino like pokemon covered in hard scales. She jumped out of the way of the creature as it started charging at her.

The pokemon charged into the wall, and stopped cold. Kara checked her Pokedex. The pokemon was called Rhyhorn. She knew this pokemon was very weak to water type moves. She sent out Mudkip. "Mudikip!" the mudfish called out.

"Use water gun!" Kara ordered. The mudfish shot water at the brainless rhino. However, the water was redirected towards Lumineon.

"What?" Kara said. She checked her scanner. ''"Lumineon's Storm Drain absorbed the Attack!" ''The device stated. Kara was annoyed.

"Like my Defensive Combo?" Kara heard an overly sassy voice ask. "Kara looked around to see that she was face to face to with girl about 16 years of age. She was clad in golden clothing, wearing a cone hat with 2 feathers on the top, and gauntlets on her arms and legs. She bore the letters LS on her flat chest.

"It's quite ingeneous." The girl said. "Because of Lumineon's Storm Drain, Rhyhorn is immune to Water Attacks. Because of Rhyhorn's Lightningrod, Lumineon is immune to Electric attacks."

She turned to Kara. "I come here to find a girl who dosen't know her place trying to interfere with the plans of the holy Team Luminious." She said. "What is your purpose?"

"Your asking me that question?" Kara said angrily. "Your Lumineon is causing all the pokemon in the cave to act haywire!" She said. "STOP HURTING THE POKEMON IN THIS CAVE!"

"How dare you talk that way to a holy warrior of light!" The girl yelled. "The Luminious Sentries will crush all infidels like you!"

"That's it!" Kara yelled. "Ralts, Mudkip! Get over here!" Her two pokemon came to her side. "I'm challenging you and your tacky combo to a double battle!"

The Luminious Grunt called her Lumineon and her Rhyhorn to her. "Your on!"

"There is absolutely no way I'm losing to a flat-chested sassy pants with no fashion sense!" Kara said in her angered tone glaring her "I'm going to crush you like a bug" stare.

The grunt was red in the face. "I'll crush you!"

Kara's hair started to float up. "Mudkip! Ice Beam on Rhyhorn!" she ordered. The mudfish shot the frozen beam at the rhino, scoring a hit. "Ralts! Confusion!"

Ralts eyes appeared for a split second as she hit Lumineon with a blast of psychic power. The fish was knocked out of its pool of water, landing on the cave floor.

"Water Gun!" The grunt ordered. Lumineon hit Ralts in the face with water. "Rhyhorn, Stomp on Mudkip!" The grunt ordered. The rhino pokemon pounced on Mudkip, squashing the mudfish under its leg.

"Counter!" Kara ordered. Mudkip glowed with blue, then hit Rhyhorn ultra hard. The armor pokemon went flying, Falling onto the ground close by.

As Rhyhorn struggled to get up, Ralts fired Confusion after Confusion at Lumineon. The grunt decided to counter. "U-Turn!" Ralts was hit at its 2 weak points: Bug Type moves and physical attacks. "Ralts! Use Double Team!" Ralts created illusory copies of itself, increasing its Evasion.

As Lumineon started to smash them peice by peice, Mudkip was faced by a charging Rhyhorn. "Ice Beam!" Kara ordered. The mudfish fired at Rhyhorn again.

"Fire Blast!" The grunt ordered. The rhino fired the explosive blast at the ice beam, cancelling it out, hurting and burning Mudkip. Kara was now worried. Lightningrod had made Rhyhorn a powerful mixed attacker. The same could be said for Lumineon.

Kara then had a wonderful, evil idea. "Mudkip! Ice beam on the water!" The girl ordered. Mudkip fired his Ice Beam at the water Lumineon was in, freezing it.

"Hah!" Kara said aloud. "Now the only way to unfreeze Lumineon is to hit it with a fire type attack!"

The grunt wasn't buying this. "It will unthaw by itself!" The blue haired grunt stated. Kara used her head on the next statement. "Are you really taking that risk?"

The grunt bit her lip. This girl was right. She couldn't take that risk. Lumineon had to keep shining. "Rhyhorn!" She ordered. "Use Fire Blast on Lumineon!"

At the same time Kara took out her scanner, Rhyhorn fired a deadly blast of fire at Lumineon. Kara watched as the Water Pokemon's HP depleted from green, to yellow, to red, and then fainted.

"You....you.... TRICKED ME!" The grunt said in rage. Kara smiled. "Yes. Yes I did." She turned to Rhyhorn. "Mudkip!" Water Gun!"

Mudkip used Water Gun on Rhyhorn, scoring a KO.

The cave became dark once again.

With Reece

Reece was walking through the cave when everthing became cave level dark once again. At first Reece was happy, but then he realized.

"Wait, I missed the fun!"

He heard scuffling in the corner. He turned to see a bunch of confused people in golden suits. He turned to look at them.

"Who are you guys?" Reece asked. He was thinking of who to send out in case they were trainers. They looked at him. They were struggling to look serious in this situation. "Were are Team Luminious!" One of them said. "We are to cover the world in nevereding light!"

Reece put 2 and 2 together. "Your the people who made the cave become unaturally bright!" He yelled. "Your going down!"

He sent out Abra, and got ready to beat these trainers down. But, someone beat him to it. Half of the grunts in front of him fell to the ground, each with some Dark, Ghost, or Poison type at their backs.

The other half turned around. "Team Abyss!"

Reece saw his older enemies staring his newer ones strainght in the face. By the looks of it, they were also enemies.

A man that looked like a higher ranking official than a grunt came from Team Luminious came up. "Stop in the name of light!" He ordered.

The Team Abyss grunt stood their ground. A similar person came from Team Abyss. "Kill them all!" He countered.

Chapter 13:Dungeon Duel
The scene turned into a huge melee between the 2 teams. Attacks between vicious pokemon on one side, and knightly yet ruthless pokemon on the other.

Reece watched with horror as the pokemon not only attacked eachother, but the other trainers. He had to stop this.

"GO! Abra!" Reece yelled out as the small pokemon jumped from its pokeball.

Reece could use Abra to stop Team Abyss's pokemon, as Abra had a move that would beat each of them. Submission for Dark and Steel, Confusion for Poison Types, but nothing for Ghosts. Maybe Metronome could do something....

Reece saw a Pawniard aiming for a Luminious Grunt. "Abra, Submission on that Pawniard!" Abra teleported to Pawniard, and used its arms to throw the pokemon into the air, KOing it with 4x Damage.

Abra was hurt from the severe reoil however, and Reece knew it couldn't keep this up. Reece sent out Beedrill to stop a Tyrogue from hurting a team Abyss grunt. Beedrill got there just in time to stop the fighting type from breaking the grunts ribcage.

"Beedrill!" Reece ordered Frantically. "Twineedle!" The bee shot at several pokemon like a machine gun, stopping them from attacking each other.

Both Teams had noticed that Reece was stopping them. "STOP!" The Alpha Grunts of both Teams called out. Everyone stopped, whether they were making commands or going at throats, they stopped.

The Abyss Leader looked over to Reece. "Why help these people? They simply hurt others for no cause!" The Luuminious Alpha Grunt angrily shot back. "You infidels wish to spread Chaos! Do not defend them!"

Reece wasn't one to take sides. "Both of you are Evil! I will never side with either of you!"

The Luminiopus Captain spoke up. "Then you will die!" He turned to Team Abyss. "Stay out of our way! Team Luminious! Attack! He went to the edge of the battlefield that Reece was on as his team held off Team Abyss.

The leader sent out his first Pokemon, Beldum. "Zen Headbutt!" The steel type charged at Abra, who was badly weakened. "Metronome!" Reece called for.

Reece half expected to get something like Explosion, half expected to get Splash, but didn't expect to get what he got. Abra's fist glowed, and hit Beldum with a faceful of Sky Uppercut.

"That works." Reece stated as Beldum fell to the ground.

Reece continued his battle as the 2 teams raged on with nothing to stop them. Nothing except, an angry swarm of vengeance.

We know pokemon are very in tune with nature. We saw what happened when the lights went on too: All the pokemon went haywire. Well, what happened next could be considered a miracle.

Many pokemon such as Whismur, Paras, Zubat, Clefairy, and Roggenrola came into the battlefeild, swarming the 2 teams in anger. They angrily attacked every grunt with their own attacks, all a side effect of going through extreme light and back to darkness super quickly.

Matt heard this chaos through the tunnels. "Dangit Reece." He muttered under his breath.

Kara heard this too. She had just finished cruely messing with the hair of the grunt she just defeated. She retrieved her Pokemon, and ran in the direction of the sound.

The siblings ran across eachother. "Kara?" Matt yelled out. "Where have you been?" Kara smiled. "I just darkened the cave again." She changed the subject.

"1500 Pokedollars says Reece didn't cause this." She said.

"Deal!"

The two ran down another tunnel to come to a stampede of Team Luminious grunts running past them, covered in bites and scratches.

"Hey!" Kara said with an angry look on her face. "Those are the same tasteless idiots who did this in the first place!"

"Whatever they are running from is up ahead." Matt said. "Lets go!"

The 2 came just in time to see a huge wave swamp the room infront of them.

"That was surf." Matt stated. Kara looked over. "That couldn't have been Reece, could it?" The girls asked. Matt hesitated. "Who am I kidding. Its totally Reece."

Reece was fighting his opponents Machop with Abra. Reece was worried, as Abra had taken some hits. "Abra! Confusion!"

Abra's eyes glowed, and shot a beam of cyan energy at Machop. The superpower pokemon severe damage from the hit. The superpower pokemon fainted when Abra used Ice Punch on it.

"Who are you?" The lumnious Alpha Grunt asked. Reece gave him a sharp look. "I'm the person who will stop you!" He yelled.

"The Master is gonna flip!" The man muttered. "First we didn't conceal the explosion at Lapis path properly, our cave mission has failed,  and now were being beat up by a kid!"

Reece angrily shot back. "You're the oes who caused the landslide! What's your problem?" He said with anger. The man looked at him. "We will bring jstice and order to this world! We are the Luminious Sentries! We will cover this world in neverending light!"

"Just leave." Reece said. "You've lost, and there is nothing you can do about it."

The man stepped back. "I concede defeat." Team Luminious! Retreat!" He exclaimed. The grunts that hadn't already fled were moving now.

Kara and Matt came up to the Team Abyss Alpha Grunt. The grunt leader turned around and saw the 2. "Who are you 2 kids?"

"Watch out Matt." Kara said. "These are the same people that I me and Reece met in Green Forest that stole that kids pokemon."

Matt wasn't worried. "Why should I tell you?" He said arrogantly. This annoyed the man. "Get lost before I make you!"

"Make me!" Matt yelled as he sent out his Spearow.

The grunt leader sent out his pokemon:A Snivy.

Matt knew something was up. He saw other pokeballs on the mans belt, so why choose this one. Especially a pokemon weak to his. He then saw the Snivy closely. It had glowing red eyes, was Snarling, and had an enraged look on its face.

"Snivy, Tri Attack!" The Abyss Leader ordered. Snivy shot a blast of pure elementalk energy at Spearow, giving the bird a burn.

"What?" Matt said. "How? Snivy can't learn Tri Attack!"

"This is no normal pokemon. This one was genetically altered to be an unstoppable force!" Matt and Kara were horrified by this. These people were genetically altering Pokemon!

"Genetically....altering...pokemon?" Matt asked with pauses in between his words.

The Abyss grunt repaeted himself. "These pokemon are our weapons, and we will use them however we wish!"

That statement made Matt angry. "Spearow! Use Peck!" The falcon bird hit the grass snake with great force, knocking it down.

Matt switched out, sending in Torchic. "Focus Energy!" Matt ordered. The chicken bird was covered in energy, as Snivy came for a counterattack.

"Snivy! Energy ball at the ceiling." The grunt ordered. The grass snake fired the energy ball at the ceiling, causing the stalagtites to fall onto Torchic.

"Torchic!" Matt yelled out in shock.

Matt took initiative. "Ember at the vines!" Torchic shot deadly cinders at Snivy's vines, causing the grass snake to pull back in pain. "Now Crush Claw on the Rocks!"

The bloodied Torchic shot up with the force of a bullet and slammed the rock, making it shatter into dust like peices. "Now crush claw at Snivy's head!"

Torchic smashed Snivy with his powerful crush claw. The grass pokemon buckled under the force. The sub admin was unwilling to give up.

"Tri Attack!"

Snivy shot the fire chicken in the face, causing visible paralysis. "Now finish it!" The grunt yelled. "Energy Ball!" Snivy shot the energy ball at her enemies face.

"Finish it with Peck!" Matt ordered. Torchic braced the Energy Ball, and then tore at the grass snake like a hungry raptor hawk.

Snivy fainted and Matt retreived Torchic to see what his foe's next pokemon would be. The sub-admin checked around for one of his 2 other pokemon. "Go! Pawniard!"

Matt sent out Axew. "Axew! Dragon Rage!"

We all know what Dragon Rage does. At Pawniards low level, there is a 0% chance of survival if the attack hits.

Axew created a powerful twister of energy that aimed for Pawniard, threatening to turn the bandit hunter to scrap metal. The sharp blade pokemon tried to dodge, but failed. Horribly.

Pawniard had fainted, and Matt waited for his next target. "Next?" he asked mercilessly.

The man threw out a Deino. The blind dino dog searched visciously for its target. Matt wished to check its level. He pulled out his battle scanner, and scanned Deino. It was level 16, but Matt was indifferent. "GIGA IMPACT!"

Axew shot at Deino with exteme force, knocking the Dinosaur skyward. While Axew was recharging, Matt got ready for his finisher. "Deino, use Dragon Rage!"

Deino shot blobs of energy at Axew, threatening a OHKO. Axew was unfortunatly stuck in place, and fainted. Matt cursed as he decided to send out another pokemon.

"Go Gastly!" Matt yeled. He had to pull this off quick. "Use Sludge Bomb!" Gastly shot blasted after blast of sludge at the Deino. after a few quick hits, it fell.

The grunt retreived his pokemon, and ran back to the scene of the battle. He ran into the Team Luminious sub-admin. Kara and Matt ran after him.

The Lumnious Sub Admin Admin was not going to let the Abyss sub admin pass, and as Matt and kara were at his back, he had no choice but to pull an Ace.

"You may have beat me, but, you're not getting out alive!" He said as he pulled a stick like device, popped of the cap, and revealed a red button. "Noone move!"

Everyone knew what that was. The button would set off explosive and cause a cave in. Kara, Matt, the luminious sub admin, the music, and the newly arrived Reece (who was following the Luminious Sentry) stopped.

I will press this button, and bury you all alive!" The abyss grunt said, his finger howevering over the button. The grunt edged towards the exit.

Reece had a plan. He slowly reached for one of his pokeballs. He press the button, causing the pokemon to pop out. The admin looked over to see Reece's Abra out of its pokeball.

"I warned you!" The sub admin pressed the button, causing several explosives in ceiling to explode, causing a cave in. However, Reece was prepared. "Abra, Confusion!'"

Abra's eyes glowed, and the rocks stopped falling, hovering in the air.

Reece quickly ran out from under the danger zone, with Kara and Matt following suit. The lumninious admin begrudingly followed. Reece retrieved Abra, and the rocks fell.

The sub admin looked at Reece with disbelief. "When I tell the boss about this, your gonna regret ever messing with us." He ran out of the room, attempting to escape.

"Machina!" Kara yelled. "Sneak Attack!"

One of the four pokeballs on his belt turned into the cybernetic Zorua, and knocked the grunt down. Kara turned to Matt and Reece. "Take care of Mr. Fashion disaster."

As Reece and Matt cornered the Luminious sub admin, Kara walked over the man, who was about the get up. Until however, Kara gave him a kick to the area between his legs. "I'll be taking this." She grabbed the pokeball containing Snivy...

Later

Reece, Matt, and Kara were at the Treeton City Pokemon Center later that night, watching the news.

"In other news, two men believed to be connected to the supposed flash at Lapis Path are currently in questioning at the local police station."

Kara turned over. "That was a brilliant plan Reece, keeping the rocks from killing us."

"Well thanks." Reece said. He was really more focused on his town map. According to the advanced map, there were 3 ways to the next town: Metal Cave, Root Path, and Aqua River.

"I admit, it wasn't that bad of an Idea." Matt said, completely breaking character.

Kara, trying her best to contain her surprise, looked to Reece. "Hey Reece, thanks for having us go to Dusk Cave." She said smiling.

"Sure!" She said, giving Reece four pokeballs and a Great Ball. She offered Matt some, but he kindly refused. The news report kept talking.

"''Additionally, due to the local Gym Leader helping, the blockade made from the landslide at Lapis Path has been cleared. The flower ninja only had this to say." The Treeton City Gym Leader Sakura came on to the TV with her Leafeon. ''

"I was happy to help not just because it was my job, but because I've met some promising young trainers who I want to get to next gym."

The news report ended, and the 3 pokedex holders smiled.

Upon the Aqua River Arc
Kara was asleep in one of the hotel rooms at a local hotel. Her Zorua, Ralts and Mudkip were cuddling up to her. She slowly awoke, eyes opening lazily. Machina was one her stomach, Ralts was one her side, and Mudkip her arm.

She felt soming else on her chest. She looked and saw a note in nice hotel paper. She at first, was suprised to see it was in her shirt. Well, whoever put that there did want her to notice. She opened it up.

"Dear Kara,

''I couldn't sleep last night, so I decided to do something useful with my time. I'm likely already at Aqua River by now. I made sure your morning would go off with a bang. I put this on your chest to make sure you'd get it. Also, whatever you do:''

DO NOT GO OUT THE FRONT DOOR!!!

Your Friend,

Reece.

Well, that explains why it was in her shirt. Reece was the one to always be hyperactive, and a bit dense. He meant well. She couldn't help but wondering what Reece had done though.

She soon got her answer.

"REECE!" She heard a crazy loud yell scream. "I'M GONNA GET YOU FOR THIS IF IT KILLS ME YOU CRAZY HAIRED PSYCHO!"

She and her pokemon looked down out the window to see Matt in an eight foot deep hole, and his face was deep red. She fell to the ground laughing until she cried. Reece certainly help start the day.

Reece was on the hills at the edge of town, just barely listening to this. He was laughing also. His pokemon were laughing also, and they sure thought it was funny.

Chapter 14:The Cookie Wars
There comes a time in every trainers life where they must accept one of the cruelest facts of being a trainer:

Your gonna face an annoying wild pokemon.

Now you may be wondering about the title. Well, keeping reading and find out.

Reece was walking down Lapis Path. He had to get away from Treeton City. More specifically Matt.

As he walked through the area were the landslide happened, he couldn't help but remember what happened with Team Abyss and Team Luminious.

It was midday, around noon, so he decided it would be best to eat lunch. What he packed was some pokemon food, some sandwhiches, some drinks, and a few cookies for himself. He saw the beautiful Aqua River. Being the largest river in the region, he was likely to find some awesome pokemon.

"Come on out everybody!" Reece said as he sent out his entire team of 5. Larvitar, Treecko, Beedrill, Ratatta, and Abra. He got some food for everyone, and sat down.

As he was about to enjoy his cookies, he saw the pokemon he would spend an entire chapter fighting. A small crab like creature slowly walked out of the river. It sidestepped over to Reece, and then the boy noticed it.

"Oh hello." Reece said.

"Kookie, kookie!" The creature said. Reece checked his Pokedex. The creature was called Krabby. Reece thought i looked pretty cute. But then, it did something.

The crab stole Reece's single cookie. "Hey, Give that back!" Reece yelled reaching for the crab. The river crab pokemon refused to, and then ran away.

"Get back here!" The trainer yelled. Reece chased after the crab, but then pokemon decided to eat the cookie.

Reece was infuriated. "I'm going to get you for that!" Reece yelled.

"Bring. It . ON!" The pokemon said in Pokespeak.

"Treecko! KILL!" Reece yelled. His annoyed Treecko shot after the River Crab. "BULLET SEED!" Reece called out.

Treecko fired a barrage of deadly seeds at Krabby, the Crab pokemon dodging all but the last.

The last one was caught in Krabby's claw, and crushed under the amazing power of its claw.

Reece's face turned bone white. "Crud...... Gotta think...." Reece quickly thought up one of crazy plans. "That's it! Treecko! Giga Drain!"

Treecko started sapping the enrgy of Krabby, until said pokemon threw a large rock at Treecko, lowering its speed. "Rock Tomb!" Reece called out. "What's this thing on!?"

"Treecko! Dragonbreath!" Reece called to his pokemon. Treecko fired a glorious blast of breath at Krabby. The River Crab countered with its own attack:Bubble.

"Kookie kookie! (Take this!)" The Crab pokemon fired a squadron of mid-sized bubbles at the dragonbreath, which went right through, and hit Treecko, further lowering its speed.

Reece got so angry that he started to choke on his own rage (forcing Larvitar to slap him in the face). "Thanks, I needed that."

Reece's other pokemon were watching on the sidelines. "Wow, this actually pretty amusing." Ratatta said in pokespeak. Beedrill nodded. "Yes. This is going to be an intresting day." Abra looked over to them.

"So, who do you think will win?" The psi pokemon asked. "Not sure." Beedrill said.

Reece was still fighting Krabby.

"Treecko! Quick Attack!" Treecko shot foward with a blinding burst of speed. Krabby countered with harden, reducing the damage. The river Crab then countered with Vicegrip, and proceeded to throw Treecko to the ground. Reece new he couldn't let his pokemon faint, as there were hardly any pokemon centers on the river.

His thinking was then interupted by Krabby throwing a rock at his face.

"Oh it's on!" Reece said. "I'm fighting you myself!"

His pokemon immediatly started making bets on who would win:The Trainer, or the River Crab?"

Well, lets watch.

Reece charged at Krabby, with his running shoes blasting compressed air. Krabby shot a bubble at his nemesis. Reece stopped. Could bubbles really hurt him?

Yes. Yes they can.

Reece was overtaken by a flood of deadly bubbles, covering him, and knocking him to the ground. This continued until Reece was covered in frothy residue.

See, this is what happens when you question pokemon logic.

Reece got up. "You're going down!"

"I'd like to see that!" Krabby said in pokespeak.

Reece got up, and used a blast of compressed air from his running shoes to deal damage to the River Krab. Reece took out one of his Pokeballs, and threw it.

One shake.

Two shakes.

Three Shakes.

POOF!

Reece stated to choke on his rage again. "SO FREAKIN CLOSE!"

Krabby fired another bubble. Reece tried his secret weapon:A Greatball.

The ball flew threw the air, through the bubble, and onto the Crab.

One shake.

Two Shakes.

Three Shakes

CLICK!

"I caught a Krabby!"

Reece's pokemon exchanged looks. "Pay up!" Beedrill, Abra, and Larvitar said.

Reece checked his Pokedex.

Krabby

River Crab pokemon

Height: 1'04 / 0.4 M

Weight:14.3 LB / 6.5 Kg

''Despite this pokemon's small size, it is very powerful. There pincers can regerate infinitly until death.''

Reece came out of that with one less cookie, but with a full team of six pokemon. Pretty fair trade of don't you think?

Chapter 15:The Surf Shack
Reece had been walking for a few days now. He hadn't got much farther down the riverside. Currently, he was in a trainer battle.

"Krabby!" Reece ordered. "Vicegrip!"

The river crab caught on to the opposing Wingull's wing, and brought it to the ground.

"Now Bubblebeam!"

Krabby blasted Wingull with a storm of bubbles, knocking it out.

The Camper withdrew Wingull. "GO Zigzagoon!"

The tinyraccoon pokemon erupted from its pokeball. Reece retrieved Krabby. "Beedrill! Smash It!"

Reece threw the pokeball containing Beedrill. The bee pokemon came out. "TWINEEDLE!" Reece ordered. Beedrill shot a blast of spears at the opposing pokemon. The second hit managed to poison it.

"Zigzagoon! Surf!" The camper ordered.

Zigzagoon created a giant wave that swamped the battlefeild. Beedrill was hit hard. "Beedrill, Retreat!" Reece ordered as he retrieved the Bee pokemon.

"GO Ratatta!"

Ratatta jumped out to meet the gaze of the normal type opponent. "Hyper Fang!"

Ratatta clamped on to Zigzagoon with his teeth, and violently slammed the raccoon back and forth until it fainted.

"Pay up." Reece said as he retrieved Ratatta.

Some time later.

Reece had been walking in the murderous sun for several hours now. The river next to him looked so nice. He continued to walk, until he heard a voice.

"Well sirens, it seems we've spotted some men."

Reece looked over to see Kara floating in the river with Machina, Mudkip (who was really enjoying himself) Ralts, and a pokemon he never saw withe her before: Snivy.

As for Kara, she was wearing a bikini she designed herself. A basic black with with green stripes on the left part of her top. This was meant to resemble Machina's Robotic eye. Reece wasn't focused on that, but on the fact that he needed to get to the next town.

"What are you doing here, and how did you catch up with me?" Reece asked.

Kara smiled. "I was going this way anyway. Also, I was floating on the river all day. Not wrinkling helps." She closed her eyes, and turned her head upwards. "Oh, and Matt said he's going to impale your spleen with a zax*.

(*A Roofing tool)

"Wouldn't be the first time he's threatened that." Reece muttered. He started to walk away. Kara saw this. "Hey! Were are you going?"

"Unless you want to battle me, I'm leaving." Reece said.

"Actually, I need you to do something for me." Kara said.

"Does it involve gross things, cross dressing, or throwing a pokemon battle?" Reece asked.

Kara couldn't help but laugh. She lost her balance and sunk below the surface for a few seconds. She got back up and wiped a tear from her eye. "No." She said. "I need you to come with me to a place on the river bank called 'The Surf Shack' "

Reece put on his confused face.

"It's a small spot on the riverside. People come from all over to sunbathe, buy stuff they'll never use, and swim." Kara said. Reece clearly wasn't interested.

"They also have pokemon battles alot." Kara added. This caught Reece's attention. "I'm listening." The boy said.

Kara slowly got out of the water. She walked over to Reece, putting her arms in a position to make her look cuter. "Plus, all the expierence will help you beat Matt after he finds you and attempts to get his R Rated Revenge."

"Come on what are we waiting for?" Reece said with a big smile on his face. Kara retrieved her team, and ran after him. Reece looked back. "Aren't you going to change?"

"It's a beachside place. What's the point?" Kara replied.

One hour later

Reece came to the Surf Shack. It wasn't fancy, but it was big. At the side of the building was a pool, with several people and pokemon swimming in it. There was a smaller building on the side that was selling things. But what stood out like a flame was a Pokemon healing machine.

Reece ran to it without thinking twice. He put his team in, and healed them up. He turned to Kara.

"So, do you see any trainers?

Kara looked around. "Let's go inside."

The inside looked like a bar, with locker room benches, and a few people. A man by a Soda Pop machine noticed the 2 walk in. He ran up to them.

"Are you 2 here for the trainer contest?" The man asked. This, as you might expect, caught Reece's attention.

"Trainer Contest?" Reece asked. Kara looked over. The man kept talking. "Yes. Anyone who can beat four trainers gets a prize:Six Soda Pops. They are brilliant recovery items."

"That sound fun. Right Reece?" Kara asked. She then saw Reece was missing...

"CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!" Reece yelled as he ran out the door.

Kara simply facepalmed.

First Battle

Reece had, in the span of 2 minutes, found a girl who had a pokemon, challenged her, got her Biker boyfriend angry, and then decide to challenge him to a battle.

Reece sent out Krabby. The Roughneck sent out Wingull.

"Wingull, Supersonic!" The biker ordered.

Th gold waves of energy flew towrd Krabby. The River Crab became Confused.

"Krabby, Harden!" Reece called out. The river crab was covered in a stelly shell, boosting its defense. "Heh." Reece said. "Now confusion won't do as much damage!"

The biker was pretty annoyed at this statement. "Wingull! Wing Attack!"

Krabby was hit by the seagulls twister covered wings, and then scooped into the air by the bird. "So maybe pitting a crab against a seagull wasn't the best idea..." Reece said. "VICEGRIP!"

Krabby saw many yellow ducks flying around his head, then clamped Wingull's wing, bringing it to the ground.

"Now Rock Tomb!" Reece called out.

Krabby took to Rocks off the ground and smashed Wingull, lowering its speed.

"Wingull, Shock Wave!" The biker ordered. Wingull fired a blast of electricity at super speeds at Krabby. The River Crab fell limp.

"Crud. Krabby, Retreat!" Reece called as he returned Krabby to his pokeball. "Go Ratatta!"

Reece's Ratatta popped from his pokeball, giving his roar of a cry. "Ratatta! Focus Energy!" Reece ordered. Ratatta was surrounded by an aura of condensed power. "Now Hyper Fang!"

Ratatta leaped at Wingull and bit into its wing, bringing it to the ground. The biker retreived it. "GO, Tentacool!" The Biker yelled, throing out a Tentacool.

Ratatta eyed the Jellyfish with carnal fury. It was ready to strike at any second. However, Reece decided to retrieve it.

"GO! Abra!" Reece yelled as the Psi Pokemon came to the battlefeild. "Use Confusion!" Abra shot a beam of Psychic Energy at Tentacool, scoring a crit.

"Tentacool! Toxic Spikes!" Tentacool fired powerful spikes at Abra's feet. "Metronome!" Reece ordered. Abra disappeared below the ground, with a bit of a splash.

Reece checked his Battle Scanner and saw the Abra used Dive. "Damn." Reece thought. Tentacool shot another Layer of Toxic Spikes at Reece's side of the feild.

Now anyone he switched in would be Badly poisoned.

Abra shot up from under Tentacool, dealing little damage. "Abra, Confusion at point blank range!" Reece ordered. Abra's eyes glowed as he shot a beam of energy at Tentacool.

"Tentacool! Use Poison Sting!" The biker ordered. Tentacool shot a poison pin at Abra. Reece saw that Abra was poisened. "Oh no..."

Reece checked his scanner, but to his suprise, Abra wasn't taking any damage. Reece saw Abra's ability:Magic Guard. This meant Abra could only be hurt by battle damage.

"Finish it with Submission!" Reece ordered. Abra spun around with great speed, taking Tentacruel with it, and slamming it to the ground, fainting it.

Reece then remembered. "Abra, retreat!" Reece called out as he retrieved his Abra, and then threw another pokeball. "Go Beedrill!"

Reece remebered that Poison Types are incapable of being poisoned. He was suprised to see Beedrill soak up the Toxic Spikes however.

"That was convenient." Reece commented. He was ready to fight his next foe. The biker used his last Pokemon. "GO Machop!"

Poisonous Bug versus Fighting type. Who wins?

"Beedrill, Twineedle!" Reece ordered. Beedrill shot 4 needles at Machop. "Focus Energy!" The Biker ordered. Machop became covered in condensed energy.

"Beedrill, Fury Attack!" Reece ordered. Beedrill shot the spears on its arms over and over, scoring 3 hits. The biker was ready to counter. "Karate Chop!"

Machop hit Beedrill in the face, scoring a crit. This worried Reece, as this pokemon was doing more damage than it should. Reece decided to end it.

"Electroweb!" Reece ordered. A powerful web covered Machop, KOing it.

Reece took his money, his pokemon, and ran to the healing machine.

Second Battle

Reece rushed right into his second battle. It was against one of the swimmers. She agreed to battle on on condition:They'd fight in the River. Reece wasn't too happy with this, but he agreed.

Reece's face betrayed his worry. He had 3 pokemon who could fight in water:Beedrill, Krabby, and Abra. Rats can't swim, Gecko's don't float, and small rock creatures sink and stay at the bottom while their trainer frantically tries to get it out.

"Go! Krabby!" Reece said. Reece threw the pokeball containing the River Crab, and watched as it landed on the water. Krabby floated up and down on the water.

The swimmer called out her first pokemon:Azurill. The Polka Dot Pokemon bobbed up and down on the water cutely. Even Reece thought it was cute. Too bad he had to smash it.

"Krabby! Rock Tomb!" Reece ordered. Krabby took 2 rocks from below the surface of the river, and threw them at Azurill.

"Azurill, Charm!" The swimmer ordered. Azurill made itself look even cuter, making Krabby's Attack garbage. Reece was forced to switch out. "Krabby, retreat!" the boy said as he retrieved his pokemon.

"Go Abra!" Reece yelled as he sent out his Special Attacker. "Use Confusion!"

Abra's eyes glowed, and shot a powerful beam of energy at Azurill. The polka dot pokemon got knocked down, but regained its balance.

"Body Slam!" The swimmer ordered. Her Azurill jumped up and slammed into Abra. Due to having low defense, Abra was knocked back for severe damage. Even worse, Abra was paralyzed.

Reece's face clammed up. "DARN IT!" he yelled. "Abra! Submission!"

Abra slowly grabbed Azurill, and spun around a high speed before slamming the polka dot pokemon to the ground. The swimmer wouldn't give up. "Body Slam again!"

Azurill was about to smash Abra. "Dodge it!" Reece called out, before he noticed the fact that Abra was fully paralyzed. With a look of horror, he watched his pokemon get knocked out.

"Abra! Retreat!" Reece muttered. He sent out his next pokemon:Beedrill. "Use Twineedle!" Reece ordered. Beedrill fired his needles at super speed, hitting Azurill with the powerful strikes.

"Azurill, Tail Whip!" The swimmer ordered. Azurill spun its tail around, the action lowering Beedrill's defense. "Counter with Iron Defense!" Reece ordered.

Beedrills defense shot up. This was a trick however, and a pretty nasty one too. "Azurill, Body Slam!" The swimmer called out from the river. Azurill crashed into Beedrill, once again scoring a paralysis. This also had the side effect of forcing Beedrill below the waves.

"Beedrill! Use Electroweb!" Reece ordered.

Using an electric attack in water? Where have we seen that before?

Beedrll shot the electric webbing in the water, shocking Azurill senseless. This also had the side affect of shocking some poor kid who foot was in the river.

Reece scrambled to get Beedrill's pokeball, and retrieved the poison bee before it drowned. "Krabby has to do this." Reece commented.

"GO! Krabby!" Reece yelled as the River Crab was sent into battle with a flash of light. The silver and gold haired trainer knew his opponent only had one pokemon left. "I'll bet turning my hair into its natural style that this should be a breeze." Reece said. Thinking to his spiky silver hair with its gold streak going through it.

"Go Chinchou!" The swimmer called out. As she sent out the Water/Electric type pokemon.

Reece facepalmed. "Of course she did." He said through his hand. "I'm so fricken glad this is what my hair looks like naturally."

"Chinchou! Confuse Ray!" The Swimmer ordered. A small orb of light flew to Krabby, confusing him. "Dang it!" Reece said aloud. "ViceGrip!"

Krabby's head was surrounded by small yellow rubber ducks. Reece knew there was a fifty percent chance of Krabby hurting itself. "Please hit, please hit, please hit, please hit." Reece thought in his head.

Of course, the rule of comedic irony says that Reece won't get his way. Krabby hit itself in the face, hurting itself.

"Now hit 'em with Charge Beam!" The swimmer ordered. "Chichichou!" The chinchou shouted as it hit Krabby with near lethal electric force.

"Krabby, Retreat!" Reece ordered. Reece was in a state of shock. He had effectively lost. Larvitar would sink, Ratatta would fail miserably, and Treecko had nothing to stand on.

Or did he?

"Go! Treecko! Reece shouted as his powerful Grass Type erupted from his pokeball. The swimmer smirked, thinking Reece was in checkmate. That was until he saw what Treecko did.

The wood gecko landed right on Chinchou's head. "USE GIGA DRAIN!" Reece ordered. Treecko immediately drained the energy of his target right through the angler pokemon's head, KOing it.

"Woohoo!" Reece said. The swimmer got out of the river to congratulate him, but by the time she got to shore, she was met with blasts of compressed air made by Reece's running shoes.

Chapter 16:The Surf Shack Part 2:A "Crushing" Battle
Reece was running to the pokemon healing machine, running by Kara finishing her second battle. "Hi Kara!" Reece said. He was going to continue running before the girl caught him by his collar. He fell down, lookig straight up at the girl in her Zorua-styled bikini.

"Your way too hyper Reece. You know that right?" She said crossing her arms. "Yes." Reece responded, attempting to get to the healing machine, mostly ignoring Kara. Treecko's pokeball opened up, and the wood gecko got out.

""Sorry Kara, but I need to get to the Healing Machine." Reece said, trying to get away. Kara bent over and stopped him. "Can you spare at least a few minutes?" the redhead asked.

"No." Reece said.

As Reece attempted to claw his way to the healing machine, Treecko met the gaze of Kara's Snivy.

"Hello." Treecko introduced himself. "Your Kara's pokemon, correct? Do you have a nickname?"

Sniv looked over. "Don't you know it's proper manners to introduce yourself before asking a lady's name?" She said, turning her head away.

"My name is Treecko. What's yours?" Treecko asked with a sweatdrop.

"My name's Zero." the Snivy said, her mood changing instantly. She let out a vine to have Treecko shake. Treecko shook her vine with his hand.

While their trainers argued, Zero and Treecko talked. "So, why do you have a boy's name?" Treecko asked. Snivy blushed. "Kara didn't know I was a girl until after she named me."

"Why do you never seem to smile?" Zero asked. Treecko quickly responded. "There not always time. I don't like to take my time at all."

"Oh." was the only Zero said.

"By the way, can you get your trainer's attention? Treecko asked. "Sure." Zero said. She had one of her vines reach for Kara's side to tap it, but she instead hit Kara butt.

Kara's reaction was both quick and painful for the guy that just happened to be right behind her. "PERVERT!" She yelled with her face as red as Shiny Gyarados. She took the poor guy and flipped him into a nearby bench, shattering it into pieces.

Reece retrieved Treecko. "Goodbye" Treecko said in Pokespeak to Zero. Reece was about to make it to the machine before...

"STOP!" a red jacketed boy said to him. He was walking with a Crawdaunt, which happened to look really powerful. "I challenge you to a Pokemon Battle!"

Reece took his backpack and stated shouting into it. After he finished, he looked at the trainer. "Sure." Reece said. It wasn't like he had any other choice.

"I'm name is Aiden. Me and my Crawdaunt are undefeated here." He said. Reece checked his Battle Scanner. Crawdaunt was Level 18, and looked very powerful.

Half of Reece's team was down, one had a severe type disadvantage, and only one had a type advantage. "Dang it." Reece said. He was screwed.

Reece decided that he should get as much damage in as possible. "Go Treecko!" Reece called out, as the Wood Gecko popped from the pokeball.

"Lets do this!" Aiden said. "Crawdaunt! Use Bubble!"

The attack hit Treecko square on. While it did pathetic damage, it lowered Treecko's speed.

"Treecko!" Bullet Seed!" Reece ordered. Treecko fired a barrage of seeds at Crawdaunt, scoring 3 hits.

"Crawdaunt! Dragon Dance!" Aiden ordered. Crawdaunt was surrounded by blue circles that spun around the crayfish pokemon before they disapeared.

Reece was not going to lose easily. "Dragonbreath!" Reece yelled. Treecko shot a powerful cloud of energy at his crustecean foe.

"Crawdaunt, Metal Claw!" Aiden ordered. Treecko was grabbed in the lobsters claws, and slashed by the metal covered claws until blood was drawn. "Giga Drain!" Reece ordered.

Treecko glowed as orbs of Crawdaunt's energy flowed into its body. "Now smash it away with Quick Attack!" Reece commanded. Treecko dashed into Crawdaunt, ready to strike it.

"Crawdaunt! Vicegrip" Aiden shouted out. Treecko was caught in the Vicegrip, and the forcefully thrown in the air. People were starting to watch this now.

"I can beleive this stuff is actually legal." One of the swimmer girls said.

"Treecko, maneuver in the air to land on the roof, then snipe with Bullet Seed!" Reece called out, his battle wired mind working wonders.

Treecko was not going to let some overgrown Crayfish beat him. Torchic would have a legit reason to laugh at him, and he'd die before that happened. He landed on the roof, and then fired.

HIT FIVE TIMES!

Crawdaunt was forced back, but then revealed his trump card. "Crawdaunt! Use Dragon Dance and then finish it with Waterfall!"

Crawdaunt did the mystical Dragon Dance again, but Reece wasn't going to let that happen. "Treecko, Quick Attack!"

Treecko shot at Crawdaunt like a bullet, but all in vain. Crawdaunt dodged the attack, and covered itself in water. The crustacean charged at Treecko with great speed.

The pokemon pile-drove Treecko into the ground, a good size crater around him. Reece bolted with horror as he saw the wood gecko under the crushing claw of his foe's Crawdaunt.

"TREECKO!" Reece yelled out.

Treecko was under the claw of Crawdaunt. He could barely move, He now knew what it felt to be like Torchic, losing to someone you had a type advantage over.

"I WILL NOT BE TORCHIC!" Treecko yelled in pokespeak.

His body glowed with a feirce green aura. The wood Gecko's eyes glowed. Reece noticed this. "Now's my chance!" Reece thought. "Treecko! Bullet Seed!"

Treecko fired a machine gun shot of Seeds fast enough to make Beedrill proud right at Crawdaunts face. "What!?" Aiden screamed in shock.

Treecko broke loose, and took the opportunity to fire more forceful seeds at Crawdaunt. Reece saw that the wood gecko's power had increased significantly. "Giga Drain!" Reece ordered.

Treecko glowed even brighter as he drained Crawdaunts energy, fainting it.

Treecko's glow went down, and eft the wood gecko breathing heavily. "So that was Overgrow...." Reece said quietly. He was greatly astonished at that power.

"Good job Treecko." Reece said loud enough for his Pokemon to hear. Treecko looked over and smiled.

"You....just beat me...." Aiden said in astonishment. Reece smiled. "Of course I did. I love my pokemon, and that's what gives them strength."

"Don't go losing to anyone now." Aiden said.

Treecko felt his body heat up. He jolted, giving out his cry, making Reece look to him. His body glowed pure white, and started to change.

Reece saw this, and watch siliently. Treecko's glowing body, switched between 2 forms over and over until it stuck in the second form. It gave out its cry.

"Treecko evolved......" Reece said. "WOOHOO!"

Reece ran up to Treecko and gave a bone crushing hug. "You evolved!" Reece said happily. "Now NOTHING will stop us!"

Grovyle just let his trainer hug him.

"Good that you think that Reece, because your my next opponent." Reece heard. He turned to see Kara in her Zorua bikini.

"Let me heal my team first!" Reece said, running before the teen bodied 10 year old could stop him.

Reece had to do this fast. Kara got very pushy when she was angry, and if Reece didn't move, he'd get dragged out there and tied to a wooden stake peppered with electrified spikes.

Reece put his team in a convenient order, then ran out the door. Everyone was watching, and this was to decided who won that soda pop.

"GO! Ralts!" Kara yelled as her hair floated upwards. "Go! Beedrill!" Reece yelled as he sent the poison bee out of its pokeball.

Reece was able to move first. "Twineedle!" he yelled. Beedrill shot his needles straight at Ralts. "Confusion!" Kara yelled in response. Ralts fired twin psychic beams at the needles, splitting them in half as they hit Beedrill square faced.

Reece was about to scream in shock before Kara interupted him. "Ralts! Shock Wave!" The girl said. Ralts blasted Beedrill with powerful electricity too fast to dodge. With that, Beedrill fainted.

"Beedrill, Retreat!" Reece said as he retrieved Beedrill. "I'm not giving up." He said as he threw out Larvitar. The Rock skin pokemon looked at Ralts.

"Are you going to stand there and let me cut you down?" She asked in pokespeak. Larvitar gave her an annoyed look. "i haven't been used this ENTIRE story arc, and you think I'm settling for a cameo? Absolutely not!" He yelled as he ran to crush her with Bite.

"Ralts, Confusion!" Kara yelled. Ralts fired 2 beams of psychic energy at Larvitar. "Brace it! Larvitar." Reece yelled. Larvitar let the blasts bounce off him, and resumed his attack. He bit Ralts in her small head, and threw her into the air.

"Now shoot her down!" Reece called to his pokemon. Larvitar took a small rock and threw it at Ralts. Reece had been training Larvitar to use the battlefield to its advantage to cover his one big weakness:His speed.

Ralts fell down, her eyes now spirals. Larvitar looked away. "That was boring." He said.

Kara rerieved Ralts. Her form was great at all times. Something told Reece that this was practice for her pokemon contests.

"Go! Zero!" Kara yelled. Reece decided to retrieve Larvitar (who wouldn't). But, Kara just loves mindgames. "Pursuit!"

Snivy shot at Larvitar, doing severe damage to it. Reece knew what was happening. That Snivy was her damned Machina.

Reece had to think this through. Dark types were a perfect counter to his team now that Beedrill was down. Who was next? One answer. THE COOKIE STEALER!

"Go, Krabby!" Reece yelled. The small crab came from its pokeball, looking at his foe. "Krabby, Bubble!" Reece commanded. The River Crab fired a stream of Bubbles at Snivy/Machina.

As Reece thought, the illusion broke and Snivy became Machina. "So you figured out are little ruse?" Kara said in a sweet voice. "Machina, Shadow Ball!"

Machina fired a deadly ball of energy at Krabby, knocking the crab down. "Krabby, fire another bubble!" Reece ordered. He would use another, but getting close to Machina was like trying to do what that guy did to Kara. Reece shivered at the thought.

The bubbles hit Machina, lowering her speed. But speed was not going to stop Kara's best pokemon. "Machina! Shock Wave!"

A bright flash of light struck Krabby, knocking him out. Reece retrieved him. He sent out his next pokemon:Ratatta!

"Ratatta! Use Hyper Fang!" Reece ordered. Ratatta leaped at Machina faster than the illusion fox could react. But even that wasn't enough.

"Machina! Fury Swipes!" Kara ordered. This was a potential kill blow. Machina was able to strike 4 times. "Ratatta! Quick Attack!" Reece countered.

Quick Attack crashed into its target. Machina fell. "Come back!" Kara said as she retrieved her pokemon. "Good Girl." She said.

She sent out her next of 4 pokemon. "Go! Zero!" The pokemon came out of her pokeball. "Now use Growth!"

Zero stretched out her arms as she glowed, her figure growing ever so slightly. "Now use Giga Drain!" Kara yelled. "Counter with Hyper Fang!"

Zero let Ratatta hit her. THEN she let loose with Giga Drain, scoring a crit. This healed her fully. Ratatta fainted.

Reece was now flipping annoyed. "GO! ABRA!" he yelled as he threw out his Psychic type. "Use Ice Punch!" Reece ordered. Abra had his fist covered in Ice, then threw it at his foe.

The attack did not a lot of damage. Of course it didn't, as Abra's attack was too low to be a threat. "Vine Whip!" Kara yelled to her pokemon. Zero threw her vines at Abra, knocking him back and forth.

"Abra! Confusion!" Reece ordered. Abra took Zero and started slamming her up and down over and over.

"Tri Attack! Kara ordered. Zero shot a blast of elemental energy at her foe. This was lucky enough to score a Burn. "Now finish it with Giga Drain!"

"Metronome!" Reece said. Abra shook his fingers, about to pull out a random move out of a list of 509 different attacks. Reece inched away just in case.

Abra's eyes closed, and a chain of blue orbs formed a circle between the 2.

"Are you serious!" Reece yelled. "Of all things, you used Skill Swap! The one move that helps your opponent of all things!"

"Finish it." Kara said. "Use Aurora Beam!"

Snivy shot the aurora like beam at her foe. This caused Abra to buckle in pain, then faint.

Reece was infuriated. No cute manipulative girl was gonna beat him. "Go, Grovyle!"

Grovyle stood face to face with the friend he made earlier. "Don't worry." Zero said. "Fight, no hard feelings. This was all the Hasty Natured pokemon needed.

"Zero, return!" Kara said as she was about to retreive her pokemon. "Pursuit!" Reece yelled to his pokemon. Grovyle knocked into Zero, scoring a KO.

"REVENGE!" Reece yelled. He just got Kara back for her mind games.

Kara sent out her last pokemon:Marshtomp. Of course the Water/Ground Type was no match for Reece's hunter killer. It was over before Kara could say "Ice Beam!"

Reece went up to Kara, who had a sad look on her face. "Let me get my jeans." She said, going to one of the benches and getting out half of her money out of her bag.

"I have to say I owe one Reece for coming here with me." She said. "But, fun's over." She put on her tank top and and jeans. "So, I want you to have these."

Kara pulled out several valuable items from her bag. reece saw a Nugget, some Stardust, a Big Pearl, a Soft Sand, a Miracle Seed, and a TM Shock Wave. The crowd had dispersed by now.

"Your really giving all this to me as a thanks because I came here with you?" Reece asked confused. "Half that, half the fact I'm loaded already." The girl said, straining the water out of her spiky hair.

The man that they met when they first came to the Surf shack came to Reece. "I'd like to reward you with six Soda Pops!"

Reece took the healing items, healed his pokemon, and decided to move on. Besides, it would be best to get some distance from Matt.

Chapter 17:Psychic Star
Reece had been walking for some time now. It was dark, and he had set up a shelter. It wasn't much, but it would have to do. Besides, he had his trusty pokemon on his side.

Which was talking outside at that moment.

"So, Grovyle, what's it feel like to evolve?" Abra asked. The newly evolved pokemon looked over. "I feel much stronger, that's for sure." Grovyle said. "You just need a bit more EXP to evolve correct?"

"Yes." Abra said.

Grovyle looked away. "I'd help you, but Reece needs me."

Abra looked disapointed. "Okay." Ratatta looked over. "Can't you use your writing skills to tell Reece that you need another level to evolve?"

"Not a bad Idea." Beedrill commented.

"I can practically feel those cookies in there." Krabby said. Everyone looked at him, then looked away.

Reece retrieved his pokemon, ready to fall asleep

The next day

Reece ghad a stiff neck when he awoke. His team needed some training. Likley, there were a ton of trainers on the path upstream.

Without eating breakfast (he'd need to rashion that food) the boy went down the trail. After going some distance, Reece was challenged by a trainer.

"I like shorts! They're comfy and easy to wear." The kid said.

"Okay, that's totally random information I really didn't need." Reece replied.

The youngster sent out Ekans. Reece sent out Abra. Abra used his psychic powers to write something on the paper Reece got for him.

"I'd suggest using Confusion." Abra wrote.

"Then do it!" Reece yelled. Abra shot twin beams of psychic energy at EkansEkans took super effective damage from the hit, barely holding on.

"Ekans! Poison Sting!" The youngster ordered.

Abra took the shot of poison like it was nothing. "Abra! Finish it with Confusion!"

Abra once again shot Ekans with energy, making it faint.

"Aww man." The hiker said as he retreived his Pokemon. "Go, Marill!"

The little aqua Rabbit jumped to the ground, facing Abra.

"Let's get lucky!" Reece shouted. "Metronome!"

Abra wagged its fingers. Reece hoped he wouldn't have a repeat of last time. As soon as Abra's wingers stopped wagging, a wicked thunderbolt dropped from the sky and OHKOed Marill.

The youngster retrieved his pokemon. "Dang It." He said miserably.

"Don't feel bad about yourself." Reece told the kid. "That was pure bad luck on your end." He took his money and was ready to repaet the cycle of beating up other for EXP, until he saw his Abra glow.

It had only been 18 hours since Treecko evolved, so Reece knew what was happening. Abra glowed, flashed between 2 silhouettes until it stayed as the second one.

"Dabra!" the newly evolved Kadabra cried out.

"YAY!" Reece said. "Now we can smash things even better now!"

Kadabra facepalmed. Reece never changed. "Let's just go."

Reece's eyes became the size of dinner plates. "Wait! I can understand you! Is that telepathy?" Kadabra nodded his head. "Yes, but there is going to be a lot of mistranslations."

"Did you say something about a soda?" Reece asked.

"Exactly."

Reece checked his pokedex.

Kadabra

Psi Pokemon

Height:4'03 / 1.3 M

Weight:124.6 LB / 56.5 KG

''Its spoon act as focusing rod for its Psychic powers. It generates powerful Alpha radiation that causes headaches and causes machines to temporarily malfunction.''

Reece put his Pokedex away. "Well, I want to teach you this!" Reece took his Battle Scanner, and taught Kadabra Shock Wave in place of Metronome.

"Thanks Reece." Kadabra said through telepathy. "You should retrieve me before your brain gets irradiated."

Reece did so, but after he did, he turned to the river. "I'm going to find a pokemon in that river. This time, I'm going to try!"

Reece then remebered he didn't have any fishing tool. "Dang it." The silver haired kid said. "Maybe I can find something in the tall grass."

This can't end well.

Reece stepped four steps into the grass before a wild pokemon jumped out at him.

He saw a wild Marill jumped out at him. "Go! Kadabra!" Reece said. He wanted to test the power of his new pokemon.

Kadabra came from his pokeball. "Ka Dabra!" he shouted.

Reece looked at his pokemon. "Try not to knock it out!" He yelled. "Use Shock Wave!"

Kadabra gathered energy, and fired a high speed beam of electricty at his foe. Marill was down to red in seconds.

"Mari, maril!" The pokemon said.

"What did it say?" Reece asked Kadabra. Kadabra turned to his trainer. "He said he's not giving up." Kadabra said telepathically.

"He dosen't like grass types?" Reece said. "Wait, watch out!"

Marill hit Kadabra with a Defense Curl boosted Rollout. Reece acted on this immediately. "Go Great Ball!"

The pokeball flew at Marill, the pokemon trying to dodge it. The Great Ball hit its target, drawing it into it. It shook once, then twice, then three times.

Click!

Marill was caught!

Marill

Aqua Mouse pokemon

Height:1'04 / 0.4 M

Weight:18 LB / 8.5 KG

''Its body is meant for extreme water movement. Covered in water resistant fur and an oil filled tail, it can manuever through water with little effort.''

Reece retrieved Kadabra. "We did it." Marill's Great Ball disappeared from his hand. "Enjoy the Box."

Reece was ready to go, before a fisherman came to him.

Riverstone City Arc
Reece, after 4 long days of battling, crushing pokemon, gaining EXP, and finding items, Reece made it to RiverStone City. Think of it as Dewford Town, with a River running at his side, with soil and grass instead of sand. It was a bit of a hill, and was known for the clean water and Riverstones.

Many Trainers were attracted by the caves below the town.

Anyway, Reece sat down on bench, and took out a Cookie. He'd get something better later.

However, someone decided that Reece's cookie looked really tasty. A lurking Pidove was on top of one of the nearby buildings. It swooped down, and was ready to grab it.

Reece put a pokeball in the place of his cookie. The pidove flared its wings, attempting to stop, but failed. The pokeball drew Pidove into it, and shook three times before it caught the pokemon.

"Nice Try." Reece said. "Enjoy the box."

Chapter 18:Finding the Rivercaves
Reece walkied into the center. Noone was in line. He went up to the nurse. "Hello. Can you heal my team?" This nurse had long blue hair like the last, but her hair was a lighter blue, and more messy. She had a tan, and that was noticable.

"Let me take your pokemon." She said. Reece did so, and watched lazily as his team was healed. "Are you going to go into the River Caves?"

Reece snapped to full atenttion. "Do they have pokemon in them?"

"Of course!" The nurse replied. "They also have pokemon that are only found at night." She continued. "But be careful."

"Where's the cave?" Reece asked excitedly.

"It's on the edge of town." The nurse said. Reece quickly grabbed his Pokemon. "Thank you!"

Reece then came to the most excrutiating thing he'd gone through in the past 2 weeks. Choosing which six pokemon would come with him to the cave.

His current pokemon were strong, but he had a Marill and Pidove that could help him significantly. He thought this over. Pidove would come for a bit. He decided to switch out Beedrill. The next switch would be Krabby for Marill. Yeah, that sounded right.

Beedrill and Krabby would be fine. Also, if he needed to switch back, he would.

Reece went for a walk first, to check ou the town. In about 20 minutes, he identified the Pokemart (where he restocked himself) the Hotel, the resturant, and the contest hall. Wait? Wasn't Kara interested in contests?

"HI Reece!"

Speak of the Devil.

Reece turned to see his fellow pokedex holder. "Hi Kara." Reece said. "Any luck with the Contest Hall?"

"No." Kara said blankly. "I still need a lot of prep. Pokeblocks, training, and other things. Most notably 2 more pokemon."

"Well, I'm heading to the RiverCaves. Once now, again at night, just to see the different pokemon." Reece said. "I'm going to leave s soon as I can however. There isn't any gym."

"Oh, and I saw Matt earlier." Kara said. "He said he was going to skin you alive, then feed your remains to Axew."

"Challenge accepted!" Reece said.

Kara softly facepalmed. "Dangit Reece."

Reece ran off, heading to the cave. He was going to catch a pokemon early. Screw waiting till night. Besides:How badly of a difference was there.

Reece got to the East side of town. Time to go into the River cave. The entrance was small, not many times bigger than Reece. There was also the River cutting through the opening. This cave couldn't be so bad. Right?

Famous Last Words.

Reece went inside the cave. Nothing bad at first.

Reece walked into the cave. Nothing Bad. Yeah, the river was pretty calming. Reece was walking for about 50 feet before.

WILD ZUBAT APPEARED!

"Go Pidove!" Reece yelled. He threw out his new cookie stealing bird.

"Air Cutter!" Reece ordered. Pidove fired a swift blast of cutting winds at Zubat.

Zubat braved through the attack, and charged right at his foe. The bat pokemons wings became covered in twisters, and charged at Pidove. The bat collided with bird, and knocked the pidgeon out of the air.

"Quick Attack!" Reece ordered. Pidove shot up and collided with Zubat. Reece checked his Scanner, seeing that Zubat was at 2/3 health. That might be in the range of his Great Ball.

"Leer!" Reece retaliated. Pidove shot weak energy at Zubat, lowering its defense. Zubat countered with Supersonic, firing gold rings at his foe. Pidove got confused.

"Quick Attack!" Reece commanded. Pidove shook off confusion long enough to hit Zuat one more time. Reece threw a Great Ball as fast as he could. The ball engulfed Zubat, and shook 3 times.

Click!

Reece checked his Pokedex

Zubat

Bat Pokemon

 Height:2'07 / 0.8 M

Weight:16.5 / 7.5 M

''They have no working nor visible eyes. Instead, they use Ultrasonic waves to "See". They are great at flying. ''

"Okay. Got yet another Pokemon." Reece commented. "I'll get it later." Reece walked into the depths of the Cave. "Ya know, this isn't to bad." Reece said in his head. "I mean, it isn't like after a few steps I'm going to do something comediacally nightmarish.

Reece came to a ladder. It went down, and Reece hesitated for half a second before he followed it.

Reeece came down into near total darkness. That was his first mistake. He walked foward, very cautious. After just 2 steps however, he ran into his first pokemon: Sableye.

Admit it. If you saw a purple hopskinville goblin like creature with claws that could gouge out your eyes, sharp teeth, and Crystal eyes, wouldn't you be scared? ADMIT IT!

"PIDOVE! KILL IT WITH DEATH!!!!" Reece screamed into the darkness as he threw the Pidgeon's pokeball into battle.

"Quick Attack!" Reece ordered. Pidove went right through Sableye. "Crud! It's a ghost type!" Reece quickly retreived his pokemon, and saw the Sableye dash at him. He sent out Larvitar to save his butt.

Larvitar grabbed the alien sable gem eater thing in an arm lock. "Bite!" Reece called for frantically. Larvitar bit down and threw Sableye into the air. "Now Screech!" Larvitar gave out a painful ear splitting screech that hit Sableye, causing Sableyes defense to drop.

"Now Bite one more time!" Reece yelled. Larvitar moved towards Sableye. A ghostly shadow came from Sableye, and then leaped at Larvitar.

"Night Shade!" Reece said with a squeak in his voice. "BITE!" Reece called. Larvitar braved through Night Shade, and delivered the final blow to Sableye.

Reece walked up to Larvitar. "Dear God....." He muttered. "That was fricken scary."

Larvitar looked at Reece. "It isn't over yet....." He said in pokespeak.

Reece couldn't understand, but decided not to go back. Mistake number 2. Reece suddenly heard an amaglam of cries, all very close.

He saw several pokemon edge towrds him. He identified a Aron, Makuhita, Drilbur, Zubat, Misdreavus, and a Wooper.

Reece was face to face with a guerilla army of six pokemon.

Reece gave no second thoughts:Marill vs Aron, Pidove vs Makuhita, Krabby vs Drilbur, Kadabra vs Zubat, Larvitar vs Misdreavus, and Grovyle vs Wooper.

The six on six battle quickly became a slaughter. Psychic energy beams, Bubbles, Rocks, energy orbs, seeds and many figures rammed against eachother.

Grovyle was the first to beat his foe, due to the great type advantage. Wooper fell back into the water with a thud, several seeds gouged inside it.

The mighty Larvitar soon felled his foe. The screeching ghost was no match for a screech then a flurry of bites. Reece's pokemon were detrmined to protect him. Kadabra shot down the foe Zubat with a Confusion, with a STAB boosted super effective attack.

Pidove raced down to hit Makuhita with twister covered wings. The Guts pokemon was hit hard, falling down with a thud.

Krabby hit Drilbur with a Vicegrip, making the Drill pokemon fall.

Reece took out fve of his six foes. He was still having a severe adreniline rush from the shock. This was very intense, and Reece knew more were coming.

"Marill, Water Gun!" Reece ordered. Marill shot a forceful beam of water at Aron. The Iron Armor pokemon fell. Reece had beat this wave, but the next was soon to approach. Reece was more right than he wanted to be. He could already hear more pokemon.

He retrieved each member of his team one by one, until he came to Marill. To his shock, Marill had been firing Water Guns at the Darkness.

That was right. Marill had those huge ears, so only reasonably could the aqua mouse be able to know where the assailents were coming from. Marill went into a Rollout, and fired small rocks at the Darkness. Reece looked at his back. The ladder was still in sight, which gave Reece a shock of relief.

Marill used Rollout again, stronger than last time. Reece heard the cry of a Zubat in the distance. He attempted to retreive Marill, but to his horror, he couldn't. He needed to wait until Marill missed or hit all five Rollouts.

Marill attempted his third Rollout. This one hit a Sableye, (or so Reece thought). Reece was simply waiting for Marill to miss.

"Come on Marill..." Reece said nervously. He was already climbing up the latter, having Marill's pokeball aimed right at the aqua mouse.

Marill fired his third Rollout. This attack hit a Makuhita (Reece heard the cry. It was unmistakable.) Marill was doing great at beating these pokemon, but he couldn't keep it up forever. Reece got the pokeball ready. Marill would be ready to be retreived after this round.

Marill fired his last and most powerful Rollout into the Darkness. Reece heard the sound of an Aron fainting. Reece didn't wait for anything else. "Marill, Retre...." He was cut off by his Marill glowing with a bright light.

Marill glowed, and switched between two forms rapidly, and then stopped at the second form. "Zazumarill!" the newly evolved pokemon exclaimed. The flashing light got Reece to see what was in the darkness. He saw way too many pokemon to fight off.

"Azumarill, Retreat!" He yelled, retreiving the Aqua Rabbit. Reece scrambled up the ladder, through the path he caught Zubat on, and out of that freaking demonic cave.

Reece wasted no time healing up his team, then flipped out his pokedex. He checked Azumarill's entry.

Azumarill

Aqua Rabbit Pokemon

Height: 2'07 / 0.8 M

Weight: 62.8 LB / 28.5 KG

''It spends almost all its time in water. It has some of the best hearing of all pokemon, rivaling pokemon like Clefable and Audino. Its frothy body patterns help it camoflauge in water..''

Reece put his pokedex away. "Team healed up, out of that god forsaken cave, and ready to get moving." The pre teen trainer said. He looked out on the River. The sun was setting, and he wouldn't dare go back into that cave. Not until he got some training, that is.

However, all was not well, as Reece heard a familiar voice that was definitely VERY angry.

"REECE! I'M GOING TO EVISCERATE YOU AND FEED YOU TO MY AXEW!!"

"Oh dear...." Reece said.

Chapter 19:Why you don't prank with Pitfall Traps.
"Nice to see you too Matt." Reece said in a bland, sarcastic tone.

The blonde's face was Red as a ruby, and his face was skewed into a unmistakable enraged expression. Reece must have done a really good job at trapping him in that hole.

Matt didn't hesitate to send out his Spearow. Reece retaliated with Pidove. The two bird pokemon sized eachother up.

"Pidove! Air Cutter!" Reece ordered. Pidove shot a multidude of cutting whirlwinds at Spearow.

"Dive through with Aerial Ace!!" Matt ordered. The blonde trainer was not going to let Reece win.

Srpearow shot through the Air Cutter, and peirced right into Pidove.

"Quick Attack!" Reece commanded. Pidove shot right up to Spearow. The high priority attack hit Spearow in for respectable damage.

"Fury Attack!" Matt ordered. Spearow thrusted its beak at Pidove, hitting the Pidgeon four times. "Now Aerial Ace!" Matt shouted to the Sparrow Falcon pokemon Spearow shot a Pidove and knocked it out of the sky.

"Pidove! Retreat!" Reece shouted as the white capture laser engulfed his Pidove. "Go, Kadabra!" Reece called out. The psi pokemon jumped from its pokeball, ready to fight.

"Kadbra! Shock Wave!" Reece commanded. Spearow was hit by a super fast blast of electricity, doing a huge chunk of damage. "Aerial Ace!" Matt retaliated. Spearow charged right at Kadabra with its own NM attack. Due to Kadabra's low defense, he took huge damage.

"Ice Punch!" Reece commanded. The psi pokemon struck Spearow with an Icy fist, causing it to faint. Matt angrily retreived the pokemon.

"Go, Gastly!" Matt yelled. He sent out the gas phantom pokemon. Matt knew that the two pokemon had both and advantage and disadvantage over eachother.

"Lick it to death!" Matt yelled. the gas pokemon charged at Kadabra, and licked it.

"Use Confusion!" Reece yelled. Kadabra raised its spoons, but failed. Reece saw that Kadabra was paralyzed. "Not good!" Reece said frantically.

"Gastly, Curse!" Matt ordered. Gastly expelled a dark energy from its body, striking Kadabra. Reece saw as Kadabra's HP fell like a stone. "Go for Confusion!"

Kadabra weakly lifted his spoon and fired a powerful beam of psychic energy at Gastly. Gastly took respectable damage, but didn't faint.

"Gastly, Sludge Bomb!" Matt ordered. Gastly shot sludge right at Kadabra, causing him to fall backwards. Then Curse's effect took place and knocked Kadabra out.

Reece retreived Kadabra. "GO RATATTA!" Reece called out. Reece had a simple plan:SPAM PURSUIT AND FINISH THIS STINKY GHOST!!!!!!

"Ratatta! Use Pursuit!" Reece ordered. Ratatta charged towards Gastly with all its might. However, Matt had other plans.

"Gastly, Explosion!" Matt ordered. Gastly violently exploded in a huge blast. When the smoke cleared, both pokemon had fainted.

"What is wrong with you?!" Reece demanded.

"I managed to take out one of you pokemon." Matt said retreiving Gastly. "This way, I have a better chance of winning, as Gastly was going to faint anyway."

Reece retrieved Ratatta. "Go Azumarill!" Reece said. He was clearly annoyed. Azumarill popped from its pokeball. "Go Axew!" Matt said. Axew popped from its pokeball, and Reece saw that its tusks had definitely been stabbing something. They were dripping with blood.

"Azumarill! Rollout!" Reece ordered. Azumarill shot a rock right at Axew, but the Tusk dragon broke it with his tusk. "Dragon Rage!" Matt ordered.

Azumarill was struck by the twister of enrergy Axew created. The Aqua Mouse pokemon fainted instantly. Reece retrieved his pokemon, an unnerved look on his face.

"Go, Larvitar!" Reece called out. Larvitar jumped from his pokeball, facing Axew. "We meet again." Larvitar said in Pokespeak.

"Shut up." Axew said in Pokespeak.

"Dragon Rage again!" Matt ordered. Axew was ready to finish with quickly. But Reece was prepared. "Rock Slide!" the silver haired boy commanded.

A huge avalanche of rocks came down on Axew, interupting its attack. Reece smiled. "Now Screech!" Reece demanded. Larvitar let out an ear piercing screech, lowering the defense of Axew.

Axew got out of the rocky prison. "Use Dual Chop!" Matt ordered. Axew shot at Larvitar, striking it twice in rapid succesion.

"Bite!" Reece ordered. Larvitar bit onto Axew's arm, and used his powerful muscles to throw Axew into the air. "Now Rock Slide!" Reece commanded.

Once again, Larvitar threw a huge group of rocks onto Axew. "Axew! Giga Impact!" Matt ordered. Axew covered himself in a pink and orange aura, then collided with Larvitar at huge speeds. Larvitar was thrown into the River behind him.

"LARVITAR!" Reece yelled, reaching out to the rock skin pokemon. He almost died of fright when he saw this. But, Larvitar slowly crawled out of the River.

"Stubborn B*****d." Axew muttered.

"Larvitar! Use Rock Slide again!" Reece commanded. Larvitar picked up a rock right next to it and threw it at Axew, scoring a critical hit. Axew had finally fainted.

Matt cursed aloud, saying some very nasty things. He retreived Axew, and sent out his last pokemon:Combusken.

"Double Kick him now!" Matt commanded. "Rock Slide!" Reece ordered, but that was all in vain, as Combusken was faster. Before Larvitar could get the rocks on the side of the hill to fall on the chicken, Combuskion knocked out Larvitar.

"CRAP!" Reece yelled. His last pokemon was Grovyle. Not only did it have a type advantage, but Matt was unwilling to lose. Reece had the odds stacked agains him. Would that stop him?

Of course not.

"GO, Grovyle!" Reece yelled. The wood gecko came to the battlefeild with a mighty roar.

"I'll finally beat you this time!" Combusked said in pokespeak. His face had become twisted into a malicious grin.

"In your dreams." Grovyle responded.

"Grovyle! Dragonbreath!" Reece yelled. Grovyle fired a beam of cloudy energy at Combusken, knocking it back. "Ember!" Matt retaliated.

The feiry attack hit Grovyle for great damage. "Now continue with Crush Claw!" Matt screeched.

"Counter with Giga Drain!" Reece yelled to Grovyle.

Grovyle drained the energy of his enemy. This wasn't much, and certainly not enought to circumvent Combuskens attack.

Grovyle was hit on his head for excessive damage, and Combusken didn't stop there. "Use Ember!" Matt said. Combusken fired the flaming cinders at his foe, and put Grovyle at his mercy.

"Quick Attack!" Reece barked. Grovyle slammed into his foe, knocking the chicken back under part of the hill. "Now Bullet Seed!" Reece said with all his determination in the yell.

Grovyle fired a huge volley of seeds at Combusken. Combusken was barely affected, only being slightly knocked back. "Is that the best you got Grovyle?" Combusken asked in Pokespeak.

Grovyle was sick of this idiot. "Not by a long shot." He smiled, and then pointed to the rocks just behind Combusken.

The young Fowl pokemon looked back to see that the Rocks from Larvitars partially executed Rock Slide were shook loose from the bullet seed.

"What! Are you fricken kidding me?" Both Combusken and Matt said in shock as the former was buried and KOed under the rocks.

Matt silently fumbled out Combuskens pokeball, retrieved the pokemon, and turned to Reece. "That was a total hax win." He said.

"Yeah, but a wins a win." Reece said, retrieving Grovyle. He then went to his bag. Matt handed him half his money.

"Now I'm going to rip you to shreds!" Matt said. He turned around and raised his arms into the air. "I swear one day that I will beat Reece Falconer!"

He turned around to see that Reece was gone.

"Were did he go?" Matt said.

"He got tired of your ranting and teleported away on with his Kadabra."

Matt turned around to see his sister Kara on a nearby ledge, wearing a black tube top with deep blue stripes forming a 'necklace' over her chest, and Machina in her lap.

"How long have you been there?" Matt asked her.

"Long enough to see you get your @$$ handed to you on a Silver Platter." She returned, then smiled. The underaged girl loved torturing her brother.

Chapter 20:River Cave Chaos
There is a diiference between stupidity and bravery. Reece was going back into that cave. At night. Now, that is stupid by all means, seeing as the pokemon had attacked him the first time, and he barely got out. Reece saw it as bravery.

There is a difference between the two. Just not sure what.

Anyway, Reece was heading back to the cave. It was night, and  that would mean a crap-ton of wild pokemon. Reece wasn't scared (but insane by definition, as he was expecting a diiferent result).

At the cave, all was not well. Kara and Matt were fighting....sorta. Kara was still sitting on the rocks, and Matt was patching up his team.

"Ya know, maybe if you smiled more often, and took more freedom in your looks, you'd be happier!" Kara said angrily.

"And risk looking like my remorseless Tomboy sister?" Matt replied. "Absolutely not!"

"You have NO knowledge of how to treat a lady!" Kara snapped back.

"Last time I checked, Ladies had morals." Matt said.

Matt didn't get a response in words. Instead, he got it in the form of a rock. This rock was more specifically flint. Flint was sharp. Matt was hit with this rock. To the place were the sun don't shine.

Matt tried his best not to cry in pain. He didn't nearly shed as much tears as he should. Reece came to the cave, and saw the two siblings. "You're still here Matt?"

He turned to Kara. "Hi Kara."

"Hello Reece." She jumped down and greeted her friend. "So, where ya going now?'

"I'm going into the cave." Reece said, not ceasing his walking. "The pokemon in there actually make Kara look less scary."

Both siblings perked up. "I'ev got to see this!" Matt said, running into the cave.

"You will NOT get ahead of me!" Reece claimed. He ran foward, his air shoes blowing wind in Kara's face.

"Come'on Machina. SOMEONE has to make sure they don't get killed." Kara said as she slowly walked in.

Machina kept laughing until she cried.

Inside the cave, Matt had already gotten to the hoard. But, due to Reece, he had quite an easy time handling it. By the time Reece made it, there were only two pokemon left. A Drilbur and Aron.

Reece climbed down the ladder, and saw Matt and his Combusken working to fight these last pokemon. "That Drilbur is mine!" Matt yelled as he threw a GreatBall at the Drill pokemon, trapping it inside.

The Great Ball shook three times before it caught the pokemon. Matt immediatly turned his focus to the Aron. "Combusken! Use Double Kick!"

The flame fowl struck at the Armor pokemon. Matt was about to throw a pokeball, before another struck it and caught it.

"Reece!" Matt yelled at his Rival. "What's your problem!?"

"I didn't do it." Reece replied.

"I did." Kara chimed. She had just showed up, and went to pick up Aron's pokeball.

"But why?" Matt said with a hint of whining in his voice.

"Because I knew it would annoy you." She then let the pokemon out of its pokeball. "Plus it looks so cute!"

Matt's face twisted into a creepy smile. "Let's just keep torturing Matt then!" He said sarcastically.

Kara felt her hair tingle. She looked into the darkness, completely silent. Matt saw this and became instantly worried.

"Sis? What's wrong?" Matt asked his sister. There was genuine worry in his voice.

Kara looked into the darkness for a few seconds. She fumbled around for one of her Pokeballs, just in case.

"GET DOWN!"

Everyone listened to Kara, and hit the ground. They did so just in time to dodge a Shadow Ball heading strainght for them.

"What the...." said a voice in the foggy void in front of them.

"Combusken! Ember!" Matt yelled.

The entire area lit up, revealing a dark suited group of people, each wearing a pair of nightvision goggles.

"Team Abyss!" Reece yelled out as the darkness closed in again.

"You three, stay here and make sure they don't escape. Terminate them if neccessary." A blunt female voice said.

After a few seconds, and the sound of footsteps, a masculine voice called out. "Get ready you three!"

"Come out here and fight us like pokemon trainers!" Reece yelled.

"Can't argue with that." The grunts said. they came into the little pocket of light that the three pokedex holders could see them in. There was two guys, and one girl.

Before everyone could send out a pokemon, Reece spoke up. "Before we tear eachother limb from limb, we should just speed this up with a Triple Battle. Any objections?"

Before anyone could say yes, Reece got in the center, and sent out his Grovyle. "Good, let's go!"

Kara got on the right, and Matt took the left. The siblings sent out Marshtomp and Combusken respectively.

The grunts from left to right were Female, Male, Male sent out Misdrevus, Grimer, and Deino respectively.

"Grovyle! Dragonbreath on Deino!" Reece yelled. Grovyle blasted its powerful breath at the blind dinosaur, knocking it back.

"Combusken, use Double Kick on Deino!" Matt yelled. The chicken ruthlessly kicked Deino to the head twice, doing severe damage.

"Misdreavus! Use Shadow Ball on Marshtomp!" The grunt directly across from Kara ordered. The Screech pokemon fired a ball of shadowy energy straight at Marshtomp, doing roughly 30% damage.

"Marshtomp! Use Ice Beam on Misdreavus!" Kara ordered. Marshtomp fired a cone of cold at his foe, hitting for moderate damage.

"Deino, use Dragonbreath on Combusken!!" The grunt across from Matt yelled to his pokemon. The dino pokemon fired a volcanic cloud at the Young Fowl, doing moderate damage. Like Marshtomp however, the Stage 1 Starter was undettered.

"Grimer! Use Sludge Bomb!" The grunt in the center told his pokemon. The sludge pokemon fired a blast of sludge at Grovyle. The frail yet powerful pokemon took a very large amount of damage. But that was still not enough to put it down.

"Grovyle, Retreat!" Reece yelled as he retrieved his pokemon. "Go, Larvitar!" He yelled. Larvitar popped out of its pokeball, checking its surroundings.

"Combusken! Crush Claw on Deino!" Matt ordered. Combusken hit Deino in the head, defeating it. The grunt retreived his pokemon. "Go Remoraid!" He yelled.

"Marshtomp! Water Gun on Misdrevus!" Kara ordered. Marshtomp fired water at Misdreavus, soaking the ghosts hair and the hair of its trainer. The ghost fainted, and the angered grunt retrieved her pokemon. "Go! Zubat!"

Reece was ready to strike, but he didn't go first. This time, it was Matt. "Combusken! Use Double Kick on Remoraid!" The Chicken once again struck its foe with two rapid kicks.

"Marshtomp! Use Water Gun on Grimer!" The girl ordered. Marshtomp washed away Grimer, and its trainer retrieved it. "Go, Beautifly!"

Reece smiled. He just had to wait long enough.

"Zubat! Wing Attack on Marshtomp!" The grunt across from Kara ordered. The blind bat struck Marshtomp. Obviously, Marshtomp's health was fading.

"Remoraid!" Use Watergun on Combusken!" The grunt controlling Remoraid ordered. Combusken was shot by the water, just barely hanging on.

"Larvitar! Rock Slide!" Reece commanded.

The stalagtites above Reece's opponents fell down and and crushed them, winning Reece the battle.

"What!?" The grunts shouted out in unison.

The three pokedex holders were proud of this accomplishment. All those team battles paid off.

"RETREAT!" The Grunts yelled as they fell back into the cave.

Chapter 21:River Cave Chaos Part 2


"Gastly! Stop them!" matt yelled as he sent out his ghost pokemon, throwing the pokeball as far as possible. Gastly popped out of his pokeball, and raced into the darkness and caught up to the three grunts. the ghost then paralyzed them with its ectoplasm.

"Matt!?" Kara yelled. "What the heck are doing?"

"Bring them back here." Matt yelled into the darkness.

Gastly came back dragging the three grunts with him. Matt came up to them and took of their night vision goggles, and gave them to his fellow pokedex holders.

"With these, we'll be able to see in the dark." The blond said. "It works perfectly." he said after tyring them on himself.

Reece put his pair on, and was instantly greeted with a medium sized limestone cave with a river running through it.

"Chances are we will get lost, so if you do, pull out your pokedex." Matt said.

"Oh yeah!" Reece said as she pulled out his pokedex. Kara followed this action, and when she did, all three pokedexes starting to make a loud beeping noise.

"This way, we'll be able to find those lunatics faster." Matt said

"That's brilliant." Reece said. Kara's heart skipped a beat when she heard Reece say that. But she quickly shook that shock off.

"Let's get Moving!" Matt said in his firm tone of voice. He honestly wanted to know what this "Team Abyss" was up to, and what connection they had to Team Luminious.

Reece, Matt, and Kara raced to the end of the cave section. They soon got to a ladder. Reece looked down the hole. "Who jumps first?" He asked.

Kara was about to criticize Reece for being immature, but Reece cut her off. "Me!"

Reece jumped down the ladder with Matt and Kara following. Half way down, Reece stopped. "I think we should agree now that we split the grunts evenly."

"Always battle crazy as usual." Matt said.

The Delta Pokedex Holder Trio descended to the bottom of the Ladder, and saw an even larger cavern. The sound of the River continously pierced the void.

Kara's hair started to tingle. "Somethings out there!" She told her friends.

All three saw their opponent:A horde of wild pokemon.

Round one:Misdreavus

Reece sent out his Ratatta against the wild Misdreavus. "Lets do this!" Reece yelled out. "Rattata! Use Pursuit!" Reece commanded. His rat pokemon hit the screech pokemon, knocking it out.

Round Two:Wooper

"Hyper Fang!" Reece ordered. Ratatta quickly jumped at the Water Fish's head, and bit down with bone crushing force.

The Wooper fired a water gun at Ratatta, knocking the rat across the cave. Ratatta got up and roared. "QUICK ATTACK!" Reece ordered.

Ratatta shot foward like a bullet, and smashed into Wooper, knocking it out.

Round 3:Makuhita

"Pidove! Use Air Cutter!" Reece told his Flying Type. The pidgeon fired cutting whirlwinds at the Guts pokemon. This caused the pokemon to almost fall, but not quite.

The Makuhita retaliated with a crushing Vital Throw. Pidove was hit with such ferocity that the poor bird pokemon was smacked to the ground.

"Air Cutter again!" Reece yelled.

Pidove fired the cutting whirlwinds again, knocking Makuhita out.

Last Pokemon:Aron.

"Smash'em with Submission!" Reece cried out to his Kadabra. The psi pokemon picked up Aron, and threw it to the ground, KOing it.

Reece retrieved his pokemon. He was ready to fight anyone in his path. Matt felt the same way. He needed more power to triumph over Reece.

Maybe it was a good thing Kara didn't have a rival, because she was able to point something out. "Guys!" She called to both of them. "Don't you find it strange that all these wild pokemon are attacking us like this?"

Reece gave it some thought. "Good point..." He commented. Matt also caught on this. "Considering that we saw Team Abyss here, I'm going to go out on a limb and say they are involved."

"Well, come on, its pretty damn obvious right?" Reece said. "It isn't like we're in some crazy cartoon slash anime were the characters don't think of such obvious things."

How many of you see the irony in that?

"Let's keep moving." Reece said.

Reece and the others walked through the cave, coming across a split path. One Ladder goes up, another goes down.

"I'm taking the one down!" Reece said. "It obviously holds some signifigance." He ran down the ladder before the others could argue.

"Let's take the other ladder." Matt said to his sister.

Kara's hair started to tingle. "Matt." She said. "Ready your team..."

One of Matt's life lesson he set for himself:Listen to Kara.

The siblings slowly climbe up the ladder, and came to a large cavern. Matt let his guard down the slightest bit, but Kara just kept preparing for the worst.

Matt grabbed the Pokeball containing hs Drilbur, and sent out the little drill mole. "Metal Claw!" Matt yelled.

Drilbur did this just in time to stop a watermelon sized Shadow Ball from hitting the two.

"Kara! Stand your Ground!"

Kara sent out her Snivy, giving no second thought to fighting. "Aurora Beam!"

With Reece

Reece had descended further into the cave. The darkness was starting to grind his nerves. Oh well, better than carrying around a pokemon with Flash.

The silver haired boy kept walking, until he came across a large wall of fog.

"Hmm..." Reece pondered.

Reece upped the power on his night vision goggles. He looked around, trying to keep the fog off his goggles.

After several minutes of futile effort, Reece decided to ditch the goggles. "I'll just have to rely on the other 3 senses that help me get around." He said to himself.

He slowly fumbled around, until his fingers felt something. He looked over to see a wall, covered in small indents.

Reece looked it over, then with a shock, realized it was writing. It looked like it was english, but then the boy saw this.

"Wait a second..." Reece said. "This writing seems awfully familiar.

Reece pondered it for a second. He tried REALLY hard to remeber what this was. Then it hit him.

"I remember know. These are Unown. My dad told me about it." Reece said to himself. That made him uneasy as he said it. He hardly mentioned his father.

His father was the biggest secret of his life. He hardly ever met the man, and he didn't even know where he was. All he knew was that his father had custody of his Brother Ren. He wasn't sure if his parents were divorced. In fact, he wasn't even sure they were married.

Reece got out of this cloud like state of mind. He read this over again. After a few times reading it, he made out "Too Dark, Too Powerful, We Sealed It Deep Below."

"Not suspicious at all." Reece said sarcastically.

"Who's there!?" Reece suddenly heard. He turned to see a feamle Team Abyss Admin with long purple hair and leather armor on. The woman saw Reece, and scowled. "Ah just my luck, it's you. Raigen told me all about you."

"So we can skip the part where you say your going to make me wish I was never born and get to beating eachother senseless?" Reece said.

As to say yes, the admin sent out a Mightyena.

"Go! Azumarill!" Reece yelled.

Chapter 22:River Cave Chaos Part 3
"Mightyena! Shadow Ball!" The admin ordered. Her Mightyena formed a sphere of Ghost energy inside its mouth, and charged up the attack.

Azumarill, Stop it with Rollout!" Reece ordered.  The aqua rabbit rolled into a ball and charged straight foward to Mightyena.

The hyena hound refused to lose, as she fired a deadly blast Shadow Ball at the blue ball rolling towards her. Azumarill was struck head on, kicking up some dust.

Reece gritted his teeth in frustration. But to his luck, Azumarill rolled out of the smoke and crashed straight into Mightyena, scoring its first hit.

"Bite!" The admin commanded. Mightyena lunged towards the foe, and bit down on the poor aqua rabbit. THis caused the pokemon to flinch, breaking its Rollout.

"Water Gun!" Reece yelled. Azumarill shot water straight at the face of Mightyena.

"Thunder Fang!" The admin yelled to her pokemon. The hyena dog bit into Azumarill, and knocked it out with electrified teeth.

Reece retrieved the pokemon. He thought over who to send out. He then threw out the only member of his team to be immune to Electricity:Larvitar.

"Go! Larvitar!" Reece yelled. He sent out the rock skin pokemon, and it looked its foe right in the eye.

"Mightyena! Use Bite!" The admin ordered. Larvitar was picked up by the hyena, and thrown to the ground. "Use Sandstorm!" Reece yelled to his Larvitar.

"Larvitar shot a huge blast of sand out of his mouth, covering the battlefeild with sand. The sand was thrown around by artificial air currents made by the attack.

"Hyper Beam!" The Admin shouted in rage.

Larvitar was covered in a beam of crimson energy as the hyena dog opposing him took its energy and shot it at him.