Hoenn Region

[Gabriel Lux]

The Hoenn Region people start here.

[armoredamphibian]

"Mom?"

A woman in her forties washing dishes in a sunny kitchen responded to the outside voice. "Yes, Nyra?"

"That diglett you gave me yesterday?"

"Yes?"

"Well, I HATE him!" In stepped an eleven year old girl coated in mud. "Mom, why can't you give me an obedient Pokemon for once?"

"Nyra, stop tracking mud in the house," replied the mother, not even looking up from her work. "And I'm not going to buy you another Pokemon. You and Diglett are going to have to work together."

Nyra pouted. "Fine."

She didn't feel like telling her mother that Diglett had already been released.

* * *

After washing her hair, Nyra wandered aimlessly outside. No more Pokemon, no more hope. Her dreams of winning Pokemon contests were through. She did happen to have some unused Pokeballs with her, but what of it? She and her family lived in Mauville, the routes surrounding hope to some ugly gulpin and a few mildly cute electrikes. Plusles and minums were adorable, but far too fast to be captured without the aid of another pokemon.

She plopped down next to the lake and stared at her reflection. She considered briefly taking the bike path down to Slateport for a rental battle, but wasn't in the mood for explaining to everyone on the way there why she couldn't battle them.

That's when she saw her. At first Nyra wasn't looking at anything but the water, but when the first rock skimmed the surface in front of her, she involuntarily turned her head and saw the treeko. Just sitting maybe thirty yards away on a slight peninsula in the water. She was just sitting there, skipping rocks and looking just as bored as she was. She stopped for a moment to shift the dandelion that she was chewing on.

Maybe she knew Nyra was there, maybe she didn't. In any case, she noticed the flying pokeball far too late. The bounce on the head was so sudden, she barely knew how to react. It was an ordinary pokeball, nothing extraordinary about its construction. Though she fought the strange force that seized her, it was all too late. The ball wobbled a few times before finally clicking shut.

Treeko had been captured.

[Mich3ll3]

It was Michelle's Birthday today and she was turning 15. She had always had the dream to become a strong pokemon trainer but never really acted on it. Well today she was supposed to be acting on it. She was scheduled for an appoinment with Professor Birch. The Prof. thought it was time for her to act on her dream as well.

This morning she woke up early. She was tired and was a little embarrased to talk to anyone about her dream making her nervous to see Prof. Birch this morning. But she decided a small walk would ease her nerves. So after getting dressed and strapping her gear on she left her house.

As she closed the door behind herself she looked around. She decided in one direction and began. She saw the lab ahead so she slowed down stopping only for a moment. She then quickly darted towards the woods as saw the Prof. and two of Assistants walk out.

She croutched down and sat there for awhile as the Prof. examined two pokemon the assistants sent out battle. After the battle was over and the Prof. was satisfied with the results he went back into his lab.

Michelle stood up out of the grass with a little struggle from her backpack excusing the branch that she thought caught it. She then began to head back to her house when all of a sudden her watch went off. It was displaying that it was time to go to the Prof.s lab for her starter pokemon. She was nervous but reluctantly went.

She walked up to the entrance of the lab and the sliding door opened as she went in. She saw the Prof. over behind a desk with high-powered magnifying glasses staring at what looked like parts of a pokeball. She headed over to him but before she even reached him the Prof. got up taking his equipment off and walked over to her.

"Oh, sorry if I am bothering you Professor Birch. I can come back later.",Michelle said fidgiting.

"Non-sense silly girl. You wouldn't come back and you know it. Now follow me over here.",the Professor said as he lead them over to another desk this one with slots filled with pokeballs.
"Here you will find a number of pokemon you can start out with-",He began when suddenly he looked down past Michelle noticing a small brown cat like pokemon.
"Oh-ho-ho. I see now. You already got yourself a pokemon huh?",He said bending down to pet the small Eevee on the head.

Michelle turned around and looked down. There she saw the Eevee too. Shocked she replied,"No. I don't have a pokemon. This one isn't mine."

"Well it followed you in here.",He said standing up laughing. "Well fine. Here take this pokeball and catch it."

"Bu...but, I don't...... fine.",She said taking the pokeball she dropped it onto the small pokemon's head. In a red flash the pokemon was zapped into the pokeball and with only one flash of resistance it was caught.

"That can be your starter pokemon. Its a great starter. It can become just about any of the types when it evolves.",He said smiling proudly with his information.

She sighed,"Yes sir. Thank you. I've got to go now."
She turned on her heels and headed for the door.

"Dear child hold on. Heres a few gifts for your birthday.",He said handing her a small pink ribboned bag. Inside was a packs full of pokeballs, about five potions, and a newer version pokedex.

"Thank you so much sir.",She said giving a small ladylike bow.
"No problem dear, now hurry along before your late.",He said shooing her off as he went back to his research.

She then ran straight back home.

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**Two hours later.

Michelle was walking down the path next to Mauville. she had already left for her adventure.

[armoredamphibian]

OOC: Where'd you get a motorcycle, Michelle? (kidding)

Nyra crouched with trembling hands hovering over the so recently twitching Pokeball. Was it really true? Had she just captured an extraordinarily rare Pokemon on the first try without any other Pokemon to help her? She was expecting it to burst open any moment and release a fleeing monster.

But it didn't. It was dead still, even when Nyra finally brought herself to pick it up. She suddenly felt like laughing. Maybe she would have a chance at the contests after all.

Cautiously, Nyra pushed the button the Pokeball. There was a blinding flash of red, and the treeko suddenly appeared before her, looking as confused as could be.

"Hi, Bobby!" She giggled cheerfully. "That's going to be your name."

"Bobby" glared with a force great enough to cut diamonds. Unfortunately, Nyra didn't pick up on the subliminal message.

"I hope your not as rude as that Diglett I used to have," she continued. "I'd hate to lose a Pokemon as rare as you."

Upon hearing this, the treeko turned around and began zooming down the path south of Mauville.

"Wait, Bobby!" screamed Nyra, raising her Pokeball in an attempt to recall her. Unfortunately, she had already run out of range. "Bobby" was fleeing into her natural habitat, and the place non-trainers were never supposed to go; the tall grass.

Nyra hesitated, then remembered that her last hope of joining the great ranks was running away on purpose! Cursing, she ran down the route after her future.

[Mich3ll3]

OOC: I don't understand.

Michelle and Eevee were walking down the path minding their own buisness when it happened. Just like something out of an old English comedy. Zoom passed them went a Treeko then followed by a girl and unfourtunatly for Michelle Eevee following up the rear or should I say Michelle following up the rear now.

"Eevee wait! Where on a strict schedule I set for us!",Michelle said running right behind Eevee.
"E-Eevee!",Eevee replied happily running behind Nyra.

[armoredamphibian]

OOC: Nothing, your travel time just seemed very fast to me.

Nyra was quite unaware of the little parade she and "Bobby" were leading, she was too determined to reclaim her fleeing property.

All of a sudden, her foot caught on something, causing her to fall flat on something that yelped. It jumped aside and snarled, and Nyra recognized it as one of those electrikes. It growled angrily as sparks played across its fur.

With an unpredictable suddenness, Nyra's treeko leaped in and tackled the electrike, knocking it off guard. The burst of loyalty made Nyra squeal with delight.

"Bobby! You came back to save me!"

"Bobby" was too tired to even give her a dirty look out of the corner of her eye. She was on her knees, barely able to move, paralyzed from electrike's static.

Electrike was hardly out for the count. The small bump had only made it even angrier. It began to charge at them both.

When Nyra realized that "Bobby" was making no move to stop the coming onslaught, she began screaming. "Help! Someone help!!"

[Mich3ll3]

"Eevee quick attack and hurry!",Michelle yelled still running up on the scene.
All of a sudden Eevee picked up speed she lowered her head and straight on tackled the Electrike. The Electrike took the hit directly from the side and fell sideways. It was weakened and the Electrike could barely move.
"I hope you don't mind but I'm going to catch it.",Michelle said. She stopped in place beside her Eevee and pulled a empty pokeball out of her side pocket of her backpack. She threw the ball that then hit the Electrike in the arm and bounced off. In a flash of red light the Electrike was pulled into the pokeball. With as much resistience it had left it shook the pokeball but it wasn't enough to keep it from getting captured.

The pokeball stopped moving and Michelle went over and picked it up. After strapping the pokeball securely to her belt she walked back over to Nyra and offered her hand to help her up.

[armoredamphibian]

Nyra took the older girl's hand and pulled herself to her feet again. "No problem," she said to Michelle, "I don't even like electrike very...Bobby!" She ran past her suddenly as she remembered her hurt new treeko.

"Bobby" managed to hiss at the sound of the horrid nickname her new owner had given her.

"Poor thing!" Nyra exclaimed while scooping the treeko into her arms. "I'd better take you to the center." She recalled her Pokemon and began running back toward Mauville without even a backward glance.

[Mich3ll3]

"Your welcome.",Michelle began but Nyra was already off with her pokemon Treeko.
"Ok Eevee lets go. I think we'll be able to find information where she heading.",Michelle said already walking down the path behind Nyra.

Michelle held up the pokeball that contained the Electrike now. She was staring at it with thoughts running through her mind.

"This is my first catch as a Trainer Eevee. So What should we name him?",Michelle asked the small brown furred pokemon.

"Veeeee!",Eevee chanted happily.

"Nah, Vee sounds to simple. Hmmmm...",Michelle thought aloud,"How about Spike? Still simple but the best thing I can come up with right now."

Eevee shook its head yes but not that excited about it.

"Ok then. Come on out Spike.",Michelle exclaimed still walking down the path as a red laser shot from the pokeball and hit the ground ahead and out came Spike the Electrike.

"Hello Spike!",She said laughing.

The Electrike didn't seem to care or be impressed it just looked at her and followed as they caught up. They all three continued to walk down the path behind Nyra as she made her way into town for the PokeCenter.

[armoredamphibian]

"Nurse Ginny, is Bobby gonna be alright?"

The blond nurse smiled as she returned to the front desk. "Your treeko is fine, she just needs to rest while her paralysis wears off."

Nyra blinked in surprise. "He's a girl."

A sigh. "Yes she is."

Snapping her fingers, Nyra exclaimed, "Darn! I'll have to change her name."

"Why don't you take a seat and think about it?" Ginny asked suddenly. "The treeko formally known as Bobby will be up and about soon enough."

So Nyra took a seat in the waiting room, arms crossed and pouting. It was strange, thinking hard over a name. All the times before, a name just came into her head at the spur of the moment; Fran, Gilbert, Mary, and Archie had all been previous candidates. But she had never kept any of them long enough to find out if those names really fit them. She was hoping that it would soon come to her in a burst, but her mind was empty.

All too soon, a chansey walked out holding the hand of a disgruntled looking treeko.

Nyra's head shot up at the sight. "Hi, Bo--!" she managed to stop herself just in time to remember that she was changing her pokemon's name. She scanned the room frantically, and spotted something on the wall: a mosaic of macaroni noodles.

"Nurse Ginny," she called over the desk, "what's that symbol in the macaroni called."

Ginny hurried out, looked and said, "Oh, that's pi. It was a gift from a mathematician on Pi day."

Raising her eyebrow, Nyra replied, "Pie? What kind?"

"Not THAT kind of pie!" the nurse laughed. "Pi, spelled P I, is a number, a very long number."

Nyra liked numbers. She quickly turned to the treeko after this revelation. "Your new name is Pi!"

Pi's eyes widened slightly in surprise. Relieved surprise. Pi wasn't much of a name, but it was better than Bobby.

[Mich3ll3]

OOC: Oh! I get it now. I accidently put Professor Elm!!! My bad I'll change it to Birch right away.

Instead of going into the PokeCenter, Michelle continued on with her partner over to the PokeMart.

"Spike come on back.",Michelle said as the pokeball laser lighted the Electrike back into the pokeball.

She walked into the PokeMart holding Eevee in her arms. She was searching around for a potion to heal Spike considering it wasn't that bad of an injury that he got. She finally found the potions on the third isle. After she picked it out and payed for it at the front counter she headed back outside. She found a bench to sit on across the road. She walked over to it and called Spike back out.

"Here you go buddy.",Michelle said to Spike as she sprayed some of the potion onto his back.
Spike shook as the spray landed. Once it settled in he felt better like there never was a fight.

Just then her pokegear began to buzz. It was a phone call from Professor Birch.
"I forgot to ask you earlier. What do you intend on doing in your adventure.",The Professor asked.

"What do you mean Professor?",Michelle asked.

"Well I mean are you going to take the gym challenges or the contest challenges or if you going to do something completely different.",He said rewording his question.

"Oh. Well I think I am going to challenge the gyms but I'm not to sure yet.",She said tapping her feet nervously on the ground.

"Yeah. And where are you?",He asked.

"I think my map is saying Mauville City?",She said squinting at the small icon on her watch.

"Oh ho ho ho! Thats where my good friend Watson lives. He is the gym leader there. You should give him a challenge.",Professor said as an explosion could be heard in the background of his end.

"Sir?",Michelle asked trying to hear.

"I've got to go Michelle. Just go challenge the gym leader there.",He said hanging up.

She shrugged her shoulders and just sat there waiting for Nyra to come out. She still didn't really get to offically meet the person and Michelle was hoping for a friend.

[armoredamphibian]

"Look, Pi," Nyra was exclaiming while exiting the Center. The pokemon in question was being held out at an arm's length, looking bored. "You got hurt because you didn't stay with me. That's what happens when you get smart with your trainer."

Pi just rolled her eyes. This enraged the girl. She spotted the older girl watching from across the path with the eevee and electrike standing beside her, and it only fed Nyra's frustration. She turned Pi around to face them and yelled at her. "See!? Those pokemon are good to their trainer! Be like them!"

If Nyra had worded it differently, the treeko might not have found the loophole. She managed to break free of her trainer's grasp, run over to Michelle, and give her a sweeping, exaggerated curtsy.

"That's not what I meant!!!" Nyra bellowed as she recalled Pi. Then she blushed and lowered her voice. "S-sorry 'bout all that."

[Mich3ll3]

Michelle laughed and pet the Treeko upon its head before it was returned by Nyra.

"Awww. Its alright really. It looks like the Treeko is trying.",Michelle said smiling.

Michelle stood up and picked Spike's pokeball from her belt and returned him. She then dusted herself off and wiped her hands on the side of her pants so that to get anything off.

"I meant to formly introduce myself before. My name is Michelle. I'm a new trainer and this here is my first partner Eevee. You've already met Spike; that is my new Electrike.",She said smiling again.

[armoredamphibian]

"That treeko was Pi--I changed her name--and I'm Nyra," Nyra said, feeling shy, but she offered her hand for Michelle to shake. Suddenly, she asked, "Do you like traveling? Without any other people around, I mean?"

[Mich3ll3]

Michelle smiled at the question.
"I don't really mind. I have my partners with me so I do have friends.",She said looking down at Eevee.

"E! Eeeeeve!",Eevee cheered happily.

"So what are you doing. Are you going to challenge the gym leader here too?",She asked.