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Mia was shocked by the result of the battle. Not only did she capture the Chinchou, but Vincent actually listened to her. Maybe this battle was all she needed to create a good relationship with the fish. "You were amazing out there Vincent!" She encouraged. "Now if you'd just could retrieve that Pokéball for me, that'd be great." Vincent happily complied, biting the ball and happily swimming towards her. Mia held her hand out for the fish to spit the Pokéball onto as the fish arrived at the shore. However, Vincent had another idea entirely. Salt-water rushed through his mouth, slowly building up pressure. Eventually, the ball shot straight out of his mouth and into the girls face.

The Pokéball had the force of a cannon supporting it, knocking Mia directly onto the ground. Mia remained motionless for a short period of time, but it wasn't long until she came to her senses again. Rubbing her head slowly, Mia rose to face the smirking fish. "You'll never change, will you?" She asked, firmly pressing the button on Vincent's Pokéball. The fish vanished in a flash of red light. "Hey, great job Mia! That was a great capture!" Nami grinned. "Thanks. It went a lot better than my last attempt." Mia replied, picking herself up off the ground.

There was a brief moment of silence between the two, but it was quickly removed. "I'm going to go on ahead," Nami said, "I'll see you later." Mia frowned, holding in the urge to ask why she wanted to leave. "Goodbye..." She half-heartedly uttered, watching the girl slowly fade from her view. "Oh well... I guess Pokémon companions are going to have to cut it for now." She sighed, while trying to think of the fastest way to get out of The Reserve. Elaborate plans started forming in her head, each one stupider than the last. Eventually, Mia came up with a plan that was so morally grey that it was bound to work.

She placed her bag onto the ground, unzipping every pocket she could find until she found it. 'It' was a medium length rope, with a small tag that had "ESCAPE" written on it. She held it in one hand while releasing both of her Pokémon. A smirk made its way onto her face while her hands got to work. After about ten minutes of squirming and brawling, Mia had finally succeeded. Vincent and Chinchou were strapped together by the escape rope, with a very thin wooden plank attached to the top. "Alright! The SS Vinchou is ready for its maiden voyage!" She gleefully clapped, but only Chinchou shared her enthusiasm.

After picking her bag back up, Mia placed her 'boat' in the water. She very carefully hopped on, not wanting to cause the Pokémon any more harm than what was absolutely necessary. "Okay, let's get a move on!" Mia commanded, kicking the shore line for propulsion. It didn't take long for her plan to literally collapse. Only a couple of minutes after setting off Mia's 'ship' had already started to crumble. The wooden board beneath her feet was rotting away at an unnatural pace; a single nudge would be all it'd take to sink her battleship. "Guy's... Please be careful. I don't wanna die this early in my life."

Unfortunately, the universe decided to throw a school of Carvanha at the SS Vinchou, every single one of them intent on avenging their fallen brother. It took Mia roughly ten minutes to make the ship, but the Carvanha clan managed to dismantle it in under a second. She fell through the broken board and into the unpleasant water. The two fish continued to speed off, oblivious to their master's fate. "W-wait!" Mia garbled while attempting to keep her head above the water. Things only got worse when she felt a sharp pain enter her right leg. Her eyes immediately flicked downwards to see a red and blue fish gnawing at her leg.

Her left foot immediately started to smash into the Carvanha, eventually making it let go of her leg. Mia quickly glanced behind her, before swimming away as fast as her legs could kick. Waves of red and blue dashed right after her. "Oh god... this is it, I'm going to be eaten alive." Mia thought while franticly trying to put distance between the pack of piranhas. However, Mia was a tortoise compared to the Carvanha, who were already biting onto her legs again. All she could do was scream and continue to swim away.

Jeff continued to wheeze and occasionally cough up water-which he was just now realizing was salty, clutching the pokeball that he hadn't noticed wasn't shaking anymore as if it were his lifeline, and not even noticing Romanov trying to offer him a berry to make him feel better. The only thought running through the young half-drowned trainer's mind was. I'm alive..he's alive we-we made it I can't believe I was able to- His thanks to whatever higher power allowed him to succeed without being devoured by Carvanha were interrupted when the water he had JUST escaped from decided it wasn't done with him yet and came to get him. "You have got to be fu**ing KIDDING ME!" Could be heard all around the reserve as aquatic doom swept him away, he had no strength left to fight the current of the pure evil, vindictive hunk of ocean and merely floated towards his inevitable demise.

He was still floating...but he no longer felt the pressure, and he could breathe...what the hell was going on? Just as the world darkened light once again made it's way into his reality and Jeff saw a small path moving towards his face FAR too fast, and thus the earth forced his first real kiss to be with it. Shortly after his oh-so-graceful landing Jeff's pain was not eased by the Munchlax that landed on his back and the pokeball that thumped him on the head.

"Why...why me...why can't I just catch the pokemon and-and...wait a minute..." He stood up and saw the other trainers who had met with Prof. Tularosa as well as other's he didn't recognize were there...except Mikoto. "Oh thank you Brotad! Thank you for sparing me from...wait...how do I know your name? And what happened to Mikoto, hey!" But clearly time was short and the little enigma was clearly very late for something more important, he wasted no time disappearing behind a random tree, Jeff could swear he heard a song that brought the name "Gary" to mind as he watched his savior leave.

"So..." Jeff looked around. "Anybody else have an interesting time?" His wet hair took all kinds of liberties with which directions it went in thanks to it's usual curliness and he quickly saw he wasn't alone. "So...I see I'm not the only one who failed to make friends with the lake...ocean...place." He shook his head and sat down while Romanov patted his shoulder, and after a moment he picked up the pokeball and looked at it for a moment, finally he tapped the button and released his new conquest.

Senior Rodrigo de Montoya el Juarez was released from his-admittedly comfortable-prison and before he could issue a single threat or curse the name of his captor he coughed up a large volume of water, made all the more painful by the fact that even contact with water made him itch. After he was done with his fit Rodrigo stood and pointed determinedly at Jeff and readied a speech, but was sidelined by a memory going through his head...he had been drowning in the evil lake...he lost the fight but here he was...alive. That left only one possibility, the human had saved him. He stopped his threatening stance and bowed before his rescuer. "Sir...you have saved my life, and though we were enemies only a short time ago, honor demands I pledge my fealty to you, I will fight for you until I lose my life in honorable service."

Jeff looked down at his new Larvitar as it pointed at him...then did what looked like a bow and muttered bits and pieces of it's name repeatedly in a surprisingly masculine voice. "Huh...well I hope we can be friends uh...oh I don't know what gender you are yet, can't name you if I don't know!" He pulled out his pokedex and gave the Larvitar a quick scan, it lit up and spat out information quickly. "Senior Rodrigo de Montoya el Juarez, rock solid duelist, scourge of fathers and step-father's everywhere as well as chief deflowerer of senioritas everywhere." When the pokedex finished Jeff immediately voiced his shock. "Wait he already has a name? And a history?...How do you even know that Dex?" "Because I do more than simply read fantasy stories all day." "Hey I don't just...did you just sass me? Why you..." He closed the pokedex loudly and shoved it back in his backpack.

The surprises proved to be too numerous to escape when a loud protest left the backpack and out wriggled the Caterpie Jeff had met earlier that day. "Oh wow...you didn't make your way to safety during the battle? Huh....So anybody who missed out earlier wanna try to catch a Caterpie?"

Nami Tange

"That depends on where you want this journey to take you. For an instance, if you're going for a standard Trainer experience, then you should acquire eight badges from within the region and in time, win the Pokèmon gyms. Simple, right? But maybe you'll prefer to be in a contest. Or maybe you'll stick to do neither, and just sightsee around the land. One must follow the steps of their heart, those who feel right. What feels right for you, dearest Nami? What is your heart telling you about your journey?" Brotad said all of this in a kind voice, almost like a parental figure who really cared about what happened to her during her journey.

"M-My heart?" Nami asked. "I don't know. I've never stopped to think about it before." How was she supposed to plan all of her life in advance? She couldn't predict the future, or what events were going to befall her.

Brotad looked up at her. "We must make our way to the next town, someone special awaits your arrival." He closed his eyes. The entire area was swamped in a blue-green aura. Nami reeled as the scenery changed from foliage and sand to pavement. A road stretched before her, bordered with grasses and plants. "My apologies for the sudden change of scenery, it was getting boring by the sea," said BROtad matter of factly, "I brought everyone around, from Mia Farrow to Imoen Gesenbow. And even those who were still at the city."

As Nami glanced around, she indeed saw quite a few people around her. She saw Mia and waved, happy to see one of her friends. Glancing back to Brotad, she heard him say "I trust you will inform your new friends of what has just happened, and then you're free to continue down this road until wherever it takes you. Farewell." With that, he walked away into the trees.

Nami raised her voice so that she could be heard by everyone. "I don't know if you all heard what Brotad said, but basically someone is waiting for us in the next town. I'm going to go on ahead. Anyone who wants to join me is welcome."

One second, Mia was peacefully swimming away from the horde of murderous Carvanha, each one out for her blood. The next, everything in the lake was pushed onto giant waves, hurtling away from each other at incredible speeds. A meteor-like object had crashed into the lake, sending water literally everywhere. Her eyes were wide open as she screamed her lung out. A school of piranha Pokémon were nothing compared to what she now faced. Vincent and Chinchou had also somehow managed to join Mia at the top of the wave, but neither of them could (or wanted to) do anything about their current situation.

Mia, her Pokémon and the horde of Carvanha were all being flung towards a particularly nasty location, a rough plot of land covered in stone spikes, which looked as if they had been placed there just for her. She could picture herself being skewered by the rocks, and unfortunately, it looked like that fate wasn't too far away. All of her energy had been lost while swimming from the Carvanha, so all she could do was scream... However, the universe done with Mia yet.

The leader of the Carvanha-clan, a particularly rough-looking Wailmer (Don't ask), screamed a command out to her brethren. "NOW'S OUR CHANCE TO FINISH THE GIRL, FIRE EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT AT HER!" Not long after, a couple hundred shots of water were fired, ranging from weak Brines to Hydro Pumps, each and everyone aimed directly towards Mia and her companions. Water of varying strengths struck the three, pushing them all off of the wave.

Their attacks were relentless, pushing them further and further away from the wall of water. Luckily, the attacks died when the wave violently crashed onto the shore. Unfortunately, the aquatic Pokémon were all that kept them in the air, so as soon as they stopped firing, Mia, Chinchou and Vincent were sent on a one way trip back onto the cruel, hard ground. Mia's life flashed before her eyes as they plummeted, but the slideshow of past events ended with her crashing onto the rocks.

Mia's eyes were jammed shut, while her body lay motionless. All she could see was darkness. Mia figured that she was dead, but if she was dead, why was her heart still beating? Cracks of light started to pierce through the darkness as Mia focused all of her will power into opening her eyes. Eventually, the wonderful colours of the world graced her pupils once more. Before checking for wounds or anything unimportant like that, the first thing Mia did was reach for the necklace wrapped around her neck.

After sighing a sigh of relief, Mia broke into simultaneous tears and laughter. She survived her 'shipwreck', escaped the Carvanha and lived through the meteor strike. Her hair was a mess and the rest of her body was both saturated and broken, but she was alive and that's all that mattered to her. Her sheer happiness allowed her to get up, withstanding any and all pain she currently had. Mia gazed at the wasteland with awe and confusion. "What on earth could've done this?" She asked, watching the Carvanha that had tormented her earlier weakly flounder towards the lake. Mia grabbed Vincent and Chinchou's Pokéballs, returning the two quickly. They didn't appear to be injured too badly, but she didn't have enough energy to carry either of them right now.

All of a sudden, a greenish-blue light enveloped Mia. She immediately noticed the green tint, shouting out, "Aw c'mon, Give me a break Arceus." And with that, she was transported to a completely different area, surrounded by a bunch of people who were almost as confused as Mia. Almost. The only one she remotely recognised was Nami, who proceeded to give her a wave before shouting to everyone, "I don't know if you all heard what Brotad said, but basically someone is waiting for us in the next town. I'm going to go on ahead. Anyone who wants to join me is welcome."

ROUTE 01 ENTRANCE

Mia took this as an invitation to ask Nami what the hell was going on. "Nami… Why and how am I here?" She asked, briefly ignoring a guy who was trying to get people to catch a Caterpie that he had.

Jeff watched avidly as the Caterpie nudged it's way out of his backpack and rolled around the grass, still looking happy as can be. "Wow you are one energetic little bug ain't ya?" He watched it for another moment until he heard someone else speak, one of the girls made it clear she intended to go post haste and that people could follow her if they felt like it and another girl who apparently knew her wasted no time in questioning her as to the situation. Jeff had no idea what was going on for the most part...but he could feel that it was Brotad who saved him and he was grateful...and also jealous that he hadn't gotten to speak to the enigmatic little pokemon.

He heard a loud thump and noticed one of the girls had a Wailmer with her and was as wet through as him. He looks like he could make a pretty big splash...I wonder if...no no pokemon should be that stupid. It looked like she had heard him, and she was actually making her way over to him, he couldn't tell what her hair should look like with how darkened it had been but she was pretty, nice figure and-he turned his face away while it reddened...her T-shirt was wet like the rest of her. He heard her ask if he had a towel through his momentary ignorance of the world and started to dig through his backpack. He didn't have to look long...or at all really, he was confident he had a towel but he was surprised at what he did see.

Jeff was dumnfounded, right at the top of his stuff was a towel, white and plain besides one detail...there were two Luvdisc on it, he couldn't relegate his thoughts to staying mental and avoid exclaiming. "Ah what the hell is that doing in there? That's not mi....I could have sworn mom hadn't gone through my stuff." He remembered why he was looking for it and took it out, he almost pushed it at her without turning his head, but he couldn't help sneaking a peak at her before turning his head towards the ground and thrusting the towel at her. "Here...you should probably dry off...don't worry about bringing it back, it's not mine anyways." After she had taken the towel he picked Romanov up under his arm, ignoring the cries of protest and scurried off towards Route 1, past the girl who had originally been the first one ready to leave.

Jeff stopped scurrying and looked around, beginning to feel like a rodent, and took a look around him. "This place is nice...and so were those-" No! Stop! Don't say it, no innuendo's no nothing. "I just" no...stop it...bad trainer. Jeff took a few more steps down the path, figuring he had enough space to walk a bit slower and it wasn't long till he saw something that got his pulse racing. Hopping over to a little patch of grass and pecking at the ground was a Pidgey! Jeff looked back down the path and didn't see anyone yet...he dropped Romanov softly on the ground. "Sorry about that buddy I...well you wouldn't understand but there are these wonderful things balled bo" The little Munchlax raised an eyebrow and swatted the air. "Ok yeah I get it you don't care about human anatomy I'm shutting up. You ready for a battle buddy?"

Romanov pumped a fist and prepared to charge at the Pidgey but before he took a single step a pokeball on Jeff's belt opened and released a white beam that formed itself into Rodrigo de Montoya el Juarez, who bowed before his new ally. "Larv Larvi! Larvitar, tar!" Signor, please allow me to defeat the lowly bird for you. "Huh...what's that? Did Mikoto fall down a well?" Rodrigo facepalmed and shook his head, then pointed at the bird, still woefully ignorant of the evil being directed at it right then. "Oh...but you're hurt." Romanov ruffled through his fur for a moment and pulled out the Sitrus berry from before and offered it to the Larvitar, who eagerly scarfed it down and his wounds seemed to disappear as he chewed. Thank you sir Lardcake, your girth is only exceeded by your kindness. Romanov scratched his head at the backhanded compliment while Rodrigo bounded forward.

"Alright erm..Rodrigo? Yeah Ok Rodrigo, no orders yet, show me what you got!" Rodrigo nodded and took a step forward, then another, then a bunch, prepared to sink his fangs into the soft flesh beneath those feathers...then he smelled something...sweet and delicate. He had made noise, and now the Pidgey was watching him curiously, he took another step and cupped her cheek in his hands. Why hello my dear...what is a beautiful dove like you doing in a place such as this? "What the hell is he?...Ay! Rodrigo c'mon time to earn your keep! Use bite!" Rodrigo hesitated for a second. It will only hurt a moment. Then opened his mar and sank his stony fangs into the beautiful Pidgey's soft sensitive flesh.

The Pidgey let out a screech and flapped her wings as hard as she could, but she made no progress. Signorita it is pointless, I am far too built, lifting me is as lifting a mountain, I will defeat you. The Pidgey looked at him for a moment wondering how she could hurt such a kind..vibrant soul...then decided it was simple, because he was a jerk and pecked Rodrigo in the eye before viciously assaulting his face with her talons. Rodrigo was only able to swat at her with one hand while the other covered his eye. "Oh crap it's stronger than I'd think...but flying and normal type attacks don't hurt rock types much so we should be alright erm...oh wait earlier that looked like he was schmoozing it maybe it's a...Rodrigo! Jeff heard footsteps and when he turned he spotted the girl he had seen both enough to make him happy and too much of making her way towards him with the Caterpie on her shoulder. Damn! I've wasted too much time...ah screw it, I'll have time to be a coward later!

Signor Rodrigo de Montoya el Juarez heard his favorite order and stelled himself, ignoring the assaults of his next conquest to smile his dazzling, knee jellifying smile at her. My love, why do you hurt me so? Come you can help me escape this human and we shall be free to live our lives together. She looked at the smooth operator for only a moment before her heart betrayed her once again, she relented her assault and turned towards the human who sought to cage her wild spirit. Jeff watched as the Pidgey turned towards him with murder in her eyes. After a moment he saw Rodrigo peeking at him over her shoulder with grim determination, Jeff nodded. Rodrigo grabbed onto the poor loveless bird once again and flung her through the air to fast for her to catch wind and escape.

Pidgey shook her head angrily and dove at Rodrigo, gaining speed and ready to smash his stupid pretty face, feeling almost as if light itself was gathering around her to hasten her victory. "Gotcha, Rodrigo use Leer!" Rodrigo did a one-eighty to give the gorgeous bird a look that stopped her in her tracks. Pidgey couldn't believe the granite hunk could stare at her with a look so hateful, so cruel...so the opposite of how he looked at her moments earlier that she lost her focus and crashed into the floor. Why...why do you do this to me? Am I so hideous you seek to ruin me? Rodrigo lain a hand on her wing. I am sorry my dear...romantic relationships never work between people who work together. But we don't- We do now. Rodrigo bit her one last time then once he had a grip front-flipped and pinned her to the floor. "And go Pokeball!" Jeff stuck with the cliche as he hurled the sphere of victory at the pair and it clunked on the Pidgey's head before enveloping her not-unkindly, then fell to the floor and began to shake.

Jeff was so proud of the way he and his new partner handled the battle he shouted out loud. "Yeah! Good Job Rodrigo, W00 we did it!" And immediately grabbed the thing nearest to him and hugged it, not at all intending to squeeze on the girl he had accidentally snubbed only a short while earlier. Something wasn't right...the thing he had enveloped his grip of pure excitement in was soft and smelled nice...he lifted his head a bit and realized he was face to face with said girl, then he turned his head and it was a Caterpie instead. He fell right onto his apparently desirable hindquarters and his face turned bright crimson. "I'm sorry I-I...oh look you're dry now that's nice...umm...hi?"

Quit your whining George, story is conflict and all that.

Jeff shook his head and looked around a moment. "What the hell..." I don't hug when I get excited... Just roll with it dude let me work my magic. Who said that? Nobody...go be romantic crazy lady. ARE YOU THE ONE WHO'S BEEN MAKING ALL THIS CRAZY CRAP HAPPEN TO ME? No you moron that was Eliteb-nevermind shut up! You're not supposed to hear me! Nonono I want answers you ba- *THUMP!* That's better. Jeff accepted the girl's hand and pulled himself upright holding onto the Caterpie "Sorry about that, I don't know what came over me just then...I'm usually more sane...then again nothing about today has been sane...not since I touched Isle de Fairnorth...Feels almost like someone's out to get me."

Aw geeze he still has inklings about us? Geroge keep you're forgetful paddle ready in case yours starts getting ideas too.

He took a moment to steady his thoughts before speaking again. "I want you to know now that is NOT my towel, I'd just as well leave it on the ground, but thanks I guess for not just assuming I'm a freak. As for this little guy." He scratched the little bug's head for a moment, eliciting a happy noise. "He's not mine...I just forgot he was in my backpack, he's adorable and all but we're only supposed to keep one pokemon from the reserve, and I've already got Rodrigo...even if he has a skirt chasing problem. That's why I asked if anybody wanted him, I thought maybe some people hadn't caught one." He had only just realized the way she had spoken to him when she helped him up. "Dignity..." He was about to say something about not being sure he had any that day when something snapped in him and broke the tensionand he broke out laughing...thank god, this kid is hard to work with.

"That's pretty funny coming from someone who walks right up to a guy when she's wearing a wet T-shirt and there's plenty of girls around to ask for a towel." He took his hand off the side of his head and looked at the ground for a second. "I'm sorry that was rude, yeah I wouldn't mind having someone to talk to, Romanov isn't much of a conversationalist and every time Rodrigo says his name I could swear I hear a Spanish guitar...Besides, if one's going to be subject to crazy junk like I and a few other people have been today, it shouldn't be alone...oh yeah!" He turned back to the pokeball on the ground, which was still shaking. "It's not done yet? Hm...wonder if I got it."

You look like a George what with that whole faceless narrator thing going on there, get over it and keep manipulating your charge.

"Wow...level 7 huh?" Jeff wondered out loud with a peek at his pokedex. "You beat a pokemon almost twice your level Rodrigo, that's cool even if you had to use your seductive skills." Rodrigo nodded and awaited further orders. Jeff refocused on the girl. "Yeah I bet that Wailmer is a handful, here's mine." He patted the head of Romanov, who was clapping Rodrigo's shoulder in congratulation and being ignored. "Romanov is my lazy good-for-some-things best friend I...well I met him stealing my food...I'm convinced that this whole trip is gonna be the same brand of insane we've seen already."

He looked at the Cateripie on the girl's shoulder and laughed when she tossed him into the air a bit. "Yeah he certainly is adorable. Cal, that works, in fact I like it! I don't see any reason not to keep him along, especially if Caterpie really are endangered. If they can't be found anywhere besides the reserve that means there's nowhere else safe for him to evolve, when the time comes he'll need us to guard him until he becomes a Butterfree."

Oh great, they've already got a baby is that Beats fella really gonna let a young couple have a baby this early on his watch?...Whatever I guess it's pretty cute.

It was only after she finished her own introduction that he realized he had failed to give his own name before that point. "Oh haha silly me, my name is Jeff Miles, it's nice to really meet you Karly." He flourished a hand and made a theatrical little bow. "So shall we sally forth?" He was finally thinking pretty dang clear again, so his slightly silly nature was making itself more known. His lame-o gesture was destined to be short lived however as only moments later a person's weight in pure average, and crazy...AND fish smacking psychosis crashed directly into his back and bowled him over straight to the floor. All that could be heard from under said girl was grumpy mumbling which was Jeff's attempt at saying. "Why must these things happen to me?" Little does he know we demand it must continue, and it shall.

Nami Tange

Nami paused as she heard a voice from behind her. "Nami… Why and how am I here?" She turned, recognizing the voice. Mia stood behind her. She was looking very worn and disheveled, and her hair was a mess.

"Oh, hey Mia," she said. "You look like you've been through a bombing. But as for the details, I don't know. This magical, talking Lotad with glasses just kind of... teleported us. Then he told me to tell you guys to follow the path to the town that's ahead."

She glanced around. Some of the other teenagers were talking amongst themselves. She looked back to Mia. "You can come with me if you want. I'd enjoy the company," she said. Then she reached into her bag and pulled out a hairbrush. She held it out. "Here, take it. No offence, but your hair is kind of a mess."