Brad jumped when he heard a voice in his head. He looked around in a panic and saw the gem on the Espeon's head glowing, is it talking to him?
"What the? Who..." Brad asked looking around.
However he realized that the Espeon did speak to him, he doesn't know how it was able to though.
"Did your Pokemon just speak to me?" Brad asked Lena.
He then stopped himself from talking. Maybe its the lack of sleep that's getting to him. Brad shook the idea off. He'll just have to agree for now that the Espeon can talk telepathically, now is not the time think about this too much. Whatever the Espeon said is true, Brad has no Pokemon, he'll have to rely on Lena's Pokemon from now until he finds his.
"Hmm... I don't think it's safe to stay out in the open like this. If that steel bird was able to find us so quickly who knows what else might." Brad told Lena.
He looked around and found a small beach house in the tall grass. He brought Lena to it. The wooden house is pretty small and very old, seems to have been abandon for some time now. They'll have to hide out here for the rest of the night.
Brad slowly opened the door and looked around the room in the moonlight that came through the one broken window. The house consisted of only one room. There seems to be an old table with a broken chair, a very old bed and fishing supplies everywhere, however most of this were covered in cobwebs.
"We'll hide out here for the rest of the night." Brad whispered to Lena as he brought her in and closed the door.
"Hopefully no one will find us here. You have nothing to worry about." Brad told Lena and her Espeon.
Brad removed some of the junk and cobwebs that invaded the bed and allowed Lena to sleep on it. After that, he made his way to the chair by the table and rest his surfboard on the ground and began dozing off.
"Good night.." Brad told Lena and he passed right out.
The next day...
Brad opened his eyes as the sunlight hit his face.
*Yawn* " Ahh, morning." Brad muttered slowly waking up.
The sun is in his eyes, he wobbled around in his chair and broke the leg off, making him fall with the chair.
"Gah!" Brad yelled in pain as his head knocked into the wooden floor that had some beach sand covering it.
"Ow, ow..." Brad muttered rubbing his head.
He picked up his surfboard and walked over to the bed that is right across to him with Lena in it, he woke her up.
"We gotta go."
They left the small house and were about to make their way into the city when suddenly Brad saw in the corner of his eye a crowd of people near the beach. He turned and saw everyone looking at something in the ocean under the afternoon sun.
Brad went with Lena to see what's going on. He stepped on his tippy toes and could see someone or something surfing in the ocean with a wave.
"No way..." Brad muttered.
Brad made his way into the crowd and saw what was surfing on the red boiling wave, it's a Marshtomp, his Marshtomp,
"Numa..." Brad said.
"NUMA!" Brad shouted to the Marshtomp.
It turned while it surfed and smiled. It did a flip mid-air as the wave died down and landed perfectly on the shore with his surfboard up.
"Marshtomp!" Numa proudly said.
"Whoa look at that Pokemon." A girl said.
"Yo, is that Poke yours? He's totally rad!" A surf dude told Brad.
Brad apporached his Pokemon.
"Hey how did you get here?" Brad asked his Pokemon
He remembered having its Pokeball on the shelf with the surf trophies back in his room in Cinnabar, however with what happened, he must've been released somehow.
"How did you get here? Were you able to find Shellshocker?" Brad asked.
Numa shrugged and waved its arms around to the cheering crowd.
"Well anyway, I'm glad to see your alright." Brad said picking up his Marshtomp.
"Numa! Numa!" The crowd chanting cheering on the radical Pokemon.
Brad shoved his way into the crowd with Lena and his now only Pokemon and made it back to the beach house. Numa carried its small personal surfboard around with him and moved around slow yet cool. He is a surfer in everyway, much like its Trainer, but more.
"Alright, we got two pokes now." Brad said assuring himself and Lena that everything will work out fine.
"I don't know what happened to Shellshocker, but I'm glad I was able to find my champ Numa here." Brad said introducing his Marshtomp.
Numa was never used for battling, as a matter of fact he was used in surfing contests which explains why he has his own surfboard.
"The ocean... it's still red due to the volcanoes huh? Man..." Brad muttered.
"It's been awhile hasn't it?" A femal voice can be heard.
"It can't be..." Brad thinks.
He turns around and is greeted by a tall woman who is dressed in blue clothes that resemble that of a pirate. She has long curly red hair and a bandana with crossbones in the shape of an "A"
"...How did you find me?" Brad asked the woman.
"Hmph, did you honestly think you can hide from us for long? Especially with what you did to us three years ago." She told him.
" Leave us alone!" Brad shouted.
"I'll leave you alone, once I am through with you!" She shouted.
".. RUN!" Brad yelled.
He grabbed Lena and ran with his Marshtomp chasing after him.
"HEY! GET BACK HERE!" The woman yelled.
She chased them into Fushia City. Brad jumped into a bush with Lena and hid. The woman however kept on running and passed them. Brad popped his head out of the bush and watched her leave.
"Phew, that was a close one!" Brad told Lena.
"Tomp!" Numa said as he popped his head out of the bush as well.
