A Very Unexpected journey

Alright guys first things first (I'm sure you all get tired of seeing this) but I DO NOT own anything dealing with pokemon, AT ALL. Pokemon is owned by Nintendo. I only own this story and my four OC's which are: Hayden, Frank, Connie and Tracy, also a few random people who will make very short appearences, not even long enough to count them really. Also if I do happen to decide to add anymore OC's in any of my other chapters, I will be sure to let you guys know :D! This story will contain random timeskips and flashbacks, so be on the lookout for them! Even though I'm going to label them and let you know (:

So as you may notice if you look at my profile, this is my first fanfiction that I have written...EVAR. Please no hate comments or any of that nonsense. Reviews would be greatly appreciated along the way to let me know how I am doing! Whether it may be you telling me that my story needs little, or even lots of work, or hell, maybe even telling me that it's the greatest thing since sliced bread (doubt that, considering there are some pretty awesome stories on here from what I've read so far! And sliced bread is great.) No matter the case reviews are appreciated nonetheless.

I will try my hardest to make this story as intriguing as possible for all of you, (please bear with me, I'm not the greatest writer XD.) But enough of me talking, time to get this thing underway! Please enjoy :p

I DO NOT OWN POKEMON.

Ch:1 Prologue

Our story starts off in the small, yet very well known, town of Pallet. Many trainers have started their journeys from here over the years, each with their starter pokemon recieved from the famous Professor Samuel Oak. Not all trainers start traveling at the age of ten, although of course most of them do. Unlike Ash Ketchum, starting his journey the very day he became ten years old, two friends of his decided to, lets say...wait it out a few more years. Hayden Mirambell and his best friend, Frank Hyler. Before we get started, lets hear a bit of their life leading up to the current events, shall we?

Hayden and Frank had moved here a few years back from New Bark Town in Kanto with their moms, due to the fact that they had both lost their jobs there because of a freak fire incident. Unbeknownst to most, considering it hadn't been up for more than two, maybe three months at the most, but there was actually a pokemon center directly in the middle of New Bark. The reason of most people not actually knowing of the place was, of course, beacuse of said incident, and the fact that most people don't talk much about the matter, most of them not even wanting to. Both of their parents had previously worked in the poke' center in Goldenrod City, so over the years they had gained much needed experience in caring for wounded pokemon, wounded trainers as well occasionally. As soon as both of them had heard the news of the newly built poke' center, which was right in the very comfort of their home town, they had decided to switch over to the one in New Bark. They both hated leaving their children day after day, having to be so far away from them constantly, getting home at unforgiving hours of the night, never getting to spend much time together, it was hell for them. So when they heard of such an opportunity as this, there was no other choice of the matter. They had said their goodbyes and farewells and headed off to their hometown.

As soon as Hayden and Frank had recieved the news, they were absolutely ecstatic. They wanted nothing more then the comfort of being able to actually see their parents anytime they wanted to, for once. But their happiness of course...wasn't going to last forever, as disaster struck out of the blue, and no one was prepared for it...as this was the very moment their journey was truly starting to unfold.

[Flashback]

It was yet another beautiful day in the little town they had called home for the first ten years of their lives. The birds were chirping happily, the sun shining bright, flowers swaying gracefully in the cool breeze, even the locals' pokemon were having fun playing in such beautiful weather. Nothing could go wrong on such a gorgeous day as this, right...RIGHT?

"I cant believe our moms are really working right here in New Bark dude!" exclaimed Hayden.

"You realize that you have said that for the past month and a half right?" said Frank. "Its not gonna change Hayden, I can't see how you aren't used to the feeling yet!" Frank shouted playfully.

"I know that silly! But I just can't help being so happy about it!" Hayden said cheerfully.

"I know, and I do have to admit I am pretty happy about seeing my mom everyday, it's fantastic!" said Frank.

As the boys were busy playing in Frank's backyard they hadn't noticed the gathering of people in the middle of town. People were running out of the pokemon center coughing and panting heavily, and nobody could figure out why at first, until...

"FIRE!" shouted Tracy. (Tracy is Hayden's mom)

"A fire?" said Professor Elm, as he was running over to see what all the commotion was about.

"YES A FIRE! PLEASE DO SOMETHING PROFESSOR!" shouted Connie. (Connie is Frank's Mother)

"OH! Yes...uh..right away! I'll call the fire department immediately!" said Elm.

After Professor Elm had called the fire department, which was around five minutes or so ago, he realized that he had never gotten the reason as to why the fire had broken out in the first place. Then again...he never actually asked. Seeing that now would be as good a time as any to break the ice on the subject, he decided to figure it out.

"Soooo...how exactly did this happen?" said the Professor who was now turning his attention to nurse Joy.

"Well you see professor...umm...heh...well..." said nurse joy as she was trailing off.

"She doesn't listen that's what." Tracy said with a glare that could scare Giratina himself.

"I was just trying to help Tracy! I had no idea that charmander would've done what he did!" said Joy

"Did wh-" said Elm as he was interrupted.

"But she knew what needed to be done already Joy! She told you that we had it handled and you should have respected that!" said Connie.

"Um, girls please, lets not fig-" said Elm as he was interrupted yet again.

"I was just worried for the sake of the pokemon! I was only trying to help!" stated nurse Joy.

"Girls can we ple-" said Elm as he was interrupted once more.

"Well your 'worrying' just may have ruined the pokemon center! If you wouldn't be so stubborn all the t-" Tracy said as she was now interrupted.

Elm's face was getting redder and redder, to the point you'd swear he was about to explode like an Electrode.

"WOULD YOU GIRLS PLEASE STOP THE DAMN FIGHTING! JESUS I CANT THINK STRAIGHT WITH ALL THE YELLING!" shouted Elm.

"I-I'm sorry professor, you're right" said Connie.

"He's right, yelling isn't going to solve anything, I'm sorry nurse Joy" said Tracy.

"Look I uh..I'm sorry to you too Joy. I shouldn't have yelled like that" said Connie.

"It's okay you two, and I-I..I'm sorry that I..you know...that I didn't listen to you two. I knew that I should have, but I just care so much about the pokemon that I was afraid that it was so hurt that it might...i-it m-might.." said nurse Joy as small tears started to form in her eyes.

Both Connie and Tracy were hugging nurse Joy now, tears starting to form in their eyes as well. They both looked at each other before nodding and saying "We understand."

"You know, we both were afraid for the young pokemon as well" said Connie.

"But you have to learn to remain calm. Freaking out can only lead to disaster." said Tracy.

Nurse Joy just simply nodded, wiping her tears away.

"You're right, and I'm so very sorry that I didn't listen at the time. Truly I really am very sorry!" exclaimed Joy.

"Ok girls, I'm glad that you are all friends again...but can someone PLEASE tell me what happened now?" Elm asked.

"Oh..right." said Joy.

Tracy then began to explain everything "Sorry professor. Basically someone brought in their wounded Charmander today and, well..."

[45 minutes ago]

"Please, PLEASE...you have to help my Charmander!" said the man as he burst through the front doors.

"Calm down please sir, I understand you are worried but you need to calm down..please." said nurse Joy.

"I know I know, I'm sorry but I'm just so worried!" said the young man.

Tracy and Connie ran to the front desk when they heard the commotion, prepared for bad news.

"Alright sir what seems to be the problem?" asked Connie.

"My Charmander! I-It's my Charmander!" he said.

"Alright sir please tell us...what exactly happened?" asked Joy.

"Okay...okay...well, you see we were out in the woods taking our daily walk, when I let Charmander off behind a pair of bushes to do his business." he said

"Alright, what happened after that?" asked Tracy.

"He screamed! Then he came crawling out of the bush with barely any strength! Then out of the bush came two big spider looking pokemon...I-I dont know what they were but I'm assuming that they hurt him bad! Please, you have to help!" the man said.

"Alright sir but first, can you please explain what the pokemon looked like? We need an idea of what were dealing with here, ok?" said Tracy.

"Y-Yeah they were two big spider pokemon, t-they were pink and had these stripes around the back of them, please you gotta help him!" he said.

"Oh dear! Chansey!" said Nurse Joy.

"Chansey!" said the Chansey as it came down the hallway with the gurney.

"Chansey we need to get this one to the ER, STAT!" said Connie.

"Please, can you tell me whats wrong nurse?" said the man.

"Sir, if what you are telling us is accurate, your Charmander may have gotten hurt...possibly even bit by not one, but two Ariados." said Connie

"An Ariados?" the man asked.

"Yes, and an Ariados' bite is definitely not pretty, especially two bites. If he has Ariados' poison in him, we need to cure him of it immediately before it can take full effect." said Tracy.

"W-W...What happens if it takes full effect?" asked the man.

The three girls just looked at each other with saddened faces.

"Well...if it gets deep in his bloodstream and takes full effect, it would completely shut down his central nervous system, and being how young and small your Charmander is, there's a possibility that it could..." said Tracy as she was calmly cut off.

"Kill him" the man said with a look of pure sadness on his face.

"Im afraid so sir, but I promise you, we are going to do our best to prevent that from happening!" said Connie.

The three girls then rushed to the ER to begin the treatment, two Chansey at their side ready to be of assistance. After arriving, they lay down the Charmander on one of the beds in the room. The ER was huge, like BIG man, I guess you'd have to expect that though with all the trainers on the road battling nowadays, and with six pokemon per trainer there's no telling how many of them could be injured after a battle. Two, three, hell maybe even all six. Multiply that by all the traveling trainers and you've got quite a few injured pokemon! Perfect to have a room that size, fit for all those injured pokemon.

After they lay the Charmander on the bed it was time for the treatment. The events that happened next...were completely unexpected...

"Chansey hand me two bottles of antidote!" said Tracy.

"Chansey!" said Chansey as she ran to grab two bottles from the shelf.

"Thanks Chansey!" said Tracy as Chansey handed her the two bottles.

"Chans!" said Chansey with a smile.

"Alright Charmander this is gonna sting you a good bit, but I promise it's just the antidote killing off the poison ok? Please try your hardest to keep still little buddy, we only want to help you." said Tracy with a heartwarming smile.

The young Charmander tried his hardest to look at her, he then gave her a very weak "chaaar" as he tried to nod in agreement.

"Alright, here goes." said Tracy as she applied the antidote to Charmander's bites.

"Chaa-aaar" he said while wincing in pain, trying his hardest to keep still.

"I know buddy I know it hurts." said Connie who was trying to comfort the little fire pokemon.

"Alright Charmander that was great! you're doing a good job little buddy. Please try and stay still for this one, I'm sorry but this is going to hurt a little bit worse, ok?" said Tracy

Charmander did pretty well when Tracy sprayed the first bite, which was pretty small and only on his foot, therefor there wasnt much poison for the antidote to clear up there. However, his back was a much, much different story. The young pokemon had a huge gash on its back where the Ariados' bite was. Apparently when the Charmander got bit, it must have tried pulling itself away while the spider pokemon's fangs were still embedded in his back, thus making the wound five times worse, and also making the poison spread more effectively. This was not going to be fun for the little guy at all.

"Chansey, please turn him onto his stomach and hold down his arms...gently. Try to be careful please. He isn't going to be very happy about this one." Tracy said.

"Ch-char?" he said. The Charmander was probably thinking to itself about why they would need to hold him down for this one? Didn't he do just fine the first time around? What was so different this time around? He then quickly got his answer as the antidote was applied to his much more serious back wound.

"CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRR!" he yelled in pain.

Charmander now was giving a little bit more resistance, well...a lot more actually, as he started kicking and squirming around. HARD.

"Chansey!" said Chansey as they tried to calm the little guy down.

"Ok the antidote is working! His poison is completely fading!" said Connie.

"Yes it is, but now there's another problem. He's in way too much pain because of the wound itself, he needs a potion immediately!" said Tracy

"You're right Trace. Joy! We need a bottle of standard potion please!" said Connie.

"CHAAR CHAAAAAR!' said the little Charmander as tears were swelling in his eyes.

"A standard potion? Are you serious Connie? Hes going to need something much stronger than that to heal a wound like that one!" said Joy.

"NO! He's way too young to handle something that strong Joy! Trust me on this one, I promise I know what I'm doing. The wound looks terrible, but for a pokemon of his age and size a standard potion would do more than enough for him, okay? Now please hurry up and hand me a potion!" said Tracy.

"Tracy I don't think that will be enough!" said Joy.

"Joy please just hurry up and give me the freaking potion! He's in a lot of pain!" said Tracy.

"I don't know, I just don't think that will be enough for that little Charmander...wait! I know just what to do!" Joy thought to herself.

"Alright fine! I'll get him a standard." Joy lied.

As Joy went over to the shelf she quickly put her idea to use. She took one standard potion, and one max potion off of the medicine shelf. She then completely emptied the contents of the standard potion into an empty beaker, then proceeded to dump the max potion into the standard bottle, then dumped the standard potion into the max potion bottle, which she now hid so they'd never accidentally grab the max potion bottle which contained the much weaker medicine come the time a larger and older pokemon may need it.

"There." Joy said to herself as she screwed the bottle's spray handle back on tightly. "This should do the trick." she whispered to herself.

"Joy, hurry please!" said Connie.

"Coming! I'm Coming" Joy shouted. "Here you go!" she said smiling to herself.

"Thank you nurse" said Tracy. "Alright now to just apply this med-" she was cut short as she sprayed the bottle on the Charmander, causing the little pokemon pain that he never even knew existed.

"CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR! CH-CH-CHAAAAARMAAAAAANDERRRRRRR!" The little pokemon yelled as if it was dying, as it was literally healing so fast that its wounds were completely closing up way too quickly, thus pulling his skin closer together, re-closing his wounds tightly.

"Tracy he shouldnt be screaming that much! Why? Why is he screaming that much!?" asked Connie.

"I don't know! But...look at his wounds, they're closing way too fast! Even for a pokemon his age and size, a standard potion shouldn't heal him that f-" Tracy said as she put two and two together.

Tracy then gave Joy a very serious look of anger. Joy knew she had been caught, she tried her hardest to think of an excuse.

"Oh my! I must have grabbed the wrong potion by accident! I'm sorry I didn't kn-" Joy was cut short.

"SON OF A BITCH! Joy I told you! I freaking told you to grab a standard potion because his body couldn't handle anything above that because of how young he is! God, did you think I was lying to you or something when I told you that? Cause I have been doing this for almost 13 years! I told you that I KNOW WHAT I AM DOING! And don't dare tell me you 'accidentally' grabbed shit, because we both know what you did! *Sigh* Just come clean Joy. What the hell did you really give to me?" Tracy asked trying to calm herself down.

Joy, knowing that she had clearly been found out, decided to come clean. "*Sigh* Alright. I swapped out a max potion with the standard. I poured the max potion into the bottle I just handed you, and the regular into the max potion bottle that the max potion that I just gave you came from. I'm sorry Tracy! I was only trying to help the pokemon, I didnt want it to die!" Joy cried.

"And it wasn't going to! After we gave it that antidote, the traces of poison were completely gone Joy!" stated Connie.

"It was only still in pain because of the wound itself reacting to the medicine! The antidote burns because of the alcohol in it, but only cures the poison, which is why he was STILL in pain. He wasn't dying! Just hurting! If you would have just handed me the standard potion like I had asked you to, yes it still would have burned a little more because of the higher alcohol and oxide contents, but it would have went away in 30 to 45 seconds at the most! But this? I have no idea how long this will hurt him Joy, his body isn't meant to handle the much higher contents of a potion that big! A max potion Joy! A freaking MAX POTION! What were you thinking!?" asked Tracy, obviously furious.

"I-I don't know. I just wanted to he-" Joy was then cut short by Charmander's yell.

"CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!" exclaimed Charmander.

"Chansey, please hold him down! And be gentle please!" said Connie.

"Chans-" Chansey was cut short by Charmander's flamethrower attack.

"CHAAAAR!" exclaimed Charmander as he let fire blaze out from his maw.

"DUCK" yelled Tracy.

As everyone ducked to get out of the way, Charmander's flame had hit (of all things) the shelf with the potions on it. As you may know, as said before, the potions contain alcoholic substances which happen to be EXTREMELY flammable. The shelf was completely engulfed in flames now, the wood that held the bottles was collapsing, bottles hitting the floor and breaking open, releasing more and more of the flammable liquid. It had quickly spread to the beds and was now covering the floors, something needed to be done quickly.

"SHIT! RUN!" yelled Tracy.

"You heard her! Everybody out the front doors! Hurry!" said Connie.

"Oh my! Chansey, grab Charmander and grab all the pokeballs from the back room! Hurry!" said Nurse Joy.

"Chansey!" both of the Chansey had said in unison whilst giving nurse Joy a salute.

After they had grabbed all the pokeballs from the back, including Charmander, who wasn't actually inside of one because of the fact that he was only there for about thirty minutes and didn't even have time to rest in one considering what had happened after the procedure, they had all finally ran to the front lobby.

The man who had owned the Charmander had seen the three girls and both of the Chansey bolting towards the front where he was, which confused him greatly.

"Umm excuse me ladies, what's wr-" he was then interrupted.

"CHANSEEEY!" yelled Chansey.

"Uhhh wh-GAHH!" the young man didn't even get to finish his sentence, when Chansey grabbed his arm.

"I'm sorry sir! Your Charmander is all better but theres a fire! We have to go NOW!" said Tracy.

"A FIRE!?" exclaimed the man. "Charmander did YOU do this?" he asked his pokemon.

Before Charmander could speak, he was spoken for by Nurse Joy. "Yes but it isn't his fault! Don't blame him, I'll explain when we are all outside and safe!"

The man simply nodded and replied with a simple "Ok."

As they ran outside, coughing and wheezing from the smoke that was now filling the pokemon center, they had noticed the small crowd that had gathered in the front. Wondering how they had all known that something was up, they then looked back as the answer was revealed to them. The whole back of the building was covered by smoke, so much that you could barely see what was behind it.

The silence was finally broken when a random bystander had finally spoken up.

"What happened nurse is everything ok?" the lady asked.

"No! Not at all!" said Nurse Joy.

The lady was just about to ask what the problem was, when all of a sudden...

"FIRE!" shouted Tracy as she joined the other two girls outside.

[Back to Flashback]

"Ahh. I see" said the Professor. "And I take it that was the moment I had arrived?" he said.

"Yes it is Professor Elm" said Tracy.

"Hmm...I see" was his simple response.

"So...y-you mean I'm technically the reason that this happened? If I never would have let charmander out of my sight those stupid Ariados wouldn't have bit him and Charmander would have never had to-" the man was then interrupted.

"NO DONT SAY THAT!" said Nurse Joy.

"Sir I promise none of this is your fault. Your Charmander was in desperate need of treatment, and you brought him here just in the nick of time. I'd say that you're ultimately the one to thank here. You're basically his hero!" said Connie.

"Heh y-yeah, I guess you're right!" the man said while scratching the back of his head.

"I agree. Had it not been for you, your pokemon wouldn't even be here at all right now. You have both the nurses, and yourself to thank for this. Job well done girls!" said Elm.

"Thank you professor, but if you dont mind me asking...WHERE IS THE FIRE DEPT.!?" yelled Connie.

"DAHH! They should be on their way I called them only ten minutes ago!" said Elm.

Right as he had just said those words, faint sirens could finally be heard in the distance, and they were getting ever so closer by the minute.

"Ah well speak of the devil, I believe I can hear them now." said the Professor.

"I believe your right Professor, I can hear them too!" said Nurse Joy

Back in Frank's backyard, both of the boys were still having a great time. Hayden was swimming and telling jokes, while Frank was just getting a tan on the lounge chair. Just the usual backyard pool activities...but little did they know that their parade, was about to get completely rained on.

"Jeez Frank do you keep ice cubes in your pool all night or something? We've been swimming for almost an hour and I'm still freezing dude! And its like 100 degrees outside!" said Hayden

"Well, that's because you're a little baby. HAHAHA!" Frank said as he laughed uncontrollably.

"Oh you think that's funny? Alright then!" said Hayden as he got out of the pool.

"Uhh...what uh...what do you think you're doing?" Frank said as he noticed Hayden walking towards him.

"Grabbing another soda from the ice chest?" Hayden lied. "What else would I be doing? Hehe."

"Oh alright." Frank said as he returned his attention to getting his tan on.

"Heh, I got him right where I want him now." Hayden thought as he was now two feet away from Frank. He then made his way right behind the chair that Frank was sitting on, as he put his plan into motion.

"Chair flip!" Hayden exclaimed as he flipped the chair with ease, along with Frank on it, straight into the pool.

Although Hayden and Frank may have only been ten years of age, they were actually pretty strong for it. Ever since the age of eight they had gotten their parents to get them a weight bench with a few weights (not much since they WERE only ten). They were on it almost every other day since then, trying to build their strength up early before they eventually would become trainers and begin traveling, whenever that may be. They both were quite fit for their age all in all, which would definitely pay off when they did decide to become trainers.

"GAHH! You-" Frank was cut short as he was now underwater.

"Pahahaha! Thats what ya get smarty pants!" said Hayden

"Pff!" Frank was now spitting out the water that went in his mouth. "Aw dude! It went up my nose and everything, it burns! And Jesus its cold!" said Frank.

"Ohhhh! Who's the baby now tough guy! Haha!" laughed Hayden

"Yeah haha! I'll get you back though!" said Frank.

"Yeah we'll see abo-" Hayden then heard the sirens of something nearby. And they were continuing to get louder.

"Yeah you hearing that too dude?" asked Frank as he looked at Hayden right as he had heard it himself.

"Yeah, and it's getting...louder." said Hayden.

It was then at that moment that Hayden and Frank had started to notice the faint smell of...barbeque? Along with what seemed to be black smoke in the sky.

"Uhh Frank?" asked Hayden. "You seeing this?"

"Yeah, I am. Lets go check it out." said Frank.

"I agree, lets." Hayden nodded.

The boys then quickly dried off...well sort of...then proceeded to storm though the house and out of the front door, completely forgetting their shirts in the process, but who cares about that its hot outside right? They then noticed all of the commotion around the poke'center along with Professor Elm, and the people, and Nurse Joy and...FIRE?

"Oh my God dude! The poke'center!" said Frank.

"Fire!?" Hayden questioned "Why the heck is it on FIRE?!"

"Hurry dude lets go make sure everyone is alright!" said Frank

They both rushed over faster than a Pikachu downing a bottle of ketchup. Which is equivalent to like 7 miles an hour or something.

*Pant* *Pant* "Is everyone" *Pant* "Is everyone alright?" asked Frank.

Everyone then turned around to the two young boys who were now behind them. Hayden simply ignored this and walked straight up to the Professor, a person he was definitely familiar with.

"Um excuse me Professor?" asked Hayden "Do you know if our moms are okay?"

"Oh, well hello there guys! To answer your question Hayden..yes your parents are fine. They're right over there." said Elm as he pointed to the boys parents.

"Sweet! Thanks Prof!" said Hayden "C'mon Frank I see our moms."

"Awesome!" said Frank.

They then both ran up to their moms, who were still apparently unaware that they were even there, considering the fact that they were being absolutely bombarded with questions from the locals.

"MOM!" both of the boys yelled in unison.

"Frankie-bear?!" said Connie.

"Haydee-poo?!" exclaimed Tracy.

Professor Elm couldn't help but giggle at their remark, whereas Nurse Joy was absolutely in tears laughing.

"Oh my God that is so adorable!" said Joy

Frank and Hayden just looked at each other and sighed in defeat.

"Soooooo, this was a bad idea." said Frank.

"You already know it." said Hayden.

"Shoulda stayed in the pool, eh?" asked Frank.

'Uh-huh. Definitely." stated Hayden.

"Uh m-mom?" asked Frank. Could you maybe, y'know...not...call me that?"

"Y-Yeah um...same here mom." said Hayden.

"Oh! I'm sorry sweetheart! I know you boys are ten now but you're still both our babies!" said Tracy.

"Sheesh c'mon mom! I love you but seriously?" said Hayden.

"Aaaaaaanyways...what exactly happened here mom?" asked Frank.

"Oh! Right! Well you see..." Connie was about to speak when the fire dept. had finally arrived to the scene.

The firefighter had gotten out of the jeep, took one look at the fire and simply blew a whisle. Before anyone could even begin to ask what he did that for, a squad of at least ten, maybe fifteen Wartortle hopped out of the back of the jeep.

"Alright guys listen up!" said the firefighter "I want this fire put out immediately, do I make myself clear everyone?"

"WARTORTLE!" they all said in unison while giving their salute.

"Outstanding boys! Now lets get to work on this fire!" said the firefighter.

Immediately the Wartortle had all begun to put the fire out, and with all of them using their combined water gun attacks, the fire was put out in no more than a mere minute or two, leaving nothing but clouds of white steam rise from the building from the now doused flames.

"Great job guys!" said the firefighter. "Excellent job!"

"Wartortle!" they said once more in unison, giving their same salute as before.

"Alright ladies and gentlemen, now that the problem has finally been dealt with, may I speak to someone who knows exactly just what happened here?" asked the firefighter.

"Yes sir, you may." Tracy stepped forward and spoke.

"Ah, and who do I have the pleasure of speaking to ma'am?" said the firefighter.

"Tracy" she said shaking his hand. "Tracy Mirambell. And this is my son Hayden." she then points to him.

"Hi there!" exclaimed Hayden.

Niether Hayden nor Frank were ever really the shy type, in fact they were the absolute opposite. You never had to worry about having to break the ice in awkward situations around either of them, they would make sure they had you covered on that. When meeting new people, they wouldn't even think of hesitating to introduce themselves, no matter how shy the other person would be. You could never really be shy for too long around either one of them anyway because of their completely random and spontaneous nature. They loved to make people laugh especially when they might need it the most, they'd give but never ask anything in return, if you needed to cry they would be the shoulder to do it on. They were two of the most selfless people you'd ever meet, and even though they may have only been ten years of age, almost everyone in the town was friends with the two of them, whether it was the children, teens, hell even most of the adults were close to them. They truly were something different, in a very good way. Believe me on that one.

"Well now, you certainly aren't the shy type are you?" the fireman chuckled.

"No he most certainly is not!" said Connie.

"I see! And who are you miss?" asked the fireman.

"Oh dear, I'm sorry! My name is Connie Hyler, and this is my son Frank!' she exclaimed.

"What's crackin?" Frank laughed.

"Nice to meet the four of you! I can see neither one of you two boys have too much of a problem expressing yourselves do you?" the fireman smiled.

"No sir!" they said in unison.

"Haha! That's great! I like that in a person!" said the fireman. 'I guess it's pretty easy to see that you two are friends, am I right?"

"Thats right!" said Hayden. "We've been best friends since the age of four."

"That's right! Sooooo what is your name sir?" asked Frank.

"AH! My sincere apologies, where are my manners?" said the fireman. "My name is Guy. Guy Stevens."

"Guy?" asked Frank. "Like...that's you're actual name?"

"That's right!" said Guy.

"Woah. That is too cool." said Frank.

"Why couldn't you name me Guy mom?" I wanna be named Guy!" said Hayden.

"*Sigh* You already have a name son. It's about ten years too late to change that now!" Tracy chuckled.

"Awwwwww mannnnnn." Hayden whined.

"Anyways miss I'm sorry for trailing off for so long, but...how did this exactly happen?" asked Guy.

"Oh! Right! Sorry..heh." Tracy scratched her head. "Well you see..."

About ten minutes later, Tracy had finally told Guy everything she had first told Professor Elm earlier, giving him almost perfect in depth details of the situation.

"*Whew*" Guy whistled. "Well that certainly is a...different situation than the standard stories I usually hear."

Guy then walked over to the man with the little pokemon, who apparently had caused the fire to his knowledge.

"And what might your name be, sir?" Guy asked extending his hand for a handshake.

"Oh, m-my name is Michael. Michael Ebson, sir." said Michael as he shook Guy's hand.

"A pleasure to make your aquaintance Michael." said Guy. "So...this little Charmander was the cause of this?" he asked.

"Char Char.." said the young fire pokemon, who was now staring at the ground, clearly dissapointed in himself. But the young pokemon's expression had completely changed when Guy had lifted his chin up and began to scratch it gently, lifting the Charmander's spirits.

"Hey hey now little guy, don't be upset! We all know that accidents happen. Some of them not able to be avoided, this just so happened to be one of them!" said Guy as he started to make the Charmander feel a tad better about himself. "The best part about this is that this young man got you here just in the nick of time, which in turn, saved your life little guy. All that matters is that nobody got hurt right? Everyone is a-ok, including you buddy!" he smiled "And we have these three ladies, and your trainer to thank for that."

"Char!" said the little guy, now very happy.

"Haha! That's the ticket!" said Guy. "Well ladies and gentlemen, our work here is done. Wartortle squad let's move out!" Just like that, they were gone as fast as the fire was put out.

Elm then stepped forward "Well, looks like Guy got here right in t-" There was then a very audible creaking noise.

"What...was that?" asked Tracy.

"The building!" shouted Michael. "The building is collapsing! Run!"

"Oh no.." said Tracy.

As everyone was running away from the scene, it was completely confirmed that the building was indeed falling apart. After about two minutes of everyone just staring in complete awe, watching the building crumble into the ground, it had finally become nothing more than a big heaping pile of rubble.

"Oh this is...this is just awful!" said Tracy. "I hope it wouldn't take too long to build another poke' center like this..."

"I uh...I wouldn't get my hopes too high on that happening Miss Tracy." said Michael.

"Huh? Why not?" she asked in confusion.

"Well you see, I was actually good friends with one of the contractors who actually helped build the place and...well you see..." he trailed off "They dont exactly...do their business in Johto anymore." he said.

"What do you mean by 'don't do their business'?" asked Tracy, now more confused than ever.

"Well, basically its like this...when they ran their business in Johto, they would travel anywhere where they were needed as long as it stayed within the region. Including coming all the way out here to New Bark. Although there may be a few other contractor businesses within the region, none would perform such a special task as making a long trip all the way over here, just to build a simple pokemon center, when there are already so many within the region already. There was something different about the people who built the pokemon center here, it was if they truly did not care about just simply making money off of their jobs buildings, but they actually...cared for the people that they built it for...cared for their happiness. Unlike the other businesses who clearly only care about their money and profits, it's extremely unlikely that they will make a trip to such a small town, for the fact that they would simply not make enough money off of building one here. Sadly." said Michael.

"So...we just need to get them back over here and..." Connie said, being cut off

"They run their business in Kanto now. I'm afraid they wont be coming back here anytime soon."

"Then its settled. We're screwed." said Nurse Joy

"I...I'm afraid so Nurse." he said.

"So basically what you are saying...is that we would have to be in Kanto to even have their services be of use?" asked Tracy.

"That's correct Miss." said Michael.

"Right...thank you for the information Michael. I believe I know what needs to be done." said Tracy

"I don't understand what your plan is, but if I helped in anyway then I am happy." he said. "Thank you again for saving my Charmander's life. You three will forever be our true heroes." he then turned around "Looks like it's back to Olivine City for us little buddy."

"Char Char!" the Charmander happily nodded.

Michael then began walking out of town after saying his brief goodbyes and waving to the people of new bark.

"Thanks again!" he yelled before quickly disappearing into the distance.

[Later That Night]

*Knock* *Knock* There was a light knock at the front door of Tracy's house.

"Coming!" Tracy yelled out. "That must be Joy and Connie" she thought.

She then opened the door to reveal the two ladies standing in front of it.

"Hey girls, glad you could make it, Please! Come in!" Tracy said.

"Alrighty" said Connie.

Joy just simply nodded in agreement.

After Tracy had run to the kitchen to fetch a cup of tea for the three of them, they all simply sat in silence on the couch for what seemed like an hour, having some sort of awkward staring contest with each other, neither Joy nor Connie even knowing of the reason that Tracy had actually called them over at such a time as this.

Connie had finally decided to break the awkward silence. "Soooooo...what umm...what exactly did you need from us Trace?"

Joy looked just as confused as Connie did, so she decided to question Tracy as well. "Yeeeeeaaahh, I'm a little curious too. Is this bad or good news Tracy?"

"Well...it's a little bit of both girls. Which one would you rather hear first?" Tracy was finally ready to spill the beans.

Both Joy and Connie looked to one another and nodded, they then both spoke in unison. "Good news first!"

Tracy had already figured that they would end up choosing the good news over the bad anyway, so she was already ready to answer immediately. "Well girls, as you know we are now jobless. But I think I've managed to come up with a way that we can get another one, but it may not be easy for us to cope with..."

Joy now had a worried look on her face. "Well what's the bad news then?" she asked.

Tracy looked down at the ground and took a deep breath "...We would have to move to Kanto to do it."

Connie now looked very awestruck "I-Im sorry it almost sounded like you said that we needed to MOVE to Kan-"

Tracy then looked up, obviously upset as well being that this was the only choice in the matter at hand. "It's exactly what I said, and believe me Connie, I'm not very ecstatic about it either."

"Can we honestly not work anywhere in all of Johto? I'm sure some of the poke' centers would hire us if we just try." said Joy

Tracy now stood up and spoke a little louder than before. She couldn't stand the thought of them working that far away from their kids again, not after they just settled with getting used to spending time with them everyday. "And what? Go back to being away from our kids again? Uh-Uh. Not again, not for me."

"Tracy's right." Connie was now agreeing, seeing that she held a good point. "I don't think I could handle being that far away from Frank again everyday." Small tears were starting to form in her eyes. "But that still doesn't explain how moving to Kanto would be a better descision. Where exactly would we move to anyway?"

"It's a small town called Pallet. It would be our best bet for what needs to be done." said Tracy

"Pallet Town!?" Connie was now a little more easygoing, albeit a bit excited about the situation for some reason all of a sudden.

"Uhhh...Yes why?" asked Tracy.

"I know where that is! My sisters friend Delia lives there!" Connie shouted now excited. "At least we know now that we have someone that I know living there at least."

"That could be a good thing...but that still doesnt explain how this is going to keep you two close to your children Tracy, the closest city to Pallet with a poke' center is in Viridian City. And it's roughly two hours away!" said Joy

"Oh my! Tracy that's still too far from the kids if you ask me!" Connie said now getting a tad upset again.

"It's fine...because that isn't where we will be working." Tracy now had a large smirk on her face. "You remember earlier when I said that I knew how we could get another job, though it wouldn't be easy?"

"Uh-huh" said Joy.

"Yes what about it?" asked Connie.

"Well...what if I told the two of you that I contacted the people who built the pokemon center here, to see if they would be willing to build one in Pallet Town if we could come up with the money to pay for it...to open it up in our name?" Tracy was now smiling harder than ever.

"Oh. My. God...Tracy that's a wonderful idea!" Connie was now jumping for joy. "But how much would it cost us?"

"277,000 poke'." Tracy said with a smile.

"Wait wait wait...how the hell are we going to come up with that kind of money?!" Joy blurted.

"Well Connie and I have been saving for quite some time now, for situations such as this. So trust me when I say...we are a-ok!" Tracy said giving a thumbs up and a wink.

"Then...I don't see how you can say this isn't going to be easy then? Seems to me like you have it all covered." said Joy

"Well, it isn't going to be easy this time because this pokemon center will actually belong to us. It's a much greater responsibility to run one AND work there, rather than just simply working there! But I know the three of us can do this if we really put our hearts in it!" Tracy stated.

"Then it's settled!" exclaimed Connie. "But now comes the hard part...telling the kids...I dont know if I have the heart to do that!"

"Don't worry, we can all tell them tomorrow morning together. As for now lets celebrate!" Tracy said as she grabbed a bottle of pinot grigio and three wine glasses from the wine cabinet, and proceeded to pour a small amount into each of them.

"Oh don't mind if I do!" Joy said, taking the wine glass into her hands.

"Count me in!" said Connie as she grabbed her glass as well.

"Girls...to what will hopefully be a very bright future to the three of us!" Tracy said raising her glass for a toast.

"Hear hear!" They all shouted in unison.

[The Next Day]

"But moooooom I dont wanna move!" said Frank.

Hayden had a very angry look on his face. "This is just fantastic. I've never been happier in my life." he said sarchastically.

They were all packed and ready to head out, but Hayden and Frank weren't exactly seeing eye to eye with their parents idea. As they continued to argue with each other, Professor Elm had made his way over to them.

"Uh...excuse me ladies, I don't mean to interupt yo-"

"Hayden it's the only choice we have! Both of you have to understand that!" said Tracy.

Connie had decided to step in and back her up. "Trust us boys, if there were an easier descision we would have taken that path in a heartbeat!"

Elm had now realised that this was a terrible time, but felt that it would be that last chance to say what he had to say. "Um excuse me...guys?"

"I'm sure the construction people could just build another one here, if they can do it over there!" said Frank.

"I agree!" said Hayden

"Uhh..guys." Elm began getting a little impatient now.

"We already told you that they can't do that honey, they dont work in the area anymore. I know it's hard for the both of you to understand, but please...try to be happy about this ok?" said Tracy.

"Hmph...fine..." Hayden said.

"Umm...guys? I uh..I really need to speak with the both of your sons!" Elm said now a little more calm since the fighting had died down.

"Y-You wanna talk to us?" asked Frank.

"What's going on Professor Elm?" asked Connie.

"Ah...yes well...you see, I actually have a bit of a...parting gift for the both of them." Elm said as he opened the small briefcase, revealing three pokeballs with two pokedex on the side. "You see, with the both of them being old enough to have their trainers licenses...I've decided to give them each theirs, as well as their pokedex with of course...their choice of one starting pokemon."

"Woah.. I mean...that's awesome Professor, but...we didn't want to start our pokemon journey at this age, remember?" said Hayden.

Elm then smiled "Ah! Which is exactly why you don't actually have to just yet. I am just simply giving you all the necessary things that you will need to become a trainer now, that way whenever you are officially ready...you will already be set!"

"Whoa...thanks a lot Professor!" said Frank.

"Well, in that case...you're the best!" Hayden was now practically jumping for joy.

"You're both very welcome! Now, here are your pokedexes and your licenses...now who will go first in choosing their pokemon?" he asked.

Frank was getting a bit nervous now. "Uh..you can go first Hayden."

"O-Oh, um...me? Well okay then...I'll take the middle one I guess Professor." Hayden didn't really know what he was even choosing, though he was willing to accept whatever he would get regardless.

"Ah! good choice, that would be Cyndaquil, the fire type!" said Elm.

"Awww yeeeahh! Sweet!" Hayden was quite pleased with his choice, considering fire types were always kinda his thing.

Frank honestly had no idea what he was going to get. "Alright and I'll take the one on the right!'

"Nice pick Frank! That would be Totodile, the water type." said Elm.

"Awesome!" Frank was quite happy with his choice as well.

Both of them had then decided to open their pokeballs to meet their new pokemon, although it took them a minute or so to actually figure out that there was a button on the front to actually open it.

"Alright, come on out Cyndaquil!" Hayden said as opened the pokeball.

Frank then did the same. "Let's go Totodile!"

A red flash of light then shot out from their pokeballs, revealing both of the young trainers' newly acquired pokemon. Both of them seemed quite happy to meet their new trainers.

"Quil Cyndaquil!"

"Totodile!"

They both then decided to introduce themselves. "Hi! my name is Hayden and I'm gonna be your trainer Cyndaquil!" said Hayden. "And I'm Frank! I'm gonna be your trainer Totodile!"

Both pokemon were almost jumping for joy, now running around and playing with the young trainers. It was definitely a great sight to see for both of their moms, who were almost in tears now.

"*Sigh* They're growing up so fast, aren't they Tracy?" asked Connie.

Tracy simply nodded her head and smiled at Connie's remark, now turning her attention to the Professor. "Well Professor Elm..I guess now would be as good a time as any for us to say goodbye, seeing as the kids are in a good mood for the time being...we're all gonna miss you Professor! And thanks again for what you did for them, I'm sure it means the world to the both of them!"

Elm then smiled and nodded. "Well I'm glad I could be of service. It was the least I could do for them before you head out. Oh and ladies?...Do keep in touch from time to time will you?"

Tracy smiled and chucked at his remark. "Sure thing Professor. Take care!"

They all proceeded to get in the car and begin to drive away from their hometown, both Hayden and Frank were waving out the back window to Elm as they drove off, until he and the town became nothing but a small speck in the distance. With a new home and a new future to look forward to, they all headed off to their new life in Kanto.

"*Sigh* I sure am gonna miss those two kids. Im sure they will make great trainers someday...I just wish I could be there to see it all happen." A single tear then fell down his cheek, into the dirt beneath where he stand.

Alright peeps! Well that was my first chapter for my first ever fanfic, and I'm hoping that you enjoyed it as much as I actually enjoyed writing it! As said before, please, no hate comments or any of that nonsense. Please R&R and let me know what you think along the way! It'll only help me to improve my work! Thanks a bunch! I'll hopefully see you guys in the next chapter :D