The woman sent out two Pokéballs, containing a Gardevoir and a Gallade respectively. "Now, defeat my Gallade to learn my name, and my Gardevoir to learn our history. "Alright, Electivire, use Wild Charge on the Gallade!", Jacob said. The Electivire jumped in the air and enveloped itself with electricity, directing itself towards crashing down on the Gallade. "Now, while he's safe, use Earthquake, Magmortar!" Magmortar punched the ground, causing the Gallade and Gardevoir to fall to their knees from the tremors.

"Menelaus! Get up and use Close Combat on the Electivire!" The Gallade steadied himself and rapidly punched Electivire through it's electric field, hurting itself in the process. Electivire was sent flying, landing fainted in the dirt, but the Gallade fell to the ground, knocked out from punching through the Wild Charge.

"You did great, Electivire. Return," Jacob said, putting Electivire back into it's ball. "Get back, Menelaus! Alright, Helen, use Psyshock and end this fight!" The Gardevoir summoned a small amount of debris around Magmortar, and quickly struck it with the debris. Magmortar roared in pain as the chunks crashed into its body. Letting out a mighty roar, Magmortar fell, defeated. "Magmortar, you were great out there! Return!"

"Well, you knocked out my Gallade, so I'll tell you my name, or at least, my codename. I am codenamed Malus, and I run a criminal organization named Team Sutilis, intent on stealing Pokémon to take over the world. Now, if you'll excuse me, those children are coming with me." She snapped, and her henchman started to move to take the two kids, but while trying, one henchman became ensnared in a String Shot. "You! Get away from those kids, or I will not be afraid to have my Pokémon attack you!"

Jacob and Natalie looked back towards the hill, and saw their father on the hill, his brown hair shining in the light, with a Butterfree and a Beedrill next to him. He looked over at Malus. "So, we meet again. So this is what you're doing these days? Criminal activity and plots of world domination?" "Yes, that's what I've chosen as my path. Not that you would know anything about choice." "That's it, Malus! The police are on their way, so I suggest you leave before you're caught for good!" "Fine then, pack it up men! Unless you wanna get incarcerated again!" Malus and her grunts left the area, leaving the two kids safe.

Jacob and Natalie rushed to help them up. "Hey, you're safe now. They're gone," Jacob said to the girl. "Well, we can see that, you know," said the girl. "How old do you think we are," asked the boy. They helped get them on their feet. "I don't know, 13? That's how old we are," Natalie said. "Correct, looks like you're good at more than just battling," the girl said. "Thanks for letting us use these for a while, but we should give them back to you," Jacob said. "No, no, you keep them, they aren't even ours," the boy said. "Yeah, we stole them from one of those grunts. Yes, that may be stealing, but he wasn't treating his Pokémon like living things, but like tools," the girl said.

"Ah, so you're one of those Pokémon whisperers. Is that more of a blessing, or a curse," Natalie asked. "It's really what ever you make it. I'm Megan, nice to meet you! This is my twin brother, Josh." "Well, I'm Natalie, and this is my twin brother, Jacob." "Nice to meet you two," Josh said. "So, why didn't you use your own Pokémon? We kicked those away to give you options if your Pokémon fainted," Megan asked. "Well, we don't have any Pokémon," Jacob said sheepishly

"So, you're both 13, and yet you don't have any Pokémon," Josh asked. "Yeah, it's the sad truth. We don't have enough money to buy Pokéballs, so we can't go on a Pokémon journey together like we've always dreamed of," Jacob said. "And it gets worse from there. Every friend we've ever had is now a trainer, so we only have each other now. We've been planning our route through the Unova region since we were 8, and now we can start it with our own Pokémon!"

"Yeah, but the only problem is that we don't have Pokéballs to use on our journey." "Wait, I remember something close to here," Josh said. He put his index and middle fingers on his forehead and closed his eyes. "Follow me," Josh said. He ran towards the nearby woods, with Megan, Jacob, and Natalie following him. "Come back soon," their father yelled to them, as they ran into the woods.