Part 1: The Search Begins
	The early morining sunlight came upon the small quiet Mintale Town of 
Kanto. Rod Fleetfoot just learned of the disappearence of his only daughter 
and was sobbing at the kitchen table. "My daughter. I can't loose her, not 
like I lost my precious Debra."
	His son, Matt appeared at the door of the kitchen wearing his usual 
morning attire. A pair of sleeppants and a plain white t-shirt. "What's wrong 
dad?" He said as he yawned. 
	"It's Lucy. She was kidnapped on her latest mission." Matt stared in 
disbelief. 
	"What!" 
	"Lucy was kiddnapped on her mission." Rod said again. 
	"No!" Matt's eyes started to water. His father joined in. Together they 
sobbed.
	After both of them calmed down and Matt took a warm shower, they ate a 
breakfast of rice balls with bread. Neither of them spoke, just stared off 
into space trying to except what happened. 
	"I'm going to find her!" Matt exclaimed while his father bite into some 
bread. "What!" His father was shocked. "You can't go. I need you here. If I 
can't loose all of you!" He began sobbing once again.
	"Dad, calm down. I promise I'll be safe." Rod looked up at his son.
	"Really?"
	"Yes Dad." Matt stood there wondering how the hell he was going to do 
this. "Have any ideas where I can start searching?" His father chuckled. 
"Always the pipe dreams with you Matt." They both laughed. Possibly the first 
step for there recovery. 
	Matt packed all of the essentials into his small backpack. He put on 
one of his warmest sweatshirts to deal with the cold climate of Northern 
Kanto. Rod appeared in doorway. "All set Matt." 
	"Just about." He swung his bag on his back. "All set."
	"Good. Remember to stop by Professor Pine's Lab to ask where Lucy 
dissapeared."
	"Aye aye captain." Matt said sacastically.
	"Always with the jokes." He chuckled, then walked him to the door. "Bye 
Matt, Remember your promise." 
	"I will dad. Don't worry." Rod watched till Matt was out of his sight. 
"I hope he'll be alright.
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	"Come on Squirtle, Give it back!" Almond said as he chased his 
disobedient pokemon around the cliffs of Mount Snowfall. "Squirt!" It said as 
he caught the little turtle creature.
	"What am I going to do with you?"Almond layed back on a rock. He hadn't 
felt this frusterated since Hazel and Coco got in a fist fight over him. "At 
this rate you'll be obedient when I'm forty." Almond said to Squirtle. "I'm 
not cut out to train you." He shrugged.
	"Squirt! Squirt! Squirt!" It started jumping up and down, then jumped 
into Almond's arms. 
	"I guess you want me to at least try to be a trainer?" Squirtle nodded. 
"Alright then. I will." the two of them shared a smile. "Wanna try an 
attack?" It jumped off of Almond's lap.
	"Squirtle!"
	"Ok, use water gun!" Squirtle opened his mouth, but only four tiny 
bubbles came out. 
	"Squirt..." It looked sad. 
	"Don't worry Squirtle, you just have to train more. Then you'll be able 
to use water gun. Don't worry." Squirtle smiled. "Hey do you want a rice 
ball?" 
	"Squirt!" He nodded.
	"Ok" Almond grabbed a rice ball for Squirtle."Here you go."
	"Squirt!" He quickly shoved it into his mouth, enjoying the treat. 
	"And one for me." Almond pulled one out, but it slipped out of his hand 
and fell off a nearby cliff. "Oh crap." Squirtle was laughing hystericaly. 
Almond looked over the cliff. He saw a purple monkey creature hovered over 
it, trying to eat it. 
	"Is that an Aipom?" He said quietly to himself. "Ya, I it is."
Almond threw a rock at it. It hit aipom in the head. 
	"AIPOM!" The pokemon went after Almond. 
	"Ahhhhhh!" Almond screamed as he ran in the other direction. The Aipom 
was faster than him and caught up to Almond in a matter of seconds. "AIPOM!" 
The pokemon attacked him with double slap. 
	"Ouch!" Almond wimpered. 
	"Squirt!" Squirtle has appeared next to him and began talking with the 
wild pokemon.
	"Aipom." The wild pokemon began walking away. Squirtle motioned Almond 
to follow.
	"Why should I follow a wild pokemon?" Squirtle shrugged then started 
pulling Almond's jeans. "Fine!" Almond grabbed his bag from the rock and 
followed his Squirtle and the wild aipom.
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	Matt got up from the rock that he had sat on to rest and continued on 
his way. He was about a mile outside of Arbor Town (Where Professor Pine's 
Lab was located). 
	Not many people were on the route. Just some little kids playing hide 
and seek in the trees. Until  a small aipom came out of the trees to his 
left. The aipom looked very familiar. Almost like lucy's.
	"AIPOM!" Matt screamed as he sprinted towards his sister's pokemon, but 
then a squirtle and a boy slightly taller than him. With long black hair that 
he tied in a pony tail. 
	"Aipom."He said again as he embraced the Aipom. 
	"I guess aipom found his owner." The boy said.
	"Well she's my sister's pokemon. And who might you be."Matt asked.
	"I'm Almond."