Team Noble, a group that stumps even the sharpest theorists. Many question if they're real or just some elaborate hoax. If recent events are to be believed, they are more than real. In fact, they may be even larger than originally thought. The kidnapping of Albert Remmington after the Naran Invitational Tourney only days ago, media outlets and the internet as a whole have been exploding with videos showing a strange man and woman leading him away from the reception desk immediately after the final battle in the tournament.

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"Hello beautiful Kosei! This is Jack Hammer here again, unveiling the mysteries behind Team Noble!" A tall black haired man said into the camera. "I'm back with some big news. Alfonse Remmington has been found!"

"It's Albert." A quiet voice interrupted.

"I'm sure your kidnapping was very traumatic, I mean, you can't even remember your own name!" Jack said condescendingly. "We'll just call you Al for now. So, Al, do you still say you can't remember anything that happened after you won Tuesday's tournament?"

"My name IS Albert." The quieter man said sternly. "And no, every time I try to think about it I get a terrible headache."

"Don't try getting smart with me Al, we're going to get that information out of you somehow." Jack said a bit more forcefully than before.

"You tell him Detective Hammer!" A woman's voice yelled from the background, the camera whirled around to show a group of fans with posters cheering Hammer on.

"I'm telling you, I don't know what happened!" Albert almost shouted. "I won the tournament, then...then...nothing! I can't even remember the people you all claim dragged me off afterwards."

"Looks like we're going to have to jog his memory with Jack Hammer's signature interro-"

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Rheese cut the feed from his phone with a sigh.

"What an asshole." He said slightly annoyed that someone like Jack Hammer was such an idol to his viewers. If the guy wasn't a star, having a 'signature interrogation technique' would have him labeled as some kind of monster. Turning a crowd on that Albert guy though, that was just despicable.

"But still, kidnapping trainers and returning them completely untouched and unphased only days later? It just doesn't make any sense." Rheese mused to himself.

"You mean Team Noble?" An old man in the aisle beside him asked. "Hah, plenty of investigators like Hammer have tried to find them...everyone seems to have some idea or another about their identity or how they control everything behind the scenes."

"Do you know anything about them? I mean, some of these theories are insane." Rheese said, slightly surprised that anyone had heard his mumbling.

"Ohoho, of course they are. People like to grasp at straws when presented with something they can't understand." The old man laughed. "But no, I've got no clue. I honestly doubt anybody does."

Rheese sighed and leaned back into his chair ignoring the man Well that was worthless, why even bother interrupting my thoughts if you have nothing interesting to say? He thought, annoyed by the still smiling old man.

"Hopefully I won't even cross paths with Hammer or Team Noble when we get there." He mumbled to himself.

Less than an hour later, the plane was touching down at Windshire's international airport. Rheese departed as quickly as he could to get moving towards Professor Bonsai's Pokemon Lab.

Sophia Danvers

"Move aside," Sophia hissed as she pushed through the crowd, glaring at people who were talking too loudly on their phones. The jet lag was bad enough, she shouldn't have to deal with this too. A headache was building up behind her eyes. She hoped it wouldn't affect her ability to concentrate. There would most likely be people in Windshire she'd want to impress with her particular skills.

"Hey!" a man yelled as she elbowed him in the ribs. She regarded him coolly, focusing on his hat. It slipped over his eyes. "Wha...?!" She turned around before she could see his reaction, her bow-tipped shoes clicking on the tiles as she swept through the airport and out of the door.

As soon as she stepped outside, the Pokeball at her belt shook and opened. In a burst of light, her Gothita appeared beside her. "Go-thi!" she squealed, looking at her new surroundings in awe. Sophia's steely expression softened. Much of the time, the Gothita preferred to be out of her Pokeball. Reaching down and stroking the Pokemon on the head, Sophia smiled. "Well, we're here," she said. "You ready for this?" Gothita nodded, with a happy cry of "I-ta!"

Sophia made her way towards the lab, the Gothita by her side. She frowned as the wind blew her hair into her face. The ribbons and ruffles on her clothes flapped around. At least the weather wasn't as bad as that of Mistralton, but it was still an inconvenience.

Upon noticing a young man in a grey hooded jacket heading in the same direction as her, she approached him. "Hi," she said, a confident smile on her face. "It doesn't take someone like me to tell you're here for the same reason I am. It's just a shame about this weather." She threw a closed frilled parasol into the air and stared at it. It snapped open, drifting a little on the breeze, but she controlled its direction, using her power to pull it down. Her smirk spreading, she reached out and closed her slim fingers around the handle, tilting the parasol to block the wind.

Her Gothita, who had been glancing around at the sights of Windshire, scowled as she noticed what Sophia was doing. The Pokemon focused her own telekinetic power on the parasol. Sophia's smirk faded instantly as her parasol turned inside out - against the wind. She groaned. Why did her Pokemon find tricks like this funny? She grabbed the edge, only for it to close on her head. "Aargh!" She flailed for a few seconds before managing to open it, her hair sticking out in all directions. She glowered over her shoulder at the Gothita, who gave her a look of innocence. So much for a first impression.

While Rheese did his best to politely ignore the slight blunder in front of him, he couldn't help but grin slightly.

"Oh, that's neat. So by someone like you...I guess you're referring to the psychic thing you did with your umbrella?" Rheese asked. Despite travelling with his parents, he had never met an actual psychic before.

He heard the Pokeball in his pocket open and before he knew it, Wooper was spraying him in the face with water. The little blue Pokemon jumped in the air with glee when he caught the glare from his trainer. While Wooper didn't have a preference when it came to his Pokeball, he had an uncanny sense of timing. Any time he sensed Rheese wouldn't see it coming, Wooper would pop out and entertain himself.

"C'mon man, now I have to meet with the professor soaked like this!" Rheese chastised Wooper whose grin didn't fade. Eventually he just wiped his brow with a sigh and looked back at the other trainer. "Oh, right. My name's Rheese and this is Wooper. First impressions aside..." Rheese glanced at Wooper. "It's nice to meet you."

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As per usual, Professor Bonsai was buried in in files and papers ranging from new findings to personal memos. He was shaken from his work by the sound of the door sliding open.

"Oh, hello." Bonsai said as he saw a young man enter the door. "Is there something I can help you with? Oh! Of course, you must be one of the new trainers coming in today!" He said, answering his own question. Shuffling through the files he had on the side of his desk he managed to find a folder of new trainer files.

"So, uh...which one are you?" He asked timidly.

The day started out about the same sort of the same as the rest of her life, wake up from bed lazily in a completely different region that what she was used to, only now she was on her own without her mother’s massive wealth to afford the sleeping arrangement thankfully she won a battle before getting her and had enough to sleep in an inn. Her partner was already up and had been for the past few hours’ shadow boxing her pink and chocolate color fur shining in the light that bled through the curtains, this was the first thing she saw when she woke up the first time. Nyxx woke up three times that morning before Buneary decided to pound her into the bed to which her owner just took the sheets and bounced her bunny Pokemon right off. Eventually she rolled out of bed with that half glazed look in her eye and began her morning routine, even though it was the afternoon she groaned and mentally completely constantly, but eventually she worked her way out of the door and started to explore the town with her Buneary Nelz right behind her.

With a loud yawn, she walked around the town her eyes were half open as always, looking about she found such a large crowd people, obviously going nowhere important. Her hair was fixed upright and forced straight with a sash, the whole style was to do her hair and lazily as possible, though strangely enough people were actually complimenting her on it.

“People are strange” Nyxx said to her partner who was hopping next to her keeping up “bun-bun” Nelz responded, assuming she was agreeing with her Nyxx smiles and continued forward.

Windshire was odd to say the least both an airport and an actual port were stationed in town within a decent distance from one another, the strangest thing she had seen was the fact Goldenrod City was connected to Saffron City via Magnet train she wondered how fact the plane was being that she had to get here on a boat. “Bet it’s nice to fly, ” she commented

Eventually Nyxx stumbled her way into the professor’s lab “Anyone home?” she called out, letting another loud yawn loose her eyes were finally starting to fully open but the bored tone in her voice was like her staple.

Kyle was drenched from head to toe, miserable, hungry, and Treecko was no worse for wear. Kyle had been in Windshire for little less than an hour and so far everything bad that could happen has happened. When Kyle first walked into the city he had been so enraptured by all the new sights and smells, he stopped looking where he was walking and was hit by a bicycle rider. Kyle and Treecko received only a few bumps and bruises from the incident and it would have been fine but the bag holding all their food flew quite a few feet away. Kyle and treecko had desperately tried to save their food supply but it kept getting kicked away until finally it ended up in the stomach of another pokemon, who had grabbed it off the ground and emptied the contents of the bag into his mouth. Kyle had become slightly miffed at this, and when he tried to yell at the pokeon it had smacked him away into a water fountain. Hungry and wet and still unmotivated Kyle and Treecko moved forward to Windshires professors lab. only to realize that they had no idea where they were going. Kyle would stop and ask for directions but no matter where people would point him towards he would always end up making a wrong turn and would be lost again. Kyle couldn't get any rest either because everytime Kyle would want to give up or just lay down on the ground for a bit Treecko would jump on him or slap him with his tail. So Kyle has had no choice but to keep walking around randomly until hopefully their luck changes.
"seriously c'mon I swear Treecko if you could just find this guys lab for me I will give you a million treats. I mean don't you pokemon have a super good sense of smell?"
Treecko gave Kyle a sideways glance, a small sigh, jumped up, and smacked Kyle in the head. Kyle didn't stop walking but his hands flew up to his head to cover it.
"you dick."
Kyle sighed and closed his eyes. Kyle wished things could be simple again. He wanted to go home and sleep. But this damn pokemon wont let him just live a normal life and it wont leave him alone either. Kyle opened his eyes and looked forward. It took a second for Kyle to register what the sign said on the building just down the road form he was standing, but when it clicked Kyle couldn't be more relieved. It was the professors lab, Kyle had finally made it. Kyle let Treecko onto his shoulder and Broke into a sprint. Kyle reached the professors lab and barged through doors. Breathing heavy, wet, and dirty Kyle realized he was a sight to see, especially in front of the strangers in the lab.
"um-pant-pant-hi-pant-I'm-pant-Kyle-wheeze."

Sophia Danvers

Sophia's grin returned. Despite the mishap, it seemed as if Rheese was impressed after all. She smoothed her hair down the best she could in the breeze. "Yep! It's just a little trick I can do," she said, letting go of the parasol again. It bobbed in the air, the copious amount of lace rippling, before folding shut and returning to her hand. She tried not to grimace. She'd just gone and made her headache worse, but she couldn't let it show - what she'd done was supposed to look effortless. "Excuse Gothita here. She's quite the prankster."

At that moment, a Wooper jumped out of the other trainer's Pokeball and soaked him with a jet of water. Sophia couldn't help but chuckle. So she wasn't the only one on the receiving end of a prank from a Pokemon. Behind her, Gothita giggled.

"So you can relate," Sophia commented. "Anyway, I'm Sophia." She took a slight step back, with a dubious look at the mud puddle that was forming around Rheese's feet, then at him. She wouldn't let any of the mud get on her shoes. "It's, uh..." She wrinkled her nose. "Nice to meet you too."

With a yell of disgust, she pulled out of the way as somebody even more drenched than Rheese rushed past. "Watch where you're going!" she called, scowling. She turned back towards Rheese. "Well, if we're both making a start on our journey, what are we waiting around for?" Holding her head high, she strode into the lab, keeping well away from the exhausted-looking man who was dripping dirty water all over the floor. At least other people were much worse for wear than she was.

Oscar Berg
The horn of the ship blows and a voice over the intercom says "Attention passengers. We will be arriving in Windshire of the Kosei region shortly. Make sure you have all your belongings and tickets when you disembark the ship. Thank you and enjoy the rest of your day."

Oscar woke up and packed up extra early this morning so he could be the first one off the boat. Oscar and his friend, Roadrunner the torchic are standing at the bow of the boat, seeing the Kosei region rise up from the horizon. "That is where our journey takes place, RR." Roadrunner jumps up and down in excitement besides him.

As the boat docks at the port, Oscar disembark the boat with Roadrunner in tow. Oscar grabbed a town map at an info desk and looks for the professer's lab. He arrives at the building and just in time to see some of the other arrival enter before him. "Well, it seems we are not the only ones starting out today. Nothing beats a healthy competitive spirit. Let's make the people back home proud. Are you with me, RR?" Roadrunner nods in agreement. Oscar smiles back and walks towards the building.

"Right then." Rheese said stepping over the puddle of mud and following Sophia and the other drenched guy into the lab. He returned Wooper to his Pokeball with a sigh. "That was really uncalled for."

Upon entering the lab, it seemed that a tornado of some sort must've come through. With the papers and documents littering the floor, it must've taken some miracle to get anything done. Rheese stared blankly at the Professor standing in the middle of the chaos trying to sort through some files that he assumed were for the trainers that had gathered.

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"Oh..." The Professor counted each of the trainers. "I'm pretty sure there's supposed to be more than six of you." He said nervously sorting through the folders in his hands. "If you could, please tell me your names and I'll find your file in this stack. Your file has the key to one of the lockers near the front holding all the essentials for your journey including your trainer card and registration for the Kosei league. I also see you all brought your own Pokemon...That's good actually, I meant to order the starting Pokemon for everyone...but I guess that doesn't matter. "

"Er...I'm Rheese. Rheese Laudat." The young man that came in last said raising his hand slightly while still staring at the disorganized mess in front of him. He was never really big on keeping things tidy, but this was on an entirely different scale.

"Well, Mr.Laudat." Bonsai said with a smile. He simply ignored the water dripping from Rheese and the other trainer. "Here is your file and your key."

Sophia Danvers

Well, this wasn't what she'd expected. Nearly slipping on a pile of papers, Sophia stared in disbelief at the complete and utter disaster that was Professor Bonsai's lab. It would have been impressive if the floor hadn't been a sea of scattered documents. In the middle of the room, a man in a lab coat tried to make some kind of order of a paperwork heap. This was the region's Pokemon Professor? How had somebody like this managed to get such a job?

She marched over, her Gothita following. "I'm Sophia Danvers," she said, pushing in front of the other trainers and eyeing the professor with more than a hint of disdain. She tapped her foot on the floor, folding her arms as she waited for the flustered man to find her file. She hoped the group would be able to start their adventure sooner rather than later. At this rate, they'd spend most of the day stuck in this dump.

Nyxx’s eyes were actually wide open now, when the boy drenched in dirty water and complete mud stumbled in like a bat out of hell, putting her hand on her hip she watched him walk pass. Nyxx sighed and hung her head, she didn’t have the energy yet to make a comment and followed the others deeper into the lab. Looking over she observed all the other who had gathered admittedly, the guy who looked like what the cat dragged in and pissed all over was probably the most interesting human being here. Nelz continued to hop behind her before making a large spring to rocket up to the top of her head and land in her puffy patch much to irritation but it did get her moving faster. That burst of energy didn’t last long as she went back to shuffling along the floor with her back leaned back with her eyes half open, luckily they found the professor.

Professor Bansai was different to say the least much different from the others granted she only met Oak, and Rowan. Less laid back that Oak in a bad way, but at least he wasn’t as intense as Rowan defiantly a character.

“Names Nyxx Hollow” she says, her Buneary jumping from her head and landing on the table scattering more papers around randomly “And that fireball is Nelz”

Kyle Arabian

Kyle regained his composure and gave a good hard look around the room. Almost everyone else in here, excluding one other poor soul who looked like they had it rough getting here as well, looked like they got here no problem which means that once again he was the odd man out. Kyle tried to straighten himself up and wipe himself off which ended up just making the floor around him even more dirty. doing this he saw made the professor looking guy look flabbergasted.
"Sorry about that. My name is Kyle."
Kyle started to walk forward to shake the professors hand when he realized he was just tracking more wet mud on the ground. Kyle took one step back and away from all the other trainers. Now that he had a good look at everyone, he could see what everyone looked like. Everyone here looked at least modestly good looking, and everyone looked like they came from decent homes.
"So......sorry about the mess everyone I mean really if you wanna blame anyone blame Tree here he is kinda an ass."
Kyle smiled and chuckled abit while patting is Treecko who was perched on his shoulder on his head. Treecko in return smacked him upside his head.
"hope we can all get along being a trainer isn't my first choice but hey traveling to new places and eating new foods sounds...slightly entertaining. Oh and before we leave I hope we can take a moment to find the janitor for this place. I feel slightly bad about trekking in all this crap."

Oscar Berg

Upon entering the main lab area, Oscar saw what looks like a tornado had been though the place. He saw the professor addressing the other trainers. Once all the other trainers had a turn with the professor, he goes over to the professor. " Hi. I am Oscar Berg and this little guy is Roadrunner." Roadrunner chirps excitedly. The professor tells him his number and gives the key to his locker.

After getting the stuff from the locker, he finds a nearby stool and takes a look at the map while scanning the other trainers. "So RR, what do you think of our rivals? I hope they can put up a good fight"

Rheese accepted the key and walked quietly over to the locker being careful not to bump into the other trainers or trip over any stray papers. Opening the locker he found his trainer card, Pokedex, a simple green backpack, and a few Pokeballs. After checking the card to see if everything was right, he didn't exactly trust this professor to get it right. After seeing that the information was correct, he placed all of the items into the pack and slung it over his shoulder. Thankfully, Wooper hadn't really gone full force earlier, so he would probably drip dry pretty quickly.

"By the way, where are your assistants? Rheese asked glancing around. Maybe that's his excuse for this mess? Does he not even have any help around here?



"Sophia Danvers...Here it is." Bonsai said placing the file and key in front of the young trainer. "Oh, Nyxx Hollow alright, I have it right here. There you are." He said handing the items to each of the trainers. "And...Kyle, Kyle, Kyle...I don't seem to have-Oh, nevermind here it is. Kyle Arabian." Bonsai said triumphantly waving the file in front of him. "Oscar Berg too. Huh, there are still a few files here."

"Oh, my assistants?" Bonsai said quietly. "They're all out doing field research actually. They will probably be back in a few hours." He looked questioningly when Rheese put his palm to his face right after.



This is just ridiculous. Rheese thought to himself as he facepalmed.

Kyle Arabian

"Thanks dude.", Kyle said as he grabbed the items from the professor.
Kyle walked over to the locker that was labeled for him and opened it. inside was his pokedex, trainer card, and a few pokeballs. He put all his items inside his second, and more importantly dry, bag. Kyle set Treecko down on the ground in front of him.
"Alright treecko this is it. we finally made and we are officially real poke trainers. who do you want as our first partner? We should probably find a pokemon that can fly or something. WE could teach it to fetch.
As kyle laughed, Treecko sighed and jumped up and smacked him in the face. Kyle fell on his ass because of this. He shook it off and glared at treecko.
"Goddamnit you stupid assho-".
With this Treecko smacked him again
"Tree Tree Treecko!", Treecko said while pointing at Kyle whichly roughly translated into watch you mouth.
Kyle got the gist of what his pokemon said, not because he spoke pokemon but because he has been around his pokemon for long enough to understand the gist of his pokemons intentions. Kyle jumped up and leaped forward, grabbing his pokemon and rolling past the trainer Rheese. Kyle and treecko rolled around smacking and pulling eatchother into they finally rolled into the trainer Nyxx. Kyle and Treecko immediately stopped and stood up.
"Oh Arceus I'm sorry. Really really sorry. If you want you can hit my treecko he is being diffuclt.", Kyle said with a slight smile. "Here let me."
Kyle reached his right hand down and offered it to the young trainer Nyxx.

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Nyxx stumbled a little bit, she almost took it as a sign to go back to sleep, but she caught herself and stood back up looking over at the one who bumped her while fighting with his Pokemon. She was going to just let out a sigh and go back to half paying attention, but her own partner jumped off the table using pound to cause a very loud thump separating her from Kyle and his Treecko. Nelz then proceeded to make a scene towards the Treecko, to humans, it just sounded like she was just making a fuss saying her name to a Pokemon it must have been a bunch of loud obscenities. Nyxx turned from her bunny Pokemon for a moment to retrieve the things in her locker, a pokedex, a town map and a few pokeballs she would sell these later as she already had five.

“Nelz don’t make a scene, ” she called back to her Pokemon, but Buneary wasn’t having it, she was actually looking for a fight. Nyxx walked back to Kyle “What a bother, do you might be battling me when she gets like this it’s very tiresome” she asked looking down to see Buneary puffing her chest making the black belt around her waist stretch out around it.

Kyle Arabian

Kyle sighed at sized up Nyxxs pokemon. then Kyle had idea.
"Oh this the perfect chance."
Kyle reach into the side pocket of his backpack and pulled out his pokedex. He turned it on and scanned the pokemon in front of him. A digital voice spoke from the pokedex.
"Buneary, the bunny pokemon. Bunearys ears are almost always rolled up. They can be forcefully extended to shatter even a large boulder. Evolves into lopunny."
"not gonna lie that was kinda cool. What do you think Treeck should we battle?"
Treecko looked at Kyle and for moment pondered his thoughts. Then Treecko looked at the buneary, then at Nyxx.
"Treecko.", said treecko while giving a firm nod.
"Well, my partner seems to want to so sure I guess. Seems like kinda a drag"

battle between Kyle and Nyxx ended.
Winner : Nyxx

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Buneary pressed her foot against Treecko’s head and flipped off of him, knocking it over, she won the battle and the bunny began to hop around Nyxx happily having unloaded all its frustration from this morning. Nyxx walked over to Kyle, ignoring Nelz’s victory dance, pulled out a potion and started to spray the Treecko healing him. Back to a healthy condition, she then tossed the used potion bottle in the trash and put on her backpack getting ready to leave but just then she had an idea.

“Hey Nelz gets like this a whole lot and your Treecko over there is no slouch feel like traveling with me so save me from my headache?” she asked