Chapter 1: "I'm not a trainer!"

As Xavier prepares to start a new day in his berry farm hidden in route 7 his Spinklotad gets caught in one of Sneaks pranks and ends up broken.

Whitout a replacement, Xavier finds himself forced to leave his secluded home and visit Visu city, a large city at the center of Portus in order to buy a new one from the local Pawn Shop.

Having spent most of his life at the farm ,Quill, Xavier's partner cyndaquil, asks to come along.

At the shop, Xavier enters just in time to see a national broadcast on the store's tv announcing the beggining of Portu's pokémon league, organized by Alphonze Bronz, Portus own President, and the International Union composed of Jacks, the Motain Region's Darmanitan, Alex, the Fleur Crater's Nomad and Trevor, the Veris region's Master Scout.

As the broadcast ends Xavier leaves the shop to find Alex and Professor Mahogany held up in battle against a trio of unknown men. Hiding behind a garbage bin, Xavier and Quill watch as Alex is overwhelmed by the thugs and is knocked out along with his Empoleon, leaving the professor defenceless. As the leader of the thugs approaches, Quill jumps into action putting himself between the thug and the professor. Fearing for Quill's safety, Xavier runs into the fray but gets knocked out by the thug's Exploud. When Xavier comes to, the thugs are gone and they took the professor and Quill with them. Alex wakes up next and orders Xavier to ask for help from the Scout at the Dragon's Peak while he awaits for his own backup to arrive.

Getting there, Xavier finds the three thugs that took Quill cornering a wild Dragonite. Xavier steps in to save Dragonite from the thugs and together they manage to defeat them but Quill is no longer with them. Dragonite insists on following Xavier higher into the peak as more thugs dressed in the same attire as the ones that took Quill attack them. Along the way Xavier manages to rescue a Scout held hostage by the thugs and contact the Scout's HQ for backup. At the top, a new foe appears coming out of a cave followed by another thug holding an egg. It's Dragonite's egg that the thugs have stolen after pushing Dragonite to the bottom of the peak. The new foe is Cast, a Pokémon Hunter working with the unknown thugs to catch stronger pokémon and offer some extra manpower to their efforts. He congratulates Xavier for defeating the others and wagers a battle between them. Hoping to keep the thugs at the peak, Xavier accepts and battles Cast. As the battle ends and Alex arrives to the peak, the grunt holding Dragonite's egg tries to escape but Xavier rushes at him and pulls the egg from his hands. In return the thug pushes Xavier over the edge falling down unto the forrest at the bottom of the peak. Thankfully the egg is safe but Xavier can't help but faint from the injuries from the fall as Alex and Cast battle overhead.

The following day, the egg has hatched and a young dratini is born. It quickly imprints on Xavier as they make their way out of woods along with a unique pokeball dropped by the grunt.

Chumpy, the Dratini, choses to go with Xavier instead of staying at the Peak with Dragonite and despite Xavier's initial refusal as Xavier decides his next move.

To find Team Phoenix and Quill, Xavier will travel to Cliffside Town and join Veri's Scouts. But first, he needs to prepare his things and rest up at the berry meadow.

On it's way there however, Xavier runs into a wild Eevee which tackles Xavier and steals the carrier ball with Chumpy inside and runs off into Visu city's gym where the rest of it's gang is hiding in.

Entering the gym, Xavier is faced with the eevee clan and Tim, a young man around his age that the eevees captured and tied up.

Tim explains that the eevees were abandoned by their trainer and together they go around stealing pokemon from people and releasing them.

Xavier strikes a deal with the Alpha Eevee promising to give the clan a better place to live in in return of Chumpy and Tim.

The Eevee agrees, and with the carrier ball, Xavier and Tim take the eevees to the meadow.

The Alpha however insists on following behind Xavier to make sure he keeps the end of the deal.

Just before getting to the meadow, Patience notices the Alpha Eevee and engages the group asking it to return to her side.

She briefly mentions the Ark, something the grunt that took Quill mentioned in Visu causing Xavier to react and demand an explanation. Demands that Patience ignores.

Eevee refuses, bitting and growling at the woman as she turns more aggressive towards it.

As Patience calls out her Milotic, Xavier and Tim jump in to protect Eevee beggining a double battle between them and Patience's powerful Milotic.

Thanks to Tim's quick wit, Milotic is defeated leaving Patience in shock. As Xavier desperately tries to get answers out of her, her transe ends when her phone rings and she blankly runs away without saying another word.

Xavier takes the unconscious Eevee into the Meadow along with Tim and does the two do their best to help the little pokemon recover from his injuries.

As the night rolls in, Xavier tells Tim talk between themselves sharing their story up till that point.

Tim is married and has a son in the Montain region. He's been traveling for the past year looking for a job that can support his family who he holds very dear. Apparently Tim can speak with Pokémon, an ability he learned from a man called Nate in the eastern most settlement of the Fleur Crater.

Chumpy seems to have grown attached to the eevee, refusing to leave it's side as it rests.

The following day, all the other eevees are happy to see their big brother safe and sound while Eevee himself feels like he owes Xavier for saving him and treating his wounds.

Eevee decides to help Xavier on his quest to find Quill. With his developed earing, he managed to pick out someone saying "Fate town" from the other side of Patience's phone.

With this new information, Xavier decides to head to Fate town in pursuit of Patience and Team Phoenix.

Tim on the other hand choses to stay in the meadow for the time being, hoping to raid the abandoned Gym for supplies.

In Fate town, Xavier is directed towards the Olson's family grove. A patch of the woods owned by the Olson family, one of the last families in Portus that's still dedicated to pokémon training.

He soon meets one of the Olson's, the youngest member of the family, Tobias Olson, fighting off a wild Ariados with his partner pawnyard.

Tobias (Toby), notes that the pokémon in the grove are acting weird and quickly runs off when the sound of a bell is heard.

Toby runs into Cast, eager to fight as always, but barely manages to put up a fight against the Hunter's Gallade.

The battle proves too much for Toby who falls unconscious as Xavier meets up with them.

Cast rushes in to help the boy managing to bring him back in a panic.

Toby then explains his condition. His heart is weak and sometimes fails when he feels too much stress.

Cast and Xavier are appalled, corcerned that the boy would put his life at risk like that.

Toby takes it hard and runs off deeper into the grove. Cast tries to follow him but is teleported away before going too far.

At the center of the Grove, Xavier meets Toby again, as well as the matriarch of the Olson Family, Alice Olson.

She explains that strangers have entered the grove looking to catch the Creakalope that lives in the grove.

The Olson's want to engage the trespassers but Xavier argues that calling the Scouts would be better as he knows Team Phoenix is dangerous and it's members are powerful trainers.

Alice forms a plan to take control of the situation and, with Toby, manage to convince Xavier into helping.

Though the plan seems to work at first, the group managing to incapacitate Patience and Cast, Teal, the cloaked figure calling the shots, takes back the advantage with his psychic powers as he turns Alice's own pokemon against her and brings Cast and Patience back to the fight.

Toby's heart gives out again as he battles a zombiefied Cast, and Alice's Shiftry is defeated when she tries to help Toby back up.

Patience defeats Xavier with her Milotic as Toby's heart gives out again against a zombiefied Cast, and Patience's Shiftry is defeated when she takes her eyes off the battle to help Toby.

Patience gleefully declares victory, as Casts comes to his senses. Seeing Toby on the floor again, Cast springs to action to assist the kid.

With the group defeated Patience decides that the best course of action would be to assassinate them, but Cast opposes her with Gale.

Midway through the battle, Teal separates the two and decides to take Alice's, Toby's and Xavier's pokemon from them instead of killing them. Seeing no other option, Cast agrees.

Toby refuses to give up his pokémon though, conviced that Alice only lost because she was too worried with his safety to fight with to full ability.

Teal, amused by the child decides to help Toby's case, levitating a boulder above his head to crush him with.

Sharp, Toby's Pawnyard, suddenly evolves in response to the danger Slashing slashing through the boulder with ease.

Patience attacks Sharp with her Salamence afraid of the Spike Evolved Bisharp's power only to be defeated with a single attack.