As I headed to Chesma Town, I caught a new Ponymon, Angel Bunny and battled trainers. Suddenly, a weird looking girl looked at me and quickly ran into the forest.

“What the heck?”

“Hey, there you are Michael.”

I saw Jake run up to me.

“Who was that person that just took off running?”

“I’m not sure, but she did look kinda suspicious.”

“Yeah. We should go after her, probably has something off her sleeve. I saw her running into the woods. Follow me and I’ll lead you there.”

Jake and I ran into the Gale Forest.

“She’s in here somewhere. I'll wait right here so she doesn’t get away. You go look for her and find out what’s going on.”

Jake was on the lookout while I scouted the forest. After battling some trainers, I found her just standing in a corner.

“Hey you!” I called out. “Why’d you look at me weirdly and run all the way out here?!”

“Looks like you finally caught on,” said the girl.

I was confused.

“I’m a member of Team Tartarus. We steal any Ponymon any time, any day. And now that you’ve encountered me, you have to battle me, under two conditions. If you win, you get to keep your Ponymon. But if you don’t, I take whatever Ponymon you have.”

Obviously I wasn’t going to let that happen so I accepted the risky challenge. She sent out Rumble while I sent out Angel Bunny. Angel could only attack Rumble with Tackle though it was tough since it kept lowering Angel’s attack with Growls and attacked with strong Gusts but other than that, Angel took out Rumble easily.

Her final Ponymon, er, Pokémon was Pancham. Angel had the type disadvantage so I swapped him out for Scootaloo. Pancham could only attack Scootaloo with resisted Arm Thrusts and neutral Tackles so after a few Gusts from Scootaloo, I won the battle.

“What? How could this happen?! This isn’t good. The boss is going to be so mad at me. Don’t think this is over yet. Team Tartarus is still on the run and will be back for more!”

The Tartarus member had run off to somewhere unknown. Suddenly, Jake ran up to me after the girl took off.

“Wow! Great job of taking care of that girl Michael!”

“Thanks Jake. About that girl. Do you think the professor knows anything about that girl?”

“I’m not sure, but this Team Tartarus seems like you’ll need a strong team to beat them, knowing that they steal Ponymon of all kinds. A great way to strengthen your Ponymon is to challenge the gym leaders in Equestria. There are eight gym leaders in Equestria. Speaking of which, there’s a gym next town over. I suggest we start there.”

“I see. Thanks Jake.”

“No problem. See you there.”

Jake had run off to the first gym. Before battling the gym, I wanted to train up my Ponymon first, and I just did that.