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In Nuvema Town, a young teen dreamed of becoming a Pokemon Trainer.

One day, this hopeful dreamer received a large Gift Box from Professor Juniper, an authority on Pokemon Research.

The professor's gift was a Pokemon.
It was the greatest gift the teen could ever have imagined.
Inside the Gift Box were three precious Pokemon - Snivy, Tepig, and Oshawott.
After selecting one of these three Pokemon, the dreamer - at last a real Trainer - said farewell to all that was familiar and set out on a journey of adventure and discovery.

The young trainer had two great ambitions.
The first was to challenge the Pokemon League.
By doing so, the Trainer could become Champion of the Unova region.
The Trainer's second ambition was to catch every Pokemon and complete the Unova Pokedex.

The Trainer was not along on this journey, however. Two childhood friends, Bianca and Cheren, also set out on the same path.
These friends taught the young Trainer the skills needed for Pokemon battle and the ways of catching new Pokemon.

Bianca: "Wow... You're gonna be an awesome Trainer someday, I can tell! No doubt!"

The Trainer took every opportunity to do battle, and the Pokemon that accompanied the young Trainer grew by leaps and bounds.
In what seemed like no time at all, the young Trainer and the Pokemon grew strong.

The rules dictate that, in order to challenge the Pokemon League, a Trainer must defeat the Gym Leaders of the eight Pokemon Gyms in Unova.

And thus the young Trainer began journeying to the Gyms.

At the first Gym, this young Trainer saw victory over Cilan, Cress, or Chili of the Striaton City Gym.
At the second Gym, the young Trainer defeated Nacrene City Gym Leader Lenora.

During the course of this journey, however, and enemy appeared before the Trainer.
The enemy took the form of a group commanded by a stranger calling himself Ghetsis. This group was Team Plasma.
At the head of Team Plasma stood the Seven Sages, wise men gathered from across the world.
The members of Team Plasma were devoted to the one they called "klng," and in his name, they wrought havoc across Unova, ever seeking to free Pokemon from their human Trainers.
Every time the Trainer encountered Team Plasma, the meeting inevitably ended in battle, and the young Trainer constantly thwarted their hopes.

At the third Gym, the young Trainer was victorious over Burgh, the Castelia City Gym Leader.
The fourth Gym saw the young Trainer's defeat of Nimbasa City Gym Leader Elesa.

The young Trainer met a young man called simply "N."
This N was a Trainer of staggering talent.

N said, "I'll defeat the Champion and become unbeatable, unlike any other! I'll make all Trainers free their Pokemon!
If you want to be together with Pokemon,
your only hope is to collect the Badges from each area
and head for the Pokemon League!
Try and stop me there, if you dare!
If your conviction is not strong enough, you will never be able to defeat me."

The liberation of Pokemon...
The desire that Ghetsis professed as his, and
the dream that N held, were one and the same.
What connection could there be between Team Plasma and N?

At the fifth Gym, Driftveil City Gym Leader Clay crumbled before the young Trainer.
And at the sixth Gym, Mistralton City Gym Leader Skyla was brought low by the Trainer.
And, too, at the seventh Gym, it was Icirrus City Gym Leader Brycen's turn to fall to the Trainer.

On arriving at the top of Dragonspiral Tower, the TRainer found N together with Zekrom [Reshiram].

N said, "What do you think? How do you like the beautiful form of the Pokemon who appears before and fights beside the hero that will lead the way to a new world?
Now Zekrom [Reshiram] and I will head to the Pokemon League and defeat the Champion!
This will be the last of the Pokemon battles that hurt Pokemon so. A world for Pokemon alone... It's finally going to be a reality."

The young Trainer knew that is was only a matter of time before N would appear as an enemy across a field of battle.
And so the Trainer began training harder than ever before.

Finally, at the eighth Gym, the young Trainer overcame Opelucid Gym Leader Iris.

Having exceeded all others, the young Trainer now proceeded to Victory Road,
the greatest hurdle still ahead in the Unova region.

Putting everything on the line, the young Trainer challenged the Pokemon League.
Victory remained with the young Trainer in each battle against the members of the Elite Four - Shauntal, Grimsley, Caitlin, and Marshal.

At last, all that remained was the battle against the Champion, Alder.
But when he arrived, the Trainer found that Alder had already been defeated by N.
A huge castle suddenly appeared, surrounding the Pokemon League.
It was N's castle, which had been under construction for years in the earth beneath and around the Pokemon League.
The young Trainer rushed into the castle to stop N and Team Plasma.

Deep within the castle sat N upon a throne. Beside him stood the Legendary Pokemon Zekrom [Reshiram].
It was time at last for the climactic battle against N.

When the dust finally settled after the battle, N spoke:
"I was beaten. Your ideals... Your feelings... They were stronger than mine, it seems..."

It was then that Team Plasma's leader - Ghetsis - appeared.
Ghetsis said, "After all of that, do you think you're still worthy of sharing the name Harmonia with me? You good-for-nothing boy!"

"To start with, I spurred N into pursuing the truth. The reason we reawakened the Legendary Pokemon now was to give MY Team Plasma more power!
Power to control the fearful masses!
You lost to an ordinary Trainer! There is such a thing as being too stupid!"

Ghetsis never had any intention of freeing the Pokemon.
He had been plotting to control the whole world, using Pokemon as his tools, while deceiving the people
by hiding behind the false figurehead he had created in making N a king.

The young Trainer's Pokemon battle with Ghetsis began.
Their fierce combat raged across the field of battle, sparks flew like embers.
But for the young Trainer who believed wholeheartedly in Pokemon, a Trainer like Ghetsis, who only sought to use his Pokemon as tools, was no match.
The Trainer scored a complete victory over Ghetsis.

After witnessing their battle, N spoke again:
"It's about when I first met you in Accumula Town.
I was shocked when I heard what your Pokemon was saying.
I was shocked because that Pokemon said that it liked you.
It said that it wanted to be with you..."

"There's no way that a person like me, someone who understands only Pokemon-
No, actually... I didn't understand them, either.
No way I could measure up to you, when you had met so many Pokemon and were surrounded by friends..."

"You said you have a dream... That dream... Make it come true!
Wonderful dreams and ideals give you the power to change the world! If anyone can, it's you! Well, then... Farewell!"

When the young Trainer returned to the Pokemon League,
it was at least time to challenge Champion Alder.
This was a true battle between two Trainers who believed in their Pokemon. The painful battle was waged hard and long.
Yet the heart that believes most in its Pokemon will win in the end. Believing that, the younger Trainer ordered the final blow.
And Alder wished the young Trainer well. "Well done! You certainly are an unmatched talent!"
The young Trainer had become Champion of Unova.

Yet the journey was not over, and the young Trainer's adventures continued.
Looker, a member of the International Police, requested that the Trainer aid his search for Team Plasma's Seven Sages. The Seven Sages were the leading figure of Team Plasma and leaving them free to roam might allow Team Plasma to rise again.
Giallo, Rood, Gorm, Ryoku, Zinzolin, and Bronius,
the remaining Seven Sages, had hidden themselves around the Unova region,
and the young Trainer apprehended each, handing each one over to Looker.

But where had N gone? The question continued to plague the young Trainer.
Looker had the answer: "A report has reached my ears of someone far from here.
Indeed, this someone has spotted a person like N and a... dragon Pokemon."

And now, two years later, another young Teen with dreams of becoming a Trainer is about to set out on a journey, a journey from Aspertia City...