Simon Wright, a third year English major, has never had an easy life. He was teased as a boy, his mother died when he was twelve and his father went missing shortly afterwards. All he has left is his grandmother who he takes care of. Simon has to work late nights at the local library just to make ends meet. One night when Simon was in his parent's old study he discovers a book that will change his life forever.

Maxx is just a regular man, working for the Time Keeping Agency. It is the year 2431, and the public release date of the government's long-coveted time travel technology is just around the corner. All is going well, until one day Maxx starts noticing things that no one else does. Or rather, remembering things. As the days go by, his version of reality grows farther and farther from the one accepted by society. Even worse, no one will believe Maxx when he tells them of the terrible things that he remembers. Then, finally, he stumbles across a secret so ugly that it threatens to tear everything he has ever known or believed in apart. Being the only one who has discovered the secret, it is up to him to set things right. As the TKA officials realize what he knows, it simply becomes a matter of time before he is caught. Will Maxx succeed, or will his failure result in the destruction of all time and space?

They say that the Pokémon are dangerous. Too dangerous to even be controlled by Trainers. But Bethany Jennings doesn't believe them. Many years after the days of Champion Red, the regions were at war for two bloody, destructive years. The regions were then united into a new country under Master Steele. To prevent future wars, Master Steele declared Pokemon too dangerous of weapons to be controlled by the general population. Trainers were required to hand in their Pokemon, and all wilderness areas were fenced off. The only exceptions to the new laws were licensed police officers, who were allowed one Pokemon each. A trainer uprising occurred greater than the war that had just ended. All rebel trainers were killed by their own government and the rebellion was crushed. Ten years after the law banning Pokemon was passed, there was a new law. To discourage the people of the United Regions from handling Pokemon, and to prevent further uprisings by displaying the government’s absolute power, Master Steele created the Games. Every year, each region was to offer a boy and a girl aged 12 to 18 as tributes into the Games. The tributes were then to be placed into an arena with 60 Pokeballs containing untrained Pokemon, and left to fight to the death. The last tribute left standing was to be declared as winner, and they, their family, and their region were to be showered with riches. The day of the reapings for the third Games, Hayley and Bethany Jennings get caught breaking the law. Their choice for punishment is simple: jail time, or getting their name put into the reaping so many times that getting chosen was nearly inevitable. They each see only one viable option, and so the cousins are separated--perhaps for life. Now, Bethany must rely on her intelligence, charm, and knowledge of Pokemon gained from her Dad’s old journals, to survive. Thrown into a game where everything is against her, can she manage to defy the odds and come out of the arena alive?