Just something I wrote on a whim. Might be rambly, but hopefully you enjoy :)
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Thursday
"Come on."
"No." Green kept on typing away at his computer, ignoring Blue's pleas. The wily girl draped herself over his desk, and Green rolled his eyes. "Blue," he said sternly, "get off my desk."
"Please?" Blue whined.
"Absolutely not. I have a lot of work to do."
"Red's going."
"Red has something better to do than go on a trip with you girls."
"Fine, so he said he couldn't go, but come on Green!"
"Blue, you've saved the world at least three times over. I think you and the girls can handle yourself perfectly fine."
The girl drew herself to her full height, evidently giving up. "Fine," she huffed. "I'll see you in three days then." She began to wheedle. "How about a hug?"
"We're not going out, Blue," Green said with emphasis. "I'll see you on Saturday. Try not to swindle every vendor you see on the street."
He didn't even flinch when Blue slammed the door behind her.
…
Sunday
The wind was chilly when Green locked his Gym doors behind him. It was a crisp autumn Saturday, and he figured that competitors could wait at least a couple hours before coming to be demolished. A tiny frown creased his brows as he tested the padlock between the doors; he remembered the last time Blue sneaked into his Gym and stole his keys.
"Green!" A female voice interrupted his thoughts, and he turned around to see Crystal hurrying up the road to him. Green raised his eyebrow in confusion; his grandfather's assistant usually didn't come to Viridian for any sort of duties. How strange. "Crystal," he greeted her in his usual low tone. "What's the occasion?"
She giggled in an odd manner and twirled her pigtails, which, to Green's rather horrified observation, was curled and carried traces of sparkles in them. And Arceus, what was she wearing? Green took in Crystal's appearance. Under her modest lab coat was a short skirt, showing off her long legs and round- Green closed his eyes to avoid further inspection, his cheeks turning pink. "Crystal," he got out, "what are you wearing?"
"You don't like it, Green?" Crystal giggled again, twirling around like an idiot as she threw out her hands. "I think the sparkles add a nice touch."
"Yes, well, maybe Gold will like it," Green said bluntly, striding past her. "Shouldn't you be at work?"
"I just got back from the trip," Crystal babbled, following closely behind him as he strode towards Viridian City. "And my work's all done! I filed the reports, did some research, finished tomorrow's paperwork, talked to Oaky-"
"Oaky?" Green choked on the word, not sure whether to laugh or cry. Seeing as to how he was Green, he did neither and settled for turning to look at Crystal askance. "Who are you and what have you done with the real Crystal?" he wanted to know.
She laughed loudly and skipped right past him, singing out behind her, "What are you talking about? I'm as real as real can be! Why, I'm perfect!" The last word she trilled out like a mockingbird, but what shocked Green was how on pitch and melodious she sounded.
Crystal, to his memory, had never sounded on pitch and melodious.
…
"I got your message. What's up?" Gold flopped down next to Silver. "Need some girl advice? Boy, it's about time you upped your game. I've been saying that you need a girl for the longest time- so is it that one new girl from the department store? Or is it-"
"Shut up, Gold," Silver interrupted furiously. "Where's Ruby? He called me to tell me to meet him here. So I called you." He scowled and added in a lower mutter, "not that I wanted to…"
Gold chose to ignore that last remark. "What on earth does Prissy Boy want with us?" he wanted to know, tilting his cap so that the sun didn't reach his eyes. "You'd think that he wouldn't want to associate with us lowly commoners."
"I normally wouldn't," Ruby grumbled, strolling out from between the trees. He wrinkled his nose at the sight of Gold lolling on the ground. "What are you doing?" he demanded. "All that dirt is going to be impossible to remove from your clothes later."
The Johto boy shrugged, obviously not caring. "I'll live," he said carelessly, heartlessly enjoying Ruby's increasingly disgusted expression. "Now what do you want?"
Silver scowled even further and leaned against the tree, clearly uninterested in what this conversation had in store for him.
Ruby cleared his throat, edging away from Gold as he did so. "Well, you see-" he began.
"Hold on," Gold cut in, leaning around Ruby to peer at something in the distance. "Is that- is that- holy Arceus, is that Sapphire?"
"And that is why I called you. To make sure I wasn't hallucinating." Ruby covered his eyes. "I'm not crazy. I'm not crazy."
Silver sat up straight. "What is she wearing?" he wanted to know. "Is that Red with her?"
Gold's jaw was slack. "Is that- that's a skirt! Ruby, that's a-"
"I know what it is, Gold, I've been around skirts," Ruby snapped, and then flinched when both the Johto boys whipped around to stare at him. "Not in that way! Not in that- oh, screw it."
"Prissy Boy, I dare say your queen's been tamed," Gold commented, earning himself an annoyed smack on the head from Ruby and somewhat of a warning glare from Silver. "Okay, hey now, all I'm saying is-" He stopped short. "I don't even know. What am I saying? More importantly, what is Sapphire doing?" He squinted. "I dare say she's flirting with Red-" And now Ruby actually did kick him.
Silver attempted to redeem the situation. "Well, Red's not responding at least," he reported. He sniffed. "I still don't understand why you called us, Pris-Ruby." He grimaced when Gold cackled to himself, still watching the reclusive Kanto Champion attempt to free himself from a suddenly feminine Sapphire.
"Well, one, I wanted to make sure I wasn't insane," Ruby ticked off on his fingers, "two, I wanted to know if Crystal and Blue were acting any different. Shut up, Gold," he growled as Gold failed at suppressing another chortle.
"I haven't seen Crystal all day, and Blue told me she was busy," Silver said as coolly as he could, even though Sapphire's squealed "Oh, Red! You're adorable!" echoed up the hills, causing Ruby to wince and Gold's grin to spread even wider.
"What in the good name of Mew is going on?" Green demanded, and his shadow fell across the trio on the grass. "I can hear Sapphire from a mile away. What are you-" He stopped short and gaped. "Please tell me that isn't Red."
Ruby had buried his head in his arms. "I've tried convincing myself otherwise, too," his muffled voice floated up. "Maybe we're all hallucinating."
"What is she wearing?" Green wanted to know, obviously unaware that he was simply repeating the normal train of thought the three boys had previously been through. "What is wrong with everyone today? Crystal shows up like she's straight out of a terribly drawn graphic novel-"
"Why, what was she wearing?" Gold sat straight up.
Green cast him a look, but answered the question nevertheless. "Sparkles. And a short skirt. And… you know what? Never mind."
The Johto boy looked perturbed, surprisingly enough. "Crystal doesn't wear those sort of things," he muttered to himself. "That is strange."
"Where's Blue?" Silver demanded of the Viridian Gym Leader.
Green cocked his eyebrow. "You expect me to know? I'm not her keeper."
"She said she was busy-"
"How flattering, that you thought she was busy with me. She was probably busy picking locks."
"You take that back, Green Oak-"
Sapphire and Red arrived just then, the former still clinging on to the latter. Red's face had a degree of confusion to it as he struggled to understand exactly what was going on. "Hiiiiiii," Sapphire trilled, and all four boys gaped at her, varying degrees of horrified amazement on their faces. "What?" Sapphire wanted to know. "Haven't you boys ever seen a lady before?"
Ruby's eye was twitching. "You offend every piece of my fashion sensibilities," he stuttered. "Pink and yellow? Pink and yellow?"
"I thought it was nice," Sapphire pouted.
Ruby exploded just then. "And since when do you think colors are nice? Since when do you consider dresses appropriate for you? And since when exactly did you decide that you like lace?"
Sapphire's lip trembled, quivered, and before the eyes of the shocked boys, she sank to her knees, buried her face in her poufy sleeves and began to weep miserably. Ruby stared at her, not sure exactly what to do- comfort her, knock some sense into her, or run for his life. He settled for asking the one question that every boy in the vicinity was asking themselves- "And since when did you decide that it was okay to cry?"
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