Oh my. I'm branching out with my best friend Natalie to write a Pokemon fic. Laugh all you want, because it is pretty freaking hilarious. We don't own the Pokemon universe, although I wish I could kill off some of the new ones that just don't make sense.
BUT! We DO own Candace, Mina, Boyce, Gavin, Craig, and all of their families. So score… however many points that is.
But enjoy because you know you will!!
Mina stood in the bright sunlight in Mauville City, her hand on her forehead to block out its bright rays. A huge smile spread across the red-head's face when she caught a glimpse of her best friend's blonde hair running towards her.
"Candace, Candace! Oh my gosh, we're off to see the world! Aren't you excited beyond everything?!"
Her words spewed out of her mouth quickly and the happy look on her face didn't vanish as the energetic girl began to jump up and down from her hardly-contained excitement. When the blonde hair reached Mina, the girl attached to it seemed just as enthusiastic.
"Oh my god, I know, this is absolutely amazing! You have to see my Pokemon, he's adorable!" Candace gushed, doubling over with her hands on her knees as she quickly regained her breath. The sixteen year old had just run all the way from her house to the center of the city without pause.
Candace reached toward her belt, stopping when her hand brushed across not just one, but two pokeballs. She gave a small smile.
"Well, my sister kind of gave me another Pokemon, too… She didn't think it was smart for me to travel with just this little guy," she said, releasing a Pokemon from one of the pokeballs. A tiny creature that resembled an acorn appeared – in fact, the Pokemon was an acorn with eyes.
Mina's erratic jumping came to a halt when the Pokemon was released from it's ball, her eyes becoming wide when she saw the acorn-thing on the ground. Slowly her hands curled into fists and her fists drifted to her mouth.
"He. Is. So. Cute. CANDACE! When did you catch him? Why didn't you tell me you caught him! More importantly than that, why didn't we know these things were so cute in the first place?! Ahh I'm going to die!"
People around the girls were giving them a wide berth at first, but they were now going out of their way to avoid the out-of-breath girl beside a Pokemon and the screeching girl across from it. Mina then bent down to the level of the beast, stretched out her hand and patted the cute thing on the head.
"I'm so freaking jealous!" Suddenly she leapt to her feet and faced her friend. "Speaking of jealous, I'm about to head to the Pokemon center and trade this Zigzagoon for a Pokemon from another region – wanna come? After that I should be ready to ship off!"
Her hand quickly performed a salute and winked, reaching down to her feet to grab her worn knapsack filled with will-be-needed supplies.
Candace giggled, clapping her hands together giddily. She reached down to pick up her Pokemon, gathering the small grass-type in her arms.
"Well, I didn't tell you because I only caught him a little while ago. He's a Seedot. Isn't it great? I caught a nut!"
"See!" Seedot cooed happily, further fueling Candace's squeals. The blonde paused in her glee, however, when Mina mentioned the trade.
"That's awesome! Of course I'll go. We can go by my house afterward to grab my backpack… I was in a hurry, so I left it," Candace explained sheepishly, giving her friend a small smile.
"That's so like you, always forgetting your things! 'Kay, let's head out!" Slinging her pack over her shoulder, Mina skipped to stand next to Candace with a big smile on her face. She patted the Seedot on the head in glee and took a few steps from where they stood and waved to Candace to follow.
Mina stood at the center's doors and entered once they swished open, her eyes instantly settling on a small boy, just about eleven with a pokeball in his hand, looking around uneasily.
"Oh, god, I feel so old!" The seventeen year old grasped the second pokeball on her pokeball belt and held it firmly in her hand, making her way to the mini-man.
"Um, hi, are you here to see Mina Gosner?"
He nodded and held out the ball. Mina blinked and nodded her head in a confused way, holding out hers as well. The boy took the extended globe and deposited his in her palm, then calmly walked off, leaving the teenager speechless.
Mina blinked twice then shrugged her shoulders and turned her body to the entrance, shoes squeaking on the tiled floor. After a moment of silence, Candace, who had been trying to hold in her laughter, carefully put one hand on top of the other and swiveled her thumbs in the likeness of a turtle.
"Awkwaaard!" she crooned in a singsong voice before dissolving into giggles. Seedot squirmed in her loosened grasp, voicing his agreement. "I can't believe we never paid any attention to Pokemon before. It took Gavin and Craig becoming obsessed and ditching Mauville to get us interested in them at all…"
"Seriously! I mean, if not for them then we couldn't have know that the world holds such cute things!" Mina bounced to Candace and looked at the sphere in her small hand. "I wonder what he traded me. If it's a stupid one I quit. Goodbye Gavin, goodbye lovely Craig – then again, I really do want to see them again. Him again. Whatever. I still really hate him for ditching in the middle of the night though!"
Hooking her arm carefully through Candace's folded ones, she dragged her friend out of the Pokemon center and out into the bright sunlight once more.
"Let's see if that awkward meeting was worth it, shall we? Oh, and great Awkward Squirtle by the way!"
Withdrawing her arm from her companion's, she dropped the pokeball carefully and held her breath when a small form started to appear, then fully form. Mina stared at the small rodent in front of her, the purple creature yawning cutely before looking up at the two girls.
"A… rat? A rat? A purple rat? What the crap?! Candace, what injustice! What a little punk to trade me this, this – " her sentence died on her lips as the green eyes of the human stared into those of the little Pokemon. "Alright, I have to admit that is super cute when it looks at me like that. Aw, my cute little rat thing!"
She knelt down and stroked its head, laughing at the glee it showed at the affection.
"Tata!"
"Oh, it's just so cute." Springing up, she clicked the ball to her belt and addressed Candace. "To your house now?"
Candace, who had been observing the scene, nodded.
"Yeah, let's head that way. Your little rat is called a Rattata, I think. Karolyne has a few at home," she said, leading the way toward the outskirts of the city. Around ten minutes of walking found the two just outside of Mauville, approaching the Quinn family's ranch-style estate. Both Candace's mother and older sister were Pokemon breeders, so living within the city limits had not been an option.
Candace, upon reaching her house, pushed the front door open with a yell of, "Okay, I'm getting ready to go!" Her brother Boyce, who had been sitting just across the living room from the door, scowled.
"Too loud, Candace," he said, making a show of covering his ears. When the blonde rolled her eyes, he grinned, but the twenty-one year old's face fell when he remembered what she had said. "Okay, let me get this straight. The two of you," he pointed to Candace and Mina, "are going to go travel the region and become Pokemon trainers, simply because those two dimwits that you like, Devin and Gabe -"
"Gavin and Craig!"
"- left home to take the gym challenge. Is that right?" Boyce asked, folding his arms across his chest. Candace nodded.
"Well, yeah. Why else would we go?" she questioned, holding Seedot tightly. Her brother rolled his eyes, massaging his temples with the middle and index fingers of each hand to thwart the Psyduck-esque headache that was forming.
"Don't take this the wrong way," he cautioned, "because I love you both. Candace, you're my little sister. Mina, you might as well be my little sister. But I have never heard of anyone becoming a trainer for a more ridiculous reason."
Mina happily followed Candace to her home, stifling a laugh at the look of Boyce's face when Candace yelled her proclamation, but her face fell when the man tried to make some sense of the journey they were about to set off on. Sure, it seemed sketchy that they were off on this Pokemon quest to follow boys, but he didn't understand!
"It's not ridiculous!" Her outburst made her new Pokemon jump in surprise. "You just don't understand. It's Gavin Marshall and Craig Went! They're just not any two boys – they're our boys and if they think they can just leave us then they don't know what we're capable of! Young girls in love do do stupid crazy things."
She then crossed her arms and stuck her tongue at him, only to retract it quickly.
"Sorry. That tongue thing was a little immature. But you'll see, right Candace? It's not a ridiculous reason at all."
Candace nodded vigorously, but Boyce just shook his head.
"Allow me to give you a reality check – neither of you have any claim on those boys. They're not yours," here he paused to make air quotes with his fingers, "and, in case you haven't noticed, they're actually complete dunces. Oh, and if that's not enough reason, Craig's last name is retarded and it makes me laugh."
Mina's folded arms went limp and were replaced by fists of 5'5" fury.
"What! Everyone, EVERYONE, knows that we have taken claim on those two since like, the fourth grade! They're ours – but them being guys they just haven't figured it out yet. Guys are dunces! All guys are, that's common knowledge! And so what if he has a stupid last name? What makes your name much better, huh? Boyce? That sounds like a punctured buoy spewing out air! You have no right to talk."
Candace, who had disappeared up to her room to grab her backpack, entered the living room just in time to hear this, and promptly burst into giggles. Boyce raised an eyebrow at his sister, but addressed Mina.
"Easy, Mini-Me," he drawled. "There's no need to be so harsh."
Mina's eye twitched at her long-forgotten nickname knighted to her by Boyce because she was only upgraded to 5'5 when she reached the age of 15. It wasn't her fault she didn't grow until that age!
"Oh, grr to you, you immature twenty-one year old! Go play in the woods with Kevin and the sticks you guys love so much." Stomping over to Candace she grabbed her arm and forcefully dragged her to the door, her eye still twitching. "See if we ever need your help once we leave this city!"
She closed the door with her head held high, then 'hmmphed' once it was firmly closed only to lower her shoulders in defeat and open the door once again, walking over to where she stood seconds earlier.
"...I forgot my Rattata." Bending down, she scooped the small Pokemon in her arms and exited the house again. Once outside she looked to Candace. "Please tell me you were done in there. If not then I'm going to feel like a big idiot when we go back in there."
Candace, still giggling, shook her head.
"No, I'm good to go. Now, where should we go first?" she asked, pulling Seedot's pokeball off her belt and recalling the acorn Pokemon.
Mina followed Candace's example, taking the empty pokeball and recalled her Rattata.
"Well, Candace," her voice was dripping with sweetness and she moved her body back and forth innocently. "We could mosey on down to Good Old Slateport andcatchtheSSTidaltoLilycove. Just think about it, Candace! We haven't been to Lilycove in forever and it has shopping! We may even catch a few more Pokemon!"
Mina stopped moving and tossed her full pokeball up and down softly in her right hand, her left one resting on her waist in a confident gesture.
"See? I even included Pokemon in my plan!"
"That is a grand idea, Mina! As if I would ever say no to shopping. The SS Tidal should be leaving in…" Candace paused to check the watch that dangled loosely on her left wrist. "In around an hour! We can make it if we hurry." With that said, Candace took off toward Route 110, which connected Mauville and Slateport.
Joint fanfiction by Kat and Nat, so grammatical errors are shared this time! Heh-heh… but I hope you enjoyed it and are looking forward to reading more of the hilarious journey that Candace and Mina are on!
Love to all!
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