It all happened a week ago, to this date.
It was late Friday night, and I had just finished a research session with my boss, world-renowned Professor Oak. We were discussing the mysterious (well, to us) region of Unova, and the possibility of there being hundreds more Pokemon that we didn't know about. This discussion lasted well on in the wee hours of the night, so I was considering asking Gold if I could stay at his place for the night, seeing as the walk to Violet City was, at the very least, 2 and a half hours long.
In the end, I let my drowsiness get the best of me, and I headed to Gold's house.
After knocking on his door at least 50 times, I saw Gold's head peer out of the window. His hair was even messier than usually, and a spot of drool had dried on the corner of his mouth. Realizing that is was me who knocked on the door, a wide grin painted his face.
"Crys!" his exclaimed, a yawn escaping his mouth. "What brings you here on this fine evening?"
"Um, I was kind of hoping I could stay here for the night," I said sheepishly. "Is that alright?"
He grinned. "Of course. But just don't try to seduce me, my mom's here and I don't think she'd like the prospect of me fooling around in the room right next to her. Although," his eyes traveled down to the sand colored skirt I had on, "I don't think I could resist you if you tried."
I glared at the golden-eyed boy. "Arceus, Gold, will you at least TRY to be less of a pervert? It's been a long day, and the last thing I want to do is listen to your dirty comments."
Gold held his hands up in defense. "Ok, ok, I'll stop."
I grinned. "Good." I stepped through the door to see Pokemon everywhere. This, of course, was a very normal thing for Gold's family.
"Umm...," Gold said, scratching the back of his head, "this room is a little bit, uh, occupied, so you can just sleep in my bed and I'll sleep on the floor." As he said this, he motioned for me to follow him upstairs. Obediently, I followed.
His room, similar to the downstairs foyer, was occupied mainly by Pokemon. These, however, were ones very familiar to me, as they're the ones on his active team. I crouched down to the peaceful looking Explotaro and petted his soft fur. He stirred a little, but remained asleep.
"Do you need any clothes or anything to sleep in? I could lend you a shirt," Gold offered.
I shook my head, dropping my skirt to reveal my shorts. "That won't be necessary."
"Aw, you sleep naked too?" Gold asked, his tone a mixture of surprise and excitement. I took off my jacket and proceeded to hit him with it. "No, you perv! I have shorts on under my skirt, you know."
"Well, that's disappointing," Gold admitted. "Anyway, Super Serious Gal, I think it's time we both hit the hay, so I gu-" He was interrupted by police sirens and a loud knock on the door.
"Pokedex holders Gold and Crystal, we have a warrant for your arrest! Come out with your hands where I can see them!"
I froze. What could they possibly want with us? As far as I knew, I hadn't done anything that could potentially get me arrested. And although Gold's morals were questionable at times, he never did anything too bad.
"Come on, Crystal," Gold said sternly, awakening me from my daze. We ran down the stairs, seeing that the scene was worse than we could imagine. There were at least two dozen policemen, all compacted in Gold's small living room. One of them had Gold's sobbing mother handcuffed.
"Glad you could finally join us, Gold and Crystal," a burly officer remarked. "How about you just come over here and make things easier for all of us? I promise you, these handcuffs don't hurt as bad as they say."
I crossed my arms. "We're not going until you tell us why the hell we're being arrested!" Despite my calm look on the outside, on the inside my heart was beating faster than it's ever had.
"Even then, I can't guarantee you we'll go," Gold scoffed. I shot him a glare, silently telling him to shut his mouth. He'll end up getting us in more trouble if he's not careful.
The officer sighed. "I was told this might not be easy. Ah well, if you won't go willingly, I'll just have to force you." He snapped his fingers, sending two officers to attack Gold, and one to handle me. The officer came full force towards me, arms out and eyebrows knitted. I ducked, running away from the monster of a man. Behind me, I heard Gold scream, which was followed by a loud thud.
A sharp jolt of pain went down my spine, then everything went black.
"Is she going to be alright?" a familiar feminine voice asked worriedly. My eyes fluttered open, revealing the owner of the voice to be Yellow. I forced myself up, although the pain in my head was blinding. Taking in a quick survey of the room, it would seem that we're in a jail cell.
"Crystal!" Yellow exclaimed, rushing over to me. I smiled despite the stabbing feeling in my head.
"How do you feel?" she asked, her motherly instincts kicking in.
"Like hell. We all do," a voice from behind me said.
Was that Blue? I thought. She's here too? "What's going on? Who's all here? How'd we even get here?" I asked hastily. Blue chuckled, walking over to were I was laying. "Cool your jets, Crys. One question at a time."
I sat up, which sent a bolt of pain up my spine. "Well then, what's going on here?"
The blue-eyed senior plopped down on the bed next to me, propping her legs up on the bed's railings. "Don't know."
"Who's here?"
"Not sure."
"How'd we get here?"
"I have no idea."
I sighed. "Thanks for all the info."
Blue smiled warmly. "Anytime, babe." She sat up again, her face turning deadly serious. "For the time being, though, we need to find out as much as we can, mainly why we're here. Then we can work on getting out."
Yellow sighed. "It'll be near impossible to get out of here without our Pokemon." Tears filled her eyes, threatening to escape. Without her Pikachu, ChuChu, Yellow seemed like a lost soul.
"Oh, Yellow. So young, so dependent," Blue observed. "Even without Pokemon, we can get out of here."
Yellow cocked her head. "How, exactly?"
"We use our feminine assets, of course."
Leave it to Blue to think of such a degrading, yet clever, plan of escape.
It was simple; Blue and I were to woo the officer, distracting him, while Yellow grabbed the set of keys off of his belt. It was such an effortless plan, but with barely any resources to work with, we would have to deal with it.
The only real problem was that, with all my lack of experience, I had no idea of how to be provocative. Blue, however, was going to fix that.
"The key of seduction lies in what you say, and how you say it," Blue said, adopting an official tone. "You must make your victim really believe that you want him as much as he wants you."
She stopped pacing for a moment. "Give me your best seductive tone."
I sat, wide-eyed. "I don't know what to say."
The senior rolled her eyes. "Just say anything! As long as you get the voice down, you could tell a man to eat shit and he'll be turned on."
I sighed. Then, with the most seductive voice I could muster, I said, "I really want you."
Blue stood in front of me, sincerely not knowing whether to laugh or feel sorry for me. "Oh, come on, Crys. That just screams virginity. You should feel lucky that you have such a nice body, 'cause if you didn't, I swear, no man would want you."
Ugh, I really didn't feel like doing this. I'm a researcher, not a hooker. Seduction is not a talent I need to learn.
Yellow peered out of the bars. "He's coming!" she whispered. Blue and I got in place, prepared to carry the plan out.
The officer himself was a rather large man, with broad shoulders and a bulging stomach. From the three times I had seen him since I've been in this cell, I've observed that he always wears a pair of aviator sunglasses. Although, this time his face was bare, and beside him was a very familiar looking Aipom.
"What are you three lovely ladies doing in here?" the officer said, his voice sounding very similar to a Johto Dex holder we all now and love...
"Gold!" I gasped. He smiled, the Ditto, most likely Blue's, that was keeping his disguise up falling on to the ground. Blue smiled picking her Ditto up. "You know what to do, Ditty."
The pink blob nodded, morphing into a key. With the make-shift key, Blue unlocked the cell, freeing us.
"Are the others here?" I asked, following Blue and Gold down the prison's corridor. Yellow was close behind us, and I could tell from the look on her face that the prison frightened her.
"They're already outside waiting for us," Gold replied. "They have all our Pokemon, too." Yellow perked up once she heard this.
We continued down the hall. On our way, I noticed that all of the officers that were here were all knocked out cold. From the look of it, it was Red's Venasaur's doing.
Soon enough, we were out. All of the Pokedex holders were gathered under a nearby tree, waiting for us.
"Took ya long enough," Sapphire said, standing up. Although the Hoenn girl was rude and brash at times, I couldn't help but like her.
She threw us all our stuff, which I narrowly caught. Green, my senior from Kanto, stood up. He released his Charizard. "We need to get away from here ASAP. Everyone who has a flying Pokemon, release it. And if you have an extra, loan it to someone who doesn't. We're gonna be flying all the way to Pallet Town."
Ruby sighed. "Can't we take the train or something? All of this flying is going to mess up my clothes."
Sapphire glared at him. "We're escaped prisoners who need to stay out of sight, and all ya can think about are yer new, prissy-boy clothes?" Ruby crossed his arms. "Well, at least I wear clothes. The first time I met you, the most you had on were a couple of leaves."
"Why you lit-"
Emerald got between the two, attempting to stop the oncoming fight. "Will you lovebirds stop? We need to get outta here fast."
Sapphire grunted. "Fine. Just keep Mr. Prissy-boy away from me, and we'll be okay."
Green sighed, slightly annoyed by the Hoenn duo's constant bickering. "Let's just hurry and get a move on. Grandpa's waiting for us."
We all nodded, the ones who have flying Pokemon releasing them. Luckily, I had Xatee.
The flight to Pallet Town was a long one. Green was bent on getting there before sunrise, so we took no stops. By the time we finally reached Kanto, all of us were about to fall asleep.
Green led us to his grandfather's house, where the professor was waiting.
"Welcome, Dex holders. Great to see you all, although it's a pity it has to be under such circumstances..." Professor Oak greeted us. His house was a sizable one, with three floors. On the first floor was his lab and den, where we all gathered. What was on the next two floors was unknown to me. It was most likely just his regular house, though.
"So, gramps, would you care to tell us just why we were all arrested?" Gold asked, spreading out on the couch he was sitting on. After making him take his feet off the couch, I sat next to him.
The professor let out a shuddering sigh. "It's a long story. How about I make some tea, then we'll talk about it?" We nodded our heads, too tired to really speak up.
Soon enough, the tea was all ready and we sat down once more. Then, the Professor started his explanation.
"Ever since our little run-in with Deoxys, a few citizens around Kanto began thinking that we were, well, bad people for bringing such a Pokemon among them, although it was really not our faults. Red would know all about this."
The raven-haired senior nodded his head. "It was horrible, looking into the people of Five Island's eyes and seeing how much they genuinely hated me... It's not something that's nice to see." Blue placed her hand on his back in an attempt to comfort him.
"Well," Professor Oak continued, "this has begun to happen again, this time world-wide. People are beginning to think that the only reason we fight these Pokemon when they appear is to gain power and fame. Some even speculate that we call them here, to, again, just get fame and fortune."
Gold interrupted, banging his pool cue on the floor tiles. "This isn't fair! We risk our lives for these people. They should be practically bowing down to us!"
"Really, they shouldn' be repaying us like this. They've got no right," Sapphire agreed, crossing her arms. "After all, we've saved their butts on a number of occasions."
"Although I agree, this just isn't how things are going. Honestly, it's too late to change their opinions now..." Professor admitted. "We've all become known fugitives."
"What do you propose we do then, Professor?" Platinum asked, slightly yawning.
Sighing, the professor rose from his seat. "We must go into hiding."
A/N: So, here's the first chapter of In Bloom! It's short, I know, but the only reason it's really here is to shed some light on to the reason they're going to be in the Pokemon Mansion in the first place.
Anyway, here's a little information on the story that you might need. The story is set after the HGSS arc, but before the Black and White arc, hence Black and White not being a part of the Pokedex Holders (I know White doesn't even have a Pokedex, but I consider a part of them, since she is a main character). They might appear later on in the story, but I'm not quite sure yet. Also, I know that in the HGSS arc Crystal gets new clothes, but in my opinion, those clothes aren't ones I can see her working in, so if she's ever working, she'll wear her old clothes. At any other times, she'll be in her new ones.
As for the story itself, I'm going to alternate between the narrators. As you can tell, this chapter was narrated by Crystal, but the next one is going to be narrated by someone different, like Blue, Gold, Silver, etc. etc. etc. So, by the end of the story, everyone will of had at least one chance to narrate, although the story will probably be long enough for them to narrate multiple times.
I suppose that covers it all, so please review and tell me if I'm keeping everyone in character. I want to keep everyone as in character as I possibly can, so if at anytime I start to drift from a character's actual personality, don't be afraid to tell me!