DISCLAIMER: I do not own Another Cinderella Story or Pokémon, I'm just simply mashing them together.
Chapter 1
Meet Green Oak
Red was extremely happy.
He was at the Pokémon League, and had just beaten Lance, his evil stepfather- master- weirdo thingy. He was now in the Hall of Fame, proud of the look on Lance's face, and the excited jumping and clapping of his best friend Gold.
There was also another figure clapping, who seemed vaguely familiar. The image was fuzzy, like static and looked unclear. But Red could remember him from somewhere.
"Gr–?"
"RED!"
The boy snapped out of his daydream, and looked at Lance, who had called him. "How can I focus on my challengers when you are off in your dreamland?" Lance demanded, ticked at the teen's slacking off.
Red straightened and quickly bowed his head in apology.
"Whatever." Lance waved him off. "Go get me some Fresh Water, I'm parched from my last challenge."
Red nodded and ran off to the nearest vending machine.
"Mr. Lance?" One of his challengers asked. "Who is that boy anyway?"
"Oh, it's a long story." Lance sighed. "His father and I used to be good friends, he used to be in the Elite Four, you know. Then he died, and I had to look after the kiddo. Since I needed a little assistant, I took him in." Lance said thoughtfully. "You know, it wasn't really that long of a story after all."
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Red ran to the vending machine, and inserted a few bills, and selected the Fresh Water. When the bottle came down though, a grabby hand went and snatched it from Red's hands.
"Oh my gosh," Misty, his terrible stepsister sneered. "Thank you so much for getting me a drink, Red!"
Red rolled his eyes, and selected another one, only this time, it got stuck.
"Great," Red sighed. "Your dad is gonna kill me."
"Not my problem." Misty scoffed.
"I hear you're holding up the line of challengers." Lorelei, his other disgusting stepsister came up to them and selected a Soda Pop. "How distracting are you! Always dreaming that you're going to beat Dad and prance off with your knight in shining armor!" Misty and Lorelei cackled, Red leaving as soon as he got the Fresh Water unstuck.
They always tease him once they figured out he was bi, but really, almost half the school was bi, and everyone was cool with it. They just hated him.
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Lance came out of the limo, shouting in his PokéGear. "I don't want to go on that stupid radio show at Goldenrod! That old coot Professor Oak is too nosy about everyone's personal business! I said no, and the answer will always be no!"
"Oh my gosh, did you hear?" Misty squealed into her own PokéGear. "He's coming back! This will be the best semester ever!"
Lorelei scoffed into her PokéGear and squealed as well. "He is so hot!"
At the same time, Red came to the mansion on his bicycle to the back of the house to his small looking room.
"There's laundry to do!" Lorelei reminded.
"I know!"
"Don't you dare turn on that TV!" Lance shouted as he went into his room. "Yeah Dad!" Misty yelled back, and encouraged her sister to turn it on.
Immediately, the screen flickered to life in both the living room and Red's small room while he folded the laundry.
The female reporter smiled as she started the report. "I'm here at Pallet High School where the famous young gym leader of Viridian City, Green Oak, will come back to his home town after years of separation, bringing his triple threat of knowledge, battle skills, and handsome looks along with him."
The scene switched to the Viridian Gym, and Green Oak looking confident as he commanded his strong looking Arcanine to defeat a Nidoking. It also switched to a radio snippet as an interviewer asked him, "What are your plans for the future?"
"I'm planning to go back to my roots, you know? Going back to high school in Pallet and just keep it real." Green replied.
Misty squealed, and Lorelei just looked hungrily at the TV, not daring to blink.
"And how exactly will Oak keep it real? The gym leaders are funding a battling competition held here in Pallet where one lucky student will win the opportunity to go to the Pokémon League and also win a trip to Viridian City for a month!" The reporter said in delight.
Misty and Lorelei looked at each other when realization dawned on them, and smiled deviously.
Red saw this as well, and just smiled hopelessly as he realized that he was never going to win.
"So all you challengers out there in Pallet, get ready to get your battle on!" The woman ended it with a smile.
Beep! The sound of the intercom cracked to life as Lance's distorted voice echoed in his room.
"Red, I need you here, pronto!" Red winced, and cursed internally. He reached out and pushed the button to reply back. "I'll be right there!"
There was a moment of silence until his voice was heard again. "Can you feel that?"
Red hesitated, confused. "What?"
"I'm choking you. From a distance. Choking you!"
Le sigh.
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Red rushed outside to be picked up by his good friend.
"Hey," He greeted quickly. "Hey what up?" Gold casually said with a huge smile as he started up the car. Red pulled down the mirror, or tried to, since the mirror came crashing down.
"What the– oh, Gold." Red carefully put the mirror back in its rightful place. "You should really get this thing fixed."
"Thing?" Gold exclaimed. "Don't hurt her feelings. Or else she'll break down for good." He whispered quietly, as if the vehicle could hear them. Red smiled at this, and Gold patted the orange car. "You gotta respect the Great Magikarp."
Red chuckled. "You're so weird, Gold."
"Hey, do you think my goggles go with my hat?" Gold wondered. "I want your honest opinion."
"You look…awesome, as always." Red laughed.
"Thanks, it's a Gold original." He proudly smirked. "I decided to dress in style since it's gonna be our last semester together ever!"
"Aw, do you think you could ever survive senior year without me?" Red said sarcastically.
"Um, yeah, I'll become a PokéAthelon famous athlete, and you'll become the Pokémon League Champion, obviously. Oh, and on the weekends, I'll pick you up in my private jet and we'll go battling in Unova." Gold rattled off, looking quite confident that it'll happen.
"Uh, wow, that's quite specific."
"Embrace your awesomeness!"
They arrived at school and Red sighed in despair. "Gold, I actually have to get into the Pokémon League before I become Champion of it and embrace my awesomeness."
"Shut up, you're gonna get there soon, I promise." Gold smiled. "Don't even think otherwise."
Next to them, a red Ferrari drove smoothly up to them and parked. Inside was a girl with shoulder length brown hair sitting in the driver's seat chattering to her little minions. "…it makes your skin smoother, I'm not kidding, It's called the one-sip diet." Blue, Misty, and Lorelei were all drinking Soda Pops, and when Blue laid her mascara- thick eyes on Red, she smirked, and dumped all of her drink on his clothes.
Red gasped, and Lorelei laughed at him.
"Oh sorry Red," Blue feigned innocence. "I didn't see you there. It's like you were totally invisible."
Gold stomped up behind Red. "Oh yeah? Check out my totally invisible finger!" He shouted angrily and held up a fist to the little trio.
"Stop it, Gold," Red stuck out an arm to prevent the golden eyed boy to go on a rampage. "Let's just go."
The duo headed into the school, and Gold started to complain about the girls.
"They're such bitches! They think they can do whatever they want like no one even matters—" A jock came up to Gold and flicked his goggles. "Nice goggles, weirdo. But Halloween was last year!"
"Oh yeah? Then why do you look like a—" Red interrupted quickly before things could get out of hand. "Where were we? Bitches doing whatever they want?"
Gold rolled his eyes, and continued on. "Anyways, before I was so rudely interrupted—"
"Oh my god!" A cheerleader, Whitney, who was right in front of them, suddenly screamed. "It's Green Oak!"
"—and you were rudely interrupted yet again." Red tried, and smiled when Gold sent a withering glare at him.
They were stampeded over, and at the front entrance, was Green Oak, with his best friend Silver. "Hey everybody! How's it going?" Green called out happily, and there was a warm response from the crowd that was currently swamping them.
Whitney eagerly shook her pom-poms in Green's face, and Silver immediately leapt to his defense. "Hey, stop, that's annoying."
"Back off, everyone." Silver commanded, and the crowd backed off a little bit, but they were still trying to get to Green.
"Oh my god, I love you so much!" A fanboy reached out, and Green smiled nicely and shook his hand. "Hey, thanks a lot."
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"I don't want you to feel as if you're a shiny Pokémon that trainers are after." Silver said, worried.
"Nah, don't worry about it. The ladies just can't keep their hands off me." Green waggled his eyebrows seductively.
"Shut up you, you're bi, everyone knows that." Silver replied with a smirk. "This school year, will be the best of your life, I'll make absolutely sure of it. This will be the start of the new Green Oak."
Green smiled, and the two friends high-fived each other.
"Even the Dragonairs can't keep their tails off you." Silver joked.
"Aw dude, don't even mention that weirdo dragon guy—" Green started to protest, but accidentally bumped into a random person and their books went flying to the floor.
"Ow!" The person cried out, and Green immediately spun around to apologize.
"Oh hey, are you okay—?" Green met the other person's eyes, and they were the most brightest, beautiful, scarlet that he had ever seen.
But they were also familiar. As if he had seen them somewhere.
Red stared into the other's emerald green eyes, and couldn't help but wonder, where has he seen those eyes before?
Green hesitantly handed him a textbook. "Here…sorry for that."
Red snapped out of it, and gratefully took it. "No, it's my fault, I wasn't paying attention."
Their fingers touch, and Green feels a jolt of electricity spark through him.
"Hey Green," A snarky voice brings him back to reality as he is picked up and faced with his ex-girlfriend. "Long time no kiss."
Blue pulls him into a make out session, and Red averts his eyes from the disgusting scene.
Green forces his lips apart from Blue's, and chuckles nervously. "Wow, Blue! That's uh, quite a greeting you gave me…"
"You couldn't call me?" Blue licked her lips seductively, and pushed her chest towards him.
Green sneaked a look at Red, who was currently ignoring him, only focusing on picking up his belongings.
"Uh, I was training. On Mt. Silver!" Green quickly made up an excuse in order not to see Blue's resounding rage.
"Well, whatever, I hear you're coming to our battle class today, let's go!" Blue pulled Green away, who looked at Red one more time, and got dragged away.
Silver also helped Red pick up his stuff, and took a look at Gold. "Nice goggles."
"Thanks!" Gold said with a bright smile. "…I think."
Silver offered him a small smile, and introduces himself. "I'm Silver." He offered a hand hesitantly.
"Gold." In contrast, the boy smiles, and gleefully takes his hand. He laughs. "Hey, our names match!"
Silver smiles a little wider. "Maybe it's destiny." He says, and walks away to chase Green.
"That guy's mysterious." Gold slowly smiled. "All right, I like guys with a little mystery here and there."
Red giggled after gathering his books. "He's cute, that's what counts, huh?"
"What's your damage, Red?" Misty gasped, the two stepsisters coming down the hall.
"Nothing, what's your damage?" Gold countered, Red holding out another arm to prevent Gold from tackling the sisters.
"This is our hallway." Lorelei snarled. "Or did you trolls forget that?"
"Oh yeah? You want a piece of me?" Gold started to charge, but Red held him back firmly.
"Come on, Gold, they're not even worth it." Red pulled the golden eyed boy to their next period, ignoring the stepsisters as he did.
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Red cycled up to the battle training class, and waited until everyone was out of sight, then pulled on his hat and made sure it covered his eyes.
He parked his bicycle, and headed inside.
He sneakily avoided the security guards, and stood on a battle field with another person standing on the opposite side.
"Hey Blue," He overheard Misty's sick voice call out to the brunette. "It was a tragedy when you and Green broke up. Seeing him must feel like getting dumped all over again."
Red swore he could hear the sound of Blue's glossy lips twisting into a smirk. "Green and I will be back together again before the *Masked Tournament."
The entrance of the coach, Lt. Surge, made the class fall silent as he clapped, a thunderous sound echoing throughout the room.
"Alright cupcakes, it's one thing to battle with your mind, and another thing to battle with your heart. First let's start with some warm-up battles." Lt. Surge commanded.
The class brought out their Pokémon, (a Poliwrath for Red, a Jigglypuff for Blue, a Staryu for Misty, and a Seel for Lorelei) and they started to call out a few commands, testing the other's ability. For some, it was a one-hit KO in victory, like Red and Blue. For others, well…it was bad.
It was all relaxed, until a knock rung out the room, and Misty's loud shriek could be heard.
"Oh my god, it's Green Oak!" The class immediately whipped their heads around, and marveled at the gym leader, while Red shrunk back and Blue applied a fresh new layer of lip gloss.
"Green Oak, to what occasion do I have the pleasure of meeting you here in my own battle class?" Lt. Surge held out a hand, and Green shook it firmly. "Just watching, that's all. Here to pick up on some battle tips."
"Well son, you sit right there and relax as we go through our class and enjoy yourself." Lt. Surge winked, and Green chuckled and nodded.
The competition got a little fiercer after that. Especially with the girls. When Green found something he liked, he would go up to the person and talk to them, asking them about their battle strategy. When a person wins, they stay on that battleground. But when they lose, they have to go to another empty battleground. Red won every single time, and needless to say, so did Blue.
Finally, Green sneakily avoided Blue's constant harassment and landed in front of Red on his battlefield.
Behind his hat, Red's eyes widened, and didn't trust his voice to say a word.
"Hey there," Green smiled. "I've been watching you for a while and your strategies are really unlike anything I've ever seen. I'd like to battle you myself…if you don't mind."
Red shook his head, and took his battle position. Green did the same, and took out a Pokéball.
He called out his Pigeot, a majestic creature, crying magnificently as it came out in a flash of light.
Red took in a sharp breath, and stared in amazement. Green, who noticed this, smirked. "Too hard for you? Want me to switch?"
Red shook his head again furiously, and the match started.
It was a flurry of Pokémon attacks everywhere, Water Gun and Quick Attack, and Green felt an excited jolt as they battled, it was unlike anything he ever felt; not even when he was battling at the gym.
This trainer was special.
Suddenly, a ring rang out in the middle of the battle, and Red stopped the attack, as he dove for his PokéGear, and whispered, "Hello?"
"Where are you? I'm having a dinner party tonight, and I need you to make crab puffs!" Lance demanded angrily.
"I'm sorry, I'll be there soon." Red urgently whispered, only to be greeted with more yelling. "I don't want whispered excuses, I want crab puffs on a plate!"
Red just rolled his eyes, and hung up.
The line went dead on Lance's side. "…Hello?"
Red stood up and returned his Pokémon back to its Pokéball. "Whoa, whoa, where do you think you're going?" Green demanded. This was the match of his life, and he was just leaving?
"Sorry, I have to go." Red mumbled apologetically. "Maybe another time?"
Green thought, and finally nodded. "Alright, next time. But don't you dare skip out on me again!" He threatened playfully.
Red resisted the urge to laugh. "I won't."
"Pinky promise?" Green held out his enclosed hand, excluding the stuck out pinky.
Red did laugh this time, very softly and almost inaudibly. He went over to Green and entwined their pinkies together. Green felt that familiar jolt of electricity again as their pinkies meet, vaguely remembering it from somewhere.
"I promise."
A/N: Finally done with the first chapter, yeah!
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*The Masked Tournament is like the Black and White Ball, only that it's a Pokémon tournament, and they wear masks to conceal their identity.
