Bold Text means: Text from the Game (I tried to stay close to the R/S/E, FR/LG, and D/P/P game text and battle scenes, but I sort-of deviated from it. I haven't played the games for several months because I lost my DS lite (as well as my GBA SP), so please give me a little leeway.)
Italic Text: Pokémon Move Choices (though I did not put the PP, the move type, and the Power amount each move makes)
Note: For people that have not really played Pokemon, I'm going to make this nice and a little more slower than I would usually write stuff. Also, this is one of the few CL fics with Pokemon… so… *shrugs* I put more information in the parentheses- hope that's not annoying that much. And yes, Pokémon being sent out do have cries, and I edited the story so that it did not include the movement the Pokémon do after being encountering it- wild or captured- in E/D/P/P… I didn't design the game/show. Oh, yeah. I don't own Pokémon, Game Freak and other people in Japan do.
I apologize to the people that actually know the functions of Pokémon in the game, and in the show. It's not Happy Hills here either. I still have to explain for the people that don't own the games. I am trying to write more detail to better explain myself to the people that are not familiar with the game(s)/show. This takes place in Season 4, during Sunday morning (for most of the story) and later in the day. Kadic does not have school on Sunday (yes, it does on Saturdays) or Holidays.
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'Player has defeated: Super Nerd XANA'
Ulrich smirked at the digital message being displayed onscreen his black and red DS Lite- he had just beat a player calling himself XANA over the Wi-Fi connection. It probably was XANA himself, running the game on a digital version of either the Pokémon Diamond, Platinum, or Pearl version of the game- which Ulrich had no idea how XANA could obtain that version of the game on the internet. Ulrich exited the room, and put his DS on his bed, lightly stretching out. For all he knew, Odd was on his bed, playing Fire Red, and Jeremie and Aelita were most likely battling each other. Ulrich smirked to himself, knowing XANA would probably be frustrated with itself, as it could not beat the Lyoko Warriors in the Internet, on Lyoko, and even in a game.
'Trainer Yumi has invited you to battle! Do you accept?'
Ulrich looked over on his DS console as the message lightly beeped, his Platinum game still running. Ulrich lightly tapped the t-like cross, pressing against the Northern tip a few times and then pressing A to accept. The game paused for a moment while it searched for the other's Wi-Fi signal, and then they both entered the room, taking a side on the stage in the room.
Immediately, the battle theme commenced, a screen showing his digital sprite and a digital sprite of a female Trainer was shown, a medium sized "Vs." between them. Then, the battle field appeared, Yumi's digital sprite on the upper right hand corner, and his sprite, with the back to him, appeared on the lower left hand side. 6 Pokéballs appeared for each trainer before they rolled away, the trainers' sprites moving away along with them.
'Trainer Yumi would like to battle!'
'Trainer Yumi sent out Ternion'
A Pokéball was thrown by his opponent, and after a brief flash of light, a lv. 100 female Infernape appeared with its frenzied battle cry- obviously it had been the first Pokémon in Yumi's team. Ulrich's sprite had sent out a lv. 100 Empoleon, echoing its mysterious battle cry, which he had not bothered nicknaming with. In fact, Ulrich had not nicknamed the majority of his Pokémon, except for an Ekans as Sissi (as Sissi was annoying, but not really dangerous), a Growlithe that he had imported from Fire Red that was nicknamed Blaze, and a Beautifly named Crystal that he had imported from Emerald. All of the mentioned Pokémon were in the digital storage for his pokemon.
'What will Empoleon do?'
Steel Wing - Surf
Waterfall - Hydro Cannon
After a brief moment of choosing, Ulrich tapped the "Hydro Cannon" option on the touch screen with his stylus. However, due to the large speed stat given to Infernapes, Ternion moved first, and attacked with "Earthquake". 'Blast!' he thought, knowing the ground move was super effective on the Steel and Water Pokémon, Yumi was obviously targeting the weak point of his Pokémon- the Steel part.
Ulrich watched the HP bar of his Empoleon slowly recede until it was left to about 25 HP, the bar going red and the annoying beeping sound starting again whenever a Pokémon in his party that he was battling with was in low health. Ulrich scowled, and watched his Empoleon launch the Hydro Cannon attack, the high Power attack wiping out the Infernape with one hit- especially since it was a Critical Hit.
With a slightly altered sound of the battle cry, the Infernape disappeared from the upper right side of the screen. Ulrich's Empoleon shook a little before sparkles danced around the Pokémon, a little health returning to the HP bar due to the Leftovers item he had given to Empoleon. The bar for her Pokémon, appearing again with 5 fully colored Pokéballs and one grayed-out Pokéball (indicating the Pokémon had fainted). Another Pokéball was thrown by Yumi's digital sprite offscreen.
Trainer Yumi sent out Rayquaza!
A green, serpentine-like dragon Pokémon (minus the wings) appeared from a purple and white Pokéball (a Master Ball) with a cry more like a load roar. Ulrich looked over his list of moves for Empoleon, angry that he did not replace one of the moves with an Ice-type move- to take care of Flying and Dragon type Pokémon. Ulrich tapped the 'Hydro Cannon' option on the touch screen, but due to Rayquaza being a legendary- it also had advanced stats. Rayquaza used 'Extremespeed', and despite the advantage Empoleon had with it being a steel type and the move being labeled as 'not effective' against it, Empoleon had fainted- its battle cry a weaker and a lower pitch than when it had gone in.
The screen then changed to the remaining 5 of his pokemon- A lv. 85 Swampert, a lv. 92 Blissey, a lv. 92 Kangaskhan, a lv. 95 Charizard, and a lv. 98 Dragonite. Deciding that Blissey had the best chance of surviving the hits due to the massive amount of HP , healing moves, and defensive as well as elusive moves, Ulrich sent it out- also knowing that Blissey would probably annoy Yumi because of such high HP stats, and that if he had sent out Dragonite, then Rayquaza would have wiped it out easily due to its super-effective dragon moves..
'Get 'em, Blissey!'
It was funny- the game made your dialogue appear on the screen without you bidding or really thinking it- it was all part of the programming. Almost immediately, as he thought that, a portly pink and white female Pokémon showed up emitting a cry that didn't sound really ferocious at all- rather cheerful almost. However, that did not matter, as Ulrich looked over the moves he had chosen for Blissey, and knew that Yumi would have a tough time trying to defeat his Blissey.
'What will Blissey do?'
Ulrich chose the 'Fight' option on the panel, and looked over the moves displayed in the touch screen area.
Softboiled - Defense Curl
Double Edge - Thunder
Ulrich grinned, knowing that it was fortunate that he had taught Blissey via a TM Thunder, and had then boosted the PP by 6 using the PP Max. It did not matter if Rayquaza had attacked first- Blissey was a tough thing to defeat- properly trained, that is, along with a HP replenish item- another Leftover he had gotten when Odd accidentally traded the Pokémon that had that item. He flipped through the options manually, and pressed the 'A' button on the 'Defense Curl' option.
Rayquaza attacked first with Outrage, narrowing Blissey's HP down to about a third. Blissey then used 'Defense curl' and increased its defense stat. Blissey then restored some of its headlth using the leftovers, and her health bar went from being yellow to being green again. Rayquaza attacked again with 'Outrage', as it was a move that consists of 2-3 attacks. Blissey then performed 'Solftboiled' under Ulrich's command, and restored it's HP to almost full, filling up again when the Leftovers activated again at the end of both the Pokémon's turns. Yellow ducks then appeared around Rayquaza's head, indicating that the Outrage attack was over until Yumi decided to use it again, and that it was confused- a chance that it would hurt itself.
Seeing this, Ulrich decided to strike when it was confused, so he tapped the 'Thunder' option. Normally, he would have done 'Rain Dance' before using 'Thunder' to make Thunder hit all the tume, but due to Rayquaza's Air Lock ability, Rayquaza would have negated this effect. His attack went first, as Rayquaza was confused, and the attack landed, being Super Effective because Electric attacks was Super-Effective on Flying Types. The attack pushed Rayquaza almost to the yellow zone, but Rayquaza, confused, then hurt itself in its confusion, taking away some of its health.
The battle raged on, Ulrich upping Blissey's defense while Rayquaza was confused, not remotely fazed when Rayquaza's attacks started hitting Blissey. Ulrich decided to end the battle with Rayquaza by using Thunder, and so tapped on the option. However, before the Thunder attack could hit Rayquaza, Yumi switched out her Pokémon, a Hitmonchan taking its place. The attack hit it, and it not being super effective or not effective on the Hitmonchan, it was chalked up to its regular power. Hitmonchan survived the hit, and used Mach Punch on Blissey, causing to Ulrich to groan, knowing that his Blissey was susceptible to fighting attacks.
Even though Blissey's defense had been increased, Blissey's health slowly moved to the yellow zone. Ulrich decided to irritate Yumi by using 'Softboiled' again just to irritate her, so he tapped that option with his stylus, unaware that he was in for a surprise. To his shock and horror, he watched as Hitmonchan used 'Close Combat', instantly knocking out Blissey, though lowering its Defense and Special Defense in the process Ulrich angrily scowled and sent out his Swampert, knowing that Hitmonchan- if it had learned 'Thunder Punch', it would have not worked due to Swampert being partly a ground type. Ulrich did not dare send out his Dragonit, for fear that Hitmonchan had learned 'Ice Punch'.
-20 Minutes Later-
Ulrich was down to his last Pokémon, while Yumi had two of her Pokémon left. Ulrich wasn't too happy of the fact that his last Pokémon's health was halved due to a 'Dragonbreath' attack, courtesy of Yumi's Rayquaza. Ulrich had retaliated with his Kangaskhan, but he knew how things were probably going to end. Ulrich managed to lower Rayquaza's health to the Red zone with an attack.
Rayquaza also had lowered Kangaskhan's health to the red zone also by using an 'Extreme Speed'. Ulrich groaned, knowing that he had chosen 'Double Edge' for his attack. With a hit, his attack struck and Rayquaza fainted. Due to the recoil from the attack, his Kangaskhan fainted as well, letting Yumi win the battle, as she still had one Pokémon that was not fainted.
The Vs. screen appeared again with both of their sprites on one side, and his side darkened as he had lost the battle. Both of them exited the Battle Room on room later and their games immediately saved their information on the results of the battle. Ulrich waited for it to be fully saved before he opened the menu bar and chose the selection that bore his name, and looked over his trainer card before "flipping" it over to look at his battle record, which now read 37-1-0. Yumi had definitely scratched his record of not losing to someone. Then again, Odd wasn't so good of a strategist, however, he was good on speed and defense attacks. Yumi was good on attack, Jeremie and Aelita were experts on Sp. Attack and Sp. Defense respectively, and he (Ulrich) was more of a defensive type.
Ulrich turned the game off and rolled over on his bed for a small nap. When he awoke, it was about Lunch time, and as Ulrich's stomach growled, Ulrich decided that it was a good time for some food. Ulrich left and headed for the cafeteria, noticing Odd was gone- he had probably ran to the cafeteria before he had noticed him gone. Ulrich shrugged an continued on, getting his lunch, heading over to the group (minus Yumi) and sitting in his usual spot.
Jeremie was talking about some new program that he had developed in terms that nobody in the group, except for a few, could understand what he was talking about. Ulrich played around with his food, not paying much attention until one of them asked them what was bothering him. Ulrich sighed and began to tell them how he really felt about Yumi. The rest of the group then tried to get him and Yumi on a date, but Ulrich, blushing madly with the thought, declined and pointed out that Jeremie and Aelita had not gone out with each other, causing them to blush also.
Ulrich shrugged and left the cafeteria, listening to Odd diving for his uneaten portions and the other two trying to save his food so he can eat it later by unsuccessfully restraining Odd. Ulrich walked over to a park nearby, trying to savor the only circumstances in which there was no school in Kadic. Ulrich was deep in his thoughts before he walked to the area in which the park had Gazebos, noticing a familiar figure clad in black sitting in one of them, staring out in the open, doing nothing.
Before he knew it, he was walking over to her and hugged her from behind, causing her to jerk and look behind her in surprise.
"Hello, Ulrich. It's a nice day, isn't it?" she asked, looking at him curiously.
"It'll be a nice day when I finally get a win against you" he jokingly replied, slowly pulling away and entering the gazebo. "To think that I can beat an evil AI bent on destruction in the video game, but I can't defeat you! You scratched my perfect record of wins" Ulrich exclaimed.
"Guess that means I have to be your tag-team battle partner instead of the other 5 featured there." Yumi replied back, crossing her arms with an amused look in her eyes.
"Nah, I'm beating them just dandily… Buck seems to be a little off in his attacks, but that's okay, since my team is good enough to wipe them out by themselves" Ulrich said, leaning back against the wooden borders of the gazebo.
Yumi grinned and just stared back to the background, watching several birds in a tree as they fluttered about- that is, until Ulrich gave her a quick peck on the cheek. When Yumi turned to look at him, she only found him sitting with his hands on his lap, a heavy blush forming as the thoughts of what he had done in that crazed moment in which he had felt a burning desire to prove himself to her.
"Er… you won't tell the guys about this, will you?" Ulrich asked sheepishly.
"Nah, especially since you did it wrong." Yumi said as she watched him look up in surprise.
"It's not?" Ulrich asked, quizzically looking at her.
"Nope" Yumi said as she closed the distance between them. "This…" she said softly, "is how you do it…"
And with that, Yumi gave him a kiss on the lips- and it was not a momentary kiss either.
"Huh…" Ulrich said when they finally broke away. "You even beat me in kissing… now how is that fair?" he jokingly said.
"Well, Ulrich, let's just say that love makes people do all sorts of crazy things, and that I was undeniably insane…" Yumi replied back.
Needless to say, the rest of the day was quite interesting for them, though none of the guys back home did not know anything about the day Yumi and Ulrich spent together… and still they badgered them to go out with each other.
Fin.
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Author's note: Yes, this takes a long time to write so I can have an idea on how the story goes- a XANA-centric fanfic I am making was developing for over a month. The day before the other day I learned there was a Pokémon game called "Flames of Rage" for GBA, featuring Entei. I was not aware of this because it was not listed in Bulbapedia (.)- which is a wiki dedicated to Pokémon. I am not quite sure if it is a legitimate game, as the internet does have a download to the Yellow/Red/Blue/Gold/Silver/Crystal- styled game (though I did see some versions on YouTube that were styled in a Fire Red/Leaf Green sort of way). I think it fits more of the Generation I and II games, though, and not the Generation III (FR/LG/R/S/E) and IV (D/P/P/HG/SS) games. So, if you find out that it's not real, you can't say that I had stated that it was real, because I'm not sure. On a brighter note, I might be getting Heart Gold or Soul Silver soon. No, I cannot battle on Wi-Fi because I can't link to the Pokémon network thing.
I don't do much fluff in my fanfictions, I mostly do a lot of writing and adding in some instances in which a lot of thought is involved. There is a Battle frontier in Pokémon Platinum (and Pokémon Emerald and in Johto (HG/SS)) also, so I just threw in the Tag-Team thing.
On another note, I do name some of my Pokémon after the characters of the show (Code Lyoko and Teen Titans). For example, my Empoleon is Jeremie, and Infernape is Ulrich, while Torterra is Yumi (being Stone Mountain), respectively.