The following takes place during BW046 - The Beartc Mountain Feud!

He was an artist. His medium was the fine art of film, a medium that allowed for all sorts of sights, sounds, and techniques to tell his visions to the world. With his documentary on the Club Battle on the way, he would teacher, an informer. With the action movie he had in the works, he would take the collective breaths away of an audience in awe. The ideas in his head, the stories and people he would give to the world, will show everyone who he was.

What he was not, however, was a babysitter. But he was hired to film this Trainer's Gothita while its Trainer battled at Castelia Gym.

Some time after the Club Battle tournament aired on TV, A Trainer had gotten hold of him through Luke's website. She explained that her Gothita was enamoured by his camera and demanded to be in a short film. seeing as the Castelia City Gym Leader focused on Bug types, Gothita, a Psychic type, wouldn't be needed for battle and would be free to make the shoot.

Luke would have rather spent his time editing his documentary on the Don Battle. But his friend, Mr. Matthews, was in need of money to help repair his old theater, and Luke couldn't turn down a friend in need. That, and the Trainer offered a rather hefty payment.

Gothita stood in front of a green screen, staring intensely at the camera. Luke, from behind the lens, said, "Gothita, stop looking at the camera."

A woman with pale skin, dark hair, and a black, Victorian-esque gown on walked on-screen and placed herself next to Gothita. She gave Luke a sly smirk.

"Zorua, get out of the shot," Luke said. "You're not in this scene."

The woman did a backflip, glowed a bright purple and turned into Luke's Zorua, Pokemon actress extraordinaire. She let out a giggly before dashing off the set.

"Okay, Gothita," Luke said. "The film opens with you out on an open field and sniffing the flowers. Leavanny will approach you and offer you a job at his modeling agency. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand...ACTION!"

Gothita belting out its name in song. Its hands were on its hips, giving off an air of total confidence. Say what you would about how forced its acting was flat and uninspiring, but this Pokemon really knew how to command a scene and stay in the spotlight.

Leavanny walked on stage and said, "Leavanny."
Gothita stopped singing and turned to stare at Leavanny is its big, unblinking eyes. "Gothita?"
"Leave Leave Leavanny!"

Pokemon conversing in their native tongue - that is to say, they repeated their names and syllables found in their names constantly- would be difficult for human audiences to understand. Because of this, Luke planned to voice over the Pokemon dialogue later on, explaining the story. So the current coversation would look like this:

"MY, WHAT A GORGEOUS POKEMON!" Leavanny said. Luke would give it a deep, manly voice. "YOU SIMPLY MUST MODEL FOR MY COMPANY!"
"Who? Me?" Gothita asked in the high-pitched voice Luke would give her. "But I'm just an innocent Pokemon, I don't have any modeling experience."
"Nonsense! The way you move, you're practically a professional! And the world needs to see your talent, for it can brighten everyone's day and bring everyone together in your honor."

Luke groaned under his breath. The script its Trainer wrote was a poorly-written vehicle for Gothita. It's a shame the plot revolved around this Pokemon, because he knew she could write much better than this garbage.

Gothita's Trainer was an talented if underrated author; Luke had read two of her books, an urban fantasy novel about a person becoming a Weremanitan and a space oddyssey, and really liked them. The way she could build in a rich atmosphere and story, then subvert your expectations and completely change the way you view her world t the drop of a hat. How she could craft a complex story that kept you guessing until the last page, yet left you learning for more beyond that. If it weren't for her bland and emotionless plot devices she called characters, her stories would be perfect.

A deal had been struck: in addition to paying for the cost of filming and some of the theater repairs, Gothita's Trainer said that, if this film was to her satisfaction, they would allow Luke to adapt one of her stories. With a bit of tweaking and some stronger writing for the characters, Luke knew he would have a hit on his hands.

And speaking of hits, Gothita was slapping and pushing Leavanny farther and father to the side, until Gothita was the only one in the camera's gaze.
"Gothita, Leavanny's still in this scene!" Luke snapped.

Gothita ignored him, instead smiling and winking at the camera. "Gothita! Gothi, Gothi, Goth!"

The rest of the story involved Gothita attending a modeling show. Gothita would be stricken with stage fright and hide in a local park, before getting an encouraging pep talk from the famous model, Elesa (played by Zorua.) Gothita and several models would do their thing on the runway. Gothita would go on to "win" (winning what wasn't explained in the script) and then give a speech, thanking Elesa and her Trainer for being such big inspirations.

They had filmed the Elesa scenes earlier, since it the scene needed to occur during the sunset and a green screen would look tacky. With that out of the way, only the acceptance speech and the modeling scenes were left.

The set was rather simple: curtains hid the back of the stage, and several cardboard boxes were painted, stuffed, and glued together to form a small catwalk. The studio's stage lights were brought down so the camera could fit them on-screen.

MC Larvesta hosted the event. "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN," the Pokemon would say in a booming, manly voice, "PLEASE WELCOME OUR FIRST MODEL, LOPUNNY!"

Lopunny, played by Zorua, walked on stage in a hand on her hips. She smiled, closed her eyes, and casually but confidently crossed the runway...followed by Gothita.

"Gothita, you're not supposed to be in this shot!" Luke groaned. "Just follow the script!"

Lopunny stopped. She flipped back and landed behind Gothita, as a Zorua. Zorua grabbed Gothita by the protrusion at the top of it head and forcefully pulled her behind the curtains. There were several seconds of loud screeching and growling. Luke's Golett, boom mike in hand, ran behind the curtains to check out the scene.

Within moments, Golett ran out, giving Luke a thumb's up.

Lopunny strolled out from behind the curtain, turned on the catwalk, and went behind the curtains.

"Zorua?" Luke asked. "What happened to Gothita?"

Gothita then strolled out of from behind the curtains, stepping across the stage nervously. Slowly, her steps started to become more confident and strong, quick. Watching her, you could see a strong transformation, a Pokemon becoming stronger and happier the closer she got to the camera.

Gothita finally reached the end of the catwalk and gave the camera a quick wink and a sky smirk. She turned away an walked back. And with that, Luke finally understood what just happened.

"Thanks for watching Gothita, Luke," Gothita's Trainer, Katherine said.

"No problem, Katherine," Luke replied. "How did the Gym Battle turn out?"
"It was a struggle, but we managed to pull off a victory," Katherine said warmly. "I hope filming went well."
"Things started out a little rough," Luke confessed. "But everything worked itself out in the end, as you'll see in the movie."

"You can call me on my Xtransceiver when editing is finished," Katherine told him. "I'm sure it's a masterpiece!"

Gothita appeared from behind Luke and lifted its arms up. Katherine picked up the Fixation Pokemon and pressed her lips on its forehead.

"We better get going for Nimbasa City ," Katherine said to Luke. "I'm sure Gothita'll be excited to see Elesa close up."

"Good luck on your next Gym Battle," Luke said.

Katherine started towards the door, but suddenly stopped. She looked down at her Gothita and said, "This isn't my Gothita. My Gothita is male, and this Pokemon is female."

The michevious Pokemon let out a giggle.