AN: As to why I didn't make a joke about the infamous "jelly donuts" from the dub, I do not dignify stupidity with acknowledgment in such a regard. What I do dignify is any stupidity that arises in a fashion I can actually use without coming across as incredibly forced.

Starlight Ablaze Chapter 3:


{You three} The shorter, seemingly pudgier of the two dressed in white and purple "speaks"; their voice is very muffled by their own uniform, with only the glowing, magenta eye visible through their visor making it clear this is a woman speaking. Red, Blue, and Green flinch a bit when the other person beside her shifts in place to slouch in his stance a little; even with said slouch, the man beside her looked incredibly tall.

"Yes?" Blue asks, doing the best to hide his intimidated feeling on the back of his mind; the man before them next to the girl turns around in place, before walking back quite a distance; due to his height, only a few small steps are needed to walk several feet away from Red, Blue, and Green.

{Not you,} The small, pudgy woman in armor speaks, before moving to point her left hand towards Red, {him} the woman addresses Red, as Red looks over towards the tall, slouching man now several feet away.

{We'd like to borrow your companion's talents in a demonstration for our research} The woman explains, as Blue and Green look bemused as to how Red is getting a lot of attention today.

'Since when did the universe suddenly decide to make Red the most important thing about today?' Blue thinks to himself, as the woman patiently waits for Red's answer, as the tall man stands in place; tapping his left foot against the ground, he seems to be eager to want to battle Red. Red doesn't take too long to determine the man's intentions, as he draws his Poké Ball and calls upon Charmander first.

Waving both of his hands forward in a slow gesture, only one finger on each hand is raised as the other are curled together; Red gets the implication of the man choosing the rules one on one, meaning Pidgey would take a sideline to this fight; not that Pidgey could currently fight in its condition anyways, considering the immense power of Charmander's attack that scored the catch.

Drawing a Poké Ball from the back behind his rear, it appears to be a Premier Ball in type as he lazily throws it forward, and out comes a tall, semi-bipedal Pokémon from which Red's eyes widen as Blue and Green gain a look of both surprise and confusion on their face.

The Pokémon in question resembles some kind of tailless, blue and yellow badger of sorts, with a vicious expression on its face, and fiery red spots on the back of its neck, as well as rather small limbs that indicate this Pokémon moves better on all fours than it does on two legs.

"What kind of weird Pokémon is that?" Blue asks to Green, quietly, as Red's Charmander looks unnerved by the ferocious Pokémon standing before it.

"I don't know, but Charmander doesn't look willing to fight against it…" Green says, as she looks at worry towards Charmander and notices its expression dampening the more it has to look at the probably fully evolved Pokémon before it.

"Charmander."

Red's voice is subdued, but sharp in addressing his Pokémon; Charmander looks at Red and notices Red looking down at Charmander with a serious gaze; Charmander looks back over towards the large, blue and yellow Pokémon with an intensified gaze.

Charmander huffs and gives a call towards the larger, mammalian Pokémon, but it is only greeted back by a savage roar from the opponent as behind its neck manifests a mane of flames. Blue is confused as to why the unidentified Pokémon isn't attacking yet, but then notices something; the intimidating, tall trainer it has hasn't budged in a few minutes now, so the Pokémon has no command to even execute at all.

"Red! Quit stalling! Order Charmander to attack!" Green yells to Red, as Red gestures his arm forward to point at the Pokémon opposing Charmander, as Charmander's tail begins to burn with a bright intensity. The mammalian Pokémon is about to attack, but the sudden hand gesture of its mysterious trainer wagging its finger "no" to it tells it to remain idle.

Charmander's tail intensifies in brightness, beginning to appear a bright blue in terms of coloration as the size of the flame increases. Charmander glares its eyes, glowing a fiery blue, towards the opponent, before exhaling a massive stream of blue flames towards the opponent as the Pokémon takes the hit without even moving at all; not even to block it, instead taking the attack directly.

"The heck? Can't even order your Pokémon to dodge?" Blue asks, as the tall man wags his finger to Blue in a motion that makes Blue look fuming in anger, as the tall man points to very, very faint fragments of powder on the ground from where Charmander's flame breath had touched the ground with.

{My apologies for Iaze's malfunction; he's incredibly dull minded at times; often childish at that} The mysterious woman says, as she gestures with both of her hands a cutting motion in a cross direction to the man, apparently named Iaze; he responds by snapping his fingers at his Pokémon to finally move, as the unidentified fire Pokémon's eyes suddenly go wide with feral slits for irises, as it lunges forward and grabs Charmander by the neck in its jaws.

With a strong enough of a bite to visibly draw blood.

Blue and Green's eyes suddenly go wide as to what they witness; Red's gaze remains relatively stoic, but at the same time, no less freaked out than Blue and Green in terms of visible expression.

"Charmander!" Red blurts out, as the larger mammalian Pokémon violently shakes Charmander around in its jaws like a ragdoll, before a snap of Iaze's fingers have the Pokémon drop Charmander into the ground by tossing it in a spike fashion to send Charmander plummeting into the solid ground and dirt, leaving a noticeable impact trail as a result.

{Strange; the specimen does not appear to exhibit its unusual quirks even at a time like this} Mupo speaks in a confused, but concerned tone towards Charmander's state in the battle, as Blue looks over at her and glares.

"Well excuse you, madam, but I think your pal over there is flat out trying to kill Red's Charmander!" Blue shouts angrily at Mupo, as Green nods as she equally glares at Mupo, then towards Iaze.

"I'm not having any of this! Bulbasaur, let's go!" Green calls as she tosses Bulbasaur's Poké Ball out into the field, as Bulbasaur emerges from within it. Bulbasaur lets out a low, rumbling sound, only to loudly let out a sharp, deep pitched call as it moves back a few steps in terror as it watches Charmander get thrashed by a much larger Fire Type Pokémon that it had no idea what it even is.

{Iaze, what's taking so long?! Turn up the heat!} Mupo criticizes her friend as the large blue and yellow Pokémon continues with thrashing about Charmander, with its sharp fangs and front claws; leaving bleeding scratches and puncture wounds all across Charmander's body, as Charmander is again tossed to the ground as Charmander trembles as he tries to stay standing.

Then Charmander had enough; Charmander's tail flame begins to burn with a larger flame, this time appearing blue in intensity, before quickly turning white. Blue and Green are shocked as the flames begin to coat Charmander and begin to partially heal the more grievous wounds just enough to keep them from being fatal, as Charmander looks upon the larger Pokémon with pupils turning into slits.

{Iaze! Burn Up!} Mupo commands her friend, as Iaze nods and snaps his fingers towards his Pokémon, as the Fire Type Pokémon engulfs itself in a massive flare of flames across its entire body, before pouring all of the fire into its open jaws and unleashing it in a giant, fiery sphere of energy. Charmander, whipping his tail outward to face the incoming flame, ends up absorbing the flame into its tail as now its tail flame glows violet in heat as Red, Blue and Green all begin sweating immensely as Green hastily calls back Bulbasaur to avoid it getting hurt.

"Blue! Call out Squirtle!" Green calls over the sounds of the searing hot flames crackling beside Red's Charmander, as Blue shakes his head.

"That won't work! Even if Squirtle is sent out, the air is becoming dehydrated from Charmander's flame! A Water Type Pokémon can't use Water Moves in a state like this!" Blue yells, as Green gasps.

"What do you mean?! Can't she use the water from the air?!"

"There is no water in the air! As I said, the place is dehydrated from Charmander and if this ke-" Blue notes, before noticing a motorcycle coming into view as a woman dressed in a police uniform of mostly dark blue and having turquoise hair tied up in a pigtail behind her head, and having maroon eyes shining at the sight of Charmander's flame as she gasps.

"Hey! If you guys aren't careful, you're going to ignite the plants in the area just with that flame being there!" The police woman yells harshly, as Mupo and Iaze quickly notice the woman and glance at each other. Iaze quickly calls back his Pokémon, as he and Mupo press a hidden button on the front of their suits, causing them both to vanish into thin air and leave the area. Blue and Green look at each other in confusion as to why Iaze and Mupo decided to ditch the scene so quickly, as they both look at Red in shock, as Red whistles for Charmander to cease with its charging flame.

Charmander does as it can barely hear from Red, but in doing so, the giant flame collapses into smaller, different flames that touch the ground; rather than burning the grass on impact, though, they instead harden into physical forms in the appearance of crystalline fragments of some kind, as Charmander rushes back over to Red and begins hissing a bit in an attempt to apologize, but Red simply returns him to his Poké Ball for the time being, as the police woman moves to sternly address Red, Blue, and Green.

"Now, I don't know what you three were doing, be it battling or trying to compare each other's Fire Types with each other, but this has to stop. I'm letting you three off with a warning, but with that said my sisters will be keeping an eye out for you elsewhere in Kanto if you so much as cause trouble again!" The police woman yells at the three teens, as Red moves forward first.

"With all due respect, ma'am, I think you missed two trainers whom we were battling a moment ago and-"

"Two trainers, huh? As in your two friends?" She inquires, as Blue and Green shake their heads in response, as Red clears his throat.

"Don't you have reports of people in purple and white uniforms to investigate? Those were the two people we had encountered here before you show up." Red tells her, as the police woman's scowl still holds up.

"Are you trying to excuse your actions earlier, mister?"

"No, ma'am."

"Then do us all a favor, clean up this mess and get back to behaving like normal trainers, or I'm going to revoke your trainer cards for a week if you keep trying to stall my time here!" The woman scolds Red, as she gets back onto her motorcycle and drives off in a heated fit. Blue looks at Red with a bit of an angry glare.

"Well she's in a snippy mood, she didn't even realize Green and I were spectators in your little spat with the big guy." Blue tells Red, before getting a glare from Green which leads him to adding in, "Well, er, at least Jenny could've been willing to listen to all three of us as to what had happened…" Blue says, as Green sighs, as she notices a sparkling in the grass burned up by Iaze's Pokémon and Red's Charmander, as she walks over to the burnt patches of grass and moves to pick up a very, very small crystal of some kind glowing in an intense, red colored energy from within.

"Guys… You might want to come over here and check this out…" Green tells Red and Blue, as the two boys walk over to Green and have a look at the crystal that Green has in her hands. Red's eyes briefly widen as he gazes upon it, as Blue's eyes narrow a bit.

"So this must've been what those two weirdos were after… I think?" Blue ponders about the crystal in Green's hand, as he looks over at Red who gives a quiet nod in agreement. Green looks at the crystal and moves to place it in her bag for now, as she looks towards the horizon towards the north, as well as glancing to the west as the sun is positioned towards just above the edge of the late noon.

"We don't have much daylight left, so let's get to training our Pokémon for future encounters with those two weirdos, alright?" Green tells the two boys beside her, as Blue nods; neither of the two are fast enough to hear the sound of a Poké Ball opening near Red.

"Alright, I can certainly try and train my Squirtle in the Pokémon League." Blue tells Green, only briefly noticing the sound of wing flapping, starting off strong, before becoming quieter not too long after.

"Yeah, Bulbasaur could also use some training as well; it's a tame Pokémon no matter how you raise it, but not many trainers are a fan of Bulbasaur as much as Squirtle or Char-"

Green shuts herself up as she notices Red is nowhere next to herself or Blue anymore, and looks around frantically to find where the boy must've ran off to, before looking into the air and seeing a very distinct 15 year old dressed in red.

Being held up in the air with Pidgey's talons and flying all the way north towards the next city. Blue simply stares as his eye twitches a little, all the while Green's expression at the moment could not be put into words no matter how hard one tried to.

"... How does that even work?" Green asks in complete bemusement as to how Red's Pidgey, which is just as small as Red's Charmander, is carrying Red all the way north into the distance without breaking a sweat.

"How much do you want to bet he's going to fall doing that?" Blue asks, as Green gives him a glare.

"Don't jinx it! Think of how hurt Red could get if Pidgey-" Green can't even finish her sentence, as she's gestured to look up into the sky by Blue; approximately where Red was in the sky, nothing can be seen there anymore, meaning either Red cleared the horizon altogether, or judging by the massive forest up ahead to the north, he could've dropped in altitude and entered the forest instead.

"We need to go check on him to make sure he's alright…" Green says, as she moves to run forward before being grabbed by the arm from Blue.

"Patience, Green! We don't have any kind of camping supplies and by the time we so much as reach Viridian Forest, night is going to fall and we'll be without any kind of shelter once we're in there looking for Red!" Blue warns Green, as Green looks at Blue and nods, before glancing over towards the Poké Mart up ahead towards the northeast.

Blue's expression dampens the moment the site of the Poké Mart reminds him of something.

"Greeeat… I still need to deliver that package to gramps." Blue tells Green, as Green looks at him with a nod.

"Then go deliver it; I'll go pick up camping supplies at the Poké Mart and I'll head into Viridian Forest to search for Red first." Green says to Blue, as Blue nods, as Blue moves to sprint towards the south back towards Palette Town, as Green moves to head into the Poké Mart to shop for camping supplies and food that they'll need for traveling all across Kanto.

Once Green is inside, and Blue is too far away to notice, Iaze and Mupo reappear from being hidden to have a glance towards the direction Red went off towards with his Pidgey.

{Quite a curious specimen, if I do say so myself} Mupo says to Iaze, as Iaze moves back towards the grass from which Green found the strange crystal, as Iaze moves to search the grass and finds a few crystalline shards in a rainbow color. Iaze examines the shards to see if they're worth his interest, as Mupo looks towards Iaze as she points towards the various crystalline powder littering some of the grass.

{Collect the residue from the fight proper; we have no use for an Awakening Emera in such a broken state} Mupo points out to Iaze, as Iaze moves to crush the crystals in his hand into additional powder, as he moves to collect the remaining powder in the area from the aftermath of his and Red's battle. Mupo, as she looks back towards the horizon up north, couldn't help but let out a high pitched chuckle at what she could determine Red, Blue, and Green were doing once they had "vanished".

{Still though, Iaze, do you think we might have some trouble with these two? Our grandmother would not exactly be thrilled to know we've allowed ourselves to have witnesses, let alone the fact we let them live to tell about it} Mupo begins to tell Iaze her thoughts on the situation, as Iaze continues collecting powder from the ground as much as he can see and grab, all the while Mupo gazes back on him.

{Iaze are you even listening to me at this moment in time? Or perhaps, maybe, your little fight with the boy struck a bit of a nerve}

The sound of Iaze's rustling in the grass for more powder ceases, as Iaze, very, very slowly, moves to stand and look Mupo in the eye, having to slouch a lot just to look her straight in the eye.

{Count on it}


AN: Yes, I actually went there with the infamous Pidgey meme. Admittedly I kind of wanted to justify Red even having a Pidgey to begin with considering Charizard pretty much outclasses Pidgeot any day, just up until final form Charizard isn't party Flying type but Pidgey is part Flying from the very beginning, so ultimately referencing that little meme there was the only logical way I could come up with a usage for Red's Pidgey here. Shame it will be impossible in Pokémon Let's Go! for that matter...