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Disclaimer: I, AKCC, do not any parts of Pokemon in any way. Game Freak does and even if I have all the money in the world, I will still not be able to buy it from them.

Chapter Four

Scarlett's POV

"Can you hurry up? Or do you just want me to stare at your butt?" X said as we were climbing a mountainside.

"You know, you can just go around me. You don't have to go behind me." I shouted down to him.

"But I want to catch you in case you fall." X said. I can just imagine him with a smirk in his face.

"Why? Why did I have to be paired up with him?" I muttered as I faced the mountainside.

Earlier, Dad told us that we're going on a training mission. Though I've only been here a week, I think I could manage it. He split us up in pairs, Blue and Silver, Yellow and Emerald, Crystal and Gold, White and Black, Whi-Two and Lack-Two, and that leaves X with me.

Our goal was to reach the peak of Mt Thunder, a mountain on an undiscovered island in the Sevii Islands, without the use of our pokemon. And the fun thing was that we were tied to each other. I know this wasn't Dad's idea and when I find out whose idea this was, they're dead.

"Okay we're almost at the top." I said when we were resting on a cliff.

"Yeah, but we better hurry up if we want get up there first." X said as he pointed to our right. I looked over and saw Blue and Silver climbing up the mountain side as quickly as they can. "Let's go." X grabbed my hand and pulled me over to a ledge that lead farther up the mountain.

"Are you sure about this?" I asked as Pika hopped onto my shoulder.

"We have no other way and this is quicker." he said as he held onto my hand and edged his way on the ledge.

The ledge was about a foot wide that leads to a 150 miles drop below. We had our backs to the mountain as we edged our way up the mountain. X's firm grip on my hand went loose when a piece of the ledge crumpled below him.

"Ah!" he cried out as he started to fall below.

"NO!" I quickly grabbed his outstretched hand with both of mines.

"What?" he looked up towards me.

"Help me out here or else we both go down." I grunted as I struggled to keep my grip. Pika ran down from my shoulder and started to pull on the rope that connects us in order to pull X up. I was able to pull X up and he stood up behind me.

"Thanks. Didn't knew you cared." X smirked.

"If I didn't, then I would also be dead." I retorted, gesturing to the rope between us. I turned away from him to hide the blush climbing up my face and I lead us across the ledge. When we got to a bigger cliff, we started to climb.

"You really are slow." X looked down at me while we were climbing. This time, he went first while I trailed behind him.

"You're not the one who has a pokemon on their shoulder, are you?" I looked up at him. "Unlike you, I have to carry both me and my pokemon up."

"Just recall her back into her pokeball." X suggested. That comment made the sacs on Pika's cheeks to spark.

"She doesn't like that. She hates it in there. If she didn't, then I would've done it in the first place." I grunted through my teeth as I started climbing again.

"How did you ever win all the leagues when you can't even get your pokemon inside their pokeball?" X said as he reached the top and pulled himself up.

"Not all pokemon have to stay in their pokeballs. Some prefer to be out with their trainers to build a stronger bond." I countered when I reached the top.

"Whatever you say." he offered a hand to help me up.

I slapped it away and pulled myself up on my own.

"I was just trying to help." X rubbed his hand.

"I don't need any help." I snapped at him. He shrugged and walked forward. Pika jumped off my shoulder and followed him while I walked behind them.

Suddenly, the ground underneath my feet crumpled and I started to fall off the cliff.

"Ahhh!" I cried out. I closed my eyes and waited to hit the ground that was several hundred feet below me.

But the impact never came. I slowly opened my eyes to see that I was hanging only 3 feet below the edge of the cliff I fell off of. I looked up and saw that X was over the edge, holding my hand.

"Who knew you were so heavy?" he grunted through his teeth.

And there goes that little sliver of hope I had of him.

"Can you help me out here?" X said as he struggled to lift me up. I snapped out of my daze and pushed my feet against the cliffside. I found a grip using my other hand and started to pull myself up, with the help of X.

"Why are you even helping me?" I asked as I was almost at the top of the cliff.

"Just returning the favor you did for me. As you said, if one of us go down, we both go down. Plus your dad will kill me if you died." X answered as he grabbed my other hand and pulled me up.

Unfortunately, he pulled too hard. That led to him falling backwards, landing on his back, and me landing on his chest. And we were close. Very close. So close, we were in each other's faces. With. Our. Lips. Touching.

I was wide-eyed as my lips stayed on X's.

As.

We.

Were.

Kissing.

What the hell was going on?!

I finally found the strength to push myself off of X's chest and stop that kiss.

"I-I-I-I…" I stuttered as I looked back at him. My face was heating up as I did.

"Sorry, I was just-. I mean-" X tried to talk, but his face was red and I was pretty sure that he didn't even know what he just did.

"Well, well, well." we both looked up to see Blue, Yellow, Gold, and everybody else looking at us. "What do we have here?" Blue was the one who spoke.

"This is not what it looks like." I said quickly.

"Really?" Silver raised a brow.

"Looked like some serious lip locking just happened." Black grinned.

"Couldn't you guys at least do it privately. Geez, get a room." Emerald rolled his eyes.

"And I thought I would get the first move on her. But I guess you beat me to it." Gold said. That first sentence earned him a kick to the head by Crystal.

"Are you guys forgetting something?" Yellow asked.

Everyone turned from looking at X and me to her. Blue stopped writing in that little notebook of hers to listen to what Yellow has to say. I swear that she was muttering 'adoreshipping' as she was writing.

"Yeah, weren't we doing something?" White wondered out loud.

"I feel like we had something important to do." Whi-Two said.

"Does anyone else remember what we should be doing?" Lack-Two asked.

Wait a minute. Oh crap! The mission! My dad is so going to kill us all for this! Mostly X though.

"The mission!" X and I exclaimed at the same time, startling everyone else. Clearly, he had the same thought as me. Maybe not the last one, but still, we're both dead.

"My dad is going to be so mad!" I got up from X's chest and stood between Blue and Yellow.

"Where were we supposed to meet up with him?" X asked as he also got up.

"He said the peak of the mountain. Which is over there." Yellow pointed to a small hill over the horizon.

"Since we'll all here, I say we have a race." Blue chirped.

"If we're having a race, than we should have a start line." Crystal picked up a stick and drew a line in the dirt.

"Yeah! Than we'll see who's the best!" Gold cheered.

"Come on White!" Black grabbed his partner's hand, though it was unnecessary since he was tied to her, and we all lined up behind the starting line.

"Ready…"

"Get set…"

"GO!"

Pika was holding onto my jacket for dear life as we all zipped from the starting line. At first, Gold and Blue looked like they were racing each other, with their partners getting dragged behind them. But when Crystal and Silver each crashed into a tree, both Gold and Blue tripped and got left behind.

Whi-Two and Lack-Two was able to dodge them when they tripped, but White and Black weren't so lucky. Since they were right behind them, Black tripped over the two fallen trainers and brought White down with him.

X and I were neck-to-neck with Whi-Two and Lack-Two while Yellow and Emerald were trailing way behind us. We were slowing gaining speed, we might actually have a chance of winning! But that thought went away as soon as I saw a pair of very long legs over us.

"What the-?" I gasped. It was Emerald with Yellow hanging onto him.

"Hey no fair! You're not allowed to use your gadgets!"' X protested.

"You guys said nothing about me using them!" Emerald shouted back as Yellow hopped off of him. They were about 10 meters ahead of us.

"That little brat!" I looked around to see a raging Blue with a poor Silver flailing behind her.

"He should know better!" I expected to see an angry Gold chasing after him, but it was a furious Crystal instead. Gold was being dragged like a ragdoll behind her.

"He is now going to win!" Black yelled. White was doing her best to catch up with him.

I went wide-eyed at the very, very, very mad mob behind us. "Move!" I shoved X out of the way, while still running, to avoid being in their path of destruction.

"Em-Emerald." Yellow whimpered. "I told you that was a bad idea!"

"Hold on sis!" Lack-Two yelled as he picked Whi-Two up bridal style and hopped out of the way Blue, Crystal, and Black was heading.

"Let's catch up to them! We're winning this!" X grabbed my hand and ran faster.

"No you're not!" Lack-Two yelled as he ran with his sister in his arms.

Soon, everyone was neck-to-neck as we were almost at the peak of the mountain. I could see the red hat of my dad waiting at a white and black line he painted. Emerald was still trying to avoid getting beat by two girls, but when Blue tried grabbing the hem of his shirt, she tripped, dragging Emerald, Yellow, and everyone else with her. Soon we were rolling like a giant ball towards the peak, but we stopped just before any of us cross the finish line.

"And the winners are... X and Scarlett!" Dad announced.

"WHAT?!"

I somehow untangled myself from the mess of limbs to see that Pika crossed the finish line. She must have been hurled off my shoulder when we all fell!

"How? They didn't even cross the line!" Blue exclaimed.

"Yeah! Only her Pikachu crossed!" Gold added.

"And that's the reason why." Dad calmly said.

"You're just playing favorites! She's your daughter!" Gold and Blue shouted.

"No, I am not." Dad said.

"Then can you explain how they won when Pika crossed the line?" Yellow asked.

"Easy, she's a part of their team." Dad answered.

"But you said pokemon aren't allowed!" Whi-Two whined.

"I think he said that we can't use pokemon." Lack-Two corrected.

"Oh, so since she didn't get any help from Pika, that means that she can technically count as a member of her team." White mused out loud, with Black sulking behind her.

"She didn't break any of the rules so I think it would be okay." Crystal shrugged.

"Wait a minute, that meant I could've used my gadgets to get up here!" Emerald exclaimed.

"That reminds me," Blue and Crystal slowly turned around to face the younger boy. Flames were lit in their eyes.

"Uh-oh." Emerald gulped.

"I guess it was a good thing that I kept you out then." I patted Pika, careful not to touch the bruise on her head.

"Chuu..." Pika sighed.

"Told you to keep her out." X sat down next to me.

I glared at him. "You were the one who wanted to get her in her pokeball!" I corrected him.

"Whatever. We still won." X shrugged.

He watched as Emerald was being chased by Blue and Crystal with Silver and Gold trying to hold their partners back. Keyword here being trying. Over on Emerald's side, poor Yellow looked like a ragdoll. Dad sighed as he went over to calm the situation down.

I looked over to see White with a still sulking Black while Whi-Two and Lack-Two were talking about something.

"Hey Scarlett," X began. I looked over at him to see that he was blushing. "About what happened at the cliff."

"What! Oh! No! It's fine! J-just don't worry about it." Now it was my time to blush. "L-let's just forget that it even happened." I looked down at my lap where Pika was to see her snickering.

"Yeah. I think that's a good idea." X said.

Me and my big mouth. Forget that ever happened? How can I ever forget my very first kiss?! At least it wasn't all that bad.

After prying Blue off of Emerald, Dad rounded everyone up and headed back to the house for some rest. And medical attention for Emerald, Silver, and Gold. They were the ones who were hurt the most. Emerald, mainly by Blue and a bit by Crystal, but for Silver and Gold, they got dragged around so much, they were limp until we got them in their beds.

When they were getting tend to, everyone else went back to their rooms.

"Pika?" my pokemon looked at me in confusion as I stuffed pieces of metal into a backpack.

"Pika, make sure no one is outside." I told her. Pika just shrugged and went out to the balcony. I zipped up the backpack and placed it on. I fell back a bit. Maybe I packed it too much.

"Pika pi." Pika called out, signaling the coast was clear. I nodded. I made sure that I had my pokeballs on my belt and walked over to the balcony. I carefully closed the french doors behind me and faced the Cheri blossom tree that was right outside.

Pika hopped onto my shoulder and I grabbed a branch of the tree. I jumped on and carefully hopped off of it and down to a lower branch. I repeated until I was on the ground.

I took off running for the forest surrounding the house while making sure to go in the shadows.

It wasn't long before I reached a clearing big enough for me and all of my pokemon.

"Alright guys, come on out!" I unclipped my pokeballs off my belt and threw them in the air. Three separate flashes of light came out of the three balls and when they cleared, Char, Saur, and Tor were standing before me.

"Char!"

"Saur!"

"Blast!"

"Shhh! Not so loud!" I hissed. They all understood and kept their mouths closed. "Good." I sighed. I slipped off the backpack and set in on the ground. I opened it and set three different pieces of metal on the ground.

"Sorry it took so long, but I finally got them done." I picked up the one with flames designs surrounding an orange and red stone and walked towards Char. He lowered his neck so I would be able to put it on. I strapped it on where his neck met the rest of his body so it would look like a collar of some sorts.

I picked up the one with vines designs curling around a blue and teal stone and went over to Saur with it. I climbed onto him and the metal band clicked in place when I placed it around the tree on his back.

I hopped off of him and picked up the last one, a metal band with waves designs crashing around a gray and blue stone. I walked towards Tor who lowered himself so I would be able to reach his cannons on his shell. I locked the band in place on his right cannon and backed away to view my pokemon with their new Mega Stones.

"Let see if this work." I pulled out a diamond shaped silver locket with a rainbow colored stone in the middle hanging from a black chain around my neck from under my dress. I put my hand over the Key Stone in the middle of the locket and several yellow bursts of light came from the stone.

The stone in Char's collar sprouted blue bursts of light and the two colors clashed with each other. Char was soon enveloped in a shell of pink energy.

When the shell shattered, Char now had bigger wings with a smaller pair of wings on his arms. A longer horn spiked between his two existing ones and spikes lined his tail. At the end of his tail, his flame glowed brighter. The pokemon standing before me was not my normal Charizard, but a Mega Charizard Y.

"Yes!" I squealed. I tapped the Key Stone again and Char reverted back to his out self. I repeated the same thing with Saur and when the pink energy dispersed, Saur's flower grew bigger with more leaves surrounding it. Vines connected the flower to the leaves and Saur grew in size in general.

I tapped my keystone and Saur went back to his old self and Mega evolved Tor. After the shell of energy broke, the two cannons on his shell became one. His arms were protected with a shell on each on his arms with a small cannon on each of them. His skin changed into a deeper blue while his facial features became sharper than they were.

"Perfect." I tapped the Key Stone and tor went back to what he was. "With your new Mega Evolutions, we can get even stronger!" I exclaimed.

"If you can control it." a voice said.

"Who's there?" I whipped around towards the source of the voice. All of my pokemon began growling.

"Relax, it's just me." Calem came out from the shadow of a tree.

"What do you want?" I folded my arms over my chest. I raised a hand and my pokemon stopped growling.

"Saw you running out here. I just came to see why." Calem shrugged.

"Was it necessary for you to hide while watching me?" I asked.

"Maybe. I was just wondering what you were doing." Calem shrugged. "How long did it take you to find these?" he went over to my pokemon, pointing at their Mega Stones.

"A couple of months. I had to go to several ruins to find them." I answered.

"And your Key Stone?" Calem walked up very close to me.

"I-it was a gift. From Professor Sycamore." I backed away.

"Really?" he looked skeptical.

"Yes, really. Why do you even care?" I asked.

"Because I also have one." Calem pulled up his left sleeve to reveal a Mega Bracelet.

"So? You're from Kalos. I almost expected you to have one." I retorted.

"Want to see my pokemon?" he asked.

"Why for?" I replied.

"To show you, of course." Calem winked. He released all of his pokemon. I only saw his Salamè before. But the rest of his pokemon were just as impressive. I didn't notice before, but his Charizard also had a collar on it. But instead of a Charizardite Y, he had a Charizardite X. I looked at his other pokemon, they all had Mega Stones as well, except for his Chesnaught.

"So your pokemon have Mega Stones. Big deal." I rolled my eyes.

"It should be." Calem smirked.

"Listen, I would love to stay and hear how humble you are," I said sarcastically "But I have to go." I recalled my pokemon and started to walk back to the house.

"Leaving so soon? Scared that my pokemon are more powerful than yours?" he called out.

I froze. He did not that say that, did he? I turned on my heel and glared at him while Pika was growling. "What did you just say?"

"You heard me, you're worried that in a battle, you would lose to me." Calem smirked.

"You are going to regret saying that. I challenge you to a battle tomorrow. One-on-one, no substitutes, winner is the one who knocks the pokemon on the other side out." I marched back to him, poking him in the chest after each word.

"Deal." he looked me right in the eyes.

"And to give you a little advantage, I'll tell you which pokemon I'll be using. Good luck going against my Pika." I said before I turned around. "You'll be needing it." I said to him before walking back to the house.

When I got to the Cheri blossom tree, I grabbed the lowest branch and swung myself up to the next branch until I got to my balcony. I opened the doors and quietly closed them. I quickly changed into my pajamas and flopped down on my bed. Pika curled up next to my head and instantly fell asleep.

Meanwhile, I was still awake. Stupid Calem, how dare he insult me that way? I'll show him how powerful I am. First it was how I take care of my pokemon and now it's how I train them. He is so frustrating! I let out a sigh before closing my eyes and fell asleep.

Hehe. How do you guys like that chapter? I was planning that little scene on the cliffside for a while now. Who doesn't love a kiss scene between two people who hate each other?

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