Chapter 4: Life as a Lopunny
Max was bored, then he realized he could play on his 3DS, he went over to the fridge where he had last left it and found out he couldn't reach. His dad was at the gym, Ella was out being an Ace Trainer and his mum was at the Pokemon center, so he decided to leap to it, he went up to the door and launched himself off it to the fridge, he landed just short and decided to run at the door to launch off it this time, so he ran at the door, then Katrina got back and opened it just as Max leapt at the door.
"Ouch!" she exclaimed as Max hit her, "What were you doing?"
Max made a hand movement as if he was playing a games console.
"Just because you are now a Lopunny doesn't mean you can leap at doors."
Max sighed and pointed to the top of the fridge at the blue edge of the 3DS.
"Ok, I'll get it for you for later," said Katrina getting the 3DS from the top of the fridge. "I got this," said Katrina pulling a whiteboard, pen and rubber from an arts and crafts bag, "You can write on the whiteboard, so we can understand you."
"Okaayyy..." Max wrote on the board.
"Well, you get the point."
5 days later: Max was getting used to life as a Lopunny, once a day he went out for a walk, Katrina had told him to stay in his apartment, but Max wasn't going to stay all cramped up. On one of his walks he saw Tom and sparky;
"There is only one person who wheres that hoodie in Mauville city, Max, what happened to you?" Tom exclaimed.
"The virus," Max wrote on his whiteboard.
"I have a really itchy butt right now..." Said Sparky, Max can now understand Pokemon as he is a Lopunny.
"Charming," replied Max.
"You can understand Sparky?" asked Tom.
"Yup" Max wrote on his whiteboard.
"What did he say?"
"You don't want to know..." Max scrawled.
"Oh..."
"Bye" Max wrote, before continuing on his walk.
Max got back to his apartment 10 minutes before Katrina came in, with a coffee and a chocolate cookie from the cafe.
"I've seen Tom, he said he saw you walking around Mauville hills, I TOLD YOU! DON'T!" Katrina yelled.
"I'm not sitting cramped up in this apartment!" Max wrote on his board.
"Sigh... I guess you do need to get some exercise..." said Katrina.
Katrina turned on the TV and Max curled up beside her, then Katrina started stroking Max's head, he didn't mind it, it felt nice.
The next day Katrina came in without the coffee and said;
"Come on, were getting it together this time,"
Max looked up and smiled.
"Come on then," said Katrina.
On the way a boy came round the corner;
"Hey 'Katrina' whats that you got with you?" he said.
"Go away 'George'" Katrina said, "No one likes you."
George was a bully, he bullied Max and Katrina, Max was a popular kid, so George wasn't really liked, and often beat up by the more aggressive of Max's friends.
"Wait," George smirked "there is only one person in all of Hoenn who wears that stupid hoodie, 'Max'. By official league rules I challenge you, Katrina Catcher to a Pokemon battle."
"You can't do that, Max isn't officially my Pokemon!" Katrina yelled
George didn't care, "Go Machamp," George exclaimed sending out his four armed companion, "Use vital throw."
The four armed wrestler like creature charged at Max, picked him up and chucked him half way across Mauville, upon impact with the ground, Max fainted.
Katrina quickly ran over to Max, cursing George as she went, she picked him up and rushed him into the Pokemon center.
Katrina rushed into the Pokemon center and placed Max down on the counter.
"Katrina, what happened?" the serving nurse was Max's mum.
"A kid named George came up challenged me to a battle, before I could give him a good reason as to why we couldn't battle him he sent out his Machamp and chucked Max half the length of Mauville." Katrina explained. Max's mum ran off into the back with an Audino in tow and a new nurse came to the counter. Katrina went to sit down when Ella came bursting in;
"Quick heal my Pokemon!" She exclaimed.
"Ok we will be a few minutes," said the nurse.
Ella ran over to Katrina and said; "I got beat by a camper and when I came in I saw what happened with that kid and his Machamp, I'm going to beat him into next week."
Max came out the same time as Ella's Pokemon and Ella told Max her plan.
"Hop onto my back," said Ella, who was crouching with her back to Max. Max leapt on and the troop went out the door.
George was sat on a bench wondering what to do next.
"I challenge you to a Pokemon battle," came a voice.
George looked up to see a woman who looked like Max, before he turned into a Lopunny, but a girl.
"Ok," said George, he wasn't sure he could win this battle.
"Go Machamp!" he yelled.
"Pidgeot, I choose you!" shouted Ella.
The Machamp and Pidgeot burst out their Pokeballs. The Pidgeot had something around its left talon.
"Ok Pidgeot, react your mega stone to my mega ear-ring and mega evolve!" Ella told her Pidgeot, who then was encased in a blinding light, the Pidgeot burst out of the light looking different.
George cursed.
"Ariel ace!" exclaimed Ella, her Pidgeot shot towards George's Machamp and one-shot it.
George cursed a bit more and sighed giving some of his money to Ella, "You've won," he sighed.
"Justice has been served," Ella said taking the two kids back to the apartment.