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Zack
Beat you there. By forty-one minutes.
Zack rolled his eyes. He would never get the last word with his best friend.
He texted back,
If you're already there, would you like to go and try to catch something in Union? I know my way around.
Zack knew that Alex was still miffed at him and Lea because the had gone to Union Cave without him and both caught something. He had added the second sentence just to annoy him.
He continued walking in the direction of the battlefield, until he heard a chirp behind him.
He turned around and found himself face-to-face with a very small Pidgey. It chirped again.
Zack heard a voice. "Happy, where'd you fly off to? C'mere, little guy!"
Hey, that sounded like...
"Hey, Zack!" Lea ran up to where he and the Pidgey were standing, with Professor Elm a few feet behind her. (At least, he was standing, the Pidgey was flying.)
"Sorry about that. Happy keeps flying away to different parts of town, and we can't get him to stay with us." she said.
"You're fine. Why not just put him in his Pokeball?" Zack asked.
"Happy apparently loves mornings, so we're letting him stay out. But not much longer if he keeps this up." she added, wagging a finger at the Pidgey. The cute bird had settled on her shoulder.
Professor Elm said, "We're going to the battlefield to train. Want to join us?"
Zack smiled. "That's where I'm going." he said. "Alex is already there."
"We can do a double battle, then." Lea said, and Zack nodded.
They all walked to the battlefield. (Except for Happy. He was squawking as loud as he could 10 feet in the air.)
~At the battlefield~
Lea
"Hey, Alex! Howya doin'?" yelled Lea.
"Good as ever! Kakuna already leveled up twice!"
Little did they know that Kakuna had been holding an Everstone when it leveled up.
"Cool. It's..." she pulled out her Pokedex. "Level 11 now? Cool."
Alex nodded. "Alright, how about a double battle?"
They all nodded and pulled out their Pokeballs. Elm realized his was still empty, and yelled, "Happy, get over here!"
The Tiny Bird Pokémon chirped and simply plopped down on the professor's head.
Right before Lea threw Savvy and Henry's Pokeballs on the ground, she noticed Zack talking to Onix's ball.
He looked up. "Onix has been roaring loudly every time she comes out of her ball. I told her only to do that in the tournament."
They all threw their Pokeballs on the ground.
Savvy and Henry appeared and waved at Lea, which was their way of saying good morning.
Zack threw his ball on the ground, and out came Onix in a flash of white light.
She was completely silent.
Zack was laughing. "I didn't mean you had to be completely quiet, just not a loud roar when you popped out!" he said.
Onix nodded her understanding, and just for fun, she let out another short bark, identical to the one earlier that morning. Again, she lowered her head down to Zack and let him pet her forehead. Then she moved forward a bit and pushed Zack over.
Onix came to full height, looking like she was laughing a bit as Zack got up. He was laughing again.
"She does that every time, and I still can't get used to it." he said.
Alex rolled his eyes. "Who are the teams?" he asked.
Professor Elm shrugged. "How about me and you, and Zack and Lea against us."
Alex looked around.
Lea nodded. "Fine by me. I get to see how you two battle, so I can use it against you in the tournament."
"We all do." Zack said.
Just then, something caught Lea's eye. It was Alex leaning down in front of Kakuna, who had just appeared out of his ball. Alex was taking something from it. It looked like some sort of gray stone.
Lea tried to get her mind in gear for the upcoming battle. She and Zack took their places on one side of the battlefield, while Alex and Professor Elm stood on the other. Their Pokémon took their places on the battlefield as well, with Lea calling back Savvy.
"Ready..." Lea yelled.
She, Alex, and Zack had already taken out their Pokedexes.
"GO!"
"Henry, fly above Onix and use Absorb on Kakuna!" Lea told the Hoppip. It was hard to hear over the other's commands, but Henry had heard her and was flying up to the Rock Snake Pokémon's head, its green leaves rotating like a helicopter's blades.
Henry landed a side hit on Kakuna and it chattered as Henry absorbed the last few green sparkles.
As soon as this had happened, Happy came and used Peck on Henry, not doing much damage but knocking him out of the sky. He squawked in triumph... and Onix smacked him with her tail.
Lea scanned Happy with her Pokedex and saw that he was down to two-thirds of his health.
Henry, who had peeled himself off of the ground, was at about two-thirds health as well.
Onix, of course, was still at pretty much full health.
Kakuna was just sitting there. Until...
"Kakuna, now!" Alex yelled from his spot on the field.
Kakuna glowed with a white light as he was lifted off of the ground. Soon, you couldn't even see the outline of the Pokémon.
Onix, Henry, and Happy had all stopped fighting they were watching Kakuna with wide eyes.
"Twineedle!" Alex shouted as the ball of white light lowered to the ground. A Pokémon burst out, but it wasn't Kakuna.
Lea glimpsed the yellow-and-black striped abdomen and the translucent wings.
That was all she saw before Onix fell to the ground, knocked out.
Lea saw Alex grinning from ear to ear.
"C'mon, Beedrill!" he yelled. "Show 'em what you've got!"
