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Sorry for taking so long to get this out, and it not being the best quality. The anniversary of my Grandma's death just recently passed and I had trouble writing because of it. And, last month... I decide to try to turn my hobby into a business. It ate up all of my free time, and I'm nowhere near getting it started.
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The large group of human and Pokémon continue on their way. Lil' Ribbon is busy admiring her everstone and is not paying much attention to her surroundings. She's cradling it like a Pokédoll, rubbing her paws against its smooth surface and gives a content sigh.
In her opinion, nothing is worse than being force to become something you're not ready for.
"You better hope we don't leave you behind while you're admiring your rock," Gary says as he walks backwards to keep an eye on her. The Kanto pichu gave a small growl of annoyance before she notices just how far back she is from the rest of the group, including the Pokémon.
"Pi chu!" she cries as she absorbs the everstone. Then she runs as fast as she can, running under Gary's legs causing him to nearly trip. She smirks in triumph as she hears him calling out to her. Ignoring his words, she runs through the group to Misty.
Gary grumbles under his breath as the baby rodent ran into the group. He isn't surprised that she ran straight to Misty. The water trainer practically raised the little Pokémon since their first meeting.
He does smile a bit when Lil' Ribbon, tired of waiting for Misty to notice her, jumps to her shorts and climbs her. He can deny all he wants; seeing something cute always melts his heart and calms his nerves.
"Oh, Lil' Ribbon," Misty scolds. Lil' Ribbon gives her an innocent look, causing Misty's look to soften. "You're lucky you're so cute."
Lil' Ribbon smiles before snuggling securely in her arms. As she pulls out her everstone, she hears Misty talking to Ash; "You've been walking all day; you need to rest soon."
"Hey Brock?" Ash asks with a bit of a struggle. "How far's town?"
"Ack! Eve!" Gary screams suddenly. Lil' Ribbon hears Eve laughing and looks to see her jumping from her master's shoulder back to the woods before stalking him again. She sees Gary looking at his starter with annoyance. "Stop doing that!"
Lil' Ribbon decides to ignore the commotion and focus on her stone. It's so plain it can be mistaken as another regular rock. Yet she can feel it pull the energy for her evolution, preventing it from happening. She asked Lucario and Big Ash, the man who kind of looks like Ash, about it and they seem to think she's in tune with aura.
But that's silly; she's already a Pokémon, she doesn't need to be more Pokémon.
She looks up from her stone to see where the rest of the pack is. For the humans, Ash is leading the pack down the dirt path with Brock on one side, looking over the map and Misty on the other, though is a bit farther as to give the boy some space. Gary, who is usually next to Ash, is in the back of the pack for some reason. Big Ash is to the side of the group, carrying the sleeping child.
She briefly wonders how Big Ash got the child to trust him so fast. Then she shrugs it off.
Amber Silk is nowhere near Ash, which is odd since she's normally near him if not on his shoulder. Looking up Lil' Ribbon sees her riding a flying Pokémon, one she doesn't recognize. They are racing Skye Grace and Taylor, for some reason. Maybe they're bored and are trying to pass the time.
Her eyes glanced over the trio before going back to them.
Fire Marshal and Forest Warren getting along isn't too surprising nowadays; they overcame their differences some time ago. But Fire Heart is a surprise since he hadn't been friendly since he evolved. Yet here he is, talking to the other two.
Mama Khan is watching them, just in case… at least Lil' Ribbon thinks she is. Baby Khan and Pikaboo are asleep in her pouch with one of the eggs. Sometimes Lil' Ribbon wonders how Mama Khan handles carrying so much in her pouch.
Pincher is side-walking as he usually is. Vulpix seems to be keeping an eye out for bird Pokémon looking for a meal. The rest of the Pokémon are safely inside the Pokéballs much to Lil' Ribbon's dismay she likes having them out as a pack.
Of course since most of them are either too big to fit on a regular path, or always seems to ignore the humans, it's better to have them where they can't cause trouble. Besides, it'll mean less stress on Ash.
She looks over to Lucario and isn't surprised to see him as far away from Big Ash as he can be, and glaring daggers at the man. She doesn't understand them, they know each other and the man is sad but the Pokémon is upset. Yet it seems they are still looking out for each other from time to time… it's all very confusing for the baby Pokémon.
She's pulled out of her thoughts, from the corner of her eye she saw Ash fall down.
"Ash!" she cries as she reabsorbs her everstone and launch out of Misty's arms. She's by his side in time to see him trying to push himself up with shaking arms. Pokéballs open as the whole pack surrounds the human, not that Lil' Ribbon notice. "Are you okay?"
"Fine, tripped," the boy says. Lil' Ribbon isn't completely convinced, but knew better than to press the matter.
"I knew you were pushing yourself too hard," Misty says as she kneels down beside Ash. "I know you want to prove to the world you're getting better, but you don't need to push yourself into exhaustion. It's not healthy."
"I have to agree with Misty," Brock says as he checks Ash out. "I know you want to make it to the next town, and it isn't that far, but all signs are pointing this as a bad day. You need the rest."
"Tru need rest to," Ash says, struggling to stand.
"Ack! Eve, stop that; this is serious!" Gary says as Eve pounces on him. His starter cries in protests, causing him to roll his eyes. "If you still want to play, go find Mirage.
"How are we going to carry him?" he asks the group, ignoring his eevee. Seeing everyone looks at him he explains, "He's right about Tru needing rest and I'm pretty sure the others aren't an option if we want to avoid an unnecessary incident."
"Right… and using the herd, even just one member, is just asking for trouble," Misty says with a nod. "I don't think we trained them to carry passengers anyway."
"I'm sure Onix won't mind," Brock says.
"Except for the fact he won't be able to fit on this road," Gary points out. He then helps Ash to, at least, sit up properly.
'Huh?' Lil' Ribbon thinks as her ears twitch. She thought she heard something. Straining her ears, she can hear something faint. She tries turning away, but her gut is telling her to head over there, quickly.
"Ash, can I borrow Dexter?" she asks sweetly, trying not to show how nervous she really is. Looking in his eyes, she can tell she doesn't fool him in the slightest. "I hear something; I want to check it out. If it's bad he can call Dee to tell you where I am, okay?"
Ash looks around and Lil' Ribbon worries he isn't going to let her. Seeing how everyone is busy trying to figure the current dilemma out, Ash reaches into his pocket and pulls out Dexter and whispers, "Stay safe."
"I will," Lil' Ribbon promise. She runs off with Dexter in her mouth, as holding it in her paws would have been difficult. She stops long enough to listen before taking off again.
Surprisingly it doesn't take long before the cries are more noticeable. Whatever it is seems to be calling for someone, but isn't moving around. She starts moving closer when she hears the voice cry out in fear; "HELP!"
She wastes no time in running towards the Pokémon in trouble. Going through the bush, she comes across a sight that sends shivers down her spine. There, from what she could see, is an eevee tied to a tree with an ekans stalking it and she is still a distance away.
"Here, you can have my food and water," the eevee says while pushing something closer towards the ekans. "Just please don't eat me."
"Now why would I give up a nice, warm fresh meal for that hard stuff?" the ekans asks as it slithers closer. Lil' Ribbon drops Dexter as she darts towards the ekans. "I bet it doesn't even taste that good."
"Mikey, help," the eevee whimpers as it curls up in fear. There wasn't much it could do as the ekans prepares to strike.
"Leave the eevee alone!" Lil' Ribbon cries just before she slams into the ekans.
"Wai… wha?" the eevee asks in a daze. "Who are you?"
"Tell you later," Lil' Ribbon says, not even looking back to the Pokémon. She's position defensively at an angle instead of directly in front. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, thank you," the eevee says with relief knowing it isn't going to be eaten soon.
"Don't thank me yet," Lil' Ribbon says, still looking at the ekans. The snake Pokémon slithers up, annoyed his meal has been interrupted.
"Why did you stop me from my meal?" it asks. Not waiting for an answer, and shaking its head, it adds, "Doesn't matter; this is a feast. It must be my lucky day."
Feeling nervous, Lil' Ribbon tries reaching for Dexter to get the other… only to realize she dropped him when she attacked the ekans. She hopes she had at least pressed a button or something.
She snaps back to the ekans just in time to flip out of the way. She shakes her head to focus on the battle, rather than if she pressed a button or not.
'Okay, don't panic; think,' Lil' Ribbon thinks as she keeps her eyes on the enemy. 'You faced an ekans before. Remember how it thinks…'
She ducks when the ekans lunge at her. She grabs the tail and swings it away from the eevee, though it wasn't far since she doesn't have the strength yet. At least its attention is still on her, even though she doesn't know if that's good or bad.
'Okay, I can only remember the arbok, but they shouldn't be too different… I hope,' the dancing pichu thinks as she twirls out of the ekans' way. 'It has some sort of spit… and a powerful bite. Looking in its eyes can cause paralysis and… what else?'
"Eep!" she yelps as she backflips over the back of the ekans as it tries to grab her. "Wrap! That's what I was forgetting!"
"Hold still, food," the ekans hiss, clearly getting annoyed with Lil' Ribbon. It wasn't able to resist the pichu's Charm. "You may be cute, but I'm starving!"
"Then why don't you eat the eevee's food?" a voice similar to the ekans asks from the tree the eevee is at. "He did offer."
"Stay out of this, sister!" the ekans Lil' Ribbon's fighting snaps. Lil' Ribbon is afraid of looking back in case this ekans attacks her. "Besides; fresh warm food is better than that hard stuff."
"Have you even tried it?" the voice asks. However the ekans ignores her as it finally wraps itself around Lil' Ribbon, only for the pichu to give it a Sweet Kiss.
"I'm gonna eat you up, even though the world is spinning," it announce as it went for the kill.
"And he's biting himself," the voice, a green ekans says in disappointment.
"Um, why aren't you trying to eat me?" the eevee asks. Seeing her focus her eyes on him causes him to panic. "N…not that… I… I don't m…mind. J…just won…wondering."
"I don't eat live prey," the ekans says with a shudder. "Had a very traumatizing experience, don't want to talk about it."
"Oh, okay," the eevee says. He doesn't exactly relax but he does take his eyes off of her. "That little pikachu is pretty good at dancing."
Sure enough, the electric mouse has gotten free from the ekans's wrap and is now sidestepping, twirling, ducking and jumping out of harm's way. The ekans is too busy trying to focus and hitting itself to really notice. It almost looks mesmerizing to watch, which is what the two are doing.
"Pichu," the ekans say suddenly, causing the eevee to look at her. "I'm pretty sure that Pokémon is a pichu, a pre-evolve form of pikachu."
"Oh," the eevee says, unsure what to say. Right now the pichu is somersaulting around the ekans. An attack, a tackle, hit the pichu but the ekans got paralyze in the process. "Um, does your brother always fight like this?"
"No, he's usually worse," the ekans sighs. To the pichu's horror, the ekans shed his skin. "I won't be surprised if her trainer catches him, if they come in time."
"How do you know she has a trainer?" the eevee asks. The pichu manages to make the ekans dizzy again. "She seems to be a wild Pokémon to me."
"A wild Pokémon only seeks to keep themselves from harm; a caught Pokémon forgets this preservation," the ekans explains. The two they're watching are at a sort of standstill, waiting for the other to make a move. "If you could help a Pokémon from being attacked by another Pokémon that is your predator, would you run or fight?"
"I think I understand now," the eevee says, looking back at the battle. The pichu is dancing, leading the ekans. So far he's only trying to Bite and Wrap her, which she knows to avoid. "I like how she makes it look like an elegant dance."
"And my brother her ribbon," the ekans agrees. Sometimes when the pichu jumps, the ekans tries following, only for her to summersault away. The way she twirls causes the ekans to move around her in speed to her spins. Then she'll backflip over his body and he follows suit, often over shooting her and hitting the ground instead. "Can I try your food?"
"Um, okay," the eevee says hesitantly.
"Stop moving!" the ekans snaps. Lil' Ribbon backs up towards the bushes she came from. She's hoping to get to Dexter to send that beacon. "Stay Still And Let Me Eat You!"
"I know a human who cooks up some amazing dishes, food," Lil' Ribbon says, trying to bide time. She sees the ekans tense up and sidesteps to the right just in time. "If you want, I can show you to him and he can make a delicious dish for you."
"Lies," the ekans hiss sharply. Its jaws clamp pretty close to Lil' Ribbon, causing her to leap to the left and tumble her landing. The ekans towers over her, ready to strike and finish her off one and for all. "There are no human who'd listen to Pokémon."
"Barrier Reflect," Dexter beeps suddenly, causing the ekans to hit the barrier hard. The snake Pokémon isn't knocked out, but it is pretty dazed at the moment. Lil' Ribbon releases the breath she didn't know she was holding. "You Pressed Record. It'll Take Me A Few Moments To Send The Beacon As I Assume You Desired.
"On A Side Note; I Did Catch Your Entire Battle," Dexter adds, causing Lil' Ribbon to blush even though she's trying to catch her breath. She then went to pick up the Pokédex, just in case.
"You dirty, cheating rodent!" the ekans hiss harshly, causing Lil' Ribbon's to freeze in fear. She glances over her shoulder to see the snake Pokémon upright and glaring angrily at her. "I'm going to make you pay for that!"
Lil' Ribbon's feet toss Dexter into the air just as she back somersaults out of the way. As the ekans hit the ground, she uses the momentum gained to leap into the air and catch Dexter in her mouth. As Dexter is a pretty hard object, and both she and the Pokédex were moving, catching it in her mouth hurts and she thinks she almost broke a tooth.
She lands on her paws and ran back towards the tree the eevee is trapped in. The ekans gives pursuit and Lil' Ribbon had to guess how it's moving since she can't risk looking over her shoulder. Her ears strain to hear where he is and when to react.
A sudden thought had her tumbling over her left shoulder, turning to face her opponent, leaping with the momentum and using Attract on the ekans. She doesn't wait to see if it works or not as she's using the momentum to face ahead and, as soon as her paws touch the ground, run as fast as she can with a bulky and heavy handheld computer in her mouth, threatening to fall.
She manages to get near it, enough to see a green ekans trying the eevee's food, before the ekans from before wraps its body around her, causing her to drop Dexter. She can see the heart in his eyes, confirming his gender to her. But it pales in comparison to being trapped and possibly squeezed to death, so no; her attraction didn't work.
"Oh my sweetheart, let me hold you forever in my heart," the ekans sings horribly. Lil' ribbon realizes in horror that this is worse than being eaten to death. She starts struggling, trying to get herself lose and free.
"Hey Brother!" the other ekans called out. "That's not how you get someone to fall for you!"
"Lay Off!" he snaps at her… Lil' Ribbon thinks he called her sister once before so… "This sweetheart's mine! And we're going to have lots of little terrors to take over the world!"
"Now you're being a creep," his sister sighs. She looks at the eevee and says; "Excuse me as I deal with him."
"Hey Creep!" a voice she recognize calls out, stopping the green ekans from advancing, not that Lil' Ribbon notices. Suddenly his grip on her loosens as he flies across the small clearing, startling the green ekans and the eevee. There standing defensively in front of Lil' Ribbon is a well-groomed wild eevee known to her as Eve… and she doesn't look happy. "You keep your skin off my pack-sister!"
"Blind him with Sand-Attack!" Lil' Ribbon hears Gary calling out the order. Eve complies, kicking the sand up with her tail and straight in the ekans' eyes.
"Gyah! I'm Blind!" the ekans screams in pain. As he tries to get the sand out of his eyes, using his tail, Lil' Ribbon felt something picking her up.
"He didn't hurt you to bad, did he?" she hears Gary asking. The eevee she's been protecting suddenly runs up and she wants to speak to him, make sure he's alright.
Gary looks between the eevee, the tree and the regular color ekans before speaking; "You ran off because you heard the eevee calling for help?"
Lil' Ribbon is trembling badly now that she knows she's safe. While she doesn't like Gary, and vice versa, she knows he won't let harm come to her. She tries talking to him, but the words die on her throat. He seems to know as he says, "No, don't speak. Just, try to rest now."
He bends down to look over the eevee. Lil' Ribbon closes her eyes, just for a moment. Just so she can forget just how close she was to death.
Gary was the first to notice Lil' Ribbon not there. Ash told him, when asked, that she went to investigate something and took Dexter with her. He checked Dee to see if she message, but there was nothing.
While it could mean she hasn't found what she's looking for or wasn't in any danger, Gary decided to play it safe. He gave Dee to Brock and called Eve over, claiming to check in on her just in case. He already memorized Dexter's location on Dee's map and he headed straight there.
He saw her running away from an ekans, who seems to be very angry. He saw her launching a powerful Attract. It seems to work to an extent, but then Eve got very upset and used Tackle on the ekans, causing it to let go of Lil' Ribbon. He suspects she only Tackle instead of one of her stronger attacks is because Lil' Ribbon was in harm's way.
Still, she seems fine if only shaken up. Seeing the eevee with the collar and a chewed up leash gave him the conclusion Lil' Ribbon heard his cries for help. Now she's asleep in his arms, the strange eevee at his legs and two ekans, one fighting Eve and the other slithering over with a bowl of Pokéfood in its mouth.
"Dexter," he says, hoping the Pokédex can use his voice for a command. There's really only one thing he can do; "Call the others, please."
Time skip; because I'm lazy and want this chapter over with
Gary sighs as he walks over to Mikey. After hearing what the brothers had to say, well, he can't really fault the kid for almost killing his Pokémon, no matter how unintentional it was. Oh, he's still upset over it, but seeing as the kid in question is only six or so years old, and as an eleven year old with not so good ideas, he can see just how trapped and despite the kid is.
"Hey there," he says, trying to get the kid's attention. Mikey says nothing but his body language says he heard him. It's also depressed; something that just doesn't seem right. "You don't want to evolve your eevee."
"How'd you know?" Mikey asks, finally looking at him. Gary couldn't fight the smile that came when he saw the shock and awe in Mikey's eyes.
"Lil' Ribbon was the same way," Gary explains, pointing to the pichu playing with Mikey's eevee, playing catch with her everstone. "She went through great lengths to keep from evolving. Once we knew what she wanted, we got her the stone they're playing with."
"How can a stone stop her from evolving?" Mikey asks, clearly confused with it. His eyes are watching the stone when he asked.
"That's a special one; it keeps Pokémon from evolving," Gary explains as he sits down next to Mikey. Seeing the hopeful look Mikey has, Gary adds; "Of course, not evolving is her choice. It's important for the Pokémon to choose if they want to evolve or not."
"What do you mean?" the young boy asks worriedly. Why he's worried about, Gary wasn't sure though he thinks it involves the eeveelution party, what it represents anyway.
"Evolving is a big milestone for Pokémon, one that isn't taken lightly," he explains while thinking about it. "Once they evolve, they can't go back and if they aren't comfortable… well, there isn't much they could do about it."
"I don't want Eevee to be uncomfortable," Mikey says honestly. He looks at Eevee with a thoughtful expression. Then Eve suddenly comes up and tries pouncing on Gary, only for him to move out of the way last moment. A sudden thought came to Mikey; "Are you going to evolve you eevee?"
"Which one?" Gary mutters, trying in vain to get Eve to stop pouncing on him. "My starter here or the others?"
"All, any," Mikey says, getting confused.
"Like I said; it's up to them," he answers, finally getting Eve to sit on his lap to be petted and brushed. "They have been talking about it, but none of them are ready yet."
"Oh," Mikey looks at the ground not really wanting to talk anymore. His eevee and Lil' Ribbon comes running up. His eevee jumps into Mikey's arms and starts licking his face, causing the boy to laugh, "Eevee, stop."
The eeveelutions comes up, each carrying their evolutionary stone. They place the stones in front of Mikey and Eevee before stepping away. Both Eevee and Mikey knew they have to choose.
Lil' Ribbon pulls on Gary's leg, trying to get his attention. The boy looks down but says nothing, afraid of drawing attention. Lil' Ribbon pulls out her everstone before pointing at the assorted stones.
Gary nods in understanding before pulling out Dee and looking into the teams' inventory. He shakes his head, signaling "no" to her. She seems to understand because she looks sad herself, before running over to the eeveelutions.
She speaks to them, and to Gary's surprise, puts the stone next to the others. Gary watches quietly as she traded words with Eevee before walking back to him. While he's proud of Lil' Ribbon for giving up her stone for Eevee, he's worried how she'll handle being without it.
Eevee hesitantly takes the everstone and absorbs it into his body. His happiness is short lived when he notices Lil' Ribbon in pain. Gary gave a sigh and picks her up.
"It looks like your eevee wants to stay as eevee," he says to Mikey.
"Yeah," Mikey says happily as he picks up his eevee. Then his smile vanishes. "What about her? Do you have another stone?"
"Unfortunately we don't," Gary sighs, holding the pichu close. "We'll have to keep an eye out for one, if she doesn't evolve before then."
"Wh…what if we gave the stone back?" Mikey asks pretty fast. Gary suspects the boy feels bad about this and wants to help. Lil' Ribbon protests loudly, causing Gary to laugh.
"I think she wants to help her friend out," Gary says gently. "Even if it means, well, this."
"But…" Mikey protests.
"No!" Lil' Ribbon says firmly, startling everyone. "Friends help friends with what they have. Once your brothers see you guys don't want this, then you can hand it back; not before."
"…I see you've been practicing your aura to communicate…" Gary says, trying to come to terms with it. "Either that or I'm going crazy."
"How did she speak?" Mikey asks, proving to Gary he isn't going crazy. "What's aura?"
"Aura lets humans attack like Pokémon and Pokémon speak like humans," Lil' Ribbon says with pride.
"That's…" Gary starts before cutting himself off. "Those are some benefits but that's not it."
"Then what is it?" Mikey asks. He's bouncing on his toes, clearly trying to contain his excitement. "Can Eevee and I learn it?"
"I don't know about that," Gary says, a bit put back. "We've just started learning about this a few months ago."
"Oh," Mikey says in disappointment. It seems so cool to be able to attack like Eevee can and have Eevee talk to him.
"Look," Gary says as gently as he could. "I'm not saying you couldn't. I just don't have the knowledge to give you the answers. But I know someone who does."
"Really?" the kid asks with a hopeful look in his eyes. Even Eevee looks excited.
"Yeah," Gary says with a gentle smile. "Why don't we go ask him?"
"You mean, he's here?" Mikey asks, looking a bit nervous. "Does that mean we have to join the party?"
"I hope not," Gary mutters. Lil' Ribbon shakes in pain, causing Gary to check her out. He is relieved to see everything is okay, but he knows it's only a matter of time. Even though they don't get along very often, he does worry for her from time to time. "Let's go find him and asks about what you want to know, okay?"
"Okay," Mikey says, not looking forwards to this but determined all the same. "And before my brothers find out, if we can."
Time skip; same reason as before.
Gary, Mikey and Lil' Ribbon chases the thieves up the mountain. Even though Lil' Ribbon is in immense pain from trying not to evolve, she doesn't want to lose her new friend to these meanies.
Following Seahorse's ink trail is making it a lot easier for them. But knowing these people are using a truck and could be miles away from them doesn't sit well for the baby mouse Pokémon.
"I sure hope Eve is alright," she hears Gary say quietly. "Either that or she's giving them hell."
A laugh escapes Lil' Ribbon's throat at the thought. The only good thing is Eve's the only eevee in the group to be caught; the others had been playing hide-n-seek with Mikey's brothers.
Those brothers wanted to evolve them into their favorite eeveelution. Brock told Mikey that he'll speak with them, to see if they won't calm down on their obsession… then the party was attacked and Eevee was taken away and she couldn't stop it.
"You okay, Lil' Ribbon," she hears Gary asking her, bringing her out from the memory. She went to nod, before shaking her head. She isn't alright! Her new best friend was taken away and she doesn't think she'll see him again!
Suddenly she's in Gary's arms and the tears she's been trying to ignore comes rushing out. She barely feels his hand rubbing her back, or his legs walking down the road. She doesn't even know how long it was she cried before the tears stopped.
He suddenly jumps off the road and in a ditch, startling Lil' Ribbon. Before she could make a sound, her ears twitch as voices reaches them. Focusing, she can hear her friend trying to call for help.
"Dee," Gary whispers. "Let Dexter and the authorities know where we are."
Dee beeps but doesn't make a sound. Lil' Ribbon looks at the thieves to see them having a picnic. A small growl escapes her throat before pain washes over as her body tries to force evolve her again. She can feel Gary trying to soothe her.
"Think you can handle this?" he asks her softly. The pain she's feeling is so immense that a part of her doesn't think she can. But thinking about Eevee and Eve being forced to evolve gave her the strength to fight pass the pain; look Gary into the eyes and nods.
Now Gary isn't blind; he can see the pain she's in. He knew she wants to save her friend and pack-members, he just isn't sure if her body can handle it.
Yet when she looks right in his eyes, he can see that pain she's in and the determination overpowering it. It gave him enough confidence in her to trust her in this.
"Okay, then," he sighs. He puts a hand on Mikey's shoulder trying to reassure the quiet boy. "Let's figure out how to get the Pokémon out, or at least distract the thieves from the eevees."
"Eeveu?" a voice of an eevee asks from behind them. They take a look and see a wild silvery white eevee, with a leaf-bag around its neck, looking past them and towards the cages. Then it looks at them with wide silver-blue eyes filled with worry. "Eveu?"
Lil' Ribbon starts talking to it while Gary brought Dee up to scan it. A scan shows its gender to be female, and there are no oddities aside from her coat. Overall she's a strong, healthy eevee.
"She says she's a friend of Eevee and apologizes for being late to the party," Lil' Ribbon says. She looks back at the eevee as she speaks. "She and her kin wanted to give Eevee a gift but couldn't find them in time. She also wants to know why he is in a cage. Oh, wait."
As Lil' Ribbon went to explain things to the newcomer, Gary looks over at Mikey.
"Hey Mikey?" he asks quietly, trying to get the boy's attention and not the thieves. "How well do you know eevees in general?"
"Well," Mikey whispers. "I studied Eevee's needs and what moves he can learn. But fully evolve Pokémon are better…"
"Stop right there," Gary orders. "Fully evolved Pokémon might be more powerful than a pre-evolved Pokémon, if they had the same amount of training.
"Lil' Ribbon here fought and won against a raichu in a triple battle," he explains, looking at the baby Pokémon. "She didn't have much experience in fighting, but she was determined to help Ash and her pack-mates out."
"So?" Mikey asks. "She's still a baby Pokémon."
"Right," Gary says, confusing Mikey even more. "She's a baby Pokémon that beat a highly trained, fully-evolved Pokémon. Evolution isn't everything; it's using what you know and what you have the best you can."
"And doing the best you can while giving it your all," Lil' Ribbon adds. "You know what an eevee's attacks are, right?"
"Yeah," Mikey says with confusion lacing his voice. "Just mine."
"Eevee's friend here knows the same moves Eevee knows," Lil' Ribbon says as she pushes the wild eevee towards Mikey. "And they heard great things about you from him."
"But she's wild," Mikey protests quietly.
"So is Lil' Ribbon and about 3-4th of our team," Gary points out. "Look, as long as the Pokémon trusts and respects you, and you trust and respect them in return, then whether they are wild or not doesn't matter.
"Besides," Gary adds as he looks at the thieves again. "We're only providing a distraction until the others can get here."
Another Time Skip, though not by much; I didn't know how to write the thieves catching them.
"Eevee!" Mikey shouts as the silver color eevee was knocked back by one of the opponent's dragonite. The female eevee shakily got to her feet and glares at the dragon Pokémon. Beside her Lil' Ribbon is trying to hide the pain she's in with her body trying to force evolve her.
"Give up Kid," the leader says warningly. "I'd hate to hurt such a fine specimen as that eevee of yours any more than I've already have."
Gary looks at the Pokémon the thieves have out and silently agrees with them. All Pokémon are fully evolved and seem to be well trained. If the others don't get here soon, then they really don't have much of a choice.
[The Pokémon are a couple of each, aka the same party for each thief; Alakazam, Dragonite, Venomoth, Golem, Ganger and a dog Pokémon he doesn't recognize but is certain it's at least a fire type. There are four thieves total.]
"NO!" Mikey yells at them as the female eevee cries out loudly, as if calling for something. "No, I won't let you have her!"
"Very well," the leader says. Gary grabs Lil' Ribbon in one arm and Mikey who is now holding the female eevee, in the other. He pulls them closer, trying to protect them from whatever the thieves have in mind. "Dragonite, finish them off."
To their horror all four dragonite, not just the leader's, went to attack with what looks to be a powerful dragon type move. Then a cry is sounded, similar to an eevee's but different and something moved in front of them just as the dragons launched their attacks.
Everyone expected a hit, a cry of pain and destruction to the ground around them. What ended up happening is the attacks bouncing off harmlessly and fading before any damage can be done.
Let's just say, no one knew what just happened or how it was possible.
Standing in front of the children is a pink and cream Pokémon with ribbons and familiar ears. The eevee seems glad to see it. Gary pulls out Dee for a scan and, hopefully, an explanation.
"Pokémon Species; Unknown. Typing; Unknown. Gender; Female," Dee beeps. "DNA Structure Indicates This Pokémon Is A Part Of The Eeveelution Family. There Is No Farther Information Regarding This Pokémon. Farther Studies And An Upgrade Is Advised."
"What? That thing was once an eevee?" Gary asks, unknowingly echoing everyone's thoughts. "How was it not affected by the dragon attack?"
"That Pokémon would make us a fortune!" one of the thieves says loud enough for everyone to hear. "Boss, we have got to get it!"
"I agree," The boss says. "Grab That Pokémon!"
The unknown Pokémon doesn't seem fazed by this and waited, even though all twenty-four Pokémon came at it. At the last moment she turns around and grabs the boys and the Pokémon with her ribbons before jumping out of harm's way.
It calls out not unlike the eevee has done earlier. Before the thieves' Pokémon catches them, a series of attacks blast them back. Then a pink, a black, a green and a light blue Pokémon came out of nowhere and jumps on the thieves' Pokémon, knocking them back.
Silently, Gary gets Dee to scan them.
Behind the thieves' trucks, a smokescreen erupts though no one seems to notice.
"Pokémon Species; Unknown, Unknown, Unknown And Unknown. Typing; Ice, Grass, Psychic And Unknown Though Similar To The Dog Pokémon Second Type. Gender; Female, Female, Female And Female," Dee beeps, trying to keep it simple. "DNA Structure Indicates These Pokémon Are A Part Of The Eeveelution Family. There Is No Farther Information Regarding These Pokémon. Farther Studies And An Upgrade Is Advised."
"That doesn't sound right," Gary mumbles. "They should have been male; male is the most dominate gender."
"Which might mean there're more?" Lil' Ribbon suggested with a shrug of her shoulders.
The four newcomers soon join the small group and hunch down low and growl at the thieves. Gary suddenly realizes these Pokémon are wild and aggressive. Of course, traveling with wild Pokémon gave him a unique perspective; most wild Pokémon are only aggressive if threaten or if their family is in danger… or someone is intruding in their territory.
'Well, this is something,' the pink eeveelution says through thought. 'Don't worry young ones; we won't harm a friend of our little sister.'
"So only we can hear you speak?" Mikey asks, a little frighten.
'Well, unless one of those alakazam had training in such an art, they can't,' the Pokémon says with a thought. While it calmed Mikey down, Gary is a bit more skeptical but knew better than to say anything. Mikey's scared enough as it is and it is his fault.
He also recently notices all of them have the same leaf-bag attached to their necks. He suspects this is where they have their gifts, but knew it isn't the time to confirm it. It does make for a decent distraction on how doomed they are.
"Well, well, well," the boss says, looking at the newcomers with this hunger in his eyes. He doesn't seem to care how threatening the Pokémon are trying to be, or the disadvantages his Pokémon are at type wise. "This'll be the best haul of Pokémon we've ever had."
The thieves' Pokémon starts coming in closer, causing the eeveelutions to get closer to the others, trying to protect them from the threats. Gary pulls Mikey in closer as Lil' Ribbon and the eevee went to join the fight.
Suddenly a flash of light and a bit of smokescreen fills the area between the two opposing Pokémon groups. The Pokémon all backed up in anticipation as to what will come from it, effectively distracting both groups for the moment.
"Humans And Pokémon Alike! Listen To Me!" a voice calls out from everywhere at once and nowhere at all. "There Has Been A Great Injustice And there Are Cheaters Among Us! If You Value Honor, Then Stop This Nonsense And Fight Fair!"
The smoke begins to settle down and both Gary and Lil' Ribbon can't help but face-palm/paw at the scene.
"I Am The Great Wizard, Sparkle Dust," Amber Silk says[?] dressed in a wizard's robe and hat, twirling a double helix staff with a pink gem in it, most likely at the top. It's a bit hard to tell with all that twirling. "And You, Shall, Not, Pass!"
"That's An Overused Line, And You Know It!" Gary yells at the "Wizard" pikachu. Said Pokémon just shrugs at him before adjusting her hat.
"What Is Going On Here?!" one of the thieves asks in disbelief. "What Is That Thing?!"
"I already told you; I'm the Great Wizard, Sparkle Dust," Amber Silk says[?] with annoyance. She twirls her staff to point at them threateningly. "And you are one of the most despicable and cowardly humans I have ever had to deal with; attacking children and two young Pokémon with twenty-four fully evolved Pokémon!"
"We're thieves; we don't play fair," the boss thief says annoyed with all of this. "And you are in the way of our hard-earned cash!"
"Well then," Amber Silk says[?] with a smirk, "I hope you don't mind the hard work to get all of us Pokémon."
She raises her staff in the air as it glows pink. Before anyone had time to react, the Pokémon in the cages teleport out and onto the battle field. As Gary and Mikey rejoice with the Pokémon they are familiar with, aka have the Pokémon check them over for injuries, the other Pokémon gathered around and ready to attack the thieves and their Pokémon.
Time Skip; because I can't to battle scenes.
With the thieves and their Pokémon safely in the cages that once held the stolen Pokémon, the eeveelutions gather around and places evolutionary stones on the ground. Now Gary can identify the everstone, moonstone, the leafstone, the firestone, the waterstone and the thunderstone, but not the others.
'Those are the sunstone, usually found in Johto rather than Kanto, the shinystone, discovered in Sinnoh, and the icestone, which was discovered in Alola,' Mirage explains, still disguise as the gem in the staff and not sounding like a pikachu. 'And the eeveelutions are Umbreon; a dark type which commonly evolves at night, Espeon; a psychic type which commonly evolves during the day, Leafeon; a grass type which commonly evolves in certain forests, Glaceon; an ice type which commonly evolves on certain frozen areas, and Sylveon, a fairy type which commonly evolves with a fairy type move. And yes; males don't have any gender differences.'
"Okay, and what are dark and fairy types?" Gary asks while rocking Lil' Ribbon, trying to comfort her from the pain she's in. "Or am I going to have to wait?"
'Pardon me, child,' the espeon says coming up to Gary with Mikey's eevee and his friend. 'My sister and her friend wanted to give the hatchling a gift.'
The silver-grey eevee comes up with the everstone that was in her bag and place it at Gary's feet. Lil' Ribbon shakily tries to get out of Gary's arms. Gary kneels down so Lil' Ribbon can get to the ground safely. As the three Pokémon were talking, Gary faced the espeon.
"What is it they're talking about?" he asks, mildly concern.
'My sister has heard how Lil' Ribbon gave up her everstone for Eevee, even though she needs it as she has no desire to evolve,' the espeon explains calmly. By now the two eevees are assuring Lil' Ribbon that the everstone they're offering is now hers. 'My sister's gift for Eevee is an everstone, as ours are choices for our evolutionary line. However, since we were running late… well…
'The point I'm trying to say here is this; Lil' Ribbon has proven to be a valued friend, putting others needs before her own,' the espeon continues, watching the three Pokémon. 'My sister and her friend have agreed to offer the stone she was going to give him, as thanks for all she has done.'
Lil' Ribbon, with tears in her eyes and holding the everstone, hugs the two eevees tightly. Gary can only assume she's saying "thankyou" to them, but he can't be sure.
"She's not going to let this rock go," Gary mentions more to himself than anything. Then he looks at the espeon and says, "Thank you."
'Thank you for looking after our sister, her friend and his family,' she 'says' sincerely with a bow of her head. She then pulls out the sunstone from her bag and adds; 'Perhaps you would have better use for these stones than we do.'
Time Skip; same reason as the first two.
Lil' Ribbon smiles as she looks at her new everstone. The pain she felt is no longer there and she has this warm feeling in her chest whenever she thinks of what happened. A content sigh leaves her lips as she continues admiring her new everstone.
"Hope you don't trip while you're looking at your rock," she hears Gary say, bringing her back to reality. "And you better hurry or we'll leave you behind."
"Hey!" she called out with a slight growl as she looks up. Just as before, she has fallen behind from the group, though not by much.
Ash is riding Tru with Misty sitting behind him, most likely so he wouldn't fall. Big Ash is walking on one side while Lucario is on the other. Brock is looking at his guide book and Mama Khan has all of the younglings either in her pouch or on her shoulders.
The other Pokémon are a bit scattered but still close enough. Gary is in the back, walking backwards and looking at her. She sticks out her tongue at him before absorbing her stone and running to catch up. She had again gone under him, causing him to yell at her, which she ignores.
She makes it to Tru and went to call for Misty but stop. She thinks just how important it is to have Misty sitting behind Ash, if it's safe to be in her arms and if it's worth it.
The quick answer is; no, it's not.
Lil' Ribbon ran through her pack. She didn't even need to think about who she can go to. She ran through the pack again and leap into the air, not giving them a chance to see her coming.
"Ack! Lil' Ribbon," Gary all but growls at her as she lands on him, almost knocks him to the ground. They gave each other a firm look, before a yawn escapes her mouth and interrupt it.
She rubs her head against Gary's chin and snuggles on his chest. Once secured, she closes her eyes and let the sounds around her lure her to sleep.
Gary tries so hard not to smile. He tries so hard to dislike her and her actions. He tries so hard to not fall for her cute charm and give her what she wants.
But seeing her sleep peacefully after the day they had, it brings a sort of peace. He looks around to make sure no one sees this before making sure Lil' Ribbon isn't going to fall out of his arms anytime soon. He knows he can just hand her off to someone else…
He chooses to savor the moment, knowing he probably won't have a chance like this anytime soon, not with her.
AN; Okay, I didn't want to do Mikey's brothers. Mainly because I thought I could change the spelling for Sparky, but couldn't think of what. Then time became scarce and this is the result... sorry.
In case you couldn't tell, Gary and Lil' Ribbon had a bit of trouble getting along. I'll try to make the chapters that come before this showcase it better.
