Note: I love 'Chocolate Rain', Goo Goo Dolls, Nickelback, Styx, Maroon 5, and any other artist that is semi-mentioned in here, but I don't own anything of it! Just to let you guys know that! Plus, down at the end when Butterscotch is typing, I'll have you know that I tried typing with my fists, and it's really hard and I sympathize with him! (hugs) He's my little Raichu buddy!
Also, I know that some of the conversations may be confusing because sometimes I didn't go to a new paragraph when someone new was speaking, but, err...bear with me?
(Legendary Palace, 4:35 a.m.)
(A/N: Btw, it is June 14th in this chapter. Just thought you should know, since it's the day before she hangs out with Mew!)
"Chocolate rain," DL hummed to herself as she walked outside of the palace at the front where Payapa and Hondew berries grew in abundance around the statue of Arceus as well as other choice plants, and the purple plants swelled and swayed in the wind when she drew near as Butterscotch and Mewtwo sat (or, in the Legendaries' case, stood) on the bottom step about twenty yards away and sighed as she kept on singing to no one in particular. It seemed that time did not affect this place or was changed to the Legendaries' liking, for it had been daytime for a while now. "Some stay dry while others feel the pain. Chocolate rain…a baby born will die before the sin. Chocolate rain…." She was up early because she couldn't go to sleep (especially after that nap yesterday), and she had dragged Butterscotch with her before bumping into Mewtwo on the way out. He said he had nothing to do (he always seemed to come here early because of that reason), so she had told him to hang out with her. With her 'persuasion skills', there was no saying 'no' to her.
"Will you stop singing?" Mewtwo called from where he stood on the step beside the old tired Raichu, who also commented with a yawn, "Rai raichu rai rai, raichu rai…." (If you could at least be a bit quieter, it wouldn't be a problem….)
DL looked at her Pokemon with a grin, telling him, "No one told you to sit there, ya know!" Then, her grin turned mischievous as she turned around and started shouting, "I'm through with standing in line to clubs I'll never get in, it's like the bottom of the ninth and –"
"No!"
"Rai!"
Both Mewtwo and Butterscotch shouted 'no' at the same time, making a weird combination of a word and making her collapse into a fit of giggles before she said, "What? It's just a bit of song and dance!" To show them, she started doing the robot while saying, "Domo arigatou, Mr. Roboto. Domo…domo…domo arigatou…." (A/N: Lol, I can't spell it! Ignore my bad attempt at spelling Japanese using English letters, please.)
"Rai raichu…?" (Will you please stop this headache…?)
"Mmm, no. Now prepare yourselves!" She whirled around to face them, holding her hands in the air as if holding pretend drumsticks, and smacked the air around her while making drum sound effects before going on to, "Doo doo, doo doo, diddle-diddle doo doo doooooo…doo doo-doo da doo doo, doo doo, diddle-diddle doo doo doooooo…."
"Raichu rai raichu?" (Why do I feel like I should groan aloud?)
"We're no strangers to love…."
"Rai!" (Argh!) Her Raichu slapped his forehead, grumbling, "Raichu rai…." (I should have known….)
DL stretched her arms out over to them both, singing, "You know the rules, and so do I! A full commitment's what I'm thinking of…you wouldn't get this from any other guy!"
"Stop singing that," Mewtwo muttered, "because it's disturbing to hear you say that."
"Hold on, let me sing the best part!" She then went on to the chorus, spinning around once before singing, "Never gonna give you up! Never gonna let you down! Never gonna run around and desert you!" She pointed to them again, grinning at their sweatdrops (and Raichu's rolled eyes), before going on, "Never gonna make you cry! Never gonna say good-bye! Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you!"
"Are you quite done yet?"
"Mm, with that song! If I'd be so inclined to climb in beside you, would you tell me that the time just isn't right?" After Butterscotch had thrown a berry at her in horror to stop her from singing 'Woman', she stuck her tongue out at them and went around to the other side of the statue to avoid further projectiles, humming to herself, "Now I'm banging on the door of an angel…the end of fear is where we begin…the moment we decided to let…love…in…." She could really switch from one song to another pretty fast, it was almost frightening. And she never skipped a beat, either.
"What are you singing?"
DL gave a soft 'hm?' as she turned to see who was addressing her, and then her mouth fell open in shock as she gaped at the green-and-orange Legendary she had been wanting to meet all of this time – the one that seemed to avoid all of the meetings she had been in, the one that she could never find when she wanted to but then popped up when she least expected it, and the one that seemed the most confusing to her.
Deoxys.
"Ohmigosh, yes!" She did a happy dance as she said triumphantly to herself, "Look at that, DL, you've finally met the alien Pokemon that fell on that rock onto Earth! Oh, yeah, this just made your day that much better."
"Err…I'm standing right here." Her telepathy sounded a bit weirded out by the human, and she composed herself and muttered 'right' before extending her hand and smiling graciously, saying, "Hey, umm, I'm DL! And I assume you're Deoxys?"
"Obviously." The blunt attitude for some reason seemed to grow on her, and DL could only sigh in appreciation of the day before jumping up and down for a moment and asking her, "So, like, since you're Deoxys, that means you can change forms, right? Well," she didn't even give her a chance to answer 'obviously' again, "I was wondering if I could see you change, ya know, just once? Like…Speed Forme! No, no, Defense! No, Attack! No, Speed. No, wait, Defense. Okay, definitely Attack."
She nodded, and the Psychic-Type rolled her eyes and asked, "Is that your final answer?"
"Absotively-posilutely." (Ya know, 'absolutely' and 'positively' mixed up?)
"Boy, you're a hoot," she muttered to himself before sighing and focusing on her body, and she watched in amazement as she got to witness her changing from Normal Forme to Attack Forme; her head changed from a strange shape that reminded her of a solar panel to a three pronged trident shape almost like a star without its two bottom pointers, while on her legs a green spike came up from each of her knees as a green strip covered the front of each one, and most of the orange on her stomach and torso area receded to let the black/gray material creep in on its place.
It overall looked like a little child messing around with Playdo, and she clapped her hands when she was finished and told her, "Wow, that was awesome! Does it hurt at all to do that?"
"No," she shrugged as she returned to Normal Forme, at ease with talking to her already, "I do it all the time. It's sort of like how you flex and clench your hands, except different of course."
DL rolled her eyes and commented 'obviously' before telling her, "Hey, you wanna hang out with me and Mewtwo and Butterscotch? You and I can sing old showtunes and annoy them until they pelt us with berries."
"Despite how amusing and somehow fun that sounds, I'd rather not get berry juice all over me," she politely declined, and then offered, "perhaps another time, though?" When she nodded with a merry 'okay!', she waved at her and then at the two sitting on the stairs before floating over to and past them to get into the palace itself.
DL was still grinning long after the door was closed, and when her Raichu asked what she was so happy about, the brown-haired human squealed, "Dude, I just finally got to see Deoxys face-to-face! And she, like, talked to me with interest and didn't have this 'omg-you-are-so-friggin'-weird' look on her face the entire time! Finally!" After doing a happy dance for a few seconds, she stopped to comment, "Well, she doesn't really have a mouth, so…hm." She shrugged and went back to her dancing, oblivious to or ignoring the two guys sitting on the stairs.
The Raichu leaned over to Mewtwo and whispered as DL started to dance around the place, "Rai raichu rai rai raichu." (Let's hope she doesn't get a sudden obsession over Deoxys like she did when she first was researching Rayquaza.)
Curious, the Genetic Pokemon asked, "What happened?"
"Rai raichu rai, rai rai, raichu, rai raichu rai…." (Let's just say it involved a Rayquaza costume, matches, a tree, and some unhappy Furret….)
"Great." He could only imagine what she would do in a Deoxys costume.
(Legendaries' Guest Room, 7:06 a.m.)
"Wha – what are we doing?" Articuno shuffled nervously behind Darkrai as Rayquaza brought up the rear, heading towards the brown-haired human's room intent on learning something about her. "I mean, what, is she just going to come out and say something we wanna know?"
"No," Darkrai told him, and then held up his claw to shush his protesting as they came to the hallway to her room, not wanting to alert her to their presences. As they crept the rest of the way until they were right next to the open door (it never seemed to be shut), the Dark-Type whispered, "We're going to spy."
"But – but –" He was ignored, and the Ice/Flying-Type eventually sighed silently and listened with them as they heard her…talking to someone?
"So, Mewtwo, do you like the red one or the black one?"
"I really think that Mew or Celebi would be better at this than me –"
"Oh, come on, I'd appreciate your opinion! Besides, it's not like you're going to wear it or anything. So," she held up the collar to Butterscotch's neck, repeating, "red or black?"
He rolled his eyes and grumbled, "Black."
"Mkay, red it is!"
"But I said –" He resisted slapping his forehead and sighed in restrained frustration before asking her, "If you value my opinion, why did you pick the opposite?"
"Because I think that red would look better on him," she chirped as she clipped it on the Raichu, and said Pokemon was rather peeved by this whole thing as he commented, "Raichu rai rai!" (I feel like a dork wearing this!)
"Nonsense, you look great! And besides," she patted him on the head, "I just wanted to see if these would look nice on you. You're not going to wear them all the time – it's just when I leave you for those monthly check-ups at the lab!"
"Rai raichu rai raichu rai?" (Why would I need a collar if they already know who I am?)
"It's protocol, you know, I got yelled at about it last year," and then she added threateningly, "and if they harm you in any way, shape, or form, then you'll know what number to call so I can come and kick their asses!"
Seeming to ignore the violence in that comment, he perked up and asked her, "Raichu rai?" (You have a cell phone?)
"Yep!" She pulled the sleek black cellular phone out, flipping it open to showoff her shiny number pad. "I got it a little while before all of this, but I never got a chance to use it."
"Rai…rai, raichu rai rai raichu rai? (Wait…so, why couldn't you have used that to call the Professor and tell him about everything when Mewtwo and Rayquaza came?)
She chuckled nervously and scratched the back of her head, saying reluctantly, "Well, it was…kind of dead." She shook it and sighed. "Still is."
The Genetic Legendary sighed as her Pokemon smacked his forehead, and the Legendaries eavesdropping on this all rolled their eyes or wondered how she could have survived to be a teenager before Darkrai whispered (he could be really quiet, since he's had to sneak around a rarely sleeping Arceus to set up pranks for Cresselia before), "I swear, we'll never get a chance to accidentally kill her because she's going to do it herself."
"I actually wouldn't be surprised," Rayquaza mumbled bitterly, but then they fell silent as DL asked her Pokemon if he really hated it that much.
"If you do," she said and walked over to take it off of him, "then just pray that the examination will be fast."
"Rai raichu…." (I always do….) He muttered, flinching as if some horrible memory came back to haunt him, and after a moment of her smiling and shaking her head at him, she looked down at the black collar and mumbled, "Now, what to do with this…."
"Rai raichu, rai!" (You could put it on, Megan!) He had said it in a joking manner, but the look that she got at the suggestion made Butterscotch sweatdrop and mumble, "Rai…." (Uh-oh….)
"That's a great idea!" She then went and put on the collar as the two Pokemon in the room sighed, Mewtwo with annoyance and Butterscotch with weariness of her strange antics, and when she twirled around with a giggle and asked 'how do I look?' the feline commented dryly, "You look just like a pet Zigzagoon straight from the Pet Shop."
"Aww, thanks – I think." She thought about it for a moment, her head cocked to the side as she placed a finger to her chin in contemplation, before she smiled brightly and ran over to a stereo she had asked Mew for (he was so nice to convince Arceus to give it to her – she would have been afraid of being smote!), giggling merrily, "Hey, let's listen to some music!"
"I've got…things…to do," Mewtwo excused himself quickly, not feeling like being a part of her singing again, and as she pouted he quickly floated over to the door, which confused and frightened the Legendaries outside because normally he would Teleport wherever he needed to go unless he was investigating something (or being polite, but they doubted that highly). He exited the door and turned to face the Legendaries looking like Stantler in headlights as their eyes silently begged him to not give them away, moved his gaze to DL in her room staring at him curiously, before he spoke coldly, "Good-bye." He then floated away from the doorway and went on until even his tail was out of sight before floating up to them and asking with his eyes narrowed (although noting to be quiet), "What are you all doing?"
"Spying," Darkrai whispered with a shrug, as if that was a normal thing to do, and the Psychic-Type glared at him for a moment before crossing his arms and leaning against the wall beside them without another word.
Content that he wouldn't give them away, the Dark-Type and the others listened in as they heard DL stomp her foot and complain, "Aww, man, no fair! I thought that he'd like this song…."
"Raichu?" (What song?) His curiosity was plain in his tone, and she smiled at him before turning around and gently pressing the 'play' button, a soft smile on her face. It gave a low 'whirrr' as it scanned the CD already in there, and she spoke quietly just before it started the first track on the disc.
"This song."
They all expected some bouncy hip-hop or crazy punk rock to be blasting through the speakers (and it normally wouldn't be far off the mark, as Butterscotch knew very well), but they were all shocked as they heard a tender guitar begin the introduction of the song. After a moment of hearing it, both Darkrai and Mewtwo's eyes widened in recognition before they returned to normal size, both of them thinking, I know this song….
"No one knows what it's like, to be the bad man…."
Mewtwo looked down at the ground, thoughts whirling at the idea that she would expect him to appreciate this song.
"To be the sad man…."
His hands clenched tightly at the thought of what the humans had put him through, with all of their lies and deception.
"Behind blue eyes…."
Darkrai's head tilted down as well, scanning the floor as if looking for something that could show him why she would like such a tone of music, with all of her hyper babbling and eccentric hugging.
"No one knows what it's like, to be hated, to be fated…to telling only lies."
Rayquaza quietly hummed a questioning note to himself, drawing Articuno's attention as he frowned in deep thought. I know that she is a strange and puzzling person, but this is something I haven't dealt with before, not even with our Legendary God. The Ice/Flying-Type's thoughts were just about the same as his, with him also wondering why she seemed so quiet now when he had heard that she was shouting lyrics outside earlier this morning.
She seemed so attached to the song with the way she respected it in silence, he was beginning to wonder if this was the same girl who had the guts and energy to hug Darkrai and tease Mewtwo as well as the seemingly endless joy to almost always be smiling. If they were able to see her face, however, they would know that she was smiling slightly for some reason only known to her. The song went on, and it was intriguing to ponder why she would like it….
"No one knows what it's like, to have these feelings…like I do. And I blame you! No one bites back as hard on their anger. None of my pain and woe…can show through!"
That sounds more like her, Mewtwo noted with a slight nod as the CD player went on with the chorus. Afterwards, the voices disappeared as an electric guitar filled the void with a short solo, to which Articuno had the time to mumble, "You know, humans are always doing such strange things…."
"Hiding secrets," Darkrai commented dryly.
"Wearing masks," Mewtwo added with narrowed eyes.
"And only telling half of the truth," Rayquaza mumbled mostly to himself, itching to peek in and see the look on the human's face.
Then, they heard the Raichu in there sigh and tell her exasperatedly, "Raichu rai raichu rai? Rai raichu rai rai." (Do you have to dance so strangely to this part? It doesn't fit the mood.)
"Shh!" She sounded excitedly, jumping up and down in one spot as she pointed at the stereo. "Here comes the best part!" And then she grinned as she opened her mouth and sang the words rather angrily, fitting the tone of the song but still with a higher pitch as was her way.
"When my fist clenches, crack it open…before I use it and lose control!" She dramatically held her hand up like a stop sign and growled, getting much into the character of the song although she was grinning, "When I smile, tell me some bad news…before I laugh and act like a fool!"
"That does sound like Mr. Emo," Rayquaza chuckled quietly, and Mewtwo and Darkrai both glared at him since they weren't sure who he meant exactly. They were both thinking that the word 'fool' in that song should have been replaced by 'Mew'.
"And if I swallow anything evil," she continued with that angry-sounding voice, "put your finger down my throat!" She wrapped her arms around herself and fake shivered, although she was already trembling from withheld laughter, "And if I shiver, please give me a blanket…keep me warm, let me wear your coat!"
Another electric guitar riff, and after DL had stopped her laughing at her mock seriousness she cleared her throat and actually sang with a real somber attitude, "No one knows what it's like…to be the bad man…to be the sad man…." She closed her eyes and threw her hands up high in the air, singing in finale, "Behind blue eeeeeeeeeeeeeeyes!" The last note grew fainter and fainter before disappearing altogether, and she went over and pressed the 'stop' button to prevent it from playing the next song, as she suddenly felt really exhausted. She turned to the Raichu with his ears perked up to her yawning and awkwardly said around the yawn, "I'm gonna take a nap or something, so go…entertain yourself."
He nodded, but before she could lay down, he asked her, "Raichu rai rai raichu rai?" (Why were you doing a bunch of karaoke or whatever?)
She smiled at him and winked. "I felt like singing!"
He rolled his eyes and went to a corner of the room to find something to do as she flopped on her bed and nearly fell asleep as soon as she hit her pillow, out like a light at the flick of a switch as she gave a light snore before becoming completely quiet.
The Legendaries all shuffled a bit farther away from the door before Rayquaza turned to Mewtwo with a grin and asked him, "So, did you in fact enjoy the song?" The feline gave him a glare that told him to 'go to hell', but the serpent just shook his head still grinning while Mewtwo crossed his arms and went to staring at the wall to release his frustrations upon it. The Ozone Dragon felt sorry for it. Darkrai was in a pondering mode, too, with his arms crossed as well while he glanced at the open door a couple of yards away, wondering about the human who slumbered inside oblivious to the deliberation they were having about her. They did indeed find something new and interesting, but all it did was make more questions rise into their minds, ultimately shrouding DL in more mystery than before.
"She's so weird."
"I know," Rayquaza chuckled in agreement to the Dark-Type's statement, "but that just makes her that much more of a likeable person."
Darkrai did the equivalent of raising an eyebrow (since he had none) and taunted the over-sized serpent, "Are you growing a soft spot for the human, Rayquaza?"
"Perhaps," he replied good-humoredly and patted him and Mewtwo on the back with his claws, bringing the feline into the conversation (as well as Articuno) as he advised them, "and hopefully you three will, too, as well as the rest of us Legendaries and assistant Pokemon."
"I'd sooner fight with Zapdos," Articuno muttered.
Darkrai commented himself, "I'd sooner have Cresselia gouge my eyes out with spoons."
"I'd rather…no, never mind, nothing is worse than dealing with Mew."
Rayquaza barked a short laugh, and then covered his mouth as his eyes widened in realization that they were still pretty close to the human's room, and as they heard the quick pattering of the old Raichu's paws they all scattered to not be caught; Mewtwo simply Teleported while Darkrai sunk into the ground as a shadow, and Articuno turned tail and flew off down the hallway before Rayquaza caught up and completely overtook him, whipping around the corner like a Gorebyss in the air before Articuno followed him. Their rather fevered escape left the hallway empty right before the Electric-Type poked his head out of the doorway to examine the Legendary Palace around him. After a while of frowning and wondering what it could possibly be, he shrugged and slipped back into the room, making sure that DL was asleep before sneaking over to her laptop and opening it up, pressing a button and watching with delight as the soft blue light started to glow showing it was turning on.
"Raichu rai rai raichu-chu…." (Time to have some fun with this blasted contraption….)
DL has just signed on.
DL has sent connection to Professor Cedar.
Read Message:
Log Entry 739 of Legendary Watch (Recently Made Restricted Once Again), June 14th
…Megan? This is a bit early for you to get on the connection….
Thid ix butrsclogth. (Note: Translations for this will be beside it in parenthesis like with PokeSpeak. This says, "This is Butterscotch.")
What? Oh, wait, Butterscotch? Heh, you're a terrible typer.
Xhut up, you fry typig wifh psasw instedad of handx! (Shut up, you try typing with paws instead of hands!)
Alright, alright, calm down. So, what are you doing on her laptop, on my connection?
I wantes to see hjow igt worked, rezlly. Shne's on it for so lonfgd somerimesw that it woorfrirds me. (I wanted to see how it worked, really. She's on it for so long sometimes that it worries me.)
Yeah, she worries me at times, too. But, you have to realize that she's slowly getting more and more mature, as time goes on.
Djvfxkndf sj kfdkths fjdgshk gs! (…Ummmm…?)
…What?
So55y, I w2ad banging my hreae onnthen keygoard. Gthaft's exszactly sswhat Huner szid! Azre you in czahoits with him or somehtinv?! (Sorry, I was banging my head on the keyboard. That's exactly what Hunter said! Are you in cahoots with him or something?!)
Well, it's only the truth. She'll eventually be a mature woman, hopefully….
…wlee, yeah, evenrusally…but, she's srill cgoo young tgo bd out on hder kwn! (…Well, yeah, eventually…but, she's still too young to be out on her own!)
Well, duh – this is Megan we're talking about.
I'm speakint for her whjuen I say thids. DL! (I'm speaking for her when I say this. DL!)
Hmm, you're getting better at typing already! Interesting. You might be able to compete with my Alakazam when it comes to figuring things out, Butterscotch.
Hehl, well I doubt that I's win, since Alakazams ares super gteniuses! (Heh, well I doubt I'd win, since Alakazams are super-geniuses!)
Well, it was just a thought. Look, I have some things I have to take care of, but you're welcome to continue trying to type if you want. I'll just ignore the annoying beeping.
Okay,m xool! Now, what to type…. (Okay, cool! Now, what to type….)
Rriachu riahcy vrfaicu rfaichu raichu rauchi raichu raich7 raichu raichu raichu raichu raicu – aww, dakn, aokmost hae it do2nv pat…. ("Raichu" about thirteen times, and then "aww, damn, almost had it down pat….")
Raichu raicvhu frtaichu raichu riah u raichu raichu raichu raich u raichu raichu raic hy, aw3w emn, riahcu raichu raichu raichu…. ("Raichu" about twelve times, then, "aww damn," and then "Raichu" as he goes on and on for a long time before Proff kicks him off an hour and a half later cuz he couldn't take it anymore.)
