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CHAPTER 10
"Come on, please tell me. Why didn't they try harder to wake me up?" Bonnie whined to Gary, as they walked towards the lab.
"I don't know, Bonnie." Gary replied back, exasperated. "I was sleeping at the lab, not with them."
Bonnie frowned as she stopped complaining, calming down completely from outside. She was still very confused as she kept on thinking. Why didn't anyone wake me up? I am not that much of a heavy sleeper. And today is my birthday! How could Clemont forget about it and leave me alone in the house? Even Gary isn't telling me anything! What's wrong with everyone?
The two soon reached the field surrounding the lab as Bonnie noticed something strange. Where are all the pokémon? Aren't they usually here?
"Where are all the pokémon? She suddenly asked Gary, who looked surprised at her sudden question.
He knew were everyone was, all right! But he wasn't going to let her know. Making a fake confused expression, he played with her, as he said, "That's strange. I thought everyone must be out here playing in the sunshine. I guess we will have to go to the lab and check if something is wrong."
Bonnie, thinking that there might be some problem, started running the rest of the way. Gary followed her, still playing along and hoping that the others had managed to get ready by then.
She reached the lab door and opened it wide only to be deafened by a very loud greeting.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY BONNIE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASH!"
Bonnie closed her eyes as the noise reached her. She, then, opened them and her jaw dropped at the sight that greeted her. All of her friends were standing in the middle of the decorated room, with all their pokémon standing in front of them, all having huge smiles on their faces. In the middle of the crowd was a huge cake covered with chocolate. The cake looked so big to Bonnie that she wondered if the whole town had been called!
Nearest the cake was Ash, standing with a smile bigger than others, as what the others had yelled occurred to Bonnie. Her face split into a wide grin that stretched from ear to ear as she started walking towards them, followed by Gary. She was too excited to thank everyone for the huge celebration that was apparently set for her and Ash's birthday. But her excitement reached the others anyway, for she was jumping towards them excitedly like a Mankey, instead of running or walking.
"Is this celebration really for me? For Ash? When did you do this? I don't remember any decoration in this room yesterday. And did you make that cake? It's so huge. I can't believe it. And who told you about my birthday? I never mentioned it to you, did I? I am so happy." Bonnie chattered on continuously, bombarding her friends with the millions of questions coming in her mind, as she continued looking around the room animatedly.
The others could only shake their heads at her excitement, as Clemont went up to her to calm her down. He started answering her questions, "That's right Bonnie. This celebration is set up for not only yours and Ash's birthday but also for his win in the league. We did it all during the night when you were asleep. And that delicious-looking cake was made by Delia. And I told the others about your birthday. And no, you didn't mention it."
"Thanks so much, Clemont." Bonnie said happily, hugging her brother tight by his waist.
Before she started going too out of hand again, Delia took charge of her as she said, "Now come here, Bonnie. You and Ash are going to cut the cake together."
Hearing her, Bonnie ran at once towards her and stood beside Ash expectedly, as Delia took hold of a knife and handed it over to Ash. Ash took the knife and then, place Bonnie's hand over the handle as the two held it together.
Once they were ready, the others started singing the 'Happy Birthday' song as they cut a piece from the bottom of the cake, after blowing out the candles together. They cut the piece in half as the others finished the song. They picked up each smaller piece and fed them to each other as the others yelled a Happy Birthday to the two. After that, Delia cut a few more pieces of the cake as Ash and Bonnie started giving everyone a bite from the pieces.
Just look at that huge blush, was the thought going through the girls' minds when it was Serena's turn for a bite. It turned out that Ash was going to be the one giving her a bite and the thought alone made her blush crimson. Ash, too dense to notice that blush, simply let her take a huge bite and then he moved on towards their pokémon, leaving Serena wondering if she was in a dream.
Meanwhile, Max was going to be fed by Bonnie. As Bonnie extended her hand with the piece of cake, Max couldn't help but blush lightly at the closeness of the two. What's wrong with me? I don't remember being so uneasy near anyone – except that girl I had developed a crush on, while travelling through Hoenn. Wait, I don't have a crush on Bonnie, do I?
May had noticed her brother's red face as he took a bite and realized that it wasn't only Serena having a thing for Ash, or Misty for Gary. It seemed that Max too had a thing for Bonnie. She grinned to herself secretly as she realized that her prediction of Max getting a girlfriend was going to come true.
In the meantime, Bonnie too had noticed Max's red face and she got confused. Is that a blush on his face? Does that mean he is uncomfortable around girls his age? Or does he have a crush on me or something like that? I don't think that's possible; we are too young for things like that, although we could look cute together. Wait, did I really think that? I guess I am just over-thinking. I must really try to calm down my imagination.
With that final thought, Bonnie forgot about it as she started giving the cake to the pokémon. They were soon finished with 'taking a bite' of the cake, as the boys took it once again into the kitchen. Meanwhile, the 'gifting' session – as Bonnie like to call it – started and everyone started giving their presents to her as she opened them right then.
The list of items she got was quite long and was mainly related to pokémon – things like pokémon-themed hairbrush, toothbrush, hairpins, shampoo and even an Eevee night-dress gifted by Serena. While Brock gave her a book related to pokémon typing and battling strategies, Cilan handed her a book related to Pokémon Coordinating.
Clemont had made her another one of his inventions, which acted like a personal assistant to her and could answer all her questions related to Pokémon. It was controlled by her voice and could be updated whenever she wanted it to. She was very delighted by the 'Bonnie's Personal Assistant' as she asked a few questions to see if the device worked well or not. Even the other girls, who were not that interested in any scientific thing, got impressed due to the invention.
Ash apologized to her for not getting any gift but she thought no more of that and told him that she considered her amazing journey with him as her gift. After getting all the gifts, she looked around and saw that Max wasn't there. She asked, "Where's Max?"
"Well, he was here a minute ago." Ash replied slowly, as he looked around the room. For a moment, he was confused about Max's disappearance, but then, it occurred to him about the egg. He must have probably gone to get the egg.
Just as the thought occurred to him, the door at the end of the room opened and Max appeared with both his hands behind his back, as he walked towards Bonnie. He had a small grin on his face as he stopped in front of the blonde girl.
Bonnie, curious about the object behind his back, stepped aside to peek at it but Max hid it from her again. She soon got exasperated trying to steal a look as she complained childishly, "What are you trying to hide, Max? Come on, I want to see it."
"Try harder." He replied back, teasing her and hiding it from her again. She was about to jump on him, exasperated due to his teasing, when the egg suddenly glowed brighter than it had ever before, surrounding Max with its bright light for a few seconds, before going back to normal. Bonnie's eyes widened as she recognized that glow at once, having seen Ash's Noivern hatch from it.
Noticing her wide eyes, Max sighed as he said, "I guess there is no point in hiding it anymore. Here's my gift for you."
He showed her the egg he had been hiding from her as her jaw dropped from the surprise and excitement. She was greeted by the sight of a dark brown colored egg with a zigzag light brown strip through its middle as the egg glowed once again, brighter than ever.
"Is this egg for me?" Bonnie asked hesitantly, still finding it hard to believe that she would act as a mother to an egg herself, without the help of her elders. Max simply nodded with a smile, as he waited for her to take the egg.
For a moment, Bonnie didn't move at all, staring at the egg blankly. Then, she suddenly jumped on Max, completely taking him by surprise as the two landed directly on the ground. Max managed to keep the egg from falling but instead hit his head on the ground and closed his eyes, taking the impact of the sudden fall. Meanwhile, Bonnie ecstatically hugged him as she yelled out, "Thanks so much, Max! You don't know how much I wanted to be a trainer. Now, I can really be one. Thank you so much."
The others smiled at the two, and at Bonnie's excitement, as Bonnie crushed Max under her. Max opened his eyes, as his brain registered what was going on. He blushed and freaked out. "Bonnie, get off me! You are crushing me!"
"Oops, sorry." Bonnie quickly apologized and got off him. She snatched the egg from his hands as he too got up and hugged it tight. "I had really wanted to take care of an egg after seeing how Ash did with Noivern's. Thanks so much, Max!"
"Uh yeah, you're welcome." Max said, sweat-dropping and giving a small laugh. "Glad you like it."
"Like it? I absolutely love it. This is the best gift I could have asked for." Bonnie said ecstatically, holding the egg tight in her hands. She turned towards Clemont with a huge grin as she said, "I can take care of the egg, can't I, Clemont? You will let me do it, won't you?"
Clemont looked at her happy face and sighed. He said with a smile, "I can't say no to all that, can I? Now, this egg is your responsibility, Bonnie. Take good care of it."
"Really? Thanks so much, Clemont. This is the best birthday party ever."
Clemont turned towards Max who looked back at him. He nodded and smiled as Max returned it. They knew Bonnie could take care of the egg very well and the others agreed silently as they all watched Bonnie staring at the egg with a happy smile etched on her face.
The egg glowed again, even brighter than the last two times and for longer as Professor Oak looked at it thoughtfully. "I think the egg is about to hatch. Let's keep it in that machine and keep an eye on it. It will probably hatch soon."
Bonnie got up excited as she followed the old man to the mechanism kept in the corner of the room. She placed the egg in its arranged place as Professor Oak once again studied the figures. "It will hatch in a few minutes."
Everyone gathered around the machine and stared at the glowing egg excitedly, as they waited for the egg to finally hatch. The egg started glowing again and this time, it kept on glowing instead of fading away. Professor Oak took hold of the egg at once and placed it on the ground for everyone to see, as the egg glowed even brighter. Soon, the brightness became too much for everyone to keep on staring as they all looked away.
The light faded away and a small pokémon voice sounded, in the following expectant silence. "Eevee!"
The others snapped their heads back to where the egg was – or had been – as they were greeted by a cute sight. The small cub of the Eevee species stood there looking around it expectantly. All of them were mesmerized by the adorable and sweet pokémon, who looked around once again and then went to Bonnie. The cub reached her and started snuggling to her leg, making her giggle.
Apparently, it has decided Bonnie as her mother. Iris thought, as she looked at Bonnie hugging the cub back and rubbing cheeks with it.
"I guess you are a trainer now, aren't you, Bonnie?" May asked her with a smile on her face. Bonnie looked at her as she nodded her head rapidly, returning her smile with a bigger one. "I am now a trainer, and once I am strong enough, I will beat you, May and you too, Dawn."
The two coordinators gave her determined smiles as Bonnie returned to petting the newly-hatched Eevee cub.
"So you have decided to become a coordinator?" Brock asked her.
"Not yet," she replied back, still petting Eevee, "but I have enough time to decide what I want to be."
"Won't you introduce Eevee to others?" Ash asked, as he motioned towards the waiting pokémon."
"Right," Bonnie said and jumped up. She went to the other pokémon and started introducing each one to Eevee, who seemed to be interested in getting to know them. It was most particularly interested in knowing Serena's Eevee as the two seemed to start in their pokémon language, with the others looking and smiling at them.
"Let's go out!" Everyone turned towards Paul who had spoken. Paul looked at Ash, as he took out a pokéball and hid it slightly behind his back – but not before letting Ash steal a glance at it. Ash smirked, realizing what he meant and nodded. He and Paul walked out in the field, with the whole crowd following them, excited to see the battle. The others who hadn't seen Ash and Paul's Sinnoh League fight were getting more excited by the second, as Dawn and Brock related a brief rundown of it to them.
Ash and Paul stood a considerable distance away from each other as Brock stood in the middle as the referee. The others stood, surrounding them, with Ash's pokémon getting more and more excited at the thought of a battle after such a long time. The two looked at each other in the eye as Brock yelled, "Alright, both of you, choose your pokémon."
"Electivire," Paul simply said, without batting an eye as the yellow electric-type pokémon walked in the battlefield. Serena took out her pokédex to scan the pokémon as Bonnie looked at it over her shoulder. Electivire, the Thunderbolt Pokémon, and the evolved form of Electabuzz. When Electivire attacks, it pushes the tips of its two tails against its opponent.
"That's interesting." Clemont muttered to himself as he looked at Ash to see what pokémon he would choose.
Ash, meanwhile, had looked at Paul in the eye to see the fire burning in him for revenge. His choice of using Electivire as his battle partner made Ash realize that he wanted the revenge with Infernape, for the last battle between them was between these two pokémon and Infernape had managed to defeat Electivire.
The Electivire had the same determined expression on his face, as he exchanged a brief but a challenging glance with Infernape. Infernape caught it and smirked in anticipation, as he waited for Ash to choose him. It had been a while since he fought a dangerous yet exciting battle like the one in the Sinnoh League and he was dying to battle again.
Ash seemed to have read their minds as he said, "Infernape."
While his other pokémon were sad that he hadn't chosen them, Infernape walked onto the battlefield, maintaining eye-contact with the rival electric-type pokémon. Paul smirked as Brock yelled out again, "Let the battle begin!"
"Infernape, use flamethrower!" Ash yelled out pumped up as ever as Infernape let out a huge flamethrower.
"Protect!" The flamethrower hit the blue-colored shield and missed Electivire completely, leaving him without a scratch. "Use thunder!"
"Infernape, dig!" The fire-type pokémon disappeared in the ground, as the electric attack harmlessly passed over the hole. Paul narrowed his eyes as he waited for Infernape to appear. Electivire closed his eyes and seemed to go into a meditative state, as everyone waited excitedly.
The ground suddenly started cracking right at the feet of Electivire, as Paul shouted, "Now!"
Electivire placed his two tails firmly on the ground and lifted himself up very high, as Infernape came out of the ground with a flying fist. His punch didn't hit the electric-type pokémon at all, since Electivire was high in the air supported by his tails. Having missed the punch, Infernape stood back from Electivire as he came down on the ground, completely unscathed.
"I see," Ash said, with a smirk. "You want to beat me, don't you? I can see you have improved quite a lot. I remember Electivire being a lot slower than this. Well, don't think that you can beat me that easily, for we have improved as well. Isn't that right, Infernape?"
"Infernape!"
"So, don't you dare hold back!"
Paul gave a knowing smirk, then looked at him in the eye as he yelled, "Well then, we'll give it all we've got. Electivire, use Electric Terrain!"
Electivire released multiple bolts of electricity from its body and covered the whole field. The blight was so bright; the others had to turn away from the battle for a while. The glow soon disappeared, as everyone turned back to see the whole battlefield glowing yellow, with electricity crackling through it once in a while.
"What's Electric Terrain?" Misty asked to no one in particular.
"It's a move which powers up electric-type attacks and deals more damage to the opponent's pokémon." Clemont explained as he looked at Ash to see what he would do now. The last time Ash had come across this move was in his gym battle in Lumiose City. Ash had made Goodra use Rain Dance to cancel out its effect then. But now, with a fire-type pokémon on the field, Clemont was interested in seeing how things would turn out.
Ash gritted his teeth as he started thinking of a move to cancel out Electric Terrain. He knew the position he was in, for he had come across it while battling Clemont. He also knew that although Infernape wasn't damaged, it wouldn't be long until knock out due to the strong electric-type moves. I gotta think of something. I can't let Infernape get injured. How do I cancel this? There has to be something.
"Electivire, use thunder!" Paul ordered as Electivire unleashed a powerful thunder, aiming straight at Infernape.
"Infernape, dodge!" Infernape jumped up high in the air, as the thunder passed below him harmlessly, once again. As soon as he landed, the electrically charged field, sent electricity spiraling through him, paralyzing him, as both Paul and his pokémon grinned.
"Now use thunder on the battlefield!" Paul ordered.
"Isn't that…" Dawn started as her eyes widened at the familiarity of the move.
Electivire pushed the tips of his tails in the ground and let loose another powerful thunder. The electricity passed through the battlefield, blowing up chunks of rocks high in the air. The rocks went up and then fell down, right on Infernape's head. The rocks were bigger in size than those at the Sinnoh League, for the electricity had got powered up due to the Electric Terrain.
"Infernape!" Ash yelled out frantically, as Infernape was bombarded with the huge chunks. Infernape was thrown down, not being able to move due to paralysis, as Brock stared at Infernape to see if he could move.
Infernape got up shakily and scratched his head, as he looked back at the electric-type pokémon determinedly, not wanting to lose. Ash looked back at Paul as he still thought of all the moves Infernape could use, but couldn't think of any.
"Infernape has taken quite a lot of damage because of Electric Terrain." Cilan observed.
Clemont nodded as he continued, "Ash will have to do something to cancel out the Electric Terrain or it won't be long until he loses."
"ASH!" Dawn suddenly yelled out loud, attracting everyone's attention. "Don't you remember how you canceled out the Toxic Spikes in the Sinnoh League?"
"That's right," Ash murmured, as he smirked and looked back at Paul.
Paul frowned. He knew that Ash could and would balance out Electric Terrain if he didn't do anything soon to stop Infernape from going into the ground. "Use Thunder! Quick!"
"Use dig, Infernape! Go down as much as you can!" Ash ordered just as quickly, not flinching in the least. Infernape disappeared in the ground just before the Thunder reached where he had been standing. Paul knew at once that Electivire would get a lot of damage but ordered anyway, "Stay off the ground, Electivire! Keep as away from it as you can!"
Electivire once again placed his tails on the ground as Clemont asked, "What's Ash trying to do? Won't that damage Infernape further?"
"Just see," was Dawn's reply, as everyone looked at the hole Infernape had just disappeared into.
"Now use, Flare Blitz!" Ash yelled out as loudly as he could. As soon as he said that, the whole battlefield, which had been glowing yellow, turned bright red and heated up considerably, as the spectators stepped back to escape from the heat. The crackling electricity in the battlefield seemed to disappear as though it was burnt down due to the heat.
"What's going on?" Clemont yelled, looking shocked at the disappearing electricity, and voicing others' thoughts as well.
"It looks like Flare Blitz canceled out the effects of the Electric Terrain." Brock replied to Clemont's question, looking back at them for a brief moment.
The battlefield soon stopped glowing as Infernape jumped out of the hole and stood in the field, looking confident. He looked fine except a little paralyzed. Meanwhile, Electivire had taken some damage due to the heat and the Flare Blitz and he was standing in front of Infernape. He gave a determined grin which was returned. Paul and Ash exchanged a smirk as well.
"Maybe, I shouldn't have underestimated you even a little as I did." Ash said.
Paul kept his smirk, as he yelled, "Use Giga Impact!"
"Use Flare Blitz!"
Another explosion occurred as the two attacks collided and the two pokémon were thrown back by the impact. Infernape suddenly flinched for a moment and held his shoulder tight.
Apparently, Electivire managed to hit Infernape on the shoulder, even though not directly. Max thought, staring hard at the fire-type pokémon. He was watching the battle more closely than others, for he wanted to be a strong trainer and defeat everyone – including his role model, Ash.
"Use Thunder Punch!"
"What the…!"
The thunder punch connected with Infernape's stomach as he was thrown back with it. The others were staring at Ash, wondering what made him exclaim like that and why he didn't ask Infernape to dodge.
"Just how many moves Electivire knows?" Ash asked, amazed.
"Why are you so amazed?" Misty asked him.
"Don't all pokémon use only four moves?" Ash asked back. Paul simply closed his eyes, as he waited for their chat to end.
"What do you mean? Don't you know that you can use any number of moves while battling the Kalos Elite Four?"
"What?! It is like that?!"
Everyone, except Paul, fell down animé-style as Cilan said, "Typical Ash!"
Brock got up and asked, "You didn't read the rules of the League, did you?"
"The rules are always the same. It's too boring to read them all, again and again."
"We should have known," Serena said. "Well, it states that if you win the league and challenge the Elite Four, you wouldn't have any limit on the number of moves your pokémon use."
"Well then, thanks," Ash said, and then turned towards his partner. "You heard that Pikachu? Now, we can attack with everything we've got. Once this battle ends, let's go train and we can work on your Volt Tackle."
"What a kid!" Iris said, sighing, as Clemont looked amazed.
"Volt Tackle?! Isn't that supposed to be a Raichu's move?" Clemont exclaimed.
"Oh yeah," Ash replied, looking at Clemont with a reminiscent smile. "But Pikachu learned it. Isn't that right, buddy?"
"Pika!"
"Are you done talking?" Paul asked finally, opening his eyes and looking at them all.
"Of course, now let's return to the battle. Infernape, use flamethrower!"
"Use thunder!"
The attacks were about to hit when suddenly a voice ordered, "Serperior, use Leaf Storm!"
A huge tornado of spinning leaves appeared right in between the two fire and electric-type attacks and a huge explosion occurred between the three attacks, covering the entire area with smoke. Everyone covered their eyes and started coughing as the same voice said, "Remember me, Ash?"
The smoke cleared as everyone turned towards the source of the voice. Ash, Cilan, Iris and Dawn recognized the person at once as they all exclaimed together, "Trip!"
"What are you doing here?" Ash asked, for a while surprisingly completely forgetting about his ongoing battle with Paul.
"What do you think I am here for?" Trip shot back. "Of course, to battle!"
He gave his signature smirk which was returned by Ash. Paul had a blank look on his face but he was seething for having his 'revenge' battle interrupted, that too after waiting for so long. Meanwhile, the rest had turned towards Iris and Cilan as they explained about the Unova rival.
"And you should have seen how he used to walk with his nose in the air and a smirk plastered on his face like this," Iris said, imitating the Unova trainer fairly well.
"Though he could have changed," Dawn said, looking at him and Ash talking to each other. How Ash forgot the battle she didn't know but she knew that they would battle again someday.
"Let's go Electivire. We aren't going to be battling any time soon." Paul said and walked towards the lab, with Electivire following him. Seeing the two go, Infernape sat down and sighed, knowing that he would get to battle later.
"Pika!" Infernape turned to see Pikachu and Serperior standing behind him with smiles on their faces. Infernape smiled back and stood up as they all went to the other pokémon to introduce the grass-type Serperior.
"Well, it was a great battle." Max said, nodding his head. "There are so many things for me to work on."
"Like?" Bonnie asked, suddenly appearing beside him. He jumped aside in surprise and then sighed.
"Why do you always scare me like that?" He asked.
Bonnie simply shrugged, then asked, "What things were you saying about right now that you needed to learn? All I could see was Ash battling like always."
"Oh that," Max said thoughtfully. "Well, first is that, I have never seen Ash panic when in a battle. I always seem to get worked up and somehow get panicked as well, even when I have only had practice battles with the people in my hometown. Second is that, I would love to plan out strategies on-the-go like Ash does. He never plans anything – just go on the battlefield and surprise everyone with all kinds of out-of-the-box strategies – that's how he has always worked. Plus, it would mean that no one could depend on their data about me because I would be creating new strategies while battling."
He was about to continue when they were interrupted. "Eevee!"
The two looked down to see the small newly-hatched Eevee cub, sitting in front of Bonnie and pawing at her feet. Bonnie picked the normal-type pokémon up and started hugging and petting it. Max couldn't help but wonder how she managed to create a bond in such a short time. It hadn't even been 12 hours and Eevee was already craving for her companionship.
"You love it?" He asked her with a smile.
She looked back at him and nodded with a cute blush. "Of course I do. I am going to make sure I take care of Eevee just like I cared about Dedenne, isn't that right, Dedenne?"
"Dede!" The electric-type exclaimed as it popped out of its bag.
"That's nice," the two heard Serena say, as they turned towards her. Serena bent up to Bonnie's eye level as she said, "Don't worry Bonnie. If you ever happen to go anywhere, you can ask my Eevee to take care of yours. You will also take care of it, won't you Eevee?"
"Eevee!" The Eevee said, appearing beside her trainer.
"And of course," Serena said, straightening up and looking straight at May and her Glaceon, who were talking about something. "May's Glaceon will also take care of Eevee, if you want."
"Glaceon is the ice-type evolution of Eevee, isn't it?" Bonnie asked.
"Yup, it is." Max answered, as he too looked at his sister.
"Why don't you go and ask her, Bonnie? I know she wouldn't mind it a bit." Serena said. Bonnie nodded and ran off to May to ask her and her Glaceon to help take care of her Eevee, as Serena and Max looked on.
"You do care about her, don't you?" Max turned towards Serena, who had a knowing smile on her face. He felt his cheeks heat up as he replied, "Maybe. Why do you ask?"
"Oh, no reason at all." Serena gave another smile as she walked away to others, who had already gathered around May to see what she was trying out.
Max sighed and shook his head. Do I really like her so much that it has become so obvious? Who knows?
Meanwhile, in the bushes, a few hundred yards away from where everyone was, Jake and Sadie, the two new Rocket recruits, were keeping an eye on them.
"You know what I just realized? It will get difficult for us to keep an eye on them if they split up. After all, it's only the two of us." Sadie said, looking at Jake.
He looked back at her as he replied, "That's where the bugs come in. We can easily spy on them and decide whom to follow."
"That reminds me. Those aren't the old models, are they? If they are, those electric-types will easily be able to sense them."
"They aren't. They are specially made so that only a sharp-eyed person or pokémon can see them – after all, they are so small and covered with that special metal powder."
"Yeah, that's true. It was so difficult to fix them in the dark. Well, what do you suppose we should do in case they do split up in groups? – which I see inevitable right now."
"Can't say I can think of a good idea," Jake replied after a moment of thinking. "All I can think of is we become a part of them."
"What?! You mean to say we are going to work, with them keeping an eye on us and with the risk of them discovering our true mission?"
"I said that that's the only idea I could think of – not that we are going to follow it right now. But, it could be useful in case they discover the microphones."
"I guess." Sadie paused for a while, before saying, "Do you think we should catch more pokémon? All of them seem so strong. You saw that small battle, didn't you?"
"I don't think we would need to – at least not right now." Jake replied, after another thoughtful pause. "We can still use our combination attacks."
Sadie nodded, as another thought occurred to her. She said, "Why don't you go there and do something about those fingerprints?"
Jake looked at her in the eye as she gave him a knowing smirk. He smirked back as he said, "Sure. Let me just take that invisible ink and the fingerprint mould and I'll leave."
He took hold of a small bottle of invisible ink and a white-colored mold and started walking away from the group of Ash and his friends. After what he thought was enough distance between them, he released Dragonite and climbed on his back. "Let's go there, Dragonite."
Dragonite, knowing what its trainer was talking about, took off at once. Sadie saw them and wished them luck silently as her thoughts returned to their missions. I still don't understand why we are going to such lengths to make sure he doesn't interrupt. How can a kid like him be a threat to us? All he looks interested in is pokémon. He doesn't even notice that honey-blonde having a crush on him. Besides, what are we going to do by assembling a radio telescope in the middle of nowhere? I wish he wouldn't hide the reasons behind such actions. All he keeps on telling us is that we are doing it for a good cause and we will know the cause once we finish our missions. I hope it isn't anything wrong or I won't be able to forgive myself.
That small battle between Ash and Paul was the first time I tried writing out a pokémon battle. How do you like it? If you find any mistakes, don't hesitate to point them out to me. And once again Thank you everyone for your support!