Pyro: Alright, you guys can all thank your luck souls that my good old buddy, lonewolfgirl-sademo588, forced me to get off my lazy behind and update.

Maniac: *reads off cards* And just a shout out to all you writers on that don't have voices in your heads. You are lucky little b*tches.

Terra: What Pyro? Don't you love us?

Pyro: No. Because nobody wants to give me Pokémon because of you guys.

Maniac: We might as well get on to the story before a massive catfight ensues.

Pyro: WAIT! I have an announcement.

SPENCER WINS!

Emerald: Squeeeeeeeeee!

Maniac: Hey! Who the hell is this!

Pyro: *kicks Maniac* WE'VE BEEN PMING WITH HER FOR HOW LONG NOW AND YOU STILL DON'T KNOW?

Maniac: I just don't know why she's here…

Emerald: Hey, I'm lonewolfgirl-sademo588, nice to meet you. If any of you flame, both me AND Pyro are going to beat your ass.

Pyro: See why we're friends?

Terra: Wait, so the fic's officially a Spenlana?

Pyro: No duh, ditz.

*Sorry about the mess that started in at the end… I have no idea what the$#% happened there…*

Chapter 10

Upon entering the Ranger Base, the four were met with an amusing sight.

Spencer was on the communication screen, having an all-out argument with Joel and Prof Hastings mixing from being the peacemaker and joining in to add his own comment with the Operator trying to break them apart and shut off the communicator but Spencer would just come back on the screen and argue with Joel some more while criticizing his 'out-of-date' technology.

Spencer stopped arguing enough to look over to the door and notice that his two Rangers were currently entering.

"Solana! Murph! You guys finally showed." Spencer cried in joy before turning to Joel angrily. "Now level her up already, Four-Eyes."

"Shut up, Moss Eyes; I still don't understand how you forgot to level her up three flipping levels." Joel pointed out.

"Well, excuse me, but I had to deal with taking care of the godforsaken Tauros that never stay under control long enough to breath because of that new Capture Arena. So just level her up." Spencer grumbled. Joel sighed but took out a screwdriver anyhow.

"Anyway, because your oh so loving Leader forgot to level you up, I officially promote you to Level 4." Joel droned on. Solana handed him her Styler and he popped off another metal cover.

"Anyway, Solana, we need you to go to Summerland because of the Go-Rock Squad—"

"Hell no!" Spencer cried out. "I have gone too many nights trying to remember how many times that Larry's stupid Taillow ran off, or how much damage those Tauros do, or how long the resident Mudkip will stay before diving underwater with my awful memory, so you better get your butt back here soon!"

Prank laughed.

'Hey Solana, if I didn't know any better, I'd say that Spencer is being protective of ya.' Prank cackled.

Solana gaped at Prank.

"You called me Solana."

'Well that's your name isn't it?'

"Well, you call me Blue, I call you Prank; wasn't that the deal we made?" Solana asked. Prank went wide-eyed at his own mistake.

'Oh right, well whatever Blue.'

"Well, it was nice while it lasted." Solana mumbled.

"Could this be because the second gauge was removed? Does the friendship between partners grow after more gauges are removed…?" Hastings mumbled to himself.

"Anyway, Joel, if you're so smart, then how the hell is she supposed to get there? Swim?" Spencer jeered. Joel glared at Spencer.

"There's a man with a Lapras at the docks, with persuasion, he should let her ride his Lapras." Joel persisted.

"Hmm, yeah, and when he doesn't I'll send over Fearow for 'Lana to ride." Spencer said before logging off.

Joel turned to Solana with wide-eyes.

"'Lana?" Joel asked. Solana shrugged before dumping Keith and Lind (who she was supporting) on the couch and turned to leave.

"The only other time that I've ever seen Spencer give out a nice nickname like that was with his last girlfriend in Ranger School…" Joel trailed off once Solana left.

At the Docks:

"Sorry, but my Lapras is still recovering from a critical state of PokeRus, so you can't ride him to Summerland, maybe next time." A man with sunglasses told Solana who nodded before running back to the Ranger Base.

The Lapras Man turned to a woman who turned from the corner and handed him a rolled up wad of Poke before leaving the man to count his money.

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"I'm sorry, what was that, Joel?" Spencer asked triumphantly with a victorious smirk. Joel continued to grit his teeth and Solana and Prank were laughing at the sidelines.

"Will you please let Solana borrow Fearow to ride to Summerland…?" Joel asked with a tick at his forehead.

"Now, I might… If you take all my paperwork from the Union." Spencer said.

"…Fine…" Joel growled.

"Alright, I'll be over soon to pick up 'Lana." Spencer said, cutting off the chat.

"Don't worry Joel… You'll get back at him at the next Poker game…" Joel muttered to himself. Solana overheard this and smiled.

"Poker? Can I join?" Solana asked with a grin. Joel looked over.

"Sorry Solana, but you have to be a certain age to—"

Five minutes later:

"Ow, ow, ow! Solana alright, you can play!" Joel yelped as Solana released her choke hold on him. Joel rubbed his neck while wincing.

"Damn, that's going to be sore in the morning…" Joel mumbled.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Spencer cried out with tears springing into his eyes from his place at the doorway.

"Shut up, Moss Eyes." Joel glared. "Besides, I already know how you had to deal with her when you didn't tell her that Larry's Pokémon was a Taillow."

Spencer looked over at Solana.

"You told?" Spencer whined. Solana nodded.

"Let's just get on Fearow and get to Summerland then." Spencer rushed while running out. Solana jumped up and ran out after Spencer. She saw Fearow and gave a wave. Spencer grabbed Solana by the waist and Fearow flew up into the sky without warning.

"Gah! Hey Spence, hold on, hold on!" Solana yelped out, trying to get a better grip so she would not fall.

'Dammit Blue, tell your boyfriend not to take off when we didn't even get on!' Prank yelled out, trying to climb onto Fearow by running up Solana's leg, but could only get up to her shoulder until he lost his balance and had to grip on her neck to support himself.

"He's not my boyfriend, you little pranking pain in the—"

'Spencer, if they become too much of a load, can I throw them off?' Fearow asked, as of which Spencer growled.

"Hell no!" Spencer said to Fearow. Solana was still trying to grab onto Fearow in some way or form, trying not to fall. Prank's head sprang up.

'Blue… Whatever you do, do not look down…' Prank said, going more pale than usual. Solana gulped.

"Why?" Solana asked.

'You want an explanation, look down and find out yourself…' Prank said hesitantly. Solana slowly moved her head down to see the wide ocean 150 feet below.

…

"GAH! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!" Solana shrieked out, latching onto the closest thing out of pure instinct. Spencer went wide-eyed when he saw his new, tough-as-nails, Ranger yelp out and latch onto him in fear.

"BLOODY HELL, LAND ALREADY! I'M ONLY THIRTEEN; I DON'T WANT TO DIE YET, DAMMIT!" Solana cried, hugging Spencer tighter, making him blush.

THUK!

"Ow, what the hell was that for, Fearow?" Solana yelled out, rubbing her head where Fearow leaned over and pecked her.

Spencer reminded himself to get Fearow a basket of Nanab Berries for that peck. He was sure that he had enough blood to go to his face that would've made him pass out.

'It's just the ocean, no need to be scared of it; not to mention that we can just get the author to switch the time frame and get us to Summerland now.'

"Eh? Seriously, you can do that? And I thought that all you were good for was reading manga, writing fan fiction, and watching anime…" Solana muttered.

"LAY OFF! DON'T UNDERMINE ME AND MY AUTHORESS POWERS!" I yelled out to Solana.

"Eh, well can you switch the time frame so I don't die?" Solana asked. I grumbled and used the powers of authoressness to switch the time frame.

A second later:

"Damn, those authoress powers are good!" Solana muttered while stretching her arms. Spencer sighed. He really did not want to know how the hell that just happened.

"Anyway, let's head over to the Summerland Ranger Base." Spencer said.

Solana stared.

"Shouldn't you be heading back to Ringtown?" Solana asked her Leader.

"Eh, well you see…"

"ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT YOU CAN'T GET BACK?" Solana yelled out after listening to him.

"Well, Fearow did carry me to Fall City, then us to Summerland, and I guess that she's just too tired to carry me back…"

"You know, if it was too much trouble, you didn't have to fly me over to Summerland…" Solana grumbled.

"Nah, it's alright, besides, I wanted to dump my paperwork on somebody anyway. The fact that it's Joel doing the work just makes it even sweeter." Spencer said carelessly with a shrug.

"So how long will you be here?" Solana asked.

"Dunno. Might take a couple hours, might take a couple days, it's all up to how fast Fearow's old bones don't want to creak anymore."

THUK!

'I HEARD THAT!' Fearow cried out, still panting from overexerting herself.

"Come on, you know it's true… You're older than my dad, for Arceus sake…" Spencer muttered tending to his fresh bump.

Solana blinked.

"Fearow's that old? Weird, she hardly looks as old as Trickster's Mr. Mime…" Solana muttered.

'Why thank you.'

"Fearow's been in my family for generations, and not to mention that although she doesn't look too old, she's still old and tires out easily. Maybe she should retire and go back to the family soon…"

THUK!

'Like hell am I going to retire now so you can go along with some little snot Spearow as your partner!' Fearow cried out.

"Hey, hey, I'm just saying that you can retire and go for a quiet time with the family back in Sinnoh…" Spencer muttered, rubbing his second bump.

"Yo, Spencer, s'that you?" A voice called out… from the ocean?

A man with a Pelipper by his side walked up to the two with a lazy look.

"Good thing you're here, you know that group that we're talking about was seen in the Jungle somewhere. And they also stole my Ranger's Partner Pokémon too." The man said.

"Oh $%&*ing $%#*, who the %#& is this?" Solana asked. Spencer vaguely wondered how she learned those words.

"Solana, this is Cameron, the Summerland Pokémon Ranger Base Leader."

Pyro & Emerald: BYE AND REVIEW DAMMIT!

Maniac: I wonder how much more violent and troublesome things are going to be with another voice…

Pyro: Hey, we got Terra and we survived… Sorta. Our sanity kinda commit suicide on the first day, but still…

Terra: I have a feeling that this will get worse. Much worse.