Chapter 11

In the back of the Pokemon Center, Blue challenged Franklin to a pokemon battle. "It will be a one on one match." Blue says as he stands on one side of the field. "Works for me." Franklin says with a smile as he pulls out his pokeball. Team RWBY, Leaf, and Rusty sat at the bleachers while May gets to be the judge. "Alright," May says with a ditsy attitude, "I want a good clean fight. You may choose your pokemon!" Blue threw his pokeball, "Go, Blastoise!" Blue's Blastoise takes the field as it roars and shows its twin cannons. "Whoa!" Ruby went after seeing the large pokemon and its guns, "That is awesome! Not to mention the guns!" Weiss pulls up her megadex to see what it is. "Blastoise. The shellfish pokemon and Squirtle's final evolved form. Blastoise has water spouts that protrude from its shell. The water spouts are very accurate. They can shoot bullets of water with enough accuracy to strike empty cans from a distance of over 160 feet." "So that's what Oswald evolves into." Weiss says with some amazement in her tone of voice, "I can't wait to see how well he would be once he evolves."

Franklin throws his pokeball, "Alright, girl. Time for another show. Go, Sylveon!" Franklin's Sylveon appears as she does a twirl, pose, and a wink. Weiss and Ruby started to fawn over the Sylveon saying how adorable she is while Yang admits it is cute. Even Blake had to admit it as she pulls out her megadex. "Sylveon. The intertwining pokemon and the evolve form of Eevee. It wraps its ribbonlike feelers around the arm of its beloved Trainer and walks with him or her. It sends a soothing aura from its ribbonlike feelers to calm fights." "Hey, Weiss." Blake says to snap Weiss. "One of your Eevee's can evolve into Sylveon." "REALLY!?" Weiss squealed for joy, "HOW DO I DO THAT?!" "Begin!"

Blue: "Blastoise, use flash cannon!"

Blastoise's cannons start to glow and shoots silver energy beams at Sylveon.

Franklin: "Dodge it!"

Sylveon elegantly jumps up into the air and flips with her feelers then strikes a pose.

Franklin: "Now use attract!"

Sylveon sweetly twirls as pink hearts head straights towards Blastoise.

"Aaawww!" Ruby and Weiss went with hearts for eyes. "Hey, guys," Yang says to the two, "you realize attract only works on males, right?"

As the hearts make their way towards Blastoise, Blue ushers, "Use rapid spin!"

Blastoise went inside his shell and spins. The hearts close in but they all get destroyed. Blastoise then charges right at Sylveon but she dodges like a mix between an acrobat and a dancer. Now Ruby and Weiss are completely in love with Sylveon as Yang and Blake just roll their eyes at them. Rusty and Leaf watch with such intensity and are starting to understand how Red lost. 'Wow!' Rusty thought as the fight continues on, 'I'm beginning to understand now!'

'What is going on?' Blue thought to himself as he tries to make sense of this new battle style, 'What is this new style? I never encountered anything like this. Something is different when he fought Red.' As for May's thoughts, 'Hey, I know that style of battling. It's like...it's like a contest battle!' "Use hydro pump!" Blastoise stops and comes out of his shell. He then takes aim and fire. However, Sylveon jumps high in the air and does flips. "And that's checkmate." Franklin says with a smirk, "Now use psyshock! Then use attract!" Sylveon shoots out blobs of psychic energy along with hearts and hit Blastoise. "What the-" Blastoise is hit with psyshock with a few blobs floating and circling around Blastoise's head along with a few hearts. Blastoise is now heads over heal for Sylveon. "Now for the finishing move, use dazzling gleam!"

Sylveon lands with one foot on Blastoise's head and does a pose right before a rainbow colored shine is emitting from her body. Then it gets brighter and everyone couldn't see. Once the light faded, everyone sees that Blastoise has fainted and Sylveon posses on Blastoise's shell. "Blastoise is unable to battle! The winner is Sylveon!" Sylveon then starts hopping around for victory then charges right at Franklin so she can tackle him and snuggle him. "Sylveon!" Franklin yelled, "Come on! You're embarrassing me!" Ruby and Weiss are saying how cute it looks while Yang is laughing out loud. Blake does find it funny, but tries to contain her laughter.

Blue recalls his Blastoise and gives off an angry grunt. Everyone noticed it as Blue angrily marches towards Franklin. "How?!" he said with some agitation in his tone, "How is it possible for you to be strong?!" May runs up to the two boys, "Easy there. He won and you lost. You shouldn-" "YOU STAY OUT OF THIS!" "Hey now!" Yang then steps up, "Just what's your deal?" "My deal? My deal?! My deal is that he's the reason Red has gone missing!"

Red: "What?!"

May: "Seriously?"

Leaf: "..."

"There is more to the story."

FLASHBACK

After Red's defeat, Red dropped to his knees and tries to figure out how he lost. "But how?" he says with the look of shock on his face, "Is there more pokemon I'm not aware of?" Franklin approaches Prof. Oak, "I would like to have my megadex back, please?" "Alright." Professor Oak gave back the megadex. "But gramps! You told us that completing the pokedex is your dream? So how is-" Franklin interrupted Blue, "The pokedex has been completed like a thousand times already." "WHAT?!" Blue and Red said in unison. It is quite the shock to hear that the pokedex has already been completed a thousand times. Professor Oak starts to look down, "I was afraid of that."

Franklin looked at Red, "As for you, yes, there are pokemon you are unaware off. Do you really think that there are only 150 pokemon in the whole world? The truth is that the world is bigger than you think. There are many regions out there with many kinds of pokemon. Some you can't find here in Kanto. Not only that, there are many different types of pokemon that you can't find here. As a matter of fact, some of them here in Kanto have types similar to my Sylveon. Such as Clefairy is also part fairy-type and Magnemite is part steel-type. Plus, there are may types of styles such as contests I heard about where you can show off your pokemon. If you were going to complete Prof. Oak's pokedex, how can you do that if you haven't explored the whole world? Not only that, how can you be the champion if you don't even know that?"

That was the final straw that broke Red. Franklin is right, how can he be a champion if he doesn't know everything that there is in the pokemon world. Franklin then walks off while leaving Red in a state of distraught. Red then gets up, "Excuse me, but I have to go." and he runs off.

3 Days Later...

Red hasn't been seen for the past few days and no one is sure why. In the morning, Blue went over to Red's house to see how he's doing. Blue knocks on the door, "Yo' Red!" he shouts, "Are you doing alright?! I got some news that I wanted to tell you!" Blue then opens the door, "Hello?" Once he did, he heard crying coming from the living room. "Hello?" he says as he notices Red's mother crying. She stops sobbing to notice Blue. "Oh, Blue." he straightens herself out, "Why are you here?" "What happened? Where's Red?" She then hands him the note she found.

Dear Mom, Prof. Oak, and everyone,

I'm going to find Mew to complete Professor Oak's pokedex. I will continue my journey to further complete the pokedex. Franklin's right, it is a big world out there and I'm going to see it all. I'm not sure when I'm coming home, but I'm going to train harder and become the strongest trainer that I ever was. I'm only taking Charizard with me. I hope to see you all soon.

From, Red

Blue started to become hot-headed again as he crumbles and throws it on the coffee table. Blue couldn't accept the fact that Red just up and left. He then ran over to his grandfather's lab to see if Red is there. He questioned Prof. Oak to see if Red came by. "Red? Yeah, he was here and took Charizard with him. I was going to talk to him but he just ran and went off on his bike." "Dang it!" he went after slamming his fist into his hand, "And I just became gym leader at the Viridian Gym! Dang it!"

We come back to the present where Blue is still mad and runs back inside the Pokemon Center. "That would explain it." Leaf says as she went inside. After the members of Team RWBY heard the story, Ruby and Weiss immediately ran up to see how cute Sylveon is. "Weren't you two paying attention?!" Blake shouted at the two fawning over the pokemon. As the two say how adorable Sylveon is, but Sylveon sticks her tongue out as an insult. "Sylveon." Franklin says with disappointment. Sylveon then turns her head and act like nothing happened. "I'm sorry about that. Sylveon doesn't like human girls cause she gets jealous." "Aawww!" The two went. "Aren't you such a sweety," Weiss says in a high pitch voice, "looking after your trainer!"

After a while, Team RWBY went to bed. Before any of them went to sleep, Ruby asked a question. "Which direction should we take?" "I think south." Yang suggested, "Because the fighting-type gym is there." "Not only that," Blake interjects, "There are two gyms in one city that uses fossil pokemon. Plus we can also get our own fossil pokemon once we dig them up."

Ruby: "I'm sold!"

Yang: "I'm in!"

Weiss: "Wait, what is everyone else doing?"

Yang: "Dawn and May are going west to some hot springs resort. Rusty has no clue where to go."

Weiss: "Sounds like him."

Yang: "Leaf is heading towards the Santamony Islands so she can score some honey-base desserts. Franklin is heading south as well."

Weiss: "Is he coming along with us?"

Yang: "You just want to be with his Sylveon, don't you?"

Weiss & Ruby: "...Yes."

Blake: "He already went ahead."

Ruby: "In the middle of the night?"

Blake: "Iiiiiiiiiii think so?"

Ruby: "Well, good night!"

WBY: "Night!"

The next morning, Team RWBY get ready and start heading south. Their journey has finally begun.