Chapter 11
The next morning Allen reappeared in Eterna Forest wearing smart trousers, a white shirt and a red and black striped tie. Emma appeared and fell forwards onto the floor. She was still wearing her pink silk pyjamas.
"Shouldn't you be in school?" Emma asked.
"Yes, I'm skipping because I just don't feel like it." Allen laughed. "What about you?"
"I'm ill." Emma then sneezed all over Allen as she stood up.
"Nice one." Allen wiped himself.
"Sorry." Emma wiped her nose with her sleeve.
"Look, I've got seven in my team!" Allen held out the Pokeball containing the stolen Chansey.
"No, you've got six." Emma pointed at Allen's belt.
"No! Pachirisu!" Allen cried. Emma led him to the exit of the forest. They walked across a bridge. Allen pushed all four fishermen into the water. The two then arrived in Eterna City. Allen walked across the street and a blonde haired woman ran up to the two.
"Hello there!" the woman waved. She was wearing a long black coat and almost tripped over it.
"Hi…" Allen greeted her.
"My name ith Cynthia. I'm a trainer, jutht like you!" Allen tried to avoid laughing at her lisp.
"And we should care because?" Allen asked.
"You thhould care becauthe I'm going to give you thith." Cynthia handed Allen a disk. "It'th HM01. That meanth you can cut through treeth."
"Wow, thanks." Allen looked at the disc.
"Bye-bye!" Cynthia waved and ran off.
"What a pleasant girl. Didn't understand what she said though." Emma looked at where Cynthia had run off to.
"What cruel person put an s in lisp?" Allen asked. Emma just laughed. They walked into the Pokemon Centre where a woman gave them something for their Poketches. Allen then paid his donation to the Pokemon centre using some of the money he'd stolen from little kids near Eterna Forest. He decided not to withdraw the Murkrow he'd caught the previous night or to get his Pachirisu back from the computer. Emma didn't use the computer either.
"Ok, where now?" Emma asked.
"The Gym according to the book." Allen looked up from his walkthrough. They walked out and down the road. Emma walked into the Gym first and Allen followed. They decided to split up to look for all the trainers. Emma found two and battled them. She defeated them. Meanwhile Allen found the other two, tied them up with masking tape and claimed he'd beaten them.
"You defeated them then?" Emma asked when the two met up.
"Yes… Defeated them…." Allen said and looked around. A ginger haired girl stood looking at them.
"You here to challenge me then?" the girl asked.
"Depends…" Emma looked at her.
"I'm Gardenia, the Gym Leader." The girl introduced herself.
"I know that. It depends if he's actually going to battle you or is he going to do something else to get a Gym badge from you." Emma explained and Gardenia just looked at her.
"Well, since I'm wearing a shirt and tie I don't feel like I have the sexual appeal that I do normally so the option of getting the badge through sex seems out of the question. Looks like we're going to battle." Allen decided.
"Alright a double battle then. You will use one each." Gardenia declared.
"Go, Golbat!" Emma sent out her Pokemon.
"Go, Monferno!"
"Go, Cherubi and Roserade!" Gardenia sent out her Pokemon. Allen stared oddly at Cherubi.
"Monkey, set it on fire!" Allen ordered, Monferno ignited Cherubi. It went up in flames. Then the grass battlefield caught fire. Roserade caught fire and so did Gardenia's shorts.
"Run!" Emma shouted. The two and their Pokemon escaped the burning Gym. When they reached a safe distance they turned around to see the Gym on fire. Suddenly it exploded. Rubble flew everywhere. Two very small objects flew out of the explosion towards Allen and Emma. Allen caught the objects in the palm of his hand. It was a pair of badges.
"What are the odds of that happening?" Allen asked.
"You setting the gym on fire? Very high. The badges falling out of the sky? Pretty much impossible." Emma said. Allen looked at her angrily.
"Moving on." Allen started walking down the road.
"What about Gardenia?" Emma asked.
"I said that we're moving on. That means we change subject and ignore it for a while. Got it?" Allen turned around to speak to Emma and then went back to walking down the road. Emma sighed.
"Fine, where are we going now?" Emma asked.
"Well, you know that Team Galactic we've ran into a couple of times?" Allen asked.
"Yeh," Emma nodded.
"Well, since they were against Professor Rowan, I like them. I'm a bit interested in finding out about them and if it's any good, I want to join. And, there's a Team Galactic building here so where better?" Allen explained.
"I suppose. As you know what they say, an enemy of a Pokemon professor is a friend of mine." Emma ran to catch up with Allen on their way to a very large building in the north of the town. They reached it in a few minutes. They stood at the bottom of the building looking up. They then looked straight ahead at a few trees blocking the entrance.
"They must have one hell of a messed up gardener. Maybe that could be your new job." Allen suggested to Emma but she just nodded.
"Um, moving on. Have you got that disc Cynthia gave you?" Emma asked. Allen nodded and pulled it out of his bag. Emma took it off him and took out a Pokeball.
"How does it work?" Allen asked. Emma sent out her Roselia and looked from the disc to it.
"I think you just put it on its head or something." Emma placed the disc on Roselia's head. Roselia looked at her oddly. It shook its head. Emma tried putting the disc into Roselia's mouth. Once again it shook its head.
"Not as simple as we thought." Allen watched.
"Ok, Roselia, where would you put in?" Emma asked her Pokemon. It turned around, bent down and pointed at its rear.
"You're kidding!" Allen burst out laughing as Emma looked at her Pokemon in a mix of shock and embarrassment.