Renny: THIS IS NOT A PRANK EPISODE. It's just a Special one, kinda like what I used to do for Redemption, which explains the backstory of a certain red-haired girl.

Green: You felt the need to explain this why?

Renny: Just in case anyone thought this was another prank episode. Anyway, this chapter was actually created after I got about halfway through the real chapter twenty, so chapter twenty-one is actually the original chapter twenty.

Green: That's slightly weird.

Renny: Well, the battles're gonna split the chapter in half unless I want to have a reeeaaaally long chapter, so this'd look kinda weird in the middle of them. But anyway. This is an entirely different chapter- because it's in first person! For once. Disclaimer please!

Green: Renny doesn't own pokemon.

Renny: On with the show!

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I'm Toni Lithium.

No, that's actually not my real name.

To be honest with you, I actually kinda can't remember my real name- maybe I could at some point, but I can't anymore. And, actually, I'm glad I can't remember.

I was abandoned by my parents when I was five years old.

I had no idea why, because it was just so sudden- at least, to me it was.

Anyone else probably would have noticed the signs, like when they stopped picking me up or even touching me completely. I just thought they were playing a silly prank on me, even if it did last for months.

They spoke to me less and less, until eventually they hardly spoke one word to me a week- I though that was a prank, too.

As you may as already guessed, I'm not exactly the most intelligent person.

It was only years later, when I told Green everything I could remember, that I realised the signs of the so-called 'sudden abandonment'.

I already knew the reason- because I'm a Deviant.

Of course, I had no idea what the fuck one was at the time, and my parents presumably didn't either. I just had a strange connection with pokemon, and for some strange reason I really liked playing with electronics.

I could make unplugged stuff work. Like, this one time I remember I unplugged the TV for the fun of it, and then I zapped it.

It worked for almost three weeks without being plugged in, and it took my parents three days to realise that it actually was unplugged.

I also started sparking when I got mad. That was probably the big indicator that I was some sort of half-pokemon freak.

They left me alone in some forest in England on my fifth birthday.

For the first half an hour, I thought it was a birthday surprise- they'd done the same thing the year previously, I think- so I sat on a rock and waited.

I even waited when I realised they weren't going to come back.

For three days I sat on that rock, chewing on some leaves from a nearby bush, waiting for my mom and dad to come and take me home. I was hungry and I was thirsty, and the leaves were not helping me at all.

That was when I met Needleless.

She looked after me, taught me how to live wild- even though our species were so far apart even a blind person could have told the difference. She was, and still is, a bit of a stuck-up bitch.

But Needleless loved me like I was her own child. As a Beedrill, she could protect me from any kind of threat, mainly because she was the most powerful pokemon in the entire forest. Even the Flying types didn't dare challenge her.

In six months, I became more like a pokemon than a person. My powers- which had gained an extra type, as I realised a couple of months after meeting Needleless- helped me to live with the wild pokemon, and my ability to actually understand them made me one of them.

Then some humans came into the forest and found me and Needleless.

They were agents from the city- Zo was one of them, and he didn't even give a fuck, he just ran straight up to me and started sparking.

It's one of the few good memories I can remember in full detail.

Me and Needleless- because of course she had to come with me, she was like my fucking mom or something- were taken to the city.

I met the others- Ashley, Kai, Kiara, Anna and Adrik- and had a room all to myself and Needleless. I loved it, and it was amazing because I was surrounded by people just like me, people who were also half-pokemon.

I was with Deviants.

It was actually Kiara who suggested making up a new name for myself. Ashley says I didn't wanna be called by my old one, because my parents weren't my parents anymore or something, and no one knew what to do. Until Kiara spoke up (one of the few fucking times she ever did) and told me to just make up a new one.

So I did, and now I'm called Toni Lithium!

But then, a few months after I was extracted, another kid came in.

He was the same age as me- maybe a bit younger.

Neron was the one who introduced us to him- I dunno why, maybe this was a special case or something.

The boy's name was Green Oak.

At first I had no clue why he called that, because he had the darkest purple eyes I'd ever seen in my entire life.

But since he was the only one who was my age, I decided to try and make friends with him. After all, he was in the same private dorm as me, if we didn't get along it'd be fucking awkward as balls.

"Hi there, I'm Toni!"

" . . ."

He didn't say a single word. Not one. Not even a little peep.

I remember I followed him around a lot, because we didn't really have that much to do besides training back then. No missions or anything, it was just training for three hours a day and then every other hour it was 'do whatever the fuck you want cus you're just kiddies' or whatever.

So I followed him and tried to make friends with him.

Zo sometimes jokes that we were like a comedy act- sometimes I'd lose my temper, sparking as usual, and I'd start shouting at Green to say fucking something.

And he'd look at me blankly, and the lack of absolutely anything in his eyes would just make me wonder why I was getting mad at someone who was so fucking depressed, and I ended up saying sorry like a million and one times.

I kinda don't see what's so Mew-dammed funny about that, but then again Zo's got a weird sense of humour.

So it's whatever.

But I remember this- it's another one of the few good memories I remember.

One day, me and Green were in the cafeteria. I was talking and talking like usual, and Needleless was muttering something I couldn't hear. Probably telling me to shut the fuck up or else.

Anyway, I was just talking and talking, and I'm not really sure exactly what I said, maybe it was funny or something- but suddenly Green just smiled at me.

And I found out why he was called Green.

His eyes weren't really purple. That was just the colour they'd turned when he'd gotten depressed or some shit.

His eyes were the brightest green I've ever seen in my whole fucking life. That was why he was called Green.

And at that point, even Needleless agreed that he wasn't a lost cause like she'd been saying.

It took fucking forever, like two damn years, but eventually the flickers between poison purple eyes and bright-as-fuck green eyes got more and more frequent.

And one day, he woke up and . . . and he spoke to me.

"Hello, Toni. My name is Green."

That's what he said- I don't even remember where we were or even when he said it, but he just said that to me.

I think it sounded weird, because he hadn't said a word for two entire years, but at least he said something. He was finally replying to what I'd said like two years ago.

And we've been best friends ever since.

I like to say that we've been besties since the day we first met, but he hardly even noticed me- not really, anyway, not until the day when he smiled for the first time.

He's . . . well, he's like my brother. For all I know, he might be my fucking cousin or some shit, but whatever. That's why our cover as twins works so well, cus we're practically twins anyway.

And when I met Sparkless, Green was right there with me- it had only been a year since he'd finally gotten out of his depression, and the flickers between purple and green (he was mostly green) were so rare that I sometimes panicked when his eyes went purple for a few seconds.

Yeah, I kinda blew up a lot of buildings when I met Sparkless . . . Little shit just refused to get into the ball I was using to catch him with.

I didn't even realise he was my partner at that point, I just felt some weird connection with him and assumed that I just liked the little shit of a Rotom because he was kinda like me, the same type and same personality (just more so).

After we blew up the buildings, because I kinda got overexcited and shot off a few Thunders by accident trying to get him, I found out what the connection was.

Basically, I touched his hand thing and I saw Sparkless's memories! That was fucking awesome, and it was also the biggest clue that he was my partner.

In fact, I was so preoccupied with Sparkless being my partner that I . . . forgot about the blown-up buildings. Green reminded me and started lecturing me on why the fuck blowing shit up was a really, really bad idea.

"I don't give a crap, I finally found my partner!"

"For the love of Mew, Toni, you can't just go around blowing stuff up!"

Green ain't found his partner yet.

His types're kinda weird- he's actually the only Psychic/Ghost Deviant in existance, as far as anyone else knows. No one knows who his partner could be, because before he came to the city, he was probably pure Psychic type.

Like me, whatever happened to him traumatised him enough that he'd become a Ghost type as well. I was abandoned, and Green . . .

Well . . . it's too horrible to say, really. I can barely think about it without getting upset, and it didn't even happen to me- I hate to think how Green feels about it.

I guess Sparkless would have been my partner even if I was still pure Electric type. I mean, Adrik's just an Ice type and his partner's Weavile.

So maybe Green's partner's a pure Psychic type. Or maybe they're not even a Psychic type at all, who knows!

Oh, and I was also the one who helped him figure out that he liked dick and not pussy.

He just kinda came up to me one day and asked what it was called when a guy liked another guy.

I said there was three words for it- yaoi, love, or being gay.

"What's the difference?" he'd asked.

"Yaoi's the thing on the internet where people ship dudes who may or may not actually like each other. Like Jean and Marco. Love is basically just love. It knows no boundries or some shit. And being gay means you check out dude but it's not exactly love at the moment cus you're not tying yourself down."

"Then I think I'm gay."

"Oh. Sweet, that means I can ship you with any guy I want! Hey, what d'you think of a relationship between you and Neron?"

" . . . Um."

SHOTA.

Heheh.

I'm kidding, I can't imagine Neron having a relationship with Green. Besides, he's got his wife (when she ain't fucking kicked him out of their house again).

Basically . . .

Green's my brother. I love him. And he loves me- even if we fucking argue all the time.

We even like the same animes and movies and whatever, which is kinda why we can get along so well I guess?

He also decided to name his Charmander after Toothless, the black Flygon from How To Train Your Dragon, and his Scyther after Erwin, the awesome commander of the Scouts from Attack on Titan.

He found and hatched Tiago's egg just before we met Sparkless. It was amazing to watch and Tiago was adorable. Until he opened his beak. Then I just wanted him to shut up because literally all he said was swear words and quotes from Rio and Rio 2.

Don't get me wrong, I love those movies and the swearing was hilarious, but it got really old really fast. He's not so bad now, but Tiago does have some moments- he's also a worse prankster than me and Green.

Which is saying a lot. Because we're the biggest pranksters in the city, even compared to those two Deviants with the Banette partners.

Moving on.

Green's my best friend. And nothing will change that- because even Neron knows not to split either of us up.

That's why I don't like Red- yeah, he might be trying to be nice or some shit now, but he's a homophobic little bastard.

Anyone who's homophobic doesn't deserve to live in this day and age anymore. Those dicks're like the dudes who still think women shouldn't have jobs or whatever, they're all assholes and I hate every one of them.

I especially hate those Christian idiots who claim that 'Arceus made man and woman for a reason'.

Like, hello, he also gave us free will for a reason! Fucking idiots.

I thought Red was a Christian idiot at first. But no, it turned out he was just a Champion idiot.

I'll get along with him. Kind of. I'll argue, cus it's what I fucking do (it's fun to piss people off, heheh), but I'll try and get along with him.

Because Green says Red's gonna try.

But if that motherfucker makes one homophobic comment . . .

Well, let's just say burnt toast will look very undercooked by the time I'm done with him.

. . . I'm pretty sure this chapter used to be about my backstory . . . Oh well. Green's part of my backstory- it works out, right?

Kind of.

Maybe.

Oh, and by the way, I'm aromantic. You know, that sexuality where you ain't attracted to eoither gender? I literally do not give two shits about relationships.

I'm content to stand back and squee over Green's future relationships with hot dudes.

He's the uke. Definitely.

I do not give a fuck what he says, he is so the uke. Tsundere uke.

Squeeeee!

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Renny: Toni's right, I kinda lost track of this . . . oh well, her backstory was literally 'got abandoned at five for being a freak, met Green at six and then proceeded to try and befriend him for two years while he was in a permanent state of Poison Purple'. Yes, that Poison Purple.

Green: Wait, I was Poison for two whole years? How did I not kill everything in sight?

Renny: Cus that was basically a different kind of Poision? Fuck if I know, I just make half of this shit up as I go along. It's plot, okay, get hell over it. It makes sense in context. Read and review, people!