Me: Wooohooo! Here we go, now this is the equivalent chapter length as 'Remember me'! YAY! Well, here.... we.... go!
Chapter 29! WOW
"Go Blastoise!" Ash called. Gemma smirked and threw her Poké ball.
"C'mon and help me, Venus!" Gemma cheered. She did a slight spin as she did so, one leg bent up as she turned.
A large, majestic Venasaur appeared; its skin seemed to sparkle in the sunlight, dammit that's ironic. Ash looked shocked, Ruby was in awe, Yellow just stared, Leaf looked a bit jealous as his Ivyasaur was nowhere near as beautiful as hers, Alessandra and Francesco were gobsmacked, and Pearl.... she was kinda squealing like her mother used to when she saw Gary or Samuel Oak. Gemma was sweatdropping at the reaction.
"You said you had fire!" Ash exclaimed.
"I said that I had mostly fire. You need to pay more attention." Gemma smirked. "So, Ruby, he's a Pokémon master? You sure?"
Ruby jumped when she heard the telepathy voice.
What on EARTH!?!?!?
"Hehe! I have no idea but it sure is 'cool'!" Gemma giggled to her.
"Let's get this battle started!" She then called out loud. "Venus, start with razor leaf!"
"Blastoise use hydro cannon!"
"Omg dad is an idiot!" Ruby sighed as she face palmed.
"Why?" Alessandra asked.
"Hydro cannon leaves the user unable to move for quite a while... he's cutting it very close." Walter said. Alessandra looked at the pale new boy with a strange look in her eye.
Nevertheless the attacks had collided, but somehow the razor leaf broke through the stronger attack easily, hitting the Water type soon after.
"What on earth!?" Ash exclaimed. Gemma giggled.
"Use Frenzy Plant!" She ordered.
When that call finally reached Ash's mind he was wide eyed.
"Shit."
The vines all came up at once, all hitting the Water type, uh oh.
"Yeah, Uh Oh." Ash said. Blastoise is out for the count! The winner is Gemma! .... Wait, since when was I the ref? "How on earth..." Ash said under his breath as the kids all congratulated Gemma. He chuckled and recalled Blastoise and walked over to her.
"How did you do that, Gem?" Pearl asked.
"All in the training." Gemma replied.
"Oh! You're the Gemma that took Ruby to the hospital ages ago!" Francesco said. Gemma nodded, almost flinching at the memory.
"That was a short battle, you are very strong Gemma." Ash said.
"Thank you." Gemma said as she nodded courteously.
"I have no idea how you, with only about 12, maybe 13, years of practice managed to beat a Pokémon Master that has almost twice as many years' experience." Ash said. Gemma almost gulped.
"As I said, I trained since I could speak, and my foster father was one of the best." She said.
"Oh... you were a foster kid..." Ash said.
"And what's wrong with that?!" Ruby said.
"Nothing, I just heard it was a hard life."
"It is." Walter said.
"You were too?" Alessandra said.
"We were in the same homes all our years in the system. Sadly our foster family died in a freak fire, and we were left to fend for ourselves, we've been on a journey since." He said grimly. Ruby and co. flinched when they remembered the true reason they were dead.
"Uh... well! I guess you and Francesco are here for the battle, hey Alessandra?" Ruby said, quickly changing the subject.
"Yeah, you too?" Alessandra replied.
"Yup." Leaf said.
"Well, ya wanna head over there with us?" Francesco said. They all nodded.
"Are you battling, Walter, Gemma?" Alessandra said.
"I would, but for the same reason as Gemma I won't. We want to give you all a chance at reaching your competitions." Walter chuckled, pulling Gemma close.
"Gee, thanks." Alessandra said, rolling her eyes. Everyone laughed.
"I'll be off after Ruby's battle, I'm afraid." Ash said. "Gotta get back to Saph', May and the triplets."
"Don't forget to keep me posted on Saph'." Ruby reminded.
"I know I know."
"What wrong with the tot?" Francesco asked.
"Brain tumour..." Ruby said grimly, the two flinched.
"Oh god."
"I know. She's K now, but it was real bad..." Ruby winced at the memory.
"You were alone when it happened, right?" Gemma said. The trainer nodded.
"The only reason she was is cos I was trapped in a bloomin' cot!" Torchix shouted. Will she ever let me forget that? HEY! Stop glaring at me people!
"Sorry."
I give up...
"Hurry up! At this rate you won't even start the battles in this chapter either!" Ruby yelled.
"Yeah!" They all said. Ruby, do you have some sort of mind control on them or something?
"Maybe." You're creepy.... Now who's wasting time? Anyway...
"One thing, Ru', Lt. Surge had a Raichu when I battled him, chances are he will have the same one." Ash said.
"OK, dad. I'll keep that in mind."
"You better, he pummelled Pikachu pretty bad."
"Not too hard to believe." Ruby giggled, Pearl laughed too.
"Gees, you're real nice ain't ya."
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Me: Sorry, I'm cutting it off there before I do something I'll regret. (AKA Blabbing or some sorta tragedy.) So, sorry for length and quality. R&R!
