Christmas Special! The Second! A day late though. Close enough!

Category: SR.

Chapter 36: Christmas Special 2

Dex Holder meeting, Pallet Town Kanto, December 20…

"Alright, listen up," Blue said as she stood in front of all the other Dex Holders. "Christmas time is coming, and to show our new juniors a wonderful time, we should hold a Christmas party!"

"Woo! Party time!" Gold yelled.

"Yes, yes. Now, for the party location… After a very random pick, the party location is chosen to be Platinum's very own villa in the Resort Area of Sinnoh. Is that okay, Platinum?"

The heiress blinked and glanced at the other Dex Holders. "… Certainly. I would be honored to host this year's Christmas party."

"Great! This party is going to be amazing! Since the Sinnoh guys will be doing the basic preparations, the rest of us will all meet at Snowpoint City by 10 am on the 25th, so that we'll be able to take the ferry to Resort Area. I'll see you all there!"

…

December 25, Resort Area, Sinnoh, 1 pm…

…

Platinum finished cleaning the interior of her villa. Or rather, she finished touching up on the furniture. She had her maids do the cleaning, as she had brought a small squadron of maids from the Berlitz Mansion in preparation for this day. But to keep the party exclusive to the Dex Holders, the heiress had sent the maids home after thanking them for the good work.

"Everything all set?" Diamond asked as he walked over.

"Yes. Everything is tidy and in place," Platinum said with a smile. "How is the feast coming?"

"All the ingredients are set and ready," Diamond said. "Don't you worry. I'll make sure that this is the best feast ever."

"I know," Platinum said. She gave Diamond a quick kiss on the cheek. "I trust you."

"Whoa, are we interrupting something?" came a voice from behind.

Platinum swiveled around and spotted Gold and the other Dex Holders in the doorway. "Ah, senior! Welcome! Please come in."

The other Dex Holders soon flooded inside. Platinum welcomed each one and then shut the door so this private party could begin.

Red put his bag on top of the table in the middle of the kitchen and opened it. He took out four liquor bottles from the inside and raised them in the air.

"Let's get started!"

…

Platinum patrolled around her villa, making sure everything was going smoothly. The Dex Holders were divided into a few group, doing a variety of things. There was a gaming corner, created thanks to Gold bringing his video game consoles and hooking it up to the television in the living room. There was a… bar in the kitchen, thanks to Red bringing a box full of liquor. Currently only Red and Blue were drinking, as the other Dex Holders were either too young, or didn't drink. There was a hot tub in the backyard next to the swimming pool, populated by a handful of Dex Holders. And finally, a dance floor on the second floor. So patrolling all four sections and making sure nothing going wrong was quite the task.

Of course, a few Dex Holders weren't doing any of those. Diamond working in the kitchen, Green standing by the door, and Emerald eating appetizers on the main table. But at least things were maintainable. For now…

Gold finished a gaming session and let some of the other Dex Holders play while he went to go eat some appetizers.

"Hey Odd Boy, aren't you going to have some fun?" he asked as he stood beside Emerald.

"Nah, I'm fine here," the Hoenn Dex Holder replied. "This is some good stuff."

Platinum slowly walked over towards them. "Are you enjoying the party, seniors?"

"That we are," Emerald said as he stuffed another piece of bread in his mouth.

"Don't you worry about us," Gold said as well.

Platinum nodded and continued to patrol. Gold and Emerald watched her leave.

"Hey Odd Boy, want to make this party really memorable?"

"I know exactly what you're talking about," Emerald said with a devious grin. "… Let's plan some pranks."

…

Platinum spotted Green standing in front of the door, looking through the peephole. When she got closer, she realized that there were visitors who wanted into the party and the Gym Leader was telling them to beat it.

Someone knocked on the door and Green looked through the peephole again.

"Hey, we heard there's a big party in there. Can we come in?" asked the visitor.

Green eyed them before replying. "And who the hell are you?"

"I'm Bob."

"Get lost." Once the visitors left, Green looked over at Platinum. "What do you want?"

"Senior, should you not be enjoying the party?"

Green smiled but shook his head. "No. This is actually entertaining." Someone knocked again. "Observe."

"Hey, is this the Dex Holder party? We want in!"

"Scram." Green then watched the visitors go away with sullen expressions. "See? Fun," he said to Platinum.

"… In that case, do as you wish, senior," Platinum said before walking away.

"I told you already, no," Green said to yet another visitor.

Platinum glanced over at him before resuming her patrol. She supposed that this party should only be for the Dex Holders, so… Green was doing a good job.

…

Platinum went to check the hot tub next. Black, White, X, and Y were in the tub, talking about a variety of stuff. Y saw Platinum approaching first and waved at her.

"Hi, Miss Platinum."

"Are you having fun?" the heiress asked as she approached the tub. The hot tub was bigger than the average tub, so the four Dex Holders inside were spaced out a little. Or they had space to do so, but they were sitting pretty close.

"Yes, this feels so good," White said with a bright smile. "Want to join us? I think I'd want someone on my side of this debate."

"Debate?"

"We've been talking about Pokémon battles," Black said. "And the variety of types. Triple Battle, Rotational…"

"Sky Battles," Y added. "They're very fun."

"And dangerous," X said.

"And none of you see the appeal of non violent stuff?" White asked in disbelief. "Pokémon Contests, Pokémon Musical… none of those?"

"Pokémon Amie thing was fun," Y said. "But I see it more as a… um… occasional activity, I guess, rather than something to devote on."

White sighed and looked over at Platinum. "Lady Platinum… can you help me? You've done Pokémon Contests before, right? Change into your swimsuit and join us and help me!"

Platinum smiled. "I am sorry, White, but I cannot join you. I have to ensure that this party is enjoying to everyone."

"Oh," White groaned. She sighed and glanced at X, Y, and Black. "… You battle maniacs… I wish Ruby was here with me."

"And Sapphire too," Black said. "She'd agree with us."

"Wait," Y said. "Miss Platinum… you like Gym Battles more, don't you?"

White looked over at Platinum in disbelief while the heiress thought about it. "Hmm… I must say that I do prefer the excitement of a Gym Battle," she said after a while.

"Oh… this group is just packed with battle maniacs," White grumbled.

"However, I do feel that I do not have enough experience in participating in Contests or Musicals," Platinum said. "Perhaps once I do experience them more, I will like them."

"Until then, you're one of us," Y said with a smile. She leaned backwards and looked over at X. "Hey, come on! Enjoy a little!"

"I am enjoying," X said in monotone.

Y rolled her eyes and sighed. "Jerk…"

"You two are so like Ruby and Sapphire," White commented. "It's unbelievable!"

Platinum listened to her four juniors talk for a while before she left them alone. She headed back into her villa and headed upstairs to check on the dance floor.

On the way, she spotted Gold and Emerald staring at something on the wall. She naturally stopped to see what they were doing.

"This glass seems really nice," Gold commented as he put a hand on the exhibition glass near the stairs. The point was to observe the fine craftsmanship of the vase inside the glass, but…

"Yeah, put some… final touches on the support bars and this thing will be a nasty surprise to anyone who springs the trap," Emerald said with a grin.

"Well, we don't want to kill anyone we know."

"I know. We'll finish it once everyone we know leaves."

Platinum approached the two Dex Holders. "Seniors, I must know. What are you doing?"

"Oh, nothing," Gold lied, looking away. "You won't understand."

"Please explain," Platinum said.

"Well… You can look at this and see a decorative glass. I look at it and see a perfect trap for home defense," Gold answered eventually.

"A trap?" the heiress muttered.

"Yeah," Emerald said. "Tamper with this support bar here, and attach it to this string. Some unwanted intruder walks in, and BAM!"

"He'll get a face-full of exploding glass!" Gold said. "Weaponized decorations. The ultimate home defense."

Platinum simply blinked. "… Um… … Right… … Please do not scratch the surface."

She shook her head and soon left the two and continued upstairs. On the dance floor, Pearl was teaching Rakutsu and Faitsu how to dance while Yellow watched. Rakutsu looked really eager, and Faitsu looked like she wanted to go home.

"Hi, Miss Lady," Pearl said with a wave once he saw the heiress.

"I assume everything is going okay?" Platinum asked after waving back.

"No problems here."

Platinum observed Faitsu's expression. "She does not look like she is having fun. Is something wrong?"

"Actually," the ex-Plasma girl started, but Rakutsu cut her off.

"You know how she is," he said with a charming smile. "She's always nervous about these kinds of things."

"We'll be okay, Miss Lady," Pearl said again.

Platinum chose to believe her friend. "If you say so."

She chose to watch the dance lessons for a while and sat down next to Yellow. But before Pearl could continue with the lessons, Diamond's voice came from below, declaring that the feast was ready.

All 19 Dex Holders gathered at the dinner table, where Crystal and Diamond were setting up everything. One by one, the Dex Holders sat by the table and Platinum joined Crystal and Diamond in distributing drinks and utensils.

Most of the Dex Holders got sodas and other carbonated drinks. Red and Blue stuck with their liquor.

"Are you having fun, seniors?" Platinum asked as she set the plates down in front of Red and Blue.

"Sure am," Red said as he picked up his glass of liquor. From beside, Blue finished her glass. "Hey Platinum, pour her another one."

Platinum took a liquor bottle with both hands and carefully poured her senior a full glass. "Here you go, senior."

"Thanks," Blue said as she took the glass. She drank half of it and set the cup down. "You've been running around this place the whole time. You should enjoy the party too. Come on, enjoy yourself."

"As the host, it is my responsibility to ensure that everything is good," Platinum said.

"Suit yourself," Blue said with a shrug. She glanced around the table before focusing on Platinum again. "You probably have your hands full with this powder keg, so I'll stay out of your way."

Platinum looked where Blue had looked and saw Gold, Sapphire, and Emerald all glaring at one another while holding their utensils. It appeared that they were trying to eat more than the others. … Given their expressions, the moment Diamond brought in the huge plate full of food, the three Dex Holders would literally eat the whole thing within seconds. But the other Dex Holders all looked hungry too. If Gold, Sapphire, and Emerald hogged all the food, some of the others might get… angry. Hmm…

"Here's a suggestion," Blue said. "Don't give them any food quite yet. Because the others look mighty hungry. I'm quite hungry too. And I already had quite a lot to drink. I'm no longer responsible for my actions."

"I will heed your advice, senior," Platinum said with a nod.

"Good. Then I really will get out of your hair. I'll just sit here, eating stuff. Then drinking again. Then more eating probably, then right back to more drinking. Isn't that right, Red?"

Red signaled the box of liquor. "We got plenty, and no one else is drinking. So that whole thing is ours."

"Hear that? Don't you worry about us."

Crystal and Diamond soon came back carrying several plates filled with food. Platinum took some off their hands and began to distribute them. As per Blue's advice, she kept the plates far away from Gold, Sapphire, and Emerald.

"Hey! Give us food!" Gold yelled. "We're going to die of hunger!"

"Yeah! Hurry up! And that's an order!" Emerald yelled too.

Platinum glanced at Crystal for help. The Johto Dex Holder understood and approached the three rivaling Dex Holders while carrying a huge plate.

"Alright you three," she started. "Here's how it's going to work. I'm going to divide this plate into three parts and you three will share." She placed a small plate in front of Sapphire and displaced a third of the large plate's contents onto it. "This is for you, Sapphire. You won't get any more unless you're being nice and gentle."

"Yes, ma'am," Sapphire said with a sigh.

"Good." Crystal then displaced a quarter of the plate's remaining contents onto another small plate and set it in front of Gold. "This is for you, Gold, because you're Gold."

"Hey!" Gold yelled. "That's totally unfair! Wildchild Girl here gets twice as much food as me? And Odd Boy gets three times as much? That is just… wrong! I'm their senior! I should get more!"

Crystal ignored him and gave Emerald a warm smile as she displaced all of the large plate's remaining contents onto his plate. "Here you go, Emerald. Eat up."

"Thanks!"

"You're playing favoritism, aren't you?" Gold grumbled out.

"Of course I am. Now Gold, if you behave, I'll let you have some more. Set an example for our juniors."

"Yes, ma'am…"

"And maybe you can contribute something to this group other than chaos and mayhem."

"Hey," Gold started to argue. "I'm chaos, and he's mayhem," he said, signaling Emerald. "We're a double act. I don't cause trouble on my own, you know."

"Hey, don't try to drag me down with you," Emerald said as he began to wolf down his food. "You're on your own."

Crystal watched the troublesome duo eat for a few seconds before she gave Platinum a pat on the shoulder. "There you go. If any of them give you trouble, just say the word."

"Yes, senior."

Hours began to fly. Platinum patrolled all around her villa once again, participating and helping here and there. She helped Diamond prepare dinner for a little while. She listened to Green deny more unwanted visitors, and even told one to scram herself. It was fun. … Too fun.

She joined X and Y in playing a video game and helped Y beat X, only to realize that Y didn't need any help at all, thus inadvertently expressing that she liked Y more than X. Oops. She soon left the two Kalos Dex Holders to resume patrolling once more. She found Gold and Emerald plotting something in the refrigerator, and just walked away. She didn't know what they were up to, but she didn't exactly want to know either. Something about rigging the refrigerator? … Sure. What's the worst that could happen?

Black and White were slowly dancing in the dance floor all by themselves in a slow romantic music, so Platinum gave them privacy. She made her way over to the backyard to see what was happening, and found Ruby and Sapphire arguing with each other about something. Again, the heiress left them alone and wandered back into her villa.

Things steadily calmed down after dinner, much to Platinum's relief. Gold and Emerald had stopped plotting things and were just enjoying dessert. Ruby and Sapphire had also stopped arguing and instead, spent time with Black and White. Ruby discussed Pokémon Musical ideas with White, while Sapphire asked Black about Triple Battles.

Blue still sat at the dinner table, drinking from yet another liquor bottle as she drew something on her sketchbook. Red was still drinking as well, looking at what Blue was drawing, finding it quite surprising that the girl was still sober enough to sketch things. She was drawing Green, apparently, who was reading the newspaper in the corner of the villa.

Now that things had finally calmed down, the Platinum was able to spend time with Diamond. With a sigh of relief, she sat down next to him and grabbed his hand.

"I think this party's been successful," Diamond said as he massaged the heiress's shoulder.

The girl closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "Yes. I am very relieved."

"No one got hurt, nothing blew up, and nothing got set on fire," Diamond said. "It sure went better than the last party, where two of those happened."

"Yes."

"What's next, Lady?"

"It is getting close to midnight," Platinum said. "So we spend the night, have breakfast and then we plan the New Year's party."

"Where do you think that party will be?"

"… Somewhere other than here," Platinum said honestly. "… Or Sinnoh entirely. Though nothing went wrong today, I do not want this sort of stress next week."

…

Next day, 10 am…

…

Platinum felt someone shaking her on the shoulder. She slowly woke up from her deep sleep and opened her eyes. She saw White and Y sitting next to her, waiting for her to wake up. For the night, the three girls shared a room, as there were too many Dex Holders for each to get a separate one.

"Good morning, Lady Platinum," White said with a quick bow. "You must've been really tired."

Platinum glanced over at the clock and saw the time. "Oh. I overslept."

"So did most everyone," Y said. "I think we're the first ones awake. Well, except for Pearl."

The heiress slowly got up to her feet. "We should wake up everyone now."

"I'm starving. When's breakfast?" White asked.

"Diamond will prepare something," Platinum said. "… Once he wakes up."

The other two girls groaned.

"… That'll take forever. And we're so hungry right now…"

Platinum tidied up the room and headed downstairs where the male Dex Holders were sleeping. To her surprise, she saw Emerald watching the television. She thought everyone else was asleep, but apparently Emerald was awake. … What did he do? Was he planning something?

"Morning, Platinum," he said with a yawn.

"Good morning, senior," Platinum said with a polite bow.

"So Platinum," Emerald started. "In the off-chance that you hear an alarm you didn't know about and you hear a timer start counting down…"

"Oh, no…" the heiress muttered.

"Just enter the code 1027 into this remote, preferably before the timer goes off," Emerald said as he handed her a small device. "The code should be easy to remember, since it's your birthday and all. But you have to enter it fast. If you don't, well… Blame Gold. And run like hell." He then looked around the fancy villa. "He'll probably owe you like 50 million PKD too."

"243 million," Platinum mumbled as she stared at the remote device. "If you count all the decorations and furniture…"

"Whoa, that's a lot," Emerald said with a laugh. "He's screwed if you don't enter that code!"

"… You will owe me half too," Platinum said with a sigh.

Emerald's smile faded. "Oh… … Enter that code fast. Seriously."

"Can you not just… remove whatever you did?"

"Not really," Emerald said as he rubbed the back of his neck. "It's… rigged to go if you tamper with it."

Platinum put the remote in her bag. "I will… be careful, then."

The heiress glanced at the stairs and saw Blue walking over. The Kanto Dex Holder waved as she came closer, and Platinum bowed to her politely.

"Good morning," Blue said as she sat on a couch nearby.

"Good morning, senior. How are you feeling?"

"Fine, thanks. I'm not hung over or anything." Blue glanced around the villa. "We didn't break anything last night, did we? Everything here looks so expensive…"

"It is okay, senior," Platinum assured. "There are no damages done."

"For now," Emerald added. "But if something bad happens, Gold and I are going to owe Platinum millions."

Blue chuckled lightly. "Oh, sure you will. Now, for the New Year's party… let's pick somewhere else. Platinum, since we burdened you for the Christmas party, why don't you pick the location for the New Year's one?"

"Yeah. Pick which set of Dex Holders you want to totally screw over," Emerald said. "Because Chaos & Mayhem are coming again."

"Though that is not my intention," Platinum started. "But I do wish to visit Lumiose City of Kalos. I have heard that they have a special event for the New Year's Eve."

"Great! It's decided," Blue said with a clap.

Just then, White and Y came downstairs, having woken up the other female Dex Holders. Blue looked over at Y and grinned.

"Great news, Y!" she started.

"Huh?"

"Our New Year's party is going to be in Lumiose City!" Blue said. "You know that means. Reserve the best hotel in Lumiose for all of us and get ready to have some fun!"

Y's mouth opened in shock as she quickly ran some calculations. '19 Dex Holders… New Year's… Lumiose City… 5 star hotel? Oh no… I'm going to be sooo broke…'

White gave her a pat on the shoulder. "Better get a loan. Because you're going to need it."

Next up (DHC): two possibilities

1) Team games! Blue wants to see which Dex Holder couple gets along the best. The team that wins gets sent on a romantic vacation for a week, and the losing teams have to pay for it.

2) Gender supremacy! Male Dex Holders vs. Female Dex Holders in a series of games and challenges! But… right from the beginning, things are clearly imbalanced.

Post Ending:

Platinum watched as the other Dex Holders left, one by one. Afterwards, she looked back at her villa. Finally. It was over. She let out a sigh and decided that she'd clean the place before heading home. She made her way towards the refrigerator to get a glass of water first. But the moment she pulled the refrigerator door open, she heard a loud alarm from the inside.

"What?" the heiress muttered in surprise. She jumped in horror when she heard Gold's voice from inside the refrigerator. It was a recording, obviously.

"10… 9… 8…"

"Oh, no!" Platinum screamed. She quickly took out the remote Emerald gave her, but noticed that… it had no batteries. "Ah!" With a panicked shriek, the heiress ran as fast as possible towards the exit. "SENIOR GOLD!" the screamed out just as she left her villa and the countdown hit 0.

From afar, Gold and Emerald kept walking as they occasionally glanced at the villa.

"Do you think she fell for it?" Emerald asked.

"Probably," Gold said with a laugh.

"When she finds out that it's just a sound recording of a bomb detonation with the volume on max, she's going to be pissed."

"What's she going to do to us? And besides, that was your idea. If she comes after us, I'm saying that it was your fault."