Welcome to SR's finale. I was going to have two more DHC chapters, but… well… meh. My decision. And SR, which I felt was dead for a while, is now finally ending. So here it is: the very last chapter.

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Chapter 37: The Mind(less) Games

Classified location, Unova, 10 am…

White snapped awake when she heard someone knocking on her door. She took a few seconds to collect her thoughts. Oh. She must've dozed off while reading a book.

She opened the door and almost jumped in surprise. Red, Gold, Sapphire, Platinum, Black, and Y were waiting for her.

"Oh! Hi," White said as she quickly calmed down. "What brings you all here?"

"We were thinking of places to go for fun," Red started.

"And it was decided to visit Unova," Sapphire said. "So here we are!"

"We're sorry we didn't give you a heads up," Y said.

"We promise we won't break anything," Gold said. "… Probably."

The Dex Holders filed inside before White could really say anything. Platinum stood next to her and gave her an apologetic smile.

"I apologize if you were in the middle of something."

"No, no," White said as she shut the door. "I wasn't doing anything in particular. But now that you're here, maybe we should discuss potential Musical and Contest ideas?"

Platinum glanced over at the other Dex Holders, who already decided on the first game they were going to play. A game that involved not laughing. Those who laughed would get slapped on the wrist really hard. And to get the others to laugh, the Dex Holders were making funny faces, doing something stupid, and even tickling one another.

The heiress shook her head and faced White. "That would be great. I would prefer not getting involved in those… games."

Gold and Sapphire pulled off a double act that sent Y bursting into a fit of laughter. The other Dex Holders immediately grabbed her by the hand and ruthlessly slapped her wrist right below the palm until her skin turned red. For revenge, Y tripped Sapphire, who fell onto Black who got pushed into Red in a domino-style collision. That made Gold laugh for just a little, and that was enough to get the other Dex Holders to pounce on him to deliver the punishment.

"… I think I'll convince them to play a board game," White said with a sigh. "Before they break something…"

She quickly ran upstairs and returned with a board game in hand, hoping that a calm game would result in less broken furniture.

For a while, it seemed that things would pan out that way. Red, Gold, Sapphire, Black, and Y calmly played the board game while Platinum and White watched them.

"Come on, roll a 3!" Y exclaimed happily. "Then you land on my place!"

"How come you have 4 hotels built there?!" Gold yelled. "That's crap! How many hotels can you cram in one plot of land?!"

"I own that whole city! I can do whatever I want, as long as I have the funds!" Y said. "So just roll! Roll a 3!"

"What are the odds of that happening?" Gold said with a smirk. "Sorry, Sky Girl, but that ain't going to happen. I have two dice, so the probability of rolling a 3 is basically non-existent!"

"The probability is 5.5556%, senior," Platinum said from behind. "It has a much higher probability than rolling two of the same number repeatedly, which, I may add, you have been doing quite a bit."

"You're not helping me," Gold said. "And hey, I'm just lucky. Rolling two 6's repeatedly is nothing!"

"What is being lucky?" White asked. "One can argue that you're lucky if you just hit a statistically improbable event, even if that event sucks for you."

Gold rolled the dice, confident that he wouldn't be screwed over now. He rolled a 1 and a 2, combining to a total of 3…

"… Crap."

Y burst into a fit of laughter. "You're sooo lucky!"

"You owe her a ton of money!" Sapphire said as she laughed as well.

With a growl, Gold reached into his pocket to take out his wallet. He tossed a few bills to Y and stuffed his wallet back in.

"Why did you pay her?" Platinum asked.

"We're using real money for this!" Gold said. "But toned down a little."

"So, you're out now, right?" Black asked.

"No way!" Gold yelled. "I still got money! Let's keep going!"

"Bring it on," Sapphire said with a grin. "I don't know if you've noticed yet, but you have no board presence. You only own 3 territories and the rest of us own the entire board. So just keep your wallet out and prepare to pay up."

Platinum watched the board game continue for a while before she turned to face White. "Would you like to accompany me to the department store?"

"You mean the one in Route 9?" White asked.

"Yes. I would like to visit there and make a few purchases."

"Sure, I'd love to," White said with a smile. "I'm always with a battle maniac, so I never get the chance to just shop, you know? So let's do it!"

"Senior Red?" Platinum started.

Red tossed his Aerodactyl's Pokéball to her. "Have fun."

"Thank you."

"Try not to break anything," White said. She took a nervous glance around her house, memorizing each of the rather fragile objects around the place. Just in case. "We'll be back in a few hours. Don't burn anything either!"

…

Platinum and White returned a few hours later after some brief shopping. White hastily entered her house, wanting to make sure that nothing was destroyed. And to her surprise, she spotted Red, Gold, Sapphire, Black, and Y lying on the ground, completely immobile, and quickly ran up towards them.

They were all breathing, and it was blatantly obvious that they were all trying to stay completely still and make absolutely no movements. It was as if they were pretending to be dead or something.

"What the…" White muttered. She shook Y by her shoulders, but the Kalos Dex Holder didn't move. She was obviously awake though.

Platinum crouched next to her. "Y, sit up and look at me, please," she said calmly. The Kalos Dex Holder slightly frowned but still remained motionless. "That is an order," the heiress said again.

Y groaned and sat up. Once she did, the other Dex Holders sat up as well and cheered. Platinum and White blinked a few times, wondering what was going on exactly.

"Miss Platinum!" Y started with a moan. "You ruined me!"

"I beg your pardon?"

"We were playing a game," Red said as he came over. "We all pretend to be dead, basically, and remain completely idle. The first one to move loses."

"I… see?"

"We just wanted to make sure we didn't break anything, as you said," Red said to White. "Best way to do that? Just don't move at all."

"You know what this means!" Gold said as he approached Y.

"Oh, come on! This wasn't my fault!" the girl complained. "I can't disobey Miss Platinum!"

"A result is a result! So brace yourself!" Gold said.

Y groaned again and shut her eyes. She braced herself and Gold promptly hit her on the right cheek with his palm.

"Gold! Why'd you do that?" White asked in surprise.

"That's the punishment!" Gold explained. "The winners of the game slap the loser in the face! We all agreed to this."

Red, Sapphire, and Black took their turns to slap Y. Red took it easy on her and didn't hit her too hard, but her cheek was burning red from the repeated strikes anyways. She growled and clenched her teeth.

"Round 2!" she declared. "Come on, let's do this!" She glanced at Platinum and White and forced her expression to brighten. She just could not be rude to Platinum, no matter how much she wanted to. "Miss Platinum, please don't do anything this time."

"Very well," the heiress said with a nod. "Come, White. We should think of possible decoration and design ideas."

For a long while, Platinum and White silently discussed possible Musical/Contest design ideas while the others pretended to be dead. A couple of hours passed, and the two normal Dex Holders began to hear someone snoring. They glanced over at the dead Dex Holders and soon realized that Black was snoring. He was even drooling a little as well, making it blatantly obvious that he was fast asleep to everyone.

"Yes!" Y shouted as she sat up. "Finally!"

The others cheered as well and approached Black. The boy soon woke up and realized what happened.

"Oh, come on!" he exclaimed as he sat up. "I couldn't have been the only one sleeping!"

"I was sleeping too," Sapphire said. "But I wasn't snoring! Or at least I think I wasn't."

She looked over at Platinum and White for verification. The heiress nodded in agreement. With a cheer, Sapphire slapped Black across the face, maybe a little too hard.

Once all the punishments were dealt, Red cleared his throat. "Alright now. Let's play another game."

Everyone except Platinum and White filed out of the house, leaving the two girls alone. White let out a sigh of relief, glad that no one broke anything.

Now that they had privacy from the battle crazy Dex Holders, they could create fancy decorations in peace.

…

"How does this look?" Platinum said as she showed White her sketches of a dress idea.

"That looks so cute," White said with a bright smile. "We should get Ruby to make them for us."

"If senior Ruby wishes to assist us, yes. But if he is busy, I can make an order to have the dresses created once I return to Sinnoh," Platinum said as she looked at her sketches once more. She suddenly glanced out through the windows.

"Is something wrong?" White asked.

"I suppose I am slightly worried about the others," Platinum answered. "It has almost been two hours since they left, and they have yet to return."

"Yeah. Who knows what weird game they're playing right now," White said with a slightly worried expression. She soon rose to her feet. "Let's go check on them."

The two girls left the house and immediately spotted the other Dex Holders in the backyard. To their surprise, they were all kneeling on the ground in a line.

"Um… what are you doing now?" White asked.

"A little race," Sapphire answered while still on her knees.

"We wait until we can't feel our feet," Gold said.

"And the last one to reach the finish line loses," Black finished.

"And what is the punishment this time?" Platinum asked with a sigh.

"That's a secret!" Red said with a laugh.

Y squirmed a little. "Okay, I lost all feelings on my feet," she said. "A total lack of circulation."

"Great!" Red said. "Now, I'll count down from 3. And then we'll run."

"Let's do this!" Sapphire yelled.

"Alright! 3… 2… 1… GO!"

The 5 Dex Holders jumped up to their feet, took one step, and immediately collapsed.

"Ow, my feet!" Y cried out.

"This is terrible!" Black said as well as he gingerly massaged his feet.

White and Platinum shook their heads while watching. This had to be one of the stupidest games in the world.

"AAAHHH!" Sapphire roared as she forced herself upright. The other Dex Holders looked quite surprised to see her standing up already. But her legs wobbled as her feet were still numb from the lack of circulation. And with a pained groan, she soon collapsed once more.

Gold forced himself up too. His legs were wobbling quite badly as well. Sapphire watched him for a while and upon realizing that he was going to stay upright, she swiped at his feet, forcing him to fall again.

"Ow! Hey! That's cheating!" he yelled. He soon saw someone beginning to crawl ahead. He realized that Y was crawling towards the finish line, having given up in running. "Grab her!"

Sapphire lunged at her junior and tackled her down. Y tried to crawl anyways, but Sapphire held her down by pushing her knee down on the Kalos girl's back. With a grin, Sapphire reached for her junior's ankle.

"N – No! No!" Y cried out as she frantically shook her head. "Not there!"

Sapphire's fingers reached her junior's ankle and she pinched the tendon on the back of the ankle. While her feet were still completely numb. Y began to scream as she thrashed around in pain. She clutched at her ankle as she rolled on the ground while the other Dex Holders crawled ahead.

Y soon recovered and struggled up to her feet. With a furious roar, she charged ahead towards the finish line. By the time she got anywhere near the finish line, Red and Sapphire had already reached the end, and Black was merely a foot away.

Y stopped running and put her hands on her hips. "Hey! That's totally unfair! You're just trying to get me to lose!"

"You didn't lose yet," Sapphire said as she sat down on the grass to massage her feet. "Look behind you."

Y glanced back and spotted Gold still quite far away, trying and failing to stand up again and again. With a cheer, she jumped towards the finish line, making Gold the loser of this game.

"Damn it, I still can't feel my feet!" Gold yelled from behind. "Wildchild Girl, I blame you for this!"

"What should we do with him?" Black asked.

"Let's go back inside," Red said. "I have a great punishment plan for him."

All the Dex Holders went back inside the house, with Sapphire dragging Gold by the back of his shirt.

Seeing how Gold was still significantly far away, Red whispered his plan to the others. Sapphire would still hear him with her enhanced hearing, so only Gold would be left out of this plan.

"Alright, I'm going to get Gold to poke the power outlet with two metal chopsticks," Red said. "So I want the rest of you to shut the power to the outlet in the kitchen so Gold doesn't get electrocuted."

By the time Gold reached White's house, the outlet was no longer powered and Red had his Pikachu test the outlet to see if there was any electricity. His Pikachu verified that it was safe to poke. Stupid, yes, but safe to poke.

"… Oh, come on!" Gold yelled in horror, having heard of his punishment. "You want me to do what?!"

"What are you, scared?" Sapphire taunted.

"Come now, you must've been zapped countless times by your Pichu and whatnot," Red said.

"Yeah! Stop being such a coward!" Y said as well.

Gold took the two metal chopsticks. Platinum and White stood back, wondering if he was crazy enough to actually do this.

"Fine! You asked for it!" Gold yelled. He stared at the outlet for a short while and stabbed with the chopsticks. "AHHH!" he screamed as his body began to jerk and twitch.

"Oh crap!" Sapphire yelled in horror. "You crazy fool!" She quickly grabbed a wooden chair from the dinner table and smashed Gold with it, sending him flying off to the side. "Damn it, Gold!" she yelled while holding on to the smashed piece of the chair. "You could've been killed! Lucky I had to save you. If I just punched you or something, I would've been electrocuted too, so I had to hit you with this wooden chair. Thank me later!"

"Ow, damn it…" Gold muttered as he sat up. "I didn't actually poke the outlet yet… So you hit me with a chair for no reason!"

While the two Dex Holders argued, Platinum let out a short sigh of relief. For a short while, she was afraid that the wrong outlet had been unpowered. She was certainly glad that Gold had the senses to not to something too stupid. And Sapphire's quick reflexes which did not help anyone.

"… You guys owe me a new chair," White said as she put a hand over her face.

"… Sorry."

Red looked down at the floor and stared at the large and small pieces of the chair. "… Alright people, let's tidy up."

Gold, Sapphire, and Black began to pick up the debris while Y swept the area with a broom. From the side, White let out a long sigh.

"Lady Platinum," she started as she faced her senior. "It must be hard for you to be grouped up with them."

Platinum slowly nodded. "At times, yes." She slowly smiled, however. "But it certainly is entertaining to watch."

SR began with a completely random chapter, thus it ends with a completely random one. Why did Ruby advertise dental floss in SR #001? Because. Why are the non-Platinum Red team Dex Holders playing brainless games? Because.

Next up:
Nothing. Like I said, this is SR's finale! Thanks for reading!