Chapter 37: Psyche! Showdown With Sabrina

Red and Green continue their journey through the Silph Co in search of the leader in charge of the Team Rocket Takeover in Saffron City. They end up discovering Giovanni once again and that he had also taken Blue as a hostage. They burst into the room and Giovanni challenges Red to a battle.

Red and Giovanni fight each other on top of the building in the night. Through a bunch of close calls, Red defeats Giovanni who calls off the invasion and makes everyone retreat. Blue is rescued and everyone returns back outside on the ground. The company president presents Red and Green with two Master Balls and Blue a twenty dollar bill in reward for helping rid them of Team Rocket. Blue then decides to temporary join the team in the quest because they are heading the same way in the city. It is now the next day and they are heading to the gym for their next badge…

Day 24: 10:54 am: Red's View

"You drive me insane," I told Green with disgust; "You know that don't you?" She goggling all over Blue now that he was with us, for at least the day I hoped. He only came along with us because we were heading the same way he was going at the moment which is the Saffron City.

"You always did attract the strange ones," Blue said to me annoyed as he looked at Green, "Why are you even friends with her and how can you put up with her?"

"It takes years," I said to him, "Years of patience and the fact that you need to build up an immunity to all things about her, which include weird, abstract, and annoyance, that a big one!"

"OH!" Green said interrupting us and saying to Blue, "You are acknowledging my existence! It is so pleasant and blissful with you converse with another individual concerning me!"

Blue looked at her blankly and then asked, "Does she always talk like that with big words?"

"That's not the worse of it," I said frowning, "Give it some time…"

"What could she possibly…" Blue said, but all of sudden was jerked away by Green to a person walking on the street.

"HI!" Green said in a hyper edgy voice showing Blue to the man, "Have YOU met my LOVE?" The man gave Green a nervous look, began to back away slowly, and then took off in a run.

Blue pushed her away and ran up to me panting. "What the heck was with that?" he said shocked.

"Normally she just shows a picture of you," I said with a mean grin, "But she never really talks like that. If she keeps on talking like that, you'll have to bail her out of the nut house."

As we walked along down the street to the gym, Green kept showing Blue off to anyone that was close enough. Blue demanded I help him, but why should I? We both were rivals and we hated each other. The only reason we were talking to each other on the way down to the gym is because we had nothing else to do.

We finally came up to the street where the gym was, according to Nurse Joy. As we walked along, we ran into someone we haven't seen a long time. At first I didn't spot see the person and actually ran into the trainer. "Sorry about that…" I said to the person and then I realized who it was, "Lilyana?!"

"Lilyana!" Green said horrified coming out her love trance.

"Lilyana?" Blue said confused. He apparently never met her before in this case, but he might have forgotten about her. She did say she meet him before.

There she was staring back at me surprised. I haven't seen her in almost over two weeks. Once she realized it was me, she gave me a smile. I felt a little strange at that point and I started to get warmer. "Hi Red," she said.

"H…" I stuttered, "H… A… I… HELLO! HI LILYANA!" She took a step back after I said that. Maybe it was something I just said or the fact I just screamed it in her face.

She smiled never the less again and said, "Well I'm just as happy to see you too! But maybe I wouldn't scream it." I nodded. It felt like I was in a trance when I was around her. Why was I acting like this? I didn't act like this before when I met her.

"Hello?" Blue asked me waving his hand in front of my eyes, "Anyone in the thick skull of yours?" Even his insults didn't even seem to take me back, I just couldn't help but look at her.

She continued to smile and then she blushed. "He he!" she giggled, "If you keep staring at me like that, I'll just keep blushing. The way you stare… you act like I'm a veela or an angel!"

"What's a veela?" Blue asked confused.

"Veela," Green started to explained, "It better known as Vila. They are creatures that have unlimited amount of beauty that are suppose to entrance any male and led them to their watery doom. But you are sure no veela."

Lilyana's eyes… beautiful eyes… turned towards Green. Her face changed from happy to disgusted. Both of them disliked each other. But by the looks of things, they really hated each other more then ever, even though this is the second time they meet.

"Green," Lilyana said.

"Lilyana," Green said. Both of them eyed each other with razor sharp stares. They began to circle each other keeping their eyes on each other. It looked they would pounce on each other.

"Ok," I said stepping in between of them, "Let's not go over the edge here. First off, how come you two hate each other so much anyways? You two only meet once!"

"In the real world!" Green said pointing a finger at Lilyana, "But in the Internet, we meet countless of times…"

Blue looked between the girls and me. He then said, "This sounds like the start to some kind of epic movie or something. All I need is some popcorn and I'm all set!"

"Epic movie?" I said, "Sounds like some new movie to be based around the same things that Date Movie and Scary Movie do."

"Like they would every do something like that!" Lilyana said rolling her, but then she returned her attention on Green, "I see you are still with him. Humph! He doesn't deserve someone as rotten as you are."

"Oh yeah?" Green hissed putting up her fists, "You want go girl?" Green shoved me aside and ran at Lilyana. All of a sudden, a small black sphere was tossed at both of their feet.

My first thought that it was Sakura from Team Rocket, but then something happened to change my mind. The ball exploded into a bunch of sparkles and confetti. Both girls jumped backwards in shock. Suddenly, another ball appeared and exploded in a blue sparkling cloud. When it cleared, a different girl was standing in the middle of it.

She had short brown… red… black…, basically she had a bunch of different colors in her hair. Her eyes where little green and her skin was looked a little pale. She wore a black skirt that went to her knees, a gold and white glimmering dress shirt, and she topped it off with pink and blue sneakers. She let out a huge giggled and said, "Hi everybody!"

"Hi Kaitlyn Éclat!" Lilyana smiled, "Haven't seen you in a while." Both girls turned to Blue, Green, and me. We all had stunned looks on our faces like we couldn't believe what just happened.

"Who the heck are you?" Blue said finally to Kaitlyn after a long silence. The girl just smiled and let out a long giggle.

"Me?" she asked flattered, "I am the one and only Kaitlyn Éclat! Better know as the Glitter Queen! I am making a name for myself by bring the world more sparkles and glittery things all over Kanto! What better way to do that by doing it on my Pokemon journey!"

"She's mental!" I whispered to Green, but she wasn't paying any attention to me at all. She was the all the glitter floating in the air around Kaitlyn. She was completely dazzled by the sight.

"Glittery," Green giggled loudly, but then she frowned, "Oh my dog! I am now trapped between my two true loves that are present at the same time! Sweet Blue and the glitter! Must I choose which one I love over the other and will it cause the other one to hate me?"

"Stop being over dramatic," I said to her, "You are making me look bad in front of everyone." Then, a boy about our age came running over to us. He was really tall for his age and he had pitch black hair. His eyes were ice blue and he appeared to have a heavy build. He wore a red t-shirt with the number 9 on it and dark blue jeans.

"Oh don't tell me you are going crazy with the glitter again?" the boy moaned at Kaitlyn, "Will you stop with that alright? You are creeping out the normal people."

"But I love glitter!" she proclaimed happily as if she was in a trance. She began to wave her arms around at the boy and glitter seemed to float right off her arms. It then blew all over the boy who was getting more annoyed by the second.

"Who are you anyways?" I asked the kid as he wiped the glitter of his shirt.

"Me?" he asked, "The name is Vince. That's all you need to know about me. I was just on the way to the gym with Kaitlyn when she got sidetracked by you three."

"You travel with her?" I asked him as I looked at Kaitlyn now blowing glitter all over Blue, "It must be very annoying hanging around with someone like that all day long."

"I don't travel with her," he said, "We both did, however, come from the same town and she offered to come travel with her. I said no. The only reason I'm with her now is because we both crossed paths with each other at the entrance to Saffron City this morning."

"WILL YOU STOP THAT!" Blue screamed at Kaitlyn as he tried to wipe the glitter off him, "YOU'RE MENTAL!" She gave him a blank look and smiled.

"Can we please just go to the gym?" mumbled Blue.

"I got to head their as well for my next badge," Lilyana explained, "So we can all go together!" Everyone nodded together, except for Blue who didn't like the idea of going with Green, me, and Kaitlyn.

We all entered the gym looking around it. It was pitch black in there. The girls shivered and Kaitlyn said peering in, "Umm… it's really spooky in there! Will someone go check to see if it is safe?"

All of a sudden, someone shoved me into the room. I turned around to see Blue smiling evilly. I sighed and started to walk around the room, nothing in sight. It appeared to be safe. "You can come on in here," I said to them, "Nothing at all to be a scared of."

Vince and Blue walked in first followed by the girls huddled together whimpering. When they reached me, Lilyana let go of the group and grabbed a hold of my hand tightly. She said, "It's very creepy in here! Will you protect me?"

I blushed and felt like I was burning up. The door leading outside slammed shut dropping us into complete darkness. Lilyana, I assume, let go of my hand and then began to hug me tightly. That only made me feel warmer.

There was then a light from in front of us. I recognized it has the same kind of light from the Silph Co. that transported up to the main office where Giovanni was. "What is it?" Vince said.

"It's all glittery!" giggled Kaitlyn in a cheery voice, "So glittery!"

"Will you stop with that?" Blue said, "I think I know what it is! It's the beam from the mothership! They are sending down aliens!"

"Oh come on!" I said rolling my eyes heading that way and dragging Lilyana along, "It's that beam of light from the Silph Co. building. It's like a transporter that moves you from one spot to another."

"Why should I believe you?" Blue said annoyed. I rolled my eyes and grabbed a hold of him. I dragged him towards the light and tossed him into it. He vanished.

"Oh my dog!" Kaitlyn said shocked, "You vaporized him!" I moaned annoyed and pushed her into the light as well.

"Now I will go!" I said to the remaining trainers, "Come on people!" Lilyana released my arm and nodded. I ran to light and jumped into it. The same sensation came back to me as I moved into the beam.

I was soon thrown out of the beam and crashed into the ground at the feet of Kaitlyn and Blue. He looked a little dazed, but Kaitlyn was giggling and hugging herself. "He he!" she said, "I wonder if that is what it feels like to be beamed up?"

I got back to my feet as Lilyana, Green, and Vince came crashing out of the light. They were all laying on top of each other when they all landed. It looked like a human pile up. Green got up first and mumbled, "I hate traveling like that! I think I almost lost my hat back there."

Vince and Lilyana got back to their feet as well and everyone began to look around. The room was pitch black except for the light behind us. "Ok," Lilyana said looking around, "Now what? We are again stuck in the dark."

"Allow myself to illuminate you all," said a voice. The lights flashed on and we all found ourselves standing in the middle of an orange room. The floor was polished and gleamed under the lights. We looked ahead of us and saw a large orange chair built into the floor as well.

Sitting in the chair was a girl most likely 20 assuming. She has blood red eyes and light purple and black long hair. She wore a red and black leathery dress that went down to her hips. From there, she had long, leathery, black pants that went down into her red boots. She didn't crack a smile.

"Assuming that most people in charge of things sit in big chairs like yours," Green said observing the girl, "You must be the gym leader right?"

The girl nodded, but did not smile. She then levitated out of her chair and onto her feet. Everyone jumped back a bit and dropped their jaws. "What the?" Lilyana said shocked, "How the heck did you do that?"

"Years of psychic training that I have been perfecting since my young age," she stated coolly.

"Psychic?" Blue said chuckling, "There is no such thing as a psychic!" The girl's eyebrow raises and then her eyes glow light blue. He is then throw into the air and spun around until he is hanging upside down by his left foot.

"My Bluey!" Green yells running under Blue in order to catch him when he falls, "I'll save you!" The girl's eyes turn back to normal and Blue is dropped into Green's hands.

"I believe!" he states quickly.

"Good," the girl replies.

"COOL!" I shouted amazed, "Can you teach me to do that?"

"It take years to do that," the girl stated firmly, "Then again, this girl came here a while back for her to be able to control her psychic powers. She mastered them within a month and left. I believe she was called Dona "JR" Dark. Oh yeah, you also need the psychic powers already following through your veins. I sense you have none."

"It's always one disappointment after another," I mumbled dropping my head in shame, "I'm never special or anything! Why me?"

"I think you're special!" Lilyana said hugging me. I could feel that strange warmth again. It was annoying how much it came and gone, but it felt good.

"Now," the girl said clearing her throat, "My name is Sabrina and I am the leader of the Saffron Gym (like I said before). Who would like to challenge me first?"

"Me!" I screamed jumping up and down frantically, "Choice me!" Her frown turned from a scowl.

"Fine," she said rolling her eyes, "You. The weird one." Everyone, but myself and Lilyana, laughed and laughed at that remark.

"Show me what you got," she said as her eyes glowed. A Pokeball floated from her chair and into her hand.

"Fine!" I said, "Get ready for this! Go for it Gloom!" I tossed my Pokeball out and he appeared in front of me.

"Fine!" she said tossing her ball out, "Go. Kadabra!"

"I'll go first," I said calling out, "Gloom, attack with Stun Spore!"

"Teleport," Sabrina said. Kadabra disappeared out of sight as the slow moving spore mist floated towards him. Gloom and me were confused and we both turned around looking for Kadabra.

"This seems under fair," I said annoyed.

"Psychic," Sabrina mumbled again. Kadabra reappeared and shot off a multicolor beam at Gloom from behind. The attack hit hard knocking him flat onto his face.

"Gloom!" I said quickly, "Get back up and use Sludge Bomb!" He flipped around quickly and shot out a ball of purple goo at Sabrina's Pokemon.

"Light Screen," she mumbled again. A giant wall of light that glowed yellow and looked like glass appeared quickly in front of her Pokemon. The attack crashed against it and splattered.

"Now things are really getting unfair," I said annoyed, "Gloom! Acid!" A violet stream of liquid shot out of Gloom's bulb and collided with the screen. At first, the acid just collided with it and did nothing, but soon a hole melted through it.

"Now attack with another Acid!" I shouted quickly before Sabrina could say anything. The attack broke straight through and hit Kadabra before it could react.

The acid splashed against the Pokemon's body leaving an eerie sizzling noise. Kadabra grunted in pain as he tried to wipe it off. "That's got to hurt," Green commented from the sidelines.

"Kadabra," Sabrina said in her low voice, "Teleport… Psybeam." Kadabra disappeared and then reappeared quickly in front of Gloom. Kadabra shot out another multicolor beam, only smaller, at Gloom. The attack knocked Gloom off his feet and on to his back. He remained still.

"Gloom!" I shouted desperately, "Get up!"

"Move in and finish with Shadow Ball," Sabrina muttered. Kadabra moved closer to finish Gloom.

"Try to use Sleep Powder!" I yelled out. Gloom barely opened his eyes as Kadabra moved in close. Gloom let out a blue haze and over took Kadabra quickly. Her Pokemon began to sway back and forth until it collapsed to the ground asleep.

"You did Red!" Lilyana cheered from behind and then came that heat wave that came back into me. I notice Gloom then trying to move back up onto his feet, but he fell over and pasted out.

"Double knockout," Sabrina muttered emotionlessly returning her Pokemon, "That's a shame… too bad for you. Mr. Mime… come on out."

"Fine," I said looking at her Pokemon, "Go Haunter!" I figured it be a good advantage for me. You know, Ghost against Psychic. But the fact that I had a ghost type didn't seem to phase her at all.

"Ghost type?" she states, "… fine… that won't stop me from winning. Mr. Mime. Psybeam!"

"Attack with Shadow Ball!" I called out in response. Both attacks collided and exploded on contact. That seems to happen a lot during my Pokemon journey if you notice.

"Use Confusion," she mumbles. Mr. Mime's eyes turned light blue and glowed. The Haunter began to give off a light blue color around his body. Then he began to shake and be tossed all over the room.

"Whoa," Vince said following my Pokemon with his eyes, "This is beginning to give me a headache. Make it stop!" Suddenly, Haunter was released from the confusion attack and throw into the mid air. He managed to stop before he hit the ceiling, but he looked pretty woozy from spinning around and around all over the room.

"The confuse effect is now in play," Sabrina stated in her low voice, "Now, Mr. Mime. Attack with another Psybeam."

"Get out of the way!" shouted up quickly to my Pokemon. Haunter didn't appear to hear my command because all he did was just float around the ceiling bobbling his head. The attack struck him directly in the face and launched him into the ceiling.

"Haunter!" I shouted after he began to float down from the ceiling after the attack, "Use Shadow Ball!" Haunter actually turned towards me and launched the attack directly at me! I jumped out of the way and watched the attack narrowly miss Kaitlyn behind me.

Haunter then began to shoot off shadow balls in every direction. Everyone had to run around to avoid the shadows hitting their spots. Sabrina, on the other hand, seem to teleport herself to different spots of the room to avoid the incoming attacks. Plus, she didn't even look worried.

A few minutes later, Haunter stopped attacking everyone and looked around at the chaos. Apparently, he just got over the confusion affect just then. "About time!" I said hiding behind Blue and Vince, "Attack Mr. Mime with a Shadow Ball!"

"NO!" screamed everyone at me, "NOT AGAIN!" Haunter did aim the attack directly at Mr. Mime, much to their relief.

"Light Screen," Sabrina mumbled. Mr. Mime put his hands out quickly and began to do a mime motion like he was stuck in a box, but everywhere he did it, a light screen appeared. The shadow ball then almost hit Mr. Mime, but it was stopped by the screen.

"Darn it!" I mumbled as I watched the screens vanish, "She is relying on a lot of defensive here. She is pretty tough."

"Gee…" Blue states sarcastically, "Haven't you noticed by now? Every new gym you go to is stronger than the last you idiot. Realize that!" If only he was in punching distance… if only.

"Now attack with Magical Leaf," Sabrina states coolly. 5 leaves pop out of nowhere and fired at Haunter.

"Shadow Punch!" I said quickly. Haunter attacked quickly by throwing both of his fists at the incoming leaves. Each one took out two of the leaves, but the last one came and slashed at Haunter's face.

"Don't give up!" said quickly, "Attack with another Shadow Punch!" Both fists charged at Mr. Mime quickly and smacked him across the face hard. Both of them returned to Haunter as quickly as they attack.

"Psybeam!" Sabrina said angrily.

"Another Shadow Ball!" I shouted.

"Will you quit it with the Shadow Ball?" asked Blue. Both attacks struck each other, but the beam dissolved and the shadow ball kept on going through the beam until it struck Mr. Mime in the head.

The attack tipped him over and knocked him flat on his back. Mr. Mime slowly made it up to his knees, but collapsed again. "Another defeat," Sabrina mumbles returning her Pokemon, "Time to switch things up. Go Venomoth."

"Ugly creepy!" Green said jumping backwards at the sight of it, "Keep it away from me!" She jumps behind Blue and shivers.

"What's with the bug?" I asked her confused, "That seems a little different from your Psychic type team." She did not response to that. She only stared into my eyes with a dark look.

"Psychic," she uttered. Venomoth's eyes glowed a blue color before shooting out a multicolor beam from his or maybe her eyes. The attack caught Haunter off guard and struck in him hard between his eyes.

The attack was the last hit before Haunter dropped like a sack of brick to the ground knocked out. "Never mine my bug statement," I said to her quickly as I returned my Pokemon.

"That's right," Blue said, "You better take that back."

"BUGGY!" Green shouted scared, "Buggy evil! EVIL LIGHT BEAMS FROM EYES!" Everyone gave her a strange look like they all thought the same thing, what the heck was that about?

"Back on the match," Sabrina sneered at me, "Keep your focus on the match."

"Fine," I grumbled sending out my next Pokemon, "Go Flames!" Charmeleon appeared in front of me and then blew out a large burst of smoke from his mouth.

"Alright!" I said, "All warmed up! Let's get this started! Flames! Use your Flamethrower I taught you last night!"

"How can a human being teach a Pokemon to blow fire out of his mouth?" Kaitlyn said.

"It's a TM smarty pants!" I said lashing out at her. A large burst of flames of out Flames mouth and fired at Venomoth who flew out of the way quickly.

"Attack with Psybeam," Sabrina said. A beam of light blasted off at Flames. He jumped back a few inches and missed the laser beam eyes. Both Venomoth started to turn his eyes up and began to follow him.

"This reminds me up that spy movie in which that laser is slowly moving at our hero," Vince said commenting about that attack, "It was pretty good scene."

"Attack with Flamethrower!" I called out. Flames attacked with his fire at Venomoth directly. The bug's eyes turned off and focused on the attack. Both attacks intercepted and disintegrated on contact.

"Jump at that bug and use Metal Claw!" I shouted. Flames jumped up at high as he can to strike.

"Move up high," Sabrina uttered in her low dreary voice, "Then use Stun Spore." Venomoth soar a bit high just out of Charmeleon reach and began to release an orange haze.

"Quickly counteract with Flamethrower!" I shouted. The flame burst out of his mouth and straight through the spore disintegrating it into dust. The attack was right on the mark with the flames shooting upwards from the bottom of Venomoth to the top.

After the flames died away, Venomoth was left completely burnt. Then it crashed landed into the ground head first. Another win for me! "Time to wrap this up now," Sabrina said returning her Pokemon, "I'll use my strongest now that I determine how strong you are."

"Bring it on!" I said confidently.

"Alakazam," Sabrina said releasing her next Pokemon, "Come on out if you please." Her Pokeball released a new Pokemon that looked pretty similar to a Kadabra only a bit taller and it had another spoon in its hand.

"Now," Sabrina continued, "Attack with Future Sight." I looked at Alakazam who actually glowed red. After a second, the light died down, but no signs of an attack anywhere.

"Who gives?!" I asked annoyed, "There is nothing happening! You wasted a perfectly good attack for nothing."

"Ahem," Blue said trying to get my attention.

"WHAT?" I snapped at him.

"Never mind," he said, "You are in one of your moods."

"Whatever," I answered back, "Charmeleon! Attack using Metal Claw!" Flames charged directly at Alakazam with his claw raised up high ready to strike.

"Teleport," Sabrina said. Her Pokemon immediately vanished out of sight and reappeared a few feet behind mine.

"Not again!" I said annoyed slapping my forehead, "This one knows that move as well! This sucks! Charmeleon! Turn around and attack directly with Cut!"

Charmeleon charged at Alakazam once more, but it teleported away behind him. He spun around charged once again at her Pokemon with Cut and missed once more due to a teleport. "Now use Disable," Sabrina said.

Her Pokemon's eyes glowed and all of a sudden, Charmeleon froze in place. "Cut is now disabled," Sabrina said.

"Darn it," I mumbled through my teeth, but then I shouted, "Attack with Flamethrower!" Another fire attack went directly at Alakazam.

"Light Screen," she said simply. Another one of those stupid light screens appeared and blocked the attack.

I mumbled under my breath, "DARN IT." Then from out of nowhere, there was a breeze that began to blow. I looked around for where the wind was coming when it began to blow harder. I turned to my Pokemon just in time for a huge white beam to completely crash into him.

"WHOA!" I said after the wind and beam vanished, "What just happened?!"

"Well," Blue said, "Future Sight is an attack that gets you in the future. Your Pokemon has to attack three times on your command before the Future Sight to kick in. Then the attack basically happens as you just saw."

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!" I shouted at him.

"Well you always act you know everything!" Blue protested, "Plus, you were having one of your moments." Like before, if only I was close enough.

"Now my plan is coming into fold," Sabrina said, "Your Pokemon is worn out now. This I can use to advantage."

"Like I'll let you!" I growled at her, "Show me what you got! Charmeleon! Use Secret Power!"

"Alakazam," Sabrina said, "Use Psychic!"

Author Notice: Ha ha! I'll now leave you on a cliffhanger until next chapter! I'm such a bad guy by leaving you on this little moment! The next chapter won't be around most likely until after Christmas.

I'm now asking for something for a new award. From all the stories that have been nominated for an award, which is your favorite? This will be the Popularity Award depending on how many people vote.

On some interesting notes about this chapter, this chapter was the most words I have ever wrote for this story. Next is the subject of Kaitlyn and Vince, the new trainers. Both of them are based off two classmates of mine. Kaitlyn does have a very weird interest in putting glitter on her projects and I often to refer to her as the Glitter Queen.

The next chapter will remain a secret until next. Who will win the battle? Sabrina or Red? I'll never tell until then! Ha!

Next to Come: Chapter 38

Date: 12/20/06

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