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Chapter 36- Evil be gone!

Pearl took her place on her side of the field again, still slightly unable to concentrate with Leaf lying paralyzed on the floor.

"Come on little girl." The king smirked.

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"Whoa, who is dat?" Meowthette said. TRm2 are currently hiding in the tree tops of the surrounding forest, watching the 'twerps'.

"That's the leader twerpette, Meowth." Chris said, grabbing the binoculars. "Has she had a makeover?" Huffing Tanya snatched them, looking at the girl.

"That is creepy.... but strangely familiar...." she muttered. She looked for a moment longer before clicking her fingers.

"Wat?" Meowthette asked. The lilac haired girl removed the binoculars and looked to the cat.

"Remember that Ma and Pa told us about the old twerp getting possessed?" she said. Chris nodded.

"I remember. I guess she does look similar to what they told us about the dad twerp's possession." He replied. Suddenly a beam of darkness started to head in their direction.

"Uh, guys?" Meowthette said. The two humans looked down, gulping.

"That doesn't look good." Tanya said before the attack hit them and they went flying into the air.

"Dis ain't fair! We hardly get any airtime!" Meowthette growled.

"Yeah! Authoress, give us more tiiiiiiimmmme!" As if.

"TEAM ROCKET'S BLASTING OFF AGAIN!"

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"Piplup, peck again!" Pearl called. The little blue penguin's beak grew and glowed white, she leaped forward and started to peck the electric mouse.

"Pichu, use thunderbolt again!" The king yelled. In her head Ruby growled.

Whilst all this was going on, Gemma was treating Leaf, grabbing a special remedy from her bag, tipping a drop or two down his throat she then pushed a certain nerve on his neck, making him swallow what she dripped in. "Work... for Pearl's sake work!"

Also during the few minutes it took for the battle to start up again the two on the other side of the barrier strained to see over the top of said barrier. Yellow was on a struggling Walter's shoulders, peering over.
"Can you come down now?" the latter asked.
"Why? You have super strength." Yellow said.
"That was before I became human." He grunted.
"Are you calling me fat?" Yellow said, glaring at him. Walter gulped.

Piplup was hit hard by the electric attack, making her fall back hard to the ground.

"Pip! Are you OK?" Pearl gasped. The king smirked, thinking he had won, when to both of their utter shock Piplup stood back up but glowing a bright white. "Piplup?"

Piplup's form started to shift between that of her new form and her old one, just as Torchix had done before forcing herself to stay as a Torchic, suddenly the light disappeared and a larger blue penguin was revealed. She pulled out her Poké Dex.

'Prinplup, the Penguin Pokémon, and the evolved form of Piplup. One blow from its wings is strong enough to knock down trees.' It said.

"Alright!" Pearl cheered. "Use Peck again!" The king backed off at the attack hit Pichu and knocked her out. "YES!" Pichu was returned, but the king growled.

"This battle is not over!" he yelled.

"Oh yes it is!" came a voice, looking back Pearl saw Leaf standing up and with his fists clenched. He threw a Poké ball, revealing his Ivyasaur. "Use razor leaf!"

All that could see, including Torchix, flinched as the leaves hit the girl. The king and Ruby screamed.

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Someway into the forest a familiar purple haired boy heard Ruby's scream, and his head snapped in the direction it came from.

"Ruby?" He said quietly, before turning and running in the direction the scream came from. It only took him a minute for him to reach the clearing where Ruby was currently trying to force the evil king from her mind. "Ruby?" he said louder, making Gemma notice him. She smirked slightly, but decided to keep her immature teasing 'til later.

"Peter! Come over, she's fine!" she called instead. He ran in, just as Leaf got the aura back into the Poké ball. Ruby collapsed to the floor, Walter (the barrier now being gone) catching her just before she hit the ground.

"There we go." He said quietly, sitting her up. "You're OK now."

"I feel woozy…"

"Maybe that's because Peter is here." Gemma giggled through telepathy. Ruby winced but blushed. The lilac haired boy ran over to her, taking over supporting the girl. Walter walked away, in his thoughts asking his soulmate about the pair.

"Are you OK, Ru'? What happened?" Peter asked. Leaf, Yellow and Pearl all gave each other looks, mostly of pure relief but also of laughter at Peter and the very awkward looking Ruby.

"You wouldn't believe us if we told you, Peter." Pearl sighed. Ruby blushed deeper as Peter looked at her, still embarrassed after the whole kiss situation on V-day.

"I think we should get to a PC, or we are going to be camping here." Gemma said. Peter looked up at the sky.

"Too late for that." He said, gesturing to the stars now appearing. "The doors will be closed by now."

"Our first group campout." Walter said. "Oh joy."

"Don't like the idea of outside sleeping?" Leaf chuckled. Walter glared. "What'd I say?"

"We were camping out when the fire at our foster home started." Gemma lied/stated. "By the time we realised most were already dead." Ruby found herself flinching at the new coded information.

"Let's set up. Uh, Leaf, hadn't you better get rid of the thing?" Pearl hinted, nudging him. Leaf grabbed Torchix.

"OI! LEMME GO!" she yelled. Everyone sweat-dropped.

"Not that thing." Yellow groaned, grabbing the stone Poké ball and lobbing it far, far into the forest. "Now we can set up." She grinned after.

"We'll have to share tents, we only have enough for four people on their own..." Peter said as he counted the tents.

"Well, G and Walter are obviously sharing, just be quiet you two." Leaf teased. Gemma glared at him, making him back off slightly.

"I'll share with Leaf!" Pearl exclaimed. Everyone looked at her. "I said that too quick, right?" Leaf sighed.

"OK, so who else?"

"I'll go on my own if it would be two awkward to anyone if I shared with a girl." Peter said.

"Nah, I like sleeping alone." Yellow beamed. Ruby glared from her position on the ground.

"I hate you." She mumbled.

"I know." Yellow giggled.

"Hey, don't turn into the director!" Walter said.

I hate you too. ;)

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