Chapter 38: Bike Race Down Route 17
As Red, Blue, and Green make their way down to Saffron City Gym, they meet up Lilyana once again and two other trainers, Kaitlyn Éclat also called the Glitter Queen and her friend Vince who all are here to battle for their next gym badge. Once inside and they all met the gym leader Sabrina, Red challenges her to a battle.
He battles with Gloom and Haunter who are defeated, while Sabrina uses Mr. Mime, Venomoth, and Kadabra but are defeated as well. In the end, it came down to Red's Charmeleon and Sabrina's Alakazam. The match is over, but who won anyways…
Day 25: 11:01 a.m.: Green's View
"I'm not sure that we should of left him behind in Saffron City," Lilyana said looking back, "He's your friend after all." It's true, Red is my friend, but he wanted to stay behind. He had to have his rematch with Sabrina along with Vince. I can't believe Red lost. I never had seen him lose before.
It was such a close call as well! But in the end, Sabrina's Psychic attack landed first and defeated his Charmeleon. I would of waited for him, but he said he would catch up for me in Fuchsia City.
Blue did go his own separate way since he won. He took the other route to Fuchsia City. Too bad, I would of love for him to be there with us at the time.
"I guess," I answered Lilyana, "But Red did say he wanted to stay back and win his battle. It feels weird though. I have always been traveling with on this adventure and to do it without him feels different… like I lost something good…"
"Oh!" Kaitlyn snickered, "Do you already miss your boyfriend?" I stomped hard on her foot with my foot. Kaitlyn was also going the same way as I was along with Lilyana. I would never of went with Lilyana, but Kaitlyn dragged and forced us into it.
"That wasn't nice!" huffed Kaitlyn as she made a face at me. You know me people, never nice.
"I hate being refer to as Red's girlfriend or him as my boyfriend!" I said to her with resentment for her in my voice, "Now cram that in your head!"
"Sorry!" Kaitlyn said, "There is no more room for useless knowledge such as that lie you said to fit into my head!"
"Oh you are just shy!" Lilyana said running her hand through my long brown hair, "You know it is true and you are just being way too shy to admit it. Come on! You can tell us girls the truth!" Lilyana and Kaitlyn then moved in closer to my face.
"Tell us!" they said in a babyish voice, "We won't tell!" I lower my eyes and then spat out a big loogie onto each of their foreheads. If you get too close to my face, there are prices to be paid!
"That's icky!" whined Kaitlyn as she rubbed the spit off her head, "That won't help the world become a more glittery place! Only a disgusting, filthy one!"
"I think we hit a nerve!" Lilyana said with a big smile, "She's just way too shy to admit she has a crush on Red! Too bad for you though!"
"Why?" I asked.
"Because," she said with an innocent look and blush, "I think I like him!" At first, that didn't phase me at all, but that statement slowly sunk in later.
"Whatever," I said, "Let's just keep moving and forget about Red!" Both of those two girls gave each other sly looks, but only smiled and continued to walk down the road.
We finally reach this gate house that had a huge banner above the doorway that read, "Welcome to the 7th Annual Route 17 Bike-A-thon!"
Then we entered the building and saw tons of people with bikes of all kinds. Then, out of the blue, Kaitlyn asked the dumbest question for the moment, "The bike race is here?"
"No," I said annoyed, "The bike race is on the other side of the continent. Everyone here is just showing off their bike models. WELL OF COURSE THERE IS STUPID!"
"No need for be such jack…" she began, but we were interrupted just then. An older man with gray hair and dark glasses walked up to us. I guess he was about 55 or closer to 60. He wore a brown business suit and pressed gray pants.
"Welcome my fine beautiful ladies," he said, "You all must be here for the race!"
"Actually," Lilyana said, "We are just passing…"
"That's wonderful!" the man said interrupting her, "I always enjoy new blood for this event! But where are you bikes?"
"We don't have any," I said, "But that isn't…"
"Of course it is a problem!" he said interrupting me, "We need to get you young lasses some bicycles you can ride in the race! I'll be right back!" He then took off into the crowd.
"Does he ever listen to people?" Kaitlyn said folding her arms, but then making a small smile, "I hope my bike is glittery!"
"We don't have time for this!" I said to her and Lilyana, "We have to get Fuchsia City."
"Actually," Lilyana said pulling out a small GPS with mapping, "If you see where we are on this thing, you can see we are directly north of the city."
"Ok," I said, "What's your point?"
"Now look at the map of the race on the wall," she said pointing behind us, "You can see that if we were to compete in this event, we would be able to end up in the right place. The finish line is at the entrance of Fuchsia."
"So by racing in this event…" Kaitlyn said putting it all together, "We could end up there quicker instead of walking!"
"Actually!" Lilyana said, "I say we go for it!"
"In your dreams," said a familiar voice, "You'll never make it to the finish line unless you are being taken their by ambulance after they scrap you off the ground." I turned to the voice and frowned. Team Elite agent Noah was right there with a big grin across his face. He was wearing a yellow helmet that cover his black hair. He also had black elbow pads, yellow knee pads, black shorts, a yellow t-shirt with a black E on it, and yellow and black shoes.
"Eww…" Kaitlyn said looking at him, "WAY too much yellow and black in your clothing! It needs glitter!" She tosses one of her black spheres at him at explodes into a bomb of glittery floating all around him. Everyone in the building is dazzled, except Lilyana, myself, and especially Noah.
"What the hell was that?!" Noah said extremely annoyed.
"Ignore her," I said to him, "She has issues. Anyways, what are you doing here?"
"I'm here because my organization needs the money," Noah said firmly, "The grand prize for winning the race is 1,000,000,000P. It'll start helping our funding for… I don't need to explain this to you of all people! I'm already in hot water for losing to you!"
"I wouldn't expect it," I said, "I'm just surprise you told me that much. But now that you did, I can't let you win and use that money for evil!"
"Evil?" he asked raising his eyebrow, "Hardly! No little brat like you could understand the true purpose for what we have planned! If we obtain success in our goal, the world will benefit from it."
"I doubt it," I said lowering my eyes, "I'll beat you and make sure that money stays away from you."
"You'll never win this race," he said, "This is an expert race. You need to understand the course itself to win it. It's all downhill with plenty of gaps, rocks, tall grass to get caught in your wheels, and plenty of wild Pokemon to jump out in front and knock you off your bike and into the hard ground."
"Oh yeah?" Kaitlyn said stepping forward, "I have no idea who you are, but we'll beat you ten ways to Sunday! You got that shorty?"
"You want to fight sparkles?!" Noah said raising his fists, "Bring it prissy!" A bunch of people dragged Noah off while Lilyana and me pulled Kaitlyn away before a fight could break out.
"A Team Elite agent I assume?" Lilyana said watching Noah disappear into the crowd.
"You know who Team Elite is?" I asked her surprised.
"Sure!" she said, "I ran into a few of them a while ago. I might this couple called Ranma and Akane on the way towards Lavender Town. They were pulling each other out of a rushing river.
"Wow," I said, "They went far down that river!"
"Huh?" she asked.
"Never mind," I said changing the subject, "Continue."
"Ok," Lilyana said giving me a suspicious look, "Next, I ran into an Elite agent who had a golden E instead of a black E like everyone else had. He was pretty nice guy."
"Golden E?" I thought, "Must be Jordan then."
"Anyways," she continued, "I saw him at the docks in Vermillion City a few days. He mention coming back from his base and heading out to Cinnabar Island for research with a girl with brown hair. I wonder what both of them are up?"
"Young ladies!" the older man from before said running up to us, "I found you three some bikes. Please follow me." Since this race was the quickest way to Fuchsia City and a way to stop Team Elite's mysterious plan, I figured we might as well follow him.
We followed him out of the building on the left side of the building. Once outside, he took us to three bikes that were covered up by a big tarp. "Now," he said grabbing a hold of the tarp's right corner, "Please allow me to show you the three your bikes."
He pulled back the cover and Kaitlyn let loose a girlish squeal of delight. "Oh my dog!" she cried happily running towards a bike, "It's all glittery and it's pink! I call this one!"
As she hugged it tightly, Lilyana fold her arms and rolled her eyes. "She's completely acting so immature!" she said, and then releasing a girlish cry, she cried happily, "OH! This one has a bell! I call it! IT'S MINE!" Immature? Being giddily about a bike that has a bell on it is very immature!
"So," I said walking towards the last bike, "I guess this one will be mine." I guess it was alright, it didn't look too different from the one I had at my house, just a different color (which is blue if you people don't know).
"Now," the man said, "I am Mr. Stikes, I am the creator of this event. First all, before you can race, please state your names and where you are from please?"
"I'm Lilyana Masters," Lilyana said, "I'm from the Jotho region, the city where I am from is private information.
"I'm Green Leaf Never ever call me by my last name!," I said to him, "I'm from Pallet Town, Kanto."
"I'm Kaitlyn Éclat!" Kaitlyn said, "But I'm better knew as The Glitter Queen!"
"Only in your twisted fantasies cuckoo clock!" I added. She gave me a nasty look.
"I'm from…" Kaitlyn continued, but as soon as she was saying where she was from, there was a loud crash from behind me. I turned around and saw two kids on bikes had collided with each other.
"Thank you," Mr. Stikes said to her, "That will be all." I turned around and saw him walking off.
"Wait a minute," I said to Kaitlyn, "Where are you from again?"
"Sorry!" she giggled "I never repeat myself ok Green? I never repeat myself ok Green?" I shook my head confused. Was it just me or did she just repeat herself?
One hour later, everyone was on their bikes and at the starting line for the race. To my right was Noah, and to my left were Lilyana and Kaitlyn. Everyone was tense and a bunch of people were already sweating. I guess the tension will make you do that.
"Scared yet?" Noah said with a nasty smirk.
"You wish," I said giving him a dark look in return.
"Even if I don't win," Noah said, "I win."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Oh you don't think I have don't have a backup plan?" he said, "I from Team Elite. We do not make mistakes easily. Everything is planned down to the basics. Even if we lose, we really win. We are not like Cipher, Team Rocket, Aqua, Magma, or Team Sky."
"Who's Team Sky?" I asked confused.
"You never been to Hoenn?" he asked, "You don't know about Emerald?"
"No," I replied.
"I'm not explaining it to people like you," he said, "You'll have to figure it out on your own."
I was a bit weary about that and the fact he mention even if he looses, he wins. I was going to ask him about it when over the loudspeakers, "Welcome contestants and viewers to our 7th annual bike race! We have a bunch of new contestants this year such as Jimmy Kudo and Lilyana Masters, while we have some old favorites back, like Sho Takamatsu and Noah Kylton! Let's get this party started! In 3…" Noah and everyone inched a bit closer to the starting line.
"2…" I could feel the sweat begin to come off my forehead.
"1…" Everyone inched even closer.
"GO!" Everyone began to pedal hard and soon we were all downhill. The wind pushed against me hard and my vision began to blur as the small bumps in the road began to shake by bike has its wheels went over them.
"This rocks!" Lilyana said as she raced past me. Up ahead, she past two more people leaving a small dust trail behind her as she down.
As I focused on the race, I could spot Noah not too far ahead on my far right. All of a sudden, he seemed to looked like he lost control as his bike wobbled back and forth. The two teenagers behind him noticed this and tried to move around him in case he spilled out behind them, but it only threw them off course. First one went off the trail and into a bush while the other lost control and spilled out hard on the trail.
But all of a sudden, Noah seemed to regain control and continued forward as if nothing happened. He purposely through those two bikers off on purpose! Dirty cheater!
I decided to keep my distance away from him as possible. It was kind of tricky as he kept weaving all around the path throwing people off. Then Kaitlyn surprised me by catching up to me, passing me by, and moving in front of him. "Hey!" I shouted at her, "Move it!"
I tried to move around her, but she counteracted that by weaving in front of him again. Either she was doing this to be a… donkey (you know what I mean) or she was just trying to be over the top competitive, either way this wasn't nice. Then the next worse possible then that could of happen because she caused it, happened! The sun came out and shined onto her 'sparkly' bike and the reflection from the bike shined into my eyes and momentarily blinded me.
Once the light was out of my eyes, I notice that I almost completely drifted off course and was heading towards the barrier on the left side of me that people had set up! I immediately reacted and spun my bike in the right direction before I crashed! I almost hit the wall by an inch! That was a Kodak moment!
"Did you see that folks?!" called out the announcer over the loudspeaker, "That girl almost crashed into the wall! Did anyone get that on tape? That would be a great shot for the evening news!" Talk about fame getting to your head.
Soon I was back up with everyone and I managed to past a few of the remaining bikers that were far back from everyone else. "Now here comes the tough part!" the announcer said, "We are coming to part of the race in which is closest to the Safari Zone! You never know if the wildlife will rush out from the zone or just watch us!"
"Noah mention that earlier," I thought to myself, "Better keep my guard up." For a few moments, there was nothing in sight but the straight track in front of us and the forest to my left. Then all of a sudden, there was a low rumble sound from out of nowhere.
Then from the forest, a huge stampede of bull like Pokemon burst out from at least 20 feet in front of me. "Looks like I spoke at the right time!" the announcer acted up again, "Here comes a huge stampede of Tauros has come rushing out of the forest! When will the gamekeepers learn to keep their Pokemon within the park?!"
"No kidding," I mumbled under my breath as I watched the stampede began to get closer and closer to me. I wasn't sure if I was going to make it past them, so I decided to close my eyes. Why not make one last dumb decision in my life, right?
I could hear the bulls charging coming up to me. I waited and waited, for the crash, but nothing except the roaring bull sounds and their hooves running across the dirt ground. The earth seemed to rumble and my bike began to shake violently as it desperately tried to stay on track.
I opened my eyes; the suspense was killing me and making me impatient. I hate waiting! I opened then and looked around. I made it! The charging Tauros were behind me now! "That was amazing!" the announcer cried, "Another close call by that weird new girl! Did anyone get that on tape?" Again with the tapes!
"Anyways!" the man continued, "We have past the forest area, but are now at the half way point! You know what that means? We have reached the water point section! This is where two rushing rivers have appeared out of the ground and have divided the track into three separate narrow strips of land!" Will he shut up?! Like that wasn't noticeable on the board back at the gatehouse!
But he was right. The whole area had now separated into three narrow strips of land. On my side was two bikes and Kaitlyn. In the middle was Noah and a few more, while I believe Lilyana was on the one far to the right. Since Kaitlyn was on my side, I decided to see why she nearly threw me off the road with her actions.
"KAITLYN!" I shouted at her as I caught up with her, "WHAT GIVES? WHY DID YOU ALMOST CUT ME OFF LIKE THAT?! WE ARE ON THE SAME SIDE HERE!"
"No we're not," she said simply, "No matter the situation is in any sport, and I must win at all costs. You are just another bump in the road to me out here. Speaking of, time to flattening you out. Think fast!" She tossed me one of her sparkle bombs at me. I whipped my bike out of the way allowing the bomb to wiz right by me and explode on the ground.
"You stupid little insane ding dong!" I said getting closer to her, "You'll pay for that!"
"What are you going to do?" she smirked, "Can't touch this!" She giggled and began to speed up. Oh yeah? I'll show her!
I soon was back up to her again. I reached over onto her backpack she had on and reached into it, beats me how I did it though! I managed to pull out one of her little glitter bombs. "Hey Kaitlyn!" I said moving quickly in front of her then, "Catch this!"
I tossed it towards her and it hit her handlebar causing it to explode. The glitter blasted all over her and that shook her up a bit. "Whoa!" she said in a daze, "Glittery!"
Her bike began to drift towards the river and soon it flipped onto it's right side. It threw her off and into the river. That's the last of her I would see for while.
Soon I reached the end of the river and connected with everyone else in the race. To my surprise, there was only 6 people left, including Noah and Kaitlyn. "This is it folks!" the announcer shouted, "Who will win it?! We are about to reach to end of the race! Only last challenge is to make the sharp left turn!"
Speaking of that sharp turn, the leading kid took the turn a bit too fast and low to the ground and crashed hard into the ground. Ouch! Luckily for me, I manage to make that turn and I could instantly see the finish line straight ahead of me! Bad news was that everyone else did!
"Green!" Lilyana said from behind me, "We can't let Noah win this! If he does, who knows what he'll do! We have to make sure he'll crash!" I turned and saw him. He was coming up quickly.
"Like how will you do that?" I asked her.
"Just a bit of a sacrifice!" she said, "Just win it ok?" She then moved in front of Noah and purposely crashed in front of him. Noah tried to steer out of the way, but his bike crashed into Lilyana and it bucked him off on impacted. He did three flips in the air, crashed onto his butt, rolled over onto his side and rolled for a few feet until he came to a dead stop in a puff of dust.
"That hurt like heck," I heard him say. With him out of the way, I pushed hard on my bike and crossed the finish line first!
"Alright!" I shouted as I crossed the line, "I did it and I didn't even crash!" Unfortunately, I wasn't looking where I was going and I crashed straight into a water cooler on a picnic table. I spoke too soon.
After a few minutes, everyone had crossed the finish line that possibly could, Lilyana and Noah did because they could they were just a few feet away from the finish line. Noah was angrily, but a bit too calm. "You lucked out," he hissed in my ear.
Then I heard a familiar voice from behind me, "GREEN! Over here! It's me!" I turned and saw Red rushing up to me with a smile.
I blinked a few times and rubbed my eyes, sure enough he was right there in front of me. Then I punched him hard in the arm. "OW!" he cried, "What the heck was that for?"
"Sorry," I said to him, "Just had to make sure you were real. After all, how did you get here so quickly and how did you even know I was here?"
"Sabrina teleported me here, "he shrugged, but then he smiled and held something up, "I just won my Marsh Badge! About time too!"
"But how did she know I was here?" I asked him.
He looked at me blankly and shrugged again, "I really don't know. It's kind of creepy if you think about it."
"I don't like to think about things," I said.
"Red!" Lilyana said running up to him and hugging him tightly, "You came! That must mean you won! I'm so happy for you!" He turned really red then. At least the color of his skin now at least match his name.
"I…" he said, "Ba…. Dah… HI! Lil… he… da… da…"
"Easy their player," I said sarcastically, "Speak in a language people here today can actually speak!"
"He's so funny!" Lilyana giggled, "You must be so lucky to be his friend! I'm so jealous!"
"I like to think of myself more as a victim of his friendship," I said, "But whatever floats your boat prissy girl."
"Will the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place racers please report to the stage!" said someone different over the loudspeaker, "We now wish to present the prizes now!"
"About time!" I said rolling my eyes, "I want to get moving before my feet hurt anymore!"
"Wow," Red said, "You are still walking even though you are saying your feet hurt! That's a first!"
"Who's saying I'm walking?" I said confuse, "Carry me!"
I stood there with the two other finalists on stage waiting for our winnings when I looked out into audience. I saw Lilyana and Red watching me (Well… Lilyana was hugging and paying more attention to Red then me). I then had this weird feeling… I was actually happy that Red was watching me. I felt a little warm, but I decided to shake it off.
"Now!" Mr. Stikes said walking up to us, "It's time to present the 1st place winner, her money and medal!" He handed me a gold metal then that had a bike engraved onto it. It looked pretty cool.
"Now!" Mr. Stikes said handing me a metal briefcase, "Your money!" I smiled looking at the case; I could only imagine how much pretty dresses, manga, and IPods I could buy with that much money!
All of a sudden, the case began to glow blue and it flew out his hands into the air. That's when this huge military like helicopter appeared out of nowhere with its hatch up. The case flew up towards it and the person waiting for it. That person was Noah.
He then took out this megaphone and called out to me saying, "Like I said before Green, even when I lose, I win! Smell ya later!" He laughed and slammed the door shut. Soon, the copter took off and was out of sight.
Author Notice: Sorry about the long update, but writing this chapter was kind of difficult. I never had written a race scene before I wanted to make it very action packed! I hope it was worth the wait.
As for my award show thing, I finally have all the choices decided! I had to think this over very carefully, but I am happy with my call on this stuff. But it was very hard to decide winner of story of the year, but I think I am happy with my decision!
Next chapter is a secret, but this was Lilyana's last chapter for a bit. You won't see her in the next chapter!
Next to Come: Chapter 39
Date: 1/21/07
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