Chapter Two: Dealing With a Bit of Yellow Fever

Disclaimer: Pokémon no mine, Pokémon own by Satoshi Guy (Translation: I don't own Pokémon lol)

Red's POV

"You're going to Unova," Professor Oak stated, and paused to see my reaction.

"Where's that?" I asked with a bit of embarrassment at not knowing of the existence of a whole region in the world.

"It's actually fairly close to the Sinnoh region, but that's besides the point. I need you to go lead a handpicked team of trainers to investigate a suspicious organization gathering in Unova," Oak said in a tone that made it clear he was being dead serious.

"And … I'm coming with you!" Blue shouted triumphantly as if she had just won a prize.

Well that was a lot to take in a short amount of time. As far as my quick (shut up Blue) brain could comprehend, I was going to have another big adventure on my hands … with Blue and other trainers. Maybe I would finally get a chance to test out my new team on this organization.

"Well then what is this organization trying to do? And who are the rest of the trainers coming with me anyways?" I asked, now realizing that the professor had neglected to fully inform me on the situation.

"Well the organization is called Team Plasma and their intentions and purpose is unknown at the moment, however we do know that they may have made contact with Team Galactic in Sinnoh for unknown reasons. As for who'll accompany you, that has to be kept secret in case they have spies in the area. Anyways at least you know Blue is coming with you, the other trainers will be meeting with you in Unova when they can." Professor Oak said solemnly.

The serious atmosphere that Professor Oak was creating was starting to make me and Pika nervous and I was relieved that I had the calming effect of Blue's embrace … wait she was still holding onto me … I felt a small unfamiliar rush of blood come to my face as foreign feelings began to invade my mind. Blue's … well everything was distracting me right now and I looked down at her fondly before quickly averting my eyes from her, um, ample chest.

Blue's POV

Wow I don't why, but right now this feeling I was getting from holding Red was a lot different from anything I've ever experienced. I've hugged plenty of boys in my lifetime but that was usually because it was an easier way to get what I wanted as we all know how weak boys are to a little charming. But this time around I found myself being charmed by the warmth of his body, the kind and concerned eyes he had laid on me just a few moments before, and the fact that he had saved my life yet again.

Sure, during our adventures together in Kanto, Red and I have been an odd pair of friends. Well okay, I scammed his money, stole his gym badges and used him for my own gain, but he still managed to find it in himself to always forgive me in the end. And of course when Red worked so hard to help save my parents in the Sevii Islands … well I guess it's my own fault for not seeing it sooner. I had feelings for my dense little battler.
Of course the boy in question, was currently trying his best to be a respectful friend by not staring at my chest when he glanced down at me. Ahhh how cute. Well I might have sworn off my old thieving ways, but there was no way I would pass up this opportunity to mess with my clueless friend. I had my elaborate plan set up to make him as embarrassed as humanly possible... when Professor Oak decided to spoil my fun.

"Hey Blue, Red, you need to get on that cruise as soon as possible! It's leaving in 10 minutes and there won't be another departure until next weekend, thanks to Christmas," Professor Oak remarked impatiently.

Since Oak was being a party pooper, I just gave Red a small rub with my chest for good measure, relishing in the small blush that showed up on his otherwise oblivious visage. And I skipped off towards the S.S. Anne. It's a shame Oak ruined my fun, I'm not sure how Red would have dealt with the fake wet t-shirt Ditty was about to become for me.

Red's POV

While I was used to Blue's umm, attempts at distracting guys, today seemed to be much different, I'm not sure why but Blue sure looks good from behind... wait...

"Hey Blue wait up for me!" I shouted at her as I tried to catch up with my peppy friend.

"Be careful Red, make sure that Blue and the rest of your eventual team of trainers are well trained. These suspicious organizations are likely to be on par with the old Team Rocket and when two are working together it is quite possible they might be planning something big." Professor Oak advised as I closed the distance between me and Blue

Blue ran up the walkway onto the S.S. Anne, beckoning me to follow. Unfortunately (or not) she ran so far ahead that I began to find it hard to follow her up the walkway while looking straight forward. I mean seriously, do girls just wear short skirts in order to make moments like this awkward for guys? And why was the walkway to the S.S. Anne so much steeper than I remembered? (haha fanservice :P)

Boarding the S.S. Anne brought me back to when I started my Pokemon journey. Back then this ship seemed a lot more sinister. Well that's probably due to the fact that there was a criminal organization creeping around the place and a Pokemon smuggling ring was taking place in the cargo holds.

Since the ship was obviously devoid of criminal organizations at the moment it had a much more luxurious feel to it and I was definitely planning on heading to the pool to relax with Milo and Poli. The only problem was that Blue seemed to have disappeared into thin air by the time I had boarded the ship. Eh I guess that's her loss then.

"To the pool!" I yelled to no one in particular and ran off in the general direction of the pool.

Blue POV

Well while I'm on a big cruise ship like this I might as well enjoy myself. Red is cute and all but a girl has got to enjoy herself whenever she can, and there was no way he would want to come shopping with me.

I immediately located the dress store named Singe Vit Singe Fait and found myself overwhelmed by the beauty of the dresses there.

[A few hours later of extremely "interesting" shopping which I have spared y'all from]

Happy with my choices (which would definitely steal Red's heart) I skipped out of the store happily wearing a new white dress and sent Red a message through my Pokegear (that Silver gave me for my birthday) asking him where he was right now.

After a few minutes of no reply I decided that I'd head up to the deck and look for him myself. There weren't that many people on the cruise today for some reason so I was sure it wouldn't be too hard to spot him. And once I found him he could take me to dinner too, hehe.

I arrived at the deck and spotted a small crowd gathered around the pool. I wondered what was so interesting over there, until I saw the familiar red hat on the head of my Red in the center of the crowd. And … he was wet and leaning over a familiar blonde who was currently soaked to the skin and laying down next to the pool. Well that seemed to be an odd place to take a nap … Wait what was Red about to do to her face? I watched in horror as he began to lean suspiciously closer to her face. OH DEAR ARCEUS HE'S GOING TO GIVE HER CPR. I had to stop this little bitch (well only in this case, sorry Yellow, you're my friend anytime but now) from taking Red's first kiss away (it had better be his first or else).

"I'll save you Yellow!" I yelled as I ran over towards Red at an ungodly speed in my attempt to save him from this horrible fate. I ended up "accidentally" knocking him into the pool (sorry it's for the best I promise!). Quickly pinching my now reinstated friend's (jealousy is a bitch what can I say?) nose, I covered her mouth with mine and then pumped her chest, giving her life.

It's a bit ironic I guess considering I wanted her dead a few moments ago... oh well.

Just then I heard Red yell out in desperation "Is Yellow alright?"

But all I could think of was how the shirt clung to his now fairly well built body, and how his crimson hued eyes stared into mine with so much concern. Well alright, it was aimed at Yellow probably because she was in a near-death experience but still, a girl can dream right?

I had to make an effort to break eye contact with Red and check-up on my forgotten friend who had suddenly began to sputter out water as her eyes flicked briefly.

But instead of thanking me like she should have, she turned to Red who was in the pool staring back at us and sputtered out a shy but grateful "Thank you so much for saving my life, Red!"

Yellow's initial embarrassment was soon dwarfed when she looked up and saw that I was the one who had ultimately saved her life, not Red. She turned as red as a tomato and if it weren't for the fact that we were friends, I would have definitely slapped her right there. Thankfully, I had the self-control (and I knew Red was watching) to brush aside her ignorance of my role in this whole affair and I graciously offered to help Yellow up.

Unbeknownst to the rest of the crowd, as I started to pull her up, I slipped a bug onto the back of her belt. There was no way she was getting anywhere close to my Red without my knowledge, that's for sure.

"Well Yellow fancy meeting you here, what fortunate string of events brings you here?" I chirped a bit too happily, while giving her an extra sweet smile.

By this time the crowd had dispersed after realizing that Yellow was okay..

"Well funny you should ask, Professor Oak said that he had a mission in Unova for me and it involved Red so I decided to come here along with ChuChu and the gang!" Yellow explained, completely oblivious to the danger she was in.
Before I had a chance to make a subtle threat for her to back off from Red, Pika had scurried on over and jumped onto ChuChu who happened to be next to Yellow.

Grrr... that girl definitely planned that sneaky little positioning trick in order to get her out of a sure doom situation with me. I'd have to watch her closely or else she'd catch me unaware with that evil brain of hers. I thought, while observing her apparent (fake) happiness at seeing the two Pikachus reunited.

At this point, Red must have found our distraction as a moment of weakness as he had somehow snuck behind me and was currently about to do very bad things to me.

Sigh...

It's a shame that these bad things came in the form of revenge and not what I wanted …

Yellow's POV

Oh my Arceus I'm so ashamed, I can't believe I had given Red all the credit when Blue had gone through the trouble of saving me.

I don't know if she'll ever forgive me, what will I do oh my Arceus, oh my Mew, oh my Magikarp.

You might think I was overreacting but the thing about Blue is that she's an absolutely sweet girl unless you do something to tick her off. And (please please don't hurt me Blue) she tends to get ticked off very easily.

So I'd imagine that mistaking my savior for someone else when she had put in the effort to save my life was definitely bound to piss her off.

Weirdly enough, she didn't show any obvious signs of malice when I had realized my mistake and I was beginning to think that today was one of those rare days that all would be forgiven and forgotten.

Oh and have I ever mentioned I'm really naive?

The second Pika had come over to see Chuchu again, I could sense the horrible aura of anger emanating from Blue. That's when I realized that I had made the fatal mistake believing that she would let go of something so easily. I quickly looked for a way out and decided that the best course of action was to act excited that Pika and ChuChu were back together. Then, when I was murdered at least I'd have three witnesses.

I braced for the worst as I felt her anger crescendo, when suddenly, I heard the faint melody of a chuckle from Red as he yelled out "GOTCHU BLUE!" as loudly as possible., and proceeded to shove the poor unsuspecting girl into the pool making a loud "SPLASH" sound as she went down.

I was trying my absolute best to stifle my laughter at the sight as Red looked so triumphant in that moment … not to mention handsome … what was I even saying? I tried my best to suppress the blush at the ideas of such a close friend that I didn't notice Blue's evil look when she came up until it was too late.

"Oh Red..." She said in a playful voice, totally masking her true intentions as she dragged the poor teenager into the pool with her.

OH NO, I realized as Blue brought Red close and tried to push him in the water to get even with him. Blue's white dress was definitely not doing a good job of covering her up in the pool. Let's just say a lot was being exposed and it would only be a matter of time before Red noticed the wardrobe dilemma that Blue was in. That was the last thing I remembered thinking before I blacked out again.

Red's POV

Well I thought that it was only fair play that I got Blue back for pushing me into the pool, it's not very fair that she would shove me in too. Right? As she kept trying to push me under the water I tried my best to keep afloat by holding onto her shoulders as well.

However this time when she pushed me underwater I found that I had to quickly stop playing around for fear of my life. Blue's cute (did I just think that?) white dress was suddenly a lot less white and a lot more transparent courtesy of the pool's aquatic powers.

Ah man … if Blue realized that I had accidently looked at her like that I don't think she'll ever forgive me even if I swear I didn't see anything...

Blue was about to drag me under one more time when I noticed Yellow, who was watching me sympathetically, had suddenly become best friends with the pool deck. Oh shit. She fainted again.

"Come on Blue we have to help Yellow!" I said in a small panic as I realized the seriousness in the situation.

"No," Blue said curtly as she suddenly realized the predicament her dress had put her in. "Please help out Yellow and grab me a towel while you're at it." Blue ordered in a controlled voice as she quickly swam/walked over to the side of the pool.

Blue's POV

GAH this is so embarrassing ! I can't believe I forgot about the white dress I was wearing. Ugh not only would I have to get this washed afterward, everybody in the cruise could sneak a peek if they wanted to, this little situation wasn't even stealing Red's attention thanks to Yellow's convenient fainting act.

Ugh the nerve of that girl trying to steal the spotlight even when misfortune befalls a pretty little damsel like me!

Alright maybe I was being a bit irrational, but I was jealous okay? A girl can do whatever she wants when it comes to jealousy, I mean all is fair in love and war am I right?

I guess I might as well go pay attention to my friend too (no matter how jealous I am I'd definitely prefer her to live, although farther away from Red would be nice).

"Red what do we do?" I said in a convincingly concerned tone.

I cringed a little as he put his hand on her forehead and said that she seemed to be seriously sick and that he would have to carry her to the onboard hospital. With that he scooped her up in his strong hands and proceeded to walk towards the cruise's infirmary when I realized that he was about to completely abandon me here alone and exposed to the rest of the world. I quickly swam over to the side of the pool in order to use the side of the pool to cover up at least one side of my body.

While Red was one thing, the rest of the crew was definitely another when it came to this issue. I quickly asked Red to get me a towel when he asked me if I would come with him to help Yellow out and he seemed to understand (faster than usual) my intentions and quickly left with a curt nod.

He returned just as swiftly as he had left, with a towel and Yellow still in his arms. A bit jealous (okay very jealous) of the sneaky little girl, I followed him down to the cruise's hospital and waited patiently outside with Red as the doctor examined the petite blonde.

Okay I lied, I kind of took a nap on Red's shoulder in the meantime, but that's only because the doctors were taking their time and had been in there for a whole fricken 15 minutes. While I may like my friends, 15 minutes was definitely way too ridiculous (yep jealousy is not affecting my opinion of Yellow right now).

The doctor finally came out after what seemed like an eternity (well 20 minutes is pretty long), and said with a serious voice "Your friend will be fine, but her fainting seems to be a byproduct of some food poisoning from the food she ate onboard. Don't worry she'll make a full recovery before the end of the cruise, but in the meantime I'll have to ask that you let us keep her in order to make sure she's treated properly and given enough time to recover."

SCORE 1 for Team Blue and Red, I must be really lucky to have Yellow get some food poisoning (okay it sounds horrible when I say it out loud but whatever), anyways what's so special about Red and Yellow? After I get him alone with me on this crew he would be all mine before we even meet the rest of the team! I smiled to myself, content that my plan would definitely work.

However Red seemed to have different thoughts on the situation. "So I guess we should go to the waiting room and stay there until Yellow is released, huh?"

I, for one, was appalled by this idea. Not to be heartless but I definitely wanted alone time with Red and also have him care enough about me to wait outside my room when I needed him (I don't care that the circumstances are different).

Sighing at his sense of chivalry, I whined "Can we at least grab something to eat while we wait? It'd be such a shame to go on this great cruise without trying some of the cuisine here!"

While Red must have thought it odd that I wanted food right after Yellow got food poisoning, I guess he figured it couldn't hurt to grab some food in the meantime being a guy and all. We grabbed some multicultural cuisine from the various stands onboard and sat in the waiting room for what seemed like eternity waiting for our mutual friend (but currently my love rival).

Yellow exited the hospital ward after what seemed like an eternity and Red quickly rose to give her a big hug. Luckily the ship's horn blew right at that moment (not suspiciously convenient at all hehe) and Red's attention was quickly diverted. The prospect of a new adventure just lying outside this ship quickly brought him to alertness as he grabbed me and Yellow by the hand and quickly rushed towards the deck in order to be one of the firsts to leave the ship.

"You didn't think this over did you, Red?" I scolded softly, as I motioned towards the non existent walkway and remarked, "It's way too early to leave the boat yet they haven't even finished docking, the horn was just to tell us that we had arrived in the port silly!"

With that I was immediately embarrassed as the dock workers and crew seemed to have docked the ship and set the walkway up in record time. Red took this development in stride as he happily sent out his Togekiss (I'm guessing to enjoy the air but he could just be feeling spontaneous) and happily yelled out "Are you ready Toge? A whole new adventure is waiting for us here in Unova!"

By the time we got to the docks, Red was already sitting on his new (to me at least) Togekiss and patting its head fondly. That's the exact moment that a terribly strong gust of wind blew by, forcing me to hold down the hem of my usual skirt. And that's when I saw the screaming figure of a passenger who had been blown off the walkway …

DUN DUN DUN that's the end of the chapter folks!

Haha originally I was aiming to write these chapters to be about 1,000 words or a little more. But when I started writing the words just started coming to me and I felt it would be a shame to let these ideas go to waste. Plus word limits are for school and at this time I'm pretty much sick of school completely. Oh yea I forgot to mention to you guys that I got accepted into the University of Michigan and I'm really excited. So I'll probably be dedicating even more time to this fanfic (as long as you guys care enough to read it) because I'm pretty much set with high school at this point.

And also thank you so much for the reviews, follows, and favorites! This is my first fanfic and I was pleasantly surprised when I started receiving e-mails that I had beautiful fans who actually appreciated my writing! So for you 4 reviewers, 7 favoriters (I think that's the word), and 9 followers, thanks for supporting my first work.

I got this one chugged out in about six days since the first chapter and I'll continue to write as much as I can as I can and as fast as possible. Keeping it updated weekly is my goal but school has a lot of stuff it wants from me so I can't promise anything to you guys! Anyways if you have any special requests for this manga be sure to PM me or review (or both) and I'll see if I can integrate it into my next chapter. I'm planning on writing an author's note chapter on my decisions so far in the story and what direction I want to take it as well as describing how I come up with ideas and such. Just a little rambling is all.

ALSO! I have to thank my friend Jessica so much for supporting me with this little fanfic. I thought that writing wouldn't come to me but after her convincing (and blackmailing but I'll explain that another day) I've started to thoroughly enjoy writing this fic. So if you ever do read these notes (haha I hope you do :)) then be sure to thank Jessica for making this story a possibility .

Erm that's about it I guess :) also the fans of the story are really good writers themselves, I've been trying to read your fics as you follow/fav/ and review me but I'm sorry if I don't get to yours as sometimes I see the notification emails in school and can't really do anything about them. Oh and kind of forget because I have short memory because I'm cool like that :) Au revoir mes amis! (Oh yea and guess who fell off the walkway! I'll give you a hint, they will be one of the main characters in this story, first person to guess it right gets a virtual cookie!)