vs Clefairy
"No!"
"But, Mom, if I left, I'd be famous... well... sometime!"
"What if that doesn't happen? NO. Period." No matter how much Leaf begged her mother, she refused to let the girl go on a pokemon journey... Maybe it really was pointless to ask. Sighing, she went up a spiral staircase, emerging on the second floor, and walked into her room, switching on a five-headed floor lamp with green and blue shades in the corner. Cleffa and Bulbasaur waited for her; she only kept them in their Pokeballs when she was in school (but Cleffa had always 'accidentally' come out when someone else's pokemon did) or in a building that didn't allow pokemon. She flopped down onto her bed, staring up at the ceiling. Soon, though, her gaze turned to her new pokemon instead. Bulbasaur seemed to be shyer than Cleffa, and sometimes the Starshape Pokemon's antics scared it a bit. Hm... What if a pokemon's personality affected the way it battled? Maybe she was just thinking too much. Yeah, that was it!
She sighed. In three days, school was starting, and there was no way that she'd spend those final days of freedom sitting at home! Leaf got up. "Bulbasaur, Cleffa, how about we go out somewhere?" The pokemon both nodded, Cleffa decided to sit on Leaf's head, and the three went downstairs. She looked over at her mom. "I'm going out, okay?"
Her mom looked up from the newspaper. "Be careful, honey!" Leaf blew a kiss to her, and she left. Viridian had very crowded streets, but was still a great place to live- there were movie theaters, a huge shopping mall that allowed pokemon and had everything one could ever wish for, a Pokemon Gym (none of the boys in her class had ever won there, but that really didn't say much), an arcade, a candy store, a trick shop... even a shop with gourmet pokemon food! However, her steps didn't bring her to any of these places...
She was at the location of her battle yesterday. A tree had fallen down, and some of it seemed to sparkle... strange. She walked up to it, and noticed that the sparkles were caused by little pieces of machinery, the largest of which looked like a directional controller found on handheld games. The controller was attached to a black-and-red base with tiny wires coming out of one side. Most of it was circular, but the side with the wires was square... maybe it attached to something? Leaf pictured a large mecha controlled by the tiny part... maybe not. The other sparkles were similar. Some of them were red, black, or just pieces that went on the inside (these looked very complex), and some were shards of glass. These also came in different shades, though only two this time: clear and blue. While the clear ones were flat, the blue ones seemed circular, and had some wires stuck to them... she wouldn't pick the glass up, that was for sure.
She sat down next to the tree and began to pluck a few of the red and black pieces out... then stopped, noticing a rustle coming from the nearby bushes. After the Team Rocket members last night, she didn't want to take any chances...
"Bulbasaur, Vine Whip to check the bushes!" The Seed Pokemon's two vines plunged into the bushes, and after a thorough search were retracted, having found nothing. Leaf sighed. It was just needless paranoia...
"Surprise."
Maybe not. Leaf whirled around to see the same Rocket she'd beaten last night with backup. The brown-haired girl stood up. If it was a battle they wanted, a battle they'd get... The familiar Rocket released his Horsea while the other three released their Ekans, Grimer, and Zubat.
"Bulbasaur, Vine Whip on Horsea! Cleffa, Pound on any of the others!" Bulbasaur picked up Horsea and slammed it into the ground repeatedly as the Dragon Pokemon did the old squeal-annoyingly-and-do-nothing routine. While Leaf wasn't looking, though, it shot a few Razor Leaves at Horsea to finish up the process of sending it into dreamland.
The Rockets called out various poison attacks, and while Cleffa was getting battered by them, Bulbasaur hardly noticed them. Noticing this, Leaf called out an attack.
"Bulbasaur, Vine Whip all of them!" Bulbasaur used one vine to knock Zubat out of the sky and another to deal with Ekans and Grimer, but the pokemon easily recovered. Apparently, that wasn't what made Bulbasaur resistant to those pokemon...
"Cleffa, Pound on Grimer! Bulbasaur, Tackle on Ekans!" More poison attacks came from the other side. Bulbasaur was doing well, but Cleffa was starting to get tired. Its trump card wouldn't work here, either- it seemed similar to Bulbasaur's attacks- and Leaf was starting to get worried. After getting hit with a Sludge, it fell down- and began to glow strangely. Leaf gasped. Was this what it was like when Pokemon died? The glowing Pokemon became larger. It grew small wings, and its stubby arms became slightly longer, with three-fingered hands. The glow died down, and the Pokemon got up and grinned. "Clefairy!" it said, running toward Grimer and slapping it repeatedly. That must be Doubleslap! its mistress thought happily to herself. Grimer soon fainted, and Ekans was soon finished off too. Now, all that was left was Zubat...
"Bulbasaur, pull Zubat down with your vines! Cleffa- no, Clefairy, Doubleslap!" Bulbasaur's vines tied the Bat Pokemon's wings to its back, slamming it into the ground where Clefairy finished it off. The Grunt sighed and recalled it.
"So, you think you're good, having beaten us twice?" He smirked. "In a week, come to the Viridian Gym. Then you'll really get to see the power of Team Rocket..." He threw down a small black ball, and the area was filled with smoke. When it cleared, he was gone.
Clefairy looked up at Leaf and smiled happily, hopping on one foot to the other. Soon, it was bouncing around as usual- it had evolved, but Clefairy was the same old Cleffa inside...
"Clefair-y! Clefair-y!"
"Ugh..."
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Corrected three days to one week, because now that I have Fire Red up, I can't speed up Leaf Green.
Well, Leaf has had Cleffa for as long as she can remember, so it's more than ready to evolve... besides, Cleffa technically doesn't exist yet (that is, it hasn't been recognized by Professor Oak's Pokedex yet) so if Leaf ran into Fire with Cleffa, there would be some problems. The trump card I'm talking about is Magical Leaf, which only Cleffa can learn... I was looking for some other attack for Cleffa to use besides Pound in my new FR/LG guide, and I found that Magical Leaf was the last level-up move it learns. You find out something new every day!
