Me: It has been a while...
May: It has been 2 months!
Me: I know! What do you expect? Writer's block PLUS school work!
May: Excuses, excuses, excuses
Me: Well at least I made it in time for today!
Brendan: What's so special about today?
Me: It's the 5th month that I've been on !
Brendan: Wow... it has been 5 months already?
May: I guess...
Me: Also, on the 22nd, it's my birthday! I'm planning on posting an advanceshipping story then D
Y-you evil person! You took May away from me! NOOO!!! :runs away:
May and Me: O.O;;
May: YAY! Advanceshipping!
Me: :mutter: At least that kept May happy... Brendan's nicer anyways... :end muttering: Anyways, why don't we answer the reviews?
Adun- Okay, okay! YOU DON'T HAVE TO CAPS LOCK ME! ahem It's just a mistake... I can always, change it, next time you review, please don't caps lock me, and I don't want to be caps locked... Also, isn't there ONE thing you can say nice about my fic? If not, you can tell me to improve, you know...
Kioko-san- haha, I couldn't think of another name... Mia isn't the person to 'sweetie pie' her with (though she is nice but...) and so she isn't evil! D nods
Chrasner: You shouldn't spoiled your story to me . I wanted to be surprised T.T Ah whatever. :lol: I guess great minds DO think alike! XD (I like triangles D Wait... correction, I LOVE triangles!)
Wandering Gamer: Exactly, if Wally is evil to Mia, I'll... . no! I can't hurt Wally, poor Wally T.T Well, Wally won't and can't be evil to Mia )... well, at least not SUPER evil...
Marichi: Yes, the possibilities :insert evil laugh here: Anyways, Wally and Mia is such a cute couple )
May: why don't we get the story started?
Me: okay...
Disclaimer: Pokemon is owned by Satoshi Tarjiri (thanks, Sandoshi!)
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Brendan sat there in the middle of his friends. He had been there for hours listening to them talk- no- rather, FLIRT with each other... well, maybe just Steven and May. He starred straight ahead at the entrance, he didn't want to turn his head, if he turned right, and pity at the sight of Wally and Mia 'talking' to each other. He had saw and studied them a few hours ago and knew that it would still be the same- Mia was trying to talk to Wally. Yes, but she was practically talking to a wall. Mia would talk and talk until her mouth is dry and Wally would pretend to listen, his heart wasn't in it, he kept on throwing glances at May.
(A/N: No, Brendan doesn't like Mia (it's not that she's not likeable, OF COURSE NOT! :ahem: but Mia's not Brendan's type, okay?) and Mia and Wally doesn't like each other, Mia is just worried about him. Why not Brendan? Mia is smart and she just worries about Wally's health problems, okay? The proof is at the next # sign, where Wally battles with Brawly)
'What's so great about May anyway? Sure, she is kind of cute but she's so petty and annoying!' He thought. He, too, had been glimpsing at her. He didn't want to but it just... happened... Every minute or so, his head would spin left, his vision will be tuned on May and after a few seconds; he would realize what he was doing, shake his head in disgust and force his head to turn to the entrance again. He didn't enjoy the sight of Steven and May 'flirting' with each other- they were all over each other-, he found it rather sickly but somehow, his head would naturally switch to May's direction again.
'What's wrong with you, Brendan Birch!?' He asked himself. 'You hate her! Why are you staring at her!?' A thought suddenly jolted in his head- 'don't tell me you like her!' He gasped out loud but the others were too focused on what they were doing- talking, flirting, starring- that they didn't notice it. 'Haha,' he laughed in his head, 'Nice one!' He explained to himself, 'me liking her? Never!' He comforted. 'Maybe
I'm too tired, some sleep will do me good...' He stood up, said "Good night, guys," and left to his room, probably no one would even notice that he was gone. (A/N: I'm sorry that Wally is being evil to Mia... but I promise that I will get rid of it soon!)
The next day
Brendan had been the earliest to go to bed, and was the first one to wake up. As he expected, no one noticed that he went to bed already or that he was there (or gone). It turns out that a while after he went to sleep, Steven needed to go (A/N: and of course promised to come back... FOR MAY! XD), which led May to go to sleep too and triggered Wally's 'tiredness', which, therefore, led Mia to her slumber too.
Eventually, everyone woke up and had their breakfast.
"We're going to get second badge from Brawly after lunch, okay?" Brendan asked his companions.
His only response was a tired nod from them.
At the gym
After getting lost a few times, they obtained a TM39 and an old rod from a fisherman they asked for directions form, they finally arrived at the gym.
"Hey! It's Steven's friend that saved us!" May recognized.
"Dude! You people are the ones me and my friend saved yesterday!" Brawly remembered.
"We're here to challenge you!" Wally said.
"Sure, two on two battle, okay?" Brawly explained as he sent out his machop.
"You're on!" Brendan said as he sent out Muddy.
"Machop, start off with a low kick!" Brawly ordered.
"Dodge it and use water gun!"
The fighting type pokemon raised its leg to kick the water type pokemon but Muddy luckily dodged it and sprayed it with a water gun.
"Karate Chop, Machop!"
"Spray it with another water gun!"
Machop quickly lifted its arm up and slashed the blue and orange pokemon causing it to misaim its water gun.
"Great, now use Seismic toss!"
"Counter it with a mud slap!"
Mudkip drenched machop in mud causing it not to see. Machop tried to wipe the mud off but it stuck on to it and missed its seismic toss.
"Oh no! Are you okay?" Brawly asked.
"Finish it with a tackle!" Brendan commanded.
Muddy followed Brendan's orders and tackled it. Machop, not knowing what was happening couldn't dodge it and fainted.
"You did great, machop, return! Go, Makuhita!" Brawly said as he threw another red-white pokeball into the field.
"Use another water gun!" Brendan instructed.
"Dodge it and use tackle!"
Muddy showered Makuhita a bit but it got out and lunged at the water type pokemon, bashing away from it.
"Good, now vital throw, Makuhita!"
Makuhita picked up the blue and orange pokemon and jumped high from the ground.
"Try to get out of its grip, Muddy!"
Muddy struggled to get out of its vise grip but failed. Makuhita finally loosened its iron grip to throw it to the ground. Muddy was now airborne, dropping to the ground.
"Muddy, try to turn the speed given to you into a tackle! Use the force and jump off the ground!"
Now, Muddy landed feet first and sprang off the ground into a tackle heading for Makuhita. Makuhita, not knowing that his own attack would back fire didn't notice his opponent coming at a top speed tackle. As Muddy hit him, he was sent flying into a wall, causing it to faint.
"Dude, Great battle, here's your Knuckle badge and this TM." (A/N: Anyone knows what TM it is? I can't find it in the FAQ...)
"Thanks!" Brendan said.
"Wow, that was a nice battle!" May complimented.
"Ya! Your tactics were great!" Mia added.
"Yes, and now, it's my turn!" Wally said.
"Go Machop!" Brawly called.
"Go, Ralts!" Wally sent.
"Machop, low kick!"
"Teleport away and use confusion!"
Ralts barely got away as the fighting type pokemon skimmed it with its kick. As soon as the physic type pokemon used it's attack on machop causing it to get confused.
"Use focus energy to concentrate, Machop!"
"Use confusion again, Ralts!"
While Machop was still confused, the white and green pokemon took advantage and used its attack again doing even more damage to it. As soon as the fighting type pokemon got its ground, it tried to focus its energy and regained its concentration.
"Great, Machop! Now use Seismic toss!"
"Try to teleport away again, Ralts!"
(# A/N: proof starts here and ends at the second # sign... no, not this one!)
The muscle-filled pokemon easily picked up the weaker (A/N: Let me set one thing straight, I DO NOT HATE RALTS, what I meant was in strength, not in mind!) pokemon, who failed at fleeing, and threw it smashing to the ground. It's trainer wanted to duplicate his companion's strategy but he knew that his pokemon's strength couldn't have been able to do this so he left his pokemon helplessly dived to the ground and laid there motionlessly. His trainers and his trainer's friends gasped.
"Ralts!" His trainer cried. "C-can you get up?"
The poor pokemon managed to get up slowly with difficulty but it was in pretty bad shape.
"Can you still battle?" the green haired trainer asked.
His pokemon slowly nodded his head.
"Finish it off with Karate Chop!" Brawly ordered.
"I think you can finish it off with a confusion too, go!" Wally tried.
The two pokemon obeyed right away. Since Ralts got the advantage of doing a long distance attack, he knocked out his opponent with his confusion. Ralts was panting heavily from the attack like it would almost faint.
(# A/N: note that Mia doesn't go overly crazy that Wally's pokemon going into a horrible state, and all her reaction was the same as May and Brendan's.)
"Dude, nice!" Brawly complimented. "Return, go Makuhita!"
"Great job, Ralts, return. Go, Zigzagoon!"
"Tackle, Makuhita!"
"You too, Zigzagoon!"
The two pokemon charged at each other and after they meet, they were both sent back by the other, returning to their original spots.
"Again, Makuhita!"
"Sand attack, Zigzagoon!"
The yellow pokemon lunged at the striped pokemon again but this time, the brown pokemon splattered sand in its eye causing to not see. Unfortunately, it was a bit too slow getting out of the plump pokemon's way so it took a bit of damage as well.
"Use focus energy, Makuhita!"
"Head butt it, Zigzagoon!"
The fighting type pokemon used focus energy but as soon as it finished its ritual, the raccoon like pokemon attacked it.
"Vital Throw, Makuhita!"
"Dodge it and finish it off with another head butt!"
The raccoon pokemon quickly got out of sight from the fighting type pokemon and wounded it from the back to cause it to faint.
"Dude! You beat me too! Here's your reward!"
"Thanks!" Wally said and received his gifts.
"Nice one!" May complimented as his friends nodded in agreement.
"I'm next!" May challenged.
"I hope that lovely lady over there isn't challenging me as well, this battle will be my last today!" (A/N: he means Mia)
"No, sir, I'm just here to watch my friends battle," The indigo eyed girl answered.
"Please, call me Brawly," The gym leader said as he wink and flashed her his infamous smile, which cause some girls to faint. (A/N: How 'bout you let me get another thing straight, I DO NOT LIKE BRAWLY, it's just to cause some... excitement for our heroes here... :insert evil laugh here:)
Mia nodded her head while lowering it to hide her tainted cheeks while the rest of her friends rolled their eyes (A/N: Yesh, even May, she likes Steven, remember?)
"How 'bout less flirting and more battling, eh?" May asked.
"Huh? Oh ya! Battle, right... Go, machop!" (A/N: how much of these does he have?)
"Go Silcoon!"
"Machop, Karate chop!"
"Dodge it then tackle it, Silcoon!"
The cocoon pokemon quickly ducked from machop's attempt to hack it and countered with its tackle attack.
"Low kick now!"
The muscle pokemon quickly extended it's foot and strikes the silcoon with a vigorous force.
"Now finish it off with a seismic toss!"
"Try to get away from it, silcoon! If you can't use harden!"
The bug pokemon's attempt of getting away failed and the machop carried it up near the ceiling and threw it down to the ground. Like Ralts, it plummets into the ground and fainted.
"No worries, return Silcoon, go Blaze!"
"Low kick, Machop!"
"Use ember, Blaze!"
Blaze's far range attack gave her the advantage of attacking first as the machop tried to run to her and then attack. The fiery streams scorched the machop.
"Machop, seismic toss!"
"Dodge it and scratch it!"
The chic pokemon wasn't fast enough to get out of its grab but she got out of his grip from scratching it.
"Use Karate chop!"
"Finish it off with an ember!"
Once again, Blaze sent flames at the machop and caused it to faint.
"Return, Machop, go Makuhita"
"Peck it, Blaze!"
"Counter it with a tackle!"
The two pokemon crashed together, just before Makuhita bashed Blaze's body away, she managed to peck him a few times but the plump pokemon's tackle sent the torchic away from it.
"Use ember, Blaze!"
"Ha, tackle it again!"
Once again, the bird pokemon sent out flames but this time, the didn't affect her opponent a lot and it just kept on going with it's tackle.
"What?!"
"May, Makuhita has a special ability called Thick Fat, it protects it from being burned or frozen, and so it makes Blaze's flames injure it less!" Mia explained.
"I guess we have to win this without fire, scratch!" May commanded.
"Vital throw!" Brawly instructed.
The two pokemon bashed against each other again, the torchic scratched the makuhita a few times before it grasped her and was ready to throw her to the ground like her fellow teammate, Silcoon.
"Scratch it again!"
Blaze tried to do so but this time, she wasn't as lucky, and Makuhita's grip didn't loosen. Once again, Makuhita threw her May's pokemon to the end of the battle.
"B-blaze?" May called out to her fainted pokemon as water began to fill her eyes.
Her friends got off the bleachers and went over to May.
'Why does my heart... feel so...' Brendan started thinking.
"B-blaze?" She called once again.
"I think you should rush her to the hospital," Brawly said.
"I-I l-lost..." May said unbelievably.
"It's okay, May, everyone looses sometimes," Brendan tried to comfort.
"Ya, it's okay," Her friends agreed.
May spun around and ran past her friends and right through the door. As she did so, sniffing sounds and a small 'clunk' could be heard and something sparkling seen in the light as she ran through the door. On the floor, there laid two pokeballs. (A/N: :sarcastically: Yes, I wonder what the 'sparkling' things are...)
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May: The chapter was long... but it was mostly the battle...
Brendan: Wow, you put so much A/Ns in this chapter...
Yes...It's getting late now... and I'm getting tired... this chapter isn't that great... the battles were kinda sloppy... :sigh: I'm tired... need... sleep...
May& Brendan: --;;
Oh, it's going to be hard for me to update with school and blocks so don't expect me to update soon... I don't even know how I'm going to put up this, Stargazing AND the new Advanceshipping I'm going to make...
BTW what is the C2 thing? I don't get it...