Author's Note:

M1DN1GHT: Yes, I am weird. PHEAR ME. Cool. I actually did something right. /grin/

Cuddlybear: Yes, I am incredibly random at times. BUNNIES ARE COOL. /smiles/

And after quite a while…

Mr. Unimportant: Weird, but spiffy. Yeah, something like that. /evil grin/ Well, just to tell you…you'll see Chase again, in this chapter or the next. Oh goodie. Usually my humor sucks. Why Trinity was in the valley? You'll see. Mwuahaha.

And if this chapter sucks, might be because I'm watching some stupid show called Krypto The Super Dog. WHAT IS THIS CRAP? Actually though, this is probably my favourite chapter out of all of them (even beating the one before this, although the last chapter of this story might be my favourite).

Chapter Seventeen: Anna and Ricca: Flash Edition

"Fine, and so we are! EVERYONE! ATTACK!" Bry yelled, pointing at Trinity.

"…How you moron?" Anna asked, leaning over slightly with her hands on her hips. " I can barely control Apology, you can't control Veloci, and we have to fight ALL of them, not just her!"

"Since when? She's the only one that would fight us. The others wouldn't care." Bry then glanced behind him, and froze, mouth hanging down. Almost a dozen Grunts were standing behind Trinity, their hands on their belts, ready to pummel him down with their brute Pokemon.

"Told ya," Miro muttered.

"You didn't say a thing."

"I thought it."

"I can't read your mind. Or can I?"

"You can't even read your own mind Bry, much less mine," Miro answered, and this left Bry speechless, as he tried to come up with a witty comment.

"Oh yeah? Well…err…you have red hair!"

"And you have blonde."

"HOW DID YOU KNOW? NOW YOU'VE MADE ME FEEL BAD."

"Excuse me, boys, but, I have to deal with you now, or else, Groudon won't be happy. He needs to wake up," Trinity interrupted, crossing her arms against her chest, feet set apart by about a foot.

"I don't know. I thing that big red thing is having a nice nap. Waking it up would be mean," Anna said.

"That big red thing is Groudon, the lord of the earth. How dare you just call him some red thing!" Trinity fumed hotly. "And his power will suck away water from the oceans, and in its place, will be masses of land! Wait, I told you this already."

"Yeah, sure sweetheart. Keep thinking that," Winona said. She then glanced at Maxie. "You. Maxie, the leader of all of this. Have anything to say before we take you down?"

Maxie gritted his teeth, then looked to Trinity, and said gruffly," Trinity, you can take these kids, can't you? I'll deal with her." Maxie immediately grabbed a Pokeball from his pants, and pushed the button, causing it to increase in size. Winona did the same thing as well, a determined look on her face.

"Sure, I guess." Trinity shrugged, then grabbed onto one of her own Pokeballs.

"Where's Sparky, huh?" William asked.

"Oh, you'll meet him. Well, kind of."

"…Okay then…" Matthew replied, confused.

"GO! ATTACK NOW!" Maxie commanded harshly, throwing his Pokeball, as a Houndoom appeared, giving a roar before it snorted, tail whipping fiercely behind it.

Winona snorted, and then smirked almost evilly, as she released her Pokemon, Pelliper.

"So, you're going to be all smart and attack with type advantages?" Maxie asked. "Haha. How pathetic. Houndoom can take you down."

"Well see, won't we?"

"Go!" Trinity yelled, glancing back at the Grunts, who had made motions as to toss their Pokeballs. "NO! NOT YOU! ME!" The grunts looked rather putout, but hung back, incase she needed any help. Trinity then muttered, and threw her Pokeball so harshly on the ground, you'd think she was to jump and attack it afterwards, and it'd break. But, it did not, although the gang had probably hoped for it. Instead, a large Manectric took the place of the flash.

"…What the hell is that? That isn't Sparky," Ricca snorted, staring at the dog-like thing, much larger than Sparky, as a growl emitted from his vocals-the Manectric, not Ricca-and he bared his fangs.

"It somewhat resembles Sparky though, in an odd sort of way. Well, she or he, won't stop us," Matthew concluded, nodding.

"Well duh! I mean, jeez, of course-wait. YOU CAN'T TELL?" Trinity yelled. "RAKURAI IS A BOY!"

"Well, it's kind of hard…" Miro admitted, glancing at the dog, who snorted, walking around in circles a few times before laying down, watching with eyes half closed. "I mean…"

"You don't see anything that shows it…" Bry finished, glancing under the dog as he stood up.

"THAT'S SICK BRY!" Anna cried out, smacking Bry in the back of the head. In response, Bry gave a cry in pain, and held his head.

"WHAT ARE YOUR NAILS? NAILS!"

"No, they're pieces of carrot! OF COURSE THEY'RE NAILS."

"No, I mean the nails that you put stuff into wood, and it holds them together and stuff!"

"Oh…" Anna studied her fingers for a few moments. "Nope."

"Ugh. You kids are so annoying. Anyway, this fellow here is a bit like Sparky." Trinity grinned before going on. "Same blood."

"A cousin or something?" Miro asked.

"Ugh. No. Rakurai is Sparky's father."

"…Oh…" This 'Oh' lasted for quite a while in the large group, Trinity only getting more annoyed as it rang on for about twenty seconds, although Bry didn't make it that long. At about five, he had to take a quick breath and hope that he hadn't been spotted.

"You know, this reminds me of the time-" William began, but was cut off by Cecilia.

"What time? Huh?"

"Oh. That time," Ricca and Anna said together. Bry, Miro, and Cecilia looked dumbfounded, but the rest were beginning to laugh.

/Flashback/

BZZP!

/FLASHBACK/

BZZP!

/FLASHBACK DAMN IT/

Long ago, okay, maybe a few months ago or so, this story had happened. Well, memory more like it. This took place in the Inn in (oh my god three in's!) Mineral Town, the name making it quite put off as it didn't have many minerals in the actual town, except, cobblestone. Ricca and Anna had been testing out computers that Doug had received in a mail package, sort of as an advertisement, and if you liked it enough, you would buy them. Of course, you had a trial of how many days to play it, and since Anna and Ricca had wanted to give it a try, he had let them.

Currently, Anna and Ricca had figured out how to make wondrous flash videos, basically videos made by people of all ages, but not like those high-tech videos, although some were quite eye openers. They had fooled around with this for a while, and had finally gotten the hang of it.


Suddenly, Anna got an idea, as she began to fix up her character, which was a cute chibi form of her. "We should make each other! Wouldn't that be fun Ricca? Then we could make a movie together, and see how neat it'll be!"

Ricca glanced towards her friend, who by now had begun squeeing at her idea, thinking it was superb, and just out of her evilness of what to do with Anna, and to not let Anna get too hyped up and break the table again, agreed. "That sounds spiffy. So, I'll move my monitor across from you, so you can't see what I'm doing, all right?" Anna nodded vigorously, and Ricca picked up the monitor and set it across from Anna, as they had been sitting side by side before.

"Okay, ready, set, go!" At the exact time, both began to fire away quickly at their keyboards, Anna occasionally glancing up at Ricca, who only gave her a look and Anna quickly looked back down. A few minutes later, Ricca decided she was done, and a few moments after, Anna was as well.

"Okay! You done?" Ricca nodded. "So, let's show each other! One, two, three!" Anna and Ricca quickly turned their monitors towards each other, and Anna yelped, while Ricca glared.

"You made me Jessica Simpson!" Anna cried out in disgust. "I hate her! She's so fake! I've seen her on the TV, and she sucks!"

"That's nothing! You made me Cher! And she's blonde too!" Anna peered around to see the monitor, and grinned, but Ricca was far from pleased.

"Okay then, how about this?" Ricca quickly pressed a few keys, and suddenly, Jessica Simpson changed.

"FAT ALBERT? NOW THAT'S NOT RIGHT!" Anna and Ricca then glared at each other, and bitterly mumbled.

"Then how about this?" Ricca yelled.

"AVRIL LAVIGNE? KEEP IT KEEP IT!" Anna cried out in joy, grinning and clapping her hands approvingly.

"Not if you like it that much!" Ricca yelled in disgust.

"Well, how about this?" Anna quickly clicked a few times, and what had been Cher turned into a piece of toast.

"But what kind of toast?" Ricca asked suspiciously, and Anna snorted in reply. "Rotten old moldy toast with rotten butter and rotten strawberry jam that your mom makes that's been left in the chicken coop for too long because Popuri thought that the chickens might like it. And look, it dances too." Anna laughed heartily, and the toast began to do the robot, which I think is quite hard to do, being a piece of toast, you have no limbs.

Ricca clicked again, and Avril Lavigne became Sora, from Kingdom Hearts, the infamous video game, brandishing even the Oathkeeper Keyblade.

"Who the hell is that?"

"Not sure. Found him on some website. The girls seem to go mad for him, when he's a mere video game character." Ricca laughed, although it was an evil laugh. "Imagine that. A video game character."

"I think I found another character from the same website too," Anna admitted, and none other than Riku appeared in the toast's place, brandishing his own Keyblade, a rather plain red and black one, with a blue tinge to the handle. Suddenly, without Ricca and Anna doing anything, the characters came to life, and the only thing Anna and Ricca could do was watch.

"Riku!" Sora yelled, sweeping his Keyblade to his side. "Is that—"?

"Yes, a Keyblade," Riku replied, and suddenly, his clothing transformed into his Heartless clothing, you know, with those three belts and that Hawaiian skirt thing, and the skin tight red, black, purple, and blue suit with the purple boots and such. Not to mention, he now had that really hot voice. "But unlike yours," he continued," mine has the ability to unlock people's hearts. Allow me to demonstrate." Riku then glanced around, and suddenly, the background shifted into Hollow Bastion background, with a Maleficent cardboard cut out a few feet away. Riku then whirled around, causing his skirt to billow, as he thrusted the Keyblade into Maleficent's heart. "Surrender your heart to the darkness! Become darkness itself!" Instead, the Keyblade had gone straight through the cardboard, and the Keyblade was now jammed in. Riku then gave a glare at the cardboard cut out, and gave a tug to try and free his weapon. Instead, the cardboard fell on top of him with a thud.

Sora immediately dashed over, tugging on Riku's hair as he pulled him out from under the cardboard. Riku was soon freed, as he sat up, unharmed from the cardboard falling on top of him, or Sora's tugging. "Well, that sucks." Suddenly, Riku leaped up, nearly knocking Sora off his feet as he barely got out of the way, and Riku held himself in attack position.

Sora looked bewildered, but gave a determined look, and he himself got into attack position as well. A moment later, Sora came dashing at Riku, who quickly slid out of the way, and slid back towards Sora, holding his Keyblade out in front of him and giving his battle cry. This lasted quite a while, as both defended and attacked, but soon, they both stopped in mid-attack, meaning the flash video was over.

"What the heck are you two doing? I heard battle cries and two teenage boys in here. Was it Matthew and William or something?" Doug peered out from the kitchen doors, glancing at Anna and Ricca with one eyebrow cocked, as he continued drying a glass.

"No Grandpa," Anna chimed, giving a girly smile. Doug laughed, shaking his head, as he disappeared back in.

"That was really cool," Ricca said, staring at the screens.

"Yeah, it was," Anna agreed.

"So, what do we do now?"

"I SMELL COOKIES!" Anna cried out suddenly.

"Really? Where? Go find them!" Ricca laughed, acting as though Anna were a dog.

"In the kitchen!" Anna then scampered off into the kitchen, Ricca behind, laughing.

And for those of you who are wondering, Doug did not buy those computers, having seen Anna and Ricca's behavior after playing on them. Shame, really.

/Flashback End/

"Can I ask how the hell that has anything to do with this?" Miro muttered.

"Err…not sure really. But, it was fun to tell the story again!" Anna laughed nervously, putting her hand behind her head.

"Okay kids, back to reality!" Trinity screeched. "It's time to end this! I'm not waiting forever, you know! I have something to do afterwards! And it's not going to wait all day!"

"Ugh! Fine!" Ricca yelped. "Just shut up!" Rather frighteningly, Trinity did not retort, and only narrowed her eyes and crossed her arms against her chest again.

"Okay, let's fight them now!" Bry yelled, pointing at Trinity and the grunts.

"You've said that for the past like…two chapters or something," William pointed out.

"Well now, we're actually going to do it!" Bry retorted, glancing back at William. "Just you wait and-"

"…What's that rumble?" Cecilia asked, glancing around frantically as she hid behind Bry.

"It's Groudon! He's awakening!" Trinity screamed, watching the orb in her hands glow a ruby red, as she finally opened her hands, allowing the group to finally see what it was clearly.

"Wait a minute…that's mine!" Bry yelled, stomping his foot down.

"Yours? Of course not! This is the Ruby Orb, the only thing that can control Groudon! Don't be ridiculous!"

"Yes it is! It was on my table! It's my mom's!" Bry said defensively. "Just look on the back of it!"

"Fine, if you are so stupid as to question it." Trinity turned it over, and her eyes widened by quite a bit, as she read aloud what it said. "Kay's Jewelry, located in…WHAT? THIS CAME FROM SOME JEWELRY STORE?"

"Look! Even my mom's name is on it!" Bry said.

Trinity glanced back at it, and indeed, inscribed in it, was a message. "To Muffy, love Brian, for our tenth wedding anniversary." Trinity glared at Maxie, who was already in a very tough battle. "YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!" But Maxie gave no answer, too busy commanding his Houndoom to attack.

"Hey! That thing is starting to wake up pretty quick!" Miro yelled, pointing. Indeed, Groudon was beginning to open its eyes. One arm moved, and the other followed. It gave a snort, as it seemed with great difficulty to attempt to take a step in the molten lava, which swished around as the thing took another step. It then threw its head back, giving an earth-shattering roar.

Veloci and Apology cried out, both shivering frantically, which was new for Veloci, who seemed such a badass if you ask me.

Rakurai also seemed shaken, as he gave a howl, and began barking at Trinity. Trinity looked shocked at what Rakurai was saying to her. "No! That's not true! It can't be!"

"What?" the gang yelled, and immediately after, Groudon gave another roar.

"THAT THING IS CHASE!" Trinity screeched. The other Team Magma members froze, and glanced up. Hearing its name, the legendary turned its head towards Trinity, eyes narrowed and jaws opened a bit.

"IT CAN'T BE! CHASE…he…" Cecilia stuttered, blinking back tears that welled into her eyes.

"I suppose there won't be any fighting in this chapter?" William asked Bry, glancing.

"I guess not. It was probably a psyche to fool the readers into continuing on," Bry retorted.

"Oh. Then…haha. The readers just got served!" Anna giggled, but was soon shushed out by everyone focusing on her. "Um, yeah…"