So I just realized that I was actually the one who was supposed to do the next drabble. Oops. I'm guessing that Remi must have updated when I was having eye trouble, otherwise I would've noticed right away. Oh well.

Anyway, here's the next chapter finally! It may seem like a non-sequitur at first, but it'll make more sense by the end. Oh, and it'll make no sense whatsoever unless you read Remi's last chapter in After Being Blue. But you should be reading her series alongside mine anyway. :P

Pokeball 22 – Enduring

Ever since she was young. Sabrina had always closed herself off. Being a natural psychic, she was an oddity from the start. Many bratty and fearful peers accused her of being a Pokemon in disguise. This did not disgust her as much as expected. Honestly, she preferred the company of Pokemon over people anyway. As she grew older, she learned many people were like that, outsiders or not. Things would have been so much simpler if she had been a Pokemon.

Well, perhaps not. Even now she remembered Cinnabar's Pokemon experiments. She was rarely involved with it, since her government-stated purpose was scanning for traitors and forewarning of impeding disasters. Still, they were in the same building, so it was hard to ignore the ungodly cries of wholly unnatural things. Then there was the one who wasn't an amalgamation of chaos. A very inquisitive and rational thing who liked to reach out to her mind. Psychics drew psychics. It didn't matter what species each one belonged to.

She wondered how Mewtwo was doing.

Sabrina's life had always been about enduring. First ridicule, then manic adoration, then war, then a suffocating peace. Still, it could have been worse. She could have been on the front lines, subject to all the horrid grief and rage of both sides, Pokemon and human alike. She could have lost her childhood Pokemon, who still stood by her to this day. The likes of Alakazam would probably outlive her anyway, even if she lived a long and perfectly healthy life. Positive mental fortitude went a long way for any organism capable of it, much less a Psychic-type Pokemon. Its undoubted optimism also radiated to Sabrina, smoothing out her lower moments.

It was that optimism that moved Sabrina toward Lavender Town. Even when Alakazam had finished teleporting her, she let it stay free. There would be a battle, after all.

She found them soon enough. The brutal, idealistic boy of the revolution. His friend. more logical, restrained, yet just as ferocious. Her own old friend, who had endured much more than Sabrina, even before this new rebellion. A rebellion that had finally crushed the war-hating woman under its clumsy trampling feet.

None of these were Sabrina's true opponent.

Red was trying to get his uncharacteristically cowardly Pokemon to attack. Seemed neither boy thought to bring a Silph Scope to identify any mysterious ghosts. It was just as well. Erika wasn't possessed by the typical Gastly and Haunter. Some things were better left unknown.

Blue was the first to notice the Psychic-type Gym Leader's arrival. "Sabrina! What are you doing here?"

What was she doing here? She had several visions of this moment, and all of them ended badly for Erika. Had she come here of a sense of duty, to see what ill fate her friend would ulimately have?

No. She put too much faith in her visions. Hadn't they been disproven or dramatically altered time and time again? If she didn't like what she saw, she would try to change it. Even if she failed, she could endure the results. At least she hadn't passively hidden behind her psychic predictions, like she always had, even as a child.

So it was with calm, defiant grace that she turned around to greet the true opponent's nearly silent steps/

Agatha had come at last.

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Next up, Agatha versus Sabrina! Or however Remi wants to handle it :P

We're planning to get a fair amount of work done on this series come October. After that it'll be Nano time, and then holidays, so not much will happen during these months. I do want to get this one wrapped up fairly soon though, or at least on a more regular update schedule.