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Chapter 42: KvL/Vacation Preparation

"That would be me."

Kris smiles and gets out her own PokéGear. Her first decision is to start with her Meganium.

"Alright then, get ready!" Lyra releases an Azumarill.

Battle,

GO!

Krystal starts the match by swiping right and using Razor Leaf multiple times.

Instead of moving, Lyra's Azumarill and charges Bubble Beam.

Kris frowns. She's at a type advantage and Lyra chose to use a move that's not very effective.

Nevertheless, Azumarill's charged Bubble Beam strikes Krystal's Meganium, dealing 40% of its health.

"You played since launch, right?" Kris asks while spamming Razor Leaf.

Lyra nods with a smile.

"Yep! I even knew about it before it came out!"

At this moment, the Azumarill releases a fully charged Moonblast, which defeats Krystal's Meganium. Lyra's Pokémon is still at 60%, even though it got hit multiple times by Razor Leaf.

"Hmm." Lyra frowns again.

"Time to change the strategy, I guess. This thing is weird..."

Kris releases her Lanturn and moves left before starting to charge Thunder.

Azumarill charges Moonblast again.

Lanturn is faster than Azumarill, so it was able to dodge the Moonblast and hit back with a fully-charged Thunder, dealing 30% damage.

Lyra understands and starts to move around the battlefield, charging Moonblast again.

Kris looks happy when she starts charging Thunder again.

This time, however, Lyra guesses where Kris dodges and hits Lanturn with Moonblast. It deals 45% damage, which leaves Lanturn with more than enough health to release the super-effective Thunder and make Azumarill faint.

Lyra nods.

"Your Pokémon are pretty low-leveled, but they're not bad."

Her next Pokémon is a Ledyba, which cries happily and hovers around, using Bug Bite rapidly.

Kris frowns at the unevolved Bug/Flying-type and starts charging Thunderbolt instead.

However, Ledyba's speed made it so when the Thunderbolt was released, Ledyba had already left Lanturn at 10% health. Ledyba, on the other hand, still had 70%.

In the end, Krystal's Lanturn faints due to Ledyba's speed.

"Fine." Kris sighs. "Let's see how your tiny bug does against my Houndoom."

The Fire/Dark-type Pokémon dashes around the battlefield and uses Fire Fang to shut down Ledyba's attacks. Plus, Houndoom's higher speed lets him avoid the Bug Bites.

After doing this for a while, Houndoom comes out victorious with 80% HP.

"Alright then." Lyra shakes her head with a smile. She was never this cocky when she was with us.

"Time to bring out the big guns."

A Vaporeon appears out of a pokéball and looks at Krystal's Houndoom with indifference.

Lyra immediately starts tapping her screen as furiously and as quickly as she can, hitting Houndoom over and over with Water Gun. Because of this, Kris' Pokémon faints almost instantly.

"What?" Kris frowns, stupefied.

"Vaporeon can't be beat. Just try me." Lyra answers with another cocky grin.

"Ugh, I don't have any more Electric or Grass-type Pokémon." Kris says as she looks at her list.

"Fine. Ursaring!"

It lands on the ground with a roar and starts using Scratch, but Vaporeon's Water Gun is just too fast.

Not long afterwards, Ursaring is defeated and Vaporeon stays at 90%.

"That thing's ridiculous..." Kris mutters.

Still, she releases her Heracross and uses it to quickly hit Vaporeon with Karate Chop.

It does so multiple times, but faints just as quickly as Ursaring to Lyra's Water Gun.

"What is this thing?" Kris finally asks, prompting Lyra to shrug.

"So far, no one's been able to beat my Vaporeon's speed.

Kris groans and releases her last Pokémon, Gliscor.

Vaporeon is still only at 75%.

As a last ditch effort, Kris' Gliscor uses Steel Wing and flies around the battlefield as its owner swipes frantically.

It takes down Vaporeon to 58%, but still faints from the relentless barrage of Water Gun attacks.

Kris sighs and nods.

"I guess that's that. I don't think I got the PokéGO strategy down. It's so weird..."

Lyra shrugs again, satisfied with her result.

"For some reason, Vaporeon's Water Gun is ridiculously fast."

The PokéGO Team Leaders look to each other with a raised eyebrow. Something tells me Vaporeon won't stay overpowered forever.

"Still, it was great reuniting again! It's been so long since all four of us were in the same room!"

Lyra smiles warmly and brings every Johto native in for a big hug. Everyone in the hug smiles as well except for Silver, who looks glad but uncomfortable. I take it he doesn't like hugs.

"Well..." Red mutters as he looks outside the window. The sky is dark blue, signaling the end of the day. The full moon is specially bright tonight.

This all happened in a day. We talked early in the morning about PokéGO, we left soon after eating breakfast, we visited Pallet Town and talked with Red's mom, we visited Cinnabar where we chose our teams and met Candela, we got to Pewter City quickly, we reached Cerulean City afterwards. There, we met Blanche, then Misty, who battled Kris to settle the Suicune dispute. We then left for Saffron City, where we May divided the group in order to cover more ground a lot quicker. We met Spark down in Vermillion and returned to Saffron when the sun was starting to go past the middle of its trajectory across the sky. After that, we heard Red talk about his plan to leave and the Hoenn and Sinnoh Legends' Founder inauguration, left for Viridian City and met Blue through the windows of the Viridian City gym. When the sky started to get dark, we went to New Bark Town reunited with Lyra and Silver, who had left the House about a year ago.

Now the day is done, and it's time to get back to our home in our own pocket dimension.

"It's time to get back." He glances at the Johto Legends, who look reluctant to leave so soon after reuniting at last.

"You two should stay here for a while. The rest of us will head back home. Do whatever you want, but be home by 10."

"We'll be leaving too." Candela speaks up.

"Yeah, Surge will have my head if I don't get there quickly. Bye!" Spark says before dashing past the door.

"It was an honor, Legends." Blanche nods and joins the rest of her friends.

The Johto trainers nod with a smile as the rest of us leave.

Red sighs outside, looking east to modern Kanto. I wonder what he's thinking. Leaf surprises him by slowly walking next to him and holding his hand, making him look back at her instead of Kanto. She whispers something to him I can't hear. He smiles genuinely at her plants a gentle kiss on her lips.

The rest of us are already on our flying Pokémon.

"Ahem. Mr. Founder Legends? Can we go back home now?" Nate interrupts impatiently.

Leaf turns away from her husband and smiles at Nate.

"Yeah, but you're making your own pancakes tomorrow, mister."

Nate looks extremely distraught. Leaf's pancakes are as precious to him as keys are to Klefki.

Using the same Pokémon we used to get to Kanto, we fly across the night sky and head to our mirage spot.

Because Serena and I are the latest Legends, we enter the portal last. I take the opportunity to gaze at the sky from above the clouds. It's probably just my mind playing tricks, but I thought I saw something move in front of the moon. The dark figure went across and disappeared. I'm probably just tired. The day's been long.

"What took you so long?" A snarky voice calls from the living room.

It's blue, wearing his brown pants and black jacket. He's sitting comfortably with a glass of something in his hand and his trademark smirk on his face.

"We had to say goodbye. Plus, Kris and Lyra had a battle."

"The Johto gals."

Blue chuckles.

"Those were some crazy bastards. The first trainers to beat my mixed team in a long while."

Blue grabs a bottle and fills two more cups with its liquid, probably for Red and Leaf.

"I wanna meet more people like that. Last one was Black."

Red frowns as he takes a sip.

"Look around you. They're all here."

Blue laughs. It's true, we're all here, watching the meeting silently but attentively, like a TV show.

"Yeah, the Legends. You should be having a new pair pretty soon, right?"

Leaf nods.

"Some Legends take more time than others to appear, but it should be about time for a new one."

Red groans.

"Oh, god, I just hope they don't show up while we're out. I've never missed the coming of a new Legend and I don't want to start now."

He slumps next to Blue and stares at his glass.

I don't think I've ever seen him this tired.

"Whatever, man. You should take vacations more often. Refreshes you so much you feel like a new man when you come back home. It's why gramps does it so often. The old man just wants to feel young again. It works out for him well enough. Remember that time I almost bumped into one of your Legends back in Kalos while on vacation?"

What? Was that us? When?

"Calem and Serena." Leaf nods.

"I think we forgot to tell them. They're over there."

The rest of the legends move away so Blue can see us. I feel my face grow warmer. I glance over to Serena, who's just as nervous as I am.

"Calem and Serena, yeah! It was back at the Lumiose Museum!"

Blue just said our names! Cool guy Kanto Champion Blue just said our names!

"I was visiting the museum with some Kanto friends when I suddenly had to dash to the bathroom. I guess Kalosian food didn't really agree with my stomach. Anyway, I was in there for a while. I didn't get to meet you guys, but they told me a pair of trainers with impeccable taste in clothing showed up to admire the art as well. I didn't really care until Red and Leaf told me those were you two."

He shrugs.

"It's not a very glamorous story, but it happened."

"So," Red finally empties his glass and sets it upon the table.

"Tell me, what should we bring for the trip? I wouldn't know a lot about that."

Blue nods with a smile.

"Alright! Let's get right into it!"

He jumps up from his seat and heads towards the Kanto room holding both of the trainers by the arm.

The rest of us awkwardly look at each other.

"Well?" Nate finally speaks up.

"Are we going to spy on them or not?"

Black rolls his eyes and sighs, following him to the Kanto room. The rest of us do so as well. We all want to watch more. When else do we have the chance to see Red be himself? Or see Blue at all?

"Ok, first rule of vacation." We hear Blue's voice through the door.

"Always choose something colorful and loose. Vacations are all about letting yourself go and letting everyone know who you are. You can't do that if you don't feel free, and you can't feel free if you're wearing those boring jeans and the same red jacket as always. The shirt has to go too."

We hear nothing, but I think the pause is just Red's face of confusion.

"As for you, Leaf, you should do the same. Wear a dress. Use a bigger hat. Those socks have got to go too. How do you wear those every day? I suffocate just looking at them."

Red and Leaf chuckle as we hear different objects moving around in the room.

It's true that Leaf wears some long light blue socks every single day. I have seen them, and they do look warm.

"Oh, and you should wear another hat." Blue speaks more quietly.

"Take it if you want, but you should get another one just so you can get away from it, feel free."

A long silent pause.

"Fine." It's Red's voice.

Red's going to use another hat? I don't think I've ever seen him without it and that's for a reason. I know how precious those are to him, everyone does. Everyone also knows why. It was explained to us the day we got here, after all.

There's more ruffling until Leaf starts to laugh.

"Oh my god! You still have that thing!?" She says almost out of breath.

Blue joins in too, leaving Red silent again.

"What? I like it..."

"Nah," Blue says.

"You should definitely wear it. I'm gonna be wearing my comfy green shorts, so we'd both look just as ridiculous."

We can hear Red chuckle.

"I'm going to bring my team as well. There's nothing wrong with that, is it?"

Another pause that should be Blue shaking his head.

"Nah, I'm bringing mine too. Are you done?"

Another pause before Red sighs.

"Yeah, I'm done. Let's get back and rest. You should get your room ready. We're not leaving now, so you'll be staying here for at least the night."

Another pause.

We frantically look at each other before bolting away from the door.

"Don't act natural, we know you were there." Leaf says with a smile as she come out of the room.

She's wearing a red skirt wrap with white flowers on it, white high heels, a white top and a bigger hat of the same color as the old one, made for the sun's harsh rays.

Red steps out after her, with a hand on his new hat. He's using a white and red shirt with a red 96 on it and lighter jeans.

Blue comes out last, wearing a grin on his face as well as cool black sunglasses. As he promised, he's wearing comfy green shorts as well as a loosely buttoned black shirt with the collars out.

"What are you all staring at?" Red furrows his brow at everyone and pulls down on his hat.

I think he'll be alright.

Yay! Vacation time for the Kanto guys! Sun and Moon time! I love it!

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