"Hey Silver lets go see our final's score got on the tag teams tournament!"
It had been about a few days since the battles and they were all fully recovered. Along with that, it was nearing winter break. The pair were looking at the score results, as were many other Pokemon. well, trying too. There was lots of chatter going around about the tests. "I got into the top ten," "damn it! I got 120th place" "it's not so bad with 2000 other contestants" " oh, right" this chitter chatter went on for a while until they bumped into Gary. "Hey, what did you get?" he asked. "we haven't been able to get through" "I can take care of that," he said while fishing through his inventory"hold your breath,close your eyes," he said while throwing a small green pellet into the midst of the crowd. they couldn't see but they could hear the sounds."ACK!" "what the-huurrggg" " whats happening to meee-snork-hack-zzzzzzzz" after a while of similar words, Gary said "ok, open your eyes" all around them lay unconscious Pokemon, still breathing but not awake." what did you do?" both Silver and Lucas said at the same time,"sleeping powder seed," he said coolly." and before you ask, i got it from an ivysaur" "thats fair," the eevee replied. the gengar picked his way through the Pokemon and looked at the score chart "Woohoo! we got 25th place!" "We did," said spark, appearing out of a classroom. "can you tell us what we got? Theres a sleeping snorlax in our way." "hehe, classic snorlax. sure" he replied, searching the chart for their names. Lucas was about to start up a conversation with jake when he heard 3 words that echoed throughout the school "OH. MY. ARCEUS." they all turned to the gengar with looks of surprise on their faces."HOLY CRAP! ******* ARCEUS! WHAT THE HELL! NO ******* ******** ***************** WAY! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOO! HOW!? HOW THE **** DID THEY DO IT!? 100% PRECISION! 100% PROCEDURE! 95% STRATEGY! 100% FOLLOW UP! HOW?! *****************" This rant went on for quite a while, and after they got over the snorlax, the team looked at the score board and had pretty much the same reaction. For there, in the top ten, was listed a team, squad 7A, was in second place. Silver's stuttering voice came out of the silence. "B-b-but sq-sq-sq-squad 7A i-is o-our squad." Lucas was frozen at the sight that out of 2000 Pokemon, they were ranked second place."no…wait…this might be bad." The jackal Pokemon said slowly. "HOW," the bigger pokemon's giant smile lowered. "you know, the HL effect…right?""WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THAT." Gary gave him a stony cold stare."err…" Lucas breathed while backing away.
Lucas thought fast as the shadow Pokemon advanced. He dived down and then jumped up, delivering a force palm attack straight in the gut. the attack was so accurate, it knocked Gary right out on the spot. 'sorry Gary, but i just can't let this one stand without anyone saying anything' "No wonder you guys got second place, not any average Pokemon can K.O. a high level gengar like Gary in just one single hit," Spark noted. Lucas started to tell about the "HL" effect. "The HL effect stands for HateLove effect. it means when you do something great, i.e., getting second place in a finals exam with over 2000 Pokemon, the 'Mon around you either love you, for getting a high score and admire and want to be you. thats the loving effect. then, there's the hate effect. others will become jealous of you, thus, hating you, not wanting to be your friend, and if it goes to the extreme, might want to kill you." He stopped to take a breath. "The reason Mr. Stubborn won't want to talk about it is that once, before he transferred from an academy in johto, he got first in some sort of tournament and only a few had the 'love' effect. He got cornered by a gang of Nidorino, Scyther, and Muk after the results and they threatened to kill him. Then he threatened to kill them. They all started laughing and that was their mistake." He paused and took another breath. "Laughing at a Pokemon who just got first in a battle tournament wasn't a very good idea. Gary acted fast and conjured up a hypnosis. The gang was too busy laughing to notice that they were in for it. He cast a nightmare making them twitch and run(in the dream) towards the safe spot they knew. Not for long. Gary then used Dream eater and destroyed the happiness and joy in their minds, along with the safe spot. At the time, I was only a Riolu, traveling from region to region, and I was there on the outside of the alley staring in shock. Doing my best, I scanned their aura. Very little life remained in them, and they were all in comas." Silver gasped."I knew if Gary was to survive his next night, he would have to leave johto. So I lead him away and when we ended up in Sinnoh, we parted ways. Shortly after, I evolved, and we met up and at first he didn't recognize me, as last he saw me as a riolu. Life went on from there and we both got degrees to go to Groudon's academy of the earth. Then I moved here-" "Ok, enough with your life story. It's BORING." Silver said with a dumb look on her face.
"That doesn't seem like the gengar iI know. How long ago was this?" Spark asked. Lucas looked deep in thought. "7 years ago" "WHAT! How could Gary almost KILL 7 Pokemon when he was 12?!" "I killll…7 whu," "my que to start running." Lucas said while performing a stable backflip over a groggy Gary. "WHAT THE HELL MAN! WHAT WAS THAT?!" "I DUNNO! IM A NINJA! SCREW YOU!" He shouted while running away from the gengar.