Lorelei merely nodded again.
The battle had begun.
Red picked up one of the three pokeballs Green had given him. He groaned. He had no idea which pokemon it was...
Green's voice sounded shrilly in his ear. "You're hesitating. The point is to distract her, not come up with a fantastic strategy: just send it out!"
He did. Out popped Wigglytuff.
"Wait a minute," Red whispered into the walkie-talkie, "how do I know your pokemon will listen to me?"
"I don't know for absolute sure," Green admitted, "but Jiggly was my first pokemon. It should trust my judgement in our friendship completely, and therefore trust you."
Red's thoughts were interrupted as Lorelei sent out her first pokemon. Suddenly, there was nothing but the battle.
"Go! Persian!" Lorelei called out. Red was caught off guard. Persian? I thought Lorelei only used ice types... never mind that! What are Wigglytuff's attacks?He was tempted to use his pokedex, but that would give him away for sure.
Red coul hear Blue's voice (slightly muffled, as he wasn't speaking right into the walkie talkie, but from some other part of Lorelei's room) "A Persian? She's trying to protect her disguise, because she's so renowned for ice tyepes. Even though ice is her forte, she's strong. Watch yourself."
A crowd had gathered around them, excited and pleased by the sudden battle. However, they were a bit confused by this distinguised old man's first choice. A pink, girlish pokemon? Red could swear that Green did this sort of thing to humiliate him...
"Um, doubleslap!" Red called to the waiting Wigglytuff. Automatically, the ballon-like pokemon began to hit the Persian with surprising speed.
"Finish it off! Mega punch!" Wigglytuff wound up and delivered a punch, knocking the Persian out. Red did notice some scratches on Green's pokmon, but Wigglytuff seemed to be doing just fine.
Red was impressed. "Jiggly's really strong."
"I told you - it was my first pokemon."
Lorelei seemed peeved. She muttered something under her breath, recalled Persian, and sent out a Cloyster.
"She's blowing her cover," Blue commented tensely, "Green, you were really on the mark when you said she was proud..."
Okay, thought Red, it worked once...
"Wigglytuff! Doubleslap!"
"Withdraw!"
Jiggly tried its best, but it was unable to hurt Cloyster. Lorelei laughed.
"You can't use the same tactic this time! Whicle Cloyster is withdrawn you can't hurt it. And when it's open..." Cloyster slowly opened, "You'll be too busy taking its attacks!"
The room temperature lowered and the Wigglytuff was assaulted with sleet. Red looked at Green's pokemon sympathetically. It looked like it was freezing.
"Don't just stand there!" Green said nervously, "attack while it's open!"
Cloyster seemed to be closing. "Sing!" Red shouted. Cloyster seemed tos truggle for a moment, but then fell asleep mid-close.
"Is it asleep?" Green asked anxoiously.
"Yeah," Red replied, slightly relieved, "it worked."
Green sighed, contented.
"Green! Come here! I think I found something," Blue called. Red tuned out their conversation and focused on his battle, though he could hear the two.
"What is it?" Back in Lorelei's room, Green closed the drawer she was searching and walked over to Blue.
"A letter," Blue said solemnly, a hint of fear in his voice.
Green looked at it. She read little snippets... Elite Four... re-plan... this time, we'll finsih it... Sincerely, Lance.On the last word, Green felt a chill go through her bones.
"Lance? Lance wants to regroup the Elite Four?" her voice, unlike Blue's, expressed nothing but fear.
"It seems like it..." Blue said, glancing up and, for once, seeing Green looking trulysmall and upset. He reached out to touch her hand, but she pulled away.
Suddenly, her voice took on its commanding tone again. "Take taht with us. I don't know if Lorelei will miss it or not, but I need to read it all the way through, and have Red see it too..."
Blue gave a little smile. "Okay," he answered.
Back in the dining room...
"Batter it with pound!" Red commanded. Jiggly did as it was told, when suddenly Cloyster's eyes opened wide. It seemed unaffected by the Wigglytuff's attacks.
"What the...?"
Lorelei smirked. "Cloyster was asleep, yes, but your sing really had no effect. Cloyster was using rest."
Red was stunned. Then he smiled. The fight was really heating up...
"Mega punch!"
"Clamp!" Cloyster clamped down hard on the Wigglytuff's arm. Jiggly fainted. I was too hasty, Red realized, ashamed, as Wigglytuff fell to the ground.
"Jiggly...!" Red heard Green wail softly. He felt a pang of sadness. He could relate to someone who's most trusted pokemon had fallen... Poor Green...
"Return! Now, go!"
He chose another of the three pokemon. This time, it was Blue's Scizor.
"Blue, what where you thinking?" Red muttered, "it's part bug-type! It'll freeze!"
"Only if Lorelei's attacks can catch up. Scizor is trained for speed," Blue said coolly. Honestly, he didn't think Lorelei would lose her head and blow her cover with her ice types... well, sometimes you bet wrong...
Red grunted. "Take down!" he shouted.
Scizor dashed at Cloyster, running in a blur.
"Ice beam!" Lorelei shouted. The ice beam could not hit its fast-moving target.. but suddenly...
Scizor was frozen in place, just about ready to attack Cloyster. It's gleaming scythe-claw was inches away from Cloyster's vulnerable body.
Lorelei smirked. "Well, I got lucky, didn't I? But you should know better. Bug types are extremely vulnerable to ice types like Cloyster."
There was a regretful silence on Blue's end.
Red clenched his jaw. Without thinking he threw out a pokeball.
"Thunderbolt!" he shouted. Pika, who was already charged inside its ball, automatically shocked Cloyster, who was caught off guard and unable to close in time.
"You idiot!" Blue cried
Lorelei looked upset, but then sent out her last pokemon.
"Dewgong!" she cried, "Blizzard!
The whole room became cold, adn the floor was slicka nd icy. The bystanders began tot fidget and look uncomfortable.
Pika stumbled clumsily on the ice.
I have to trust that Pika will get a grip on things... Red reassured himself. Really, he had no doubt in his mind that Pika would win.
"Pika!" Red shouted, "Thunderbolt!" Pika tried, but couldn't maneuver, much less attack, on the ice.
"You're using it's nickname?" Green hissed.
"Come on, Green, Pika must be a pretty popular nickname. And besides, Pika responds better-"
"I told you, its' not about winning, it's about distracting her! And not giving anything away..."
Green looked down at the walkie-talkie in her hands as though she wanted to smash it.
"It's any god trainer's instinct to win at all costs," Blue told her, "you saw how Lorelei tookt a chance of losing her disguise just to user her better pokemon."
Green understood, but she wasn't any less upset.
"Pika..." Red muttered under his breath, hoping with all his might that pika would win.
"Dewgong! Body slam!" Lorelei shouted confidently.
Dewgong slid gracefully over to Pika at full speed, when suddenly Pika skidded away. Dewgong, unable to stop, knocked into the wall.
Good! Red thought happily. Pika had been able to move all along... it was just playing possum for Dewgong.
"Now that it's dazed! Thunder!"
A boom louder than any filled the room and everyone was temporarily blinded by the light that accompanied it. When Red regained his sight, he saw Pika standing near a fainted Dewgong.
Blue could see Green's face light up with pride, obviously forgetting about Red's little mishap. "Red stole my TM... wow. I didn't know he had it in him..."
"Let me guess," Blue said sarcastically, although he, too, was smiling andproud of his friend, "one of your bags is full of TMs."
"Dewgong!" Lorelei cried, on the verge of tears.
Red felt bad that she was taking it so hard.
Lorlei returned Dewgong and attempted to strutted out of the room, trying her best to maintain her dignity.
Green and Blue simultaneously froze. "Uh-oh."
Within seconds, there was a jiggling sound at the door.
"I-it's locked? I d-didn't lock it," Lorelei, puzzled,stuttered through her tears.
Green switched off her walkie-talkie. The room looked as though it had been ransacked (they hadn't been prepared for Lorelei to return so soon), but if Lorelei called the police,Greenquickly deduced,fingerprints wouldn't be found. She always wore gloves, and as a precaution she'd forced Blue to do the same.
If only they could find a way out...
"Here," Blue hissed, roughly pushing her to the window. "Wait.. stand back..."
He released Pidgeot. "Peck," he commanded. He could hear Lorelei fumbling through her purse, then-
There was a loud crash of breaking glass. Luckily, the window was a large one and Pidgeot wiggled through with ease.
Blue pushed Green through, then jumped on himself.
They landed on Pidgeot's large back and flew upwards, out of sight, just as Lorelei entered her room.
The could hear her frightened shriek. And her moans.
"Oh my God, oh my God..."
Blue noted that she seemed to almostbe expecting this sort of thing, but truly dreading it.
"I feel sorry to scare her so badly," Green commented softly. They flew up to the deck, waited until no one was passing by, then jumped off Pidgeot. Blue quickly recalled his pokemon.
They stood there for a moment, hearts beating quickly. That was a close one...
"Don't you think... breaking a window like that...?" Green trailed off, still to petrified to put her thoughtsinto words.
Blue laughed wryly. "This from a former - or should I say current - thief? Worrying about breaking a window."
Green shook her head. "I'm no thief."
"Then what do you call taking my wallet?"
"Flirting, I guess," Green replied nonchalantly.
"Really? Oh. That's um. Weird." He seemed surprised.
"Do you have the letter?" Green asked.
"It's right here," Blue said, holding up the paper.
"Let's go meet up with Red," Green suggested.
"And tell Yellow that he's finally gotten over his stomach bug," Blue joked.
a/n: There was your battle:) How did you like it? Please review. :) Oh, and I stuck the flirting in there. But that doesn't really mean too much. Because honestly, Green seems to flirt with everyone. Including Yellow's uncle. Creepy.