ML54: I know it's been a while. But here's the next chapter.

Pikachu: Took you long enough! It's been at least a week!

ML54: Um...I don't own Pokemon.

Secret Santa

Pikachu and Buneary were just sitting in the room holding five playing cards each. "Go fish." Buneary sighed.

"Pikachu, we're playing poker."

"Yatzee."

"What?" She asked incredulously.

"King me?" He asked, looking at the cards in confusion. Buneary looked at him with her head tilted to the side. "Is it too late to say that I don't know the rules to poker?"

"A bit." She answered, shaking her head and smirking at his silliness. She then looked at the clock and saw that it was 11 o clock at night. "Maybe we should go to bed. It's getting pretty late." Pikachu followed her eyes to the clock and squinted a bit.

"Holy Mew! It's 1 in the morning!" Buneary jumped at that remark, looking at him like he'd grow a second head.

"Sweetie...This is going to sound like an awkward question...but you DO know how to tell time, right?" Pikachu met her eyes with a look that suggested that she was the crazy one.

"Of course...Why? What time do you make it?" Buneary pointed to the number on the clock.

"Well, the little hand is on the 11 and the big hand is on the 0. That would suggest it's 11 o clock." Pikachu followed her paw, squinting harder before clicking his fingers.

"Oh. My mistake." He said, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly. Buneary didn't listen, instead she got a book and handed it to him.

"Could you read me a few lines from that book please?" Pikachu, not being able to resist the cute face she made, took the book and opened it to the first page. Heck, if she keeps that face going, this is going to be one EXPENSIVE wedding.

"Okay...Prid at Provenance..." Buneary interrupted.

"Pride and Prejudice." She corrected to a stumped Pikachu, squinting at the book.

"Oh. So it is..." Pikachu shook his head and continued. "My my Mr Dante..."

"Darcy."Buneary interrupted yet again. Pikachu just threw the book to the side.

"This book is stupid! Why would the font be SO blurry?!"

"Pikachu..." Buneary whined, causing him to look at her again. "It's not got a blurry font. Have you ever considered that you may need glasses?"

"Pft. No. I can see perfectly fine. Like that box saying Decovatians right there." Buneary sighed.

"That box says decorations Pikachu. Decovatians isn't a word." She then looked at a list of some sort next to her. "We're buying our Christmas presents for our Secret Santas tomorrow. But before that you are going to the optometrist." Pikachu tilted his head to the side.

"To see Santa's Stantler?" Buneary held a stupefied look on her face.

"What? No. An eye doctor."

"...and that's how to balance a fork on your nose without poking yourself in the eye." Oshawott explained, tiltering back and forth with a fork on the tip of his nose, sharp end up.

"That's great and all Oshawott." Tepig started, while he removed the silverware. "But that had absolutely nothing to do with what we asked you about your old career." The group were in a restaurant on a white clothed table.

It was quite a fancy restaurant, so the servers weren't all to happy with what Oshawott was doing. But the owner didn't want him to leave considering who he was.

The otter just tutted. "Let me finish. What I haven't said was that after I showed the other Pokemon round the pond, we decided to go on the karaoke and a scout was impressed and asked me to come with him."

Emolga smirked and shook her head. "And you just trust any random stranger that walks up to you and asks you to come with them?" The others had to try and stifle their laughing while Oshawott rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.

"You're lucky Pikachu isn't here..." Piplup started, breaking to try and stifle another laugh coming up. "...he'd rip the shit out of you."

"Ma'am. May I please ask for you not to swear here? We have children in the building." A Mr. Mime server had asked, approaching the table. "And your food is ready."

"Thank you Lewis." Buizel replied, knowing this particular Pokemon from a Rescue mission he took to help him. "And it won't happen again."

"Hey look. They're getting the Christmas tree up in the park." Piloswine mentioned, pointing to the large tree that was being pushed upright in the middle of the park where the stage used to be. "So, you guys ready for secret Santa tomorrow?"

"You bet. This'll be fun!" Chimchar mentioned, between his food. "We pick names tomorrow."

"Yeah. You guys'll definatly have a blast." Emolga added, sighing at the end. Snivy caught on.

"What's wrong Emolga?" She shook her head glancing at the group.

"It's nothing. Really."

"But, as far as we're aware, you live alone Emolga. You don't want to spend Christmas alone, do you?" Oshawott asked, causing a sagged sigh from the Dual type.

"It's fine. I've spent my last three alone. This one won't be any different."

"Oh come one." Pachirisu cut in. "Come and spend it with us. There's still one bed left in the guest room Snivy and Tranquil are staying in."

"I really don't want to impose..."

"No one should spend Christmas alone. C'mon Emolga you're one of Pikachu's friends too, so you're a friend of ours." Oshawott interrupt. Emolga let a small smile on her lips.

"Well...if you insist." Snivy looked down, making sure not to let anyone else see. Looks like she'll be around WAY longer than she thought. Oshawott did catch her look, however, and got confused.

"Huh? Why's Snivy looking so down? I know her and Emolga don't get along. But we can't kick Emolga back to her lonely place on Christmas."

Time Skip-The next morning

Pikachu, last night, was surprised when Emolga came back with everyone. But was still happy to see her. Everyone portrayed the same happiness when they saw that the rodent pair had gotten engaged.

But right now, it was morning. Oshawott, once again, tried to get out of the sun's light. But this time, instead of Tepig, he fell off the side of the makeshift bed. "OW!"

"WHAT?!" Tepig yelled, hearing Oshawott yell that. "Oshawott! What happened?!" The blue Pokemon rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.

"I sort of fell off the side." Tepig stared at him for couple more seconds before sighing.

"You're starting to act like my personal alarm clock dude. You've got to be more careful." Oshawott just laughed it off now rubbing the part of his head he landed on. Snivy rushed down after hearing Oshawott's fall.

"I heard Oshy's yell. Is he okay?"

"Yeah he's fine. Luckily he landed on his head, so no real damage." Oshawott laughed again while Snivy sent a small glare Tepig's way. Piplup then came down as well. "Morning Piplup."

"Morning Unova starters." She replied to them as a group heading to the kitchen. Tepig's eyes lit up at the prospect of food and rushed after her.

"You think he's going to ask first this time?" The Unova Water type asked the Grass type. She shook her head.

"Has the Distortion World started making sense?" Oshawott smirked in response, getting up off the floor.

"Not last time I checked." He then offered a paw to Snivy. "Want to ask for some breakfast?"

Snivy blushed, but took his paw anyway. "Sure..."

"Alright guys." Chimchar announced to the group sitting in the front room after the bed was converted back into a sofa. Piplup Buizel and Pachirisu with Volt on her lap were sitting on the sofa. Buneary took the armchair with Pikachu sitting on the arm of the armchair. The other sofa was occupied by Tepig Croagunk and Emolga. Tranquil and Staraptor were perched behind it. The rest were sitting on the floor. "Time to pick our Secret Santas. I'll just pass the hat around and you guys pick a name out."

Chimchar went first, seeing as he had the hat. He got Buizel. "Your turn Buneary." She nodded and pulled out a name. She got Piplup.

"Here you go Pikachu." He nodded, took the hat, and pulled out a name. He squinted at it carefully.

"Binairy, Binary...oh Buneary." He pumped his fist in his head. Good pull for him. He then handed it to Pachirisu.

She pulled the name Emolga. Yikes, they only just met! "Here you go Bui'."

"Thanks." He pulled out a name. Croagunk. Shit. "Your turn Piplup."

She pulled Staraptor's name. She shrugged. Could have been worse. She handed it over to Emolga. "Your turn new girl."

She smiled in response and pulled Tepig's name. She handed it back to Tranquil. "Here you go Tranquil." The Dual type said, smiling wider.

Tranquil pulled out Piloswine's name. Oh well, could be worse. She handed it to Tepig wordlessly.

Tepig pulled out Pikachu. He then handed it to Staraptor. "It's your turn Staraptor." He nodded to him taking the hat of slowly decreasing names and pulled out Tranquil.

He handed the hat to Croagunk, "Your turn Croagunk." He silently took it and pulled out Pachirisu's name. And then handed it to Chansey.

She took it with a quick 'thank you' and pulled Chimchar. She handed it to Piloswine.

"Thanks." He said, taking the hat. He pulled out the slip of paper containing Chansey's name. He then handed it to Oshawott. "Hey you go Oshy."

"Thanks." He answered, pulling out Snivy's name. "Sweet!" He cheered in his head, handing it to Snivy.

Snivy took it and, being left with one name, pulled out Oshawott. "Just what I was hoping for."

"Alright that's everyone. Hand me back the hat." Snivy gave it back questionable.

"Why do you want the hat back?" Piplup sighed as he put on the black top hat.

"Because it's his hat. I still think you look ridiculous in that thing Chimchar." She complained while Chimchar, playfully, stuck his tongue out.

"I'm not getting rid of it. It cost 70 poke." He crossed his arms in an 'end of discussion' type of motion.

Pikachu and Buneary had gone to the Optician's, via Buneary's insistence, and waiting for her doctor to see him. Pikachu was squinting to read the magazine he was reading, not realising it was an article about menstruation. The rabbit had taken to ignoring him saying stuff like 'Why is there blood in this kids book?'.

He thought he picked up the Gruffalo. Instead he picked up Gruff and Low for Women. She also had to ignore the strange glances other Pokemon were giving them.

Finally after what felt like forever but in reality was like ten minutes, they were called into Dr. Hypno's room. "About time." She sighed, ripping the book out of Pikachu's paws and dragging him in there.

"Hey I was reading that!"

"NO you weren't!" She replied to his comment about the women's magazine and enter the office. There, a yellow humanoid pokemon wearing a doctor's coat and a simple red shirt and black trousers greeted them.

"Good to see you again Buneary. This must be your Boyfriend." He nodded towards the other yellow Pokemon with a smile. "So, Pikachu, can you take a seat and we'll get started."

"Yeah sure. But my eyes are fine." Pikachu replied, sitting down. Buneary facepalmed while the Hypno laughed a bit.

"Oh really. The you'll know that you just sat on the coffee table." Pikachu blinked and squinted to see that he, in fact, was sitting on a coffee table. He jumped up and sat again, on the big chair this time.

"Whoops." Hypno nodded to the chart opposite him.

"Okay read out the letters in front of you from left to right, top to bottom." The Chart read A, H, D, R, F, D, S, Y, E, J.

"Alright. A, H, O, K, E, O, Z, T, F, L." Hypno marked him down, a few points. Before putting a strange binocular like thing in front of him.

"Well, you got all but 2 of the wrong. Try this." Suddenly, Pikachu felt his eyes straining a lot less, seeing the letters like he would have before.

"A, H, D, R, F, D, S, Y, E, J." Pikachu answered. The Doctor nodded, before pulling the binoculars away and walking back to his desk.

"Unfortunately Pikachu, it looks like your vision has become quite bad."

"What are you talking about Doc? I can see fine." Buneary sighed, and turned Pikachu away from the yellow picture of a house on the wall towards the Optician. "Okay. I think I see the problem now."

"Finally, we're getting somewhere!" Buneary exclaimed, having to have dragged Pikachu down here in the first place. The Doctor chuckled, pulling out a black case.

"Don't worry though. All you have to do is wear these glasses and you'll be fine." Pikachu took the case and pulled out the glasses. Placing them onto the bridge of his nose so the long bits wrapped around his ears. "Now don't sleep in those, you'll risk damaging them."

"Thanks Doctor." Buneary decided to say before Pikachu could object and pushed him out the door. "See you next month."

"Buneary! You're bruising my back!"

ML54: Sorry, no real cliff hanger, but it's for the best. I won't be able to work with this much and shouldn't leave you guys in suspense anymore than I should.

Mew: 'Rolls eyes' Of course. It's such a tradegy that you can't work on this.

ML54: Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. Please Review. No flaming.