**Note:

I do not own any of the characters/content/etc. Involving Pokemon or Pokemon Go. They belong to their respective companies.

This fanfiction is dedicated to one of my very good rp friends, Nessa.

"Spark, you have to battle! You promised! Plus it's the only way you're going to make your pokemon strong."

Candela stood with her hands crossed over her chest as Spark sat all teary eyed over his eevee that she'd managed to knock out in battle.

"I don't want to battle any more!"

"Spark!"

The blonde boy scooped up the eevee into his arms and ran off in the direction of the pokemon center of the town they were staying in.

"I don't see how he got picked by the professor"

The dark-haired girl let out a huff as her golden eyes watched for several moments as Spark took off before she turned to look at their other companion - Blanche.

"What about you snow-head. You wanna battle?"

Blanche lifted her head away from the book she had her nose stuck into and gave Candela a blank stare. Candela simply stared back. Finally Blanche gave a harsh sigh, realizing the dark haired girl wasn't about to let her not battle her.

"Fine."

As Blanche stood up and put her book away in her bag, a grin spread across Candela's visage since she was now getting what she wanted. She'd probably send the white haired girl running back to the pokemon center too. Her pokemon were powerful and that's what she needed to succeed.

Pulling out the pokeball for her eevee, Blanche frowned slightly. She didn't want to do this and give into Candela's demands, but the other girl was going to bully her into doing it no matter what Blanche did. There was no winning. The white haired girl really wondered why the professor had chose Candle of all people to help with his research. She was so hot-headed and just wanted to fight, constantly. Blanche could hardly see how any sort of information could be gained out of it.

With another sigh, Blanche called out her eevee. He seemed to be so happy to be out, bouncing around her feet after being released. Blanche had never even battled with the little creature before this. The eevee had served as her best friend and constant companion where people tended to not be present in her life. The girl felt her heart racing as she stood across from Candela and her huge grin.

"Alright Rainer, let's do this," Blanche mumbled to her eevee. The pokemon looked at his trainer with confusion, unsure of what he was supposed to do. Blanche pursed her lips before making a motion with her head in the direction of Candela and her eevee. He looked and seeing them waiting to battle made a confused look at Blanche before trotting towards them.

"Pyro, takle!" Candela commanded before Blanche's eevee was even a few feet away from her. A blank stare came across Blanche's face as she realized she had no idea of any attack moves. Meanwhile Candela's eevee went barreling at Rainer and the eevee was watching in just as much confusion as his rainer.

"Rainer, move out of the way," Blanche cried to try to get Rainer to dodge the attack while she tried to find something in her scattered brain to help her. Then an idea hit. "Rainer, tackle!" It was a little too late. Candela's eevee ran straight into Rainer and sent him flying backwards. Rainer quickly recovered, got up, and then mirrored Pyro's move, charging at the other eevee.

"Dodge it Pyro, then use swift!"

"Rainer, use sand attack!"

Instead of finishing his charge, Rainer put on the brakes and sent dirt flying up. Still Pyro let his attack go, despite being blinded by the flying dirt. The attack found its mark and hit Rainer.

"Rainer!" Blanche cried out as the eevee was sent flying back and didn't get back up right away. She rushed forward and scooped the eevee up in her arms before shooting a cold glare at Candela who was laughing.

"See! You're weak! You're both weak!"

Blanche ignored the girl who was trying to break her down too. She went and gathered her things before striding off back towards the pokemon center so they could check up on her eevee. She didn't look back at Candela, leaving the girl there alone so she could gloat or do whatever it was she was going to do.

[...]

Spark was sitting in the pokemon center anxiously waiting for them to finish with Sparky, his eevee when Blanche entered through the sliding doors.

"Blanche! Oh no, not you too," The blonde had rushed over, excited at first to see the girl and then a worried look developed when he saw the little eevee in her arms. Blanche pursed her lips and just nodded quietly as she strode up to the front desk. The Nurse Joy there was quick in taking Rainer so that they could heal him.

Blanche turned around to go join Spark in waiting for their pokemon to be healed. She sat down next to him quietly, a million thoughts going through her mind. She was quickly drawn out of them though when she felt something touch her shoulders. Her head popped up, surprise in her eyes as she looked to find that Spark had wrapped an arm around her shoulders.

"It's okay. They're going to be okay," Spark tried to reassure her, albeit the normal confidence in his voice wasn't quite there.

"Of course they are," Blanche replied, trying to reassure him. She leaned into his side slightly, letting out a quiet sigh. She was sure that the pokemon would be okay. The staff at the pokemon center knew what they were doing. But what about her? Was she going to be okay with being stuck with such a big bully for the professor's research? She closed her icy eyes and just took a moment to try to convince herself that she'd be okay.

"Hey Blanche?"

"Yeah?" Blanche opened her eyes and lifted her head to look at Spark and see what the boy wanted.

"I'm glad the professor picked you to be one of the people helping with his research." The boy offered her his signature grin, causing a small smile to form on her face. It was hard not to smile when he did that.

"Yeah, so am I," She muttered in response, leaning back into his side. Maybe things really would be alright.

End Note: I'm sorry I'm a little late in getting this chapter out. I just really wasn't sure where I wanted to go next from the previous chapter. I'm not sure why i decided to make Candela a bully either, haha. I just feel like she might have been one of those kind of kids that was just totally mean and will end up shaping up later on. I think it helps serve as a nice contrast between the three of them too. Can't have things getting boring now, can we? I'm going to try to get a better set schedule for posting chapters soon, hopefully. Enjoy!

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