"So, kid, you wish to challenge me? Don't you know that I went to WAR with my Pokemon?"
Lt. Surge stood a brooding and towering 7 ft. 5 in. over Pixel and his Pokemon. Lt. Surge's Pokemon sparked and crackled with static. Lt. Surge had three menacing and dark looking Pokemon: a Pokemon which looked like a pokeball with eyes, Voltorb; A Pikachu, male, whose cheeks popped with stray bolts of electricity; and the most menacing of all, the orange evolution of Pikachu, Raichu.
Pixel's team looked duly threatened. All of them looked threatened, except for Sheila, who glared daggers into the male Pikachu from across the battlefield. Pixel looked at Lt. Surge with a blank expression and simply replied, "What war? I never learned about any wars in history class."
With that, Lt. Surge seemed to get a look of slight fear on his face, as if he'd been found out that there weren't in fact any wars that had ever taken place within the Pokemon timeline. With that, he gained a look of newfound determination and sent his first Pokemon out into battle. "Go, Voltorb! Use a Sonicboom!"
"Jumping the gun a bit, aren't you? I haven't even sent out a Pokemon," Pixel said nonchalantly, "Rampage, can you handle this?" With that, the Mankey jumped into battle and began clapping and pounding on the ground wildly. "Alright Rampage, use your Dig attack!"
Rampage quickly began to burrow a hole underground. The Voltorb, confused as to what to do, simply stood frozen on the spot, looking all around. Rampage took this opportunity to strike; the Mankey forcefully shot up from underneath where Voltorb had been, launching the electric Pokemon straight into the air. Rampage flipped his feet over his head and landed safely, while Voltorb landed with a hard and sickening thud, unconscious. Lt. Surge recalled the Pokemon to its ball, getting seemingly angrier.
"Alright, Pikachu, go and get 'em!" With that, the male Pikachu launched itself onto the field.
"Rampage, come on back. I think Sheila wants this guy," Pixel said smoothly. The Mankey looked behind himself for a moment, and then trotted back to Pixel's side as Sheila came out onto the field.
The tension between the two Pokemon was thick enough to Cut like a tree. For a solid ten minutes, the two Pikachus locked their heads together, not once glancing up from each other as they faced each other with unbridled rage. Pixel and Lt. Surge both looked to each other with expressions of confusion.
Without the command of their trainers, the two Pikachus jumped away from one another and began a high speed series of Quick Attacks one after another. Sheila seemed to be evenly matched for speed by this other Pikachu as they both struck at the same time. Pixel and Lt. Surge could only watch in excitement as the two Pokemon continued their barrage of physical attacks, neither one showing any signs of slowing down. Finally, both stopped for a moment, locked at the arms, both giving the other a look of sheer rivalry.
"Heh," the male Pikachu said snidely, "You've gotten better, sis."
"I've gotten a trainer!" Sheila exclaimed as she threw her brother to the ground. Sheila tried to force herself down upon the male Pikachu, but was quickly met with a foot to the stomach and simply bounced away as the male Pikachu stood up quickly. The two Pikachus both began another rapid onslaught of successive Quick Attacks, neither showing any signs of getting tired. The scene stopped only briefly while the two Pikachus butted heads against one another forcefully. Both could be seen to have scratches and scars, but neither one showed any sign of being tired.
"Um…use…Thunderbolt?" Pixel said with mounted confusion. With that, Sheila's eyes widened as she unleashed an enormous wave of energy straight into the head of the other Pikachu. The male Pikachu let out an immense cry of agony before finally falling to the ground in defeat. Sheila looked to the ground with a wry smile.
"Looks like I finally win, brother," Sheila said with a devilish smile. The male Pikachu stood up weakly.
"Heh…yeah, I guess you did," Sheila's brother said. With that, the two Pikachus clasped hands warmly, and Sheila gave her brother a hug. "It's nice that you've finally found a trainer, sis. I'm happy for you."
With that, the male Pikachu limped back to Lt. Surge, who was still stunned into silence by what had happened. Sheila walked slowly over to Pixel's side and plopped down in exhaustion.
"I think maybe you should go back into your pokeball, Sheila," Pixel said as he recalled the Pokemon. Shaking off the look of confusion, Lt. Surge sent his final Pokemon into battle.
"Go, Raichu!"
The orange electric mouse skulked into battle with an evil grin. Pixel sent Rampage back into the battlefield, and within what seemed like seconds, the battle was at an end. Rampage had delivered a deluge of Digs to the Raichu until it could no longer stand.
Lt. Surge looked with an expression of shock, confusion, and slight anger all mixed into one contorted look on his face. With that, Pixel walked up to Lt. Surge and began to fish around in the frozen trainer's pockets until he found the Thunder Badge. With that, Pixel walked out of the gym and straight to the Pokemon Center.
"Do you mind telling me exactly what that was all about?" Pixel asked with ferocious curiosity. Sheila looked up with a stern expression, and then rubbed the back of her head nervously.
"Um…heh heh…yeah…that Pikachu was my older brother," Sheila began to explain as her expression evened out; "back when we were littler, my brother and I lived in the Viridian forest together. We always used to have battles to help one another get stronger, but I could never beat him. This is why I was level 5 when you found me, but when Lt. Surge found my brother, he was almost level 8. The worst part of it was he would always rub it in my face…" Sheila said as she looked down sadly, "And then, Lt. Surge came along…and my brother decided that he had outgrown me…" a small tear ran down the Pikachu's face. Pixel tilted Sheila's chin up, and Sheila viewed the warm expressions of her friends.
"That was most absolutely something I, a Flying type, would not be able to do," Ch'Ding chimed in.
"That was intense, Sheila! I didn't think you had it in you!" Flambo said proudly.
Rampage gave a few soft grunts and a warm smile as Sheila laughed a bit to herself. She turned to the proud eyes of Pixel. "I'm really proud to call you my partner, Sheila," Pixel said warmly. Sheila hugged Pixel tightly, and was quickly joined by his other Pokemon, except for Ch'Ding.
"I do not generally display feeling in such a manner," Ch'Ding said as he blushed. Pixel and the other Pokemon simply laughed with amusement.
