PM: Told ya I'd update soon! And here's my first disclaimer...
Justin Cheek belong to one of my friends who isn't yet an author. I will notify when/if he does become one, so you will all know who to give credit to. It's not my fault I'm putting him in, though. Blame it on his creator! No, I'm kidding.
(I might as well add to the disclaimer that Pokemon and all that doesn't belong to me, but you all knew.)
Chapter 9:
The Introduction of a New Teammate!
We had all gotten to the Outskirt stand in plenty of time. It was simply a large, orange steam locomotive with no wheels, turned into a little shop and resting place.
"Alright, come out wherever you are, person! I got an email from Michael with information about you, so show your face!" I shouted. No one appeared for a while.
"Maybe Michael was pulling our leg, or the guy didn't show up or something..." May said.
"Humph! I dislike being stood up by people! Let's go, guys..." I said, and began to walk away from the Outskirt Stand.
And that's when we all heard, "HOLD IT!"
From the cab of the locomotive jumped down a guy about my age with blond hair, spiked up all around on the top of his head, with green eyes, wearing a dark blue coat that extended down at the back to a rather wavy yet tight cloak behind him, matching-colored pants, black shoes, and the strangest part of his clothing was a gray mask covering his nose and eyes, shaped like a horizontally-stretched V, with the ends spiky. (Yes, it's the blonde from Chapter 8!)
"I am the one you're all looking for. I won't tell you all my name, but I insist that you..." He pointed at me. "Engage in a Pokemon battle with me."
The mystery person grabbed two Poke Balls from his black belt around his wait, underneath his coat, and threw them out.
"Go, Snorunt and Barboach!"
With two flashes of white, a Snorunt appeared on the ground.
"Sno-o-o-o!" it cried out happily.
Beside it appeared a Barboach, a Water/Ground Element having a long gray body with black zigzag patterns going length-wise across its sides, two small blue fins along the lower portion of its bottom side (If that made ANY sense) with a black dot on each side and a larger blue fin on the middle of its topside with three black dots on each side, a circular blue tail fin on the end of its gray body, small black eyes and a blue nose with small pointy whiskers facing downwards, and two longer and slimmer ones going up.
"Barboach!" it called out.
"Hmm... I choose Lombre and Combusken!"
I tossed out two Ultra Balls, and Combusken and Lombre appeared.
"Lombre!" chirped Lombre.
"Combusken!" growled Combusken, kicking the air to show off.
Battle statistics: This is a two-on-two double battle with no time limit or substitutions.
My Lombre and Combusken vs. Mystery Trainer's Snorunt and Barboach
BATTLE COMMENCE!
"Snorunt, begin with your Leer!"
Snorunt opened its eyes, and sent two red beams from them at Lombre, which became large, red, menacing eyes up in the Grass/Water Pokemon's face, lowering its Defensive stat.
"And Barboach, use Amnesia!"
Barboach's concentrated look became a look of confusion, which upped its Special Defense a lot, signified by a green energy circle rising up around it.
"Nice moves, I admit..." I said. "But mine are better! Combusken use Double Kick on Snorunt and Lombre, use Ice Punch on Barboach!"
Combusken jumped towards Snorunt with its left foot stuck out, glowing a reddish-brown color, and Lombre hopped towards Barboach with its right arm out (What is this, hokey-pokey?), glowing an icy blue.
"NOW! SWITCH!" my mysterious opponent yelled, and his Pokemon switched positions.
"Barboach, use Water Gun on Combusken and Snorunt, attack Lombre with Ice Beam!"
Barboach opened up its small mouth and a blast of water burst out at Combusken, which hit it for super effective damage. Meanwhile a blue sphere of ice formed in front of Snorunt's mouth, and it beamed out as an icy blue lightning-bolt style blast, hitting Lombre and stopping its attack.
'Man, this guy's good! It's like I trained him or something! Heh! ...Wait a minute... Maybe I...' I looked at his spiky yellow hair. 'Maybe I did... Only with virtual Pokemon! ...Nah, it couldn't be...'
"Uh... Combusken, use Shadow Rush on Barboach now! Lombre, use it on Snorunt!"
Combusken and Lombre both became enveloped with an evil purple energy, and they both dashed off in separate directions. Combusken went at Barboach and hit it with its fist, and Lombre rammed its green, slimy body into Snorunt, both attacks successful and super effective.
"WHAT! Shadow Rush!" the mystery guy cried out.
"And now, my Pokemon, finish it up with Brick Break, Combusken and Fire Punch, Lombre!" (Yes, I checked and, in Emerald at least, Lombre can learn Fire Punch. Weird, eh?)
Combusken's hands became fists once more, glowing a dark brown color. He slammed them both into Barboach's long body, knocking it out with the powerful attack. Lombre did the same, but with a red-glowing hand. Fire Punch also took out Snorunt, being super effective.
"Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh!" I cackled. I then held out my Pokemon's Poke Balls. They shot out red lasers and connected with Combusken and Lombre, who turned red as well, and were sucked in. My defeated opponent also recalled his defeated Pokemon.
"Your not bad, dude. That switch thing was a surprise. BUT I STILL TRIUMPHED! GAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!" I roared with evil laughter.
"...Yeah, that is definitely Pat..." muttered the person.
"How the heck do you know me...?" I asked.
The guy then grabbed his mask-like thing and removed it.
"...FOR THE LOVE OF PAT-NESS! JUSTIN!" I screamed in shock.
"Yep... It's been a while Pat." "Justin" replied, with a big grin.
"How did you... I-I mean, you're here, and... I mean... I..."
Justin motioned for May and Brendan to move back a bit, and he brought my ear to his mouth.
"OK, listen Pat..." he whispered. "I went over to your house and didn't find you; although I knew your parents were gone. Anyway, I thought I'd play a bit on Pokemon XD a bit in case you had gone off somewhere or something. Boy was I right... About the gone off somewhere! I too was sucked into this different dimension when I played around a bit. I landed in Orre, at the Oasis Poke Spot. You remember those, right?"
"Yes." I replied.
"Well, I befriended my Barboach, and some guy gave me an icy blue egg that hatched into my Snorunt. Those are my only Pokemon, and here we are."
I motioned for Brendan and May to come back over.
"Do you know this guy, Pat?" May asked.
"Oh, yeah... We go back a while. He's my best friend/associate."
"WOULD YOU KNOCK THAT OFF!" Justin shouted, whacking me in the head.
"OW! That hurt, you know!"
"Duh."
"Grr... Anyway, this, guys, is Justin... Buttcheek."
"GRR!" Justin growled. An Anime anger cross appeared on his head.
"WAH! Sorry. Sheesh... I mean, Justin Cheek."
Brendan was laughing his head off at the "pleasant-time ENDING" comment, and May was just acting casual.
"...Man, is that... May?" Justin asked me quietly.
"The one and only. But don't try ANYTHING, lest you incur the wrath of Brendan Birch!"
"Professor Birch's son..."
"Yes. I'm with them, and together or by myself... CIPHER SHALL BE DEFEATED!"
"Oh, so that's why your Combusken and Lombre had Shadow moves... For a second, I thought you were a Cipher member! Ha-ha!"
Strangely enough, a bead of sweat rolled down my head. "Yeah. Not a Cipher... Heh-heh. Uh... Anyway... We'd best be off, Justin. See you!"
We three began to walked away.
"WAIT A SECOND!"
"Huh?" I turned around.
"I... I want to come with you guys. Okay?" Justin asked.
"..." We exchanged looks, and finally said...
"Sure."
"HOT DOG! THE J-MAN IS IN!"
"Oh, sure..." I said with an emphasis and a smirk.
"THAT'S MY CATCHPHRASE!"
"Oh, sure. Get technical."
"And that's your catchphrase. Well, come on! Let's go!" Justin walked up to us, and we all, now four, hopped onto our scooters (Justin had his own, a platinum color) and went to Gateon.
"Well, there goes my savings, since our rent at the Pokemon Center will be upped!" Brendan mumbled to himself.
PM: And just like that, we have a second idiot in the group. The other? Brendan. Who else? Okay, I'm kidding.