Chapter 18: Crystal Leaves
Gold
Quilava-Pyro LV: 20
Donphan-Trunks LV: 26
Kadabra-Kazam LV: 19
Flaaffy-Sparks LV: 19
Slowpoke-(now Snores after reading Bigfoot's review but may change if someone comes up with a better one) LV: 18
Sunkern-Sprout LV: 7
Hiro
Croconaw-Highfang LV: 20
Grimer-Stench LV: 9
Magby-Inferno LV: 5
Crystal
Bayleef LV: 16
Chansey LV: 9
Sudowoodo LV: 20
Smoochum LV: 5
Dratini LV: 15
Copper
Spears-Spearow LV: 9
Wooper-Whoopi LV: 5
Growlithe-Flares LV: 10
Machop-Champion LV: 15
Heracross-Big Pickle LV: 16
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"My Jinx's milk shakes bring all the boys to the yard
And they're like, its better then yours.
Damn right, its better then yours.
You can touch them
But I have to charge," Whitney sang. Crystal and Copper had already fought their way across the gym and were staring her in the face.
"Stop singing and battle us!" they said simultaneously.
"But like, there's two of you and like one of me. What to do... I know!" She threw out all six of her pokemon. Her team was: Miltank, Clefable, Wigglytuff, Stantler, Dodrio and a Misdreavus.
"I saw this in a magazine once, about the Hoenn region," Whitney told them. "We'll have a double battle!"
"What's a double battle?" Copper asked Crystal. She shrugged.
"I use two pokemon and you guys use one pokemon against them at the same time. When one of your pokemon faint, you guys are allowed to decide which pokemon to use because I'm only permitting one substitution. Do you accept?"
Crystal didn't answer but used Sudowoodo for the battle. Copper released Whoopi from its ball.
"I'll take that as a yes. Misdreavus! Wigglytuff!" Misdreavus glided through Whitney and Wigglytuff hopped in front. "Double Shadow Ball!"
"Mimic!" Sudowoodo shot a third shadow ball from its hand. It collided into the one coming for Sudowoodo but Whoopi took the attack head on. The poor thing didn't stand a chance at such a low level. Copper returned it and was about to use another one but Crystal stopped him.
"We can't allow any more slip ups. Let me use my pokemon. Go Chansey!" It was just Crystal's two against Whitney's three. "Sudowoodo, use shadow ball. Chansey, just wait until they come to you."
The shadow ball KOed Misdreavus easily. Wigglytuff came close to Chansey to use a double edge attack but Crystal ordered a seismic toss attack. Then Sudowoodo knocked Wigglytuff back with a low kick.
"Oh no, Misdreavus! Miltank get in there and use Rollout!" Miltank rolled up into a ball and smashed into Sudowoodo. It swerved around and was coming back for Chansey.
"Sudowoodo, block Chansey. Chansey use defense curl!" Sudowoodo took the hit again but this time, pieces of its own body chipped off. "Are you okay, Sudowoodo? Just hang in there! Chansey use your own rollout!" Chansey and Miltank collided into each other. Neither could push back the other. They stopped rolling and fainted simultaneously.
"Crap! Okay it's all up to you Wigglytuff! Flamethrower!" Wigglytuff puffed itself up to the size of a cooking oven and released a jet of fire from its mouth. Sudowoodo ran straight into and came back out with its fist raised. Wigglytuff freaked out and ducked out of the way. Sudowoodo smacked its head against the back wall. It actually KOed itself...
"I THOUGHT YOU SAID THAT YOU CAN HANDLE IT?" Copper shrieked.
"No fair! Sudowoodo could have wasted them. She won on dumb luck!"
"She isn't the only thing that's dumb! Do you realize that I only have one badge and I wouldn't have even got it without Gold's help! You and I are failures as trainers!"
"Oh please. You're overreacting. I won my badges with no one's help and especially not Gold's." She still was mad at him for threatening her Smoochum.
"You rang?" Gold said walking toward them. He had Sprout sitting on his shoulder. Whitney dropped her Wigglytuff and stared adoringly at Gold. Gold stared back at her but took out a pokeball.
"Please don't tell me a cutie like you wants to fight little old me?" She got up close to Gold and batted her eyelashes. Crystal made a fist and accidentally punched Copper in the nose on the back swing.
"I came to get the Plain badge. So I don't care if I have to fight someone as hot as you to get it." Crystal stomped her foot down and crushed Copper's foot. Whitney sighed and wrote something down on a piece of paper. Gold read what she wrote out loud.
"487-6902?" Crystal made a fist again but Copper held her back.
"Woman, if you hit me again I'm gonna collapse!"
"Oh yeah. Copper let me borrow your Sun Stone."
"What Sun Stone?"
"The pointy cookie..." Copper handed it to Gold. Gold pegged it against Sprout's face. It glowed white and grew into a Sunflora. Gold forgot to take Sprout off his shoulder and collapsed under its weight. "Sprout, get off of me!"
"Fine. I'll battle you Golden Boy. But after this I want you to call-."
"WHAT?" Crystal roared. "GOLDEN BOY IS WHAT I CALL HIM! CAN'T YOU SEE HE'S NOT INTERESTED!"
"IT'S NOT LIKE YOU OWN THE PHRASE! AND I CAN GET ANY MAN I WANT, EVEN YOURS!"
"HE'S NOT MY MAN!"
"THEN BACK OFF!" Gold and Copper watched in amazement.
"Dude. You got a kiss and have two girls fighting over you on the same day. You are officially god of pimping. How do you do it?" Copper asked.
"I seriously do not know. I think I got this animal magnetism going on. The ladies can't resist me."
"Should we do something?"
"Fine." Gold walked in between the bickering girls. He pushed Crystal away from Whitney. "Crystal, can I talk to you for a sec?" He took Crystal away from the others.
"What do you want?"
"I want you to stop fighting with her. You're ruining my chances of getting a badge!"
"Does a badge really matter more to you then good friends? And I want you to stop flirting with her!"
"Huh? I'm not doing anything. Why do you care so much?"
"Because I care about you."
"Oi! Lover Boy, I'm waiting," Whitney called. Gold stepped on to the battle field. Along with Sprout Gold sent out Pyro. Whitney chose Stantler and Dodrio.
"How about I start first. Use Hypnosis on Dodrio!"
"Huh?" Dodrio stepped in front of Stantler. Stantler's eyes glowed purple and Dodrio became engulfed in a purple aura. Stantler made Dodrio stand on its tiptoes and stretch out its necks. It lifted Dodrio in the air and spun it around until it was a one big brown pointy blur. Dodrio stabbed into Pyro and sent it flying backwards. "What the hell is this?"
"The Hypno Pecker! Stantler uses Dodrio as a spear in midair!" Dodrio was sent flying into Sprout.
"Double Team!" Dodrio hit one of Sprout's illusions and got its beaks stuck in the ground. Pyro tackled Stantler without waiting for an order. Stantler lost its control over Dodrio. "Sprout, use sunny day! Pyro, use ember!"
Sprout made a ball of orange light out of nothing and let it drift to the ceiling. With the power up, Pyro unleashed a massive fireball from its mouth and shot it at Stantler. It was thrown into the back wall and lost consciousness. Whitney used her Clefable last.
"Rain dance, Clefable! Oh and help Dodrio out of the ground..." Clefable released a ball of blue light but this time rain drops fell. It trotted up to Dodrio's legs and pulled it out. "Drill peck!"
"Move out of the way, Pyro!" Pyro shuddered from the falling rain. It couldn't move in the rain... Pyro got stabbed by the beaks three times; one for each head. Pyro fell to its knees and fainted. Sprout wasn't moving to well in the rain either. It was rooted to the spot literally and its head drooped. Gold released Sparks from its ball.
"Thundershock!" The lightning blew up in Dodrio's face and KOed it one hit. Gold smirked; he gotten rid of Sprout's weakness.
"Clefable, Thunder!" Clefable shot a lightning bolt into the rain clouds above. It circled once and came back down towards Sprout. Sprout jumped in front of it and started storing the electricity in its fleece. However, it was too much for one Flaaffy to hold.
"EVERYBODY NOT INVOLVED IN THE BATTLE GET OUT NOW! THAT FLAAFFY'S GONNA BLOW!" Whitney screamed. Crystal, Copper and the gym trainers tried to run for it but couldn't find their way out of the maze. Sparks fell to its knees; holding in that much electricity was hurting it.
"GIGAVOLT! Sparks sent waves of electricity in all directions. Gold was swept off his feet and felt and saw everything in the room blow up in a flurry of sparks. The attack blew the roof off the gym and crumbled the walls. Gold passed out...
Crystal woke up in a hospital room. She found Gold sitting on a chair next to the bed sleeping. Copper was at the foot of the bed like a curled up dog. A doctor came in to see how she was.
"How'd we get here? Why are we here? Are we hurt? Where'd-?" The man put a finger to her lips to shut her up.
"The three of you are fine. You all had seizures and then became unconscious. How a bunch of kids are able to blow up a gym, I'll never know."
"Bad luck," Crystal sighed.
"Or destiny," Gold added. He finally had woken up. Copper yawned and arose too. "We even set a record, two things blown up in one day. Oh yeah, Whitney stopped by to give us these." He held out three plain badges. "Somehow, Sprout survived the attack. She felt sorry for Copper because of his little speech about the badges. And she said that she won on dumb luck so you deserved it."
"Your girlfriend's kind of sentimental."
"Hey! She's not my girl-."
"WAKASHAKALAKA! TYHYMYJYPYGYSNY!" Copper was screaming gibberish. Apparently he got into the medicinal marijuana...
"Not again..."