"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE'S NOT HERE!?" Alexa cried.
"Well, the group of pokemon left days ago from Oreburgh. There's no way we can tell where they went." A man told her. He was cleaning countertops at a small store that sells flowers. Alexa and Kaij had come in to escape the rain that had come to Eterna City. "And it's closing time so you and your boyfr-"
"WHAT DIRECTION?"
"N-n-north, miss." The man stuttered. "But really, m-miss. They could b-be anywhere. They left Oreburgh and went north. And you have t-"
"NORTHEAST OR NORTHWEST. TELL ME!"
"I DON'T KNOW."
"I KILL YOU. KILL YOUR FAMILY."
Kaij sighed, dragging the enraged trainer by the shirt collar outside the store. He was quite used to her temper by now. Hector the Granbull and Philly the Dunsparce as well as his own Potato followed him as the group put their coats on and hurried to shelter.
Which happened to be a large oak tree on the outskirts of Eterna Forest. Oh well. Try again next time.
Alexa pulled her coat closer, staring at the pouring rain.
"I wonder how she is..." She mumbled.
"You've been saying that for days now." Kaij began to feed the tired pokemon.
Alexa stared at her friend. "Why are you still here?"
"Can you stop asking that?"
"No really, why?"
"I had no where to go an-"
"I've been a jerk this whole time, yet you still follow me."
"Well yeah but-"
He was silenced by a pair of lips pressing against his own.
Oh.
My.
Groudon.
Alexa was kissing him.
What should he do? What now? Should he kiss back or or.
He couldn't decide, so he did the only logical thing.
He fainted.
Alexa pulled away, shocked.
Wow, Kaij. What a way to ruin the moment.
The rain poured over the battlefield as six pokemon faced a dozen Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar and one Mismagius.
"Now, children. Let us play a little game, hm?" Mismagius smirked and fired a black blob at Leo.
The sea weasel easily dodged it. He encased himself in water flew at the ghost. She floated out of the way, but not quick enough. She was hit dead on. Mismagius flew over to her minions.
"The Floatzel's ability is Swift Swim!" Mismagius yelled to the ghost types.
They nodded and joined the battle.
Two Gengar flew at Sapphire, forming a black blob in thier hands. The canine narrowed her eyes and roared. Stunned by her voice, their attack was cancled. Hank smirked. His flowertip tail glowed yellow as he touched Sapphire lightly with it. A moment later, his eyes flashed and a pulse of dark energy was fired at the two. They were caught off guard and fell back before leaping on their feet and charging at the duo again.
Meanwhile, Lian, Nina, and Tech were having thier own problems.
Leo was fighting Mismagius, and Hank and Sapphire had their hands full with the only two Gengar. That left the rest of the Gastly and Haunter to them. Joy.
Nina growled as she opened her jaws and froze a Gastly in its tracks with a blast of her Ice Beam attack. The ball of gas quickly thawed out, however. It stuck its tounge out and licked her cheek. The Froslass felt her body freeze up. Lian slashed the ghost with his Night Slash, and the gas ball retreated.
Nina shook her head to relieve herself from the paralysis. "These ghosts are desperate."
"I AGREE." Tech stuck his own tounge out and licked a nearby Haunter. The ghost froze up. Tech lifted his arm cannon and blasted the Haunter with his laser.
Nina stared at him. "... Desperate... Right."
Leo snarled as his Sonicboom was dodged effortlessly by the Mismagius.
"Silly little water weasel. Did you really think you can win against us?" She chuckled. Right afterwords, a pulse of water collided with her face.
"Dude, we're kicking your sorry little floating rear ends." Leo declared. He waved a paw at the 12 ghosts, who were starting to tire and were hit by numerous attacks.
"... Right. Well then." Mismagius floated to the center of the clearing.
"Gather around in a circle." She ordered.
The ghosts tiredly flew over, turning to face their opponents in a circle formation.
"CONFUSE RAY." Mismagius cried.
The ghosts' smiles were soon lifted as their eyes flashed.
"Confuse Ray? Oh, CRAP. We're going to- OH MY GROUDON A BUNNY." Leo glomped Hank, who was looking like her drank too much.
"Hurr. Pretty ligghhtts." Hank stumbled slightly.
"Oh, Nina."
"Oh, Lian. I've been waiting for this my entire life." Nina said.
She and Lian began to make out.
Dear Arceus.
"ERROR. SYSTEMS SHUTTING DOWN." Tech cried, waving his arms in the air. He then stopped moving, falling to the ground.
Sapphire, however, was still fighting. Her moves were sluggish.
"S-stupid... Maxie." She clawed at a space where a Gengar was a few seconds before it sidestepped.
"I'll... I'll r-rip y-you ap-part tuh tuh tuh..."
"Heh. This trick always gets them." Mismagius said. "Now, I need a word with my husb-"
"POTATO, USE HYPER BEAM!"
"Pota? (Wuht?)"
"I SAID HYPER BEAM. HY- PER- B-"
"Quit screwing around. Hector, Crunch!"
A Granbull leaped from the forest, biting into a neary Haunter. It screeched and fainted instantly.
Alexa and Kaij appeared along with Hector, Philly, and of course, Potato.
"Okay, Hector, start attacking those ghosts, Philly, stay back." Alexa ordered. She glanced at Kaij.
"Wuh? Oh! Um. POTATO USE HYPER BE-"
"POTATO CAN'T USE HYPER BEAM YOU IDIOT."
"oh."
Alexa smacked herself. She looked at the confused pokemon and her eyes widened.
Sapphire was in the middle of the battle, trying to regain concentration.
Meanwhile, Hector was beating the ghosts to a pulp. His fangs clamped onto them, freezing, scorching, or electrocuting them. He began to generate electricity, and shocked two Gastly, knocking them out.
Philly was on a roll, literally. His rollouts were knocking out the ghosts, and he was getting stronger with every passing second... Sorry for the bad pun there.
And finally, Potato was...
Doing nothing.
"Come on! Bite? Headbutt? Take Down... SOMETHING."
The Hippopotas opened his mouth and yawned. A bubble floated over to a Gengar and popped. The ghost blinked and closed his eyes, falling asleep.
"... That works." Kaij looked down to see his Hippopotas asleep. He sighed.
Sapphire's vision started to clear. She shook her head. She still couldn't see straight. It looked like her old partner Hector was fighting the gh- HOLY GROUDON. THAT'S NO ILLUSION.
Sapphire gasped, completely awake. She glanced at the others.
Leo was riding on a drunken Hank. Tech was out cold. Nina and Lian were... Were... Dear Arceus.
She averted her eyes immediately just in time to see Hector take a blow from Mismagius. He fainted. Philly attempted to hit her with a rollout, but was hit by her Dark Pulse and fainted as well.
The two pokemon evaporated in a flash of light. Sapphire's eyes widened. She turned her head to see Alexa, placing her old teammate's pokeballs on her belt. She glanced at her pokemon and winked.
"Sapphire, Dark Pulse!"
"Huh?" The canine stuttered, confused.
She turned to see all the ghost pokemon knocked out but one... Mismagius of course.
Her lips turned up in a smile. She nodded at her trainer, running at the last ghost.
She stopped and tilted her head to the rainy sky and howled. Sapphire felt her strength return to her tired body. She glared at the Mismagius and smirked. Dark energy gathered around her body. The canine lept into the air when the power became almost unbearable and let out a blast of the energy at the ghost. Mismagius's eyes widened for a moment before she was hit by the attack and fainted.
Hours later, the sky had cleared up and the entire group was gathered around a campfire. Kaij handed them all food, which they didn't hesitate to eat.
Alexa was brushing Sapphire's coat, smiling at her lost pokemon. Sapphire licked her cheek as the comb ran through her fur.
"So that's Sapphire's trainer?" Lian set down his dish.
"She's hot." Leo stole the rest of Lian's food.
Nina slapped him.
Leo smirked as he rubbed his slapped cheek.
"Quit smirking." Nina growled.
"Usually, I hate it when you slap me, but that time, I know it's because your jealous."
"WHAT?"
"Admit it, you like me."
"Leo, you like every woman that isn't a Probopass."
"So?"
Nina groaned.
Hank was rubbing his head against Kaij's shoulder and purring. Kaij smiled and pet the feline's head. Potato was looking very annoyed.
"Well, me and my wife got a divorce." Someone said.
The group turned to see Lyal perched in the tree tops. He motioned for them to come. They all followed except for Sapphire and Hank.
"Way to bail on us." Leo glared at the bird.
"I didn't leave you. I was watching. I was about to step in when the humans showed up. Anyway. My wife and I went out seperate ways. She plans to leave for some place in Kanto. I'm going to live in Eterna Forest now." Lyal explained.
"So, why are you telling us this?" Nina crossed her arms.
"Well, just so you know. And also..." He pulled out a slip of paper. It had a picture of a Lickitung... Except... It was half machine. Tech. The paper was a lost poster. It read: MISSING. Half Lickitung, half robot. Wanted to be turned back into a normal pokemon so it can live in peace.
Silence fell upon them.
"You should go to Eterna City, that's where this flyer was." Lyal told Tech.
"TECH SO HAPPY. CIRCUITS ALMOST OVERLOADING. TECH WILL GO RIGHT AWAY." The cyborg sprouted wheels and left the forest without another word.
"I'll miss him." Nina sighed.
"I won't." Leo crossed his arms.
Nina slapped him.
"Anyway, I wish you all good luck. Farewell." The Honchkrow flapped his wings and took off into the night.
The remaining three walked back towards the camp.
When they sat down back in thier seats, the others remained silent.
Leo glanced around at them. They didn't look like they were about to start a conversation anytime soon.
"So uh. What exactly happened while we were confused?" Leo asked.
"Lian and Nina made out and you rode Hank like a Ponyta." Hector answered quickly.
"WHAT!?" The three cried. Lian and Nina scooched farther away from eachother while Leo began to twitch on the floor.
"Do they do this often?" Philly asked Sapphire.
"More than you care to find out." She replied. "But I need to tell you something. Me and Hank."
"Hank and I." Hank corrected.
Sapphire shot him a glare.
"We're going with Kaij and Alexa."
...
Silence.
Wind blew through the trees.
Leo stood up and looked Sapphire and Hank in the eyes.
He cleared his throat.
And opened his mouth.
"OH MY ****ING GROUDON. THERE IS NO ****ING WAY THAT I'M LETTING YOU LEAVE. NO WAY IN ****ING ****LAND. NO LITTLE ***** IS GOING TO."
"LEO MY EARS ARE STARTING TO BLEED." Nina cried.
"YOU DON'T HAVE EARS YOU MORON."
"I'M NO MORON."
"YOU SURE SHOW IT." Lian yelled.
The two trainers watched as the trio of pokemon fought with eachother.
"Alexa, I'm scared."
"They must have like Sapph a lot."
Sapphire growled, seperating the two with the help of Hank.
"Look guys. I've wanted this for so long. We've been together for a while, but you didn't always know me. I've become stronger, just like I wanted. Now it's time to go back to my trainer."
"And now I've found a trainer who knows my gender and actually cares about me rather than using me for show... And he could use the help." Hank added. He turned to see Kaij being mauled by Potato for some unknown reason.
Lian, Nina, and Leo stared solemnly at the ground.
The next day, Leo had to be beaten unconcious with a large branch in order to get him to leave Sapphire and Hank behind.