Chapter Title: Of Stolen Phones and Phony Texts
Challenge: It was supposed to be: include three things people wrote to you from an old yearbook. But it's not.
Shipping/Character: FranticShipping and a bit of SpecialShipping.
Summary: Blue will do whatever it takes to get Ruby and Sapphire together, even if it means she'll have to lie, cheat, and steal to get what she wants.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon or any of the characters in the story. I also do not own the vague idea that this one-shot was based on.
"Arg, it's so unfair! Acting all dumb, pretending not to remember anything, avoiding all of my questions... I swear, I want to strangle that boy!"
Careful consideration lead us Dex Holders to believe that those who started with a certain type of starter Pokemon were similar enough in personality and could often understand what the others in their little "group" were going through. What does this have to do with anything...? Well, it was one of these Starter-Pokemon Meetings, as I've begun to call them, that sparked up the heated discussion of Ruby and Sapphire's relationship. It was the blue-eyed female's turn to speak, as could easily be made aparent, and she was releasing all of her steam on the gentle ears of Green, Gold, and Pearl. Now, what am I doing here, you might be wondering? I, of course, did not start with a fire-type starter.
But, ignore that for now.
There's more important matters at hand.
"Sometimes... I wonder if he really meant it when he said he liked me, too..." the brunette muttered, sounding utterly defeated as she hung her head. From where I stood, I could see her begin to curl up in the chair that made up her portion of the furniture on Green's deck, rocking back and forth like a breeze moving paper. "Arg, what a moron I am!" she finally cried, still rocking to and fro. "To think that someone like Ruby, for Rayquaza's sake, would ever like someone like me! I should just give up on this whole love thing before something worse happens..."
"I'm not one for love," Pearl said, sounding professional, "but -"
"Green, you're smart; help me!" Whatever the blonde was about to say was cut short by the female's plea for help. Rejected, the youngest of the four gathered Dex Holders began to sulk as well.
The spikey-haired gym leader huffed, "I'm not a therapist... And I'm not a match-maker, either... To be honest, I don't even really want to be here, so don't go pushing your problems on me." This earned him a scowl but, thankfully, nothing more then that from her. Instead, she continued ranting on and on about how unfair it was that she had to like Ruby of all people, and how he should be nicer to her, and the like. It was at this point in time when I stopped paying attention the the monologue going on at the deck above me and turned my attention the the only other blue-eyed brunnette I knew.
"Blue," I said in a hushed voice, adjusting the straw hat on my head so it fit more comfortably on my skull, "I don't like spying on them like this. It's awfully rude, don't you think...?" Not that I'd wanted to come in the first place, but it'd be just as rude, if not more so to tell her that straight out. But the twenty-two-year-old only puffed out her right cheek like a child.
"We're not spying, Yellow," she responded, folding her arms. "We're... learning about the enemy."
"The enemy being...?"
"Ruby, of course!"
Okay, you must be as confused as I was at that moment. Here, let me back track a bit. You see, since we don't really... have a starter, Wally and I - Black and White, as well, but by choice - have never been able to have these Starter-Pokemon Meetings. When I voiced my concerns to Blue, she took it as me being jealous, only leading her to claim that I had no right to be jealous of something that I'd never even seen before. And, since Green, Gold, Sapphire, and Pearl were gathering together as we spoke, she ended up dragging me along to spy on them. Standing underneath Green's deck and watching the group from the cracks in the floorboards was a pain, and probably not worth the effort. But, when Blue set her mind on something, there was no way to change her mind or escape from her.
So... there we were.
"You see, Sapphire is in desperate need of assistance!" she continued, wiggling a finger in the air. "With Ruby being the annoying, contest obsessed brat he always is -"
"Blue! That's terrible! Ruby is not only our friend, but isn't annoying or a brat!"
"- he is completely ignorant to Sapphire's feelings! If we ever want her to be happy, we'll have to do a little interferring..."
Oh, no. I could see where this was going.
"Yellow... You know what we have to do, right?"
"Blue, please -"
"Tonight, we make history! Ruby, Sapphire, get ready... It's match making time!"
...
"Er... Yellow? Why are we here exactly?"
That was a good question. Why was we there? As you know, whenever there is a couple in the makings - Red and I, for example - she sets her mind on making it work. This was no different for Ruby and Sapphire, of course. The plan? Even I, her second-in-command, didn't know. All I knew was step one in plan Get Those Jewels Together, and that was for me to invite the two Hoenn Dex Holders out for lunch. Exactly what I was supposed to do after that was accomplished, I wasn't sure. However, whatever it was, Blue would inform me soon enough.
"W-well..." I stammered, sinking into my chair a little further, "We're all Dex Holders... but we don't really get to see each other one on one. Only in big groups. I would ask you to come individually, but, you know... I couldn't decide who to invite... So I invited you both..." Behind my back, my fingers crossed. Arg, I hated lying... But, if my fingers were crossed, did it really count at all? Either way, the black-haired male just shrugged and started to engage in a conversation with his brown-haired counterpart. Wow. I never knew I could be thrown into the third wheel position so fast...
"Yellow?"
I stiffened as I heard the voice come out of no where. I had heard it so many times in practice, but every time that microphone came on, I couldn't help but cringe. I muttered a quick "yes", hoping the two across the dinner table would not hear me. When they didn't pay any attention to me, I whispered it a little louder so Blue could hear me.
"Okay, don't respond to me anymore, okay? I'll outline the major highlights of our plan," she continued as my brown eyes scanned over the tiny diner that she had instructed me to invite the others to before all of these shinanigans began. "In a few moments, I'm going to call Ruby on his cell phone. When Sapphire hears what's going on, she'll unboubtably rush out of the place, leaving behind her cell phone. Now, this is very crucial - you must get that cell phone of her's! Ruby'll probably reach out to grab it, but get to it first. If you can't... lie. Tell him you'll be seeing her soon, or something, and you'll give it to her then."
I nod, but, unless she had been spying on us, I doubted she'd get the signal.
"Alright, over and out! I'm counting on you, Yellow; if you don't want any greif, you've got to get that phone. See you soon~!"
I heard a tiny click as the message was sent, and I turned my attention back to the now bickerig duo across the table. I muttered something to them, but my words fell on deaf ears. I let out a grunt of frustration, but decided to focus on the mission ahead. I just had to wait until Blue called Ruby, and the plan would set into motion... I just hoped that she knew these two as well as she thought she did. If she didn't -
"Oh, my phone's ringing."
The bickering across from me halted as Ruby shoved his hand into his pocket and retreived a small, hand-held device. I watched, silent, as he answered. From where I sat, I could hear Blue screaming at him, she was so loud. Her words were muffled, however, and I couldn't make out anything that she was saying, but I assumed it was something urgent.
"Hey, is that Blue I hear?" Sapphire asked Ruby, placing a hand on his shoulder. "What's the matter? Is something wrong?"
As Ruby hung up on his flustered senior, he turned calmly to the blue-eyed Hoenn girl. As casulally as he would say anything else, he explained, "Oh, it's nothing. Just something about Professor Birch falling out of a tree, or something, and getting hurt pretty -"
"Dad!" Sapphire cried, shooting up from her chair and racing out of the reasurant. I watched, bewildered, as she made a mad dash for the door. In her rush, however, she left her phone sitting on the table. All according to plan...
"Oh, my. It looks like she forgot her phone," The red-eyed male muttered, reaching out a hand to grab it. He talked so calmly and uncaringly, it made me wonder if he knew it was a hoax, if he really didn't care for the Professor, or... some other third thing. Whatever the reason for his strange behavior, I remember that I needed that phone. My life, according to Blue, depended on it. So, doing the first thing that came to mind... I slammed my hand down on his arm and braced it between my skin and the table before he could grasp the object. "Ow! Yellow, what was that for?" he demanded, glaring at me.
Flustered, I stuttered, "Er... Uh... Sapphire and I... had plans for tommorrow... I'll give it to her... so it's not a burden on you..." My hand was lifted away from him and I grasped the black device. Noticing the already red mark forming on his bare arm, I apologized, "So sorry for hitting you... I don't know what came over me. If you want, I can..." His red eyes scanned over me and, embarrassed, I found I no longer had the ability to form words.
After a long moment of silence, he got up, not even staying to order any actual food. "Well, if Sapphire isn't here, I don't exactly know what else there is to do. Bye, senior Yellow. And, when you go see Sapphire tommorrow -" he eyed me carefully, "- tell her hi for me, alright?" He didn't even let me respond before rising, whipping around, and following in Sapphire's footsteps. But, instead on dwelling on that, I stuffed the cell phone in my pouch and did a victory dance in my mind, just in case Ruby was watching. I'd managed to snatch away one of my junior's mobile phone, the instrument that was Blue's ultimate weapon in getting she and her star-crossed lover in an actual, functioning relationship.
The only question was... How much did Ruby already know about our plan...?
...
"Good, good~! Part one of our three part plan is complete! Congratulations, Yellow! You've taken your first steps into the world of manipulation!"
"That's great and all, Blue, but... What are Gold and Crystal doing here?"
It was true. I had returned to Blue's house - the one she'd managed to buy and maintain with her earnings from Pokemon battles and the money she'd stolen, cheated, or simply outsmarted people out of - to give her the good news, only to find the two Johto Dex Holders already there, also congratulating me on fetching Sapphire's cell phone and our ultimate weapon. Not exactly what I'd expected to see, I will admit...
"We're gonna help out with plan Get Those Jewels Together!" Gold practically sang, throwing me a thumbs up. Oh, that name was so corny...
"Honestly, I'm just here to keep an eye on Gold so he doesn't cause any trouble. Please; don't mind me."
Blue continued on to explain how, after I'd left when the idea was first hatched, Gold had found her hiding underneath the deck and managed to get her to spill her beans about the plot to get the two Hoenn trainer together. Though he'd been sworn to secrecy, it only took him three hours to tell everything to Crystal. He'd managed to, with the help of Blue, black mail the blue-haired capturer to keep her quiet, only to have her tag along to stay entertained for a day or two. From what they knew, we were th eonly four who know about our little plot. But... Something about the way Ruby acted gave me the awful suspicion that he knew something about our plans...
"Okay, blue, I got the phone for you. But... What are we going to do with it?" I asked, part of me not really wanting to know. However, before the girl I'd adressed could answer, the only male in the group answered for her.
"We're going to pretend to be Sapphire!"
"Eh?" I gasped, my gaze flickering back and forth between Blue and Gold. "B-But... How are we going to manage that?"
Blue let out a sigh and shoved her gloved palm into Gold face, knocking him over. "If Mr. Big Shot over here would be quiet for more then five seconds... We have Sapphire's phone. The caller ID will make Ruby assume that it's Sapphire he's talking to, not one mastermind, an innocent girl, an annoying boy, and someone who's just here to stay entertained. Pretending to be Sapphire, we'll send him a whole crud ton of sweet - and some not-so-sweet - texts and overall compliments he'd want to hear. This will, undoubtably get him to pay more attention to her in real life. They'll get closer and closer to a point where we can safely slip her phone back into her possession and watch as their love unfolds~!"
"But Blue... What if Ruby brings up the text? Won't he realize that someone else is sending them?" I protested.
"Yeah, that's the only flaw... It's possible that we could get Sapphire in on this, but I'm not exactly sure if she'd want us interferring in the first place... For now, we'll just cross our fingers and hope that no one find out about our little plot. If someone does find out, I just pray it's Sapphire and she's okay with it..." Somehow, that seemed unlikely...
Reguardless, we got to work. Though I didn't like lying, I, along with Crystal, managed to brainstorm some sugary sweet things to send to our coordinator friend while the remaining two added some... not-so-sweet things in. When we were completed, we had a text that looked like something Sapphire would write, was almost heart warming, and included an apology for her running out of the resturaunt earlier in the day to make it more realistic. We all held our breath, even Crys, who didn't really seem to want to be there, as Blue sent it.
Within the next half hour, Ruby replied back. As we all read over the eldest's shoulders, a smile seemed to simultaneously tug on our lips and we grinned like mad men at one another. Yes, there was no denying it. Sure, she was a pain and not all of her plans worked out the way we wanted them to, but...
Blue was a genius.
...
"Okay, so... Here's what I have... "Hey, there, babe. I was feeling lonely and decided to"..."
We four masterminds gathered in Crystal's living room, listening as Gold read aloud the text he had typed up and was about ready to send. I didn't see why we even let him try at all, seeing as each time he tried to type up a decent one, not even someone who hardly knew Sapphire would mistake it for actually being her. His slang and over all terms sounded nothing like what would come out of the feiry tempered girl's mouth, much less her fingers as she typed, and his ideas were shot down every time.
As the raven-haired boy continued, Crystal and I exchanged horrified glances before Blue snatched the phone out of the male's grip and deleted everything he had typed up.
"Hey!" he growled, reaching for the phone. Though he was a little taller then her if the two stood side by side, Blue had longer arms then most girls and just barely managed to keep the black object away from he and his pervertedness. "I was almost to the best part!"
"Yes, because I'd believe that any of that was good," she snorted, pushing his head further away from her with his hand. Within a matter of moments, the two were on the ground, all out wrestling to see whole got to type up next. This was not an unusual occurence, surprising. In fact, neither was them both being completely oblivious to the blue-haired female coming over and plucking the phone away from them and retreating the the sofa. After tearing and clawing at one another, both realized that the object was gone and turned to glare at the theif. "Crystal!" Blue shouted, practically jumping to her feet. "I almost had that fair and square, too!"
"Guys, you're forgetting what we're trying to do." Turning her attention to Gold, she growled, "Especially you, Gold. We're not trying to make Sapphire sound like a hooker." He pouted, muttering something about how he could dream, only to have a fist in his face and a bloody nose shortly afterwards. Blue was furiously pressing buttons on what she'd just stolen from Crystal, concentrating so much, her tongue was sticking out of the side of her mouth. I, myself, sat and watched as Gold and Crystal threw punches as one another and the only person in the room older then myself typing faster then I'd ever seen anyone type in my entire life. I was about to open my mouth when someone else did. Someone who made me cringe.
"Hey, guys. Whatcha up to?"
Sapphire stared at us all in confusion, especially the two Johto trainers, one of which almost had her nails in the other's eyes and one who had almost yank an entire area of hair from their folicles. Blue almost dropped the phone to the floor and stared at the newcomer in awe.
"... Why's everyone looking at me like I have a second head, or something?" There was a chorus of mutters and "I don't knows" from the three, less mature Dex Holders and Sapphire settled down on the reclining chair, completely oblivious to the fact she'd just slipped in through Crystal's window uninvited. The capture specialist herself was quiet baffled, herself. Anyways, the blue-wearing trainer took notice of the phone Blue was still texting on, no matter how hard the latter tried to hide it, and commented, "Wow, that looks just like my phone. Speaking of which, have yuo guys seen mine anywhere? It's been gone for, what, two weeks now? Plus, Ruby keeps talking about these text I keep sending him... I don't argue, since most of them seem to be getting him to open up to me more... But it scares me to think of who might be pretending to be me and be sending him declarations of love every day..."
Blue and Gold wistled in unison.
"Wait a minute..." Sapphire muttered, squinting and taking a closer look at the phone in the twenty-two-year-old's hands. "That scratch... That looks just like... No, it can't be... Can it? Blue, can I see that?"
"See what?" she asked, laughing awkwardsly and rolling her eyes. "The sectino of the couch I'm sitting on? Well, sorry, missy, but I'm feeling extra lazy and don't feel like moving right now~! Carry on and, you know, don't mind me... texting... someone you don't know... Since you've never met him - er, her, I mean..." I slapped a hand across my face. Better word choice could have easily let the brunette shrug her junior off. If someone like Green or Silver had been there, they'd have lied their way out of a confrontation. But, unfortunately, Blue had made a dire mistake...
It only took her five seconds before both brown-haired girls where at a game of tug-of-war, each struggling to not only get a decent grip on each end of the phone, but also to get it away from the other. Sapphire, however, being the crazy strong girl she was, easily got it away from her senior and scanned over the black object, making sure that it was, in fact, her precious phone. Then, when she read what Blue had written up until said phone had been taken away, blue eyes raked across the room, burning with passion. I sat on the couch, sinking further into the cushions as I prepared for her to explode in a fit of rage.
"... You guys are the ones sending Ruby all of those phony texts...?" she said, not meeting any of our eyes.
"Please don't kill me," Gold whined. Grabbing Crystal and pushing her closer to the seemingly angry female, he cried, "Here, take Super-Serious Gal as a sacrifice!"
"Sapphire," Blue began, attempting to calm the youngest in the room, "we didn't mean to do anything wrong; there's no need to get mad at -"
"Mad?" Sapphire repeated with a laugh, looking her senior dead in the eye and her face visibly brightening. "Heck no, I'm not mad! If anything, I'm relieved! I thought it was some stalker or something who'd taken my phone! And, about the whole messing with Ruby and my relationship... Well, I guess "messing" is a strong word... Keep at it! Heck, I've almost got him telling me what he knows about that Salamence..."
I was taken aback.
"Y-you mean..." I stuttered, finding this change of events hard to believe, "you're not... mad?"
"Nah, I'm not mad! I've had an awesome past to weeks, and I guess that's partially thanks to you guys! Though you could have told me to begin with... I wouldn't have gotten mad then, either, I don't think..."
From that moment onward, our group of four became a group of five. Sapphire stuck around to learn of our "wise ways", as she called them, hoping to find some tips for when Blue returned her phone and she was talking to Ruby on her own. She was getting better, though, and was much more helpful then Gold. Well, then again, so would a rock, but... who's keeping track?
However, over the next few weeks, our secret plot became less and less secret...
...
"Gah! Green! You know? How long!"
The words spilled from Blue's mouth as I looked on upon the two elder Dex Holder's conversation in awe. I didn't know what to say. Green must have been pretty sharp to figure it out and keep it completely secret that he knew until the fateful encounter Blue and I had with him on that street corner. Maybe we'd heard him wrong - it was still pretty early in the morning, after all. However, that seemed a little unlikely...
"Please. The day after Sapphire starts whining and complaining about how Ruby doesn't love her, she suddenly becomes a huge romantic and finds out exactly what to say to him at exactly the rights times? Not that you four disappearing around the same times every day helped out, much, either," Green explained, looking rather bored over all.
"Oh, I'm so touched," Blue muttered, sticking out her tongue at him. "You actually pay attention to when I'm there or not."
Green's face flushed, but he simply walked away. Two days later, Red came telling them that Green had told he, Professor Oak, Daisy, Bill, and a bunch of the other gym leaders of the Kanto region what we were doing and that he wanted to help out, too. Not long afterwards, Silver said that he'd picked up on their little schemes from day one and had tattled on them, too.
"Silver!" Gold cried, waving his arms up and down in an angry fashion. "You told the group from Sinnoh? How did you even find out? And why do you have to spoil all of our fun?"
"Because your kind of fun is annoying and grates on my nerves. Speaking of which, your voice grates on my ears."
Then, Emerald found out when Sapphire got a little to excited and spilled the beans.
"Hey, Emerald, thanks for letting White and I know about plan Get Those Jewels Together!" Black shouted in typical Black fashion as the two came across Blue, Crystal, Sapphire, Emerald, and I on the streets.
"Yeah, good luck with that, you guys!"
I could see Blue's hand meet her forehead as she bowed slightly and shook her head back and forth in irritation. With Black and White getting in on everything, the only Dex Holder not to know about the plan was...
...
"Blue, let me in this door, or I swear, I will break it down!"
I practically clung to Red as our original group of four, with the addition of my black-haired crush and Sapphire huddled in Blue's living room, scared out of our minds with how furious the Hoenn male was at us.
"No!" she wailed in responce, using her own body to barracade the door. "Go away, Ruby! I don't have any business with you!" Only five mintutes later, and Blue was half way across the room, hiding behind Gold and Crystal as she watched the red-eyed coordinator crawl though the newly formed hole in the door. "Hey!" she cried, undoubtably trying to not let her voice shake as she spoke. "I have to pay for that door, now!"
"I know what you four are up to!" he spat angerly, shoving the two Johto Dex Holders aside to get a good glimpse at the brains of the whole operation. "Toying with our relationship like we're puppets with strings for you to play with... Dispicable! I honestly thought Sapphire had begun to change... I actually thought... I thought that..." He broke eye contact, his gaze drifting off somewhere else in the room. However, as he continued, he went right back to glaring at her. "Well, I'll teach you to interfere with -"
"Ruby!"
All eyes turned to Sapphire who scowled at her counterpart. "Stop it! I wanted them to do this for me! Don't you see? I do feel that way about you! I just... I just never knew how I could say it..." Ruby stared at her, then at Blue, then back at her, shocked.
"Y-you mean... Those are... your words?" he muttered, dumbstruck.
"... Essentially..." she muttered, shrugging.
Almost as though snapping out of a daze, the black-haired Dex Holder looked at the mess he'd made in the room and the damage done to the front door. He glanced as Blue and muttered a quick sorry before racing out of the house, embarrassed. Sapphire gave chase immediately, leaving the rest of us... very confused.
"... What just happened...?"
...
Light flooded the bustling streets of the town I didn't care to remember. The sunlight, free of any clouds to block it's direct light, warmed my face ever so gently, countering the cool spring breeze that sprang across the land. I couldn't help but smile. These two things, along with the seemingly musical orchestra of Pidgey cries were some of the most pleseant things I'd ever experienced. I could have been a little happier, however, if the person besaide me had been Red instead of Blue who said I wasn't done until she saw the results of our little plan with her very own blue eyes. So... here we were. Lacking majorly of Reds.
Across the street, through the large window of a tiny cafe, I spotted the two lovebirds at a table, spooning ice cream out of tiny bowls and laughing for the first time in what seemed like forever. Nudging Blue's arm, I pointed towards the small building, only to find her calling their names and waving like an all to excited five-year-old. Some miracle lead them to turn and see us, and another to have the courtesy to wave back with happy smiles. They then, however, went back to munching on their frosty treats.
"Well, Yellow," Blue said with a sigh of relief, throwing her arm around my shoulders, "It looks like plan Get Those Jewels Together was a complete sucess. What do you think we should do now?"
Before I could awnser, a certain black-haired male strolled by, as casual looking as ever as a couple suposed fans tried to get his autograph. He had won the Pokemon League challenge almost ten years in advance, after all, and, though his popularity had been worn away a bit after all that time, he was still bonbarded quite frequently. I waved to Red slightly, calling out his name, but he didn't notice or hear me. My hand dropped to my side and I tried not to look... to depressed. However, he caught sight of me just moments later, waved, and called out, "Hey, Yellow! See you around, okay?" I swear, I smiled so wide my cheeks hurt.
"R-right!" I called back.
"Oh-ho-ho..." Blue snickered, eyeing Red and I carefully. Then, her gaze drifted elsewhere until she caught sight of yet another Dex Holder. She threw her arms in the air and started shouting to get his attention, and I was just about to tell her to stop, when she shouted a familiar name. "Silver! Yoo-woo! Over here!" He turned to face her, slightly confused.
"Oh, hey, Blue. Is there... something you need?"
"You're gonna help me get Red and Yellow together!"
I think I took the word "blush" to a whole new level.
Racing after the red-haired boy who had started running away from his crazed elder sister, she continued, "Operation Orange is underway, and you're going to help out, whether you want to or not!"
"Over my dead body!"
Dude, guys? Where'd all the reveiwers go for the last chapter? Was everyone so disappointed that I updated late? Does everyone just hate SpecialJewelShipping? I, personally, don't mind it. Actually, I can support every shipping in the Johto trio. Yes, even PreciousMetalShipping, as much as I hate to admit it... -_- Anywho... This was really rushed, since half of this was written at night. And, since I've only started reading the Ruby and Sapphire arc, I'm afraid I didn't quite get their personalities right... ;w; I'm sorry that I'm such a disgrace! Anywho, Thank you to all my lovely reviewers! You all get... I don't know. Ice cream from that shop our lovely Hoenn couple was at?
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