Hello! I like to reiterate that this is a story that's been sitting in my computer for a while. This is supposed to be more of a free write and fun story that I wanted to share finally and that it just follows the Adventures manga plot strictly. I typed this up out of my fondness for the series and how little of the mangaverse was actually in the community.

Adventure wise anyways. This story is meant to be cute and fluffy while having a little drama. I like drama.

Again, this story was started long before That Distant Life. The style and overall tone will be different and this was something I didn't think I wanted to put up because I wasn't really serious about it.

October 1, 2015- Finished.
December 4, 2017- Edited.

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"What do I do? They won't listen to me!" Red sighed out falling onto the grass watching Green's pokémon train on their own. Green's current team consisted of Charmeleon, Golduck, Pidgeot, Scyther, Machoke and a disobedient Porygon. They were all, but Porygon, were running around the field since the day has started.

Red's and Green's pokémon were somehow switched when they bumped into each other and now we're just hoping to see Green again. Or, Red is.

"Why not give them what they want?" I was looking down on him sitting on a large rock. "Our training sessions are obviously different from theirs and Green's not the kind of person to not train your pokémon just because you're his rival."

"Yeah, but how? They won't listen!"

I looked at him amused. "You're not exactly telling them what they want to hear either."

A glint appeared in his eyes and his whole demeanor brightened and was on his feet running towards the running pokémon in a blink of an eye.

"He's never one to be down too long is he? But I guess with everything that's happened so far, it's not a big deal."

I laughed. "C'mon, he's going to need our help since we're going to be training our way."

And for the rest of the day, it wasn't so much as training but introducing new moves seeing and practicing them. I was surprise to see that they didn't know any steel type moves, which was odd since Green seems to be the kind of person to take advantage of the coverage. Especially after our first meeting.

"Our trainer did try to mimic what you and Pidgeotto did." Charmeleon said. "But he had no idea how to go about it after several attempts. He said he'd ask you about it later but the circumstances between you and our trainer were very unfavourable."

"But they're steel type moves, surely he's heard about it." After all, it's one of the very first moves the flying types at home learn, so it must be common out here.

Charmeleon just tilted his head. "Steel types? Never heard of them myself."

"Never heard of them?" I looked at him in disbelief.

I then looked over to Red who just shrugged at me. "I thought Pidgeotto's Steel Wing attack was a fighting move you invented for flying types because both rock and ice types were weak against it."

"Then what did you think Iron Tail was?" Was steel type moves really not known out here?

"Just a variation of Steel Wing because the concept was the same."

That's... enlightening. I guess pokémon already know the moves and it's just a matter of fact whether to give it a name or not. But aren't Magnemite and Magneton steel types? I mean, is their fire weakness not apparent? Then again from what I've seen, I can only assume that only everyone from home knows about steel types seeing Charmeleon and the rest of them didn't know.

It did not explain why though.

"Then I guess we'll be teaching you both Iron Tail and Steel Wing."

"What about me? I don't have wings or a tail." Machoke gruffed.

My eyes wander over to Nidoking. "Do you know any of the elemental punches?"

"Only Fire Punch." Which make sense since Charmeleon can help with that.

"Then you can work with Nidoking to learn the other two while you're with us." The Superpower Pokémon nodded at me and Nidoking smirked.

"Be careful though. My punches can get a little poisonous."

Machoke narrowed his eyes. "I'll take that challenge."

"Oh boy." I watch the two walk away sizing each other up.

Red just snorted, now used to these sudden mock fights. "So I'll teach Golduck and Charmeleon Iron Tail and you, the others Steel Wing?"

I nodded. "Yeah, but there's Porygon..."

"I'll deal with that ruffian." Vulpix said standing up. "A pokémon like him just needs a good battle to let out some steam and I need a training partner since everybody will be off doing something."

I looked to Red. "Vulpix said she'd handle it."

And that night, it was funny to watch the ones learning the steel type moves try to compose themselves and ignore the soreness from having to hammer their appendages on rocks and trees. It was easy to tell that they weren't used to using their limbs so physically, though Pidgeot seems to be handling it better than I thought. Pika and Vulpix were the same way but they weren't in a rush to learn like these guys.

Machoke on the other hand seemed very satisfied despite having electrical and acid burns on his hands along with various other bruises, which were quickly healed by a Potion. He and Nidoking found a mutual respect of each other through the familiar 'punch in the face' method that I see at home.

And finally Porygon. He seemed to be sulking but was relaxed and more approachable.

"So what do you think we should do tomorrow, Red?" I was roasting some berries when everyone raised an ear to my question.

Red grinned. "Mock battles of course! After all they'll need to learn how to use them in battle."

Vulpix's eyes gleamed eyeing Green's team. "Yes, it'll be good for us too to test ourselves against new opponents."

But despite the slight reluctance the first night, Red and I can both tell that they were enjoying themselves from the challenge to limit themselves to only the one move they've just learned. And Vulpix even manage her first steps to controlling her latent psychic abilities from Golduck.

"The first step for us non-psychic types to learn psychic moves is to experience them or through TMs like I did." Golduck scratched his head at that. "But from what I know about your evolutionary line, your amazing control over fire is what evolved into psychic energy."

Vulpix looked bemused. "So it's like Will-O-Wisp but without the fire."

"Pretty much. Despite other pokémon being able to use Will-O-Wisp, it's your species that has that unique control over it. Although I haven't heard of a Ninetales or a Vulpix using psychic energy to its fullest, the fact that you can should be enough to try and master what you can do."

And that actually explains about how Madame Ninetales can use psychic moves like she can and why she's always says that they were her greatest achievement.

I looked over to Red who was playing with Porygon.

"Green did say he got you from the Game Corner, so you must've been lonely up in the prize box." Red patted Porygon's head who nodded rapidly, his words were a series of hums and broken sentences.

"Game Corner?"

He looked at me. "It's a place where you play games to win prizes, but you have to be really lucky to win though. It was the place where Team Rocket made their base, remember?"

The Game Corner huh?

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"It's mine! It was my pokéball!"

"And it was my pokémon that weakened it." Green snatched Ninetales' pokéball from Red.

I sighed. "Does it really matter?"

Red pouted towards me and then crossed his arms in a huff. "I guess not, and it's not as impressive as your Vulpix anyways."

"Naturally."

"Oh! And here's your pokémon Green!" Red pulled out Green's pokéballs and they traded quickly eager to get their own team back.

"And we managed to teach Iron Tail and Steel Wing to the ones we were able to." I told him since they're both aren't official registered moves they wouldn't appear in the Pokédex move list when he scans them. "Just have them practice it more, and sorry we couldn't do much for your Porygon though."

Green just waved us off. "It's fine." Though he seemed happy about the steel type moves. "Thanks."

It's been a few more days since their initial switch and Green's team were a lot more friendlier than before. They all got caught up in the tide that was Red's determined stubbornness

I felt Red wrap his arm around mine and started to drag me. "Well we need to prepare for the gym, so bye!"

"Bye Green!" I waved a quick goodbye because of the sudden action. "We're not in a rush you know." I looked at him.

He rubbed his neck and laughed a little. "I'm just excited to see my pokémon again, and I really do mean to prepare for the gym."

I sighed and smiled at him. "And like I said, there's no rush." I started to pull him into the grass so the dirt road wouldn't be block. "Now send out your pokémon, let's see how Green trained them."

He grinned and summoned them all out and when they appeared, I took a step behind Red slightly intimidated. They were all stronger looking but they also had the dangerous glint Green's pokémon also had.

"Oh dear..."

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We had another odd encounter after a day getting Red's team back to their normal selves. On our way back to Celadon City, we met the gym leader, Erika, on the Cycling Road after we nearly hit her Tangela and since there was only one bike, I was hanging onto Red while standing on the pegs of the back wheel and the sudden stop made me lose my balance and fall. The whole ordeal escalated unnecessarily.

"What, you're the gym leader?!"

"Kneel when the Lady is apologizing!"

Erika was stepping out of her palanquin the next moment I looked up and her Tangela hopped up next to me.

"Sorry."

I patted its head lightly. "It's fine, and besides, my friend seems to be angry for the both of us."

Vulpix, who was riding at the front in the basket, jumped out and padded over. "Yes he does and with good reason too. This is the Cycling Road, what in the world are there people doing here marching down this path?"

"We're looking for an Eevee that escaped." Tangela said looking down in guilt. "Sorry for the trouble."

"I told you it's fine isn't it?" He's not a very confident pokémon is he?

Tangela hopped away when Erika called it. "I'll accept your challenge once you get the pokémon of my choice. Until then, I'll be waiting for you at the gym." And like Misty's maids, everybody left in a uniform fashion.

Red turned to me with a determined look. "C'mon Rayne! We need to find this pokémon!" He held up the picture of the Eevee.

"Hmm? Well Tangela did say that they were looking for an Eevee that ran away."

"Ran away? But she said it like she wanted one." Red frowned. "Now I don't want to catch one for her anymore. If the first Eevee ran away..."

It's not a nice thought but Tangela doesn't seem to mind Erika, and it didn't look particularly abused either. "Eevee are highly adaptable pokémon and they're also extremely rare to find in the wild. So maybe she's just searching for the one that ran away since it's not likely we'll find a different one."

Red blinked. "You know about this pokémon?"

"You accepted to search for a pokémon you don't know about." His sheepish look made me sigh. "There's a good size group of Eevee and their evolution where I live. It's their job to maintain the house and yard throughout the seasons and majority of the little ones right now are Eevee."

"You're home sounds like a poképaradise every time I hear about it. The way you say how the pokémon there work together and live together makes it sound like a little town."

I smiled. "Yeah, but we're getting off topic here. The evolutions of Eevee I currently know of are Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, Espeon, and Umbreon. Water, electric, fire, psychic, and dark respectively."

"Dark? There's a dark type?" Red looked at me questioningly and I just blinked back with a blank face.

They don't know about dark types either?

"I need to get a book with the up-to-date knowledge on pokémon." I said to him. "But until then, ignore it for later." It wouldn't do too good for me anyways to try and spread that around. "As I was saying, it should be relatively easy to find Eevee as long as no one else catches it but if this Eevee is strong then we will have problems since they are tricky. Eevee in general are vulnerable unless they train hard to reach their potential, it's more favourable for them to evolve early on to protect themselves better but at home, we like to let them have their fun for a couple of years before they evolve."

Red nodded in understanding before we both set off to find the run away pokémon.

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We met Bill along the way who was following the rumour trail of a pokémon that was using fire, water, and electric moves. And in order to see what kind of pokémon it is, he brought a machine that identifies a pokémon's typing.

"So you both are searching for an Eevee? Those things are rare! Maybe we can find it and my little mystery pokémon together!"

"But how do you know that the pokémon you're looking for isn't a pokémon like Nidoking?" I asked. "He's versatile."

"Because all the the folks I've interviewed said that the pokémon was almost like the element itself! I heard from one witness that it turned into pure water when he tried to catch it with a net!" Bill said excitedly. "And another said that its fur burst into flames as if they were made from them!"

It was weird watching Bill point his little machine at every little part of the forest we were in. He already showed us that it worked after pointing it to Vulpix, but it wasn't until we went near the river that it started to beep with a water symbol appearing.

"That's weird, I don't see any pokémon here." Bill took a step closer to the water's edge and promptly was sprayed back with a Vaporeon jumping out snarling at us as I watch it grow brown fur and into an Eevee.

"Go away! I'm never going back!"

"Water type huh? Ivysaur!" Red took a stance. "Razor Leaf!"

I watched in fascination as the Eevee morphed to a Flareon in quick succession and proceed to blast fire out of its mouth burning the leaves. I hear the machine beep again and the screen changed to the fire symbol.

"What? It's a fire type?" Bill shouted in surprise. "Did the water malfunction it?"

Red continued to move after hearing its typing. "Then a water type should do. Poli!"

The moment Poli was out, the Flareon instantly morphed again, but this time to a Jolteon. Electric sparks fired out knocking Poli out but the sudden attack.

"What in the world..."

"Electric! What's going on!" Bill was frantically trying to see what's wrong with his machine.

"Red! That Eevee is able to evolve into its water, fire, and electric forms! I don't know why or how it can, but you have to cover its ears! They're sensitive to the environment around them!" I yelled out. It was just unnatural to watch it morph and change like that and I'm glad I listened to Teacher Espeon.

"Right!"

Bill and I watch Red quickly catch the Eevee with Ivysaur's weakened Razor Leaf to cover the Eevee's ears and Pika to end it with a Thunderbolt.

"What an unnatural thing. This must be the reason why Eevee ran away in the first place." Vulpix said with a frown.

I narrowed my eyes at that. "C'mon Red, Erika has a lot to explain about Eevee. Thanks for the help Bill!"

"W-wait! I want to come too!"

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The gym was dark and silent with plants decorating the sides of the battle field.

"Hello?" Red called out.

"This place is a bit creepy..."

My eyes spied a stack of paper with a clip keeping it together. "'Pokémon Reconstruction'?" I felt Red and Bill looking over my shoulder as I flipped through it. It was a research paper on the observations of Eevee's unique genetic make up that enables it to adapt to its environment accordingly. I didn't get too far when Erika showed up.

She was clapping when the lights came on. "Congratulations. I didn't think you could actually catch that Eevee. I'll give you the badge like I promised."

"No way! Eevee has obviously been experimented on!" I shook the research papers in front of me to emphasize the point.

She merely huffed. "Tangela." A vine came out quick within the foliage snatching Eevee's pokéball on Red's belt.

"Sorry!"

Erika took the pokéball. "If you two just accepted the badges, this wouldn't be a problem you know?" She walked over to a machine and placed Eevee's ball there. "It won't matter if Eevee is now mine or yours anyways. The only thing that's keeping it alive is the stasis that the pokéball it puts it in. If it comes out, then it'll take its last breathe."

"Your not even trying to see how to save its life!" I screamed.

"It's better to put it out of its misery, after all its been through, it's kinder." Erika looked at me coldly.

A flash of light and Pika was in front of Red. "If you think you can just throw pokémon away like that, then you got another thing coming! Pika, Thunderbolt! Separate her and that machine!"

I looked towards Vulpix and she nodded at me.

"I'll keep her away. Let's see how well my Will-O-Wisp is now!"

Blue ethereal flames shot out arcing over the gym leader's head landing in the dirt separating them even further after Erika jumped back to avoid the electric attack.

"Tch, you think that I would ignore my pokémon's biggest and glaring weakness? Tangela! Kick up the dirt and put it out!" But to her surprise, even with the amount of dirt Tangela kicked up, it didn't go out.

"Red, distract her. Vulpix can only concentrate for so long." I whispered to him.

He nodded. "Pika! Thunderbolt on Tangela!"

Tangela with his back turned was knocked out immediately.

"Don't think you've won yet!" She threw out A Vileplume and an Exeggutor. "I just recently started to train Tangela. These are two of my strongest!"

"Pidgeotto!" Nidoking and Snor would cause too much of a disturbance with there weight to the machine. We still don't know what it exactly does but it must not be good if she wanted to 'put it out of its misery.'

"A flying type? Now you're mocking me! Vileplume, Poison Powder!"

"And you need to to know your place!"

Pidgeotto used Heat Wave on the powdered air and the attack incinerated from the super heated wind.

Erika growled. "Restrain that Pidgeotto with Pyschic! Vileplume, Razor Leaf the Pikachu!"

"Damn, I hate fighting psychic types." He fled in a flurry of feathers as he used Featherdance to hide himself so the grass-psychic type can't focus on him.

"Pika, Double Team!" Pika dodged, but we had to jump out of the way of the sharp leaves. "Now Iron Tail the Exeggutor!"

Pika gave a graceful flip in the air in order to aim correctly with his tail. He could use the move fine but it was extremely unreliable to use purely because you can't see who're hitting unless you can manipulate your body accordingly or just really good at predicting your enemy's movements.

That training session left Pika grumbling after being pelted over and over again by rocks provided by Pidgeotto using Steel Wing on the ground for his own strength training.

"Thanks!" Pidgeotto used Quick Attack to speed pass the disorientated Exeggutor and rammed his hardened wings into the Vileplume.

"Nice follow up!" Red cheered punching the air in appreciative excitement.

Vileplume growled. "I've faced stronger flying types than you!" And it sent out another flurry of leaves in point blank at the Bird Pokémon.

Erika seemed to be calm and even feeling confident after getting in a critical damage on Pidgeotto, but when she look towards the machine, she was surprised to see Vulpix there guarding it instead of the flames from before. The little fox snuck in quickly in order to get to that position, everything else was a distraction.

She started to laugh loudly and started to clap in response to that.

"Bravo! Bravo! You two are definitely something else!" She smiled merrily. "I didn't believe Misty what she said about you two, but after the Game Corner, retrieving Eevee, and our fight, you definitely proved me wrong!"

"Wha?" Red and I looked at perplexed at her change of attitude.

"Do you know how long we staked out the Game Corner? The long months it took to gather information of their plans, shifts, and experiments only for a couple of kids to whirlwind through what we couldn't?" She walked over towards the machine and crouched down to Vulpix. "Don't worry about this contraption. I'm sure you'll find it familiar since all the PokéCenters uses them." And push a button in a quick motion.

"A rejuvenation machine?" I said out dumbly.

Erika just smiled. "Yes. That's correct."

"Then what was all this for?!" Red shouted flailing his arms in front of him.

"To test you." She said without missing a beat. When the machine sounded with a familiar 'ding' She grabbed Eevee's pokéball and released him.

"Wow! That feels great!"

"Are you sure?" Vulpix asked.

The little brown ball of fur nodded quickly. "Better than I did than I was with the humans in black!"

I groaned and sat down on the dirt floor as I felt a headache coming. "Please start from the beginning."

"Of course." Erika smiled at me. "As I was saying earlier, we were spying on Team Rocket when they were still in the Game Corner and we reached a point to where it was safe to raid them, but before we could make plans, a scout I sent out told me that Team Rocket were in a frenzy because of a couple of kids infiltrating and just simply making a mess of their work."

I nodded at her words. "That was about a week ago."

"Yes, and a few days later, a mysterious pokémon destroyed their underground base giving us the opportunity to raid them clean. Eevee here was just another experiment that manage to escape before we could secure and examine it." Erika finished.

That makes much more sense than what Erika led us to believe, but to make sure... "Eevee? Is that true?"

He ran up to me with Vulpix following her and bumped his head against my knee. "Yep! It was too dark to see and the humans in the dark den poked me with pointy things. When I went outside, everything was big and scary! But I'm fine now! And I like my new human! He's better than the humans in black!"

I pet him before he ran off and bumped his head on Red's leg. He crouched to rubbed the back of his ears and looked up at Erika with a frown.

"But why didn't you just tell us when we first met and go through all this trouble? It can't be just to test us."

"It's because I needed to see for myself if you two are strong as Misty says. The two young trainers that were rising up the levels that could help us battle Team Rocket on even grounds." She looked at Red. "A trainer with the ingenious battle talent who can turn the tides around and adapt accordingly." Then she looked at me. "And the trainer with the high affinity to connect with pokémon where he doesn't really need to command his pokémon.

"It was something I simply needed to see myself especially you, Rayne. When Misty said that you were able to command her Starmie after helping it learn Thunderbolt in the short time you all were training, I couldn't believe it. Pokémon don't tend to listen to other trainers they don't know or that are weaker than their original, especially the high level pokémon, and since Starmie is consider one of her strongest, I found it inconceivable." Erika stared off into the space beside her. "It was beautiful to watch you and your pokémon just understand each other and it was amazing to watch Red command swiftly and rightly too opening that opportunity. You two are quite the pair."

Red and I blushed at her praise. I never thought I'd be recognized like this, Red of course, after all, he's amazing when it comes to battling but for me? I just tend to let what my friends think it's best.

Vulpix seemed to read my thoughts when she pawed me. "Remember that you trained us silly boy, and taught us the strategies to many common situations."

"Sometimes I can't believe how modest you can be." Pidgeotto fluffed his feathers. "There's a reason why you're called a 'trainer.'"

I ran my fingers through Vulpix's fur smiling. I don't know what I'd do without them.

"There was also another thing Misty mentioned about you." I looked up Erika curiously and watched her sigh dramatically. "And she was right, just looking at you makes me think how much of a waste it is for you to be born a boy." I vanished behind Red and started glaring at the woman and she rolled her eyes at my actions. "Oh please, I have much more tact than all the others you may have encounter, and it's your fault for dressing and acting as such."

"How?!"

She just waved me off. "Don't worry, once you hit puberty in a couple of years, I'm sure it won't be much of a problem."

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"Girls are so weird."

We both walked out of the gym with new Rainbow Badges, Red being happier with it than I was since the women I meet seems to hold it against me for looking like a girl.

Red just patted my back. "She said that it won't be a problem in a few years, so here's to hoping!"

And that's the thing, it shouldn't be a problem!

After the embarrassing conversation, it got back to being serious with the topic of Team Rocket and just ended with us agreeing to help the Kanto's infestation problem and be there if we're needed. With half the gym leaders being in Team Rocket, they were desperate for people that they know they can trust on the issue even if it's a couple of kids.

It was still light out, but night will fall in a couple of hours and as we walked, we walked by the Gamer Corner and I stopped and thought back to Porygon. I wonder what other pokémon has to wait until a trainer came by to pick it out.

"Rayne?" I looked over to Red, who was a few steps away, and smiled.

"Let's go in!"

"Wait!"

It was dark and bright at the same time. The whirling machines sounded of bell, neon lights flickered and I hear various small objects being rolled on the padded green tables. I even spied the cards that Madame Ninetales uses when playing with her friends and other pokémon. She even taught me in private, saying I'll need these skills once I go out on this adventure.

She gave me one lesson in closed doors before making me play straight up leaving me to weeks and weeks of being a slave after losing so many times. I learned fast.

I ambled over to the concession booth with the word 'Prizes' in big glowing yellow lights with Red trailing behind me getting through the people here playing the games.

"Hello! How may I help you?" The lady behind the glass asked me.

"I was wondering what kind of pokémon prizes you have available?"

She looked apologetic. "We only have one Dratini available at this moment. A couple of weeks ago a young trainer like yourself took the last Porygon."

"One left?" I'm surprise that there isn't more pokémon. "Why's that?"

She giggled. "Well, some people aren't as brave as you. You see, we also give out Sandshrew and Abra as prizes, and it's easier to get pokémon like this particularly as gifts to young children. That's why the more expensive prizes like Dratini and Porygon last here longer and we usually have one of each available. Trainers tend to take the Porygon over the Dratini because there's a chance to find a Dratini in the wild while Porygon is said to be a man-made pokémon through the development of technology." Then she sighed. "That poor Dratini has been stuck here for about three months now." She trailed off.

I bit my lip and looked over to the table where the people were playing cards and thought back to Madame Ninetales' words.

When playing any kind of game, especially a card game. Never. Drop. Your. Smile.

I looked up smiling at the lady. "Where can I get some game coins?"

"Next two booths to your left."

I waved a thanks and Red grabbed my arm looking at me worriedly. "Rayne, these kinds of games are dangerous." He said seriously.

I blinked in surprise. I never seen him so serious out of a battle, but I just smiled. "I'll be fine, and if I start losing too much, I'll stop and I'm only buying one set of coins."

He looked very reluctant but I dragged him along. He can stop me himself if he has to.

I chirped at the coin lady. "A set of coins please!"

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