Okay, a few minutes late, as usual. But I have an exam to study for. Here's one for Emerald, and tomorrow, er... Today... With any luck. We'll see Blue's. This is my first time posting about Emerald, I hope I captured him well. Also today(er, yesterday) is my cousin's birthday too. The title of this chapter is a reference to Scott Pilgrim. Well enjoy, and stuff(another SP reference). Oh, and it didn't update, but I finished Crystal's story, go back and check that out if you haven't.
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May 31st

There was a boy. A very short boy, he wore large stilts with long black pants draping over them. His light green shirt was spiked at the bottom with two red arcs going upward around the collar and the number "10" printed on the back, and it had very long sleeves with small, jewel looking pyramids on the elbows. His actual arms didn't really reach the shirt's elbows, but under them he had mechanical extender hands that could extend beyond the limits of the sleeves. His eyebrows somehow grew off his face and on his forehead he had another large pyramid-shaped jewel on his head, but this was an actual jewel, the remnants of something called "the Green Orb". And his blond-brown hair, which he normally pointed upward in a crescent moon shape, was down, it was long and went past his shoulders. He was walking alone in a vacant grassy area. Or seemingly alone anyway.

"So yeah, that's that." He said. A floating creature of some sort beside him gave off a cry, as if asking him something, "Nah." He replied, "I got some trinkets from everybody but nothing big. It's the thought that counts right?" Another creature floating on his left side vocalized a Pokémon cry as well, "No it's fine. I knew today would be the only day I could visit so I got everything done beforehand. Besides, I'm just happy to see you guys again. Latios, Latias."
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May 29th at Prof. Oak's secondary place of work in Johto.

"So when are you leaving?" Crystal asked.

"The morning after tomorrow." Emerald replied.

"Well that's enough time, you can stick around and we'll celebrate if you want."

"I guess that's fine." He said.

Crystal noticed his tone and asked; "Are you okay?"

"Yeah I'm fine, why do you ask?"

"You seem so... apathetic." She replied.

"I must be bored." He said.

"Wanna play a game?"

"What kinda game?"

"Any kind. But I was thinking Wii?"

"We?"

"Wii." She said, lifting her arms up and waving her hands as if she were holding a Wii remote and nunchuck.

"Oh. Actually now that I've thought about it, why don't we battle?" Emerald suggested.

"We can do that." Crystal said with a smile.
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Emerald and Crystal had gone outside, just a few paces away from the building.

"I'll choose first and you can go ahead and choose one after." Crystal offered.

"Sounds good."

She thought over Emerald's team, she wanted to pick one that wouldn't have too much of a disadvantage against any of his Pokémon. His team stacked against hers pretty well type wise. In fact she could only use her grass Pokémon. That was fine, she just so happened to have two. And finally she decided.

"Parapyon!" She shouted, calling out her Parasect.

Parasect was an insect-like creature with a large red, yellow spotted mushroom on it's back that was bigger than the body of the creature. In fact the mushroom was a parasite that had grown so large that it drained the insect, it's pre-evolved form "Paras" and completely overtook it's body. The mushroom was now in control. Many Paras owners opted not to evolve them for this reason. Crystal met Parapyon as a Parasect in the wild.

Despite the frightening idea of a creature losing it's body to a giant mushroom parasite, Parapyon was actually very friendly. Giving Crystal pain killing spores upon their first meeting when Crystal had both of her arms broken. And the parasite itself wasn't inherently malicious. It had large pincers in the front, four other independent legs and completely white eyes. Despite it's overall frightfulness, it was a docile, well-behaved creature. And the mushroom was a fungus, growing naturally and living out it's natural life cycle, it couldn't stop itself from overtaking the body even if it wanted to.

Emerald smirked, "Perfect. Dusclops! Blizzard!" He called releasing his opposing Pokémon.

Out came a Pokémon that looked like a kind of ghost mummy. It had a roundish body, it was gray and looked as if it was covered in bandages. It had stumpy legs and hands without arms. One of it's most distinguishing features was a single red eye. It's body was said to be completely hollow but the theory was as of yet unconfirmed. It had a fearsome reputation of things such as stealing souls but under a trainer it was very tame and loyal to a fault. Emerald's particular Dusclops was every bit as loyal as any Pokémon and had a lonely nature, perhaps strengthening it's bond with him.

Upon release, Dusclops did as it was commanded and unleashed a small burst of snow around him, Crystal and their Pokémon. This effectively obscured the opponent's vision and did a lot of damage to Parapyon, being a grass-type that was vulnerable against an ice-type move. It also made it difficult to use moves like Spore, Sweet Scent or Sludge Bomb. In the face of this Crystal kept a level head. The attack cleared soon enough, as it was supposed to.

Crystal's Pokédex beeped and alerted her to something, "Parapyon's been burned." She lifted her head up, "I see. Dusclops' Will-O-Wisp."

"Will-O-Wisp" was a ghostly attack that released a dark flame to inflict a burn, it must've been used while they were blinded by the blizzard. "Now Fire Punch!" Emerald commanded.

The blow struck hard and did even more damage, as Parapyon was also a bug-type. Both but and grass-types were weak against fire, doing four times the normal damage of Fire Punch. Yet somehow, Parapyon still stood. In fact Dusclops fell on one knee.

"Wha? Dusclops, what happened?" Emerald shouted.

"It's Giga Drain. I've been using it this whole time." Crystal said, "Now Spore."

Parapyon released a small cloud of spores from the mushroom on it's back that engulfed Dusclops. The spores took affect and Dusclops was fast asleep.

"Nice one Crys, but I came prepared, Snore!" On that command, Dusclops released a powerful sound wave.

Crystal, who was in close proximity covered her ears, "Giga Drain!"

And with that, Dusclops was defeated, falling over, incapable of further battling. But Parapyon wasn't able to get enough energy out of the attack and the burn had gotten to it, it collapsed as well. Both trainers returned their defeated Pokémon.

"That was good." Crystal complimented.

"Thanks, you were pretty good too." Emerald returned.

They both reached for another Poké Ball, but before they could do anything, a long, sectioned pole of some sort touched their heads at a slanted angle. It had to be as even with his stilts Emerald was still very short compared to Crystal. Emerald turned and Crystal looked past him to see Gold. He was sitting on the ground and the pole was his billiard cue extended at a long range.

"I win." He said jokingly.

"Hey Gold!" Emerald yelled, excited to see him.

Crystal just sighed. She had a complicated relationship with Gold. Sometimes she was genuinely humored by his antics and sometimes they annoyed her endlessly. Gold had a way of bringing out the worst in her, but he was a nice boy, and she was on good enough terms with him to say he was a friend, and a valued one at that, so it's not like she hated him or anything. This time around she simply tolerated it.

"Hey Rald." He said standing up, "Heard you were leavin'." He added, walking over.

"I have some friends I wanna visit." Emerald replied.

"What kinda friends?" Gold asked, Crystal held her arms up and shrugged in response, telling him that Emerald wasn't saying, "Ah whatever."

"As long as I'm still here, we're kinda pretending today is my birthday." Emerald said.

"Okay." Gold put away his cue and lifted Emerald onto his back as he sometimes did, "But I'm not just gonna sit and watch a battle, let's do something!" He turned to Crystal, "You have video games right?" Emerald laughed and Crystal smiled.
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May 30th

"They found me." Emerald muttered in fear, "I don't know how or why but they found me."

"Hey Emerald where ya goin'?" Sapphire yelled.

She and Ruby were chasing behind him he was riding his Mantine, while Ruby used his Devon shoes to keep up with him, Sapphire running on all fours using her own, unnatural strength. Emerald tried to pull up but the two of them jumped on Mantine.

"Relax Rald, we're not gonna eat you or anything." Ruby said.

Emerald came to a stop and returned his Mantine from under them. Unprepared, Ruby and Sapphire landed on their backs, while Emerald landed on his stilts. It was only a three foot fall so it didn't hurt much but still. Emerald gave up trying to get away at this point. Ruby and Sapphire had taken an extreme liking to him. He wasn't sure why, quite frankly while he did sorta-kinda like them, he felt they got annoying real fast.

"Okay, I'll bite. What do you want?" Emerald asked calmly.

"We heard you were going somewhere tomorrow." Sapphire said.

"We just wanted to show you something." Ruby added.

Emerald raised an eyebrow.
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Later on Route 101

"We're almost there." Said Sapphire, "Now cover your eyes."

"Cover my eyes?" Emerald said in mixture of confusion and annoyance.

"Yeah I don't want you to know where my secret base is." Sapphire replied.

Ruby covered his eyes for him, "Well how come he gets to look?"

"I already know where it is." He replied.

All Emerald heard between his blind escort and annoyance was a bunch of rustling.

"Okay, now." Sapphire said.

"Tada!" Ruby said flamboyantly.

Emerald found himself inside of a heavily decorated secret base. There were fake plants, rugs, music tiles, cushions, posters, a small stage set up with dolls on it, a tent, a table with some chairs, and TV modeled on a Skitty. The whole place just screamed "Ruby was here". There were green balloons for the occasion and on the table there was... what was that?

"Come on, we got something for ya." Ruby said.

Emerald followed him up to the table, it was just as he feared.

"Happy Birthday!" Ruby and Sapphire yelled in unison.

There were presents, multicolored but a lot of them were green. And in the middle was a vanilla cake with green frosting. They really went all out with the green. Not that he could blame them with how much green he had already.

"You... Well you didn't have to do this." He said.

"Sure we did." Ruby said.

"Especially since you'll be elsewhere tomorrow." Sapphire added.

Emerald tried not to, he really tried his hardest but he couldn't force down a smile.

Sapphire spoke up again, "And I know just how to start this party and fire you up."

Emerald's smile turned smug, he knew were this was going.

They both turned to Ruby, and started chanting "Bat-tle, bat-tle, bat-tle, bat-tle, bat-tle, bat-tle, bat-tle."

"Alright, alright already." Ruby held his hands up to try and settle them, "There's a pretty much empty area through the tent there." He said, pointing behind him, "But don't think you can just have a battle and walk off." He added as they started walking, "Gold and Crys got you yesterday we get you today."

Emerald didn't say anything, he just kept smiling.
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Dusk of May 31st

Emerald threw a stick high into the air. Latios and Latias started flying swiftly past it, cutting it as the went by. The stick fell at Emerald's feet in several pieces. He just grabbed another one and prepared to throw it.

"I'm so glad you've made so many friends Emerald." Latias said telepathically.

Emerald threw the stick up, and the process repeated, "Yeah." He replied after the second stick was cut, "Things are lot different now huh?" It got slightly darker, Emerald turned his head to the sun, "I should be going." He turned his head back, "I wouldn't want to keep you, though I can't imagine you're very busy."

"It's no trouble." Said Latios through the same telekinesis, "If ever you need anything you can come and find us."

"Take care." Latias ended.

"You too guys." Emerald hollered.

And with that the two of them flew off. Emerald put his hands behind his head. He couldn't believe how well things had gone in the past year. All the friends he had, everything he got to do. He closed his eyes and smiled warmly. Could his life be more perfect?
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Okay, there's that. I couldn't really think of something to do with Emerald other than battle, so there's that. I tried to capture the strategized feel of the battles in PokéSupe so it's not just one Pokémon bashing another one. I don't think I did as good a job but oh well. Ruby and Sapphire were a joy to write, they always are.

I like it but it feels incomplete. I may revisit it, but not now. It's late enough as it is. Well happy birthday Emerald, cousin, all... You... You can go ahead and leave now.