Me: Now that our favourite little spazzes have finally encountered their enemy's, what will become of them? And what is wrong with Phoebe?

Phoebe: HEY!

Salazar: *gnawing on chain*

Me: That chain is not coming off Salazar.

Salazar: Fine. You update like an idiot, it's not fair to your fanfictions at all!

Me: I get different ideas at different times! Do you want me to go update 'When You Believe' instead?

Salazar: … No…

Me: Win! Ummmm… I don't own Pokemon!

*Pokemon*

Instead of helping with this argument, I decided to take them by surprise. I readied up Quick Attack and ran in to help, but that stupid Zubat saw me and easily dodged, sending me sprawling out on the ground.

"Nice try Gravelrocks for brains!" The Zubat jeered in that awful voice of his and I quickly got up and backed up to Phoebe.

"Nice entrance." She said smirking and I crossed my arms and glared at her.

"Do you want help getting your thing back or not?" I asked bitterly and she narrowed her eyes and nodded and turned back to them.

"Cut the chit-chat!" The Koffing growled and launched a cloud of purple gas at us. I breathed some of it in and started choking, and coughing, and I saw Phoebe struggling with it too.

"Poison gas! I think that's what it is!" Phoebe coughed and I used quick Attack to not only escape, but smack that Koffing back a couple feet.

"Thanks, he stopped, now we can get on with the show! Watch this!" She said and smirked (though I noticed a faint purple blush, indicating she was poisoned) and threw a seed thing at the Zubat. He yelled something incoherent and a small explosion knocked him out.

"Whoa what was that?" I asked shocked and phoebe smirked weakly.

"Blast Seed. Found it on one of the floors." She said, right before she dodged Koffing's tackle attack.

"Fine!" She growled at him and used confusion. He spun around and whined, and fainted.

"Nice job." I said and high-fived her.

"Yeah. Hey, do they have it…" She said turning to them and shifted them around, finding a small bag on Zubat and taking out two Pecha berries and her little stone piece.

"Yes!" She squealed and tossed me a Pecha berry. "Eat. You're poisoned." She said as she bit into hers.

"I know I'm poisoned!" I exclaimed and bit it, almost sighing in happiness as the poison was killed by the Pecha juices.

"Let's get out of here." She said happily and dashed off. All I could do was shrug and follow.

*Pokemon*

We were back on the beach and it was almost dark out, when I decided it might be okay to ask.

"What was with all of your mood swings in the cave? At one point I thought you would kill me, the next I thought you were going to break down in tears." I asked and phoebe blushed and hung her head.

"Well, Ralts can sense feelings, but instead of just feeling the emotions, they affect me if they're strong enough. I've got such issues." She said and everything started making so much more sense.

"That explains so much actually."

"Yeah, but I don't know what to do about it! The only way to make it go away is if I'm feeling an extremely strong emotion of my own to counteract their strong emotion, but usually I just end up looking like a freak to everyone else."

"Well maybe…" I started, and then actually couldn't think of anything so just stayed a bit silent as Phoebe shuffled her feet.

"I want to…" She started but didn't finish.

"Want to what?" I pestered and she looked up at me.

"I want to form an exploration team, but with this… problem… I have, I don't think I'll ever be able too!" She said and almost started to cry.

"I think that if you really want to do this, you can. Just because you're… special… doesn't mean that that should stop you from doing something you really want to do." I said and her eyes started drying up and she got really happy as I awkwardly thought about what I actually just said.

"You mean it?" She asked with sparkly eyes.

"Well sure I guess…" I said awkwardly.

"Well, there's one more thing…" She began and I cocked my head. "If I do start an exploration team… Umm… Uh… Salazar, will you please form an exploration team with me?" She asked somewhat quickly and I just kinda stared at her shocked.

"I would be offended if you asked anyone but me." I said before I actually registered what just happened, and she squealed and happiness and grabbed my paw, and I believe she started leading me to the guild.

*Pokemon*

We arrived at the guild and she took a deep breath and pointed at some sort of grate.

"First I'm going to stand on that. Then you have to. Okay? This is usually the time when I chicken out, so here we go." She said and stood on the wooden grate.

"Pokemon detected! Pokemon detected!" A voice from somewhere shouted, and Phoebe and I both jumped out f our skins.

"Whose footprint? Whose footprint?" A different voice shouted.

"The footprint is Ralts! The footprint is Ralts!" The first voice shouted.

"Hmmm, you may ENTER!" The second voice shouted and Phoebe sighed in relief.

"Your turn." She said grinning weakly and I stood on the wooden grate.

"Pokemon detected! Pokemon detected!" The first voice shouted again.

"Whose footprint? Whose footprint?" The second voice shouted again.

"The footprint is… Um… Gimme a second…" the first voice trailed off and a Diglett popped up in front of me and disappeared before I could blink, making me jump and Phoebe shriek.

"The footprint is Riolu! The footprint is Riolu!" The Diglett shouted, causing me and Phoebe to sweat drop.

"You may ENTER!" The second voice shouted and Phoebe and I looked to each other, then walked into the guild.

*Pokemon*

Me: it may be a somewhat smaller chapter, but it just felt right to end it there! Be grateful, I almost ended it when Salazar accepted the exploration team request.

Phoebe: Yay! Exploration team time!

Salazar: Just promise not to kill me.

Phoebe: Salazar!

Salazar: that wasn't an 'I promise not to kill you!'

Phoebe: I refuse to say that!

Me: Oh dear. Wish me luck.