Eelizabeth's Tale

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At 5:30 in the morning, a teenage boy carrying an eevee was walking through route 203 with a disguised Latias. If you do not know who they are, read the last nine chapters!

Elizabeth opened her eyes to find that someone was carrying her, and it was, like Jon had predicted, pouring. She was surprised at first, but upon the recollection of being an eevee, she calmed. Turning her head to see whose arms she was in, she clearly heard Jon's voice, "Hey, sleepy little eevee. Nice to see you are awake."

"Is that chatterbox Amy gone?" she mumbled in response, still half asleep. Jon leaned back his head, which was serving as an umbrella for Elizabeth, allowing rain to fall on her. "Whoa! That woke me up! Thank Mew for this fur! Hey! You drenched me!" she said to her human friend in mock anger, and friendlily biting his hand.

"Hey! You want to walk the rest of the way?" Jon joked. "Yeah, Amy is gone. We left a note telling her that she must have been having a dream and how we had to leave, etc. etc. Anyway, we're on our way to Oreburgh now. You fell asleep halfway out of the Pokemon Center. Don't take this the wrong way, but you looked really cute and peaceful like that." Elizabeth's furry cheeks flushed. Jon thought for a moment, "Hey, Ellie?"

"Mm-hm?"

"What's it like… being a pokemon?"

"Oh!" she said in surprise. "Why do you ask?"

"Well, I always thought it would be neat to see what it was like being a pokemon, so typically, it happens to my best friend."

"Oh. Well… It's strange for a human. I mean, I can hear better, smell better, in exchange for poorer eyesight. The fur keeps me warm, I'm not sure what role my tail plays other than cuteness." She looked at her tail which was unwillingly whapping against Jon's arm. "I don't know about other pokemon, but an eevee normally feels unsafe until we evolve."

"I could evolve you." Jon offered, "I have a fire stone in my pack somewhere."

"No!" Jon looked at her, confused. "Latias says that will make me forget faster."

"Oh, sorry."

"Hey!" Latias called from ahead of them, "Speaking of me saying things, I say that you slowpokes need to pick up the pace!"

"It would be easier if it were a sunny day!" Jon stopped in his tracks. "DUH!" he said, facepalming. He pulled a pokeball out of a pocket, and sent out Tropius. "Tropius, use sunny day." Elizabeth and Latias groaned, well except, Elizabeth's still was not a groan. Tropius flapped it's leaf-wings a few times, and the skies quickly cleared up. Elizabeth hopped out of her friend's arms and shook herself dry.

"Well that would've been helpful…" Latias started, "Oh my gosh there's a kid up ahead!" They all rushed ahead to where they found a blonde-haired guy pacing back and forth, soaking wet.

When they reached him, they asked if he was okay or sick or chronically insane. "Have you seen a guy in a red hat coming this way? His name is Brendan. We're supposed to battle. Do you want to battle?" He asked quickly enough that it was hard to make out half the words he was saying.

"No, we haven't and we don't." Latias answered. "Do we need to take you to a doctor? The last time I checked, it is a bad idea to be alone, in the middle of the night, while the sky is throwing water on you by the bucketload.

"You can't refuse a trainer battle!" the boy said.

When's the last time I've heard that excuse? Elizabeth thought to herself sarcastically.

"Fine." Jon said. Latias looked at him with a confused expression. "We aren't getting out of this."

"GO uh, uh, WHOEVER YOU ARE!" the kid shouted, sending out a starly.

Jon shook his head in disbelief. "Are you kidding?" Jon's great ninetails was soon on the battlefield. "I want to blast something with unnecessarily powerful force. Ninetails, fry that thing. Overheat!" Ninetails did just that. She fired a large heat blast at the small bird, causing over 15 hundred damage, torching it and knocking out instantly. Some power was drained from her with the unnecessarily powerful attack, but was restored when she nibbled on the white herb she had been holding.

"How did you get so strong?!" the challenger asked.

"Dude, no offense, but your starly was weaker than a paperclip."

"Well you won't be able to defeat my super strong pokemon!" He sent out a piplup. "Now I have the type advantage! There is nothing you can- hey, what are you doing?"

"Ninetails, kindly blast that penguin with a solarbeam." Ninetails quickly charged another enormous laser in her mouth, sending it toward the small bird. The attack connected, causing almost a thousand damage and again, knocking out the pokemon instantly.

"How did you do that?!" the boy asked, but they had already scurried away. "Why do they all run?" he sighed.

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"What is with all these idiot trainers?! I feel like I could take on the world!" Jon thought out loud in an exasperated tone after they had run for a few minutes. "And why…" he finished climbing a staircase, "Are there staircases in a supposed forest?"

"Because people like stairs more than hills?" Latias offered. She was met with a confused stare, "Not like I would know, usually I travel by air. Shaymin would have a few choice words for the people that built them."

Elizabeth came up behind them, panting for breath. "I don't care if… the stairs go... up to heaven… just as long… as we've stopped… running." Ninetails was right next to her, nodding her head. "Next time your legs are four inches long, try running this far with two extra feet and a tail that is still acting as erratic as a caffeinated aipom!" she glanced at her tail, which was wagging in circles. "Toss me a salac berry." Jon placed a green berry in front of her, which she gobbled down. "It's like a party in my mouth! But without a DJ or a giant bowl of cheese puffs. Anyway, that woke me up."

Ninetails nudged her, "Um, I'm hungry too. Could you put in a good word?"

Elizabeth nodded. "Ninetails is also… is it not time for breakfast?"

"Nah, we've passed breakfast." Jon said after spying the time on his watch. "I say we skip to a brunch. Ninetails, you can come back." He reached for a pokeball, but a certain eevee stopped him.

"Ah, let her stay out. She's nice and all that jazz."

Latias suddenly jerked upright, looking worried. "Um, speaking of which, we'd better bebop out of here."

"Why?" Jon asked.

"Niney and I can sense it too. I forgot how weak humans' senses are." Elizabeth commented, ears and tail perked.

"What?!" Jon shouted at his pokemon companions.

"LEGENDARIES!!" They all yelled at the human.

Jon's eyes widened at the realization. "RUN!" They all did as he said, no questions asked. Latias changed into her normal shape, preferring someone to see a Latias zooming past them over seeing several legendaries maiming a boy and his eevee and leaving one girl unscathed. Elizabeth looked over shoulder, but immediately wished she had not. She saw Latios hurtling towards them like lightning, Mewtwo teleporting into various locations, and keeping up quite well, and Shaymin and Rayquaza flying almost right above them.

"Bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad!" she said with every step she took. On the positive side, her intense fear motivated her to run very quickly, soon surpassing Jon.

Jon laughed a bit as they ran. "Remember what I said about feeling like I could take on the world?" Elizabeth nodded, "Well I don't feel like that anymore!

The warm sun felt like nothing in the shadow of Rayquaza. The grasses and plants around them grew like crazy, making it difficult to run without fear of tripping. And it was only luck that they dodged most of the rapidly fired mist balls, dragon pulses, seed flares, aura spheres, psychically thrown objects, and who knows what else that was being flung merciless at them. Mewtwo blocked their path by using psychic to knock over a large oak tree in front of them. While Ninetails destroyed the barrier with a flamethrower, all of the legendaries began charging hyper beams.

"Mew help us. WHY DO ALL LEGENDARIES KNOW HYPER BEAM?!" Elizabeth cried out.

"Because hyper beams are cool." Rayquaza answered coldly. "And Mew will not help you. She sent us."

"Well then, somebody else help me!!!!"

At that moment in time, Flashbolt broke out of his pokeball. "Man, you would not believe the internet reception in there…" he saw the legendaries charging hyper beams that would probably vaporize them if they hit. The jolteon shook his head in disbelief, "How… Of all the pokemon that I might have wanted to see out here, you all are NOT them!"

The hyper beams all fired. "Oh fudgemuffins." Elizabeth said to herself.

"PROTECT!" Flashbolt howled and a greenish forcefield was produced, saving their lives.

"Thank Mew that I decided to give you defensive options." Elizabeth said to her pet.

"You're welcome, but that is not going to discourage them. Run!" Flashbolt said as he has already taken off. Everyone else quickly followed him. "Jon, toss me a petaya!" Flashbolt called out as they were sprinting. Jon pulled a golden berry from a pocket in his pack and tossed it in Flashbolt's direction, and it was caught and swallowed in midair. "Thank Mew you brought so many berries with you."

"We've been thanking Mew and asking her stuff a lot lately, and yet I believe she was the one that ordered this attack!" Elizabeth retorted.

"Well who else are we going to ask?!" Flashbolt cried.

"You have a legendary with you, you know!" Latias shouted indignantly.

"We really don't have the kind of time needed for a debate right now! Magnet Rise!" The jolteon began to float in the air, and he flew up to Rayquaza and Shaymin, who were recharging after their hyper beams. He called over his spiky shoulder. "Ow! Stupid spikes. Latias, Ninetails, attack pattern epsilon twelve!"

"What the heck does that mean!?" Latias yelled up to him.

"Just… attack Latios and Mewtwo!" He turned his head to his enemies. "Oi! Flying dudes! I've got ice-type hidden power!"

"Oh," They both said in a unison response. Several orbs of energy surrounded Flashbolt, circling quickly, and then firing at the two legendaries. They turned to each other, "I don't like ice." they said, and the ice energy collided with them, knocking them back.

Meanwhile, nearer to the ground, Latias was fighting Mewtwo, and Ninetails was trying to hit Latios.

"He's too fast! I can't get a hit on him!" Ninetails shouted, while firing an unsuccessful flamethrower at the dragon.

Latias dodged a psycho cut. "Well sorry, but I have my own problems to take care of right now! Try confuse ray!"

Ninetails nodded, and a ghostly light appeared in front of Latios. He suddenly seemed to be off balance and dizzy. He tried to steady himself psychically, but ended up sending a rock flying into Mewtwo, leaving him wide open for Latias to hit him with a draco meteor, which stunned him greatly. Latios was hit with an overheat, blowing him into Mewtwo.

"I say this is a good time to skedaddle." Latias suggested.

"Aye!" Ninetails agreed.

They began running and flying to where Jon and Elizabeth were. They were joined by Flashbotlt, who flew down, and began to run on foot. "Well that cheesed them off! We should get out of here before they decide to hyper beam us again!"

They all nodded, and ran smack into Mewtwo, who had teleported in front of them. He grabbed onto Latias. "Run." She said urgently to the others before being teleported away. The two remaining pokemon ran to Jon and Elizabeth.

Panting for breath, Flashbolt barked something to Elizabeth. The eevee turned to Jon, "They have Latias, but she told us to run."

"Well there isn't anything we can do for her now without killing ourselves, and I say that she knows what she is doing and that we should respect her instructions." Everyone agreed and they ran off of the path into the forest, to hide themselves. "So much for taking on the world." Jon muttered under his breath.

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