Jasmine- Sorry people, I couldn't make up a funny disclaimer.

Alma- No cookie for you then.

Jasmine- :( Waahh

Alma- We don't own Pokemon.

Jasmine- RAWR

Alma- No. I said no cookie.

Learn a Thing or Two

The next morning...

Emily woke up to the smell of delicious strawberries that she packed in her bag. Jasmine, Alma, and Herself argue that she has an obsession with them.

Emily woke Alma and Jasmine impolitely by bopping them on the heads with a beach ball.

Once they were all woken up, they walked out of their tent and found that there was breakfast already prepared and a gift box that was addressed to Alma.

She hesitantly started to lift the lid, with Emily and Jasmine who are just as curious to see what's in it. The girls feasted their eyes on the contents of the box. It was... a Pokeball!

Alma's heart was filled with joy. She had the Pokeball in her hands, and stared at it in awe. This was very exciting for her, considering that she didn't get a Pokemon last night, and wasn't expecting one.

"Well don't just stand there and smile!" Emily shouted.

"Yeah! Open it!" Jasmine put in.

Well she eventually did... and out popped ... a Ralts! This was one of Alma's favorite Pokemon. The Ralts was handing Alma a piece of paper. It read :

"From Ryan."

"Wow..." Jasmine spoke. "He's got some girly handwriting, doesn't he?"

"Hey! He does! Ha!" Emily replied.

Alma with a comeback, "You two are just jealous that you don't have perfect penmanship like him." She smiled.

Emily looked the other way, which she always does when she gets mad. Jasmine, on the other hand, looked down at her hands.

"Anyways!" Alma said. "If you guys will excuse me, I'm going to go thank Ryan now." Alma hurries off to find Ryan.

Meanwhile, Emily and Jasmine take off for the breakfast after Alma left.

Little did Alma know that Ryan was still in his tent sleeping, since he's had a rough night. The other boys, Steven and Travis, were out in the woods, by the lake, getting more firewood.

After a while, the boys got back. Ryan finally came out of his tent with a major headache. Once Alma had finally spotted him, she came up to him and gave him a huge hug and said "Thank you SO much!" So that Ryan knew that sneaking out in the middle of the night to find a Ralts was all worth it.

Steven and Travis didn't have the slightest clue to what was going on. "Um..." Steven said to Travis. "Alma is in a good mood or what?"

Travis just raised his eyebrow and shrugged his shoulders. He was busy thinking of a plan.

"Hey watch this." He said to Steven.

He slowly jogged to a tree and sat under it. Steven was confused as he watched his friend.

Travis called for Jasmine. "Psst! Jasmine, over here!"

"Huh?" Jasmine wondered. She looked over at Travis who was waving at her. Giving her a signal to get over there, and of course she walks toward Travis. Once she gets there they started to talk.

Remember that Steven is watching all of this happen. He continues to watch them. He infers that Travis and Jasmine are exchanging phone numbers.

He thought to himself while shaking his head, "What a sly goose." He then looked over to his crush, Emily, and noticed that she was all alone with her Totodile and newly given Skitty. Alma and Ryan were laying on the grass looking up at the clouds. I know. Cheesy right?

Steven approaches Emily. "Hey Emily," Emily turns her attention to Steven. "Do you wanna hang out by the lake? Since everyone else is busy, how about you and me have some alone time together?"

Emily, startled, says "Oh. Of course!" "I would love to." She smiles and blushes, following Steven to the lake. They hang out by the lake and skip stones and whatnot.

When they all had enough of each other, they've all decided it was time for the boys and girls to part ways. They say their last goodbyes.

"So just call if you ladies need any protection." Steven the cocky boy says.

"Uh. What did you just say?" Jasmine asks, a little ticked off.

"Do you think we're weak or something? We can handle ourselves." Emily adds on.

Ryan is worried that everyone might get into a fight. "Okay calm down everybody! It was a simple joke." "What He meant to say was that if you girls need help with some big bad Pokemo-"

He was cut off by Alma. "No, what he meant to say was that we are poor, defenseless little girls that are on our own, and that we can't fend for ourselves."

Travis jumped in, "N-no. Th-thats not w-what he meant at A-." He was interrupted by Jasmine.

"Hey if you think we're weak, then let's battle!" Jasmine suggests. "Alma against uhh.. let's see... Steven. Me against..." Jasmine stopped for a little bit. She wanted to pair herself with Travis, but she was thinking if he won, then she would make herself look bad. "Me against Ryan," Jasmine made the right choice. "And so that means Emily faces Travis."

~ Epic Battle Music Starts ~

Alma and Steven face each other, with a nice distance between them.

Ryan is the referee and he stands in the middle of them. "Okay everybody! One pokemon each. Whenever a Pokemon is unable to battle, the trainer of that Pokemon loses and the opposing trainer wins. Now everyone, clear out the field. And... GO!"

"Go Mudkip!" Alma says as she throws out her Pokeball.

"Come on Magcargo! You can win this!" Steven does the same.

Alma began the battle, "Mudkip! Use Slap!"

Magcargo takes the damage!

Steven commands Magcargo, "Use Ember!"

Alma quickly responds, "Mudkip, quick! Dodge and use Watergun!"

Mudkip was successful and by now, Magcargo's flames are starting to go out.

Steven, a bit frustrated, shouts, "Use Ember again!"

Magcargo's Ember hits Mudkip. It was so powerful that Mudkip staggered back a bit.

Steven praises Magcargo, "Yeah that's it! Way to go Magcargo!"

Alma shouts, "Mudkip, let's end this! Finish this with a tail-slap!"

Magcargo tried to dodge but luckily, Mudkip barely got him. Magcargo couldn't go on any longer and fainted.

"Magcargo is unable to battle. The winner is Alma and her Mudkip!" Ryan concludes the battle.

Steven was pissed. He lacked words because he was speechless, so he just ran off.

"Uh.. Okay then?" Ryan mumbles. "Now the second battle! Travis versus Emily!"

Emily and Travis step up to the field.

"Same rules as last time! Now START!" Ryan voices the beginning of the battle.

Travis throws out his Pokeball, "I choose you, Vulpix!"

Emily does the same, "Go Totodile!"

Travis orders Vulpix, "Use Tackle!"

Fortunately, Totodile manged to dodge the attack.

Emily says, "Good! Use Watergun!" It was a perfect shot.

Travis speaks, "Hit him with a flame!" Twas Vulpix's favorite move.

Emily says, "Let's try scratch!"

Vulpix managed to dodge the attack, and got Totodile with a sneak flame attack. Totodile fainted.

"Totodile is no longer able to battle, the winner is Travis and his Vulpix!"

Emily mouths out, "I... lost?" She get's out of the field and sits down with her friends.

Ryan starts to clap, "Okay that was a good battle. And now I guess it's mine and Jasmine's turn."

Jasmine get's up and prepares to fight.

"Emily!" Ryan says to Emily. "Start off the battle!"

Emily says with no enthusiasm, "Ehh... Begin..." Then continues to bury her face in her hands.

After Emily's encouraging words, Jasmine and Ryan let out their Pokemon.

"Let's go Staryu!" (Jasmine)

"Come on Cyndaquil we can do this!" (Ryan)

Jasmine has the first move, "Use Squirt!"

Staryu barely managed to get Cyndaquil.

Ryan gives his first command, "Use Ember!" … "Perfect! Nice job Cyndaquil!"

After that, they made a mistake, they both attacked each other at the same time. Jasmine said to "Use Watergun," and Ryan advised Cyndaquil to use, "Flame!" It turned out that both attacks were the right ones to use because they knocked both of the Pokemon out!

"Well well well, would you look at that." Alma says loudly so that everyone can hear her. "It's a tie!"

Jasmine and Ryan both nod and shake hands.

"Well played, Ryan." Jasmine talks to Ryan with a random English accent while smiling.

"I agree, Jasmine." Ryan plays along, as he laughs a little bit.

The girls all had different emotions after the battles.

Jasmine congratulated Alma, "Congrats on beating that jerk!" Emily offered her an encouraging smile.

Jasmine added on, "I was sooooooo close, I'll beat him next time."

As Jasmine continued to randomly babble on, she cut herself off as she noticed Emily wasn't talking. As it turned out, she was shocked that Travis had won.

"What happened Emily?" Alma was concerned for her friend.

"He got me by a surprise attack," she explained, "I was sooo close."

Jasmine who was happy for Travis but upset for Emily, didn't know what to say. It suddenly began to become quiet.

Luckily Emily's phone buzzed to save them. She had gotten a text from Steven.

It read, "Meet me by the waterfall."

Emily's sad eyes perked up when she read this message. She jumped up excitedly, and ran off without a word to either of her two, now confused friends.

Jasmine, confused, looked at Alma.

Alma just laid back as soon as she figured out to what was wrong with Emily. "Oh, it's probably about Steven."

Jasmine nodded, "Yeah, probably."

Emily arrived at the waterfall, but didn't see Steven. She started to walk around.

"Steven?" … "STEVEN!" … "Where are you?" Emily searched for him.

While he was actually hiding behind a tree the whole time. All of a sudden... He popped out and pushed her into the water!

She shrieked, and pulled him in with her.

After about an hour of them splashing and giggling like little school girls. Alma, Jasmine, Ryan, and Travis went to find them.

"Yoohoo! Lovebirds!" Alma began to announce, "Hey losers! We need to go to the Pokemon Center to heal our Pokemon!"

Steven and Emily, who had completely forgotten about their Pokemon, quickly jumped out and joined the others.

Steven said to Alma, "By the way, we're not losers."

"Oh really? Then what are you?" Alma questioned him.

"We just have good sportsmanship." Steven answered.

"Pfft... yeah okay..." Alma said sarcastically. "Hey did you like that other 'L' word I called you and Emily?"

"Hey... Shutup." Steven walked away. Alma, mockingly stuck her tongue out at him when he wasn't looking. She shook her head at the fact that Emily liked Steven.

"Now onward to the Pokemon healing facility!" Ryan said, still pretending to be an old Englishman.

"Yes! Come on now! Let's go!" Jasmine with an English accent says.

They were all at the Pokemon Center, and have just finished treating their Pokemon. The girls decided to go next door to the Poke-Mart. They all ended up buying the same things: two escape ropes, some healing potions, and twelve Pokeballs. Except for Emily who was living it up in the berry aisle. She eventually spent half her money buying strawberries.

As they were walking out of the store, a girl, not much younger than them, with red hair and white highlights, and brown eyes ran up to them and introduced herself, "HI! I'm Puch!" With a wide grin, actually it was so wide it got to turn kind of awkward.

She seemed a bit creepy, "Hi I'm Jasmine," Jasmine replied, then pointed to Alma, "that's Alma," then pointed to Emily, "And that's Emily."

"Nice to meet y'all," she replied. The girls muttered their you too's quietly.

"So do you guys like wanna hang out today?" Puch asked desperately.

Jasmine looked at her two friends and saw them slightly shake their head. "Uhh... Sure?" Jasmine replied politely. Emily and Alma knew she was going to say yes because she can never say no to anyone.

"Oh goodness, I'm very thirsty." Puch implied. "Then again, I'm always thirsty."

"Uhh... Would you like a waterbottle?"Emily asked kindly.

After Emily said that, something flashed in Puch's eyes, and she started to twitch.

"Or not...," Emily hesitantly added.

Puch recovered quickly, "Oh, No thanks."

They decided to go to the nearest fast food restaurant, but while they were walking, they ran into a puddle. Puch instantly fell to the ground, started to twitch and mumble something. It went somewhere along the lines of this: "Ma-ma-mag-magi-magikarp."

Jasmine, who was a bit creeped out, started to poke her with a stick.

"Ditch?" Emily suggested.

"Yeah, ditch." Alma replied.

"Yup let's get out of here, and hope she doesn't find us." Jasmine agreed.

They all started to fast-walk away from Puch, and head back to camp.

Alma- Thanks for reading, everyone! Sorry it took a while to upload this chapter. My co-author was having technical problems. And remember, don't be shy to...

Jasmine- Review!