The second Gold & Crystal burst has begun!

MISC: Mechanics 3. This was supposed to be in the last chapter (as advertised in SA), but I forgot about it like an idiot… So it's here now, completely devoid of explanations for the sake of space. They will appear in the News category of my profile page if people have issues with the MISC below.

Mechanics 3: Pokémon and Moves. In SE/SA/SR, any non-Mew Pokémon will be able to use a Move if it has ever been able to through normal means of all 5 Generations. Mew will be able to use any Move, regardless of game compatibility, but with other Legendaries' special Moves at half power to make the actual users feel special. HMs are stupid; ignore them. Sketch copies a Move for temporary moments, just like Mimic, Copycat, etc. Mirror Move is a one-time only Move that uses whatever the opponent uses, similar to Me First. Glitches will be ignored for obvious reasons. Metronome and Assist Moves will be at half power but function like they do in the games. Dive will be Relicanth-only (and Kyogre too) for the time being.

I think that's about everything. Anyways, this is the third chapter of SE with two short one-shots. Previous ones being SE #008 and SE #020. But it's also completely different than the predecessors…

Primary: Gold & Crystal.

Solar Eclipse – Crystal:

"Gold, hurry up! You're going to miss it!"

"Super Serious Gal, it's impossible to miss an event that darkens an entire region!"

Crystal rolled her eyes in exasperation and waited. The total solar eclipse was going to occur soon, and her idiot boyfriend was still in her house, drinking soda… the soda Crystal originally had planned to serve to the orphans at Earl's Academy during a field trip. She sighed and looked into the special viewing aid she made just for the occasion. She could see the moon moving ever so slowly to completely cover the sun. It was currently at a partial eclipse, but totality was going to occur very soon.

"GOLD!"

"Alright! Alright! I'm coming!"

The goggled boy finally came out to the balcony and Crystal glanced at him. To her surprise, Gold wasn't carrying anything. He was simply staring at the sky, squinting and casting a shadow over his eyes with his hand. It appeared as if he was trying to figure out a way to look at the total eclipse without hurting his eyes. He was even trying to look at the sun while casting a shade over his eyes, which clearly was not going to work.

"… Gold, where's your viewing aid?" Crystal asked. "You can't look at a total solar eclipse with the naked eye without consequence."

"Oh…" Gold muttered. "Perhaps you should've told me that a lot sooner."

"I did tell you! Earlier today when I told you to come here!"

"… Oh…"

Crystal sighed. She glanced into her viewing aid one last time before she gave it to Gold. "Here. Use mine then."

"Huh? What about you, then?" Gold asked as he received the homemade tool.

"There'll be another time," Crystal replied sadly.

"Well… thanks, Crys."

Gold looked into the tube of the homemade solar eclipse viewer. Crystal cast a shade over her eyes and looked away from the sun + moon. Just as she looked down, the whole world seemed to be getting darker.

"And we have totality…" Crystal muttered out.

"Whoa. This looks so damn cool!" Gold yelled out.

Crystal tried her best to continue staring at the boring-as-hell floor of her balcony. But eventually, she gave in to curiosity. She decided to take a brief, brief look.

"I can't miss an opportunity like this," she whispered to herself as she looked up.

Instantly, the uncommon natural phenomenon took her breath away. It was absolutely beautiful and the visible solar flares and other hidden occurrences caused her to forget about looking away in time. Within a few seconds, the moon's positioning no longer blocked out the sun completely and the first light hit Crystal's eyes hard…

Three hours later…

Gold slowly led Crystal out of the Violet City hospital. According to the doctors, the first light of the sun had damaged Crystal's retinas and she would have to rest them for two weeks in order to recover. As a result, the Johto girl had thick bandages wrapped over her eyes to prevent any light from entering.

"Hey Crys, you doing okay?" Gold asked as he let go of Crystal's hands.

"No, no! Where'd you go?" Crystal asked as she outstretched her arms and tried to grab onto him again. "Come on, Gold! This isn't funny!"

"Actually, it is a little," Gold said from somewhere. "All this time, you always said that I was of no help to you. But here you are, completely helpless. And it's up to me to help you out."

"Gold, come on! Stop being such a jerk!" Crystal swung her hands around so that she wouldn't run into any obstacles. But as she turned, she collided into a street lamp. "Ow!"

"Are you hurt?" came Gold's rather amused voice from somewhere.

"Just my pride…" Crystal replied. "I feel like an idiot running into street lamps."

"Tell you what, Crys. If you can find me, I'll help you out."

Crystal felt something touch her hand and she grasped it. It felt like a handle of some sort… She investigated it with her other hand and realized that it was Gold's fully extended billiard cue. Crystal grabbed onto the handle hard and used the tip of the cue to tap the ground below. With the cue, she explored directly ahead. The tip soon hit something quite soft compared to the ground. It felt like leather or rubber. Crystal moved the cue left and right and felt something similar to the left of the obstacle. She smiled. She knew what the cue was touching. She moved the tip of the cue to the middle of the two similar obstacles and without warning, lifted the tip as fast and hard as she could until it came to a sudden stop.

Crystal had concluded that the two similar obstacles were actually Gold's shoes. So when she raised the tip of the indestructible billiard cue between the goggled boy's feet, the tip of the cue struck him right where it hurts the most. Upon hearing Gold groan in pain, Crystal started to laugh.

"It looks like I found you, jerk."

"Not fair," Gold groaned out. "I was only kidding around…"

Crystal huffed in indignation. "I wasn't kidding." She began to tap her way forward with the billiard cue. "At any rate, I don't need you anymore, Gold. Emerald and Platinum are working at Earl's Academy. They'll help me for sure." She started to walk but stopped a few steps later. She turned around to face Gold's direction. "… Where's Earl's Academy?"

"Crys, I'm over here," came Gold's voice from the right.

Crystal quickly adjusted her position accordingly. 'Damn it… how embarrassing…' "Right. Well? Where's Earl's Academy?"

"That's a good question," Gold said as he took a look around. "I've never been there to my recollection, so I have no clue."

"Oh, you have got to be kidding me!" Crystal exclaimed. She swung the billiard cue around in an attempt to hit Gold, but missed.

Gold quickly grabbed her hand and tried to calm her down. "Come on, Crys. I'll take you home."

"Go away, Gold. You're never any help."

Crystal fell silent when he suddenly decided to kiss her. "Aw, don't be like that, Crys. You know I'll take care of you when you need help. And if I don't, you can beat the hell out of me with my cue."

"Deal." Crystal grinned. "So, does this mean that you'll have to do whatever I tell you to?"

"I guess. But I know you won't abuse that pow-"

"Good. The moment we get home, you're going to get me a glass of water. Then you'll have to make me dinner, and it had better be good. Then afterwards, you're going to have to do the dishes. And call Platinum over. She's going to have to do my research report for me."

"… So you are going to abuse the power?" Gold muttered out.

"Oh, maliciously. This is going to be so much fun." Crystal reached forward and her fingers soon made contact with Gold's face. She felt around a little and after a few seconds, reached over and kissed him on the mouth. "But don't worry so much, Gold. I'll reward you."

Gold grinned. "Well then, let's get going!"

The second part is here!

Solar Eclipse – Gold:

"Hey, Crys! You want to hurry the hell up?"

"Just a minute, Gold! Besides, it's basically impossible to miss an event that darkens an entire region!"

Gold simply shrugged and stared into the homemade viewing aid specially made for the eclipse. Well, Crystal made it for him, as he had absolutely no idea how to make one. From the projected image, he could see the moon slowly moving to cover the sun completely. And apparently, the moment before and after the 'totality' was dangerous for the naked eye.

Gold turned around and could see Crystal finally coming out. But she looked rather sad and was empty handed.

"Hey Crys, where's your… whatever this thing's called?" Gold asked as he pointed at his homemade tool.

"Emerald has it," Crystal answered with a sullen expression.

"Why?"

"Some of the orphans at Earl's Academy broke their viewing aids. I tried to remake as many as I could, but there's not enough time. I managed to replace all of them except Emerald's, so… I just gave him mine."

"Couldn't you have just told them to share?" Gold asked.

"I could have, but… no. A total solar eclipse is an extremely rare but beautiful occurrence. If I make the orphans share, that'll hinder their once-in-a-lifetime experience. I can't let that happen."

With a sigh, Crystal cast a shade over her eyes and stared at the floor of the balcony. Gold looked at her and glanced at his solar eclipse viewer. After a short moment of thought, he put the tool in front of Crystal's eyes.

"Here, Crys. Use mine then. Well, it was technically yours to begin with."

Crystal looked very surprised. "Huh? What about you?"

"I'll be fine. A total solar eclipse is an extremely rare but beautiful occurrence, and I can't let you miss that kind of event, now can I?" Gold reached over and kissed his girlfriend. "Besides, I know how much you've been looking forward to this moment."

Crystal blushed and sheepishly accepted the viewing tool. "Thanks, Gold. I really appreciate it."

Within a couple of minutes, the totality occurred. Seemingly the entire region of Johto was darkened, and Crystal was instantly lost in the spectacular phenomenon. Gold kept his eyes down, but before long, he looked up to see what was so amazing about a total solar eclipse.

"Whoa…" Gold muttered. He too, was captivated by the beauty of the rare occurrence. "Cool…" But as he stared into the sun + moon, the moon slightly shifted position and the first light of the sun and the reflected sunlight from the moon hit Gold's eyes hard. "Whoa! Not cool!"

Three hours later…

"Are you okay there, Gold?" came Crystal's worried voice as she led him out of the Violet City hospital.

"Yeah, I'm doing perfectly fine," Gold replied, but he stubbed his toe on the open door frame of the hospital. "Ow! Son of a b-"

"Gold, don't swear. Emerald and Platinum are right here," Crystal said sternly. "Hi, Emerald, Platinum. You two saw the total solar eclipse, right?"

"Of course," Emerald replied. "We had some… hard time making sure the other kids didn't stare directly at it, but… everyone's eyes are accounted for."

"The eclipse was absolutely beautiful," Platinum said. "But senior Gold, are you okay? I have heard what happened."

"I'm fine. This is only temporary," Gold answered as he turned to face his junior.

"Senior? I am over here," came Platinum's voice from the left.

"Damn," Gold muttered. He turned accordingly. "Well, I'll get used to it."

"I hope you recover soon, senior," Platinum said after a polite bow.

Emerald approached Crystal and began whispering in her ear. "Well, now that he's temporarily blind, I guess he won't be bothering you as much. He can't really pull pranks and jokes on you if he can't see."

Crystal sighed and whispered back. "I don't know about that. Since he's blind, I'll probably have to help him with everything. If anything, he'll bother me more than ever."

"… Good luck then."

Crystal waved her two juniors goodbye and led Gold back to her house. The doctors said that Gold would have to rest his eyes for two weeks and as such, the goggled boy had bandage wrapped tightly over his eyes. Which meant that Gold would be completely helpless on his own, which also meant that he was going to have to stay at Crystal's house and she would have to take care of him all day, every day.

Two days later…

Gold woke up from his nap and sat up. For some reason, Crystal wasn't around him, so he decided to find her. He rose to his feet and started to walk. He was in Crystal's room upstairs, so he decided to find his way downstairs to the living room. He took several steps and ran smack into the wall.

"Ow… f*cking wall!" he groaned. He stretched his arms forward and proceeded to feel his way around. He soon found the threshold and proceeded through. Eventually, he managed to go downstairs and to the living room without falling or hitting anything.

Once he was clear of the stairs, he stretched his arms forward again and slowly started to walk. Before long, his fingers came in contact with something… soft.

'What the hell is that?' he thought as he examined the unknown obstacle. 'It's soft… sort of round, bigger than my fist… Oh, there's another one right beside. It kind of feels like a girl's… Oh.' Gold immediately pulled his hands back, but couldn't help grinning. "Sorry, Crys," he said with a laugh. "I obviously didn't see you there. You can't blame me for what happened! I'm blind, remember." He didn't get any response, and he began to feel dread. "… You are Crys, right?" But to his surprise and horror…

"No," came Blue's grim voice.

'Oh, sh*t!' Gold instantly spun around. "Look, Silver! I'm blind right now. I didn't see senior Blue, and… Just don't kill me, man! I'm handicapped right now! I can't be held responsible for what I do!" He then spun around again and begged to Blue. "Please don't tell senior Green about this. He'll kill me for sure."

Blue started to laugh. "Oh, Gold, you should see the look on your face! It's priceless!"

"Huh?"

"Gold, relax," came Crystal's voice. "Blue was just… having fun. It was me that you… touched."

"Oh…" The goggled boy let out a sigh of relief. "Whew… So Silver's not going to murder me."

"Relax, Gold," Blue said with another laugh. "And Silver's not here, by the way. I just came to see how Crys was doing now that she has to… babysit you 24/7."

"Oh, Super Serious Gal's been a great help. She's been feeding me and she's basically doing everything I tell her to do."

Blue looked over at Crystal and noticed that she looked awfully tired. "I see. Well you should thank her, Gold. Because I think you're driving her mad."

"Alright then. I have the perfect way of thanking her!" Gold said. He turned to face Crystal, embraced her tight and after a touching around her face with his hand, kissed her on the lips. "Thanks, Crys." He kept his tight embrace and rubbed her back with his hands. "… You are Crys, right?"

"This time, it's really not Crys," Blue said with a sigh.

"Ah, damn it!" Gold exclaimed as he quickly backed off. "You're not going to tell Silver or senior Green, right? This was purely an accident."

Blue crossed her arms and cleared her throat. She sounded rather disgruntled. "We'll see, Gold."

"Okay… I'm just going to stand perfectly still and not do anything," Gold said after a nervous gulp.

Blue sighed again and wiped around her lips with a tissue. "Crys… Have fun. I'll see you later."

Gold remained perfectly still until he heard the door open and close. "… Is she gone?" he asked. "… Crys?"

"Yes, she's gone," Crystal said.

"Oh, good," Gold said as he exhaled the breath he's been holding. "Whew… no more misunderstandings…" Without warning, Crystal slapped him. "Ow! Crys, what the hell?"

"Take a guess, genius," Crystal growled out.

"Look, if this is about me… touching you, I didn't see you. I'm blind. I backed away the moment I realized what was happening. I would never do such a thing to you on purpose."

"Then explain that stupid grin, you pig."

"It was just… funny! I mean… what are the odds of that happening?"

"Fine, I'll let that slide. But what bothers me is that you didn't realize that you were hugging and kissing Blue until she said so!" Crystal yelled as she crossed her arms and turned away.

"Hey, come on! I'm blind here! How many times do I have to say it? And I'm sorry, Crys. I realized something was odd, which was why I asked whether I was actually hugging you."

"When did you realize that?"

"When I kissed her. It felt… different from whenever I kissed you. And the hug felt a little different."

Crystal sighed but lightened her expression. "Alright then, I'll just have to refresh your memory and make you remember." She gently hugged Gold and kissed him. "And don't you forget me."

Gold gave her another 'stupid' grin. "Oh, I won't."

"Good." Crystal grabbed Gold by the wrist and began to drag him towards the living room. "Now come, Gold. We have to think of what to do in case Blue really does tell Silver and Green about what happened."