Teddiursa, Venonat, and Latias

It was a whiteout. Snow fell thickly on the already packed ground. From the looks of things, their car was going to be buried in the white stuff before long. The man looked at his cell phone. "Still not getting a signal," he said, then sighed. "I'm sorry; this storm came in faster than I thought it would."

"I know," the woman said wrapped in a yellow blanket. In her lap, there was a Trddiursa who seemed to be the only content one in the situation. Of course, he was a young Pokemon, and as long as his people were around, he felt safe. He sucked on his left paw, looked up at her, then offered his sweet and sticky right paw to her. "No, I don't want that."

"Mmm," the little bear cub responded, sounding disappointed that the offer wasn't taken.

On the dashboard, a large puff of a Venonat was sitting with her eyes half closed. Little spots of shiny dampness showed where she had been, as her feet, and indeed whole body, was covered in a film of mild poison. She didn't seem too bothered by the cold, unless her current sleepiness was triggered by it. "Krikrikri," she clicked, then stiffened, her eyes jerking wide open. The Venonat turned and looked outside. "Tisk."

"I thought we could get to my parents' house in time," the man said (for the tenth time so far). "Now no one is going to find us in this weather."

"Calm down, dear," the woman said. "There isn't much we can do besides wait on a good signal and hope that we can get help soon. And no one is hurt, so that's good." She petted her Teddiursa's head, making him mumble again.

"I should have been better prepared," he replied, then looked over to where his Venonat was hopping across towards his side. Her compound red eyes were starting to glow faint pink. "No, Venonat, for the last time, no eyebeams in the car. Especially not now."

The energy faded from her eyes as she looked to him. "Tsktsktsk," she muttered, sounding worried. She looked back outside at the world of white.

"What has you so agitated?" the woman asked the Venonat. "You were half asleep a moment ago."

But the Venonat's attention was outside the car, trying to find something. But when the humans looked, they saw nothing but white. "She can see really well in the dark," the man said. "I'm not so sure about this blizzard, though."

It was quite in the car interior for a couple of minutes. A little while ago, they had the radio on. The storm made also it difficult to get the radio in clearly. Without that, there was just the gusting wind outside, howling and rattling trees occasionally. The snow flakes barely made a patter as they landed on the car. On the woman's lap, the Teddiursa leaned back against her chest and kept licking through his paws. The Venonat eventually hopped over to the other side of the black dashboard, making little plastic scuffles as she did so. Her antennae were twitching.

"We could always return the Pokemon so we can get into the backseat and cuddle under the blankets," the woman said.

"What, now?" the man asked.

She chuckled. "To keep warm, silly. What did you think I mean?"

"Well, you know," he said, but left it at that. He checked his cell phone again. It still had no signal. "We've got some water, just so long as we don't get hungry."

"There's the Teddiursa honey," she pointed out.

That suggestion got a look of disgust. "From his paws?"

She shook her head, then put her hand on the Teddiursa while she leaned over. "No, the stuff I make. I brought a jar of it for your parents, but if we have to break into it." She got back up with a decorative jelly jar filled with a cloudy amber honey inside. "They mix Beedrill honey with mashed up berries and let that soak into their paws. I just mix the honey with pureed berries. It's a bit sweet… no, thank you," she interrupted herself, waving down another offer of a sticky paw.

"If we're here for much longer, we could open that up," he agreed.

"It's…" she stopped again, glancing out the window. A pink and white face was looking back at her, hanging upside-down from the roof. The woman screamed, startling the creature into vanishing.

"What?" the man asked, looking out her window. But there was just white snow out there, banks of it threatening to swallow them whole. He did see as his Venonat's eyes started glow again. "No eyebeams in the car," he stated again.

"Pfffst," the Venonat said, sounding annoyed at being kept from defending them, but stopping her attack.

"Mmmhmm?" the Teddiursa mumbled around his paw, now looking wide-eyed around the car. The scream had finally worried him too.

"There's s-something out there," the woman said, leaning away from the window. "I don't know what. Maybe some kind of Pokemon."

The Venonat squealed, then turned to look out the front window. The two humans did as well in time to see something. But, was that something nothing? The snow that was piling on the roof ever since they skidded off the road crunched down under the weight of two triangular shaped paws, yet there was nothing there. The air over the hood rippled strangely before turning into the pink and white Pokemon.

On seeing her, neither of the humans knew what they were dealing with. She was bird-like, with a coating of feathers and winds. But her face was like a mammal's, smoothly rounded without a beak. And her body structure was more reminiscent of jet planes than birds. Leaning down to look in at them, she blinked her black eyes slowly, not seeming threatened or threatening at all.

"What is that?" the woman asked, clasping her Pokemon. The Teddiursa responded by relaxing again.

"It's like no Pokemon I've ever seen," he replied.

"Kurrreee!" The pink Pokemon smiled at that, her amused cry coming through to them. She then tapped the windshield, seemingly curious.

The Venonat decided to reply with a series of clicks and antennae twitches. On hearing that, the strange Pokemon seemed surprised, then concerned. She nodded, then scrunched down on the hood and closed her eyes.

"I always wondered what Pokemon were saying to each other," the man said. Right then, the car abruptly moved without turning on. "Huh?" He grabbed the steering wheel.

On the windows, the snow started tumbling off. Then the piles of snow began to recede. No, the car was getting lifted out off the ground and into the air. As there was no other reason that the car should suddenly be levitating, it had to be the doing of the strange Pokemon on the hood. They looked out the windows to see where they were going, but the thick snow obscured everything, even making it hard to see their rescuer sometimes. At least, the humans that the Venonat tried to see. The Teddiursa mumbled to himself and closed his eyes, falling asleep.

Then the car was jostled again as it hit the ground. "Shuuessasii," the pink Pokemon said, then ruffled her feathers. In a moment, she had vanished again. A shifting of the car indicated that the now invisible Pokemon had taken off.

And there was a dark haze in front of them, perhaps solid. A building? "Hang on," the man said, pushing off his blanket and starting to open the door.

"Be careful," the woman said, trying not to disturb her sleepy Pokemon.

He nodded, then got out of the car. Immediately, he was assaulted by snowflakes. After closing the door, he walked to the front of the car. He paused, then came back and opened his door back up. "It's that McDonalds and it seems to be open."

"Of course they would be," she said, smiling. She nudged her Pokemon a bit. "Come on, Teddiursa, we're getting out of this car finally." She put the jar of honey back, then picked up her bag to get out of the car. The Venonat tried to fly out, but soon had to be returned so that he didn't get blown away in the strong winds.

The man looked above them and thought he might have seen a bit of pink through the white snow. "Thank you!" he called out.

"She rasa!" came a cheery reply.

They found out much later that their rescuer was a Latias.

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Sapphire entry: Latias is highly intelligent and capable of understanding human speech. It is covered in a glass-like down. This Pokemon enfolds its body with its down and refracts light to alter its appearance.

Emerald entry: It licks its paws that are sweetened by being soaked in honey. A Teddiursa makes its own honey by blending fruits and pollen collected by Beedrill.

Venonat Fire Red entry: Its eyes act as radar, enabling it to be active in darkness. The eyes can also shoot powerful beams.

For those of you who do drive, remember to be careful about winter storms! And no eyebeams in the car.