*Pokes Internet* Baka!

Title: Machine and Man
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #3, Technology

Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Pokemon belongs to Nintendo and Shogakukan Comics. This non-profit, non-copyright infringing fanfiction belongs to me under international copyright laws and taking it is plagiarism. Thank you. *Phantomness bows*

Notes: <> for telepathy, ** for thoughts, italics if a pokemon talks

Warnings: Implied het, angst

 

            Lance watches as Red fiddles with his newest gadget. It’s some other pokémon game, and she doesn’t understand why the Champion finds it so fascinating. After all, she has real live pokémon, and can always catch more if she wants.

            “Look! It’s you!” Red chirps, holding up the screen.

            Lance stares at the caricature with sharp pink hair, dear Lugia it looks like a vampire, and resists the urge to toss Red’s Game Boy Advance out the window.

            “… Lance? Is something wrong?” Her friend finally asks.

            Lance shakes his head. “It’s nothing,” She says, and leaves the room.

            He frowns, but quickly turns his attention back to the screen.

 

            When Red sees Lance next, her eyes are closed, and the wires of the Indigo system database are curled around her wrists like a malevolent flower. The Champion is breathing, though erratically, and Red frowns as he watches the screen.

            Agatha comes running, and Lorelei follows, and somehow, they manage to disentangle the Dragon Master before too much damage is done. When she’s awake, Lorelei yells at her for being heartless and Lance just stares back, without a word.

            Red wonders if this is his fault, but he doesn’t say a word.

 

            And sometime, at midnight, Red sees her fly away, and he wonders about it, but he’s too scared to pry, because he feels that somehow, he’s picked his appliances – and his games – over Lance.

            And now he doesn’t know what to do, because now they aren’t friends anymore.

 

End Fic

Completed 8/30/06

Edited 5/30/09

Hehehe… look at all the creepy stuff that comes out of Phantomness’s brain… *grin*

Honestly, when you say ‘technology’, the first thing I think of is my laptop…

Yeah, angst! WOOHOO! I was going to do another Chobits-esque thing, but I decided against it