Disclaimer: I only own Destiny and everything I make up. Nintendo owns all else.

Notes: <> indicates telepathy, ** indicates thoughts, italics indicates translated pokemon speech.

Timeline: 3 days later

Xaero – thank you!

Ranma – hehehe, you picked up my not-so-subtle CC-bashing? ^_^

Digifan1 – thanks!

SS2 Megami-sama – yes, Giselle is annoying. And don’t worry about the Terminatress rant. I read her fics too, and you aren’t the first reader to complain to me. In fact, I was thinking of continuing a few, but I’m too afraid on grounds of plagiarism. I try to update often, but I do have my own share of dead fics.

John Eon- you do? ^_^

Tenshi – maybe, but she can prove dangerous in other ways.

Aragorn – SI = Self-insertion. Hehehe

Jarzard – well, no me gusta Giselle…

Tmp – Welcome back! *Cheers* I missed you! Geodude is the guardian of the Johto set because at first the four starter guardians were supposed to be fire (Vulpix), water (Staryu), wind (Pikachu), and earth (Geodude), until I gave Lance an espeon instead.

MoonDaemon – Giselle certainly won’t prevail. ^_^

Psychic Sabrina – well, sorry. *Sighs* It was only supposed to be an offhand comment…

Episode 120: Power of the grass-types

“Flareon, use Fire Blast!” Flareon nodded and consumed the unlucky Chikorita in a burst of fire. Ash whipped out his wand. “Okay! Under a new seal of contract, your master commands you, return to your true form, pokemon card!”

Chikorita squirmed only a little before she, too, turned into an Ash card.

Ash pushed his wispy white hair out of his eyes and smiled at Pika-chan, who took a picture. Instead of taping his adventures, she took three pictures for every card capture and kept them in a scrapbook so she could send copies to Vulpix-chan. The poor fire guardian must be so bored.

Giselle and Geo-chan came too late. Again. In addition to Qwilfish, Ash had also managed to catch two more cards. Wobbuffet and Snubbull. (Note: Calculated using Random Integer function on a T1-83, not biased in any way, shape, or form.)

“Will you quit stealing my cards?!” Giselle yelled.

Ash stuck out his tongue at her.

Geo-chan tried to tackle him, but Ash simply phased through the rock pokemon. Then, he charged up an Ice Punch in one hand and froze Geo-chan solid.

“Who’s the thief?” Pika-chan taunted as Geo-chan slowly defrosted. He glared at her, but made no comment. Ash walked off. Lance watched the group from a tree, and, satisfied that Geo-chan and Giselle were not going to attack, jumped out and followed him off.

Geo-chan ground his teeth together. * They’re double-teaming! I know it, but how can I prove that it isn’t fair?”

He puzzled in silence for a long time. Giselle did not disturb him.

However, he could come up with no solution to the problem he had inadvertently created and now made his own.

It was really too bad for him.

Ash sighed and ordered milkshakes for everyone.

“Giselle hasn’t become problematic yet, but she may be.”

“You’re afraid she’ll turn dark like Teresa said.” Lance suggested.

“Yes. It is a possibility, you know.”

“That’s bad.” Pika-chan commented as she munched on a crunchy cookie.

“Of course it is! Will you stop stating the obvious?” Luna asked, annoyed.

“Sheesh, what’s with you? Perpetual PMS?”

Luna would probably have torn Pika-chan’s head off if Lance hadn’t grabbed her by the scruff of her neck.

< I’ll KILL HER! > Luna shrieked.

“Luna, calm down. You have been getting progressively touchier.” Lance said. “Down.”

Luna shot her a dirty look but obeyed.

“Thanks, Crystal.”

‘No problem.”

The two continued eating in silence.

Geo-chan decided that he would need to figure out how to get to the cards before Ash and Lance did.

“I need the magic board.” He said. “Where did Clow put it?” He searched through Giselle’s dorm, but couldn’t find it.

Concentrating, Geo-chan emitted a gray aura that spread in all directions. After a long, exhausting while, he finally felt the magic presence of Clow’s search board.

“Bingo!” He said. He called Giselle.

“What is it?” Giselle asked.

“There’s a search board that Clow created to help look for his cards. It is black wood with purple symbols on it.”

“Cool!”

“It is on one of the outlying islands. Use Skarmory to get there.”
“How?”

“Fly.”

Giselle nodded. “Okay, then!” She pulled out her ill-gotten charm and began to chant.

“Key of Clow, hear my plight, the wand reveal, the force ignite! Release!”

She pulled out the green wand and pulled out the Skarmory card. “Okay, Skarmory, Release and Dispel!”

Skarmory appeared. Giselle and Geo-chan climbed on and took off.

Ash flinched. That ugly brown aura had just flared. It meant that Giselle had used some type of magic.

“What is it?” Pika-chan asked.

“Activation magic. She has used her key.” Ash said.

“But there are no pokemon cards nearby.” Lance said practically. “So what would she be doing?”

“Searching for a magic item, maybe?” Luna suggested.

“Perhaps. Is there anything of value in these islands, Luna, Pika-chan?”

“No.” Pika-chan said. “Unless…”

“Clow did leave one of his magic detectors here.” Luna finished.

“But the magic detector can be used by anyone, and is impractical.”

“Maybe Geo-chan’s getting desperate.”

“In any case, I don’t think we need to interfere.”

“Oh, okay.”

Geo-chan and Giselle landed on the island.

“What do you see?”

Giselle looked around. “Absolutely nothing, Geo-chan.”

“No, not with your eyes. Reach out with your aura.”

“That’s stupid.” Giselle said.

Geo-chan looked miffed. “Look, do you want to find that magic detector or not? Just flare your aura.”
Giselle shrugged. * I’m stuck with an insane pokemon… * But she did close her eyes.

“I feel nothing.”
“Flare your aura!”

Giselle sweatdropped. “How?”

“You don’t know?!”

“Of course not! How am I supposed to know?”

“Is this your first time using magic?”

“Of course! I didn’t even know magic still existed before I found that glowing book!”
Geodude frowned. * This is not good… how did the others cope? *

“Fine. I’ll do it.” Geo-chan said. He dragged her through a mile of forest before they reached a little shack.

“It’s in there?”

“Yes. Go in.”

Giselle grumbled as spider webs and dirt blocked their way in. She began sneezing and exasperatedly swatted away the webs.

Geo-chan followed, blowing fresh air into the musty room.

Finally, they saw a small black box.

Giselle grabbed it. “Can we get out of here now?”

“Yes.” Geo-chan said. They made their way out and sat blinking in the sunlight for a while.

Finally, Giselle opened it. It was a five-pointed piece of wood, with the signs for the five Chinese elements written in brushed green ink on the points. In the center was a little glass dome. And in the dome flickered a tiny purple flame.

“This is the detector?”

“Yes.”
“What does it do?”

“Tell it what you want to find and it will send a flare.”

Giselle contorted her face. “That’s useless!”

“No it’s not!”

As if in response, the box flared brightly and a beam of yellow light shot out the window.

“Oh.” Giselle said, finally cutting out her dissention.

“Let’s go!” Geo-chan yelled. “Activate Skarmory now!”

Giselle nodded. “Skarmory, Release and Dispel!” She shouted. She climbed on and they took off.

Ash brushed a few crumbs off his dark red jacket and black jeans. “I think it’s time for us to go, Crystal.”

Lance nodded. “Let’s go.”

Ash pulled out his wand and quickly activated it. They followed the aura to an alley. Looking around, they saw a small pokemon.

“A grass-type.” Ash observed. “Okay, Spearow, you’re up!”

Spearow popped out of the card and let loose a flurry of drill pecks. The Skiploom quickly crumpled.

“Under a new seal of contract, your master commands you, return to your true form, pokémon card!”

The pokemon changed to white energy and appeared as an Ash card.

Ash picked it up. “Skiploom? Oh well, it’s a new pokemon.”

Pika-chan spotted Giselle and Geo-chan approaching. “I think we should leave now to avoid that dissident.”

“I agree.” Luna said.

The two guardians nodded and teleported themselves and their Chosen away.

“Geo-chan! You said there was something!”

“There was, but it’s been captured!” Geodude explained.

“Sheesh, is there any way to keep what’s his name the guy away?”

“Not that I know of.”

“Darn.”

End Episode 120!

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