Yatta! Hai, minna! Episode 132!

Disclaimer: Oh, I wish I had pokemon. But I don’t. Ask Nintendo for it.

*Glomps Destiny* He belongs to me! So do the new pokemon, attacks, and magic!

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

Lance is a girl and goes by the name of Crystal. She has the Moon pokemon and Clow/Sakura card sets. Ice master of the Triple Guardianship.

Ash goes by Red in the Orange Islands. He has the Kanto pokemon card set and is trying to get the Johto set. Lightning master of the Triple Guardianship.

Charlotte has the Sun pokemon set and is the Fire master of the triple guardianship.

Giselle is attempting to get the Johto pokemon card set illegally.

Phantomness: *runs into plot room screaming* “IIIEEEEEEEEEEE!”

Lance: *Runs out of dressing room with unspiked hair and in her ice guardian armor* “What is it?”

Ash: *Also runs out of dressing room in what looks like half of a Pidgeot costume* “What is it?”

Phantomness: *Hyperventilating and leaning on her scythe* “Someone put up a Lance/Tyson fic on ff.net…”

Lance: O.O *Sweatdropping*

Ash: *Faints*

Phantomness: “I know its standard anime protocol to ship rivals together, but…isn’t this a little extreme?”

Ash: *Revives* “Wait… wasn’t Tyson that evil cackling grunt in the Red Gyarados Episode? Also coincidentally the only two episodes I’ve seen so far where Lance-chan is?”
Lance: *Nods*

Ash: *Waterfall tears while hugging Lance* “Lance-chan, you won’t leave me for that… that… that…rocket… that…”

Lance: *Shakes head and pats Ash on the head*

Ash: *Sniffles*

Phantomness: “Well, I just needed to get that out of my system…” *Stands up and exits stage right* “Now on with the fic!”

Xaero – thank you. Some personality in your description would be good too though.

SS2 Megami-sama – it will be a humor fic! ^-^

Tmp – well, they only know Crystal is Lance’s cover. Reason why Ash wants badges will be explained soon. Um… shoot, I keep forgetting to call Ash ‘Red’ so that’s why… *sweatdrops* Lance? Don’t underestimate the Dragon Master…

Link Masters – no problem, and thank you for looking at my fanart too! ^-^

Ranma – thank you! I understand computer problems, my internet’s usually broken… >.<

Digifan1 – hai, hai!
Shaladin – sounds interesting but I’m only putting loyal reviewers and Championshipping supporters in my fic.

Incomplete13 – Lorelei does not know lance is a girl, but… she does know Lance’s alias! Why? Let’s let that remain a mystery for now.

Aragorn the Ranger – ok! And thank you for lending me that money…

Jarzard – cool, it will add variety! ^-^

Episode 132: You bet your wife!

*Zap* *Zap* *Fire*

Ash jumped awake. “Pika-chan! What did you do that for?”

“You wouldn’t wake up.” Pika-chan answered blithely.

“I was sleeping, okay? I was tired.”
Pika-chan stuck out her tongue. “Crystal’s already up, and she made mini pancakes for breakfast.”
Ash jumped up. “Really?”

“You’d better hurry if you want any!”

Ash nodded and went through his morning ablutions. Ten minutes later, he emerged from the underbrush, clean.

“Morning, sleepyhead.” Lance said.

Ash looked grumpy. “Did you tell pika-chan to wake me up?”

Lance nodded.

“Why? I wanted to sleep!”

“Because if you want to get to Mandarin Island and have your badge before it gets dark, we need to Surf quickly.”
“Oh!” Ash said. “Okay then.” He immediately perked up and bolted down the food in 5 minutes. “Done! Let’s go!”

Lance released Darkstar, they climbed on, and surfed off. The sun sparkled on their light hair.

Soon, though, they ran into trouble.

“Darkstar, come on! You have to break out of that whirlpool!” Lance said. “Use Dragon Rage!”

Darkstar blasted apart the whirlpool and quickly escaped.

Ash sighed out a mushroom cloud. * That was close. *

“Let’s keep surfing.” He said.

Pika-chan nodded. She and Luna were quietly playing Go Fish on Darkstar’s back. For once, they were not arguing.

However, trouble soon reared its unwelcome head.

“HELP!”

There, was a little girl, clinging to a Dewgong. They were being sucked into a whirlpool nearby.

“Mahri, where are you!” A voice asked.

A boy with brown hair of some indeterminate shade pulled out a pair of binoculars and began scanning.

Ash instantly snapped into action. “Pidgeotto, go!” The pokemon emerged from its card and quickly scooped the girl up in its claws. Then, it set her down on top of Darkstar.

“Thank you, Pidgeotto.”

Not a problem, heh, it was easy. Pidgeotto said in a semi-brash tone.

Ash recalled Pidgeotto and managed to wake the girl.

The boy breathed a sigh of relief.

When the little girl (Mahri) woke up, her eyes immediately fastened on Lance.

“Wow! You’re so pretty! What’s your name?”

“Crystal.” Lance said, looking surprised.

“Big sister Crystal!” Mahri said, grabbing Lance’s arm. “I’m taking you back to my house so I can thank you properly!”
“Wha-?” Was all she managed to get out, before she was dragged over.

“I want a big sister just like Crystal!” Mahri said.

“Now, now.” Rudy said. “We’ll have to wait on that.” He took Lance’s hands. “It’s a pleasure to meet you, Ms. Crystal.”

Lance blinked. * Um… okay, how can I get out of this fast? For goodness sakes, I’m the dragon master – oh wait, I’m in disguise. This is bad. *

“I’m Rudy, the Trovita gym leader.”
Fortunately, Ash chose then to interrupt and rescue the poor dragon trainer.

“I’m Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town and I challenge you for a badge!”

Rudy glanced up. “Oh? Very well. But first, I will test your technique.” He stepped away and led them inside.

“Let the trial by water begin!”

They got inside a boat and began drifting along. Targets popped up.

“You have to hit all the targets.”
Ash shrugged. “Okay, then I choose Pidgey!”
Pidgey popped out and chirped, flapping around.

“Pidgey, use Icy Wind!”
Pidgey nodded and froze each target, shattering it into pieces. Meanwhile, Rudy pulled out a bouquet of roses and offered it to Lance.

Lance thanked him, but affected a sneezing fit as soon as she got them.

“Are you allergic to flowers?” Rudy asked, sounding very worried.

“Some kinds…” Lance said, sneezing. Rudy quickly tossed the flowers onshore to rescue her.

He sighed inwardly. * Well, flowers aren’t working… *

All too soon for Rudy, the boat ride was over.

“Well, you seem to have trained your pokemon satisfactorily.” Rudy said, glancing at Pidgey, who was sitting on Ash’s shoulder and preening herself.

“So let’s have a 3x3 battle tomorrow.”
“Okay.” Ash said, smiling. “What types?”
“How about electric, grass, and water?”

Ash nodded his assent.

“Now, then…” Rudy said. “For this evening’s agenda, have dinner with us, Ms. Crystal.”

“No, it’s fine, really. You don’t need to thank me.” Lance protested.

“Play with me, Crystal! Me!” Mahri said, chirping.

Lance frowned, but nobody noticed. She sighed and followed Rudy in – not really with a choice, since Rudy had an arm around her shoulders. * Note to self. At the next combination league meeting, be sure to yell at Rudy. Or kill him discreetly. Or something! AAAAAHHHHHHHH! I’m being flirted with! *

“Is the food to your taste?”

Lance put down her glass of juice and nodded. “It’s delicious. Thank you for inviting me.”
“Ms. Crystal?” Mahri said. “I’ve always wanted a big sister. I live her all alone in this gym with my big brother. So could you stay and be my big sister?”

Lance dropped her napkin.

“Mahri! Please, don’t be so rude.” Rudy said. He stood up. “Why don’t I show you this gym’s pokemon?”

He led the way into the big room, full of dancing pokemon.

Lance’s eyebrows shot up. “They’re dancing?”
“Here at the gym, we teach pokemon how to dance to improve their natural ability.”
“I see…”
“Let’s dance too!”

Lance was about to protest that she had absolutely no skill at dancing whatsoever, but Rudy dragged her onto the floor, so she quickly muttered a spell under her breath.

“By the way, Crystal.” Rudy said. “Please stay here. Not just for Mahri, but for me as well.”

Lance closed her eyes and stopped abruptly. * Okay, there’s a guy hitting on me. I can deal with this! No I can’t! I’ve spent most of my life pretending to be a boy! And he’s a gym leader! Besides, I don’t’ even know him that well! *

“You can tell me after the match tomorrow.” Rudy said, taking her silence for confusion.

Lance sighed.

The next day…

“Sunny, you’re up!” Sunny popped out, pins sticking out, ready to fight.

“Electabuzz, go!”
“Sunny, start off with Pin Missle!” Sunny nodded and shot a torrent of needles at Electabuzz, who put up a Light Screen.

“Thunderpunch!” Rudy ordered.

“Sunny, quick! Use Agility!” Sunny nodded and dashed out of the way, several times in a row.

“Keep using Thunderpunch!”
Finally, one of the punches connected. Sunny toppled over.

“Sunny!” Ash said. < What’s wrong? >

< I feel so tired…. > She whispered in poke speech. < Something is wrong. I can feel it. >

< Come back. > Ash said. He recalled Sunny to her poke ball. * What’s going on? Magic instability? How? *

“Oddish, go!”
“Okay, then I’ll use Exeggutor!” Rudy said.

“Oddish , go! “ Ash said. “Make this quick! Use Sleep powder!”

The powder consumed Exeggutor, and it began to snooze.

“Return.” Rudy said. “Interesting.” He pulled a rose from his jacket and threw it to Lance, who blinked as it landed in her hands.

“Then I’ll mop up the opposition with a water pokemon challenge! Starmie, I choose you!”

Ash sighed. < Vaporeon, are you okay? >

< I feel strangely out of energy. But I still have full HP… >

< I can’t risk it. I’ll use one of my pokemon cards… >

“Kingler, go!”

“Starmie, use Thunderbolt!”
Ash nodded. “Kingler, use Protect!” A swirl of stars surrounded Kingler, and the thunderbolt just bounced off.

“What?!”

“Now use Guillotine!”
Kingler brought up its claws and made an X formation. Two lines streaked across Starmie’s body, and it toppled over, with no HP left.

Mahri burst into tears.

“I confer on you the Spike Shell badge.” Rudy said despondently.

Ash smiled and put it on his jacket.

Lance sighed. “Sorry, Rudy, but I can’t stay here. I still have to challenge Drake.” Rudy blinked, but didn’t comment.

“Let’s go.”

They hopped on Tempest, leaving the family behind…

End Episode 132! This is pretty long… anyways, drop me a line! Please do not use abbreviations. Flames will be used to forge a Tessen.

Why is Ash feeling the magic drainage? Keep reading and find out!

And… a question for those who did submit character profiles.

How does a slumber party @ a pokemon center sound?