Episode 138! Wow, the Johto card set is definitely more problematic than the Kanto card set…

Disclaimer: Sing a song of pokemon, a pocket full of cash… if Nintendo accepts my offer, I’ll throw a poke bash! Unfortunately, that does not seem to be working… Nintendo’s not willing to sell pokemon to me. WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

Destiny is mine, along with Pika-chan, the Triple Guardianship, Eterneon, and others.

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

Ash and Lance will be referred to by the incorrect gender because that’s what they are masquerading as… confused? Drop me a line and I will explain.

Shadow’s rant of the day: Some ________ signed a review for a truly disgusting fic that I would sooner flame than read with my name! What’s up with that? Bakayarou….

Ranma – thank you! ^-^

SS2 Megami-sama – we all have our own brain-freeze times…

Tmp – I thought I mentioned the new leader? Oh well, it shall come up. Yes, that’s why Lance doesn’t like Drake. Drake just thinks Lance is cross-dressing, which is technically true, just not the way he thinks.

Link Masters – I haven’t gone into detail on Lance’s aura yet, but it’s very hard to trace… Skymew and Dragonami and Eterneon may pop up but they technically don’t ‘exist’ in Johto… still, you never know.

Aragorn the Ranger –Johto continues this arc since it is the Johto cards arc. I felt like more battling might irk people, and then it would be like a few of my other fics and I try not to blatantly plagiarize my own work…

Digifan1 – hai!

Jarzard – oh…;.;

Psychic Sabrina – ah, TR dark side will show up soon. Very soon, in a few episodes I surmise. Viridian Power, yes, that is Lance’s special power and I go into more detail about it in ‘Dragon’s Love’. Glad you liked the Seiryuu pic!

Mallory – well, if they are catching the Johto cards, they should go there, yes?

Episode 138: I have to be disguised as what!?

“You don’t really have a choice here, Ash.” Pika-chan said. She and the others were currently in Seafoam Islands. “You have to go to Johto in disguise.”

“I know, but!”

Lance looked up. “Come on, it can’t be that bad…”
“What do you mean!?” Ash demanded.

“Well, Giselle shouldn’t be able to figure out its you, with your magic change and the costume you are wearing.”

“Still…”

“Come on, stop fretting, Ash.”

“I won’t! Pika-chan! This is an affront to my dignity!”

“What dignity?” Pika-chan asked, giggling.

Ash sweatdropped. “Pika-chan! How could you do this to me?!”

“It’s not that bad.”

Ash glared at Lance. “You’d better be wearing a disguise too…”
“Of course I am.” Lance said. She was dressed in black, hair back in its red spikes, cape fluttering from her shoulders. “I’m going as myself.”

“Wait. Let me get this straight. You’ve pretended to be a boy all your life?!”

Lance nodded. “Yes. I didn’t actually use the transformation until I was twelve.”

“But still…”

Luna cleared her throat. “Master is very adjustable. She is the best at transforming of all of the three guardians, because water is so flexible.”

“I’m also the only one who can stay transformed as the opposite gender for long periods of time.” Lance said. “Articuno is fickle… so I can switch at will. Plus, for some reason, I am male instead of female in some dimensions, and that lets me hold the form better.”

“But why do I have to be dressed as a girl?”

“Ashline’s a girl, you know.”

“But that’s an alternate dimension!” Ash protested.

“Come on, just do the transformation and the clothes will fit.”

Ash sighed and began to chant. “I’ll get you for this, Pika-chan…”

When the pink smoke cleared away, Ashline stood there. She had black hair that fell to her waist with two silver streaks in it, clear green eyes, and she was quite petite. She was dressed in a white jacket, blue jeans, lavender t-shirt, light blue sneakers, and white gloves.

Lance clapped.

Ash scowled at him. “Stop that!” She said, in a slightly high-pitched voice.

“Look, this is just temporary until you finish capturing the rest of the Johto cards.” Lance said soothingly.

Ash sighed. “All right… let’s go.”

She pulled out her key. “Magic to cards, cards to key!”
A white beam shot out.

“Let’s go!”

“From the smoldering mess around us, I’d say that it was a fire type.” Lance said.

Ash shrugged. “Key that hides the power of the stars, reveal your true form before me! Your master under the seal of contract Ashura commands you, Release!”

There was a blazing flash of red light.

“Duck!” Lance said, pushing Ash down.

Ash shrieked as she landed on a particularly sore portion of her body. * Grr… now I know why I didn’t want to transform into a girl. It’s so inconvenient! *

“Watery!” Lance said, releasing one of his cards. “Attack!”

The water spirit nodded and sent a wave of water at whatever was there.

There was a muffled shriek.

Meanwhile, Ash had pulled herself back up and was brushing grass off her outfit. * This is so demeaning… *

“Hurry and capture it!” Pika-chan said.

“Right!” Ash pulled out his staff. “Under a new seal of contract, your master commands you, return to your true form, pokemon card!”

The pokemon formed into a card, which drifted into his hand.

“Slugma? But why didn’t it go to you?”

Lance sweatdropped. “I already have one. Plus, you were meant to get the Johto card set, remember?”

“Oh. I forgot.”

“Too stressed, I guess.” Pika-chan said sympathetically. “Poor Ash.”

“Can I not use this transformation?”

“No.”

“Pika-chan!”

“You look cute.” Lance said.

Ash blushed. “Lance…”
“What?”

“Um… now you’re a guy and I’m a girl, right?”

“Yes, why?”

“Are you hitting on me?”

The two guardians sweatdropped at the cluelessness of the poor Chosen.

“Never mind…”

< Somehow, I don’t think those two will ever realize their feelings for one another. > Pika-chan said.

< So you admit it! Pay up! > Luna said.

< What are you talking about? >

< Three weeks ago you bet me fifty dollars that they didn’t love each other. >

< Oh… > Pika-chan thought back. < I was on a sugar high! You took advantage of my delirious state! >

< Too bad. > Luna said. < So why don’t’ you just show me the money? >
Pika-chan handed over the dollars. She shrugged. * It wasn’t that much anyways. *

The next day…

“Kadabra, I choose you! Use Future Sight!”

Kadabra nodded and foresaw an attack.

The enemy pokemon hissed and spat. Ash wisely backed away.

“What is this?” She asked.

Lance came running. His dragon wings were glistening, meaning that he had flown quite a distance to find her. He took a quick look.

“This is Yanma.” Lance said. “A bug-type. Psychic moves won’t work against it.”

“Why didn’t you tell me that sooner?”

“I wasn’t here.”
“Oh, I forgot. What were you doing?”

“Cooking lunch.” Lance said directly.

Ash’s eyes got all sparkly. “Lunch?”

Kadabra cleared his throat to interrupt them. < Excuse me, but am I not supposed to be battling? >

“Sorry.” Ash said. The Yanma was getting annoyed at being ignored. It used Double Team and filled the area with copies of itself.

Ash pulled out another pokemon card. “In that case… Jynx, you’re up!”

The psychic/ice pokemon appeared next to Kadabra.

“Okay, Kadabra, use Kinesis!”

Kadabra nodded and bent a spoon in half, using the waves of energy to disrupt the Yanma’s accuracy. Jynx stood still and waited for orders.

“Jynx, use powder snow to try and freeze it!”

Jynx nodded and sent the blast of ice crystals at Yanma, but it just teetered and some of the copies vanished.

“Darn.” Ash said. * Okay, time to switch strategies. *

Lance watched impassively.

“Jynx, try using Lovely Kiss!”

Jynx nodded and walked up to each Yanma, kissing it. More copies vanished.

The real Yanma was getting worried. It used Quick Attack to try and escape, but Kadabra saw it.

< There’s the real one! >

“Kadabra, use Dynamicpunch! Jynx, use Icy Wind!”

The two cards nodded and blasted the Yanma. It keened shrilly, before it fell over, a confused block of ice. Then, Future Sight crashed into it.

Yanma was definitely in no condition to battle.

“Under a new seal of contract, your master commands you, return to your true form, pokemon card!”
Yanma turned into an Ash card as well.

Ash caught it and wrote her name in ink. “Can we have lunch now?”

Pika-chan hid her camera behind her back. “Sure.”
“Yay!” Ash quickly dashed towards the campsite.

“Ash! Wait!” Lance called, but it was too late. She burst in and saw the spider sitting peacefully on the stove next to the pots and pans.

“AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!”

“Ash is afraid of spiders?” Luna asked.

“Normally, no. But his female transformation comes with several weaknesses.” Pika-chan said.

“Ah.”

Ash backed away from the spider.

“Don’t worry.” Lance reassured him. “Spinarak won’t hurt you.”

“Are you sure?”

“Ash, you weren’t afraid of Yanma, Butterfree, Beedrill, or Venomoth.” Lance said reasonably. “Don’t worry about it. After all, it is just another bug pokemon.”

Ash closed her eyes. “Okay…”

Spinarak flashed twice and turned into an Ash card. Ash quickly signed it and put it in her pocket.

Lance looked at her. < Pika-chan, she is hyperventilating. >

< Oh no! >

Lance quickly bent over Ash and began giving her mouth-to-mouth. A few seconds later, Ash came out of her shock and pushed him away.

“Just making sure you were breathing.” Lance said.

Ash took a few deep breaths to calm down. “Sorry. It’s just that… it’s so weird being a girl.”
“Ah. Well, sorry, but I can’t help you in that area.”

“Darn.”

Lance turned to Pika-chan. “Is there any way you can help?”

“I’m afraid not.” Pika-chan said. “Ash, you’re on your own.”
Ash moaned and buried her face in her hands.

End Episode 138! Yep, another plot twist! I love it! *Grins* Well, what else would you expect from shadow the crazy ff.net writer?

C&CC make me happy while flames do not.

Wrote this before I read Jarzard’s fic so I did not steal anything…