Episode 138!

NOTE! Disclaimer has been moved to the end of the fic.

Notes: <> indicates telepathy, ** indicates thoughts, italics indicates translated pokemon talking, not that much of it.

Lance is a boy and Ash is a girl now. For the reason, see Episodes 135 and 136.

‘Twas the night before finals, and all the teachers began hurling insane amounts of homework at phantomness. The band director dragged her to three long rehearsals. Then, there were the winter concerts…that is why phantomness was sadly unable to update and she may not update soon because she has final exams the upcoming week.

The Pokemon reader – well, it might help. *Looks at racks of bunnies*

Link Masters – well, I know. But poor Lance seems to have forgotten that fact…

SS2 Megami-sama – hehehehe

Jarzard – school is evil… >.<

Blackness44 – well, I like being different.

Aragorn the Ranger – I quit watching anime after the Indigo League, so….

Digifan1 – hai!

Incomplete13 – hmm… probably, but there shall be no romance

Ranma – well, it’s temporary so I can play around with the characters.

Psychic Sabrina – Lance being male… um, he is a guy in one or two of my fics. Why wouldn’t it be championshippy? I love that… um… Pokemon Adventure series I only have up to book 9… it features this annoying guy named Gold and Red has to go off to these healing springs to heal his arms and legs after Lorelei’s ice cuffs…

Mallory – hi! I am so busy its not even funny… but I deal with Internet problems all the time, it’s down practically every day. *laughs*

Episode 140: Flowers in the sunshine

“Whitney! I challenge you for a Plainbadge!”

Whitney looked up and saw a girl in a blue and white trainer’s uniform standing there, with a Pikachu on her shoulder.

“All right.” Whitney said, yawning. “Let’s have a three on three battle.”

She rang a gong and the referee jolted awake.

“Wha? Oh…”

“Okay!” The referee said holding up the two flags. “This is a three on three gym battle for the Plainbadge! The battle will now begin!”

Both trainers reached for their poke balls.

“Snubbull, go!”

“Flareon, go!”

Both pokemon popped out of their poke balls.

“Snubbull, charm!” Whitney said.

“Flareon, don’t panic!” Ashline said. She pointed at the Snubbull, and made a twirling motion with one hand.

Flareon nodded and dived towards the pokemon, which was startled, and broke off its ray of hearts. Then, Flareon flipped Snubbull over and breathed out Smog right into its face.

Snubbull burst out coughing and twitched.

Flareon next duplicated itself with Double Team.

“Snubbull, use Scary Face! Whatever it is planning to do, we have to stop it!”

Snubbull nodded and used Scary Face, lowering Flareon’s speed, but the copies just shrugged.

Then, Ash nodded, and they all dashed towards Snubbull using Quick Attack.

By now, Snubbull was poisoned, and at the sight of all the flareons dashing at it, it fainted from a mixture of fear and fright as the pokemon barreled into it.

“Hey, you’re pretty good.” Whitney said. “It’s rare to see a female trainer who can actually beat one of my pokemon. But can you beat the next one? Clefairy, go!”

Clefairy popped out, singing in its high voice.

“Ok, Clefairy, use Metronome!”

Clefairy began waggling its fingers back and forth, and soon it poofed out an attack. It dashed over and punched Flareon in the head.

< Mach punch. Fighting type attack. > Lance sent.

Ash nodded. She put her hand under her chin and thought for a few seconds. < Flareon, use Bite! >

Flareon nodded and charged towards Clefairy with its mouth open, before biting it on the tail.

Clefairy squealed in indignation.

“Clefairy, Sing it to sleep!”

Clefairy began singing softly. Flareon broke off its Bite attack and began to snooze peacefully on the floor. Satisfied, Clefairy slapped it a few times with Doubleslap.

Then, it used Metronome.

“Razor Leaf? At least it didn’t do too much.” Ash said, sighing.

Lance nodded.

Flareon, feeling the prickly leaves hit its hide, woke up.

“Clefairy, use Metronome again!”

“Flareon, use Fire Blast!”

Flareon created a large ‘X’ of fire and threw it at the Clefairy. Most of it hit. Clefairy fell over, all gray and ashy; covered with cinders.

It weakly used a Tail Whip attack before it fainted.

Flareon let out a gust of fire triumphantly.

Whitney smiled. “All right, but can you handle my secret weapon? Milktank, go! Use Rollout!”

Milktank turned itself into a little ball and hurled itself at Flareon, who dodged the first strike but not the second. Ash noticed that Flareon looked tired.

< You’re the best, girl. Return. >
Flareon vanished into the red light of the beam.

Ash pulled out another poke ball. “In that case, Jolteon, you’re up!”

“Milktank, keep using Rollout! It’s a rock-type attack and it will be super effective against Jolteon!”

“Jolteon, Agility and Thunderwave!”

Jolteon endured one hit of Rollout to boost his speed, before using Thunderwave to paralyze Milktank. Milktank dropped to the ground.

“Milktank, Attract!”

“Attract?” Ash blinked in confusion.

Milktank suddenly batted her eyelashes and sent a wave of hearts at Jolteon. Jolteon floundered, and hearts began spiraling around his head.

< HEY! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING, YOU UNFAITHFUL POKEMON! > Sunny shouted in telepathy.

This jolted Jolteon out of his trance and he shook himself. He let off a Thunder Attack.

“Use Milk Drink, Milktank!”

Milktank produced a bottle of milk from nowhere and healed itself back up to full HP.

Ash crinkled her forehead and thought. * Let’s see… what’s going to work against that? It’s like a pokemon that can’t be damaged. Do I just wear it down? *

< Strategy, Ash, strategy. >

Ash blinked. < Lance, where are you? >
< Well, I can’t exactly go in, since I’m the leader of the Elite Four. I’m hiding from fangirls. I seriously need a new disguise. >

< I thought you were the trainer that nobody saw. >
< I was, until you beat Agatha. >

< Oops. >

< It’s okay… I’ll just figure out a new disguise. >

Pika-chan sighed. * This could take a while. *

“Jolteon, use Thunder again!”

“Milktank, use Attract!”

The hearts spiraled around Jolteon’s head, but he didn’t feel the effects anymore. He yawned and let off another Thunder attack.

“In that case, its time to even the odds. Milktank, use Rest!”

Milktank yawned and went to sleep.

Ash suddenly got an idea. “Jolteon, use Double Kick!”

Jolteon began kicking at Milktank, who couldn’t attack since it was asleep.

“Now.” Ash said. “Jolteon, return!”

Milktank woke up.

“Butterfree, douse it with Poisonpowder!”

“Milktank, use Attract!”

< But it won’t matter because the Milktank will be taking poison damage. > Pika-chan said. < That was smart, Ash. >

< Thank you! >

Milktank used Attract, followed by Rollout thrice, but Butterfree just kept using Mega Drain to heal himself. Finally, Milktank ran out of HP.

“This match goes to Ashline! The badge is hers!” The referee said.

“You’re good at this, Ashline.” Whitney said. “I’d like it if we could train together for a while.”

Ash looked at Pika-chan questioningly. Pika-chan shrugged her shoulders. * Why not? *

“ Okay.”

“Cool! I’ll take you to my uncle’s dairy farm.” Whitney said. She led the way… and promptly got lost.

“Um…” Ash said, looking around at the beauty salon. “This is your Uncle Milton’s farm?”

“Oops!”

Whitney next led them to the Magnet Train station, followed by the Radio Tower. Finally, they wound up at the Milktank farm.

“So this young lass actually beat you?” Milton asked. “Good job!”

Ash beamed.

“Why don’t I treat you to some nice, fresh, Moomoo milk?”

“Great!” Ash said. She and Pika-chan both had several glasses.

< Pika-chan, does this restore HP? >

< Yes. >

< I wonder how much it costs. >

“Do you sell Moomoo milk?”

“Of course.” Milton said. “It’s $2000 for a bottle.”

“Why is it so expensive?”

Milton sighed. “A lot of our Milktanks are sick, and not producing milk. So we’ve had to increase the price because our supply is lower.”

‘I see…” Ashline said. “Can I take a look?”

“Sure. I’ll show you to the barn.”

End Episode 140!

I love Moomoo milk! Comments and Constructive Criticism are very welcome!
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DISCLAIMER: POKEMON BELONGS TO NINTENDO, GAME FREAK, 4Kids, Shogakukan comics, etc. it does not belong to me!

Destiny, Pika-chan, etc, do belong to me.