The Story Continues:

Okay, so… admittedly… this was probably a really bad idea…

I stared at the Mauville gym leader. I only had THREE pokemon he wouldn’t thoroughly trounce with a single move… I just hoped we’d trained enough.

I forgot about the magnet bombs… god dammit, how could I forget that… Poor Ayanna. I managed to pull her back before it killed her, but she was still, so close to fainting, it was terrifying. I clutched her pokeball to my chest, and flung out Lily. Lily wasn’t a flying type. Lily was a Poison bug type. Lily would be PERFECTLY FINE.

And she was. I had her use psybeam so many times I was seeing purple, but those stupid magnets went down like a sack of bricks and I had my badge. I snatched it, grumbling, half tempted to yell at the older man for using something so dangerous on what was… unequivocally, my best friend out of the whole group. I rushed away, I needed the pokemon center.

This Nurse Joy was so much nicer than the one in Oldale… She took my pokeballs and ran them through the machine, carefully monitoring the pokemon inside, before handing them back. “We hope to see you again.”

I paused, taking back my pokemon, placing Ayanna’s ball front and center on my belt. You know, I’d never understood why they always said that… “I hope to see you again” at a hospital. That seemed really morbid… like you were wishing harm on people. After all, the only reason you go to a hospital is because you got hurt. I shook my head, and made my way outside, releasing Ayanna from her ball to check her over.

What I got… I did not expect. Apparently she’d evolved while I wasn’t looking. Before me stood a gardevoir, almost as tall as me, maybe only a couple inches shorter. Ayanna smiled at me, “Devoir!”

“Oh Aya… look how pretty you are…” I smiled brightly, “I guess we really are best friends, aren’t we? I can’t believe I almost got you really hurt… can you forgive me?”

“Devoir, voir…” Ayanna drifted forward, wrapping long arms around me in a hug, and I hugged her back.

“Oh Aya… thank you… I feel so stupid…”

We left Mauville, and went up, toward Mt. Chimney. I had hoped to find the next gym, but no, two contest halls, though. I stopped in at one, taking on the next step of the beauty contest with Lily. Who knew a Dustox could be “beautiful” and a Beautifly would be more “cool”. Either way, I could see those red hooded hooligans all over the place, and it was beginning to annoy me.
When Brendon… that was his name, right? Demanded I aid him in rescuing his meteorologist friend, I said okay. It wasn’t like I couldn’t handle the twerps using Poochyenas as their main pokemon fighting force. All of my pokemon, and I do mean all of them, were fully evolved… even Kito had evolved again. All I did was drop a swampert on those poor pooches and smile as their masters freaked.

“Don’t… even… bother.” I muttered, even as their… what did it call itself, “Admin Tabitha”... That was a WOMAN? That did NOT look like a woman. I stared. I couldn’t help it. This ball of LARD was a woman? She just… it was a she, right? I dont know anymore… it’s figure was so non-defined it was funny. It’s Numel and Koffing fell to Ayanna, and the rest of it was simple. When she ran off, meteor in hand, I knew just where they were heading.

“I saw some of the hooded imbeciles at the cable car… I’ll just go throw them into the volcano.” I mutter, shoving my hands into my pockets and heading back out of the cave. “Be right back.”

The Cablecar ride was uneventful. The battles leading to their “leader” were pathetic… and as I reached the… Again with the undefined figure… is that a man, or a woman?

“The great Maxie--” … I’m gunna guess woman… She was still talking.

“Shut up, Maxie-pad. Bring out your pokemon so I can trounce you, and then hand over the piece of space rock.” I grumble, throwing out Ayanna and crossing my arms. My Gardevoir seemed to share the same disdain for the woman in front of me, letting out a low “Vooooir…”

“MA-MAXIE PAD?!”

“Yea… you look like a tampon, dressed like that. So hurry up. I ain’t got all day.”

“Just for that, I WILL DESTROY Y-”

She cut off as her Camelrupt was lifted from the ground and thrown clear over her head, off the side of the mountain. “OH GOD”

“I’m sure it’s fine… We done?”

“Why did you do tha-”

“Meteorite.” I held out my hand.

She growled and tossed the meteorite at me as she ran off.

“Stupid bitch.” I mutter, crossing my arms. “Gardevoooir…” came the solemn agreement, and I fistbumped Ayanna. “Nice throw.”