Episode 7: Don't Get Me Madplash!

[Harley Scarow]

May, Drew and Jody were on the ground from the attack that Jessie unleashed from her eyes, which happened to be butterflies that suddenly materialized, glowing purple with an emotionless face, charging at them like shooting stars with a white streak from behind. They were still circling the fallen coordinators like a swarm of flies to dog poop, unleashing a dark, star-shape and shadowy dust glittering all over them, making them have a face showing they were uncomfortable with the scent of it. They flew back to Jessie the same way that she unleashed them, falling back into the butterfly-shaped glasses without lenses she was wearing, falling into place like a well-shuffled deck of cards and fading away after they landed in perfect formation.

Rivera was laughing, along with Jessie as she put her pink-gloved left hand next to her chin in an evil look as she did so, the right one on her stomach, taunting the coordinators when she did, "I can't believe that you pathetic trainers would fall surprise from something as weak as that! I thought that you people were good trainers, but I guess that I was wrong." she put her hands by her side again, opening her eyes and rising up as the smoke from the other side of the river cleared up. "Well I can see that things been looking better ever since I joined up with that Harley guy, even though something happened in the past that would make me wonder why I decided to do so. But all that matters is that now I have real power . . . to use on you little twerps!"

Jody got up first, her legs struggling, and the other trainers began to get up in the same state. Her hands next to her legs and shaking along with the pink hair damaged from the stain of falling onto the dirt of the grass, she stood up for herself and yelled at Jessie with her voice losing the valley-girl flavor: "You think that something like that's going to stop me or something?" she pointed across the river, seemingly making a small wave (unusual in a river to say the least, and even more that she was able to do that) as she did so, and shouted more, "Making a surprise attack's not going to do anything here, especially if you're going to use it on humans. Why don't we have a Pokémon Battle right here, right now?"

Rivera, twirling her blue hair in patterns while Jody was saying those words, rose up and talked in a low voice, not caring about what the others were saying already. "Looks like you guys haven't had enough, and I don't think that a Pokémon Battle's going to be solving anything around here. But why don't I do something to get things wet? River Power! Time to drown!" she held up her hands in a praying way, closing her eyes, then suddenly her entire body glowed a water-blue starting from the hands that she held high to her head then to legs. The other people in the scene, including the curious Jessie and confused background people, looked as a small drop of water that was glowing like the rest of her body fell from the sky in the into the river in front of her, making large vibrations surprising to the size of the drop in comparison to another wave (it actually vibrated side to side of the river, edging when it hit the ridge of the dirt where land began). The water quickly began bubbling like boiling water or air blown through a straw, growing more and more active, growing alive. The glowing blue water became the size of a wave on the beach, but the shape of a wall and held right in the middle of the river, frozen. It then collapsed quickly as it became alive again and crashed down on the three across the river and many innocent people unaware of what they were about to feel, soaking the clothes of the main coordinators and making them fall back down onto the ground. "Guess you guys are scared of the water or something, right?"

May got up after being soaked by the attack, panting from the two things that she felt so far by the duo across the river, angry at the fact that it happened as well. Holding her fist in rage, she yelled at them, "How in the world did you two manage you get those powers? Here's another thing: Jessie . . . long time no see, don't you think? Your looks are so cool and beautiful today, and I'm not the kind of person that would judge something like that so easily! It's much better than the repetitive crap that you used to wear when you were hanging out with those old friends of yours. Where'd you get it and how much did it cost?" she turned her head over to Rivera. "I don't know who you are, but you're a good looker as well, you two are so great together!"

Drew, soaked with water from the attack that Rivera used like the other two, got up suddenly, but put his hands over his face in embarassment at the strange compliments that May just said, even making a sweatdrop that was more noticed than the dripping liquid from his body. He shook his head in disgrace and said his next words lowly, "I can't believe that you would even say something like that, May! They're the bad guys, after all, and they're nothing you're supposed to be rewarding other than something that they deserve- getting their asses whooped by us so that we can leave this place and get on to BlueBrook Town. Now you be a good little coordinator and take back those words you said about Jessie and Rivera, like you're supposed to."

Rivera twirled her blue hair a little more, and spat out on the side of the river, replying to the other words, "If you want to know where we got these powers and our good looks, then you should join Scarow online and serve Scarow King, Harley! He gave us all the things that we would ever want in our dreams, and even so he gave us much more than that. But it looks like registration is full and you better be a match for us if you want to save the Ancient Sea Stone that lies here before we get it and make all of you go somewhere you don't even want to." she lifted her hands high into the air and another small wave appeared, but wasn't the dangerous one that she unleashed before on the other side. "I see that you like my new powers, right?"

* * *

In the Scarow's Emerald Castle, also their lair, Harley was in it, sitting in a throne completely made of jade with spikes coming out from some parts of it, appearing to stab Harley directly on hid head and legs but somehow made him comfortable for the person that he is. He was looking down onto the floor, which was transparent the way it was on the outside of the castle on the jade bridge, except this time an image was there similar to a movie screen, showing the scene at Grace River with May, Drew, Jody; Jessie and Rivera there, "Well I see that word of my greatness has already begun to spread around here, even though it shoulda been like that from the start . . . they better not go nuts and mess this one up- I need that stone."

* * *

On Grace River, Jessie and Rivera were staring hard at the other three (along with the other people confused of the events that were happening), about to make their next move in addition to the previous ones that they have already did whom were supernatural powers a regular human would never be able to do. It was like a duel, with their hair flying gently in the breeze waiting for the other person to make the next move rather than them. Sentrets and Zigzagoons watched along with the rest of the people in their soaked habitats from the water of Rivera's move, and some with powder scattered all over from the butterfly attack Jessie utilized, eyes shaking with worry and some of them running away from the scene of the battle.

"If it's a battle you want, then it's a battle you get, and Jessie, you better not cheat like you did in the past when you were back with Team Rocket," claimed May. She looked down and noticed her tiny little blue water turtle, giving an eyeful back at her, fully recooperated from the battle it had earlier with Jody's Bubblish in which it tried but lost. "Let's go, Squirtle!" she pointed at her determined and healed shellfish Squirtle and it rose up into action, vaulting in the air to absorb back into its turtle shell, spinning rapidly to propell itself over to the other side of the large river, and when it did so, it released its entire body, landing on its feet and May looking excited of the battle to happen. "If you two are going to fight dirty, so are we- Squirtle, Water Gun them!"

Squrtle obeyed May and vaulted into the air, withdrawing into its brown shell ready to attack (its head first, followed by arms and legs, but still leaving the unique tail out), and began spinning quickly as it did so; Jessie and Rivera were surprised at the quick reaction that the small water-type was giving out, but still had a look of confidence about the subject. Squirtle stopped in midair, with no support of being able to float like that except for the speed of its spinning the way that an airplane can travel in the sky, and sprayed a burst of water from all directions of its body- the parts that looked like holes since it withdrew into its body, spinning and looking like a water fountain spliting into many directions, but little considering it was small.

Jessie was being sprayed with the five water holes that rotated (barely because Squirtle was small and couldn't add that much force into it) and got angry, looking down on her soaked clothes furious she wasn't able to stop it; Rivera on the other hand, was enjoying it and made poses of enjoyment as she took a gentle shower in the water (except her clothes were still on), her hair in the water's rainbow waving back and forth, putting a look of disgust on Jessie's face since Rivera was enjoying it and she wasn't. Jessie yelled. "Fine then, since you got me and my hair wet, time for you to go somewhere, twerps." she took out two purple PokéBalls with red ruffles and an evil pattern on it. "Go two Weavile! Scarow Balls do your thing!" she threw it into the air with rage, smirking afterwards.

The evil PokéBall released her two dangerous looking Weavile, which takes on the appearance of a black, bipedal feline warrior garbed in a red crown and a red collar. Its headgear is representative of the Aztec culture. It held out its claws like swords, and they shined in the sun above before the battle, showing it was filled with pride of them and was eager to attack to a limit unknown. Both of them leaped high into the sky, in perfect unison, and attacked Squirtle while it was still attempting to continue spraying Jessie and Rivera with water- one of them slashing the poor turtle thus forcefully knocking it out of its brown shell in surprise; the second one slashing it while it was defenseless, knocking it to the ground. Both of them laughed.

May ran over to her Squirtle, whom was rolling on the ground after its shell was pierced slightly from the claw, on the dirt and crying as it was still young and not able to easily take pain. "That's no fair, Jessie! Two against one isn't something that I like to see, and that happening to something so small and young makes it even more mean!" she reached down and took up Squirtle, holding it in her hands and it slowly settled crying as if her hands were able to allow it to recooperate. "I hope that you're alright. You had to face two things in a row already: against Jody's Bubblish, and now you were just ambushed by two Pokémon. I guess that you're pretty strong for being able to take something like that, right?"

Rivera was still in her careless state, kicking back at the trees behind her like leaning on a subway door with nothing to do, her eyes looking down into the water casting her reflection and hair so blue that it almost blended into the light of the water. She reached back up and looked at May holding her Squirtle, bored that she didn’t do anything yet but ready to spring into action. “Looks like you people have nothing to do but bore me to death. I might as well go and look for that whatever stone before you blame me for not getting it when you should be the one to go and help me for the sake of proving yourself to Harley, Jessie. You were the one that said you were doing this for him, right?”

Jessie sweatdropped at the words that Rivera said. “Actually, I decided to come down here so that I can take care of that dumb May brat, because she’s the one that made me and my friends a long time ago die time after time, and that was pretty annoying.” She became angry all of a sudden. “What do you mean I would have failed? You better get on out of here and find the ancient something before I make you, and besides, you have nothing to do right now anyways, so you better get along or else.”

Rivera stood the same way that she was, not caring about the raging face that was now on Jessie when she became angry. She brushed her blue hair back with her hands and took something out of her pocket that was had the same appearance as the BubbleBall Jody used earlier, except the pattern on it was much more darker than usual, with the bubbles purple and the outline of it shaped the same as poison. “You want me to go and find that thing for you so much, then fine, might as well keep my babies out to help me while I’m doing so.” She jumped into the river, which was going downstream, but went the opposite direction until she got to the small mountain as tall as a high hill (except it was gray as rocks at the top instead of the natural green), climbed it comically quick, leaving the scene of Jessie and smirking as she did so when she got to the top in seconds.

* * *

Jody went over to May’s side, having a look of worry on her face as she looked down at the damaged and shaking Squirtle she was carrying in the palm of her hands. Jody then stared across the dozen-meter river in fear and saw the two Weavile gazed at her in the same way, statues coming alive and ready to eat her at any second. “Those things sure look like Pokémon you wouldn’t want to meet if you were in a dark alley . . .” pausing in thought for a little while, she gave May a pat on the back and went over to Drew’s side, looking down in his pocket a way May wouldn’t approve of. “Use your PokéDex, then.”

"This is going to be the first time that I'm going to be using a PokéDex, so I might as well use it since there's a first time for everything . . . " Drew took out the PokéDex that was in his pocket, and held it out directly at the ruffles of Weavile, and the tip of it glowed a healthy red, speaking in a mechanical voice: Weavile, the Sharp Claw Pokémon. It is said that its headgear is representative of the Aztec culture. Weavile have three claws on each paw, instead of two like its pre-evolved form, Sneasel. Weavile are known to travel and live in pairs and are very mischievous. Drew slid the PokéDex back into his candy-blue pockets. "Those sure are some strange Pokémon. Possibly from a region I never went to . . . "

Jody thought of something: Well that's one of the Pokémon considered rare here in the Zuki region . . . I don't know anything about it, but I can at least trust Drew to take care of it one way or the other. I should try to take it down though.

Drew stared at the two Dark and Ice Pokémon across the river, a look of worry but not one of fear, as he reached into his candy-blue pocket and reached out a regular red and white PokéBall, holding it in front of him to press the button thus making it bigger, then throwing it into the air. Those Pokémon seem to be good at aerial attacks, so I might as well use something that can do the same idea. Since they're also Ice types in addition to Dark, I can't use Flygon even though it's also able to use aerial attacks but is also a Dragon and Ground type, meaning that I'll die in a second. Even though Masquerain is still weak against Ice types, I'll be able to hold its own more . . . "Go Masquerain! Let's get ready to fight Ice with Ice!"

The PokéBall spinning in the air released Masquerain, with its red giant antennae and blue cute face ironically different than what seems to be its eyes on the field and rapidly flapping wings like a hummingbee; the two wings resembled eyeballs that could frighten a person new to it. It made chirping sounds as it went in the air, constantly moving side-to-side as it did so. "Mas-Mas-Masquerain!" it chirped, and without taking any orders from Drew, it somehow knew what to do. It flew quickly into the air and both of its wings began glowing, then shot out two lasers of ice that crossed each other into one forming a double-helix at Weavile, splitting out to attack the both of them, but failed when both of the Dark and Ice types vaulted out of the way.

"You don't think that a slow attack like that's going to be able to stop a beautiful person like me, now do you?" taunted Jessie. "If you insist on throwing things like that around, then it better be better or else you're gonna end up blasting off!" she pointed to her double Weavile, whom was still jumping around even after they dodged the attack from Squirtle. They may be quick, but who cares. I don't like to think. Just here to win! "Whatever, use your Ice Claw on you-know-who!"

Mutually, both of the Weavile obeyed- its silver claws lit up an icy blue and began leaping around the grassland in a more hurriedly way, but still focused to carry out what she said as they made a vault higher than the elevated oak trees with the leaves blowing in midst of the battle, blocking the sun and able to survive the heat of its glare as it charged back down. Seemingly disappearing as if an illusion, they vanished into thin air and reappeared directly in front of Masquerain- about only one centimeter before it would touch it- leaving the poor bug in fear of the pain it would feel, and the both of them ready to slash it of its fearful appearance. Bizarrely, both of them dodged before attacking and shredding the poor Masquerain and continued on, avoiding the bug completely, and was now charging at May in a frenzy unexplainable to Drew, putting a appalled gaze on May as the Weavile approached her, and braced herself by putting arms over face. Both of the Weavile slashed her with piercing force- one after the other in respective order, shattering the hard but real ice on its claws after the loud slash like a work of art destroyed onto her and making May fall down onto the ground with force as she rolled back, the ice falling all around her as she hit the nearest tree, her hands still over her face in fear that took away the pain. The two attackers returned back by Jessie’s side with their claws across their body as if they were swords that have just slayed a living being; the pain they have caused showed glittered their swords in the sun as they chuckled a sinister way.

May was in pain, her red clothes in the dirt as she crouched in fear of what would happen next, her bandana shaking as the rest of her body, and her face closed up by her hand, but her right eye staring out a tiny crack looking at the two Pokémon that had just attacked her with their Ice Claw- worried that they might come back for another move while barely able to defend herself. Jessie would actually go through all that so that she could attack me with two of her Pokémon? Attacking me head on is already bad, but having a Pokémon do it is just plain evil . . . something like this is happening . . . I'm scared of it. she whispered silently to herself: "I hope that I don't have to feel that again . . . someone help me . . . "

Drew went over to May's side, but with the same look that he has always given to her- seriousness, even though it was strange that this one showed he cared about the condition that May was in right now. I hope that she's alright . . . time to hurt Jessie for doing this. When he got over to her side, he gave May a gentle pat, taking her hand gently (not the way that a couple would do it obviously) and lifting her up to look at her in a gentle way as they exchanged looks. "Are you okay now May? I know that you just got hurt by an attack from two Pokémon, and that was really cowardly, but I'll make sure that something like that doesn't happen again. The best thing for you to do right now is get some rest, like go by the bench or something.

May nodded for once at Drew's words, quickly running over to one of the benches in front of the large set of trees that were empty (even though all of them were empty anyways), and sat down with her legs touching each other leaning over to the left side, but not covering her eyes the way that she did earlier this time, but her blue eyes still had that painful emotion on it. Suddenly, she stood up surprisingly to the condition that she was in and held out her white and blue gloved hands next to her mouth like a soundspeaker, directing her words of courage to Drew as she closed her eyes and said them happily: "I know that you can do it, Drew! Go Drew! You can do it!" she held her hands by her side now, but a face of new hope on it.

* * *

On the top of the mountain that was about the size of a tall hill, the part where the water of the river was drooling so that it would be the arena where May, Drew and Jody were battling on right now, Rivera was on top, walking in a sly and girly way as she did so closing her eyes with power. She stood out from the rest of the people around her (the people in this part of the river didn't know about the battle happening below the hill), being much taller than they were and about the only being other than some of the kids around that could be seen moving around. Occasionally, she stopped at a set of rocks on the ground and picked out the ones with a more vivid color than the others, throwing away the rest, but in the end she tossed the others across the river and barely passing Jessie as if she was aiming at the battling woman. Rivera continued walking along the rocks, jumping across some of the bigger ones as she did so, and her hair moving smoothly like water as she resumed looking.

Some of the kids laughing (about three of them were there) and having a good time that were playing with action figures and toy airplanes ran by her just a centimeter from where she was about to walk- almost hitting her on the lower part of her legs but not having any reaction when they saw her or anything of the like. Without adding any words to the circling the younglings were doing, her hands glowed a dark blue starting from the right hand to the left and unleashed blue energy beams out that targeted the kids, making cerulean sparks appear just right in front of them and made the children run away in fear of her attacking again. The sparks suddenly became bubbles that popped close to them as they fled. "Those kids are so annoying."

The kids that were attacked by Rivera fell to the ground and began whining, saying things like "Help mom", and "Oww!". Two adults went by, holding their kids, whom have fell because of her, in their hands and looking at Rivera in disgust, carried them away without saying anything to her. Rivera stuck out her tongue at them for looking at her like that, which revealed a tongue piercing of the picture of a pink flower with a yellow center being surrounded by blue bubbles. The flower shot out a blue beam from the center that targeted the parents and the kids that they were carrying (the mother carried two small kids while the father carried a child about six years old), causing the same small explosion from them with the bubbles as the aftermath.

Rivera smirked as they all ran away, even though the ones that she attacked didn't get damaged in any way but were simply fazed by the water moves. She walked off and scoffed at them. "What a pathetic group of people. That's what they get for getting in my way. Maybe next time, they'll learn to swim." There was a big rock ahead of her, one that was bigger than the ones she passed by so far as her legs wouldn't be long enough to skip this one. It had a blue-tone to it, but not one powerful enough to be considered sapphire- more considered to be looking like many rocks dipped in a coat of blue then glued together to make one large one, as they had cracks that seemed to be made of many smaller ones. "Is this what he was looking for?"

* * *

Drew was still battling with his one Masquerain against both of Jessie's Weavile, while May was still getting over some of the pain from the attack she felt earlier. Drew's Masquerain and the double-opponent were still going at it, making random attacks at each other, with both sides dodging them as the Masquerain shot random glowing white orbs (Hidden Power) while Weavile was still using Ice Claw, shattering glass all over the field. Unluckily for Drew, it was two hits and a miss- while the Weavile dodged one attack from Masquerain, the bug got hit once in a while as the weasels preferred attacking twice in perfect formation, and Jody was now alongside May worried about what was happening to her and slightly cowarding as well.

[Torchic23]

Woah, did your story get cut off? Because you never included anything about the attack from Jessie, and I was looking forward to that for some reason.

Poor Drew didn't get many lines in this one, but oh well, I really did enjoy it!

[Harley Scarow]

I'm planning to make Drew get some lines here. The Jessie part that you were talking about is there. If you want to see it, go to SerebiiForums and read the last paragraph there, which is when Jessie and Rivera make the strike. All the other people read it already. Drew's going to have more lines in this one- I just had a serious case of writer's block today, but I think that I got over it. Like the supernatural powers?

[Torchic23]

Yeah, I guess the SN are ok, but I'll try to read it at serebii, and I can't wait! For some very odd reason, I like it when someone attacks May or something and then Drew has to save her, very good for Contest Shippy stories, I think I overuse that plot bunny though ^^;

[Harley Scarow]

I guess that I need to do something new for the sake of doing something new. It goes by a basic storyline. If I was going to put this in chapters, there would be so many, but I decided to put it in episodes . . .

[Torchic23]

Something new? No, I think you do a good job of thinking of new stuff, no matter what anybody says, your story is awsome and I don't really think there's anything you can do to make it better. Your descriptions are awsome, I can really think what the fakemon look like and what May & Drew's surrondings look like, and you also do a good job of showing May and Drew's personalites, I mean, I could see Drew and May doing all of the actions you show, oh yeah and Harley too!

[Harley Scarow]

Jody, looking up on the rocky hill, saw a blue glow on the summit of it, more darker than the one previously- like blueberry juice with extra sugar in it, and her eyes reflected the color. She happened to see Rivera holding the stone that Jessie was talking about earlier, and put on a look of shock as she rushed to her feet, both of her hands held in a fist and by the side of her chin staring with worry, then gazing at the sight with an even more emotional look as her eyes glossed. She already found the thing already? This isn't a good thing. If she uses the stone, then who knows what will happen to the river and all of the live that thrives in it? She kneeled down a little by May's side. "Can you follow me and help me with something? I think that you're strong enough to have healed by now, so come and assist me with this problem."

May stood up at those words, nodding her head and brushing her legs off for one final stroke, then looked where Jody was staring at earlier and noticed the light she mentioned as well, mystified and putting a confused look of what results can happen if they go there. "I'm ready to go and stop being such a coward. Guess I should thank you for snapping me out of it, right?" Ironically, she grabbed Jody's left arm instead of the other way around and began running suddenly, putting a bewildered appearance on Jody's face that she's the one dragging her insteda of the other way around, but not caring. May put a determined look on her face, and they both walked quickly. "Might as well help to this one."

Both May and Jody approached a gentle slope that would lead to the top of the hill, with some small brooks running along the side of the path and some of the liquid from them leading to the flowing river, while the rest of it fell to the plants below like a drizzling rain. The choice that they took was different than Rivera, since the blue-haired woman decided to climb from the exterior (even though it was much more quicker than a regular person). There were some people that were rushing down that slope with their kids after seeing what Rivera did to the kids and parents that she targeted; May and Jody had to dodge them, almost hitting into them; May almost tripped at one time. They got to the top, and ran a few feet away from where Rivera was.

Rivera snickered when she saw them, with the glowing stone in her right hand and a look on her face that showed she was ready for whatever they were going to do. She threw the stone on the ground like a careless person with glass, and held out her hands the way she did before. It glowed a lighter-blue than the stone itself and released that spark of energy again, exploding where May and Jody was, but they managed to jump out the way before they could sustain any damage, but not of fear. She grunted that the attack missed, and took the stone, carrying it with her left hand and made a little laugh. "Looks like you two really do want a Pokémon Battle. Well that's something that I have for you." she took out a PokéBall that had a similar pattern to the BubbleBall Jody used earlier, but this time it had the same patterns with different colors: the bubbles were orange and the background of it were red. "Go Bubblish!"

Rivera tossed the strangely colored BubbleBall into the air and it released an orange beam with bubbles on it like dust in the shining of the sun and released the same Pokémon Jody had before: blue, had dark-blue bubbles on the top part of it, the face showing it would rather laze off rather than battle (its eyes were like a dash pointing down and its mouth was wide open like blowing a piece of bubble gum). The legs short and didn't show much except for the bottom with the rest of it tucked away by the cute fat it had, and ears with a red hole in the middle. When it arrived, it shifted its head slightly to the left like a dog and made cute sounds: "Bub . . . bub . . . Bubblish!" its legs bounced up and down like a balloon ready to fly somewhere.

Rivera snickered and carried the blue stone she had in her hand over to the small Bubblish like an evolutionary stone. Suddenly, Bubblish began glowing blue as if the stone sent a shock of energy to the small body. The blue tone became more lighter and lighter, until it was almost the same thing as white, and radiation of energy was coming from the small Pokémon. It's body seemed to grow bigger and bigger, then to the May and Jody's surprise, it stopped and officially evolved. "Bubbit - Bubbit - Bubbitar!" it was three sections like a snowman, the head looking like a bear as the bottom part was filled with white fur and eyes crossed looking down at its bear-shaped nose in curiousity, it's ears like two loops on top of each other with blue on the outside and red inside. The torso was like a dark blue bib for a baby with red and pink bubbles of all different sizes were scattered all over it. The arms were now more developed since they reached out like after a hug and the nails used to be on it were gone like trimmed. Its peach legs were connected together like a dress or an egg and its feet reached out from the bottom- the brown nails like the stones from the street, but weren't sticking out or anything. When it appeared, the small Pokémon took both of its hands and put it next to its mouth, closing its eyes and yawning a little, and the earflaps folding down slightly, but as if an energy force awakened it, the new Pokémon jolted and its arms were right in front of it in a fighting stance at May and Jody. The curious mouth put a grin on, the blue aura still existing there.

"Aww . . . that thing sure looks cute! So that's what your Bubblish is going to evolve into someday, Jody? I want to touch it so much since it's so cute!"May walked over to the new being there, a smile on her face and touched the evolved Pokémon with her left hand, making it growl like a dog and teeth materialized from it, almost biting her. The blue aura surrounding it almost engulfed her hands like electricity being transferred. She jolted back after it did so, her left hand on top of the other one, but still putting a confused look on her face. "The thing must not like to be touched or something like that." I think that a good idea before I even think about touching it is to take out my PokéDex and learn something about it . . . at least I think so . . .

She stepped back a little and reached into her knapsack, taking out her PSP styled PokéDex and pointing it at the Bubbitar. It spoke in a femaline mechanical voice: Bubbitar- The Tar Pokémon. Although whenever Pokémon get trapped in tar, it would mean certain perishment for them as they are unable to move and become trapped from the ground, Bubbitar seems to enjoy the conditions that they give and be able to play inside it without getting sucked in by it. In addition to that, anything able to drain life it would be able to enjoy as well, like quicksand and swamp; it can also create bubbles from the thickest kind of liquid, including all of the above. May put the PokéDex back in her pocket after it stopped speaking and beeped off.

Jody put her hands over her mouth in surprise and gasped. So that's the evolved form of Bubblish. I can't believe that the Bubblish that she had evolved in a second upon contact from that stone she held next to it- I better be careful before something bad happens.p Jody looked at the Bubbitar and then at May. "May, did you see what I just saw? The Pokémon evolved for some strange reason. If we want to take this girl down, we're going to have to work together aside our differences of you thinking I have a thing for Drew, okay?"

May nodded, agreeing. "I'm sorry for getting on your back and making a big deal about what happened earlier. It was just that I wanted Drew to be . . . you know what I mean, right?"

Rivera had her eyes in a droop, bored of the talk she was hearing from the other two. Her legs were on the almost sapphire rock where she found the stone that evolved her Bubblish into a Bubbitar, moving her left foot back and forth on it like a scraper. When May and Jody finished what they were saying, they looked at her a way that thought she was the one ignoring them, and Rivera suddenly rose up in energy and yelled out, "I hope that you fools are done with the corny stuff, because as far as I know, I have a river to drain, and this stone is going to help me do just that, once I get you two out of my way." she pointed at her still glowing Bubbitar, and ordered, "Why don't you show off your new aquatic powers with Mud Splash?"

Bubbitar listened to Rivera, and it lifted both of its hands a forceful way, making a loud sound as it did so. Water began materializing from the hands held in the air, and they moved back into each other like big blobs, turning more and more darker brown by the second as Rivera snickered. Jody decided to take action before the attack was unleashed by throwing out Bubblish from its Bubble Ball, the water bubble Pokémon pre-evolved to the new enemy that it was facing when it looked in surprise after transparent two-dimensional bubbles sparked outside the Bubble Ball. May threw out a PokéBall as well, revealing the Water Kanto starter Squirtle as it looked at the building attack. Bubbitar's energy ball became completely brown, still rolling around in the air (not moving though) like a wheel, and launched it at the two Pokémon and Coordinators, resulting in both Bubblish and Squirtle using Bubble to repel the bigger brown one. The force of the opponent was too strong as Bubbitar began glowing more intensely than before, making the brown ball hit even more effectively than expected, even though nobody got intensely hurt from the blast.

"Let's use a tag-team combo," suggested Jody looking at May, then gazed at the two battlers. "First can you get your Squirtle to use Bubble attack, then I can get my Bubblish to hop onto them and make on for a close-on attack. They may be small, but if we work together, I bet that they can pack a punch. It's going to look great if we were in a contest though, don't you agree?"

"Let's not talk about any of the upcoming contests for the meantime," replied May. "But you do have a good idea there. Those guys can do a lot if they work together." both of the trainers nodded, then looked towards the bigger Bubbitar as May called out the instructions that Jody suggested in a deep voice. "Squirtle, use Bubble and make them strong enough to carry Bubblish on top of them!"

Squirtle did as asked and took in a deep breath before it did the actual attack, then formed many small bubbles from its tiny moutn, but they had a thicker look on them before that showed they can take more than a human finger to pop them or any other kind of impact as they floated in the air, not moving or aiming towards the opponent but were simply there for the next plan.

Jody nodded, then pointed at her Bubblish, ordering the second part of their plan. "Now you can get on the bubbles that May's Squirtle made by jumping onto them and leaping over and over until you get to the place that you need to get to, which is anywhere upclose by that evil woman or her bootlegged Bubbitar. Then Aerial Bubble to give that thing something to remember, and the Scarow lady as well."

Bubbitar listened and made a big jump with its small legs somehow managing to do so that far, landing on one of the bubbles that were made from May's Squirtle, with the bubble bouncing up and down a little when it made it on, making an elastic sound. It began jumping bubble from bubble to get closer and closer to the opponent, already making it to the third block of the bridge and a few feet away from the opponent. It used Aerial Bubble, making small white streaks the size of its body behind its round back and began rolling quicker and quicker until it was a blur, releasing itself onto the air like a bowling ball poorly but strongly thrown, except this time the entire plan was intentional. As it rushed through the bubbles, it rolled on top of them like a flat surface and was now close to the opponent, getting ready to unleash cloudy bubbles.

Bubbitar stood its ground and watched as its pre-evolved form jumped off one of the bubbles that Squirtle unleashed and attacked with white bubbles as clear as the sky out of its mouth like a jet and came towards it, then jumped back onto a cloud of bubbles collecting up. Bubbitar grunted a little, then glowed more powerful than it was already, jumping into the air and doing a backflip as it did so, then unleashed a long stream of bubbles out of its mouth similar to the way Bubblebeam worked, but appeared in a long river traveling towards them composed of red and blue ranging from many different sizes. They all reversed through the bubbles that Bubblish sent out like a river suddenly changing the flow and headed towards the aerial bubbles, destroying all of them on contact and knocking the poor water Pokémon off the line it was standing on and hitting the supporting Squirtle as well.

May was shocked at the power released as she went by to her fallen turtle and held it a little. “What kind of attack was that?!"

"Guess you never heard of Bubble Stream, the strongest attack in the bubble category and the like,” answered Rivera. “As you can see, since it was the same type of attack against the same type of attack, the one with more attack power would be the one to be nice, and it looks like the best one was Bubble Stream. Good thing that you two aren’t battling against the next thing you’re going to face or it would have been even worse than that. Time for you two to drown."

Jody had a bewildered look facing Rivera, thinking to herself. 'You know who . . . ?' What could she mean by that? She pointed at Bubbitar, then questioned out of curiousity, "Is Madplash the Pokémon you're talking about?"

Rivera nodded, and put a shocked look on May and Jody's face, obviously knowing that they were right to a bad limit. "To tell you the truth, Bubbitar evolving into a Madplash would take a long time, but thanks to the stone thingie that I have with me right now, all that it's going to take is a couple of seconds, and you two have nothing like that to spare. Rather than talk about it, why don't I show you two exactly what I mean?" she held out the Ancient Sea Stone next to her constant angry Bubbitar.

Bubbitar reacted to the blue sensation of the stone the same way that it did when it was still the small Bubblish, glowing more intensely like the waves of the oceans with patterns of auras forming about it; then it's body began shining white (but you can still see it transparent) for evolution starting from the bottom to the top to become completely encasted by the light, then grew bigger than ever before to about seven feet and more fatter. The light shattered and revealed the new Pokémon: its head was split into two parts with the top one slanting down like a rocky hill having right-triangular red eyes with a black pupil in a rage and a nose like a dog; ears that shook after the entire glow was over from the feet to the top; red bubbles appearing to move like burning lava with the hill going all the way down to its hanging tail that looked like another layer of skin on top of it. The body of its rushing hill had its mouth in a raging bar with razor-sharp teeth on top and bottom crushing into each other in perfect formation, the red spots ending before the top layer, followed by bulky legs with cute toes. Overall, it looked like a bear with a blue jacket made of fur on top of it, and the same rage and excitement as a hunter going for his kill as it stomped its feet in anger, making rumbling sounds in the ground like tectonic plates slightly crashing into each other. The hands by the side which had claws sticking out of them unlike its pre-evolved form crashed into each other like a bully about to kill the nerd, and it flexed both of them to show muscles popping out, and as it showed off, the tail reacted and stomped like its foot. May and Jody were frightened at its constant glowing spreading around.

May shook her head at it in fear. "That thing looks so cute! But it looks so scary . . . how are we going to deal with it?"

"For one thing, you can go and use that PokéDex of yours so that we can get some info on it," stated Jody. "That might help, right?"

May agreed with Jody and grabbed the PSP PokéDex from her pocket, which started talking in a female mechanical voice with the orb at the top of it glowing red with each passing word: Madplash, the Dead Swamp Pokémon. Madplash is known to live in dark, murky swamps in the land and it is said that any treespasser into its home would suffer a horrible fate upon venturing deep into the abode, as it prefers to live alone far away to occupy a large amount of space after it evolves, leaving its past comrades of Bubblish and Bubbitar completely. As a matter of fact, the swamp that it thrives in is known to be a place of death when one is drained deep down within it. May put the PokéDex back in her pocket, the thought and word of death rushing through her.

"Well for one thing we better attack that thing before it goes and attacks us," stated Jody. "Any ideas?"

May shook her head, "Not at the moment."

Rivera grinned, then lifted her tongue up showing the piercing done in the middle, calling out her attack, Now that it "evolved", some really funny things are going to be happening around here, for them to see at least. "Use Mud Frenzy."

Her massive Madplash added a brown flavor to the blue glow and roared with rage as if the aura provided it with too much power, lifting its hands in fury. Water began materializing from above it and moving together in a gooish way, collecting together like slimes and slowly turning a dark brown as seconds passed by, becoming blobs of mud directing at its opponents. Madplash's eyes sparked sense of attack and unleashed its move on the defenseless Squirtle and Bubbitar (hugging each other in fear at the time), and knocking both of them back. Rivera shot out a blue beam from the middle of her tongue onto where May and Jody were standing, causing a fury of bubbles to escape from the blast and knocking both of them back into the ground, moaning from the move.

Jody was on the ground with her left eye closed from the flinching of the constant angry Madplash up in her face ready to attack her and May again. "You're have to be that much of a bully to be attacking little kids like us, you know. What a bully."

May was shaking a little, as the Madplash pounded its chest in front of her, May decided to brace herself with the aid of putting her hands over her face. "Why don't you go somewhere? Do that terror of yours somewhere else, for the sake of it."

Rivera kept that look on her face, then stuck out her tongue in a taunting way at May's words and nodded. "Fine, if you want me to go somewhere and spread all of my destruction, then I'll go and terrorize a whole bunch of kids over there. The good thing is that I'll get paid for that either way, with some good drinks back at the Scarow headquarters to boot." she began walking a little with her Madplash going up to May and Jody to make one last big roar blowing their hair away, before going up to where its trainer was already at and walking alongside Rivera. As they did so, the people around there began to run away as if the aura emitting from Madplash was a powerful forcefield, or the opposite side of a magnet repelling another one. "See ya!"

"That's not what I meant!" yelled May. "Come back here!"

Rivera ironically listened, with her blue body and big Madplash rushing back to where they were before in a rush the same speed as when Harley gets excited over something and making a spark of fear trigger in May and Jody's face as they both popped up right in front of them. "Fine then, I'm back here." May and Jody both shook their heads in fear after that remark, resulting in Rivera walking off again with her Pokémon in the same raging appearence as if it was a big bully asked to do a strange favor. "Since you two are so moody and want me to stay and go so much, you might as well follow me before I ambush Drew along with Jessie right now. Considering the power that Jessie has, I wonder if Drew's even surviving long enough to make that chance, for Scarow has given her a double-Weavile to boot."

May and Jody looked at each other in shock and flashes of what could happen to Drew, which included him falling in the river and drowning from the stream's suddenly increase in power, slashed by the double-Weavile directly from Jessie's carelessness towards human and such; him getting kissed by both of them and turning to the dark side! They were in fear of that and both said the next words in unison: "We better go and save Drew before he gets doubleteamed by these two b*tches!"

* * *

Drew was currently on the riverbank battling Jessie, his Masquerain badly damaged by the antics of Jessie and her double-Weavile as they jumped in the air again- Masquerain barely dodging both of them and running away a little like a sweating bug as it screeched in pain of the swords. Jessie had her right hand by her side with the smile on her face she would win the battle (as she already did but decided to kick an opponent while he's down), while Drew with a complexion of worry shattered on his face as he ran over to his Masquerain to see if it was okay. The duo of Weavile leaped across the field and rose their icy claws as if they were swords above Drew, ready to slash him as Drew braced him and his Masquerain in astonishment, when Squirtle and Bubblish shot out Water Gun to knock both of them away from the worrying boy.

Drew rose up after the miraculous save, his Pokémon's real eyes blinking twice after he did. "Thanks you guys. For once girls did something right, and I'm hoping to see that more." he rose up on his feet and relief shined on his body.

May laughed, then talked in a stern but unserious way as she knocked Drew on the head comically. "What do you mean that we girls are doing something right for once? We're here to save you so you might as well make the most of that."

"I know that you're always so sure that you would be able to take on all of your opponents by yourself without having another person help you, but you know that you want us." stated Jody. "Might as well make the most of it with us cute girls, right?"

May and Jody looked at each other, laughing at the strange friendship that they developed in comparison to how they were treating each other earlier, and both gave each other a high-five in the air as they both leaped with their eyes closed, then looked at Jessie in her angry mood that the people in front of her were having a good time compared to what Jessie's intentions were.

"You little brats!" hissed Jessie. "I thought that Rivera already took care of you. I don't give a d**n- now you're going to be feeling my terror if you don't get out of here!" the butterfly-shaped glasses she wore glowed purple, signaling she was going to be unleashing the attack from her eyes that knocked them all down the first time, and the eyes in the middle had an angry aura around them. "Your lovey-dovey-ness has gone on for long enough. Beauty Attack!" she jumped high in the air as if on invisible wings, and unleashed many shadows of butterflies from her eyes gaining a physical form aiming at the three, with Drew jumping back along with May and Jody jumping from the explosion that they caused before the insects flew back onto her eyes like a well-shuffled deck of cards. "How dare you dodge the attack? You'll pay for that!"

"So you wanted us to get hit?" smirked Drew. "We're way more smarter than you, Jessie."

"That's it!" Jessie pointed at her double-Weavile. "Double Frozen Sword their asses!"

The Weavile both nodded at the order and jumped into the air, materializing icy swords like the kind able to slay a dragon for thousands of years per Jessie's words from thin air and caught them in their hands like reflecting mirrors. Even with the unique clawed hand that Weavile had, they both managed to hold them in a dangerous way like a powerful magnet on a smaller one, pulsing in the air and charging back down with an icy streak like the sword behind them as the force. The three down dodged with a jump, and the swords hit the ground to create a frozen shockwave that spread within meters around the damaged area, chasing the running Jody a little before Bubblish landed on the frozen land to slide. May and Drew running side-by-side but Squirtle got hit by the waving ice on the ground.

May stopped and grabbed up her Squirtle. "Are you okay?"

Squirtle grunted a little with its tan shell shaking, then opened its eyes and leaped back onto its feet and had its little hands by its side in a pose. It suddenly glowed to put a shock on the spectators, becoming bigger as ears and tail grew with wisdom on the field and a shadow of its eyes in a serious motion to show it was evolving into its next form when the glow lessened to the point it revealed. It now looked different with its somber look of elegance and power as it flexed its muscles, now a a bipedal, indigo-blue turtle with a brown shell and a long, furry tail and ears. This tail, covered in rich, thick fur, is so long that it sticks out clearly in comparison to its body. Making Jessie sweatdrop in the damage to come after the evolution, Wartortle grunted in strength as it turned into a Rapid Spinning projectile.

[Torchic23]

Oooo, suspensful, I like it, keep writing and I'll keep reading ^^

[Harley Scarow]

Jessie and Rivera were shot in split-screen, with May, Drew and Rivera a delighted look to the event happened, all of them looking at the new turtle Pokémon spinning quickly in the air in a rapid attempt to attack the double-Weavile slicing it before. Wartortle seemed to be flying, but so did the Weavile, as one of the Aztec look-alikes decided to take action and slash the spinning shell before it could do anything to them with Ice Claw, but to no avail any damage but got the sharp nails of that brave sinister scraped off in a painful matter. The other Weavile saw what happened and without putting into consideration the same thing would happen to it as the other one, vaulted in the air and slashed the Wartortle with another Ice Claw- the same result as the second Weavile jumped to the ground in pain and held its claws with minor tears rushing down its eyes.

“That was good!” complimented Drew.

“That was so cool!” stated Jody.

Jessie became furious of the fact two of her rare Ice and Dark types could be easily taken down by that one Wartortle, holding her fists in anger as she came over to her double-Weavile still blowing on their respective blades after the painful attempt. Jessie, only caring for results as she always has, yelled at the weasels, “What do you think that you’re doing letting a tiny little Squirtle- I mean Wartortle beat you like that?” she then looked at May with the same thoughts, “How dare you do something like that? You’ll pay!” her words were exactly as she meant them, jumping high onto the air and flying around on those classy wings of hers that were actually meant to only be part of the dress, and unleashing the many shadowy and emotionless butterflies from her eyes aiming at May in an assault of rage, her eyes glowing red as they unleashed the soulless insects.

Wartortle jumped in the line of fire still in its shell in a way that seemed as if it had eyes all over its body, being able to do something like that without even a look of an eye showing from anywhere of its determined self, repelling all of the butterflies that went its way to redirect them back where they came from as they deflected all the shadows in an orderly fashion. The butterflies had no sense of direction and thought in any sense of the word and headed towards Jessie’s direction, looking as if they were just about to attack her in an ironic way. Jessie had a horrified look on her face, so just in the nick of time her hands glowed the same red and purple aura emitted from the impacting butterflies and unleashed energy beams that shot in the middle, knocking some sense into the floaters as they landed back on the format of her eyes in perfect formation.

May ran by to her defensive Wartortle, who just finished blocking the incoming attacks and left its shell standing on its rough blue feet this time to look at its trainer in a cute look, evolved but still the loving and shining personality of Squirtle. She looked at it in a peculiar way but still smiled all the same. “That was a really good job that you did there? I guess I have to say that we were lucky that you evolved into Wartortle when you did, right Squir- I mean Wartortle? I guess I should get used to that.”

“You were always forgetful,” reminded Drew.

“But now you have a new friend!” exclaimed Jody.

Jessie walked over in her usual angry look, and then stuck her tongue out in the always-nasty way with her left hand holding the flaps of her left eye down in a demanding way. “Sorry to break the reunion, but I’m afraid that you have more things to tend to other than reminisce about your new evolved Pokémon.”

“And what do you mean by that?” demanded Drew.

“May just took you down!” yelled Jody.

Jessie closed her eyes at those remarks, giggling with her hips shaking as she did so, then opened them up to hold her left hand at the flowing side of the river that May, Drew, and Jody were facing at, more looking as if she was going to be attacked by three people from one side and her being alone (except that wasn’t the case). “What I’m saying is that if you want to go and save all of the citizens vacationing here on Grace River, you better go somewhere and stop that other more uglier girl before all of the people here drown in the river! I know that you ‘heroes’ wouldn’t want something like that to happen so if you plan on doing what you’re meant to do in the first place, then go somewhere before all of it is gone.” After that rant, she directed her eyes towards May and made a smirked look. “You and I have a score to settle, so you better watch out before you really die. You better do something because an evolved Pokémon’s not going to save you from nuts.”

“I see that you weren’t able to beat us so you decided to let your other monster try and do that?” asked May. “Of course though, that’s you Jessie.”

“You’ll pay for those words the next time you enter a Pokémon Contest, and that can be arranged when the both of us face off in the Blue Dome of BlueBrook Town- better hope that you get a lifejacket because you’re sure to drown there.” Jessie turned around in the opposite direction, and the yellow butterfly wing with red and purple as the classy rims look-alike began glowing a dark violet, then she jumped in the air and shot off like the end of a catapult, a gust of wind streak behind her as many of the leaves and litter flew around them. She was already high in the air, cackling as she stormed. “I’ll get you next time, you twerps! I’ll be back!” she was already gone in the distance, an overwhelming speed possibly rivaling that of an airplane of some sorts.

“Wow, that was a dramatic takeoff,” stated Jody. “I wish that some people would stop doing that like the way they always do in the movies.

“That’s the way that bad guys work,” informed Drew. “The difference in this situation is that this isn’t a movie, but more of a scene.”

“There’s no time for that you guys,” said May. “We still have to go and stop Rivera before she does what Jessie mentioned.”

“Right!” agreed Drew and Jody.
The three friends ran off in the southward direction, which was the flow of the river as they ran side by side with it, an indomitable expression on their faces as they did so with the contemplation of how they will take down the river-loving enemy.

* * *

Rivera was very downward in the Grace River location, staring down at the pleasant and delicate water that was shining with minerals, and occasionally having the common Magikarp or Goldeen swimming by, along with the many kids on either side of the river putting their legs or hands in the liquid gently with hopes of either getting themselves clean or just for the sake of touching the water, which would never be tainted by evil unless measures were taken on it. She reached down at the water and saw her blue reflection slightly darker than the light given from the sun onto the river itself, and chuckled as she held the Ancient Sea Stone she used earlier which has already shown itself to be a powerful tool as it caused instant evolution for the small Bubblish and even determined Bubbitar, proving a worthy object for the Scarow.

Chucking, she took some water and splashed it on the stone. “If this thing is all that Harley said that it would be, then flooding an entire place should be a task made simple for it, and rather than talk to myself about it and get all of the people around here on my back about why I’m carrying something so beautiful and awesomely precious, I should just use it right here, right now.” She splashed some more water over to the stone and held the blue object over on the shallow waters of the river- possibly only about three feet deep but still enough to let the Magikarp and Goldeen stay barely submerged, and her hands shaking in delight as she did so. “This should be fun.”

The stone being held underwater suddenly glowed a powerful cerulean, but this time more powerful than when it evolved Bubblish into Bubbitar or it into Madplash as this time there were powerful streaks of contradicting orange light coming from it like a spike ball gone rampage and made some of the people picnicking around the location look at the shining glow in amazement. The stream in the region of the aurous mineral glistered as if magic has come upon them and glowed a lesser bright blue of the rock- enough for a person to still tell the difference between the stone and the liquid, but still not enough to make everyone gasp. It became more and more glowing, and then at least some of the populace present began to perceive that a force was going on, nevertheless not eloquent if the occurrence was beneficial or dreadful, and eyes shining in the shimmering manifestation of the water. As the people gazed, Rivera tittered at the events to happen next, and a small wave contributed from the other face of the waterway to the side she was on- bizarre as a river can only set out downstream. More ripples of the water were caused as the radiance went further and further to the extreme, and soon not only was it more of quality, but of reckless quantity as the kids committed of curiosity were roughly splashed by the wave as if it was a colossal one at the beach, knocking them back a little.

Some of the people around there were amazed at what Rivera could do and clapped as if it was a premeditated performance, while some of the adult members of families for the children splashed quite forcefully came by and derided at Rivera for what she did to them, even though for that event it was unintentional as hurting one or two of the minors here was nothing she had in mind. Soon more “waves” were unleashed from the stone and the blue woman embracing it and even hit the adults clapping for her in a jagged way, and making the family members of the kids smacked formerly become raged even more, but not anything to Rivera’s intention as that nevertheless wasn’t the maximum potential of the idea she had in mind- to hurt all the people in her sight. This time some of the people were splashed as if a hefty swell on a shoreline, cringing even this time.

“How can I get any of this nuts to work if the stupid stone won’t even hurt one person with real force?” she whispered to herself. “Work already, stupid piece of nuts!”

The stone, as if able to reluctantly but efficiently for Rivera’s dirty cussing words and reckless demands, glowed even more than it was already, and adding red streaks of rage to the stone as if it was alive itself, again amazing but poisoning the eyes of those looking at the performance, then a wave extra enhanced than before crashed down onto the people of the shoreline, making all of them get knocked out along with the force of the wave, as if a storm or the gods from above were angry at the one using the stone but decided to take it out on the other people, and grunts of pain were shown on the faces- a number of them even desperately drowning away from the scene of the rulebreaking wave into falling at the silent river turned into the raging storm that it is right now with levels rising, and some of the kids also caught up in the huge splash.

* * *

The running May, Drew and Jody stopped and noticed that there was a huge commotion going up a little forward ahead where they were right now, and shinned their eyes a little to focus on the terror being caused back down there, noticing there were some people with their entire bodies in the river literally still with their clothes on and in pain- the first time they have seen someone “swimming” in Grace River so far as many of the other occasions were just standing, dipping, or splashing. They ran quicker with the hopes of stopping that from happening before it could get any worse, with Wartortle speeding up in advance of them in the ironic matter it was a turtle, and made its way with some streaks of dust picking up from behind, and some of them even noticing that the ground was getting more and more damper as they resumed their swift running.

Getting to where Rivera was, May stopped right in front of her with an unwavering look to cut short what the lady was doing. “You better stop hurting all of the people around here, because they didn’t do anything to hurt you, Rivera!” stipulated May.

“Well I can see that Jessie wasn’t good enough to take care of you three, so she decided to throw the team at me, and if that’s the case, then you better watch out because this team’s going to end up like those people over there!” Rivera pointed over to some of the people drowning in the suddenly enraged waters of the rivers, some of them completely carried to a place they couldn’t possibly envisage, while the strapping ones were able to barely make it back to land, scarcely skirting the magic of the stone that caused this to happen in the first place. “As you can see, some of the people have already been killed from the powerful magic of the Ancient Sea Stone, and if you’re one of those people that expect to stop me unlike those other spectators that thought it was supposed to be some kind of stupid show, then you better get the thing from me one way or the other.”

“That’s just what we’re going to do, and you’re going to regret ever doing anything so horrific to those innocent bystanders!” demanded Drew, taking out a PokéBall from his pocket and throwing it high in the air with a dogged guise. “Go Masquerain!”

The Drew’s elegantly thrown PokéBall released the Water and Bug, Eyeball Masquerain with the red silhouette disappearing from the top to bottom, showing Masquerain's antennae or wings, the 4 parallelogram-shaped appendages at the lower end of its body as wings very small, beating very fast; the illusionary eyes staring hard with the same thoughts Drew had- to take down Rivera. “Masquerain!”

“If you’re going to be battling, then I might as well fight alongside you, Drew, as long as Jody manages to keep away her distance!” declared May. “Wartortle, let’s go and teach this little girl a lesson!” Wartortle was standing by her side with arms in a V.

“What do you mean that I’m supposed to keep my distance away from Drew or something like that?” inquired Jody. “Eh . . . it doesn’t matter to me anyways, so go Bubblish and show this girl that small Pokémon can win too!” she took out her Bubble Ball and threw it in the air.

The Bubble Ball released a brilliant blue beam of light from the center with shadows of red bubbles floating around in the laser like a computer’s screensaver, and released the small Water-starter Bubblish, completely round, like Jigglypuff or Spheal, with red bubbles on the pattern of its body with the shine of rainbow; it's light blue hands with tiny nails that were round on the end of it were being held next to its mouth that was open like it saw something surprising, including rather big lips than usual as it blew out a small bubble like chewing gum when it was sent out; its eyes were like a straight line that went up, and had a shine of emotion at the top of it when it also looked in the gentle river that it was battling next to when it came out; ears like a Marill except they had a pink inside, and small feet looking like it was trying to jump- the cute entrance.

“If you think that a three on one battle’s going to give you the edge on any occasion, then you better be thinking of something else because once my Madplash uses the full power of Grace River on you cornasses, the three of you are going to be running home.” Declared Rivera, snapping her fingers in a summoning matter.

As if those fingers were made of magic, her Madplash materialized like a netnavi from Battle Network logging in, starting from head to bottom. Madplash in its bulky, red-glowing self had the usual angry and murderous look on its blue face, and crashed its hands onto the ground as if the angry waters were supplying energy to it. Strangely, the river glowed in unison with Madplash and a chunk of the water collected to splash on the top of the raged Pokémon, making it raise its hands in rushing aggravation of strength and muscles suddenly flexing with artificial and natural energy, veins breaking throughout like the Incredible Hulk, and sending a white beam of power from the new muscles to strike the three Pokémon opponents, knocking them back. “Madplash, Madplash, Madplash!” it crashed onto the ground to release tremors.

May, shocked at the power of the quake it unleashed, braced herself with her hands over her face as the land shook a little, closing her eyes with a sparkle of some fear. “Wow, that thing that Rivera’s carrying really is making the worse of the place, so we really need to find some way to make it better before it’s all gone.”

“That’s a good idea, but I think we better attack with our Pokémon before we can witness the nuts that thing can do, right friend, I mean May?” decided Jody.

“Let’s stop talking about it and show them some action!” suggested Drew, pointing over to his Eyeball Masquerain. “Use your Water Pulse and knock that thing down!”

Masquerain’s wings lit up a light blue and unleashed a circling wave of water from the middle as it flapped its huge wings compared to its size, causing large round streams of energy to hit the large and slow Madplash directly on its face, but the foe showing no sign of weakness to the attack. Madplash got angry at the hit, and pounded its fists on the ground crying like a little baby, and as if rage had the power of growth, it swelled in size and reflected the rest of the water directed towards as it with its even more massive hands back at the Masquerain, the bug dodging most of the water but got hit as the last few seconds. Madplash decided that countering predicted pain wasn’t enough for it, and went on running as if a sumo wrestler became undisciplined and slammed its fists on the Bubblish and Wartortle- both still waiting for directions on what to do.

“If you’re going to want to take this girl down, then I suggest you two get your Pokémon to contribute to the battle,” ordered Drew. “And I mean now!”

May and Jody nodded their head in agreement to those directions, with both of them saying their respective Pokémon, “Wartortle, Bubblish, use your Bubblebeam!”

Wartortle did a quick backflip in the air ironic to the weight of its shell while Bubblish did a big jump and span three times, both of them unleashing the wave of bubbles from their mouth that coupled together to live to its name, and all of them hit the rampaging Madplash- adding more to the storming rage already lived up to the power of the stone, becoming even bigger until it was the size of a tree like a water balloon held by an energetic kid at a water fountain. As if orders were transmitted through the mind, Masquerain decided to join in and unleash waves of bubbles from its wings like two hoses opened, and enraged the triple-teamed Madplash even more, but somehow made it flinch in a weak spot somewhere on its legs this time. With their continuing assault, not letting off their attack, but unfortunately not caring about the increasing condition of the foe they were facing.

“I think that attacking that Madplash with water attacks isn’t going to be a good idea, so it’s a nice start to admit that we just helped it a little from the attacks that it just took.” Informed Drew, looking at his Masquerain and noticing something as if a spark of an idea flashed onto his mind that moment. “I think that we need to attack it on its legs.”

“What are you three talking about over there?” demanded Rivera. “I heard from even Scarow that it’s not good to talk about people behind their backs!”

“Nothing that you need to be concerned about!” hollered May.

“Drew does have a point about the ‘attacking it in one place’,” complimented Jody. “I did notice that the big brute flinched a little after that. A good thing that we can do right now is get Masquerain to use Bubble Wave, I’ll get Bubblish to use Bubble Bomb, while Wartortle can use Bubblebeam, okay? This just might work.”

“Wartortle, use Bubblebeam!” ordered May.

“Masquerain, use Bubble Wave!” structured Drew.

“Bubblish, use Bubble Bomb!” planned Jody.

The three good Pokémon took out their commands and began the assault: Wartortle unleashed a stream of bubbles from both its mouth and the fins of its patterned and ruffled tailfins; Masquerain shot out a wave of blue as if using a water-flavored Silver Wind with bubbles as the aftertaste; Bubblish jumped high onto the air and unleashed bubbles surrounding its small body first then released as if it suddenly became transparent as a ghost and fell the orbs onto the overwhelming Madplash- the big brute retaliating by smashing the many trees around it, and causing even more powerful ripples of water to splash around them, even making tremors on the ground as it did so, but kneeled down in pain as its legs got bombarded by accumulating attacks, falling to the ground like a giant stabbed from behind by a warrior. After the huge bubble Pokémon fell, the three good ones went by and stood next to their trainers with a feel they had just defeated one of the terrors taunting them the first time they met her hours ago.

“How dare you do something like that to my beloved Madplash!” yelled Rivera. “Get up and do something to them before they really defeat you and I get fired on my first day!” As if those demanding words were the key to weakening Madplash, it became smaller and smaller by the second with a fading effect until it was back to the size it was before the ‘Ancient Sea Stone’ was able to force it to undergo the horrific transformation; the diluted look of abridged harm made a look of relief on May, Drew and Jody’s complexion, but something strange started happening. Madplash, instead of a fading tone on it, began to glow white, as if it was going to evolve again, but instead of becoming bigger and better like most evolutions, this time it became smaller than the normal sized Pokémon it was already. After the glow was over, it revealed the snowman formatted Bubbitar standing in front of them with a look of confusion as if it just woke up from a nightmare, holding its finger up to its bear-shaped face, a look of sheer, ironic cuteness.

“What in the world happened to my big and strong Madplash?” wondered Rivera in a rage. “I say that this here stone is a rip-off, but I better go and give it to Harley before he goes into a fit.” She then directed her look at the other three confused but happy at the event just happened. “I don’t know how the heck did you three do that, but you better be freaking ready in the BlueBrook Town’s Water Dome, okay idiots?”

“You better be the one to watch out,” taunted May.

“She’s right, for once,” smirked and agreed Drew.

“You’re never going to do something like that again, Rivera,” stated Jody.

“Maybe I won’t be able to make you three go for a very long swim, like the other so-called innocent people drowned and actually died in this mini-tragedy, but you can bet your asses that you will next time,” warned Rivera. “Now it’s time for the corny and dramatic leave that a villain always does after the battle” Rivera’s body slowly became transparent, but it looked like water taking shape of a classy human, as her body liquefied and became as see-through as the river but the waves of her body bumping with the eyes in a deadly glance. The good threesome looked in an appalled but amazed look as her body seemed to be slimming up, quicker and quicker until she rose up at the speed of a raindrop from the sky, except this time she was the raindrop and going in the reverse direction of one. After a few seconds, she was gone, giggling in the echo.

“She was right,” pointed out May. “That was a dramatic leave.”

“No time for any of that thinking right now, because we have a town to head to,” informed Drew. “But I do have to say that Jessie and Rivera’s departure looks like some good ideas for the appeals of Pokémon Contests.”

“You can be really funny when you want to,” said Jody. “Let’s go to wherever we were setting off to go to right now, okay you two? There are plenty of things that I want to show you when we get there, like the Water Dome. I call it Blue Dome sometimes.”

The three friends began walking off on the riverside to BlueBrook Town, the rampaging river becoming gentle as the rain again, and hopes of the next contest to come.

[Torchic23]

I'm liking it so far, it is getting serious, so cool, now, here's a tip if you haven't already planned it. Give off some Contest Shippy hints! Now's your chance, this is the time for you to really show that those two are serious, don't have them admit anything. Sure, May being jealous of Jody is nice, but Drew hasn't really shown anything yet, unless that's how you want it to be...

Ah. maybe you shouldn't listen to me, I'm not good at making Drew and May act like they would in the show....