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Sinnoh Surprise

Sonny's POV

Here we were. The casts of Mackenzie Falls and So Random were sitting in the cafeteria. Not so bad right? Did I mention Mr. Condor was there?

"Now, you are all going on an all expense paid vacation-" Mr. Condor was cut off by a huge cheer from the surrounding teens… and Zora.

"But, we've decided this could be a bonding experience for both shows, so you will be spending your time with a buddy from the opposite show-" Mr. Condor was once again cut off by everyone, but this time it was a big 'Awwwwwwwwwww!"

"You will be sent to the Sinnoh region with the pokemon of you choice-"

"But Mr. Condor, pokemon aren't real."

Portlyn had stood up to make her point. I stood up too, but for a different reason.

"Yes they are!"

Weirdly, I wasn't the only one who said that. Chad Dylan Cooper was standing up at the table opposite mine. We both looked at each other with a confused expression.

I grabbed my purse and pulled out the pokeball containing the first pokemon I had ever caught.

Everyone looked at the pokeball with expressions of complete confusion… except Chad, who reached inside his jacket and pulled out… a pokeball? This is weird.

We stared each other down for a minute before anyone said anything. (A/N maybe it's just because I'm sitting near a fan right now, but I totally see a close up of Sonny with her hair blowing in the wind, then Chad with his hair blowing in the wind. Weird!)

"You have pokemon?" Mr. Condor asked no one in particular.

"Yeah," we both replied.

Chad threw his pokeball and yelled, "Go Bolt!" so I threw my pokeball yelling, "Go Thunder!"

The red forms that came out of the pokeballs finally took form. My Thunder looked as she did the last time I saw her a year ago, a very powerful Luxray. She went over to sniff Bolt (I think) who was… a Luxray? A Luxray slightly bigger than Thunder. I stared at Chad in awe. His deep as the ocean eyes were wide and connected with mine.

Thunder and Bolt were both growling at each other with electricity crackling in their fur and occasional arcs of electricity going from one hair to another.

"Well, obviously the both of you don't need to be informed on pokemon, so you can take these two pigeot (Mr. Condor handed us two pokeballs) and fly to whatever city you want to start at. You have two months to retrieve one flag from each city. The flags are located inside pokemon centers. Please return the pigeot to me once you get there as you are not allowed to fly to any city once you get there. You have to travel together."

Neither of us protested for fear of losing our job, but we weren't too happy about it. Chad and I both walked outside with our Luxrays in their pokeballs and our bags full of our things. We both had messenger type bags.

"Where are we going to start?" Chad asked patting the pigeot he had let out of the pokeball.

"How about Snowpoint city?"

"Sounds good. Now, more importantly, how many badges do you have?"

Oh great. I only have three. The ice gym badge, water gym badge, and ghost gym badge.

"… three."

"Ha! You only have three! I have eight! I plan on challenging the elite four and Cynthia when we get back. I wanna be the champ!"

Oh, how clueless he is.

"How long have you been away from Sinnoh?" I asked knowing he had to have been away for at least two years.

"It's been about two maybe three years since I was there last. Why?"

"Cynthia isn't the champion anymore. She hasn't been for about two years now. Joy Ranger is… did I mention I had to change my last name when I came to Hollywood?"

Chad looked utterly surprised by both statements.

"Well, what was your last name before you came here?" He asked climbing onto the pigeot's back. I let my pigeot out of its pokeball and climbed onto its back.

"Ranger," I said smiling, "Did I mention I am also rich back in Sinnoh?"

About an hour later we arrived at Snowpoint, right in front of the pokemon center. After that we sent the pigeots back to Mr. Condor, who told us the rest of our casts were heading to Hearthome city to check out the contest hall there and to learn how to battle with pokemon in contests or just regular battles. We picked up the flag from nurse Joy and decided to spend that night at the pokemon center.

When we walked into our room, we noticed how luxurious it was. There were two sets of bunk beds, but nurse Joy promised we wouldn't have to share the room with anyone 'for the sake of your privacy' she had said. Chad and I looked at each other, blushed, and turned our attention back to nurse Joy, obviously understanding what she really meant.

We both took the bottom bunk of the two sets. I noticed a poster of my sister and the elite four hanging up on the wall. Joy was wearing a long blue-ish plaid shirt with its sleeves rolled up to just above her elbows. She wore jean shorts rolled up to above her knees and on her feet were the same beat up sneakers she's been wearing for the past two years. A woven blue bracelet was strapped around her right wrist and her brown hat had light brown patches sewn on it, the same hat I had given to her when I was twelve and she was eight. Her hair, a lighter brown than mine, was straightened, and her feathery bangs stopped somewhere between her eyebrows and her eyes. Joy's eyes were so different from mine I find it hard to believe we're sisters sometimes. They are a mix of blue and green so in certain lights, her eyes look blue (but not as blue as Chad's eyes) and in other lights the look green as algae.

"Chad, come here."

"What?"

"This is my sister, the champion of the Sinnoh and Kanto regions, with four badges from Johto," I said pointing to the poster.

"She looks like she's only like thirteen," Chad said tilting his head to one side like a confused puppy.

"She is thirteen. Joy ought to be back in Sinnoh now. You know, Snowpoint is one of her favorite cities in Sinnoh. Maybe she'll be here and you can challenge her."

Chad fell asleep shortly after laying down. I just lie there, staring at Chad, thinking of what would happen if he battled my sister. And then, somewhere along the line, my mind drifted off to sleep, but I'm not sure where because in my dream, Chad was battling Joy. Chad won. He screamed "YES!" and started running towards me, arms outstretched. The next thing I knew, I was being spun around by a pair of strong arms, and when we stopped, Chad looked at me with his hair windswept from the battle, and boy does his blond hair look like pure gold in the sunset. He was leaning closer to me, lips puckered and eyes partly closed, so I did what came naturally: I leaned towards him with my lips puckered. Closer… Closer…

BANG!

I had hit something hard, but I was still tangled in my blanket. Then I heard some obnoxious laughing.

"Sonny what were you doing?" I heard Chad ask through stifled laughs. I pried my eyes open to see bright rays of light coming in the window, announcing that it was morning.

"I dunno… What happened?" I asked getting up and putting the blanket back on the bed.

"Well, you were making out with your pillow when you fell out of your bed."

So that's why he was laughing…

After Chad and I were both dressed and ready to go, nurse Joy gave us some extra food and we headed out the door. Snowpoint city was actually quite quiet, as only the tough trainers manage to get here. I would never make it here on my own. I never would have been here if Joy hadn't guided me. The Snowpoint temple was one of the most beautiful buildings I had ever seen, even though it never had a look of warmth because lights were never lit inside. Something was wrong though. The lights were on inside.

"Come on!" Chad said pulling me towards the temple. Obviously he noticed something was wrong too. We ran up to the temple where a guard was standing.

"Only those with all eight badges may enter," He said. Chad showed him his badges and started to walk through when he noticed I had stopped.

"I only have three," I said blushing and looking down at my feet.

"Allison Ranger, sister of the Champion, Joy Ranger, demands to be let in or else you shall face the wrath of the most powerful pokemon you will ever see!" Chad said in an official voice, like he was proclaiming the queen's newest royal decree.

Turns out, the temple guard had battled my sister and wasn't too keen to go down that road again.

We ran into the temple, which was made of pure black marble. A young girl in a blue and green sundress and leggings had her back towards us. She kneeled down on one knee and bowed her head. Ever since Joy had caught the legendary pokemon that had lived here, this temple was reconstructed as a temple of Arceus. By reconstructed, I mean the put an Arceus statue in here. The girl mumbled something like 'Arceus hear my plea' continued to bow.

"Hello?" Chad said taking a step forward. The girl stood up and turned around. When she saw us, she flashed a very familiar smile.

"Sonny!" Joy screeched while running over to me. She bear hugged me.

"Joy!" I said happily. Chad just stood there, completely confused.

"You must be Chad Dylan Cooper," Joy said putting out her hand, ""I'm Joy Ranger."

Chad shook her hand.

"Wanna battle?" Chad asked.

"Maybe later. I'm supposed to meet the rest of your casts in Hearthome. I had to stop here first though because-" Joy stopped there, realizing she had almost said too much.

"Giratina, Shadow Force!" Joy yelled. She smiled in an evil way before disappearing into thin air. I would have to explain this to Chad later: Joy can travel from one place to another extremely quickly by riding on Giratina's back in the distortion world, because as its name suggests, everything, even distance itself, is distorted there.

We decided to head for Celestial town right away, so we started walking…

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