Walking up a mountain

(New cover with Dune's final evolution)

Early in the morning, May and Helena finally regrouped after May challenged Wattson's gym and beat him badly; the group ate lunch at a cafe in Mauville City Mall.

May and Helena were sitting next to each other, while Blaziken and Dune were on the opposite side; even if Blaziken didn't respect the horny Trainer and the weird-looking Gabite, she had to eat up those feelings; after all, she had to obey her Trainer to become stronger.

May had a somewhat vacant look in her eyes and had a shadowy expression on her face as if her innocence had been taken away from her.

"May, what's wrong? Is everything alright?" Asked Helena as she patted May's hair like she used to do with Buneary.

"It's... nothing; I just had to run some errands at the Pokemon Daycare and saw... Do you know what they do to those poor dittos? This Pokemon professor named Masuda figured out the best way to breed Pokemon, and now they have those poor dittos all day doing that kind of stuff," May said while blushing and looking away.

May, Dune, and Blaziken laughed at May's innocence; Dune was familiar with this method as he breed his Pokemon by himself and never hacked any games, no matter how tedious or stressful the challenge was, and Helena and Blaziken were familiar with this kind of shenanigans, Blaziken was bred like that and Helena's father, Mr. Devon owned multiple Daycare centers, also, Gardevoir, her starter was bred like that.

"It's completely normal, May... um, how do you think Pokemon reproduce?" Helena teasingly asked while hugging May by the waist. May blushed and asked Blaziken for help with her gaze.

"Blaziken" (Gabite, I sense you are strong and intelligent enough to understand you and Helena cannot reproduce. Why does she reek your scenes?)

Gabite spat the coffee he had been drinking as he stared at the Pokemon Trainer teasing each other; this gained the attention of both May and Helena, who backed away to look at him.

"Gab Gabite" (Blaziken, when two Pokemon or a Pokemon and its master love each other very much, they tend to have sex, do you know that?) Asked Dune; he grabbed a cloth with his left claw and cleaned himself and the table where he spat the coffee.

"Aww, look how smart and polite your Gabite is, not like that party-pooper Blaziken, she does nothing but train all day, even when I wanted to enter a Pokemon Contest, she refused to wear a dress," May said, giving Blaziken a side-eye, Balziken stared back with the same level of intensity.

"Blaziken..."(Those dresses are impractical, and Pokemon are not meant to be "cute" as you humans call me; we are meant to be strong and fight each other), Blaziken said back.

Helena didn't understand what anyone was saying, so she drank her coffee silently. 'Augh, I wish Gardevoir was here and just translated what everyone is saying; if I don't speak, they can't see me. If they can't see me, they can't see how embarrassed I am.'

"So, um... What are the plans for today, May?" Helena asked, breaking the tense atmosphere between May and her Blaziken.

"Oh, that's right, well, I saw the map and the next gym leader is in Lavaridge town, my friend Brendam is, did I already present him to you, Helena? I don't think so, anyway. Lavaridge is our next destination, and we must climb Mt. Chimney to get there."

"Umm, May, could you go slower? I kind of got lost..." Helena said embarrassedly. Looking down at the feet, May chuckled and repeated everything but at a slower pace.

"So, I think we have to travel through two routes, route 111 and route 112, and that is about 7 hours of travel, taking into account eating, so I think it is best if we get started now," Said May, raising her hand to ask for the bill.

"I'll pay that, May, is on me," Helena said politely, just to be shut down by May. "Bullshit, Blaziken ate 16 orders of pancakes, and I ate 7; it's on me; I do not look rich, but my dad sponsored my trip, so all bills I can pay to go deducted from his labs; in any scenario, I'm helping him," May said proudly, boasting her ample chest in the air.

"Gabite..." (Is she like this all the time?) Dune asked Blaziken, who finished eating her 16 orders of 5 pancakes.

"Blaziken, Bla" (Whenever she is with friends, sad, happy, excited, or all of the above, I guess seeing those dittos was a hit on her morale) Blaziken said, not paying much attention to Dune, in her mind, he was just a horny Pokemon with not much to boast around, unlike her, a proud pokemon who could beat most of the Pokemon who stood before her.

The first two hours of travel were giggling and chatting between May and Helena; they talked about their Pokemon, their experiences, and what they wanted to do in the future. Helena released all of her Pokemon so they could breathe fresh air, for which Gardevoir and Lopunny were grateful.

Gardevoir was wearing her characteristic white dress; she walked proudly alongside Helena, looking for any interested man so she could beat his ass if they dared to stare too much at her precious Trainer, not because she was too embarrassed to be seen walking alongside Lopunny obviously.

Lopunny was wearing the tiniest top crop made out of cutting one of Helena's sports bras, ripped black fishnet stocking with fishnet tights underneath, and a set of stolen pink panties from Gardevoir.

Blaziken did the best mental gymnastics she could not break the illusion she had in her head, 'She must be wearing those clothes because it's the only thing she had at hand; poor Lopunny, wearing those clothes due to the incompetence of her trainer, she does not reek the scent of this dragon bastard, so she is still safe from his claws.' 

What Blaziken didn't know was that Gardevoir had spammed [Life Dew] on Lopunny just before leaving. What was the reason? Lopunny refused to take a proper shower.