Poke-Odyssey 2001 chapter 20 The Littlest Eevee Today our heroes are walking through Saltnpepper Valley. A beautiful green countryside that's just a days walk to Mt. Mustard. "Yes, I can see that mountain coming closer and closer every day." Said Cameron admiring that huge mountain. "The more we get closer, the more closure we can get from this hike!" moaned Misty as she sat down on a rock and rubbed her feet." Can't we stop for the day?" "How about it Cam?" asked Ash. "Yeah", said Tracey "By my watch, it should be dark soon and Saltnpepper Valley is a favorite place of most trainers for camping out." "What do you say Came-chan?" asked Reiko. "Like the speedy hot Rapidash that melts off its horseshoes every five miles, our mighty foot soles could use some rest too." "Hmmm", said Cameron. "How about it Sandy? Do you want to relax here too?" "Shrew!" smiled Sandy pulling a deckchair from nowhere and started lying on it. "The mighty Sandy has proclaimed it!" smiled Cameron. "Let's camp here and we can start off for Mt. Mustard tomorrow!" "Thank you!" sighed Misty as she yanked off her sneakers exposing her red glowing feet. "Oh Ashy!" cooed Misty. "Yes Mist", sighed Ash knowing what his girlfriend wanted right now. "How about giving me a nice foot massage?" smiled Misty while wiggling her red swollen toes. Ash held his breath, closed his eyes, and slowly approached Misty for he really didn't want to touch those blistering feet. Just then, Ash heard a "WAUGH!" He opened his eyes and found Misty's Golduck rubbing her feet instead while squirting water on them. "GOLDUCK!" grumbled Misty. "I wanted Ash to massage my feet! And I don't want them wet either!" "GOL!" asked Golduck in his usual clueless voice. "I said stop it unless you want your feet sore too!" shouted Misty while she made her angry face get really large. "GOL!" said Golduck nervously as he ran and dove into a nearby pond. "Golduck only wanted to make you happy", said Ash. "He can make me happy if he just plays with himself for a while", scowled Misty as she stared annoyed at Golduck who was standing in the pond. "Gol?" asked Golduck as he looked down wondering if it was really decent to play with himself. "Maybe we should release all of our Pokemon", said Tracey. "That way they can enjoy this clean green valley as well." And he released Marill, Venonat, and Scizor who seemed to like the valley a whole lot. "Good idea Tracey", smiled Misty as she released Starmie, Seaking, Seadra, Poliwhirl, and Corsola. "Why don't you all go play in that pond over there?" Misty asked them. All her water Pokemon ran, hopped, and rolled into the pond joining the still puzzled Golduck not realizing that some friends had joined him in the water. "Come out and play children", smiled Reiko as she released Tentacruel, Kingler, Hitmontop, and Bellossom. They all bowed to their mistress thanking her and went off to have fun with the other Pokemon. "I choose everybody!" shouted Ash as he released Venusaur, Charizard, Blastoise, Espeon, and Snorlax right in front of the happy Pikachu's eyes. "Pika! Pi!" he called out to his dear Pokepals. Everyone said hi back to Pikachu in their own language except for Snorlax who was sleeping soundly. "I guess I'm last", smiled Cameron as Sandy sat next to him as he released his Vileplume, Crobat, Slowking, and Elekid. Cameron felt his Pokebelt and remembered that he was one Pokemon short. "Oh yeah, that's right", said Cameron sadly as he thought about his ex-Pokemon Sudowoodo while Sandy looked at him concerned. "Shrew?" he asked. "Oh, I'm just deep in thought", smiled Cameron. "Why don't you go play with your friends while I just relax here in the grass?" "Shrew!" smiled Sandy as he scampered off to join the other Pokemon. Our heroes were sitting in the grass watching their Pokemon play. Sandy had rolled up into a ball so Pikachu, Espeon, Elekid, and Venonat could roll him to each other. All the water Pokemon were swimming peacefully in the pond while Blastoise squirted water on them like a fountain. Venusaur and Snorlax were sleeping peacefully in the grass. Crobat and Charizard were flying around the evening sky trying to out dodge each other. Scizor and Hitmontop were practicing their fighting moves, and VP and Bellossom were holding petals skipping along happily through the valley. All the Pokemon seemed to be relaxing except for Growlithe who was sitting right between Cameron and Reiko keeping them apart as usual. Cameron sighed as he turned away from Growlithe and watched all the Pokemon being themselves. He started thinking about his wonderful team and the Pokemon that weren't with him right now. There was Sir Sudo the Sudowoodo who was knighted by a Queen Beedrill and was now living in her hive as a knight and a nanny to her Weedles. There was also his Donphan Donnie who was now living in the Tabasco Jungle as the lover of a pretty pink female Donphan. And finally there was that kind but over-mothering Octillery who was back with Prof. Oak. Cameron had thought about asking the Professor to transport Octillery to him, but he thought that Octillery might keep hugging, kissing, and tickling him every time he let her out of her Pokeball and end up embarrassing him in front of other trainers. "Come and get it everybody!" called out Tracey has he had a picnic blanket spread on the ground full of all sorts of delicious food. "This all looks so good!" said Ash with chattering teeth for eyes. "What've you prepared Trace?" "I got hero sandwiches, potato salad, sour pickles, lemonade, and jelly donuts for dessert." Said Tracey proudly. "And of course, ketchup for Pikachu and corn chips for Sandy." "Pika!" "Shrew!" said both Pokemon happily. "This almost looks like one of the meals Brock use to prepare for us", said Misty. "I can't wait to dig into all this food", said Cameron. Just then, the ground started to shake like crazy. "It's an earthquake!" cried Misty. "No Misty-chan", cried Reiko. "Make that a belly-shake!" They all turned around and saw Snorlax running up to them making loud stomping sounds. "SNORE!" shouted Snorlax as it eyed the delicious picnic. It opened its mouth wide and started sucking up all the food like a vacuum along with the plates, plastic utensils, and the blanket. "PIKA!" "SHREW!" cried both Pikachu and Sandy who almost got sucked in as well if their masters hadn't caught them in time. Once Snorlax had eaten the entire picnic, it just smiled and walked away. "All that glorious food, gone!" wailed Ash. "And Sandy and Pikachu could've gone down with it all", said Cameron patting his shakened Sandshrew. "Like the black holes in space that can devour planets and stars, I bet that gluttonous Snorlax could do the same thing!" groaned Reiko. "Ash, you need to start training and disciplining that Snorlax soon!" scolded Misty. "Or else, we all could starve to death!" "You're right Mist!" said Ash in an angry voice as he marched over to his Snorlax. "Now you listen here Snorlax!" he said sternly while shaking his finger. "You're not the only one in this world you know. And you shouldn't take more than your share of food too! While your stomach is getting nice and full, ours are getting smaller and weaker. I want you to think of others before you go on and do something like this! Understand?!!" "Snore! SNOR! LAX!" coughed Snorlax in a variety of coughs and hacks while holding its stomach. "Don't make those sounds at me!" scolded Ash. "It'll serve you right if you get a stomach-ache!" "Ash, I don't think Snorlax has a stomach-ache", said Tracey concerned. "I think its choking!" "CHOKING?!!" cried Ash. "OH NO!! WHAT'LL I DO?!!" "We need to try the Heimlich maneuver!" cried Cameron. "How can we?" asked Tracey. "None of our arms are long enough to wrap around Snorlax's huge belly!" "We gotta do something fast!" cried Misty. "Or else that meal Snorlax just ate will be its last!" "SHREW!" shouted Sandy as he launched himself making a huge fist punching Snorlax in the gut. "SNORE!" cried Snorlax as it coughed something out. Then Snorlax plopped down on its back making the ground shake causing everyone to fall down. "Snore!" said Snorlax gratefully as it smiled and patted Sandy for saving its life. "Shrew!" smiled Sandy for he also wanted to punch Snorlax for eating all of his corn chips. "Thank you Sandy", smiled Cameron as he picked up and hugged his heroic Sandshrew. "Yeah, thanks Sandy!" smiled Ash as he approached his relieved Snorlax. "You've given my Snorlax a chance to live. Now maybe it'll learn to control its eating habits." "Snore!" said Snorlax who just went to sleep not listening to Ash. "Sigh!" said Ash as he pulled Snorlax back into its ball. "What's that thing Snorlax just coughed out?" asked Reiko as she pointed to a small brown furry thing. "Can Snorlaxes cough up hairballs like Meowths?" wondered Ash. "I don't think so", said Tracey. "I think something nearby got caught in Snorlax's vacuum breath that caused it to choke like that." "Well then what is it?" asked Cameron. "I hope it's not something like a furry bug!" said Misty nervously. The brown hairball uncurled itself revealing a cute little face with a brown furry tail and huge pointy ears. "Eevee!" it moaned in a cute voice while shaking off all the Snorlax drool like a dog. "Why it's an Eevee!" smiled Cameron as he approached the Pokemon. "Eevee?" asked the Eevee who was too shaken up to run away. "Don't be afraid little Eevee", said Cameron as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a small tart he saved from the teashop they visited in the last chapter. "Would you like a cherry tart?" he asked as he handed it to the Eevee. Eevee slowly approached the tart welding hand, sniffed it, and started to nibble on the tart a little. Then it started to gobble it down while licking the crumbs off from Cameron's palm. "HA HA HA!" laughed Cameron while Eevee continued licking his hand then jumped on him and started licking his face. "HA HA HA!" Cameron continued to laugh. "I'm glad I was able to bring your happiness back!" "Eevee!" cooed Eevee as it smiled at the nice human while more humans approached them. "Wow Came-chan, you just tamed an Eevee", said Reiko very impressed. "I hear they're really hard to find and to tame too!" said Misty. "I remember an Eevee came my way one time", said Ash. "And he became an impressive little Espeon." "Esp!" said Espeon who just approached Ash and started rubbing against his leg. "Ah yes, the Eevee!" smiled Tracey. "One of the world's most uniquest Pokemon. You'll never know if it'll turn into a Flareon, Vaporeon, Jolten, Umbreon, or Espeon. And I've heard that there maybe be other Eevee-lutions as well." Espeon approached the Eevee and started to talk with it. Both Eevee and Espeon sat there for about a half-hour and had a wonderful conversation. "Isn't a shame when you don't know the language?" smiled Cameron. "I've learned Espeon language pretty good", smiled Ash. "So I can understand a little of their conversation." Then Eevee and Espeon finished talking with each other and approached the group. "Esp, Esp, Espeon." Said Espeon as he started talking to Ash. "What did Espeon say?" asked Misty. "He says that we gotta clear this valley by nightfall", said Ash. "Because the annual Eevee-lution festival will be happening tonight." "The annual Eevee-lution festival?" asked Cameron. "What's that?" "It's a once a year festival all the Eevees in Ryooku hold", said Tracey. "Eevees from every part of Ryooku gather here in this valley to await the magical arrival of evolution stones. It is said that there'll be a stone for each Eevee to touch and once that happens, they'll evolve into higher forms. I had almost forgotten that the Eevee-lution festival was supposed to happen tonight." "Just like the time when we saw those Bulbasaurs having their evolution festival", said Misty. "I remember that episode", smiled Cameron. "All those Bulbasaurs evolved into Ivysaurs." "Pika, Pi!" sighed Pikachu remembering that beautiful magical moment. "I wonder what kind of Eevee-lution you'll become little Eevee?" asked Cameron. "EEVEE! EEVEE! EVE!" explained Eevee. Espeon translated to Ash at what the Eevee had said. "This Eevee doesn't really care what she evolves into", said Ash. "Just as long as she becomes bigger. You see, this Eevee happens to be littlest one in her family. And her older brothers are always knocking her around. She hopes to get either fire, water, or maybe electric attacks, so she can stand up to those bullies." "I have noticed that this Eevee is smaller than your average one", said Tracey. "I understand what you're going through kid", said Misty. "I too have 3 older siblings that always pick on me." "And like you and Misty-chan", I too was in that same boat", said Reiko. "Only I had two siblings to endure instead of three." "Eevee?" asked Eevee while tears appeared in her cute black eyes. "Don't feel sad littlest Eevee", said Cameron as he took out a tissue and wiped her tears. "We'll all be rooting for you tonight. If only we didn't have to leave, I would so love to watch and see what you become." "Maybe we can", smiled Tracey. "As an experienced watcher, I always find the perfect places to hide so I can observe Pokemon." And he started to look around and saw a huge leafy tree. "We'll climb on top of that tree." He smiled. "That way we can watch the festival without the Eevees spotting us." "Good idea Tracey", smiled Cameron. "Did you hear that Littlest Eevee? We'll be watching you from above in the trees. That way you'll have some friends by your side." "EEVEE!" cooed Eevee happily as she cuddled herself against Cameron's legs. * * * * * * Even though Snorlax had eaten their entire picnic, It was lucky that Tracey had packed several bags of potato chips, cheese balls, nachos, and of course Sandy's favorite corn chips, so they wouldn't go hungry tonight. Once they finished their snacks, everyone called back their Pokemon for the sun was now setting. "Good luck Littlest Eevee", smiled Cameron as he left the smiling Eevee and started climbing the tree with the others. Sandy was holding onto Cameron's backpack, Pikachu onto Ash's while Espeon just levitated up to a branch, and Reiko picked up Growlithe and made a high jump to the top of the tree. Once everyone was sitting on the branches. They hid themselves behind the leaves so nobody could spot them. "Look everyone", whispered Ash. "More Eevees are coming!" Sure enough, about a hundred Eevees had entered the valley joining Littlest Eevee. They were all over the place running, playing, and singing cute Eevee songs. "Like a chocolate, fudge, caramel, strawberry, cinnamon, birthday cake with extra sugar, this is totally sweet!" sighed Reiko. Just then, they saw Littlest Eevee getting knocked around by three bigger Eevees. "Those must be her bully brothers", whispered Misty with rage in her blue eyes. "I'd just like to go down there and teach those jerks a lesson!" grumbled Cameron. "SHREW!" growled Sandy agreeing with him. "But you can't", whispered Tracey. "Or else you'll ruin the festival for all the Eevees and for Littlest Eevee as well." "Okay!" sighed Cameron. "I just hope she evolves into something that'll take care of those bullies!" As they watched Littlest Eevee keep getting pushed into the dirt by her brothers, a voice called out a loud, "UM!" All the Eevees stopped their playing, singing, and bullying and turned to a huge rock. There was a black Eevee with red eyes and golden rings on its black fur. "That's an Umbreon!" whispered Cameron. "Like the one Agatha owns." "UMBREON!" it said. "EEVEE!" said all the Eevees standing at attention. "I have a feeling that Umbreon is the grand marshal of this festival", whispered Tracey. "Um, Um, Umbreon", said Umbreon who sounded like it was giving the opening festival speech. Then the full moon started to appear. Umbreon concentrated and a moonbeam shot down at the dark Pokemon while it absorbed lots of moonlight. Then all the Eevees backed away clearing a huge space in the grass. Umbreon fired a moonbeam into the ground and suddenly, a hole opened up and something beautiful rose into the night sky. It was one huge rock made from evolution stones shining like a disco ball. Then the hole closed up and the rock suddenly exploded. Hundreds of Firestones, Waterstones, and Thunderstones, slowly floated to the ground. "Umbreon!" said Umbreon as it bowed its head giving the Eevees the signal to start evolving. "Amazing!" whispered Cameron. "Shrew!" whispered Sandy as well. All of the Eevees happily rushed to the nearest stone they could get their paws on. Those that touched the Firestones turned into red fiery Flareons, the ones that touched the Waterstones turned into blue fishy Vaporeons, and the ones that got near the Thunderstones turned into yellow pointy-haired Jolteons. "This is more exciting and prettier than the Bulbasaur's festival", sighed Misty. "Just don't let my Venusaur hear you say that", whispered Ash. "I've always dreamed of seeing this", sighed Tracey as he sketched every evolution he saw. "Like the Staryus that form beautiful rainbows in the sea when swimming in schools", sighed Reiko. "This truly is magical!" "I wonder where Littlest Eevee is?" wondered Cameron as he looked around. "Shrew!" said Sandy as he pointed to a direction. They saw Littlest Eevee trying her best to get to a stone, but with no luck. She saw a Firestone and was about to touch it, until a bigger Eevee beat her to it. Then she saw a Waterstone, but that too was taken by a bigger Eevee. Then she saw a Thunderstone sitting there on the ground unnoticed. She smiled as she was about to pounce on it, until a huge Eevee dropped down from nowhere and sat on it turning into a Jolteon. "Eevee!" cried Littlest Eevee as she continued her search for a stone. "Poor thing!" sighed Cameron. "It's almost like trying to find a gold mine claim in Old California." Soon all the Eevees were fully evolved. There were hundreds of Flareons, Vaporeons, and Jolteons all over the valley feeling very happy. All except one Littlest Eevee. She searched the valley hoping to find a stone, but they had all been touched. "Eevee!" she sobbed. Just then, 3 shadows covered Littlest Eevee. It was her brothers each a fully evolved Eevee-lution. They were looking sinister-eyed at their littlest sister snickering and scoffing at her unlucky break. "How can they be so cruel to their little sister like this?" gasped Cameron. "EEVEE!" growled Littlest Eevee wanting to battle showing that she wouldn't let not evolving get her down. But her Flareon brother just breathed smoke into her face making her cough. Then the Vaporeon squirted water into her poor sister's face, and finally Jolteon thundershocked her wet fur. "EEVEE!" she cried out for her brother's bullying was now much worse than before. She ran away while her mean brothers just laughed. Littlest Eevee turned around and saw the Umbreon leading all the Eevee-lutions in the tradition festival song. The poor Eevee felt like she could never sing or be happy again. She sat by the huge tree and started crying. "Poor little one", sighed Reiko. "Like the Metapod that suddenly can't evolve and remains in its helpless cocoon stage forever. This is truly a sad moment for her." "I guess there's no more evolution stones left for her", said Misty sadly. "This can't be", said Tracey. "Tradition says there will always be a stone for each Eevee that shows up at the festival. Unless..." "You don't suppose one stone slipped under something like a hole, or a lake, or maybe the cushions of a couch?" interrupted Ash. "That's where I usually find lots of pocket change." "Ash, we're in a valley", said an annoyed Misty. "How can there be couches out here? Why can't you ever use your brain?!!" "Did I say couch?" grumbled Ash. "I meant grouch!" Espeon levitated down and cuddled against the sad Eevee. "Esp!" said Espeon showing that he'll always be her friend even if she isn't evolved. "Eevee!" said Littlest Eevee in a sad squeak. Cameron and Sandy then jumped down from the tree. Cameron slowly picked up Littlest Eevee and started stroking her soft fur. "I'm sorry you didn't get a chance to evolve tonight", said Cameron. "But hey, you're still young so you got plenty of time to stay a cute little Eevee until your time to evolve comes." "Eevee?" asked Littlest Eevee as she looked up at the smiling human. "How would you like to come with me?" smiled Cameron. "Me and my Pokemon team would love to have you join. And unlike those muscle-brained brothers of yours, we'll treat you like family. Right Sandy?" "Shrew!" smiled Sandy as he shook Littlest Eevee's paw showing that he wanted to be her friend. "Eevee", said Littlest Eevee now smiling but still in tears. "I may not have an evolution stone with me now", said Cameron. "But how would you like to travel in this special Level Ball? And if an evolution stone ever comes our way, you can be the first to touch it. What do you say?" Littlest Eevee looked at the red and yellow Pokeball with a huge V on it and thought it was very pretty. "EEVEE!" cried littlest Eevee in a happy voice as Cameron opened up the Level Ball and pulled her in. The ball shook around in Cameron's hand and then stopped showing that Cameron now had an Eevee on his team. "I did it", smiled Cameron in a calm quiet voice. "I got an Eevee." Then he let Eevee out of her new ball while everyone slowly got down from the tree to come and greet her. "Don't despair little one", said Reiko as she petted Eevee. "I too was once a helpless little one, but look at me now!" And she started doing acrobatic ninja moves causing Eevee to start laughing. "Hey, I think I see another Eevee coming", said Ash as he pointed to something coming their way. "Is it an evolved Eevee?" asked Cameron. "No, it looks like a steel Eevee", said Ash as he watched the Eevee getting closer and closer. "That can't be", said Tracey. "I don't think there is such thing as a steel- type Eevee." "Well whatever it is, it isn't small!" cried Misty. Sure enough, the approaching Eevee was made of steel and it was huge too! It was running at full speed picking up its metal legs. "Everyone duck down!" shouted Reiko as she and the others dropped down on the grass as the steel Eevee jumped right over them. "It didn't attack us!" said Misty breathing really hard. "But it is heading for the festival!" cried Cameron. "Eevee?" gasped Eevee wondering what was going to happen to her brothers. "I think those Eevee-lutions might be in for trouble", gasped Tracey. "Speaking of trouble", said Ash. "I think that huge Eevee just ate Team Rocket!" "WHAAAAT?!" cried everyone. It turned out that this giant steel Eevee was actually a robot Eevee and on its head was a glass dome with Team Rocket sitting at a cockpit. They made their RoboEevee stop causing all the Eevee-lutions to stop singing and look in fear. "Just look at all them Eevee types", said Meowth. "Just think boys", cackled Jessie. "With an army of Flareons, Vaporeons, and Jolteons. We can cause a whole mess of forest fires, floods, and electrical storms! Think of the sweet chaos!" "Start up the vacuum breath Jimmy", laughed Meowth. "It's a good thing we studied Ketchum's Snorlax today", laughed James as he pushed a button. The RoboEevee opened up its huge metal mouth and started sucking up all the Eevee-lutions trapping them in glass boxes. They tried to break free by using their attacks, but with no luck. The fire, water, and electricity just went through small tubes heating up the Rocket's frying pan, filling up their water cooler, and charging up their toaster. "Mmmm!" smiled James as he sniffed the bacon and eggs cooking in the pan. "There's nothing that warms a villain's heart than a hickory smoked breakfast made from Flareons." Just then, the Rockets felt some small banging outside. They looked out of their cockpit and saw Umbreon using its pursuit attack all over RoboEevee trying to free its captured clan. "This dark dork really needs to see the light!" said Jessie as she pushed a button. RoboEevee's eyes lit up like headlights shining beams at poor Umbreon. "UM!" cried Umbreon as it shut its red eyes for it really hated bright lights. "What's the matter little dark baby?" laughed James. "Are we too bright for you?" "Only one of us in this cockpit is bright!" sighed Meowth as he pushed the vacuum button and sucked up the weakened Umbreon as well. Just as they were about to leave, five familiar foes got in their way. "We were wondering when you twerps would show up", sighed Jessie. "How dare you ruin these poor Eevee's festival!" shouted Cameron. "It was bad enough you ruined the Bulbasaur's festival, now you want to wreck the lives of these innocent Eevee-lutions?!" shouted Ash. "Hey, what do you expect from us?" asked James. "We're evil! "Yeah!" laughed Meowth. "Wasn't the conquering of your precious home town and your mother proof enough?" "GRRRRR!" growled Ash as he turned his hat around and released a Pokeball. "Charizard, I choose you!" he shouted as the huge flying lizard hovered over RoboEevee. "Charizard! Flamethrower attack! NOW!!!" "CHARR!" shouted Charizard obeying Ash's angry command by launching a powerful fire attack. "Time to fight fire with fire!" said Jessie as she pushed a button with a flame marked on it. RoboEevee started to transform itself into a new kind of robot Pokemon. "LOOK!! Gasped Tracey. "Team Rocket's now got a RoboFlareon! Sure enough, there was a huge RoboFlareon standing there unaffected by Charizard's fire. The huge metal Flareon just popped some blowtorches out from its ears and sprayed its own flamethrowers pushing Charizard's fire back. "RoboFlareon", cackled Jessie as she pushed another button. "Time to use your smog attack!" RoboFlareon then opened its mouth and sprayed a thick cloud of smog at Charizard causing it to cough and fall down to the ground. "CHARIZARD!!" cried Ash as he sucked the fallen lizard back into its ball. "Don't worry Ashy!" said Misty. "Let a water Pokemon expert like moi handle this!" And she released her Starmie, Golduck, and Poliwhirl. "Okay guys, use your surf attacks all at once!" commanded Misty. The 3 water Pokemon started releasing large amounts of water from their bodies sending a huge tidal wave at RoboFlareon. "Time to roll up the old pants' legs", said James as he pushed a button. RoboFlareon's legs extended ten feet in the air causing the surf attack to only hit its stretched legs and not its red metal body. Then it shrunk back down once the wave stopped. "How could a surf attack miss a Pokemon like that?!" gasped Misty. "Because this isn't a real Pokemon", said Reiko seriously. "You're right about that my cute little traitor", cackled Jessie. "And it also has more powerful attacks that most Pokemon can only dream about. Show them Meowth!" "This'll really shock 'em!" laughed Meowth as he pushed a button with a lightning bolt on it. RoboFlareon transformed into a RoboJolteon with steel yellow needles shooting out little sparks. "Oh no!" cried Misty realizing that the water Pokemon she had out were no match for this electric monster. She tried to call them back, but it was too late. Meowth pushed a button releasing a thunderbolt attack shocking Starmie, Golduck, and Poliwhirl unconscious. "My little water babies!" cried Misty as she called back all 3 of her defeated Pokemon. "Pika, Pi!" cried Pikachu who had never seen and was envious of such a powerful electric attack. "Don't worry Misty", said Cameron. "When it comes to electric attacks, Sandy's not afraid. Right Sandy?" "SHREW!" shouted Sandy as he ran out in front of RoboJolteon that was still firing thunderbolts but wasn't affected by them. "Now how about blowing it away with your sandstorm Sandy?!" said Cameron. "SHREW!" said Sandy as he blew sand and rocks at RoboJolteon knocking off some of its needles. "I hate traveling in storms!" whined James as he pushed a button and started the windshield wipers. "Forget the wipers!" shouted Meowth. "We're not chasing away bugs! Use that button on your side of the panel!" "Oh yeah!" said James as he pushed the button with a teardrop on it. "Silly me!" "More like stupid you!" groaned Jessie. RoboJolteon now was transformed into a RoboVaporeon. Sandy looked nervously knowing that this huge robot mermaid would release a powerful water attack. "SHREW!" he cried as he jumped right into Cameron's arms shaking. "It's okay Sandy", said Cameron. "I know you're no match for a huge water-type like that monster!" "Aw, it wimped out before I could launch an attack!" sighed James. "Still, you'd better launch one before those dopes send out any more Pokemon", said Meowth. "Right!" smiled James as he pushed a button. "RoboVaporeon, surf attack!" RoboVaporeon released a huge shower rod from its back and gushed out a strong wave of water right at our heroes. "Hang ten twerps!" laughed Meowth as they watched our heroes getting knocked around by the water while Cameron did his best to keep Sandy dry by stuffing him in his shirt. "I just got an even more wicked idea!" cackled Jessie as she whispered into James's ear. "Gotcha!" smiled James as he pushed another button. A small cannon popped out from RoboVaporeon's nose and shot an ice beam at the water freezing it along with our heroes until only their heads and shoulders were showing. "Looks like we got a bunch of frozen turkey dinners here!" laughed Meowth. "I can't move my arms!" cried Tracey. "Not only that, my fingers are getting frostbitten!" whined Misty. "Growlithe, can you melt away all this ice?" asked Reiko. She looked down and found poor Growlithe frozen beneath the ice. "PIKACHU!" cried Ash who saw that Pikachu was frozen underneath the ice as well. "SANDY!" cried Cameron as he looked down at the lump in his shirt that was his frozen Sandshrew. * * * * * * Espeon and Littlest Eevee were watching the whole thing behind a tree. Espeon told Eevee to wait here as he teleported out of sight. "Eevee?" gasped Eevee. * * * * * * "Espeon?" gasped Ash as he saw Espeon had teleported right in front of RoboVaporeon. "Aw, another cute little Eevee-lution to add to our collection", said Jessie. "James, ice this one as well!" "Say cheese!" snickered James as he was about to activate the ice cannon again, but Espeon fired a psybeam blowing up the cannon. "W-W-Way to g-g-go Esp-p-peon!" shouted a shivering Ash. "He wrecked my ice cannon!" cried James. "And I wanted to make orange slushees tonight!" "Well now we're gonna wreck that lavender vandal with this next transformation!" shouted Jessie as she pushed a button with an evil smile on it. Espeon looked in fear as this machine now transformed itself into a RoboUmbreon with red menacing eyes. Espeon released his strongest psychic attack, but the dark robot wasn't affected by it. "Psychic attacks don't seem to hurt robot dark types either!" cried Tracey. "This robot Pokemon was our best idea yet Jess", said James. "I actually agree with you", smiled Jessie as she pushed yet another button. "Now RoboUmbreon, use shadow ball!" RoboUmbreon belched out a black ball of darkness knocking out Espeon. "ESPEON!" cried Ash as he watched RoboUmbreon open its mouth and suck up Espeon like it did with the other Eevee-lutions. "There ain't no one left that's gonna help you now!" laughed Meowth. Just then, they all heard a loud, "EEVEE!" Littlest Eevee started to run at full speed hoping she could stop this robot with a take down attack. But unfortunately, Eevee slipped on the ice and hit her head against the metal foot of RoboUmbreon. "Poor little Eevee!" thought Cameron. "Though her heart is big, she's still pretty small." "Looks like we missed an Eevee", said James. "Shall we capture that as well?" "Why bother?!" said Jessie. "It looks too shrimpy to be a tough fighter. Let's just squish it!" "Yeah!" giggled Meowth as he pushed a button. "We'll make Eevee pizza!" RoboUmbreon raised its sharp metal paw and was about to squish the poor little Eevee, until something exploded from the ground knocking RoboUmbreon back. Everyone looked in shocked silence as something had materialized into the night sky. It was a huge stone shaped like a Chinese dragon. "What is that?" gasped Cameron. "It can't be!" gasped Tracey. "It's the legendary Dragonstone!" "DRAGONSTONE?!!!" cried everyone. The huge stone slowly floated down right in front of the Littlest Eevee. "Eevee?" gasped the frightened Eevee. "It's okay Littlest Eevee", said the stone. "You are the chosen one. Touch me and you'll receive a great destiny." Eevee slowly touched the Dragonstone with her paw and it suddenly disappeared. Eevee suddenly started to grow brightly and felt a sudden power rush into her tiny body. She grew and grew and grew into a huge 30 foot long Pokemon. Her fur was replaced with green scales with orange spikes growing out of her back. Her paws got replaced with huge reptile claws with orange nails. Her bushy tail was now a green pointed tail with orange spikes. She still had an Eevee-shaped head, but it was green and she had ears like bat wings, a long orange horn on her head, and a long forked tongue. She also had a light green lizard's frill around her neck, and as a final amazement. Her neck was now nine feet long which meant she could see the entire valley from a huge Pokemon's point of view. "SCALEON!" she gasped liking this sight very much. "What has Littlest Eevee become?" gasped Reiko. "She's certainly not those two things you just mentioned anymore", said Misty with amazement. "I certainly never heard of this kind of Eevee-lution", said an awestruck Ash. "My friends", said Tracey quietly. "You're looking at Scaleon." "SCALEON?!!" gasped Cameron. The new Pokemon saw her friends trapped in the ice and she breathed small amounts of fire melting them all free. Our heroes slowly approached their no-so-littlest friend while Cameron took out his Pokedex. "SCALEON: the millenium Pokemon. The dragon form of Eevee", replied Dextra. "It is said that once every thousand years, the legendary Dragonstone will appear and give its power to one lucky Eevee. And even luckier will be the owner of this majestic creature." "So that's why Littlest Eevee didn't get a stone", said Tracey. "For the Dragonstone was supposed to come to her." "What a wonderful thing to happen to such a nice Pokemon", smiled Cameron. RoboUmbreon got back on its feet as Team Rocket looked at this huge dragon with shocked and greedy eyes. "Will you look at the size of that lizard?!" gasped Jessie. "Imagine having that hot-aired palooka on our team!" said Meowth. "We gotta catch it!" "But its bigger than our RoboUmbreon", said James. "It won't fit if we try to vacuum it up." "We'll just subdue it with a little psycho power!" cackled Jessie as she pushed the final transformation button that had a spoon on it causing the robot to transform into RoboEspeon. "Now let's strike a psybeam at our dragon friend!" laughed Jessie as an antenna popped out from RoboEspeon's ear and aimed it at Scaleon. Luckily, Scaleon had super hearing and was very agile. She leapt out of the way of the psybeam and landed right behind the RoboEspeon. "Won't Team Rocket ever learn?!" groaned Cameron. "Like the spoiled baby Pidgey that likes the comfort of its nest too much to ever learn to fly, I guess not", sighed Reiko. "Hey, where'd that dragon go?!" gasped Meowth. Suddenly, they felt the cockpit suddenly getting very hot. "I think that answers your question!" gasped James as he pointed behind them. They turned around and found Scaleon breathing some bright blue flames at RoboEspeon melting off some of its metal skin. "What kind of attack is that?" asked Cameron as he activated his Dex again. "DRAGONBREATH" replied Dextra. "A dragon Pokemon's specialty attack. It has been known to paralyze enemies along with causing quite some damage. Just like to those rotten Eevee-lution thieves over there!" Cameron looked puzzled at his Dex yet again, but then looked what was left of RoboEspeon. It was totally destroyed leaving only a cockpit dome with a scared Team Rocket and 3 glass tanks containing all the kidnapped Pokemon along with a smaller glass tank that contained Umbreon and Espeon. Scaleon used her strength power to tear open the tanks and released all the captives. Then all the Eevee-lutions started to look angrily at the Rockets. "I'd think we'd better leave!" said Jessie as she nervously tried to push open the dome and escape. "I agree!" said James as he tried to help push it open, but with no luck. "Why isn't this thing opening?!" cried Meowth. "We wanna get away!" "Maybe it'd be safer if we stayed inside!" said James as he pointed to the sinisterly smiling Scaleon. Scaleon used her dragonrage attack creating a strong typhoon snagging the Rocket's cockpit causing it to fly out of the valley. "Look's like Team Rocket's blasting off in style!" cried the Rockets as the cockpit disappeared into the night. All of the impressed Eevee-lutions gathered around gazing at this marvelous looking dragon Eevee. Umbreon approached Scaleon and gave a wonderful thank you speech to her in Umbreon talk. Scaleon smiled while blushing then looked over at her brothers who nervously approached her. "Flare" "Jolt" "Vap" they said getting down on their knees begging for their no-longer-little sister's forgiveness. "Scale, Scale, Scaleon", smiled Scaleon as she reached out a claw and patted her brothers showing that she no longer had any grudges and hoped that they would treat her better in the future along with any other creatures that were smaller than them. Cameron smiled as he watched his new friend being admired by all those Eevee- lutions and started to walk off. "Came-chan, wait!" called out Reiko as the others followed them. "Scaleon is your Pokemon now. Aren't you going to go back for her?" "I don't think I should" sighed Cameron. "She's a one-of-a-kind powerful Scaleon. Why would she want anything to do with a small powerless boy like me?" Just as Cameron was about to walk away, he felt a scaly neck wrap around his waist lifting him up. "Scaleon?" gasped Cameron as Scaleon smiled and started slurping his body with her long forked tongue almost getting tangled in it. "HA HA HA!" laughed Cameron as he pushed her tongue back. "Do you still want to be my Pokemon?" "Scale!" smiled Scaleon as she tightened her hug around Cameron's waist. "It sounds like she really wants to train with you Cam", smiled Ash. "For centuries, people have dreamed of owning and training a Scaleon", said Tracey. "This one's offering you a golden opportunity!" "Yes Came-chan", said Reiko. "Like the story of the famous knight who fought and befriended a mighty Dragonite, you definitely remind me of that brave and handsome warrior." Cameron just silently blushed at what his love had just said. "What do you say dragon master?" smiled Misty. "Dragon master?" thought Cameron. "Okay Scaleon, I'll become your master." "SCALE!" smiled Scaleon as she started slurping again while Cameron was helplessly stuck in her grip. "HA HA HA!" laughed a happy, but moist Cameron. "Hey everyone! HA HA HA! Scaleon caught me! HA HA HA!" Everyone in the valley laughed and smiled for the story of The Littlest Eevee had a happy ending. TO BE CONTINUED!