Raniya was bored, combing her Clefairy's hair and grooming the pokemon who was posing in the mirror.
"Oh, don't you look adorable, I bet your sister would be so jealous at MT. MOON. Who cares if you don't pray to the moonstone, at least you can read!"
Clefairty nodded in approval, preening herself at the compliments being offered by the dark-haired Rocket Member.
Raniya was actually supposed to be checking the computer screens as part of her instructions. It was so mean of Giovanni-Sama to leave her here in dumpy cerulean while he was far, far away. She spilled her tea when she thought she heard an intruder alert symbol. At first, she was annoyed that it had stained her trousers. She hurriedly changed into her partner's trousers as well as applying a face veil and putting on her gloves.
"Ugh... stupid intruders," she grumbled. Part of her annoyance was for Giovanni, him being so inconsiderate of her, but the other part for how her Ponyta had lashed out at her! She had the hoofmark on her ribs to prove it, too!
Ponyta had always been gentle, because he was such a cry-baby... so imagine her surprise, when she was trying to steal some newbie trainer's bike, Ponyta hit her! She had no option but to let her Clefairy sing it to sleep and leave it in Rocket Headquarters.
She couldn't run very fast or do much now, her abdomen screaming every time she made a quick move, thanks to her mad Pony. She narrowed her eyes as she tightened her belt and left her unit after checking the intruder alert.
She looked around, her Clefairy's presence soothing her as none of her other pokemon obeyed her, or any wild pokemon ran away- but attacked her. She'd been hyperfanged by Rattata's too many times and those annoying Bellsprouts wouldn't leave her alone! Hence, she was indoors most of the time.
She was left with much of the PC handling in Rocket as fortunately, or unfortunately, she'd not been unaffected-- or maybe she had and didn't even realise it. But there were rumours that even her Giovanni-Sama was in bed with flu!! She shook her head furiously at the thought, Giovanni was like a pro... nothing could get him down.
Raniya glared at an Oddish, which had the nerve to glare back. She was about to release Scyther until she had the flashback of Ponyta... Scyther could do a whole lot of worse damage. A stupid little picknicker came and cried about why 'Oddish-Kun' was running away and wouldn't get in the pokeball. She was past Nugget Bridge, reminiscing the time when she'd won all five trainers with her Clefairy and the Rocket member gave her the jewel and asked her to join. Naturally, Raniya had said yes-- if only he'd offer more nuggets. That was the way she bought her little brother his own hideout, her mother had her very own Meowth doing 'pay-day's. Team Rocket had been good to her. Except now this stupid illness was going round and she couldn't contact Donum, who was currently supposed to be cashing in at Rock Tunnel, but his nano-speaker didn't work or something. Even TR members were on edge.
"Clefairy..." Celfairy commented, her beetle-black eyes pointed to the stream ahead. This route would lead to route four. Raniya looked at her Clefairy oddly, why was she pointing there? However, before she could voice this thought, some rather angry looking Spearow's were coming her way. Raniya gasped and turned at the ocean.
Clefairy was shrilly screaming at her trainer, Raniya who seemed frozen in fear as she saw parts of houses, 3's, 9's and several hundred spearow's coming at her.
"What do you mean walk on water, Clefairy?!" Raniya answered her, her face paling and her mask slipping down her nose as the whole world looked like 'Glitch City' with ledges. She had no idea what to do but as she stepped back, her boots felt cool- but she was standing on solid ground. Almost like... a puddle!
Raniya was amazed and heeded her Clefairy's advice to go further, and came across a cave... or half of a cave. She gulped as Clefairy ordered her to go through it. Raniya was nervous because the pokeballs containing Ponyta and Scyther were shaking on her belt and she was scared they'd hurt her. The trainer's muscles screamed for her to stop and her gloved hands were clutching her ribs. Clefairy was adamant on keeping Raniya going, knowing that if she stopped, she could very well 'freeze' or be petrified like the others.
Raniya was running and running, her eyes looking at all the Machoke's, Parasects that were bigger than normal and she gasped. "If I could capture them, Giovanni-Sama will notice me!"
"FAIRYY!" Clefairy commanded, urging her to stop looking at the high-level pokemon in Cerulean cave, but to concentrate on getting to the Missing Number. The originator of Glitch City.
Clefairy's shocking pink was darkening into a crimson shade, but she carried on, her eyes catching what Raniya's couldn't- the glitched blocks, the world rotating beneath her feet- if Raniya didn't hurry, one of those blocks could fall on her and... then she didn't know what would happen.
However, Raniya had ran on and into what- the Rocket trainer didn't know as there was a blinding light and she saw some life- which was good to see. They had quite rare pokemon too... she idly noted, but for once, she didn't think about pleasing Giovanni-- she wondered what the heck the 'light' was talking about. She caught some words... a few...
"Reflect on your Pokemon..." It sounded very sad.
"Your happiness... your suffering..." It explained.
Raniya didn't want to reflect, but Clefairy's body was becoming feverishly hot- Raniya didn't want to be double slapped by Clefairy because she'd got the virus- not because it would hurt physically, but emotionally too. Clefairy had never hit Raniya on purpose and that would shake her world upside down.
"Clefairy... y-you okay? Remember, you have a better immune system than anyone!" Raniya tried to joke.
"But Raniya... Virus' always change shape... an immune system can't recognise them that way..." Clefairy answered sadly, but she didn't attack her yet. "But don't worry, this virus wont affect us Clefairy's much... because we're not native to this land- the moonstone protects us from viruses... but I don't know about me... I'm not a very good Clefairy, Rani."
Raniya shook her head. "You're the best Clefairy of them all, that's why they're all so jealous of you darling. You've even styled your hair."
Clefairy managed a weak smile, Raniya was a terribly bad human, but she was a good friend.
{Since Clefairy are rumoured to be from outer space, it's quite convenient for Raniya's first (and only pokemon at the moment) to be unaffected and also to protect Raniya from the seizure's as it's in her genetic make-up.}