Button Your Shorts!
Five hours after leaving Ponyville, the girls broke for lunch. It was a warm day, and while they'd seen a number of different bird and bug Pokémon flying around in the sky, as well as various Pokémon calls coming from the trees, they hadn't had any more direct encounters with any wild Pokémon.
Once they found a decent place to stop, Sweetie Belle spread out a picnic blanket, while the other girls dug around in their packs for food. Scootaloo had a couple of sandwiches and a bag of potato chips, Apple Bloom had some hard cheese and jerky and a baggie of apple crisps, and Sweetie Belle had a small tray of spring rolls. "Now remember, eat light," Apple Bloom said. "We got a long way t' go till we can stock up on food." She rummaged in her pack. "Oh, an' let out yer Pokémon, Ah got some Pokémon treats." She released her own Pokémon; Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo released Oshawott and Torchic.
After they ate and packed up, they got back on the road. An hour later, they saw a boy about their age sitting on a big rock on the side of the road. He had messy reddish-orange hair and wore a brown T-shirt and loose white shorts. A propeller beanie was perched on his head. His attention was focused on a handheld gaming system. As they drew closer, he noticed them; he looked up, blinking, and jumped off his rock. He clipped his game system to his belt, then ran out in front of them, spreading his arms wide. "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIT!" he screeched in a whiny voice.
The girls drew up short. "What's wrong?" Scootaloo asked.
"Don't you know?" the boy asked. "Only people wearing shorts can pass here!"
The girls looked at one another in confusion. "...huh?" Apple Bloom asked.
The boy pointed at Scootaloo. "You! You can pass." Then he pointed at Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle. "You two!" He made an X with his arms. "No entry!"
Scootaloo snorted. "Get lost, dork," she said.
The boy ran behind the rock, and returned with a wagon full of shorts in various colors, styles, and materials. "If you want to go past, you either have to buy some shorts and put them on, or beat me in a Pokémon battle!"
"And what if we just walk past you?" Sweetie Belle asked.
The boy smirked, rubbing his nose with his forearm, and laughed. "Heheheh...hahahah...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....!"
He pulled a small remote out of his shorts pocket, then pressed a button. A chain link fence flipped up out of the dusty road, locking into place with a loud ka-kliiinggg! sound.
Scootaloo groaned. "Oh, you have got to be KIDDING ME!"
"How in the heck did you even...?" Apple Bloom wondered.
"Now, what's it gonna be, ladies?" the boy asked. "Shorts...or battle?"
The girls looked at one another, then back at the boy. "Battle," they said in unison.
The boy grinned. "You're gonna regret that!" he said. "My name is Button Mash, and I'm the gatekeeper of Shorts Road!"
"This ain't Shorts Road, it's Route 1!" Apple Bloom declared. "Girls, let me handle this!"
"Get 'im, Apple Bloom!" Scootaloo said.
Button Mash sneered at Apple Bloom. "Prepare to face the wrath of...!" He pulled a Pokéball out of his pocket, expanding it and throwing it. "...MAGIKARP!"
A Magikarp appeared in the middle of the dry, dusty road, flopping uselessly on its side, its mouth gaping. "Karp, kaaaarp," it moaned.
The three girls facefaulted.
"Oh, for..." Apple Bloom shook her head. "Ah almost hate t' do this, but...Chikorita, Ah choose you!" She threw Chikorita's Pokéball.
"Ri riii!" Chikorita said as it appeared. It looked at the flapping Magikarp, then back at Apple Bloom. "Chika?"
"Yeah yeah, Ah know, but jes' get it over with, okay? Use Razor Leaf."
"Magikarp, use Splash!"
Magikarp flopped around on the road. Chikorita exhaled a resigned sigh and launched a flurry of leaves at the pathetic fish.
"Kaaaaaaaaaarp!" Magikarp moaned as its eyes rolled back in its head and it stopped flapping.
"Aww!" Button Mash groaned, stomping a foot. "I thought this time for sure!"
"Okay, we battled, you lost, now git this stupid gate outta th' way!" Apple Bloom demanded as she recalled Chikorita.
Button Mash sighed. "Alright," he said. He pressed the button on his remote again; the gate crashed back into the dirt, narrowly missing his poor Magikarp.
As the girls started to walk past, Button Mash rushed out in front of them again, dragging his wagon. "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIT!"
"Oh come on!" Scootaloo moaned. "What NOW?"
"You beat me fair and square, so I'm giving you free shorts!" Button Mash said.
"Uhh..." The girls took a step back, faintly alarmed expressions on their faces.
"That's, uhh...nice an' all, but..." Apple Bloom said.
"No no, it's okay, really!" Button Mash said. "Everybody should have shorts! They're comfy and easy to wear!" He looked the girls up and down, then dove into his wagon, coming up with a pair of indigo denim cutoffs, which he presented to Apple Bloom. "Here, these are for you," he said.
"Uhh...thanks?" Apple Bloom took the shorts. They were actually pretty nice shorts...and, scarily, they were exactly her size.
"And for...the pretty girl," Button Mash said, blushing faintly. He rummaged through the pile of shorts, producing a pair of short, pinchy-looking royal purple bloomers. He presented them to Sweetie Belle with trembling hands and a furious blush.
"Umm..." Sweetie Belle backed away slowly.
"Just take 'em," Scootaloo said.
"Okay...thank you?" Sweetie Belle said hesitantly, daintily taking the shorts with the tips of her fingers.
"And you..." Button Mash said, studying Scootaloo. "...you're already wearing shorts. Pretty nice shorts, too. I don't think I have anything better than what you've already got." He kicked his wagon off the side of the road. "Well, that's that...goodbye, ladies! Safe travels! Maybe we'll meet again one day! And when we do, I really hope you're wearing shorts!"
The girls walked past Button Mash, who was waving enthusiastically at them, and his fainted Magikarp. As they got a good twenty yards away, Apple Bloom chanced a glance back at him. "Weird kid," she said as she stuffed the shorts into her backpack.
"Super weird," Scootaloo said.
They had just turned away to continue their journey when a blinding flash of strobing light caught their attention from the direction of Button Mash. "What the—?"
"Whoa, what's happening?" Sweetie Belle asked.
They could hear Button Mash laughing triumphantly. "AT LAST!" he screamed.
A tower of strobing light filled the road in the direction of Ponyville...
...and a massive serpentine Pokémon rose up from the dust, unleashing a roar into the sky.
"What the HECK IS THAT?!" Scootaloo cried, eyes wide as dinner plates.
"It's a Gyarados!" Sweetie Belle squeaked. She gasped. "No...it couldn't be—!"
Apple Bloom pulled out her Pokédex. It beeped as she scanned the distant Gyarados.
//Gyarados. The evolved form of Magikarp. It is believed that Gyarados' Dragon Rage is the result of the frustration it feels during its life as a Magikarp.//
Scootaloo's jaw dropped. "That pathetic fish evolved into THAT?!"
Button Mash suddenly started screaming as a tower of blue-white fire filled the road. "RETURN! RETURN!" he cried. In a bright crimson flash, the Gyarados disappeared.
"Do you think...he'll be okay?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"Who knows," Apple Bloom said. She shook her head. "Come on, girls. Let's git goin'."
They turned away and continued down the road to Appleloosa. Sweetie Belle looked at the purple bloomers she held. "I guess...he was just trying to get his Pokémon to evolve..." She gripped the bloomers tightly. "Maybe he wasn't such a bad kid..."
"Are you kidding? He's totally wacko!" Scootaloo said. "If we never see that dork again, it'll be too soon..."
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I clicked on this chapter expecting the infamous "Shorts are comfy and easy to wear". I was not disappointed.
5464921 It had to be done, and Button Mash seemed like the logical choice to be shorts boy.
*the moment button sent out Magikarp*
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I think the best bit was Button being flirtatious when giving Sweetie Belle shorts.
5464980 In all fairness...he had a pretty good strategy going there. Annoy people into beating up his Magikarp enough to get it to evolve. Kid's downright devious.
A nice, shorts chapter.
Let's hope Button Mash's Gyarados doesn't turn out the same way James' Gyarados did.
5464992 No kidding. Gyarados in the anime are...pretty much always bad news...
Good
They're going to being seeing a lot of Button, aren't they?
Poor Button, there's no way he'll be able to tame a Gyarados while wearing shorts.
5464994 Well, Misty managed to overcome her fear of them in order to capture one. And she even taught it flamethrower.
Then there was Lance and the Red Gyarados, and we can't forget that Nurse Joy that overcame her feart of water Pokemon in order to help an injured Gyarados.
Under the right trainers, Gyarados can be quite powerful.
Yeeeiiii, Button Mash is in very funny, sad he didn't control that Gyarados.
You know, I think that I saw a kid in one of the videogames with the same obsession for the shorts, but don't remember in which one.
5464980
As ridiculous as his plan was... it worked.
5465005 Hey now, shorts are the best for swimming in!
Button is a master of observation. With a single glance, he can discern the proper pair of shorts, colour, style and size, for anyone. Anyone.
I'm not a Pokémon fan, but this is great!
Good chapter, it was nice and... short
If you included that line you gotta include "My Rattata is in the top percentage of all Rattata's!" at one point haha
I laughed way to hard at this
lol, Button's plan backfired.
Can we see more of him in the future?
loving this story so far, but giving Diamond Tiara a legendary pokemon like victini seems a bit of an unbalance. i'd see her with something like a rare dragon or something from a fossil
That was awesome!
Now where's Twist with the Rattata that's in the top percentage of Rattata's?
5465345
You are not the only one.
I'm guessing the entire point of this chapter was to set up that line.
5465365 I'm pretty sure the author stopped responding to this awhile ago. I'm going to see where it goes personally. I'm guessing DT will either get off with an early win streak due to her advantage, or fail miserably due to being unable to control her pokemon.
5466121 Well, it had to be in there somewhere. My entire train of thought going into this chapter was "Okay, let's make Button Mash the Shorts Kid, and give him the crappiest Pokemon I can think of." It escalated from there.
5465119 Button(gazing upon Arceus): "My time has come!"
Buttons is the Shorts boy... This surprises me less than I thought it would.
Just embrace the madness, Applebloom, embrace the madness.
....Your mother never held you as a child, did she?
He's not wrong!
.... Best not to question it.
Clever! Also, everybody run for your lives!
So he's going to be a recurring character, then?
not my favourite pairing, but well not bad either.
Nice Chapter, i think .....no stop thinking, i know i like that story right now.
I was thinking- Oh crap! I just read the comment by 5464921 and I burst out laughing! I've played nearly all the ds pokemon games and that one was the one that I forgot... but this just made it burn back into my memory! I can't really remember which game it was in though.. But back go my original thought: I thought that button was going to be infamous youngster joey. Is the imfamous Youngster joey here?
5464921 Doesn't infamy require the situation to be negative? Everything about shorts and youngsters longstanding love of them is good and pure.
5468477 I'm watching XY in fits and starts...I didn't actually start watching it until they were about 40 episodes in, and the way the reruns are being aired...isn't conducive to me seeing it in order.
But I do at least know about Clemont.
5468493 Shorts kids are in EVERY Pokemon game. The shorts thing is a running gag.
Also, this is my second comment because I forgot to put it into my last one!
But anyways, I'm not that big of a Pokemon fan, although I really enjoy it. This story is absolutely stunning and everyday I can think of. The only things I would see that might need attention are these: (note that these are my just opinions and suggestions)
1. I don't think that there should be a leader for the trio. In the show Applebloom might be slightly more of a leader, but in this fic she seems just a bit too much for my taste.
2. I also would have thought Rainbow to have a higher standing, maybe one below or above Zecora.
But so far this is really interesting and I love reading it! Keep up the great work!
5468567 I gave up on watching the anime after the end of Black and White. The games have offered a lot of things to make themselves interesting, but with Ash still being the main character of the anime, the story for it is never going to go anywhere. They really need to end Ash's involvement, and give the series a new center protagonist. The closest thing we ever got to that was Jimmy, who was the anime equivalent of Gold.
5468733 I'd seriously love for the anime to shift focus to one of the
cute little pieces of assfemale protagonists for a few seasons.5468477
Didn't you read my comment before you respond?
Well I did watch some episodes yesterday, so I know that Clemont is a Gym leader but I don't know who the second leader could be and the wiki don't say anything about that either.
5468733
The moment they change the protagonist, is the moment the serie die.
Unless the do something awesome like "Pokemon Origin" again.
If anypony who read this comment didn't see that yet, go watch it, NOW. It's only 4 episodes and Celestia know i've loved every second of it
5465119
That's... frightening. I think I'll stick to leather pants...
5461074 Or had more weaknesses besides just poison and steel.
Button Mash as the Shorts Boy? That's actually rather clever. Should've gone with the Mr. Fish school of Magikarp combat, though. It would've led to a lot less heartbreak. Still, Button has his laser-spewing sea serpent and Chikorita got a little experience. I'd say everyone won.
Also, this seems relevant to your interests.
Looking forward to more.
5472486 That is indeed a cute picture of the CMC as Pokemon trainers.
"Everybody should have shorts! They're comfy and easy to wear!"
^You deserve a high five for giving Button that line.
I bet he names it Shorts, too.
(It certainly has a short temper, being a Gyrados and all.)
I wonder if they will see Button again.
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