“So, my catching spree continues…a shaking patch…I wonder what it is…OH MY GOD, A BUTTERFREE! SO CUTE! MUST CATCH IT!”
Thus, this is how my story began. I was just on Route 12 in Pokémon White, practically on a catching spree when, of course, I found a Butterfree. Lv50, female. I made quick work to catch her, and named her after the French name for Butterfree, Papilusion. This was the first Pokémon I found on the route, and while I wasn’t Nuzlocking, how couldn’t I resist to use her? I quickly added her to my party and began training immediately. Of course, Butterfree is as fragile as a butterfly, no pun intended. It took a while, but I finally managed to get her to Lv61.
I had finally gotten all my team members past Lv50 up to this level, as to avoid Lv60 Pinsir knocking them out with Guillotine, which Papilusion and my Shibirudon, Garik, had commonly fallen victim to. That’s when I saw that my Futachimaru, Jadel, had contracted Pokérus! God, I was so excited! I instantly took her out of the box, and began fighting with Papilusion. Though, I noticed a slight defiant tone in her cry when I sent her out. But, no matter.
My Kojondo, Maka, and my Butterfree contracted the virus while my shiny Doryuuzu, Agent, seemed to have trouble with it. But when he finally did, it had spread finally to my Tropius, Persephone. The only other member who I refused to take out of my party other than Agent was my hacked but special Zoroark, Crona, and he was cured of Pokérus. Well, too bad. I continued infecting my other team members, but keeping Papilusion and Jadel in front for double battles, Persephone for flying back to town because I was too lazy to walk back, as well as Agent and Crona only allowed for one Pokémon to be infected at a time, so this went painstakingly slow. Each and every time, Papilusion seemed to give off a more and more defiant cry…
Finally, I got my Rankurusu infected, and decided to battle with her real quick to try and level her up. But when she did level up, her stats bugged out and went up a LOT more than they should have. By, I dunno, like 478 or so. That was just Attack, her Special Attack went up by 782. I was getting really freaked out. I heard Papilusion’s cry again, but instead of just sounding defiant, it was more like a cackle. A text box came up, but all I could make out was “Yenta”, which was the name of my Rankurusu, and nothing more. When I checked my party, Yenta was gone, and so was Papilusion. When I closed the menu, another text box came up. It said “Right here” in katakana. I checked my party again. There was Papilusion. When I checked her stats, they were no different from before, but her sprite scared me a little.
It had an angry look, yet was flapping its wings rather calmly. Her item held was “Yenta no soru”, which translates roughly into “Soul of Yenta”. I exited again, completely sure that my Butterfree just killed my Rankurusu. Another text box. It said, “Iia. Non. No.” OK, so maybe not. Yet another text box. “Minion no Papilusion”, this one read, minion written in katakana so I could understand. Suddenly, the level up music played, and it said that Jadel leveled up. The text returned, with slightly bigger text.
”Minion no Papilusion.”
Agent leveled up.
”Minion no Papilusion.”
Persephone leveled up.
”Minion no Papilusion.”
Garik leveled up.
”Minion no Papilusion.”
My Tyranitar, Emi, leveled up.
”Minion no Papilusion.”
Hachiko, my Kokoromori, leveled up.
”Minion no Papilusion.”
”Minion no Papilusion.”
”Minion no Papilusion.”
”Minion no Papilusion.”
”Minion no Papilusion.”
“Minion no Papilusion.”
“Minion no Papilusion.”
“Minion no Papilusion.”
This continued until practically every Pokémon I had was her “minion”, at first I thought it was just the Pokémon I gave Pokérus, but then I saw Pokémon I rarely use, such as my Yooterii, Toto, and my Miruhoggu, Timon, become her minions. And with each Pokémon, that Butterfree just laughed it up at me. All the while, the text got so big, I couldn’t even see it in the end. Finally, Crona leveled up. It said, in bright red letters, and in English as if to emphasis it, “HE IS MY MINION NOW, LUCKY.”
A battle was instantly started. Jadel was sent out first, and I sent out my Bachuru, Duster. I realized now, Papilusion was fighting me with the Pokémon she made her minions while I got to battle with the ones she didn’t want. How fair was that? The Lv25 Duster vs the Lv61 Jadel. This would be fun. Jadel used Hydro Pump, but missed. Duster used ElecNet. Jadel writhed in pain, and instantly fainted. I felt bad, it seemed like I killed my starter. I heard Papilusion laughing. “Shut the fuck up, you goddamn butterfly!” I cried. “Iia!” I heard someone say back. Then I heard a bunch of Moonspeak, so I’m guessing she was actually talking to me.
She next sent out my Shanderaa. Instantly took Duster out with Flame Burst. I sent out Naitoshi, my Absol. Papilusion made him use Shadow Ball, of all things, and I used Night Slash. Super Luck made me get a critical. Down went my Shanderaa. I heard her growl. She sent out Emi, and used Brick Break. She swept me with Emi until I sent out my Zuruggu. How does a little lizard 23 levels lower take out a Tyranitar? I don’t even know.
”No more games!” she cried, sending out Crona. Now I was in trouble. My last Pokémon was good, though—Maka, my Kojondo. Crona refused to attack her, and Maka refused to do the same. The battle…was at a standstill. But Papilusion wouldn’t allow this. She forced Crona to use Extrasensory by beating him up. Finally, he couldn’t take the pressure and attacked the Pokémon I assume is his love. Maka cried out sadly in pain, and fainted. I could see Crona’s sprite crying.
”Why the hell are you doing this?!” I said.
”Because…I wasn’t the first! That otter was! You held me back for last!” the voice replied.
Wait. So, if I’m correct, Papilusion went berserko freako just because I didn’t get her to Lv61 before Jadel. “So?”
”Soooooooo, I’m not special to you? I’m suckish? I’m just a stupid butterfly? Why do you treat me like this?!”
This chick was obviously off her knocker. “Hey, I use you, don’t I?! How many other Pokémon did I not train that I caught on these new routes?! YOU ought to know as well as I do, since you fucking possessed all of my goddamn Pokémon! Only three NEW Pokémon from these routes even made it to my team, so feel lucky for yourself!”
”I will never forgive! Now I will use your beloved Pokérus against you! Crona! Kill her!”
With that, Lucky came on-screen, and Crona charged using Cross Poison. And here’s where the Deus ex Machina comes in. Suddenly, a slightly translucent Pokémon appeared on-screen. It protected Lucky from the attack. When I looked more closely, I saw it was a Registeel. Which made no sense, because I didn’t have any Registeel on my game. Crona got scared and fled. So it was only the Registeel and Papilusion. When she came on-screen, I saw her sprite trembling.
”Feeling scared?”
She didn’t reply. The Registeel’s name was IRONMETAL, which was what I named the very first Registeel I caught on Emerald back in 2005. He was Lv100 here, and only had one move—“Harau”, or “Exorcise”. I used it, and a piercing screech came from the speaker, but slowly faded away. Papilusion fainted, but so did IRONMETAL. The battle was finally over.
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Days later, I decided to check my Emerald file, the one that supposedly had IRONMETAL on it, so I could bring him onto White for real. I couldn’t find him in ANY of my boxes, but I found a piece of mail in my PC saying “MY WORK IS DONE.” I didn’t understand.
All the while, I kept training Papilusion, whom gained the fond yet hilarious nickname of Mademoiselle’s Fingers with me, instead of just releasing her. Afterall, I spent some pretty hard work on her already getting her to Lv61. She seemed happier instead of devious, and more open to the other Pokémon, if that seems possible. Crona and Maka had an Egg, but it has yet to hatch. Lastly, my friend told me of a site that supposedly tells you your Spirit Pokémon. I tried it.
I got Registeel
