Sonia sighed as she gazed wistfully upon her former rival. It was late into the evening, and she had finished organizing the day’s selection of rare curry specimens about an hour before when Leon loudly barged into the lab, Charizard in tow. Now, as she gazed upon her undefeated companion before her, she felt a feeling of longing that was all too familiar to her by now.

She watched as he hunched over, violet locks cascading down his champion shoulders as he attempted to reattach the seventeen stickers that had fallen from his cape when he executed his famous “Charizard Pose”. Charizard - Leon’s loyal companion - softly illuminated the room with his Charizard Tail Fire™, exposing the soft features of his master’s undefeated face. Shadows danced across his visage like playful Charizards in the night. She flicked her Charizard-coloured hair to the side, exposing a discerning eye that was the colour that Charizard would be if Charizard was green.

“Leon…” she began, nervously searching for the right words to address the undefeated champion before her, “What are you doing here? It’s so late…”

“Hey, I’m Leon!” he replied matter-of-factly, “This is my buddy Charizard! We’ve never been defeated in a battle before, but if you train hard maybe one day you can challenge us in the Pokemon League!”

Sonia floundered for a moment as she watched his undefeated hands struggle to affix the first of seventeen stickers back onto his cape using a piece of scotch tape. “Oh…” she said as a small frown began to manifest on her lips, “I see…”

Leon’s Charizard – the one that Leon had owned for some time in the past and would continue to own into the foreseeable future – yawned sleepily, the rumble of his voice reminiscent of the deep bass of a Charizard’s yawn, because he was a Charizard. He appeared, upon closer inspection, to be having a champion time.