Pokemon One-Shots and Headcanons

Happy New Year

This was also posted on my Deviantart account, but I'm reposting it here too. 

As Greninja crept quietly down the stairs, he glanced over at the clock on the wall. The clock displayed 11:59 p.m., meaning he had one minute before his New Year's prank for Hawlucha. He stifled a laugh, imagining the look on the bird's face when he found out what was coming.

Hawlucha was fast asleep on his beanbag when he entered the living room. Silently, Greninja crept into the kitchen and grabbed a pot and a wooden spoon. Checking to make sure that he hadn't woken his teammate–he hadn't–he tiptoed up to Hawlucha's side and began banging the spoon against the pot as loudly as possible. 

"WAKE UP! YOU'VE BEEN ASLEEP FOR A YEAR!" Greninja shouted, his voice cracking slightly as it reached a decibel he'd never even thought of attempting before. "GET OUT OF BED, YOU LAZY ASS! WE'VE GOT AN ENTIRE YEAR'S WORTH OF TRAINING TO CATCH UP ON! MOVE YOUR ASS OR ELSE I'LL–"

Unfortunately, he never got to finish his threat. At that moment, the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs interrupted Greninja's speech. He turned to see Pikachu, Noivern, Talonflame, and Braixen all staring at him with irritated looks on their faces. Greninja gave them a cheeky smile, then turned back around to find Hawlucha awake and giving him what was quite possibly the most murderous look he'd ever seen from him–and that included the time he almost blew him up on April Fool's Day. 

"Greninja," Hawlucha began, his tone chilling the frog Pokemon to the bone. "Do you have any last words?" 

Now, if Greninja was a little smarter or at least a little better at exercising common sense, there were a few things he could have done at that moment. He could have apologized and sworn never to pull something like that again. He could have kept quiet and simply gone back to bed. He could have packed his bags and moved as far away from the cabin as possible. 

Unfortunately, he was not smart, nor was he particularly good at using common sense, so he didn't do any of those things. 

Instead, he smiled cheerfully, banged on the pot again, and loudly exclaimed, "HAPPY NEW YEAR!" 

Later that night, if anyone had bothered to look out their window, they would have seen a Greninja being chased by a Hawlucha, Pikachu, Noivern, Talonflame, and Braixen, all of them shouting curses and death threats at him. 

As for Greninja? He was already planning an extremely long vacation to Kanto.