Dwayne's Misdreavus

**Dwayne's Misdreavus** (Japanese: **ドゥエインのムウマ** *Douein's Muma*) is the seventh Pokémon that Dwayne caught during his travels in the Johto region and his nineteenth overall.

## **New Era**

### **Johto Journey**

Dwayne obtained Misdreavus's Egg after winning the Extreme Pokémon Race. While camping out out at night not too long afterwards, Dwayne notices a light coming out of his backpack. He gets out the Egg case because the Egg is starting to hatch. He wonders what might hatch out of the Egg. By morning, Misdreavus finally hatches out of her Egg, and Dwayne checks Misdreavus out with his Pokédex and takes the Friend Ball that came with her Egg, and tries to return Misdreavus, who moves out of the way. Dwayne tries again, but Misdreavus continues to dodge the beam. Dwayne thinks that some food might convince Misdreavus to listen. He gets out some food, and Misdreavus hesitates at first, but ultimately decides to trust Dwayne, and she happily enjoys the food that was presented. Misdreavus flies around in circles, clearly happy, and uses Confuse Ray on Dwayne, who becomes dizzy, as Misdreavus laughs, before using Shock Wave, which shocks Dwayne out of his dizziness. Despite Misdreavus's mischievousness, Dwayne is overly happy and holds his Misdreavus high in the air, who happily laughs and shows her affection towards Dwayne by nuzzling against his cheeks.

Misdreavus participated in her first-ever battle the very next day, when she was chosen as his second and final remaining Pokémon, facing off against Pryce's Piloswine. Things start out rough as Piloswine releases a barrage of Blizzard attacks on Misdreavus, who struggles to stand against the ice. Dwayne notices that Piloswine's Blizzard attack form ice pillars on the battlefield, and so, she commands Misdreavus to slide on the ice underneath Piloswine. This confuses Piloswine as well as Pryce. Then, Misdreavus slides and ricochets off of the pillars, easily dodging the Blizzards. When Pryce tells Piloswine to use Blizzard on the whole battlefield, Misdreavus slides under it and unleashes a powerful Hex. Almost out of energy, Piloswine uses Rest. Dwayne tells Misdreavus to use Astonish before it heals, but she's too late. With its newfound energy, Piloswine uses Ice Fang to severely damage Misdreavus.

Pryce tells Dwayne to throw in the towel, but Dwayne refuses, so the battle then continues on. Dwayne commands Misdreavus to counter Piloswine's Ice Fang with an Astonish. Piloswine is hit directly on the nose and slides backward. Misdreavus unleashes a massive Hex, which Piloswine dodges, before using Blizzard, and Misdreavus jumps on its face and uses Confuse Ray. This leaves Piloswine confused, which causes Piloswine to fall into the water. Misdreavus then uses Shock Wave on the pool, which causes massive damage because Piloswine was underwater despite its immunity to Electric-type attacks, which surprises Pryce as he never expected Dwayne to bypass Piloswine's immunity. Piloswine shakes it off, leaving Dwayne and Misdreavus astounded. It retaliates with Ice Fang, but Misdreavus doesn't have enough strength to dodge.

Misdreavus looks exhausted, but flies back up, ready to keep fighting. In a surprising turn of events, Pryce then forfeits, which gives Dwayne the victory under a T.K.O. and Dwayne isn't pleased at first, saying he didn't actually win. Pryce admits that Dwayne's strength was impressive and explains he just didn't want his Piloswine to get more hurt than it already was. With this in mind, Dwayne gladly accepts the Glacier Badge.

While stopping for lunch, a wild Elekid emerges from the shrubbery and promptly eats some of Dwayne's food. It prepares to attack him, though Chikorita responds with a Razor Leaf attack. Dwayne tries to stop the conflict from escalating but gets shocked as a result. Elekid turns its attention to Misdreavus, and begins flirting with her, though Misdreavus doesn't seem to be enjoying the attention. Unexpectedly, a group of Ursaring storm in and glare at Elekid, and Dwayne correctly assumes that Elekid must have stolen some of their food as well. The Ursaring attack with Hyper Beam, and everyone clears off, though Dwayne and his Pokémon become separated from Elekid and Misdreavus. After escaping from the wild Ursaring, Dwayne recalls his Pokémon and begins searching for Misdreavus.

As he continues to search for Misdreavus, Dwayne runs into Skyler and learns that Skyler is after the same Elekid that he saw earlier, so Skyler joins Dwayne in his search, but professes that she wants to catch Elekid, and Dwayne assures her that he has no intention of trying to capture it. During their walk, Elekid overhears Misdreavus's stomach grumbling. It promptly fetches some apples from a nearby tree and hands one to Misdreavus. As Misdreavus goes to nibble gently, Elekid shows it how to take a real bite. The small gesture instantly makes Misdreavus feel at ease. However, the two are discovered by the angry pack of Ursaring. Elekid tries to defend them with Thunder Shock, but the strategy fails as Ursaring easily shake off the attack. Misdreavus resorts to Screeching, and the ear-splitting noise alerts Dwayne and Skyler to their location, where they witness Elekid and Misdreavus being attacked. Skyler has her Meganium use Solar Beam on the Ursaring, who finally feel some level of damage. The Ursaring are infuriated and begin charging up an Earthquake. Skyler orders Meganium to use Vine Whip, and sends the Ursaring flying off. Dwayne and Skyler rush towards Elekid and Misdreavus, and the latter happily jumps into Dwayne's arms, happy to be reunited with her Trainer.

After the two reunite with Elekid and Misdreavus, Skyler battles Elekid with her Meganium. Elekid uses its Thunder Punch attack to fend off Meganium's Razor Leaf attack. Meganium then Body Slams Elekid before landing a direct Solar Beam on it. Elekid falls backwards and Skyler pitches a Poké Ball at her target. Elekid enters the Ball, and after a few sways, Elekid is officially caught. As Skyler holds up her newly caught Pokémon, Misdreavus is feeling sad. Skyler assures Misdreavus that she will look after Elekid, which instantly cheers up the Screech Pokémon.

When a wild Sneasel was preventing any and all Trainers from grabbing the Sacred Flame, Misdreavus was summoned to battle the Ice-type Pokémon, and she quickly uses Shadow Ball, but Sneasel leaps and avoids it. Sneasel strikes back with Ice Beam and knocks Misdreavus down, but not out. Misdreavus tries to weaken Sneasel's Defenses with Screech, but Sneasel dodges it again. Finally, Sneasel gives Misdreavus a Poison Jab that throws Misdreavus right into Dwayne. Both get sent right back down the hill, and their descent ends when they collide into a tree. Raven and the other Pokémon rush towards their side, asking if they were alright, and Dwayne assures them that they were fine. Dwayne picks himself up and declares that Sneasel is more powerful than he expected, and they decide to retreat for the time being.

During the Silver Conference's semi-final round-robin stage, Misdreavus was chosen as Dwayne's first Pokémon to battle against Skyler's Quagsire. The battle begins with an exchange of Ice Beam and Shadow Ball. Skyler changes tactics and tells Quagsire to use Double Team to evade Misdreavus's attacks. It works for a moment, and Quagsire hits Misdrevus with a Blizzard. Skyler orders another round of Double Team, but Misdreavus manages to hit Quagsire with a Power Gem. At this point, Skyler switches Quagsire for Electabuzz, with Dwayne surprised at how Elekid had evolved so soon since their last meeting. Anticipating this, Dwayne pulls out Misdreavus for Roserade.

Misdreavus is later called back out to battle Electabuzz, and both Pokémon nod to each other, agreeing to go all-out against each other despite their friendship. Misdreavus begins with a Shock Wave, but Electabuzz blocks it off with Light Screen. Misdreavus's Confuse Ray manages to break through, however, but nevertheless, Electabuzz's Thunder Punch successfully hits despite its confusion, and Misdreavus gets knocked out, and Electabuzz's confusion wears off afterwards.

During Dwayne's match against Jade in the quarter-finals of the tournament, Misdreavus was chosen as his third Pokémon to battle against Jade's Kangaskhan. Kangaskhan uses Power-Up Punch, but Misdreavus swiftly dodges the attack. Misdreavus uses Shock Wave, but Kangaskhan uses Rock Slide to block the attack and tries to hit Misdreavus, but Misdreavus easily dodges, although Dwayne realizes that their power gap was too great, and Dwayne recalls Misdreavus.

She later gets called back out to face off against Jade's Scyther. Misdreavus easily dodges Scyther's Air Slash, allowing her to attack with Power Gem, which Scyther evades. Scyther uses Air Slash again, and while Misdreavus dodges the attack, it allows Scyther to swoop in and knock her out with Air Slash.

During the tournament's finals, Misdreavus was chosen as Dwayne's second Pokémon to battle against Raven's Sneasel. Dwayne commands a Shadow Ball, but Sneasel fires off an Ice beam that overpowers Shadow Ball. However, Misdreavus quickly charges towards Sneasel and uses Confuse Ray, leaving Sneasel confused. With Sneasel unable to properly battle, Misdreavus knocks it out with a flurry of Shadow Ball and Power Gem. Raven chooses Stantler to fight next. Misdreavus tries a Shock Wave, but Stantler blocks the attack with Protect. Stantler then replies with a Hypnosis, which puts Misdreavus to sleep, and Stantler follows up with Shadow Ball, knocking out Misdreavus.

Following Dwayne's decision to travel to the Hoenn region, Misdreavus, along with Dwayne's other Pokémon (with the exception of Gardevoir and Dratini) were left at Professor Oak's Laboratory.

### **Intermission**

When Fabius and Harlynn were attempting to break-in Professor Oak's Laboratory in an attempt to eliminate Dwayne, Harlynn accidentally steps on Misdreavus, who was taking a nap, and she reponds by using Shadow Ball. However, Fabius uses a fire extinguisher on her, and the two leave, just as Dwayne's Roserade and Growlithe catch up to Misdreavus.

## **Personality and Characteristics**

Mere moments after hatching from her Egg, Misdreavus already proved herself as a mischievous, yet affectionate Pokémon, making Dwayne dizzy with her Confuse Ray and shocking him afterwards, only to finally display affection by nuzzling herself against Dwayne's cheeks. Being only recently hatched, Misdreavus imprinted into Dwayne, and often refuses to leave his side, seen when she was separated from her Trainer after being attacked by a pack of Ursaring, Misdreavus kept worried and "homesick", and when she finally reunited with her Trainer, Misdreavus quickly shed tears of joy as she jumped into her Trainer's arms.

Misdreavus was also quite shy and introverted at first, becoming uncomfortable with Elekid's attempts to flirt with her, but after they were separated from Valeria and Skyler and remained together while searching for them, Misdreavus quickly bonded with Elekid, and became at ease around him, and was saddened when Elekid was captured by Skyler, but was quickly cheered up once Skyler assured that Elekid would remain safe with her. When they met again during the Johto League, with Elekid having since evolved into Electabuzz, both of them nodded to each other, agreeing that, despite their friendship, they wouldn't hold anything back against each other.

Despite only being recently-hatched, Misdreavus already showcased having above than average power, seen where she battled toe-to-toe against Pryce's Piloswine, who possessed decades of battling experience, and also managing to defeat Raven's Sneasel, who was notorious for having caused trouble shortly before the beginning of the Silver Conference and himself having defeated and injured countless Trainers and their Pokémon.