Not looking where she was going, Kathleen trips over a patrat and knocks Aqua to the ground in a compromising position. Before either of them can sort themselves out, there is a distortion in the air and a smoochum falls out on top of Sneasel. It licks her hello!
Kathleen could barely comprehend how she ended up on top of a boy, their lips locking with each other. She then bolted away as if his lips was on fire. "I-I am sorry!" Kathleen exclaims as she rubs her head and looks at the boy beneath him. 'He is handsome, you know?' A tough appeared on her head before it was dropped with a shake of her head.
"L-let me help you!" she continued as stood up "I am very sorry, really, I didn't meant to!", that is, until a smoochum fell from the skies and kissed the Sneasel. She blinked.
"Ok-" 'beep beep beep'
'For the love of Arceus! How can things keep piling up like this!' If the boy left the egg, and Morgana was nowhere in sight 'probably with him', who was going to take care of it!? I left a poor egg, alone, in the Pokemon center! "Are you ok? You were with us in Nuvema, right? I'm very sorry, but I need to head back to the Pokemon Center, sorry! It's an emergency!" Kathleen exclaimed as she ran back for the Egg.
"Uh." Aqua says intelligently. "Nice to meet you too?"
He receives no answer from the fading trail of dust and shrugs, before turning to Sneasel, yowling in mild distress and flailing a little in an attempt to get away from the Smoochum. Sighing, he helps Sneasel slowly pry her off, after which she falls gloomily to the ground on her hands and knees, like she's mourning something.
Meanwhile, Aqua holds a hand up in front of his face just in time to intercept inbound lips.
"One surprise like that in a morning is enough... I'll start to get the feeling that's just how you greet people in this region." he says, setting the Smoochum back down on the ground.
... He doesn't exactly feel comfortable letting Sneasel play rough with a baby-type pokemon. If it was a trainer battle, that would be one thing, but in the wild... she doesn't seem inclined to fight it either, just to leave.
"Well, there's still more time to waste poking around before the food place opens up." Aqua says.
They take a step.
Behind them, they hear a step taken.
They take a few more steps, and hear a few more steps from behind.
"... Um, don't tell me, but..." Aqua slowly says.
Sneasel releases a low, uncomfortable yowl. At the same time, they both turn around to see the Smoochum casually following.
"... Come to think of it, that one appeared in a sort of strange way." Aqua mumbles. "So... probably, there aren't any parents?"
Normally, he would have no qualms just continuing to ignore and walk away from an adult-type pokemon, but it seems a little different with a childlike one.
Sneasel lets out a complaining and whining sigh.
"Well, we can't really just
leave a baby..." Aqua points out. "... Though, I didn't really plan on expanding the group, either. Maybe just until we reach a place she'd rather be."
Sneasel lets out a disgruntled exhalation and turns away in a huff.
"... Well, that's not a
no, exactly." Aqua mutters to himself, before turning around and displaying a ball.
"So, kiddo, we're not from around here and so we're probably going to be doing a whole lot of wandering around in the middle of nowhere, completely lost and hungry. Still want to come along?" he asks.