Pokemon Grey Version (IC)

DAY 3 START

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Faith wakes up the next morning well rested, although her legs are a bit sore, and the contents of her bag are strewn about the room. Her two ghost types seem to be arguing about a bar of soap in the bathroom. The tub is half-full of hot water and bubbles, and they have gotten a bag of lavender infused epsom salts from somewhere, which is sitting open on the vanity.

Megaolix
In the morning, Quan finds that Steve is awake before him, and is cooking french toast on one burner of a small camp stove set up on a folding table. The other burner has a pot containing berries he's boiling down, and there is a percolator sitting in the fire pit, being warmed by the fire he has there. As you watch, he puts a slice of muenster cheese on one of the two slices of bread currently on the stove, and flips the other slice of bread on top, flips the whole sandwich over for a few seconds, and then adds it to a stack of several such sandwiches on a plate in the middle of the table. "Good morning!"

Chibi-Reaper
Aqua awakens in the pokemon center to find that at some point Sneasel crawled inside his shirt to keep warm.

Latewave, Skitzyfrenic, Anon̦̦
Azure, Kathleen, and Morgana awaken after their adventures the previous night rested and ready to set out on all new adventures.

 

Faith stared.

Then stared some more, before groaning and palming her face.

"How much of this is stolen? You know what, I don't want to know. Really should have seen this coming."

Shooting a glare at the 2 spirits she starts cleaning up the mess they made, starting with her bag.

 

Azure picks up a bite to eat for him and his two pokemon before heading off to his delivery.

He feeds Tucker and Bruce some of his bacon.

"Bruce, I know you must be reeling from your losing streak. It hurts your pride as a former member of the gym that you've lost like this. But from what Carlos said gave me an idea. I know that you don't normally learn Aerial Ace without a TM. But let's try and work on it on our way up to that daycare?"

Azure scritches zubats ears.

He puts a berry on a string on Zubat.

"I want you to hold on to his for now, it should help you out."

He looks down at Tucker who is currently chewing on several strips of bacon.

"According to the puppy care part of the pokedex you are able to learn how to do Aerial Ace as well, or we could try to teach you how to break rocks? Bark once for learning Aerial Ace and Two for Rock Smash."

Tucker barks twice.

 

Aqua thinks nothing of this, only pausing to wonder if he's misremembering something. After all, he was fairly sure that he'd taken the shirt off, to sleep.

It takes him a moment to conclude that it probably doesn't matter that he's remembering how he went to sleep wrong, because he probably wasn't paying much attention. That's usually the explanation for incorrect memories anyway.

He yawns, slowly rises, washes his face with a damp cloth, brushes his teeth, and combs his hair. Then he pries Sneasel off, waking her up.

"So, food first or just heading on to the next city?" he asks.

Both of their stomachs growl in unison.

".... Food it is!" Aqua concludes, preparing to head towards 'The Gym'.

 

The two ghosts angrily shoo Faith towards the bathtub, picking things up before she can grab them, and shoving them haphazardly in her bag.

It isn't long before Azure reaches the daycare center. The man there thanks him for delivering the package of pokeballs, and pays him 400PD, along with an item ball that he says contains a tip for the prompt delivery.

The item ball contains a white egg with a squiggly yellow line around it. The man has no idea where the egg came from or what's in it.

The Gym doesn't open until 11AM.

Steve asks Quan to watch the slices he just put in the pan and flip them if the bottom edge turns from filmy white to brown while he wakes Julie, but otherwise Steve does all the cooking. Soon breakfast is made and enough grilled cheese french toast sandwiches for all three trainers and their pokemon are distributes, with the berry sauce poured over the top. Every contest trait is marginally improved for each pokemon that eats the breakfast. Steve and Julie plan to keep camping out here, but they help Quan take down his tent and pack it up before he continues on his way.

 

Morgana wakes up and decides to wash up before waking Kathleen. It would also be a good time to groom all of her Pokemon, sans Cerise who couldn't be groomed in the usual sense. Leonne certainly is not a fan of the running water, but with some coaxing, brushing, and promises of extra scritches it's eventually done. Chien was very excitable and ended up making a soapy mess that was thankfully contained in the basin. Brooke spent an odd amount of time staring at the water, and sucking in, like she was trying to bring the water to herself, even going so far as to hop back in the shower several times.

Was she attempting to make her own move?

Morgana paid it little mind as she got into the shower with Brooke to clean herself up.

 

Azure thanks the man and continues his training of Bruce and Tucker.

He does look around for anyone that may want to battle, pokemon or trainer.

 

It's morning when Kathleen leaves the Pokecenter. A myriad of toughs passing through her mind regarding what happened last night. Strangers shouldn't be doing things like that! Maybe if the were a couple... But they had barely even met! And then t-they wanted her to join! To do things! That ain't a thing good honest folk do!

She ain't no hussy, her momma raised her right!

She couldn't handle the places her mind was going, and she wasn't sure if she would be able to ever be able to look at Morgana and Azure the same way again. She... she needed to think. And right now she didn't think this was the right place to do so.

So she decided to leave quietly. She packed her things. She hesitated for a second, looking at the egg next to her bed before carefully covering it with blankets.

Kathleen left, but not before sending a message to Azure.

Kathleen hurried outside the Pokecenter, and then started walking. She did not stop, or even look back, as she headed towards the dreamyards.

 

Azure texts back to Kathleen.

 

Sneasel lets out a low, slow yowl of very pointed disappointment at a certain somebody that didn't make a note of when the restaurant's hours of operation were.

Aqua chuckles awkwardly and scratches the back of his neck.

"Well... it looks like we have some time to kill before lunch, huh?" he corrects himself.

His eyes move in one direction and then another as he looks for another time-wasting option.

"Ah! Right, we should go shopping, to pick up emergency travel supplies." he quickly covers for himself. "That'll take a little while. And then... figure it out from there, I guess."

Sneasel huffs in discontent, but follows along as Aqua changes course, until he reaches the PokeMart.

Aqua fiddles around with the travel rations, inspecting the ingredient listing and daily values while Sneasel mills about.

... Her attention is caught by a faint glint on the shelves, and she goes to inspect it. What she pulls out... it's a collar. A tiny belt strap, with a buckle and a loop to attach a lead. She turns it this way and that, slightly baffled. Then, by chance, she holds it up from behind and to the side at an angle that makes it look like it's wrapped around Aqua's neck, and her eyes widen.

"You going to buy somethin'?"

The shopkeeper's voice jolts Sneasel out of her thoughts, and she quickly shoves the collar back where it came from, flustered, and charges up to the counter as Aqua lays the money for two rations down.

"I'll take these.. eh?" Aqua says, as Sneasel starts dragging him away. "Hold on, I... never mind the receipt, thank you!" he calls backwards, as he lets Sneasel drag him out the door and away, rations in hand.

Her panic-fueled retreat doesn't end for a little while, until she's managed to calm down and settle herself.

".... So, where are we going?" Aqua asks, startling her again."Hm, I think this is... that abandoned factory? Did you want to look around here more?"

Sneasel hadn't actually been paying attention to where they were going, but nods rapidly anyway since that was as good an excuse as any.

 

"Gah! Ok, ok! I'll get in the bath, I mean, I was pretty sure I don't stink that badly..." She shot them a grin to make sure they knew she was just poking them a bit before speaking honestly, "But, really, thank you."

Slipping into the now full bath, she groans as her sore muscles relax from the heat. Course, she felt like she was forgetting something... until she scooped up the two friendly ghosts into a soft hug.

The morning went quickly after that, cleaning herself and grooming the 3 pokemon she has taking up most of the time(Shuppet's morning feeding of vengfulness and malice was as emotionally draining and cathartic as ever, if quick).

After the usual morning stuff, Faith goes searching the town for people that may want to battle, needing the money quite badly.

 

There are a few other trainers of both genders washing up with their pokemon, but they mostly mind their own business, with the exception of a tirtouga that sneaks up and playfully uses water gun on Brooke.

Nobody wants to battle. Especially not that pidove eating all the razz berries minding its own business in that bush over there.

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!

Just before the bridge, Quan finds a bunnelby using rototiller to create a berry planting spot. It carefully plants two sitrus berries and a lum berry.

Faith finds a bug catcher, a goth girl, and a school kid who might want to battle.

 

Azure looks around and notices that pidove. Not really interested in the pokemon he realizes exactly what that bird is eating.

He calmly and slowly walks over to the bird not wanting to interrupt it's meal.

"Excuse me? Mind if I grab a few of these."

 

The pidove growls at Azure.

 

"I just want two, One to plant so there is more of them. Another for myself. You can eat all of the rest if you want."

Azure glances over towards his pokemon to make sure they are ready in case the pidove attacks.

 

The bunnelby happily accepts Marie's help, and before long the work is done.

The pidove leers and eats two more berries.

 

"You know what. After last night's issues? Fuck you bird. Bruce do your thing."

While the battle begins Azure takes count of how many berries are still not eaten.

 

Bruce uses supersonic. The pidove destroys two berries in its confusion, knocking them to the ground. There are two berries left.

Bunnelby considers this, and seems interested, but looks meaningfully at the berry plots.

 

"Tentatively I'd consider that a good enough punishment for a glutton, but Bruce needs some practice."

He gestures to Bruce.

"Show this bird how much better you are at flying you are. Use leech life and stay out of it's way."

 

Bunnelby considers this and waves with one ear to indicate the bushes, and across the river with the other, indicating the wider world.

Pidove shits on a berry in its confusion before Bruce knocks it out of the bush with Leech Life.

It squawks angrily.

 

"You know what. Fine. Bruce keep on the bird. Don't let up for a minute."

 

The pidove continues to squawk angrily as it tries to get at the last berry, but every time it gets close, Bruce knocks it away. Finally it collapses on the ground, exhausted.

As Quan crosses the bridge, a ducklett flies overhead and lands on a post. Preening itself, a genius wing is knocked loose, and flutters to the ground in front of Quan.

 

Azure balls the annoying bird and collects his treasure of the last remaining berry.

"You were not worth this effort."

Azure goes to return to pick up his egg from the pokecenter and to see what people are offering for birds.