Flash in the pan (F)

[Tarlar]

Having left Ramsey the Ranger at Nurse Joy for him to take care of the gothita, Astrid ventured out into the busy streets of Goldenrod City. It was late afternoon, evening closing in and Astrid was getting hungry.
"Did I really forget to eat since morning?" She commented to herself as she slowly made her way through the bustling street, which meant her pokemon hadn't been fed either and had to be hungry.
"So a place which will serve both me an my pokemon, that can't be too hard to find, can it?" she said with a smile. She had done it before as trainers were good customers for the restaurants, she just needed to find one which had open tables.

The old woman squinted her eyes as she stuck her face close to the menu hanging beside the door, "why are they making them so small," she complained under her breath as she tried to make out what they were offering.
"Only soups?" She asked and looked again, "seems like it," she added and turned away, that was not really what she was looking for.

"You were so great Weepingbell! They didn't have a chance!" A familiar voice said and Astrid turned.
"Hector?" She said pleasantly surprised when she saw the youngster, but he froze and looked like a deerling caught in a Flash as he stared at her. Astrid felt a pang of sadness, had he really only bad memories of her?
"Not happy to see me dear?" She asked kindly and he looked flustered, "It's alright, I'm glad to see you though, but if it does not please you I will not take your time. I hope you are doing good," she said with a smile and turned to leave, continuing her hunt for a Restaurant.

Wordcounts: 299
(bike ON)

[Caramell 🍬]

Something crawled out from behind the back of a shop. It's large blue ears compared to its overall small stature would prove to show that it was an electric mouse. Though, it's eyes darted around mischievously with an evil grin, before it ran off towards the back of another building. A shop keep ran out to Astrid with his arms up in the air. "Stop that electricity thief, please!" He begged.

A Wild Minun Appeared!

Level 14. What will Astrid do?

Shiny babies? GrAiBPXv1-421-42

[Tarlar]

"No, wait!" Hector exclaimed and Astrid sighed relieved and turned to smile at him, and had to suppress a laugh as his posture with a hand reached out for her was very classical from movies.
"I.. I didn't mean it by that, sorry," he said as his hand dropped and he looked down.
"We are all good," Astrid said warmly and Hector smiled shyly at her. "So what have you been up to lately? Finished training?" She asked and Hector grinned, "Never!"
The boy looked hesitantly at Astrid, have.. have you challenged Whitney yet? She nodded and his mouth fell open when she showed him the badge. "No way! You already got it?!" He exclaimed excitedly but then his shoulders slumped and he pouted.
"What's wrong?" Astrid asked gently and when he just pouted more, she pulled him along and got them walking down the road.
"I tried to challenge som weeks ago but I didn't even get past her assistant," he eventually said after they had walked a bit in silence, "I don't know what to do about it, I don't have a fighting type."
"Oh, but your weepingbell should do well against the clefairy, I think I saw some other fairy types in there too," Astrid said surprised and Hector looked at her.
"What? But she's a normal type specialist," Hector said dumbfounded and Astrid nodded, "I think they have kept the pokemon they had already, they classified clefairy and some of the other fairy types as normal in the past," the old woman explained and Hector looked thoughtful.
"You beat Falkner without an electric, and Bugsy's really tough scyther. Of course you can win over Whitney with something else than a fighting type, you just need to train and make a strategy. Have you watched how others have fought her?" She asked and he squirmed a bit. "Yeah," he laughed nervously, "but probably not the best since it was one with a Lucario who knocked out every opponent by one hit, it was really strong."

Suddenly a man shouted up about a thief and Astrid gaped as the man chose to go directly to her, in the middle of the crowded street. The old woman looked down at herself to make sure she didn't have any visible police badges on her.
"I see it! There! I'll get it!" Hector shouted agitated and pointed at the minun which bounded down the street and disappeared into an alley.
"Hurry!" He called after the boy and ignored Astrid entirely. She smiled thinly as realization hit her.
"I am sorry, what did it steal?" Astrid asked and got some more information out of the shopkeeper before she trotted after Hector to help solve this problem.

Hector hadn't gotten far, and the minun wasn't on its own, a glameow had joined it and was keeping the boy busy.
"I will handle the mouse," Astrid called and Hector grinned at her and focused on the cat.
"Come on out Rita, we have a little thief to catch," Astrid said and the big black rat appeared in front of her. "Awesome!" Hector called and his brown raticate clattered its teeth in happy greeting. Rita looked surprised at them and focused the minun with renewed confidence.

Wordcount: 541
(ooc: Rita uses Crunch, twice if necessary. I'd like to use the multiplier on Rita, if the battle ends)

[Caramell 🍬]

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SUCCESS!!

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Rita gained 1050 EXP.
14*50: 700*1.5: 1050
Rita increased to 2730/2611 EXP!
Rita gained 1 Level.
Rita increased to Level 30!
Rita grew closer to Astrid. +1
Rita increased to +13 Happiness!

[Tarlar]

The little mouse's eyes widened when the old woman and especially her big black raticate appeared and it glanced at the glameow, who was busy with Hector's brown raticate. It had been standing back and cheered the cat on but now it was thrown straight into the fray and the two rats exchanged looks and threw themselves at them.
The cat managed to scratch itself loose and pelted down the alley, while the mouse got trapped under Rita who ignored the shocks it sent at her.
"What took you so long?" Hector called to Astrid with a grin, while he was leaning at the wall, trying to look like he had been hours ago and was just waiting on her.
Astrid chuckled and shook her head as she walked over to Rita and looked down on the little minun struggling to get free. It noticed Astrid and then began to blabber frantically which made no sense to the old woman.
"What's it saying?" Hector asked and Astrid shrugged. The two raticate's looked at each other nervously.

"While we cannot understand, others can help," Astrid said and let out Ella and Pia, who both looked surprised at the minun's blabbering. Ella asked some more questions before Pia stuck her huge beak straight in the face of the trapped minun and said something omniously which made the mouse lean away the little it could.
The pokemon talked a bit and Rita grabbed hold on the minun, while Pia and Ella looked questioningly at Astrid.
"I do not know what is going on, other than a shop keep sending us in here after it, saying it had been stealing. It got help from a cat and with all the chittering I would not be surprised if there is something more going on here," the police officer said with a smile. She gestured outwards, "if you know something more then please lead us," she said warmly and Ella smiled widely while Pia instantly took to the skies and soared down the alley. The pokemon followed, Hector's raticate doing a big show of him following too, which he did pussled.

(ooc: awaiting an encounter!)

[Caramell 🍬]

A bluish-grey cat with a long, curly tail jumped out in front of Astrid and her traveling companion. It stretched its paws and meowed cutely, before walking up to try and love on the older lady. Should Astrid's Pokemon try to interfere with it rubbing up against Astrid's legs, it would arch its back and hiss. Then, it would try to swipe at them with its claws fully extended.

A Wild Glameow Appeared!

Level 17. What will Astrid do?

Shiny babies? WtUIT9Cf1-421-42

[Tarlar]

They didn't get long down the alley before a glameow jumped out and weaved agile around Astrid's pokemon and began to rub itself up against her gently. It's trickery would probably have worked if not the minun had begun to scream warnings, making the cat hiss annoyed at it, before it turned to look lovingly at the old woman and purring loudly.
Pia stepped forward, "Step away from the woman," she ordered and the cat rubbed its chin up against Astrid's leg and smirked.
"Why? She's mine now, she got my scent," It said teasingly and Pia took a step closer and spread her wings.
The glameow hissed and showed its claws and teeth, "are you really sure you want to do that, I could accidently hurt her," it warned and rubbed its cheek against Astrid's legs with its sharp teeth right beside her. Pia stopped, "you wouldn't dare," Pia said through a clenched beak and the cat giggled and purred louder.
"It's one of them! it's one of them! Don't trust it!" the minun shouted and continued even as Rita tried to get it to shut up.

"What are you up to?" Astrid asked the cat sternly and bend forward to look down at it, the glameow purred and blinked warmly to her and then hissed once again as Pia moved a bit.
"What's it doing?" Hector asked as Astrid looked closer at the cat.
"I think its trying to use me as protection, it looks rather beaten up so it might be the one you just battled," Astrid said and Hector gasped. "No way!" He looked torn between finding it awesome and horrifying.

Ella quietly moved to one side and watched the glameow closely, slowly she placed a hand on the ground and narrowed her eyes as she tried to calculate both her aim and force as she did not want to harm her trainer.

(ooc: Ella uses Water Pledge, and tried to blow the glameow up in the air without hitting Astrid )

[Caramell 🍬]

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SUCCESS!!

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Ella gained 850 exp!
50*17: 850
Ella increased to 850/2437 exp!
Ella grew closer to Astrid! +1
Ella increased to +8 Happiness!

[Tarlar]

The glameow looked down quickly as it heard a rumbling below it, but it realized too late what was happening and a geyser of water blasted it up into the air and away from Astrid. The old woman flinched back shocked, closing her eyes and raising a hand to protect herself from the water. Pia jumped back surprised while Rita jerked away and almost lost the grip on the minun, but it hadn't tried to move as it just stared openmouthed at what was happening in front of it.
The cat spun in the air, landed nimbly on its feet and pelted down the alley again to disappear out of sight.

"Are you okay?" Hector asked hurrying to Astrid's side, and the old woman opened her eyes and took a deep breath. She leaned heavily on her cane and looked down at herself, patting her loose trousers.
"I think so, just a bit surprised," she admitted and looked at Ella who smiled confidently. A smile spread on Astrid's face as well.
"That was impressive Ella, thank you," The old trainer said and Ella looked down bashfully, which only grew when Pia stepped over and loudly praised her while patting her on the back with a wing. Now the frogadier looked like she wished the ground would swallow her up.

"Should we follow the glameow?" Hector asked and Astrid looked at the minun, "depends on what that one is saying," she said and looked down the alley, "and by now its probably long gone."
"So we are following our pokemon again?" He asked and Astrid nodded.
Rita looked down at the minun who squeaked something and they continued down the road, soon they started looking for something and Hector pouted.
"I wish I knew what was going on," he grumbled and Astrid chuckled.

[Caramell 🍬]

A small grey bird watches Astrid and her team from the rooftop of a nearby building. When they get too close to the building for its liking, the bird flies down with its talons aimed at snatching Astrid's grey hairs within its clawed feet. There was a nest with eggs tucked away on the top of the building, which would prove as the obvious reason of why the bird started to attack.

A Wild Pidove Appeared!

Level 15. What will Astrid do?

Shiny? NfgGmqHl1-421-42

[Tarlar]

The minun squeaked and pointed with a foot at a little hole in between a fence and a house, Ella went over to take a close look while Pia asked it some questions.
"Look!" Hector gasped excitedly and pointed and the minun became very quiet as they all saw a plusle running down the alley towards them, it slowed down slightly. The electric mouse was clearly holding something in its paw and the minun curled up and tried to become as small in Rita's grasp as possible.
A trainer appeared and released a whirlipede which quickly rolled after the plusle and stopped it from running away.
"Do you think they know each other?" Hector asked as he looked between the two electric mouses.
"They might do, they look very much alike," Astrid commented, then something grasped her hair and gave it a tug, which made her duck and gasp.

Pia was on her wings instantly and raced after the Pidove, whom she tried to slap a couple of times with her wings.
The minun wiggled and struggled against Rita's grasp when it felt she was distracted, it gave her a light shock and managed to break free, and raced past Ella and into the gap it had pointed out before.
"Eggs!" Hector shouted worried and Astrid looked over at him while she rubbed her sore head, "what?"
What was it with all those pokemon and targeting her?

(ooc: Pia uses Rock Smash twice)

[Caramell 🍬]

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SUCCESS!!

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Pia gained 750 exp!
50*15: 750
Pia increased to 1468/2437 exp!
Pia grew closer to Astrid! +1
Pia increased to +11 Happiness!

[Tarlar]

Pia was over the pidove as a hawk and with a well placed slap she threw it into a wall where it collapsed on the ground. Pia landed beside it and looked a bit worried, she stepped closer and gave it a nudge but the grey bird didn't move.

"There's a nest!" Hector said urgently and pointed up, Astrid glanced at the other trainer who had by now caught the plusle, and then up where he pointed. "So it was protecting a nest," Astrid said thoughtfully and added to herself "but why me?"
Pia called worried and Rita hurried to her side, Ella went to glance through the gap but as the minun was long gone she abandoned the case and went to join the others.
"Oh no! Its really injured! How is it going to take care of the eggs now?!" Hector exclaimed as he crouched beside the pidove and placed a hand on it. Astrid made her way over and looked at the bird for a moment, then at Pia who lowered her head in shame.
"We need to get it to the Pokemon Center," the old woman decided, "Hector, call out your pidgeotto!" The boy look at her puzzled but did as told.
"You two are birds and can get up there and keep the eggs warm, protect them until we get back. We need to help its parent. And please, if there is another parent who comes, do not get aggressive with it! If it attacks or wants to chase you away, let it do it, but explain the situation and stay around to keep the eggs safe, got it?" Astrid ordered and Pia nodded determined and flew up to the small nest on the roof, there were barely place enough for her. The pidgeotto looked confused and looked at Hector for guidance, the boy quickly explained and the brown bird joined the black.

The trainers carefully hurried the pidove to the Pokemon Center, where Nurse Joy first scolded them for the treatment of the bird, but was quick to ad she was glad they brought it to her. It turned out the pidove needed some intensive care and it took some weeks before it was ready to return to its next, which is was anxious about. It was relieved to return and find its nest well taken cared off, and it reluctantly accepted Hector's proclamation that he wanted to help feed it and the babies when they hatched.
Astrid wished him good luck as they parted ways once again.

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