Catching a Heat Wave [DONE]

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All Adrian was here in Azalea to do was evolve a spewpa.

The sun was shining hot and bright, almost suffocating in intensity. He had to shed his jacket as he wheeled his bike to a nice stretch of route between Union Cave and Azalea where he knew he'd find wild pokemon. Since he wasn't here to look for specific pokemon, he didn't look too closely at the radar or if there was a swarm or what the weather would cause to hide. He focused entirely on not becoming a puddle of sweat on the dirt.

With his jacket off, he folded it and tucked the leather article into his pack. He raked a hand through his now damp mop of hair and threw a leg over the frame of the bike. He was off duty, so he wasn't wearing any gear or badges. To anyone observing, he looked like your normal, average, every day trainer out for a bike ride.

Though most trainers knew better than to just ride around in the direct sun. But given the pattern he was after, this was required. Apparently, during the summer, on especially clear, hot days, sometimes, it would trigger the powdery scales of the vivillon's wings to take on a whole new color and pattern. They were practically the eevee of the bug world—a squawkabilly in a coal mine as it were—signalling in its wings the environment in which it evolved. 

He had yet to take any of these bugs back to Kent. In a way, he rather liked the idea of giving them to him all at once, a true rainbow of wings released at the same time. He wasn't especially sentimental, but if he could make the dying kids last wish come true...then he'd do his best to accomplish it. However, the hard part honestly seemed like it would be getting the cold area patterns. Just snow didn't trigger the change, but rather, other, unclear factors. He knew those could be achieved in the ice caverns near Blackthorn, but those felt a lifetime away...

Could he even reach there before...well...

Adrian tried not to think to hard on the mortality of the child he was helping. Maybe he'd return and the kid would be healthy...

(Or maybe he'd be releasing viv's over his gravestone. How morbid.)

"Just hafta battle one pokemon out here and then I can get out of this heat," he muttered.

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Word Count: 407 (+400)  | OOC:

Swapping Ig for Sunny. Taking the amulet coin off of Ace. Putting the exp share on Sunny.

[Caramell 🍬]

Meditite wants to know who does your....uhh...nails?

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A Wild Meditite appeared!

Level 9. What will Adrian do?

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Doesn't have listed held item.
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Through the delirium brought on by the sweltering heat, Adrian spotted a pokemon he'd never seen before. Oh. A meditite. He was expecting to see like a poochyena or a nidoran or something, but this was pleasantly different! With a hum and a slight smile, he rubbed the side of his head and tried to get his thoughts clear. Focus. Fooooocusss. Time to try to catch this time. But also evolve Sunny. Ah, perfect. He knew what to do.

He rummaged in his pocket and pulled out Ace's pokeball as well as Sunny's. He let the spewpa out first, making sure the exp share was firmly fastened onto the pokeball. "You just stay there, bud, no need to battle. Just need you to appreciate the sunshine. I guess? Now...as for this meditite..." He threw the second ball to reveal Ace. The scizor was wildly over leveled for this encounter, but that would just make this easier. In theory. Of course this pokemon could have a means of avoiding all damage which would make this whole affair difficult. 

But all that aside, he nodded to his companion.

"Ace, use false swipe. We don't want to knock too much HP off this one," he said. The mantis buzzed a bit then nodded, rushing forth to do just that. Adrian didn't pay too much attention to if she hit or not. He planned to throw a ball regardless. When Ace moved just right so that he could see the meditite, he chucked the ball. There!

Now, if that caught, then the experience gained should be enough to evolve sunny and he could get out of this unbearable heat as soon as possible. He was starting to get a little dizzy from it! Served him right for wearing mostly black, he supposed. Though his outer layers were long since shed and he was down to his t-shirt—the white fabric a little damp from sweat.

C'mon, just catch. Let him enjoy the sweet reprieve of air conditioning. 

"Still have like half the patterns to find," Adrian muttered to himself. "Have to go to the ice path...and that's so far away. I need so many badges...urg. This heat is giving me a head ache. I shouldn't want to go hang out in a perpetually frozen wasteland, but it sounds kinda nice right about now." He combed both his hands through his damp, black hair again.

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Word Count: 400 (+400)  | OOC:
False swipe + pokeball

Exp share on Sunny.

[Marchbaby]

Meditite could not even flex a muscle before Ace was right in front of it ready to deliver a False Swipe as soon as she was in range. It did manage to get off a weak Confusion in return but it was such a pitiful display a pebble would have been more effective. Seconds later the Pokeball Adrian tossed scored a direct hit trapping the young Pokemon inside. Meditite was so weak it could not offer any resistance at all and in the blink of an eye the battle was over.

Ace gained 400 exp and now has 841/2437 exp needed to level up.


Sunny gained 1 level and is now level 12. Sunny can evolve would you like her to evolve or would you like to stop the evolution?


Meditite has been captured please complete the following code:


[img src="https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5ani/meditite.gif"]
[b]Meditite[/b]
Name: [choose]
Gender: [choose]
Level: 8
OT: Adrian Hartt
Moves: Confusion, Work Up
Ability: Pure Power
Nature/Personality: [choose]


OOC: Pokeball deducted.

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One hit and one ball, that was all it took.

Adrian let out a long sigh of relief. He could get out of this heat! As he reached down to scoop the ball, he saw a flash of light. He turned and smiled a bit, warmed to see that the spewpa was evolving. It was always fascinating to watch! The small cocoon starting to enclose then swell, a head slowly forming as the abdomen split into a separate shape. Antenna's emerged from its brow as twin shapes began to bud and peel from its back, emerging and spreading to reveal slightly damp wings. The glow continued as those wings rapidly hardened and the edges took shape, the shine only fading as the evolution came to an end. Then, with a shatter, the final stage was revealed.

There, fluttering where a spewpa once stood, was a vivillon with bright orange and yellow wings. A reflection of the intense heat it evolved in. Perfect. Just what he was after. Now he could get out of this direct sunshine and into some shade. He wiped his forehead.

"You like it out here, Sunny?" he asked the freshly evolved bug.

The butterfly fluttered and dipped and swayed. It spun a bit, marveling in its new wings. This was the first time the carefully bred bug type had ever seen a real battle. Given he wasn't raising 20 vivillion to go on a pokemon journey where they would be tested and pushed to their limits, he figured that a soft, cushy lifestyle was fine. Sure, they didn't have any real battle prowess, but at least they were able to reach their full potential rather quickly and effortlessly. He just had to focus on exposing them to the correct environments.

"C'mon, let's go to the pokemon center." Adrian said with a chuckle. 

Once he was done there, he had a new spewpa with him. He heard another rumor he wanted to test out, that viv's evolved into a special pattern inside of pokemarts. 

The glass doors slid open. 

He entered the wonderful air conditioning and roamed to the back of the store where there were coolers full of cold drinks. With a sigh of relief, he gathered some cold bottles of water to pack in his bag for his journey to help beat the heat. And then, before he went up to the front to pay, he offered a candy to the spewpa on his shoulder.

It was a bit startling to watch, but he smiled regardless.

"How do you like your new wings, Pokeball?" he asked the red-and-white viv.

However, the cashier reminding him that he needs to BUY something, not just evolve pokemon, had him hurrying to the front to pay. He was done in Azalea now anyway.

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Word Count: 464 (+400)  | OOC:
Evolving Sunny.

Going to swap Sunny for Pokeball. Going to feed Pokeball and xs-exp candy while in the pokemart to get the pokeball pattern viv!

XS-EXP Candy 1->0
Pokeball LV 11-> 12

Pokeball evolves!

FIN