A Modern Marvel [Bike]

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Okay. The magnemite was taken care of which meant he could return his pokemon again. As he hurried down the hallway unobstructed, he finally saw the teenager that Sam called Sissy. She was a tall young lady with a brightly-dyed punk hairdo and a very gothic forward sense of style. Duskull earrings dangled from her earlobes and her chunky platform boots matched her oversized leather jacket. She was cowering from SOMETHING in the shadows, looking absolutely petrified of whatever it was. She backed up, boots creaking as she shuffled away from the creature obscured by darkness, and when Adrian approached, she screamed again.

Though she quickly calmed, eyes wide as she perceived a possible rescuer. Then again, maybe she was even more afraid of him, it was impossible to tell if she paled beneath the thickly painted on white foundation and spidery eyelashes. The teen pointed at the thing in the corner, her black-painted nails stark against the pallid skin of trembling fingers.

"It's over there! Watching me! It chased me and knocked out my Murky," she whimpered out. 

"Hurt Murky?" Sam asked.

The girl gasped, spotting the boy, "Sam?! What are you doing here? You should be with mom! Wait. OH MY ARCEUS, DID YOU KIDNAP MY BABY BROTHER YOU CREEP! ARE YOU HERE TO KIDNAP ME TOO?! I WILL SCREAM YOU PERV—"

Adrian had never flashed his police badge so fast in his life. The girl quieted down with a small "oh". He let out a long sigh of relief, pinching his brow and tucking the badge back into his jacket, "I found him about to get zapped by a wild pokemon. He wandered away from you and your mother earlier, and I'm trying to get him back to his family. Do you know where your mother is?"

"I mean yeah, duh. I also, like, have a phone," she said. "But that isn't important right now! You have to get rid of the scaaaary pokemon that chaaased meeeee." 

"Sissy scared," Sam said, climbing off of Puddles to waddle her way. "Iz okay to be scared, sissy."

"I'm totally not scared, punk," she insisted, picking up her brother and holding him. "And don't go wandering off like that! You'll scare mom that way. And she scares way easier than me."

"But you screamed Ahhhhhhh and—"

"Oh shush, brat," the girl grumbled, looking mighty embarrassed by the toddler reminding her of her helpless screaming and whining for someone to help out.

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New encounter please.

Meditite learns high jump kick and zen headbutt over work up and detect. Hoothoot learns extrasensory over confusion and evolves into noctowl. Swapping both out for rellor and mudbray.

Giving Mudbray the expert belt and the exp share to scizor.

Bike: ON

[Caramell 🍬]

Hey friend, wanna hear my favorite song?! It's call Oooo, what's that smell!!

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A Wild Koffing Appeared!

Level 24. What will Adrian do?

Shiny? _lW4Kd1Hp_1-42

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Adrian faced down this terror that knocked out the teen's pokemon, ready to face some terrible foe...and he was faced by a gas bag. A literal gas bag. One that was spewing Smog and slowly contaminating the air around it with noxious smoke. Urg. How foul. He instinctively covered his mouth and took a step back. 

"Stinky," said Sam. "Stinky scared sissy. Sissy scared of stinky!" Someone was cheerful despite this whole situation becoming quite tense. Puddles even started to sway, happy to hum along to the teasing tune. The girl scowled and glared hard at the toddler, clearly straining not to shove him.

"AM NOT!" she protested. "It's...super dangerous. And you should be scared because you're a little kid. So go on, scream and cry, brat."

"No!"

"Both of you, please, quiet," Adrian urged, and the girl huffed as her brother giggled. Neither seemed to quite grasp the urgency of the toxic fume that were fogging around them. Slowly but surely the air they were breathing would become impossible to breathe, even despite the open tunnel, if he didn't do something quick. But he didn't want to make them panic. The girl was already quick to start screaming and potentially worsening the situation. 

He reached for a ball, considering. Catching it would be the most effective way of ending this problem, but his best matchup here would result in a very likely KO'd koffing (or a fleeing one). So he decided to give a newly caught pokemon a whirl. Today was full of firsts for his team, it seemed. With more than one member getting a chance to show their mettle. 

"Okay, magnemite, I know I just caught you so you wouldn't electrocute anybody, but I think now is a good time to put that electricity to good use. Use electro ball on that koffing." He threw the ball to reveal the pokemon inside. Red flickered across its metallic form as the light flashed and retracted back into the ball. It blinked its singular eye, likely confused by how it ended up in a different part of the tunnel it called home. It sparked a bit. Considering...

Well...okay. Why not? It didn't feel any animosity for the human so it covered itself in sparks and surged towards the koffing. Adrian prepared a great ball in his other hand, waiting for his pokemon to strike and move out of the way before he threw it. Cmon...a little longer. Aaaaaand now!

The throw was clean and straight.

Hopefully it would catch.

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Magnemite uses electro ball + great ball
Scizor is holding exp share
Please use mod bar if catches

Bike: ON

[Tiki]

electro ball crit? OEHKS8c7p_1-16

Koffing move p_1-4 Sludge crit and poison p_1-16 p_1-100
capture roll 83%: p_1-100

Magnemite +4 levels, now Level 28!
It can learn Magnet Rise, delete a move?


Ace gained +400 exp from EXP share
1241/2437 to next level


Koffing was caught!
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[b]Koffing[/b]
Name: [choose]
Gender: [choose]
Level: 24
OT: Adrian Hartt
Moves: Haze, Sludge, Assurance, Clear Smog
Ability: Levitate, Neutralizing Gas
Nature/Personality: [choose]

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The electroball hit. BAM. The two collided midair and the koffing's chaos causing streak was put to an abrupt halt. It puffed its cheeks and glared at the magnemite, clearly thinking it had acted out of some kind of spite for its great plan or something along those lines. It opened its mouth and spat a thick glob of seeping, stinging, foul-smelling sludge at the magnemite's face, which inevitably just slid right off, given that the metallic pokemon was immune to poison type moves and poison in general. The whole, no skin or blood to toxify thing sorta helped there. 

Unfazed by the sludge, the magnemeite floated there, a good distraction, as Adrian threw a ball. he watched it sail forward and collide with the koffing. The toxic gas pokemon's eye got big with alarm and it began to puff and wheeze, as if that would do something, before getting sucked up into a pokeball. The ball fell to the ground, wobbled twice, before falling still.

Adrian let out a slow breath and turned to the teen and her brother.

"Alright, you're safe now," he said. "Let's get you both back to your mom."

The teen nodded and held her brother's hand, watching Adrian with a bit of wary admiration for handling the situation. Adrian just sighed and checked on his bike, making sure it was undamaged despite all of this battling going on. "Let's go," he said, before leading the way back from this side tunnel. "The shops are this way. Do you know where you saw your mother last?"

"Oh, yeah, that way," the teen said, pointing to the other end of the plaza. Adrian was torn between wanting to scold both the teen and the mother for losing track of the toddler, but for now, he focused on keeping his cool and getting everyone reunited. She had to be worried.

With both of the kids in tow, he re-entered the plaza-like area with shops lining both sides of the tunnel. People had seemingly already forgotten the commotion caused earlier. City life, eh? Screaming was just sorta normal here. Adrian took them towards the shop where the teen had pointed and—

"...Does that guy have a knife?" the teen asked, hiding behind Adrian when they both saw what was happening. Apparently they'd walked in on a robbery in progress. Dangit.

"Get out of here and I will handle this. Don't go too far, okay?" Adrian hissed under his breath. The girl dragged her brother out of the shop just in time for the robber to notice him. "This is the police! Put your weapon down and—"

The robber suddenly bolted towards the back. Adrian swore as he pursued. He ran after the man, however, when they entered the back room, there was nowhere else for anyone to go. 

(Though there was a convenient vent that was rather open. Large enough surely for a wild pokemon to squeeze through while exploring.)

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New encounter
cleanse tag active
Bike: ON

[AshenPhoenix]

A wild Magnemite [LV24] is floating above Adrian, staring curiously!

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Rare? D1oY|vkEp_1-6
Uncommon? p_1-3
Which Common? p_1-2
Shiny? p_1-42
Level? p_18-24

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"I said halt! Put your hands up!" Adrian hollered after the man apparently trying to rob the store. He had a hand on his taser as his heart pounded in his chest. In his mind's eye, he could still play the last time he had a knife pulled on him clear as day. He was in a confined space with a desperate man once again. And he didn't want to get stabbed. That would be no fun for ANYONE. 

The man, having reached a dead end in this store room, whipped around, holding out that knife between them. 

"Get away from me!" the man shouted, voice wavering. Adrian saw his arm trembling, the point of the knife dipping a bit. "I'm not goin' back to jail. You can't make me!" 

His heart wrenched a bit at those words, that look on his face. He looked...frightened. 

"Put the knife down," Adrian repeated, calmer this time. "Neither of us want to get hurt. So put it down so we can talk." 

"LIAR!" the man shouted. He lunged and Adrian swore, dodging as best he could in the cramped space. Trying to grab his arm would be stupid and the man was moving around to much to tase him. Adrian wasn't quite sure what to do next that didn't get one of them hurt when suddenly...the knife leapt from the man's hand and suddenly found itself stuck to the side of a magnemite that floated out of the open vent. Uh... well then! That was convenient!

The man blinked and paled, lurching away again. A chase ensued. The guy was slippery! Okay, he needed to put something between him and the exit...ah. Adrian knew the solution! He would send out Ace! He fumbled a bit, grabbing her pokeball and throwing it. The scizor emerged, quick to follow Adrian's command to "go block the exit!" however, he knocked a different ball behind him when he threw hers. 

Zoro's

And this shop wasn't exactly big enough for the bull. Oops. Uh. Okay, he had to act like this was on purpose. "Zoro, make sure he doesn't hurt anyone and block off that back door!" There. Totally saved the moment. The bull bellowed and kicked a bit in agreement. Fortunately for everyone involved, he was kicking into the open doorway...where a certain unassuming magnemite was floating, right in range of his kicks.

"Now, hands up!" Back out came the taser. 

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Tauros uses double kick x3
Ace holding exp share
Bike: ON

[Caramell 🍬]

The poor thing's only crime was floating by the human. It couldn't understand.
Suddenly, bull hooves smashed down on it. When it landed on the ground and pleaded for life,
no one answered. Only more bull hooves smashed away. Broken, bruised, and battered, it tried again,
but unless Adrian showed the poor creature enough mercy to yield his steed, it would become one
with the rubble inside of Goldenrod Tunnel. Some mothers shielded kid eyes from the massacre.

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Zoro gained +1200 EXP to [3067/2269 EXP]!
Zoro gained +1 level to [Lv 28]!


Ace gained +400 EXP to [1641/2437 EXP]!
24*50*1/3
Ace gained +1 level to [Lv 29]!

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CLANG!

Huh? What was...? He saw some bystanders looking back at Zoro a little oddly. CLANG! Adrian risked a look behind him and saw the magnemite kicked to the ground. Dangit. "Zoro, calm down and stop kicking. Now." At least before that magnemite got a concussion. At least as it was, after it recovered from the stunning blows from the tauros, it would be able to float away, just with maybe a dent or two it didn't have before. 

Adrian then whipped his attention back to the crook, right in time to see the man lunge at him, taking advantage of his momentary distraction! He swore and had to throw himself to the side, heart racing. Nobody got out of a knife fight in a good way. He had to keep distance between them until he dropped it. "Put down the weapon! Put your hands behind your back!" Adrian commanded again, sweat streaking down the back of his neck, the tension in the room skyrocketing as it became evident that there was life and limb on the line.

"I ALREADY TOLD YOU! I'M NOT GOIN' BACK TO JAIL!" the man shouted, looking around manically for an exit. His gaze focused on the glass window that composed the front of the shop. He leapt away from Adrian to throw himself at the glass. THUMP! Well, it wasn't THAT fragile that it shattered when someone threw himself at it, though it did crack. The man actually dropped the knife in favor of grabbing a display, clearly aiming to use it to break through the glass and make his grand escape. Adrian used that moment to close the distance and—

ZAP!

The taser sparked and the man dropped. Adrian let out a sigh of relief as he climbed on the man's back and pulled out a pair of cuffs from his bag. He would need to use the radio and report this, have somebody come out to properly tag the guy...Adrian returned Zoro and told Ace to watch the pair outside the shop to make sure they didn't wander off until he reconnected them with their parent. The scizor nodded, buzzing off, though not before picking up a small sutra that fell off Zoro when he was returned. She'd keep this cleanse tag safe for now. She was more responsible after all.

She buzzed outside and stood by the teen and her baby brother, watchful for threats, all while Adrian waited for back up.

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Magnemite is now holding the exp share.
Moving cleanse tag from zoro to ace.

Bike: ON

[Caramell 🍬]

This little guy just wants to help Adrian catch the bad guy!
How is it Koffing's fault it's actually just getting in the way?

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A Wild Koffing Appeared!

Level 24. What will Adrian do?

Shiny? CLrWyi2hp_1-42

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As Adrian made sure the guy was cuffed and not going to cause a ruckus (all the while waiting on back up), a Koffing decided to float down that very vent that the magnemite came through earlier. It levitated its happy, floating face all the way over to where Adrian was basically sitting on a man, trailing smoke, oblivious as could be. Everyone nearby started to cough, including Adrian, who tried to shoo the wild pokemon away, but to no avail.

Ace was outside with the kids, which meant he'd need to send out a pokemon to deal with this problem. Hmmm. Okay, He had an idea. He tossed a ball to reveal a small mudbray. "Marci, go block off that doorway so no more wild pokemon sneak in." The little donkey bounced eagerly past the koffing with a kick and a bray, eager to be helpful and called into battle. She would do her best! Just you watch!

Once she had secured the doorway in the back, Adrian rolled out another ball to reveal Byte. "Use psybeam," he told the Porygon2. "Knock it outside, but away from the people." He wasn't sure if the digital pokemon quite understood, but it whirred in its unnatural way, limbs spinning. At least since evolution it seemed way more alert and aware of itself—far less stuff and robotic. Its simulation of real pokemon behavior had been vastly improved, and he could only hope that the additional upgrade disc (while dubious) would help Byte become a fully realized pokemon.

Or maybe it would act even more like what a computer THOUGHT a pokemon should act.

Something to ponder later.

As Byte blasted psychic energy at the koffing, Adrian's back up signalled that they were in the tunnel now and heading his way. That meant he could get the man upright and walk him out the door. He glanced over at the kids, tired, and saw that the teen girl was occupying the toddler boy so he didn't freak out. He'd make sure they were re-united with their mother soon. 

"You two holding up okay?" he asked.

The teen girl nodded, petting her brother's hair, "Yeah, we're fine. Did you, um...stop the bad guy?"

"Yeah, I did."

"So you really are a cop..."

"You seriously think it was fake this whole time, or something?"

The girl shrugged. 

Adrian SIGHED. He could hear the feet of approaching officers. 

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Mudbray sent in. Swapped for Porygon2.
Porygon2 used psybeam.
Magnemite is  holding the exp share.

(Not sure if my self-contained plot involving helping a lost kiddo and stopping a robbery counts towards IPF merits, but juuuust putting out a soft ask)


Bike: ON

[Tarlar]

Yes! Helping out! Best way to help out is surely to spread a white fog so no one can find their way! The bad guy surely can't find his way out! Even if he was already caught, it surely wouldn't help him at all trying to escape if his captors suddenly couldn't see him either. It was limited how much it affected anything really though, as it was knocked out effectively a moment later

Byte gets (24*50)1200 exp! (1200/2437)


Marci got a taste of the battle and grows +1 level to [Lv 20]!
She can learn Strength if she forgets another move!


Magnemite gets 1/3 of the exp, so 400! (400/2437)

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The bad guy was handed over to the cops that were actually ON DUTY and prepared to book him, and Adrian was able to breathe a slight sigh of relief, his hands trembling a little in his pockets. That stupid knife still set him on edge. But then again, almost dying really stuck with a guy when you decided you had plenty to live for. He talked to the officers, shook some hands, and once he was no longer needed, he stepped away to the kids. 

"Alright... do you see your mom?" There was a gathered crowd. Maybe she had heard the ruckus with the police and come out to investigate? The kids shook their heads and he was once struck by a wave of exasperation. OF COURSE. "Aight. Let's keep looking." It had been an adventure getting these kids back to their mom, but they looked relatively calm, even the teen who had been chased by a koffing and was aware of the danger they'd been in when the guy pulled a knife in that shop.

However, it quickly became obvious that the pair were lagging.

"...You hungry?" he asked them. The teen nodded, and he lead them to the nearby food 'court', which was in all honesty more of a row of shops all strung together that all happened to sell food with benches out front to sit at. Adrian took them to a quick in-and-out place that sold chicken fingers and fries. Nothing fancy, but both the teen and Sam were happy to sit on a bench and snarf down their chickeny lunch basket. Adrian also nibbled on some as Ace kept an eye on things and Marci stayed cuddled up to Adrian, head in his lap.

Adrian patted the mudbray's head.

"You have lots of weird pokemon," the teen eventually declared.

"Huh? How so?" Adrian mumbled over a mouthful of fries.

"There was that weird blue thing." Puddles the Clodsire. "The big scary black tauros?" Zoro. "That weird ducklett thing that floats." Byte the Porygon 2. "The scizor." Oh, she knew that one. "And now that one that's trying to eat your basket." Adrian pulled said basket away from curious mudbray nibbles. "Shouldn't officers have like...growlithe?"

"I have an arcanine?" Adrian offered. "I sometimes ride him on patrols instead of my bike. But I'm not patrolling right now. I was having a day off until, well...your brother needed help."

The teen adjusted Sam on her lap, making sure the toddler ate his chicken.

"You're still a weirdo."

Adrian rolled his eyes, "Finish your chicken so we can find your mother."

The girl snickered.

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Mudbray learns Strength over Iron Defense.
New encounter! Cleanse tag on Ace.

Bike: ON

[Caramell 🍬]

The lone magnet just looks fatigued, as though it had done a million things today already...

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A Wild Magnemite Appeared!

Level 24. What will Adrian do?

Shiny? PjoscJOUp_1-42

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A weary magnemite floated by curiously. Adrian was happy to ignore it, as the wild pokemon wasn't being intrusive or threatening, but the mudbray nibbling on his basket had other ideas. Her ears went flat and she brayed bravely, trotting to put herself protectively between him and the 'threat', almost mimicking Ace's posture, but on four lanky legs rather than two. 

Adrian cocked a brow, "You're very eager to battle, aren't you? Get riled up earlier, didn't you?"

Marci snorted, eyeing her foe with pure concentrated f o c u s. She couldn't lose her cool now. She had to be brave and confident, as if she had been battling her whole life! Yeah!

"I hatched her from an egg," he explained to to the teen and Sam. "She's always had a lot of battling spirit but I've never really put it to the test."

"Still see her as a baby, huh?" the teen asked. "Baby pokemon are like...born ready to battle though. They hatch like...fully formed and fighting. That's how they survive in the wild."

"I know...but she isn't a wild pokemon. Never was. But it's still fascinating to see how much of battling is instinct..." Adrian murmured. 

"Pokemon WANT to be stronger. At least that's what they say in the textbooks at school. It's why trainers and pokemon are a whole thing and the partnerships exist. Wild pokemon will battle each other to get stronger or protect their territory and all that...and they will also fight humans for the same reasons. But us humans figured out somewhere along the way that pokemon also form deep bonds with those they battle with a lot. And we started to catch them for protection from other pokemon." She hummed. "Though I have heard some pokemon don't wanna get stronger or evolve. They're naturally passive and make good pets because of it...but probably wouldn't do well in the wild unless they're a species that thrives on being skittish and hiding lots."

Adrian watched as Marci lost her patience waiting for Adrian to give her a command and decided to attack on her own accord, as if to impress him with her strength! She reared up and then ran as fast as she could at the magnemite, the earth rumbling beneath her hooves. The teen gasped a bit in surprise.

"Woah."

"Yeah, mudbray are startlingly strong. They were popular with farmers in alola for that physical strength and endurance and carrying capacity."

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Mudbray uses bulldoze up to x3 if needed

Bike: ON