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"Of course not!" Maddy said. "It's just designed after the likeness of a Gardevoir." She held the dress out for Misery to touch. It felt nothing like an actual Pokemon.
A dress then caught Maddy's attention from the corner of her eye (her right eye, to be exact, since she was wearing her eyepatch).
It was long and midnight black. The top part of it was a corset, that laced up in the back with laces the color of every Pokemon type. The front of the dress itself had some tiny stones on it, each one also a color representing a Pokemon type, like the laces.
"Nothing too flashy." Maddy said. "But it's certainly quite elegant."
She asked a nearby employee to fetch the dress in her size. Maddy went up to the counter and paid for it. It was pricey, but it's not like she needed more than one dress.
She turned to Misery. "See anything you like? They have some hair bands and stuff..." She told her. "They have handbags too. I may get one of those instead of my backpack, now that I think of it."

Maddy ended up picking out a black and red handbag to buy as well.
"Let's go find a jewelery store then. Might as well put Dark's money to use."
They left the store and continued down the street.
"This city sure is great. I definitely wanna buy a house here." She said.
She put all of the items in her backpack into her new handbag and threw the backpack out in the nearest trash can. It was an old ragged-looking backpack anyway. It belong in the trash.

Maddy peered curiously at the store Misery pointed out.
"Sure, why not?"
They walked across the street (checking both ways before crossing, of course) and entered the store.

After several hours searching the Museum Aram pulled out his TADS

"Maddy, I think I got something. In the north of this region is a Pokéball factory, just south of is a town that's home to many fairy types and some of those on our side can surely be useful, it could be a great temporary set up till we claim that factory for ourselves. Imagine what we could do with a place like that if we were in control of it. However...It seems to already be under control of some punks calling themselves Team Flare. It'll be risky, the best things always are, what do you think?"

"That'll be 10,000 PD up front." He says as he slinks down a bit. He knew it was expensive, but it was expensive to run as well. Misery quickly counts up the money and hands it to him. He nods and presses a button on the side of the machine, opening it up. Misery hands Maddy Brick's ball and she enters the machine. He closes it and presses another button. The lights flicker from the power usage and a neon green light radiates from inside the machine.
After a minute the machine stops and opens up.
"(I don't feel any different...)" She says sounding disappointed. The man now has a large grin on his face as he holds up a mirror for her.
"You sure look different." He says.
Sure enough, she looked quite different.

"(Oh wow! I look so cool!)" She smiles. Definitely worth the money, she believed.

Misery takes the ball back and she looks back at the old man.
"Well you should probably do it sooner than later... I'm not sure how much longer this place will be open." He sighs. "I don't get very many customers here.... Oh my name is Ernest, and this place is Ego On The Outside... uh... In case you actually cared..." he frowns and sighs again.
"(I bet a lot of people from Aqua would be interested in this.)" Misery says to Maddy. "(We should tell them about it!)"

Thanks to that machine she was already wearing some... but she could always use more.
"(Yeah okay. I wonder what would look good on me now...)" She asks as she exits the store.

Ernest waves as they leave, his frown turned into a pessimistic smile.