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“A harvest festival?” Tsuki asked while thinking that the Toxel they battled was probably the only electric poison type around. As islander himself, he wasn’t that familiar with festivals like that. They celebrated farming? Must be a landlocked thing. If he was in the area again, probably during the badge challenge he planned on doing, he’d have to give that a look.

Pulling out his phone, he’d open up his map and show Monique. “It’s a commonwealth island to the east, yeah. I think the train can only get us so far, we’ll have to take a Corviknight taxi most of the way.” Tsuki said. He didn’t have a flyer on him, and it was generally sound advice in their world to never fly somewhere on your own if you hadn’t been there before.

He waved Tamika off, promising to visit her the next time he made it to Wyndon. Now that it was just the two of them, Tsuki started to head back to the train station. “I wonder why they call it the Isle of Armor- you think they got a lot of steel types? Like Sinnoh’s Iron Island.” He asked her, hands behind his head. He hadn’t been there either, but he was definitely intrigued by visiting another regionette that was out of the way. The Sevii Islands were home and Kitakami had been a nice visit, almost getting murdered being ignored.

He felt a sense of anticipation at going. It always seemed like no matter where he went, it was like he was always walking a path that had already been well worn down by someone else.

“Ah right, my bad. You’re from Alola right? Never been myself.” Tsuki apologized as they made their way towards the train station. He followed along, enjoying the cooler Galarian air while they were still in the area. On the way back to the station, he made sure to stop by some inactive Pokemon Dens to collect what few watts he could gather from them. Every bit counted as far as Tsuki was aware. He thought about Sub’s Grimmsnarl fighting that massive Starmobile back in Paldea- he wanted in on that. That had been so cool to even just see. Maybe that was something that could help bridge the gap between him and the more experienced Snagem members. Mega Evolution was something he could do with only one Pokemon, but a Dynamax beacon on hand at all times? Any one of his Pokemon could probably do something sick with that at their disposal.

Tsuki stretched while Monique figured out the fine details of their travel, like the arrival time and where they were going to exactly wind up at. He didn’t commit himself to people watching quite as much as Monique. Instead he opted to scribble in some kind of journal of his. His time after remeeting up with everyone had so far been mostly about trying to build himself back up so that he wouldn’t be dead weight. To that end, he was working on a checklist of sorts. Things he wanted to be able to do if s**t ever truly hit the fan ever again. There was still quite a bit left but he remained hopeful.

When the announcement called out their group to take the train to the Corviknight pickup and drop off, Tsuki’s head lifted and got him excited. “Finally! I get that it could have been longer but sheesh…” Even for the little time they were cooped up, it was fairly clear that the teenager struggled to stay still. Lord knew how he’d be on a Corviknight Taxi on a flight towards the Isle of Armor. He hopped onto the train that, thankfully, wouldn’t take too long as it brought them over to the Galarian coastline.

Krabbys lined the beach, walking side to side as the two trainers departed from the train and towards the Taxi that would fly them over to the commonwealth that belonged to Galar. It was kind of like the Sevii Islands in that way. Separated from the mainland but still beholden to some larger region. He wondered what the wildlife would be like. “I kinda miss Cinnabar and One Island, the warmer climate feels a lot more like home y’know?” he said to Monique, not being aware of her falling here from an alternate Alola. She just seemed like a quirky person from a place he had never been to.

But the cold water with the wind? It felt almost alien to Tsuki. Like if there was always some storm just out of reach, it was damp and unpleasant. Pretty though. He hopped onto the taxi without a second thought. They’d definitely need to get some rest once they got there, it had already been a long day between the battles and all of the hiking.