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Welp, I looked it over a second time for good measure, since I'd read it the first time yesterday. I still thought it was a pretty good mission, and again didn't see anything wrong with it. It might've had a few other creative ideas if you had been more awake, perhaps, but it was still good.

Still a pass. I'll give you... 1200PD, and you can keep Jigglypuff if you want.

MISSION- High Tide

The moon is out, the tides are swelling, and the fish are jumping! Get down to the shore and catch yourself a water pokemon!

Pokemon:
Any non-evolved, non-legendary water-type

Rewards: 400
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Seth sat down on his bed late that night, he opened his arms, looked at the ceiling and fell backwards onto his oasis of comfort. He lay there almost motionless for a few minutes before realizing that he had a mission to accomplish. After trying to remember what he was supposed to do in the first place, Seth jumped out of bed, grabbed his book bag, and silently left his house, making sure not to make a sound.

After leaving his home, he quickly jumped on his Aqua bike DX and pedaled down towards the shoreline, making sure that his head was still staring straight forward. He grabbed His Poochyena [Scratchy]’s pokeball and let him out, letting him run besides him so that he could get some exercise.

Both Seth and Scratchy raced to the beach (scratchy won once Seth’s bike hit the sand) and after walking the shore for a short while, Seth sat down and stared at the beautiful waves. Seth took out his newly caught Staryu’s pokeball and let him out to play with Poochyena while he watched the beautiful tumbling water. He then pulled out his pre-used super rod and cast it out into the blue abyss.

Seth sat there for the better part of 10 minutes trying not to be swayed by the sea’s serenade. But after trying, his eyes got heavy and he drifted off, like a piece of driftwood in the massive ocean.

Seth woke up suddenly not long afterwords from a sharp tug on his line. He instinctively grabbed a hold of the rod, stood up and pulled on it with all of his might. Scratchy bark ecouragely and Staryu stood pushed Seth’s leg towards the shore. Seth tugged and pulled and yanked at the cord until he pulled it out of the water. It was a Krabby!

“YEAH! IT’S A KRABBY!!!” He exclaimed, forgetting that he had not caught it in a pokeball yet.

The wild Krabby snapped its claws together and skittered towards Seth. Once he got close, he pinched Seth’s leg with his claw.

“YEOOOOOWWWWW!” Seth yelled as the pain spiked in his left leg. “Scratchy. Bite him!” He said, falling back on his backside.

Scratchy barred his teeth meanisingly and jumped at Krabby, grabbed him in his teeth and shook his head violently with Krabby still inside.

Krabby quickly used Vice Grip and released Scratchy from him, throwing him away from him.

“Staryu use Tackle! Quickly!” Seth exclaimed.

Staryu jumped into the Frey and threw itself towards the wild crabby, hitting it square in the middle, causing a critical hit.

Because of the hit, crabby was low on health and seemed a bit tired. Seth thought this would be the perfect time to catch it.

Seth grabbed one of his pokeballs and threw it at Krabby. “Your mine!” He said as the ball spun through the air and hit Krabby in the claw, causing the red light to abduct Krabby and cage it in the pokeball.

Seth bent down to his knees as he looked at the ball wiggle, once, twice……And then the krabby popped out of the ball. “Scratchy Tackle him, take him down!” He exclaimed with a slight frustration.

Scratchy sprinted at the Krabby, pushing off close to him to knock him off balance.

With Krabby seeming down for the count, Seth threw another pokeball. He crossed his fingers as Krabby was once again engulfed in the red light. The pokeball dropped to the ground and wiggled, once, twice….and then three times and finally clicked.

Seth jumped in the air with excitement forgetting about his leg. “WE DID IT!” He shouted happily. As he landed on the ground once again he hobbled over to his new Krabby and picked him up. “That really hurt you shellfish pokemon” He said quickly. He then slid the ball into his book bag and returned both Scratchy and Staryu, sliding them into his bag as well. He smiled again, looking into the sea, and laid his rod into his bag. He then jumped onto his Bike and pedaled home, he went slowly so that he didn’t hurt his leg more than that Krabby did.

How to Become a Mechanic
MISSION - Aqua Bike Mishap

Those silly newbies and their Aqua Bikes. It seems they went out on a training mission a few weeks ago and completely wrecked their brand new Aqua Bikes. -Sigh- They really need to figure out how to take better care of their things.

Anyways, fix 3-5 and we'll give you some more tools to work with. It'll be fun. I promise. They all have different ailments such as slashed tires, melted parted, ect. The more creative, the better the rewards.

Rewards:
Mechanic Lvl 1: Student + 200-1000 PD


Ren headed into the workshop. He had a keen understanding of technology, so his sister had suggested that he might put it to use and learn to be a mechanic, and that brought him here, to the graveyard of irreparably damaged Aqua bikes. There were three of those, covered up with a tarp, and there were two more bikes which weren't in such terrible shape, a little practice before jumping into the hard stuff.

He walked over to the bikes, and grabbed one of the two that were less damaged ones. The first was mostly in tact, but it's tires and wheels were useless, and the handlebars were missing. Ren carried it over to the workbench and used a wrench to take off the old wheels and to put new ones on, then he took out the base of the old handlebars and mounted new handlebars into it, and he painted over some scratches and made it look like brand new.

He set this bike on the rack to be returned to it's owner, then went to grab the second of the two 'easy' fixes. It looked as if it had been in a rock slide, it was dented all over and was shaped awkwardly. It this was one of the easy repairs, Ren was beginning to wonder what condition the three under the tarp were in.

Ren took a hammer and pounded out the less severe dents, and he replaced the tires, wheels, and reinforced the central bar that connected the front and the rear tire, and then he repainted it. It wasn't perfect, but it was serviceable, and the reinforced central bar was more sturdy now then it had been before.

He put that bike away in the rack to be returned to it's owner too, and it was time to get one of the bikes from under the tarp. Feeling a bit lazy, rather then walk to the other end of the workshop again, Ren telekinetically lifted the tarp off and had one of two bikes there levitate over to the work bench.

Ren had been told that three were under the tarp, not two, but he didn't want to think about that, instead examining the bike before him. It wasn't as bent out of shape as the previous bike, but something had left some severe cuts in it, including the central bar which was being held together be duct tap.

He found that the wheels were salvageable once he replaced a couple broken spokes, but the tires needed to be replaced, along with the central bar. The rest of the bars he reinforced with another layer of metal and welded them into place, then he repainted the whole thing, and he thought it looked very good, like new. He was very proud of this bike, which he set on a separate rack to be given to some new aqua recruit. It had gone from scrap metal to treasure (in Ren's opinion) in the time it took him to rebuild it.

He levitated the last bike he could see over to him, which was in really bad shape, everything but the handlebars looked like something big had tried to digest it, and the rear end was completely missing, and the scent of a muk lingered upon the bike. It was faint, but still present, so he took the bike to a part of the workshop designed for washing things, and he scrubbed it down, using soap generously until the smell was gone, then he took it back to the worktable and reinforced the fronts bar, the front wheel and tire, and he assembled the whole rear end with new, uncorroded parts, and again he repainted the bike and put it in the rack to be given to someone else.

“Four” Ren stepped back, admiring his work, then reminding himself that there were supposed to be five, not four, so he headed over to where the tarp had been, and he was in for a surprise. Laying on the ground was a ball of metal with four handprints in it, like it had been squished into a ball by a machamp. How was anyone supposed to repair that?

He left the workshop for a while to go get some lunch, since he had already been working so long, and he thought about how he was going to fix such a thing. He figured it wound be easier to melt it down and rebuild it from scratch, so after eating, that was what he did, he fired up the forge and threw the ruins bike-ball into it and melted it down, and used the various molds to shape it into the parts he'd need, and he waited for them to cool.

Once they cooled, he assembled the bike frame and got some wheels and tires and a seat and assembled the bike, then he put the rubber covers over the handlebars and repainted the whole thing and put the new bike away. By the time he was finished, he was exhausted, so he figured he'd report what he'd done and then go to bed early.

Mechanic for Ren and Kasumi

Special Missions for Level 1 (Free)

* MISSION - Grinding the Gears

A whole bunch of bug type Pokemon have broken into the Shop and have taken up residence. Unfortunately, their bug like silk spinning has clogged all the gears in the machines. I hear that fire usually works well to get rid of these types of things. Just be sure not to damage the equipment.

Pokemon:
Any non-legendary, basic Bug Type Pokemon.
Gear (When Stats and Stuff Released)

Rewards: 700-1100 PD + 1 AP

It was early in the morning, but Ren wanted to get to the workshop because he hadn't been there in a few days due to several missions keeping him busy. Kasumi was up as well and was walking with him, her Skorupi prancing along at her side. Their first warning of danger came when the Skorupi moved around frantically. “Danger, danger ahead.” the Skorupi called in it's own pokémon language.

Ren stopped his sister with one hand and looked at her “Your Skorupi says there is danger ahead.” Ren told her

"But we're inside the base. How can there be danger?” Kasumi asked, surprised.

Ren reached for a pokéball at his belt “Come out of your pokéball, Yena” with a flash of light, his Poochyena emerged from it's pokéball, yipping in excitement, then it caught a strange scent and growled.

Ren looked at Kasumi again “Yena agrees with Skorupi. Lets proceed with caution.” without waiting for Kasumi to answer, Ren followed Yena towards the basement workshop. As they went down the stairs and rounded the last corner and it came into sight, the workshop was in complete disarray, like it had been caught in a tornado, and there was webbing all along one end of the room.

Kasumi seemed a bit freaked out, so Ren grabbed his sisters wrist “It's alright” he knew his sister wasn't thrilled overall with bug pokémon, but Ren felt confident they'd be fine as long as they were together. Kasumi seemed to take the hint, relaxing and giving Ren a little nod.

“The workshop has been overrun with bug pokémon. We have to clear them out” Ren told Kasumi “We can do it.”

Kasumi and Ren and their pokémon charged into the workshop, and immediately a Scyther swooped down upon them, using Slash, and Ren dived to the right, and Kasumi dived to the left.



Ren versus Scyther and Scizor

Ren hit the ground and kept rolling to dodge another slash attack from a scizor, then sprung back up onto his feet, grabbing another pokéball from his belt and releasing a second pokémon “Larvesta, I choose you!” he called out, as Larvesta emerged.

“Larvesta, use Ember. Poochyena use Incinerate.” Ren ordered

“Larrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr”

“Enaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa”

Larvesta's ember attack struck Scizor, but Scyther increased it's evasiveness and dodged Poochyena's Incinerate.

“Zorrr.” Scizor said, recovering from the ember attack

“Larvesta, Use Ember again. Yena, use Crunch” Ren ordered as Scyther attacked Yena with X-scissor and scizor used the same attack on Larvesta. The ember struck scizor, knocking it back, but scyther dodged the crunch attack too, and connected with X-scissor, knocking Yena away to slide under a toppled wall and out of sight.

Yena was in a place where Ren couldn't recall him to it's pokéball, but Ren could sense he was fine, just momentarily knocked out, so he summoned another pokémon from another pokéball “Axew, I choose you.”

Ren's baby Axew materialized from it's pokéball and attacked Scizor with dragon pulse without being asked, knocking the pokémon out.

“Ember again on scyther!” Ren ordered, and Larvesta obeyed, unleashing another ember attack, but this one was weaker then the earlier ember attacks since the young Larvesta was getting tired.

“Scyyyyyyyyyyy...” Scyther called out, going straight through the weak ember attack and used air slash on Larvesta, knocking it to the ground, and the water that was gathering there finished arvesta off, knocking it out.

“Axew, use Dragon Pulse.” Ren ordered as he recalled Larvesta and then called out Chu, his Pichu “Chu, use thunder shock.”

Thunder Shock and Dragon Pulse both struck Scyther, knocking it out.



Kasumi versus Ariados, Spinarak, Spinarak...etcetera

Upon dodging the scyther's slash attack, Kasumi had the misfortune of landing mostly on a web, with only one arm free of the sticky prison, and an ariados walking down the web towards her.

With her one free hand, Kasumi reached for her belt and grasped a pokéball, releasing her Porygon, Pory. “Skorupi, use bite, Pory, Lock-on to Ariados.” Kasumi ordered

Skorupi, being a bug type, walked up the webbing without slowing down, and Pory's eyes began glowing as it focused on Ariados. Ariados ignored Skorupi unleashed a psychic attack at Pory.

Pory was hit hard, and lost it's focus, passing out, and Skorupi used Bite on Ariados. Ariados violently shook off Skorupi, sending it flying, to crash into a neaby wall and breaking a water main before it fell to the ground. Skorupi recovered, getting back to it's feet while Kasumi recalled Pory.

Ariados came closer to her, and Kasumi released her Snover from it's pokéball “Snover, use Icy Wind, please.” she ordered desperately “Skorupi, use bite.”

Ariados leaped over Kasumi as Snover prepared to attack, and unleashed a powerful poison jab, and followed that up by starting to wrap the Snover in a cocoon, it being knocked out, but it stopped when Skorupi bit it's leg again.

Ariados turned and used a psychic attack on Skorupi, and knocked it away, then Ariados went after Skorupi. Kasumi recalled Skorupi and then Snover, and put their pokéballs in her pocket, and she released her Mudkip and her Piplup as a half dozen spinarak were coming down the web towards her.




Ren and Kasumi versus Ariados, Spinarak, Spinarak...etcetera, and Volcarona

Ren had barely finished his fight when he took in the dire situation Kasumi was in, trapped on a web with a half-dozen spinarak coming down at her, and an angry ariados between Ren and his sister. To make matters worse, the water level in the room was nearly knee-high on him already, and Chu and his baby Axew, despite Chu standing on a small anvil, were not happy, barely able to keep their little heads above the water. Not having any other choice, Ren recalled Chu and Axew to their pokéballs and sent out his Delibird, Deli.

“Deliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii” Deli called out, emerging from its pokéball.

“Deli, attack Ariados with a blizzard.” Ren called out.

“Mudkip, Piplup, attack the Spinaraks with Surf” Kasumi ordered.

Obeying, the two water pokemon disturbed the water around them and raised up an incredible wave, and Kasumi had to concentrate on her ability to protect herself by creating a barrier that repelled pokémon attacks. Even with that, she still felt the weight of the combined efforts of her two water types as the surf struck her and the six spinaraks. At the same moment, Ariados was struck by Deli's Blizzard.

Eon the piplup and Swampy the mudkip were hit by the edges of the blizzard attack as well and were knocked out, but at least the soaked webbing was destroyed and Kasumi was free from that confinement. Frightened, the six spinarak swam to the wall and scrambled up it and went out through a large hole in it near the basement ceiling. Ariados, seeing her retreating children, went after them, but Scizor and Scyther were out through the hole first just ahead of her.

Kasumi recalled Eon and Swampy and reached for her last pokéball as she surveyed the surroundings in waist-deep water.

“Deli, use Icebeam to seal the water main.” Ren ordered and Deli did as it was told. It was a temporary fix, but a fix nonetheless, since at least no more water was coming in, but they still weren't alone. Kasumi spotted it in the corner first, a Volcarona, but she wasn't fast enough to warn Ren as Volcarona swooped down, using flamethrower on deli, striking it hard.

Deli fell into the water, and Ren recalled it, and he, like Kasumi, reached for his last pokémon.

“Relic, lets go” Ren called out, summoning his Relicanth.

“Milo, I choose you” Kasumi answered, calling forth her Feebas. The water wouldn't bother either of them.

“Rock Tomb.” Ren ordered, and he thought he heard Kasumi give an order to tackle, but everything was so chaotic there lately that he couldn't be certain until Feebas leaped out of the water to tackle the Volcarona while Relicanth prepared it's attack.

Volcarona met Milo's tackle with an electrifying wild charge, with devastating effect, a one-hit knock out for the Feebas.

“Yena, use Crunch!” Ren ordered. Sure enough, there on a shelf behind the Volcarona, stood Ren's Poochyena, and it leaped onto the bug pokémon's back and delivered a powerful crunch attack that stunned the hovering insect and made it fall towards the water.

Kasumi recalled her Feebas and Ren recalled his Poochyena, and Relics Rock Tomb struck the Volcarona hard, with devastating effects “Now tackle it through that hole in the wall" Ren ordered once the remains of the rock tomb attack were falling away, and Relic leaped up from the water and tackled the Volcarona, and it was thrown through the hole to the outdoors

”There's two more” Kasumi pointed to a nincada and a young and small heracross, trying to hide behind some buckets on a high shelf.

“D...don't hurt me” the Nincada said in it's pokémon language, but Ren could understand it.

“I wont hurt you” Ren told it, and also mentally communicated the words into it's mind.

“You're powerful” The Nincada told him “You'll protect me?”

Ren nodded, taking out an empty pokéball “Yes. You want to join me?”

The nincada leaped off the shelf in answer, struck the pokéball, and went into it. It made no attempt to escape and was captured right away.

Ren looked at the Heracross and mentally spake to it "What of you? Why don't you join my sister?"

The shy heracross came down off the shelf and Ren looked at Kasumi "He agrees."

Nodding, Kasumi pulled out a pokeball and tossed it at the Heracross, and after a few moments the capture succeeded and she went to pick up the pokeball.

“We need to get our pokémon some medical attention, then come clean up this mess. This will take a while.” Ren sighed.

MISSION- Positive Reaction
Any Team Aqua member is asked to catch a Plusle.
Plusle are commonly found along Route 110, but have been seen in Mr. Backlot's Trophy Garden on occasion.

Pokemon:
Plusle

Funds upon completion: 500

MISSION - Think Negative!
Any Team Aqua member is asked to catch a Minun.
Typically found only on Route 110, Mr. Backlot enjoys it when Minun show up in his Trophy Garden.

Pokemon:
Minun

Funds upon completion: 300

After using the teleporter at the Team Aqua base, Ren and Kasumi found themselves on Route 212, not very far from Mr Backlot's manor, a place both Ren and Kasumi had come to catch their second pokemon, Ren a Pichu and Kasumi a Porygon, but now they had a new mission, or rather missions.

Ren had been assigned a mission to capture a minun, and his sister, Kasumi, was supposed to catch a plusle, and Ren recalled from his previous visit that both of them could be found here. Ren took a pokeball off his belt “Pikachu, I choose you. Come on out.”

A light emanated from his pokeball, and his Pikachu, named Chu, appeared.

Kasumi picked out a pokeball as well, and her Porygon2, named Pory, emerged from it. “Lets go” Kasumi told her brother, approaching the house, and knocking on the door.

Pory, Chu, and Ren were staying behind Kasumi as the Butler opened the door. “Ah, more visitors for our masters renowned trophy garden?” the butler asked “Is this your first visit?”

“No, we've been here once before. We remember the rules.” Kasumi reassured the butler “We can take up to five pokemon into the garden with us, but only one empty pokeball.”

“Indeed. So you must make the most of it.” The Butler confirmed “Come in, please. The Master will wish to see your pokemon. He will be down shortly.

They were allowed inside as a servant girl was walking down the stairs with Mr Backlot. Kasumi reached for the remaining pokemon she had with her. It was very fortunate that this room was so huge “Onix, Chinchou, Snover, Heracross, come out.”

“Nincada, Larvesta, Fraxure, Seel, come out.” Ren said, calling out the other pokemon he had along for the ride.

“Wow, these two have many pokemon” Mr Backlot commented, genuinely impressed, particularly by the huge onix.

“Be still everyone, and let him look at you” Kasumi told their pokemon as Mr Backlot was carefully examining them, finally coming to Pory and Chu.

“Ah, these two, did they come from my trophy garden?” Mr Backlot asked.

“Yes sir” Ren answered “They've both evolved since then, though”

“Splendid” Mr Backlot chuckled “Will you permit my staff to look through your belongings and make sure that you each only have one pokeball?”

“That would be fine.” Ren confirmed “We left most of our belongings at home. So we have nothing to hide. We only brought one pokeball each.”

Mr Backlot nodded “I'm sure you're telling the truth, but you can't be too safe” Mr Backlot answered “If I let everyone catch as many pokemon as they wanted to, there wouldn't be as many for everyone to enjoy.” His butler and lady servent opened their backpacks and looked through them, making sure there were no extra pokeballs hidden inside them.

They took a few minutes to be thorough, then zipped the backpacks closed again and nodded an okay to their boss.

“Alright, please have a good time in my trophy garden” Mr Backlot answered.

Ren recalled all his pokemon into their pokeballs, with the exception of Chu, and Kasumi recalled her pokemon into their pokeballs, with the exception of Pory.

“Please follow me, sir and Madam. I'll escort you to the trophy garden” the butler told Ren and Kasumi, then started walking without waiting for a confirmation.

Ren and Kasumi followed, and they were led out the back doors and into the trophy garden, which amounted to a field of tall grass with large boulders and statues standing here and there all about, stretched as far as the eye could see.

Pokemon liked habitat like this because they were hard to spot, but considered they weren't bothered all that much, and considering Mr. Backlot tried to keep out the bad sort of trainers, they also didn't have to fear humans that much, usually they were more concerned about each other.

“Thank you sir” Kasumi told the Butler with a smile, then rushed into the tall grass. She didn't get far before she spotted a pair of eevee, which were playing together so adorably. If it weren't for the fact that they were assigned to catch particular pokemon, Kasumi would have tried to catch those cuties.

“Pika-pii.” Pikachu said to Kasumi as it, along with Ren and Pory, caught up with Kasumi.

“I know you want an Eevee, but we can't this time” Ren told her.

“I know, the assignment comes first.” Kasumi agreed “There will be other opportunities later. They are just so cute.”

Ren took Kasumi's arm and they walked on, looking for a plusle and a minun, spotting many pokemon along the way. There were pichu's, pikachu's, budew's, roselia's, starly's, staravia's, staraptor's, krickitots, krickitune's, igglybuff's, jigglypuffs, cleffa's, clefairy's, azurill's, marill's, happiny's, chansey's, and meowth's.

They spotted so many pokemon, just not the two they were looking for. The sun was just about to set when they came upon a plusle and a minun playing with another pair of Eevee's, one of which was colored differently then a normal eevee (shiny).

“Chu, there's the plusle and minun we need. Use discharge on them.” Ren ordered.

“Pi-pikachu.” he leaped past Ren and Kasumi, attacking plusle, minun, and the eevee's with it's electrical attack

“Hyper Beam” Kasumi ordered, and pory targeted minun, but the small pokemon managed to dodge even with them all being targeted with a discharge.

As the discharge ended, the two eevee's used helping hand, passing their strength to plusle and minun, making them stronger, and the minun and plusle used thunder, striking Pory and Chu with great force, and knocking both of them out.

Kasumi recalled Pory to it's pokeball and sent out her Heracross “Use megahorn on plusle”

Ren recalled Chu to it's pokeball and sent out fraxure “dragon pulse on minun!”

Plusle and minun rushed backwards, using helping hand as they passed by the two eevee's, and the eevee's used the energy shared with them to dig underground, and surface, the shiny eevee striking heracross and the normal eevee striking Fraxure.

Heracross's megahorn was interrupted before it could hit by the shiny eevee's digging attack, and heracross fainted, but fraxure was just knocked back a little, and it's dragon pulse still hit minun.

Kasumi recalled heracross to it's pokeball and sent out her chinchou “Blizzard” she ordered

“Use iron tail on minun!” Ren ordered his fraxure.

Plusle and the shiny eevee rushed to each other, and plusle used helping hand again, empowering the eevee, and it dug underground and came up underneath chinchou with a powerful strike, and followed that up by striking fraxure with trump card.

At the same time, minun used rest and began regenerating, and the normal-colored eevee tackled fraxure, taking the iron tail hit that was meant for minun, and fainted as a result.

The shiny eevee then used helping hand on plusle, and plusle used thunder, striking fraxure hard, and making it faint. The earlier dig attack had also made chinchou faint before the blizzard could do any harm, so both Ren and Kasumi called back their pokemon, wondering why they were having so much trouble with four pokemon that were supposed to be weak.

“Snowy” Kasumi sent out her Snover “Blizzard attack.”

“Larvesta” Ren sent out that pokemon “Fire blast minun”

The shiny eevee used helping hand again, and plusle used thunder as the two attacks were used. Minun woke up and tried to dodge the fire blast, but ended up still getting grazed by it.

As plusle's thunder struck larvesta, minun came up to plusle, using helping hand, and plusle immediately struck snover with another thunder attack, fainting both the snover and the larvesta, which were recalled by their trainers.

Kasumi sent out her Onix and Ren sent out his nincada and his seel

Ren levitated seel, nincada, himself and Kasumi off the ground, predicting Kasumi's first move.

“Earthquake!” Kasumi ordered, and Onix pounded the ground with such force that plusle, minun, and the shiny eevee were thrown to the ground.

“Nincada, use bug buzz on minun, seel, blizzard!” Ren gave the order

“Onix, smack down plusle.” Kasumi ordered, and the three pokemon didn't recover from the earthquake fast enough to dodge or counterattack, so the last three attacks made them stay down.

Kasumi threw a pokeball at plusle, and Ren threw a pokeball at minun, and both were captures around the same time, so they went to pick up their new pokemon, then checked on the two eevee's to make sure they weren't too badly injured. They seemed to be fine, so Ren and Kasumi left them and recalled their onix, nincada, and seel.

They called out plusle and minun and got to know each of the pokemon as they returned to Mr Backlot's manor, where the butler took them to see the master of the house. Mr Backlot enjoyed seeing pokemon caught in his trophy garden, so it didn't seem like such a terribly high cost to Ren or Kasumi for the privilege of getting a pokemon here

By the time they were led into Mr Backlots office, plusle and minun were in high spirits, playing with each other, and they looked so cute doing it. Mr Backlot stood up from his desk as they entered, and walked around it.

“There are so many pokemon in my trophy garden, I'm a bit surprised at how long it took you to catch your pokemon, but I must say that you managed to catch a couple cuties.” Mr Backlot smiled and knelt by the cheering pokemn, looking at them fondly.

“Yes sir. We did see lots of pokemon, but we were looking for a plusle and a minun specifically.” Kasumi explained.

“That would explain it, then” Mr Backlot answered.

They talked a little while more, and took a picture with Mr Backlot, plusle, and minun before they were shown out of the manor. They traveled a distance away from it, then put plusle and minun into their pokeballs and teleported back to Aqua Island.

Mission Level: 1


=-I might have added more, but I figured it was a level 1 mission and not to stress over it too much. I find that some parts go by way too quickly, but that goes along with me not trying to worry too much about it. I took some .... creative liberties with this and I hope you enjoy it! I also hope it's alright that it wasn't done as an Aqua mission really, as much as it was just my own thing. But since my character lived in Azalea Town, I couldn't help myself. I promise the rest of mine will be done as an Aqua mission.-=


The fresh air of Azalea Town was always a nice experience, although kind of old. Living there her whole life, Lilly was actually getting sick of it. She was packing up and getting ready for the move to Team Aqua. However, she couldn’t just leave without seeing the annual Slowpoke Festival. It was tradition that she’d watch it with the town, and this may be the last time she’d be able to do that. The festival was today, after all. It wouldn’t be too much time to waste.

Lilly went to the clearing in Azalea where they set up the festival year after year. She always enjoyed watching the battles hosted there by the gym leader Bugsy, and the food wasn’t half bad either. Most everything was in the process of being built by the townsfolk. As she looked around, she noticed there was no Slowking around the area.

Normally in the morning, Kurt goes out to catch a slowpoke in the well and evolves it into a Slowking. The Slowking would help out with the construction and converse with others before appearing on stage for a performance, and then being sent into the wild to live its own life elsewhere.

Lilly spotted Bugsy looking like he was freaking out. She decided to go see what was wrong. As Lilly got closer, she heard Bugsy muttering something about Kurt. Did something happen? “Hey, Bugsy!” said Lilly.

“Yes?” Bugsy replied, in a sort of irritated voice.

“Is something wrong? You look troubled right now.”

“Yes, there’s something wrong. Kurt hasn’t returned from the Slowpoke Well yet.”

“Still? It’s almost noon.”

“Exactly. I’d go check to see if he’s alright, but I’m stuck here trying to help set up everything.” Bugsy glanced down and noticed two pokeballs hanging from Lilly’s waist. “You have pokemon?” Bugsy asked, kind of shocked.

“Yeah, why?” Lilly responded. She knew where this was going.

“You need to go check, be sure he’s alright. I’m sure he’s fine, but just to be on the safe side.”

“Alright,” said Lilly, “I’ll go.”

“Thanks, I’m counting on you,” said Bugsy. Another person came by to ask his opinion on something. Lilly slipped out of the festival grounds to go toward the Slowpoke Well. She hadn’t ever been down there and was kind of scared to. She arrived at the well and heard groaning from the bottom of the well.

“Kurt?” Lilly asked. “Kurt, is that you?”

“Yesss … ooh,” Kurt said. Lilly quickly started going down the ladder, sometimes going down the rungs in twos. She saw Kurt at the bottom on his back, still groaning. When Lilly finally reached the bottom, she ran over to Kurt.

“Are you alright?!” shouted Lilly, her voice echoing in the well. This sound caused a Zubat somewhere in the cave to shriek in response, which shocked Lilly. She started feeling goosebumps from the horrible sounds within the well.

“Yeah, I’m fine … just fell in and landed flat on my back …” responded Kurt, sounding in agony.

“Oh, again?” asked Lilly, with a hint of relief in her voice. “You should be more careful.”

“There’s people in this well …” he paused for a breath, “cutting off slowpoke tails … just like years ago … I heard them scheming outside the well … and followed them inside …”

“And that’s where you fell …”

“Yes … you have to stop them …”

“Will do, Kurt. Stay here and rest.” Lilly looked out into the cave and shuddered a bit. “Maybe they know I’m coming. What if they heard me?” Lilly thought to herself. She had to trek out anyway and face what was there. She walked in a bit, seeing a few Zubat hanging from the ceiling of the cave. They weren’t attacking, though, so Lilly decided to think nothing of them.

After a little more ways in, Lilly stumbled upon the people. She hid behind a nearby rock to watch and listen in on what they were doing.

There were three guys looking around the coast of a small lake in the well. Behind them was a pile of 5, maybe 6 slowpoke tails. They either weren’t there long or weren’t having much luck. They didn’t seem to have any uniform.

One of them started talking “Hey, I found one!” he reached into the water and pulled out a Slowpoke. Another one of the three walked to him with a knife. Lilly couldn’t see much, but she knew what was going on. She felt like she was going to puke just imagining it, and almost cried when she heard the Slowpoke’s yell. The one with the knife tossed the tail into the pile and went back to looking. The other who found the Slowpoke threw the Slowpoke as far back into the lake as he could, then went back to looking. Almost immediately, the third guy had pulled out another Slowpoke. As the one with the knife approached him, Lilly stepped out from behind the rock.

“HEY!” she yelled. “Stop that!” She started running toward the guys, but came to a stop when all three were looking at her.

“Peh …” scoffed the one with the knife. “And what’re you gonna do about it?” With a swift motion, he cut the Slowpoke’s tail off and tossed it into the pile. Lilly’s face went white for that moment. But then she pulled a pokeball from her waist.

“Are you serious?” asked the one with the knife. “Ted, what do you think we should do? Kill her?”

The one still holding the Slowpoke threw it back into the lake and cracked his knuckles. “With pleasure,” he said. All three started moving toward Lilly.

Lilly was quick, “NO!” Lilly quickly pulled out her other pokeball and sent out both her pokemon to protect her. Ekans and Poochyena.

The one with the knife laughed at the seemingly weak pokemon. The three guys looked at each other and each took out their own pokeball. They threw them almost simultaneously. A Krabby, a Machop, and a Charmeleon stand there after a flash of light.

“Ladies first, I insist,” he said in a sort of sarcastic tone, like he knew he would win otherwise.

“Poochyena, bite the Krabby! Ekans, wrap around the Machop and then follow with a poison sting!” Poochyena darted forward with Ekans side by side. Poochyena got the Krabby by the arm instead of by the shell. Ekans wrapped around the confused Machop’s arms and legs and squeezed tight. Ekans then worked it’s venom into the Machop. The Krabby was trying to shake loose the Poochyena and the Machop was struggling to move while being crushed.

“Krabby, use vicegrip!” commanded Ted. The Krabby pinched Poochyena in it’s free claw and easily pulled the pokemon off, then pinched with its weak claw, too.

“Charmeleon, use slash on that Ekans!” The Charmeleon readied its claw to help its team mate.

Lilly gave a quick command “Ekans, move!” the Ekans forced the Machop to face Charmeleon right when the attack started. Charmeleon ended up hitting its own team mate. Ekans quickly bit the Charmeleon’s arm while it was there, injecting some venom into the victim, but not a lot. It wouldn’t have made any effect.

“Poochyena, howl!” The Poochyena howled into the Krabby’s face, stunning it momentarily. Enough to get free from its grip. “Now do a sand attack!” The Poochyena threw some sand into the Krabby’s eyes, blinding it while it scrambled around.

Ekans finally gave in to the Machop’s strength and let go. It slithered a bit away to give some distance.

“Machop, karate chop that Poochyena!” said the third guy. Machop felt like attacking the Ekans, but followed orders and hit the Poochyena dead on. Poochyena was staggering to get back up. The Machop was looking weak from the poison and crushing, though. The Charmeleon still looked healthy.

“Charmeleon, flamethrower the snake!” Charmeleon launched a blast of fire to Ekans, who tried dodging the hit, but its tail got caught.

“Krabby, metal claw the Poochyena!” the Krabby was unable to see but went through with the order. It ended up hitting the Machop with its attack, the second friendly fire.

“Poochyena, tackle the Machop!” yelled Lilly. The Poochyena hit Machop hard and had knocked it down. It was trying to get up, but the poison had affected it too much by then. It couldn’t muster the strength to go on.

The man recalled his pokemon without a word. Didn’t send out another one or make a sound. Lilly found this suspicious but kept attacking.

“Ekans, screech, then use bite!” Lilly quickly ordered.

“Charmeleon, use flamethrower!” But it was too late. The Ekans started screeching loudly, which stunned the Charmeleon before it could use its attack. Ekans slithered up to the Charmeleon and used bite, finally injecting enough venom into the pokemon to make an effect. The Charmeleon started wobbling, trying to stay balanced, it’s ears ringing from the sound based move.

“Krabby, quick, use a bubblebeam!” Ted yelled.The Krabby had finally rubbed the sand out its eyes and launched the attack towards the Ekans, which was still biting the Charmeleon. The Charmeleon was hit and fell to the ground, unable to get up.

“Poochyena,” Lilly quickly ordered an attack before any response could be made, “tackle!”

The Poochyena rammed itself into the crab pokemon, forcing it back, but no knock out. It was now a two on one fight. Good odds. Lilly smiled, relieved knowing she’d win.

“Krabby,” Ted tried issuing a command. “use a-“ Lilly cut him off.

“Poochyena, tackle again!” Lilly ordered. Poochyena gave it it’s all on this strike. It slammed itself into its foe, and then fell over itself, weak from all the battling. The Krabby had fainted from the blow.

“YES!” Lilly exclaimed, then a sudden grab on her arms shocked her. It was the guy with the Machop. He had snuck behind her during the battle and she didn’t even notice. He took her pokeballs and recalled her pokemon, throwing her pokeballs behind him.

The other guys started moving towards Lilly, as she was struggling to escape the man’s grip. Ted grabbed one arm, and the other guy held the other. The guy with the knife was in front of her.

“Let me tell ya somethin’, toots,” the guy with the knife started. “Pokemon battles? They’re a waste of time.” Lilly’s face went white again from the fear of what she thought was going to happen. “Y’see, we can’t leave a witness to what we’re doin’ here. If the authorities know we’re here, we’d be in big trouble. And now we’ll just have to end a pretty face like yours … pity …” he held the knife up to Lilly’s chest. Lilly started to tear up and was struggling to break free.

A few Zubat had flown in and started swarming the Slowpoke tails. “Hey! HEY! That’s our money there!” yelled the one with the knife. “Ted, Duke, hold ‘er still while I take care of the pests.” He ran off to the tail pile to get the Zubat away. He got real close, then a voice came from the well.

“Zubat, supersonic!” all the Zubat simultaneously screeched into the guy’s ears. He tried to put his hands over his ears, but it was still too much for him to take. He fell to the ground, letting go of the knife, trying to block out the sound.

“Who was that?!” yelled Duke, letting go to look around. Kurt was slowly walking in, hunched over in pain. Lilly freed herself from Ted in that instant and ran over to Kurt, grabbing her pokemon in the process. Lilly quickly sent out her Ekans to ward off Ted and Duke. The Zubat stopped screeching, and the guy with the knife slowly wobbled up, ears bleeding.

“Heh …” Kurt started, “good thing I brought those pokeballs with me.”

The Zubat flew back to Kurt, flying around him and Lilly. Duke and Ted ran back to help their partner. He pushed them away, picking the knife back up. He started walking toward Kurt and Lilly.

“Zubat …” Kurt started. The man stopped at that line. “Lilly … do you have a phone on you?”

Lilly looked at Kurt confused for a bit, but then started rummaging through her bag. She picked out a device in there, the TADS. “This looks like it has a phone function, let’s try it.” She handed the device the Kurt who contacted law enforcement. After the call, he started.

“You know … I don’t have any more pokeballs on me, they were all meant for finding a Slowpoke … I don’t suppose you could catch one while I keep these criminals here?” Lilly just gave him a look like ‘Are you crazy?’. “I can keep these guys here. Besides, the festival needs a Slowking. Go give it to Bugsy. Here’s the King’s Rock you need to give Slowpoke for the trade.” Kurt handed Lilly the item and the TADS back. She nodded and ran off back towards the entrance in search of a Slowpoke.

She looked only for moments before spotting one. One without a tail. It’d have to do.

“Ekans, wrap!” the Ekans wrapped itself around the slowpoke. It seemed to have given up in just that instant. “Umm … alright … Ekans, let go.” The Ekans had let go almost as soon as it had started. Lilly threw a pokeball. One … two … three shakes, and the button lit up. “I wonder … if it was weak from its tail being cut off?”

She picked up the pokeball and started to head out of the well, walking back to the town. On her way back, some officers rode past her toward the well. She had made it back to the Festival grounds. Almost everything was built entirely. She had no problem finding Bugsy, who dropped what he was doing as soon as he saw Lilly.

“Where’s Kurt?” he asked, still worried.

“Busy,” Lilly replied. “I have the Slowpoke if you want to trade right now.” Bugsy was relieved.

“Of course I’m ready to trade. And I even have a spare Scyther with me if you want it, as thanks for helping out.”

“Sure, let’s just hurry. It’s almost time for the festival!” exclaimed Lilly. They exchanged pokeballs, and Bugsy sent out the new pokemon. It was a Slowking now, and it grew back its tail in the evolution!

Lilly enjoyed the night at the festival, though not saying a word about any of the events in the well. The Slowking was even enjoying its stay despite what it had been through. It pulled off some amazing tricks using its psychic power to move objects. Lilly was sad knowing this might be her last time, but she was intent on making this the best one yet.

Will do. :3

But my actual reasoning was more that it had lost it's tail and was already "damaged". But, like I said, I could have made it a bit better but decided not to worry about it. :F