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((Crap... I forgot about Themis... lol))
It wasn't until the sliding doors had closed behind him that Keegan realized he'd left Themis with Kasiya. For a moment he considered running back to get his Pokemon, but changed his mind. He's with Kasiya, he thought, shrugging as he made his way over to the PC and input his information. He'll be fine.

He took Mori's Pokeball from the strap and placed it in the teleporter, and then wrote a quick note to his mother, letting her know what was going on. A few minutes later, he got the reply, and he smiled, initiating the transfer. The Pokeball vanished, and a few seconds later the green Safari Ball replaced it. Keegan studied the ball for a moment or two and picked it up, and shuffled all the Pokeballs on his belt up a place before clipping the Kangaskhan's Pokeball into the last position.

"Well Moeder, here's hoping we get along," he said, standing up and heading back outside. He couldn't see Kasiya or Themis anywhere nearby, and he wondered how far they'd gotten. He found a relatively empty place, where potential damage would be minimal (he didn't want the Kangaskhan to destroy too much public property if he somehow managed to enrage her) and he released the Kangaskhan from her Safari Ball. The large Pokemon blinked for a few moments before looking down at the human, and tilting her head. "Hello there," Keegan said, nodding respectfully to the maternal Pokemon. "It’s nice to finally meet you, Moeder. You and I are going to be traveling around together now, so I thought that maybe we could get to know each other." The Kangaskhan leaned forward, seemingly studying the human's face. Then, she circled him a few times, taking him in from all angles before she stopped and nodded in approval. "I've also got a gift for you," he went on, holding up the two TM's. "Well, two gifts, actually. These are to commemorate our meeting. Brick Break and Iron Tail. Two moves that I think a lovely powerhouse such as yourself will make great use of." The Pokemon didn't argue, and as Keegan made a move to throw the three useless discs away (after fishing the first one from his pocket), Moeder reared back and punched the garbage can as hard as she could, bending it in half as though it were made of paper. "All right," Keegan grinned, looking up at the massive Pokemon. "I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship, wouldn’t you agree?"

...didn't budge. "What's the matter with you, K1?" Ian whispered harshly, trying as hard as he could to keep his voice low. "Are you allergic to big hats or something?"

Having been searching feverishly for their room, Ian was a bit irritated to be pulled off track by a simple interruption like this. If anything, he was more than happy to talk to someone else, especially since she was probably the only other person their age on board. So, instead of following the direction of Keiichi's tug, he waited patiently and politely until the girl got to the bottom.

Then, as soon as Ian made eye contact with the girl, an idea sprung to mind. "Um, excuse me?" he started. "Do you know where our room is? I can't figure this ticket out..." Blushing a little himself, Ian yanked his arm away from Keiichi to show her his ticket. Not the most formal of greetings, but it was a start.

Mike was surprised by the Elekid's absolutely venomous attitude to him, but then remembered that it was his association with Napalm that the plug despised. "Ha, I'll go get Napalm when we get to Lilycove, we can have a friendly match there." With that, the two boys set off towards the city. The rain hadn't stopped, much to the trainer's annoyance. But, perhaps this could be a chance to earn some bonus points with a certain grumpy Pokemon of his. Snapping off the marked Ultra Ball from his strap, Mike released Xanthos. As usual he left his ball in a sort of paranoid state of readiness, his claws raised defensively as if at any moment he could be jumped by something. An angry foam coated his mouth as he let out an assortment of mean spirited gurgles. "Calm down Xanthos, sheesh." Mike scolded, wishing he could actually do something about his Pokemon's sour attitude. To his surprise however, the Crawduant listened somewhat. He lowered his claws slightly, the foam around his mouth was almost all gone. "Damn, that's new." Mike said jokingly, then added a sigh. I'm the worst trainer ever.

Whirling around, he spotted Kilik's Elekid. After a quick examination he did as much of a scoff as he could and turned back around. He wasn't worth the time. "Anyway." The boy said in hopes to change the subject. "Xanthos, I thought it'd be nice for you to have some fun in the water, so I figured I'd let you splash around in the mud while we walked. Sound good?" Xanthos glanced over at his trainer, then back in front of him. He actually have a response to something I said! You could have knocked Mike over with a feather. "I'm the best trainer ever!" He shouted victoriously but accidentally. "Er, I mean, let's go!" Mike then dashed forward, followed slowly by his Crawduant.

"Well, so much for Scyther," Miharu said sadly, after she'd just wasted a good half hour chasing after it, and with no luck whatsoever. Aska was perched on a rock nearby, resting after having scoured the grass from the sky. The one glimpse of the green mantis she'd had wasn't good enough to track where it was going, and the duo had finally given up, and were now taking a quick break before they resumed their bug hunt.

About ten minutes later, they'd arrived at the fountain, and still hadn't captured any bug Pokemon as of yet. It was turning out to be more difficult than Miharu had originally imagined, and now she'd wasted close to a third of the time limit.

"This is hard..." she sighed, dipping her hand into the cool water of the fountain and closing her eyes, trying to get herself to relax. "We can do this... we just have to try a little harder."

A gentle whooshing sound seemed to go by her ear just then, and as she opened her eyes, she spotted the telltale black and white wings of a lovely Butterfree floating just beside her. The butterfly Pokemon landed, taking a drink of cool water from the fountain. Miharu wordlessly looked to Aska, who nodded, and flapped her wings once, carrying herself forward with a surprise Quick Attack. The Butterfree had been expecting it though, yet it took the hit, looking at the offending Pidgeotto with an angry sort of look on its face. Then, without warning, it also flapped its wings, sending a Gust attack at Aska.

Pfeh, amateurs. Mike scoffed, readying himself for battle. The rain was still coming down, but nothing too obstructing, just enough to be a pest. What Pokemon would they send out? "Well Xanthos, I guess you're up." The boy said offhandedly to his Crawduant, who was more than ready for a fight. A solid plan, plus the rain would power up his Water attacks. The boy then turned to his opponents, giving them a look over. Their get up was at least acceptable, but their mannerisms. Awful. "So, you boys fancy yourselves ninjas?" Mike tilted his head and gave an unimpressed smirk. "You don't know the half of it do you?" Unknown to even his closest travel companions, our hero has had more experience with ninjas then just Koga. It was a detail he divulged to no one, for it contained powerful memories, ones that he would rather forgot. Unfortunately for him, certain events were about to unfold that would tear that wide open.

Mike knew that this Pokemon needed a strict tone in order to be listened to, being so he tightened himself up and in a clear and loud tone shouted his order. "Xanthos, take the hit and focus on the Ninjask, use your Aerial Ace!" He stamped the ground, in hopes that his intensity would get through to his 'rough around the edges' Pokemon.

The Crawduant braced himself for the hit. The poison sludge splashed onto Xanthos' carapace, and he could feel the toxin seeping into his body as a wave of nausea came over him. However, Xanthos never broke eye contact his his opponents, even when his trainer loudly barked his command. Aerial Ace, sounded good to him. With frightening speed the lobster slashed the air with his claws, seemingly slicing the very sky itself. A large crescent shaped blade of energy shot forth towards the Ninjask, zeroing in on the true one.

"Awesome," Mike said with a good deal of confidence. "That attack can't miss. This'll be over in no time." He was also happy at Xanthos and how he obeyed his command without fuss. Things are looking up.