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A young boy strolled into camp, backpack on his back, comfortable shoes on his feet. "Hey, is this that caravan Nurse Joy had the flier for?" he asked the group in general.

"Hmm? Oh, I suppose I should stop playing with the baby," Shina said, standing and turning to the newcomer. "And yes, this would be the caravan. Welcome, I assume you are here to join us? I'm Shina Kiremono, the caravan leader. We are getting close to moving out." The trail bars were packed away neatly in waxed paper by several industrious trainers, and the pans were back in their capsules in Shina's pack. The fire was doused, and everyone was just picking up their last few things.

"Rasha, come here please!" Shina stood and moved over to the cart, hooking Rasha to it after a moment of looking at the traces and figuring out what went where. Then Shina popped a bike capsule and loaded her saddlebags onto the bike, much to Tenka's displeasure at the disruption of his nest. Shina calmly ignored him. "Do you need a bike? I have extras for trainers to borrow, if you like."

Meanwhile, Annabell casually reached out and whacked the Emolga upside the head.
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((No sprite yet, but this part is Joey.))

Woah, it was like a Combee hive! Joey cleared his throat. "Um, Joey Matthews, and yeah, I want to join and I could use a bike. My Growlithe hasn't hatched yet, and it's gonna be a while before he evolves and gets big enough to ride, so, um, yeah, a bike would be nice."

Heal checked the harness to make sure nothing was too tight on Rasha before smiling. "My father has an arcanine, you have a big challenge ahead, Joey" He laughed softly and smiled at Shikari. "Well yeah, if Chiyo is well fed and a good weight and her hooves are well taken care of, she should be able to give rides to children. However, when it comes to actually taking long travels on horse pokemon, I do sign up to the argument that is better to use the evolution. And taking in count Chiyo's state, I would really recommend it that you wait until after she evolve. She'll probably feel more confident then, as Zebstrikas are quite large. ."

Noir leaped up and ran off onto the bike, chittering angrilly at Annabell.

Noir pressed his nose against Annabell's briefly, twitching his tail, then turning to look at the glowing egg. He tilted his head, curious.

The glow intensified, then morphed into a puppy. She yawned widely, then opened pale green eyes. There wasn't a scrap of black on her, instead faded red stripes covered her back, slipped down her brow, and gloved her paws. As far as Joey was concerned, she was perfect.

Dr. Johannes G. Faust stormed out of the bushes, eyes wild as he searched for the invisible pink unicorn responsible for the bright glow he had seen moments before. But before him was only a bunch of trainers and pokemon, not an invisible pink unicorn to be found! Not even a slightly more common invisible blue unicorn! Fiddlesticks!

But wait! There - a large gathering! Such a crowd could mean only one thing, and that was the scientific find of the millenia! The invisible pink unicorn runt! No wonder he hadn't seen it, it was too small!

He barged his way into the gathering to behold his prize - and fell flat on his face at the sight of the growlithe. Storming back up, he regarded the other humans and pokemon with a suspicious glare.

"What devilry is this? Some new hybrid invisible pink unicorn? Explain, now, inferior minds!"

Cetus quirked a brow. Was she out like a light for so long? Apparently, there was some new faces to the caravan she had not recognized. She forced herself to be sociable, though her attitude was certainly reflected in the attitude of the shiny Marowak by her knees.

"Hello, hello, I'm Claramay. Pleasure to meet everyone new~" she chimed happily. "And-" She than visibly quirked an eye to the raving idiot who had made an appearance. What was this of a neon pink Rapidash? "I, uh-"

It'd be best to remain quiet for now.

"Marowak." Thanih agreed audibly.