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As Tristen and Freth relaxed with their Pokemon, I finally hit paydirt. A berry tree. Perfect. I carried the Galarian Meowth and Torchic on over, but as I looked and started to search the branches...I realized my luck started to go south. There was hardly anything in here. Hell, barely enough for the Meowth, who needs it the worst. "...Freth and Tristen aren't going to be happy with this." I said. I sat the Galarian Meowth down, managed to parse a Rawst and a couple of Oran berries out of the tree and started to admister whatever aid I could at that point. Afterwards, I left the Meowth at the berry tree. As I was about to leave the Meowth to gain strength to move about on its own, let alone having it turn my face into a newfound scratching post with its metallic like claws, I took notice to something rather familiar. "A Sigilyph...thank you Galar region for reminding me...I'll work with Sigilyph when I get back home, thank you." I whispered, primarily to myself with all considered. Hopefully the Meowth will be alright even with that thing around...

As they continued to walk, a Pokemon Brian hadn't seen before appeared, and a quick look at his SNAG identified it as a Nickit, the pre-evolved form of Thievul, which he assumed was the kind of hybrid Robin was. While he didn't normally have a problem with Pokemon in general, this particular evolutionary line had drawn his ire, and he was quick to command Lu to attack. "Vacuum Wave!" he said, and Lu, just as irate as her trainer, immediately shot the wave of energy at the Nickit, which didn't even have a chance to respond before the energy knocked it off its paws. It managed to use Howl in preparation for an attack, but Lu wasn't having any of it. A Screech followed by a Low Kick finished it, and the Nickit was knocked out. "Well done, Lu," Brian said, patting the Riolu on her head before offering her another berry, which she promptly took and ate. Brian looked at the Nickit with a sad look on his face, regretting the force he and Lu had used, but it couldn't be helped. This was a competition, after all, so he had to knock out as many Pokemon as he could before the end of the day.

KOs: Brian/Lu: 5
Elio/Torracat: 1

After spending a bit under the shade of the tree, I checked my SNAG, looking at the clock. "Alright, get up. Let's go."

"Already?" Tristen asked, his Eevee getting jarred awake.

"We nearly spent a half hour under this thing." I said. "And unfortunately the more time we slack off under here, more KOs others are getting that we're not." I said. "We're still in a competition after all and we don't exactly have all day. Not to mention, I would imagine Sub will be expecting us back here in the near future."

"If nothing else...I do need to get up and walk around. I was starting to get a bit uncomfortable here..." She looked at Hitmonchan, nudging the fighting type. "Hitmonchan. Get up, time to go."

The Hitmonchan made a long winded yawn. "Moooonchan." It spoke up, practically complaining.

"I know, I know." She said. "Come on, we got to go." The Hitmonchan managed to stand up and stretch out, feeling a bit drained though. That wasn't anywhere near a long enough nap. Freth finally got up herself and stretched out, then dusted herself off. "So where do we go."

"Well we were still about to head off that way to see what was down over there, if anything." I said.

"Alright, lets keep going on over that way." Tristen said.

We made our way off down the plains, continuing to follow the underside of the bridge. As we done so, we took notice to a Roggenrola, another vaguely familar Pokemon that we knew from Unova if nothing else. However, it wasn't a Pokemon we wanted to bother with for the time being.

Vanta's ears perked up and he dashed back to Veronica's feet. "Eev! Eev!" Vanta pointed at the pokemon in the darkness as he took a ready stance.
"What the ******** is that?" Veronica tilted her head, knowing that many new pokemon had been brought to these kinda of safari areas that she had never seen or heard of. It looked like an angry goat on two legs. Yet it was still cute somehow. It suddenly started to cry out with a Disarming Voice that was very unpleasant. "Ugh. Hopefully we can deal with this before that noise attracts more pokemon. Use bite!" Veronica guided the untrained eevee with the attack order. Vanta followed along, feeling much more comfortable battling if he had to be outside during these dark times. If only he had better night vision, he could identify these pokemons from afar before they had a chance to strike. The enemy Indeedee kept on singing, this time with what seemed to be an Encore. Strange choice, but who knows what wild pokemon think. Although as Vanta finished off the Indeedee with two more bites, all the tunes brought the attention of another pokemon after all...

((battles: 2))

After some time, we finally started to reach the end of the field, noticing what was at the end of it. "The heck is that place?" I asked. We approached the building, taking notice to it. It was closed for the time being, perhaps because of the tournament, but we ended up finding a sign for it.

"Its a daycare." Tristen spoke up.

"A daycare all the way out here? At least every other daycare we've seen been close to a town. This is out in the middle of nowhere!" I said.

"I guess we know why there appeared all sorts of traffic, though. All those trainers, running around to and from this place with newfound Pokemon eggs." Freth said.

"Yeeaaah...I guess..." I said. "Not what I really expected out here though."

"Should we go back?" Tristen asked.

"Don't see why not." Freth said. "Nothing else seems to be here."

Tristen perked up just now, taking notice to something. It was that Pokemon again. "Blizz, Freth! Look!" The two of us turned to look at what Tristen was trying to bring attention to...but there was nothing.

"Uh...what?" I asked.

"Huh?" Tristen looked back, only for the thing he saw...was gone yet again. "AAA! Hey where'd you go!?" Tristen said, rushing out and starting to check a nearby grass patch. "Come on! Not again!" Tristen said.

"...what was it?"

"It was that kind of Pokemon again! Geez, how fast are those things!?" Tristen said.

"...um..." Freth started to stare at Tristen in confusion, perhaps moreso out of concern.

"I'm serious!" Tristen said. "It was just here! Why does it run like that!?"

Trying to reach a different area, they walked up to the river. "Water pokemon around here. Maybe there will be something interesting?" Veronica crossed her arms to think and the moments passed in silence. Then a small critter started to stroll by in a sideways walk crawl. The appearance of the Krabby was truly underwhelming. "I was really... really hoping for something more exciting." Vanta seemed just as irritated as Veronica was. Although that may just say more about how eevees pick up on their trainer's actions and feelings. The Krabby clamped twice with its hands before looking at them. Vanta's tail started to glow and twitch. The nonexistent reflection on the water was then visible with the light from Vanta's tail. After his attack, the Krabby realized they were not friendly folk and shot out a water gun at Veronica, ignoring Vanta completely. "Whaaa?!" Veronica was genuinely surprised. Aside from being hurt by the impact of the gush of water, she was completely drenched in the middle of the cold night. Vanta took the opportunity to Bite the Krabby and then Quick Attack to finish it off. "Ok, we need to hurry on. Let's start going back cause I won't do well in this..." Veronica tried to squish out the water from her clothes. She had already started shivering and sneezing.

((battles:4))

Odd would find himself assailed not by another Indeedee but, rather, a Togedemaru. "Toge!"

"You look like someone tried to plug a Pikachu into a Magnemite and it failed horribly." He told the little metal hedgehog. It seemed to be a critical hit to the emotions as the tiny thunderball began to wail, large tears falling from it's eyes as it did.

"Jeez... I'm sorry? I didn't mean to hurt your feelings." Odd responded, genuinely apologetic for the moment. Togedemaru's watery eyes paused for a moment and it walked closer to him, as if it wanted to be pet. "I suppose even someone like you just wants to be loved and accepted, huh? I can understand that." The Channeler told the Roly-Poly Pokemon as he reached out to give it a soft pet atop it's head. Togedemaru nuzzled into Odd's paalm and, as rubbed. it's cheeks began to spark a bit.

Remix jumped to action at the sight and quickly knocked Odd's hand away as Togedemaru's Nuzzling turned into electrocuting, barely saving the human from being paralyzed by his careless show of empathy. The young man would grunt as he was knocked off balance but quickly recovered, just in time to witness an unexpected maneuver from Remix. With it's Fire-type, he hadn't expected the Alolan Marowak to use Ice Beam but from the center of it's spinning bone it came nonetheless, striking Togedemaru square in the belly.

"Follow up! Fire Blast!" Odd called to his partner, though he would find it stopped in it's tracks as a green shield of energy appeared between Togedemaru and Remix. The Shield would block out the flames as the flower of fire erupted from Remix's mouth, snuffing it out almost as fast as it was conjured, projecting needles outward from itself as it did.

"Spiky Shield... Great. We need to be careful not to hit it with physical attacks too much. " He warned Remix before the pair took a moment to put some space between them and the spike ball mouse. "I have an idea! Use Ice Beam again!" He'd direct, pointing at the mouse's tail. "Try to freeze it's tail in place."

Remix nodded and, through some creative acrobatics while dodging a Fell Stinger followed by a Pin Missile, he would find his moment to strike. Blasting the frigid beam of cold energy into the air, Remix would strike the mouse's tail as it was distracted. A solid block of ice would form rather quickly, causing the Steel-type to fall over due to the biologically odd placement of it's tail, leaving it open to another attack. "Now! Bonemarang!" The flaming bone in Remix's hands would be hurled toward Togedemaru with a violent spin to it. The rodent would throw up a Spiky Shield to defend itself but the angle of the projectile made it difficult to properly block. Instead, the bone only bounced off but it's angle meant it returned right back to the rodent on it's return pass.

"Toge toge!" The mouse exclaimed as it attempted to conjure another shield. Unfortunately for it, the energy popped and fizzled out, unable to be summoned again so soon after the last shield and the Bonemarang crashed directly into it, knocking it out cold in one hit.

Odd grumbled slightly as Remix fetched his weapon and the duo began to search around once more. "I hope they'll let us find some Roto-drones and recover more of our Pokemon, even if we can't use them during this..." He said to himself.