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 Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:43 pm
Shamus, with Larvitar in hand, tries to slowly bring him towards the water. They were much closer, but then Larvitar seemed to worry again. When he felt Larvitar hesitate, he let go. Walking up to the water on his own, sticks one foot in the most shallow part. Then he beckons Larvitar to follow him.
"Charmander, Char, char."
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:07 am
Still, Larvitar hesitates. "Larrrr..." With immense caution, he inches closer to the water. He glances down, looking at his reflection in the clamly rippling water. He sighs, taking a single step forward. As hit foot hits the water, he nearly loses his balance, but quickly regains his footing, hands out to his sides and his eyes bulging wide with shock.
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:44 pm
Shamus smiled, "Char!" and leaves it at that. He steps out of the water and stands on dry land, proud of Larvitar's efforts. Shamus then helps Larvitar back to the land without slipping.
Magikarp, watching the two of them, decided to try and help to be part of the group. He swam over behind Larvitar and stayed close in case anything bad happened. Watching Larvitar and Shamus walk off and not really notice him, he heads back to Dawn.
Dawn pets him, full of thought.
"Hmm, I wonder if I should keep you as Magikarp? or give you a nickname?? I kind of like calling you Magikarp."
"Kaarrrrpp"
"Yeah, I think I'll just keep it at that. We both like it right?" She smiled.
"Kaarrrp, magikarrrrrrrrp."
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:15 pm
Toby can't help but smack his forehead and groan a bit at the lameness of the joke. "Ya... that was lame." He then watches in silence as the two pokemon experiment with the water, chuckling slightly as Lavitar retreats from the water.
"Alright, I think that's enough time by the pond. Don't think I need another water pokemon since I've got Shellshock." Looking out at the squirtle now belly up on the water slowly swimming across the pond surface he calls out. "Isn't that right buddy?" "Squir!" Responds Shellshock, holding his hand straight up to give his trainer a thumbs up. "Haha, come on buddy tiiime to get out." With a slightly sigh the squirtle rolls over onto his stomach before disappearing under the water. Seeing this Toby sighs, walking closer to the edge of the water. "Come on Shellshock, don't make me repeat my-" Before he can finish his sentence Shellshock comes bursting out of the water, soaring right for Toby. Out of instinct Toby catches his pokemon in a hug like fashion before noticing the stream of water following his pokemon. The combination of the spray and the soaked pokemon instantly soaks Toby shirt. Looking down he glares at Shellshock as he beams up at his trainer. "I'm going to get you for that one...." An evil look crosses Toby's face causing Shellshock's face to become a little worried. A split second later Toby grabs Shellshock's tail and begins tickling it, the squirtle writhing around in Toby's arms as he laughs.
After about a half a minute Shellshock finally frees himself and scampers up Toby's arm and into the safety of his harness, pulling his head and limbs into his shell. Laughing Toby motions to the others. "Come on, lets get going. I'm with Harvey, I'm tired of sleeping in tents. Lets make it to Pewter so we can get a roof over our heads tonight."
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:13 am
"Yeah, I think I'm good for pokemon myself. Larvitar, let's get going. " As he calls over, the little pokemon smiles at Shamus, then hurries off to Harvey's side. "You did good, buddy. Real progress. Hey Dawn, c'mon! Let's go! We're losing daylight." He chuckles, picking up his pack and heading for the path.
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:15 pm
"Alright, coming! Magikarp return!"
Shrinking the Pokeball and applying it to her waist, Dawn heads after the others. "Come on Shamus!"
They catch up and slow their pace.
As they walk away from the pond and back into the thick forest, Dawn takes in the fading scent of moist ground, and breathes in the fresh smell of leaves and bark.
"I still can't get over how nice it is today! It's not like this Everyday!! ...wish it was though.. eh Shamus?"
"Char." he said with his eyes fairly serious, remembering a storm from a few nights ago.
Dawn continued to look around eagerly.
"I wonder what else we'll run into.."
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:43 pm
The trio spend the next few hours traveling through the forest joking amongst themselves. From time to time they'd spot a wild pokemon and battle it, however most of these either get away or are battled just to help their pokemon practice. As the sun sets they finally emerge from the forest onto the fields around Pewter. Looking around Toby looks at Shellshock before turning to the others. "Hey guys, why don't you check into the hotel, Shellshock and I will catch up with you later."
Once they're out of sight Toby reaches into his pocket and pulls out a small pad of paper. Opening it up he flips to a list of names, pokemon he had painstakingly selected to be his team. Running his finger down the list he stops beside one of the names. "Here we are Shellshock, sandshrew. 'Known to occasionally burrow in the plains of Pewter City in the early months of summer...' Lets go find one." The squirtle on his back smiles at the notion of the challenge. "Squirtle! Squir squir squirtle squir squirrrrtle squir." While he responds Shellshock makes intricate movements with his hands. "Good idea Shellshock. You should get down though, we might not have much time."
As the pokemon drops to the ground Toby reaches back and grabs his only filled pokeball. Winding up he pitches the pokeball into the air. "Come on out, Jetstream!" As the pidget materializes and circles down Toby catches the pokeball and puts it back. "Jet! Fly up high and look for a sandshrew. If you see one start circling and we'll come to you." "Piiidgey." With that Jet takes off, both Toby and Shellshock's eyes staying fixed on him.
In a few minutes Jet begins a slow looping circle. Toby begins to beam as the light begins to fade. "Alright! Lets go Shellshock!" The duo sprint towards the circling pidgey, slowing down as when they spot a small yellow hunch in the grass. Waving Jet down Toby motions for the pokemon to land on his shoulder before turning to Shellshock. "Okay buddy, we may only get one chance at this, so lets make it count. If the sandshrew gets into his burrow we might not be able to get him out. Lets lead off with a tackle." Shellshock nods before charging off towards the sandshew. "Squirtle!" Leaping into the air Shellshock smashes his shell into the sandshrew before it has time to move. The two pokemon seem to bounce off each other, both landing on their feet with the sandshrew looking only slightly phased. "Oh crud. That's not very effective now is it..." The sandshrew charges Shellshock winding up and scratching Shellshock several times. "Shellshock, retreat! Get out of range!" Leaping back the squirtle takes a moment to settle himself. "Close range isn't a good idea... Wait till he charges again and use water gun at point blank range!" Sure enough the sandshrew rushes forward again, brandishing his claws. "Wait for iiiit, waaaait for iiiit... Now Shellshock! Use water gun!" The sandshrew is only a few strides away when Toby's squirtle releases the jet of water, hitting the sandshrew square in the stomich. The pressure is enough to actually carry the sandshrew off its feet for a spit second. However when it lands it gets right back up though looking visibly weakened. "Great job Shellshock, lets try it again! Use tailwhip to taunt him." Turning around Shellshock starts shaking his tail, causing the sandshrew to rush forward again. Just as before the squirtle is ready and waiting with a water gun, blasting his opponent back.
"Great now charge Shellshock! Lets finish this thing off!" "Squirte!" Charging forward at the recovering sandshrew Shellshock isn't able to stop before sandshrew sends a cloud of sand into the squirtle's eyes. "No Shellshock! Are you ok?" While Shellshock cleans the sand out of his eyes the sandshrew retreats into a nearby hole. Seeing this Toby calls out to his pokemon. "Shellshock we need to hurry! After him, fire a water gun down the hole!" Rushing over the squirtle inhales deeply, unleashing a full power water gun into the hole. A few moments later the sandshrew comes flying out of another hole propelled by a jet of water. Ready and waiting with an empty pokeball Toby winds up. "This is it, pokeball go!" The pokeball hits the sandshrew square on the head before sucking it in.
A few minutes later Toby walks into the hotel to find Harvey and Dawn in the hotel restaurant. Sitting down at their table he looks around at them, beaming.
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:15 pm
"Looks like the boss has some pretty interesting ideas up his sleeve" Carmen snickers at the thought. She and her Pokémon are sitting under a tree just outside the border of Pewter City. "He seems to be pretty confident in our capability to complete his tasks. Thank goodness we succeeded in our last mission eh Ninetales?" She leans down and gives her Pokémon a pat on the head, and her Ninetales coos at the touch.
Suddenly Carmen’s communicator buzzes. “Hello?... Oh!” a deep voice starts talking on the other end and Carmen’s expression becomes serious. “Yes boss... certainly. They will be our next targets.... I’m on my way." Click.
“Looks like we’re heading into Pewter, eh Ninetales.” She stroked her friend’s back as Ninetales’ head rested on her lap. “We’d better be going girl. The target is already in the city” Carmen motioned towards the road. “We’ve had a good rest, and we have to be ready to intercept the target.” Her face became hard as she stood up, concentrating on her newly formed plan.
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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:25 am
Harvey, apparently in the middle of a heated debate concerning the ethics involved in technology research, looks up as Toby walks in. He waves him down, telling him to pull up a seat as he slides a menu across the table. "Hey dude, we just ordered. Get anything you like. My treat." He beams back, reflecting Toby's own demeanor. "How'd it go? Good, I'll bet, given that gigantic smile." He laughs, flagging down a waitress. "One more to order, ma'am. Oh, and can we get some bread sticks or something? I'm starved. Thanks!" He grins at the woman, who smiles back writing down the request and heading into the kitchen.
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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:52 am
Toby looks at Harvey with an even bigger smile as he mentions that the food is on him. "Aw man this night just keeps getting better and better!" "Squirtle squir!" Comes a similar response from Shellshock as he leaps down from Toby's back. Scampering over to where the other two trainers pokemon sit he begins explaining his battle with the sandshrew in excited tones. Meanwhile Toby sits down at the table and opens the menu, quickly scanning it before placing his order with the waitress. "Hamburger and French fries please, I'm starving."
Once the server leaves Toby leans forward a bit so he can grab two pokeballs off his belt. Expanding one in each hand he places them both in the middle of the table. Each pokeball makes the distinct thud of a filled ball. Without saying a word he leans back in his chair and smiles at the others, still a little to excited for words yet.
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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:46 pm
Carmen sneaks around the corner, a black trench coat on to conceal her uniform. She has been following the coordinates on her communicator, and ends up at a restaurant in the city.
"well this is a cute little place." She walks in the back entrance of the restaurant, her Ninetales in tow. They walk into the staff room, making eye contact with the other staff and acting very friendly. 'Hi there, I'm new here. Where is the staff room?" A kind teenage girl points her in the right direction, smiling and welcoming her to the kitchen, though eying Ninetales suspiciously.
Carmen dashes into the staff room. Nobody was there thankfully, so she changes her clothes. She diggs around in the supply closet and finds a spare uniform, ties her hair up in a ponytail, and puts on dress pants, shirt and apron. "Ninetails, I'm sorry, but you'll have to go into your pokeball for now." Ninetales looks unhappy, but Carmen detaches her pokeball from her belt and zaps Nintales into the ball.
She makes her way through the restaurant, and gets stopped by another waitress. "Hey, would you mind bringing this burger and bread to table 5? Its the one over there." she points to a table of three friends and their pokemon.
Carmen's eyes light up and she nods happily. "Of course!"
She walks up to the table, looks at the pokemon carefully, and flicks her hair out of her face as she turns to talk to the patrons. "So who ordered the burger and fries?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:41 pm
Dawn smiled as Toby headed over to the table. It was a relief to stop the conversation about technology with Harvey, although she did enjoy hearing his opinions. When Shellshock jumped down, she watched him run over and talk excitedly to the other Pokemon. It was clear they had had some fun. She was staring at him and noticed there was dirt on his feet... which likely ment they had left the city. She thought it was really strange... until she heard the unmistakable sound of filled pokeballs, and looked as Toby placed two full pokeballs on the table.
"Where were You two?" She said with a big smile.
She looked to her side as a waitress brought the meals for Harvey and herself. She thanks the waitress who walks off to get Toby's order.
"Looks like you guys had an interesting adventure... Harvey and I did too. You should really check the city out! By the way I contacted the professor... he's impressed by our catches but he thinks I need to direct my attention back to a bit more of the research side of Pokemon."
She thinks about it for a sec and then laughs lightly.
"Maybe after my next catch... I'm heading out tomorrow morning to see what I can get. And I need to train for the Gym!"
Her eyes fall on the pokeballs again. "So what did you catch!!?!?"
Before he can answer, a different waitress steps in and interrupts them.
Dawn is always annoyed when waitress switch their duties up... it makes it difficult to tip, because they never did all of the work in the first place.
And this Chick doesn't even know who ordered what. She thought bitterly. At least she got the table right...get your eyes off of my Pokemon...
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:53 pm
Toby is about to answer Dawn when a waitress walks up with his order. Putting his hand up he catches her attention. "Right, here. Man I'm starving." His excitement over catching his second pokemon and the rumblings of his empty stomach cause him to ignore the glances the waitress gives his pokemon. Toby instead dives into his food, devouring half his burger in an astonishingly short amount of time. Taking a sip of water he covers up a burp before turning back to Dawn. "I think I'm going to keep it a secret until you see me battle next." Giving her a defiant smile he continues eating. "So what'd the prof have to say about me Dawn?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:02 pm
Dawn shrugs at Toby's idea of waiting to release his Pokemon. "If you say so... " She takes her fork and curls up another mouthful of her seafood spaghetti. "Mmm... so.." She holds up her index finger as she chews and swallows. "The professor thinks that you have a habit of being too ambitious in your battling. I was told to recommend that you take the time to practice really well before your Gym battle."
She curls up a nice big fork full of spaghetti and takes another bite.
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Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:38 am
Carmen walks away from the table, again looking at the Squirtle. “So that’s the Pokémon that Boss wants me to get... Why is it so important?” she says quietly. She moves into the kitchen and picks up some food suitable for a Squirtle, scooping up a handful and stuffing it into her apron.
She dashes around a corner from the kitchen so the threesome are in her sight. They are clearly immersed in a conversation, paying little attention to their Pokémon who were sitting close by. When Carmen looks at the Squirtle, it is busy socializing with the Charmander and Larvitar, so she takes this time to crawl under a nearby table.
“God, I feel ridiculous. The Boss better be happy.” She grumbled, removing some food from her pocket and tossing a piece towards the Pokémon. It hits the Squirtle in the foot, and it looks up. She tosses another piece, this time closer to her. HA, that twerp is so busy stuffing his face, he can’t see what’s happening to his Pokémon. Carmen thinks, now smiling.
The Squirtle inched towards her, following the food that is thrown to him. “squirrrr!!” it says excitedly.
“That’s right, come on.... come on..... Almost there...” coaxed Carmen . The Pokémon was now within her reach. She extends her hand out from under the table, and she hears the squirtle’s confused call.
She then lunges at the Pokémon, and it yelps in surprise.
Carmen then sees Toby turn around to find his Pokémon, only to realize that it was not sitting with the other Pokémon. Carmen, covers the Squirtle’s mouth with her hand, so his calls does not give away her location. The Squirtle bites her hand in defence, and Carmen yells in pain. She tries to get up, but hits her head on the table above her.
She emerges from under the cover of the tablecloth, and looks over at the three trainers. Regaining her grip on the Squirtle.
“HAHAHAHAHA!!! Your Squirtle is MINE now”
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