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[h3][color=f7941d]~Avery Grant~[/color][/h3]

[color=f49ac2]“Anyway, yeah, I’m Melody! Great to meet you guys. What about you two? What’re your names?”[/color]

[color=39b54a]"M-my name is Peggy. I-it's nice to m-meet you too. Your, err...Your hair is, err, really pretty. It's a nice, err, colour." [/color]

Avery had bent down and picked up Phanpy, pulling the little guy up to about chest level, cradling him. The mini-dude offered no resistance, thankfully. He weighed a ton. Not that Avery knew what a ton felt like, but Phanpy was probably close to it. At least heavier than it looked. Not bad, though. Phanpy wore his weight well.

[color=f7941d]“I’m Avery.”[/color] The real Avery. 

[color=f7941d]“Nice to meetcha.”[/color] It was.

Then Melody flipped over the fluffball, deeming it Tesla. Poor Tesla. Avery wouldn’t like just being flipped like that. Phanpy might though. Maybe he would give it a go? But...If he dropped him, Phanpy MIGHT be a little bit miffed. That wouldn’t be cool, either. No flipping Phanpy, not until you lose some weight.

Peggy muttered something. Something...about names? She was looking down at her Pokemon. Ahh, it needed a name, eh? What does one call a singing water dog? Well, Avery wouldn’t have to think on it. Peggy would do that. Probably. Peggy looked like the kind of person that would come up with names. He’d just have to remember it’s name. That was MUCH easier than coming up with a name.

Speaking of which.

Avery looked down at Phanpy. Dude was still looking up at him with sleepy eyes. Avery could empathize. He could go for another nap right about now. What about the little guy. Avery mentally frowned, looking deep into Phanpy’s eyes.

What was his name?

…

Well that was easy enough.

He would be Blue.

Blue slapped his arm with that trunk, but didn’t remove it. It was nap time, as far as he was concerned. Avery understood. He shifted Blue to one arm, and with his free hand, tapped the Sleeping Phanpy with the Pokeball. They could have bonding time later. Now? Now was a siesta. 

Someone flew into the room yelling. Avery had to give the person points for the energy. It was...well...He was about Avery’s height, but he looked pretty young. He stopped though. Running, that is. And yelling. Instead he strolled over to pick up a pokeball and asked Elm if he could have it. Avery then noticed the guy with an awesome hat talking to the small-fry who was feeding something to a little brown Poochyena. Huh. A lot of things looked like Poochyena if one held their head just right. Even Blue might look kind of like one if he squinted a bit.

Then everything happened.

Eager-beaver’s Nidoran had crossed the room and lunged at Tesla’s coil. But...but Water-doge ALSO lept in. Avery didn’t really have time to react. He just stood there and watched the madness unfold in front of him, stunned.[/centre]