[Bonnie] "Y-yeah... bookcases..." I echo Eralion, still wondering just how long it would be before my father tires of eating Tini and runs after us, again. I then, to my surprise, notice someone call me from my badge. I never used that feature before, so it was completely alien to me, that is, until I pressed a button on it, and heard Tini ask "Bonnie, hello Bonnie? Are you there?" my first thought after that was [i]He's alive! Somehow, Tini's still alive![/i] I then answer with "Yeah, I'm here," followed with "First of all, how are you doing this, and second, why are you doing this?" I then eagerly await his response, almost forgetting for a second where I was, and who I was facing off with. I get tired of waiting, and say "So... Eralion and I were planning to do something with these bookcases, um, maybe you could lure my father down here, and I could try to have the bookcases land on him?" I then add "After trapping him, we could hide in the attic, he probably won't look there, you know, unless he's hearing this," with Tini alive, and apparently being chased by my father, still, we somehow had a chance to escape... maybe we could even get out of range, or something, and the badge could let us get away without losing anything, that would be nice. My thought was interrupted by a trio of pokemon busting out of the floor in front of me, and through the wall, as if they were launched with significant force. "What the HECK was that!?" I then shout to Eralion and, I guess, Tini. [hr] [William] The gallade was standing there, slightly weakened from his own attack, and normally, I'd launch one of my own, however, I knew how strong he was, even if his defenses were lowered, he'd still shrug off an attack from me. I did the only other thing I could think of doing, I ate another quick seed from the bag, and floated off as quickly as I could, searching for a bidoof in this place, while still trying to keep my distance from that gallade. The pokemon in this area were trapped in something resembling jail cells, and I checked every single one for a possibly beaten up and crying biddof. The first one had a beat up charizard, the one next to that had a rhydon who, for some reason was in a wedding dress, next to that one was an aggron who almost looked dead, and after that was a dragonite, who looked as if he hadn't eaten in weeks, and looked as though he was recently beaten up, as well. Oddly, there were a few coins sitting in the drops of blood on the floor. [i]What could this mean?[/i] I ask myself as I continue to look for the bidoof, as well as some way of releasing all of these captives, some of whom pleaded for mercy when I floated past them for some reason. The gallade was still keeping up with me, even with the quick seed, but thankfully, he wasn't able to hit me with any of his attacks, at least, I don't think he was. I kept floating away, passing a few empty cells, and finally, I find the bidoof, who was beat up, tied up, and barely alive, but, it was him. I pass through the iron bars of the jail cell, and use my badge to teleport the bidoof to safety, though, for some reason, I couldn't leave just yet. [hr] [Chip] Rebecca and the others started yelling about another pokemon trying to steal the papers, but, I wasn't worried about that, I was going to get them first, and [s]eat them all![/s] finish the mission, even if I have to beat some other pokemon up, first. Rebecca started making some strange noises, which I assumed was a part of this 'music' thing that we were talking about back at the guild, and was apparently not a building. I follow my senses to something thin... possibly tasty... and with a big stamp on it. It had to have been a paper of some sort, and probably one of the ones we were looking for. I picked it up with my mouth, and carried it back to Rebecca, saying "Chip find a paper... too bad Chip isn't hungry right now," I then hand her the paper because she probably wouldn't trust me with one after seeing it in my mouth. I then scuttle off in search of more paper, though, I couldn't find any more unfortunately. I hear someone talking in a weird way, but I couldn't understand what he was trying to say. Whatever he was saying, he sounded sad... or maybe worried... or maybe something else. [hr] [Nina] Some other pokemon thought it would be funny to try to steal these papers, and Rebecca says something about us stealing the show, not the other way around. "Yeah! Let's get them, Rebecca!" I shout as I try to run after the mystery pokemon who was trying to steal the papers from us. I was mostly just following Levita at this point because I had no idea where this pokemon might have run off to. Chip came by with a paper in his mouth, which he instantly just gives to Rebecca before wandering off again, possibly in search of more of them. Chip also commented on how he wasn't hungry, and how that was supposedly a [b]bad[/b] thing. I chuckled at the thought of paper being someone's preferred food, but I made sure Chip was out of earshot before I did so. I then noticed some clouds forming, and, oddly enough, some rain started to fall. [i]I wonder... will this make Chip retreat, or something? I mean, he is a ground type... maybe he'll hide underground for a while. Great, we're going to have to go digging to find him when we're done with this, aren't we?[/i] I think as I notice more and more rain until it's... well, just about average, maybe below average if you're used to the rain. Thankfully, I wasn't too effected by it, but, then again, I wasn't a fire or ground type, at least, not yet. [hr] [Spruce] Kamina asked M if he wanted to join in his hat-wearing shenanigans, and M was very opposed to the idea. I decided against saying something, that is, until a few new, and almost random pokemon appeared, one of whom was an Ekans who seemed almost obsessed with Kamina, another one, a hitmonlee, seemed equally obsessed, however, his obsession was more of fighting him rather than getting to know him. The third was a chikorita who I didn't even notice until he shouted at us, and asked what was going on. "Um... let's see... how do I best explain this...?" I start to ramble until the ekans asks something completely out of the blue with "Why is that one in a bucket?" I then answer with "That's an easy one, he's in the bucket because he's an ocean pokemon, and unlike Kamina, over here..." I then gesture towards Kamina, and then continue with "he has no real way to move on land other than, well, this way," M then says something about us not wanting to fight, and greeting by fighting was something a 'pokemon trainer' did, whatever that was. I then ask M "What's a pokemon trainer?" as he sure seemed to know something I didn't. Maybe they were pokemon who were specialized to teach, or train other pokemon? Would that make pokemon who were capable of teaching other pokemon moves pokemon trainers? I then remembered that I never answered that chikorita's question, and finally decide to answer that "We're two different teams cooperating on some sort of exploration, apparently Anthony got some sort of psychic message, or whatever that told him to come this way," I then whisper to him "I think he might be a little, well... crazy, but whatever," I then start to notice some clouds, and some rain. It wasn't much, just a few drops here and there, but it certainly was rain. [hr] [Anthony] Things started to go much faster with Kamina just sort of wearing me as a hat, something which he seemed more than happy to do. The whole thing stopped, however, when three strange pokemon approached us. An ekans, a hitmonlee, and a chikorita, all of whom were curious about our not-so-little group. The ekans asked why Josh was in a bucket, and I was about to answer when Spruce just blurted it out for me, instead. The chikorita asked what, exactly was going on, and I laughed as Spruce stuttered and 'Um'ed his way through the question, eventually just forgetting about it. "Come on, Spruce, it's not that complicated, but, then again, you ARE the guy who gets his north and south mixed up," Spruce glared at me for a moment, and then whispered to the chikorita, which I had to assume was something about me. [i]Does he think I'm crazy, or something? If he thinks I'm crazy, then why is he following us?[/i] I ask myself as he chuckles to himself about something that I didn't hear. And then, rain, glorious, wonderful rain... sure, it was only a few drops, but I was starting to feel a little dehydrated with it being sunny all the time, and me being sort of, well, liquid-based. For a while, I thought I was going to start evaporating if this didn't happen. That magnemite that decided to follow us seemed a little annoyed by something, maybe he was annoyed by the rain, but maybe he was annoyed by me... why? What have I done to him?