[X] My Assistant

[Toogee]

Discussion Thread

“Darius Dovakin, the rising trainer of dragons, has finally exited the woods of Furoh to take on the fields of Loch Ranch. A mysterious voice (yours truly) has taken residence in his mind, demanding that he solves a riddle: go to the darkest corner behind a lock that needs no key. Not even the wood fence surrounding the ranch would stop the dragon trainer from finding this fiend. One could only imagine the strong words he had in store for this mysterious telepath, er, I mean me.”

“Hey, I’m the only one who can hear you! You don’t have to keep repeating why I’m here over and over again! I get it!”

“Darius gazed in frustration over the foothills of Mt. Carello that made up the ranch. Green fields stretched for miles. A herd of stantler galloped over these hills, playing about in the morning sun. A flock of tailow flew overhead, searching for the ranchers that would spread out the feed. Amon all the scenery, Darius had an epiphany.”

“Wait…if you’re describing all this stuff and it’s happening now, that means you’re here! Show yourself!”

“Darius turned all around to find any pokemon that were watching him. What he found caused him to jump back. The blank pink eyes of an espurr looked right up to him. Darius had never encountered such a pokemon; it looked like something out of a horror movie. Clearly, he was scared.”

“I’m not scared! It caught me offguard, whatever it is.”

“Scared out of his mind.”

“SHUT UP!”

“Mighty Dovakin cowers to a little kitty cat. Perhaps he will cry.”

“ARRR THIS IS YOU!”

“Esp!”

“Darius drew his sword and pointed it to the espurr, convinced that the voice in his head was coming from the pokemon. Naturally, the espurr turned tail and fled, not wanting to find out what Darius was going to do with his sword. The dragon trainer gave chase, determined to finally end this madness…”

“Get out of my head, you scary- I mean, scaredy cat!”
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Nessie was running across the field and up the steps of the Loch residence. She found her grandpa reading the paper, while her grandma was cooking a big breakfast for the staff. The girl entered the dining room, taking a moment to catch her breath.

“Gramps! Granny! There’s a man chasing our pokemon!”

“Ah, another rambunctious trainer trying to prove his might,” John Loch replied, barely looking up from the paper. “Grab your pokemon and sort him out. Get Molly to back you up.”

“But this guy has a sword and he keeps yelling at…nothing.”

John put down his paper; this certainly didn’t happen every day. He rubbed his mustache to ponder the situation.

“Should I call the police?” Nessie asked.

“That shouldn’t be necessary right now. Besides, Scott’s way closer. His number should be on my desk. See if he’s around.”

“And ask how he likes his eggs,” Virginia added.

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"Scarlet needs to hurry up and evolve into an Espeon, that way she'll be able to teleport us all the way to and from Loch Ranch without ever having to run there again!" Amber said as she and Scott ran.

"Sounds like a great idea, but I don't know if Scarlet will even be able to teleport herself, much less teleport one or both of us!"

"Well, evolve her already and find out!"

"She will evolve when she's ready! It's not like Ruby where I can evolve her whenever I please!"

There was a brief pause, followed by "Well, at least it isn't really hot or really cold today."

Their good-natured, if somewhat random, conversation continued as they ran past a guy with spiky orange hair.

"I wonder if Ruby's already attacked that guy? I hope she's okay," Amber said.

"I'm sure she's fine. No amateur with a sword is going to be able to hit her. Maybe she even scared him off with her willingness to attack or something."
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Ruby was confused for a moment. Confused enough that her mind briefly drew a blank card and her train of thought crashed.

She wasn't surprised that the sword-guy was going to use a Pokemon to attack her while he was trapped inside Fire Spin. However, the choice of Charmander was rather weird, and now it was trying to use a fire attack to stop her. Had this guy never encountered a Vulpix before or something?

It was only a moment before the blue flames impacted her that she realized they weren't part of a Fire-type attack, but rather a Dragon-type attack. By this time it was far too late to evade the flames, so she simply stood there and took the damage from them silently. Luckily, her vest was fire-resistant, not that lighting it on fire would have actually hurt her.

It took her a moment to sort through her senses and figure out what had actually happened, and to attempt a counterattack.

She looked disinterestedly at the Charmander, and her tails began to grow a bright purple color before all six of them shot off a small orb of purple energy. Each orb went flying towards the Charmander, but instead of hitting him they began to circle him at faster and faster speeds before detonating in a bright flash of light.

Confuse Ray.

And to back it up, she quickly made a follow-up attack with her other "psychic-like" move Disable, which had her tails and her eyes glowing a different, darker shade of purple before she attacked with an invisible wave of energy to disrupt and confuse the Charmander even further.

Of course, she had no idea if the Confuse Ray had actually worked, as it was a new move of hers as well. However, Disable was a trusty move and she was sure it had taken effect. Throughout both attacks, she still did not move from her initial location.

All that was left to see was how the sword-guy and his Charmander were going to react. She readied herself to run in case the Trainer came after her with his sword now that the Fire Spin tornado had dissipated.