greatheron
As you shout your orders to Nidoran, she blinks hard and manages to understand what you say. Nodding sleepily, she turns back to her opponent, trying to ignore the pretty-pretty lights.
Closing her eyes, Nidoran attempts to calm down and focus. Lights still dance through her eyelids, but Nidoran manages to prevent their influence for a moment.
Unluckily, the Ralts has an idea. As soon as your Pokémon shuts her eyes, he bends down and sneaks over into the shade of an awning, sneaking through the shadows. Ralts has soon made his way to behind Nidoran, his right fist glowing with a translucent glowing energy. Rapping his knuckles hard against your Nidoran's back, Ralts leaps back before she can realize what has happened.
The attack has managed to crumble your Pokémon's already fragile concentration, and as she whirls around to find the source of the attack, her eyes catch the sparkling, golden, pretty-pretty lights.
Transfixed, she stares at the dazzling lightshow, wobbling from side to side. But somehow, Nidoran musters up the will to remember your command. Tearing her gaze from the beautiful orbs of light, your Pokémon opens her mouth and lets out a higher-than-humanly-possible screech. It barely registers in your range of hearing, but the Ralts can clearly comprehend the noise. Sticking his skinny arms under his helmet, presumably to cover up whatever orafice a Ralts uses to hear, your opponent, wobbling a bit, nevertheless sends out a wave of psychic energy, which forms a glowing, insane-looking face, which leers at your Pokémon, who squeals and immediately stops her attack.
The Supersonic appears to have hit its mark, however, as both Nidoran and her enemy stumble around quite drunkedly, the Ralts notably less so.
Grass Emperor
Joshua sighs quietly, tapping his foot in almost comical impatience. You, on the other hand, grab one of your Pokéballs and press the button, releasing your wooly Electric-type. With a bleat and a nibble on some grass, Coulomb turns to you for orders. As you point to the puffy cloud-bird and give your commands, he turns to the Swablu and bleats again.
Shutting his eyes tight, not seeing the curious Swablu stare at him, Coulomb summons the electricity inherently stored in his wooly body, bringing it to the surface for his upcoming attack.
Crackling with static energy, your Mareep opens his eyes to see his oblivious opponent twittering at a dandelion. Smiling a bit, Coulomb lets loose a volley of blue lightning, which combines with the stored electricity from before. Together, this forms a painfully powerful attack that heads straight towards the Swablu.
The attack reaches the bird, knocking it into the air. As it lands, unable to stop its fall, the Swablu twitters weakly for a moment but quickly jumps back up.
Much to the surprise of Coulomb, the little bird isn't scowling good-naturedly, but positively bursting with rage and pain. Screaming a high-pitched but threatening warble, the Swablu charges at the larger Mareep and pecks his face and legs with a rock-hard beak.
As the enraged bird continues to strike Coulomb, he turns to you with a begging look on his face, waiting for orders.
Itachigamakusari
As you pull out a Pokéball and enlarge it to around the size of an apple, you glance at Tankard, curled up at your feet. Pressing the button on the center of the orb, you watch as the dozing Pokémon is sucked back into the safety of his ball.
Compressing the Pokéball and placing it back on your belt, you check to make sure you have all of your things and set of south, towards ASB Central.
As you pull your way through thorned bushes and low-hanging branches, you glance around you, keeping alert for any Pokémon that might give you trouble. A Paras scuttles by, but it doesn't seem to even notice you, much less challenge you.
You soon make it to the edge of the forest, and, batting away a cluster of leaves, step out into the relative flatness of the surrounding area. You find a dirt path and head towards the line of large buildings to the south.
As you walk, the trees become smaller and more sparse, and the road turns from dirt to gravel to asphalt. Before you know it, you've reached ASB Central. Quickly recognizing the way to the Pokémon Center, you walk for a few minutes, careful not to walk into the occasional fellow citygoer. You soon reach the Pokémon Center and walk through the automatic glass doors.
As always, the room is stunningly pink, but you can still make out that the bored-looking Nurse Joy at the counter is becoming increasingly excited as you approach her desk. As you lift Tankard's Pokéball and attempt to say what is needed, she reaches out and snatches the pokéball, placing it in the healing machine before you can understand what happened. When the usual cheery tune rings out from the machine, the nurse dances a little.
She looks at you sheepishly and says, "Sorry, I don't get to hear that song much..." She hands you Tankard.
Tankard has been fully healed.
