"98...99...Dammit, I still don't have the last one!"
"What?"
"Totem Stickers. I need the last one for a giant Ribombee."
"Just give up. That's what I did."
"But I really want the Ribombee!"
"Fine. Where do you suppose it could be?"
"Haina Desert?"
"Haina Desert?! That place is a death trap! Why would they hide one in there?!"
"Why are we talking about dessert? Is there dessert? I want dessert!"
"Where'd you come from?"
"Can I have dessert?"
"IDEA! Selene, get over here!"
The duo huddled together and started whispering.
"All right. Mimi is too cute and dim to know that we're talking about a desert. So, we send her in and follow her in case she finds the sticker."
"You would really manipulate something that pure!? ...I like it."
"All right!" Elio said. "You can have your...dessert. But first you have to find a gold sticker in the desert for me."
"Aww."
"Now, I packed a few canteens of cytoplasm in case you start running lo-er, I mean, getting tired."
And so they all went into the Haina Desert together.
"All right. First we follow the stack of rocks with two on it."
They went into another part of the desert.
"Now the one with four."
They went in that direction, which took them back to where they started.
"We're lost. I told you they wouldn't hide it in here."
"No we aren't! Let's try the one with one rock."
This lead them back to the area with three rocks. Elio's bag hit a rock along the way. "Hope that didn't damage anything."
"Okay, this is ridiculous. You lived here, Red Bull! Can't you help us out or something?"
Red Bull (Tapu Bulu) spoke to him telepathically from the PC.
"Sorry. Can't hear you. I'm going into the Path For Rare Treasure Hunting. I'm gonna lose you."
"But you're talking to me right now!"
"Uhhh...this is a recording?"
"A recording. At this time of day-"
"Stop it."
"-at this time of year-"
"Stop. NOW."
"-in this part of Isle Aphun-"
"Elio, if you don't stop with the steamed hams jokes RIGHT NOW, I'm going to slap you."
"-localized entirely within your brain."
"Yes."
WHAP!
"It wasn't even a goddamn Steamed Hams joke!"
"Guys? I found a thing."
"Not now, Mimi. HOW DO I GET THROUGH THIS HELLHOLE?!"
"Please leave a message inside my brain at the time of the beep. BEEP!"
"Dammit! Ugh. Great. Just great. Now what are we gonna do?"
"I saw the shiny thing! It was in the last room! That way! To dessert!"
They backtracked to the room with 3 rocks,
"Was it in the room with one rock?"
and ran back to that one,
"No, wait! I think it was in the room with two rocks!"
and then trudged to THAT one.
"Ugh..I feel weird...I don't even know anymore."
Mimi was starting to go cross-eyed.
"Great. Now what?!"
Elio took a closer look at Mimi's eyes and saw they were starting to turn blue.
"Ugh. Better get the cytoplasm."
He popped open his Bag and started rummaging around.
"Timespace Orbs….Zoom Lens….Max Repels...No. NO! Where is it!?
"Where's...what?"
"THE CYTOPLASM! We can't do anything without it!"
I'm...fine….guys. Just...a little ti-a little ti-a little t-t-t-t-iired….."
Mimi's pupils turned from blue to Xs and she keeled forward.
"NOOOO! MIMI!"
"All right. We HAVE to go home now."
"NO. I am avenging Mimi's battery dying. Even if it means I have to traipse around this hellhole with a dead robot strapped to my back."
"Hm. What did I build you out of? Carbonfiber? That's as good a guess as any. You're surprisingly light."
Elio had hooked Mimi's corpse, or whatever you would call a dead robot, to the straps of his armor and was trudging around the desert like that.
Eventually they arrived at the Ruins of Abundance at sunset, right before the sandstorms kicked up.
Elio saw a golden glimmer under the sand.
"Is that...THE STICKER?!"
He dug like a madman to get at it.
"Pfeh. Figures. It's just a goddamn Big Nugget."
He flung it off into the distance. "And good riddance!"
"Dude, you got something on your shoe."
"AAGH! Trapinch! Get it off! Enh!"
And underneath the trapinch was...THE STICKER!
"YES! Now we can get out of this hellhole and go see Samson for that giant Ribombee!
Three kids walked up to me on Heahea Beach.
No, wait, it's TWO kids, covered in sand and dirt. One was piggybacking on the boy.
"Give me my goddamn Ribombee." the boy said, throwing his 100 stickers on the ground.
"I went through hell and back to get this while carrying a dead robot on my back. You BETTER give my the Ribombee."
And I did. Some people are weird.