Chapter 6: Expedition Surprises
During a school weekend, Synthia invited a few of her club members to visit her house while her parents along with Bolt's parents were out for their hangover for the next two weeks. Piroda and Avisiana have their own friendly chat about each other as each of their boyfriends try to not just show their appeal to their mates but to keep some pedigree of order around the place.
"Kinda feel bad for you there Grizun. You may be smarter than me. Still, thinking about many things for an activity … even I can't just get good thoughts on being a brainy teacher if I end up being in your position. Good luck there." Setting down a bowl of berry salad next to the minccino's laptop, Shimpanze returns to the kitchen where Synthia and Avisiana wear mittens around their paws as they carefully transfer the group's heavy lunch meal: stewed Emboar and Pignite meat. "Shimpanze! Set up the table for us. Owrin is still doing carpentry with his girlfriend." With a tiny drive on wooing that shrinking violet monkey, he gets to work on it in the hopes he can do more things with her alongside Synthia.
"I may be the leading girl at the school yet I end up being your student in anything gymnastic and kitchen related Avy." The alpha bunny commends her best friend as she scoops up the remaining veggies and meat from the spot.
Having that packet of coffee as the guess drink she receives, the aipom helps on setting the meal on the serving bowl, "Just admit that you are lazy to even try to make something decent sister. In this coffee, coffee can give you the Insomnia ability in a long term health for a sex hungry girl like you. Not exactly healthy. Try buying some good quality tea if you want to avoid STD from the loads of semen you are letting the whole male sex of the school stuff it. Poor little minccino is overtaxed with your tasks as of late." Looking at the other room where the chinchilla is researching online on the lessons he will teach to his tiny club, "Grizun! Bring your food here and have lunch with us!"
"I'll leave you two here for now until I bring our canine buddies out of their lovemaking and feast with us." Heading upstairs, she heads towards the attic room where her bedroom is for she requested Owrin and Piroda's help on fixing her room. She initially knew about their reluctance on her request with the few sex toys she displays on her room. Even though those two agreed to do her tasks such as patching parts of the walls and roof that have holes, painting old dried furniture and the room itself, and rearranging some of her furniture where it includes three devious chests containing various sex toys her parents happily bought and tested with her throughout the years, she can already imagine those two already gave in to the temptation and just to breed like dogs in heat while wooing each other in a friendly way. Now standing next to her room, she opens her phone and opens her LIS app tapping on the head images of Piroda and Owrin. "What?! I just don't get how these two get to be … restricted with their natural urges? I know that I designed this room that already entices and couple to go primal on sex activities!"
"Synthia. We finished fixing and painting your room. How you like it?" Owrin opens the door with a puzzle expression from both young puppies from seeing their bunny friend using that sex app on her phone. With amount of blue and green with a mix of yellow and dots of rose red patterns on Synthia's newly designed room, the scent of house paint does not stop Synthia from flustering at the fox and canine once her room does not end up being suited for sexual kinks.
"Your toys are … under the bed if you want." The small gestures of a bunny gritting her teeth leave both the riolu and eevee staying quiet.
"Gggghhhhhh. Just … go down and have lunch with us now." Forcing out a smile and relaxing her body, the three pokémon leave the windows and doors open for the air to dry up the newly romantic room.
"Techno lovers and machine lovers! Welcome to the Metal and Chip Convention here at Tungor City's Enviro-Terrain Stadium! For those that are walk-ins wanting to see what are the new trending techs, go to the registration area and give them some details on your identity. Those that are VIPs and have online registered tickets, you can now enter the stage and have a glamour!" in the center of the stage is the announcement and reception stage where one jirachi wearing smart casual clothing welcomes all viewers and customers to the main event.
"Ohhhh! This is gonna be exciting to look at! Mister Laveil! Is that pokémon familiar to you?" with the emolga hovering above her friends, Vilka watches as the announcer sets the microphone to off and giving her a smile from a distance. "That jirachi is one of my sons. We are here to see him now. Now follow me and don't get lost." Obeying her principal's orders, they squeeze their way through the growing crowd of viewers for a couple minutes until they finally reach the center stage in a room on the backstage.
"Dad! I'm glad you can make it here! The camera technology we have has been growing in interest and demand in multiple fields of expertise such as medicine, exploration, genetic manipulation-" as the totodile chuckle at the bursting energy of the little wish maker, Temmil cuts the conversation.
"Now now now son. Yule, relax. I'm here not just for our invention but I have some young clients that want a tour of technologies that would interest all four." The cinccino waves his paw at the three rodents smiling at them while the young croc girl calms down while reading on the flier she got during the tour with the intent of learning or investing in something worth her slowly saved money.
"Are these your students?" Temmil nods. "So, what about this mistress Ledian? A student as well?" the cinccino nods a no to his child. "Ok then. I just have the venues that these three can enjoy. You four can call me Yule. Can I get to know you three?"
"I am Vilka. These two boys are my friends: Bolt and Shock." The emolga gestures her wings accordingly to her companions before getting behind them and wrap her winged paws behind the two mice.
"Wonderful welcomes to you three. Teenagers can have such surprising tastes for demand. Follow me then. Anything you three want to see or know?" as the younger jirachi leaves the room with the students, Temmil locks the room and presses a couple buttons to give this place a private room mode.
"I thought that our date is gonna be cancelled because of this event." As the floor they are standing turns into an elevator, he holds onto the young principal's paws.
As both pokémon descend, Temmil gives away his scarf to his follower, "I have a very special surprise for you Principal Asteria." Arriving sat the pit of the elevator, what the door reveals greets the young lady with a face that she has not seen in many years. "He happened to run at my island house a few years ago. I'll be your musician for this day." with Temmil stepping to the sides, Asteria sees another Ledian with a bit more muscle on its upper plate chest. As the male ladybug walks closer, Asteria sees the back shell becoming metallic and its insect wings completely gone replaced with mechanical rockets.
"Ria. Forgive me for being gone. If you have questions to ask, you can ask them now." The way this ledian looks down on the floor and his own four tiny paws with eyes pointing this deep regret to only itself is truly the one who can easily say her true nickname.
"Welcome to the Duet Arcade Dance off! The Duet that wins this test challenge will get various prizes! 8th to 4th place receive a consolation prize of 3000 pokedollars with a participation trophy. 3rd place gets 5000 pokedollars and a ticket for a 60% discount ticket to avail your own PDR deluxe edition. 2nd place will receive 7000 pokedollars and the basic set of the PDR 1st prize however will get 9000 pokedollars, a basic set of the Paw Dance Rhythm, and the chance for you to become a character in this game and technology. Participants can now sign up for the contest willing to let this easy to access technology be a useful item for people looking to stay healthy!" As a red feathered oricorio hypes up the event, various pokémon watch as the few duets sign up the registration form.
"Vilka. I'm loving those prices. You think we can snag both second and first place?" the young reptile whispers her proposal.
"I think we can. Don't know about Shock here but I'm having Bolt dance with me. You can have the other chu for my chu is actually fond of dancing and is actually a gifted dancer. You are on the back foot there. At least you get to hang out with your desired guy." Though the emolga likes giving pals a hand, she had to do some basic pranks through some tit-for-tat exchange whenever there is a stake to have. "Oh it's on girl! Let's sign up and dance to the top. If us both reach grand final, then we compete. But of either of us lose, do not lose the grand prix!" picking up the pen and signing the names of all four of their names, Yule escorts the totodile on the registration process.
"You never told me that you are quite the dancer. Is that an ingredient that you have Synthia on your side for so long? My mother has been teaching me on the many ways to dance. I hope to see yours." Shock checks his bag and polishes his face cheeks and clothes with powders and perfumes. "Not really. I just happen to listen to so many genres of music that I create moves and beats … naturally and unconsciously. I honestly prefer the ones knowing the patterns of existing music. I'm glad that you and Synthia are getting along very well. Guess you gotta stick with Losh here." Bolt blushes as he follows Vilka to the backstage.
"Got us registered Loshy? Prove to me that you are more than just a troublemaker." Packing up his makeup, he gives his bag to the wish making son of Temmil. Losh then tags along with the other Pikachu giving her smirk, "Challenge accepted Shock! If we lose, I'll be the one giving lay to you. But if we win 1st, you go your way with me big rodent." This challenging energy is something she has not yet felt for a long time outside of sex and lunch money. This event however rings out a side of hers that she has not used as much throughout her days hanging with Dousht and company. Perhaps she can let loose her feminine side this time with the one pokémon she is hoping to get a ride with: a dancer that could be the match she has been looking for.
"…We are live at Tungor City's Enviro-Terrain Stadium where the Duet Arcade Dance Off commences for the prizes on this new fancy digital dance toy for children looking to stay fit! Take it away ladies!" the camera pans away from the deerling reporter to the a show stage where a Baile and Sensu feathered oricorio greet themselves to the crowd followed by a brief discussion to the idea of a portable and health beneficial dance kit for anyone to dance and create their own music.
"Uhhh, wow Avisiana. This is cool." Grizun minimized the powerpoint report and the internet windows on his research of sexual health a while ago so that the aipom can watch the show she has been wanting to watch. Since everyone else is watching their own favourite show on Synthia's TV, she watches it on Grizun's laptop instead. Seeing just how athletic the tail-paw monkey has been at school gym surprises him so much for one that is just as quiet as him.
"Avy! Come and hangout with us! You too Gri-" Trava checks in to see the technology event that the school announced as a week of vacation for the school. "Avy! Are you really watching this? You just distracted my buddy from work! It is a very important one too!" Trava picks up the dishes from the room with a sigh. "Can you take it easy on her Trava? I'm kinda getting bored from reading like three articles on our project. I want to have a break like you even though we are all working on our homeworks from this vacation." Grizun pets the shoulder of his fellow normal type.
"Show me a reason then! It better be a convincing one or I have to give you a lay with Avy here." Avisiana passes the phone to the snivy with a message coming from Principal Temmil himself. "Set the TV channel to 642 or watch it online with this link. You are all here for a surprise." After muttering the message to herself, she hears Vilka's name announced alongside Bolt followed by Losh and Shock from the Laptop's speakers. Not wasting any time, Trava sprints downstairs to the living room containing the HD TV that also functions like a bigger computer with internet connection. Seeing the remote held by the blue puppy, she stretches her vine and snatches it from him and presses the numbers 642. "Guys, girls, I want to watch this surprise because I just got to cheer for someone!"
"Sis, cheer for who?" with the TV screen set on channel 642, she keeps her lips shut listening to the TV.
"We just got the first two duets, a Popplio and Marill, and a Volbeat and Illumise their introduction. Who are the next two duets for this competition?" the Hula Pa'u oricorio sways her pink and white feather skirt around showing her moves.
With a microphone on its right pom pom, the cheerleading avian oricorio waves her wings wide, "Good question sister. Welcome our two teenager duets, Bolt and Vilka, and Shock and Losh! These ladies having Pikachus. But … look! That cosplayer! Are you …. the son of Talebeal the Pika Pop Star?" with the whole room screaming surprise along with the crowd on the show, all of the ladies frantically go nuts from shaking their bodies once Shock says yes to the microphone.
Pressing her two paws on the eevee's ears, she looks at the riolu's face with daggers, "If you two can get the dance mattresses inside my cloth drawer and set it up before the event plays, I will leave you two be and not let you two give me a kinky show after this. Deal?"
"Anything to not have us both go too public on these … fun acts of our club. You are strong minded but … you are scary. Pira, let's get those so that we can watch them dance." With both foxy canines returning upstairs, the rest of the group watch as their classmates place themselves on the stage with four more duets following them after moving the various objects of the living room to create space for those wanting to dance alongside the dancers on stage.
"With such an amazing event only getting better thanks to the presence of a pop star, let's roll the musical dance roulette. We give our thanks and credit to the composers and musicians that are happy to present their upcoming musical albums." As various names and title logos pop out of the bottom of the screen being pointed by the red baile oricorio, a roulette wheel with various names shows itself on the TV screen on the stadium. Just as the eevee and riolu hastily brings the mattresses to the living room and set them up, then the wheel starts spinning counter clockwise. "Our Musical for this round of prizes is … Fly Away from The Faticake Album. A steady happy romance dance music that steadily picks up speed that demands precise steps with fluid arm and central body treatment. Get ready to follow the arrows contestants and tap them! The Green arrows are your standard points that you have to avoid missing or you lose points. Should you see a Golden Arrow, that is an optional step for you to tap with your feet but give you points of high value. Good luck contestants!" the purple sensu fan-winged oricorio presses the play button on her laptop.
[Intro]
Come and fly away with me
Come and fly away with me-e-e-e-e
Come and fly away with me
Co-co-come and fly away with me-e-e-e-e-e-e
[Repeat]
The first set of arrows that come out enters in small batches of quick steps at moderate speed in which all participants easily scored points. The five golden arrows that comes out in between the last line of the intro end up having only three duets stepping on all golden arrows whereas the other duets only tapped 2 or 3 golden arrows.
[Build-up]
Don't you be afraid
Everything will change
You and I
Jumping off the edge
They say dreamers never die
So, come and fly
Come and fly
Come and fly away with me
As the dance builds up speed, the space in between batches of various arrow directions shortens with one golden arrow coming out in every second batch in which four dancers cannot get bonus points from the extra golden arrows just to avoid missing the important green arrows. Then a brief moment of rest is given to the dancer duets.
[Chorus]
We're rising, we're falling
We'll make it through
We're climbing, we're soaring
A thousand views
[Distorted Chorus]
We're rising, we're falling
We'll make it through
We're climbing, we're soaring
A thousand views
With one golden arrow to start the chorus, each phrase of the signer shows three green arrows with two or three bonus golden arrows in which only three duets gets to tap on all the arrows. Another three duets skipped the golden arrows altogether whereas the last two duets missed a few green arrows. While the more feminine voice is easy to follow, the distorted robotic voice throws off the rhythm of all participants where Losh nearly missed the last golden arrow and Bolt easily gets excellent points on the arrows he got during the chorus
[Verse 2]
Somewhere by the emerald sea
Where the moon and water meet
Somewhere close to harmony
When the world is sound asleep
Something's gonna bring a change
Journeys we are meant to take
Something at the edge of space
Calling us to fly away
Don't you be afraid
Everything will change
You and I
Jumping off the edge
They say dreamers never die
So, come and fly
Come and fly
Come and fly away with me
During the non-vocal portions of the end chorus, most of the participants start to feel the energy burn with all duets getting the 4 golden arrows that play during the warm up beats of the song. Luckily for the participants, the speed and rhythm of the song returns to a steady rhythm with golden arrows very easy to hit for how familiar the music dance is to the duets. However, three duets are getting exhausted from the marathon as the half portion of the second verse ends up becoming missteps to lose points. Though Losh feels lightweight in her mind, she had to keep her focus to stay ahead in the game as the two of them circle their steps in a timely manner. In Vilka's ongoing high, she has been with Bolt as her school dance partner in their younger years just as to how uninspiring and scattered Synthia's dancing skills have been. Had it been Trava dancing with him now, the two of them could had easily dance to even the most complex and speedy of body rhythms in which she struggles at times. The one thing she does like about Bolt would be how he felt too natural being around her as a close friend despite falling heels over her bunny friend even in their sexual activities. In their dances, she can feel it empowering her as a pokémon that can be anywhere without fear.
[Repeat Chorus]
Though the duet of Bolt and Vilka are still relaxed and fluid with Shock and Losh still holding their composure together, the Popplio and Marill duet and the Volbeat and Illumise duet go toe to toe with the students whereas the other contestants now lose some more points due to exhaustion along with incompatible body shape matchups. "Oh my feathers! We have the bottom 4 already breaking here. This is why synchronization matters so much." The purple Sensu-oricorio looks at the score charts on her tablet.
[Break]
Come and fly away
Come and
Come and fly away
Come and fly away with me
[Repeat Break]
"COMBO BREAKER HERE! GET THE GOLD EVERYONE!" with the cheers from the pom-pom-oricorio cheering up the contestants, the golden arrows shown on the screen for the contestants come at a fast pace. As Losh and Shock land their wide and fast freeform step dancing skills that helped them get every bonus golden step points, Vilka and Bolt ballets their dance in such precise action that cost them a few missed bonus points. As the bottom four only got around 12 bonus points, the top four duets compete with points ranging from 18 to 24 points.
[Verse 3 - Outro]
Something's gonna bring a change
Journeys we are meant to take
Something at the edge of space
Calling us to fly away
During the pause, the Pa-u-oricorio stretches her feathers up, "Style points at the end of this song. So make a lasting pose!" Losh and Shock happen to miss a point or two during these last steps for their energy getting low with Vilka and Bolt getting all of the remaining points in a less than clean style as the other competing duets close to their score approach their scores. As the final beat come in, all of the contestants create their style pose. Whereas the crown cheers for the end, most of them paid attention to the four duets that have an outstanding last pose. As the two fireflies float and light their tail with the Marill's bouncy body on top of the popplio's nose, Losh and Shock huddle each other with their arms spread wide up in the air with their tails leaning on their left and right respectively like an open clam, whereas Bolt and Vilka lean their backs on each other's back with both arms holding each other pointing on the front downwards and the back upwards with their tails wrapped around each other.
Back at Synthia's house, an exhausted group of friends save for the minccino and eevee cheers on for their friends on TV while giving each other a drink for how amazing the musical is for the contest. "And now, for the winners of this round will be decided in around ten minutes as our contestants get their well deserved break. Now the demo venue is open for the other guests of this convention to try." The Baile oricorio switches the setting to the demonstration area where other guests now get to try the new Portable Dancer Recreation technology.
"Who do you think will win that fancy dance tech girls? I'm actually jealous that I'm not there. I want one for myself." Avisiana wipes off her sweart with her balloon tail. "I am hoping our buddies get first and second place. I can't help but admire Vilka for making it quite elegant." Trava picks her personal favourite. "Ok. Bolt may be pretty and on point with Vilka. But Losh … she has been such a surprisingly great dancer with meaningful power as much as I'm not always good terms with her even if she saves me from the bullies.
"I'll side with Avy here. That commanding dance is too hard to hold." Synthia's vote may have the chimchar give her his thumps up, Piroda has another rebuttal however. "I … like Vilka more for she and Bolt are not so … wild? Owrin loves harmonious music or dance. I get what he means. I find the other Pikachu … crazy in his steps.." Piroda pants out with her worn voice. But the rest of the group stares at the riolu for being very quiet for how he is making the eevee his speaker.
Author's Note: The original title of the musical above actually belongs to an album called TheFatRat with Fly Awat as the song featuring Anjulie. Simply, this chapter has been a lot of DDR inspiation here just after the many dances I experienced and watched from the trip to Thailand and Malaysia last month. Moreso, it has been such a long time since I wrote a frantic action scene as to the point I struggle to see what other appriaches I could use to make these action scenes more bearable and better to read as if one is listening to the music itself.