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Chapter 10: Of Tracking and Travel

With Green

Something was bothering Green. That something was Blue. It wasn't so much anything she did so much as her very existence. He wasn't sure what it was about her, but he found he kept thinking about her and this bothered him greatly. She was a thief and a liar, all his thoughts about her should be focused on how awful she was, not on how soft her hair looked. Brown and fluffy and in the wind - no! pull yourself together, Green chastised himself.

The girl in question was staring at him with a slightly concerned expression. "Are you all right Green?" She asked. "You look worried."

"I'm worried about my family," Green lied. He was worried about them of course, but they certainly were not what he'd been thinking about.

"Don't worry about it princey. We'll find them and then you'll give me a huge reward!" This comment at least helped Green reinforce why he should dislike her. She only wanted money. If Green weren't rich, she wouldn't be there and they never even would have met. Green glared at her (mostly for appearances sake) which resulted in a devious smirk.

"It's time to go," Janine announced. The gypsies had been preparing for the long journey ahead of them while Green and Blue waited off to the side. They were clearly seasoned travelers as it took them under an hour to get everything they needed together. "Good travels Agatha."

"Same to you," Agatha replied. The two clasped hands and nodded at each other. "Let's move out gypsies!"

"Are you ready?" Janine asked Green and Blue. Falkner and Koga were standing on either side of her.

"Of course!" Blue exclaimed. Green simply nodded.

"Alright. Let's go then."

Green followed Janine out of the building and back towards where they had come into town.

"Are you sure you can find the place again?" Green asked, not entirely sure who he was addressing the question to.

"I can," Blue assured. "I have quite a bit of experience memorizing escape routes."

"Never would have guessed," Green mumbled sarcastically.

"I remember the general direction as well," Janine said. "Between Blue and I we shouldn't have too much trouble."

"I can help as well," Koga protested.

"Don't worry about it Janine's dad," Blue replied. "Janine and I can handle it."

"My name is Koga," Koga corrected, though it was a token protest at this point. Green wondered it Blue actually didn't know his name, or if she was just messing with the man. He figured she was messing with him, but there was really no way to know for sure. She was too good a liar.

"This way!" Blue announced (completely ignoring Koga) and marching confidently into the woods.

With Yellow

Lyra had promised not to tell anyone and Yellow believed her, but it was still a relief when they got back to the other and Lyra didn't immediately start shouting, "She's a witch! Burn her!" or something similar. What Lyra did say was, "What are they all doing?"

Yellow saw what Lyra was talking about. Their friends were standing in a group seemingly staring at the sky.

"It does seem odd," Platina agreed.

The three continued over and when their presence went unnoticed Lyra finally asked, "What's going on?"

"I don't know," White replied, still staring at the sky. "But everyone else was doing it so I thought I'd join in."

"Silver came through here," Red explained.

"And then Sapphire and Ruby went after him," Emerald added.

"On a Tropius," Gold finished.

"Was Silver chasing a man in a black outfit?" Lyra asked.

This snapped Red out of his strange daze and he finally turned to look at them. "He was. How did you know that?"

"The man attacked us," Platina replied.

"Lady, are you okay?" Dia asked concerned.

"I knew one of us should have gone with you," Pearl grumbled.

"I am well," Platina assured.

"They got Platina's ring though," Lyra said apologetically.

"Then Silver ran after him," Yellow added.

"But none of you are hurt?" Red asked, his gaze fixed on Yellow.

"We're all fine," Yellow replied. "He only wanted the ring, he didn't actually care about hurting us."

"Do you think Silver can catch up to him?" Crys asked. "Without that ring we don't know where to go again. Wait - Silver didn't go with you, what was he even doing there?"

"He followed us," Yellow answered.

"Silver will get the ring," Lyra said confidently. "But we can't sit around here waiting for them. The man who stole it was with Team Galactic and I want to know why they want that ring so desperately."

"I'd be interested in that too," Black replied. "But unless Silver comes back we don't have anyone to ask."

"Even if Silver does catch the man he wouldn't be any help," Pearl said. "The Galactic grunts are never told any useful information. They just get assignments with no reasoning. He can tell us his boss wants the ring, but not why."

"So we find someone who isn't a grunt," Gold said. "And then make him talk!"

"They're not going to have their higher ups just sitting around, Gold," Crys chastised. "Even if we did manage to find one, I imagine they'd be guarded heavily."

"That is a correct assumption," Platina assured.

"What if I try a reading," Lyra said. "I may not be able to find out a why for us, but my cards may be able to give us a hint of where we we should go."

"You think that will lead us to Green and Blue?" Red asked.

"It's possible," Lyra said. Lyra glanced at Yellow and Yellow realized something. Lyra had agreed to help Yellow get to Hoenn so she could warn Steven Stone and this was her way of doing that. No one else understood the cards like Lyra did, so she could use them to explain the sudden urge to go to Sinnoh, even if the cards said something else.

With Lyra

Lyra went to her wagon and returned to the others with her box. She reached into the box thinking of her own future and pulled out a card. The card she got was a picture of Gold's face under which was written "annoyance." Lyra had seen something similar happen before when someone untrained tried to use her box. "Was someone messing with my cards?" She asked though she knew the answer was yes and Gold was the perpetrator. She was interested to see if he'd admit it.

"No!" Gold said. "Definitely not!" Lyra noted that even if she hadn't already known he was guilty, that surely would have told her he was.

"I used it," Black admitted. "Sorry."

"You did?" Lyra asked surprised.

"Yeah just once."

Lyra and her father were the only people who had ever used the box in Lyra's lifetime. Some of the other gypsies had tried, but. I one had used it successfully. Black was the first.

"Sorry for using it without your permission," Black apologized.

"I don't mind," Lyra said. "The one the box is mad at is Gold anyway. He must have done something to offend it."

"I did not!" Gold said.

"I didn't see everything, but I'm sure you did," Crys said.

"Can we get on with this?" Pearl asked impatiently.

"Ah, yes sorry." Lyra dropped the card which faded into sparkles and reached into the box, this time withdrawing a whole stack. Lyra knew the faces would be blank until she decided what she wanted to know.

Blue she thought and drew a card. The card she drew had a picture of a firework on it. It was one that Lyra was familiar with, a firework that shot up so high it seemed it would never stop until it suddenly burst into hundreds of colorful flames. It's called a - she read the word on the card. Rocket.

"What's on there?" Gold asked walking over and trying to peer over his shoulder only to be stopped by Crys who dragged him back.

"Rocket," Lyra said. "Whatever Blue is doing, I think it must have something to do with Team Rocket."

"Team Rocket?" Yellow exclaimed.

"Then they are probably the ones who were buying people in Goldenrod," Black mused.

"Team Rocket is bad news. We need to find Blue and Green," Red said.

Lyra drew a card thinking of Green and received the same one. "My cards won't tell us where they are," she said. "Unless you know where to look I don't know how we'll find them."

"We can wait for Silver, Sapphire and Ruby to come back," White suggested.

"That assumes Silver will come back," Gold said. "Knowing that guy it's possible he'll try to use the ring himself and go straight to Blue."

"But as far as he knows Lyra's the only one who can use it," Crys pointed out.

"Still Gold has a point, we can't base our plan on hoping Silver succeeds and comes back," Pearl said. "Blue and Green can handle themselves. What we know is that Team Galactic wants the artifacts and we have one of those. We should go take them down before they can attack us again."

Lyra drew another card wondering, what should I do next? The image was a rock and the caption was Stone. Steven Stone, Lyra thought. Just like Yellow said.

"I think I know where we need to go next," Lyra said breaking up the discussion. "We need to go to Hoenn. Their hero is a man named Steven Stone and we need to find him."

"What? We need to go to Hoenn?" Gold asked. "Why do we to need to talk to this guy?"

"I'm not sure," Lyra said, though this was of course a lie as Yellow had told her why before. "But the cards thinking it is important and they've never lied to me before."

"But team Galactic isn't even in Hoenn!" Pearl protested.

"There have been rumors that the crime gangs from different regions have started working together," Red said. "If this is true then maybe the answer is in Hoenn."

"Are we really taking advice from a deck of cards?" Pearl asked.

"Well actually it's the box that's magical," Black corrected. "And yes, I suppose so."

"I don't have any better ideas," Crys said. "If Silver decides to come after us he won't have much trouble so we might as well get moving."

"I'm just here for the adventure anyway," Gold said. "I don't really care where we go."

"I have not been to Hoenn before and would like to see it," Platina agreed. Lyra was surprised by Platina's seeming indifference about losing the ring. But then again she hadn't balked at letting Lyra wear it either, so maybe the artifact simply didn't matter that much to her.

"So, to Hoenn?" Lyra asked. The group either agreed or shrugged indifferently, so Lyra took that as an overall yes. "Let's get on with it then!"

With Silver

The man was annoyingly fast and the Zubat he sent out to speed his retreat didn't help matters. The man grabbed onto its leg and he was suddenly outpacing Silver. Silver was about to use his Murkrow to give chase when a large shadow came over him. He glanced upward to see a Tropius. The Tropius then came crashing down, plowing into the man and his Zubat. Sapphire leaped off the Tropius followed by Ruby who sort of fell off.

"You're under arrest!" Sapphire announced to the grunt who was out cold. The side effect of being rammed by a giant Pokémon apparently.

"I don't think he can hear you," Ruby muttered.

Silver walked over to the unconscious man and searched for the ring. The man had been holding it when he fell and had dropped it in the grass. Silver picked it up.

It was an unremarkable ring for something with such power. There were no gems of any kind and it was made of silver, hardly the most precious metal. The ring had a simple pattern of swirls that ran in a circle around the band. From a purely visual examination Silver wouldn't bother to steal the ring. However there was something different about the ring. Silver knew it was because the ring was magical and noted the feeling in case he ever came across something else magical.

"That the ring?" Sapphire asked.

"Of course it is," Ruby replied.

"I was just makin' sure!"

"You don't have to ask about obvious things."

As the two began another one of their epic arguments, Silver had but one desperate wish: I wish Blue was here.

Immediately after he thought this he felt a slight /something/ from the ring and he looked down. A tiny blue thread led away from the ring.

"You got it ta work?" Sapphire exclaimed in shock.

"Apparently," Silver replied.

Silver called his Murkrow and prepared to follow the thread. "Hey what are you doing?" Sapphire demanded, grabbing a hold of his arm. "We need to go back to the others.

"You go back," Silver said. "I'm going to find Blue." He jerked his arm out of Sapphire's grip (which was harder than it first appeared - that girl was strong) and commanded his Murkrow to follow the thread.

"Hey!" Silver heard Ruby yell. Silver ignored him. As he followed the thread he noticed Sapphire and Ruby pulling up alongside him. It would have been impossible for him to miss them, that Tropius was huge. He didn't care though, as long as they didn't get in his way they could do whatever they wanted.

With Blue

Blue and the others got back to the Team Rocket warehouse much more quickly as a smaller group. They were hidden in the trees now deciding on a plan of attack.

"We should go in," Green said.

"No," Blue disagreed. "We're less likely to be seen out here."

"There is a chance they've already cleared out," Koga added.

"Shh!" Janine hissed pointing at the road. Blue swiveled and saw what had drawn the other girls attention. There was a man in a Team Rocket uniform walking towards the base. Just as he was about to open the door, it opened from the inside and a blue haired male stumbled out, cradling his head. Ha! Blue thought. I got him good!

"James!" yelled the first grunt.

James dropped his hands to his side and looked up when he realized he wasn't alone. "Yes?" he said nervously.

"The boss is very angry with you. He sent this." The grunt pulled out a letter and took in a huge breath. "James! You idiot! You disobeyed by orders AND you let the gypsy woman escape! You are on guard duty at Mt. Moon until you can prove that you are not completely useless!" The grunt looked up from the paper. "End of message." He then folded it carefully and handed it to James. "I'm here to make sure you don't make more unsanctioned detours. Come on!" The grunt walked away and James followed, the perfect picture of misery.

"That's no help," Green complained. "They aren't going the right way."

"Wait," Blue said. "Who's that?" After James and the grunt had disappeared someone else approached the warehouse. He came from the woods and had probably been watching the base like Blue and the others had been. Good thing we didn't go in, Blue thought. He would have see us. The man clearly wasn't part of Team Rocket, but there was still something off about him.

"Maybe we should follow him?" Blue suggested. The man slipped into the warehouse so Blue kept an eye on the door watching for his return.

"He wasn't dressed the same as the others," Janine said. "His outfit was all red."

"Maybe it means he's more important," Koga suggested.

"I think he's the only shot we have," Green said. "This place obviously isn't used much, if we don't follow him I don't think we'll be able to follow anyone."

"Well, let's do it then," Blue said. The others nodded and when the man reappeared, they set off after him. She wasn't sure where this man would lead them, but based on the luck they'd had so far, it wouldn't be any place nice.

With White

The course had apparently been decided on and the group was headed for Hoenn. If White was being honest with herself, she didn't really care where they went. Her whole life before this had been living and working in her father's bakery and she had always assumed that she would inherit it from him and run the bakery her whole life. Now though, the bakery was thought to be part of an assassination plot. Even if when she got back she was able to convince the law in Unova that she was innocent, the bakery would still suffer from the charges and be basically impossible to keep open.

White wasn't sure what to do. When she'd met Black he knew so much about the outside world and White had loved hearing about it, had even wanted to see the places he spoke of, but she never thought it would actually happen. And now that it had she found herself woefully unprepared. If Black weren't around she already would have been captured several times, but it couldn't continue on like this. White needed to learn to protect herself. Her future she could worry about later, after her present was secured.

Now instead of their relentless pace when hunting Blue, they decided on traveling at a a more sedate pace. They would travel during the day with a break for lunch and stopping for the night after dinner. White decided that she would train before breakfast and after dinner. White slept in the first day and didn't get a chance to start her morning regimen, but other than that nothing particularly eventful happened. They travelled along plains which seemed to go on forever, though later in the day mountains began to be visible on the horizon. Lyra had assured them that they wouldn't have to travel over them which White was grateful for.

"We're making good time," Lyra said when they stopped for the night. "We should be in Hoenn in a few days."

"Do you have all the roads memorized?" Black asked. "You always seem to know where we are."

Lyra reached into the bag she was wearing and pulled out a book. She opened it and showed it to Black. "Ah," he said. "Maps. That makes sense."

"We're about here," Lyra said pointing to one of the roads. White stared at the map and realized with amazement that she'd travelled to some of the towns on it. She'd seen maps before of course and was perfectly capable of reading them, but the only ones that had ever been relevant to her had been maps of the city. So many things about this journey sent thrills of excitement (tinged with a heavy dose of fear) through her.

White was interested in looking at the planned path, but she had already decided that she was going to train today. So she left Lyra and Black to their discussion and walked away from the group to have a bit of privacy.

"Okay Jessica," White said as she held the Pokémon's Poké Ball. She pressed the button releasing the Deerling. "Let's do this."

"Deeer," Jessica said. White assumed it was in agreement.

The Deerling stared at White in anticipation and White abruptly realized that she had no idea how to train a Pokémon .

"Uh," White said. "Go run some laps?"

Jessica stared at White with an unimpressed expression. "Well I don't know how to train a Pokémon !" White exclaimed.

"Um, I think Pokémon battles are the best way to gain experience." White spun at the voice and saw Yellow looking apologetic. "I didn't mean to interrupt," She apologized. "But I wanted to make sure nothing was wrong."

"Don't worry about it," White said. "Though I am a bit embarrassed you've seen how terrible I am at Pokémon training."

"I'm not very good either," Yellow said consolingly. "Maybe we could train together? Lyra and Platina gave me some tips earlier."

"That would be great," White said with relief. "I know Black would help but I don't want to bother him while he's busy trying to find out where the Steven Stone man lives."

"Well Lyra and Platina said that Pokémon learn best through trainer battles. So, uh, I challenge you?" Yellow said this last bit almost apologetically. The feeling White had gotten from the girl thus far was that she was a pacifist, so White wasn't overly surprised by the girl's reluctance.

"Ok, challenge accepted," White replied. If Yellow was going against her nature to learn, then so could White.

With Platina

The current mission was to find Steven Stone. Lyra seemed quite sure it was this man which Platina found a bit peculiar. Yes, Lyra had always seemed to believe full-heartedly in her cards, but they seldom gave her such specific instructions. Lyra had never shown the card to anyone though, so they were all simply taking her word for it. What if she was lying? What she would gain from that Platina wasn't sure, but she had to consider the possibility. Lyra had never seemed to be doing anything evil though, so why she would lie now was confusing. She had seemed completely committed to finding Blue earlier, but something must have changed. Platina knew she was unlikely to discover this without questioning Lyra and that was something she did not want to do. She wasn't the most tactful person and she didn't want to accuse Lyra of something if she really was telling the truth. So Platina decided that the best course of action for her would be to let events unfold and see what happened next.

To this end Platina was assisting Black in his efforts to find information about Steven Stone in some of his history books (apparently when he had run for his life, he'd also brought a small library with him. Where he kept all those books and how he ran with them Platina did not know and was not certain she wanted the answer). Of all the people traveling with them, it seemed to Platina that she and Black were the most book smart people. The others had all disappeared when Black mentioned books. All except for Dia that is, but Black had forbidden him from trying to help after he dropped a sandwich on the book he was reading. So Dia sat in the corner eating the food Platina and the others had bought the day before.

"Have you found anything?" Dia asked between bites.

"Nope," Black replied.

"I have not either," Platina said.

"It's still a few days until we reach Hoenn anyway," Dia said consolingly.

"Yeah, but it would be nice to know where we need to know before we get there. Otherwise we'll have to sit and wait or just guess," Black said.

Platina took that as a queue to look harder and it seemed Black did as well. Dia remained where he was and kept an eye on them as he ate.

With Red

Red was worried about Green. He knew that Green could handle himself, and it seemed Blue could as well, but his job was to protect Green. And now Red didn't even know where he was - though apparently it was somewhere having to do with Team Rocket. Red had faced Team Rocket before and what they lacked in intelligence or skill, they more than made up for in ruthless dedication to their goals.

To take his mind off it, Red had decided to do some training with Saur and Pika. He'd only just gotten started when Gold showed up. "Let's battle!" he requested.

"Okay," Red said with a shrug.

Gold grinned and sent out an Aipom that he called Ataro. Red returned Pika and let Saur fight.

Gold it turned out was a pretty good trainer. Red was better, but Gold was definitely skilled. Saur ended the fight with a Vine Whip and Ataro fell.

Gold returned him and grinned at Red. "Nice fight," he said. "Can you help me train?"

"Ah -" Red was about to respond when he was distracted by a white light. It was coming from Saur. Saur glowed and shifted, and when the light faded, he was no longer a Bulbasaur. "You evolved!" Red exclaimed staring at the Ivysaur.

"Ivysaur!" Saur said agreeably.

"Cool!" Gold said examine the Pokémon . "Come on Red, you have to help me get my Pokémon to evolve!"

"Well I suppose we can battle more. Not today though, it's getting late," Red conceded.

"Yes!" Gold whooped and ran off towards Crys who kicked him when he snuck up on her. Red couldn't tell if those two really hated each other, or really liked each other. A relationship as confusing as that wasn't for him. With Gold gone, Red decided to spend the time with his Ivysaur and see if it had picked up any new skills.

With Pearl

Pearl was agitated. Platina had gone off without him or Dia and she had been attacked. She had told them not to go, but he should have gone anyway. Not because of duty, but because Platina was his friend. He'd noticed her being slightly off lately so he hadn't fought her as hard as he should have since it seemed she wanted time away from him and Dia. Next time he'd go, no matter her feelings on the matter. He knew Dia would too. Dia cared more for Platina than anyone else really did, including Pearl. Of course Pearl loved Platina, but he didn't love her in the same way Dia did. Pearl's love had always been that of a treasured friend of family member while Dia's was something deeper. Pearl wasn't sure if Dia consciously realized this or not and Pearl certainly wasn't going to ask. Talking about feelings was not something he particularly enjoyed.

He'd been pacing as he gathered his thoughts - walking back and forth alongside the wagon Black had turned into a research station. His pacing drew some attention.

"What are you doing?" Emerald asked. The young boy was sitting on a blanket next to Wally who was peeling an apple.

"Pacing," Pearl replied.

"I can see that, I meant why?"

"Then you should have asked that," Pearl grumbled. He knew it was wrong to take his anger out on someone else (especially a little kid) but Pearl wasn't thinking clearly. Also it turned out Emerald wasn't particularly bothered by people being rude to him, being a bit rude himself.

Wally, however, seemed uncomfortable with the situation. "Please stop fighting," he begged.

"He started it!" Emerald pointed at Pearl.

"That - that's true," Pearl admitted. "But you continued it!"

"That doesn't even make sense!" Emerald exclaimed.

"Yeah, well! Whatever!" With that Pearl was pretty sure he'd one that argument so he walked to the other side of the wagon (he wasn't running away, he was not intimidated by a little kid).

With Ruby

Sapphire's Tropius was flying alongside Silver's Murkrow and even though they'd been going for a good while now, Ruby was still clinging to Sapphire for his life. Silver by all appearances didn't even notice they were there, though that was impossible because a flying Tropius was a major contender for the least sneaky Pokémon ever.

"Why are we following him?" Ruby asked, yelling to be heard over the wind.

"Cuz!" Sapphire replied.

"What do you mean cuz?"

"I wanna know where he's goin'" Sapphire elaborated.

"We should tell the others what's happening."

"You can do that. I'm followin' Silver."

Ruby decided against pointing out that there was no way for him to go anywhere stuck as he was on Sapphire's Tropius. Unfortunately he didn't have a flying Pokémon of his own. Ruby wouldn't want a Tropius anyway, it was extremely inelegant.

"I need to find Green," Sapphire said after the silence between then had gone on for several minutes.

"Green? Why?"

"I was just made a knight and my mission was ta find Green and bring him back. If somethin' happens to him now, it's because I didn' do as I was told. It would be my fault."

"It wouldn't be your fault," Ruby refuted. "You couldn't force Green to go back, he and Red would have fought you off. You did the only thing you could, nothing that happens is your fault."

Sapphire was silent for a moment (did Ruby see a hint of red on her face?), then yelled, "Why are ya being nice all of a sudden?"

"I don't know?" Ruby yelled back. "You were acting less like a barbarian!"

Just as the argument was about reach epic Sapphire and Ruby proportions Silver spoke up (for the first time since he'd taken flight), "If you can't be quiet I'll leave you behind."

"Just try it punk!" Sapphire yelled.

"Don't provoke him!" Ruby exclaimed upon seeing the truly murderous expression Silver was gazing at Sapphire with. When Sapphire opened her mouth Ruby put his hand over it. "We'll be quiet," he assured Silver. "Right Sapph?"

Sapphire glared at him, but finally nodded. She shoved Ruby's hand away from her mouth and murmured something that sounded like, "stupid sissy," but Ruby didn't engage. Oh he realized suddenly. I'm not afraid of flying anymore anymore. All it took was having something I'm afraid of more than falling to my death! (That something being Silver and then murderous aura that seemed to follow him)

With Green

Green and the others stalked the man through the woods. The man walked on foot which surprised Green, he'd expected the man to use a Pokémon to travel more quickly. Though it was possible he was simply waiting to get out of the woods a travel Pokémon would have a hard time in the forest flying or non-flying. They exited the forest at a somewhat different location than they had the day before, but it was close enough that Green could recognize the area.

The man finally reached for his belt and grabbed one of his Poké Balls. He released the Golbat inside. Well, the likelihood of him being a grunt of some organization just skyrocketed, Green thought.

"How do we follow without being seen?" Green asked.

"Like this," Blue said. She pulled something out of her bag and hurled it at the Golbat.

"Blue!" Green snapped, pulling her down into cover.

"Relax," she said. "Look."

Green cautiously lifted his head up over the bush and did so. The man was talking to the Golbat and didn't seem to notice anything had happened. Green examined the Golbat and realized what Blue had hit it with. It was a bag of some sort of coloring liquid. The bag was stuck to the Golbat's foot and slowly dripped blue liquid. By all appearances it looked as if the Pokémon had accidentally stepped on a berry. Green may have hated thieves in general, but he did have to give credit where it was due. It was brilliant. He'd never tell Blue that though.

"We just wait for him to get ahead and follow the trail!" Blue said.

"Oh I love sticky paint!" Janine exclaimed.

The two girls enthused about sticky paint (apparently the name of the paint bag thing) with the additional comment by Koga every so often while Green and Falker stared at each other, silently commenting on the other members of the group.

"Time to go!" Blue blurted abruptly, startling Green out of his non-conversation (nonversation?) with Falkner.

"Are we going on foot?" Falkner asked.

"I'm not," Blue replied and sent out her Jigglypuff. Green still had nigtmares about that thing.

Janine and Koga both sent out Crobat and Falkner sent out a Pidgeotto. This left Green as the only one without a flying Pokémon . First thing I'm doing when I get back is evolving Charmander into a Charizard, Green thought.

"Come on Green, ride with me!" Blue suggested.

"Jiggly!" her Jigglypuff added.

"...fine," Green said.

"Alright!" Blue jumped on the Jigglypuff's head while Green held onto one of the legs. "Follow that trail Jiggly!"

The Jigglypuff made a happy sound and complied. Why do I keep letting her lead me into these situations? Green wondered as he dangled off the leg of a Jigglypuff following a tiny trail of paint. He had a faint idea, but he didn't dare allow himself to think of it consciously. It was too ridiculous. (Maybe he liked her).