NaNoWriMo Day: Tuesday, November 15th, 2016

Title: Dumps

Words: 1726

{5792}

"Can I borrow this?" Morty said, walking into the living room and pointing at the couch pillows.

"What do you need it for?" Eusine said, sitting up and tossing the pillows to his husband.

"Something that's going to happen in a couple minutes," Morty said, examining the pillow. "Should give the best defense," he sighed, walking back out of the room.

"Defense against what? You can't not explain that!" Eusine complained, following Morty into the bedroom, where the mystic was standing in front of the bed, holding the pillow behind him. "...Ummmm…? Morty, love, what the fuck are you doing?"

"Just a minute," Morty sighed.

A woman suddenly appeared out of the air behind him, not in a flash of light as Morty did when he time-travelled, but as if she'd just stepped forwards out of thin air. She was short and wiry, with short, shaggy blonde hair, an extremely heavy shower of freckles across her pale skin, and eyes that were settling from a blue glow into bright green. "Congratulations, Celebi!" she cried jubilantly, swinging her leg to give him a solid kick in the rear that sent him pitching forwards.

"What the hell?!" Eusine yelled. She winked at him and vanished. "What the hell?!" he yelled again, rounding on Morty.

"Another time traveller, I believe," Morty sighed, rolling over and sitting up. "I'm sure I'll see her again sometime. Saylee mentioned that she turned up a few weeks after Silver became an avatar to..."

"...Give you dumps," Eusine said, running a hand through his hair, dumbfounded. "She uses time travel… to give dumps."

"Apparently," Morty said, handing him back the couch cushion.

{5791}

"Your fever's gone down," Saylee said, reading the thermometer with a raised eyebrow. "As in, you're only running four times the temperature of a normal human now…"

"I feel fine," Silver insisted. Saylee tossed the thermometer aside and put her hand on her little brother's forehead. He felt a little warm, but not actually on fire as the thermometer suggested, and his cheeks weren't flushed anymore. He didn't seem to be sweating, either. "Can I get out of bed now?" he complained.

"C'mon, then, let's try it and see how you feel," Saylee said, hovering nearby as Silver hopped out of bed. He didn't sway or stumble, and felt strong enough when he shoved Saylee out of his room so he could get dressed. She leaned against the wall, folding her arms and waiting patiently for her little half-brother to get out of his room for the first time since coming home from the hospital.

The Pryce manor was a beautiful traditional building, with the rooms ringing an interior garden and the hallways fulls of sliding doors that could be moved aside to view said garden. A couple of the doors across of Silver's room were open, and Suicune, Entei and Raikou were all sitting and watching Silver's door intently. Suicune put their head down on the raised hallway floor, peering up at Saylee.

"Do that all you like, you will not all fit in his room," Saylee admonished them. "He'll be out in a minute, anyway." The Beasts all perked up noticeably when the door opened and Silver came out, stretching his arms above his head and standing up on his tiptoes. "How do you feel?" Saylee asked.

"Great," Silver said, hopping into the garden and petting the Beasts as they crowded around him. "Weird thing is, Entei doesn't feel really warm anymore," he commented, leaning against the shaggy brown Beast's side.

"I know you don't feel cold anymore, but you've still gotta put on shoes when you're going out in the garden," Saylee said, going into his door and picking up the trainers sitting nearest to it.

"Fine," Silver sighed, leaning away from Entei. The Beasts moved aside, allowing him to get back to the hallway, and as soon as they did, a young woman appeared in the middle of them.

She was taller than Saylee, but not by much, and had notably more meat and muscle on her. She had appeared without fanfare, without lights or sound, but Saylee couldn't help noticing there was a tinge of blue to her. "Congratulations, Ho-oh!" she cried, kicking Silver square in the ass and sending him faceplanting into Entei's side.

"Hey!" Saylee yelled, leaping forwards at the same moment that both Suicune and Raikou tried to tackle the newcomer. She just grinned and vanished, causing Suicune and Raikou to crash into each other and collapse in a heap on Entei's tail.

"What the fuck was that?!" Silver sputtered, turning around and rubbing his butt with a sour expression. He had brown fur stuck to his face. "Did somebody kick me?!"

"And yelled 'congratulations, Ho-oh'," Saylee said, scowling at where the mystery woman had been. "She was an avatar, too…"

"Why'd she kick me, though? Did she hate me or something?" Silver complained. He looked around the Beasts. "Are you okay? Do you know what she was?" The Beasts shook their heads, looking just as sour-faced as Silver.

Saylee just thought over the woman she'd seen, committing her face to memory. Congratulations, huh? Didn't sound like something an enemy would say… "I'll look it up later," she promised. "You think you can sit at the table for breakfast?"

{5785}

"Oh, there you are," Juan said, walking into the swimming pool hall with an air of affected calm, like he hadn't been frantically searching the entire building for his teenaged ward. In retrospect, the pool seemed an obvious place that Wallace would be, and he contrived to behave as if that was the first place he'd looked. "How do you feel?"

"When I'm in the water? Perfect," Wallace sighed happily as he floated over to the edge of the pool.

"What about on dry land?" Juan asked, offering Wallace a hand out of the water.

"Fine," Wallace said, slicking back his hair with the pool water. "I promise, Juan, I feel fine. I mean, being on land will never feel as good as being in the water, but I don't feel sick or weak anymore."

"Good," Juan said, squeezing Wallace's shoulder. "Now, I know you like being on the water, but I am getting you a towel before you-"

The second he stepped away from Wallace, a young woman appeared next to the teenager, a short, curvy blonde who yelled, "Congratulations, Manaphy!" before booting Wallace in the butt, knocking him face-first into the pool.

"Hey!" Juan cried, reaching to grab the young woman's arm. She just vanished mid-laugh, causing the Sootopolis leader to overbalance and fall into the pool with his protege.

"I just merged with a minor deity," Wallace said, his voice clearly audible underwater, "and that was still really, really weird."

{5796}

"Good evening, Dialga," Steven said as the young woman appeared behind him. "Ow!" he yelled as she kicked him in the butt. "What was that for?" he asked, frowning at the future avatar.

"Because you deserve it and you know it," she said, sticking out her tongue before disappearing back into the flow of time.

"...I mean, you're probably not wrong, but…" Steven muttered to empty air, "...that really hurt…"

{5795}

"This is gonna be so cool though!" Barry gabbled as the three of them walked up the path to the Verity Lakefront, Lucas leading Dawn by the hand. She still insisted on wearing dark sunglasses pressed so closely to her eyes that there was no chance of anybody making direct eye contact from any angle. The other two understood why it was necessary, even if it meant that Dawn couldn't see at any other time than the middle of the day. Uxie's vision was infamously dangerous, and now the three of them knew for a fact that it wasn't just a legend.

"We have to be careful about what we do with our powers," Dawn warned him. Lucas squeezed her hand, feeling his agreement at them. "We can't just go showing off to anybody…"

"Yeah but we can show off to each other!" Barry exclaimed. "And the other gods and people that know about them and-"

Lucas paused, emanating a feeling of confusion a second before a strange voice yelled, "congratulations, Azelf!" followed by a startled squawking noise from Barry.

"What the hell?!" Dawn heard Barry yell. "Who was that?! Where'd she go?!"

"Congratulations, Mesprit and Uxie!" the voice said again, this time from behind Dawn, before Lucas hopped forward with a startled gasp followed by something prodding her in the butt, making her stumble forwards a step.

"There! Did you see that?! She appeared from nowhere and disappeared again!" Barry yelled. Dawn felt Lucas' confusion and agreement.

"What was that?" she asked quietly. Even Uxie felt confused.

"And-hey! Why'd she give me a real kick but only prodded you two?!" Barry grumbled indignantly. Lucas' shoulders shook with silent laughter.

{5832}

Brienne staggered a little in the hall, yawning as she made her way to the front door of her flat. She was feeling a bit more settled about being able to access the broad spectrum of time through her brain, but that still didn't necessarily make her a morning person. "Oh, hi!" she said, opening the door to see the surprising sight of the Indigo Champion standing on her doorstep. "What're you doing here?"

"Just checking to see how you're feeling," the older woman said, following Brienne into the flat. "Your future self said she settled pretty quickly because you're not Dialga's first avatar, but I still wanted to check up on you for myself."

"That's… really nice of you," Brienne said, feeling touched. "I do feel fine, actually. It's been trippy, but I think I have a handle on things now."

"That's good," the Champion said, smiling. "I also came to give you something that I understand you're owed."

"That I'm owed?" Brienne said, starting to turn around and then giving a startled yelp as the Champion kicked her hard in the butt. "OW! What the hell?!"

"Some of the occasions when I've seen your future self have been times when you were setting to your quest of kicking the ass of every avatar that there ever has been or shall be," the Champion said, her eyes twinkling with amusement. "Congratulations, Dialga."

"Um… thanks?" Brienne said, rubbing her butt. That old lady could kick hard.

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Suggested by Bri: "Bri giving every avatar, across time, a kick in the ass. Because."

There are probably plenty of other avatars who deserve a good kick up the arse, but aside from Brienne, I decided to stick with ones that have already ascended in-fic :P Wally probably only got a very gentle prod too rather than a kick.