Act 3 - The Rookies

September 15, 2020 - On The Train To Jericho

Jojo's Perspective

10 hours into the train ride, it's nighttime, and I have no intention of sleeping.

The train was divided into several cars, the one I was in was the sleeping car, in the bedroom cart are multiple rooms where the passengers can sleep or spend time in.

The cart connecting to the sleeping car was several dining cars, and a cafe car, you know… I could go for a quick drink right now.

I slowly got up while I was in my bed, the bedroom I was in may look cramped as hell at first glance but it's actually quite comfortable, on the end of the room was a bed made for small pokemon, specifically ones below 100 cm, right beside it is a bedside table with a lamp, and finally is a storage compartment for small bags, which I put my suitcase in.

I left my room and shuffled through the tight corridor where all the bedrooms were lined up, I could hear the others doing stuff in their rooms, the loudest of them was Oliver, who was jamming with his guitar.

I finally got to the end of the car and slid open the door to the next one, this dining car was filled with several round tables with white tablecloths on them, I greeted a waiter as I walked through the car, the next one was the same, I passed through 1 more dining car and got to the cafe.

I kept my head low as I picked up a bottle of soda out of the freezer, even if this is a v.i.p train there can still be less than savory people.

" ah! Jojo, we havent seen eachother in a while " a very familiar german accent spoke out.

[ Battle Tendency OST - Tense ]

" Sigma… " I growled and slowly turned around, he was sitting on a couch, wearing a brown closed duster coat with a grey band on its arm, the band had a symbol of a sword on it.

" oh nein nein nein Jojo, its ' Major ' Sigma now, " he casually corrected

" give me one good reason not to toss you out of that window " I hissed at him.

" because… " he slowly reached into his jacket pocket, I pointed the soda bottle at him and charged it with enough hamon to be visible, but not enough to blow his head off with the cap.

He pulled out a yellow train ticket, " I am here legally, and am not planning to do anything illegal, i'm simply on a business trip ".

" oh yeah!? What about what happened back at Mt Cyrus, ever since that happened I had never heard about you going to jail ".

He chuckled, " well, the organisation I work for has connections to the police, so… they ' forgot ' about me ".

I frowned, how can someone escape capture that easily?

" come on, sit, we haven't had a proper conversation in ages " he chortled.

I cautiously sat down on a couch on the opposite side and scowled at him, he didn't mind.

" You seem to have gotten more taller Jojo, perhaps you can consider joining the ' Saber Corporation ' when you evolve " he suggested.

I managed to calm myself down, " I must decline, I'm already with a guild " I said while flicking my paw.

" hmf, what a shame… ".

How does he think he can talk to me like this, I beat the living shit out of him the first ( and last ) time we met, he definitely has something up his sleeve.

I quickly got up and walked out, soda bottle still in hand, he called out to me to stay, but I didn't listen.

[ Track End ]

Jojo's Perspective

Oh boy… I can't wait to see the look on the two's faces when they hear that Sigma's on the train, thankfully due to his size he would be on a completely different sleeping car.

I shuffled through the hallway, when I was halfway through to my room I knocked on the door to Evie's room, the door immediately opened, wow she must be hard at work on… something.

" yeah? ' she yawned.

" Good evening Evie, how's the ride going? ".

" y-yeah I'm doing fine " she squinted, " you're giving me the ' something is wrong ' look Jojo, stop beating around the bush ".

I sighed, " It appears that Sigma is on board this train ".

Her eyes widened, " SIGMA!? B-but I thought he got arrested! ".

I hushed her, " keep it down! He's definitely up to something, pass this on to Raymond discreetly, we don't need any panic spreading around ".

She nodded, and then yawned, " a-alright, now if you'll excuse me I have some writing to do " she slammed the door just inches away from my face, I sighed and walked over to the door to my room.

I opened the door and sat on the small bed, I held up the soda bottle to drink it, wait… ah crap its sealed!

I don't have a cap opener, but I do have the next best thing…

There was a window on the back of my room, I opened it and aimed the bottle outside, I charged it up with hamon and then…

The bottle cap shot out like a bullet out of the train, being followed by a trail of foam, I waited for the foam to die down before closing the window and drinking it, damn hamon is cool.

Later…

Raymond's Perspective

I was laying in bed, not sure of what to do, maybe I could go over to the dining car and chill, you know what? I'll go over there right now.

I left my room and shuffled through the hallway, I went through the door to my left and into a sleeping car, I walked through it and into the diner

It was a very long train car, couches and tables were lined up across the car facing away from the table, there was nobody in there except for Oliver and Tom.

" really dude, it's true! This UFO just crashed near my house and suddenly a bunch of government agents told me to piss off! It's aliens dude! " Oliver was making a bunch of frantic motions with his paws

" oh wow… how interesting " Tom sarcastically groaned, he was tinkering with a gadget and was visually annoyed with Oliver's exclamations, Oliver didn't pick up his sarcasm.

I tuned them out and walked over to a couch behind a table and sat down, a roserade wearing a bow-tie came up to me, " what would you like to order? " it asked.

" uhhh, just some chocolate milk ", her eyes widened, " this is a five-star premium train with tickets worth millions of poke and you're ordering a chocolate milk? ".

" uhh, yeah ".

She facepalmed, " we don't serve that here " she slammed a menu on the table and walked away, wow…

" the staff here are all composed of elitists, I don't blame them " a very familiar voice spoke out.

I looked towards the source of the voice and saw a meowstic, a very familiar one.

She sat down on the couch, and picked up the menu, " I suggest getting the oysters, they taste the best ".

I turned my head, " so, where have you been?, you left town three years ago ".

" hmf, I should've known I would've ran into you again, shouldn't you have evolved by now Ray? ".

" I guess I'm a late bloomer, heh, get it, because i'm part-plant? ".

Charlotte sighed and walked out.

September 16, 2020, 8:00 PM - The Train To Jericho

Evie's Perspective

There was a rainstorm happening outside, which was odd, the weather forecast on the radio said there would be clear skies for sure today.

I was resting on one of the lounge cars couches, I got up and yawned, I'm pretty sure we're halfway through the continent by now, I yawned and got up from the couch, I looked over at a soda fountain in the corner of the room, I went over to it, and grabbed a cup.

I placed the cup into the machine and pressed some buttons, oran juice started pouring into the cup, once it was filled…

Uhh, how do I stop it?

I pressed some other buttons that were on it, it didn't stop, oh crap oh crap!

I quickly switched the overflowing cup with another empty one, that should buy me some time.

I hastily looked around the machine for a stop button, why does a freaking soda fountain have to be so complex!?

But then suddenly a white paw pressed a button on the machine, the juice stopped pouring, I looked at who did it and saw that emolga from the Speedwagon Foundation.

" Merci- oh uh I mean, thanks " I picked up the cup with my mouth and walked over to the couch.

I was sitting on my hind legs while drinking it with my front ones. I envy bipedal pokemon a lot, sitting down on your hinds is not very comfortable at all.

I saw Meowstic coming into the room, " g'morning! " I greeted her as I took a sip of juice.

She sighed and jumped into one of the couches besides me, I thought back to Sigma, maybe she can read his mind and find out what he's planning.

" hey uhh… Meowstic? " I tried to get her attention.

" my name's Charlotte " she corrected me.

" oh… Charlotte, that's a nice name, wait… weren't you the one that got lost in that zubat cave with Ray? "

She frowned, " yeah, I was really dumb back then, I heard what he went through, nobody deserves to go through that ".

" hmm, well, enough about that, I need you to read someone's mind on this train without them knowing ".

Her eyes widened, " what? No, that's just messed up ".

" please Charlotte, he- ".

Her eyes flashed purple, " alright I read your memories and saw who it was, I'll do it ".

" w-what!? You just said t- ".

" that it was unethical? Yeah I did say that ".

I quietly growled, " alright, do it ".

Her eyes flashed purple again, she gasped, " we need to get to the baggage car, NOW! ".

Narrator

Sigma was standing right outside the door of the baggage car, it connected directly to the locomotive. He took a quick glance around before opening the door into the restricted area.

He walked down the corridor filled with suitcases, a security guard metang was floating in the middle of the corridor, it noticed him, " sir, you are not permitted to be in this car, pl- " it was hit square in the face by a sleep seed, it cracked on impact and released a purple cloud of gas, the guard collapsed unconscious.

A duskull floated out of the floor behind the sleeping metang, " you're late " Sigma chastised the duskull, they both hastily found the suitcases they were looking for and opened them up.

The suitcases and bags that they were told to open were filled with strange gadgets, Sigma strapped a unactivated fulton balloon to his waist, he saw the duskull float into the other end of the room into the locomotive, Sigma went to another suitcase and pulled out a large container, a bit of red dust spilled out of it., He opened the bag next to it and picked up a crowbar and a strange circular device with a button in the middle.

In the other train cars, Evie and Charlotte were rushing to the baggage car, Evie could barely keep up with the meowstic, " come on we ha-... oh no… ".

Sigma pressed the button on the device, it gave off a beeping noise as the space around it was distorted, " take this you nosy katze " he mumbled in glee.

Charlotte collapsed on the ground clutching her head, yelping in pain, " Charlotte whats wrong!? " Evie asked in worry.

Charlotte slowly got up, her pupils were now grey, they used to be dark blue, " damn, he used a psychic disabler device, I don't have a fix on his location anymore, and I cant use telekinesis, ough my head feels numb ", she stumbled around still holding her head.

" sit there, I'll go get Jojo and the others " Evie reassured and ran back.

The eevee ran the opposite direction towards the sleeping cars, she shuffled through the hallways and towards where Jojo's room was.

The door slid open before Evie could get there, Jojo walked out of it and stretched, " oh what a day! " he said while yawning, Evie didn't have any time to slow down and crashed right into him, they both stumbled and fell, " woah what's your problem Evie!? " Jojo exclaimed as he got up.

" I-its Sigma, he's doing something in the baggage room I don't know what but he disabled Charlotte's psychic powers! ".

Raymond's room door slid open without warning, " did you just say that Sigma's here!? " he freaked out, there wasn't any soundproofing in the train car.

" yo… " Oliver's door slid open, " whats all the hubbub about? " He groaned, " I'm tryna practice here! "

Tom's door slid open as well, he groggily walked through it, " can you keep it down people… " he yawned.

" there's a criminal on the train! " Evie explained.

Tom rubbed his eyes, " and we have to stop him since we're agents now, alright, show us where he is ".

Sigma started pushing the bags into the door of the baggage car to buy him some time, once all the bags were piled up against it he took the crowbar and walked over to a window.

He climbed out of the window and onto the roof of the train car, his jacket was fluttering all over the place as the train sped by the countryside.

He carefully walked over the train cars, being cautious not to slip and fall off. He eventually got to the car that he was looking for, he knelt down and pulled off the container, he poured thermite all over the roof of the car, the train car had ridges around the roof so the red dust wouldn't fall off.

When the container was empty he tossed it over the edge of the moving train and stepped back onto the car behind him, he pulled out a pack of cigars and pulled one out, he lit it and smoked it for a few seconds before tossing the cigar into the thermite.

The thermite erupted in sparks, a loud crackling noise could be heard from it, a minute later it fully melted through the roof of the car, Sigma jumped in and landed on a crate.

" s-stop right there! " a nervous government-hired security guard combusken shouted.

" you're under arrest! " a poliwrath guard shouted.

" ah, good evening men, " he raised his fists up, " lets dance ".

The team sped through the halls of the train cars, until they got to the baggage car, Jojo slammed his body against the door and failed to open it, " its blocked ".

" there is another way… " Tom scratched his chin, " Raymond, can you climb? " he asked the snivy.

" uhh yeah, a bit… " his eyes widened.

A tiny bit of encouragement later…

Raymond was shuffling along the outside of the ( moving ) train car, he yelped several times as the train turned. When he finally got to the edges of the baggage car he climbed through the window into it.

He saw a bunch of open suitcases, and some strange red powder on the floor, he looked towards the door and saw a bunch of bags piled over it, he ran over to the door and started tearing off the bags.

Sigma kicked the poliwrath across the room, it landed with a thud and got knocked unconscious, he sighed and walked over to a table filled with documents, he pulled out a small duffle bag and stuffed them all in, then attaching a fulton balloon to it and letting it fly out of the train car to be picked up by a plane.

He went over to the crate he landed on earlier and inspected the lock that held it closed, he smashed it with his hand and opened it.

Inside of the crate was a big alien-looking device, " just what we were looking for " he mumbled as he attached a larger fulton balloon to it, it would take a while for the plane to circle back through.

When all the bags were taken off of the baggage room door Raymond opened it for the others, they rushed in and were surprised that no one was there, the roserade was with them as well.

Tom walked in and inspected the open suitcases and the powder on the ground, " Roserade? Is there anything valuable enough that someone would want to steal on this train? " he asked.

" well uh… " her eyes widened, " oh wait! There was an armored boxcar that the government requested to be transported over to Jericho, all we were told was that no one except the people guarding it could go in, why do you ask? ".

" an armored boxcar eh? " Tom pointed to the powder, " you would need a helluva lot of thermite to melt through that, where is it? "

Sigma was waiting for the fulton balloon to be picked up, he got a psychic message from one of his accomplices.

" Major Sigma, the agents found out about the retrieval, we are going to detonate the oncoming tracks in 10 seconds, exfiltrate with the package now. " he groaned and disabled the fulton balloon on the crate, he tucked the crate under his arm and forced open the boxcar door.

He realised that the psychic disabler ran out of charge a few minutes ago, he found this out by Charlotte psychically communicating with him and shutting the door of the boxcar, " surrender now " she stated boldly.

" hehehe, say your prayers katze, the train will be derailed in a few seconds " he chuckled while still in the car.

Charlotte was confused for a second, she suddenly sensed the explosives on the tracks, " EVERYONE GET DO- ".

BOOM!

Jojo's Perspective

A few minutes later…

Great, the train got bombed, my ears are ringing, and I was lying on the ground in pain for Arceus knows how long.

After my ears stopped ringing I slowly pushed myself off the ground and looked around the destroyed train car I was in, everyone else was gone.

I realised that the train car was flipped completely upside down, and I was on the ceiling, I crawled out of a window and into the absolute mess that was going on outside.

Shadow balls were flying all over the place, I stumbled and fell as one whizzed past my face, a duskull that probably shot it charged at me, I formed an aura-sphere and shot it, it collapsed unconscious.

I could see blurs of what was possibly my friends, I still haven't fully recovered from the blast.

I quickly got up and shambled farther, I saw the armored boxcar flipped over and went over to inspect it.

The boxcar was still closed, I cautiously approached it in a daze, the door suddenly burst open, Sigma jumped out, he quickly noticed me and smirked as he dropped a long crate on the ground.

I snapped out of my stupor and held up my fists in a fighting stance. " you still remember Mt. Cyrus? The outcome is gonna be the exact same " I snapped.

" oh, you really think that? We will see for sure ".

I rushed forward and barraged him with a load of punches while screaming, he stumbled back but surprisingly he was unfazed.

I roundhouse-kicked him in the side, he grunted and was dazed for a tiny bit, still mostly undaunted.

" wha? " I exclaimed in shock, he should be lying on the ground in pain right now!

" My turn " he jabbed me in the face with two of his fingers, stunning me, he stepped backwards and pulled back his lower right arm and jabbed me in the torso sending me flying about 40 metres away, what is this 'mon!?

I slammed into a train car and collapsed on the ground, dust from the impact flew everywhere, clouding the area around me, I clutched my torso and looked up when the dust cleared, I saw Sigma only 5 metres away from me, how!?

" t-the hell? " I choked out while getting up.

He tore his duster coat off revealing a strange set of armor with a mechanical exoskeleton on it, " impressive ja? It increases my strength and agility tenfold, hell I could arm wrestle a tyranitar and win with zis ".

I bumbled forward and punched him with a hamon-charged arm, the hamon energy visibly traveled around the armor and didn't hurt Sigma one bit!

" this armor is made out of a special metal, it completely negates hamon energy, your joke of a power is useless! " he mocked as I got kicked away.

I got up and glared at him, " did you really think I would rely on a gimmick like hamon? I'm just going to bash your head into that tin can of yours! ".

He extended his arm and finger, motioning me to come and fight.

" SIIIIIGMAAAAA! " I yelled as I charged at him.

" you fool! I will now demonstrate the power of our superior technology! BRING IT ON,JOOJOOO! " he yelled as he charged forward as well.

Rudolf Von Sigma

Major of the Saber Corporation guild

Sigma swung his arm at me and knocked me to the ground, that's what would've happened if I was physically there. Allow me to explain.

A few weeks ago I discovered that I could use the move " double team ", this allows me to generate copies of myself at will, while the dust was surrounding me I sent out a copy of myself and ran to a safe spot.

SIgma stood there in shock, " what ze he- " I interrupted him by tossing a big rock at the back of his head when he wasn't looking.

I ran over to another spot right before he turned around, I quietly giggled to myself as I released another clone, it ran into the open and waved its arms in the air, " over here you big doofus! " it laughed.

Sigma growled and kicked a rock at it, the rock flew like a bullet and went straight through the apparition, it dissolved into mist just like last time.

He stood there in disbelief again, it only took him a few seconds to realise what was going on, " he's using double team " he remarked to himself.

" Oh you figured it out, good job!~ " a clone of me popped out of nowhere, Sigma quickly punched it into dust.

" come on out Jojo, for real! " Sigma demanded with his guard up.

" woof woof! " a clone jumped up and whacked Sigma on the head, he swatted it away in annoyance.

" zis is not funny1 " he cried out, contrary to his objection, it was, in fact, funny.

I continued to assault him with ghostly phantoms of myself, until his guard was completely down.

" I don't have time for your games, I'm leaving " he groaned and made his way over to the crate, to his surprise it wasn't there, I snatched it while he was distracted.

" uuuugh " he facepalmed in frustration.

One of my clones appeared behind him, " he's over there~ " it whispered while pointing to another clone dashing behind a train car.

Sigma frantically looked at both of them, he bolted towards the other clone, I knew he was thick-skulled but not that stupid!

I was hiding behind a rock with the crate he was after besides me, I chuckled to myself as I dragged away the crate, whatever this is I have to keep it away from him.

I hauled the crate over my shoulder and started running, maybe he'll give up after a while of not finding it, I hope.

I pushed the crate into one of the ruined train cars and hid in it, this should keep me safe until the authorities come.

" yo, Jojo is that you? " Oliver whispered, I looked towards him, he was in the same train car as me, " who do you think I am, santa? " I quietly snapped.

" p-probably… is that big guy gone? " he huddled in the corner of the car.

" I think so, right here is the thing he blew up the train for, I'm not sure what it is " I pointed at the crate.

" let's open the dang thing then, maybe it can help us! " Oliver ran over to the crate and smashed it open with his guitar, I flinched at the sudden " crack " sound it made as it broke open, I took a quick glance around to check if Sigma heard.

I looked back at Oliver, who's eyes were wide as hell at what he saw inside, " what's in there? " I asked.

He slowly looked up from the crate and straight into my eyes, " its aliens 'mon… ", suddenly we heard the metal roof above us screech as it was torn open, crap Sigma found us!

" run! " I yelled as I jumped out of a window, Sigma burst through the ceiling of the car and backhanded Oliver away, took out whatever was in the crate and ran out the door of the car.

I ducked behind some debris and peeked over it, I saw Sigma with his back turned to me, he had a strange device slung over his shoulder, probably whatever was in that crate.

There was a big cylindrical object attached to the back of his exoskeleton, looks important. I charged up an aura sphere.

I shot it into the cylinder, the entirety of it blew up sending Sigma flying forwards.

He got up and glared at me, he tore off his wrecked exosuit and charged at me.

He swung his fist at me, which I easily dodged, without that exosuit he can't do anything!

I jumped up and uppercutted him, he grunted and did a half-assed roundhouse kick, I ducked under his leg and punched him in the place no one wants to be punched in.

His voice comedicly grew several hertz higher as he screamed in pain stumbling back.

I rushed him while he was still recovering from the blow and used force-palm on him, he fell backwards, sparks traveled through his body, he went completely limp.

" lets see how your guild gets you out of this one! " I snickered and turned my back to him, I took one step forward and heard a weird noise behind me.

I turned around and saw that Sigma pulled some strange pin from a bag strapped around his waist, a giant balloon was connected to the bag by a rope and was floating above him.

" Auf Wiedersehen Jojooooooo! " he whooped as a plane swooped in and carried away the balloon he was tied to, he flew with it.

" dammit! " I yelled as I kicked a rock, I almost had him!

I sighed and looked around, train cars were scattered everywhere, craters were all over the ground, and the train tracks were just gone. It's gonna take a lot to clean up this place.

September 17, 2020 - Lockrye Town

Raymond's Perspective

Wow… what a mess last night, the damage to the rails and train would take a fortune to repair, thankfully nobody died, that's good.

The Speedwagon Foundation was able to set us up with a temporary residence in a nearby town, it was a fishing village. They mostly ate feral pokemon, like, real feral meat, not the synthetic kind.

This was really strange to me once I started thinking about it, would we be eating them if they weren't feral? What's stopping someone from just eating a normal pokemon? Did humans eat pokemon when they were around?

I was thinking about this while watching some magikarps get chopped up at the docks, the distinct smell of the meat assaulted my nostrils, after a while of standing around I quickly left before I got sick.

I walked into the town square to look for the others, I found Jojo leaning on a wall, I went up to him.

" oh hey Ray, how's the village treating you? " he asked.

" pretty good, " I responded.

We both stood there awkwardly, not knowing how to progress the conversation, " oh uh, one of Speedwagon's guys swooped in and said that they rented out a plane ride to Jericho, we're going tomorrow, " Jojo explained.

" oh really? That's cool, I've never been on an airplane before ".

He chuckled, " I have… they're usually pretty wild rides when I'm on ", I had no Idea what he meant by that.

" well, see you " I walked away.

September 18, 2020 - Outskirts Of Lockrye Town

" come on board kids! " a pelipper called out while standing besides the giant plane.

This used to be one of those military transport planes from way back then, I never thought I would get to ride in one of these.

The giant door to the cargo hold opened up, the inside was furnished with sleeping bags and tables and several oval shaped windows were on the walls perfect for a long distance trip.

We went inside of it and I immediately jumped into one of the sleeping bags, wow this is so comfortable.

The pelipper went to the far end of the cargo hold and opened a door into the cockpit.

A speaker attached to the ceiling of the cargo hold activated, " everyone get comfortable, this ride is going to take about eight hours ".

" eight hours? That's surprisingly fast since we're still really far away from Jericho " Tom remarked while snuggling against a sleeping bag, " well, g'night folks! ".

" good night? But it's daytime, " Evie corrected him, too late, he already fell asleep.

I sighed and pulled the covers of the sleeping bag over my head, " might as well get some rest " I mumbled to myself.

Later…

Jojo's Perspective

It was midnight, and I wasn't in the mood for sleeping, so was Evie.

I was sitting down next to the wall, slightly dozing off, I guess I was in the mood. Evie suddenly tapped me on the shoulder, I got startled and flinched, she recoiled her paw away from me, " oh sorry, didn't know if you were awake or not ".

" could you at least give a heads-up before you give me a heart-attack? "

Evie chuckled, " I'll consider that ".

" what do you want? " I yawned, now I DO want to sleep.

" I uh… had a question, is Jojo your real name? " she asked, I shook my head.

" its Joestar, Joseph Joestar… " her eyes widened, then she started snickering.

" oooooh, JOseph JOestar! Ha, I get it~ ".

I shushed her, " people are trying to sleep! " I growled.

" sorry ".

We both sat there in silence, I spoke up, " say, Evie? What was your childhood like? ".

She looked conflicted at what I asked, " well, it was nice, back then… ".

Evie's Perspective

I was born in a very famous family, just take one look in the history books, I bet you'll see at least 2 of my relatives in the first page.

My parents were famous explorers, best of the best, there was no mystery dungeon in the world they couldn't tackle!

But because of their status we were always harassed by the press, I always remember what my parents told me to say, " piss off! ", or as my mom said: " allez vous en! ".

" you're french? " he was surprised.

" On my mère's side I am, she was born up north in the maple continent, my dad was born in the grass continent, " I said while absentmindedly tapping the floor.

" so why haven't I seen anyone geeking out over you being around? Since you're famous. " JoJo asked.

" because they don't know who I am, barely anyone outside of my family knows my last name, after… what happened… I went under the radar, in the world's eyes I disappeared, probably dead, and all of that will change once I arrive in Jericho ".I explained.

" wait… what happened? ", a lump formed in my throat.

" I… I-I don't want to talk about it… ".

He nodded, " I understand ".

We both sat there in silence again, " uh, JoJo? What were the humans like? ".

He rubbed his chin, " well… where do I start? ".

" um, do you remember your past life? " I asked.

" a bit of it, all I know is that I was raised by my grandmother and some millionaire named Speedwagon ".

" wait… Speedwagon as in, the guy running the Speedwagon Foundation? ".

He blankly stared at me, " how… how the hell did I not notice that?… ".

I put one paw over my mouth, trying my hardest not to erupt in laughter, is this riolu really that dense!?

" Well, I guess I have someone to meet with once we get back on the ground " he shambled over to a sleeping bag and got in it, I did as well.

" good night " he waved as he pulled the covers over himself.

" bonne nuit " I yawned, I closed my eyes and drifted off.

Chapter 17 End