A/N: It's rather funny; I managed to get this chapter written up on Monday, yet due to having to prepare videos for my channel's upcoming schedule, I almost missed out uploading this finished chapter on this Saturday. Luckily I managed to fine some time in the night to upload the chapter, so without further ado, please enjoy... the 20th chapter I believe, of Nanka's Pokémon Miiverse Adventure.
Nanka's Pokémon Miiverse Adventure Act 7 Continued!
"Its okay, Chu-Chu." Nanka said softly as she gently stroked her sickly Gyarados' head. "You just make sure you get plenty of rest."
"Gyarrr…" Chu-Chu moaned, saddened to be letting his princess down, but happy at the concern he was being given.
Nanka and Jolt smiled with relief as Chu-Chu lay back down to rest, to recover from the many long swims and close calls through freezing environments he had endured recently.
"Let's see here…" Nanka mumbled aloud as she looked through her TMs. "TM46 says it does varying and occasional damage. That… that worries me too much; sorry Sabrina, but I won't be using your TM."
Rummaging through her bag further, Nanka pulled out TM33, "Reflect! Just what I was looking for! Beauty, could you come here for a second?"
It had been something that Nanka had been contemplating for a while, both as she was Surfing atop Chu-Chu and as she spent her nights in the Seafoam Islands, but she had finally decided to use one of her Reflect TMs to teach the defensive barrier creating move to her Vulpix.
Having rested up from the exciting yet terrifying ordeal on Seafoam Island, Nanka left the Cinnabar Island Pokécentre with an eagerness to explore the fiery town of burning desire.
"Where should we visit first, Jolt?" Nanka asked her companion as she skim-read a tourism leaflet. "Cinnabar's beach is pretty popular, but I think we should first check out the… Jolt?"
When she received no response from her starter, she spun around to spot her Pikachu already dashing off.
Jolt eagerly zipped and dipped under people, bouncing with joy as he made his way to the Gym. The Gyms doors in sight, Jolt lunged towards it… and slammed into it face first.
"Jooolllt!" Nanka called out as she spotted her Pikachu sliding down the Gyms door. "There you are."
Jolt recovered from his collision, and paying no heed to his trainer, tried pushing open the handle lacking push door.
It wouldn't budge; the door was locked.
"It looks like the Gym is closed." Nanka noted after her own attempt to push the door open. "Welp, nothing we can do. C'mon Jolt; to the Pokémon Lab!"
"Chuuu…" Jolt moaned as he dragged himself after Nanka.
Despite it's business as a tourist attraction, Cinnabar Island was fairly small, so it was only a short walk before the trainer and Pokémon reached the island's laboratory. Stepping inside, the duo was greeted by a building filled with scientific wonders and teachings; nothing that Jolt understood. As Nanka listened to the many conversing scientists, Jolt's gaze locked onto a portrait of the lab's former head scientist, a kindly smiling bald man whom looked oddly familiar.
"Research and Development, Testing…" Nanka wandered down the hallway, reading off the signs of each of the lab's many rooms, "…Fan-club?"
"Ah yes, due to the recent expenses of our latest project, we have had to acquire further funding for the lab by renting out one of the rooms to some…" The nearby scientist explained with a forlorn expression, "…odd folks."
"Shame really, I found the studies of the nature of trading and trade evolution to be quite fascinating." Another scientist added, wistfully looking to the door now labelled, 'Fan-club.'
Quickly thanking the pair of scientists for their explanation, Nanka looked to the fan-club, curiosity urging her to enter inside… a decision she immediately regretted.
Within the small but well lighted room was walls covered with pinned up newspaper and magazine clippings, along with three people sitting around a table laden with all sorts of swimsuits. This in itself was bizarre, but what caught Nanka's immediate attention and filled her with dread was the hung up banner, a banner with 'Swimsuit Vigilante Fan-Club!' printed on it.
'Oh no.' Nanka thought as one of the members spotted her.
The noticing girl's face lit up at the sight of Nanka, running over to her with a squeal.
"Wow! You look just like the Swimsuit Vigilante!" The freckled older teen squealed as she observed Nanka close up.
"W-what?! N-no, I'm not, I-I mean, ummm, no I don't; of course I don't!" Nanka exclaimed, holding her hands in front of her in protest as she squealed internally. 'H-how? I thought G-Man said he gave everyone a fake description so no one would suspect it was me.'
"Hmmm, she has the hair, but isn't she a tad young…" An older gentleman with small spectacles commented, before unpinning a newspaper article from the wall, "…let's… double-check that description that one boy gave."
'Yes, the fake description G-Man gave! That will stop them suspecting me.' Nanka hoped, standing frigidly as she sweated nervously.
Adjusting his spectacles, the old man began to read the article, "According to one G-Man, the only non-criminal to have had a clear sighting of the Swimsuit Vigilante, the Vigilante is described… as having long green locks of hair as lush as a vibrant forest… gentle yet fiery eyes that could light up any darkness… smooth peachy skin of moonlight tint…"
'G-Man's description just sounds like he's talking about me!' Nanka continued to scream in her head, but the more she thought about how she was being described, the more she began to blush. 'It just sounds like… G-Man's describing me… very nicely.'
"You're forgetting a huuugggeee difference." The third member of the club, a raven haired young man with headphones around his neck, spoke up. "This girl simply cannot be the Swimsuit Vigilante."
"O-oh, right…" Nanka mumbled, still blushing beet-red, though her smile begun to drop as she thought to herself, 'T-that's right; that was G-Man describing the Swimsuit Vigilante… not me. He probably exaggerated everything about me and thought that was enough.'
"Aaaaah; you're right!" The other two members shouted out in unison as they read further into the article. "The interviewed boy states, and I quote, the Vigilante also had big bouncy beach balls barely contained by the tight straps of her revealing swimsuit."
Nanka's hot uncertain blush plummeted in temperature until it morphed into an icy emotionless stare.
After her… 'interesting' encounter with the Swimsuit Vigilante fan-club, Nanka found she had quite a few things to say to G-Man about his… choice of words. Until then, the encounter with a fan-club whose members were unknowingly devoted to her was best pushed to the back of her mind, at least that's how Nanka felt. She would continue to explore the lab and hopefully find the other rooms more to her liking.
The Research and Development room was indeed much more to her liking; one proud scientist even gifted her with a TM he had created, a TM of the attack Metronome to be precise.
Nanka and her Pokémon continued to wander around the lab; Ferry and Hover particularly enjoying themselves in the technological setting. Nanka read about the labs discoveries and experiments, only understanding the odd bit or two, and only thanks to Professor Oak frequently talking to her when she was growing up.
'Thinking about it, the Professor would often come up to talk to me about his research…' Nanka reminisced, '…but I don't recall seeing him ever discuss his science with G-Man before.'
"Excuse me, sir?" Nanka called out to a nearby Doctor, the title stated on his name tag, and pointed to a large machine. "May I ask what this machine here does?"
"Hiya! That fossil machine!" The Doctor replied with a thick foreign accent. "Turn fossil back to Pokémon!"
Nanka turned back to the machine in astonishment, "This… can bring fossilised Pokémon back to life!?"
"You! Have you a fossil for me?" The Doctor asked with a hopeful grin as his narrow eyes sparkled.
"I actually have two… I think." Nanka declared with a bright smile.
To her surprise though, the Doctor appeared sad, "Unfortunate, we can only revive one fossil every so many months."
"Only one?" Nanka repeated with a similarly saddened tone.
"Kid!" A nearby scientist lounging back on an office chair yelled out, "We are spitting in the face of Arceus and resurrecting the dead. Be more amazed we can resurrect any."
"O-oh, you're right, my apologies sir." Nanka said with a curt bow of her head.
"Uh, yeah, sure…" The seated scientist replied, seemingly unused to such politeness directed at him. "…In any case kid, it takes a lot of power to run that machine but if you've been lucky enough to find a fossil in good enough condition to restore, well we'll do that for you."
"Thank you very much, sirs!" Nanka replied, exchanging a smile to both men, before looking over to the PCs within the room. "If I can access my personal PC storage from here, I can get a fossil out for you."
As Nanka looked at the monitor, searching for her Dome Fossil within her storage, she noticed an item listed as 'Old Amber.' Seeing the Amber on screen reminded her of the Pewter Museum of Science, the mocked staff member who gave her the amber and his request for her to have it checked out at Cinnabar's Lab.
"Oh dear, I almost forgot about this." Nanka realised as she withdrew the Old Amber and brought it on over the Doctor. "Could you please see if this amber has any life within it?"
Nanka patiently waited for a half-hour as careful study was done on the gleaming orange chunk, though once that half hour had passed, the Doctor cheered, "Life is here! I take a little time! You go for a walk and fossil will be alive!"
"Really!?" The curious girl asked with giddy enthusiasm, hopping on the spot. "How long should I walk for?"
"A day!"
"A… a whole day?"
"A day is little time for this."
Having finished exploring every part of the lab, Nanka called it a day. The next morning, Nanka rushed on over to the Pokémon Lab to check on the revived fossil, only to be informed that precisely twenty-four hours had yet to pass.
Instead going for a short walk on the island, touring around and looking for stuff to do, Nanka was told of a burned out building that was used as a test site. Curious, Nanka and Jolt headed to this 'Pokémon Mansion.'
With a gentle nudge, the massive mansion doors creaked open and the curious girl and her adventurous Pikachu made their way inside. Stepping onto signed carpet, Nanka and Jolt walked between rows of cracked pillars, taking in their dark and dusty surroundings.
Nanka hummed to herself, admiring the rich but worn details of the mansion, "You know… I bet this place would be even more lovely at night."
Jolt disagreed, thanking the sunbeams pouring in from the cracked windows and even walls; the rain of light throwing off the otherwise haunting aesthetic of the place.
Navigating their way through the many hallways, Nanka and Jolt came across numerous metal doors, firmly shut either by tight locks or perhaps by fallen rubble on the other side.
"I wonder how we can open them." Nanka pondered as Jolt tried forcing one of these doors to open, slamming and banging against it to little avail.
Suddenly a loud and ferocious Roar rang out through the air, sending shivers down Nanka and Jolt's spines. The shivering trainer and Pikachu spun around, spotting a snarling Pokémon steadily approaching them from the shadows.
Jolt shook his head, shaking off the fear-inducing effects of the unknown Pokémon's Roar attack, and called out, "Kachu! Pika, Pikachu!"
"H-Huh?" Nanka responded to Jolt, quickly noticing her shivering body, and in turn went about shaking the effects of Roar off of her as best as could. "Thank you, Jolt! Now… show yourself… please."
"Growl! Growl!" The Pokémon barked continuously as it stepped out of the shadows, revealing himself as an old, bushy browed Growlithe.
The dull coated dog wasted no time in firing off an Ember after his introduction; likewise Nanka wasted no time in sending out Ion and dousing the oncoming fire attack with her Vaporeon's Bubblebeam. Despite the effective guard, the aged Growlithe managed to redirect a couple specks of Ember around Ion's bubbles, striking the water type.
"I didn't even know… this Growlithe is pretty skilled." Nanka noted, impressed by the Growlithe's quick thinking. "It might be experience; he does seem to be an old Pokémon."
Nanka was so impressed with how the Growlithe was managing to stand up to the super effective Ion undaunted, that she retrieved an Ultra Ball from her bag and proceeded to catch him.
"I think I'll name him… Barker." Nanka decided as the Growlithe containing Ultra Ball teleported away to her PC. "Superb work out there, Ion."
Ion nodded with a grin as Nanka returned her victorious Vaporeon, "Let's continue exploring, Jolt. There must be a way to open up these doors somewhere."
"Pika!" Jolt cheered, giving a thumbs up.
So the duo began scanning the area; looking around for switches or levers… or even dropped keys that might help them.
"What a strange statue." Nanka commented as she inspected the carved rock of a long tailed, bipedal Pokémon. "Hey, is that a switch?"
Looking closer at the statue, Nanka could indeed see a small red button on the pink stone pedestal. "S-Should I…?"
Worrying scenarios played out in Nanka's mind, of her falling through a trap hole or the statue shooting lasers at her, but with Jolt's consistent urging, she finally convinced herself to flip the switch.
Flipping the switch did very little; it opened a door, but that door merely led to a near empty room bar a couple dusty beds. With nowhere else to go in the ground floor, Nanka decided to ascend the rickety staircase to the first floor.
Within seconds of walking onto the first floor and away from the staircase, someone ran into her, causing them both crash down to the floor.
"Ooowww…" Nanka moaned, sitting up and noticing the suspicious shades-wearing man that had bumped into her.
As ornaments, jewellery, and documents fell from the short man's green clothed bag, he cried out, "My bag of loot!"
Nanka wasn't quite sure what was going on, and when the suspicious man sent out his Charmeleon to attack her, she had no time to figure things out. After a quick battle, her Ribbon best the shady man's fire types, where he then fled with nought but his Pokéballs in his hands.
"Oh, he left all his stuff." Nanka noted, looked at the unfurled bundle of loot.
Looking at the sprawled items, Nanka quickly came to the conclusion that the various candlesticks, paintings and more had been looted from the mansion; they seemed more at home in the burnt up building than within a man's travelling belongings. With the assistance of her Pokémon, Nanka and her team went about placing each of the objects in their original positions… or roughly where it looked like they had been.
The most curious item amongst the stolen goods though was a diary; a researcher's journal of new discoveries. Rude as it was too, Nanka found herself flicking through it.
'July 10th: We named the newly discovered Pokémon, Mew.' Nanka read from the diary as she walked on, eyes focused on the yellowed pages and the fading inked writing. 'Feb 6th: Mew gave bir-eek!"
Engrossed in reading the diary, Nanka had not noticed her surroundings and now found her feet, well, engrossed in sludge. The purple gloopy sludge slowly climbed up her legs, traversing both under and outside of her clothes, soon wrapping around her as a large eyed Muk formed from the, well, muck.
"J-Jolt-eeek!" Nanka screamed out, her well ahead Pikachu wasting no time in running back to her and blasting away every drop of the Muk.
"I guess I should have paid more attention." Nanka chuckled as she washed her hair. "Perhaps any attention at all might have helped."
Jolt had dispatched with the Muk, but the Sludge Pokémon left a reminder; it's sticky and foul stenched ooze all over Nanka and her clothes. Covered from head-to-toe in the disgusting stuff, Nanka opted to call it a day and head back to the Pokémon Centre for a much needed bath.
"Oooh, I hope this stuff comes out." Nanka pleaded as she combed out a thicker chunk of Muk's muck from her hair. "The smell as well."
As she started to see just about every trace of ooze leave her hair, Nanka began to worry less about her sticky ordeal, beginning to hum to herself as she washed over her pale skin with a flannel. The bathing teenager was so relaxed that she didn't hear the paws of a small Pokémon walking into the room, and only noticed Jolt when she spotted him from the corner of her eye.
"J-Jolt!" Nanka yelped, quickly submerging herself further into the bath water, only keeping her head poking out to reply. "I-I won't be much longer; y-you can have your bath after I'm done okay?"
"Chhhh…" Jolt groaned, irritated at having to wait so long for his chance to swim in the tub.
'I never thought a Pikachu would enjoy bathing so much.' Nanka thought to herself as she watched Jolt walk out, just as Melody skipped on in. "Oh, Melody, are you waiting for your turn to have a bath?"
"Jigglypuff; puff-puff!" Melody cheerfully yelled out, skipping towards Nanka with open arms… until she felt someone grabbing onto her ear and sharply yanking it. "J-Jiggl!"
"Pika, Pi. Kachu, Piiikkk." Jolt said as he kept a firm grip on Melody's ear, dragging the disappointed Jigglypuff out of the bathroom.
Nanka just stared blankly at where two Pokémon had been, "H-huh?"
The next day, a now fully clean Nanka returned to the dusty Pokémon Mansion, eager to explore it all.
"I hope we can find more of those diary pages." Nanka wished aloud as she journeyed through the mansion, now garbed in a sleeveless black dress. "With you leading us through here though, it should be far easier making our way around and finding stuff, right Barker?"
"Growl, Growl!" Barker barked back, whilst slowly trekking forth, guiding Nanka and Jolt carefully through the creaky mansion.
"Vuuulll!" Beauty whined in pain as she was zapped by the Magneton.
"C'mon, Beauty! You can do it!" Nanka cheered as her Vulpix stood her ground. "That's it girl. Now take down that Magneton with your super cool Flamethrower!"
Beauty fired off her recently learned attack, a stream of flames bursting forth from her mouth and scorching the Scientist's Magneton until it fainted.
"Outstanding!" The defeated Scientist remarked, chuckling to himself. "I guess I lost."
Barker guided Nanka and Jolt further into the mansion, where through usage of the old statues and their switches, they opened up rooms left and right. Some contained other explorers, often eager for a battle, or items of great use. Nanka was often surprised at what items she was finding, not simply because of their usefulness, but at how no one else had managed to retrieve them before her.
"Is that… Is that a TM for Solar Beam" Nanka asked herself as she picked up TM22: Solar Beam. "Wooowww; the strongest grass attack in the world, and I have a TM of it. I wonder if this TM would be good for any of my Pokémon… Devourer seems the obvious choice, but maybe Dusty or Slothful could find it useful."
"So… you're not sure how to get to some of the rooms." The friendly scientist summarised, then chuckled. "You could always try jumping down the hole here, get to the rooms from above."
"Pardon?" Nanka said as she and Jolt leaned over and looked down the gaping hole; seeing the locked room below them.
"Of course, that would be silly." The Scientist brushed off her own suggestion with further chuckling, stopping only when she saw the girl and her Pikachu going down the hole. "Noooo; I was joking!"
"Thanks for giving me a ride, Keraton." Nanka thanked her Rhyhorn as she rode atop his rocky yet smooth back. "I didn't expect the floor to break away like that; you know, to that lady scientist it probably looked like I jumped down."
"Pi." Jolt added, having actually jumped down the hole, landing quite gracefully compared to Nanka's screaming crash.
"In any case, I'm sure you won't have to do this for long Keraton. My foot will be fine later… I hope." Nanka said, gazing back to her swollen foot, which she found herself unable to walk on after the floor descending landing.
"Rhy." Keraton nodded positively, restraining his usual energy to make careful and considerate steps, ensuring the ride was far smoother for his injured trainer atop him.
"You really didn't have to struggle doing this…" Nanka said as her Rhyhorn managed to awkwardly navigate his wide quadruped body down a flight of stairs to the basement floor of the mansion, "…but thank you, Keraton."
As Keraton nodded merrily, the slightly ahead Jolt abruptly stopped walking, his ears perking up. Leaning forward and seemingly focusing in on the left hand side of the split hallway, Jolt began to run ahead.
"Jolt, don't run off too far." Nanka called out as her Pikachu disappeared around the corner.
Keraton soon strolled around the same corner, but to their surprise they saw… two Jolts?
"Another Pikachu!?" Nanka exclaimed, surprised at her lucky sighting of a rare Kanto Pikachu… for some reason living in the Pokémon Mansion.
Jolt tilted his head and his doubleganger matched him. Jolt stuck his tongue out and the other Pikachu copied him. Jolt wagged his tail, so naturally his counterpart wagged his own.
"Awww, so cute." Nanka gushed, finding all the copycat shenanigans going on between the two adorable.
"K-Kachu, Pikaaa!" Jolt grumbled, irritated at being called cute, before raising his paws up at the Pokémon Mansion Pikachu. "Pikachu, Pi, Pi, kaaaa."
The other Pikachu didn't say a word in response, though he did tilt his head in confusion. The mute Pikachu's expression quickly turned into alarm though, when Jolt Body Slammed into him.
"Jolt! That was rude." Nanka snapped, looking over to the downed Pikachu and being taken aback when it suddenly melted into a dot eyed pile of pink goo. "O-oh… it was a Ditto in disguise… still Jolt, he was of no harm."
"Chuuu." Jolt moaned sadly as he looked to the fainted Ditto; his dreams of fighting his own clone to see if he was stronger than himself were dashed.
"I wonder what this unlocks?" Nanka pondered, staring at the key Barker had found. "Oooh, Keraton, let's check out that room next please."
Keraton nodded, nudging open the door to the next room… and was greeted by carnage. Broken glass, smashed equipment and decomposed skeletons littered the room. Amidst all the chaos, the walls had been smeared in red writing; 'Mewtwo', 'Powerful' and 'Failed'.
"…That's enough exploring for one day."
True to her word, Nanka left the Pokémon Mansion right away, getting some much needed fresh air to clear her head. Putting that terrible sight in the last room and given some time to think, Nanka slowly began to realise she had forgotten something.
"The Old Amber!" Nanka yelled out, surprising Jolt. "To the Pokémon Lab!"
So the trio set off, Nanka still riding atop Keraton, and they arrived at the Pokémon Lab in a matter of minutes. Pausing only for a brief second to check whether Nanka could fit through the lab's doors whilst riding atop Keraton, they opened the doors… and a rocky large headed Pokémon flew right at them.
Minutes later, a ragged Nanka was sitting down with the Fossil Study Department's Doctor and Scientist. Keraton was nearby, happily munching away at a bowl of pink berries, whilst Jolt was staring at the powerful, long tailed and wide winged rock Pokémon… currently with her head shoved into a yellow shoulder bag.
"You see, fossil is lifey!" The foreign Doctor said as he grinned from ear-to-ear, marvelling at the results of the resurrection of the amber trapped Pokémon.
"Savage too! That Aerodactyl has been right trouble!" The laidback Scientist added, sitting up straight, although he would often return to his slouched seating manner without realising it.
"W-why did she, um, take my bag?" Nanka asked as she watched the revived Aerodactyl, sitting contently with her face buried in the trainer's yellow bag.
"Dunno, maybe she's familiar with it from being carried around in it as a chunk of amber or something." The Scientist explained with a shrug and a smirk. "Either way, it was your amber, so it's your Aerodactyl."
Nanka looked to the Aerodactyl, an Aerodactyl that had introduced herself by knocking Nanka off of Keraton's back and stealing Nanka's bag, and thought to herself, 'Well, coming up with a name for her is easy.'
Nanka had some rough results over the last couple of days. Her usual clothes were still being washed, the stench of a Muk being difficult to remove, whilst a nasty gash on her foot made it painful for her to walk unsupported.
The results of reviving the Old Amber were far better. Idyllic dreams of soaring on the back of a Pokémon with the breeze brushing against her face filled her head, causing the girl to grin as she taught Amber the Aerodactyl the HM for Fly.
"Now then, where should we head to-Eeek!" Nanka screamed as Amber took off, soaring up into sky full-pelt.
Within seconds, the strong and agile Aerodactyl up high above Cinnabar Island, it's buildings looking like breadcrumbs to Nanka and Jolt.
"W-wooowww!" Nanka gasped, scared but exhilarated as she felt the wind rushing up against her face.
"Roooo!" Amber roared out as she continued fly at seemingly the only speed she knew; fast!
It was an ordinary day for the Pewter Museum Worker; unable to comb his, mocked by his colleagues, unnecessary amounts of paperwork… then an Aerodactyl crashed through the glass ceiling.
"Aerrrooo!" The stone skinned winged beast roared, sending museum workers and visiting tourists into a panic.
The scruffy haired worker didn't run about screaming his head off, although only due to freezing up in shock, his mouth hanging open. He stood gaping at the Aerodactyl for a while, only reacting when the ancient Pokémon landed in front of him and a small teenage girl and her Pikachu fell to the floor.
"Y-you… b-but you're…" The scruffy haired Museum Worker pointed to Nanka, then looked over to Amber with his widening hazel eyes, "…T-that means you're… you're…"
Amber suddenly licked the Museum Worker, grinning joyously. The grin was soon matched by the Museum Worker as he threw his arms around Amber's neck, hugging the powerful Pokémon.
"I was right! I was right! You were in there! You're alive!" The Museum Worker cheered as he hugged Amber, whom returned his affections by nuzzling up against his shoulder.
"Awww." Nanka gushed from down on the floor, unable to get up given her foot, whilst Jolt gagged at the affection on display.
It was bizarre and illogical, but it seemed that Amber remembered things as… well, a chunk of amber. She had a connection to the Museum Worker who had put her amber origins on display, who had cleaned her cabinet, who talked to her in the belief that her DNA within the amber existed when no one else would.
'Awww, to think Amber could be so sweet.' Nanka cooed over the Aerodactyl, currently in the midst of being petted on the head, whereas Nanka had only received roars and growls from her. 'Now if only she hadn't dropped me in the centre of the room; I can't stand up.'
"Now then my little Amber, you promise you'll help out this trainer here with her adventure, okay?" The Museum Worker told Amber, who pulled away from her current ear scratching and looked to her favourite person with disbelief.
"A-are you sure about that, sir? Amber did come from your chunk of amber." Nanka spoke up from her forced sitting position, receiving a short growl from the Aerodactyl in the room. "Besides, I don't think she likes me very much."
"Sure I'm sure; we need to pay you back after all." The Museum Worker said, looking to Nanka as he patted Amber on the back. "Besides, from what I know Aerodactyl's, they love to hunt and fight. She's not going to be able to do much of that at a museum."
"Daaa, Aerrrooo." Amber growled softly to her favourite person, who continued to wave to her as she flew up into the air.
"Thank you very much, sir! I'll take good care of Amber for you!" Nanka shouted back down to the Museum Worker as Amber took her and Jolt up to the clouds at rapid speeds.
"Piiikaaa!" Jolt shouted out cheerfully as they soared up high and fast, loving the exciting feeling of Amber's high speed flight.
"Hmmm, now where should we fly to next?" Nanka pondered, gazing about the cloudy sky. "You know, maybe we should do some shopping in Celadon again. Now that I know how she evolves, I should see about buying a Fire Stone for Beauty."
"Roooo!" Amber roared in agreement, and with a destination set, the prehistoric Pokémon sped off through the skies once more.
A/N: This chapter proved to be an easy one to write up, even with expansions to the scene involving the Pewter Museum Worker and the addition of a couple scenes as Nanka bathed. Unlike how the following chapter is currently going; that's proving a pain to write (writer's block is always a menace). This chapter came out well though and it'll be what you have just read, so let's talk about it.
For starters, I would like to clarify that I did not make up the foreign Doctor; he is actually in Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow versions and he does talk like that. I've added a few lines, keeping them in the style of his in-game dialogue, but did not make up this specific character. I did however make up the Swimsuit Vigilante fan-club, which replaces the Trading room in the actual games; certainly not going to find a Swimsuit Vigilante fan-club in the games themselves. That scene was pretty fun to write; got to hint at a few things with it as well.
The bathing scene, of Nanka cleaning herself after the Muk attack, is pretty much all new. There was a little bit of it in the original version, pretty much the first paragraph was what has been retained, but the rest is new content. It allowed me to presents Jolt's love of water even extending to baths, how Nanka even gets embarrassed bathing or being undressed around her Pokémon, and it allowed me to throw in a little Brock styled joke with Jolt pulling Melody away from Nanka similar to how Misty or Max would do so to Brock in the anime. I'm glad I inserted that in. Likewise, I'm glad I expanded upon the scene with the Pewter Museum Worker and Amber. Before I had it as more vague, with mostly just narration, so I gave the scenes plenty more dialogue in this Director's Cut. Amber is the only of Nanka's team in this series whom I'd say is effectively not hers; Amber is the Museum Worker's Pokémon and simply on loan. Thinking of it in anime terms, Amber is the kind of Pokémon who'd be returned once the season is over.
I think that is all I have to say, though of course if you have anything you would like to ask about this chapter or any of the chapters; feel free too. I have plenty of NPMA trivia left unmentioned that I would be happy to fill you in on any time. That said, that's all for this closing author notes; hope you enjoyed this chapter and will enjoy the next one.