They move slowly, even after setting out just as the Dawn breaks. It's slow going, both due to their size, the distance that they need to travel and... the height of the grass relative to them. They can only listen to the cars in the distance and vainly hope that in some way they are heading in the right direction. Not that any of them really mind. The only one grumbling is Tammy, and the figment of a cyndaquil can only be heard by one member of the group.

"So..." Hybrid begins when they all finally take a break. "What is this Roamers Association anyway?" she tilts her head and Daniel's ears perk up just slightly as Ronan looks over. The purple rodent takes a deep breath, before huffing it out and his gaze drifts up to the star filled sky.

"It's... hard to explain." he begins, before looking between the two recent transformees. "It's kind of in the very middle, between Pokextinction... and Pokéumans. It was originally formed by those who slipped through the cracks, or left, or... well it grew. More and more people got picked up, all around the world and they just remained apart."

"Those who delivered specialty items, those who hunted for evolutionary items, people who were just filled with wanderlust... all of them. They all make up the group that's known by both sides as the Roamers... and well, within this group are separate sections, for the Rogues, the Vigilantes, those who just choose to remain Unaffiliated... and then what you two currently count as... Missed Transformees..."

"As for the association..." he trails off for a moment and closes his eyes. "At some point it became necessary for each of the various groups of Roamers to meet together. Trading information and news, sharing their travels and arranging for deliveries to various bases. On both sides. Because, as I mentioned... they're in the middle, somewhere between both sides... And it became a thing..."

"The Roamers Association..."

"At each meeting there is a strict rule of no violence, although there is still the tournament. Highly anticipated, and greatly celebrated, it's the event that draws so many, a break from travelling. A chance to show off. And that's where we're heading. To this year's tournament... oh sure, everyone meets at other times throughout the year, but the Tournament happens once a year, and each year it's somewhere else..." He shakes his head before yawning. "Anyway... we should get some sleep... we've still got some distance to travel if we wish to get there with time to spare..."

"Right!" Daniel says, lifting his head before looking over at Hybrid. "Good Night Hybrid..." the poochyena says with a smile before curling in on himself and quickly drifting off. The hybrid pokéuman doesn't respond, instead her hazel eyes remain trained on the rattata. Before she allows them to drift over to her other canine companion.

Obi. She shifts, getting all four of her paws beneath her before softly padding over to the canine.

"Obi..." she whispers, and the dog lifts her head to look at her. "That didn't answer everything... it still doesn't explain why... Why did Mr. B know what was going on... the wall of students..." she lowers her head, and her ears flicker. "I just... I just don't know Obi..."

"[Worry no!]" Obi huffs out a breath of air, rolling over and yawning widely. "[All make sense future...]"

"I suppose..." Hybrid says looking back over towards the boys. "But still... I just get the feeling that there is something important that we're missing... that he's hiding..." she yawns, lowering her head, snuggling just subtly into her companions side. "But... I'll trust you..." She says before allowing her eyes to slip shut.

Across the clearing, Ronan's eyes snap open, glowing faintly with a grey sheen...


It's the light of the sunrise that wakes them the next morning. Alongside the laughter of some kookaburras. It's met with groaning, and grumbling. Hybrid is the first to eventually stir though, alongside Obi, who's already up with her tongue lolling out.

"Stupid sun..." Hybrid mutters shaking her head rapidly before taking a deep breath of the fresh morning air, the sweet scent of a morning's dew with the frost still settled over the grass. "Wow..." she breathes out before taking another deeper breath. Filling her head with the scent of the morning. One ear twitches slightly and she turns just enough to see Daniel twitch before he rolls over and continues to sleep.

Ronan yawns, blinking his grey eyes open and her ears twitch again. Slowly the rodent pokémon stirs and he stretches his legs before looking around.

"You're already awake Hybrid?" he sounds surprised and she simply smiles.

"Yep!" she says before standing up, her tail swishing behind her. She looks over at the still stubornly sleeping poochyena before looking at Obi who simply continues to give a doggy grin. "Bright and early!"

'{Which is a far cry from how it used to be!}' Tammy screams in her head, sounding incredibly put out before sighing. '{I wonder why... normally waking up is the hardest thing for us!}' dutifully Hybrid ignores him and he grumbles something before fading back into the background.

"So who's going to wake Daniel... or will we practice for a bit first?" Hybrid asks, absently scratching an itch up behind her ear as she spoke. Ronan sniffs the air, before turning his head first in one direction then the other. Hybrid pauses, narrowing her eyes as his ears flicker and he gets up on his hind legs to peer around. "What's... what's wrong?"

"[Something... something is coming!]" Obi growls, fur bristling. Hybrid shifts, raising her head up, opening her mouth to taste the scents in the air. As far as she can tell there's nothing, but both Ronan and Obi are on edge. So with a weird shrug she trots over to Daniel, who's rolled over onto his back, his mouth open.

"Daniel!" she calls with a smile. Only to receive absolutely no response. A small sigh and quick roll of the eyes. "Daniel!" a bit louder this time. Still nothing. "Okay... fine. DANIEL!" The dark type finally responds cracking open one eye, before yawning and rolling over.

"What is it?" he asks rubbing one paw awkwardly over his eyes and looking around. "What time is it?"

"You have a watch!" Hybrid grumps before flickering her ears and tilting her head. Raising her nose she takes another sniff, nothing and yet. She stiffens, her ears perking up, and she growls. "Downwind... that's why..."

"What's downwind?"

"[Company! Not friend!]"

"Pokextinction!" Hybrid and Ronan both say in synch. Startling Daniel swiftly pulls himself to his feet his own ears sticking right up and his fur on end.

"Before breakfast! Really?" he says tail curling. Obi growls and Hybrid bares her teeth. "Okay..." he says, before raising his head. He takes a deep breath and for just a moment his eyes both glow. "Yep... it's them... And they're right in the direction we should be heading!" he growls. Hybrid barely gives him a side glance before she lowers her ears and snarls.

'{Don't just charge in there! THAT'S MY JOB!}' Tammy shouts in her head before he abruptly quiets down. She merely gives her eyes a small roll before crouching down alongside Daniel. A bright light sweeps out overhead and Daniel mutters from her side while Obi growls. Tammy howls in her head once it finishes its initial sweep.

Instead of dignifying his nonsense with a response she inches herself forwards. Her belly dragging in the dirt as she twitches her ears and sniffs the air.

"Well..." she says giving a side glance. "I suppose it's make it or break it..."

"Right!" Daniel says. "One, two... And now!" Ronan doesn't have a chance to argue as both of the newest pokéumans race off, kicking up a bit of dust. The canine races beside them, keeping up. And it's close. So close, just at the light makes another sweep they make it across the gap. Laughing Hybrid skids to a stop her tail waving in the air. Daniel smiles, trotting in place with a smirk winding across his muzzle.

"Well!" Hybrid rolls over in the grass. "That's done! Right..." she looks at Daniel who frowns shaking his head. "Yeah..." she agrees huffing out a breath. "They'll just keep searching. Until someone on either side finds us. I suppose..."

"Ronan can catch up!" Daniel says standing on all four of his feet and sniffing the air. Hybrid blinks before looking around for the small purple rodent. "Don't worry, the phones have GPS on them..." he says, before turning and continuing to walk. "Besides... I know the location!" he says and Hybrid tilts her head, momentarily glancing back before simply trotting off after the poochyena.

"If you say so..." she frowns, while Obi gives a small bit of a doggy laugh from beside her. With one more puff she shakes her head.

After maybe an hour or so of walking through fields of nothing but grass they end up stopping. For a relatively late breakfast. Or really it's right on time, probably. But Hybrid doesn't really care about that as she wiggles her pack off and scrounges around for her Lunch Pack within. It's stocked with enough for the journey. Or it should be. She sits back once she finds it while Obi lounges nearby and Daniel keeps seeking his own.

Clicking the small pack open Hybrid sniffs the contents.

Strange berries. Familiar berries, but not.

"Pecha, Oran, Figy... Mago... And others..." she mutters, sorting through them. "Aspear, Sitrus... Hmm..." Abruptly she spots a Rawst berry and amused rolls it beneath her paw and smiles. The one for healing burns. She peers over at Daniel who's already munching before sighing and flipping the berry up into the air catching it in her mouth.

"Don't play with your food!" Daniel grumbles while Obi barks out a laugh. Hybrid merely rolls her eyes before snacking on a few more berries, and some of the biscuits in her pack before packing it all back away. With a small yawn she takes a deep breath before pushing herself up. Just enough to awkwardly stand on her hind legs.

"What're you doing?" Daniel asks when she wobbles.

Stubbornly Hybrid maintains her position before peering around. Finally losing her balance she tumbles back into the grass and grumbles nonsense into the dirt before lifting her head and meeting an unimpressed Daniel's gaze.

"If Meowth could teach himself to walk on two legs when his species naturally doesn't... then so can others!" She says, before shaking her head. "If only for an emergency situation..."

"But all meowth are upright on two legs..."

"Wrong! meowth, don't naturally walk on two legs. At least not originally, in the original series wild meowth and most tame-ish ones walked on all fours. This was proven by the episode with the pre-schoolers, Mewtwos Clonemon and well..." she trails off before shaking her head. "Anyway, the point is that sort of faded away as the series went on, though in HeartGold and SoulSilver when you had a meowth following you, it would of course, be on all fours!"

"True..." Daniel says sounding a fair bit amused and Hybrid feels a small bit of heat under her fur before she rapidly shakes her head.

"Anyway... if meowth could learn..." she swallows. "Why couldn't other pokémon?"

"Because then it probably wouldn't be as special..." Daniel says with a weird shrug before he lifts his head into the air and sniffs. "Seems clear!" Hybrid huffs as Daniel turns to her. Arching one brow. "Come on... Let's keep moving."

"Right, right..."

The rest of the day mostly passed in silence. Except for the distant rumble of cars, and the rustling of the grass. Obi's happy barking and excited exclamations about what's going on. It's peaceful enough. But there's something about it. Something about the peace that puts her just slightly on edge and she keeps looking around.

Expecting something.

'{I found it! Grey eyes!}' Jolting in surprise at the familiar but still new voice, Hybrid momentarily pauses with one paw in the air. '{Pokextinction, grey eyes are a mark of Pokextinction brainwashing!}'

"Brainwashing!"

"What?" Daniel spins around as Hybrid shakes her head rapidly.

"There it is again..." Hybrid says and the new voice lets out a small laugh, before she frowns. "Grey eyes... Grey... oh!"

"Hybrid?" she turns to a weary Daniel with wide eyes.

"That was one of the indicators... in the stories from that group on Deviantart that I was talking about! Grey eyes... they were a small give away to a Pokextinction agent!" yet she furrows her brow and looks back. "Yet still... that doesn't seem quite right..."

'{No... it doesn't... there is something else, that we're missing... Oh!}' Hybrid blinks frowning. '{I'll let Tammy take over again... I need to do some more reading...}' the voice fades and Hybrid can almost feel a shift.

'{Well that solved nothing...}' Tammy grumbles. Hybrid rolls her eyes before looking at Daniel who's frowning. Clearly thinking about the information she's revealed.

"Well..." he frowns, tilting his head. "Nothing we can do about that information now..." he shakes his head. "Let's just keep moving... we'll probably make it to the Roamer's Association in just the next few days if we keep pace..."

"I suppose so..." Hybrid says, feeling her ears drop.

"Don't worry... I doubt that Mr. B would leave us in the hands of someone dangerous!" Daniel smiles and despite his assuredness Hybrid just doesn't know...