A/N: Okay, this chapter really took forever. I'm sorry Razzle Bedazzled hasn't been updated since… February.

Chapter 5

"We're going to have three Pokemon each, no time limit." Roxanne intoned, holding one Pokeball at the ready in her pale hand. She had a delicate face, which revealed nothing about the Pokemon she trained. The dress she wore was tight and a dusty gray-blue ending in a white collar. All in all, she looked very professional and serious, the model gym leader. "You will be able to switch out your Pokemon at any time, while mine must remain on the field until defeated."

Now was the moment that Mipsy had been preparing for since she'd accepted a Pokeball and begun to train. It was followed by a battle that she'd gone over with her Pokemon ever since they'd woken up this morning. She held her breath as the referee took to the side of the field and held up two flags, one white and the other gray. He crossed the flags and exclaimed, "May the battle begin!"

Roxanne tossed her Pokeball onto the field, which revealed a stout rock-type that had to push his body forward with both muscular arms, as he didn't have legs. Mipsy tossed her green-and-white Pokeball and Rose entered the fray with a cry and a shake of her showy roses. She had a couple of bruises from battling past the gym trainer, but was otherwise in good shape and perched on a rock as she awaited her first command. The way the Roselia looked around made Mipsy wonder if she could see the Geodude, after all he blended in well with the rocky field that was the arena.

"Start with a tackle!" Roxanne exclaimed. The Geodude obediently followed that command, first balancing his rotund body over his hands and pushing off from the ground with all his strength.

"Rose, look out!" Mipsy cried as she saw the rock Pokemon whizzing through the air towards her Roselia with deadly accuracy. Rose stood her ground, and the attack slammed the breath out of her chest. At the moment that the Geodude was on top of her, Rose kicked at him, raking his solid skin with roots that took the very energy out of him to restore her in an absorb attack.

Roxanne reacted quickly, "Geodude, roll away and use rock throw!" Responding quickly, he tore away from Rose and picked up one of the loose rocks littering the field. He threw it at Rose, who quickly dodged to the side, and twirled out of the way when a second rock was sent her way.

"Rose, use growth." Mipsy ordered. The Roselia cast a glance back at her trainer that could be interpreted as, are you completely nuts? And at that split second, the third rock hit her across the head. Another came quickly after that, and knocked her over, the next few only littered around it as Rose was already buried under the first. Her wheeze of pain was muffled, and her trainer watched in horror as the rocks did not move. She was seeing Rose caught under that rock, her delicate frame squashed.

The referee was beginning a countdown to ten when Razzle tugged at Mipsy's jeans. He didn't say anything, just pointed at the rock pile silently. The rock that Rose was stuck under began to move. "Razzle… don't…" Mipsy whispered, thinking that he was psychically pushing the rock away. But then she realized that wasn't possible, as his outline wasn't glowing with a psychic aura.

"…Nine!" Exclaimed the referee, just as the rock was pushed away and one bright rose resurfaced.

Rose pushed herself up with a cry of, "Lia!" She was panting heavily, and even though she was glaring at her trainer, Mipsy could see that she had used growth, as her roses looked like they were slightly bigger.

"Okay Rose, use absorb now!" Mipsy said quickly, before the Geodude could start throwing rocks again. Rose nodded and rushed at the rock, throwing her legs out and landing on top of the rock's cranium. She held her ground as he thrashed and swatted, trying to dislodge her, but the attempts became feeble and he eventually fell still, fainted.

"And Roxanne's Geodude is unable to battle!" The referee called, holding up the white flag in Mipsy's direction.

"Good job Geodude." Roxanne said, recalling the rock-type and taking out another Pokeball. "Your foe is weak, go get her!" she called to the next Pokemon she sent out, which was another Geodude. This one was smaller and had less muscle, Mipsy guessed it was female.

"Alright Rose, use another absorb." Mipsy said, while Roxanne was ordering a tackle attack. Rose and the second Geodude jumped at each other and collided in midair, the Geodude taking some damage when Rose scraped her leg across her side, though the Roselia was knocked away the next second and fell to the ground hard. She didn't get up again.

Mipsy recalled the Roselia to her Pokeball, murmuring a little praise over it. She then turned to Razzle, and the Ralts swallowed. "Looks like I have to prove that I'm a good professional Pokemon now, eh?" He said lightly, and jumped into the arena.

"Remember Razzle, be angry," the trainer murmured. "Confusion!" Razzle raised one arm and pointed at the Geodude. For a few seconds, nothing happened. The Geodude was beginning to balance on her hands, to launch a tackle. Razzle grimaced in concentration and remained in the same position. And when the Geodude was sailing through the air, straight for him, his eyes glowed, and the confusion attack hit its mark and sent the unfortunate rock-type back down to earth with a loud crash.

Roxanne was chewing on her lip, "Try a rock throw!" She said to her Pokemon. Three rocks were sent in Razzle's direction, and it appeared he was going to try to psychically stop them. His aura flickered and faded right before the rocks set down on his head.

"Ow. I'm going to have a headache now," he told his opponent.

"Use growl Razzle!" Mipsy ordered. Razzle let a startling growl come out of his mouth, louder than Mipsy thought a little guy like him could ever do. His opponent faltered for a moment, and then curled up into a tight ball upon her trainer's order. The Geodude began to roll forward as Razzle started to power up another confusion attack. The confusion came a little quicker this time, and sent the Geodude ricocheting off several large rocks, splitting the last one with a large crack when she finally lost momentum. She didn't twitch from the curled-up position she was still in.

Mipsy let out a breath as Razzle jumped up and down happily. The second Geodude was recalled, and in her place another rock-type was released. This one was tall and ugly, having a body made of purple stone chiseled into the rough shape of a human head. A human head with a very, very big nose, however, as his red snout stuck out as his largest feature. The Nosepass immediately began to turn around in slow circles, trying to face both Razzle, who was due south, and the North Pole at the same time. "Rock throw, Nosepass!" Roxanne said, and the thing stopped turning and faced north, but was grabbing stones and chucking them over its head at random. Most were inaccurate, but Razzle got hit by a few and had to constantly keep jumping to the sides as he tried to dodge the rest and power up his confusion attack again.

The Nosepass was knocked over when the confusion hit his back and let off an annoyed sound as he pushed himself back up and balanced on his small, round feet. It appeared that very little damage was done to him by the attack. "Harden." Roxanne said when Razzle growled at his opponent. The Nosepass shook once and his hard skin turned a darker shade.

"Turn towards the Ralts and hold your position. Use rock tomb." Roxanne ordered. Nosepass turned around and held his head with both hands, shaking slightly. A couple of large rocks burst out of the ground and flew forward, trapping Razzle underneath them. There was a long pause, in which Mipsy called the Ralts' name. Then one of the rocks twitched as Razzle manipulated it with psychic powers to flip off of him. It budged and moved away, but the Ralts couldn't get it to flip onto the Nosepass. Instead, he dropped the rock and aimed the confusion directly at the rock-type. This time the Nosepass was sent flying and landed hard.

The Nosepass used rock tomb one last time, and Razzle sent a confusion attack his way before the Ralts fainted from exhaustion. Mipsy ran up to him and scooped him up before returning to her side of the field. "That was brilliant." She mumbled to the fainted Pokemon.

And now it was Tassie's turn to battle. Mipsy held onto the Pokeball and hesitated for a moment. Before the battle had started, Tassie had confirmed that she wanted to battle, but her trainer was still hesitant to send the cocoon out. She looked up to see that Roxanne, the referee, and the little group of watching trainers were all waiting for her to make a move. "Go, Tassie!" She finally exclaimed, and let the Pokeball sail to the middle of the field.

The Silcoon squeaked as she set eyes upon the Nosepass. Without having to be told, a sticky string shot out from one side of her cocoon and wrapped around the rock-type's legs and loosely around his arms. "Rock throw." Roxanne said, but raised an eyebrow when her Pokemon couldn't move his arms enough to grip a rock and throw it. "Okay then, rock tomb."

"Harden!" Mipsy said before the rocks got the chance to hit the cocoon. Tassie wrapped her cocoon in an extra layer of silky thread, which hardened quickly. She rolled out from under the rock that had trapped her with less damage than she would've taken.

Tassie's eyes drifted upwards, where a few metal support beams had been set into place. She shot another strand of thread upwards and held onto it when it wrapped around one of the beams. Jumping into the air with effort, Tassie swung on this thread and let go when she gained enough momentum, slamming into the Nosepass at the base of his nose on her way down.

"No way." Roxanne said with shock when the rock-type could not get up, as the thread around his legs stuck to the ground. Though he was still able to fight, he was subjected to the ten-second countdown and failed to get back up. It was over.

"The challenger is victorious!" The referee called, holding up the white flag one last time. Roxanne returned her Nosepass and looked pale as Mipsy also returned Tassie and headed for the gym leader.

In Mipsy's arms, Razzle twitched and opened his eyes. "Did we win?" He asked blankly.

"Yes, we did," Mipsy answered, and couldn't keep a foolish grin from crossing her face.

After a good long session in the Pokemon Center, Mipsy and her Pokemon sat together over a modest lunch. Mipsy had just gotten done counting the PD that had come along with the badge that Roxanne had given her. "Half a Rose," she finally said. "A thousand. Plus the TM she gave us should be worth something…"

"Well, hopefully that will last you." Razzle said neutrally.

"Razzle…"

"No Mipsy, I've made up my mind." The Ralts said adamantly as he crossed his arms.

He focused his psychic powers on the zipper of Mipsy's backpack, which came undone without much of an effort. "How long have you had this?" Razzle continued as a purple Pokeball came out of the pack and rolled to the girl's feet.

"Only for a couple of days," Mipsy murmured, picking up the luxury ball and looking back to Razzle. "Does this mean…"

"…I told you I made up my mind." Razzle was grinning by that point. "Besides, it matches me. …Kinda."

"At least I can still tell all your Pokeballs apart," she replied, latching the luxury ball onto her belt to see how it looks. Mipsy took the ball back off her belt and pressed the release button. Inside the ball was cushioned with red velvet. "Matches your horn." The trainer teased.

Razzle swallowed and got to his feet, shuffling over in front of Mipsy. He motioned to the ball impatiently and waited while Mipsy shut it and pressed it to his arm. It automatically opened and the Ralts was sucked inside in a red flash that was reflected on the ball's button as it shook and rattled before falling silent.

"Ross." Rose muttered, rolling her eyes.

"What's wrong?" Her trainer asked, unaware that the Roselia was just grumbling to herself. Tassie had drifted off to sleep by that point, and was snoring gently.

Mipsy shrugged when the grass-type waved one rose vaguely and released Razzle out of his Pokeball. "It's comfortable in there," he stated blankly. He shook his head once and continued, "Hey, Mipsy, where are we going next?"

"We're heading north towards Route 116 and the Rusturf Tunnel. Like Professor Birch said, if we follow this path, then we may get to Slateport in time to see The Dancing Dragonite perform," she messed with a lock of her hair idly. "But of course they won't know we're there, since we're going to buy a ticket and watch in the cheap seats like a normal trainer and her Pokemon."

Razzle jumped to his feet, "So let's go, now!" He exclaimed and set off for the exit. Mipsy recalled Rose and picked up Tassie, and then she was heading off after him, leaving a couple of empty bowls for the nurse on duty to see to.

A small split had developed in Tassie's shell that Mipsy noticed when they had left Rustboro City behind. She couldn't help but push at it, and hoped that the cocoon was ready to open and reveal the species of its occupant. Though Professor Birch said that she was a Silcoon, there was still that purple tint to the cocoon that was invariably Cascoon-like. But the cocoon remained intact, and when Mipsy asked about it, Tassie said she didn't know that there was a crack there.

Route 116, compared to the other routes that they had walked so far, was very short. Mipsy expected that they could make it to Rusturf Tunnel before nightfall. That was ruined completely when Mipsy almost walked into Brendan Birch, heading the opposite direction. "Oh, hullo Mipsy. Heading towards Rusturf Tunnel?" The boy asked.

"Of course we are," Razzle answered for her.

Brendan cast a glance at Razzle that was unreadable, before he said to Mipsy, "Well, Rusturf Tunnel has been blocked off… it appears that the wild Whismur went nuts and caused a rockslide." He sighed, "So Mipsy, does this mean you have the first badge?"

She grinned and dug the shining badge out of her backpack and showed it to him in the 'look-what-we-won' fashion. "'Twas a struggle, a life or death battle for that shining piece of metal. Roxanne was crying when she saw her last Pokemon fall in defeat to our superior battling skills." Razzle chattered dramatically.

"Really?" Brendan asked.

"Gullible isn't in the dictionary." Razzle answered.

"Really?" The boy repeated blankly.

"…Anyways, I think that the tunnel won't be open for a long while. The workers are afraid of causing another Whismur-induced rockslide by using loud equipment."

"That's unfortunate," Mipsy kept her face carefully neutral. This only meant that she and her Pokemon would have a long journey back through Petalburg Forest to the small dock where they could rent a boat and sail off to Dewford Town… and that they wouldn't be seeing The Dancing Dragonite perform after all. The acrobats and other skeptical there would have to wait a while longer before seeing Mipsy and whatever she managed to accomplish as a trainer.

"Hey, now, I bet there's a place in Rustboro that lends out flying types to ride on. After all, there's got to be more than one way to get to Dewford Town." Mipsy said suddenly. "I'll see you around Brendan, and we can have our battle later." She didn't want to be rude, but being around the other trainer made her remember that he was her 'friendly rival' and that he'd be expecting a battle out of her sooner rather than later. She couldn't have that, right after a gym match.

And so she, Tassie, and Razzle returned to Rustboro and began to head back for the Pokemon Center. Mipsy only stopped when she felt Razzle tugging on her pant leg. "You were saying about the rent-a-bird place?" He was pointing towards a building.

"Huh?" Mipsy got closer to the building and looked inside one window. Inside, there was a small flock of birds such as Pelipper and Swellow that were roosting together all along one wall. "I wasn't serious about that," she said to Razzle, who shrugged.

"Oh well. Looks like we found our mode of transportation after all."

There was something to be said about how graceful and beautiful the flight of birds is in many books and stories… the authors of those kinds of stories probably never had been riding on a Pelipper flying as fast as she could in a panicked frenzy to get to her destination. Nor would they have had to ride on said Pelipper while trying to get a hold on the bird somehow before they get dislodged and crash to the ground.

Mipsy should have gone with the Swellow that the man had offered to loan her first.

At least this Pelipper was making good time; they had already passed by Petalburg Forest and were now heading south over a wide stretch of sea, watching the small islands come and go rapidly. It was all going fairly well, until a flock of Wingull took to the sky from another, rather large island. They passed by the Pelipper and distracted her, and she lost altitude fast as the smaller birds started to cluster around the larger bird and the girl she was carrying. The Pelipper tried to shake them, and only started to gain altitude again when Mipsy cried out.

The Wingull flock drove them back down again, this time close enough that the Pelipper landed and shook her passenger off. Mipsy followed the bird as she started walking away and spread her wings again, aiming away from the Wingull, and took off without Mipsy. "Wait!" She cried. The Pelipper turned around in midair and looked back at Mipsy, waving at the bird for her to come back. She then looked over to the Wingull, who were setting in on her again. The flock settled in around the Pelipper and began chasing her away from the island, and Mipsy could only watch with growing dismay as she flew off for Dewford Town, leaving the girl there.

"No way," Razzle said. "No way! We can't be stuck here!"

"She didn't come back, so yes, we can be. And we are. Unless you want to take a swim." Mipsy glanced over to the dark water and sighed. "This is Tentacool-infested water anyway, so we'd basically not make it very far."

Tassie gave a little, half-hearted squeak. "She's right," Razzle said. "It's getting dark, so we should tackle this problem in the morning."

"Lia," Rose insisted.

"And go to sleep after dinner."

The island that they had managed to become stranded on had a small forest in the middle that was teeming with Wingull that generated most, if not all, of the background noise. Mipsy had made their camp as far away from these Wingull as possible, and hoped that they didn't decide to fly over their little makeshift camp. The rest of the island turned out to be a big rock, there was no beach, just a pebbly area where only brave little grass shoots would grow.

That morning Razzle went off into the forest part to search for berries that they could eat. Mipsy had no clue when the next boat would come roaring past that could possibly help them, so she was trying to conserve their food supply. They only had enough of the food that Mipsy had saved to last for about two meals.

"Look what I found!" Razzle came back and exclaimed brightly as he held up a rather large berry that he had to carry with both hands.

"Oh great, that looks good," Mipsy replied, holding out her hand. "Where there any more like that?"

"Nope. Here, you can hold it!" Razzle stuffed it into Mipsy's hand, where she realized that it wasn't a berry that he'd found. It was an egg. The shell on the egg was a bright white, with tiny blue specks littering all over it.

"Even better. We can make an omelet," she grinned when the Ralts let off a squeak of dismay. "Nah. I'm kidding Razzle. Now go put it back where you found it, some mama Wingull will be looking for it."

"She left Eggbert on the ground!" Razzle replied, taking the egg back and cuddling it. "So she won't miss him!"

"Razzle—"

The Ralts ignored her and walked over next to Tassie, where he placed the egg and gently sat on it. She let off a questioning 'oou' sound, and Razzle replied in Ralts tongue. Mipsy finally sighed and turned away from the two of them to face the sea and waited for a boat to pass. Hours passed like this, and no boat, while Razzle and Tassie had fallen asleep. Just when Mipsy was about to doze off too, Rose let off a clattering cry that shocked the other three awake.

"Oh, someone's hungry," Razzle said woozily. "You could've woken Eggbert, Rose! He wouldn't like that."

"Rose. Lia." Rose retorted hotly, pointing at the egg and then back at the forest, as if to prove her point.

"Okay guys, stop!" Mipsy held up her hand for peace and both Pokemon turned to face her, "Lunch is a good idea. And then we can look out some more for a boat."

"I've decided," Razzle said after they had finished their little lunch. "To name this island."

"Oh?"

"Yep. We are now sitting on the land of Isle Rockola."

"And we're stranded on it too." Mipsy added with a sigh.

"Yes, that too." Razzle agreed. An awkward silence fell onto the group, when Mipsy tried to draw figures in the dirt to get time to pass. "I wonder if Eggbert would like to go for a swim…" Razzle finally said and Mipsy looked up from her doodle of a Wurmple to stare at him.

"That egg would sink like a rock," she replied.

Razzle rolled his eyes, "It was just a thought."

"Hey, I just thought of something else—why don't we send up smoke signals? Someone's bound to see 'em."

"We might get Dewford Town's fire department down here," Mipsy sighed.

And so they sat around, watching the sea and being bored for the rest of the day. No boats passed by, and the sky was clear of people attempting to fly past on crazy Pelipper. When the time came for Mipsy to light a fire, she was ready to attempt to make smoke signals.

Mipsy sighed when it became dark. The only thing to do was either sit around and stare at the fire, or go to sleep. She slowly drifted off to sleep on her bedroll, leaving the fire to burn down to cinders.

The next time Mipsy opened her eyes, the fire was dead and the sky was bright. Something had woken her up, and she looked around to find that it had been the arrival of a trio of people riding on large, seal-like Pokemon. She yawned and blinked when one of the new arrivals stepped forward. "Hey, you're that kid from before."

Standing right before her was the Ninjask trainer with Jitsu still perched upon her head, though he looked a little bit interested to see this little group. "You know this kid, Kirra?" One of the teens the Ninjask trainer arrived with spoke up. He was tall and wearing a navy shirt over black pants. A bandana tied his flyaway black hair back from his face.

"Yeah," the Ninjask trainer—who must've been Kirra—said. "Mipsy, wasn't it? What're you doing here?"

"I kinda got… stranded," Mipsy answered, and quickly told a condensed version of the Pelipper flight to her and her companions. By that point Razzle and her other Pokemon had woken up and were adding garbled details to what she said about yesterday's day on Isle Rockola. Kirra had raised an eyebrow when Razzle proudly displayed his Wingull egg and proclaimed it to be Eggbert.

"Would you like a lift to Dewford Town?" Kirra finally asked when they were done. Mipsy replied to the affirmative, and the other trainer called, "Frost, c'mon. Side trip."

"Sealeo?" The seal she'd arrived on swam over to her and she jumped onto his back.

Mipsy returned her Pokemon, quickly stuffed her pack full of the few things she'd scattered and secured her bedroll while Kirra whispered something to the other teen. Mipsy caught a few lines of it while she was pondering whether she should keep the Wingull egg or leave it. That was answered for her when Razzle burst out of his Pokeball and put the egg into Mipsy's pack himself before returning to the ball, knowing that his Eggbert was safe. "I'm ready," Mipsy said, startling Kirra in mid-sentence.

"…All right kid, get on," the teen said. Mipsy awkwardly clambered onto Frost's back and shivered when her feet went under the water. The Sealeo began moving before she had settled fully, and she was almost thrown off his back, but his swimming was so gentle that she didn't fall and she sat upright. The ride was almost enjoyable, had it not been for the fact that Mipsy was constantly looking down to see if there were any Tentacool around to sting her.

When Dewford Town was in sight, the Pelipper who'd stranded Mipsy on Isle Rockola flew low to the sea next to them as a sort of escort. They arrived at Dewford Town in the next moment, and Mipsy was clambering over Frost's back and onto the dock. "Thank you," she said to Kirra when the girl patted her Sealeo gently.

"No problem kid," Kirra smirked tightly. "I suppose I'll see you around." She waved once and motioned for Frost to swim back to the island. He did so willingly, and quickly.

"Now you," Mipsy turned to the Pelipper who was sitting on the dock, her head turned to one side in a look of bird innocence. "Why didn't you come back?"

The bird cawed and flapped her wings, and Mipsy sighed as she called Razzle out of his Pokeball. He listened to the Pelipper and finally said to her, "I don't really understand what she's saying. She's talking too fast."

Mipsy shrugged, "Alright then. Pelipper, you're free to fly back to the bird house." The Pelipper nodded and took to the skies with a raucous caw and was soon gone as well.

"How's Eggbert doing?" Razzle asked curiously. Mipsy sighed and swung her pack around to the ground, before unzipping it and giving him the egg. He examined it for a moment, and then exclaimed, "You cracked it!"

"Huh?" Mipsy looked at the egg and saw a small crack in its side. Her eyes widened and she said frantically, "Razzle… it's hatching. The egg is hatching. What're we going to do with a baby Wingull?"

"We'll be parents!" Razzle sang. He sat down and placed the egg in his lap, watching it intently.

"Oh my gosh. What can we do with a baby Wingull? I should've never brought it with us. Now we're going to be stuck with it!" Mipsy exclaimed, having a mental breakdown by that point. She was, after all, just ten years old and hadn't a clue in the world how to take care of a baby anything.

Crack. The eggshell split on one side and a small black and orange beak peeked out through the hole it had made. The baby seagull continued to work its way out of the egg and eventually Razzle had a small bundle of white feathers sitting in his lap instead of an egg. The baby Wingull shivered pitifully and its beady little black eyes opened for the first time to see Razzle, who he immediately opened his beak to with a demanding caw. "Aww, the baby's hungry," the Ralts said with a smile.

"Oh goodness," Mipsy groaned. "What do Wingull eat?"

She crouched down to get a better look at the little bird. He had his eyes shut tightly, all he needed to know was that mommy looked like a white-skinned creature with a green helmet and two red horns. Not counting at all that mommy was male; no, such minor details could be overlooked. His mouth was open and another little caw came from it for food. When Mipsy gently dusted her hand over the Wingull's thin, tiny feathers, he opened his eyes again and set eyes upon the second living creature to ever enter his world. He cawed and held his open mouth towards Mipsy now. "What'd it say?" She asked.

"He just called you his daddy," Razzle replied. "Oh Mipsy, we are parents!"

Mipsy groaned again and picked up the baby bird. "We'll see what Nurse Joy says about food for him," she said.

They quickly scanned the small town and picked out the Pokemon Center from the other buildings. Mipsy took the baby bird into the building without a second thought and approached the nurse when she felt the bird inch closer to her chest and shudder. He kept his eyes tightly shut and continued to snuggle as close to Mipsy's chest as possible while she had a quick conversation with the nurse on duty. "I'm sure your Wingull will be able to eat berries if they're already pre-mashed. Pecha berries should be the first thing he eats, after all we don't want him to have to digest something spicy such as a Cheri berry for his first meal. Feed him until he stops opening his mouth, that means he's full."

She told Mipsy a lot more, and she knew that they would have to take a few days off just to take care of this baby Wingull in his first days of life, just to make sure he got fed every time he was hungry. After making sure the baby bird was secure from being stolen—Mipsy captured him without difficulty—she handed a Pecha berry to Razzle and smiled. "You're in charge of feeding him today."

"Okay." Razzle offered the whole berry to the bird.

"No, no Razzle, you have to mash it up first."

The Ralts blinked. "Are you trying to tell me I have to chew it first?" He asked incredulously.

Mipsy nodded, and he glanced at the berry and then the baby Wingull with growing realization. "Come over here, I doubt anyone will see you," she led him into the corner of the room, while the Wingull continued to cry for food weakly. "Good luck."

"Thanks," Razzle replied dryly. "You get to do this tomorrow."

"I know," Mipsy sighed. She walked over to the resting area and let out Rose and Tassie. Both Pokemon looked around at the Pokemon Center with relief while their trainer filled them in on what they'd missed with the Wingull egg. Rose looked positively horrified when Mipsy explained what Razzle was attempting to do with the Pecha berry and got to her feet to go stomp over to the Ralts. Mipsy followed hesitantly and Tassie rolled after them.

"Hey. I keep swallowing by accident," Razzle stated miserably as he swung the half-eaten Pecha berry and the Wingull continued cawing for food. Rose pushed him out of the way and kneeled in front of the baby bird, bringing one of her roses up to his beak. She started talking to Razzle as the Wingull stopped making pitiful sounds and nuzzled into the flower.

"Rose says that she'll feed the Wingull," Razzle translated. "She's feeding him the nectar from her roses, which she says will be better for him… and I'm disgusting for trying to feed him… and we're both irresponsible parents. Anything else you want to get off your back Rose?"

"Lia," Rose waved her other rose vaguely as the Wingull stopped and slumped backwards, cawing with contentment. "Roselia."

"Oh, okay. Whatever." Razzle shrugged, "Looks like you know more about baby birds than me. Too bad I'm his mom and you're not."

Rose threw him the weirdest glance and stroked the baby bird's feathers gently with one rose. He had already fallen asleep under her care. "Ross-lia."

"Rose says she wants to keep baby Wingull with her," Razzle translated.

"That's alright with me," Mipsy said gratefully. "Thanks Rose."

"Don't mention it," Razzle murmured after she'd waved one rose at Mipsy.

Tassie let out an 'oou' sound and bumped against her trainer's leg. She exclaimed something brightly. Razzle laughed at whatever she was saying, which seemed to make her happy. "Tassie thought of a name for him," Razzle finally said to Mipsy.

"Well, what is it?"

"It's perfect. Guess," he said.

"…He's not still Eggbert, is he?" Mipsy asked.

"Nope. He's not Eggbert anymore…"