The trainer and her Pokemon left the gym so fast they forgot to breathe along the way. They didn't notice this until Wander suddenly collapsed. Good thing Hater was an Electric-type Pokemon.
When the salamander jolted up shrieking, Green whipped out the Map she received from Nanami. She pointed to a pine tree to her left and began to walk in that direction, not looking at where she was going. She began, "Well, the map says that this pathway will lead to-" When the young trainer walked straight into the tree, she scared out several Pidgey and maybe a few angry Kakuna.
Pearl, who was currently a Metapod strapped to "Mister Hater"'s back "so they can share their experiences" (Wander's own words), seemed to share Green's and the wild Pokemon's pain.
"I'm a green crescent moon stuck to a mouse's back, being pathetically useless," she kept reminding everyone when they asked her something. "Now's really not the time."
"Everything'll have a chance to be used!" Wander would reply, attempting to lift the gal's spirits. "I heard Aochider say that quite a lot, and no one can argue with a professor!"
His sentence didn't really have a positive effect on Pearl. Eventually, she snapped, "Aochider, if the rumors are true, has been receiving Pokemon through illegal means and can't even remember his own grandson's name at times, let alone speak proper English."
Wander zipped his mouth shut afterwards, much to Hater the Pikachu's pleasure.
Green, finally figuring out the map, approached her team's rendezvous point. She stood like a political figure giving an important speech. He stature, however, ruined the mood. The girl pointed in the direction of several trainers and what appeared to be a cave and a roughed-up Pokemon Center covered with vulgar graffiti, as well as one large, red letter "R". Green announced in the most professional way possible under the given circumstances, "We are going that way!"
Wander cheered and sang about what sounded like "mission". Hater put his face in his hands as soon as the singing began. Pearl was yelling bloody murder in Pokemon about her "pitiful state".
Green skipped along, humming with her fiery Pokemon. Hater trudged behind, and Pearl was being dragged across the earth as the rope uniting her and the temperamental Pokemon loosened. If you saw them and knew what hardships where secretly embedded in their bond, it would be quite a surprise to see that they had lasted this long.
The trainer suddenly screeched to a halt. Wander, Hater and Pearl bumped (and/or slid) into each other and Green, respectively. The trainer had, for some reason, disappeared into thin air. All of them looked around the pale terrain. Not one trainer in site. A few footprints were visible in the muddier patches of grass. Hater sniffed them like a dog and even licked the ground, which disgusted Pearl.
Hater pointed at the prints and declared, "These were made just a few seconds ago. The trainers ran away from a threat."
"Maybe we are so powerful and they got scared and ran away from us!" Wander shouted, again annoying the centimeters-away insect Pokemon, and hopped up and down, clapping as if he were congratulating himself.
Hater seemed pleased with the idea, but then he considered the team. It was very unlikely. He shrugged off the Charmander's statement.
Pearl muttered, "I bet they were running to get Social Services. Metapod are a death sentence."
Green pointed to a gang of people in black. They all held whips and scouted the area. When they noticed the trainer and her Pokemon, they froze. Time seemed to stand still for a moment. In that moment, the gang had a plan, and the teammates were busy routing the quickest escape.
Much to the team's surprise, the gang of people in black had run into the cave and not towards them.
"What was that?" Green wondered aloud.
Pearl attempted to shrug, fell over and screeched, "Gosh darn it!" Wander fainted in offense. Hater caught the over-dramatic reptilian Pokemon, shocking him once more.
Hater pushed Wander to his feet aggressively. He growled, "Do we follow those weirdos or not?"
Green pointed into the darkness and declared, "After the weirdos!"
Following the weirdos without a plan was not a good plan. Especially since they were ambushed by a pink thing.
For quite a while, there was screeching, being stared at, and nothing was visible a foot beyond Wander's tailflame.
Wander picked up a thick stick and set it ablaze. Now it was visible that:
-Green was fighting herself
-Pearl was lying on the ground and complaining
-Hater was rushing about, yelling about the Clefairy stuck to his face.
The Fire-type laughed, "It looks like you found a new friend, Hater!"
The Clefairy sucker-punched the salamander Pokemon in the face, "I'M NOT THIS GUY'S FRIEND."
Pearl sarcastically replied, "Really? Because I thought you were best buds." She received a disapproving glare from the Normal-type Pokemon in return.
"I'm Wander, and you're?" the friendly Pokemon asked the Clefairy, seemingly forgotten the event that took place just moments ago one way or another. His stuck out his arm to shake hers.
The Clefairy looked at his hand for a moment, then shook it reluctantly with a very small smile, "I'm Mabel."
"That means 'lovable'!" Wander commented.
"Which she is not," Hater answered, rubbing his head where the Pokemon had gotten him.
Mabel smiled, much broader this time, "Sorry!" Then she blew a raspberry, "I am lovable. Watch!"
She hugged Pearl so hard that some sequins came off and a small cracking noise was heard throughout the cavern. Small "ow"s were heard from the Bug-type.
Mabel asked, "I'm lovable, right?"
"I love children as much as I love myself, but please stop," Pearl choked out. She was dropped onto the rocky floor with a huff from both of the girls.
Green, who had finally put on several bandages from the scuffle she had with herself, looked at the Clefairy known as Mabel. She gasped and was smiling so wide that she may have broken her face.
"OhmahgoshaCLEFAIRY," she heaved. "Those are adorable! I must have it!"
Everyone rushed away as Mabel was pelted with several Pokeballs. When the the dust kicked up by the spheres settled, Mabel burst out of the one that had successfully caught her.
"I have a Clefairy now!" Green said in a giddy voice. She must have lost a lot of blood, and began to skip around like a child, singing, "Clefairy, Clefairy, Clefairy!"
Mabel, possibly also dazed from the amount of objects dumped on her at once, picked up the nearest rock and began to hug it like a kitten.
"If we weren't already doomed now, this would be a bad team choice," Hater grunted as Pearl stared at him blankly.
Pearl grimly nodded in approval.