Hm thanks so much to everyone who's stuck with this plotless vocab mania so far

i can see you viewing and i is much happy hehehe

sometimes i wonder why i introduce characters

but then im like meh its all cool

right

i think

261. benchmark: a standard to which other things are compared or by which they are measured

After Charizard glared at him mercilessly after one sneezing fit, Green had waved him off saying, "Just flamethrower them all..." He watched through watering eyes, and making Jumpluff a benchmark as to Charizard's power, and thought quite confidently that if Charizard could get the first hit on all of them the match was as good as finished. Jumpfluff was Erika's fastest pokemon, but still had only managed to get a couple leech seeds in - those could be a little dangerous if he let the battle go on too long.

262. bedlam: any place or condition of noise and confusion

The battle concluded without much bedlam, and Erika smiled at him serenely and signed his petition with elegant, calligraphy-like script. As he got the petition back, she grabbed his wrist with surprising force.

"Green darling, I'm ok with you being the strongest, but you have expectations to meet with that title. You lose and I will dissolve your body in Victreebel acid."

Green shuddered as he looked into Erika's sweetly shining, fairly psychotic eyes. "Ok then."

"Goood," she crooned. "Enjoy Celadon."

263. innovative: marked by a new or unusual way of doing things

Green was not the most innovative person; that title belonged to his grandfather. But he could have thought of at least 10 movies Erika could or should have starred in; most being horror themed. Green wasn't the best at creative writing, but when talking about someone as strange and unique as Erika, anybody could have come up with a few stereotypical plot lines.

264. relent: to become less severe; to give in

Green had one more afternoon to spend at Celadon, and he was rather wary of going to the game corner after yesterday's imprudence. He'd never been much of gambler, so he'd scared himself a little bit by how much money'd he spent in just half an hour. He certainly had enough money to indulge, complained the gambling part of his brain. However, Green's conscious refused to relent, and he ended up going to the Celadon department's roof to relax with his pokemon. Silence and sun and meditation would be good way to purge dark desires.

265. token: performed only as an indication of intent

He lounged in the shade of an overhang, and lying on his stomach, watched people walk in an out of the department store building. All sorts of people came; there were trainers desperate for TM's, overdressed girls with heavy handbags and immense paper shopping bags, and old people that came to just talk to young trainers and window shop. He watched a particularly pretty blond followed by an entourage. He tried to put a name on her face - that bright yellow and black... an Unovan model... aha, Elesa. She's popped up in a magazine some time featuring gym leaders with interesting side jobs.

She'd made a token appearance for supporting the raise in minimum trainer age after a kid got mauled by a genesect - his death made world headlines. But afterwards, when the trainer organization continued to ask for her support, she'd pretty much disappeared, presumably to threats to her career by that ridiculous Team Plasma.

266. reflective: thoughtful

Green stared down at her reflectively, somewhat pitying her as newspaper people jostled her with microphones; she couldn't even take a vacation halfway across the world without getting some peace. But what was she even doing in a sleepy region like Kanto, with so little renown in the entertainment industry?

267. opportune: suitable for a particular purpose; occurring at a favorable moment

Eventually, Elesa found an opportune moment to escape into the building, where security guards halted the advance of her followers. Green watched the scene die down, and mused how long Elesa would wait before daring to exit once again.

268. decoy: a thing or person used to lure or tempt into a trap

Green was not disappointed by her escape plan. He almost missed it, and caught the start of her escape just as he lunged at the railing to catch Eevee, who had been balancing precariously on the steel bars.

Emolga were not strong pokemon, and not rare either. However, if trained right, they were fast and annoying and good for high speed battles. One of Elesa's emolga popped out of a window and started crying as it flew to the pokecenter. A decoy?

269. boisterous: noisy and wild; unruly

The more patient newspapermen who were camping outside the building immediately perked up, and some started following the pokemon. Others waited, unsure of whether to follow; but when her second emolga flew out of the same window, chasing the other one, they picked up their cameras and followed, sensing a kind of pokeromance or fallout going on.

The boisterous crowd dissipated, and Green watched as the two emolga dance above the streets playfully. Elesa walked out a couple moments later. Green almost missed her quiet exit; her hair was now a jet black with curls at the ends of the bangs that hung at the side of her head. She's also undergone a clothing change; the yellow and black had switched to yellow and blue. But the clothes were really weird; maybe she came to Kanto just for a different style?

270. factious: causing dissension

Then, the sound of a helicopter's chopping blades became audible. Green rolled onto his back as a weirdly sky blue helicopter appeared, heading straight for the department store. It hovered above the entrance, and Green covered his ears, but he could still feel his whole body vibrating from the helicopter that was literally 20 feet away from him. A redhead dressed in a skimpy blue outfit unrolled a ladder and Elesa immediately began climbing.

The crowd following the emolga had already broken up when factious reporters began disagreeing about whether they should follow the pokemon or Elesa. When they realized a helicopter was heading towards the department store, they broke out into a run, and just barely missed Elesa as she hung onto the ladder and the helicopter rose. Her two emolga quickly flew to the ladder and joined her in climbing, as the draft from the chopper's blades was too strong for them to fly her up to the helicopter entrance.

Green was amazed for several reasons. People in Kanto rarely used aircraft to travel, and he'd just seen two gym leaders from across the world in just 2 hours. When Elesa climbed into the helicopter, she saw Green's deadpan stare, and before Skyla turned to fly off, Elesa stared back, waved and then slammed the door shut. Rich people in Unova were really rich, not just Green rich but more like Lance rich. Skyla probably had to set up something huge in Kanto with nobody noticing, since there were no airports or helipads that Green even knew of. Wow.