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301. eyesore: something that is unpleasant or offensive to view
If Celadon was crowded, Saffron was downright flooded with people. Trainers from Johto flooded the city as the Magnet Train whooshed back and forth at high speeds carrying hundreds of trainers between the regions daily. The Silph Company building was something of an eyesore, towering above the rest of the building ominously; most of the locals didn't know too much of the Rockets and thus didn't have many bad memories of the building, but Green hated the place. He could still vividly remember seeing Red, exhausted and still trying to take down Giovanni. Green'd tried to take down Red so that he'd maybe rethink the impossibility of taking down an evil organization's leader flying solo - but Red had still managed to beat both him and Giovanni and limp back out alive.
302. decimate: to destroy or kill a large part of (a group)
On his way out of the building, Green noticed the complete absence of Rocket members, excluding the few that were knocked unconscious here or there. Red had essentially single-handedly decimated the whole organization, and Green had simply turned into another obstacle in Red's way.
Saffron was not a place of sweet memories, and Green was tempted to simply cut to the chase and beat Sabrina, then run for Blaine and go home and beat Koga up at Indigo Plateau instead of crossing his fingers and hoping Janine would be at the gym. That idea seemed more and more plausible as he recalled that Blaine would be at the Fighting Dojo that afternoon to accept rematches. Wow; he'd just be wasting a couple hundred dollars in hotel reservations, and maybe less if the hotel managers weren't assholes and offered some form of refund.
303. libel: a false written statement that damages a person's reputation
Green called Leaf to talk about his proposal, and she picked up only after the fourth call. She sounded quite pissed as if she'd just been woken up, and refused to let Green come home early; but right before Green hung up, he heard a voice that sounded quite certainly like Yellow's.
"Leaf... is that Yellow?"
"...Mhm. Wait how... you and Yellow are?"
"Uh, I met her at Celadon when she was working... and did you really invite her to my house?"
"Uh, no?"
"...If you did anything on the couch, you better clean it up good." Green grimaced. "Also, you can't sue me for libel if I decide to talk, because technically it's true when I say that you swing both ways now, eh?" Leaf's fanbase was quite dedicated. In fact, her fanbase might be even more dangerous than Green's.
"Green you assho-"
"Ok ok fine, just file for refunds and then we're all good?"
"...You little fu-" Green quite happily ended the call there.
304. coerce: to force by threat or intimidation
It wasn't often that Green had to coerce Leaf into doing him a favor, since she usually complied fairly easily (she did owe him quite a lot of money). Yellow must have been really special. Green'd thought Yellow was only some kind of coworker fling but Leaf seemed to take the girl pretty seriously. To say the least, he was surprised by Leaf's dedication.
305. cursory: superficially done; performed rapidly
A cursory glance at the itinerary was enough for Green to remember the schedule exactly. Leaf had planned for him to find the worker in Silph Co. who'd given him the Up-Grade for Porygon. The plan was to ask for tips on evolving Porygon2 into Porygon-Z, since Porygon2 had settled into Green's desktop to munch on spam and organize emails and had stopped battling. Porygon-Z were well known for their high intelligence that was superior to almost all documented pokemon; Gramps would definitely appreciate a look at the rare pokemon.
306. cumbersome: clumsy or difficult to manage
Remembering the warp portals in Silph Co. was even more frustrating the Green had predicted it to be, as they proved incredibly cumbersome and disorienting. After about an hour of warping, Green finally found the worker, mumbling in front of a computer.
"Hey." No response. Green put a hand on the man's shoulder, and he jumped.
"Uh, uh, good evening! How can I help you? Oh, it's Green, how's Porygon2?"
"It's morning, and Porygon2 is fine. I'm sure you've heard of the PorygonZ from Sinnoh, do you know how I can evolve Porygon2?"
"Hm-m-m, let's see..." He turned back to face the computer and browsed through a couple files. "Aha, Professor Rowan gave me a heads up a while back, and I've been meaning to give it to you - some rowdy trainer sold it at the Department Store and I ordered it to be shipped over... Where is it..." He pulled up a file. "Aha! I got the disk's software downloaded, and it does look quite suspicious but I'm pretty sure the design was for Porygon's final evolution. Do you have Porygon2 with you?"
307. fester: to rot; to decay; to putrefy
Green left off of staring at a festering banana peel. This place didn't get cleaned very often.
"Yeah, he's in my pokedex when I travel." He pulled out the device, and the pokemon poked its head out in a very convincing hologram.
"Good! I'll connect your pokedex and see if he'd like to try out the data and maybe evolve."
308. deem: to have as an opinion; to consider
Green deemed the worker harmless, but a bit too helpful; it was fairly suspicious, for why would someone do so much for a stranger anyways? Porygon2 happily jumped into the computer and began swimming around in the code, while the worker happily documented the progress. Green sat down in a dirty looking chair and flipped through a couple disk holders sitting on the worker's desk. He found one whose design and logo looked exactly like that on the software's icon; he opened it and found a purple disk with sharpie scribbles. "Dubious Disk." Shady? Suspicious?
309. connote: to imply something beyond a literal meaning
"Why're you so happy to give me this software? It's pretty rare and hard to come by."
"I like y-" Green suppressed a grimace, "your porygon. I lived in Lavender Town for a long time and I saw a porygon ghost, and it tracked me down and sent me really nice emails and we've become best buddies since. I like their whole species; selfless happy manmade things happy with their creators are pretty rare, ya know." Green deadpanned. Software pokemon couldn't exactly die, and that just connoted that one, this dude lived in a freaking ghost town, and two, he was probably insane. There was so many things wrong with his logic, that Green just chose to brush it off and go with the flow.
310. rash: showing boldness or haste without judgment
"Your Porygon2's a rash one," the worker laughed. "He didn't bother decoding to check if the data was dangerous before jut letting himself undergo evolution. He'll be done in a couple minutes; my computer's not slow, but this file is a pretty dang big one."
Green gave up on trying to make sense of why anybody would choose to live in such a messed up building (maybe Lavender had messed up the guy so bad he couldn't even live in a normal place anymore without feeling the weirdness) and resigned to looking at cute pictures of Eevee on his phone. That was normally soothing, but the thought that he now had a sleek, beautiful Umbreon instead of a slightly pudgy Eevee made the photos more nostalgic. It wasn't like Umbreon wasn't cute - it just wasn't the same as having a chubby brown furball.
Wow, an Umbreon. The meaning of the evolution had yet to hit him. His starter had at last decided to evolve after seven long years since their first meeting. He'd be awestruck later - right now he had to focus on this probably insane man and figure out how to get home to hug Umbreon and celebrate later.