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601. alleviate: to reduce pain, especially temporarily or without removing its cause

Arceus must have been trying to punish him for singing that one quite inappropriate song at the top of his lungs, because he stubbed his pinky toe on a rock that definitely wasn't there the last time he came through. Green hopped around on the other foot and hugged his injured foot in a totally insensible way so as to alleviate the pain. Not that it worked, but when he stopped hopping around, Umbreon came over to nuzzle him, and that really made everything better.

602. reprise: a recurrence or resumption of an action

He decided not to reprise the song and settled for uncomfortably walking in the oppressive silence. When he finally got to Mewtwo's little place, he briefly saw a redhead girl - or did he? What he thought he saw seemed to vanish, and instead he found himself looking at a rock pillar that vaguely could pass off as human from afar. He walked over to his sleeping bag and threw down his backpack and box of cakes. Then, he walked back to the strange human rock and stared at it, examining the crevices before shrugging and admitting that he had really mistaken a pillar of rocks for a girl.

603. disparate: entirely unlike

Green pondered for a bit what in the world could have made him think such completely disparate things to be the same. Where was Mewtwo? And anyway, redhead, redhead... Wait. Wait, wait a second, hold up, that was... Bianca, so...

He kept an eye on the rock and called out hesitantly. "Latias?"

At first there was no response, but after around ten seconds of staring, he saw the rock wiggle, and transform into the pokemon itself.

604. jovial: full of hearty, playful good humor

She was not at all put out by the fact she'd been recognized; if anything, she was jovial and cooed happily. Latias teleported to being right next to him, where she rubbed her head against Green's shoulder and slowly dropped on top of his sleeping bag with a couple puffs of feathers. She curiously opened his box of cakes and Green stared slack-jawed as she happily devoured an apple tart. Since when did they become so close?

605. denounce: to speak out against; to accuse publicly

Latias turned to face him indignantly, as if he'd denounced her out loud, in her face. Oh yeah, psychics and mind reading.

"Uh sorry? ...Where's Mewtwo?"

She gestured to the water's general direction. "Thhhherrrre!" Her speech was strongly affected by purrs and rolling r's. And giggles. And happy, very cute and strange sounds in general.

Green resisted the urge to respond with "Ooooohkay!" and settled for a more mellow, "ok."

606. forbear: to be patient or avoid doing

She sensed his forbearance and holding back on making equally strange noises and giggled a bubbling, jingling laugh. He pursed his lips to avoid contracting the highly contagious laugh, and turned to scan the water for a certain grumpy psychic. Latias giggled again and he found it harder and harder to resist the urge to break out into a huge (stupid) smile.

607. elucidate: to make something clear; to clarify

Mewtwo was sitting by the side of the water, still frowning. He barely cast a glance in Green's direction when Green walked over and plopped a still warm egg tart next to him.

"Here."

"To elucidate what I already quite plainly stated earlier; I don't eat."

"Ok, take the heat then. A peace offering."

"You meant to offer me harm?"

Green face palmed. "Just- just do your thing and I'll eat it ok?"

608. credible: capable of being believed

Mewtwo stared at him as though his intentions weren't entirely credible. Was offering food such a strange thing in the natural world? Didn't pachirisu and emolga and other rodents do that all the time?

Sighing, Mewtwo reached over to pick up the egg tart, held it for a second, and then handed it back to Green. Green smirked as he took it, then almost dropped the thing in the water - the aluminum wrapping was horribly cold. He narrowly saved it from meeting an untimely death, and then hurriedly placed it back on the ground.

"What the heck man!"

Mewtwo deadpanned. Or more like pulled his typical poker face.

Green pulled up his sleeves so that he would have some freeze-burn protection while unwrapping the tart.

609. tamper: to interfere, especially in order to damage or weaken

Mewtwo watched the strange human eat the tiny thing. Why did they eat such purposeless, pointless things? Such small pastries could not possibly offer sufficient sustenance; it would be more effective to eat an actual egg than to eat something as tampered with and processed as that. And why was Latias laughing?

Latias giggled and talked to Mewtwo in pokemon-speak, keeping Green out of their conversation. "When you told me just earlier that you knew who I actually was and had seen through my disguise, you seemed so distrusting; but here you've opened up to a totally imperfect and typical human! Haha, you still really like humans, don't you?"

610. venerate: to look upon with respect

Mewtwo grumbled, and responded out loud with carefully enunciated human words. "Some humans are good. A few are bad. But most are in between. Green is in between. So am I. He is easy to be around."

Latias hummed and spoke out loud too. "H'aaam I good?"

"You are venerated as a hero in your country."

"Okhaaay, so will you tell me wherrrre my brother h'iiiiis?"

As Mewtwo paused, Green spoke up. "The stone's in the Pewter City museum - you've been pretty close to finding it but there's currently a psychic barrier around the museum so you probably can't locate it exactly right?"

Mewtwo glared at him, and Green stuck his tongue out in response.

Latias was elated. "Hnn! Yooou know wherre he iis?"

"Yep."

"Shoow me, pleease!"

Green smiled. "Sure. But you have to keep visiting grumpy cat here, because he'll be lonely if you leave him."

Mewtwo's face colored the slightest bit and his complexion turned into something vaguely resembling embarrassment. Green fist pumped (mentally, of course). Latias giggled and flew up happily.

"Yeees! Ofu courrse I caan come to vissit~"

"Ok, we can leave first thing in the morning, right now we should sleep because tomorrow'll be a long day."

Latias looked a little put out, but agreed, and flopped down beside the sleeping bag this time. Green crawled in, and slowly fell asleep with the purring of a very cute psychic dragon.