Nine
females just got to have cucumbers

"WHERE'S MY CUCUMBERS?"

Milotic was rummaging through a cardboard box marked relaxation equipment. Zoroark and Serperior were behind her, waiting.

"Cucumbers?" Charizard asked.

"Yea, cucumbers!" Zoroark said, "We're going to put them over our eyes!"

Charizard ran off.

"AHA!" Milotic proclaimed, holding up a pair…of dry, shriveled cucumbers.

"That's not going to cut it, girl," Serperior said.

"I have an idea!" Milotic announced, throwing them to Dodrio.

"Not the banana again!" Zoroark whimpered.

"Of course not the banana!" Milotic fanned her, "pickles are cucumbers, right?"

"Yea," Serperior admitted.

"Swellow has pickles, right?" Milotic pressed.

Light bulbs appeared above their heads.

Meanwhile, in the center of the box…

Swellow was eating his favorite food, pickles. "Just got to love my dill," he tweeted over a mouthful of pickles.

"HI-YA!"

He was karate kicked by Zoroark, dropping the pickle jar.

"My dill!" he exclaimed.

The three girls put dill pickle chips on their eyes…

And ran around screaming, "MY EYES!"

"DON'T YOU KNOW THAT DILL HAS VINEGAR IN IT?!" Frogadier hollered, spraying Milotic's eyes from the juice.

I had to ask about that one.
Percy: you didn't test the theory?
'Course not, demigod! I asked!