Hitori woke up quite a bit earlier than she was used to. A combination of going to bed earlier thanks to all the walking and not having all the power she could ask for on her laptop to spend scrolling around. The ground being less comfortable than her bed also didn't help. As consciousness slowly returned to her, Hitori was thankful that she hadn't been attacked, kidnapped, or arrested during the night as she was somewhat worried about.
Slowly she sat up, letting go of Whismur whom she had spent the night hugging like a pillow, careful not to wake her partner up just yet. Blinking the last of her sleepiness away, Hitori looked over at where Litwick had taken up his post to watch over them through the night. The fire he had set up had gone out though Litwick himself was still awake, staring at her. Their eyes met and Hitori quickly sank back down into her previous sleeping position.
Was Litwick watching them the entire time or only because she woke up? It was a bit creepy! But Hitori supposed she had no room to argue, she had sniffed Kita's hair one time and mentally commented how she smelt like the ideal middle school student compared to herself. With that realization Hitori sat back up, if she was going to have a creepy Pokemon then it probably fit her. "G-Good morning Litwick," She greeted.
Litwick gave a salute and a happy cry, most likely returning the greeting. "W-whismur usually sleeps in more than me, so I'll just get ready before waking her for breakfast," Hitori explained.
Once again Litwick seemed to agree to what she was saying but remained staring at her. Hitori crawled out of her bed over to Litwick, grabbing him and turning him around. "I-I n-need to change, okay!" she admitted a bit frantically. Thankfully Litwick seemed to get the message and with a final cry stared out into the wilderness alertly.
With a sigh, Hitori pulled out a clean band shirt and quickly changed into it. She'd have to go wearing the same tracksuit for a few days as she only had one spare with her, but she still had plenty of extra clothes of everything else. Though now that she had Litwick around, the idea of getting a tent seemed a bit more appealing to her. Maybe once Whismur evolved fully, she could even drag the tent around with herself safely away from everyone else.
Whismur woke up not too much longer after thanks to the noise Hitori was making. Which snapped Hitori out of her thoughts and brought her and her team to breakfast. A simple affair that was more of the same, some of the leftover berries and dry food, with a few granola bars for Hitori herself.
While her team ate, Hitori spent more time on her phone checking to see the comments on her latest video. There still wasn't a lot yet as she uploaded at a bad time, but the comments were just as positive and supportive as ever. After looking over the new comments Hitori spent the rest of breakfast watching segments of Gurumin's latest stream. Which seemed to open with a segment about sandwiches of all things. At least the way she described the experience of eating with her friends along with the pictures made it seem more fun than it probably was. That and it started making her hungry, or hungrier. So Hitori began to eat while she watched.
After everyone had eaten, Hitori got to work packing everything she could back up. Litwick had taken that moment to let out a rather loud yawn, his amorphous body stretching to allow such an action to be as exaggerated as possible. "A-ah, I guess even a ghost type would be tired after staying up all night," Hitori commented, more to herself. These were things she'd have to keep in mind as a trainer right?
Litwick snapped awake and saluted with a cry that no doubt tried to make him seem ready for anything. At least it was easy for Hitori to understand what he was trying to do at the moment, acting like he wasn't feeling tired. "We're just walking a bunch, why don't you just go sleep in your Pokeball? I'll have Whismur to keep watch, I doubt anyone would even want to attack somebody like myself," Hitori quickly rambled out. "And I can just let you out if I do get in trouble! So rest up!" She continued after Litwick seemed resistant to the idea.
That was enough to get Litwick to finally slump over and show how tired he was. Hitori took that as her cue and walked over to the holder attached to her guitar case which held her Pokeballs and grabbed his. A second later holding out his premier ball and clicking the button on the center. She watched for a second as the red beam engulfed him before he disappeared into the ball. "Ah, what about you Whismur? Want to stay out and walk or keep resting in your ball?" Hitori asked.
Whismur was silent for a few seconds, glancing between Hitori, the Pokeball on its holder, and finally out into the route they'd be walking. With a small point out into the route, she let out a small whispered cry. Hitori nodded and smiled a touch, "I see. Well you don't have to tough it out if you don't want to, if you get tired just tell me and I can return you,".
For a moment Hitori considered how nice it'd be to be able to return herself and let Whismur do the walking. Her legs were already still a touch sore from all the hours of walking she had done yesterday, and she was supposed to do it all again today. If anything she was supposed to do even more because she wasn't starting at noon. With a sigh she went to finish packing, all she needed to do was tough it out for a few days, and then she could spend a week, no two weeks, maybe more in a nice comfortable room at an inn somewhere in Spikemuth.
With her guitar case on her back and her suitcase rolling behind her, Hitori gave herself one final mental pep talk and started her trek for the day. With Whismur happily walking beside her at least. As she crossed the small bridge and over the small cluster of trees, Hitori tried to keep a wide berth and an eye on the trees. With any luck, the karrablast from yesterday wouldn't suddenly come out and attack her. Maybe she should have had Litwick tough it out for those few extra minutes to get away from them. When no actual attack came and the trees began to disappear behind a hill, Hitori let out a sigh of relief.
The first leg of her day was uneventful, as was the second. A couple hours of walking only to stop for fifteen to thirty minutes to rest before heading off again. On the second Hitori took a longer break, even Whismur was getting tired from such a walk at this point. While they rested, Hitori took her phone out to occupy her time, it was there she had brought up the Attackdex site to once again watch the videos of Whismur's moves. After a moment she realized that Whismur had learned a couple of new moves since then, not only that but she now had Litwick!
"Litwick use Smog," Hitori said trying to keep her voice both audible and as she held her phone out, aimed at Litwick. The candle Pokemon gave a loud cry as the normally smokeless flame on his head began to erupt with a thick smog that poured out around him in an expanding cloud. It only went on for a few seconds before Litwick stopped the attack, letting the cloud dissipate naturally around them, becoming far too thin to be of risk to anyone.
"G-Good job Litwick. N-Now. Litwick use Minimize," Hitori said in a cheery tone before trying to once again get level once again. Litwick again gave a loud cry and soon his wax body began to ripple and lose its form as it slowly condensed in on itself. While it wasn't a perfect use of the move, after a few seconds Litwick was now a mere six inches tall, half as much as he normally was. Despite this, the flame on his head remained burning at the same size. Hitori watched through the phone for a minute before giving a nod to Litwick, prompting him to suddenly expand back out to his normal size.
"W-well done! I'll just upload these to the movedex now! Maybe you'll become the go-to example of your kind for these moves," Hitori complimented Litwick as she started to fiddle with the phone, dividing the recording up into smaller chunks. As well as editing out the failed attempts, which were more her fault than Litwick's. Attempts where she was too quiet or stuttered too much over the move's name. Still, she had practice from her uploads as GuitarHero and from recording Whismur's moves so it didn't take her very long at all.
Hitori stopped after a second, "Right right! You can go back to sleep Litwick,". She fumbled with the ball to return the ghost-type who had dropped the energetic façade he was putting up for the video in favor of slumping over and rubbing his eye.
"Whismur it's your turn," Hitori called out after the few minutes she needed to quickly edit Litwick's attacks and prepare it for upload. Whismur emerged from a nearby bush that she had been hiding under, enjoying the dark, damp space while she rested up. Unlike Litwick who Hitori had to explain the concept to and guide to use his moves where it wouldn't cause problems, Whismur immediately got into place ready to show off.
It was probably for the best that Hitori waited until Whismur had learned the vocal control required of Supersonic. Having her let out visible waves of sound made the attack look much more impressive than just a loud screeching noise. Not only that but when she moved onto Howl, that same control carried over, coloring the visible sound red. It even made an impressive bit of lightwork as the energy of Howl ran along the ground and nearby tree, along with Whismur herself.
"Echoed Voice!" Hitori called out, finding herself not needing to force the energy. Whismur inhaled for a moment before opening her mouth wide and screaming. Unlike before the sound wasn't as ear-shattering though it was certainly still loud. More importantly like the earlier two moves, the sound was condensed to a visible level, somehow. Hitori still had no idea how that worked. The rings of visible sound started rather thin but the longer Whismur held the attack the thicker they became. Even as Whismur stopped to take another breath before screaming out again, the strength didn't reset, picking right up from its strength and continuing to grow from there.
Hitori did have Whismur stop after only two examples of the attack, if only because she was worried that if Whismur continued it may have started ripping the ground apart. Even standing away from Whismur and not having the attack directed near her, she could feel the attack shaking her body towards the end. "Good job Whismur! It's so much stronger now!" Hitori cheered. Whismur was happy to accept the praise, happily cheering though with enough volume that Hitori was once again grateful for her headphones.
Once Whismur had the chance to calm down a bit from the praise, Hitori thought that she should probably use that energy to do some training. She hadn't encountered any wild Pokemon other than the group of karrablast yesterday. Something she assumed would happen much more, that was how it went on a journey through the routes right? Having to fend off wild Pokemon after wild Pokemon and getting stronger because of it.
"I'm going to edit your video now okay?" Hitori explained to Whismur, waiting for her to nod her head and reply before continuing. "We worked a lot on your voice, so maybe now we try something more physical?" Hitori continued after Whismur gave her a cry and a nod. She glanced around the greener area she had settled down for her break looking for something to use. After a second or two, she spotted two trees that were not too far apart, but also not that close to each other.
"I want you to use pound on that tree, then go and use astonish on that other tree okay?" Hitori explained her idea. "Keep going back and forth between them alright?" Hitori continued moving her finger back and forth to help establish the idea. Whismur followed Hitori's finger between the two trees, back and forth before letting out a howl and running off towards the first of the trees.
Hitori watched as Whismur became highlighted with energy, running over, ears glowing white before she bashed herself up against the tree, shaking it with force. Thankfully nothing dropped out and attacked them and Whismur was off towards the other tree bashing into it with the same force. Whismur stopped there and looked back at Hitori, waiting for her to nod and acknowledge her use of pound before starting over again.
After a few repetitions, Whismur stopped looking over at Hitori for confirmation before continuing. All the while Hitori had stopped and taken her laptop out and began to edit the videos. All together it didn't take long, thirty minutes at most. By the end Hitori had her videos cut and uploaded, while Whismur had tired herself out. It was only her suddenly bursting into deafening crying that Hitori flinched and realized that Whismur hadn't stopped when she started to feel tired.
"W-w-w-w-whismur y-you c-can stop!" Hitori shouted out as she held her hands to her ears to try and block some of the noise. At least until she was able to get her headphones on once again. While Whismur had stopped trying to push herself further, it didn't mean she stopped crying over the exhaustion she had brought herself to. Hitori quickly grabbed a water bottle and a potion as she shuffled across the ground to get to her partner.
Thankfully, some water, food, and a promise of rest were enough to get Whismur to quiet down. Eventually, after a few minutes at least. There was some bruising on Whismur's ears that Hitori had to use a spritz of potion to help soothe. It did make Hitori worried, what if Whismur was trying to tell her the whole time and she just missed it? What if Whismur hated her now? Would she have to soon have both members of her team ignore her orders?
Before Hitori let herself spiral too much, she reminded herself that it was okay if she just didn't repeat her mistake. That's what her mom told her when she would cry over some mistake she made when she was younger right? After returning Whismur to her Pokeball so she could rest up, Hitori grabbed her phone and wrote out a note reminding herself to, in the future, make sure to watch her Pokemon so they didn't overdo any training.
Having to push herself to accept that as an appropriate response to everything and that Whismur probably didn't want anything to do with her anymore. Hitori cleaned up the laptop and other things she had set aside for this bout of training. That was when Hitori looked at the two trees she had pointed out, Whismur in her practice had broken the bark away and even some of the wood. Leaving two indents in the trunks. A marker of how hard Whismur was working.
Taking to the road now alone, with both Whismur and Litwick resting inside their Pokeballs, Hitori found it was a little bit lonely. Even if she wasn't exactly talking to Whismur or Litwick during these times, she still had grown used to their presence. Even more so than being used to Whismur's presence around the house, she didn't feel that sense of loneliness when she had to go to school or out by herself to buy something for her guitar. Perhaps it was a sign of her growth as a trainer. Or maybe a sign of her developing some kind of weird habit.
Regardless, by herself, Hitori walked a bit slower, no longer trying to keep pace with the more fit Whismur. Along with much more frequent breaks to rest her legs for a few minutes. She progressed like that for the next hour until she heard a series of crows up ahead. Initially, she thought nothing of it, well that was a lie she, for a brief moment, flinched and thought about just hiding against a dip in the route to hide.
As she neared the source, Hitori saw a murkrow. One that was in the middle of a battle as it began to use what looked like peck, diving down onto a wimpod. A wimpod who was curled up on himself trying to endure the attack as it slammed against his carapace. At that moment he tried to scurry off, only for the murkrow to gain a dark gleam in their eye and quickly flew to catch up to the bug, a faint dark aura surrounding the dark-type before it sped up, easily catching up to wimpod and slapping its wing against the bug knocking it back where it was before.
Only now the wimpod was on his back, unable to defend himself as murkrow began to rise in the air, it's-his wings glowing in preparation for what Hitori assumed was wing attack. Hitori gasped as she ducked away, not wanting to look or get the murkrow's attention, certainly not wanting to be the next target for the flying type. But as she did, Hitori saw the wimpod once again, it was fairly big, and kind of familiar.
'A male wimpod, it couldn't possibly be the one from yesterday could it?' Hitori thought to herself. Without really thinking about it she stepped forward instead of hiding away. 'No no no, this is just nature, bug pokemon get preyed on from time to time' Hitori continued to tell herself. Even as she had grabbed Whismur's Pokeball from its holder, just to be ready to defend herself she reasoned to herself.
Then she had locked eyes with Wimpod, they looked at each other, and for a moment Hitori saw how Wimpod seemed to suggest that she should run while murkrow was distracted. Or maybe that was just Hitori's over-active imagination. Regardless, "Whismur I-icy wind," She shouted as she tossed Whismur's ball out.
Her Pokeball sailed through the air halfway toward the two wild Pokemon before opening and releasing Whismur in the middle of the air already sucking in air. With her frigid breath soon enveloping the area, the murkrow let out a surprised yelp, and his body locked up for just long enough for the air to be taken out from his wings, causing him to drop to the ground, only just avoiding a collision before already flying towards Whismur.
"Asto, P-pound," Hitori called, changing her order halfway through as she remembered that a ghost-type attack wasn't going to be as effective against a dark-type. Whismur looked tired still but still stood ready and slammed herself into the murkrow as he came close, managing to get her attack off before the murkrow's peck.
This time the attack was enough to knock murkrow down to the ground, who appeared to really not be able to take much of a direct hit. Through all of this, Hitori had taken a few more steps towards Wimpod, who himself had rushed over towards the safety of a friendly face. Even if he took a curved route to stay away from Whismur.
As murkrow brought himself up, taking a few moments to shake the dirt out of his feathers, he began to loudly caw out. Hitori starting to worry as now she had the bird's full attention. Which meant she now had to win against him, with a tired Whismur and a sleeping Litwick. She was half expecting murkrow to suddenly use something like hurricane, or hyper beam, with how dramatically murkrow was cawing and now was flying up. In the distance, caws echoed out to meet the murkrow's own and soon the single murkrow wasn't alone.
Hitori's worry grew tenfold as the single murkrow turned to two, then three, then five, soon a whole swarm of the flying types was landing where they could around herself and Wimpod. The bug-type obviously sharing her only worry as he tried to back up behind Hitori. 'Wimpod I'm not better than you, I won't be able to protect you any more than I can protect myself!' Hitori thought to herself. The single murkrow that Whismur had knocked back was already getting up, anger surging in it's, his expression.
"W-w-w-w-whismur c-ccan y-you use Icy Wind," Hitori stuttered out. Under the piercing gaze of all those murkrow it was hard for Hitori to even raise her voice above a whisper, regretting not having Whismur use a smokescreen first. But not for the first time, Hitori was thankful for Whismur's amazing hearing as Whismur sucked in air and began to bellow out the ice-type attack. As the frigid air expanded out, the flock of murkrow flew back and away.
Just as Hitori was starting to feel a touch of relief that the attack would keep them away, or even chase them away, two or three of the flying types began to rapidly flap their wings creating a strong gust of wind that pushed the frigid air right back at Whismur and herself. Feeling a sudden shiver from the cold air, Hitori's heart skipped a beat as right after two other murkrows were approaching one's beak glowing with peck while another's wings glowed with wing attack.
"S-sm-smokescreen!" Hitori squeaked out as she did the only thing that came to mind, picking up her partner and carrying her as she ran as hard as she could away from the approaching murkrow. Whismur stopped her icy wind and after another inhale of air began to release the thick cloud of smoke that trailed behind the two of them as they ran. Of course, it wasn't just the two of them, Wimpod took the window of opportunity to run with them. As he scurried across the ground, his carapace flecked off in a struggle bug that lingered in the air.
As the two murkrow continued to rush forward into the smokescreen, they collided with the floating pieces and squawked as it hurt them. Followed by a series of crows from the rest of the flock who begin to chase Hitori and the two Pokemon, avoiding the smokescreen. Even the two who were hit by the bug-type attack had already recovered and joined the rest of their flock outside of the smokescreen.
Still, it had bought Hitori and Wimpod to make some distance between them, and more importantly, it gave Hitori some time to think. 'Murkrow were nocturnal right?' Was her first thought, a piece to somehow get out of the situation without being beaten up by the murkrow and left for the mandibuzz.
The bought time wouldn't last forever as the murkrow had gotten ahead of Hitori and with their cries as warning soon dove into the smokescreen from the front where Wimpod's struggle bug hadn't reached. It was only Whismur suddenly lunging out of Hitori's arms to block an attack from one of the murkrow that kept Hitori safe.
"Whismur!" Hitori cried out in worry, but before she could give an order, she had to dive down low to the ground as she could hear the flying types flying past her, missing her thanks to the smoke ruining their aim. Wimpod beside her soon let out a pained cry as he wasn't as lucky to avoid a strike. Even after getting hit, Whismur continued to thicken the cloud of smoke understanding it as the only thing that kept them from being swarmed by murkrow.
"W-wimpod! A-are you okay, I'm sorry I shouldn't have butted in, they'd probably just take your berries and now you're going to end up lunch thanks to me," Hitori immediately called out in apology to him. 'Should I wake Litwick up? But a ghost-type surrounded by this many dark-types' Hitori thought as she held his Pokemon in her hand.
Wimpod flailed about letting out struggle bug in every direction and somehow forcing the murkrow away from him for the moment. The light of the attack illuminated enough to be seen through the smoke, bright enough for Hitori to see. "T-t-that's it! W-wimpod s-sand attack!" Hitori suddenly called out after a few seconds of staring at the light.
"Litwick come on out please wake up," Hitori whispered as she released the fire-type under her to block the flash of the Pokeball. Litwick looked a bit drowsy but was already up and shaking the sleepiness away from his eyes. "Litwick, e-ember, but keep the fire within the smokescreen, as large as you can, two of them" Hitori commanded.
"Whismur, Supersonic, as loud as you can," Hitori added. The three Pokemon soon got to work, Wimpod looking at Hitori with rapt admiration before his flailing stopped flaking out in struggle bug and instead he began to dig up dirt flinging it up in each direction. Litwick had little clue as to what was planned but was already hard at work creating two large embers that began to float nearby. Finally, Whismur gave a nod before spending a few seconds just sucking in air before screaming out supersonic so loud that Hitori felt it in her bones.
Still, the effect was as Hitori imagined, the dirt at least temporarily darkened the smokescreen enough to hide her actions. From the outside of the smokescreen, the murkrow who was preparing to blow it away and attack again was suddenly met with two large glowing eyes and an ear-piercing scream that startled and confused enough of them to cause a panic to spread amongst the flock.
'What kind of Pokemon did that trainer have?' 'I'm not risking my feathers against that!', and other such thoughts spread amongst the flock and they turned tail and flew away in a hurry. Even if it didn't fool all of the murkrow, once some had fled, others followed, which left even fewer who now considered the odds much less in their favor.
"R-run now!" Hitori called out to Wimpod before returning both Whismur who was out of breath and Litwick who needed more sleep back to their Pokeballs. Now just the two of them they took off in a random direction and ran as fast as their legs could take them. The further they could get away, the less chance the murkrow would find them when they found out about the trick.
Hitori didn't know how far she and Wimpod got or really how long she was running. But she eventually was too tired to keep it up and fell to her knees to gasp and take some deep breaths. By her side, Wimpod had stopped a few steps away catching his breath just as much. He looked over at Hitori and saw that she was in worse shape than himself, and took it upon himself to start pacing around her his eyes going from place to place on alert for any threats.
As a minute or two passed and it looked like the flock of murkrow was properly lost, Hitori finally recovered enough to address Wimpod. For one she was kind of surprised that he stuck around, expecting him to run off or dive into the stream that, now that she was looking around was nowhere to be seen. Slowly she brought herself up onto her feet and checked her things over. Guitar case, check, Pokeballs check, phone check, suitcase.
Hitori felt a cold sweat come over her as she quickly looked around her. Of course, the suitcase was nowhere to be found as a few moments later Hitori remembered how she had left her suitcase behind when she first stepped in to help Wimpod. "Oh no, no no no," Hitori began to mutter to herself. How could she lose something so valuable so early? With all of her spare clothes, food, oh, and her laptop!
How was she supposed to face her dad and tell her that she had lost something so expensive? "C-c-c-come out b-both of you," Hitori stuttered in a panic as she tossed both of her Pokeballs and let out Whismur and Litwick. An action that caused Wimpod to flinch and scurry away into the safety of a nearby bush.
Litwick was still awake even though he looked like he was just falling asleep again. Meanwhile, Whismur looked fine, for all of two seconds before she picked up on Hitori's state and quickly grew to be on the verge of a crying fit. "M-my s-suitcase, I l-left it behind, w-we got to go look for it, d-do either of you know where we were before?" Hitori asked her Pokemon.
Unfortunately, Whismur shook her head and began to sniffle, moments away from a crying fit. Hitori returned her right away even if it was a bit rude to her partner, part of her brain was still alert enough to understand that Whismur's crying would probably alert the murkrow. Litwick wasn't much help either, though he seemed to already be walking off in a random direction, motivated at least to help look.
"S-stay nearby at least," Hitori told Litwick who at least gave a wispy cry back. It was one thing sorted out, that was good, right? 'Take things one at a time right? That's how you managed a crisis right?' Hitori thought to herself as she was taking half steps in three different directions, torn between where to go.
Hitori was taken out of her worried thoughts by Wimpod, who had carefully crawled out of the bush and poked at her leg to get her attention. Hitori looked down at Wimpod who now was pointing in two different directions with two different legs. One was over in a direction that did look like where she had come from. The other however was up at Hitori herself.
"Eh? W-wait do you know where we were before!?" Hitori asked getting a series of rapid nods from Wimpod. Though Wimpod continued to point at her. Hitori first looked behind her, then around her as it took her a while to properly follow where Wimpod had been pointing, namely at the Pokeball holder on her guitar case. She had put the empty Pokeballs on them, it felt more impressive to have a fully loaded holder after all.
With a double take, Hitori looked back and forth between her holder and the Wimpod. "You, you want to come with me? B-But I don't know if I'll be a good enough trainer for you, I already have my hands full dealing with two already," Hitori explained.
For a moment Wimpod deflated and had already begun to scurry back over to the bush. Halfway through however Wimpod stopped and slapped his frontmost legs against the ground before scurrying back and pointing once again at the holder, this time letting out a chittering cry. Hitori blinked. "But, I'm going to be battling… I wouldn't want to frighten you so much because of that," Hitori continued.
Hearing that, Wimpod once again seemed to naturally back up and flee at even the thought of it. But again the bug-type seemed to force himself to walk back towards Hitori. It was then that Hitori understood what Wimpod was doing, it was exactly the pacing she did when registering for that tournament in the café. Just like her, Wimpod was wanting to do something despite his cowardice. "O-okay, I don't know if I'll be the best t-trainer, b-but w-we'll get more confident together, a-alright?" Hitori eventually said.
Wimpod became elated upon hearing that. Even if a few moments later Hitori could see Wimpod obviously having second thoughts, imagining a worst-case scenario. It was somewhat odd to see what it must have looked like when she did the same. Carefully, Hitori took the Nest ball that she had received from Ball Girl after their battle and held it out for Wimpod. The bug-type flinched at the ball, struggling to force himself to push past his second doubts, to see that he crossed that proverbial point of no return, even if it wasn't there.
In the end, his desire to be more won out Wimpod stepped forward, only to trip over his legs into the ball. It opened up and enveloped him in light and sucked him inside. The ball closed and began to shake as the light on the button began to blink on and off. Compared to Litwick it shook for a few more seconds before inevitably stopping and with a ping confirming that the capture was successful.
"Come on out Wimpod," Hitori said as she pushed the button to let him out. Wimpod was shivering as he emerged from his Pokeball, before letting out a clear sigh of relief. "W-welcome to the team, I-I'll have to introduce you to the others later. For now, you know where my suitcase is r-right?" Hitori said. Wimpod blinked and nodded before gesturing with his legs.
"T-Then lead the way. Ah, but first I need to get Litwick back," Hitori said before rushing off where Litwick had started to wander to return the ghost-type. Then finally she and her newest Pokemon began to set off towards where her suitcase hopefully was waiting for her.