Chapter 53: A Cool Tour
Important characters
Jessie (Male Tentacool/Ex-Human)
Abra (Male)
"WATER AH! Ah, I can breathe again."
-"You're welcome! I managed to find a birdbath up on one of these rooftop garden things. So, now that I've saved your life-"
"Hold on hold on, still getting over almost dying three times in one day."
-"Get over it. So what I want you to do is-" Jessie used Wrap! The pesky psychic type grabs at the tentacles round it's face, then crosses it's arms with a pout.
-"...I'm speaking directly into your head. Choking the life out of me will not stop me from telling you what to do."
"I'm not trying to choke you, I'm trying to steady myself. Holy Ho-Oh feathers, you'd think I'd be way more used to almost dying by now. But it never gets easier I tell you. So just... just give me five minutes to breathe."
-"Uh, sure. Take five?"
Over the course of five very awkward minutes, Jessie slowly releases his grasp and relaxes into the shallow bath.
"Okay, I'm good."
-"You good?"
"I'm good. Trauma response over."
-"Good... So as I was saying, HELP MY FUCKING FRIEND ALREADY! IT'S BEEN DAYS SINCE THAT SHADOWY MONSTER ATE HIM!"
"Jeez! Indoor voice, please!"
-"WE'RE OUTDOORS YOU SLIMY FUCK!"
"FINE! Just tell me what happened without blowing out my hearing, your voice is making my whole body jiggle!"
-"Ew... Okay, so story time. I'm friends with this old dude, makes me coffee every day. Great guy. But one day, some FREAK made out of shadow shows up and eats him! Jets off into the forest and comes back here every so often to try and eat me to! I can just teleport away whenever it gets close, so I'm safe. BUT I WANT MY FUCKING FRIEND BACK, DAMMIT!"
"Oh man... Yeah, I know exactly what's going on."
-"HOLY SHIT!"
"Aye, the shouting! What's with the shouting?"
-"Damn, I thought that escaped alphabet reject was just high off his rocker when he told me about you, especially when he started talking about his 'broth' of Unown. You ever hear something that ridiculous?"
"Uh, next question."
-"Whatever. So you can really help out the old dude?"
"Yeah, I've figured out how to free people from those 'shadows' you saw. Don't worry... huh."
-"What?"
"Well it's just, I've never met an Abra before so I don't know if you're... what are your pronouns exactly?"
-"M-my pronouns?" The flustered pokemon looks from side to side, seemingly expecting something. Seeing nothing out of the ordinary, they give Jessie their attention and stammer out a reply.
-"Uh... Let's go with He/Him. That sounds good, yeah."
"Got it! Don't worry, Mr. Abra, just point the way and I'll take care of everything! Well, as soon as I can get to a larger body of water and catch up with my friends. We're sort of this special task team working with-"
But the Abra was looking into the distance with a funny expression on their tired face.
-"Heeee, Mr. Abra~"
"Right, ahem. Mr. Abra, do you think we can get back to the ocean now?"
-"Huh? Oh yeah! Yeah, no worries! I'll just-" *teleport*
*an hour later*
"Soooooo... how did you meet Granny Poke?"
-"Hah? That old broad? Teleporting." *splash*
"We're in a fountain this time."
-"Damn, this city sure does know how to waste money. Anyway, me and the bi-"
"HEY!"
-"Okay okay! Me and the fucker-"
"Thank you."
-"Jeez, never had a guy tell me to use a 'nicer' swear before... Anyways, we go back a ways. She and her cronies have been summoning Abras for generations. It's kind of this thing we have going. They get the ability to transport something quickly and we get something we like!"
-"Somehow the b- er, the bastard, always seems to have whatever we want pre-prepared. Like they planned it somehow. Teleporting."
*splash*
"We're... Oh, looks like we're completely outside the city this time."
-"HELL YES!"
"We're 'north' of the city this time."
-"GOD DAMMIT! Okay fuck this, we're swimming the long way around. Hey you aquatic fuck, think you can ferry me the rest of the way?"
"Yeah yeah, I gotcha. While we're moving, can you tell me what your deal is?"
-"My 'deal'?"
"The mood swings? The swearing?"
-"HEY! If you hadn't had coffee in forty eight hours, you'd be pissed to!"
"Weak. Talk to me after a year."
-"...No shit?"
"Yeah."
-"Oh... Sorry to hear that. I'd share mine but uh, no." Abra grips his bag of dry coffee beans possessively.
"Can you even enjoy it like that? Got an espresso machine up your butt or something?"
-"Don't even joke about that! If I had the ability to use a coffee machine on my own instead of having to rely on my friend, who I still would've rescued just to make that clear, then we wouldn't even be in this mess!"
"Don't you have, you know, thumbs?"
-"Yeah, but the old man's wife doesn't let me use their machine by myself. She doesn't like the idea of giving pokemon caffeine."
"Probably had the right idea, given your charming personality."
-"Shove it." *sigh* -"I'm so fucking tired."
"Same. What I'd give to have a Scald TM right about now, could probably roast up those beans for both of us." Suddenly, Abra digs his claws into the sides of Jessie's squishy head.
"YEOWCH! The hell, man?"
-"YOU DIDN'T TELL ME YOU COULD USE SCALD!"
"Well I can't currently! I don't know the move, but I could learn it if I had-"
-"A TM! Why didn't I think of it? Okay blue, hold on tight! We're teleporting again!"
"No wait!" *blip*
From the road up ahead, a pokemon ranger stands looking out over the stream where the two pokemon just disappeared. They turn on a radio and speak into it with a confused expression.
-"Hey Riley, I think I saw that pokemon you said to look out for."