The Butt-tastic Sinnoh Adventure

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A pleasant, warm breeze ruffled through the leaves of the trees and flowers that littered Floaroma Town. It carried the gentle scent of nature through the small town, scattering fallen petals among front gardens. In one such garden, outside a simple looking country house, was a young female. She was lay on her stomach, her long red hair hiding her face from view as she concentrated on sketching the two pokemon in front of her.
The two Pokemon, a Skorupi and a Yanma were contentedly playing among the grass and flowers of the garden, chasing each other through the lush stalks.

Leon grinned. "Now there's your sense of adventure! It's about time, I've been searching for it for years!" He teased his friend gently, gesturing to Tsuri to take a position in front of him. He stepped back a couple of paces so that there was a good amount of distance between he and Reese. "You can take the first turn if you'd like."

Reese chuckled at her friend's comment before nodding to the Skorupi on her shoulder. Quilla eagerly hopped down onto the ground and scuttled to a position in front of her trainer. Glitch meanwhile, hovered nearby.

"Alright then.." she blinked. It had been a while since she had actually battled with Glitch or Quilla. Usually they relaxed and played around in the front garden, and so Reese decided to test out a few moves. Deciding to go in with a strong start, she called out quietly; "Poison Sting!"

Quilla, quickly leaping into action, parted her jaws. Multiple, purple-hued needles were shot from her mouth, heading towards the Oddish's current location with precision accuracy.

Leon, thinking quickly, attempted to counter the move with a shout of, "Razor Leaf!" Tsuri shot razor sharp leaves out towards the spikes. The needles, despite Leon and Tsuri's best efforts, tore through the leaves and continued towards the Oddish. When they hit, Leo winced. "Absorb, Tsuri!" With a weak cry the Oddish pulled several greenish orbs from her opponent. The incandescent orbs floated towards Tsuri and were absorbed, the Oddish's eyes getting a smidge brighter.

"Poison Sting again!" called Reese. The Skorupi obliged and managed to catch one of the incandescent orbs before it reached the Oddish ad she was able to absorb it. The bubble appeared to explode, spraying a greenish liquid over Tsuri which would no doubt impair her vision somewhat, at least for a few moments.
Taking her chance, Reese called for Quilla to use Iron Tail. Using her small legs, the Skorupi leaped into the air, her long, bulky tail hardening into steel. At the last second, Quilla maneuvered her body in midair so that her tail swung towards the Oddish.

Tsuri shook herself violently as the green gunk fell into her eyes. "Razor Leaf, Tsuri!" Leon called, not having much choice as to a better move. He was still learning to combine moves together and use them more effectively.

Tsuri shot out the leaves before hearing Leon warn her to watch out on her left. The Oddish rolled backwards and then leaped into the air, shooting out more razor sharp leaves as the green liquid was finally flushed out of her eyes.

Reese knew that, due to her Skorupi's typing and shielded body, she wouldn't take much damage from the Razor Leaf, but none the less she called out for Quilla to use her Iron Tail to protect herself from most of the leaves.

Pausing for a moment as the Razor Leaf collided with Quilla's Iron Tail, Reese came up with an idea.
"Quilla, Poison sting on the ground!"
The Skorupi was a little confused but decided to see what her trainer had in store. Obliging, she shot the purple needles at the ground, creating a little colony of them sticking up in front of her.
Even before she was done, Reese wasted no time on the next step.
"Okay, use Iron Tail, hit the needles."

Reese wasn't too sure about how this would turn out, but if she was going to become a coordinator she needed to learn to experiment with her pokemon's movesets.
The Skorupi used her large tail to hit the rows of needles all at once, sending a volley or purple and silver hued half-needles towards the Oddish. They were like arrows, fired in sync from a miniature army and propelled by both Steel and Poison type power.

Leo was well aware at this point that Reese's pokemon and Reese herself were much more prepared and ready for this type of battle. Tsuri went down after being pummeled by the relentless poison sting attacks. Leon smiled ruefully at his friend. "Great battle. I've got a lot of work to do!" He chuckled before returning the Oddish to her pokeball. Ruuma let out a disheartened noise before sidling up to Leo and attempted to scramble up him. He laughed, tucked his egg away in his backpack, and scooped up the Venonat. "Let's get going on the real adventure then!"

Reese grinned at the win, Quilla scuttling over to her trainer. Reese placed the egg down temporarily to hug her scorpion friend and congratulate her on the win.
With Quilla now back on her shoulder, Reese picked the egg back up, hugging it to her chest as if it was the most precious thing on Earth. As she continued walking with her friend, she thanked her own, seemingly limitless creativity for the Poison Volley idea. A simple trick for now maybe, but perhaps she could build on it later. She would also have to work out a few things with Glitch.

"We should try and find some Oran Berries or something for Tsuri," suggested Reese, Glitch taking the hint and flying off to try and locate a bush or two of the blue coloured berries.

Leo nodded. "Yeah she wasn't looking too good. Plus I wanna train her a bit on the way to Jubilife."

Ruuma excitedly took in the world around her, full of the usual lush greenery of the wild as well as other new things. Rolling hills and Pokemon flitting from bush to bush, for example. She batted Leo with her antennae, asking to be set down so she could play with the other Pokemon. When Leon grinned and placed her gently upon the ground, she soon realized that the wild Pokemon were a lot more devious and mischievous than she had thought. With a pout she glared at the other Pokemon trying to mess with her, feeling a bit of pride well up in her when they let out frightened squeaks and scampered off.

Quilla scanned the area, but didn't seem to pay much attention to the local wildlife. Instead she seemed to be almost snoozing whilst sitting on Reese's shoulder.
Glitch on the other hand quickly returned with good news and with a short 'Yan yan!' began to lead Reese to where he had spotted some of the infamous blue berries.
Grinning, Reese followed the Yanma, keeping the egg close to her. They reached the bush, but there weren't may berries on it. Frowning, Reese made her way over.
"Aww... is this really all there are?"

Glitch seemed to be quite confused, as if there hadn't been so few when he had seen the bush from above. He looked apologetically at Reese, reaching out with his legs to pluck one off of the bush. As he did so, the berry was snatched from his grasp by something hiding in the bush.
Reese blinked in surprise, parting the branches to see what had stolen the berry.

Leo let out an indignant cry at the loss of the berry. "Hey! We need those!" He peered into the bush to see a very sated Starly, blue juices coating the feathers around its beak. Leo plucked more berries from the bush, being careful to keep his hands away from the Pokemon in the bush. He released Tsuri from her Pokeball and gently fed her the berries. In no time at all she was almost fully recovered, a happy smile on her face once more. "Ooodish! Odd! (Let's play a game!)" Ruuma opened her mouth to tell Tsuri that the local wildlife didn't take to friendly Pokemon when a pair of Budew skipped away with the Oddish. "Oi!" Leon shouted. "Don't get lost!"

Reese raised her eyebrow at the Starly as it attempted to steal more of the berries as Leo was collecting them. It failed however, due to Glitch using a weak variation of Signal Beam to stop it from taking them.
When Leon had finally gotten all the berries he needed, Reese and Glitch let the branches cover the Starly again and stepped back. They watched as Tsuri ate the berries, recovering considerably from their effects. However the peacefulness was short live as a Signal Beam was fired from behind, only just missing Reese and Glitch before hitting a nearby tree.

Reese whipped around and saw the Starly, flicking oran juice from it's feathers by shaking it's body. It seemed to be just looking for a fight.

Leon rolled his eyes at the Starly. He wasn't a fan of its typing nor its attitude. "I have to go find Tsuri, you can battle mister greedy feathers over here if you'd like." And with that he took off into the underbrush to look for his Pokemon who had been talked into a game of hide and seek.

The Starly squawked at Leon, not liking the male trainer's attitude towards him. He flapped his wings, fully intending to launch another Signal Beam towards him, but was stopped by a Quick Attack from Glitch.

Reese glared at the Starly. Maybe she could get some practice for a real battle against this determined little bird pokemon.
"Glitch, use Quick Attack!" she called, "Repeat it and come at him from different angles!"

The Yanma nodded, picking up speed as he flew, a white trail extending behind him. He collided with the Starly once, but before he could land another hit, the Starly had used it's own Quick Attack and they were once again battling at relatively equal speeds.

"Signal Beam!" called Reese, "Don't let up that Quick Attack, try and combine them!"

The Yanma fired off a signal beam, using his speed to catch up to it. He charged straight towards it, hoping to combine it's power with Quick Attack and create a strengthened move. However upon making contact with the multi-coloured beam, Glitch only hurt himself, and went crashing down onto the ground.

Reese cried out before running over to Glitch. As she did so the Starly stood his ground, only Growling at his downed opponent for now.

After stumbling about through briers and thistles and receiving quite a few scrapes and bruises, Leo was just about ready to give up his hunt for Tsuri and let Ruuma take over when he saw three large green leaves sticking out of the ground. They blended in extremely well and Leon wouldn't have noticed them if not for the occasional twitch they gave. He snickered, rolled his eyes, and then knelt beside of the leaves. Getting a good grip on them, he gently pulled the Oddish out of the ground, wondering how she even managed to get herself into the earth. She pouted, but appeared happy to see her trainer once more.