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Attack of the Munna [video/action]

Takashi was walking along, trying to find out new information about this new world. He was too shy to ask anyone for information, so it was just him and Meowth for the time being. Something up ahead caught his attention - it looked like a pink blob floating in midair. His blood ran cold - so far he hadn't seen any spirits in this world, but it was probably just a matter of time. He slowly approached it, getting ready to run if something happened. The blob turned abruptly and faced him, blinking its large red eyes. "Munna?" It had the "look" of a Pokemon to it, so Takashi relaxed a little.

"A floating Pokemon? I didn't know they could do that.." He glanced over at his Meowth, who seemed like a pretty typical cat so far. Who knew what he was hiding though? He turned his attention back to the Munna and reached out to pat it. Suddenly, it let out a loud cry and the bushes around him startled rustling. A sea of pink flooded his vision as an entire herd of the Pokemon burst out of the bushes and swarmed around him, clinging to him. He screamed and pushed them off, then turned tail and ran with the blobs hot in pursuit. "Help!"

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Shizuo was exploring Striaton City and had headed off to its large garden for some peace and quiet. Unfortunately, he hadn't been enjoying the scenery with his Pokemon for long before the peace was shattered by a child's cry for help. What was going on? He sighed as the flood of pink Pokemon chasing after the kid from earlier became visible. It figured. I guess I should give him a hand...

Shizuo grabbed Takashi by the hood of his hoodie when he ran past and casually tossed the child into some nearby bushes. Hopefully the wave of pink Pokemon wouldn't notice that their target had suddenly moved. Mob mentality could really be something.

Takashi suddenly got snagged by something and found himself swept off his feet and into some bushes. "Ow.." The bushes scratched him a bit, and his Meowth was none too pleased about being thrown off the boy's shoulder...but at least the Pokemon had passed. He glanced over and noticed the man who had pulled him out of the cloud. "Oh, it's you again... Thank you."

"It was nothing," Shizuo replied. He glanced down at the boy, looking slightly accusatory. "Why were they chasing you?" One could only assume that the child had done something to upset all those Pokemon.

Takashi got up from the bush and brushed himself off. He picked up the Meowth (who was giving Shizuo a suspicious look) and picked some leaves and twigs from his fur. "Well, I saw one floating there and I reached out to touch it. I guess it got scared and called it's friends.."

"Tch." He glared right back at Takashi's cat Pokemon, not liking the way it was looking at him. Picking up on his trainer's annoyance, Shizuo's Growlithe growled a bit at the Meowth, fluffy tail swishing back and forth.

"Just be careful from now on, okay?" Shizuo didn't want to have to go saving this kid's ass every time he decided to touch a strange Pokemon.

"Okay..." Takashi agreed, though that was easier said than done. Trouble had a way of finding him, even in this world. But he didn't want this man to think he was a troublesome kid.

"By the way, what's your name? My name is Natsume Takashi." He introduced himself. They kept running into each other, so may as well.

"Heiwajima Shizuo." It wasn't the most fitting name, but. Deciding that the danger was past, he sat down on a nearby wooden bench and leaned back, watching as his Pokemon jumped into the garden's central fountain and began splashing around gaily.

"Nice to meet you." Takashi said politely and then sat down next to him. He let go of his Meowth. "Play nicely..." He warned him. The cat trotted over to the fountain and looked at the Growlithe with some disdain, then sat on the edge and looked into the water. It seemed to be looking for fish, though Takashi didn't think there were any in there.

"So uh, how long have you been in this world..?"

Shizuo glanced at Takashi for a moment, a bit surprised that the kid was sitting next to him. What, he was still here? How persistent.

"About a week." Which was a week too long for Shizuo's taste. He hadn't been able to find a way out yet, and everyone insisted that there was no way out. He tried not to think about it very much; the idea of being trapped against his will pissed him off.

Shizuo's Growlithe growled at the Meowth and spat out a few balls of fire at it, purposefully missing by a few hairs. He then lifted his head higher, looking quite satisfied, and splashed over to play less dangerously with his trainer's Petilil.

"Just a bit longer than I've been here." Takashi noted. It was strange how normal it had come to feel being in this world, though. Or maybe it was just that he had a high threshold for weirdness.

"MEOWTH!" The cat-Pokemon yowled even though he wasn't hit. He puffed up his fur and was about to chase after the Growlithe, that is, until he touched the water with his front paw. He drew it back quickly and sat back down on the edge of the fountain with a sullen look on his face. "Meowth." It seemed that getting wet wasn't worth it.

Shizuo smiled, watching the Pokemon as they played about. It was kind of cute. "Down, Moyasu," he told his Growlithe, though the tone of his voice lacked any reprimand.

His Growlithe was feeling too mischievous at the moment to obey. "Growl!" He gave Takashi's Meowth a devious grin and began splashing about in the fountain wildly, making certain that some of the water drenched the cat Pokemon. Shizuo's Petilil, not appreciating the waves that were being made, clambered out of the fountain and tottered to Shizuo's side.

"Mroww!!" The Meowth's ears were flattened and he looked most displeased. He walked around the fountain until he was close enough to the Growlithe and then slapped his tail into the water, splashing it back.

Takashi laughed a little at the antics of the Pokemon. As long as they weren't really hurting each other, it was fine. "Hi there." He told the little plant type thing with a wave. This was his first time seeing it - if it had been with Shizuo during their last encounter, he hadn't noticed.

Moyasu growled, shaking off his drenched fur and splattering water everywhere. "Growlithe! Growl!" He tackled the Meowth and began tussling with the other Pokemon, tail wagging. It would have looked like the two were fighting if it weren't for the lack of fireballs and screeching.

"Hey!" Shizuo shouted at his Growlithe, throwing an arm over his head in a futile attempt to keep from getting wet. The Growlithe stopped to give him a glance before going back to playing with Takashi's Meowth. Shizuo scowled as he looked down at the wet spots forming on his already abused outfit. He didn't want to, but it looked like he might have to buy new clothing soon. "Damn dog," he spat, taking out a cigarette. For some reason Shizuo couldn't bring himself to get too upset over it.

His Petilil merely looked at Takashi with a blank stare, not seeming too interested in the boy. After a moment, she wiggled a leaf half-heartedly in greeting.

"Meoowth!" The Meowth swatted and batted at the Growlithe's face, but the fact that the cat wasn't using his claws reassured Takashi that they weren't really hurting each other. In fact, at one point he looked like he was tickling the Growlithe's nose with his tail.

"I guess dogs are the same anywhere you go, huh?" The same couldn't be said of plants though, judging by the fact that there were plant-animal hybrids wandering around.

"Gr-choo!" Shizuo's Growlithe sneezed fiercely onto the Meowth when his nose was tickled, letting out a few stray sparks of fire. The sneeze had enough force behind it to send him jumping back a foot, and he looked rather bewildered.

"Heh. I guess so," Shizuo said, amused. He waved his cigarette at his Growlithe. "Light this, will you?" He had run out of lighter fluid recently, and a Pokemon that could shoot fire really came in handy.

"Growl!"

One well-aimed ember later, Shizuo was taking a satisfied drag on the cigarette. "Thanks."

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The Meowth curled into a ball and covered his head to avoid being hit by a fireball. Once it was safe he got to his feet and ran over to the trainers, then shook himself off. His fur was all fluffed up and Takashi laughed, smoothing it down for the cat.

"Do you have more Pokemon besides those two?" He asked Shizuo.

"Nah," Shizuo said, giving his Growlithe a scratch behind the ears as he returned to his trainer, apparently not wanting to play alone. "These two are bad enough." Not to mention Shizuo didn't really know much about catching a Pokemon, other than it required battling. Which he didn't like.

"Same here. I mean, it's just me and Meowth." Takashi picked the cat-Pokemon up.

Meowth seemed rather on edge though. He squirmed free and then climbed on Takashi's arm, up his shoulder and looked peered down his back. His ears flattened and he growled. "Eh? What's the matter?" Takashi couldn't see it, but Meowth could - one of those pink Pokemon was clinging to his back.

Shizuo frowned.

"You again?" He hadn't seen the Pokemon appear. This world didn't seem as dangerous as his own was, but being caught off guard by a possible enemy was never a good thing.

"It's one of the Pokemon from before." He wondered why it came back instead of following the herd. At least it wasn't attacking, he supposed.

"Eh? How long has it been there?" Takashi reached as far back as he could, but he couldn't quite reach it. He didn't feel it at all. His Meowth climbed further onto his shoulder and swatted the clinging Pokemon with his paw. The Munna just clung tighter and squeezed its eyes shut, squealing "Munnaaaa!"

"Don't know." Shizuo sighed, standing up and prying the Pokemon from the boy's back. It struggled to cling on for a moment, but was no match for the (former) strongest man in Ikebukuro. He held it out to Takashi, away from the curious sniffing of Moyasu.

"Here." He didn't know what to do with it, so.

"Thank you." Takashi said to Shizuo, taking the Pokemon carefully since he was holding it out to him.

"You should go join your family now...I'm sure they're not too far ahead." He smiled a little at the Munna and let go of it, but it just clung back onto him. "Don't you want to go?"
"Munnaaaa.." Was the only response he got.

"Maybe it wants to stay with you," Shizuo said, taking a drag on his cigarette. In his experience, Pokemon spontaneously got attached to people, and then decided to follow them around everywhere. It was odd, to say the least. In his world, even domesticated animals were much more wary.

"You think so?" Takashi didn't see why. It's not like he really bonded with any of the Munna. "I guess if you want to stay with me, that would be okay." He patted it and it squealed happily. The Meowth looked decidedly less happy - a new tag-along meant less food for Meowth.
"Is that how you met your Pokemon?"

"Yeah, it is," Shizuo said, watching the kid and the Pokemon. Takashi's not a bad kid, he supposes. His Growlithe, now realizing that the Munna is no threat, barks happily and puts his paws on Takashi, trying to reach the Munna and sniff it more thoroughly.

As has been his routine since Team Plasma showed up, N was simply wandering through Striaton as he returned from hiding himself away in Route 2. He had taken notice of the abnormal Munna swarms before, so seeing a group of them in the distance was something he expected. Zoroark, walking at his side, was the first to notice something wrong. She stopped and turned, suddenly alert.

"Hm? What is it, friend?" N questioned, stopping to take a look himself. Upon a second look... there was a person in that cloud of Munna-- and he was running in their direction. "Oh..."

As Takashi ran past, N heaved a sigh and began to follow him at a sprint. The faster Zoroark surged forward as well, ahead of her trainer.

"Stop running and be still!" N called out to Takashi. "You're only worsening your situation!"

Stop running and be still? That was easy to say when you weren't being chased by a cloud of pink Pokemon! "Y-you sure?" He panted out. Takashi wasn't going to have much of a choice soon, he was losing his breath and getting tired out fast. He slowed down and then stopped, hoping the other person knew what he was talking about and that he wasn't going to end up a snack for these things.

Zoroark caught up with Takashi first, stopping at his side and surveying the Munna with a confused tilt of her head. She was there to attack if needed be, but how was she supposed to attack when they were all crowded so close to the boy? Once he caught up as well, N stopped on the other side of the boy.

"Calm yourself. They aren't meant to be aggressive," N remarked to Takashi. "They were likely just startled by that sound from earlier."

Though, if the sound could make them aggressive... that would be an entirely different situation that would definitely warrant fleeing. Still, N dared to cautiously reach his hands out toward the Pokemon. "Munna, friends-- Is there something you need? This boy didn't hurt any of you, did he?"

Takashi moved closer to the man - in case the Munna decided to attack them. It seemed like he knew what he was doing, and so far the Pokemon weren't really trying to hurt them. "I didn't. I w-wouldn't do something like that. I saw one floating in the air and I wondered what it was, so I tried to touch it." It hadn't been his best idea. He watched nervously as N reached out to them himself.

N seemed to ignore Takashi's words, instead focusing on listening to the squeaking of the Munna.

"We don't mean you any harm," he offered, gingerly taking a step toward the Pokemon, arms outstretched at his sides, showing his lack of any sort of weapons.

The moment he got close, the Munna suddenly shifted and lunged forward all at once. Zoroark growled warningly and N gasped sharply, prepared for some sort of attack... but it didn't come. The Munna simply clung to his clothes or drifted around him. He stayed still, allowing them to clamber over him as they pleased.

"There, now. You weren't attacking at all, were you?" He smiled calmly as the Pokemon inspected him. He turned his head to look at Takashi, though his face was a bit obscured as a few Munna nosed at his wild hair. "They thought you were a threat. But there is nothing to be afraid of, see?" A few of the Munna floated away from him and closer to Takashi.

Takashi flinched when he saw the Munna lunge, expecting the worst. But...it didn't look like they were doing anything at all. Just clinging to him.

"They're actually kind of cute..." Takashi admitted, now that the threat of becoming Pokemon chow had passed. He held out his hand, not reaching to pat them, but letting them come over to him if they wanted to. His Meowth was staring at them curiously.

N took a small step back, giving the Munna more room as a few moved to meet Takashi's hand, inspecting it as they had N. Now, it seemed they were more curious than wary, not even vaguely hostile any longer.

"It is best to be more careful, when approaching a wild Pokemon," N started. Mini lecture time! "It is often difficult to tell exactly how they will react. Still, Pokemon never attack without good reason." At least, that is what he believes. As he continued, he reached up to pat the Munna himself. "Very recently, a strange sound drove all the Pokemon from the Dreamyard. It seems most of the Pokemon here are restless because of it."

"Oh? A strange sound?" Takashi patted a Munna near him and it made a noise that seemed to indicate that it was happy. "What do you think caused it?" Now he was a bit worried that herds of wild Pokemon were going to be out and about, attacking people.

"I don't know," he answered with a frown. "Most likely human activity of some sort. However, I went to the Dreamyard myself in search of some evidence, but I found nothing."

Literally nothing. Seeing the place entirely devoid of Pokemon was apparently quite unnerving to him. He looks a bit disturbed. "It is worrying, to say the least."

"That does sound bad..." Takashi agreed, patting another Munna that had clung to him. He looked a little hesitant for a moment, then spoke up again.

"Uh, well...I don't know much about this world, or the noise or anything like that, but...is there anything I can do to help?" He asked shyly. He may have been pretty new here, but he didn't like the idea of something happening to the Pokemon.

N looked almost surprised by the question, but pleasantly so. He smiled.

"I'm afraid not-- not at this moment, anyway," he replied. "Until more is found out about that sound, the best you can do to help is to be careful with any Pokemon that have fled the Dreamyard in search of safety. Still, I appreciate your concern for them."

Zoroark, relaxed now that she was sure she wouldn't be battling any time soon, moved up to sit at N's side. He stroked her head absentmindedly as he began to speak again. "My name is N. And this is my friend, Zoroark." Zoroark gives a small growl in greeting. "Who are you? I assume you are new to this sort of world."

Takashi returned the smile, "My name is Takashi, nice to meet you." He nodded in greeting to Zoroark. "And this here is Meowth." He reached up to pat the cat on his shoulder, who was looking pretty disinterested now that the action was over. "You're right, I am new to this world..." It felt a bit strange to say it out loud. "I'm not really sure how it happened. Are you from this world?"

One moment, Jade had been relaxing on a park bench with her Growlithe on her lap, and the next, there was a boy running by and looking very distressed, followed by a floating wall of pink.

Wait, what?

Becquerel caught on before she did and the Growlithe practically fell over his own feet trying to get onto the ground. With a call of, "Ah—hold on!" Jade was up and running after him, both of them in pursuit of the Munna swarm. "Bec, roar!" the girl cried and the Pokémon stopped himself long enough to let out the most ferocious sounding bark he could muster. It was enough for a good chunk of the Pokémon to disperse and for Jade to make her way around the thinned-out herd and towards the boy she'd seen running. "Hey! Hey, are you okay? Bec, bite 'em!" While Becquerel began lunging at the remaining pink blobs, fangs bared, his trainer was shoving through the swarm to the boy's side, prepared to fret over how he was doing.

Takashi leaned over to catch his breath, barely managing to get out a "Thank you." His lungs were burning but he was used to being chased, so it was nothing new for him. "Yes, I'm okay." He said, once he was a little more composed. He adjusted his clothes and smiled at his rescuer, though he was still worried about the pink blobs around them.

"Are you sure?" Jade checked. Idly, she reached into her backpack and flung a Pokéball towards the remaining few Pokémon, only instructing her Growlithe to roar at them once more to scare off the rest of the swarm after she saw the ball's red beam engulf the pink thing. "Yikes, how did you get them all to chase you like that?"

Takashi's eyes widened when he saw the trainer throw something at one of the pink blobs and then the pink blob being...absorbed into it. "W-what did you do to that Pokemon?" He ignored her question for the time being, since he was shocked by what he had just seen.

Hesitantly, Jade answered, "I caught it. Oh! Wait, are you new here?" The thought had come to her seconds after she'd answered his question. "I guess whoever gave you the rundown of this place forgot about some stuff, if you even got it. It's okay, though!" With a whistle, a gesture, and a call of "fetch!", Bec had run to his trainer and returned with the still Pokéball in his mouth, tail wagging. Taking it from him and praising the Pokémon, Jade explained, "Even if it looks scary, it's just how things happen!"

"Do they like being put in that?" Takashi said curiously, eyeing the Pokeball. He was glad that it wasn't hurt, at least. He had never seen anything like that. An animal being caught in a capsule. He tilted his head. "How does it fit?"

Jade paused and glanced down at the ball in her hands. "I don't know! My Pokémon are usually really happy, though, so it can't be too bad in there." At his next question, she was even more hesitant. "I don't...know? I never thought about asking! Maybe it would be worth looking into."

"Maybe!" Takashi agreed. The thought of trapping an animal in a little ball seemed...wrong to him though. He suddenly realized he hadn't introduced himself. "Oh, right. My name is Natsume Takashi, it's nice to meet you."

"I'm Jade Harley!" she replied, clapping her hands together and beaming. "It's nice to meet you, too, even if this wasn't exactly the best way to do it, hehehe." Silently, she hoped that she would be able to pronounce his name the same way twice.

"That's true. I really don't know what made them do that." Takashi laughed sheepishly. "Uh, do they do that often around here...?" He was worried that avoiding giant Pokemon herds was going to become a daily thing for him.

"I don't think so! I actually have never seen any Pokémon behave like that," she hummed. "But you aren't supposed to run from them! You're supposed to fight back with your Pokémon." She paused. "You do have a Pokémon of your own, right?"

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Attack of the Munna [video/action]

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He lectures because he CARES

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This is pretty much the extent of Growlithe's training

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