Gotta Catch Em' All: Team Galactic Diamond

[Lychee]

RAE
Trainer Palila Rae
Location: Floaroma Town
Team: Dartrix (25/25), Prinlup (25/25), Oricorio (fire) -shiny (15/15) Eevee -shiny (25/25)
Partner Pokemon: ---
Items: 1x Greatball, 4x Pokeballs, 4x Healballs, Water Stone, Pidgeotite, Journal, Sketchpad, Locked pokeball with Staravia (25/25), Locked pokeball with Wingull (25/25), Locked pokeball with Chatot (26/26)
Points: 58 (-22, -15, +1 from posting) Posts: 63P + 3TG

Palila frowned. Weren't trainer battles supposed to give people rewards? This woman was being an extremely sore loser.
"Rob you? In front of all these people?" Palila echoed, looking around in confusion. What was WITH this dimension?
At that point, some tall guy in his twenties with slightly-too-shiny hair swung into the conversation and gave her a wink.
A wink? She pulled a disgusted face out of habit, unable to talk for a second or two. This guy filled the awkward silence, called Palila sweet, and then gave the LOSER money! As he took out coins to pay the woman off, Palila bared her teeth, growling in unmanaged anger.

But then- he called her sis. She leaned back slightly, snarl dropping from her face and her expression softening slightly.
Family. Ah. Although her brothers were hardly his age nobody in her family looked like him at all, she was familiar with the concept of being a sister.
Well, ok. If that is what this universe is going to throw at me today, fine.
Also, he mentioned going to a boutique and getting her some clothes and shoes. Whether this was a mixup, some kind of fetish, or just a bizzare diffusion of a tense situation, she was prepared to accept it. For now.
"Oh! Uh! Suuuure Big Brother Beedrill, geez, No need to buzz about so much!" She rolled her eyes in what she hoped was a relatively sarcastic little-sister-probably-adopted kind of way.

"Oh but before that, I need to get back to nurse Joy." She nodded at him and dashed into the pokecentre just as Knuckles had come out (therefore, she missed any conversation about fake ID and police that happened).

Once inside, she healed up all her pokemon, and scooped up all of her balls.
"Thanksforwatchingthosethanksnursejoyyou'regreatby eeee" She blurted out a stream of hurried thankyou's and quickly let out the two pokemon who had done so badly in battle.
"Now, you two seem to be terrible--" While she was scolding them, the experience of the battle seemed to be soaking into them, and both the zubat and shinx changed forms!

Pokémon You're Evolving: Zubat
Pokémon it Evolves Into: Golbat
Evolution Point Requirement: 22
Points On-Hand: 58
Points After Evolution: 36

Pokémon You're Evolving: Shinx
Pokémon it Evolves Into: Luxio
Evolution Point Requirement: 15
Points On-Hand: 36
Points After Evolution: 21

Maybe they were trying to impress their very unimpressed trainer. Who, by the way, still thought they were trash.

On the way out, she felt some of the pokeballs begin to wriggle and lock.
"Oh, damnit!" Clearly there were some hard and fast rules about the pokemon world that she just couldn't break. Instead, she would just have to deal with this her own way.

"Oy- you two- catch!" She lobbed two pokeballs at a trainer in a rocket shirt and a lazy looking dude standing near her. Hopefully she just seemed like an encouraging stranger- she put on her best big smile. It may have looked a little crazy added with her wet clothes, crazy hair and lack of shoes, but hopefully they would catch.

Pokémon Trading Away / Points: Golbat ♀ (22/22)
Designated Trainer: Pat Drury

Pokémon Trading Away / Points: Luxio ♂ (15/15)
Designated Trainer: Luke Anderson

As she sidled back up to Oberon, she noticed a huge tall guy standing next to him. She still had more pokeballs to get rid of, so this guy would do just fine.
"Here, take this. It's bulky, like you." She pushed a pokeball into Knuckles hands and stepped deftly inbetween Knuckles and Oberon.

Pokémon Trading Away / Points: Wormadam (T) (20/20)
Designated Trainer: Knuckles

"Now, you, mister suave, we're going shopping, right?" She didn't know his name, but was bold/desperate enough to agree to the offer. How embarrassing it would be if he was only joking! She shoved her hands into her pockets, trying to check if all of her pokeballs were available- unfortunately no. A handful of them had locked again before she could throw out the Pokémon she didn't want. How annoying! This was why PC's were so popular, she supposed.

[Lychee]

RAE
Trainer Palila Rae
Location: Floaroma Town
Team: Dartrix (25/25), Chatot (26/26), Oricorio (fire) -shiny (15/15) Eevee -shiny (25/25)
Partner Pokemon: ---
Items: 1x Honey, 1x Greatball, 4x Pokeballs, 4x Healballs, Water Stone, Pidgeotite, Journal, Sketchpad, Locked pokeball with Staravia (25/25), Locked pokeball with Wingull (25/25), Locked pokeball with Prinlup (25/25)
Points: 22 (-10, +1 from posting) Posts: 63P + 4TG

Palila was literally only a step away from Oberon when he turned to his friend and mentioned fake ID's. She rolled her eyes. Apparently fake ID's were really popular among the youth of this universe- no wonder the Pokecentres were so strict about them. As they walked to the store she fell into step with Oberon and raised an eyebrow.
"That big guy butters you up?" She pulled a face at the mental image of Knuckles wielding a butterknife, pasting the shorter guy in butter like a smeargle doing an artwork.
"Whatever floats your boat, I guess?" At this point she didn't know WHAT to think of this stranger, but nodded in agreement when he asked for simple answers as payment. Palila scampered to her own little corner of the clothing store to get a bit of space and try things on. First things first- she took off her puffer jacket and hung it under the shops air conditioner to dry. It didn't seem to be doing much, so she let out her Oricorio and directed it to fan warm and drying air towards it. The Oricorio looked surprised to be let out for something that wasn't a battle, but obliged, dancing gently.
She grabbed some nice looking boots and thermal top and leggings, as well as big comfy spongy looking grey socks. The shop attendant noticed Oberon and then looked over at her, noticing her coloured hair. She swanned her way over to Palila and held out a round monochrome bag, with gold and yellow accents.
"You're here with him? Oh, I believe this will work with you!" Her sweet voice offered, and Palila took the bag gratefully, unsure if she had to pay for it. The bag kept its shape very well- as if the paper stuffing was still inside it. Palila figured it must have been a display one that the shopkeep was trying to get rid of. Oberon seemed busy looking at clothes, so she didn't ask him. Whatever, the gold zips were nice.

In the changeroom, Palila flicked her wet clothes off onto the floor with a SPLAT and started to get changed into some dry ones.
She opened up the bag the shopkeep had given her, wondering if she could fit her old clothes in there.
"Oh!" She couldn't help but exclaim from inside the changerooms. The bag had a shirt and pants inside.
She picked up the shirt and held it up.

G

Palila grinned.
How the heck did I get so lucky. This must be payback for the waterfall.
She folded the shirt neatly and put it back into the bag, mind now filled with a lot more questions for Oberon.

On the way to the counter, she gave the shopkeeper a genuine smile.
"Thanks so much for your help!"
She bought another little jar from the countertop, just to sweeten the deal.

Item: Honey
Cost: 10 pts
Remaining points: 12

Palila pulled her jacket back over everything, tucked the honey pot into the side of the bag which was now comfortably hanging from her shoulder, and exited the store. She brought her Oricorio back in, and let out Chatot instead, who perched on her shoulder, cocking its head towards her and listening.
As they were talking back towards Oberons 'friends' he finally started chatting- and apparently didn't waste time. Excellent- straight to the point!
"A few days ago- I wasn't around for the lake thing, if thats what you're wondering." She quickly absolved herself of any guilt from that well televised event.
"The people I was travelling with suck, and that stupid professor is out to kill us. Your team Galactic really saved my ass back there, when the laser-gun-arm man with dinosaur pokemon ambushed us." She nodded her head down towards the bag she had been given.
"I'm guessing after that fiasco you guys need more of a crew? Am I cool to join?"
Despite pretending to be all cool and knowledgeable and hardened, Palilas tone became soft and she felt her face go pink as she looked up at Oberon and then looked away. If someone was any good at reading people, they'd know she was pretty vulnerable and definitely not keen on a rejection right now.
This time around, joining the group would be her own choice.

[Lychee]

RAE
Trainer Palila Rae
Location: Floaroma Town
Team: Dartrix (25/25), Chatot (26/26), Oricorio (fire) -shiny (15/15) Eevee -shiny (25/25)
Partner Pokemon: ---
Items: 1x Honey, 1x Greatball, 4x Pokeballs, 4x Healballs, Water Stone, Pidgeotite, Journal, Sketchpad, Locked pokeball with Staravia (25/25), Locked pokeball with Wingull (25/25), Locked pokeball with Prinlup (25/25)
Points: 13 (+1 from posting) Posts: 63P + 5TG

Palila listened attentively to Oberon, nodding when he said it was difficult to track down legendaries. When his smile dropped away the mention of the attack, Palila was a little scared he would lash out at her. Instead he talked about how his friend would feel.
"Knuckles was the big guy who talked to you a bunch and lost that battle against some kids?" Palila tried to connect the dots, and pursed her lips. She didnt think any one person could bring down that maniac, let alone even a team of professionals.
"Yeah... Dont let him go after that guy. As much as we might want revenge, at this stage, he'll just kill us." She unclenched fists that tightened subconsciously, trying to breathe evenly and let go of the image of William disintegrating.

He offered her some food, probably to break the tension.
She accepted and crunched away on a handful, listening as Oberon talked about Renny.
"Yeah he was probly a good egg even if he was a bit weird. Everyone was under a lot of stress so I think the group might have turfed him out. I didnt see him much, ever."
As they approached route 205, Palila could smell the sweet honey trees, and see a group of trainers and two men up ahead. Oberon offered her a place on the team and she smiled.
"Laws are for losers, anyway." She commented.

[Lychee]

RAE
Trainer Palila Rae
Location: Floaroma Town
Team: Dartrix (25/25), Chatot (26/26), Oricorio (fire) -shiny (15/15) Eevee -shiny (25/25)
Partner Pokemon: ---
Items: 1x Honey, 1x Greatball, 4x Pokeballs, 4x Healballs, Water Stone, Pidgeotite, Journal, Sketchpad,
Locked Pokeballs: Staravia (25/25), Wingull (25/25), Prinlup (25/25)
Points: 29 (+1 from posting) Posts: 63P + 6TG

Palila beamed. Acceptance! Hooray! She was very pleased to have been allowed into the group- although immediately she became skeptical of whether they had truly accepted her, or whether these guys were just meaningless grunts who didn't have that power anyway. She thought about the uniform in her bag- no, they probably really were allowed to recruit people.

When Oberon mentioned distracting the cops, Palila tilted her head. They hadn't yet approached the rest of the group, who seemed to be chatting among themselves.
"You guys aren't committing any crimes, why worry? What are they gonna do?" She didn't know about their fake trainer ID cards, and was pretty sure most of the trainers weren't in galactic uniform at all. Except one- who was in, like, a team rocket fangirl uniform? Weird.
Palila frowned slightly, remembering that it was possible they already did some crimes before she arrived- especially if at least two of them were involved in the lake incident.

She let out her chatot, who plopped onto the ground in front of her and looked up, seemingly amused.
It copied her voice.
"You guys aren't committing any crimes-" It chirruped happily.
Palila grinned. Oh, perfect.
She tucked the Chatot hidden under one arm and ran up to the rest of group, not knowing why Oberon had hung back, but remembering seeing them all arrive at the same time and knowing they were his group.

"Hey dudes, I need you to have a little radio play with me-" She turned to anyone in the trainer group paying attention, trying to catch all these strangers eyes one at a time, then whispered.

"I'm gonna get Chatot to record our voices, oh no! Someone is being robbed! And then it is gonna go off behind the trees and do a playback. Should get these guys attention, and if they're cops, they'll have to respond to a robbery, which means they'll chase Chatot and then hopip off the path." She finished laying out the plan, then pursed her lips. This might need a few more details to be convincing.
"We'll also need someones pokemon to go out with Chatot- a pokemon who is good at shaking bushes and trees, kicking rocks and stones, and is a fast runner." She looked around at the group, frowning slightly "And possibly a pokemon that knows confusion, in case our pokemon get apprehended."

They were already out of the vocal range of the two suspicious men (which is why she could even tell them to do a distraction) so running a little voice-play would just look like a group of trainers chatting.
Palila shifted her Chatot and leaned in to it, putting on a little-old-lady kind of voice. It was playtime!
"Oh, what a lovely day, what lovely trees and honey smell- oh! Oh no! Who are you?"
She surreptitiously moved her chatot in to the centre of the group of trainers to get someone else to make up the next lines, then moved it back to herself after they had said something.
"Oh dear! But I'm alone! What do you want with me?"
Once again, a gap for someone else to play a different character.
"No! Help! You can't do this! Somebody help!"

As long as everyone in this team co-operated, she was satisfied to put the plan into action.

[Lychee]

RAE
Trainer Palila Rae
Location: Floaroma Town
Team: Dartrix (25/25), Chatot (26/26), Oricorio (fire) -shiny (15/15) Eevee -shiny (25/25)
Partner Pokemon: ---
Items: 1x Honey, 2x Greatball, 4x Pokeballs, 4x Healballs, Potion, Revive, Chesto Berry, Water Stone, Pidgeotite, Journal, Sketchpad,
Locked Pokeballs: Staravia (25/25), Wingull (25/25), Prinlup (25/25)
Points: 144 (+1 from posting) Posts: 63P + 7TG

Palila was nodding along to the girl who almost managed to step up to the plate and think of some lines on the fly, but then everything stopped as Knuckles intervened. Palila took a step back, dropping the Chatot (which took flight, and actually flew off back towards Floaroma town, whoops! It was a little too high a level for her to control, so it appeared to just go off to do its own thing). She balled her fists, glaring up at him. Hell, if nobody in her last team would listen to her, if not even her POKEMON would listen to her, maybe she would have to MAKE people and pokemon listen to her. She was SO ready to throw down the gauntlet and battle this guy right here, right now. Stable emotions be damned, she had survived a Gyarados already today she was sure she could survive this punk.

At that point, the girl next to her shouted, and grabbed her wrist. Pulled off balance by the sideways movement, she was tugged along towards the undercover cops. She shouted over her shoulder and flipped Knuckles the bird.
"Oberon sent me, meathead! Come fight me, you towering pile of trash!"
Well whatever, every part of the plan was now a failure.
Palila was too angry to care.

She snatched her hand back out from the other girls grip once they were halfway to the suspicious looking lingering men, and sized up the other girl, wondering if Pat was also new to this dimension. That would explain why she would go to police- heck, Palila was all for going to the police multiple times so far. This was the first time somebody else seemed to suggest it, at least with body language. Her eyes widened slightly (and she wondered if this was probably the worst possible time to be secretly wearing Team Galactics uniform under her coat).
"I'm Rae" She introduced herself quickly, and put her hand back into Pats "Fine, you take the lead."
Maybe there was another plan brewing, maybe it was going to be chaos. Heck, maybe she was about to be bodyslammed from behind by an enraged teenage boy. Whatever was happening, it was going to go down quickly- she felt her adrenalin rise.

[Lychee]

RAE
Trainer Palila Rae
Location: Floaroma Town
Team: Dartrix (25/25), Chatot (26/26), Oricorio (fire) -shiny (15/15) Eevee -shiny (25/25)
Partner Pokemon: ---
Items: 1x Honey, 2x Greatball, 4x Pokeballs, 4x Healballs, Potion, Revive, Chesto Berry, Water Stone, Pidgeotite, Journal, Sketchpad,
Locked Pokeballs: Staravia (25/25), Wingull (25/25), Prinlup (25/25)
Points: 159 (+1 from posting) Posts: 63P + 8TG

Palila nodded along with Pats story- it was close enough to the truth anyway, since the big guy probably did take Pat out here, and didn't seem in a good mood. She didn't really expect it was something worth calling the cops over, but when she looked down at the 5'4 girl, and then back over at the boy scraping 6 foot with two other suspicious dudes taller than both of them, she realized that the situation really COULD be a scary one. Weird, she hadn't even considered that- maybe it was because she was so used to traveling with Sophie, who just seemed like a relatively nonthreatening stressed out teenage girl.

As other trainers started to close in and ask for ID, Palila frowned. People in this dimension were obsessed with ID cards! In her Alola, people could literally surf from one island to another without being asked so much as a name- whereas here, she felt like she was being asked for ID three times a day.
Palila played the indignation to Pats confusion.
"Why do we need to show ID to you random men? Who do you think you are?"
That being said, there were now four fully grown adult men approaching them, not one of them had mentioned actually being police officers at all, and the aura was very threatening.
Palila put her one hand slowly into her jacket, squeezing a pokeball nervously. Ok, this was a little scary. Maybe she would have been better off trying to fight Knuckles instead of this.

At that point, Pat seemed to have decided to get the heck outta dodge, and yanked on her arm again, shouting some pokemon cursewords. Palila burst into a well-practiced run too, feeling a sick crawling sensation up her spine as she turned her back on the men trying to surround them. Maybe they had nets. Maybe they had hidden guns.
No, no, she couldn't keep her back to them like that. Who knows what they could be readying to level at her- this terrain was too open!
Once they made it past a honey tree and possibly past the team on the path, Palila swiveled on her heel, turning to face, well, everyone.
She threw down a Pokeball, and Dartrix came screaming out, having felt her fear.
"I don't know what you're playing at! Back off!" She shouted, angry and frightened.
"If you want a battle, come get one! If you don't, then leave us alone!"

[Lychee]

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RAE
Trainer Palila Rae
Location: Floaroma Town
Team: Dartrix (25/25), Chatot (26/26), Oricorio (fire) -shiny (15/15) Eevee -shiny (25/25)
Partner Pokemon: ---
Items: 1x Honey, 2x Greatball, 4x Pokeballs, 4x Healballs, Potion, Revive, Chesto Berry, Water Stone, Pidgeotite, Journal, Sketchpad,
Locked Pokeballs: Staravia (25/25), Wingull (25/25), Prinlup (25/25)
Points: 160 (+1 from posting) Posts: 63P + 9TG

Guns, they had guns.
Palila froze.

"Call your pokemon back now and get the ground!"

She watched as the guns shot electricity and some of the other Team Galactics toppled to the ground. This dimension really didn't mess around! Pokemon battles be damned, adults in this dimension were more likely to pull out guns. Firearms had been drawn and leveled at her almost every day since she arrived in Sinnoh. Considering she got into Pokemon training in order to be strong enough to protect people, this addition to the mix threw out her plan entirely. You can't bring Pokemon to a shootout. She made a mental note to find a way to get a weapon, gritting her teeth and raising her hands slowly, eyes watering.

It was horrible to feel so helpless.

"Please, please don't hurt me." She whimpered, and Dartrix retreated back into its ball.

Regardless of the sandstorm, Palila was probably too close to the man holding the taser gun to get away cleanly. She closed her eyes and held back a sob, wishing with all her being that she could just be teleported back home.