Cash67

Cash walked home as the day drew to a close. By the time he was home, stars had begun to show their light in the sun's abscence. He entered the house, and his Impidimp ran to the kitchen. Phantump nervously floated off of his head and gazed at the homey living room. Cash's mom walked around the corner, causing Phantump to freeze and Impidimp to give a joyful noise. "You're home," Cash's mom said with a tired smile. "That I am," Cash replied, with a smile that matched. "Who is your new friend?" Mom asked, gesturing to the Phantump. "This is Phantump," Cash stated. "I needed some help getting past the Gym of this town, so I've made a deal with her," he replied. "So far, she has been amazing!" Phantump got a bit closer to Cash's mom and hovered at eye level. "Well, as long as you are both taking care of each other," she responded. She adressed Phantump directly: "If he doesn't, you know where to find me, and I'll make sure he does," she stated. Phantump gave a small smile, and began to wander the house. "How did the Gym go?" Mom asked Cash. "Not bad," Cash replied. "They're all Dark Types, so Gremlin has a hard time, and to be frank, so does Phantump. But they're both able to push through and take victories against the lackeys." Cash paused for a second. "That is something I never understood about Gyms. I know Dad ran one for a while before he changed jobs twice and we all moved here, but what is the reasoning behind all of those lackeys? Filtering? Weeding out the undetermined? I'm going to fight the gym leader anyway so what is the point?" "Your father says it's tradition," Mom replied. "Regardless, you didn't make too much of a fuss, did you?" "No," Cash replied, walking to the kitchen and pulling out ingredients for dinner. "I did ask every lackey if I could skip though." Cash's mom smiled. "Of course you did," she sighed. Their conversation continued for a while until Cash's dad came home from work, and the topic looped back around to Gyms once again. Cash retreated to his room with his pokemon after a while to play some games with Impidimp. Phantump paritally possesed a spare controller and joined in on the fun. After a few hours, early in the morning, they all went to sleep, resting for the final challenge tomorrow. @Exotic Almond

Mine is a naive child who has just discovered fire, chemistry, sugar, and staying up past bedtime and the adult telling him that he’s gotta be careful so he can keep the sugar and chemistry.

Pic noticed the newcomer. “Oh it’s you!” He exclaimed. “The guy who talks about He Who Silences.” Pic quickly caught Ave and helped her up.

Meh fair enough. My inner child exists in a superposition with my inner old man. It is a blessing and a curse. *sighs dramatically*

Also have I become the middle-aged “responsible” one on the shard? Whilst I am a Texan, I do not have this weaponry nor this amazing beautiful mustache.

These pixels are accepted

I also request meme. Hold nothing back

Leafeon. It’s the only one I’ve competitively trained

Cash took his hand and shook it, then shrugged. "Well, you haven't thought about how your Pokemon synergize. It's strange to think about at first, and I'm certainly not the best at it. You'll get better though. You think along the right lines." As Phantump floated back onto his head and Impidimp settled on his shoulder, Cash sighed. "Looks like I have some thinking to do as well," he mused aloud. Cash abrubtly turned around and walked back to the suburbs. "I'm headed home, but I'll be at the Gym tomorrow. Join if you want, won't change what I'll do."

Pic listened to the conversation, humming along to other people's words.

Pic was silent. Well, his version of silent, humming constantly. He observed the kid interacting with Aventine, becoming more and more impressed. Anytime that he saw that he could help keep things clean, orderly, or santiary, he took it, working silently. When Ash came into the room with Gem, he was humming a soothing tune. @InfiniteInsanity

Phantump quite literally slaps away the fire. Her arm is singed, but not much damage is done otherwise. "Dark Pulse and Branch Poke once more," Cash says. Both attacks hit, and Spark is downed. "Not bad, kid," Cash calls. As his Pokemon returned to him jubilant, Cash congratulated them. "You both make a phenomenal team," Cash stated. "This final gym battle will be a piece of cake."

Pic evaluated the kid, and shakes his head. "No, you are doing perfectly," he sighs. He looked at Aventine and gave a slight smirk. "I do a job for a day and all of hell breaks loose around here." his smirk turns fond as he keeps gazing at Ave. "After you're healed, we need some time to just relax," he hummed.

Pic nodded, still waking up. "I can see it," he murmured. "You feeling better?" he asked Aventine.

Pic began to stir and wake up. Pic's initial reaction was confusion upon seeing a new face. "Who's this?" he slurred, his voice overlapping with different melodies he wasn't quite awake enough to conciously control.

Cash nods. “Dark Pulse and Branch Poke,” he says. Impidimp, reeling from the quick attack, begins to aim a dark pulse, and the attack is wild and uncontrolled. It causes him to hit himself and singe his arm. The pain causes his eyes to clear. Meanwhile, Phantump manages to catch Spark on the tail end of her quick attack and gets some more damage in.

"Fake Tears and Branch Poke," Cash says. Impidimp takes a minute to process what Cash says, and then emits a wail that causes Spark to hesitate on top of the paralysis. Phantump goes up to Spark and slaps her across the face, but it does not do much damage.

Impidimp got hit square in the chest and got thrown back. It got bruised, but wasn't broken quite yet. Bokurei used Leech Seed and began restraining Impidimp's movements. "We've been in worse, little Gremlin," Cash spoke. "Now, target the stump with Dark Pulse and Hex!" Both attacks converged quickly onto the shiny Phantump and hit it hard.

Sticking this here too

“That’s not a choice you get to make,” Cash sighed. “Gremlin, use Thunder Wave, and Phantump, use Will-O-Wisp on the other you!” Impidimp’s electricity snap was nearly too fast for the eye to follow. It hit Spark dead on, and Spark now had to push through paralysis to launch an ember. It did so, hitting Phantump straight on. The confuse ray also landed right into Impidimp, but the damage had already been done. In Sparks moment of pushing through, Bokurei got hit with ghostly flames, inflicting it with burn.

Cash took his position. “Ready to begin?” He called across the field.

“I’ve wanted to try a double for a while,” Cash responded. His Impidimp and Phantump ran in front of him.