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Pokémingle 2: The Pokémingling

It's another lovely summer day! It's later in summer now and as the excitement from the previous weeks die down, another sign goes up in the local park...

Pokémingle!! Back by popular demand!

It's an open event for Pokémon of any kind! Play games, walk together, and relax in the sun! Trainers, let your Pokémon take the day off! Let's make Pokéfriends!! (^_^)

((Pokémingle returns! While the base premise is that it's a relaxing day at a park, feel free to respond with other top-level comments with what else your Pokémon might be doing around Union. No real rules about top-level threads, so if you want to include all of your Pokémon in one thread or do separate ones for a few Pokémon, go ahead. (Try not to make top-levels for 15 different Pokémon though if possible.) No trainers allowed!! Or at least, minimal trainer interference!

Let's make PokéCR!! ^_^ ))

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[Togepi giggles happily. Apparently, Spritzee's frantic motions are all a big yolk to her.

And...uwah! She's waving her arms at Natto.] Toge priii!!

[it's her fluffy thing! Hi!]

Vanny vanny leavanny va. [ Here you are, Togepi. Have your Rhyhorn back. You really love him, huh? Take good care of him.

Natto may have a big dorky grin on his face. He's a sucker for babies.

Spritzee is not. She's managed to get a pile together, though her breathing is coming a bit hard-boiled. And that's....what you do....with the petals. Got it? ] Pritz.

[ And then she falls beak-forward into them. Apparently Togepi'd had the right idea about what to do with all this stuff after all! ]

[Togepi gives the plushie a big hug! And hey, there's stuff on it! And well, she'd egg Spritzee on, but she needs to take those petals and haphazardly try to stick them on her Rhyhorn.

Somebuggy's certainly an influence, for good or for ill.]

[ ...Is she really trying to decorate her plush? This feels like an eggs Benediction from heaven. Natto kneels down as best he can to observe. He can help with what you're doing, actually.

He puts tiny daubs of silk on Rhyhorn's surface at aesthetically-pleasing places. Now if she manages to hit those with petals, they'll stick in place! ] Leavanny.

[ Spritzee is catching her breath. Yes, why don't you look after the baby, Natto. Baby doesn't seem interested in listening to her... ]

[well, given how many petals baby is piling onto the plushie, some of them are bound to find the bits of silk.]

Prii! [what was she doing again? Whatever it was, she seems particularly pleased that her toy is now nesting in a pile of petals.]

[ ....This baby must belong to the "more is more" style of decoration. Natto's tastes tend to be a bit more eggsacting, but to each their own. ]

Leava vanny? [ Did you want to help him? He could take large leaves and silk them up, and then baby could pile flowers onto them. It'd be that mysterious "modern art" he hears tell some people like. ~~There's one Murkrow in particular he bets would adore it.~~

Spritzee interrupts, however, fluttering up and pecking Natto's arm for attention. Do not encourage this flagrant disregard for cleanliness, Natto! Babies need good role models with compassionate, yet firm hands!

Or wings. Or....appendages. Are there even hands at the ends of your arms? ] Spritzee! Spritz spritz spritzee!

[eggbaby doesn't quite understand what Natto wants to do, but if he's doing something, she wants to be involved too! Whee!

...Her eyes get a little wider at the scolding tone in Spritzee's voice, and she's doesn't seem quite so eggcited anymore.] Toge...

Van.... [ Oh, dear, this isn't good! Natto looks from Minuet to Spritzee and back again. What can he do, what can he say?? He wants to keep baby happy....

Bustling about, he sweeps a pile of leaves and flowers in front of Togepi, silks up a big leaf, and hands it to her. Do whatever you want with this combination! He will find a way to make the result into art. Somehow. ] Leava!

Spritzee. [ ...Well, fine then! But she will just roost here, waiting for Leavanny's idea to backfire. Then who'll have egg on their faces? ]

[...whoa, that's a lot of movement! And hey, she's holding onto a leaf! Where'd that come from? She waves it around experimentally and...it gets stuck onto Natto.

A blink, and then there's a delighted trill.] Priii!

...Leav? [ Natto looks over. Yes, Togepi, what did you want...Oh.

He plucks at the leaf. It stays in place. He tugs at the leaf. It stays in place.

He thinks about where it is on his body. It'll mess up the symmetry, it'll look haphazard...

Cue arm-flailing, trying to get the leaf off of himself. ] Leavanny!!!

[ Spritzee is chuckling: serves you right. Beartic, meanwhile, who has been doing her best to pretend she is not with this group (despite wearing flowers), buries her snout in her paws. She doesn't know any of you. She doesn't. ]

Toge toge priii!!

[uwah! Everything's getting so exciting!! Do that again!]

[ He'll be glad to oblige, apparently. Come on. It's his own silk! Who knew it would stick to him this well... Natto grabs and pulls. ] Lea va...

[ Spritzee puffs out a sigh. No one can do anything without her, can they?? Very well, she shall assist. ] Zee.

[ Now both of them are tugging on the leaf. Spritzee is flapping with all her might, but she's a little bird, and it's stuck fast...

Before she knows it, she's ended up dragging Leavanny a few steps. Towards Togepi. ] Lea!

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Prii! [now pink fluffy bird is playing too! She kicks her feet happily, forgetting about her toy and. Wow. How much silk did you put on the Rhyhorn plush again? 'Cause it's probably sticking onto somemon.]

[ Well, he did use a very thin thread to fix that plushie up! But later applications were a bit more liberal. Whoopsie.

Spritzee pulls. The leaf rips. Spritzee goes somersaulting through the air over Togepi's head. ~~This makes twice in one day.~~ ] ZeeeEeeeEeeeEe...

[ Natto's hands fly to his mouth. Oh goodness! Are you okay?? Is baby oka--

---Baby. Try to walk away from the toy, please. ] Leavanny.

[baby tracks Spritzee's progress through the air. Whoaaaa. Is there something going on over there? Maybe she can help!

...Why is it so difficult to move?]

[ Spritzee finally manages to right herself, as Beartic stands up, dusts herself off, and begins lumbering away. She doesn't know ANY of you AT ALL. She's going to go find a tree to hide behind, gosh!!!

...yeah, good luck with that, Sky.

Natto, meanwhile, is looking down at baby with growing terror. He silked baby. Granted, it wasn't on purpose, but he silked baby. Nothing bad is allowed to happen to baby. The leaf pales in comparison to this, and given that he can't stand the idea of wearing ripped clothing period, let alone ripped clothing he didn't carefully place in just the right spot, that's saying something!

He kneels down. Let's play a game, Togepi. Can you stand reaaaaaallly still while he takes a look at your "friend"? ] Vanny leavan?

[nooo, she wants to see where pink birdie went off to! Baby takes a step and...her other foot is stuck for some reason and then she's toppling over!

There's a moment of silence as she inhales and. Nope. That's it. She's crying her little egg heart out even though she's not visibly hurt.]

[ Everyone freezes. And then Beartic starts sneaking much faster, Spritzee jumps back over to baby's side, and Natto feels a clenching in his chest usually reserved for being in the presence of lots of large, sharp, shiny teeth. What should he do?? What should he do?? ] Vaaaa...

[ Hastily pulling a bunch of thread from his mouth, he holds it up in front of baby and starts making cat's cradles. Look! He made a bridge! Now he's making a tower! Now he's got cat whiskers!! Isn't this fun???

Spritzee sighs. You're not addressing the problem, Natto. ] Spri.

[there's a pause and blessed silence for almost three seconds, but yeah. No. She's just drawing breath so she can continue crying.]

[ Now Natto is dismayed in addition to terrified; every shadow seems Michiru-shaped to him, ready to drown him in righteous vengeance for daring to make such a sweet innocent thing as this precious baby cry. He has to fix this! His well-being depends on it.

Discarding the thread, he bends over Togepi and tries to pick her up, plush and all. There, there. What if he rocks you? And tries to sing a lullaby? He's not the Parenting Pokémon for nothing! Something has to work! ] L-lea leava leav leav leava vanny leav...

[ Spritzee stays very silent to watch. This had better work, Natto. ]

[oh. The crying slowly gets quieter, until Natto merely has a hiccuping baby in his hands.

Whew. Good job, Natto. She's not quite smiling yet, but she's hugging her plushie pretty tightly. Maybe a little too tightly...]

[ Uh...oh. Natto starts patting Togepi's back reassuringly. Sleepy baby, sleepy baby! Relax so they can trim you free. ] Leav leav vanny leav vanny leav leav...

[ Spritzee begins surreptitiously approaching, beak at the ready. You're hopeless. Once the little one is calm enough, she'll help trim this mess. ]

[the song is pretty soothing. There's a teeny yawn. She almost always gets a song before naptime and. Hm. This time, it's kinda different but. Yaaawn.

Though it probably doesn't help that she's nuzzling into her plushie.]

[ No, that's a problem. Spritzee will gently, gently, try to start snipping away at the silk adhering Togepi to her plushie, nudging ever so slightly with her little fluffy pink body. Natto continues to sing, hoping to keep the spell in place this time.

Easy, there. Easy.... ] Pri...

[baby shifts a bit, but doesn't seem to be waking up yet.]

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