bravenewworld | 3rd Summoning

What do you notice first while you're out in the Verdant Forest? Is it the roars? The sound of snapping wood? Various small Pokémon fleeing from something? Or are you oblivious to all that and completely unprepared for what happens next?

Because what happens next is a nearby tree exploding into splinters as a Tyrunt is thrown through it, taking out a large chunk of underbrush as it slides to a stop. It quickly hops to its feet and fires off Ancient Power in the direction it came from. The sound of more wood breaking is drowned out by a roar as a Charmeleon leaps through the gap where the tree was and lands in front of the Tyrunt. They're both still for a moment, breathing heavily. From their mutual exhaustion and countless minor wounds, it's likely that they've been at this for a while.

Their momentary break ends and they're at it again, clawing and biting at each other and destroying nearby foliage in the process, until with twin roars and a final charge they slam their foreheads into each other and start glowing. When the light fades, a Tyrantrum and a Charizard are staggering back from the collision. Domri calls out from the sidelines where he's been watching the fight.

"Are you two done now? You both evolved at the same time!"

The two Pokémon sit down heavily and glare at each other, but even with the burst of energy provided by evolution they're both too exhausted to continue right now. Domri looks over at you.

"Did you see that? Wasn't that wrecked!?"

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Lucas is quietly fishing in a stream minding his own business when all hell breaks loose.

By the time he's finished diving away from exploding trees and dodging flying psychic rocks, he's managed to end up chest deep in water behind a large boulder in the stream. His fishing rod is held above his head with the hook still dangling above the surface. ...His glazed expression of shock is probably a sign of how 'wrecked' he thinks this was.

Just when it seems like he's ready to respond, a Magikarp leaps from the stream and chomps down on his hook, pulling him backwards and submerging him in water again.

"Glu buulu luug......"

"Hey!"

Domri jabs at the Magikarp with his spear to try and shoo it away. Unfortunately, Domri's unlikely to be strong enough to pull Lucas up even if the Magikarp does leave.

"Hey, Zaur! Come down here and give me a mouth!"

Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's a Tropius descending to take hold of the back of Lucas's shirt in its mouth and fly him to relative safety on dry land.

Glub glub glub, three things in a tub, and what do you think they were? The fisher, the karp, and the fishing rod maker, they're all plucked out from the sea.

Lucas spews a small fountain out of his mouth before he sits up and coughs.

"W-What was that about...?"

The Tropius begins licking water off of Lucas's hair.

"They were both hunting the same Sentret and bumped into each other. They argue and fight a lot, but this was the biggest fight so far."

Lucas absentmindedly pats the Tropius's head as he attempts to get to his feet.

"Um..."

He's not even particularly sure what to say. 'Don't let your Pokemon blow up forests?'

"Con... gratulations..." He thinks. "Are you sure it's a good thing that they fight so much...?"

Domri shrugs.

"They have to work things out somehow."

Lucas gazes over towards the evolved Pokemon - the expression on his face is more anxious than it ought to be, and his hands clench unconsciously.

"But what if they start going at it in the city? ...It's a little different if they're so big now."

"They would probably break even more stuff around them if they had another fight like that."

He grins.

"That would be pretty great to watch."

"But you can't break buildings...! They'd put you in jail if that happened and you couldn't pay."

Lucas looks vaguely doubtful at Domri's cheerfulness about this.

"...You could hurt people, too."

"If they're too stupid to get out of the way of a big fight or a building coming down that's not my fault."

"What if they're asleep or they're old or injured or they're young and they can't walk very fast? Not everyone is exactly the same as you. If your Pokemon are going to destroy things and you encourage them, then whatever happens will be your fault."

Pamela let out a gasp when the tree exploded into splinters. As someone who'd always loved the greenery of the Verdant Forest, the sudden destruction was startling to her. She calmed herself a moment later before facing Domri.

"It was thoroughly destroyed." Her eyebrow raised as if to say do you want a medal for it or something?

"Yes. And did you see how they were all 'Chaaar' and 'Tyyyy' and..."

Domri reenacts out a particularly impressive(?) part of the fight with his hands to illustrate his words.

"Do they often fight like that?" Pamela questioned.

Certainly, she did have some members of her team who didn't get along with each other well. She tried not to bring the ones who had the most issues with one another along together on her travels. One would be left at the habitat and would have a turn to be brought along the next time.

"They do, but it's not usually such a big fight. It's usually over pretty quickly."

"Is it normal for them to leave that much damage when they do fight?" She gestured to the splinters where a tree used to be for emphasis. "I'd imagine you've had to pay a few fines if they've done that in the city."

"Not usually, but they've never knocked down any buildings or anything so there's no problem."

And you only have to pay fines if someone finds out who caused all the damage. Guess who doesn't stick around after this kind of thing happens?

Pamela made a mental note to be observant about any property damage she noticed around Union. While she was all in favour of ensuring that everyone could afford food, shelter, and an education, she was not in favour of people's taxes going up because someone let their Pokemon brawl instead of trying to curb the behaviour.

"Have you tried to encourage them to work out their differences through some other way than fighting?" she ventured.

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