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Light 'em up (The Calderan Day of Fire)

It's the morning of the 19th and it's clear even to the inexperienced traveler that the city has a different air to it. If it wasn't the atmosphere that got them, then the stalls lining the streets would. Many people are still working on getting set up for the night festival, but the stalls that are complete are lining many corners and they are filled to the brim with bright colors. From afar, the streets look like someone threw a rainbow of paint across the city.

They haven't seen anything yet.

It's not yet time for the festivities so any visitors are free to wander the streets. The natives seem to be delighted if amused at all the people interested in the holiday and are happy to sell anyone as much colored powder as they want. They are glad to explain the fascinating origins of the holiday or even talk shop about what they're planning to show off later in the night. It seems that not even the gloom and unease that might have rolled into town with Union has caused these people to falter with their grandest tradition.

Sometime close to noon is when things change. The natives all kind of stop what they're doing. The colored stalls start to close up and everyone looks tense. Those who visited last year might take this as their cue to get ready.

A long, rattling trumpet sound rings through the streets and that is when all hell breaks loose.

It's every person and pokemon for themselves. Have fun everyone.

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"Woop!" Gene just smiles. He is a master of dissembling. Ryuko will never know.

He may also just be so pleased with the way things turned out that he wasn't listening, but Ryuko will never know that, either.

This Wooper is an impenetrable barrier of deception. Even Ryuko's intense powers of perception are no match for his cunning mask.

"... Tch." Fortunately, living with a Muk for a partner means Ryuko's built up a pretty high tolerance for all manner of foulness. Getting coughed on is pretty light in her books nowadays. "At least you're gettin' the idea."

Now that the dust has settled a bit, she sets Gene back down, even pats his head.

"Just try not to use that move too much, alright? Might actually piss a couple people off."

Gene nods, happy for pats (even when he isn't sure why he's getting them. Perhaps even especially then). Hey, do you want to see a special trick? It's the best one! "Woop? Woop wo---"

He stops mid woop, mouth hanging open, then snaps it shut. He just forgot. He just got so excited that he forgot he is not allowed to make it rain.

What to do.

"Huh?" Ryuko blinks, tilting her head in confusion when the Wooper goes from excited to quiet in a second flat. "What, somethin' wrong?"

Up above, a more perceptive onlooker picks up on Gene's predicament and immediately sees the chance to mess with his trainer. Squawks flaps his big wings and CAWWS down encouragement toward the Wooper.

Do it! Do it!

Chompers might try to dissuade this course of action but she's too busy wandering around an interesting looking corner.

"Woop?" Gene looks up, feeling a sense of nostalgia. He was at a party like this when he first met his best friend, wasn't he? Dimly (not for lack of fondness, but because Gene does everything dimly) he feel as if he's been in this situation before. Where people wanted him to make it rain. Where they liked it.

Hesitantly, he takes the first few steps. Steps turn to skips. Skips turn to taps.

Gene is not going to make it rain just yet: he still finds himself torn between desire and duty. But in the meantime, as he wrestles with the Greatest Moral Crisis Of His Life, he is a Wooper who can tapdance.

Then gets so into tapdancing he forgets what he was worried about. This is fun!

"Woop! Woop! Woop! Woop!"

Alriiiiight. Somewhere along the way, Ryuko wound up completely lost here. When Gene starts his tap dance routine she watches, bewildered, because what the heck brought this on? Sure, Squawks is up there bitching away but Squawks is always up somewhere bitching away.

Gotta admit, the little guy's pretty good... she figures. She doesn't really know dancing. She'll humor him at least, rubbing the back of her neck before.

"Hey, not bad."

Squawks though, knows exactly what he's doing and he is determined to see his trainer get soaked, and he's not concerned with any moral crises that might get in the way. He flaps his wings again, calling encouragement. Make it rain! Make it rain!

Those calls! Gene remembers those calls. He is On Stage now, and that makes the world a wonderful place. In the back of his head, he knows there's something about this that should be making him uneasy, but the only thing better than singing and dancing is singing and dancing in the rain, and no one ever wants him to do this (except that one time at someplace like this when he met Snor-Lord), except now they do! They do! They do!

He begins wooping excitedly as the dance changes, less tap and more - strange looping patterns. And a tiny cloud begins to form.

Well, okay, this is getting weird. Ryuko appreciates the show just fine but daylight's fading and there's still so many rubes to hammer with dust out there! She can't stay here and watch a Wooper dance forever.

So, she straightens back up again, clapping her hands together a couple times.

"Alright. You're pretty good, but I gotta run, so...."

Argh, no! Squawks flaps again. She's getting ready to leave, time's running out! Come on, come on! Let's get some downpour up in here!

"Woop!" Gene hops alongside Ryuko in protest, rain cloud following him. "Woop! Woop! Woop! WooOOOO---"

Said raincloud lets out a little thunderclap, startling the Wooper so badly he falls over. It's never done that before!

That sudden thunderclap gets Ryuko jumping too, even though she manages to stay on her feet. Immediately her head snaps upward toward the heavy thundercloud that had formed over her head without her noticing.

"What the hell?!"

Squawks couldn't be happier. Look at him up there, dumb asshole cawing away like an asshole.

His cloud! His cloud made a noise! His cloud contributed percussion!

Gene continues his dance by swaying his feet and head from a seated position, looking up at the rain cloud as it darkens. There was something about rain he was supposed to remember. Something important....

Oh yeah! Don't do it!

He is so happy he remembered. So happy, he forgets to blink as rain starts falling. Right on his upturn face. And possibly Ryuko's.

It's too late to do anything about it now. Ryuko let her guard down, failed to notice the trap set above her before it was sprung. The first few drops hit her face and her eyes widen in terrible realization... before the downpour begins.

"GAAH!"She raises her arms as she's instantly soaked and, being covered in dust, is rapidly covered in clumpy, muddy streaks of color!

Squawks is practically rolling with laughter at his trainer's predicament by now. Enough that Chompers comes back from her wandering. She looks from the cawing Fearow to Ryuko, back to the Fearow.

Flygon?! What did you do?!

"Woop! Woop! Woop!" Gene knocks his little feet together, enjoying how the ground beneath him soaks up the rain. Maybe if he's lucky, it'll turn to mud. He likes mud. But more to the point, he remembered! He remembered what he'd forgotten, which was very important, and Trainer stressed it a lot! He remembered that he's not supposed to make it rain....

...

.........Gene looks up at the sky, at the rain cloud that seems quite intent on raining itself out upon the street.

The rain keeps falling.

Ryuko might have something to do or say about this whole situation, but she's a little preoccupied at the moment. She's got mud running down into her eyes, you see. At least she hasn't caught on that Gene is responsible. Probably because she's not all that well-versed on Pokemon moves.

"Friggin'-- what the hell? Where did that come from? Just came outta friggin' nowhere--WAAH!" That last part is her foot slipping on a patch of colorful mud and Ryuko falling backwards onto her butt without a hint of grace.

Squawks is nearly hyperventilating at all this.

Oh dear. Gene was not supposed to make it rain. He stands up, looking around as if expecting to see Trainer appear out of nowhere in a flurry of angry rose petals. (Can rose petals be angry? Trainer might be able to manage it.)

"Woop?" He walks around, looking to see if she caught him doing something bad. The rain cloud follows him, choosing to rain directly atop his head.

He may be wandering underneath Squawks now.

Poor Ryuko is too preoccupied trying to get mud off her face to really see where Gene is wandering off to. Sputtering and cursing away as Skullface does her best to help out.

Up above, eyes are a little sharper, if distracted. Squawks is practically rolling but Chompers sees what's coming and beats a hasty retreat on buzzing wings. Just before the downpour rains down on the hysterical Fearow.

Whose laughter quickly turns to indignant squawking as the bird flops and flaps around under the abrupt downpour. THIS WAS NOT THE PLAN!

"Woop?" Gene repeats himself, looking up. That is weird. Or. Wait. Is that bird trying to do a dance in the sky?

Bursting into a smile again, he breaks into a few moves himself, grinning encouragingly up at the Flying-types on whose parade his cloud is continuing to rain. Like this, see! Like this! "Woop!"

Several angry, sputtering caws are Gene's only answer before Squawks manages to take the to the air to escape the raincloud, crossing the street to escape the sudden storm and settle in to crankily preen at his feathers.

Back on the ground, Ryuko's managed to clear enough muck from her eyes just in time to catch Squawks' predicament and... burst out laughing right at him.

"Pffft, hahahaha! See how you like it, dumbas--"POOF! A cloud of dust explodes in her face, making her head reel back. "What the hell?! We're on the same team, you jerk!"

POOF! Another cloud is hurled up into the Fearow's face and the whole situation collapses as trainer and Pokemon hurl dust bombs back and forth. Along with insults and curses that are every bit as colorful as their ammunition.

A short distance away, a Flygon watches all this with slightly slumped shoulders. Then, catching sight of Gene... she gives him a thumbs up.

That'll do, Wooper, that'll do.

"Woop." Gene bounces in place happily. The raincloud begins to dwindle out above them, but it's taking its sweet time. Nobody is dancing, but everybody seems to be having a good time. That's great!

He should probably think about hopping along, though. If Trainer sees him somewhere where it's raining, Trainer might think he made it rain. And he is not supposed to make it rain.

He's still proud he remembered that. As the rain falls.

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