Elsa was unsure what to do as the last drop of rain fell on her head.
She was so telling her mom everything when she returned. Like, this was literally the bottom of the barrel!
The ice Vulpix trailed her sister’s friend after she noticed they looked concerned and a bit fidgety after returning to the tour only for them to leave again. She also noticed that her sister and her little bug pet hadn’t returned in a while. Not that she was worried, of course! It was just that whatever those two little peasants were up to was good enough material to snitch on them once she returned home!
Oh, how simple that all looked on the surface.
Once she started trailing the gang of buffoons, she saw them speaking to THE Hoopa out of nowhere once she spied on them. And once they left with the portal-making Pokémon, Elsa couldn’t help but think about something. About the fact that Claire and the little bug pest were hiding something from her bigger than a hitmon trying to kill them both on top of a train?
Of course not! About the fact that portal-make could hear her wishes about bringing her the perfect mate!
They were in a hurry for something. She couldn’t grasp what they were talking about. Something about someone being in danger… bah, she couldn’t care less, she needed to trail that Pokémon no matter what!
The regal ice Pokémon ran after them and noticed they were leaving the museum. She grimaced once she realized that she had to get her combed and pristine fur along with her clean uniform all wet and muddy… but it was for the sake of finding true love just like in those princess stories!
So, with all her might, she pushed through the rain and puddles, following behind Claire’s friends and the mythical Pokémon. It was a bit hard to look for them in a rainy metropolis, but once she found them and hid on the corner of a street to spy on them, she was confused at what she saw.
She recoiled when her eyes gazed upon the two Pokémon in Claire’s group of weirdos. Aside from the creepy Tandemaus twins, there were two of those strange and dangerous Pokémon with them. One of them was a creepy monochrome Galvantula monster with horns, spikes, and freaky hands around it. And then there was this robot Weavile with a menacing grin and sharp edges.
Ugh, she didn’t know if she somehow managed to tame those dangerous Pokémon just like she did with her human pet or she just has a very freaky taste with males as usual. Either way, she wasn’t getting close to those guys.
Hoopa eventually decided to make a portal after having some kind of talk with all of them. For some reason, Claire and the disgusting big bug hopped into the portal, followed by the robot Weavile once another creepy Pokémon approached, this one looking like some kind of messed-up crystal Pikachu. The other peasants from Claire’s gang were about to hop into the portal. However, they were trapped in very familiar water bubbles that came from above. Elsa looked up and saw that same water Typhlosion from the train drop from the skies and landing on the ground effortlessly.
What in the name of Giratina was happening, some kind of freakshow!? There were too many of those damn monsters all in one place!
And that’s where Elsa was at the moment, seeing the scene unfold as Amy, Taro, and the Tandemaus weirdos were trapped in bubbles as Hoopa got cornered by those two dangerous Pokémon with the portal to Arceus-knows-where fully closed.
The Vulpix didn’t know what to do. Why couldn’t this be such a simple occurrence where she could snitch on Claire that she was doing something private with John!? Like, you know, that kind of stuff, not this!
Now Elsa had the choice of three simple things. Report the whole situation to the authorities, watch as the scene reaches its climax, or, the worst of her options, interfere. Reporting to the authorities would do nothing. She might be a high authority princess from a pristine Ninetales family, but she was a mere child, so the officers wouldn’t take her seriously. Watching the scene was the smart option in this case, this was THE Hoopa after all, they could definitely take down these two Pokémon together and then get her wish at the end!
Smirking to herself, she leaned her body a bit forward from her hiding spot and grinned, silently cheering for the mythical Pokémon. ‘Come on Hoopa, take those bastards down!!! My perfect mate awaits for me after all!’
“Leave these kids alone!” Hoopa shouted to the Pokémon before the water Typhlosion extended watery hands from their collar of water around his neck.
“Master wants you back to her.” He said with a menacing glare and growl. “Come back with us and the kids will live, just like that-”
“I’ll…” The black Pikachu muttered as he raised their crystalline claw to the mythical. He looked exhausted and unstable. “I’ll destroy…”
Elsa tilted her head at that. Geez, she knew that those Pokémon were beasts, but still, that Typhlosion looked at least a bit rational.
The water Pokémon noticed the way his partner acted and warned. “Hey, remember to follow Master’s-”
The unstable rodent screeched before lunging at Hoopa with its claws wide and ready for slashing. The genie Pokémon dodged the crystalline slash and tried to send a wave of telekinesis at the Pikachu, however, the purple outline around the Pokémon became unstable before disappearing completely. Hoopa grimaced and did some sort of shadow step backwards, appearing and disappearing with a blink a bit away from the dangerous Pokémon. “Shit, dark-type…”
The Typhlosion gritted his teeth at the other unnatural Pokémon and Hoopa. “If you aren’t complying… we’ll take you by FORCE!” He launched some water bubbles torwards Hoopa, however, the mythical wasn’t planning on going down that easily. He used two of his rings and opened two portals. One of the portals got in front of him as the bubbles went through it while the other portal appeared close to the dark Pikachu.
He got encased in one of the bubbles, trapping him inside as he screeched again. The water bender didn’t even care as he thrust his liquid hands forward. However before it could hit Hoopa, they diverted the two portals to protect himself. The hand went through the portal and came out close directly back at the Typhlosion, making himself launch a distance away to the side with the punch.
Elsa silently cheered while Claire’s gang also cheered inside their water prison. ‘Heh! Of course, these guys were no match to the might of a mythical-’
Suddenly, the dark crystalline Pikachu broke free from his bubbly prison with a cry of rage, surprising everyone in the area. Even more shocking for Elsa is that the rat was fucking floating off the ground.
Where she had seen a Pikachu flying before…?
Hoopa cursed and tried to quickly change the portal’s direction, however, the rodent was quick. It flew directly to Hoopa’s body and made a jagged slash across the small genie Pokémon. The kids (aside from the Tandemaus twins) gasped. The mythical Pokémon quickly recovered from the slash and started forming a Shadow Ball in front of one of his disembodied hands. That proved futile when the Pikachu floated to the side while dodging the ball of shadows.
His claws started crackling with purple sparks in them. Once the energy built up at its peak, the black rat charged forward a bit and slashed the air in front of him three times with both of his claws, sending purple energy waves to Hoopa. The genie Pokémon dodged two of them in time, but the last one hit them, causing an explosion that rocketed their body a bit backwards.
After landing, the mythical attempted to float up a bit more, his body a bit bruised with some blood leaking from his torso a bit. However, before he could fully recover, the Typhlosion from before came back with one of his water hands extending and grabbing the Hoopa, having a firm grip on him. The hand then slammed him on the ground again and again.
‘This is unfair! How could they have any chance against two of those Pokémon all at once!?’ Elsa complained in her mind, watching the fight happening with a hard scowl on her face, her fangs even showing up as much as she tried to keep a regal composure.
Before another slam, Hoopa managed to use that shadow step technique to get out of the Typhlosion’s grip. However, judging from his panting breaths and battered body, he wouldn’t last that long.
“Destroy… Need to destroy him.” The Pikachu muttered while bobbing up and down in his levitation, his body a bit limp.
“Give it up, Hoopa.” The water bender warned, opening his watery arms to the side as a form of threat. “You won’t be able to win this battle…”
As much as she hated to agree to a peasant of such degree, he was right. Hoopa wouldn’t be able to win the battle, he was going to lose because those dangerous Pokémon were so damn powerful. If only they had more numbers on their side-
… Claire’s trapped gang… she needed to be quick.
If she remembered correctly back in the train incident, the Typhlosion’s prison bubbles could be popped easily by an outside Pokémon they hadn’t caught. Hoopa was busy enough with the freaky peasants that he couldn’t pop the bubbles freely… but Elsa on the other paw…
She needed to help them, for Hoopa to survive and grant her wish!
The Vulpix got in her bipedal stance and wiped the mud and rain off her forepaws by rubbing them on the concrete of a building. Once they were dry enough, she started concentrating on revealing one more of her secret princess tricks!
She concentrated her core’s ice energy on the palm of her paw and focused. On it, an ice object started manifesting as a small cold mist started to emanate from the object. Once it was fully formed, it resembled a jagged and sharp ice shard. She didn’t want to miss her shot, and once she was in a bipedal stance she knew she had way more precision with her shots.
Now all she needed was for both of the freakshows to get distracted.
Hoopa growled a bit before glancing at the water bubbles. They aimed their hand at it and shot a ball of darkness at it, only for the ball to be intercepted by a tendril of water from the Typhlosion. “We’re not gonna let you free them that easily-”
He then got surprised once the genie Pokémon shot from their other hand another shadow ball directed at him. The ball hit easily, exploding on the water bender Pokémon’s torso and rocketing it far away. However, the Pikachu reacted to that with a growl and flew to Hoopa once more, tackling them with their claws and pushing them back a bit.
It was now Elsa’s chance!
She got into a regal throwing stance and aimed directly at the Tandemaus twins' bubbles since she remembered that they were the ones who ultimately bested her in that game of dodgeball. ‘There’ll be payback, but later…’ She thought as memories of that scene replayed in her head.
She then threw the sharp Ice Shard at the bubble surrounding the Tandemaus twins. The bubble popped instantly, freeing the mice twins from their watery prison. They quickly shook their fur a bit robotically before cocking their heads towards Elsa, who flinched at their stare. “Icy Soul.” “We have been expecting-”
“Stop with the whole creepy shit and free the others already!”
They stared at Elsa for a moment but their attention was diverted when the twins noticed the Typhlosion coming back with an angry scowl on his face, glaring at the twins. “How did you…” He caught of glimpse of Elsa and his eyes widened a bit. “Who are you!?”
The other fools trapped in the bubbles noticed her and blurted out. “ELSA!?”
Eh, fuck it, she interfered enough, it was time to show all that she’s about~!
“Ohohohoho! You weren’t expecting them to have a little backup, didn’t ya!” Elsa regally walked bipedally into the area as the Tandemaus started popping the bubbles of the other Pokémon. “It is I, Elsa Moonstruck! At your disservice!”
Once Taro landed on the ground, free of the bubble, he commented with an invisible raised eyebrow. “I… don’t remember that being Claire’s surname-”
Elsa quickly turned to the Togedemaru and shouted at him, the rodent’s fur spiking up a little bit. “SHUT UP, PEASANT! IT’S REAL!”
Their attention was quickly diverted back to the water-type Typhlosion once he slammed two of his watery hands on the ground, cracking the concrete beneath them. “I’ll ask you gently, just because you’re kids! Let us take Hoopa back to our Master, and we shall leave you be…”
“Hah! Not a chance, you water low life!” Elsa said sassily, putting her paws on her hips. “That genie is mine! They have a wish to grant me and I’m not lending them to you until that wish is granted!”
“Then so be it…” The Typhlosion was raised by the giant hands a little, his feet off the ground as he started preparing some huge water attack in his mouth. Once it was done charging, he released a Hydro Pump towards the group.
“Avoid it!” Popo and Nana shouted simultaneously as the group avoided the attack, Elsa managing to duck in time as she went back to her quadrupedal stance.
Elsa shook her arm in anger at the water bender. “That could’ve messed up my fur, you know! The rain already made it awful, I don’t need someone else ruining it too!”
“Why are you caring about something like that now!?” Taro asked as he took a defensive stance against the Typhlosion as it started recovering a bit from the blast of water. “We’re in deep shit right now, we could probably die!”
Amy looked behind and saw Hoopa and the strange dark Pikachu locked in a brawl. It was a close match until the rodent grabbed the genie Pokémon with his crystal claws and aimed the tip of its tail at them. From it, he shot a laser beam at them that pushed them to the ground, making them slide across the concrete a little. The Shaymin scowled and narrowed her eyes a bit. “Okay, that’s it.”
Elsa looked at the Shaymin confused as she stood up again. “What, you’re gonna force us to thank you or something to activate your magical gratitude powers or something?”
“What? No!” Amy quickly replied before sighing. She then focused back on the Typhlosion, her eyes showing a psychic flare as her bag opened on its own. From her bag came a pink flower, similar to those on her head with more flourish to it. What was she about to do? Plant a garden on a literal concrete street? “Cover me!”
“Roger.” “We shall not let the corrupted soul reach you.” The Tandemaus twins stated before teleporting with a dark portal in front of the Shaymin. The water bender glared with a growl. “Your opponent stands before you.”
“Insolent brats! I’ll teach you not to deal with me again AND get Hoopa!” The water Typhlosion said as he extended their watery hands towards the mice. However, Popo and Nana were ready. Joining their hands together and raising them up, they cleaved down the liquid appendages asunder with a Shadow Claw.
“Pathetic.” Popo and Nana spoke blankly as they dissipated their claws.
Taro glanced at Amy concernedly as he asked with a frown. “Uh… what are you planning to do with that flower, exactly?”
“This…” She breathed in deeply and placed the flower on her forehead. Once the flower was placed, it started glowing greatly like a mini sun. Not only the flower was glowing but also Amy’s whole body. The uniform around the glow got ripped from the hedgehog Pokémon’s size change. She grew taller, she gained pointed ears, her quills disappeared as her legs increased in length, and she got a small tail and some kind of scarf-like appendage around her neck. Once the glow was finally gone, it was revealed that not only was the flower gone, but Amy received a new lookover, a tuft of green fur draped over one of her eyes.
Taro had his mouth wide open as he gazed upon Amy’s new form. “She-”
“She’s so pretty now…” Elsa interrupted while staring at Amy a bit shocked. Both the Shaymin and the Togedemaru stared at her a bit confused. Once she realized that they were staring at her she froze and looked away with a huff. “If you’re jealous of my looks, just know it comes with a huge price!”
“Destroy…” The Pikachu said as they landed between the Typhlosion and the group. Team Net + Elsa tensed as they got into a battle position against the two strong Pokémon.
Taro grinned as his cheeks sparked with electricity. “Heh! If you think you got us cornered, we’ll show you with Amy’s new upgrade we’ll whoop both of your asses!”
“Can she even fight in this form? She just transformed!” Elsa argued. Tch, that ball of a mouse had some pure stupidity to think that a Pokémon who just transformed could-
“I can…” Amy muttered as she took a couple of careful steps forward, her feet touching the air like she was climbing an invisible staircase. “I can fight! I can help!” She suddenly took a sharp turn in the air and galloped torwards a barely conscious Hoopa. She stopped above them as a pink fae-like light showered over Hoopa, making them open their eyes even more and shrug off the pain from their bruises.
Meanwhile, the Pikachu screeched again into the sky and charged torwards Popo and Nana. “Need to destroy…!”
The mice twins parried the oncoming slash with their Shadow Claw, sparks flying off from the clash. “Electric soul.” “Ice soul.” “Assist us!”
“Yes!” Taro said before a yellow aura of electricity covered him, zapping the crystal rodent and making him falter a little bit. It was just what Popo and Nana needed to push him off them.
“Time to show what a true princess is capable of!” Elsa said before jumping up and shooting a cold wind of ice directly at the Pikachu, staggering him a bit backwards as the ice started to form around his legs. Once Elsa landed, she smirked and raised her tails. “Serves you right-”
A torrent of water hit her face and pushed her back a bit.
Once the jet of water ended, she stared at the attacker while growling furiously. Her face was now all wet and her fur even more ruffled than before, goodness, she smelled terrible at this point! “You dare!?”
She didn’t have time to insult him as an Energy Ball and a Shadow Ball traveled to the Pikachu and Typhlosion, both exploding at their respective targets. The Energy Ball hit the crystal rodent and the Shadow Ball hit the water badger. But it didn’t stop there, Hoopa and Amy both swooped in flying as they threw volleys of the same move at them repeatedly. The barrage of projectiles ended shortly after and the two Pokémon landed beside the rest of the team.
Amy looked down at herself and commented while raising her paw. “Damn, this form is way better than I thought from what I read…”
Taro clenched his paws and beamed. “You did great, Amy! That new form is amazing! So fast and powerful too!”
“Do not release your victory cries just yet.” “The enemy is not bested yet.” Popo and Nana stated as they pointed at their opponents who were slowly recovering from the hits they received.
“Ugh! Just like disgusting parasites infesting a kingdom, they don’t know when to quit!” Elsa said as she stomped a cold paw on the ground.
Taro grinned, his cheeks sparking again. “Heh, don’t worry. Now with us free and the power of Hoopa on our side, that’ll be a piece of cake-!”
Suddenly, Hoopa started grunting and groaning in pain, clutching their head with their disembodied hands. Amy looked surprised and concerned and asked the genie. “Hoopa!? What’s wrong? Do you still need-”
“T-the Prison Bottle…” They managed to stutter out through the pain, their levitation faltering a little as they fell to the ground. “She’s… she’s calling for me…!”
“She? Wait, do you mean Alice!?” Taro said a bit baffled.
Elsa looked at the Togedemaru confusedly. Alice? Did he mean Alice Mishima? What in the distortion did she have to do with any of this? She knew that Togedemaru was as dumb as any feral Pidgey, but this must be on another level of stupidity.
“We can feel a dark presence trying to control them.” “A veil of malice is attempting to pull them somewhere.” Popo and Nana stated as they got a bit tense.
“What!? No! But my wish-”
Elsa interrupted herself once she saw Hoopa grab a ring from one of his horns and throw it to the side of Team Net, forming a floating portal. She could see that the portal on the other side was some kind of grassy field of a town of sorts. “P-please… find John and aid in his training… he’s… our best shot to… end all of this.”
“John? What does that freeloader tick have to do with any of this? What about my wish!?” Elsa demanded before not only her but the rest of Team Net got trapped in a psychic grip. “Wha-”
“Just go!”
The kids screamed as they were flung through the portal with telekinesis, landing on the other side of it on a soft patch of grass. Elsa was first to get up once she realized that her dreams of finding a perfect mate were getting away from her! She rushed back to the closing portal. “No, wait! I need you to get my-”
The portal fully closed as Elsa jumped towards it, the ring fully disappearing while the Vulpix landed on the ground, just staring at nothing.
She kept silent as she just eyed the white wooden fence in front of her. A growl started building up in her throat before she slammed the ground with both paws, a wave of ice encasing the grass around her. “Arceus DAMMIT!!! My chance for a perfect mate! Gone!”
Taro groaned a bit as he sat up and looked around a bit worried. He noticed that it was afternoon and the sun had gained an orange hue, a sign that it was about to set. “Are we… are we back in the human world…?”
“It appears so.” “Unlike last time, however.” “We have been sent here for a very important task that must be finished for the sake of the Great One and their realm.” The Tandemaus twins stated.
“Uh… I think you mean our world and the human one but… alright then…” Amy said a bit sheepishly. She then turned to Elsa and frowned a bit before walking towards her. She hovered just a bit off the ground to avoid the ice that formed around her. “Um… Elsa, are you alright?”
Elsa stayed silent for a moment before cocking her head instantly to the flying Shaymin. “Alright…? ALRIGHT?” She got up as her tails started wagging a bit in anger. “Ohohoho! I’m just as peachy as ever! Not only my pristine and white as snow fur is all fucking wet, but I lost my biggest chance of acquiring a mate with Hoopa’s wish!”
Taro raised his paw. “Uh… isn’t Jirachi normally the wish Pokémon-”
“SHUT UP, PEASANT! My high and mighty voice wasn’t directed towards you!” The ice Vulpix shouted at the Togedemaru, her body stretching wide just to reach his face to shout at him. As she returned back to normal, she looked aside and groaned. “And then not only I’m forced to fight two complete sickos in the muddy and humid streets, but now I also get flung through a portal to Arceus-knows-where away from the tour because Claire and her gang of buffoons don’t know how to stay in their own fucking lane! Ugh! I didn’t even bring any combs or mobile fur dryers for this!”
“Ice soul.” The Tandemaus twins approached the Vulpix, unbothered by the cold ice on the floor. “Your complaints are unfounded and exaggerated.” “It would be advice to complain at a later time.” “For now, we must recover-”
“Nope! We’re not recovering right now, any of YOU will be explaining what the fuck is going on because you all owe me a damn explanation for basically everything that my bitch of a sister didn’t give!” Elsa shouted, subconsciously going in a bipedal stance to look bigger than the rest of the group.
Amy crossed her forelimbs as she started bobbing up and down in the air. “Why should we explain anything to you? You have practically been a pain in our asses since the school year started!”
Elsa crossed her arms and huffed annoyedly. “At least I helped. Not only now but back in the train with that ceruledge hitmon or whatever!”
“Doesn’t excuse the other times you’ve been a pain.” The Shaymin said while rolling her eyes.
“Unfortunately, Grass soul.” “There are better conditions for us if we explain everything to her.” “She might not look like much.” The Tandemaus ignored a ‘Hey!’ from Elsa and continued speaking. “But she could prove a useful asset to our group.” “In the best-case scenario, she could be used as a worthy sacrifice!”
The ice Vulpix recoiled a bit back as she spoke a bit afraid and angry. “G-get your dirty little paws away from me, freaks!”
Taro approached and scratched his cheek as his ear twitched. “Let’s just tell her. Better to not leave her in the dark before everything else gets worse.”
The Shaymin sighed. “I guess we could-”
Suddenly, the door of a building behind them opened. They then realized that the building was a house and, upon further notice, they were in a backyard. Team Net gasped as they saw a human coming out the door. The human was an old and skinny man with balding hair and a long white beard. From the way he was standing and the skin bags around his face, he was probably in his late 70s to 80s. “What’s all that damn screamin’ about!? Can’t an old man-” He glanced at Team Net and blinked as the Pokémon stared back at them. “Ah, I see! So you animals think you can come ‘ere and hoard all my trash! I already taught those damn raccoons a lesson!”
Popo and Nana unsheathed their Shadow Claw and pointed them at the man. “Do not tempt us with empty threats like that or else your soul shall suffer the consequences of being tortured in eternal damnation!”
Elsa blinked as Amy and Taro grabbed the two twins, trying to make them drop the intimidation. She then asked a bit dumbfounded. “Is that… a human?”
“The hell!? Animals can speak and fly now!?” The old man spoke a bit dumbfounded and surprised.
While holding the Tandemaus in a psychic hold, Amy spoke to Elsa hastily. “Yes, that’s a human, we’re in the human world!” She said before flying over the fence with the twins in her grasp like they were plushies. “We’ll explain everything later, come on!”
As the Togedemaru hopped over the fence Elsa turned around and groaned. “You better have a damn good explanation for all of this shit!” With that, the Vulpix hopped over the fence and started running along with Team Net.
Honestly, what was even going on anymore? What in the actual fuck did Claire get involved in? And here she thought that her whore of a sister was out on the streets trying to date any ‘mon she ran into while cheating on her pet bug boyfriend. Nope! Turns out she was involved in some kind of horrible plot!
Oh, she was telling Mom everything that she learned so far! At least for compensation after enduring such horrible and outlandish things today!
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They continued hopping over fences until eventually they reached some kind of open and grassy area among the buildings and streets of the city. It seemed like some kind of small plaza. Fortunately for the group, there way fewer humans around away from them. They stayed in a very isolated area of the plaza, behind a small building.
Amy landed on the ground and put Popo and Nana beside her. “Alright, here should be a good enough place to hide for now.”
“Good, anyway!” Elsa said with hidden venom in her voice before looking at Taro with a scowl on her face, spooking him slightly. “You, explain, now.”
“U-uh… alright! So um… so basically Alice was evil all along and her whole company is a scheme to just combine both the human world and our world into one. And uh… she’s using the internet to achieve that…” Taro explained, stuttering a little on his explanation.
Elsa blinked at the Togedemaru silently for a bit before eventually managing to let out a simple “What?”
“It’s just as he said.” Amy added while motioning with a paw. “Not only that, but she’s also behind the case of the human disappearances in our world. Turned out that she had been turning the humans into those strong and altered Pokémon we’ve just fought just now. Basically making an army of them.”
“WHAAAAAT!?” Elsa blurted out loud, in clear disbelief of everything she heard.
Her muzzle was then closed by the Tandemaus twins. “You better keep the silence.” “You would not want humans to know of our exact location.” “Would you?”
Muffled, the ice Vulpix scrambled her paws to her mouth to get rid of the mice’s hands. Once she successfully took their hands off her she shied away. “Get your hands off me!” She then turned around, assuming her bipedal stance once again and clutching her paws on her head. “UGH! This is fucking insanity!” She then pointed back at them. “You better not be lying to me, peasants!”
“Why would we lie? Dude, we’re in the same situation as you are right now!” Taro said as his cheeks sparked a bit. “If Hoopa wasn’t any indication then I don’t know what would be!”
“This is pure insanity!” Elsa said a bit loudly before she fetched her phone from her bag and started dialing a number. “That’s it, I’m calling Mom!”
“Huh!?” The Shaymin flinched back a bit from the surprise. “What’s that gonna do!? Is she even gonna believe you?”
“Don’t know, don’t care, I’m gonna snitch on Claire either way!” Once she finished dialing, the phone started calling as she put her phone close to her ear. The phone started doing the same slow dial sounds for a bit before the call just hung up. “Huh…?” The Vulpix tried again and eventually, the same result happened. “What?” She looked back at her phone and scowled. “Why isn’t she picking up!?”
“The sinner known as Alice Mishima might be the cause.” “It is confirmed that she has stalked us for some time to get closer to Friend.” “She will go after your families to silence any evidence that you could share with them.” “She will not be able to solve anything.” “You know too much. You cannot go back.”
Not only Elsa but the rest of Team Net gained a look of horror on their faces, realization finally dawning upon them. Amy looked aside and grimaced. “Dad… Dad was right… I won’t be back for a while…”
Elsa gritted her teeth as she struggled a bit to hold her phone. “Shit… you and your stupid pet of course had to get involved in things you shouldn’t…”
Taro frowned before his face shifted in determination. “Come on, guys, don’t be like that!” He clenched one of his paws. “We need to stick together to end this! If we wanna go back to our homes, we need to beat Alice to the ground and she won’t be able to threaten us and our families anymore!”
Elsa stared silently at the electric rodent before her face shifted into something unamused. “You really are a dumb peasant, aren’t you?” She said before putting her phone away in her bag and going into her quadrupedal stance again. “Have you forgotten WHO are we dealing with?”
“We don’t really have a choice on the matter, Elsa.” Amy said with a frown. “Either take her down now or we get imprisoned until her plans are finished.”
The twins said to Elsa. “Do not let your mind get clouded with such unfounded worries.” “Friend is destined to defeat the vile sinner.” “That is why we must find him.” “We shall aid him in his ultimate battle that decides the fate of two realms.”
“Who the fuck even is this “Friend” you speak of!?” Elsa said a bit madly.
Amy and Taro responded in unison. “John.”
… This had to be some kind of sick twisted joke.
The Vulpix just stared silently at the others for a small while. “... hah… hahaha…” She then leaned her side against the building and lay on the ground. “You know what? I’m done. Fuck everything. I’m staying right here for the rest of my life until a charming prince comes to take me away. I’m not moving a single INCH from this spot.”
Team Net looked among themselves before Amy turned her attention to the Tandemaus. “Popo and Nana?”
“There is no need to request for our service.” Both said before walking up to Elsa and starting to pull her away from the spot by grabbing two of her tails. “You are coming with us.”
“What!?” Elsa yowled before struggling and growling at them. “Let me go right at this instance! Keep your fucking peasant hands away from me!” She then dug her claws on the dirt beneath her, trying to stay in one place, even so, the two mice combined were stronger than her. “No, no, NO I SAY! STOP!”
Taro sighed before starting to follow the twins along with Amy. “We should find a place to eat as soon as possible. It might calm us down a little more.”
The Shaymin’s stomach rumbled. “My thoughts exactly.”
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Amy was a bit surprised at how well this form works for her. She was taller now, with longer legs, more speed, and even more power. Heck, now she didn’t even need to worry about some specks of dust and litter getting stuck in her needles… because she didn’t even have needles anymore!
And the best thing yet was the power of flight.
It felt like she had gone so light that gravity didn’t even affect her anymore. Gone were her problems of being short enough to not reach certain objects that weren’t in range of telekinesis, she could just fly to the object and grab it with no issue. And that’s not counting the potential this power could be held in battle!
She was so damn thankful for her parents. She sometimes felt like she didn’t deserve their generosity… oh that’s right, she wouldn’t see them again for a long time…
Her father had seen that she wouldn’t come back home for a long time someday, she didn’t know that would’ve happened so soon. At least they were warned about it so it wouldn’t affect them much. And their gift worked wonders for her.
She wouldn’t waste it.
The sun was already fully gone. Eventually, Elsa began to walk with the rest of Team Net, not on her own of course. Popo and Nana threatened that they would find her and bring her back to the group if she tried to run away from them. She wanted to freeze them, but the twins just dodged every attack she threw at them. So she just gave up and started going with them.
Now they were walking through the streets of a random human town while hiding from any inhabitants that got close by. Usually, they hid on corners of buildings or under some cars to stay away from any human sight. However, when they were spotted in dire situations, they were reminded of what John taught them the last time they were here and pretended to be animals just walking around the street. And it worked… partially, some humans were still shooting some stares at them. At least Popo and Nana pretending to be dolls on Amy’s back was working out the most.
Of course, a certain princess wannabe was holding some heavy objections to this whole idea.
“Ugh, this is so damn stupid!” Elsa finally let out after turning a corner. Her tails wagged annoyedly. “I feel like I’m some kind of street wild ‘mon that keeps scavenging for scraps and food to survive! This is not something princesses do!”
“Well, you have to get used to it now because this is what we’ll do for a while.” Amy stated as she kept looking around her surroundings. She wasn’t flying since, of course, that might scare a bunch of humans who see her. “Either that or you might get arrested by human authorities.”
The Vulpix scoffed. “Come on, why would they even do that? It’s such stupidity peasants like these try to arrest us just for existing with them.” The Shaymin could feel the ego slipping off her when she smirked and raised her tails high. “Are you sure they don’t want to arrest me just to keep me and my royal beauty to themselves?”
The rest of Team Net just stared at her unamused, not speaking a word about that. The Tandemaus twins just continued staring at her blankly as usual.
Elsa looked at their faces and huffed in annoyance. “Of course, low-society morons like you wouldn’t get it.”
Taro just rolled his eyes before he started sniffing the air around him, sensing something that made his stomach grumble. He sniffed further and asked while drooling a bit. “What’s that smell?”
Amy sniffed it too, it smelled… delicious. “It must be some kind of food in the making. But I can’t say what it is-”
“Well, you can all agree that we’re all hungry here and we should fill our stomachs with some refined delicacy.” Elsa said, faint grumbles in her bellies being heard. “So I request that we go visit…” She turned her head to where the smell got stronger. On the other side of the street, there was a location called The Food Express. It was supposedly a food place, but they couldn’t tell what sort of food place. “There.”
The Tandemaus got in front of the ice Vulpix and asked while she flinched. “Do you want to get captured by the humans and get experimented on? Is that how you want your ultimate demise to be?”
Taro frowned as he pressed his paws on his belly. “To be honest… I don’t think we’ll get any good food for a while. Maybe Elsa is right, who knows.” He shrugged sheepishly. “Not all humans are that bad, right?” The electric rodent turned to the Shaymin. “What do you think?”
Amy tilted her head. “Why are you asking me?”
The Togedemaru scratched his cheek. “I dunno, I just assumed that since uh… you have that more powerful form, I just assumed you’d be our temporary leader.”
She frowned. “You know that more power doesn’t mean leadership, right? Besides, I’m not really good at commanding others… but if you want my opinion on the matter…” She glanced at the building, seeing a human coming out of it while looking at their phone. Amy tensed but fortunately, they didn’t look at the group, too focused on whatever they were seeing on their phone. She sighed and responded. “I think we should try. Humans have already been introduced to Pokémon through the internet and it went mostly well so… I guess it might not hurt to try it out.”
Popo and Nana tilted their heads. “We are a little opposed to this still.” “However, the majority has already decided on the matter.” “Therefore, we shall join you on this quest to quell the hunger.” They turned to the building and started walking to it. “Let us find the required sustenance for a feast.”
Team Net followed the mice to the building, seeing no other humans around on the street. While they walked to the food place, the Shaymin thought in her head. ‘I really hope the humans aren’t like the one we last saw before we returned to our world. That weapon that guy had… something about it just makes me dread it…’
She shook her head and let those thoughts fade into the back of her head again. She shouldn’t have negative thoughts about humanity right when she was about to enter another establishment run by them. Judging by their situation, they would definitely have to order food from them…
Upon entering the establishment, the group of Pokémon was greeted with a warm embrace of delicious smells, good lighting, and a cozy atmosphere. Wooden tables lined the rather narrow building, only having two lines of tables and leather seats and leaving a single narrow hallway in the place. The floor wasn’t that clean judging by the remains of fallen food seen under the tables. On the walls, just a bit above some tables, there were some potted plants with some kind of light green light coming out from the pots.
There was just one human customer in sight which made it easier for Team Net to enter and pick a table for themselves. The male human was on his phone with only silverware on his table, presumably waiting for his meal.
Taro, not wanting to call the human’s attention, ushered a question to the rest of the group. “Where should we sit?”
Nana was the first one to answer. “A table that is as far away from the door and windows as possible is recommended.” “We do not need to attract any unnecessary attention.” “Should that happen.” “They shall be a great sacrifice for the Great One-”
“Uh… maybe we should just calm them down once they see us instead of sacrificing them…” Amy said a bit sheepishly.
”Awww.” The mice twins let out in disappointment.
“Ugh, whatever, let’s just get on our table and get this over with. A Pokémon with etiquette to follow should not stay this hungry for a long time.” Elsa spoke as she regally walked to a table a bit deeper into the building.
While walking there, the Vulpix passed by the human who took his eyes off his phone after noticing her, doing a double take. Elsa looked at him and winked seductively at the human, drawing a confused and surprised flinch from him. As Team Net passed the human, Amy and Taro looked at him sheepishly and a bit apologetic.
They got on their table and Amy realized a small problem once she and Taro sat on the leather seat. Her head was too short for the table while sitting on her haunches even with her new sky form, and in Taro’s case, his problem intensified, not even most of his ears were above the table’s level. Unlike the adjustable tables back in their world, the tables from the human world weren’t adjustable.
She wouldn’t admit it but now she kinda envied Elsa’s ability to change into a bipedal position.
Taro fixed the problem by just deciding to sit at the table along with Popo and Nana. Not like he minded since his fur coat seemed fluffy enough for him.
The Togedemaru crossed his small arms and commented to lighten up the mood. “Damn, it’s been some time since I’ve been in a restaurant. Most of the time, I have Little Z cook up meals for me so I don’t need to actually go out to eat.”
Popo and Nana responded. “We have been out to eat many times.” “All of our meals were delicious.”
Amy smiled a bit, knowing that despite their strange behaviors, the twins could enjoy some normal things too. “That’s great! What did you guys get to normally eat?”
The mice responded in unison. “The raw flesh of feral Pokémon that have perished in our claws.”
Taro and Amy just stared at the Tandemaus in shock for a moment while Elsa didn’t even bother and was busy on her own phone, tapping away. Never mind then, they uh… were on a completely different level of strangeness. The Shaymin was starting to see why John was very scared of them.
Taro nervously laughed before picking up a notebook on the table. “Uh… how about I just check the menu? Yeah, I’ll… do just that.”
As the electric rodent opened up the menu and started reading it, Amy looked at Elsa and noticed her silently groaning after looking away from her phone. “Uh… what are you doing?”
The vulpix narrowed her eyes at the flying canine. “It’s none of your business.”
Shaymin tilted her head. “You were trying to contact your parents again, weren’t you?”
“What else am I supposed to do? I need to talk to them about everything! They…” She looked aside with a grimace. “They couldn’t have been captured that easily, right?”
Amy grimaced and thought about it, not only that but her own parents as well. She didn’t know the extent of Alice’s espionage, but she worried that she had enough info on them to get their parents. She considered the weight of her choices so far in this ordeal. Her parents were seasoned explorers so they could probably defend themselves when worst came to worst, right? Besides, if she stood there for them, she would probably get in the way since she was a novice fighter, mostly.
However, before she could think about that further, a female human came from one of the doors in the back with a silver tray of meals in her hands. Since their table was closer to the door, the woman didn’t notice them and went directly to the man sitting at the other table. Once she put the meal on the table for the man, a small portion of fries and meat, he whispered something in her ear that not even Amy’s larger ears could hear.
Whatever the man whispered made the waitress turn her attention to them, and Amy and Taro were caught spying on them. The Togedemaru whispered to Amy as they heard the woman slowly approaching. “What should we do?”
The Shaymin responded quietly. “Just respond naturally and maybe she’ll treat us as-”
The waitress finally reached their table, making Amy interrupt herself. The group was staring silently at the human while she confusedly analyzed all of them. The woman had brown skin and curly black hair that extended to her upper back. They stared at each other until she spoke up when something about Elsa caught her eye. “Is… is that a phone?”
“What about it? Is there a problem?” Elsa asked with a smirk as she shook her phone for the woman to look.
The human gasped as she took a step back, dropping the (thankfully empty) tray of food onto the floor. “Oh my God, it speaks…!”
Amy smiled sheepishly at the waitress and added. “Actually, uh… we all do.”
The woman took more steps back until her waist collided with another table. “What the hell!? What are you, creatures!?”
“In case you were not following the latest news around the internet.” “We are creatures known as Pokémon.” “We have come from a universe parallel to yours.” Popo and Nana responded, standing up on the table.
Taro dropped the menu and waved his paws defensively. “No need to freak out like that! We’re chill, don’t worry, we won’t cause trouble!”
The human breathed rapidly in the beginning but her breaths slowed down once she started taking in the reality of the situation. “Holy… holy fuck… the rumors were true…” She recovered little by little, approaching their table again. “Pokémon did become real…”
The Shaymin smiled at the waitress, putting her forepaws on the table. “Actually, we were real from the beginning. Our worlds just…” She glanced aside for a moment and sheepishly smiled. “Met each other recently, yeah.”
Suddenly, the door from the back opened again, revealing another human, this time a brighter-skinned man. “What’s going on here? I heard something fall down.” The man looked at the waitress before glancing at the table of Pokémon, causing him to flinch a little. “Huh?”
“Hey.” Taro said politely with a nod.
“HUH!?”
The waitress walked up to the man and spoke. “Boss, boss, boss!” She then motioned to the group of Pokémon with a hand. “Remember those rumors I showed you on the internet about those videos with real Pokémon? They’re real, and five of them are in our food place!”
The woman’s boss rubbed his eyelids and stared back at the Pokémon. Elsa even stood up in her seat and stared at the human with a smirk, her tails wagging back and forth. “How… how is this even possible…?”
“Oh, I know that being graced by the presence of a princess is too shocking for you to handle.” Elsa said smugly. “But worry not, I am a kind-hearted princess, and I will not judge harshly on the delicacies of this place!”
The two humans tensed while Team Net shot an unamusing glare at Elsa. Amy sighed and turned to the humans. “Please, take everything she says with a tremendous amount of salt.” She smiled as she ignored the Vulpix glare. “For your own sake.”
Taro sheepishly grinned. “We just came in here because we had nowhere to go and we were hungry.”
The man clutched his head and ran a hand through his short hair. “Never in my years, I would’ve thought fictional creatures would come to my restaurant…”
Elsa tilted her head at the comment but didn’t inquire further.
Amy then assured with a wave of his paw. “Don’t worry, just pretend we’re other human customers. We won’t make a mess of anything.”
The two humans looked at themselves for a moment. The curly-haired woman tilted her head to the man, almost as if asking him if they actually could do this. The man rubbed the back of his head and asked Team Net a bit confusedly. “Uh… can you guys even eat human food? I dunno if the rules apply in your biology but uh, most of the creatures here can’t eat our food.”
“That is not a necessary worry.” “Our vessels have far superior souls than the mortal animals of this realm.” Popo and Nana responded giving the humans a small thumbs up.
“Yeah, don’t worry, we can handle it!” Taro reassured.
“Well, if you guys say so… what are you going to order?” The waitress spoke as she picked up the tray she dropped earlier.
Team Net laid out their orders for the two humans, with Amy having to convince the Tandemaus twins to order something from the menu so as not to scare the humans. Once every order was done, the man went back to the kitchen to cook the meal for them.
Instead of following the man, the waitress stayed with the Pokémon group, sitting beside Amy. The Shaymin looked at the human from head to toe more closely. She already noticed before when she was in the human world in her land form, but now, even with her sky form, she was still tiny compared to humans.
Meanwhile, the woman looked at the flying Pokémon herself before speaking. “Even with you all here, I’m still a bit in disbelief that you guys are real… almost feels like I’m hallucinating…”
Amy heard the sound of the front door opening and closing. She looked behind from her seat to see if another human entered the building, but she saw no one. The other customer that was there before had probably finished their meal and left. Strange that he didn’t try to get a closer look at their table…
The Shaymin then turned back to the waitress and smiled at her sheepishly. “Well, we can assure you that if you try to touch us we won’t fade into mist or something like that.”
Elsa smirked as her tails started fanning left and right. “I know such beauty and grace like mine seems impossible to exist, but it does!”
Taro frowned a bit hesitantly as he looked at Elsa. “Uh… sorry to burst your bubble… but you have that wet canine Pokémon smell and uh… your fur is a bit messy and dirty-”
Elsa menacingly smiled at the electric rodent and spoke calmly. “Say one more word and I assure you that you’ll be a ball of ice in no time.”
Taro yelped quietly and looked aside. However, he noticed that the human shifted closer to him and was staring intently at him. And to his mild surprise, she asked. “Can… can I pet you?”
Taro blushed a little in surprise before calming down while rubbing his arm embarrassedly. “S-sure, you can.”
The waitress slowly extended her hand towards Taro, pausing a bit and hesitating before fully committing. She placed her hand on the Togedemaru’s forehead and silently gasped, feeling soft fur on the palm of her hand. Amy understood why she acted like that. She remembered that John said that humans thought Pokémon were a piece of fiction created by them, so to see a Pokémon in front of them must’ve been shocking for the woman.
The human started stroking the Togedemaru slowly, muttering. “Jesus… I’m not hallucinating.”
As she continued petting Taro, to Amy’s confusion, the electric rodent perked up and leaned in on the woman’s hand, his tail twitching as an expression of bliss and relaxation made itself present on his face. That’s… weird, was a human’s touch just that good? “Yep, told you so.” The Shaymin said.
Once the human shied her hand away from Taro, the Togedemaru snapped out of his blissful trance as she spoke. “This… this is incredible! I’ve never would’ve thought that this could be so real!” She pulled a phone from her pocket and asked Team Net. “Can I take a picture of us all to show my friends?”
Popo and Nana scared the woman once they disappeared into the shadows and appeared closer to her. “We request that you do not.” “Our existence in this world should mostly remain a secret from the masses.” “You would not want our existence to provoke mass panic upon your people.” “Would you?”
After recovering from the slight scare, the human’s breathing slowed. “Did you guys just… n-nevermind, uh… you’re right, we should just keep it to ourselves.” She put her phone away and smiled sheepishly. “Y-you’re right, maybe it’s not that bright of an idea…” She then flashed the gang with a thumbs-up. “But at least I got to meet all of you, that’s good enough for me!”
“That’s good to know.” Amy smiled softly.
Taro looked aside as he started fiddling with his paws. “Uh… hey, Miss.” The human glanced at Taro as he started blushing again. “Could you uh… pet me again…?
“Oh, sure-”
The waitress was interrupted once a voice coming from the kitchen was heard. “Elise, can you help me over here!?”
The human immediately got up and shouted back. “Got it, Boss!” She turned to Team Net. “Duty calls, I’ll be right back.”
Once the woman left for the kitchen, Elsa started laughing “royally” before addressing Taro. “What was that, peasant? Are you that touch starved for a female? Ohohoho!”
Taro snapped as he flailed his small arms. “I-it’s not that, you don’t get it!”
“Then what is it?” Amy asked, curious about what all of that meant. “When she started stroking you, you looked like you lost… uh… I don’t know how to say it… like-”
The Tandemaus twins interrupted. “You appeared to have lost your sense of self.” “You were reduced to nothing more than a docile Togedemaru wanting to embrace their feral side.”
Taro flinched as they heard the twins. “Really!? I didn’t feel that!” He frowned as he thought about it more. “I honestly felt like her hand was so soothing and so warm. I dunno how to describe it. But it was, like, the perfect amount of warmth, it made me feel so relaxed and comfortable like I was in paradise…”
Elsa just started cleaning her claws. “You really ARE that touch starved, huh?”
The electric-type sighed. “You didn’t hear anything I said, did you?”
After being ignored again, Amy decided to chime in with a theory. “This might be a longshot away but… maybe… maybe humans have some kind of influence on us?”
Taro tilted his head to the side. “Uh… now that you say that… hm…” He perked up, his face lighting up in realization. “Yeah, you might be right! Remember how Claire was before she even met John when the school year started?”
The Shaymin thought back to their first classes of the year, trying to remember Claire for how she acted before they first interacted. She remembered that the fire Vulpix seemed a bit reclusive and never interacted much with everyone else in the class. And when forced to interact, she remembered her uncertainty and hesitance…
And all of that changed out of nowhere from one day to another.
“Yeah… I do remember…” Amy said to herself, thinking a little bit further about the theory.
Elsa scoffed. “Honestly, I don’t see it. That pest of a bug has been nothing more than a damn nuisance to me! I still need to coldly discipline him!” She snorted, icy mist coming out of her nostrils.
However, she flinched back once she saw the mice twins glaring at her with a menacing stare. “Do not speak of Friend like that.” “He is the destined one that shall aid us in the path torwards the salvation of two realms.” “Do not tarnish the prophecy.”
“Uh… I don’t think there was really a prophecy to begin with…” Taro said while rubbing the side of his head sheepishly.
Suddenly, the door to the kitchen opened, revealing the two humans again with Team Net’s desired meals on silver trays. After arriving at the table of Pokémon, they put down two trays, each containing two plates of the exact order of each Pokémon. Amy ordered something different than what she usually eats. She decided to see what these french fries were all about instead of the salad they offered. Taro chose a mix of fries and barbecued porkchop mix… whatever that was. Elsa got a plate of vegetables and a small portion of the french fries. And Popo and Nana…
“Uh… remind me, why did you ask for raw meat again?” Amy asked, slightly curious.
“We shall not abandon the old ways despite the environment we are surrounded with.” “Eating meat the way they originated is the way of the Great One we shall follow.” The Tandemaus twins explained.
Elise, the waitress, felt a bead of sweat roll off her head a bit in fear but she managed to smile sheepishly. “Well, I at least hope you enjoy your meal.”
The twins nodded in unison before announcing. “Let us begin the feast brethren!”
They opened their mouths, highlighting their sharp teeth to everyone around the table. And then they jumped to their plates and started scarfing down on the meat like a literal meat grinder. The two humans looked at them in shock before Taro snuck up to them and whispered to them. “Don’t worry, we assure you that not all Pokémon are like them.”
“Thank God…” The man sighed in relief.
With that, Team Net began eating their food.
Amy took small chomps from the fries, feeling how her new tastebuds would react to such alien food. Her eyes widened and her stubby tail raised a bit as the salty taste hit. She didn’t know if she was tasting plain salt or not, but the fries just hit differently. Like, it was obvious they used salt in whatever these french fries were, but the salt combined with fries… just made a combination of tastes that felt amazing on her tongue.
So, excitedly, Amy continued scarfing down on the food, and after eating some, she declared. “Oh my Arceus, these are so good!” She turned to the woman and asked. “What are these made of?”
The woman sat down beside Amy again and explained. “Simply put, these are just potatoes that were cut and dipped in frying oil with salt. A lot of humans here love it.”
“Oh, I see, these are pretty good!” Amy spoke before turning to Taro and Elsa, they were surely enjoying their pieces as well. There were smudges of sauce on the corners of the Togedemaru’s mouth as he licked away.
Meanwhile, the man sat beside Elsa and crossed his bulky arms. “I have a question for you all if you don’t mind me. Well, a lot of them actually, but at least one major one for now.”
Taro licked his lips and turned to the human. “Yeah, sure, ask away!”
“You guys said you had nowhere to go… are you stranded in this world?” He asked with a frown.
Amy looked aside and sheepishly smiled. “It’s a long story… but the short of it is that yes, we are basically stuck in this world for the time being.” She grimaced as the reality of the situation started sinking into her mind. “We… we can’t go back to it… we’re basically forced to stay here.”
The Vulpix huffed. “Yeah, some big shot of a-” She glanced at the others of Team Net and took the hints that they were trying to transmit to her with their glares and the shake of their heads. “Some… big shot of a bad climate issue back in our world forced us to escape to this one. It… was our only option.”
“Oh… goddamn, I’m sorry for all of you…” Elise spoke concernedly, a frown appearing on her face. “You poor creatures must have gone through so much…”
“Don’t worry, we’ll tough it out, eventually.” Taro spoke before adding. “Also, it wasn’t just us, there were others that are here in this world with us but we got… separated.”
Amy tilted her head as she asked the humans. “Um… have you perhaps seen any other Pokémon like us around? I believe they are wildly different from the animals you are used to.”
The man shook his head. “Nope, it would’ve been the talk of the whole neighborhood if someone had spotted them. After all, not every day you see talking animal-like creatures walking around the place and eating at your restaurant.”
Taro sighed in disappointment. “I see…” He crossed his arms. “Of course, it wouldn’t be that easy…”
Elsa groaned and exhaled a short cold mist. “Ugh, what do we do now then? Nowhere to live, and no way to look around for Claire and her dumb pet!”
Elise hummed in thought before looking back at the man. “Boss… do you think you could-”
“Nope, two cats and a dog are already enough back home. And I don’t think they’ll take it very well to them.” The man said with a sigh. “What about you? I’m sure your family wouldn’t mind.”
Team Net started paying attention to the humans as the waitress started talking. “Um… I don’t know about that… things haven’t really been great at home. And our money is kinda running short with all the repairs in our house after that incident.”
Taro and Amy glanced at each other before Amy jumped on the table herself and smiled at the human. “Don’t worry, we won’t be that much of freeloaders. If we’re gonna stay in your home, we’ll not be just living for free there.”
“Yeah, if you have any problems, we can help in exchange if you let us live with you!” Taro jumped up and shot his paw up.
Elise blinked in surprise before asking. “Y’all for real?”
Even Popo and Nana nodded their heads once. “You have given us a feast.” “And to prove our gratitude we shall aid you in whatever trouble that plagues you and your household.” “You have our word in the name of the Great One.”
Elsa rolled her eyes as she crossed her arms. “Yeah, I guess. If we’re gonna live in someone else’s home, we should do something…”
The human blinked in surprise again before rubbing the back of her head and thinking about it. While gritting her teeth, she responded with a small hiss. “Well, I could give it a shot… but you guys better keep your word and behave, alright?”
“We will, don’t worry!” The Togedemaru said proudly.
The man got up from his seat and put his hands on his side. “Alright, now that’s done with…” He looked at Team Net while narrowing his eyes. “How will you guys pay for this?”
Amy felt her heart freeze as the human’s words sunk into her, Taro’s face showing that he had made the same realization as the Shaymin. That’s… that’s right. They wouldn’t accept Poké in this world, would they? That meant they would need to find a way to get money in this world, so no more restaurants-
“Ohohohoho! Look at your faces! Ah, typical from poor peasants.” Elsa suddenly said before pulling out her phone. “I thought you would know that most humans pay digitally in here.”
Taro stared at the ice Vulpix for a moment, blinking a bit before asking. “What do you mean, Elsa? You can pay!?”
“Astute observation, lower-class rodent!” She said proudly, bathing in basically what was her moment to shine.
“How? Like, actually, how?” Amy asked, utterly confused about that.
“Well, during my off time, I have decided to do this… streaming activity as humans call it. Using a site called Twitch, I received tons of money from my watchers!” Elsa boasted.
Elise stared dumbfoundedly at the six-tailed vulpine. “... You… you were a Twitch streamer this whole time…?”
“Indeed! And it is with the money I received there, that I can finally put it to use to something since I couldn’t use it back in our world.” Elsa said before turning to the man. “Now, you do accept digital pay, right?”
“Uh… w-well yeah. But like… I was joking but uh… fine, if you’re gonna pay now, I ain’t stopping you.” The man said before going to the backroom again.
Elise blinked before limping a bit. “What the hell have I gotten myself into…?”