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Pokemon! Genie! Kanto? It's a thing that's happening!

Who: Shantae and Sonny Moe!
What: Kanto Adventures!
Where: Kanto! You know! The place where everyone wants to be the very best like no-one ever was!
When: Mid June
Warnings: Pokémon Battle Shenanigans
Music: You know which music you need to listen to.

The train ride from FDC was always pretty pleasant. The scenery was nice and it was a fairly long ride which allowed time for both gazing out the window at things flying by and also napping. Sonny, of course, insisted it was his treat whenever the snack trolley rolled past. The snack lady on the train had never made so much in one shift before...

...anyway. Kanto in Summertime is a wonderful place. The sun is shining, the Pidgey are Shin--er, singing, the Rattata are looking at their masses of squabbling children and regretting each and every life choice that led them to this moment. Today, they are joined by a portly, young, blue haired gentleman and his beautiful purple haired companion who just so happens to be a Genie.

"So! This is Pallet!" he said, turning to her and grinning. "I know it doesn't look like much, but it's a great place!"

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...Well, that was a very long winded explanation, chiding, and compliment all in one. She was impressed. And not quite sure how to respond. "...Um. Well okay then. Long as we understand each other," she finally said. "So what so we do now? We still need to figure out where they've taken the baby Pokemon."

"And the lady can tell us." Sonny replied, listening to the girl inside. She'd stopped whining now, but was still in there, probably wary about coming out after hearing what had happened to her cohort.

"I can become a Snorlax and you tell me wha--waaaaaaaaait a second." Something dawned on the Snorlax and his face lit into a grin. "Shantae! YOU can transform too! Not into a Pokémon, but into something that people here would probably THINK is a Pokémon! You don't have to stand on the sidelines at all - I could stay Human sometimes and give you suggestions on attacks to do! We can take turns!"

Or, you know, she could just beat up bad guys her way. But if that wasn't going to be an option... "Well, we could always give it a shot next time we have to fight. I mean, if I've gotta play by the rules of your world, then I'll at least try."

"Well, the girl Rocket's still in there with her Pokémon. You want to try it out?" Sonny offered. "It's kind of a low level, unevolved Pokémon and it will be an easy win for you? But we could at least test this idea out on an easy target?"

"But we already--" She caught herself. Different world, different rules. As silly as she thought they were, she promised to at least try.

"All right, all right. Let's give it a try. Who's doing the fighting this time? Also, if I need to tell you what moves to use, I kinda need to know what you can do."

"I'll do the fighting this time just to give you an idea of how it works, then you can do it next time!" Sonny replied. "And I have four moves to use, OK? Blizzard is the one you just saw - it's also the one I froze you into an ice block that one time with? S-sorry again. About that. Um, anyway, I also have Crunch! Which is when I bite things super hard. Then there's shadow ball! It's a concentrated blast of ghost type energy that won't work on Normal type Pokémon. I also have Giga Impact which... it's a move where I fly through the air and slam into an opponent with my full weight. Please only tell me to do that one as a last resort. For one thing, I have to recharge afterwards and that leaves me open to attack. Secondly? It's an overly powerful move that I don't like using on weaker enemies because it could REALLY hurt someone."

Like, don't have him use it against the low level Rattata in the lab there. That would just be mean.

"Are we ready?"

Shantae nodded sagely, arms crossed. "I think I've got all that. Let's go for it!" she declared eagerly.

"Alright!"

PFOOMSH!

He transformed back into a Snorlax and waddled through the smashed out doorway, glaring down at the Rattata who had been spending its time consoling its poor trainer.

The Team Rocket girl still had a very red face and a little blood on her upper lip, but her assertion that her nose was broken may have been an exaggeration.

"LAAAAX!" Sonny roared before turning to give Shantae a thumbs up. Let's go, impromptu Trainer!

"Okay, let's do this!" Shantae declared, pointing at the poor Rattata. "Sonny, Crunch!" she instructed.

"Rattata! Tackle!" yelled the Rocket Grunt.

Even though Snorlax are not fast Pokémon, Sonny's level was so much greater that the Rattata had no chance to dodge or get an attack in. Sonny launched forward, mouth open and huge teeth clamping down on it, dark energy shining from his mouth as he used the attack.

The Rat Pokémon squeaked, rolled its eyes, and fainted, seemingly no worse for wear despite losing consciousness. It was returned without delay to its Pokéball.

"...fine." the Rocket lady grunted, pulling out her wallet and handing a fistful of Pokéyen to Shantae. "Just take it. And I suppose you want to know where we sent the stupid baby Pokémon, too!? Maybe I shouldn't tell you after what you did to my beautiful face!"

"Good shot, Sonny!" Shantae cheered with a grin. There was something to be said about watching a good battle, even if she wished she could have been the one in the fight.

She quickly found herself handed some Pokeyen, unsure of why. Must have been some other custom of this world. "Uh, thanks." Buuuut, her opponent continued to be petulent. She followed up by grabbing her by the collar of her flame pro-tardent uniform. "You want more where that came from? Tell us what we want to know!"

"N-no! Please! Don't hit me again!" the woman wailed, struggling against the much stronger half genie hero.

Sonny walked over and plopped a paw on the Rocket's shoulder, grumbling a low "Laaaaaaaax." in an encouraging way. Whether this calmed the low level lackey down or just scared her into blabbing for reals was anyone's guess. But she started talking.

"The Pokéballs were loaded into a briefcase and they're on their way to the port in Vermillion City! They left an hour and a half ago! Maybe two! Lady, you're crazy - let me go! I gotta get my Rattata to the Pokémon Center!"

"See, was that so hard?" Shantae asked, letting go of the woman's shirt and stuffing the money into her pocket. "Get out of here! And don't let me catch you pulling any of this junk again, or POW!" she warned, letting the woman run off with her Rattata in tow.

When she fearful grunt was gone, she turned to Sonny. "Okay, Vermillion City. They've got a lead on us, but is there any way of getting there faster? How far is it?" she asked.

"It's kind of far." Sonny replied, turning into a Human again with a flash of light. "It's North through Viridian and Pewter, then East through Mt Moon and Cerulean City. Then... uh... Oh. It's South from there. It's kind of a trek..."

He frowned deeply.

"If only we had a Team with us. If we had a Pidgeot or something, we could just FLY there."

Shantae grinned. "Sonny, you're in luck," she told him, stepping back and performing a few dance steps. With a flash of light of her own, Shantae was replaced with a blue feathered harpy girl. "Think you could point the way from up high?" she asked him.

"WOOOOOOOAH!" Sonny exclaimed, taking a step back. He'd seen her as a Monkey and an Elephant but not as a Bird... Lady... thing!

"Shantae, that's so cool! Wow! What a pretty form! You're so awesome!"

He grinned hugely at her.

"If they went on foot we can DEFINITELY beat them there! I can spot the town from the air - it's easy! There's docks and usually a couple of big boats and a Gym!" It wasn't a town he'd spent a lot of time in - he'd joined Red's team long after Red had beaten Surge - but he'd been there once or twice and loved the seafood.

"You like it?" she asked confidently. "This is my Harpy form! I should be able to get us there! I hope. Never tried carrying anything as big as a person before, but this should work just fine. Ready?" she asked, flapping her wings to start getting up in the air, flying back out of the lab and into the open sky, looking down to wait for him.

"It's a shame we don't have my Pokéball!" Sonny lamented. "That would of been really easy for you to carry! Hopefully I'm not tooooo heavy!"

....words he never thought he'd hear himself say in this lifetime or any other. His new years resolution five years in a row had been to GAIN weight.

He extended hands up towards her once he was outside. "Ready whenever you are!!!"

Shantae readied hersefl, then swooped down to grab on to Sonny's shoulders with her talons and take off. It was a lot more challenging than she expected, but she got them both in the air, breathing hard as she started to fly. "Where are we going?" she asked. "We may have to take a breather along the way... You're not exactly easy to carry."

"It's fine - I understand!" Sonny assured her. Frankly, this was a less comfortable way to travel than he'd imagined it to be anyhow so a rest on the way would probably be in order.

"OK, so, um, fly to your left, OK? Turn East - I thiiiink you should be able to see the ocean if you go high enough? Because we're going to need to cross a bit of ocean. So...."

Not ideal setting-down-to-rest territory.

"It better not be a LOT of ocean," Shantae warned him, following his directions. Thankfully she could still talk as a harpy.

She flew in the direction he indicated, carrying Sonny as far as her harpy talons could carry him, before setting down in a clearing to rest for the next leg of the trip. "At least we're making good time... How much further is it?"

Sonny rubbed his shoulders and walked towards the East, peeking through the trees.

"OK. So. See waaaaaay out there? That thing out over the water? That's Cycling Road. That should be our next stop, OK? It's a further flight but it's the next place we CAN stop. Then from there, we can see how far we have left. It's hard to figure it out this way because normally you'd approach the place from the North, not the West."

"All right," Shantae said, flexing and flaring her wings as she looked out in the direction Sonny indicated. "Cycling Road coming up!"

When she was rested up enough, she flapped her wings to take off again, grabbing holf of Sonny and lifting off towards the Cycling Road. "This might be a lot easier if we had a map," she said.

"Red was normally the one who took care of where we were going?" Sonny replied apologetically. "He had a town map and if Sasha needed to fly us anywhere, he'd figure out how to do it using that."

The water underneath them was very blue and deep looking. You could still see the little red points of light that were Tentacool and every so often a larger, darker shape moving underneath that signified Here Be Gyarados.

"..Just a little further!"

It wasn't, really. It as kind of a long way.

When she finally had a chance to stop, Shantae would need quite the breather. But she held out admirably, following where Sonny indicated, until she finally reached the Cycling Road. When she set him down, a flash of light changed her back to human form, and she leaned over, hands on her knees to catch her breath. "That was NOT just a little further," she replied.

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