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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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"It is, you're almost there! You're doing a really, really great job, Shantae. I'm super proud of you!" Sonny replied, looking up at her adoringly. She really was super strong and had a lot of endurance to drag his butt this far through the air.

"I can give you a shoulder rub when we land if you want? Would that help?"

"I'm definitely taking you up on that," she informed him as she started to make her final approach. She may have been strong enough to haul him this far, but she was feeling the burn already.

She circled around to find a safe spot to land, and when she found one, she swooped down and released Sonny, touching down herself with a little less grace than she would have liked, before shifting back to human form. She rolled her shoulders when she was herself again, groaning a bit. "I'm gonna feel that tomorrow," she lamented.

"Here, relax and hold still." Sonny replied, placing his hands on her shoulders and starting to rub.

He'd never had much practice with this - it wasn't like any of his siblings were really the kind of people to ask for shoulder rubs. But he'd seen it on TV and as with most things that involved personal contact and affection, he was naturally gifted. Empathy was his strong suit and he used it to judge what would be helpful and what wouldn't be.

"Tell me if I'm being too firm." he said.

Shantae felt the tension melt away, and she relaxed against Sonny's grip. She found a spot to sit, and rolled her head and shoulders as he rubbed them. "That feels SO much better," she said, closing her eyes. "It's a long way to fly while carrying someone else. I'm not used to carrying people at all while I do that..."

"Well, now that we're here, we probably won't have to do it again." Sonny reassured her, pressing the balls of his thumbs into the knots in her back and working out the tension. "I'll be sure to carry you, next time! I can't fly, but I can walk and climb and stuff."

"Ah, that feels good," she said in response to his massage. She had a lot of tension in her shoulders. She never really got massages; a soak in a hot spring tended to be all she needed to heal herself, but it meant she had a lot of tension to work out.

"Now that we're here, where would these Team Rocket guys be heading?" she asked.

"Probably down at the docks!" Sonny replied, removing his hands from her shoulders and linking his fingers together to crack all his knuckles. (Massages were like workouts for your hands!)

"Bad guys always hang out down by the docks, plus, the Rockets said they were sending the starters to a region that was far away so they're going to probably send them by boat!"

Shantae rolled her shoulders, hopping up to her feet when he finished, perking right up after the long flight. "Then let's go pay them a little visit and show them what happens when you mess with all those cute baby Pokemon!" she declared. "Which way to the docks?"

Sonny raised his nose to the air.

"I smell fish markets! This way!" he said, striding out of the undergrowth to look at the city outskirts. It looked roughly the same as the last time he was here, so, nothing crazy had happened and the layout should be the same.

It was a quaint little seaside city and would have been a great place to stop if they weren't on a mission.

"Follow your nose!" Shantae declared, chasing after him. It really was a nice looking city... Maybe they could check it out more after they finished beating up on Team Rocket. "Think they have a warehouse? Or maybe they're just trying to load up a boat? Think we beat them here?"

"They're probably loading a boat!" Sonny replied, starting to run. "There's always boats here and if they're taking the Pokémon to a different region here, they would have to go by boat!"

His sneakers slapped against the wood of the boardwalk before long and... oh. This wasn't even going to be hard.

There was a large, fast looking boat moored against the pier with two black suited grunts standing in the back of it and a huge red R painted on the side.

"...uh. They really aren't really very good at not being noticed."

Wave stopped when they saw the... rather obvious looking boat. She blinked.

"So, uh... These guys were a major threat before, HOW?" she asked Sonny, scarcely believing these guys held ANY kind of power over anyone.

"Well? Before, I think it was because they were a BIG organization. Like... they could just walk into a city and take it over. That kind of big? So, they didn't need to hide or be sneaky or anything." Sonny replied, musing on it as he looked at the boat. "Some of them probably remember that time and want to feel that way again, so, they paint a big red R on a big dumb boat because even if it's not practical, at least people will notice and remember that once upon a time? Team Rocket was a name that made everyone scared."

He started walking towards the boat, taking long steps, his hands swinging at his sides, clenched into fists.

"I'm not scared today, though."

"Heck, I was never scared of them to begin with," Shantae added, grinning and punching her fist into her palm, following him. "Time to lay down some justice on these wannabe bad guys!"

"Let's do it!" Sonny replied, falling back a little so they walked together in stride. Stuff always looked more badass when you were walking forward in a line. Usually it was best if there were a bunch of people walking side by side. But they only had two. So two it was.

"Hey!" Sonny called. "Hi! Are you guys waiting for the shipment of Starter Pokémon from Pallet town?"

"Like we'd ever tell you, Chump!" called the highest ranking grunt on the boat. Professional Grunt First Class. Sonny recognized the rank as being roughly equivalent to his own.

"Pretty much telling me that you won't tell me is kind of the same thing as actually just telling me." Sonny replied. "You probably should of just said 'What are you talking about!?' or something!"

".....Golbat, Go!"

The grunt, annoyed at being shown up released his Pokémon. Sonny looked at Shantae. "You suuuuure you don't want to try fighting?"

Shantae took a look at the gaping maw of the bat... thing... that now floated before them. hands on her hips, she said, "...Yeah, why not?" she asked. Performing a couple of hip shakes, with a poof she transformed... into a spider woman.

"Let's have some fun," she clattered.

"WOOOOAH!" Sonny exclaimed - a Spider Woman!? That was amazing!

"Shantae - that's so cool! You look so neat!" he said, walking around her quickly to take it all in.

The Rocket Grunt - clearly dumbfounded by the hot girl who had just turned into a giant spider creature - was failing to give Golbat any orders. Because his jaw was dangling open. He almost wished he had a Pokédex so he could see what that even WAS.

"Shantae! Let's try.... uh. Hmm. I don't know what your attacks are." Sonny said, thinking about it for a second. "You probably have some kind of webbing though? So like... string shot, maybe?"

Shantae still didn't quite agree with the way Pokemon fights were supposed to work. Besides, she wasn't even a Pokemon. But at least she could have a bit of fun with this. Taking advantage of the opponent's distraction, she skittered by, leaping up and firing some webbing at the Golbat. If she could tangle it up and pin it, this could end quickly.

"...uh. Gol-Golbat! Wing attack!"

The bat Pokémon was stuck with the gluey thread, but still managed to fire off a weak, one winged slash at Shantae."

"It's a bug type. It's got to be a bug type.... I don't know..." the Grunt mumbled to himself.

"Go Shantae! Use.... uh... let's see.... Do you have a poison sting attack?" Sonny asked. This was a lot of fun! No wonder so many ten year old kids left home to train fighting monsters!

She may have been a bug, but she wasn't a Pokemon. It also meant she still didn't quite get the whole "standing there and waiting for an attack to hit" thing. So... she jumped over that half-hearted slash. No doubt causing all of the ten year old kids in the audience at home to scream "HAX!" at the top of their cracking voices.

"No, but I do have this!" she declared, tugging on the webs to draw Golbat closer, and spitting a ball of venom right at it.

"Woah - Hax!" said Sonny.

The Golbat was kind of unimpressed by the venom, being a poison type itself. But this string shot was abnormally strong and not just slowing it down, but preventing it from moving at all. It started to freak out, flailing around so much that it entangled itself even worse and was completely unable to follow up on any orders its trainer was yelling at it.

"This is terrible! That's not how this is supposed to work!" the Rocket grunt lamented loudly, tears glistening on his cheeks. He returned his Golbat and sniffled heartily.

"Woohoo! We won!" Sonny yelled. "Hey, pay up!!"

The Rocket started fumbling around in his pocket for the required Pokéyen.

"Great job, Shantae! You're so awesome!" Sonny exclaimed while the hired muscle doled out half of his paycheck to Sonny.

Shantae changed back to normal, and as Sonny collected his reward, she decided to do what she did best.

She stomped up to the Rocket grunt, grabbed him by the collar, and pulled him closer. "Now are you gonna let go of those baby Pokemon, or am I gonna have to get rough on you?" she threatened.

"Woah! Lady... Pokémon... thing!" the Rocket yelped, unused to being hauled around by the shirt collar. "Th-they aren't here yet! Hey! Fat kid! What's she doing!? Call her off!"

Sonny just laughed. "She's new here! She doesn't know how things work in Kanto so you should be nice so she doesn't throw you overboard! Also, she's her own person so I can't tell her to do anything even if I wanted to!"

"...that's strange and wrong." the Grunt grunted. What kind of trainer even was this husky blue haired chump!?

"But that's good news, Shantae! That means we got here in time to spoil their plans!" Sonny said, clapping his hands together and smiling. They had made it!

Shantae raised a fist. "You better watch what you say!" she warned. She raised the fist and brought it down on the grunt's head, whacking him unconscious. He'd wake up later with a heck of a headache...

"Now he can't warn anyone we're here," she said, dusting her hands. "All we have to do is lie in wait, and ambush the others when they arrive with the shipment!"

"Yeah!" Sonny replied, jogging up the gang-plank and standing on the deck of the ship. "Then, once the baby Pokémon are safe, we can bust a hole in this ship and sink it so they can't use it for any more criminal schemes!"

That seemed like the kind of Man-Of-Action stuff that might impress a feisty Genie girl!

"I wonder if there's spare uniforms on board... It would be pretty funny to surprise them with a disguise."

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And just now I realized I called Shantae Wave in the last tag like a total idiot

Now you have to call Wave Shantae in our other log! So it balances!

Can do!

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