A Matter of Business { Catching }

[Ricki Jace]

I HAVE 503 FOR
SOLO CATCHING

JUST SO YOU KNOW
And thus begins the first
"Odds and Ends" hunting quest

When was the last time she’d even been to the Safari Zone? Ricki couldn’t even recall what she had for breakfast this morning… Oh no, wait, she didn’t eat breakfast. She’d woken up just shortly before noon and skipped it altogether. Probably shouldn’t done that, but it was too late for that, now. There were other matters to handle for the time being and one of those matters was finding her next meal ticket. With the business up and running, a more dependable source of income was finally heading her way. Or to more accurately put, income was finally coming her and her co-worker’s way. Since one of the first jobs she took being a run through some of the Fortune Island ruins, Ricki had actually invited along a peculiar fellow she’d met a while back.

Jason Tham was a surprising individual that certainly had caught her attention. While appearing unassertive and mild-mannered, the guy was just good at hiding the ultimate layer of bad-ass-ery as far as she was concerned. He had some sort of experience; some past to him she wanted to figure out. Though, she didn’t really want to get nosy and possibly bring up uncomfortable subjects for him, she still really wanted to know. He was good at being vague, avoiding giving the whole story and seeming to be perfectly honest. He could probably be hooked up to some lie detector and pass with flying colors whilst revealing nothing to his interrogator. Well, maybe not quite, but Ricki’s imagination had entered hyper drive at this point.

While he was such a ‘bad ass’ as she described, her companion didn’t have any Pokémon or any real desire to have one thus far. So, Ricki’s venture into the Safari Zone would be a solo run. Well, solo as far as being accompanied by other humans went. At her side, a recently evolved Quilava trotted along excitedly. He’d run off ahead, before coming back to Ricki with an ever eager ramble. Cinder had almost become another Pester, but he at least had the sense to come back to Ricki when she would call and was much more controlled. He had a new body, a new strength, a new feeling, he wanted to get out there and fight, battle, show his trainer how far he’d come!

While Cinder was certainly going to get his share of the spotlight today, he wasn’t alone. A little Bulbasaur by the name of Breezy found herself accompanying the two today as well. While the Pokémon in the Safari Zone were considerably stronger than normal wild Pokémon, they also provided a great chance at training. After having owned several rare Pokémon herself, Ricki was all but eager to see what they were like out on their own in the wild as well. Her mind briefly went back to her old Absol, and then her Lapras and a faint smile made its way onto her face. This was going to be a good day, she was sure of it.

[P✿pple]

A WILD JASON POKEMON HAS APPEARED!

POKEMON Pansear GENDER Female ABILITY Gluttony

○ Lick ○ Incinerate ○ Fling ○ Acrobatics

[Ricki Jace]

I HAVE 631 FOR
SOLO CATCHING

JUST SO YOU KNOW
Catching the Pansear

There was a long list of Pokémon that many people had called her about. Rare Pokémon were desirable, she understood that fact with ease. What she didn’t expect was the slight trend she had noticed whilst putting her list completely together. Many people had found appeal in Pokémon that were owned by the world famous PokeDex Holders, but Ricki had barely any idea just who those people were. Despite having several Pokémon in common with these famous trainers, she was just surprised to see that the Pokémon they owned were so desired by the masses. Following the collection of celebrity trainer inspired desires was the breeders dream group. So many breeders had jumped at her flyer once they saw it. She had all sorts of calls demanding mostly two Pokémon in general.

Eevee and Ditto were a couple of Pokémon Ricki was just vaguely familiar with, honestly. She knew what they looked like and had heard what they could do. As for actually handling the shape shifters herself, though, Ricki had never personally owned one. She’d seen other trainers with them, and even watched one evolve before, but it was never really anything personal. Just observations of some moron with a Pokémon he probably didn’t deserve. She remembered that Eevee to Espeon evolution happening when an old friend of her’s got in a fight with some goody two shoes. Ricki sighed heavily to herself as she recalled that old friend also being some perverted psychotic murderer… Why did she always have a knack for finding those kinds of people?

Ignoring her terrible luck, Ricki’s focus shifted back to her surroundings when she felt her Bulbasaur bonk into her leg. Glancing down, the young Grass type had moved to bite her pant leg and tug on it. With the obvious demands for attention, Ricki slowly quirked a brow, before beginning to turn around to look back behind her. Had she missed something as she got lost in her thoughts? The thought was answered by itself with a wave of fire suddenly flying past Ricki and just barely avoiding hitting Breezy. Frozen in a moment of shock, it wasn’t until Breezy tugged once more on her pant leg that the young trainer snapped out of her brief panic. Swiftly returning the grass type, Ricki called out “Cinder, you good to go!?”

Flying out from the brush the flames had burnt right through, Cinder the Quilava cried out in reassurance. Landing next to Ricki and going around her, the Pokémon charged right back towards their attacker. Ricki made her way over the burnt bush and watched as Cinder quickly tackled the other fire type. Without her having to give an order, fire was already being shot back and forth between the two Fire types. With his recent power boost from evolving in the Steel City Ruins, Cinder’s flames were quickly over powering the Pansear’s smaller flames. The monkey was fast, though, and it was about twenty minutes of clashes before the Pansear was sent flying into the trunk of a tree. Cinder hopped up and down excitedly at the sight, turning to Ricki for approval.

Glancing briefly to her Quilava, Ricki smiled at him. “Good job, Cinder” she praised, before laughing when the Quilava suddenly ran off and came back to nearly coil around her legs. Making her way over towards the exhausted Pansear, Ricki pulled out the Safari Ball and tossed it over to the Pokémon. As the ball took the Pokémon in and began to roll around, processing the capture, Ricki got to work on pulling out her notebook. “Alright, that was one Pansear for a Mr. Northern Lights” she mumbled, pulling out a surprisingly girly pen from her pocket to make a red star next to the name on her list.

[Slate]

. . . !
Congratulations, PANSEAR was caught!
One Pokeball has been removed from your inventory!