Testrun Meme - March

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This is an open testrun meme. Posts here may be used in lieu of a sample entry for any applications. For your convenience, we've provided a few prompts, but feel free to make your own!

1. Team Evolution is looking to set up a new machine test near Union. Are you here to help? Stop them? Observe?

2. A day at the races! Today in the Rhyhorn track, it's a complex course with several barricades, vertical climbs, and downhill slopes. Are you a racer? Spectator? What brings you here this fine day?

3. You're out exploring, be it at sea, or perhaps expanding into new, uncharted territories. Where are you? What are you doing?

4. Pokemon Battle! Perhaps it's training, perhaps you're protecting something important, perhaps you're striking out against something vile. Why are you in this fight and what are you doing?

5. Wildcard! Invent a prompt!

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[wisdomslight]

[She sighs.]

Sorry. Look, I'm not trying to be rude - I guess I should thank you for lending a hand.

[She wouldn't say saving her, because... well. She could have handled things, one way or another. Really. She just wasn't about to say how or why, at least not to him.] But what do you mean, where you're from?

[ourlegends]

[ Well, the other girl was clearly okay enough to say something like that. That was good, at least. Still, those Zubats were a problem, and she couldn't seem to make heads or tails of what they were so irritated about, since all of their speech was so jumbled together ... had the girl disturbed them in some way, or was it something else? Either way, she couldn't let them keep chasing someone like that. ]

Sam, Thunder Shock on the Zubats!

[ Sam bleated in affirmation and let loose an attack on them to try and get their attention off of the girl. ]

[wisdomslight]

[Rikka spins at the shout and resulting burst of electricity. Flaque does too. A few moments later. After skidding to a halt and slowly turning around.

He was a little slow on the uptake.

Regardless, the Zubats sure react to that. There is some screeching, and hissing, swirling overhead... before they pull back, retreating.

Rikka furrows her brow. Well, if it had been that easy, she could have done something before now, so that was... certainly frustrating.]

...well.

[She breathes a sigh of relief, and uselessly kicks the dirt with her foot. She's bad around strangers, and generally suspicious of them, having helped her or not.]

...thanks.

[ourlegends]

[ Hilda watches the Zubats as they fly back in the direction of the cave, a small, worried frown on her face as all of her attention is conveniently focused on trying to decipher what those Zubat are saying as they fly back in.

Sorry, Rikka. It's not that she means to ignore you. She just has this problem with focusing on one thing at a time sometimes. Sam the Mareep nudges Hilda with his muzzle, meanwhile, trying to get his friend's attention. He knew her long enough to know she was just ... like ... this ... most of the time. ]

[wisdomslight]

[A trickle of annoyance runs across Rikka's mind, meanwhile, and she crosses her arms.

Flaque just looks confused. That's fine, that was normal.

After another moment or three, Rikka coughs. Loudly.]

Guess I'll be on my way, then, provided nothing else is going to hop out and try to kill us...

HEY RIKKA. GIVE ME A 5 \o\

[inthenameofthemoon]

[ It seems that another person is out and about. With Pinky the Cleffa sitting on her head as per the norm, Usagi is currently waiting at a food stall with the most excited look on her face.

Why? Because she's managed to get the special crepe of the day before they had run out. ]

I can't wait, Pinky! It smells so good I can almost taste it!

[ The little Cleffa just rolls her eyes takes a gander around while her human partner is impatiently pre-occupied. It's then that she sees a large stack of books and an almost familiar pair of arms holding it up. Pinky reaches down to pat Usagi on the head to get her attention, but is brushed off because sweet delicious food is being handed to her. ]

Thank you! Come on, Pinky! It's time to eat!

[ Quickly, Usagi turns around, about ready to stuff her face silly. She's quite oblivious to the frantic noises that Pinky's making because if she had even paid attention, she would have noticed that a collision course was unavoidable if she were too slow in maneuvering around.

Guess who's on a one way crash course with a pile of books as a blue Cure? THIS MOON RABBIT HERE. ]

[wisdomslight]

[Trailing behind Rikka is a Poliwag far too oblivious of his surroundings to even take notice of the oncoming collision. So, a point to Pinky there.

Thus, the inevitable happens. Rikka runs straight into her, books fly everywhere, and Flaque only takes notice when his partner nearly falls on top of him as she is tossed to the ground by the impact and loss of balance.]

[abundantlove]

... I see. I'm very sorry to hear that.

[she reached out and put a hand on Hilda's shoulder]

You have Sam, after all... and if possible, I'd like to be your friend as well.

[abundantlove]

[Mana nods]

Yes... I'm thinking about stepping out, and being more involved with Pokemon... I've only ever done what I could inside the city, you see...

[nateurally]

... Ah. Well, you see...

[he sighs and rubs the back of his head]

I'm not exactly from Union...

[abundantlove]

Eh?! W-well... at least I don't look like some sort of Teddiursa seaweed monster!

[she is apparently unaware of the seashells stuck in her own hair]

[wisdomslight]

[Kind sir, helpful save or not, you are doing little to relieve the suspicions of a generally suspicious young lady. Her eyes narrow just the slightest bit at him.]

Where... are you from, then?

[She frowns.]

And why are you here?

[Twenty questions time, man. You asked for it.]

[inthenameofthemoon]

[ Usagi lets out a very startled yelp as the collision happens. On any normal day, she would have practically bounced right off whatever she was running into and fallen flat on her butt.

But no, today was a special day. Because of her precious crepe she had just acquired, she tries to do some almost dance step maneuvers to keep the thing from falling onto the ground. Oh my god does she try. And she succeeds! ... at the cost of falling flat on her face while her hand is still in mid air.

Her pokemon, however, has managed to crawl down Usagi's hair during the crepe dance and is now safely on the ground and managing as deep of a sigh as a pokemon can do anyway.

That takes some skills, yo. ]

[inthenameofthemoon]

Seaweed monster?! No, I'm not!

[ Usagi reaches up to see if's true.. and instead pulls out some of the slimy green weeds from her hair. Oh. Well, two can play at that game! ]

Yeah well, look at you! Your hair looks like Shellders are coming out of it!

[wisdomslight]

Ugh...

[Rikka has ended up flat on her back. Books are everywhere. Flaque nudges her head, and he's just waved off. Now, the Poliwag looks perfectly fine, knowing his partner isn't dead.

The mess is of no concern to him.

Rikka groans and begins to unsteadily pick herself up.

How embarrassing. She had more grace than all this. And she just ran into a total ... stranger ...]

Oh.

[Or not, as she suddenly bolts up to her feet, scrambling to the older girl's side.]

Usagi! Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't see you coming!

[inthenameofthemoon]

[ For a moment, Usagi isn't sure what's going on. All she knows is that her crepe had better not be part in her hand and half on the floor.

Or wait. She knew that voice. SCRATCH THAT that was something else she recognized. ]

Ish okay, Rikka.

[ Idly, she waves her free hand in the air to try and ward off the younger girls' worry.

It would work better if she still weren't face first into the pavement. ]

I'm fine!

[hidamari]

[Alice nods in return, petting the little Teddiursa nuzzling up to her.]

I see. It's a big world outside the city walls... You've done so much already, but no matter what decision you make, I will always support you.

Besides, I think you would be perfect for all kinds of adventures, don't you think?

[ourlegends]

[ She smiles and laughs a little. ]

I'm not all that upset about Dad, really ... I barely knew him and all.

I'm glad to have friends, though, and I'm glad to make new ones as well. So, yes, we'll be friends for sure!

[ourlegends]

[ And now her attention is returning to Rikka. ]

Ah ... sorry about that. I was trying to hear what was upsetting the Zubats so much. They're too riled up and too far away now, though.

You're not hurt or anything, are you?

[ HAHA, and you thought you were going to leave soon! ]

[wisdomslight]

[Rikka gives a terribly dour expression, leaning down next to her.]

You don't look fine!

[Argh. It's a good thing she's used to dealing with people like this.] I should have watched where I was going...

[wisdomslight]

[Rikka was starting to move, but now freezes in space. Crap.

She'd kind of rather she was just allowed to mosey on along.]

I think I just... stepped in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[She waves off the question.] But I'm fine. [You know, besides nearly being torn apart by a horde of wild Pokemon. That's all.]

[ourlegends]

Good to know you're okay after all of that. They sounded really upset about something.

[ She moves a little closer to the girl and her Pokemon. ]

I'm Hilda, by the way, and this is Sam. It's nice to meet you, Zubat aside.

[wisdomslight]

[As Hilda starts getting closer, Rikka edges... back. She's not the most trusting of perfect strangers. With decently strong Pokemon. In the middle of the wilderness. Even if she helped her, that timing was a little convenient, and Rikka was a staunch subscriber to the term, "better safe than sorry."]

Ah... Rikka. My name's Rikka. This is Flaque.

[The Poliwag looks up, confused. Why was his name being ca-- oh! People. Riiiiight.

She smiles nervously.]

I was trying to get to the other side of this area, I'm supposed to meet someone.

[inthenameofthemoon]

It's okay! Really!

[ Finally, Usagi pulls her face from the sidewalk, and falls back onto her butt. For a moment, she feels her face to make sure that isn't broken anywhere and just lets out a sigh of relief.

Especially since that crepe of hers is still safe! Awesome! Usagi's about to eat her food when she notices the large pile of books that Rikka has gathered around her. ]

You know you can check out books in small doses, right?

[wisdomslight]

[Rikka... blinks slowly, looking around her.

That was true, but...]

Ah, this way's more efficient! So I don't have to keep going back.

[And she starts to hastily pick them up. More than anything to cover the fact that, in addition to the copious amounts of academic material, there was a romance novel or two littered about the walkway now.]