[center][h2][color=ec008c]Alexandria "Alexis" Deva[/color][/h2][/center]

[center][h3][color=ec008c]At the Pokemon Center[/color][/h3][/center]

[@Heckno12][@LuckyBlackCat]

Alexis was about to respond to Rheese about how much smarter he had become. She would have congratulated him on figuring out that he was not ready to lose to someone as great as her and her pokemon. Instead, something else caught her attention. It was a familiar sight at first, but for some reason it was funny. Unreasonably funny. It was as if someone tried to paint a picture of Alexis' memory of the person, but went insane halfway, and added in wet, slime-covered clothes, and hanging seaweed.

Alexis laughed, and Snorunt wiggled as if she was shaking her head at the whole thing. Alexis was so wrapped up in her laughs that she couldn't immediately answer the question. She tried to calm down, but after hearing that Rheese hadn't gotten at least half a team yet, she began laughing again. Snorunt had to violently move about in order to catch her attention and calm her down again.

The star-to-be cleared her throat and spoke,

"[color=ec008c]I caught my third member yesterday, which is more than what can be said for the two of you.[/color]"

She raised her arms and shook her head. On her face was a smiling expression, as if she had expected something like this to have happened all along.

"[color=ec008c]One of you doesn't even have have half a team, and the other had so much trouble with her new catch that she's covered in its slime.[/color]"

Alexis laughed a bit more, but kept it down this time.

"[color=ec008c]And you want to take on the gym leader? It's actually quite a funny thought. You're lucky I'm going too. My presence might even help you luck your way into a win.[/color]"