[center][h1][color=00a651]~ROUTE 29~[/color][/h1][/center]
[b][u][color=f49ac2][h3][center]~Melody Hemlock~[/center][/h3][/color][/u][/b]
[color=fff200]“Use thunder wave on the web!”[/color] yelled Ryley.

Thunder Wave? On the webbing? Hey, that… did seem pretty smart, actually!

Melody opened her mouth to command Tesla to do just that, and then promptly got distracted by Avery’s voice.

What? It was kind of hard to maintain one’s concentration when surrounded by a HORDE of psychotic spider Pokemon, okay?

[color=f26522]“Keep on keeping on, Green!”[/color]

Avery seemed to be doing his part, and was doing a pretty good job of beating up one unfortunate Spinarak with both his Pokemon.  

What really distracted Melody, however, was--

[color=662d91]"Yeah, sorry Mel,”[/color] said Abigail. [color=662d91]"I'm not one for running. Besides, this'll be good experience for Tyrian."[/color]

Melody froze. Tesla, seeming to sense that they weren’t going to be running away after all, started tackling random Spinarak in between Thunder Waves. He was doing pretty well, actually. What Melody was more concerned about, however, was—

[color=f49ac2]“M-M-Mel?”[/color] she squeaked. Had… had Abigail given her a [i]nickname[/i]? Could this mean— she’d kind of figured, since Abigail was a little prickly, that it would take some time to win the other girl over. But maybe Abigail liked her after all?!

Well, maybe she was okay with fighting it out after all, then. With Abigail by her side… surely, there was no way that they could lose!

She shook herself. No! Now was a bad time to get distracted, even if it was by Abigail… it was a good thing that Tesla seemed to be doing okay on his own, because if he’d been waiting from a command from Melody, well. He’d probably still be waiting.

Of course, he was absolutely covered in webbing, and seemed to be moving a good deal slower, but he hadn’t been poisoned quite yet. [i]Definitely[/i] doing more damage to the Spinaraks than they were doing to him, which made Melody rather proud, actually. Had beating up all those Pidgeys paid off?

Oh, wait—- what was it that Ryley had said? Use Thunder Wave on the webbing? Yeah, that definitely sounded like a good plan.

[color=f49ac2]“Thunder Wave on the webbing!”[/color] Melody commanded, and Tesla obeyed. The electromagnetic wave hit the webbing on the ground and shot through most of the spiders. Woah. Cool.

[color=662d91]"Melody! Hit that one with a thunder wave!"[/color] yelled Abigail, and Melody grinned. Abigail was [i]relying[/i] on her! She looked up: the Spinarak that Abigail wanted her to hit was the one hanging from the tree, huh?

[color=f49ac2]“Get it, Tesla!”[/color] she said. [color=f49ac2]“Thunder Wave!”[/color]

Tesla let out a loud, war-like [i]baa[/i] and let loose his strongest Thunder Wave yet. The move hit the Spinarak straight on, and it lost its grip on the branch, falling to the ground where Tyrian could get to it.

Well, that was taken care of. And it looked like the vast majority of the Spinarak had been taken care of, right? They were mostly paralyzed, if not unconscious.

Man. Tesla had better be getting some killer experience from this, because they had beaten up a [i]whole lot[/i] of spider Pokemon. 

As if reading her mind, Tesla [i]baa’d[/i] in a disturbingly self-satisfied way. A Spinarak got him in the back with a Poison Sting, and Tesla turned on it, slamming it to the ground with a powerful tackle.

Holy mother of Arceus. Melody watched, slightly shocked.

The sheep was a demon beast, sent from the fiery pits of the Distortion World… AND HE DEMANDED A BLOOD SACRIFICE.

[color=f49ac2]“Um,”[/color] she said uncertainly, and then shrugged. What the hell— she’d roll with it. [color=f49ac2]“Mop up the rest of them! Use Tackle!”[/color]

Tesla threw himself into the task with plenty of enthusiasm, tackling the nearest Spinarak.

Well, okay then. If it was a blood sacrifice her darling Tesla wanted… then it was a blood sacrifice he’d get.