[center][h2][color=39b54a]Juana Perez[/color][/h2] -[u]Train to Tefan Village[/u]-[/center] [hr] “All good, amiga,” Juana replied, clapping Tora on the back. “If someone’s following you I’ll make sure Corphish gives them a nip [i]en las nalgas.[/i]” She pointed at her rear and gave a mischievous grin. The train shuddered and began to move. Juana sat and watched the windmills pass by, as the scenery gave way from plains, to hills, to crags. Juana listened to the wheels click and clack underneath her. She thought back to her childhood in Unova, and how often she would take trains to get around the region. Though she never had need for anything larger than a subway. Juana’s thoughts were interrupted when the train’s wheels went, like, “KKKKRREEEERRKKKKSSGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!” Juana jerked forward and banged her head on the tray table. “OW!” she yelled, rubbing her forehead. She looked out the window. The train had ground to a halt. “What the heck is going on out there?” Juana asked, standing up. She headed to the edge of the train car and looked out. Sitting in the middle of the train was a red-and-yellow Pokémon with an explosion-shaped shell. Juana stared; it was as if an explosion out of a Technicolor cartoon had attached itself to a turtle with a helmet. The turtle’s schnoz looked like the nozzle of a hose, and the turtle had a pair of stubby arms with yellow thumbs. It was curled up as if sleeping. Well, because it [i]was[/i] sleeping. Juana looked up. Tefan Village’s volcano was quite visible, but the train still had a ways to go. Juana looked at her Pokédex. [i]”Turtonator. Blast Turtle Pokémon,”[/i] it reported. “Turtonator, eh?” Juana remarked. “Can’t be sleeping on the tracks like that, bud.” She jumped off the train and walked to the Turtonator. The conductor stopped her. “Wait; Turtonator has been known to explode. Don’t get too close; you might set it off and take out the train tracks. And the locomotive. And everything within a fifteen yard radius.” Juana jabbed her thumb to her breast. “Relax! I’m a Pokémon trainer. Catching Pokémon is what I like to do.” “I don’t get it, this happens every time we go to Tefan Village,” the assistant conductor complained, scratching his head. Juana held up her Poké Ball. “Well, let’s see if we can clear these tracks once and for all!” she declared. She approached the Turtonator. “Hola,” she said, cautiously walking up to the Dragon-type. “Would you please get off the tracks so you don’t… blow up the train?” Turtonator snorted. It liked this nice warm spot and didn’t want to move. “Lazy [i]tortuga,[/i]” she muttered to herself. “Come on, you’re holding up the train!” she chided, tugging at the Turtonator’s arm. The conductor flinched, expecting the turtle to explode. Turtonator just snorted again. Juana rooted through her bag, and found a tin of spicy cinnamon candies. “Maybe since it’s a Fire type, it likes spicy food?” she wondered. Contests weren’t really a thing in Unova, so the Perez family confectionery didn’t really pay much attention to the affinities of Nature and flavor; they just sold the stuff and left it to Trainers to decide what to do with it. Turtonator sniffed the tin of mints, and tentatively ate one. It was pretty darn spicy. Turtonator got up and howled, fire blasting through its snout. The turtle comically stamped around the railroad tracks, fanning its mouth, before turning towards Juana with a look like, [i]”What was that gross sweet and spicy thing you made me eat?! I’m gonna roast you for that!”[/i] “Oops,” Juana gulped. Turtonator used Flamethrower and started chasing Juana around the train tracks. “Ay, caramba! Go, Corphish!” she yelped, hopping around trying to evade the Turtonator’s fire. Corphish popped out of its Poké Ball and pinched Turtonator’s snout with a Vice Grip. The fire abruptly stopped, but Turtonator rattled its head, flinging Corphish off. Corphish scuttled to its feet and put up its claws like dukes. [i]”Come at me, turtlebro!”[/i] it seemed to be saying. [i]”I’mma snap ya!”[/i] Turtonator let loose a jet of flame at Corphish, but Corphish countered with a stream of bubbles. The bubbles staved off the fire long enough for Corphish to slide under and nip Turtonator’s left leg. Turtonator hopped up and down, gripping its foot and loosing embers from its snout. This gave Corphish the opportunity to shoot bubbles into Turtonator’s chest cavity. Turtonator, not expecting this, fell over on its back and wiggled around, the spiked crags in its shell trapping it in the earth. Juana pulled out her Great Ball, and tossed it at the flailing Turtonator. The capsule cracked open, and the Turtonator disappeared in a flash of light. One shake… two shakes… three shakes… [i]Click![/i] Juana rushed over to the fallen Great Ball and held it in the air triumphantly. “This train stops for no mine turtle!” Juana shouted, as her Pokédex updated its entry on Turtonator: [i]”Fire/Dragon type. Ability: Shell Armor. Nature: Quiet. “It gushes fire and poisonous gases from its nostrils. Its dung is an explosive substance and can be put to various uses.”[/i] Juana stared at this dex entry. “So… it literally has explosive diarrhea.” Not the best dex entry in the world, but hey! It was educational. The conductor wiped sweat off his brow. “Okay, looks like we can keep moving. Thanks, kid; that Turtonator’s been getting on those tracks every time we pass through this route.” “Hey, my friends and I need to get to the village, and no turtle on the tracks is gonna stop us,” Juana replied. Getting back on the train, Juana set Turtonator down on her tray table. “I’m going to have to send some Pokémon to the PC first opportunity I get,” she remarked. [hr] [hider=Notes]-TP: HHG +1, post +1; total: 83 [hider=Inventory] -Poké Ball x4 -Heal Ball x1 -Potion x2[/hider] [hider=Pokémon] -Steenee Lv. 33 -Corphish Lv. 13 (battle +1) -Skorupi Lv. 4 -Dewpider Lv. 6 -Togepi Lv. 9 -Honedge Lv. 4 -Rotom-Heat Lv. 33 -Stufful Lv. 2 -Turtonator Lv. 30 [/hider] -Interaction with [@Dusksong]'s Cillian and [@Silver Fox]'s Tora[/hider] [hr] CP+1 = 25