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Everybody enjoying another peaceful, carefree day in Ultern? Good, because there's a sparkle in the sky other than Ulternian sunshine and look, it's a bird! No, it's a plane! No, it's...

"TEAM ROCKET'S BLASTING OFF AGAAAAA—huh? Hey, wait a minute...! Jessie? Meowth?! Where is everybody?!"

Before James can get an answer, he'll be crash-landing in Ohritori! Face full of sand on Stardust Beach? Embarrassingly suspended from a palm tree or even an Exeggutor? Or taking a miserably full-clothed dip in the sea? (Brrr!)

((Is this going to be a repeat of Mairin landing on various ships and needing to be rescued multiple times—perhaps, fortunately, both Mairin and James have terrible luck and certainly can wind up in fixes more times than they can count... maybe he's under the impression he can just launch himself back into the sky and find his friends, who knows?! But he just keeps landing here... oof.))

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"No... we released them, because they found something important they needed to do," James said, shaking his head.

Mime Jr. kept dancing and soon, of course, James was dancing too!

"Teeter Dance!" James said, half-whining. "We have to keep dancing while Mime Jr. is! I don't know why it started...!!"

Hopefully, the poor cook doesn't turn around and get roped up in this too!

"Oh. I'm so sorry," Chloe says. She hopes that will never happen with Eevee.

Eevee is sure it won't. Meanwhile, she's loving the dance!

"... I wonder if Eevee wanted to see it?!" Chloe suggests as she continues the uncontrollable dance.

"Oh! Maybe that's what they were talking and giggling about earlier..."

Mime Jr. finished dancing! Everyone was free to move as they pleased once more.

James caught his breath, before shaking his head and playfully poking Mime Jr. in the head. "Please don't surprise us like that..."

"It probably was!" Chloe groaned.

It was a relief to stop and she sighed, slumping forward.

"Eevee-vee-vee!" Eevee exclaimed in delight.

Chloe petted her and finally smiled in resignation. "Oh Eevee...."

"Oh, well, no harm done..." James returned Mime Jr.

"It's getting late, isn't it? I should keep looking... you and Eevee should probably head back, shouldn't you? Are you staying somewhere or are you traveling?"

"Yeah.... I guess it was kind of fun...."

She picked up Eevee. "We've been staying with a nice lady. What will you do if you don't find them tonight? You'll need somewhere to stay too...."

"It was!"

They could've made good friends, but this was only a temporary truce!

"If I don't...?" James asked, frowning.

He hesitated, looking truly upset by that thought, clutching his pokeball with both hands, turning it over nervously.

"... I guess... I'll figure something out! You know, I'm quite used to being on the road, after years!" James said, laughing confidently, although it sounded a bit forced.

Chloe looked worried to realize James truly believed he would find them here, and today. She wasn't sure that she should volunteer the lady's home as a possible place to stay, since Ash had been staying there too.

"There's a lot of nice people who have bed and breakfasts," she said instead. "You wouldn't have to travel."

"Thank you for all your help! You really are a very kind girl," James said, smiling. "Don't worry."

He doubted he could afford any of those... he'll just have to make do.

(Don't worry too much, Chloe! It's Ultern! Someone will probably see James attempting to sleep on a bench or slide or taking shelter under some rubbish and take pity on him and offer him a place to sleep for free!)

Chloe wasn't sure James could afford anything either, nor that it would be right not to mention where she'd been staying, since it was free.

"... If you can't find anything, you can come here." She wrote down a name and address.

"... this is...?"
James was hesitant to accept it, looking worried. She wasn't giving him her address, he hoped!

Chloe blushed awkwardly. "I've been staying there. She's really nice and there are other rooms available.... Ash has been staying there too, though...."

James turned red too and shook his head.
"It's alright, please don't worry about me! I don't need to know whwre you live. That's better, isn't it? Safer, right? ... this truce is only temporary, right? Take care!"

Not wanting Chloe to insist, James turned on his heel and took off as fast as he could, shedding tears, unable to restrain them. Her sweet sincerity and his pitiful predicament were all a little too much.

Chloe sighed. He was probably right that it would be better if he didn't know.... James was nice, but if he found Jessie and he had that address, she would likely insist on going there to steal Pokemon.

She hugged Eevee. "Well, we did our best ... I hope," she said.

"Eevee," said Eevee, and nuzzled her.

She smiled and petted the sweet Pokemon. "I hope he finds his friends ... even if that means trouble for us down the road," she sighed. It would be nice if they'd all turn over a new leaf.

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