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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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"I'm Chloe," Chloe says. "Chloe Cerise."

Eevee warbles cheerfully. He did try a couple of times, but she is very innocent and sweet and forgiving!

"A truce sounds great," Chloe says.

"Then... thank you, Miss Cerise... if I have other questions, I'll know who to ask! I've got to get looking."

He waved at Eevee too. What a cute Pokemon! "Goodbye!"

With that, James turned to leave.

"Good luck!" Chloe said.

Eevee waved with a paw and chirped Goodbye!

Chloe moved to go as well but then paused. "We could ... help you look," she offered. They didn't have anything they needed to do and it seemed like the right thing under the circumstances.

Edited 2024-03-11 19:37 (UTC)

"Oh, will you?" James asked as he turned back, surprised, but happy. "Then, help me find a Flying type big enough to carry me!"

“Of course,” Chloe says. “We should do what we can to help you find your friends.” Especially when they might be hurt….

“Maybe we can walk along the beach. Sometimes people come and let their Flying Pokemon out here to fly over the water.”

James nodded and walked along the beach with Chloe.

He watched the waves and started to feel a little more relaxed and calm. When he noticed something shining in the sand, he ran eagerly towards it, bent down, and picked out... a bottlecap.

"I've never seen one of these!" he said with a grin. "Some local brand?"

Chloe is a bit surprised by the enthusiasm for such a common object, but then she smiles a bit. It's certainly a better hobby than stealing Pokemon.

"I guess so," she says. "I don't think anybody's drifted in with a bottle from home."

"Vee?" Eevee studies it with a heavy look of concentration. Then she wags her tail happily. "Vee-vee-vee!"

Stealing is his job, mind, his hobbies include travelling and bottlecap-collecting!

It's a green bottlecap lined with text, from some sort of Ulternian Rum, Eevee! It might mostly smell of sea salt and sand at this point, but her nose might pick up other trace scents.

"I wonder what I drifted in with..."

James searched his pockets. His pokeballs he had on him in Sinnoh were all here, fortunately, but also... many more bottlecaps in a little tin. Also, some makeup. A fresh rose!

"If it's a truce and business is on hold, I suppose, I won't be needing this... here, how about you and Eevee have it?" James offered them the rose. "As thanks! As for me, my memento will be..."

He added the new bottlecap to the tin, then, fondly picked up a particularly worn-down-looking old bottlecap emblazoned with a red R. He rubbed it with his gloved thumb, then looked saddened again.

"I hope I find my friends..."

"Why, thank you," Chloe smiled in touched surprise as she took the rose.

Eevee sniffed it happily. She liked this even better than the bottlecap!

Chloe gave him a kind look. "I hope you will too," she said. There was the chance they weren't here, but they could be. "If they're here, I wonder where they'd go.... Maybe Jessie would like the shops on the beach?"

"Oh, she would!" James said happily. "That might be a good idea, especially if her uniform got dirty... or if she wanted to disguise herself! Like, a bathing suit or those... touristy-looking shirts. Or even if she just saw somethin—ooh! A discount!!"

James might already be distracted, but hey, this might be the same line of thinking Jessie might follow!

"A discount?" Chloe looks to see what kind of discount has got James so excited.

"Eevee-vee!" Eevee chirps excitedly.

"There, the store selling beach apparel!" James pointed. "It looks like a steal! Let's go and see what we'll find! Maybe we'll even find Jessie or Meowth!"

Though, there might be exceptions written in fine print, but James wasn't the best at paying attention to this sort of thing...

"Okay," Chloe says. "Let's go see."

She hasn't shopped this store herself, so she isn't sure how good the deals are, but there's no harm in looking. Eevee is wriggling in excitement. Smiling, she heads over holding her sweet Pokemon.

There are racks and racks of loud shirts and swimsuits and straw hats and everything else one might want on the beach. Eevee reaches for a hat and Chloe tries it on her with a smile.

"Eevee-vee!" Eevee warbles.

"She does look cute in that hat!" James said with a grin.

He looked through some hats too, trying to find one that'd look good and sufficiently keep the sun off. Then, he might pick up some amusing novelty hats.

"Ooh, I like the tropical flowers on this one..." James said, picking up a hat.

"She sure does," Chloe smiled, and set her down to take a picture.

"Eeveeee!" Eevee cheered.

Chloe wasn't as sure what she thought of the loudest attire, including the flower hat, and yet it did seem to look good on James. "That does suit you," she said. For herself, she tried some sunglasses. Simple but practical.

"Thank you!" James said happily, then checked the price tags, humming to himself.

He glanced at Chloe's sunglasses, eyes lighting up.

"Sweet and simple! Oh, you know, I think this hat would suit you and go well with those sunglasses..."

He'll select two simple, but elegant brimmed hats for Chloe to try, one in a light mauve with burgundy ribbon and one white with pink ribbon.

Chloe accepted the hats in surprise. "Oh, these are nice," she smiled, and tried each on. "I like them!"

Eevee happily chirped and clapped with her front paws for each one.

"You're a pretty stylish girl, aren't you?" James laughed a little, then looked a bit lonely, looking around the shop.

"... I don't think I see Jessie anywhere... or hear her... it might take a little longer to find her."

He tried to put on a smile and shrugged a little.

"Well, I guess it's time to pay and look somewhere else!"

"I've never thought of myself that way, but I do like these hats," Chloe said thoughtfully. "Thank you."

She sobers as James' energy deflates. Will they find Jessie and Meowth at all? What if they don't? She has to admit, she's worried how James will handle it if he's here alone. They're all so close.

"We'll keep looking," she promises as they head for the check-out desk.

"Well, you look so put-together and seem to have your own sense of style," James observed.

He smiled a little, gratefully, even if he lacked enthusiasm. He seemed to be accepting this search might go on for some time...

"Thank you. We'll keep looking, then..."

He frowned a little when the total came up. Oh, not all of his items were included in the sale? James would still bring out the money to pay, hiding the little coinpurse, as he did so (Koharu and the cashier really didn't need to see how little he carried on him!)

"That's true," Chloe smiles.

She can sense the awkwardness and perhaps concern when the total is announced. She's not sure what to do in this situation. James clearly intends to gentlemanly pay, which is very kind, but Chloe wonders if she should let him or if she should offer to cover some of the cost. If he wants to pay, it might look rude to spoil that.... But if he really can't afford so much, he shouldn't start out with so little.... Oh, she's never been good at these dilemmas.

"Eevee-vee!" Eevee obliviously chirps, batting at a pendant on display.

"No, don't do that!" Chloe exclaims, gently covering Eevee's paw.

"O-oh, does Eevee like that?" James asked, watching her play with a pendant.

He reached over and, smiling a bit apologetically at the cashier, picked it up. "Let's have this one too, okay?"

He paid for everything, in the end.

Edited 2024-03-17 21:09 (UTC)

Chloe was mortified for Eevee to play with the pendant, even moreso for James to decide to get that too. But Eevee was thrilled and rubbed the pendant and warbled.

Finally Chloe smiled. That was adorable, and maybe now she had a halfway decent solution.

"You've been very sweet," she said. "Since you treated us to shopping, how about we treat you to lunch?"

James watched Eevee play happily with her pendant and felt reassured he made the right choice.

Before James could say anything at all, his belly rumbled.

He laughed, awkwardly rubbing the back of his head. "If you will! Please, lead the way... I'm sorry to be a bother..."

Honestly, even if it hadn't rumbled, he very likely would have accepted... he didn't have much left after that. He really did put beauty before most things! And he was often starving. He was in no position to refuse!

"You really are quite kind..."

"It's no bother," Chloe smiled as she put the pendant on Eevee. "I'm sure we're all hungry."

Eevee chirped.

"The food over here is really good." Chloe led him to one of the food booths. They mostly served fast food type things, but they had a few other casual dining options too.

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[welp!]

[Awww, James.]

[awww, nicest way this could go ;3; ]

[Yes!]