paixaorpg | Eight Times the Trouble: Special Pikachu Edition [COMPLETED]

Character(s): Pikachu, one of Ivan's Jupiter Djinni
Content: The Pikachu tries his paw at bounty hunting. The mission? Bring back one of Ivan's Djinni!
Setting: Somewhere in the F4 reigon
Time: The same day as "Beasts in the Streets", morning.
Warnings: Mild violence, but with an Electric-type Pokémon facing a Jupiter Djinn, nobody really gets hurt.

The first thing on the Pikachu's mind as he left the hotel was that he'd had quite a nice sleep. The second was that this was very exciting; he'd heard of bounty hunting before, and his Trainer was, he knew, one of the best in the business, but the little Pokémon had never tried it himself.

Wouldn't Samus be impressed when he found her!

But, before that, he would have to complete the mission at hand. He didn't have as much to go on as he would have liked - a smell to seek would have been ideal, but then again, he couldn't fault his client for his bad nose. The Pikachu would just have to keep his nostrils flared for any out-of-place smells.

In the meantime, he did have a picture a few button-presses away, as well as a rough idea where to look: places he himself would hide if he got spooked. Weaving with all the practiced non-effort of the very small through the natives' legs, the Pikachu began seeking his target.

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He wouldn't be too hard-pressed to find it. Just inside the mouth of an alleyway, sitting on the lowest platform of a rusty fire escape, was one of the Djinni. Since it didn't need to go out to look for food and the area was relatively sheltered and off the beaten path, it was perfectly content with staying right where it was. Anyway, nobody seemed to have noticed it yet.

((omg, sorry this took me so long ;A; ))

And just like that, there it was! Coming down to all fours and making sure to lower his tail, the Pikachu approached the Djinn with a beaming smile. Ivan had said it wasn't smart enough to talk, but since it was a pet the Pikachu figured voice tone could go a long way. Besides that, most creatures appreciated attempts to look smaller.

"Hello, friend! We need t'get you back to your Trainer - he's pretty worried!"

The Djinn rose up on its toes, hovering about an inch above the platform as it warily regarded the yellow creature below it. Pikachu didn't seem to have any hostile intentions, but neither did the Djinn appear to have any intention of coming when it was called.

The Pikachu pricked his ears for a moment at the floating. Well, Ivan did say it was part Flying-type... or something similar, anyway. More important was the fact that it wasn't coming along right away, but there wasn't any need for fighting just yet.

With an easy leap, he came level with the Djinn, still smiling and keeping himself low once he cleared the railing. "Come on, now! No need to be scared - we can be friends! And Ivan really is very worried, you know. He told the whole network about you and the others!"

Unfortunately, the Djinn didn't seem to understand a word Pikachu was saying, and coming up onto the fire escape had put the two creatures into closer proximity than it was willing to tolerate. With an odd squeak, it bristled and fired off a harsh cutting whirlwind at him - nothing deadly, but it was certainly trying to do some damage.

The Pikachu squealed at the attack, choosing to hunker down and take it rather than attempt a dodge and maybe get blown away. It did hurt, but air attacks he could take pretty well, and now he had clearance in his own mind to fight back. The instant the whirlwind passed him by, the Pikachu pounced at the Djinn with a squeaking war cry, his body crackling.

The Djinn suddenly found itself slammed against the steel railing behind it, stinging from the impact and the shock that came with it. Well, two could play at lightning. It reacted in kind, calling down a jagged bolt of electricity that arced off the metal surfaces as it passed.

Almost as soon as he slammed the Djinn into the railing, the Pikachu leapt away again - he'd have to come at it from a better angle if he was going to subdue it. Feeling the Djinn's discharge an instant before it hit its peak, he pushed off into another jump as soon as he hit the floor of the fire escape; he felt the bolt through his tail, but with distance combined with his natural resistance to electricity, that one hadn't hurt.

Landing again, the speedy little Pokémon wasted no time in leaping once more, this time straight up - and at the apex of his jump, using a discharge of his own to propel himself very quickly at the Djinn, attempting to get into a position to pin it.

Seeing what it thought was a chance, the Djinn attempted to make a break for the stairs, but in the small space, Pikachu's jump attack hit it anyway, and instead of escaping, it fell down trapped. No, no! It wriggled anxiously, trying to get free.

The Pikachu refrained from shocking the Djinn this time, trying to match its wiggling enough to keep it pinned; the whole point of the fight was to do this, after all, in hopes it would calm down after being defeated.

But it worked. Gradually the Djinn realized it was beaten, and its movements slowed and stopped, almost as if it had simply lost interest in the fight.

And as soon as the Djinn stopped wiggling, the Pikachu was all smiles again. He got off the other creature, standing on his hindlegs.

"There we go! You made a good effort, friend! Now. Let's get you back to your Trainer!"

With that, the Pikachu plopped to a sit, getting his journal out. He blinked at it once, something occurring to him. Flipping it open and finding it still in working order, he beamed at the Djinn. "They really have good-good surge protection!"

Pressing a few buttons to get into posting mode without checking any new posts to the network, the Electric-type began recording a voice post. "Ivan! I found one of your Djinni! I'm gonna take it to the agreed meeting spot, soon as I figure out the trains and stuff. We-"

The Pikachu was cut off by a large, rumbling crash in the distance - startled, he sprang back to his hindlegs, looking in that direction. Not that he could see anything, not hear anything after the initial loud noise. Nothing immediately reached his nose, either.

Twitching his ears nervously, the Pikachu looked back down at the journal. He could re-record, but... that could have been important. It sounded big, at any rate. Still standing, the Pikachu decided to simply continue on. "...Dunno what that was. Tell you what - I'll keep your friend with me, and if I see any trouble I'll get it out of it. Contact me when you can and we can meet-meet."

With that, the Pikachu hit the 'send' button and looked at the Djinn. "Okay, friend, I'm not sure what that boom was all about. Let's go see!" After putting his journal away again, the Pikachu started to scamper up the fire escape, looking back to make sure the Djinn was following. Perhaps if they went to the roof they could see what had caused that noise in the distance.

((OOC: Think we should we call it good for this thread after the Djinn's next pose?))

The Djinn didn't try to escape again, but watched Pikachu almost curiously as he mucked around with his journal. The crash got its attention, but only enough to startle it from sitting into floating; when Pikachu headed to the roof, it followed, although less out of curiosity than out of a simple following instinct.

((ooc: sounds like a plan to me :D))

Eight Times the Trouble: Special Pikachu Edition [COMPLETED]

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