shiningboxofjustice | PSL Post - Athrun Zala and Yukari Takeba

All the more reason we need to reach the city. If we can't find any more information there, I'm sure that somebody will be able to tell us where we can get information.

Yeah. It doesn't seem like these things are going to want to let us do that though...

[ The Rattata that her Bulbasaur had tackled came right back towards it and slams into her Bulbasaur, but it didn't seem like it did enough to make her Bulbasaur be hurt.

Pretty annoyed though, since it went right back towards charging at the rat, letting out something that seemed to be an angry cry.]

Good grief, it just doesn't want to go down, does it? Charmander, mind helping him out?

[With a yelp, Charmander runs after Bulbasaur to help it put the Rattata down.]

[ Yukari sighs, but it looks like the wild pokémon isn't going to be getting up anytime soon. ]

Well... it looks like its done for now...

Maybe we'll get lucky and won't get attacked again on the way there? [ She totally doesn't believe they're going to be that lucky, but she could always hope. ]

Let's not plan based on that assumption.

...But that being said, it would be nice. I want to get to the next city before dark.

[Back to walking. This time, it's Athrun who is picking up the pace.]

[ She doesn't argue about it, she's not stupid, after all. Yukari goes to follow after Athrun without complaint, though she doesn't recall her Bulbasaur to the ball just yet, the small creature happily trotting up alongside her. ]

Hopefully once we make it there, someone can tell us something we can do to avoid getting attacked...

[ This wasn't like back home where she needed to get stronger. Avoiding fights was more than okay with her. ]

Perhaps. Alternately, perhaps we could find a way to efficiently make our Pokémon stronger. Either way, there's bound to be something to find out.

[Which only solidifies his own walking speed.]

... Honestly, if doing that works the way that I think it might, if we want to do that we just need to keep letting them handle this.

[ Hey, if it worked for people and Personas in Tartarus, why shouldn't it work for pokémon? ]

I feel the same way. Experience is a valuable tool in life, regardless of which path you choose. Even in battle, as I've learned.

There is one other thing that concerns me, though. We each have one Pokémon, and they have different types. What happens when we start running into Pokémon with an advantage? I can't see my Charmander faring well against a Water-type, for instance.

... Or my Bulbasaur against a fire type. That's not going to work out well for us either.

[ She frowns, thinking about it for a few moments. Clearly there had to be something. Back home, Minato could use multiple personas to cover their weaknesses, but other than that they were pretty much out of luck. ]

Maybe we'll meet some other people who's pokémon can handle types that ours can't?

Perhaps. Or perhaps we'll learn of a way to get new Pokémon.

[He's expecting something like pet stores or breeders. not having to go out and catch your own from the wild.]

Maybe... But that seems like it'd get expensive pretty fast.

[And that brings up another consideration... ]

... I don't suppose that professor actually told you what these guys eat, did he?

[Athrun shakes his head.]

Hopefully that's something else we'll find out. I'd assume it's based on what lizards eat, considering we both have reptiles.

...Though come to think of it, your Bulbasaur might get what it needs from sunlight. It's got that bulb on its back, after all.

[ ... That was a very good point. Yukari looks over at her Bulbasaur, wondering about it. ]

Well, that wouldn't be the strangest thing I've seen. But... somehow I don't think sunlight's going to be enough. It might get some from it, but it does have a mouth. If he didn't need to eat he wouldn't have that.

[Shrug.]

Maybe. Biology's never been my specialty. Add another question to the list, then.

It's not really one of mine either, honestly.

[ Though that stuff was pretty basic bio stuff... then again, who knew how Pokémon actually worked?]

But I'm sure someone here should be able to answer it. They can't all be as obtuse about things, right?

My thoughts exactly. This is all normal to them, as it was to Professor Oak.

Yeah. Normal...

[ Hopefully they'd be better at explaining their normal to them than she had been with explaining where she came from to Athrun. ]

... But while we're talking about normal, do you think there's normal animals here, or just the pokémon?

I hope so. It'd be odd to have Pokémon as both companions and food. ...To say the least.

[Athrun isn't willing to go vegetarian, either. Meat is too important to a balanced diet for him.]

[ ... Yeah. Eww. Yukari's face is going just a little green at the thought now. Thanks a lot Athrun. ]

... Let's not think about that and just get over to that other town already.

[ ...It was still just as far away as it was before, Yukari. ]

My thoughts exactly.

[With that, things continue to proceed as they have been. Several hours later, they finally reach their destination -- Viridian City.]

[ This place really needed things like trains and cars. Having to spend hours getting to different towns was not fun at all.

But now that they were here she couldn't help but notice something. ]

This place doesn't really seem that different from that last town we were in. I was expecting something a bit more like a city back home...

Yeah, it's a small city.

[Athrun's just relaxing for the moment. He may not look it, but his feet hurt from all that walking.]

It's still larger than Pallet Town was, and at least they have places to stay. I mean, I wouldn't want to stay at a house with a woman who thinks she's my mother.

[ Yukari wouldn't want to stay with her mother period, but she doesn't say that part out loud. There were more important things to worry about.]

Yeah. I guess we should figure out what we're going to do about that... Somehow I don't think they're going to take yen here. [ Not that she had enough on her for a room anywhere in the first place. ]

Right. I'm not sure they'll take my currency, either, unfortunately.

[Most of Athrun's fortune was in bank accounts and investments, but he did carry a thick wad of cash in his wallet in the event of an emergency. Not that it does him any good if he's in a place where Orb currency isn't accepted and there's no place to exchange it for a currency that is.]

I'd say we'd probably have to find work, but that would conflict if we decide to keep traveling.

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