(Cont. from https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/269122710/ ) There was the sound of rustling leaves, then Alex hopped down in front of the pair, a primeape following only to the ground, and then going to the mankeys, and finally Nelvana landed safely as well, heading over to join the rest of her team. “We have to get back home,” Keahi told them. “What happened?” Nelvana asked, looking at each of the team members. “Tsuki sensed something, we need to be heading back now. Did you get everything done here?” Keahi responded. “Yeah, hopefully those three won’t be causing as much trouble now. Let’s get going,” Alex answered. Team Galaxy gathered together, and Keahi and Nelvana raised their badges to the air, the quartet disappearing from the forest in a flash of light after a couple moments. All anticipating what would happen with their return. They appeared in front of their base as usual, being immediately greeted with the mailbox being knocked over on the path, a few feet away from their feet. Looking up at the building itself showed a poorly written message of “Team Meanies wuz here” in purple colored ooze slathered across the front door, along with another message of “you stink” in the same paint written on the wall. The window to their right was shattered completely, some of the glass sticking out of the grass it had fallen into, but nothing different could in seen inside in house from their viewpoint. “This is just the front of the house…” Nelvana whispered after a few moments of silent shock. “Our home!” Keahi shrieked, zir feathers fluffing up to go with zir delayed exclamation, and zie hurried up to the door. “I… I can’t believe this! Damn Team Meanies!” zie yelled, stomping a foot on the ground. “They took advantage of us working! This is our home… I…” “Should we go around to access the damage?” Alex suggested, and then stepped forward to the distraught torchic. “We can afford to fix this. We’ll fix this, and move on. And the next time we see Team Meanies, you can deliver them the power of that nice new TM you learned,” he told Keahi. Keahi let out a long sigh, “okay… you’re right… It still sucks though! Those guys are such jerks!” zie huffed. “Hey… before we check out the house more… I think we should check on these two,” Tsuki said. To the side of the absol, was Wynaut and Wobbuffet, both knocked out. Wobbuffet looked beat up, bruises and bite marks marking his skin, but Wynaut looked physically alright, considering everything. “Oh gosh! I can’t believe we almost missed them!” Keahi exclaimed, hurrying over to join Tsuki. Alex ran over as well, bringing out some reviver seeds from the bag for the psychic-type brothers. He bit off the tip of the first seed, and placed it on Wynaut’s forehead, waking up the smaller ‘mon before doing the same thing with the second seed and Wobbuffet. “Ugh… Team Galaxy! I… we…” Wynaut stood up wobblily, glancing back at Wobbuffet. “Hey, it’s okay. Take it slow, alright? Are you guys okay? What happened?” Nelvana, who had finally wandered over to the others, asked softly. Wynaut took in a gulp of air before speaking again, “we… we were waiting for you at the board, and then Wobbuffet noticed Team M-Meanies sneaking around, so we, we followed them here.” He paused to swallow again. “They were carrying around this paint, and t-talking to each other about… about v-vandal, vandalising your base. We tried to stop them… but… but, we aren’t fighters,” he explained, “we’re sorry! We couldn’t even defend your base while you were doing a mission for us!” he wailed, tears beginning to spring to his eyes. “Aw no… it’s okay, you did your best, and we didn’t expect you to have to defend our base for us. Team Meanies had the advantage anyway, Gengar is a ghost-type after all,” Keahi assured them, “Wobbuffet, do you want an oran berry? You look pretty roughed up there.” “Yeah… I got knocked out with the first shadow punch,” Wynaut murmured, “Wobbuffet is a lot stronger than I am.” “You are pretty strong, aren’t you buddy? An oran berry will still be good, and don’t worry, we have plenty of those,” Keahi replied, looking at Wobbuffet. After a moment’s hesitation, Wobbuffet nodded, and Alex passed over the round, blue berry to him. Wobbuffet began silently eating the oran berry, staying seated on the ground beside Wynaut. “Do you want one too?” Keahi asked Wynaut. “Ah? O-Oh I… sure, I’m still a bit sore… but you don’t have to be using your supplies on us…” Wynaut answered, and Alex handed him another oran berry. “Thank you… so, how did the mission go?” “Pretty good, the mankeys were easy to handle, and we convinced Primeape to keep a better eye on things out there,” Alex told them. Wynaut smiled slightly, wiping the tears out of his eyes, “that’s good at least… thank you so much,” he hummed, “oh wait, the reward!” he suddenly blurted out, “we, uh, don’t have much to give you… Just this chestnut,” he said, his voice growing quiet again. “It tastes really good… and we even peeled it for you."
On cue, Wobbuffet brought out a single chestnut, and handed it to Alex. Unlike the ones that the team had found in the dungeon, this one was peeled, leaving just the brown nut without its spiky exterior. Alex paused, looking at the simple item silently for a moment, before putting it in the bag with the other two they had found. “Sorry it isn’t much… we… we can help you guys try and fix up your place if you’d like,” Wynaut offered. “You don’t have to do anything more if you don’t want to, we don’t need any extra rewards or anything… but if you want to help, we won’t turn you down,” Keahi replied. Nelvana turned back towards the house, and began searching around it. Slowly, the others joined her, quietly looking around for more damage. There were many more insults written on the walls, but no more broken windows. The chimney was cracked slightly, and so were some of the stones making up the walls, an attempt to ruin the integrity of the building itself, without success. While the others continued looking around outside, Nelvana suddenly bolted inside, beginning to search the house’s interior. Right away, some of the glass from the broken window had fallen inside as well, but that was a given. The cubone began hurriedly opening the cupboards, and checking the shelves, giving everything a quick mental search before moving onto the next. She finally paused at the bookshelf, after giving all the books a scan, she looked up at her drawings, still sitting atop the shelf. There was a moment of hesitation, but then she picked up the papers and began flipping through them, taking her time to look over her work. “There you are! What are you doing in here?” Keahi asked, walking up to zir partner. “I… I got worried that they stole something,” Nelvana answered, “the window was broken, so they could have crawled in if they wanted to.” “Oh! That didn’t occur to me, good thinking.” Keahi glanced around. “Things do kinda look in disorder… is anything missing?” Nelvana shook her head, but then paused, “well… not really. I think one of my drawings are missing, the one I drew of Gardevoir last night, actually. But that’s it.” “Really? Huh, that’s odd…” Keahi murmured. “Maybe Shinobi had a flashback and wanted to have that drawing of the one he abandoned,” Alex suggested, leaning through the shattered window. “Alex!” Keahi hissed, and then sighed. “Anyway… at least they didn’t take much then, we can just focus on fixing up the base, and not worry about having to restock on food.” “Alright, that’s good. Let’s head outside again so we can plan things with the others,” Alex replied, turning around and walking away from the building. Keahi nodded, looking back at Nelvana and offering the cubone a smile before heading back outside. Nelvana followed, and all six of the pokemon gathered on the path, by the mailbox again, to discuss their next move. They weren’t there long, only having the time to recap what had been damaged in this raid, when they heard the sound of footsteps coming from down the path. Everyone turned to see who was coming, and it didn’t take long to find out. “The mankeys!” Wynaut blurted out, “I thought you handled them!” he whimpered. “We did,” Keahi murmured, “maybe they’re just here to talk?” “If not… we beat them once, we can do it again,” Alex hissed, flexing his hands into fists. “Hey! Team Galaxy!” Mankey yelled, “you guys make us so mad! You got lucky and beat us, and then get our families to try and get us to ‘play nice’? Gah! That makes me so angry!” “So what? You came all the way over here to yell at us?” Alex snapped, “how did you even get here so fast?” Mankey laughed, “there are lots of orbs lying around. One of them was bound to bring us here, and here we are. Did you doubt us? Oooh that makes my blood boil!” Despite beginning in laughter, their words ended in a growl again. “Wait, hold on!” the second mankey blurted out, “is… is that chestnuts I smell!” The trio erupted into a chorus of agreement as they managed to grab the scent of the treats stored in the bag. Everyone else watched as the mankeys’ mood began to shift, and at the same time, a sly grin grew on Alex’s face. “Chestnuts? You mean like this?” Alex hummed, pulling out the peeled nut they received from the brothers. All the mankeys leaped up excitedly, “yes! Yes, that’s it!” they cheered. “It’s even peeled…” one whispered happily. “What, do you want it?” Alex asked, tossing around the chestnut casually from one hand to another. “Yes! Yes, please give it to us! We’ll do anything!” “Anything?” Nelvana whispered, glancing upwards at Alex, awaiting his answer. “…No,” Alex scoffed, putting the chestnut back in the bag. Art, characters, and plot belong to me Pokemon and PMD belong to Nintendo Please don't remix First: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/203259124/ Next: Previous: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/269122710/
