As Vanilla sat on the floor, trying to work her way through the pain as she'd breathe in and out while trying to work through the brief snippets on pain. Her head looked up as she saw a familiar face of the man that had rescued her and Ribbon from their certain demise. The Sylveon chirped at seeing the man, wiggling its tassles alongside a friendly cry. "It's you..." Vanilla said, slowly clutching her way back up onto her two feet again. One hand used the seat of the wheelchair as leverage to slowly forced herself back up to her two feet. Once she knew that she could make the fall, Vanilla plopped down with a relieved sigh. "What are you doing here?"

She looked pretty worse for wear, though extremely lucked to have survived what she did. Her skin was a tad more pale, alongside her torso being wrapped in bandages and such from the explosion at the peak of the volcano. Her right leg was in a green colored cast, complimenting her blue eyes and aquamarine hospital gown. A stray cough escaped from her before she could beam up at her savior, though hoping that he wasn't going to up and take her back to her room. "I'm sorry, I never got to introduce myself on that mission. I'm Vanilla. And yes, it's my real name." She looked back to her party, leaning backwards as the drugs were beginning to work their magic.

"Thanks for-" She let out a wheezy cough, spitting out some reddened phlegm on the ground. "Thanks for rescuing me at the volcano again. The doctors said that I was lucky to stabilize...whatever that meant. But if I took the full brunt of that Tera Blast...Anyway, thank you. I wish there was someway I could repay you." Vanilla smiled weakly, as Ribbon chirped happily again. She remembered Isaac just as clearly as her owner. Her eyes fell onto her party, who would all look up at Isaac.

"I was here to work on our training for the gym challenge. Even if the doctors don't want me out of bed, I can't let these guys fall out of practice. It's just...hard with my injuries."

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Vanilla laughed a little at the sheer coincidence of the two of them meeting up here after what they had both gone through. Though a little pained, she was still lively as ever. Perhaps just a bit tired? Regardless, the teen would nod her head along at his introduction. Isaac likely could put two and two together, but even when turning down an offer to repay him for his acts, Vanilla was a stubborn one. it was her father's greatest trait, or so her mother had always said.

His offer to repay him by training with him was just the energy boost that the tiny girl needed. Her lethargy was suddenly warded off as Vanilla adjusted her seat in the wheelchair. "Deal!" she grinned up at Isaac. "I was going to just practice with targets and such, but seeing as how you wanna train together..." Her grin only lengthened into a grand hopeful gaze, casting its way towards Isaac.

"Do you wanna have a Pokémon battle with me? It'll be a really quick spar!"

Vanilla leaned right out of her wheelchair, bouncing up and down in anticipation. She had spent a while in the hospital doing nothing all day, so any chance at really doing anything trainer related was a godsend. As Vanilla pumped herself up, she'd cough again, a bit more hoarse this time.

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"Really! Great! You're the best, Isaac! I bet-"

Another coughing fit erupted from her. Several coughs and another spit off to the side later, Vanilla would exhale and offered a pained, though upbeat smirk. "Ugh...The doctor said to stop getting so excited from the smoke inhalation...whatever that means. But thanks again." Her eyes fell onto her Drakloak as it let out a faint cry. She hadn't been training it that often, but she was certain it would be a nice little outing for the ghosty dragon. "Alright, Contra. Ready to go?" Her hoarse voice asked as the dragon slithered across the field, ready to have a spar.

"She's a little new since I caught her, but I'm sure she'll learn a bunch." Vanilla said to her partner. She was ready to see what he was going to pull out, though movement was starting to become sluggish. The painkillers were starting to kick in, though she wasn't totally affected by it now. Once Isaac's Pokemon was out, she'd get things started off.

"Alright, Contra! Infestation!" The Dragapault would sway around in the wind, launching a visible swarm of bugs at the whoever she was facing off against.



Isaac Merlo

"A gym badge winner? This'll be good for sure! Contra is still recovering from when I found her in the wild, so she only knows a few moves but this will be good practice."

Contra cooed as it would look the Vibrava up and down some, as if it judge it against itself. Now that it had been infested with the previous move, the ghost dragon type would hover in place. The Vibrava had been pretty quick to really come back from being infested with bugs, but that's not what Vanilla had been banking on. As the ground type used Earthquake, it rocked Contra about, causing it to tumbled back. It would swoop back up as the Dreepy in its horns would bounce about inside of their little chambers. It did pretty good damage, as the Pokemon would slowly recover.

"Whoa, I didn't think a Vibrava could use that! Isn't it a bug type or something?" Vanilla asked before going on the offensive. "Bite 'em!"

The speedster flailed towards the Vibrava, snaking through the air and it opens its mouth full of razor sharp teeth to sink into the opponent.



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"Really? I never would have thought of it as that. Looks like some weird bug." Vanilla said, observing the Vibrava. Her blue eyes went along the Vibrava's body before allowing the two to continue their fight.

Contra had her jaws around the Vibrava's side, crunching down on it in an attempting to force it to submit as Vanilla leaned forward, still as hyped about the battle as ever. Even in her weakened and damaged state, the girl shared her father's joy of battle. Isaac shed a little light about the the typing of her dragon pal, as the girl took it to heart and continued to her on her support from the sidelines. "Good work, Contra!"

The responding attack had caught the Dragapault off guard, as its tail was the recipient of a Crunch attack. Shocked by the attack on its tail, the Pokémon let go of its grab on the ground and dragon type, screeching as it wagged it away to try and shake the attacker off. This was right when Vanilla would panic a bit, wondering what to do.

"Er, I'm not sure what other moves that Contra knows, actually. B-But I bet she knows a way out!"

The Dragapault flailed, growling as it spun its body around, aiming for the Vibrava with its hand as it began to make a dive as the swarm of insects followed it, attempting to use ASSURANCE.



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