someone actually animated a gif of the alien clown juggling. inclining his head sideways like a confused dog, dominic watched it loop several times.

he only glanced up when he heard a thumping on the beach to watch as something like a grey, glinting mound scuttled across the sand. dominic squinted at the creature but lost interest quickly, dropping his gaze back to the phone screen.

the animated blacephelon kept juggling. dominic pressed the like button.

wild, skipping

he really didn't know how he felt about the alien beast but the content it spawned was a gold mine. the corners of dominic's lips twitched into brief smiles as he continued scrolling through his phone, perusing blacephalon-related rocket memes.

he was so distracted that he actually forgot about the ice cream cone. he also didn't notice the orange eyes staring at him from the shade of a tree. he didn't hear the smack of paw prints on cement, and the croagunk did nothing to alert him as the perrserker snuck up on them.

in fact, he only noticed the wild pokemon when it snatched at his ice cream cone, forcing him to recoil so as to avoid being nicked by the perrserker's METAL CLAWS.

"hey!" he snarled, flinching back violently.

dominic was left sitting there is disbelief for a moment as the wild pokemon began to retreat, but he leapt to his feet a second later, hurling an empty pokeball just for the satisfaction of hearing it bonk the perrserker on the head.

catching!