A hike like this was a common affair for a Ranger like Adam but it was a nice change of pace to have someone he actually knows with him. And despite all the whining that the other person was doing Adam was having a good time.

It was good for them to get out, get some fresh air and exercise, and besides what else was Kyle even really doing anyway?

”Excellent idea! We should use Pokémon every time we want to go somewhere. They’ll never be a time when we might not have certain mon for the job on hand, right?” Adam shrugged before then waving a hand dismissively as if to shoo away the very thought.

”C’mon if you can whine as much as you do you can move faster, let’s go! All this exercise will be good for you E4 boy.” He added, taking a moment to look the other male over.

”You’re starting to look a little chubby at the sides. Eating too much ice cream?”

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Adam laughed as he shook his head, Kyle was lucky they were young or he’d probably be fat by now. He couldn’t judge Lopez that much. Comparing who Adam is today to whom he was a couple of years ago and his younger self would probably laugh at how lazy he’s gotten.

So he’d cut him some slack but still did Kyle want to be the Ice Cream Elite Four member?

Adam would keep that thought to himself, Kyle might actually think that didn’t sound too bad.

Adam supposed he could have a team of ice types, a couple of the Vanillite line in his team.

Someone has definitely done that and if they beat anyone with that team the loser should feel really ashamed about it. He was thinking way too much about this.

”Alright I’ll take you up on that but you can’t have any. I actually haven’t had any Verdanturf ice cream before.” Adam called back.

”Unless you can manage to keep up the pace that is, cause you can do better than just staring at the back of my head the entire time.”

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Kyle’s comeback almost made Adam trip and fall on his face, that response felt so random. ”Well you’ll be seeing a lot of it, I guess?” How the hell was someone supposed to respond to that?

The ranger wouldn’t dwell on the comment; he might actually bust his ass falling over if he did. Though it was nice to see Kyle actually put some more effort into keeping up. Affirming Adam's assumption that if Kyle just tried he'd be able to.

They hadn’t talked much about the younger male’s rise to Elite Four but Adam had this thought in his head that somehow Kyle managed to half-ass his way all the way to the top. But knowing Lopez and how he manages to pull shit off that was probably not far off.

”Uh that’s kind of the point there buddy.” Adam shook his head.

”Besides a park is boring as hell! This is much better exercise and you get a taste of ranger life.” Though this was probably part of the reason why one of them was a ranger and the other wasn’t.

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A simple hike up the mountain wasn’t going to change Kyle all that much but at least from this little display there would be moments that the elite four member found himself pushing to make it to the goal.

Maybe that’s all he needed, was for someone to show him where the goal was and he’d be more eager to move. Adam shook his head to shoo his thoughts. That was enough theorizing on how to be someone else’s life coach. And he was bad at it anyway, almost having laughed at Kyle lamenting on how he didn’t last long as a ranger.

Once they reached the top Adam admired the sight, taking in a deep breath.

”This is nice.” He said after exhaling. However, that moment of peace quickly turned to one of laughter, the reason being Kyle’s question and Adam not being prepared for that despite thinking he should have been.

”Come on man! Going back down is part of the fun!” He was sure that response wasn’t great for Kyle so he added to it.

”And besides, I didn’t bring one either.”

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”Yeah sure we can rest.” Adam replied. He didn’t really need to take a break and honestly, the trek down was going to be extremely easy but he supposed Kyle earned it.

Instead of taking a seat like Kyle, Adam instead pick some pebbles off the ground and began tossing them down the path they just climbed, watching them skip down the mountain.

”Only a couple of minutes though, we’ve got to get back down before nightfall.” Adam said, looking up to the sky and noticing the sun’s position.

”Don’t want to be out here and some nasty Pokémon come out looking to make us a snack.” He added, looking over to Kyle and smirking.

”Because they’d definitely go for the thicker one of the two of us.” The ranger teased.

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