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Since the environs of Hoenn differed somewhat from his home of Galar, Andy figured he had best get to cutting his teeth on the local fauna. Only he had been lazy about it. It was summer and he wanted to waste time before he grew into an adult and people expected him to do things. Epitaph had been more and more annoying as the days went on however, pestering him and pranking him more and more often.
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The boy finally decided to make the rather out of the way venture to the shadow of Mt. Chimney to try and expand his meager army of pokemon. His gengar was shadowing him, quite literally, within his cast darkness along the ground. The ghost type wasn't pleased with the striking view. It was a nice little taste of hell, he thought, which was where he was going if he didn't do better.
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Stalking along, trying to not look like he was obviously panting to avoid any of his gengar's jeers, he spotted another human form suffering across the terrain with their own pokemon. He was dressed much less tackily than Andy, but still prepared for the grime of his misadventures. While he wasn't one to look for friends, he approached the other boy trying and failing to not look like he was glaring daggers.
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''Yo,'' he croaked.
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If anything he would make a good distraction if he had to run from some danger that far exceeded his talent.

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[attr="class","wildtitle"]A WILD KROOKODILE APPEARED!

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[attr="class","wildtitle"]A WILD CUBONE APPEARED!

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The stranger was a ginger, whatever gods resided above, help him. No freckles though, which was a shame. Even though his tastes were in their infancy, he did think freckles were a fetching feature. Regardless of whatever the Blackadder boy thought, the kid seemed to find him somewhat intimidating. Perhaps he had inherited his mother's case of resting bitch face, or perhaps he was just annoyed at even being here.
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''No, but there's still time yet.'' Dumb questions were a good start, especially when he was already dirtied. It wasn't a good first impression on either of their parts. Yet the other youth still queried about their acquaintance, causing a tinge of disgust to crease his features. ''Andy Blackadder. Now you do.'' Though no answer came, as their rude conversation was rudely interrupted.
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''EpitaHHH!'' Andy toppled backwards. The other boy seemed to be well prepared, but since his own pokemon was skulking, it didn't materialize nearly in time. Duel fortunes, his gengar was shaken from it's shadowy hiding place just in time to break his master's fall. The violet mass groaned in protest, ''Gengar...''
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''Don't whine at me,'' the brunette snapped as he rolled off, ''I'm not the one who told you slide across the ground like a wet shit.'' While he righted himself fairly quickly, Epitaph wanted to pout a moment before getting to his feet, leaving the ginger to deal with an errant cubone. Andy's chocolate eyes laid upon the krookodile.
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Now this thing was a problem.
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It wasn't a great match-up for he and his gengar, but alas he had come to a ground habitat with his ghost type anyway. It looked like the assailant lizard was going to bail out rather quickly. Oh I don't think so. Knock me on my ass and then bugger off will you?! The boy tensed, clinching his fists. ''Epitaph, use Hypnosis!,'' he commanded with a sharp thrust of his finger. His pokemon's trademark grin quickly recaptured some of it's native devilishness.
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''Gengar!''
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Originally, when it landed, the young Blackadder intended to march right over and punch the thing in it's snoot himself, but his convenient ally had something a little more potent in mind. While it caused Andy to suck his teeth as not being allowed to enact his revenge as he saw fit, he supposed justice was served none the less.

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[attr="class","wildtitle"]A WILD AXEW APPEARED!

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[attr="class","wildtitle"]A WILD DIGGERSBY APPEARED!

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The action had lulled momentarily, which allowed the surly trainer to really drink in all the events leading up to the bastard lizard being zapped into his pokeball. He was half tempted to shake the thing violently. Impotent or not, it would have assuaged his ago. The snicker his temporary ally had let loose hadn't escaped his notice, though nor had his compliment. He popped his collar and glanced away cooly.
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''Naturally.'' The other adolescent queried about his gengar, to which the creature took note. It seemed it was afflicted by a similar pride as his master. ''Gengar.'' It's grin widened. Andy's eyes flicked in a sideways glance to the pokemon, smirking. ''Who Epitpah? Had him since I was a wee lad. He's got his moments, but we got an understanding, see?''
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''Gengar...'' It's ghostly visage didn't portray as much certainty. ''Anyway... Bringing his hand to his brow, he scanned the horizon. ''I don't recall you mentioning your name, ginger balls.'' Sure enough, there was a couple other creatures snooping about. Perhaps they were coming to investigate the commotion, or perhaps they were attempting to sneak away.
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''GeGeGengar!'' Epitaph chuckled at the boy's childish nickname. It pointed a digit on his three fingered hand towards the other trainer's hair. ''Gengar, Gengar?'' But Andy only half noticed the question, his chocolate orbs setting on a scurrying Axew. It could be considered cute, in an awkward way, but he had seen another person with the final evolution. They were intimidating, and that was criteria enough!
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''Yes, that's the joke,'' he answered half-heartedly. ''But enough about some rando's testicles,'' now it was his turn to point. ''Epitaph, use Lick! I want that tooth lizard!'' The pokemon's red eyes scanned for a moment before he found what his trainer was talking about. The large tusks coming from the mouth was the one, wasn't it? ''Gengar!'' The gengar flexed and lunged, a tongue unfurling from his mouth to leave a trail of ghostly saliva along the back of the now fleeing axew.
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Andy readied a pokeball.

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[attr="class","wildtitle"]ANDY CAUGHT AXEW!

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His eyebrow lifted ever so slightly. Most people bristled at his barbed ribbing, but not this guy. It was like he only heard the normal bits of communication and everything else went in one ear and out the other. It caught him off guard. Even gengar cast a curious look at his master. Still, Andy wasn't so flabbergasted that he wasn't paying attention.
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''Just looking for more mons. I only got three,'' he answered in a plain tone. Rustboro. He had passed through. It reminded him of some of the cities back in Galar. Besides that, the other boy's reasoning for his presence caused a concerned look to grace his face once again. Although perhaps he was misunderstanding what this Aedan kid meant.
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''You do realize most of those things burn up in the atmosphere, yeah?'' He shrugged. ''There probably isn't anything to find.'' Epitaph wasn't sure exactly what Andy was talking about. ''Gengar...'' But the boy waved him off without so much as a glance. The ghostly pokemon would get bored most of the way through his explanation anyway.
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''What do you want some meteorite for anyway? You one of them eggheads that likes to look at rocks?'' While he didn't find science all that boring personally, there were some limits to what he thought was interesting. Although he had to admit, if the other teen was into that he couldn't have picked a better place to find some good examples.

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''Your ego needs to fall out of the fucking sky'' he mumbled to himself. It was weird because it seemed like something a six year old would do, yet the older boy seemed like he might be around his age, if not older. None the less, Andy took a little pride in that he had in fact said something that got under the kid's skin.
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Granted he didn't think it would be pointing out an obvious fact. The Aedan kid was already stomping off through the grass. His own lips pursed and his eyebrow raised, and his gengar even followed suit, a confused glance at his master. The two exchanged such looks before the Blackadder boy shrugged and sauntered after the ginger.
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''What are you doing?'' As he trailed after the other adolescent he discovered him exchanging some rock with his pokemon. Surely he wasn't about to pass this off as a meteorite just for the sake of vindication? ''Gengar...'' Epitaph groaned to himself. Why would a trainer use their pokemon for such a mundane task? Gengar would give Andy a paralyzing Lick if he ever asked.

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