Matt look down right offended to be called Funkytown. "And you're about as bad as Krabbys." Now that was a more perverted joke than he might have meant, but he didn't care. Sighing and rubbing his eyes, looking at Nana who looked upset she threw him off again. Scratching her nose softly. "It's okay." He told her.

Looking back, Demuu was still barking- until she saw the new pokemon. Her eyes went wide, dashing behind Kazzy to hide. Kazzy, however, it was the end of the world.

THe dog barked the loudest he ever sounded, going to run excitedly around the other two pokemon. Tail wagging a white blur as he bounced around them. Going into play position, then running away, to come back. Play! Play! Play!

"Now look what you've done, he's not gonna stop until all the energy is ran out." There was no malice in his voice, he found it kinda cute for Kazzy to make some friends.

"Yeah.. Extreme Speed." He swore if Isaac said he knew how to handle this he was throwing him into the water.

Isaac Merlo

The hug for sure threw Matt for a loop. Not something he was really expecting, but yeah, he wasn't gonna deny he needed the little snap back to reality. Though Matt was shrinking away as people came to greet Josh. There was a glare of defensiveness as Josh was startled and dropped his food, Matt unable to stop himself from looking at Josh Dragomir with a "Really bro?" look on his face. Grumbling, he went to help Josh get it cleaned up.

After that, he felt his phone, grabbing it and seeing Annalise's message, quickly shooting a text back.

"With Josh, near the food."

Putting his phone back, he went to finally get his own plate of food. Grabbing literally everything. Man was a garbage can when it came to food!

Matt's eyes glazed over as Josh went on. He was listening, but this was just his default stare as he took in information. As he asked for Demuuu, he looked down at the pup. "You ready for your first mission, girl?" He asked the pup, who nodded her head fiercely.

"She's ready." He motioned her forward, "Make sure to listen to Blitz, he'll be helping you out in there." Demuu nodded, going to start heading inside. With the assistance from Blitz, she managed to wiggle herself through all the laser lights. Grinning to herself as she managed to wiggle herself through. Such a smug little smirk on her muzzle!

Lookin garound, she was supposed to find something, right? Tilting her head, she wandered around rather comically trying to find just exactly what she needed- until she spotted the glint of the laser eyes. Growling at it, she soon went to where the lasers began, barking to alert Blitz and point her head to where the eye was.

"Hope she's okay in there..."

Josh Devlin

If this moment could have gotten any worse, Matt would have drown himself- wait. Did it just get worse?

It fucking did.

Oh no.

No no no no NO.

"Do you just follow me around like a lost pup?" He shot at Isaac, begrudgingly taking his hand and getting pulled up. There was a pause of time where Matt did really consider shoving the man in the water below. Staring very intensely at it- he really, really- but then Demuu came up and barked at Isaac. Excuse, he was in the way of her trainer.

Matt snapped out of it, huffing and going back towards Nana. Looking her over to make sure she was okay. The fire type huffed back at him, checking him over as well. "We have to get this done.." He muttered to himself, rubbing his eyes. A sour look was passed back to Isaac, then looking back. Scrunching his face up.

"... That's Demuu." At least it was, an attempt of conversation.

Isaac Merlo

Matt huffed, he could have hurt Josh from getting him startled like that. Letting it go however, he got off of Ace. "Yeah, I brought Gauntlet and Demuu." His scraggy and poochyena. "And obviously Ace." Going to walk up next to him, he crossed his arms. "So, got an idea how we're getting in?" He asked, his heel digging into the ground.

This mission felt a little uncomfortable, even if it was for a good cause. "Feels weird." He said to hmself, eyeballing some of the nearby businesses. Before he caught on this wasn't the building he thought it was... on good. Now he felt a lot less awkward about this.

"Don't luxray's got x-ray vision or something? Got a friend who has one and swore he told me that once."

Josh Devlin

Matt adjusted the saddle on Nana's back. Once he was sure it was on correctly, he climbed into the saddle. Petting her mane softly. "You're doing great getting used to this. We're gonna work on speed today, okay?" Nana nodded her head with a snort. Going to walk towards the starting area Matt had shown her earlier. Off to the side, his Poochyena and Rockruff stood watching. Wanting to show them that this might be their future of racing!

Well maybe not Kazzy. Depends on what he evolved into.. Matt was leaving it up to the pup. Not wanting to influence what the pup wanted. Though Matt himself would love to ride with him, if he did not want to, that was fine. The poochyena seemed to be drinking all this up, watching with wide eyes at the fantastic arcanine in front of her.

Taking a deep breath, Matt held onto Nana. "Okay, let's do this. We'll work up to an Extreme Speed around the area, okay? Only when I signal."

Clicking his tongue, the two took off in a trot. Going around the area before Matt kicked the speed up. They raced in a blinding fashion back to their starting point, slowing to turn around. Matt took a deep breath and dug his fingers into Nana. "Okay Nana, a short extreme speed. To the end and back, alright?" Nana nodded, her feet started to glow- and they were off.

The wind didn't sting Matt's eyes this time, because he had on a pair of goggles, but the wind still bite his skin. Hair whipped far back, as Nana raced over the bridge. It was a simple straight line- until they got to the end and Nana stumbled. It caused Matt to lose his grip, making him flail and then get slung off the back of her and into the water below. Luckily it was the water he hit.

It stung like fuck but it was apart of learning. Though it didn't stop the man from cursing a storm below. "God dammit." He growled, looking up. He wasn't going to let Josh scold him again. Looking up he saw Kazzy and teh Poochyena whining and pawing at the air towards him. "I'm fine... fuckin' fine."

Isaac Merlo

Matt started to absentmindedly eat the food. Downing the wings like they were not even that hot. Eyes glued to the screen as he watched the races. Before he finally paid attention to the fact he was covered in hot sauce. Cleaning himself up and swigging his beer, he nodded at Josh.

"Yeah, that sounds good. Gonna take some of this home to my boyfriend." He knew Nico would LOVE these hot wings. Reading over the check, he put out the money plus a tip on the counter. "Maybe I should tell my parents about this place, they rarely get out. I could offer to babysit and let them go out for a chance."

He knew for a fact his parents would love a break from seven kids.

"Thanks for bringing me and for Ace."

Josh Devlin

Matt had saw the sign up sheet on the ranger board. Seeing how it only had two spots left for this one location, he had snagged it. The city was a second home to him, after he and Nico finished school here. So he just wanted to see the old apartment again, plus... no, that was dumb. There was no way he'd run into Isaac Merlo here. Why he even wanted to see him was stupid. No, he was not thanking him for not getting his ass kicked in that arena! Shaking out the intrusive thoughts, Matt got ready and took off to the location.

It was a new and upcoming business that was requesting the security check. One that Matt actually knew- or rather, he knew who ran it. It was almost embarrassing; but he was not going to clue in on whoever he got paired his relation to the man who ran this building. Honestly, he knew Nico would hear about it... Urghhhh. Shit.

Matt huffed on top of Ace, leaned over on top of his head. The canine looking at him with a bland look. "Sol." it huffed at him. Matt leaned off, rubbing his neck. He felt itchy in his uniform. They tried to give him some... green thing, yeah, he was not wearing that. Instead he had a dark navy blue uniform, with deep red strips along the arms and legs. However, his band and armband were the standard green.

Ace sighed at his impatient trainer, before a sound was heard off to his right made him snarl and back away with Matt on top of him. Matt suddenly turned serious, grabbing a issued flashlight and going to light it in the direction of who startled them. "Whose there?"

Josh Devlin

[VALOR Mission - Heal Bell]

Matt had to hold back a sigh from the oncoming scolding. But he was doing his best to take with a grain of salt. Slowly nodding, he was listening to him, even if it hurt his pride. Not going to offer any excuses though, Josh just took his job seriously.

"Not sure how I'll handle riding something that small, but I'll give it a shot." Petting the absol some more, he still needed a name. Hmmm, he looked off in thought, missing the waitress bringing their food and setting it down to flutter away back to the other customers.

"Ace. I'll call you Ace."

Ace nodded in approval, going and curling up at the foot of the seat Matt was in. "Hope Nico likes you." Looking back to Josh, he grinned widely at the food. "Never gonna get over being able to eat this all for myself."

Josh Devlin

Matt cheeks tinted dark at the question. Along with the tip of his ears, feeling very embarrassed at that question. Nope, he had no sense of training, besides rounding up seven younger siblings and fighting for the last slice of pizza.

"No- no not really."

Sighing, he looked down at Kazzy, who was just so excited to get any type of attention. Yipping and finally settling down to let him pet his head. Going to jump up and steal some kisses! Aha! See dad! Everyone likes kisses!

Matt gave the canine a cross look, huffing at him, then shaking his head. "No, someone stole my pokemon and to get 'em back I kinda had to fight in a pokemon ring... Also known to punch some poachers." That got him rubbing a finger under his nose with a snort. "Not that I'm proud of that, but poachers just get under my skin." Shrugging, his hands went to be stuffed into his pockets- a smallw ince from the hurt hand.

"What about you?"

noah faber

REDEEMING

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Matt tried to be quick about cleaning her wounds. For obvious reasons he did not want to be rude, but he did catch a look at that other wound. Damn, she been through the ringer, huh? Not his business, don't be nosey, Matt.

"Matt." He said, looking over the bandaging one last time before he deemed it good enough to hold. "You should get that looked at when you can." A meek suggestion, maybe she just hated hospitals or something. "You a ranger or something? Never heard of someone just trying to snatch a gun, pretty ballsy."

Lulu Flint

Matt frowned at the crash outs. "Yeah, doesn't sound fun." He said, watching the screen. Not something he wanted to go pro in, for sure. Plus he knew Nico would worry about him. He was already going to worry with him wanting to become a ranger. Conversations he was not thrilled to have, at least hoping Nico got it.

"Huh?"

Having gotten lost in his thoughts, he blinked at the pokeball offered to him. "Bro." Going to take it, he released it onto the floor like he was instructed. Seeing the beautiful Absol come out of it. Matt looked a bit baffled, why was.. aww.

"Caught on I like canines?" He teased Josh, before going to nod. "Thanks dude, I love him. Beautiful." Offering his hand out fo rthe Absol, he watched them approach and sniff his hand. A raised brow came, before they nudged his hand and Matt petted them. "Now what am I gonna call you?"

Josh Devlin