Seventeenth Move

[king_of_flames]

[Action, Celadon City]

[Roy walks out of the gym triumphantly, a Rainbow Badge in his hand. He turns around and waves to the women who gathered outside the front door, all of them calling "good-bye, Roy" and "Come back soon!"

However, this means he isn't watching where he's going, and so something bounces off his leg. He turns around and looks...

...and sees an Eevee. A familiar looking one, at that.]

Hey...Elsie?

[At the sound of her name, the Eevee runs up and begans rubbing up against Roy's legs, looking utterly distraught.]

...no...

[Roy was at a loss for words...and for just about anything else. He sands there, frozen, for a while.]

[Text]

To those who knew Brigadier General Maes Hughes: he has disappeared. I have his Eevee and his Alakazam. If you received any of his Pokémon, let me know so we can account for them.

Comments

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[usedwrench]

[Winry's not fast with her responses either. And this would be so much worse if she was still the little girl from that train... But nope, she went home for a while. Briggs is a cold place, etc. She kind of learned to live with it, somehow. Well, this is still hard at first.]

Yeah, everything always turns out all right.

Well, at least he was still around when I got back here.

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[king_of_flames]

That's right. You got one more chance to meet him. I'm sure he enjoyed it, too.

[ Text ] <3 icon

[usedwrench]

Right. I just hope I didn't bother him too much when he rushed from Kanto to Johto, just to meet a girl.

[Well, maybe he did it for other things too, but... Still.]

[ Text ] That icon incites sobs wherever it pops up.

[king_of_flames]

Are you kidding? He was probably thrilled to do so. I can't imagine him acting any other way.

[ Text ] I know. But Winry needs hugs atm, so at least she can get them on icons~

[usedwrench]

[Good job, Roy, you actually earn a sad smile with that text.]

No, I'm not kidding, though I guess I'm not thinking very much -- or clearly -- right now. But you're right. I can't imagine him acting any other way either.

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[king_of_flames]

Right. Just keep on pushing ahead for now. That's all any of us can do.

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[usedwrench]

You too! I'll be okay. It just takes some time to get used to it again. Well as much as one can ever get used to it anyway.

[And who knows, he might come back someday. With or without memories from Johto. But Winry won't say anything about it aloud.]