#skullpunk

He heard about these goons tryin’a harass the likes of anything that moves ( don’t just take it from him; he’d damn well heard the reports and seen those suckers decide that a bus stop was worth throwing a few gang signs at ) but did he expect them to be stupid enough — like, plain idiotic enough — to try and throw sass his way?

Some six-foot-three smelly guy with messy hair and a few spots on his moustache missing like he had any amount of his shit together? 

Okay, maybe sure, Izzy himself didn’t look all that threatening — despite him looking threatening in the strange sorta way that he might tell ya backyard stories that his pappy used to say till your ear falls off. But then again, the guy was just about as tall as him, so it’s not like Izzy’s size could make much of a difference past the fact that his wheezy laugh and overall-disheveled appearance made it look like some poor homeless guy he was gonna harass. So maybe not him, but what about good ol’ Turt, looking behind him to meet the grunt in the eye?

If there was one thing that could immediately blow up Yoichi’s mood, it was calls to Alola.  Every other regions punks had the common decency to shove off when they knew an officer was nearby, but it always seemed like Team Skull went out of their way to bother him.  Not that any of them were particularly threatening; however, if he got one more call about a Skull grunt causing a disturbance by...dancing, or whatever it was they do, he’d lose his mind.

All he had to do was survive one week in the heat and then it’d be back to Unova where he got some relative peace and quiet.  He was hiking up Blush Mountain -- with some difficulty since he was given any Pokémon to assist him -- and was decidedly irritated by the time he got to the Geothermal Plant.  They needed a few officers to guard the place while they did maintenance work.  Apparently people had been poking around some machinery while evolving their Pokémon and had caused several malfunctions.

Whatever, if all he had to do was keep people behind a barrier, it would be a doable week.  Despite being in shape Yoichi was huffing once he reached the top.  He was absolutely going to need to borrow a Mudsdale before he made the journey back down.  As soon as he reached the Geothermal Plant he found exactly what he’d been hoping to avoid.  A Skull Grunt was leaning forward to read the sign stating that the area was currently off limits.

Reiko scribbles quietly on a small blue notepad. Ripping it off she handed it to him silently before turning away.