[off screen event post! sept 19th] [Cooper is sitting by a campfire at a campsite with Jax (@jax-deluth-and-ai-winstrate ) near the Sword and Shield in the Slumbering Weald. He's cooking some burger patties over the campfire with 10 Feet Tall by Cavetown playing on his phone.
Suddenly, what sounds like very faint footsteps followed by the thwack of a tree branch hitting something can be just barely heard down the path. The muffled voice of a maybe 15yo girl saying "Shit, Ow." is heard immediately after this. Cooper's ears perk up and he turns his music off.
"Hey, did you hear that?"
Jax's ears twitch a little bit, trying to figure out what had made the sound."
"Yeah, I heard it. Could be a lost trainer."
There were some cool pokemon in the forest that he had seen, and it was easy to get lost.
Cooper's ears lower from their raised position a little.
"Yeah, hopefully. The whole stealing thing isn't supposed to happen until tomorrow."
He prods at a burger patty with his spatula and flips it over.
The footsteps get closer, seeming to come from a cluster of bushes with a small passageway at the bottom, barely big enough for a child to crawl through. The footsteps then turned into rustling leaves.
Jax looks at the bushes.
"Okay, this is starting to get a bit scary. HEY, YOU LOST?"
He yelled towards the noise, hoping to get a response. He stands up and grabs his berry bag.
Cooper puts down his spatula and stands up, motioning to his pokemon, who had been playing together on the campgrounds, to come closer and keep their guards up. They all stop what they're doing and make their way over to where Cooper and Jax are standing.
Cooper yells.
"HELLO?"
The leaf rustling gets louder, as a girl struggles from the passageway she was definitely too small to fit through.
She's 5'5ish, with long red hair in two low pony tails and freckles. She looks exasperated as she attempts to pick twigs and leaves out of her hair with one hand, holding a notebook and pen in the other.
"Man, I am NOT small enough for that tunnel anymore."
She pauses, and looks up at Cooper. Shock and anger spreads across her face.
"What the hell are YOU doing here."
Jax whispers quietly
"Okay, not lost, not friendly. Where's Sapphire's pokeball."
He looks at the girl
"Are you talking to me or Cooper?"
He looks at the notebook and pen in her hand.
"Are you a professor's assistant? Or a professor?"
She points at Cooper.
"That's none of your business, skittyboy."
Jax responds.
"Hey, that's Mew to you dipshit! Skittyboy is my boyfriend."
Cooper looks at the girl, confused and surprised.
"Holy shit... Robin? Crystal told me you moved back to Alola when we were 12!"
His ears drop a bit, and he looks at Robin confusedly.
Robin gets visibly angrier, and she balls up her fists.
"I NEVER LEFT! I'VE BEEN HERE THE WHOLE TIME, DON'T GIVE ME THAT BULLSHIT!"
She turns to Jax.
"Also, What."
Jax responds
"Fuck you, you don't get any context for yelling at him! Winstrate!"
Winstrate appears out of Jax's bag.
"HYPER BEAM?"
Jax looks at winstrate.
"What? No, we're not killing anyone. Arc, what is your problem... Just get ready. I don't even know why you where my first choice."
He turns to Cooper.
"Also, do you know this person?"
Cooper's ears drop more, he looks upset.
"She's.. an old friend. We used to play out behind my house when I lived in Alola, and when I moved to Galar, her family moved with us. Then we spent all our time together in this forest. But when I was 12 I asked if I could go out and play with her, and Crystal told me she had moved back to Alola."
Oliver the sylveon looks at Robin. He seems to know her, but he's frightened by her sudden outburst.
Robin only gets angrier.
"THAT'S FUCKING BULLSHIT! YOU KNEW I WAS STILL HERE! YOU WERE MY ONLY FRIEND IN THIS ARCFORSAKEN REGION, AND YOU LEFT ME."
She takes in a deep breath.
"Whatever. I have a job to do here."
Jax turns to Winstrate
"Okay, nevermind Winstrate, you can do whatever."
"FUCK YEAH! SEE YOU IN HELL!"
He fires a hyper beam. And misses.
"Arc damnit. Alright time for Sapphire to come out."
Jax reaches into his bag and throws out a pokeball.
Sapphire the Latios comes out and chirps, not knowing what's going on.
Robin's eyes widen.
"WHAT THE SHIT IS THAT A LATIO-"
She's cut off by a Shadow Ball from Marley the zoroark, knocking her into a pond.
"STOP TRYING TO KILL ME FOR THE LOVE OF ARCEUS"
She reaches into her pocket and removes a pokeball. She releases her incineroar from it.
Cooper runs towards the pond, hoping to stop Robin from doing what he thinks she's going to do.
Winstrate turns towards Jax.
"HEY JAX I'LL GIVE YOU 10 POKE IF YOU WRESTLE THAT INCINEROAR"
"That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. 15 poke."
"YEAH I CAN DO THAT"
Sapphire gets spooked by all the commotion and hides behind Jax and Winstrate.
Jax readies himself to wrestle the giant cat, knowing damn well he's going to lose.
The incineroar growls, as if to say 'Oh? You're approaching me?'
Cooper jumps into the water and tackles Robin.
"OW- WHAT THE- GET THE FUCK OFF ME!!"
She squirms around and manages to throw him off. She quickly writes something down on her notepad.
Cooper falls back into the water, but quickly gets back up and crouches into a fighting stance.
"Robin, don't do this. You don't know how much destruction you're going to cause if you do. Please."
Meanwhile, Jax tries his best to look intimidating without transforming, but fails. So he just lunges at the incineroar.
"FUCK IT UP JAX! SHOW IT WHO'S THE STRONGER CAT!"
Sapphire is still unaware of what to do, so he heads towards Cooper to see if they need help.
The incineroar uses Flare Blitz, seemingly unfazed by Jax.
Robin turns to Cooper.
"I've got a job to do."
She turns around, and notices sapphire approaching.
"But, I've got everything I need. Hope you don't meet me again, arse-face."
She runs down a path and her incineroar follows.
Cooper watches her go, not fast enough to get to her in time.
"SHIT-!"
It's head whips around, only to see that the Sword and Shield are both safe.
"Wait, then what did she-?"
Jax is regretting not having good physical defense.
"SHIT! Ugh, motherFUCKER! WINSTRATE GIVE ME MY FUCKING 15 POKE!"
"ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, CALM DOWN! JEEZ, NO NEED TO YELL."
They float over to Jax with his money.]
