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Penelope was used to camping, so when it came time for her very first mission, it was no surprise, nor discomfort, when she found herself in the brush and trees, avoiding the main path, but still staying relatively close to civilization.
The mission was a simple observe and collect data on a local band of mercenaries that the Ranger HQ thought were getting involved in rocket business. Penelope wasn't too pleased about the potential that they might not even be involved, but as long as she could make an arrest, things might go well for the mission.
Her partner, however, was the class clown. He seemed to excel at reading, writing, and paper tests. She had never watched him too closely at the helm of any physical activity, but she liked him well enough. He was funny, and sweet, and oddly charming, so she couldn't really complain too much... Plus, he liked camping out in the wilderness too. It was nice to have someone who shared that sort of hobby.
"This looks like a good spot." Penelope surveyed the ground to make sure it wasn't downhill, so the tents wouldn't flood, but also flat so that they wouldn't be sleeping on an angle. Once she assured herself it was the proper grounds for her tent, she plopped her rucksack on the ground and stretched out, sighing softly.
Beside her, her houndoom stood guard, sniffing around the area to make sure there were no wild pokemon coming their way.
"You ready to start setting up, then?" She looked around for Flix and put her hands on her hips.
It was time for their first mission and Flix was beyond excited. Not to mention he found himself to look rather cute (if he could say so himself) wearing the Ranger uniform. It was a little tight to be honest, but he was certain that once he broke it in, it would look better. New clothes was always a pain anyways, until it got nice and used up, worn and torn in all the right areas.
Aiden the little Chimchar sat on his shoulder, the little monkey wasn't his first partner, but to have a giant charizard wandering around with the two would make them far too obvious and would definitely blow their cover - and his partner was a cute girl, one of the cutest ones in his class too, so he was determined to make somewhat of a good impression. Sadly he couldn't say he knew much about her other than her name, Penelope - he was always too busy to try and alleviate the class' mood with jokes and tricks rather than to really get too close to anyone.
Once they stopped, Penny expressed that it was a good spot and Aiden the monkey jumped up and shuffled up the nearest tree. "H-hey!" The redhead quickly followed, with a small hop he took hold of the nearest branch of the tree Aiden slipped up and hoisted himself with a quick acrobatic like leap; swinging his legs up and jumping from one branch to the other. Obviously not afraid of falling or anything. it wasn't that he was confident with his nimbleness, but more so that he was quite careless.
"You ready to start setting up?" she said, and with Aiden once again in his hands, Flix swung down from his branch, hanging by his legs while holding the fire monkey near his chest. "So soon? Shouldn't we enjoy the good weather? In a couple hours when the sun starts going down we can set up, make a cozy fire and stuff, maybe roast some weenies!"
Penelope stared after Flix as he flung himself into the tree after his monkey pokemon. Her eyelids fluttered open and shut momentarily in a multiple-blink of amusement, before she rolled her eyes, moving to pull her tent out of her bag. It was a quick-setup one, where you just had to jolt it the right way and it popped open, fully functional and ready to go.
Other than weather screening, and a tarp to go over top. But she didn't need that up to get her tent done.
She bit her lip and flicked the tent outwards, watching it self-inflate into the spot she wanted it to, before rubbing her hands together. "Good weather now, it's supposed to get damp by nighttime. Wouldn't make much sense hanging out a soggy tent." She hummed to herself as she tossed her bag inside of the fully inflated tent, before looking at him over her shoulder.
"Besides, it doesn't take that long to set up. The group isn't supposed to be here untl mid-day tomorrow, so it's not like we can't relax a bit until then..." She moved around the little site she was building, looking at rocks to make a fire pit with.
"I do like s'mores." She mused to herself, although it was quiet enough that she hoped he didn't hear her little secret. It was suprising enough she had found out he was as agile as his money pokemon - any more information and she might have had an over-load.
She laughed to herself at her own joke before dropping the rocks she collected into a little circle around a hole she had partially dug out with her foot. "There. Now we can roast some... weenies." She wrinkled her nose at the word and glanced back to him again.
Blinking a few times from where he hung, she set up her tent rather fast. Sure these things were made to go quickly, why would they waste the time of their Rangers to have them set up tents anyways? But still, first was fun times, and then he could worry about the sleeping quarters. Well at least yours is up! If anything, I can always cram myself into your tent. He smiled a cheeky grin, obviously joking more than anything - despite his laziness where it was almost true. If its gonna be damp, its gonna be cold. Releasing the grip on Aiden, he let the monkey climb onto his shirt and grip on while Flix flipped off his branch and almost nearly didn't land on his feet.
Giggling "That would have been disastrous." he spoke to Aiden while tapping the fire monkey's head, who chirped happily in response. Making his way over to the nearly built fire pit "It's a good thing I brought some books then, and cards if we wanna play some games~" he sand happily before taking a seat on the ground across from the blonde. Of course he didn't hear the comment about the smores, why would he?
But he did think about his books though. Some romance, some fiction and some to learn more about the fauna in the area, wild berries and stuff because who knows what you can find out here! Taking a look around, while holding Aiden still on his shirt with one hand, he spotted the Houndoom. "It's a lovely hound Penny, I hear you're a fire pokemon specialist too huh?" he wondered suddenly if she had heard of some of his slip ups with his pokemon for setting a few fires... the anxiety rose in his chest, and immediately he regretted his choice of topic. Oh dear. His chuckle grew nervous, and he could feel some sweat starting on the back of his neck.
Nah, the higher ups didn't tell anyone about his slip ups, did they?
Watching as Flix clambered his way down and back onto the ground, Penelope tilted her head and sighed softly, before sitting down on a little pad she had brought specifically for camping seats. She wiggled her butt into it to make it more comfortable, before looking up to Flix.
He had heard about her type preference? The corners of her mouth twitched slightly, almost begging her to smile at his comments on her houndoom. Her hand raised and obediently, the houndoom walked forward and placed his head under it, nuzzling it, before sitting by her side protectively.
"This is Bruce." She motioned to the houndoom, before pointing to the pile of sticks and logs in the middle of the fire pit. "Ember." She mumbled quietly to her pokemon, watching him light the fire with precision and ease.
At the mention of him joining her in the tent, she wrinkled her nose at him and leaned back a bit further away from him. "What did they tell you about me at the HQ...?" She mumbled. Penelope Reed was nothing of the sort of girl to jump into bed with a guy all willy-nilly. But the way that Flix presented it... She really couldn't take the proposition seriously.
"You heard partially correct. I like fire types, but I also like dark types... Really depends on the pokemon." Penelope smoothed her fingers over the dense black fur of Bruce's back before glancing to Flix, smiling.
"I heard you're a fan of fire, yourself." Her eyebrows went up in a bit of a joking manner, signally that she knew about his little... mishaps. "Someone from the other class told me about it... Did you buy the instructor new pants, or did he just wave it off?" She chuckled.
When the fire lit in the makeshift fireplace, he couldn't help but feel euphoric. His one emerald eye shining with the glaze of red embers blazing before it. he smiled softly into the flames before quickly snapping out of it and raised his eye to her. Bruce, suiting name, at least by sound it was suiting. "Houndoom must be perfect for you then! This little hooligan is Aiden, and I purely like fire types, or things that can learn fire moves... maybe." he admitted sheepishly. Water and ground types were his disadvantages, but that didn't make him love Fire types any less to be honest. If anything it made him even more determined to make his team strong despite their typing weaknesses.
"Eh? What's with the face?" He pursed his lips when she wrinkled her nose at his proposition. "Being lazy doesn't deserve such a face." He was legitimately sad. Did she really think that bad of him suddenly? "Just that you were tough and stuff, I don't know, I don't listen to rumours or things; I like to learn about people personally. Now I know you don't like sharing your tent." He continued to pout. How mean. Now he had to actually set up his own tent. "It's okay, I won't share my books then! No bedtime stories for you."
Felix's smile faded almost immediately when she mentioned, slyly, but it was still there, that she had heard about some of the happenings that he had caused around the HQ. Eye roamed away from her face, while a reddening on his own face was hard to hide. He blushed deeply. Oh shit. Seriously? THAT STORY? "Eh yeah haha! Uhm... I offered to buy him pants, but he didn't want to see me for a while." Because well, having your lower half engulfed into flames wasn't enough (especially with the whole fire crotch thing when you aren't ginger like Flix), but to be pantless in front of your cadets... yeah, the man wasn't all too thrilled to see Flix around for a while. Even to this day really.
When Flix actually looked genuinely upset and embarrassed about the situation with his instructor, she bit her lip and rubbed at her cheek awkwardly. She hadn't meant to dig up something that was painful, but she seemed to have a habit of doing things like that.
"Mm, sorry. I thought it was kind of funny, to be honest. I thought maybe it was another joke you played or something..." She felt bad now, so she tried to offer the warmest smile she could muster. "It's alright, everyone makes a bad mistake or two when they're just starting." She held up a thumb to encourage him, before letting her hand drop back down into her lap, still using her other hand to rub at Bruce's back, massaging into the tissue now.
"I thought you had meant something different about the tent, I apologise." Penelope shrugged her shoulders and looked over at her own tent. "But it is made for one person to sleep comfortably, even if we were literally on top of each other, it would be very, very uncomfortable..." She mumbled, thinking about it for a moment.
Great, that was an image she didn't want stuck in her head for the next few days of being out her with him.
"Did you really bring books? Multiple books?" She glanced at his bags and tilted her head. "You really came prepared, entertainment-wise, eh?" She looked back at her own gear; it was all survival equipment and food stuffs. "Guess we'll make a good team, I brought a lot of supplies and food." She nodded, thinking positive on the whole team-up, now.
"Try a dozen." He could feel his face getting redder with the admitting of his multiple mistakes. Clearing his throat, he broke out into a goofy grin thinking back to all the shit he had done, "A couple kitchen fires," he began counting them on his hands, "A bed had to be replaced, one of the trees, a couple pants events, and much more unmentionables." Yeah they were embarrassing to think of, his face was still quite flushed but he was laughing about it now; especially when he noticed he may have been a bit of a bummer just now.
"What else would I mean?" he was completely oblivious to it all, never in a million years would he think dirty thoughts even if he would stare at a pretty girl from a distance. Call him pathetic or naive, but at least his mind wasn't always in his trousers. "That just means cuddling! Keeps us nice and toasty y'know? Buuut that's fine, I'll freeze in my own tent. Maybe Nolan and Lazarus will keep me company instead." Well that was wishful thinking if he had a tent up. Honestly, he was hoping for a clear night so he could cuddle up to Kevin the Charizard and sleep under the stars instead. Keep himself warm with Kevin's tail.
If not then Cyndaquil and Growlithe would certainly work.
"Of course I did! Novels... science, a few of different sorts. You can take a look in my bag if you want." He stopped by the library early this morning when it was open to grab a few random ones and one with those berries of the area before heading out on this mission.
Then the mention of food perked him out. "What kind of food? I brought wieners of course... some fruit, i think a steak too." Oh wow he was getting hungry, clutching his stomach it growled and disturbed Aiden. "Ugh, speaking of food! The fire seems warm enough now. Want a sausage or something?" Galloping over to his bag, he rummaged around for the sausages he had packed in a small cooler, and frolicked over to a pointy stick (or two depending if Penny was indeed hungry too).
Penelope smiled softly at the way he tried to explain his multiple blunders, shaking her head slightly at how it must have looked to the response team to find out one od their own had been setting fires accidentally all over the HQ. She couldn't help but laugh at the whole image of it. He was probably one to try and fan the flames to put them out, too. She grinned at the image, raising her hand to cover her mouth, concealing the clear disobedience of her normally perpetually calm face.
"It's funny. I've made quite a few mistakes, too. That's why we're still cadets. We're still learning." Penelope spoke softly, reassuring him. When he broight up cuddling again, her mouth twisted slightly, not sure whether to frown or smile at him. So he had been suggesting they cuddle together? She barely even knew him, so there was no way in hell that would happen, considering all of their fire pokemon combined. She had her favourites here, opting to leave the others at home for safekeeping. But Bruce would be able to cuddle with her.
"I'll take a look when you get your things out to set up. How's that?" Penny smirked, raising her eyebrows. If he was really into showing off his books, then he would be torn between setting up and showing them off, or being lazy and sleeping under the stars. Either way, she was just trying to figure out the guy in front of her. Was he even capable of being serious? He was interesting to her, and she definitely wanted to figure him all out.
When he asked about the food, she nodded to Bruce, who went to gather her bag and drop it at her food. "It's mostly dried foods and fruits... Some cured meats, pasta... A bunch of apricots and dates." Penny smiled at Flix and started drawing out her things, pointing out all the different dried and cured foods she had brought. She was definitely in her element out here, having lived in the wilderness for so long after her mother had died.
"I am an excellent camper. I'll have a sausage." She waved him over, saying that she wanted a pointy stick to roast her food on, too.
She smiled at his blunders and that gave him all kinds of butterflies in his belly. It pleased him more than people knew to see them having a good time, or happy in general. Perhaps that makes him a simpleton; food, sleep, and seeing others happy is what makes him smile, but even so, it was better than being picky.
Speaking of being cadets, Flix folded his arms behind him and allowed his body to fall back (after getting all the stuff, even some sticks and sausages for Penny) onto the grass. Even when hungry he was slow at getting things together. "I'll be a commander soon, just you see. Not a Commissioner, too much work." That was his dream so far. Get just high up enough on the ladder, not the top dog, but high enough to be looked up too none the less.
She was hopeful for him to get his stuff together, looking up at the sky, he was certain it would be a clear night and that he could easily just lay out here instead - which he probably will unless it started raining later on. A Charizard's tail and rain does not mix after all. So if she was going to wait for him to get set ups for her to take a look at his books, she would be disappointed thus far!
Throwing himself back into a sit, grabbing the sticks and tossing her one with a weenie at the end, he began cooking his over the flames. "Pasta? I haven't seen pasta boil over an open flame before; that would be a cool trick to learn!" He's gotten use to the standard camping food, smores, sausages, cold leftovers, fruits, cured meat; but not pasta. Perhaps later he would ask for her to cook some.
it didn't take too long for the sausage to be cooked, he liked his with a little bit of burnt ends (every so often setting his sausage on fire, because well... pyro problems) and began swallowing in the less of elegant manners. He even made a smaller one to feed Aiden who sat patiently at his side.
"So how does your boyfriend feel about you camping with some random dude?" he assumed she had someone waiting at home for her. Time was flying and the sun was setting, still no attempt at making his own tent was made. Still no cloud in the sky, so it was likely he would cuddle up to Kevin later.
"I wouldn't mind being a commissioner." Penelope thought about the premise of being in charge for a moment. It was a lot of desk work, though... "Although a commander sounds more like field-work..." Now she didn't know what she wanted out of her job.
Penelope watched as Flix danced around looking for a good enough stick, before he finally settled on a couple that would be good for roasting the sausages on. He rambled on about boiling water over a fire, and she smiled slightly, pulling out an old coffee tin from her bag.
"Actually, I have a bunsen burner, so it won't be quite open-flame, but it'll still be heated up with one..." She tapped on the can and placed the little burner "element" - just a piece of coat hanger she had fashioned into a star to fit on top - into the little slots she had cut for it.
"Voila! Mini camp-stove." She looked down proudly at her work, before moving to roast the sausage. She took note at how he set his on fire a couple of times, and tilted her head, doing pretty much the exactly same thing... She liked her food well-done, with a nice crisp to the outside.
"I'm going to get my tarp set up." She mumbled, standing up with the sausage in her mouth, tossing some to Bruce, who munched it happily. "I don't have a boyfriend, by the way. I am perpetually single. Only ever kissed one boy. It didn't end well." She chuckled at the memory. He wasn't worth her time, anyway.
Penelope wandered over to the rest of her supplies and dug out some tarps, setting them up so that the water would run down and away from her tent if it were to rain.
The second tarp she set up between some trees, tying her dry goods to the branches below it, making sure that the tarp was folded down on four sides to form a little shetler sort of deal, before placing her hands on her hips. "There! The perfect shelter. Since we're going to be out here for a few days, we might as well be prepared, right?" She glanced over to him and gave him a serious-faced thumbs up.
"It wouldn't suit you, lots of paper pushing. But I would definitely follow your orders though." He said between bites, in all honesty. He truly did think that although being a Commissioner was a huge deal, the head honcho of the Rangers - it was still a boring job in comparison to being out in the field, and that Commander was just the better of the two. Far more fun, and you still got to boss around every lower than you, just minus the one Commissioner really.
With the sausage hanging from his mouth, he watched her prepare the makeshift burner to prepare some pasta. He was quite intrigued. Despite his goofy personality and laid back attitude, he liked learning new things. Probably why he would prefer to read than to do work, paper work really. he wasn't learning anything that way, just spitting out information from a mission.
"That's pretty nifty." He pointed at it with a finger, glad that she had something like this on her rather than he making it. Because whipping out a sausage, or a steak or even a can ob beans and throwing that on the fire was far quicker than preparing noodles apparently. "I'm glad I was partnered with you!"
"It's not going to rain, setting up a tarp is a waste of time." He whined from where he sat, watching her get up to do more work. She was non-stop, only for a moment maybe, but then she was at it again with something!
"Really? That's a shame... I mean, I never did anything so I can't complain! At least I dont need to explain myself and fear someone back home~" An angry boyfriend accusing him of touching their "girl" made him feel sweaty again, at least that was one worry he didn't need to deal with. Plus, that meant he can as cute as he wanted to around her!
"I guess so. Now can we relax? The stars will be out soon! So you sing at all? I know some songs but I'm not too good to be honest." Who doesn't like some good old campfire songs?
Penny sighed softly and ran her fingers through her hair as he chastized her for putting up tarps to keep the rain away, and her things dry as a bone. Clearly Flix hadn't looked at the weather predictions for the next few days like she had... Plus she could smell it in the air; the rain was always something she was in-tune with.
"Right, well. When you're drowning out here with no fire to keep you company, I hope you remember that." She grinned sheepishly and patted her hands together, crawling into her tent for a moment to set up. She came fully prepared with thermal blankets and PJ's, a large sleeping bag stuffed with fuzzy blankets, and some really nice, cozy, fluffy socks. Not that she would show those off.
"Were you going to try something?" She called out from her tent, laughing slightly at the thought. "Putting the moves on your partner, probably not the best idea." She emerged from the tent in a coat, readying herself for the nightfall. "I'm glad you're my partner, too. Doesn't feel like I'll go hungry or bored." She laughed awkwardly. No one had really wanted to be her partner, to be honest.
"And no, I don't really sing... I dance, classical latin and ballroom. Other than that, I am not very good at much else pertaining to parlour entertainment." Penny poked at the ground with the dull end of her sharp stick, saving the good end in case she was going to roast another marshmallow.
"I'm probably going to get to sleep early. Couple of hours. I tend to get tired once the night falls, anyway." Penny shrugged her shoulders. She was a light sleeper, so she tried to go to bed as early as possible so that if she did wake up in the middle of the night, she could just do something to help her go back to sleep.
"I will." Pursing his lips, he felt pretty certain about himself that it wasn't going to rain; but his laziness and desire to watch the stars while he lols himself to sleep were too strong for him to notice much else than a currently clear sky. while she got prepared, Flix just dragged his bag over to him and returned Aiden for now, and released his sleeping companion, Kevin the Charizard. With a grunt the thing curled himself around Flix while the red head kept rummaging through his stuff.
Soon enough he pulled out a small blanket (mostly used for comfort since Kevin was warm as hell already) and a medium sized pink stuffed rabbit. He wasn't ashamed of it at all, that a grown ass man slept with a teddy. he liked to cuddle as he slept.
He covered himself in the blanket (deciding not to strip down), and kept his bunny at his side while Kevin wrapped his tail around the ginger's body. he jolted from off of Kevin's belly at her accusation. "Of course I won't! What kind of man do you think I am." he held his head in a way that showed some kind of pride. "I will make it a mission to keep you entertained and fed!"
"Hmm that's a shame... I guess instead of singing I could do circus tricks around the fire instead." He mused out loud, since her dance moves sounded far more fancy than his, so doing tricks seemed like the better option.
"R-really? But that's when all the stars come out! Spooky stories too. But alright, I won't stop you." unlike penny, flix was a heavy sleeper and could probably sleep through a storm if he didn't get wet.
When he pursed his lips, Penny let out a small chuckled, admiring his determination to convince her that he would be great sleeping in the rain. It was the same kind of determination that would probably keep him stubborn enough to stalemate an abjuction. Provided they didn't know his weak spots, Flix could probably take secrets to the grave.
She briefly wondered how he did on his interrogation tests. They had made the simulations pretty serious and realtistic... She had even gotten a scar from hers. They were ruthless with her because she signed the waiver saying they could be.
"Mmm, I'll make you some pasta, first." She whistled for Bruce, who came trotting out of the tent to light the bunsen, before plopping a pot down onto it. She poured a bit of bottled water into the pot and waited for it to boil before pouring some rotini in, humming all the while.
"Spooky stories? Maybe if I wake up. I'm a light sleeper, so it'll probably happen at least once." She stared at the pasta while it cooked, before looking up and him, laughing slightly at his circus trick suggestion.
"No need, the company is enough entertainment, really." Penelope was always one to reassure people, even if they hated her guts. Having a sound mind was good for missions.
◄ "Hello there! Welcome to the world of Pokémon! My name is Oak! People call me the Pokémon Prof! This world is inhabited by creatures called Pokémon! For some people, Pokémon are pets. Other use them for fights. Myself… I study Pokémon as a profession. First, what is your name? Right! Let me give you a quick introduction of Pokemon Infinity while you are here.
