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[Pfft.] Wukong had to keep himself from laughing as Lancer prepared to give the other team a touchdown. [What an idio-OOF!]

Drill Rush struck the Monferno in the gut, and he fell out of the air in front of Salieri. The Battle Girl was more preoccupied watching the other end of the field. Did it count as their touchdown if Lancer was the one to make it? Well, it was better to be safe then sorry.

“Slam dunk!”

A Vine Whip slid out of Chen Zhen’s wrist as he continued running, zooming to Lancer to wrap around him and the ball. If he could do it, the Pansage would lift both the Karrablast and the football over his head, and then swing them down into the endzone for the touchdown.

((Hey, Amazing Spider-Man was spectacular))

((Easily the best Spider-Man movie. I'm gonna go watch it again soon))

((Should be ready to timeskip soon I think? I'll leave Henrietta open for interaction and if it doesn't come she'll depart to sleep.))

It was like being at the gym again, upside down, twists and turns every which way. Henrietta's experience at the gym had been more dangerous though. Here you were locked into a seat, held in place by a bar or two large pieces of machinery that went over the chest.

Basically, it was the height, the vertigo, otherwise she couldn't get comfortable. Looking around the rollercoaster people were screaming, excited with their arms in the air despite warning signs that told them not to.

Looking over at Azucena she could see that the girl was much the same.

"Come on," Azucena said as she ran ahead of her and then spun around to face her as she walked backwards through the park. "You gotta loosen up."

"S-sorry," Henrietta said, her gaze shifting.

"Look, the secret is that the rides aren't actually that scary. You know you're safe but you gotta let out the part of you that is afraid of falling, the you that feels like she's flying." Azucena spoke like she had it all figured out. Like the idea of fun was simply second nature.

"I.. don't think I'm like that." It wasn't just because of a feeling like she'd felt something greater, scarier - that she'd actually stared death in the face regularly recently. She was still wary of Azucena.

"Just try it. Come on, that one looks fun." She pointed toward a roller coaster littered with loops that stretched up higher than any of them did.

The lines had grown significantly shorter as it had grown later. Only an orange line could be seen in the distance where the sun was almost completely gone over the horizon. The night sky littered the air, hidden more so than in other places due it the size of the city.

On the roller coaster Henrietta was taken up. She looked down at the ground far below and felt it in her stomach. An uneasiness of vertigo. After the ride made its full height it took off and Henrietta's ears were bombarded by equal parts screaming and equal parts. But deep down in her she could feel it, as the roller coaster reached its top speed and started on the loops.

She was flying.

Her arms rose slowly, to mimic what everyone else was doing. She let herself go and while it wasn't as empathetic as everyone else when asked once they got off "so was it fun?" she responded with - a little smile, "yeah."

***

((As I'm writing this I see that Tonberry summon is adorable. "Doink"))

Ervin inspected Melty. The little guy hadn't said anything and his ability to take life force away seemed harshly mitigated. [You've lost an important part of yourself,] he observed.

Melty merely glared with his one eye.

K-Rok grunted as he sat against the gate near the entrance.

[Your trainer cares a lot about you.] Ervin kept going, the maraca sound of his movement creating a tune.

Melty continued his silence but this didn't seem to bother Ervin who continued talking. [She left you out of your ball, probably so you can try and feast on all the people here.]

But Henrietta didn't know about that, Melty thought.

[Don't worry, my little friend. It won't be lost forever. You just have to find it. The strength of your heart.]

Melty had grown weary of this now. He closed his mind, settling his thoughts and stabilizing his form to some extent with Calm Mind. A technique Henrietta had helped him learn, one that at least let him stabilize on some level. Enough to speak - barely.

[...Gone..]

Ervin nodded his head twice, causing two strong shakes of the maraca sound to come. [Have you looked?]

Melty said nothing this time.

[Did you not talk before because you couldn't, or because you didn't want to?]

[...couldn't..]

Ervin nodded his head again. [So you can fix yourself, but not completely.]

Melty remained silent.

[Perhaps once you've stabilized you could find the missing portion in someone else.] He looked off to the side. [She's already offered you a piece of her heart, will you take it?]

Melty looked where Ervin did to see Henrietta and Azucena approaching but he said nothing.

"We're heading out, boys," Azucena said as she addressed her Pokemon. K-Rok stood up and Ervin nodded his head.

[It was a pleasure, my candle friend.]

"I'll see you at the concert," Azucena said, raising a hand to wave goodbye and Henrietta nodded, waving back although it was a shorter, hesitant one consisting of her fingers curling instead of her hand moving in a direction.

The group departed and Henrietta turned to Melty. "Are you okay?" Melty said nothing and Henrietta picked him up. "I guess we should head home." With that she exited the park.

Henrietta would run into Robby, it was difficult to spot him - somehow. She didn't normally run into others, but perhaps it was that it was crowded and difficult to see beyond all the people anyways. Robby's speed wasn't really notable either.

Stumbling backward, she'd looked up at Robby as he stood there towering over here.

"Robby," she said. He was one name she got a million results on when she tried to look him up. This served an opportune moment.

"Can I talk to you, away from people?" she asked, pointing toward the exit of the amusement park.

"Yeah," Henrietta said. Not that she had any but, "we can get some. I'll pay for it." How much did she have? Enough as long as she watched what Robby ate - he wasn't gonna do that himself.

So, Robby would follow her, presumably.

Henrietta lead the two of them away from the amusement park and out of its parking lot - where there wasn't really room for someone to get close enough while spying to get any intel.

"I was confronted by someone from Team Plasma. They said that if we continue interrupting them we'll die. Our family, our friends, might be at stake. So, you've got to make a choice." She kept her voice low as she spoke, her eyes wandering around. It seemed easier to talk to someone when you didn't directly look at them.

"Either go home, ignore Team Plasma no matter what, or join me and the others - we plan to fight."

"They're an extremist group that wants to liberate Pokemon, even if it means killing a few kids." It was simple. She didn't hate them, but she couldn't let them threaten her friends. It was goal, an antagonist, not a villain or some disney movie evil gang.

"Food? Robby, this is serious." She turned, stopping and looking at him. "You could die."

Avalite stared. This was... probably the most you could expect from Robby. She looked at her C-Gear and, utilizing a public map, she could see his location. She simply invited him to the chatroom.

And then came the boring explanation she gave him, about using it, keeping track, communication, all of that. It probably took ten minutes considering Robby didn't know a thing about them. (Confirmed with Nio IRL)

It was around this time that a voice boomed, "it's the champ!" Goldberg, who had parted ways with Odin some time ago, had run into them on his way to have a good time. At a bar, he thought at first. But seeing Robby?

"How's it goin'? She yer girlfriend?"

Henrietta looked at Robby with an awkward expression. He was.... definitely not that, but....

It was rude to say it, so she didn't, but Henrietta couldn't see Robby in a relationship. He had a terrible personality.