Sixteenth Flight. [audio/action for travel party.]

[newberktown]

[Among the background bustle--familiar sounds for anyone who's set foot in a Pokemon Center--there's a small whine from an Eevee, almost like a prompt for Hiccup to speak. After another second or so, he does.]

Uh... Has anyone ever, uhmm. [There's another pause. How should he put this...] Lost...half their pokemon? [He clears his throat before continuing, quicker this time like an excuse.] I still have all their pokeballs, and those are registered to all of them still, according to the people at the Center. But I can't find them anywhere...

[Hiccup sighs, and there's a subtle clunk as he moves his hand to the 'gear to shut it off. Before he does, though, there's one last mumble.]

I can't believe this is happening again...

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[newberktown]

[Hiccup sighs.]

I'll try to find them. Maybe see if my friends can help me--but if they don't want to be found, there isn't much I can do about that.

[Mostly noodle.]

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[usedlaserbeam]

If it's of any help, I'll keep an eye out for any reports of, ah, large clusters of wayward Pokemon fitting the description of the ones you lost. Unlikely though it might be that they get as far as another city, an extra set of eyes couldn't hurt. And in any case, Pokemon news in general frequently passes amongst the nurses anyway. If I hear something, I'll make certain to pass it on.

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[newberktown]

Thanks...

[And he really is grateful. It helps that others are offering to keep an eye out. Hiccup also takes the opportunity to explain just which ones had left him--fourteen in total. A little under his original estimate, thankfully.]

There should be a Staraptor, a Feraligatr, a Lapras, an Aerodactyl, a Charmander, a Carracosta, a Blitzle, a Kabuto, a Larvitar, a Treecko-- [big breath.] --an Igglybuff, a Vespiquen, an Ampharos, and a Flaaffy.

[Y-yeah, he's...not sure how some of those LAPRAS? actually got away unnoticed.]

All should register me as their original trainer, I think...