Lucki

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She headed back into the forest, starting north. She came across the tropius before long, and cringed. His wings were just gone, probably torn off on the way, leaving just four vibrant green bumps on his back where they had been attached.

"Hey, are you okay?" Lucki asked worriedly.

The tropius nodded slowly.

"But your wings...are you sure?"

The tropius nodded again. "Pius." He didn't seem to be in any pain.

"Well, okay," she responded dubiously. "If you're sure."

The tropius just nodded a third time.

"Well, I met up with Team Aqua. Seems they're here to stop Team Magma too. The one I met up with was really confident. I guess we'll find out if he's right or not, because he said by the time I got there, they'd have won." She grinned. "I guess we should get going and find out, huh?"

They continued northward for several minutes. Soon, they were almost there.

"Trop!" called a voice, and Lucki turned to see a pair of tropius bound out of the trees toward them. The two were smaller than the one who'd been traveling with her, and both their wings were undamaged.

"Trop!" replied Tropius.

"I guess they really did it," Lucki remarked. She sped up to go around the bend of the path, where the truck had been.

It was gone, but there was a different Team Aqua member waiting who grinned and waved when he saw her. "Hey, you're the girl who got attacked by some psy-type earlier?"

"Um, yeah."

"I've got a message to pass on: Sorry, but the Officer Jenny said she was taking all the trainer's pokemon back to the pokecenter for redistribution. So, you'll have to pick them up there." He shrugged. "But no worries, we got everything. Although they got away...well, they've always excelled at high-tailing it afterwards. Have to be good at something, right?" He grinned.

Lucki smiled back. "Yeah."

"Well, that's all I had to pass on. Bye!" He headed off.

Lucki sighed. I guess I'll have to wait a bit longer to get my pokemon back. No big deal, though, I'll be in Fortree soon.

She turned to see the tropius. "Well, we did it," she told the grass type, who nodded in response. "Um, I was wondering, now that that's done, would you like to come with me, as one of my pokemon?"

The tropius nodded again.

"All right!" Lucki yelled.