/Mantine, FL_Mantine Mall_August/Thursday/2:34pm_Cloudy with light drizzle\

\Mim/

Shuppet and I made it to the drivers side of the car as I took the keys out and unlocked the door.

"Stop that kecleon!"

We turned around and saw an officer hot in pursuit of a shiny, beige and brown kecleon with a beige stripe. However, it was able to give her the slip by camouflaging its body and hiding its stripe next to a beige parked station wagon.

'Don't see those anymore,' I thought as I watched the officer run past it, and us, as she into the mall, yelling, "You aren't getting away this time!"

It un-blended and walked up to us, "Thank for not tell," It said, in a high class sounding, yet childish males voice.

"No problem, but what did you do for her to chase you down like that?" I asked him, patting his head. He smacked my hand away and said, "My beez wax!"

He turned around and was about to run away, that was until he saw the same officer come storming out of the mall, in our direction. "Sir, have you seen this poke'mon," She held up a picture of the kecleon, "I saw him running away from you before you ran into the mall." I answered, not lying, but not telling the entire story, "Can you tell me what it did?"

She eyed me suspiciously, then spoke, "Well, you look like an honest guy, so listen up!" She straightened up her demeanor and continued, "This perpetrator has committed the crime of stealing food from individuals around the city, and then eluding capture by the police, so if you see him, please contact us at the Mantine Police Department!" She turned and then ran off, in search of the kecleon.

"(You can come out now.)" Shuppet said as she floated to the drivers side, back seat window.

Kecleon un-blended once more, revealing himself to be in the backseat of 'my' car, "You think, I stay with?"

"What now?" I said as I couldn't understand him, but he said it again, "You think, I stay with?" He said, a little more irritated this time, I just looked at him. "(*sigh!* Do you think I could stay with you?)" he said, in Ulimi this time.

I was a bit taken aback, "What do you mean by that, we just met!" I said flustered. Kecleon was shyly kicking the floor with his hands behind his back, "(Well, I have seen many trainers try and catch me the moment that I steal their food, or shun and hate me when they find out the truth of it, but you defended me twice, and for that, I thank you, and wish to return the favor and be your poke'mon.)" he said, like a little kid greeting his classmates for the first time.

It was 'sooo cute', that I grabbed him into a hug and said, "Of course you can be my poke'mon, right Arnyek?" I turned my head to shuppet. She was looking down a bit, but answered, "(You never hugged me like that.)" I smiled and pulled her into a group hug, as I began to tickle them both, causing all of us to laugh, "(Haha, fine, haha, he can join the team, haha)" shuppet agreed though her laughs.

"Oh, and by the way, I am Mim Upendo Liebe, but my friends call me Mul or Barrog!" He looked at me questioningly, "Mul are my initials and barrog is an old Irish word for hug." I explained to him, as I put both poke'mon in the passenger seat and cranked the Hummer on...

~o~

/In the car, on the way to MUPiT_3:03pm\

\Kecleon/

I was sitting in the passenger seat while master was driving, and shuppet was floating in between us. "So Arnyek, do you have another poke'ball on you?" Master asked, "(I'm sorry, I only had one.)" Shuppet apologized, while I wondered, 'why does she have a name, I want one too,' So I looked up at master to ask, no, 'demand' a name, "Me want name!" Master made the car swerve a little, 'maybe I shouldn't have yelled in his ear.'

"Oh, I almost forgot!" Master closed his eyes and crossed his arms for a second, causing shuppet to take the wheel, "Hmm, how about Gyik?" He said opening his eyes yet he kept his arms crossed, "(Uh, Mim!)" shuppet said.

"Me like!" I said, jumping up and hugging master, as he returned the gesture.

*HONK!*

"(I'm not licenced to operate anything!)"

We all looked at the road as a set of head lights swerved out of the way as Mim quickly regained control of the wheel, and parked, while I flew into the back seat and shuppet face planted into the windshield.

"Woah, I believe we can all agree, that this wasn't mine, or anyones, fault... But mostly not mine." Master said, gaining a glare from both shuppet and I.

"Leeets just keep going, we need to be rested up for tomorrow, thats when I take my exam!" He said as he pulled out of the make-shift parking spot in a playground and hit the gas. Once again, traveling the moistened streets of the sun shine state...

~o~

/MUPiT Dormitory_4:05\

\Arnyek/Shuppet/

We made it to the Mim's dorm room and made ourselves comfortable, the room was completely symmetrical, with a bed, TV, desk, chair, and a chest, on each side, with a window as the dividing line.

"(So which bed is yours?)" I asked, floating around the room, looking at all the high class furniture.

"The side on the right, with the plushies on the bed." He said, as he went to his chest, and pulling out a red chain and a wide lens.

"(What are those for?)" I questioned, looking at the items, as he walked towards me with the red chain.

"'This' is a battle item called red chain, I have no idea what it does, but it looks cool!" He estatically squee'd as he wrapped it around my neck like a scarf, a metal and kinda heavy scarf.

He then walked over and put the lens on kecleon's left eye, "And, this is a wide lens, it boosts accuracy by 10%!"

"Why you give us?" Kecleon wondered as we got our gifts. Mim just chuckled silently and said, "It should give us an edge in battle, and I want us to get some training in," He pointed dramatically at the door, "so I set us up to battle some of the practice poke'mon in the gymnasium!" He pointed to us now, "Lets go!"

~o~

We arrived in the gym, it was huge, like a stadium, 'or was it a Colosseum,' I haunted once, anyway, it had seats encircling the center, some of them being occupied by students in lab coats, on the ground was a huge square marked in chalk, it had a poke'ball design in its center with colorful shape designs adorning it.

Standing in the square, on the far half on a red circle, was none other than Ludwig, in a pair of blue swim trunks and holding a remote control, but he was not alone, next to him on a green square was the roserade from the casino, minus the skimpy outfit, and just a few feet ahead of them was a starmie.

"Good to see you Mim, thanks for not giving me a lift, Veronica here had given me a ride back, and luckily she has a licence 'and' a car!" Ludwig commented in an irritated tone, 'what a pervjerk'.

"Is that the roserade that you, well, you know!" Mim called out, as he simultaniously blushed, caused the small crowed to roar in laughter, make Ludwig and roserade embarrassed, and cause the starmie to face-fault.

"ZAT IZ IT!" Ludwig fumed and pressed a button on the remote in his hand, causing the the stage to open at the chalk lines, reveling a pool and some floating shapes, "Mim, me, you, battle, NOW!"

When the stage had opened, Ludwig and roserade were each on top of a separate floating shape, the starmie had dived in to the water, unable to be seen. Meanwhile, I was floating next to Mim, who thankfully was standing on a yellow triangle, and kecleon managing to cling to his leg, as kecleon began crying out loud, "Me no want die, me no want die!"

"Hey kecleon calm down, whats wrong?" Mim said patting his head with his left arm, then turned his head to me and said, "Arnyek, hold'em off for a bit, so I can see why Gyik's acting like this!"

I nodded and began to charging towards Ludwig, but was cut off buy the starmie jumping out of the water, and in front of me.

"Starmie use surf to knock Mim's team into the water!" Ludwig ordered a little to zealous. Starmie complied, causing the water to raise and go over all of us. I was washed around a little, being severely weakened in the process, but I still made it to the surface, but when I looked for Mim, he was nowhere in site. Ludwig and roserade had managed to stay on their shapes, but it seemed that they were looking for where Mim went to as well.

"Looking for us!"

We all looked up, and to our surprise, standing on a support beam were Mim and kecleon, both in a heroic pose, "Gyik grab his remote!" Mim ordered as kecleon nodded and shot out his tongue, lassoing the remote and bringing it to Mim, much to Ludwig's surprise.

"How, how vere you able to get up zhere and get ze remote from all ze vay over here?" Ludwig said, trying to calculate a way to salvage the situation. Mim silently laughed, "TELL ME NOW!" Mim almost fell off of the beam from Ludwig's sudden outburst, thankfully being kept from said fate by a close by kecleon.

"Well, look at his eye." Mim said, trying to decipher the remote in his hands.

"I see, you've given him ze vide lens, oh ho, nice strategy." Ludwig complimented rubbing his chin in thought, "Zhen I forfeit!" He said throwing his arms up. I have no idea what prompted my trainer to ask what he asked.

"You forfeit, why~?" Mim asked as he rappled down from the beam via kecleon tongue, falling down o his rear when he reached the bottom, but quickly getting up.

"Izn't it obvious, you vould have simply switched the battlefield from vater to fire." Ludwig answered, matteroffactly.

Mim made it back on the yellow triangle, "Wow, that would have been a great idea, glad you gave up then!" Mim said, pressing a button to switch the field back to normal.

Ludwig seemed to have a facial expression akin to just being kicked in the nuts.

"Vhat are you saying, you veren't planning zis?" Mim shook his head at Ludwig's question, signalling for kecleon to jump down, "So, you von by sheer luck and my overestimation of you?" Mim nodded, holding a very terrified looking kecleon.

"I only wanted to use it to turn it back, Gyik here is apparently has a phobia of drowning whenever he sees a large body of water, and said he can't swim because of it." Mim said, craddling kecleon, much to it's delight, "Then I was gonna try and have him tarzan me into you, then wing it afterward."

Ludwig just stared awestruck as Mim began walking towards the exit, so I followed, but not before hearing a thud, and a gasp from a certain roserade.

~o~

/MUPiT Dinning Hall_6:30pm\

\Gyik/Kecleon/

Master sat me down on a fixed, black metal stool, at a long green table, and told us to wait while he left to get us dinner, leaving shuppet and I alone.

"(So Gyik, why are you afraid of drowning?)" Shuppet asked in a concerned tone. I couldn't help but start crying, "(I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry, look!)" She began making faces, and started jump-roping with her chain.

"Glad to see you two- OW!" Master yelped, dropping the trays on the table, due to making shuppet jump and accidently smack him in the face with the red chain before putting it back around her neck. Master rubbed his cheek, and smiled.

"I thought 'ghosts' were supposed to be doing the scaring, heh!" He joked.

"(I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to hit you, I was just trying to cheer him up!)" Shuppet apologized, then changing her tone to a more sophisticated one, closing her eyes and saying, "(And thats just a stereotype, so I ask you not to be racist.)"

Master  looked sad, "I'm sorry." He apologetically said with sad growlithe eyes. This made shuppet immediately rub her head against his, causing him to do the same, "Lets forget the ordeal ever happened and eat, we have a big day tomorrow and need our strength!" Master said shoving a whole steak into his mouth.

"(Lets.)" Shuppet said, floating to a strawberry cheesecake, causing me to feel a little left out, since I couldn't reach the table. However, it didn't last for long as Master moved me to his lap, and began feeding me. I felt a warmness in my heart.

Pushing me into thought, 'I won't fail you Master Mim, not like I did to, Fara."

\Narrator/

Mim and friends seem to be enjoying the night as they prepare for the day ahead, soon take their first step outside of the grasp of safety and into adventure, or to fail.

Tune in next time on, Blood, Sweat, and Poke'mon!