route_1065 | [OPEN TO ROCKETS] Run, run, as fast as you can!

Who: Vanellope von Schweetz and ANYONE AT THE BASE.
Where: Goldenrod City - Rocket base.
When: May 21st - after the day's newbie training.
Summary: Vanellope's got a real bed. Time to check out the rest of her new digs.
Rating: A for Adorable? I will put something real here if anything comes up.
Log:
[There's a cute little girl running around the Rocket base. ...Why in the world is there a cute little girl running around the Rocket base.

Well, for one: she's bored. Two: nobody's tried to kick her out, yet. And three: how the heck did she get here, this wasn't Diet Cola Mountain at all. It wasn't anywhere in Sugar Rush Speedway, which would be impossible. It's time to find the station gate around here and try to go back through it, even if she wouldn't necessarily mind staying a while, what with having something more comfortable than a candy wrapper to curl up in at night.

Unfortunately, all her zipping around just keeps getting her lost. Even the Zubat following her around doesn't really seem to know where they are.]

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[After doing a few laps and a sweet pirouette around Berserker's horn, Boogie flaps in the direction she heard Vanellope's yelp of surprise, making a squeaky racket until she can confirm her trainer's wellbeing.

Vanellope, on the other hand, isn't worried at all--she's smiling, actually--until she also takes stock of the situation.

...Kids her age didn't tend to play nicely. Especially if they had white-blonde hair.]

I think you'll find I had the right-of-way, here. The bat can vouch for me.

[Berserker growls irritably at the bat and swats at it a bit, but Ilya pats his leg and he settles down pretty quickly, picking his tiny trainer up with a single hand.]

Seems Berserker disagrees. But either way, don't go running in the base. You'll get yourself into trouble, like I did riding him through town when I arrived.

[Dusting herself off, Ilya folds her arms and looks Vanellope over.] You're new, aren't you?

[Wow, yeah, that is not a character she wants to mess with. When she lifts herself to her feet, she tries to make sure there's a enough of a distance that she can get away if the thing tries to make a grab for her.]

What? But running's way better! You see more stuff. [Vanellope sweeps her bangs off to the side again, looking over Ilya.] To this game? Yeah, guess so. Arrived here yesterday.

[She notices Van backing up, but doesn't say anything about it. After all, it's a perfectly reasonable reaction to her hulking rock rhino.]

No, you just see it a little faster. Until you bump into someone and fall over and then you aren't seeing anything new for a while.

[But, hmmm, she's not the first one to have called Johto a "game" that Ilya's talked to. Time to go out on a limb here...] Do you know a huge man named Ralph?

Potatoh, potahto.

[SHRUG. Walking was still worse that her method, in her opinion.

The question she's a bit more curious about, though, if the critical eye is anything to go by.]

...You Alice or somethin'?

Alice? No, my name's Ilya. I don't know any Alice. I just ran into Ralph once on my first day here, and he talked about this world being a "game" too. I think I sort of see what he meant, but I'm still not sure why that was what he, or you, went to first.

[Well! It's more than a bit relieving to know that this girl who was similarly tiny was not Ralph's new friend she'd been told about.]

Oh, good! Well, Ilya, I'm Vanellope.

[Wow, Ralph was not kidding when he said some people here had their coding screwed with so bad that they forgot they were characters. Looks like she and him got off easy, this time.]

Nnnevermind then. It's just a thing from...where we're from. Anyway, what's that huge thing? [She points up at Berserker, even if...there's really nothing else she could be referring to.] It's way bigger than Booger Bat, here.

[She raises an eyebrow at the sudden topic shift, but she doesn't press it yet, just files it away for later. Besides, Vanellope just gave her an excuse to brag about her Pokemon, and that's an opportunity she'll happily take!]

That's Berserker. He's what's called a Rhydon, and he's my starter. Well, one of them. Orpheus is in his ball right now because he wouldn't stop practicing his shrieking.

Berserker's just as strong as he looks, and he can get pretty dangerous if you make him mad, but don't worry too much! I've got him under control.

Sounds like Ralph.

[She gives Berserker another look over, eying him from top to bottom.]

You said you ride him, right? He fast?

Very fast. But he's not good at stopping or turning, so he's likely to crash into things.

[She doesn't seem too upset about this fact, judging by that wide smile.]

[Luckily for Ilya, Vanellope's grin is just as big.]

Definitely like Ralph. Where can I get one of these?

That I'm not so sure about. I started off with him, so... the only way I know of to get more would be for him to have children.

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