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Trish nodded. "I heard the regions have been opening up to more trade and tourism from other regions a lot more over time so who knows how many others there are besides the ones we know of?" She asked as she walked along. "Um....It looks like we're getting closer but we should probably pick up the pace a little bit. Wild Pokemon might come over us if we linger too long."

The two had made it about halfway across route 202 so far. It shouldn't take long to make it to Jubilife City.

Trish started to reply to Lauren when something caught her attention. There was a soft rustling in the underbrush just off the road. "Hm?" The rustling noise escalated in volume slowly, the girl watching for visible signs of what it might be.

"Doof."

"Waa?" Trish was thoroughly confused by the strange rodent-esque creature. She pulled out her SNAG and scanned it to figure out what it was, reading the data as it was displayed.

"Bidoof; The Plump Mouse Pokemon. Normal-type. That doesn't sound very dangerous." She said to herself as she read over it. It wasn't until after she read the remainder that she became slightly concerned.

Idina had walked over and sniffed at Bidoof, only to be knocked back by a close range Tackle.

"Hey! Leave her alone!" She told the beaver. Idina wouldn't take that without retaliating though and returned the rodent's aggression with a Psyshock to it's face. The Normal-type hopped aside and dodged the attack, curling itself into a ball before charging forward with a Rollout.

"Idina! Flame Charge!" The girl would learn only once it was too late, the folly of her call. Idina wreathed herself in flames and rushed towards her rolling attacker, though when the two met, she was easily knocked aside, knocked out as Bidoof continued on it's way, leaving it's defeated assailant in the dust.

"Oh no! What happened?" Trish asked herself, running over to pick up her poor Fire-type.

"Feeeeen." Idina groaned as Trishella pet her, attempting to coax her into consciousness once more.

"Ya. We should hurry to the next town. She doesn't look good after that...." The girl said, though when the Bidoof turned back after her, she was forced to act again. "Pug! Sand Attack!" She cried as she jumped back, throwing out the ball containing her Eevee. The Normal-type appeared and quickly gathered local dust particles together, firing the mote at Bidoof as fast and as accurately as possible. The beaver-thing was moving too fast to hit directly but he was able to hit the ground just ahead of it causing it to skid on the loose earth deposited by the attack, fly off course in the ensuing dust cloud and crash into a tree, knocking itself out from the force of its own attack.

"That was a lucky move..." Trish said as she scratched Pug's head. "Thanks, sweetie. Let's go!" She urged recalling both of her Pokemon to their Pokeballs for safety.

"It was lucky." Trish repeated as she began to move once again. "My Fennekin is the strongest Pokemon I've got right now. I have a few others but....I don't use them as much as I should." She admitted with a downtrodden sigh.

"Dededede!" Dee chattered from within her shirt, poking his head out of her blouse and looking around, spotting Lauren and giving her a curious look. "Denne?" He asked, crawling fully out of his mistress's shirt and crawling up onto her shoulder.

"You don't count." She assured the rodent, petting his head with her thumb and rubbing his chin with her index finger at the same time. By this time, the two would be very close to Jubilife City. Lauren might be able to see the skyline not far off.

"Oh! Wow! This place is big...er. Last time I was here was when I attended the Trainers' School...for a very short time." She sighed, still following behind Trish.

"To me it is...I guess." She shrugged. "So now that we're here...now what? This where we part ways or something?" The girl asked, her lack of confidence showing as her eyes darted all over the place but never mad contact with Trish's.