First friend
(Ft. Rue and Banny)
The walls were stark white. Always were. Never changed, never shifted.
She would watch these walls for hours, waiting for something, anything to happen.
Sometimes things would. A grunt would come and get her for her routine check up but after she'd be quickly put back in her room. Rarely let out.
She was much too young to wander out alone. Not trusted enough.
Her eye was still recovering, the bandages bloody and itchy. So horribly itchy. She wanted to claw at it but she'd been yelled at too many times. She'd face punishment if she tried again.
She needed something to distract her. She didn't care if it was another fight. If she saw that Mightyena again, she'd-
Whirring. She stiffened as the door slid open behind her, clicking along its journey. She waited. She was told never to turn around until instructed. Last time she did, she saw a needle and had sent the man flying.
However, part of her knew this one wasn't a human. Something about the tiny steps it took told her such.
"S'alright. Ya c'n turn." Its voice sent a shiver down her spine. It was deeper than any she'd heard and had a faint echo to it- like it had a constant copycat attached.
However, she listened and looked over her shoulder to see it. However, nothing was there.
"Down 'ere."
Her head lowered until finally she spotted it. A small pokemon with black pigmentation and red eyes that look into hers curiously.
"N'mes Banny. Nice ta meetcha." It held out its hand, the middle of its arm sagging in the middle where its elbow would be.
"Uhm." She stared down at him. "Mewtwo." She replies, putting out her own and giving a shake.
"Ah. Righ'. Mewtwo." Banny's eyes narrow. "Ya gots quite th' reputation."
"Do I?" She questioned. Sincerely she's not quite sure why people would speak of her. She's not that interesting- besides being the last of her kind. At least that's what her guards told her.
"Duh. Ya th' newest memb'r. Everyone's dyin' to meet ya." The Pokemon shuffled and scrambles its way to sit beside her. "Looks like somebody 'ready did, tho."
She doesn't miss the way its eyes seem to look over her cuts and bruises from her battle. She couldn't. She's wired by now to notice every single movement near her.
"Was it th' brat? Big ol' stinky dog?"
She snorted. She couldn't believe she just snorted in front of a guest. However, Banny seemed unbothered. In fact, it grinned wider.
"I- well, I wouldn't say that." She covered her mouth, trying to stifle her laughter. "But, yeah, he was… interesting."
"Ya c'n say 'e was a bitch, I won' tell." Banny offers, its tail beginning to wag. "'re both thinkin' it."
"Where did you even come from???" She stuttered out between her laughs, clutching her stomach.
"Oh, y'know."
"No, I don't!"
"Bit of 'ere, bit of there. 've come from everywhere." The Banette begins to sway its legs, eyes curving upwards into crescents as it eyes her. "Y're bett'r than anyone else 've met. All got sticks up 'eir asses."
"That's rude!" Still, she has to resist giggling. Something about this 'mon has her feel like she's being told marvelous jokes.
"N't wrong~" Banny sang out, before breaking into a fit of laughter of their own.
And it was pleasant to sit there, laughing with it, but she also knew it couldn't stay.
Nobody could.
Finally, once she's regained her breath, she opens her mouth to address it but suddenly the doors swing open again and in marches-
A Zoroark.
Oh, but she's seen this one before. It's hard to forget a Pokemon that's half-shiny.
"Captain!" She squeaks out, back straightening as they draw near. But, their attention isn't on her.
Whipping around, they grab the Banette by the tail. "Banny, you are not authorized to be here!" They barked, lifting it so its eyes were level with theirs.
Banny didn't look fazed. "H'h? Y'sure? Swore I w's."
"You are the bane of my existence, you rat! Leave Mewtwo alone, they have training in an hour!" Captain snaps, dropping Banny abruptly only to start dragging it out by the arm.
She watches, eyes wide in awe as Banny still has the confidence to raise its other arm and wave. "G'dbye! S'ya next Chr'stmas!"
She rose her own and bid her own farewell with a sway of her arm. However, it took her a moment to process that...
It wasn't Christmas.
She tried to keep it at bay but once the door slid shut, she burst into another round of giggles. What a silly Pokemon!
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Banny, on his way out, of course heard. Their smile stretches wide upon hearing the laughter.
"What's got her so jolly?" Captain grunts, narrowing their eyes to glare suspiciously at Banny. "Did you infect her with something?"
"Yeah. 's called joy. Not tha' ya guys would know 'bout it."
Captain merely rolls her eyes in response. "Banny, you know this is for her own good. If she were out there, she'd-"
"-be happy? Wit' 'er real fam'ly?" Banny interrupted swiftly. "Ya act like 're savin' h'r but y'know we ain't."
"It'd do you good to keep your mouth shut." Was the Zoroark's snarled response. "That zipper ain't working."
"S'rry, it only lets me talk if 's th' truth."
The Banette was then promptly tossed into their own room and they shrug as they watch the door slowly start to slide shut, Captain's fierce glare locked on him.
Well, guess not leaving the room this week either.
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