An Electric Tail (Pikachu Quest)

Now the question is, how far and to what degree do we wish to further humiliate this foolish trainer?

All the morality and behaviour talk has me wondering if OG Mewtwo is still around. Trixie already has a surprising amount in common with them, so I think they'd have a lot to talk about

[X] With speed. Take to the trees, exploit the environment. Machop can't climb, and Geodude is pitifully slow. Make him regret underestimating your speed.

[X] With help. Two against one odds just mean you have twice the available victims. Turn his Pokemon against one another and humiliate him with his own team.

[X] With help. Two against one odds just mean you have twice the available victims. Turn his Pokemon against one another and humiliate him with his own team

[X] With help. Two against one odds just mean you have twice the available victims. Turn his Pokemon against one another and humiliate him with his own team

[X] With help. Two against one odds just mean you have twice the available victims. Turn his Pokemon against one another and humiliate him with his own team.

This is great, I love it! Playing up the trickster aspect seems like the most fun, and this seems like the best way to do it.

[X] With tools. This silly human thinks a Type advantage will work to his favour. Show him how wrong he is and use the Forest to do what your lightning cannot.

What's the point in having little racoon hands if we don't use them?

[X] With help. Two against one odds just mean you have twice the available victims. Turn his Pokemon against one another and humiliate him with his own team.

[X] With tools. This silly human thinks a Type advantage will work to his favour. Show him how wrong he is and use the Forest to do what your lightning cannot.

[X] With help. Two against one odds just mean you have twice the available victims. Turn his Pokemon against one another and humiliate him with his own team.

[X] With help. Two against one odds just mean you have twice the available victims. Turn his Pokemon against one another and humiliate him with his own team.

Friendly fire, isn't. And this can extend into further humiliation of trainers trying to catch us in the future. Because in >99% of battles, the trainer(s) stand off to the side giving orders while the 'mons fight it out. With some proper planning and positioning, we could get the trainer's own Pokemon to take him/her out. And it neatly gets around our promise to the Ash Human, because we aren't the ones attacking those humans.

[X] With help. Two against one odds just mean you have twice the available victims. Turn his Pokemon against one another and humiliate him with his own team.

Kymecho said:

All the morality and behaviour talk has me wondering if OG Mewtwo is still around. Trixie already has a surprising amount in common with them, so I think they'd have a lot to talk about

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Hm. The mention of M01 Mewtwo has reminded me about the Clone Pokemon that Mewtwo made and, more specifically, Pikachutwo. I wonder if it would be possible for us to meet his potential descendants and/or our... cousins, I suppose?

Fic Praise

First things first, I loved this chapter. Thank you so much for it.

It's a perfect beginning to a story like this because, like, yeah, our Pikachu is in fact getting in way over her head. She has hubris, and genuinely hurt someone more than was warranted, and pushed things further than she should have, and now there will be consequences. And that's exactly how a story with a joyfully vindictive trickster character should get its plot rolling. I love it.

Fic Voting

So ... to be blunt I'm expecting our Pikachu to get her ass kicked. Both in terms of narrative beats and the practical matchup, that's what seems to be about to happy. Our Pikachu is about to experience serious combat with trained battle pokemon for the first time. It's going to be a 2 vs. 1 matchup. One of those pokemon is straight up immune to anything she can directly throw at them. And their trainer has a Fast Ball which we barely avoided when charged up, prepared, and waiting expectantly for it. And, narratively, our Pikachu does deserve a humbling.

It's gonna be bad is what I'm saying.

So I'm not voting based on what I think is most likely to squeak out a win (using the environment against them), but what's most likely to put us in a position where we an escape with our hide. And that's-

[X] With speed. Take to the trees, exploit the environment. Machop can't climb, and Geodude is pitifully slow. Make him regret underestimating your speed.

She's going to take a beating, but hopefully if she's off the ground and taking advantage of speed and cover, she'll be able to make it out without taking a Fast Ball to the face.

(I don't think turning them against each other will work at all. That seems like a sucker's trap, assuming the least of opponents who are actually well trained and regularly work together.)

Aleph said:

"You... ugh... little...!" he snarls, spitting out mud and pushing himself up to his feet as soon as he can move again. "This jacket is designer, you little rat!"

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And you're the one who wore it into a jungle to chase wild animals, genius.

Aleph said:

Look, you guys were the ones who voted for the option that specifically called out how you like making Humans miserable.

Don't blame me for this.

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Blames Aleph for this.

[X] With speed. Take to the trees, exploit the environment. Machop can't climb, and Geodude is pitifully slow. Make him regret underestimating your speed.

[X] With tools. This silly human thinks a Type advantage will work to his favour. Show him how wrong he is and use the Forest to do what your lightning cannot.

[x] With tools. This silly human thinks a Type advantage will work to his favour. Show him how wrong he is and use the Forest to do what your lightning cannot.

I like this for building on her earlier work and how she's kind of weirdly intelligent and sophisticated for a wild Pikachu.

I love this. Trixie is deep in the Pit of Potential Character Development and she gets to be a complete brat in the meantime. This kid is ALSO deep in the Pit and their relationship will be deliciously antagonistic if he actually manages to catch her.

[x] With help. Two against one odds just mean you have twice the available victims. Turn his Pokemon against one another and humiliate him with his own team

[x] With tools. This silly human thinks a Type advantage will work to his favour. Show him how wrong he is and use the Forest to do what your lightning cannot.

[X] With tools. This silly human thinks a Type advantage will work to his favour. Show him how wrong he is and use the Forest to do what your lightning cannot.

The help option is very tempting, but I almost always vote for the high-social-focus options, and I figure it'll be fun to do something different this time.

Tulip said:

[X] With tools. This silly human thinks a Type advantage will work to his favour. Show him how wrong he is and use the Forest to do what your lightning cannot.

The help option is very tempting, but I almost always vote for the high-social-focus options, and I figure it'll be fun to do something different this time.

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The help vote sounds more like dodging/tricking them to have them hit each other than actual help with social-ing.

Sengachi said:

So ... to be blunt I'm expecting our Pikachu to get her ass kicked. Both in terms of narrative beats and the practical matchup, that's what seems to be about to happy. Our Pikachu is about to experience serious combat with trained battle pokemon for the first time. It's going to be a 2 vs. 1 matchup. One of those pokemon is straight up immune to anything she can directly throw at them. And their trainer has a Fast Ball which we barely avoided when charged up, prepared, and waiting expectantly for it. And, narratively, our Pikachu does deserve a humbling.

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I do believe you are mistaken for a few reasons.

The first is that this is not the first trainer she has tormented, he is not even among a particularly small number. This is long term and established behavior for her, and as this chapter demonstrates, she's learned and experienced in the matter of dealing with trainers and this is not her first serious battle with trained pokemon. She's wild, most actual battles are going to be serious.

Further, comparing trained pokemon to wild ones is a pretty fraught endeavor. The source material, and even what we've seen here in this quest so far indicates that its a pretty straight toss up.

The two things of them having a type immune and another fast ball are pretty clear set up for the stakes of failure: she gets beaten and captured and forced to suffer the indignity. Is that going to molify her pride? I don't think so. And, what happens after she's captured? She breaks out and fries that ball, and her 'trainer' to leave him twitching on the roadside. But I doubt that this will actually occur because this is early enough in the course of the narrative that we're still establishing the scope of Trixie's behavior and the risks involved.

So I think its fair to read it like you have and I agree there should be consequences, but I think its a flawed reading to take it as far as she'll actually be caught or even remotely humbled. We're still establishing the foundations of the story, the behavior she has formed being shown to us as readers so that we can understand its extent.

[X] With help. Two against one odds just mean you have twice the available victims. Turn his Pokemon against one another and humiliate him with his own team.

[x] With tools. This silly human thinks a Type advantage will work to his favour. Show him how wrong he is and use the Forest to do what your lightning cannot.

We could have been a professional, but alas, it was not to be

[X] With help. Two against one odds just mean you have twice the available victims. Turn his Pokemon against one another and humiliate him with his own team.

Turning your enemy's strengths into weaknesses is a hallmark of the trickster, and the most scalable way to punch above our weight.