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An Electric Tail (Pikachu Quest)

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[X] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.
[X] A wild mouse chase. Make them work for it. Lead them around the Forest by the nose, bedevil and beleaguer them at every step, until they turn around in frustration and give up.
[X] A Plague of Pests. No longer willing to risk the formidable swarms of the deeper forest, wild Pidgeys and Rattata have turned to Viridian City for their food. Crop fields and urban gardens alike are being stripped bare, pantries and larders are being raided, and hungry, feral Pokemon are taking up residence under sidewalks and along rooftops.
 
[X] Proud. If your mischief has pushed them to the point of bringing people in just to target you, you're clearly doing something right. Do more of it.

[X] A wild mouse chase. Make them work for it. Lead them around the Forest by the nose, bedevil and beleaguer them at every step, until they turn around in frustration and give up.

[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.
2v1 and one was a Ground type? You better believe that ego's growing huge!
 
[X] Proud. If your mischief has pushed them to the point of bringing people in just to target you, you're clearly doing something right. Do more of it.
[X] A war of sabotage. Don't give them a chance. They can't catch you if their Pokeballs fail, their gadgets go missing, their clothes char and their supplies get spoiled. Give them hell.
[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.
 
Okay, not sure what happened there, I was trying to set the end-date of the vote and it closed for some reason. Open again now, though.
 
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[X] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.
[X] A war of sabotage. Don't give them a chance. They can't catch you if their Pokeballs fail, their gadgets go missing, their clothes char and their supplies get spoiled. Give them hell.
[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.

So, Trixie is great! But she should have in mind that there are trainers that aren't morons and that she should have some level of care from here on; For every ten idiots, there must be at least one half-way decent trainer that coud become an issue.

Sabotage is basically a Trickster's style, so that's a go.

The Beedrills and Butterfrees sounds interesting, I'm curious at what would be the consequences for us, yet it's waaay too risky and brutal for me to choose, and Plague of pests sounds curious, but I'll go with something that we can use in our advantage.
 
[X] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.
[X] A war of sabotage. Don't give them a chance. They can't catch you if their Pokeballs fail, their gadgets go missing, their clothes char and their supplies get spoiled. Give them hell.
[X] Beedrills and Butterfrees. With so few trainers able to capture the many Weedles and Caterpies of your home, their adult forms are swarming in greater and greater numbers. Soon they will grow beyond the Forest's ability to support them - and respond with a great Migration that will take them through Human lands at potentially devastating cost.
 
[X] A head-on offensive. Let them come. You'll meet them - not with "fair" fights, but with an arsenal of tricks, traps and taunts to send them scurrying away with their heads hung low.
[X] Beedrills and Butterfrees. With so few trainers able to capture the many Weedles and Caterpies of your home, their adult forms are swarming in greater and greater numbers. Soon they will grow beyond the Forest's ability to support them - and respond with a great Migration that will take them through Human lands at potentially devastating cost.
 
[X] Proud. If your mischief has pushed them to the point of bringing people in just to target you, you're clearly doing something right. Do more of it.
[X] A wild mouse chase. Make them work for it. Lead them around the Forest by the nose, bedevil and beleaguer them at every step, until they turn around in frustration and give up.
[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.

i'm just hoping for a human who can keep up with us. and a wild mouse chase is the best bet to find one if one actually exists
 
[X] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.
[X] A wild mouse chase. Make them work for it. Lead them around the Forest by the nose, bedevil and beleaguer them at every step, until they turn around in frustration and give up.
[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.

Wild mouse and Silk-Choked might synergize, as long as Trixie learns the paths that stay free first.
 
[X] Proud. If your mischief has pushed them to the point of bringing people in just to target you, you're clearly doing something right. Do more of it.
[X] A war of sabotage. Don't give them a chance. They can't catch you if their Pokeballs fail, their gadgets go missing, their clothes char and their supplies get spoiled. Give them hell.
[X] A Plague of Pests. No longer willing to risk the formidable swarms of the deeper forest, wild Pidgeys and Rattata have turned to Viridian City for their food. Crop fields and urban gardens alike are being stripped bare, pantries and larders are being raided, and hungry, feral Pokemon are taking up residence under sidewalks and along rooftops.
Proud because they've accepted our declaration of war. Sabotage as any under-resourced side does in such a war. Pests continues sabotage on their turf.
 
[X] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.
[X] A wild mouse chase. Make them work for it. Lead them around the Forest by the nose, bedevil and beleaguer them at every step, until they turn around in frustration and give up.
[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.

Try and catch the lightning, puny human trainers!
 
[X] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.
[X] A head-on offensive. Let them come. You'll meet them - not with "fair" fights, but with an arsenal of tricks, traps and taunts to send them scurrying away with their heads hung low.
[X] A Plague of Pests. No longer willing to risk the formidable swarms of the deeper forest, wild Pidgeys and Rattata have turned to Viridian City for their food. Crop fields and urban gardens alike are being stripped bare, pantries and larders are being raided, and hungry, feral Pokemon are taking up residence under sidewalks and along rooftops.

Fighting them head-on is scary, yes; but Trixie's got a reputation to keep up. She can't make it seem like all these trainers' incursions are actually getting to her in such a way as to drive her into hiding. No. Drive the humans off head-on, as though completely unaffected; let her area of influence spread beyond the borders of the forest, with the pest-swarms as her farthest-reaching heralds (for now); and watch as her legend grows still further, as humans even far afield begin to whisper of the devilish Pikachu waiting in the slowly-thickening heart of the Viridian Forest for the next hapless trainer to enter her territory.

Disclaimer: this advice optimized for narrative interestingness, not for being even remotely wise. For any famously-troublesome Pikachu who may be reading this, Do Not Try This At Home.
 
[X] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.
[X] A war of sabotage. Don't give them a chance. They can't catch you if their Pokeballs fail, their gadgets go missing, their clothes char and their supplies get spoiled. Give them hell.
[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.

Pikachu has shown that its intelligent. So I chose scared because I think it will recognise the threat trainers pose to its freedom.
 
[X] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.
[X] A head-on offensive. Let them come. You'll meet them - not with "fair" fights, but with an arsenal of tricks, traps and taunts to send them scurrying away with their heads hung low.
[X] Beedrills and Butterfrees. With so few trainers able to capture the many Weedles and Caterpies of your home, their adult forms are swarming in greater and greater numbers. Soon they will grow beyond the Forest's ability to support them - and respond with a great Migration that will take them through Human lands at potentially devastating cost.
 
[X] Proud. If your mischief has pushed them to the point of bringing people in just to target you, you're clearly doing something right. Do more of it.
[X] A wild mouse chase. Make them work for it. Lead them around the Forest by the nose, bedevil and beleaguer them at every step, until they turn around in frustration and give up.
 
[X] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.
[X] A wild mouse chase. Make them work for it. Lead them around the Forest by the nose, bedevil and beleaguer them at every step, until they turn around in frustration and give up.
[X] Beedrills and Butterfrees. With so few trainers able to capture the many Weedles and Caterpies of your home, their adult forms are swarming in greater and greater numbers. Soon they will grow beyond the Forest's ability to support them - and respond with a great Migration that will take them through Human lands at potentially devastating cost.

If Pikachu continues fighting with the kind of logic that leads to headbutting a Geodude to make a point when she could have done something else, I'm not sure this is a good idea to pursue every battle.

If such consequences can happen because of our actions, it won't be long before a tough trainer or even Ash himself come to put an end to the mischief. The best that could happen then is finding a proper trainer and not a brat, adopting a testing approach with the next humans coming would serve best with this perspective.
 
[X] Angry. They think they're the masters of your Forest to the point of pursuing anyone who gives them a taste of their own medicine? How dare.
[X] A war of sabotage. Don't give them a chance. They can't catch you if their Pokeballs fail, their gadgets go missing, their clothes char and their supplies get spoiled. Give them hell.
[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.
 
[X] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.
[X] A wild mouse chase. Make them work for it. Lead them around the Forest by the nose, bedevil and beleaguer them at every step, until they turn around in frustration and give up.
[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.
 
[X] Proud. If your mischief has pushed them to the point of bringing people in just to target you, you're clearly doing something right. Do more of it.
[X] A war of sabotage. Don't give them a chance. They can't catch you if their Pokeballs fail, their gadgets go missing, their clothes char and their supplies get spoiled. Give them hell.
[X] Beedrills and Butterfrees. With so few trainers able to capture the many Weedles and Caterpies of your home, their adult forms are swarming in greater and greater numbers. Soon they will grow beyond the Forest's ability to support them - and respond with a great Migration that will take them through Human lands at potentially devastating cost.
 
[X] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.
[X] A war of sabotage. Don't give them a chance. They can't catch you if their Pokeballs fail, their gadgets go missing, their clothes char and their supplies get spoiled. Give them hell.
[X] A Plague of Pests. No longer willing to risk the formidable swarms of the deeper forest, wild Pidgeys and Rattata have turned to Viridian City for their food. Crop fields and urban gardens alike are being stripped bare, pantries and larders are being raided, and hungry, feral Pokemon are taking up residence under sidewalks and along rooftops.
 
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Look I woke up and found out that a certain memey thing IRL will soon be resolved. I need more cartoonish human misery.

[x] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.
[x] A war of sabotage. Don't give them a chance. They can't catch you if their Pokeballs fail, their gadgets go missing, their clothes char and their supplies get spoiled. Give them hell.
[x] Beedrills and Butterfrees. With so few trainers able to capture the many Weedles and Caterpies of your home, their adult forms are swarming in greater and greater numbers. Soon they will grow beyond the Forest's ability to support them - and respond with a great Migration that will take them through Human lands at potentially devastating cost.
 
Ando Owen said:
If Pikachu continues fighting with the kind of logic that leads to headbutting a Geodude to make a point when she could have done something else
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Uh, not to influence the vote, but that headbutt stalled Geodude's momentum in mid-air and had it drop into the pond, where it got snarled up in weeds, couldn't breathe, couldn't makes its way to the bank and started drowning, thereby taking the Defence-specced tank that was completely immune to all of her offensive options out of the fight in one move for the price of a headache.

Yes, it caught her with a punishing left hook in the exchange, but that move still won her the battle, and if she hadn't written off Machop as an easy opponent without his rocky protector, she could have spotted him from the cover of the reeds and electrocuted him unconscious from a safe distance. Her only other option was leaping away, which would have had Geodude annihilate the stump that was giving her protection from them closing on her and forced her to play keepaway or retreat up into the trees - where Partner Toss would still be able to reach her, gradually chipping away at her safe perches until she was forced to retreat or come down to the ground to fight.
 
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[X] Scared. More humans coming for you means more fights, and sooner or later you risk someone showing up who isn't stupid. Not a good thought.
[X] A wild mouse chase. Make them work for it. Lead them around the Forest by the nose, bedevil and beleaguer them at every step, until they turn around in frustration and give up.
[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.
 
[X] Proud. If your mischief has pushed them to the point of bringing people in just to target you, you're clearly doing something right. Do more of it.
[X] A war of sabotage. Don't give them a chance. They can't catch you if their Pokeballs fail, their gadgets go missing, their clothes char and their supplies get spoiled. Give them hell.
[X] Silk-Choked Streets. With the threat of financial loss and humiliation on the table should they cross paths with you, trainers are sticking more and more to the most well-trod routes through the forest. But this has given silk-spinning Bug-types the opportunity to thrive elsewhere, and many paths through the Forest are now all but impassable.
 
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The headbutt wasn't a cocky 'I think I'm better than you' move, it was the desperate situation Trixie was forced into after getting cocky and thinking she was better than them. It was more or less her only recourse at that point.

And it deserves to be noted, she was better than them in the end! This lone Pikachu defeated two Pokémons working in tandem plus their trainer coordinating them and with Pokéballs at the ready to take advantage of any lapse in attention. But to the extent that she made a tactical mistake, it was at the start of the fight, when she decided two experienced (they beat a Gym Leader!) 'mons fighting together would be no sweat. She acquited herself pretty well all things considering.

I like the flow of that fight, the way it starts as Trixie trolling everybody and then suddenly realizing she's made a mistake as the fight turns to a brutal beatdown from which she escapes using her knowledge of the environment and the local wildlife for which Rojo has no respect. Great stuff.
 
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