Snippet #1743128

The alarm on her wristwatch went off, beeping and beeping until finally with a moan, Alexis’ opposing hand reach over and clicked it off. She opened her grey eyes, they were dull with the remnants of slumber, groaning, she rubbed at her eyes with her hands. So . . . so early!! Oh, how she hated early mornings like this, she was NOT a morning person! And this was only made worse with the knowledge that she had to go through her painstakingly careful routine of making sure that she had herself properly disguised and everything necessary bound and made flat so that her body’s natural feminine physique would not betray her!

Taking her fists off of her eyes, she stared up at the ceiling of the Pokémon Center she had crashed in the night before. The Nurse Joy there had been nice enough to let her sleep on the couch in the lobby since Alexis happened to be short on funds from financing her trip by boat to the Renea Region. Unfortunately though, the couch she had slept on was anything but comfortable so Alexis’ poor back was stiff and sore. . . . “Owww. . . .” she groaned, sitting up and rubbing at her back, “Wow, that hurts a lot more than I expected it to. . . .”

Wincing still, she looked down at the floor below her to see Undine still snoozing away on her back. . . . A snot bubble coming out of one her nostrils; at seeing this Alexis could only grimace in disgust. Considering she’s such a sassy thing, I’d think she’d have some more, I don’t know, female charm to her. . . . Shaking her head with a sigh, Alexis moved her foot from the couch and down to her Totodile’s stomach and poked at it with her toes lightly. “Undine, oh Undine~” she chirped softly, trying to awaken the Pokémon as gently as possible since she was prone to biting if startled from her sleep.

When the gentle approach failed to even rouse Undine in the slightest, Alexis groaned, pulled her foot back up to the couch and snagged a pillow out from behind her and looked back down to the snot-bubble producing Water-Pokémon.

For a moment, Alexis could only wonder how it was that this particular Totodile knew Water Gun instead of Bubble. . . . “Whatever, she’s a weirdo, just like her trainer.” Lifting the pillow above her head, Alexis took a deep breath in before readying herself for this, “Undine . . . WAKE UP!!” she shouted, throwing the pillow on top of the snoozing Totodile who awoke with quite the fright.

The Totodile scrambled up to her feet while blubbering her name, as most Pokémon did to speak. Hastily she peered from side to side, making sure she wasn’t under attack or something . . . and when she spotted the pillow she looked up at her trainer, who just happened to be grinning at her. “Well morning you snot-bubbling making sleeping beauty!”

At hearing what Alexis had called her, and given the manner in which she had been woken up, Totodile started sputtering her name out again and leap onto her trainer, hitting at her with her small arms. No, Undine wasn’t trying to hurt her trainer, she was just peeved with her was all. Alexis though only found herself laughing at her Pokémon’s little upset episode; honestly, she was just adorable when she got upset. Mmm, how she acted sometimes reminded her so much of a tsundere.

“Calm down, calm down, calm down now!” she chided, shielding herself from Undine’s ‘onslaught’ before reaching out to the Totodile’s sides and hoisting her up into the air. Alexis giggled, “I get it, you’re upset with me, but Undine, did you forget what today was?”

At hearing her trainer’s question the annoyance left Undine’s face and it seemed like a light bulb when off in her reptilian skull. At realizing what the day was, Undine started squirming in her trainer’s arms, trying to get down so she herself could get ready. Smiling, Alexis indeed set her down and watched her Pokémon scramble off for the restroom. . . . Yes, Undine was indeed one strange little Pokémon, she had a habit of washing her face every morning she could.

Laughing, Alexis reach over to the table across from where she had slept, and grabbed a hold of a cream-colored bandana and a set of light brown goggles. She secured both around her head, placing the goggles over top of the bandana as she got to her feet. With several stretches, and a few groans, Alexis deemed it time to slip out of here without alerting Nurse Joy, or her Chansey. Picking up her bag, Alexis waited for Undine to return from her little trip.

When the little blue Pokémon came on scrambling back to her trainer, all rinsed up and ready to go, Alexis smiled down at her and asked, “You ready for this Undine?”

To that, Undine once more sputtered out her name in excitement before scrambling for the automatic doors to the Center, and heading outside. Alexis followed behind her swiftly, calling out for her to wait. “Undine!!”

The Totodile banked left, and headed for more open road that lead into a flat, sort of plains area . . . the road between Florinzia and Ecclima City. Now, how did Undine know which way to go? Silly thing probably had been sneaking peeks at Alexis’ map on the Revisior again after she’d conked out. . . .

“Ugh, when did she get so fast?!” Alexis cried out to herself, trailing after her Totodile rather poorly; she had never seen Undine this hyper in all the time she’d had her. . . . Seriously, she was really excited to go on this trip. It was a good thing that Alexis had kept Undine in her Poké Ball most of the time she’d still been at home; if she had spazzed out like this back in Cherrygrove, and her dad found her. . . . Well, Alexis didn’t want to think about what her dad would have done to the poor little Totodile.

His hate of Pokémon was strong enough that he’d have done something pretty terrible to her, that much was for sure. But, that part of her life was over now! Her dad was back in Johto and she was here in Renea!

It wasn’t until Undine managed to slam herself right into someone down the road that Alexis finally caught up to the speedy little Totodile. Undine stumbled backward, and fell onto her bum at that, looking woozy and dizzy from the sudden impact. Panting and wheezing, tiny Alexis dropped onto her knees next to her Totodile, trying to comprehend just how she had gotten so fast, so quickly.

“I-I am SO sorry about her!” Alexis apologized, wheezing, “I swear, I don’t know when she managed to get that fast!”

Disguised as a boy, the person that Undine had slammed into wouldn’t know that Alexis was really a girl. . . . Or so, she could only hope as she looked up to the person in question.