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[neededlassie]

"Hi, I'm Shaun Mars. I'm not here right now, but if you leave me a message, I'll call you back later, okay?"

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[angerpoints]

Hey, Shaun? It's Yusuke. You still in Violet?

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[neededlassie]

Hi, Yusuke! Yeah, I'm still in Violet. Why?

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[angerpoints]

Well, I was wondering, uh... you remember Bull, right? My Hera... whatever?

[:I Heracross, Yusuke. C'mon, calling your Pokemon by their species names isn't that embarrassing.]

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[neededlassie]

Oh, yeah, your Heracross! The one you were having trouble with! Is she okay?

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[angerpoints]

She's... pretty much the same as always! Y'know, pissed off and out to kick my ass.

[Given the amount of physical damage a Pokemon like her could potentially cause him, Yusuke probably ought to sound a lot more worried about this than he does; as it is, though, he might as well be discussing the weather, the way he so casually describes her prolonged pattern of trying to get him. Oh, dimwit.]

She's been kinda down since you guys met, though. I think she really liked you.

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[neededlassie]

[there's a little gasp from the other end of the line, and Shaun almost calls Yusuke out on the swear. But the older boy continues before he can, and what Yusuke says next is interesting, to say the least.]

You do? Well, if you're still in Violet maybe you could travel with us.

[It's an innocent solution - he really did like the Heracross, after all. She wasn't as bad as Yusuke made her out to be. At least, not to Shaun.]

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[angerpoints]

[Despite himself, Yusuke is a little taken aback by Shaun's response: he'd been expecting some variation on "oh, really?", not an invitation to travel with him. He manages to refrain from lapsing into an awkward pause, however, valiantly pushing past his own feelings of surprise to say:]

Oh, uh... actually, I was wanting to know if you'd be interested in just taking her off my hands - y'know, since she likes you so much better than me. I don't wanna say I've given up on her, but I mean, there's no use keeping her on my team if it's gonna make her unhappy, and since she and I never got along that great anyway, I figured...

[... and from there, he sort of trails off, unsure of how to finish that particular thought. Yusuke doesn't know why, but he's feeling a little sheepish. Probably because he doesn't often call kids up offering to give them a monster bug. You are expanding his horizons in the weirdest of ways, Johto. :I]