A very brave little pokemon
Theme: Night
A togepi decided to go out to a forest at midnight to explore, despite being nervous at first she seems confident that she'll be fine
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Having never gone out to explore at nighttime, a timid little Togepi wanted to be brave for once in her life. So she decided to go out on her own and explore a forest not too far from where she lived. The togepi had to sneak out of the house at midnight, getting past her parents, thankfully without much issue.
As she starts her journey towards the forest, she hears all kinds of noises that freak her out, shivering slightly at them. But she has to put on a brave face, after all she wanted to do this.
After a bit of a trek to the forest, the togepi goes inside of it, looking around as this forest definitely was different at night, it was a lot more eerie and spooky, something the togepi doesnt like at all.
Eventually she comes across a little pond in the center of the forest, and she wasnt alone. A gengar suddenly appear out of nowhere, scaring the poor togepi to death!
But the gengar wasnt there to hurt them, they were more curious as to why there were here in the first place. So they tried to calm the little togepi down as much as possible, giving them a friendly smile.
After a while, the togepi eventually calms down after the gengar gives her a hug, she was very brave for venturing out this far, and the gengar has a sudden urge to protect her for anything that threatens to harm her.
The gengar then suggested they should go into the lake and take a little swim underwater, its very peaceful at this hour.
The togepi was unsure about this, she was a decently good swimmer but to do it at night? That thought doesnt sit well for her, but with the protecting gengar by her side, she decided to take a chance and do it.
With a smile on the gengar's face they head into the water with togepi, and after taking a few breaths of air they submerge underwater. Surprisingly this gengar had to hold his breath just like everyone else, which is something the togepi didn't know of, but didnt complain too much as they sink down to the bottom of the pond, about 25 feet deep.
The duo get cozy at the bottom together, it seems the more time the togepi spends with the gengar the more she's getting used to the ghostly presence beside her, and she eventually gave the gengar a hug too, which surprised gengar but of course hugged her back warmly.
A few minutes pass by as the duo quietly sit together, blowing bubbles from time to time, the togepi has never been this brave before and she couldn't have been more proud of herself.
Eventually tho, the togepi needed to breathe, and the gengar sensed that and quickly brought her to the surface, gasping for breath once she could.
The togepi was now fully comfortable with the gengar, knowing she was protected and stuff. The gengar then devided to show her around the forest, keeping a protective gaze on her at all times as they walk together
Eventually after about an hour or so of being out, the togepi was getting tired and decided to call it a night, the gengar gave her one last hug goodbye before letting her go.
She quickly scrambles back to her house, opening the front door and hoping she didnt get caught, but luckily her parents are still fast asleep, so she got back to her room as quietly as possible and went back to sleep, a smile on her face as she was very very brave and very lucky that everything went to plan for her and that she didnt get snatched or anything.
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Trying their very best
Theme: Lessons
When most of the alola region is struggling to learn how to swim, the city offers them free swim lessons to hopefully get this problem under control, but will it go well? Or will it be a big waste of time?
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In today's universe, a lot of pokemon have not yet learned how to swim, which is a huge problem since swimming is one of the most important life skills there is. So the city of Alola decided to host free swimming lessons at the local indoor pool, to anyone who still needs to learn how to swim. Some pokemon were nervous about doing this, while others said they had no choice since it was so important.
So within 30 minutes a bunch of pokemon showed up to the free lessons, they were split into a few groups, one of the leaders of it was an inteleon who unfortunately had to deal with the most scared bunch of pokemon.
So the inteleon went to work on getting all the pokemon in the water first, which wasnt easy. It took nearly 45 minutes just to get everyone in the water in the first place. At least two of them were fire types which is probably why they made it so complicated.
After that, the inteleon got started on teaching everyone how to swim, step by step. Thankfully most of the them were able to follow the direction. Some of them struggled of course while others got it down quickly.
Once the basic above water swimming was over, it was then time for the hardest part of the lessons, which is learning how to safely submerge underwater. Almost immediately everyone panicked and some even got out of the pool without hesitation and getting ready to run away.
Even when the inteleon promised everyone that he'll keep them safe, it wasnt nearly enough and soon a few pokemon ran away in fear. There were 6 pokemon in the group and 2 of them ran, so now they were down to 4.
The remaining 4 pokemon were terrifed of this thought, but maybe it wouldn't be so bad? They decided to give it a try at least. After the inteleon teaches everyone how to hold their breath, it was time for them to start...
Soon, the inteleon counts down from 3 and when he hit 1 he slowly holds his breath and submerges, hoping everyone else will follow.
2 of them did it, while the other 2 didn't, but almost immediately the 2 that did submerge came back up and gasping heavily, super terrifed.
The inteleon came back up as well, a bit disappointed that not everyone submerged, so he decided to try it again. Giving everyone some time to calm down he eventually counted down once again and submerged underwater. This time, the 4 pokemon didnt even submerge at all, they were just too scared.
After almost an hour of failed attempts, the 4 pokemon were eventually fed up with doing this, they gave up. So they all got out of the pool and walked away, a bit disappointed in themselves for failing to submerge for a bit.
The inteleon was just as disappointed, maybe next time he could try doing it one on one and maybe even ask for their favorite pokemon that they've always wanted to meet to help them out with the submerging part. But for now, he sighs heavily and goes home, he hopes next time will be different.
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The Bravest Little Adventurer
Theme: Tiny
A little feral ant has found a huge home near his colony, so decided to go on a little adventure as he makes his way inside the home to go explore. I wonder what kind of things he's gonna do?
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The big open world could be scary for smaller pokemon, or even insects in general. A particular little feral ant find himself in a home thats like 5x his size, it was huge compared to him! This little guy always enjoyed exploring out of his comfort zone, even tho he tends to sometimes get carried away and almost ends up getting squashed by someone.
This home seemed to belong to a pokemon, judging from its insides, a Garchomp to be exact. Thankfully for the little ant, nobody was home at the moment, so he was safe to go around and explore the home.
It was a 2 story house that was pretty impressive, the ant walked around the home in amazement, this was probably one of the best homes he's ever seen! As the journey continues, the little ant find what looks like some chicken soup that was left out on the kitchen counter, and deciding to investigate it he crawls up his way to the counter, and finds the bowl of soup.
It was still warm, but not overly warm that its super hot. Considering today was one of the coldest days ever recorded, the ant was feeling a little chilly. So he decided to try taking a dip in the soup, seeing if it feels good.
After slowly getting in, the ant sighs contently. It felt incredible on his skin, it was probably the best feeling ever! He even decided to take a deep breath and submerge under the soup, calmly pinching his little nose shut as he did.
Down here it felt even better, he could easily fall asleep in here if he wanted to, but he had more exploring to do so he decided to stay awake and relax for a bit
This ant has some pretty strong lungs, thanks to some unwilling training he had to go through, so he could easily last 10 minutes with no problems, just enough time to enjoy himself under the soup.
After about 5 minutes he lets himself come back up and he gasps a bit for air, he even takes a sip of the soup as well, enjoying the taste. He then went out of the soup bowl and continued to explore around the place, checking out what might be lurking in this person's home.
He then finds the person has left some toothpaste in the bathroom, the cap opened and the toothpaste inside visible. This ant is willing to submerge in anything so he decided to try it out and go into the toothpaste tube, and after a deep breath he pushes his way into it.
It was really hard to navigate around the tube with how thick the toothpaste was, but he kept going even with his eyes closed since it would probably hurt his eyes if he opened them.
Finding there was nothing valuable in here the ant made his way back, thankfully with no issues as he gasped for breath again. This was certainly an experience unlike any other, he was probably the first insect ever to submerge in toothpaste, which made him smile before taking off again.
In the 3 hours he was in there, he submerged in a lot of things: Soap, Jam, ice cream, even toilet water....gross... but he submerged in anything he can down in thanks to him being so tiny.
Eventually the door can be heard opening as the Garchomp who lives here has come home. This made the ant panic, he didnt want the garchomp to accidentally step on him. So he had to hide himself until it was safe to come out and escape.
The closest thing the ant can find was a bottle of Grape soda on the kitchen table, so he had no choice, he had to hope the garchomp wasn't thirsty then he would be totally screwed!
Scrambling to climb up the soda bottle, the ant immediately took a deep breath and held it before jumping into the soda, closing his eyes and letting his body sink to the bottom.
He was just gonna lay low until the garchomp was out of the room, hoping he can hold his breath long enough.
After a few minutes the garchomp still hasn't moved from his spot, and the ant was now beginning to blush, covering his mouth for a moment. He was getting worried that the garchomp might be doing something and he was gonna stuck until he drowns!
When his limit hit, the ant was trying everything to keep holding his breath, and eventually after what felt like forever, the garchomp gets up to go use the bathroom, giving the ant an opportunity to escape!
So after swimming to the surface and gasping heavily for breath, the ant immediately gets out of the bottle and scampers away to the exit as fast as possible!
Thankfully he escapes just in time before the garchomp comes back, still having no idea what was going on. The little ant was super excited to go tell his friends what he just experienced and that everyone is gonna be shocked when the little guy tells the story.
So with a happy grin he rushes back to his colony, another adventure complete for the bravest ant alive!
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Dare "Almost" Gone Wrong
Theme: Video
A very popular pokemon named Blastoise was making a video for Poketube, and he has a dare in mind that's crazier then any of the other ones he's done before, lets hope things go according to plan
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A famous and well known influencer, a Blastoise, was getting ready to film a video of himself doing a crazy dare that he set himself up for doing. He had over 10 million subscribers on Poketube (The pokemon version of YouTube), he was pretty popular.
As he gets to he location of where the dare is located, the Blastoise sets up his camera and starts to film what dare hes about to do.
"Whats up guys! Its your favorite buddy Blastoise here! And in today's video I have set up one of the craziest dares I challenged myself to do! Check it out!"
The blastoise points the camera to the ocean ahead, but right below him was a swarm of hungry sharks! This crazy pokemon was about to jump in and swim with sharks! Was he truly insane for doing this!?
"If you guys are excited for this dare make sure you leave a like and subscribe to my channel, maybe ill even pick one of you lucky subscribers to do the next dare with me, youll obviously be paid if you do it! Hehe"
This blastoise wasnt scared in the slightest, he was gonna do it, no matter what it took.
"Here we go guys! Wish me luck!"
After taking a deep breath, the blastoise jumped down from a cliff towards the sharks and splashed heavily in the water.
The hungry sharks notice the blastoise and immediately started to drag him down with the blastoise still fliming all of this, he gives a thumbs up as he perfectly ok
After a while the sharks eventually reached the bottom of the ocean, but the blastoise still wasnt scared, eventually he finally speaks, in a clear voice
"Wow, those sharks must have been angry! Oh well, I can hold my breath for a while, so ill be just fine! Don't worry about it!"
As the blastoise goes to follow the sharks, he lets out a steady stream of bubbles, not even caring about air in the moment, he even tried to escape them, but the sharks immediately notice and drag him back down.
"Seems like these sharks don't want me to go anywhere, not like I'm afraid or anything. I don't even need to breathe!"
For the next 30 minutes, the blastoise has done what the sharks want him to do, following them everywhere they go, and the times the blastoise goes to surface, the sharks just drag him back down
The blastoise's face turns red finally, and he finally gets a little nervous. But he still thinks he'll be ok so he doesnt worry about it too much.
After 15 more minutes the blastoise was getting tired of following the sharks around, and then he tries to bolt up to the surface when the sharks turned away, he was a fast swimmer thankfully, and was able to outswim most of the sharks as they chased him down.
However, one particular one managed to grab onto him and start dragging him back down 10 feet from the surface, the blastoise's face was now bluer then usual, as he turns to the camera
"Q-quite the predicament im in huh guys? B-but don't worry about me! Its all part of the plan"
The blastoise luckily managed to break free from the sharks and surface for air just in time, gasping heavily before getting back to shore safe and sound
"Phew...close one, and there you have it guys, now you know what a day in the life of a shark is! Hope you all enjoyed this crazy video! See you next time!"
The blastoise ended the video and then runs home to go upload it onto his channel, hes hoping this video will go viral because of the intense dangers he put himself in for views.
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Some Serious Skills Indeed
Theme: Training
When a big swim contest is being held at one of the most popular areas in the city, this Buizel has some work to do so he can win, even if it means going too far...
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There was a big swim competition taking place in a very popular area, and a Buizel has to prepare for it since its one of the biggest swim competitions in history!
There are 2 major events: One is swimming as many laps as you can underwater on one breath, and the other one is just a standard breath hold at the bottom of the deep pool where this contest was being held at.
So right now, the Buizel is at his own pool, getting ready to do some serious training, he wants to win very badly, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to be victorious, even if it means dangerously pushing himself to his limit.
The buizel then takes some deep breaths to prepare his lungs for the first thing he's gonna train on: Swimming laps underwater. After a final breath he jumps into the pool and starts to swim underwater laps.
Because he's a water type, he can easily do maybe 10 laps already, but that probably wont be enough, so he has to train harder then ever.
About a few minutes in, the buizel already managed 15 laps with how quick hes going. Unfortunately with all the energy he's put into swimming, his face is fully red already, but he keeps pushing himself, wanting to do as many laps as possible.
Some more time passes, and the buizel now has done 30 laps, his face turns blue as he had to stop briefly to cover his mouth, he was about halfway done with the 31st lap, and he's starting to wonder if he is taking this too far. But then suddenly shakes away those feelings and keeps going.
5 minutes later, his face was deeply purple. Having done 38 laps, the buizel couldnt take it anymore and then finally surfaces, gasping heavily for air, coughing a little too.
As he catches his breath, he was pretty satisfied with how many laps he did all on a single breath of air, but now he still has more work to do. He's gotta work on his breath hold in general.
Finding the deepest point of his pool, the buizel takes some deep breaths once again, getting ready to absolutely push himself to the limit. Then he holds his breath and plunges underwater, spinning his tails and pushes himself to the bottom of the pool, about 50 feet down.
As he settles on the bottom, he closes his eyes and pinches his nose shut, focusing on making sure he conserves all of his air.
He was very calm, not letting a single thing distract him from his goal, he sits quietly and contently, at least for now.
For the next 10 minutes, not a single bubble has escaped the buizel, he was that calm and not worried about anything right now. Now that he wasnt swimming around his face ain't even red yet, and he was just getting started
20 more minutes later, 30 in total, the buizel was finally blushing a little bit, but he continues to stay calm, shifting around to get more comfortable. Eventually he switches to laying down on the pool floor to really make sure he's calm and it seems to be helping.
30 more minutes later, the buizel has been underwater for an hour straight! His face was now turning blue as bubbles escape him in a steady stream, despite him covering his nostrils. But he was still determined to be very best at doing this stuff so he keeps still despite squirming around in discomfort.
15 more minutes later, and the buizel was reaching his true limit, he can't seem to go on much further as his face was purple, and yet the buizel still refuses to give up! He was being stubborn at this point.
Managing 10 more minutes the buizel finally inhales the water around him! In shock he grabs his neck and bolts to the surface as fast as possible, spinning his tails and everything. He tries to last a bit longer till he can surface, hoping he won't actually drown.
But luckily, just before he could black out from the lack of air he finally surfaces! He coughs up some water, taking deep gasping breaths. The buizel really did push himself today, and after checking his watch, he pretty much managed to stay under for an hour and a half! Thats like double his precious record! That made him smile and wag his tail, he was definitely happy after that result.
But now he was exhausted, so after fully catching his breath the buizel climbs out of the pool and goes back inside his home to go take a nap. He was ready for the competition tomorrow and he's looking to win and bring home the gold!
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