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Who: The Pines Family, Soos Ramirez, and YOU

Where: Cherrygrove City

When: August 31

Summary: Dipper and Mabel reunite with their Grunkle Ford as they celebrate their technical 14th birthday

Rating: Probably PG at the worst?

Log:

[Birthdays are important to some people. Especially when you've shared every single birthday with one other person for as long as you both can remember. That's why Soos has spent approximately all his remaining Pokédollars on a slightly-temporally-questionable party for Dipper and Mabel.]

[Set up on the beaches of Cherrygrove are a few cheap tables of food - sheet pizza and chips and trays of that salad nobody really likes, and Pecha Pit Cola, and later in the day, of course, a cake. More notable is the rented PokéPetting Zoo, featuring a large pen of rideable Skiddo, with smaller pens of Buneary, Tepig, Swinub, a few Seel, one Snorlax pulling double duty as a trampoline bean-bag chair, and, perhaps regrettably, a small swarm of Drifloon.]

[There haven't been invitations or anything, but the beach is hardly a private area, and the more the merrier, right?]

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Do I want to know what happens at level fifty?

[But he hefts Kuro a little more securely under his arm. They're on a beach. There's got to be a fishing net somewhere.]

They learn Explode.

[Which is as pleasant as it sounds. Aren't there different kinds of netting?]

...

We're going to need a lot of nets.

[Aren't Pokemon wonderful?]

Right! [Time to go check out the beach and see if there's a boat nearby with possible nets.]

[They... sure are...!]

[Of course, he tags along behind Dipper, just in case.]

Do you think the nets will be strong enough?

[Suddenly having doubts.... if there is a strong enough wind, then... No! Don't think like that Dipper!]

They sort of have to be. We don't really have another option that isn't going to hurt them, too.

[Which just feels all kinds of wrong to even think about. Especially with the Aron wriggling indignantly under his arm.]

[Dipper nods before pulling something out from under a upturned boat.]

Hey! I found some!

[It's even got slimy algae all over it. Must have been used within the past few days.]

[Well that's disgusting. But also better than nothing. So he sets Kuro down, going to take the other end of that net.]

Good eyes.

Think we can throw it that high?

[Eh. As long as you don't eat it, algae won't hurt you.]

Well... how about I go stand on the fence post? I'll be taller that way and then we don have to throw as high.

Hey, do that, we'll be the same size.

[That's a joke. Please laugh, Dipper. Please.]

[But he's going to step over to the opposite side of the aforementioned fence post.]

[..... You get an awkward laugh.]

Right.

[Shouldn't you be more worried that a kid is climbing up onto a fence pole with a fishing net. To catch balloon Pokemon.

Oh well, Dipper is climbing.]

[He would be, if he didn't know the teenagers he knew. They've sort of already broken down every danger barrier he knew of, honestly.]

On three?

On three!

[Please don't be a disaster. They have to think of the safety of all the little children around!

Dipper hoists his part of the net to make it easier to throw. Now to wait for the countdown.]

One... two... three!

[And then he's tossing the net for all he's worth. Big buff arms, do your thing!]

[And on three Dipper throws his half. It's going, going, and has covered only a few of them.]

Yeah!

[Dipper's cheer of triumph is short lived as he nearly falls off the post, hanging onto it for dear life.]

Okay maybe this was a bad idea.