>>18057113"I was talkin' 't this lady, didja know she's sad an-AND has her own preten' language!?"
"Tor, tor tor!"
"Oh? Well...As long as you weren't alone."
"Shuck."
Serena looks down at Shuckle, who still busy staking the scene out, awaiting for the moment to strike with a perfect critical kill.
"Right. I've been looking for you too, you know."
"Shuck." he mumbles, he doesn't really care either way. Edgy people never care about anything, see.
"Whatever suits you then, I suppose. Return." the rocky-mold-turtle-worm returns to his pokeball without many last words, thus leaving Serena alone with a loli, her chick, and this odd Spanish-speaking woman.
"Alice, we should go, it's nearing your bedtime."
Remembering that dreaded, awful new bedtime causes Alice to lose all her giddiness in an instant. The little loli pouts, and Torchic imitates her, "Okay...."
"Tor, tor, Torchic..."
But Alice won't let the new bedtime completely get her spirits down. She returns the photograph to the Mawile, "I'm sorry strange big-mouth lady, but I gotta go now, see ya later!~"
Innocently, she skips up to Serena and takes a tight grip of her hand. Together, the two leave and head back to the Pokemon Center, the loli waves goodbye one too many times as they do so.
Left alone again, Mawile looks at the old photograph, and smiles.
For that last boost of continued hope in a cesspool of despair, she flips the photograph to the other side and reads a small message left for her.
>"Lea esta y siempre recordar el tiempo que compartimos. Te amo.~" 