>>17372613As the fireworks come to a close, city life quickly returns to normal. Everyone has shit to do and the explosion was only a minor break in their daily routines, an escape from purgatory, or some analogy like that.
Alice pinches her cheeks in awe, "Wow Bonnie!~ Explosion's a really, really pow'ful move isn't it!~ I wonder why poke-pokes don't use it more often!~"
"Well, um, for one thing, it kind of causes the user to faint, so it's a double-edged Honedge. "
"Tor, tor, TORCHIC, tor!"
Suddenly, Torchic starts throwing a fit. The tiny chick seems to have located something among all the debris and scrap metal falling out of the sky. She runs over to Alice and starts pecking at her leg.
"Chic, chic, chic, Torchic!"
"Huh? What is it, Torchic?~"
Torchic hops up and down repeatedly. At first, her antics look to be nothing more than typical cute mascot shenanigans, until Alice notices something in the bird's beak.
"Did'ja find somethin', Torchic?~"
"Chic, chic, chic!" the chick hands the object to the loli. It's yellow, heart-shaped, and a piece of string is attached to the end of it. It is immediately recognized.
"Hey, Bonnie!~ This is one of 'd things Drifloon had 'ttached to his strings, Torchic found it!"
"Whoooaaa, cool!"
"I know!~ It's like a memory keepsake!"
Alice, Bonnie, and Torchic start gush-guzzling over the heart-shaped thingamabob, but their fun quickly comes to a stop when a loud hum and a pink glow interject in their canoodling.
It's Serena. 