“Look, I don’t care how fast you think you are, nor how easily my pokemon could beat you, I am not opening my eyes and moving from this spot.” Blue hated the pushy ones. They would try to pressure you into their goal, even if you didn’t budge an inch. There were some things you could get from a first impression, even without the rainbow hair being a dead giveaway.
“You’re just afraid to put your-uh-pokemon? Yeah pokemon-Put your pokemon where your mouth is.” Feeling Rainbow Dash’s hoof poke him hard in the face, he growled and swatted the hoof away. Couldn’t she see he was busy enjoying a morning doze?
“Who is faster doesn’t really matter to me enough to prove it at this point in time as I am busy doing something else. Now if you don’t mind I would like to return to it.” Blue once more swiped away the hoof as it tried to rouse him, gritting his teeth as he heard the pony sit down beside him and begin to poke him in the shoulder.
“Come on, please? You were so much fun during that egg chase and I really want to test my mettle against your creatures.” Sighing, he opened his eyes and turned to face Rainbow Dash, and tossed a pokeball with one hand lazily. Turning back around to rest his head once more on Arcanine, he closed his eyes and made a dismissive gesture.
“There’s a Pidgeot go race around the town, have fun now leave me alone.” Blue heard Dash leave a moment later, hearing his pokemon take off after the pony. Giving a sigh, he slowly began to drift once more into a doze. Soon he would be in the magical state between-
“We did that, now what.” Dash watched Blue throw his hand up in defeat and sat up, cracking his joints and stifling a yawn. Looking to his pokemon and the pony, who said upright, eyes lit up as they awaited his answer. Slumping slightly, Blue looked to the ground and sighed, before sitting up and fully waking himself up, leaving Arcanine to sleep behind him.
“Do a triple backflip in the air with a single flap.” Blue turned to Pidgeot as he spoke, who chirped and did exactly as he commanded without any effort, landing expertly. Dash narrowed her eyes, and did the same, landing wobbly on her feet.
“Reach 50 feet in the air with two flaps.” Blue pointed to the sky as once more Pidgeot moved to obey, doing it in two before flapping once and settling to a glide before landing once more. Dash gritted her teeth, and flared her wings. Flapping her hardest, she was gutted as she realised she could only make it in five.
“Fly in the air upside down.” Stifling a yawn, Blue watched his pokemon leap into the air and flip over, trying to fly upside down. However after a few moments of being in the air, Pidgeot fell to the ground, uninjured excluding the pokemon’s pride. Dash pulled the stunt off effortlessly, looking to the Pidgeot curiously.
“Alright, hover in the air with one of those large rocks on your back.” Blue pointed toward two rocks about the size of a chair, roughly the same size and shape, and watched Pidgeot slowly walk over. Dash laughed and scratched the back of her head, knowing she wouldn’t be able to lift that. Instead, she picked up a smaller rock, one about half the size, and held it in her hooves, slowly rising into the air as she strained to hover. Pidgeot was also straining, and was unable to stay in the air for very long.
“Alright, you can stop now.” Blue stood up and stretched his arms and legs as the two removed the rocks and made their way over to him. Dash supposed the difference in their abilities was due to the difference in training, and was proud to see she had managed to keep up in the areas she personally felt it counted.
“Good job,” spoke Blue, putting a hand on Pidgeot and Dash’s head and giving them a pat as he passed. It was only a moment later that he realised he has just treated the pony like a pokemon instead of a human, and turned around to see if he was in trouble for doing so. Dash seemed annoyed at her hair being messed up, but had otherwise noticed nothing.
“Your pokemon are pretty tough Blue, but are they fast enough to break the sound barrier?” Dash grinned, wings flaring as she posed in front of Blue, who looked at her curiously.
“Sound barrier? One moment.” Blue reached into his bag and pulled out a small book, and began flipping through the pages. Curious, Blue flew over and hovered behind long enough to realise there were various science drawings and notes she recognized Twilight having.
“Right, sound barrier. The sound barrier, is the point at which an object moves from transonic to supersonic speed. Speed of sound is 340.29 in dry air… Right.” Blue slammed his book closed and returned it to his bag, pulling a hand to his chin as he considered the speeds of his pokemon.
“Gramps said Pidgeot's have been recorded as high as Mach 2, but I can’t handle those speeds with how pokemon fly, I’d get seriously hurt.” Blue shrugged as he looked to his pokemon, noticing Dash began to grin.
“I perform a sonic rainboom at around mach 5, so I’m faster.” Dash once more posed proudly, before folding her wings and coming to stand near Blue. Pulling out a pokeball, Blue returned Pidgeot and looked to the sky, taking in the time.
“I’ll admit, that’s impressive. Anyway if that’s all I really have to go, I have stuff to do before I leave.” Blue looked down and set his eyes on Dash as the pony opened her wings and turned around, saluting him as she gave a wink.
“No problem, it was nice catching up. We should really race again soon.” Dash leapt into the sky and was soon gone, leaving Blue to slowly walk towards town to meet up with Lyra. Blue bit his lip before settling into a trademark smirk, picking a building and leaning against it while he waited.