"Ah, wonderful!" Gestavite said, plonking a large basket of utensils and miscellaneous tools on the ground. "See this, eh? You can taste the serenity. It's like they took calmness itself and turned into a bunch of trees and grass!" He stood surveying the forest of manifold, and took an exaggerated sniff for dramatic effect.
Aaron Yorkshire had plonked himself upon a boulder after checking it wasn't a sleeping Graveler, observing his surroundings in a bewildered manner. "Rather green, isn't it?" Gestavite, Aaron and Charlotte were the closest you could find to the pokemon equivalent of a city-slicker. Where they normally lived was some sort of abandoned house on a beach, which humans considered haunted because of the strange noises they heard within (which were in fact merely the pokemon inhabitants doing something silly, such as going through human possessions and pondering on the possession's purpose). They were still in tune with nature, but in a different way to other pokemon. They looked oddly out of place in their organic surroundings, as though somebody had clipped them out of magazines and stuck them on with sticky tape.
"Ah, but that isn't the point you big old bear-thing. It's the thrill of the hunt, it's the adventure, it's the... it's the... pretend I said something clever and descriptive will you? I'm in a bit of mental-blank-mood today, I believe" Gestavite replied.
Charlotte said nothing, playing with what appeared to be a burning icicle she had in her mouth while staring at the leaves on a tree.
"Anyway, I believe it's high time we got to getting to the bottom of these fiendish ghouls appearing in so many places. Come on then, think. What sort of thing would make a well-respected pokemon change it's hide to something so drab?" Gestavite pondered. Perhaps this was some sort of violent movement where inductees had to dye their fur/skin? That would be rather a bit of a nuisance. And what would the movement be? Some sort of ruffian movement? Ruffians dying their fur to form gangs? It seemed likely to him. "I believe personally, that they are ruffians from sort of new gang, who dye their fur or skin as a form of submitting their membership. It only seems likely in this day and age, what with our modern 'noses' and 'abilities'. I'm sure they could do it by rubbing themselves with dittos or something,"
"Zen vat do you suggest ve do viz zis gang?" Charlotte said. It was the first time she'd opened her mouth in three weeks, normally remaining silent and uninterested in her surroundings.
"Well isn't it obvious? We rough them up a bit, give their leader a good spanking and tell them to be on their way! Alakazam's beard! Woman, sometimes you just don't think. I know you literally have an empty head, but try to keep up won't you?" her husband replied, his voice rasping in the british John Cleese way. "Now then, I suggest our first course of action is to find out where this gang has it's headquarters! First, we will need a map!"
