"Lucy, you came far, says the guy who ran the whole distance twice", Rick said, somehow sounding pretty pissed about that. "You know, it doesnīt hurt to visit the BeastMart, being from Rainbow Town and taking a small delivery right back from time to time?"
"That sounds like a job", you said, "Iīm not even allowed to trink."
"It is helping the neighbours, you ninny. Anyway, later more, first a fight!"
At your side, your Heatguana Slash Dimension Traveling Companion Slash Better Gamer Than You was in deep thought. "So there WAS a parcel", Annie mused. "And our rival had to tread the mill to rescue the continuity."
"Pardon?"
"The game must be desperate. It made Blue more like Hau for this part ..." She muttered more to herself than responding to you.
You remembered Hau, a happy doofus with a heart of gold out of the franchise which must not be named but heavily implied until this writer will stumble upon a careless mistake.
"Fight!", Rick repeated, "Right now! You had time enough to train and catch a new BeastMon, you slacker. I had for sure!" And so he summoned a Beastie out of the cube. It wasnīt Seatle, it was a Pudgy just like your Racer. The same feathers, the same coat. Her face, however, was different. You must admit, she looked a little bit more angelic than your own Pudgy. Almost royal ... wait, she wasnīt as brown coloured as Racer, she was tinted with a verdant, mossy ...
"This is my new partner, Green!", Rick introduced. "Almost stumbled over her, because, you know, she is green, and there was high grass."
Lucky bastard. Even you knew what a Glitter was.
"Racer", you turned to your own birdy-girl, "How about a match with this one?"
But Racer was not behind you anymore. In fact, she was already at the other Pudgy, and they hugged each other. Traitor!
"Hi besti!", she cooed, rubbing cheek on cheek with the green one.
Green cooed a similar response and patted her back affectionately, albeit you couldnīt hear her voice.
Rick frowned upon this. "What is with this chatter? Are you sisters or what?"
So he couldnīt neither understand his BeastMon nor yours. Good to know. But anyway, sending Racer against a friend was not really an option. "Annie?"
"Yep." Your Heatguana stepped up, grabbing Racer by the coat and tossing her featherweight to the side. "You are green like a bulb. Letīs make it more red and black, shall we?" A plume of smoke already crawled out of her nose.
Greenīs expression changed from shock to anger. She cooed a really mean sounding Coo, and seeing even Annie being baffled, you wondered what she just said.
Rick was unaware of this. "Okay, that was a weird start, but whatever! Sand Attack!"