Manish's Bonding [REFRESH]

Alright, let’s do this. Getting into the account was easy, just a matter of scrolling through the players to find one who hadn’t played in a while, using some magic, and blam. Got the account. Learning that it belonged to a celebrity child (who definitely wasn’t a child and is also half myth with how little is known about him), well, that was just a big old bonus. Squid had plans, so many plans.

But they had to start somewhere, so getting a crash course on the guy they were sort of not really attempting to be seemed like a decent place to start. Besides, it wasn’t like they were there to make some dude’s account better; they were there to make money. Preferably real money, not whatever fake currency was used in the game.

Squid figured checking out the dude’s inventory was a good place to start, including checking out the pokemon.

“Let’s see what we’re working with here. Rise and shine, ‘mons, I got a few questions for ya,” Squid said as they released all the pokeballs they could find. And what a menagerie they found. In quite a few flashes, all of the original owner’s pokemon appeared.

<Manish!> yelled Ryan as he ran towards his trainer, only for “Manish” to step aside and raise their hands.

“Woah, okay, first of all, no touching. No thank you.” Squid said, frowning at the large and shiny Venusaur. But Squid took it as a good sign, that has got to be worth something.

<Bossman? What’s going on?> Lucy asked, trying to console Ryan.

<Daddy?> Several foongus said at once.

<Brzzzt?> Added Cereal.

All the other pokemon started making a variety of noises in agreement with whatever the Espurr said.

Squid had a brief moment of thinking they were in over their head if these characters had, like, personalities and stuff. But they’ve never backed down from a challenge before and wasn’t planning on starting.

“Listen up, Imma say this once and only once. Hi, I’m the new and improved...” Squid took a second to check the name on the account to make sure they got it right, “the new Manish. Y’all belong to this account, therefore, belong to me. If I hear anything going against that, well, let’s just say I found the little switch that’ll turn your little voices off and I will use it.”

There was a long silence from the pokemon, who were all in various states of shock.

“Also,” Squid added, pointing at the foongus, “the only people that get to call me daddy are milfs. Or dilfs. Whatever, same difference.”

<What’s going on?> Ryan asked, making sure to keep his distance from his once very affectionate trainer.

Squid rolled their eyes. “Cool, you’re slow. I’ll run it back. I’m the new commander of this account. Your old trainer didn’t love you or something enough to keep active, so now I’m here.”

<Liar! Manish loves us!> Yelled June, the Glaceon.

“I’m pawning you first.” Squid replied, which made all the other pokemon quiet down.

“Look, this’ll be real easy. I’m just here to make some money; some of you may be sold in the process, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make. So let the games begin!”

Ryan and Lucy shot each other a look. They had to get the real Manish back, but what could they do?