EGG HUNT #3

Well now this was a peculiar experience as any.

The Navy Shells. She had, at first, expected navy-colored shells. But no, they were supposed to be soldiers. Were the eggs supposed to be the soldiers? Were the trainers supposed to be the soldier protecting the eggs? Could eggs protect eggs? A knife strapped to an egg wouldn't exactly help matters much.

Did it?

She didn't quite feel like a badass soldier, if they were supposed to be the Navy Shell, not with only one Pokeball strapped to her waist, but there was no shame in pretending you were something you were not. Not in a video game, anyways.

With a laugh, Laguna held her Popplio's Pokeball in her hand as she began to carefully move through the underbrush. "Alright, lil' eggies," Laguna spoke, eyes scanning the area for any wayward eggs or other trainers that might have also come out to assist.

"Where are you guys hiding, huh?" She mumbled quietly to herself, still quite confused. "Hey does uh, anyone know what the Navy Shells look like? Are we sure they aren't Navy colored? Actually, scratch that, are we the Navy Shells? I don't think I actually know what's going on right now. The tutorial didn't prepare me for this."

"Hey, who knows? Might be a small navy house somewhere around here. Maybe the gnomes in it'll be friendly, too!" Lucky's joke was thankfully delivered with a lighthearted voice to carry it with. Lucky began a long journey with the two throughout the strangely large nest. According to an NPC at the bottom of the spire, every Pokemon came here to lay their eggs. Lucky was thankful to see that, unlike his interpretation of Omen's words suggested, he wasn't finding any little rowlett eggs any time soon. Not that the Decidueye was out to lead him to one, of course, but he'd asked her about it before the climb.

Most of the time searching was spent asking questions about the place itself, answers bouncing between the three like any good game of catch. 'Why was a nest so big even here in the first place?' 'Did every Pokemon really come here to lay eggs?' 'Could we find any Pokémon at all here eventually with a little bit of luck?' 'If it was built by one bird alone... What was it, and where was it?'

'Could it be watching us right now, already implemented into the game?'

The questions slowed down from Lucky's own mouth after that. He was still interested in what to say, but rather felt like looking for some eggs than think about another titan possibly being just around the corner so soon.

Well, her total confusion on what the scrolls remained, but at least one answer was answered. They were supposed to be the Navy Shells! No wonder they could just go and decorate themselves in all the attire! Was it just an in-game faction? Quest rewards, perhaps? Who knew!

"Well then, I guess we are all honorary Navy Shells! It's a pun on like, the Navy Seals? I don't know if that joke will translate to other languages when it opens up internationally, alas. But, we shall see!"

As Yggy's pokemon suddenly carried down an egg, or what appeared to be an egg, Laguna tilted her head. That had way too many bumps to be an egg! It was the right color and everything, but it had so many bumps! She didn't think Pokemon eggs could have bumps. Was it a defense mechanism to look like rocks? Or did the rocks look like eggs? What was the order of operations here!

"Huh..." She rubbed her chin looking at the 'egg', only for her own Pokemon to suddenly clap its fins and make itself known. Sure enough, an egg-like rock was carefully balanced over their nose. Or, perhaps an actual egg. It was hard to tell from a distance when all these rocks looked like eggs and these eggs looked like rocks.

"Marina!" She cried out, shaking her head. "What did I tell you? Put that down and be careful, dear!"