Wiggle Wiggle Break: An Iridescent Adventure: Reverse Psychology

Hey, would you look at that! Pidgey got one of those guys to come over here--!

He, uh...he looks a bit different from Arturo's Munchlax. But hey, different is good, right? I mean...right?

Hey there, little fella! You wanna sandwich?

WOAH HOLY SHIT TOO FAST! OW MY BODY! GAH! WHY DID YOU PUNCH ME IN THE STOMACH?! I WAS GIVING YOU THE SANDWICH!!

Alright, he seems occupied...

POKE BALL, GO!

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BREAK?!? OH COME ON!!!!

Sigh...

...you know what? Screw it. I don't want a stupid Munchlax anyway. Just eat the damn sandwich and leave me alone.

What am I even doing trying to be a Pokemon trainer? There are children out there thirty years younger than me and they already have a full party of well-trained Pokemon...and I can't even catch a Pidgey by myself. Why did I ever think I could pull this off? I fixed the Professor's lab and got the power back and running; that's what I'm good at...not this Pokemon nonsense. Maybe I should just go back to Cerulean City and see if the Poke-Mart will give me my old job back--

ARTURO: Oh, c'mon! Try again!

TOM: Why bother? It was clearly only interested in the sandwich.

ARTURO: Don't give up, Tom. These Munchlax can probably help us get our other Pokemon back.

TOM: Then I'll let you skilled Pokemon trainers catch them.

ARTURO: Just give it another try.

TOM: No, I really don't want to. They're yours...really, I don't mind.

ARTURO: Oh, come on! You've got to knock it out with this defeatist attitude! You'll never be a champion with an attitude like that!

TOM: I don't want to be a champion! I just--

ARTURO: With an attitude like that, no wonder you lost your job at the Power Plant.

TOM: ...what did you just say to me?

ARTURO: You'd probably still have your old job and everything would be fine if you just dropped your loser attitude--

TOM: Now you listen to me! You have absolutely no idea what sort of hell my life has been for the past eight years, and if you've lost everything that I've lost--if you've lost everything, you'd understand my "attitude". But I am not defeatist! I fought a losing battle for years and I wasn't the one who gave up, so screw you for calling me a loser! I can do whatever I set my mind to, and if I wanted a Munchlax, I'd catch one just like that! HRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!

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Caught?

Caught. I caught it. I caught it? I caught it! I caught it! I did it! I caught a wild Pokemon all by myself!

Why are smirking like that, you little--?

Oh. Oh, I see what you did there. Clever...but don't try to push my buttons like that again.

Say, where did Professor Cherry go? Oh, to wake up more trainers? Yeah, it's probably best that they know that some of their Pokemon have returned. Oh wait, that guy doesn't look happy at all that they're coming back. In fact, he looks really ashamed for some reason--wait a minute...