Renee looked up and exhaled a heavy, heavy sigh, free hand rising from where she'd set her juice bottle to pinch at the bridge of her nose. The Phanpy just looked up at her, then up at the duo on the truck, and quietly interspersed himself between the human and the two unknowns.

Well, she might not have been thinking of becoming a trainer, but clearly the Pokemon had other ideas.

"So who're you then? You're missing your final third, you can't do the motto right."