Shortly after returning home, I went walking to the gym. With my umbrella, for my phone's sake. The rain was quite lovely, light and steady.
I noticed that the gym was of my team, and full, but also being attacked! I took cover and observed the only car parked near it. Neat timing, but I planned to let them have it. The gym had been my color for a while, and our two teams tend to share it pretty kindly. Valor is out of luck ):
However, as the gym changed, I saw the name of the player. My eyes narrowed and I shifted closer, leaning around the corner store. Them. Or should I say, her? Because there were very quickly three pokemon in the gym, yet the car clearly had one occupant. I had suspected this, but wasn't sure. Now I was.
I waited patiently as she cut diagonally across the parking lot (common for GO players, but bad form). Before long she turned onto the road away, and I quickly moved to the gym with my practiced gait. To her credit, there was no Blissey, and there was a lovely shiny Wailord. I almost wanted to leave it alone, but then the rain picked up against my umbrella. No. No mercy for cheaters.
(Besides, I got Wailord first. That was MY thing, locally, that and Milotic)
I chose my party for for DPS over survivability, yet still changed them out just short of death. I destroyed the enemy with efficiency, almost fast enough to avoid notice. But their third pokemon suddenly had full health/two extra lives. Heh, excellent. If they wanted to burn raid-reward gold razzberies this way, I was happy to oblige. Thanks to my friends' gifts, I can heal my pokemon properly afterward.
They wasted 3 golden razzberries before giving up. I wonder if I'll see them sometime in a raid group. I wonder if they'll even know it was me - probably not, since they had left before I put in my wimpy shiny ivysaur. Maybe I'll smile and wave.
Within an hour of me leaving, two people of my team had rejoined the gym. I really feel like the carry sometimes, heh.
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