"Hey! Get back here, ya thief! Don't think yer gonna get away with stealin' stuff, do ya?"
The individual the store manager was directing his comment to didn't respond until she had scrambled onto the rooftop, out of reach. She flipped her light blue hair and placed her hand on her hip. Her large, round ears perked up and her tail wagged as she spoke. "I think I am going to get away with this, kind sir! You can't get me, the police haven't arrived yet, so I'll be on my merry way!" She disappeared over the roof, jetting off to who knew where.
~
Sheek laughed to herself as she ran. Silly, silly, silly humans! she thought. Do they think they can catch a human Shinx so easily? She paused to inspect her prize. She held a brass chain necklace that displayed a giant heart pendant. Surely not something to get too riled up over. She could easily make ten dollars off of this in the next town she arrived at.
The tiny town was now far away, and Sheek was passing rolling countryside. She looked up to see a forest looming ahead. "How nice," she said aloud. "The trees have come to offer me a place to travel through undiscovered." She quickened her pace some more. After a few more minutes of jogging, she had arrived at the treeline. The woods swallowed her form without a sound.
The bright sunlight was instantly muted to green rays trickling down through the leaves. The air became considerably more humid, and every crunch of Sheek's feet crushing the dead leaves and twigs littering the ground was amplified by the deafening silence. The water vapor in the air wasn't helping her; the air around her was now charged with electricity that she had stored in her body. Her clothes clung to her skin, and whenever she ran a hand through her hair, it flattened, crackling and hissing with static. She growled, reminding herself over and over that everything would be normal again as soon as she got out of here.
A metallic crash echoed out suddenly, shattering the peace and serenity. Sheek involuntarily sent out an electric pulse, startled. Her ears perked up, her tails started swinging back and forth, and her eyes darted around. She was now on high alert. Judging by the echoes, that noise was pretty close b-
Three human-sized machines thundered out of the bushes, their sights set on Sheek. She hissed, displaying her canines, and dodged. Bounty hunter machines, she thought, who just happened to be here. Just my luck. "Iron Tail!" she called out, and she felt her tail stiffen and become heavier. The first machine shot forwards, and she swung around and slammed her tail into it, splitting it cleanly in half. The two other machines paused to survey their fallen partner's damage and exchanged foreign beeps and clicks between each other. The they turned to Sheek and lunged.
She dodged the first one, but the second was able to firmly wrap a steel arm around her waist and lock her in its grip. The other machine then secured her ankles and wrists. "Well, damn," Sheek sighed, "You got me." How was she going to get out of this? Suddenly her gears clicked in her mind. The machines were all metal, right? And since electricity can travel through metal...
"Thunderbolt!"
A strong pulse of negatively charged ions escaped from Sheek, short-circuiting the two Pokemon Bounty Hunting machines. They instantly released her and collapsed to the ground, sizzling. She laughed. Suddenly, though, something caught her eye. A star-shaped medal was attached to one of the machines. Sheek's eyes widened. For some strange reason, she had always loved stars. She loved the way they were arranged in the night sky, she loved the way they were shaped, she loved everything about them. This was demonstrated by the bright yellow star on her blue shirt.
Without further hesitation, she ripped the medal off of the machine and inspected it. It was silvery, and sparkled brightly in the sunlight. Not bad if I do say so myself, she thought. She was about to start off again when there was another crash straight ahead. She could hear shouts as well. Curious, she followed the sound.
Sheek arrived in a small clearing, where several people were fighting more bounty hunters. Wait, they weren't people, they were Pokemon gijinkas, like her. She examined them and recognized their species. Espeon. Lopunny. Glaceon. Dragonair. What was so strange was, why were there so many of them here? Sheek was getting seriously shaken. The air around her crackled, and tendrils of electricity started coming out of her, hissing and popping. Her tail jerked nervously. What was going on here?
Continue?
~Sheek
*[EDIT:] I have a sketch of Sheek, so I'll post it up here. I did it earlier today. And I know it's fail, 'cause I did it really quickly.
