"Already got plans to head north and see if we can't find her a swablu," Sable replies with a smile.

"Oh, it is getting to be that time of year. They'll be coming down from the mountains around now. You've got a good shot."

"Thank you, Nurse Joy!" 

Audrey goes and offers Sable a fistbump. "Off we go once the forms are done, then?"

Sable grins and fistbumps Audrey back. "We'll have to go buy you a couple things, but yep."

Then Maya offers one too.

Awww! Right, the Ralts is a person too!!! She's so used to only seeing humans that it totally slipped her mind!

She fistbumps both of them in turn. 

"Lead on then, fearless leader!" 

Nurse Joy waves Audrey over, sliding a few things across the counter.

"Okay, dear. I've got you into the system. This one is the physical copy of your ID. The next one is your account details for your League account. Finally, this last one is a voucher for a PokéNav, which you can use for everything else, including accessing your trainer stipend and making payments. Once you've got the PokéNav, go buy a few pokéballs and have Sable take you out to catch a starter."

"Okay!" Audrey accepts the offered items and tucks the cards away into her wallet.

And Sable excitedly takes Audrey's hand and leads the way out of the pokécenter. "Okay. We need to head to one of the major electronics stores to use this voucher and get you a pokénav. There should be one nearby..."

Maya points a block away and across the street.

"Ralts!"

"Aha, right there!"

Across the street they go, and inside to look at the selection. The PokéNav Plus appears to be a similar sort of device to the clamshells Audrey's familiar with: screen on the inside of the top half, keypads and the like on the bottom, a couple side buttons, a camera, a little speaker, and comes in a wide variety of colors.

"Oh, I have one of those!" 

And Audrey pulls her modified clamshell out of her pocket. 

Blink blink.

"Huh okay cool. Did Arceus hook yours up to our networks, or did it just already work somehow?"

"Arceus modified it! I don't know how they did it but they sure did!"

"Most mysterious Legendary does something inexplicable, news at eleven," Sable replies with a giggle.

Audrey giggles. "I'm getting the sense they have a reputation," she says with a smile. 

Sable laughs and nods, leading the way back outside, and heading toward a pokémart — a blue-roofed building that looks rather like a convenience store.

"They so do. Legendaries on the whole are mysterious, and then they all have individual reps from meddlesome to adorable to catastrophic. Arceus is definitely the most mysterious one, but I think that's partly because it's responsible for so much? Not sure though."

She drops down onto a bench outside the pokémart. "First, we gotta get your ID and account stuff onto your pokénav."

"Okay, show me what I gotta put in where?"

Sable cheerfully helps Audrey get the basic apps installed — League Wallet, which handles ID and payments, and the free version of the DexNav, which lets her look up pokémon and log sightings and play back calls — and walks her through adding her account details there. Then she adds her contact info and makes sure Audrey's nav can make calls and send texts well enough, which works fine.

"I keep a quick-access button assigned to the League Wallet app so I can just push that and tap my nav on a payment pad or a door lock. Otherwise you have to open the app up first." There's an easy menu to assign functions to the quick-access buttons, thankfully.

"Makes sense! Slightly clunkier than I'm used to but it makes up for it in customizability, which I like."

"Every trainer's different, right? Now c'mon, let's get you some pokéballs."

She stands up and leads the way in. The impression of a convenience store only increases inside, with snacks, magazines, and basic medicines on the shelves as well as unfamiliar things like different varieties of repellent, "potions" in spray bottles, and whole racks full of pokéballs, ranging from basic red and white ones to countless other varieties. Some are listed as "Great" or "Ultra", while others boast type or environmental specialization, or features like being luxurious for the occupant or healing an injured pokémon. They list prices ranging from P200 to P1,200, and most have a badge count restriction on purchase. The various specialized ones require one badge, while the Great and Ultra balls require two and four respectively.

"Gosh. What do these do?"

Sable rests her hand atop a basic red and white pokéball to start. "This is the basic pokéball. This is how you capture a wild pokémon."

"Rara altsra," Maya adds. {Do not forget the escape risk.}