second fusion - video/action

[beholdmydemons]

[action for violet city + outskirts]

[HEY YOU

YES YOU

ARE YOU ANYWHERE IN OR IMMEDIATELY AROUND THE CITY? DO YOU HAVE YOUR POKEMON OUT? ARE YOU TRAINING THEM TODAY? ARE THEY EVEN JUST KIND OF USING THEIR POWERS?

Because if so, some kid's sauntering up to you with a gleam in his eye and a Houndour at his heels. And if you don't recognize that "when two trainers' eyes meet" kind of look...well, he's gonna ask anyways.]


[video]

[Setting: the end of Route 31, by the side of a pond near the Violet City gatehouse. Subject: One Walter,  and one Rattata lounging in his lap, both looking a little roughed-up but otherwise content. Additional details: a busy metal clinking and birdlike humming off somewhere in the background.]

Well, I suppose it's worth the try... [No sooner has he started the video, peered into it, and said that than he flips the Gear around to get an image of the water. A green, tough-looking fish is swimming in slow circles by the pond's edge. Walter continues to speak with the video on the Basculin.] I'd like to sell this creature - to whom, I care not, I'd part with it for a lark to have it away from here. [...He sounds like he's really trying to sound casual about this.] Its abilities are..."Tackle", "Water Gun", and "Uproar". They call it a Basculin. I've not battled with it once, so I...I think it's not loyal to me at all...?

[He flips the Gear back around, shrugging.] I don't recall anything else important about it. 'Tis just a fish...thing. ["Fish thing" indeed. Walter leans back a little and opens his mouth like he's going to say something more, but-

-he is very suddenly interrupted by a hellish metal-on-metal noise, like an iron bar shoved against a table saw. He jumps and bites out a "What in the-!", setting the Gear down, and falls into stunned silence as the sound tapers off. After a second of silence, his Rattata appears over the Gear, then vanishes behind it, propping it up with a snicker. Walter is halfway to his feet, gaping dumbfounded at the Skarmory that had been jogging around in the background before. She's standing at the center of a small pile of what look like steel shavings, looking oddly slender for a Skarmory, wiggling her tail and beaming up at her trainer as though to say look what I did!]



...What the...devil did you....

[With a patter of her feet and a cheery VROOM VROOM sound (or...as close as a Skarmory can get to that), she takes off like an ostrich, leaving Walter staring speechless after her. (She feels so light and free...!)The Rattata at the Gear is cackling heartily as his trainer glances between Gertrude's retreating figure and the results of her Autotomize technique with his confusion only growing.


....]



...Oh, damn you and your birds-! HOY, GERTRUDE! [Hell if he knows what it just did, but TIME TO GO RETRIEVE THE STUPID THING. He quickly goes to snatch up the Pokegear, and the first half-second of him quarreling with the cameramon is recorded before he grabs it and switches it off.]


((ooc: so autotomize is a hilarious move in concept))

Comments

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[throw_stone]

[oh hey
ramza was probably just off-camera during that broadcast.]
'Tis fast... Hildegard, can you follow it?
[Don't mind the Noctowl rolling her eyes. It's not doing anything wrong - but she does spread her wings. Siiiiigh, children.]

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[beholdmydemons]

[Walter jogs to a halt by Ramza, content to let the bird chase the other bird. The first thing he does is just give him this look.]

[throw_stone]

[...
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Systeleley's not done that before.
[Matter-of-factly - as Hildegard is shrieking out an Echoed Voice, following the fast child.]
'Tis almost as fast as a Red Chocobo.

[beholdmydemons]

[Fast. So very fast. So light and free.]

Did you see what she left behind? [No, seriously, come look at this shit. Look - right there. What the hell is this bird.]

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[ghostytrainer]

[Thanks to that godawful metallic grating sounds, there's a bit of a grimace on John's face. He's fairly sure that was the worst sound he's ever heard n his life and he's absolutely positive that he never wants to hear it again.]

[Fingernails on a blackboard ain't got shit on this noise.]

The hell was that? I've never seen a Pokémon do anything like that before.

[That would be because you only have one steel-type, John.]

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[beholdmydemons]

And you suppose I have?

[He's given up on chasing her, she's gonna have to trot her happy ass back here if she wants to stay on the demon-tamer train.]

'Tis a pile of...did she file all her armor off...?

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[ghostytrainer]

Well--!

[...]

No, I guess not, I mean you seem pretty confused too. But I mean she's your bird! You stand to know a little bit more about her than I do. I can't say I know a whole lot about Skarmorys, personally. But uh...I mean I guess that noise kind of sounded like metal filing off metal...

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[beholdmydemons]

[Uggghh he gives up thinking about this.] Asking how is moot, I'd just like to know why. This bird's mad as they come.

[plops himself down against a rock.] Who're you?

[Action]

[radeonthecity]

[Me?

Yes, yes, heading out to do so, and not at the moment.

The first one to respond to Walter's appearance is Fleshripper the friendly Croconaw, who sees what are obviously new friends and happily bounces over to give some love bites. The approaching three-foot-tall crocodile with lots of sharp teeth is obviously nothing to be concerned about, am I right?]

[Action]

[beholdmydemons]

[INCORRECT. Walter leaps into reflexive action when he sees the Pokemon coming for him, recalling Orthrus (fire is weak to water, that one's easy) and letting out Gertrude the Skarmory to screech and raise her wings like a shield against sharp things.

It takes him a moment to swallow back the urge to just destroy the monster before it has another chance to attack, but thankfully that's something he's had time to work on, and he can call out to the trainer.]

Hoy! Let's have a battle!

[Action]

[radeonthecity]

[Domri recognizes Walter from their previous conversation and grins when Walter issues his challenge.]

Sure!

[He plants his feet shoulder-width apart and crosses his arms across his chest, trying to look the part of a beastmaster/chieftain standing at the head of his horde/war party.]

You can start it off, Fleshripper.

[Fleshripper happily bounces in place with a series of happy "Naw! Naw! Naw!"s. Domri looks back over to Walter. He'll treat this like a Gruul duel, which means...]

Challenger has the honor of first hit.

[Confidence is not something that Gruul lack. If they do, they won't admit it.

Considering that Domri has been busy training his team since he got here, that hit probably won't be as effective as Walter might hope.]

[Action]

[beholdmydemons]

[Yeah...yeah, this isn't a fight he's going to be winning.

But the fun is in the fight itself, so:]

As we've done, Gertrude! [She flaps her wings, lifting herself off the ground, and fires Stealth Rocks to encroach on Domri's side of the field.

[Video]

[babel_hacker]

[Yeah, okay, Atsuro's torn between being baffled, wincing at that horrible noise or just laughing.]

So...you okay over there?

[Video]

[beholdmydemons]

[Oh, hey, it's Tokyo dude.] She seems still...whole? [wtffff] Certainly eager to move about.

...Pokemon don't ever just run off and leave their trainers, do they?

[Video]

[babel_hacker]

Not really? I haven't heard of any Pokemon running away from their trainer's official care, since they're still registered to us. Maybe just run off and give us trouble, at most.

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[beholdmydemons]

[Audible phew.] Trouble's one way to put it. [He imagines it gets a lot more troublesome than this, though. Pokemon seem to be about as powerful as your average demon and twice as willful.] Without any kind of pact, it's hard to know what they'll do next.

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[ex_cashcow493]

Did your Pokemon just...

[ There's no way to end this sentence without being offensive, so she'll just bite her tongue. ]

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[beholdmydemons]

[no it's fine he's wondering the same thing

In fact, his response is to sort of throw his hand up in the air in a defeated shrug.]

I think she doesn't know she's a bird.

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[ex_cashcow493]

... Would it not be easier to fly as a bird with less of those steel feathers?

[ That's her best guess as to why a bird would do something so out of the ordinary. ]

[action]

[crystalballer]

[Hagakure actually is training his Pokemon for once today. Which is unfortunate for him since he's really not prepared for trainer battles at all.

He has his Elgyem battling a random Pidgey while his Abra and Chingling watch from the sidelines on his shoulders. Hagakure gives words of encouragement as Grey the Elgyem defeats the Pidgey when he notices someone approaching from the corner of his eye. He glances in that direction to see some intimidating-looking guy making a beeline right for him.

Well. He doesn't like this already.

He glances in any direction he can that isn't in this kid's. If he doesn't pay any attention to the problem it'll just go away, right?

... Right?]

[action]

[beholdmydemons]

Hoy there!

[No such luck. The kid is waving and calling out, his Houndour mimicking him with a low owf and an exaggerated toss of the head.]

What say you to a quick bout?

[action]

[crystalballer]

[Damnit. Well uh, time to play dumb, he supposes.]

Huh? Are you talkin' to me, dude?

[He doesn't even know what the kid was just trying to say ("a quick bout"? whats' that even supposed to mean) so playing dumb really is the best course of action.]

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[superordinary]

...Um, what just happened?

[ hi i am naegi and i have no idea what's going on in this post. ]

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[beholdmydemons]

[why do people keep asking him this] Do I look like I've the faintest?

[There's no bite behind it, though. You're too nice to get hard snark. Walter sighs.]

Hoy, I paid mind to your advice with the egg. The first came out fine, as far as I can tell. [This bird thing is the second so who even knows.]

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[superordinary]

That's good to hear! [ Naegi looks happy. He didn't really do much besides give advice on basic stuff, but he's glad it was useful anyway. ] ...Uh, is the Skarmory all right?