beholdmydemons | second fusion

[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.]

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[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))

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[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?]

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?

[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.]

Who else? There's no others in sight. [He comes to a stop a few yards away, and his Houndour barks excitedly and jumps in front of him, dropping into a playful crouch and spitting a few embers. Playtime! he's barking to the Elgyem, wiggling around on the grass.]

[Hagakure glances around and...well shit, there really is no one else around. That kind of backfired horribly, didn't it?]

Oh, guess you're right... So uh, what did you want me to do again? Something about a bout? Haha, about a bout.

[So funny.

Grey the Elgyem wasn't really paying much attention at first, but the Houndour's embers seem to pique his interest. He floats himself in the dog's direction and sends out a small psybeam in response. It's not big enough to do damage; it just looks cool.]

[...What are you talking about.] I'm looking for a battle! Your Pokemon seems eager, so what say you? [He takes a Pokeball off his belt. Orthrus, feeling nothing at all from the technique (dark type yo), flips himself over and rolls rapidly back and forth in delight, stubby tail wagging hard.]

Oh. A battle! Why didn't you just say that before, dude?

[He glances nervously as his Elgyem, then to the two Pokemon on his shoulders.]

Uh, my Pokemon aren't really that high-leveled though so I dunno how this is gonna go at all...

[He hasn't participated in any real Pokemon battles with trainers yet so he's worried. He has no idea what he has to do for those. It's really different from the games, okay?

Grey in the meantime is quizzically watching Orthrus as the Houndour rolls around on the ground. Wow, this dog is really excitable, isn't he?]

[shrug!] Well, mine neither. [Walter whistles sharply, and Orthrus rolls to his feet in an instant, standing up straight (tail still wagging). He backs up to put some space between himself and Hagakure for a battlefield.] You've not had matches with the natives along the way? [The trainers around Cherrygrove may have been pretty young, but they knew what they were doing and....well, they still paid prize money....]

[Hagakure shakes his head and shrugs.]

Not really...me and my classmate had to get to Violet really fast so we kinda flew most of the way. Can't really battle when you're in the air, y'know?

[Fair enough. (Where'd they get something big enough for that...? eh whatever.)]

There's a first time for everything. Come on! [C'mon c'mon c'mon, this is gonna be fun! Walter snaps and points in front of him while he's grinning across the way at Hagakure, and Orthrus jogs onto the spot, standing at attention.] Not afraid you'll lose, are you?

'C-Course not!

[It's more like he's expecting it at this point but he doesn't say that. He just sends his strongest Pokemon forward, which happens to be Grey. The Elgyem glances up at Hagakure, and for a moment it looks like they're sharing some sort of conversation even though neither are speaking. Hagakure doesn't seem too confident, but Grey nods anyway and turns to face his opponent.]

What's your dude's level anyway? Grey's like fifteen or sixteen. Somewhere around there.

Er... [He glances at Orthrus, giving it a second of thought.] ...Can't remember when I last checked. I've been here not yet a month, though! It'll be fair.

[...Or, well, it won't be, but having never faced a Psychic-type before, Walter doesn't know about the whole immunity thing.

WHATEVER WHATEVER]

Ready on your mark? Orthrus!

[wuff! The first action is yours, if you're willing to take it.]

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