usedgalacticpunt | Bout 010 (Video/Action): Badges upon badges. (backdated to Tue. 6/14)

[The video opens in medias res, with a casual conversation going on in the Olivine Pokémon Center. It's not quite loud enough to hear any of the words, though. After a second or two, Chie orients the video on herself.]

Oh, hey, has anybody else noticed how the gym leaders are a little... weird? Me and my friends all challenged Jasmine today, so we could get the Surf TM and cross Route... 42, I think it was? And Jasmine gave us all the same lines from beginning to end. She was all like, "Properly tempered steel won't be made rusty by things like this!" And "You are a better trainer than me, in both skill and kindness." Like she was reading off a script or something!

But anyway, we all made it! I got Ecruteak's badge too, when we stopped there on Friday, so I'm up to four! [Chie shows off two badges to the camera.]

For anybody who's following our quest to rescue Souji-kun, we're leaving first thing tomorrow morning on the way back to Ecruteak. And from there, it's through Mahogany and on to the Ice Path! Just hold on, Souji-kun, we won't make you wait too much longer!

[OOC: You may have already won the chance to be tagged by others in Chie's traveling group! This is a limited-time offer, so comment today! ~~Or any time, really.~~]

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... Do I wanna know what they did?

I don't know the full story, so I couldn't tell you, even if you did wanna know.

Any details, at least?

And you're just the accomplice? [amusement, aaaaand-- he pulls up the ladder. giving a discreet glance behind him, he quietly folds it up, and starts moving it towards the back entrance of the pokemon center.]

Something like that. [ just as casually following him. ]

[there's a nurse who notices them! and starts walking towards them, 8-bit smile plastered all over her face when--

there's that five-tone chime of the healing machine going off, out of tune, and the nurse swivels, suddenly back in place and ready to offer pokeballs back to the nonexistent trainer at the counter. the misdreavus behind her makes cackling noises, and jams another button on the pokemon center machine. it makes a whirling noise, and a pokeball shoots out at high speeds, hitting a chansey in the head.

presumably, this doesn't end well, but Fuji only laughs, quickly sliding out with the ladder.]

That's also the point, yes.

Oh, but using it to come up with ideas is quite fun~

A Ditto would be a good solution to a great number of problems, really. Particularly since Niou seems to have rather...creative uses for his.

Ah, a method of reverse psychology? How tricky.

His is in a separate category of its own, really. It's that ditto that every old ditto looks back at with fondness and every young ditto aspires to be.

You're no fun, Yuushi.

Team Rocket was behind it...

[ Rise takes a minute to make an apologetic gesture at the whimpering Chansey - all the while struggling not to burst out laughing while simultaneously lamenting that this yet another Center she's inadvertently terrorized (by association) - and then she's darting out after Fuji. ]

Maybe it's a good thing I healed everyone before we did this.

[sticking out his arm to inspect it]

I dunno about tanned.

Trickery is another fun usage of it.

All the Ditto that are inclined toward vaguely criminal activites, at least.

What? Really? I am wounded, Rise-chan.

... Man, it sounds like they pull off a lot of crap here.

Then I'll just figure it out myself!

Well, they are the bad guys.

... Yeah, no kiddin'. [Ha. Of course they are.] Any other stuff they've done that I should know about?

Yeah, but...

Prepared as always. But I wouldn't worry about it, if I were you. You're just the accomplice. [a laugh, and he quickly sets the ladder against the side of the building.] Ladies first!

There exists a ditto that isn't?

But?

Figure out what, exactly?

Oh, I'm sure somewhere there's one lone Ditto, an angel amongst demons, who wants nothing more than to transform into nice cute objects that make people happy. But it's horribly misunderstood and shunned by its Ditto brethren, so one day it set out on a quest to find the perfect trainer...

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