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

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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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[ doing a careful pivot, just to test it. ] Geez, it seriously feels like I could fall off...

I hope that's one experience you're not too keen on trying.

No, I kind of like being able to move.

Can't think of a greater motivation~

[ have a grin, even as she settles to do swings properly.

... On a roof. ]

[most beautiful setting. and he joins in the swinging, balanced. something about this situation says a lot about his practice habits--

after some mindless chatter on the matter --]

Oh, wouldn't it be fun if we could rally?

[ she remembers the term, raising an eyebrow. ]

That's if I could hit them.

And trying is out of the question?

... I never said it was! I'll at least hit one!

[ why do you do this, Fuji. ]

[the most innocent grin] Oh, someone's confident. Do you think I can hold you to that?

[fishing out a tennis ball from a pocket! because what's a tennis player who doesn't have at least several hidden on body at all times?]

Don't underestimate me, okay?

[ SHE WILL HIT THAT GODDAMN BALL OR DIE TRYING. Even if the dying is actually plausible for once. ]

Is that so? I suppose you'll have to show me why I shouldn't, won't you.

[so much amusement, god he likes goading people. but have an underhand serve at an angle -- it bounces off the slanted roof with precision the way a billiard ball pings off of a wall.]

[ she has to move gingerly here, taking the roof into account-- but she's determined now, pivoting and sending the ball back. Not quite so precisely, but she's managing.

This is the oddest feeling. ]

[delight!] There's one!

[and he moves purposefully but confidently across the roof to position himself in a way so he can return the ball. once again taking the rooftop into consideration, he sends it back again, using nearly the same trajectory that it did the first time around.]

[ if it's the same, Rise can track it, and she's quick to pursue and return it. Curiosity won't stay down for long. ]

How d'you get it that angled, though?

Two! [a grin as he returns it, this time pinpointing that exact angle once more, tongue in cheek.]

Would you believe me if I said there were magical bulls-eyes floating around?

[ this time, she's there waiting to whack it back, giving him an eye-roll. ]

No.

Three! [a laugh. it's going back the same way again!]

Looks like there's no fooling the otter.

You and the otter thing--

[ she may be hitting this one with a little more force. ]

[using that force against you-- have a lob!]

Also comes in shades of reindeer!

It doesn't-- ah!

[ sadly, she can't get that one in time. ]

[ It's remarkable, really, how tennis can ambush a person when they're just minding their own business. Niou is simply passing by the Pokémon Center when something — two years of tennis with Kirihara Akaya, probably — makes him look up.

A tennis ball, inexplicably, is falling through the air toward him.

He drops his bag in the same motion he uses to take out his racket, and steps back just barely in time. No chance to think about trajectory, he just lobs the ball, and it goes sailing back up and vanishes onto the roof. He shades his eyes to try to look after it. ]

[he's just about to make a crack about the one that flew over the cuckoo's nest, when all of a sudden, the ball is flying back the way it came from-- a quick glance shows that at that particular trajectory, it's going to sail right over the roof.

there's something inherent for tennis players about chasing after green and fuzzy objects that are moving at very high speeds, and Fuji really is no different. it takes him three seconds to all but skid across the roof, doing an impressive impression of snowboarding while reaching out to balance himself with his other leg. reaching out with a racket, he smoothly maneuvers the ball so that it falls with the movement of his arm, before coming to rest on the face of his racket quietly.

a pause, and then, a grin-- tossing the ball in Rise's direction, he makes his way to the edge of the roof to peer down owlishly.]

Just a little drive-by tennis, is it now?

[ it's the hours of tennis practice that has her catching the ball on her racket's face instead of catching it like one would a baseball. It bounces once, twice, and then she snags it and takes a minute to review WHAT THE HELL FUJI JUST DID.

... she eventually concludes that it's not something she'll be able to pull anytime within the next year or so, and curiously ventures closer to the edge once she hears Fuji address someone. The source of the ball playing boomerang, probably-- and sure enough, when she glances down, she brightens. ]

Niou-kun! Um, sorry about that.

[Perhaps, like bees to flowers, Yukimura is naturally attracted to tennis. Or perhaps he was just in the vicinity of his teammate, and that's why he's walking over now, to stand near Niou and peer up at the roof.]

What are you two doing up there? That's an interesting place for a match.

[And though he doesn't say it, he thinks it's a bit unfair for Fuji to take Rise up there. She's still a beginner, after all. Then again, this could make her learn faster.]

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