NINTH REBELLION ❅ VIDEO / ACTION [GOLDENROD CITY]

[glaciates]

[ VIDEO ]

[Good morning, Route! The sun is barely up and already Isaac's broadcasting something. Clearly someone here's an early riser. This morning Isaac's sitting outside with several of Goldenrod's buildings in the background, surrounded by icicles. If you care to count, there are four Bergmites all clamoring for Isaac's attention and one Avalugg sitting behind Isaac. It looks like another Pokémon is serving as the cameraman today, though there isn't any indication which Pokémon it is.]

Hey, so I have a question.

[And as usual, Isaac doesn't know how to start this. He seems a bit more at ease today and is actually smiling for once. He's also dressed down, in just a dark green t-shirt and jeans despite the temperature and the surrounding Ice-types.]

I'm looking for sparring partners. Uh, human ones. I don't really spar with my Pokémon. Anyway, I've been here awhile and I'm pretty sure my fighting skills are beginning to suffer, so I'd like to work on that. I'm in Goldenrod right now, but we can always set something up sometime later. This isn't something I need immediately or anything, I just figured I'd see if anyone's interested.

[And then Isaac looks awkward, because how the hell does he end something like this.]

Uh, thanks for your time?

[Well, he tried. The feed cuts out there.]

[ ACTION (GOLDENROD CITY) ]

[You know, when Isaac first evolved a Bergmite into an Avalugg, he was expecting something more impressive. Not that Avalugg isn't impressive, but ever since it was compared to a dining room table he hasn't been able to unsee it. It also doesn't help that Avaluggs are really slow. If you happen to be out around the southern outskirts of Goldenrod, you might catch sight of Isaac riding on top of that Avalugg like the world's slowest-moving beastmaster. There are quite a few Bergmites piled on behind Isaac, and they're sliding around with practiced ease on the slippery surface of the much larger Pokémon, never once risking falling off. Apparently we're riding in style today.

(This may or may not have something to do with the fact that Kimblee has an awesome Pokémon to ride on and it's been awhile since Isaac's blatantly copied Kimblee. This also may or may not have something to do with the fact that riding on a glacier was one of the biggest highlights of Isaac's life back home for a brief, shining moment before some brats showed up and ruined everything in the best way possible.)

This display of slow goes on for a few minutes before Isaac finally glances down at the Avalugg.]

I'd get back to the hotel faster if I was walking...

[He then proceeds to jump off the Avalugg, dropping the six and a half feet to the ground without injuring himself somehow. The Bergmites all crowd around the edge of the Avalugg, chirping down at Isaac excitedly.]

No, don't you dare-- You guys know I can't carry you--!

[Too late. INCOMING BERGMITES!! Since they weigh about 220 lbs individually, there is literally no way Isaac is going to be able to catch them all. Care to help or watch them crash into the ground and see if they shatter like regular icicles?]

Comments

[fatalissimo]

Yeah. It's a bit too cold out for my usual set, so I've been working with some of the newer ones - I usually train birds.

[...these Bergmites are like the size of a small child, aka like two-thirds her height, jesus, hello. They're just sorta advancing there.]

Same for you, I'm assuming?

[glaciates]

Oh yeah, I bet it'd be hard to get them to cooperate very well when it's this cold out.

[DO YOU HAVE TREATS, TINY AND CUTE LADY]

Sort of. I figured I'd take these guys out to train for a bit, but they were more interested in trying to catch an Abra. They don't exactly have the best attention span...

[fatalissimo]

[NOT FOR YOU SHE DOESN'T YOU LITTLE SHITS]

...They also don't have the best speed, so I'll bet that was an adventure.

[glaciates]

[FINE THEY'LL SETTLE FOR PETS, FORK THEM OVER!!!]

They tried really hard, I'll give them that. They found one sleeping and surrounded it. They managed to hit each other instead of it.

[It was pretty embarrassing tbh...]

[fatalissimo]

[OH MY GOD YOU SPOILED LITTLE ASSHOLES okay fine

That said, she laughs a bit at that, good lord.]

Well, I can see why you thought they needed the training.

[glaciates]

[YAAAAY PETS PETS PETS!!!]

They're not the brightest... That's why I picked this one to train seriously, he was the only one who actually seemed interested in it.

[He's half-convinced these guys are just little sadists...]

[fatalissimo]

Some of them are just like that, I guess; I've got one that I can't do anything with, she just kind of screams at me every time I try. I've pretty much given up on that one.

[glaciates]

Oh yeah? What kind of Pokémon is it?

[fatalissimo]

She's a Whismur.

[...]

They breathe through their ears.

[glaciates]

They what?

[NONON WHY DID YOU TELL HIM THIS]

[fatalissimo]

They do! It's how they keep screaming for hours - and believe me, she screams for hours.

[glaciates]

Seriously? Well no wonder you haven't done anything with her! Why would she be screaming like that though?

[NONON WHAT DID YOU DO]

[fatalissimo]

She's really easily startled, I guess - and then she starts screaming, and then she seems surprised by her own screaming so she just screams more.

It's really stupid, Beastmaster.

[glaciates]

That's... something...

[He's not sure what it is, but boy is it a thing.]

Where did you get her?

[fatalissimo]

I guess Mom gave her to me...? She's the one I started out with.

[glaciates]

Really...? Wow. I'm really sorry to hear that.

[fatalissimo]

She's not so bad if you keep her quiet, I guess? She's pretty cute normally.

...And apparently if you flop her ears back over to cover the openings she stops yelling, so at least there's that much.

[glaciates]

...Isn't that stopping her from breathing though...?

[NONON]

[fatalissimo]

They don't only breathe through their ears!

[AS IS EVIDENCED BY THE FACT THAT ARIA-CHAN IS NOT DEAD YET, PRESUMABLY]

[glaciates]

Oh. I guess that would be a little weird.

[Weirder than breathing through their ears in general????? How does Pokémon biology work, we just don't know.]

[fatalissimo]

...The whole thing's a little weird. I'm pretty sure she's got to be hollow or something, because I have no idea how it works otherwise.

[glaciates]

But if she's hollow then what about her organs?

[UNLESS THEY'RE JUST LIKE, FLOATING AROUND IN THERE OR SOMETHING

WHY ARE WE EVEN TALKING ABOUT THIS]

[fatalissimo]

...Do you want to see her? I've got her in a ball, she gets all tetchy if I leave her in the PC for too long.

[SHE DOESN'T KNOW]

[glaciates]

Yeah, sure. I don't know anything about animal biology, but I'm curious to see what she looks like.

[fatalissimo]

She screams like a damn jet engine, so you might want to brace for that.

[Aaand with that she will just be finding the Pokéball, while the Floette hanging out on her clothes does the intelligent thing and gets under the hat, because holy shit does Celesta ever know what's coming.

And so does Nonon, who seems entirely resigned to this routine; she releases her nearby and picks her up immediately (all damn near 40 pounds of her, like she weighs absolutely nothing), but somewhere between the sudden cold and the person she doesn't recognize and the goddamn Bergmites everywhere, it isn't long before the screaming starts.

Like a damn jet engine in volume, Isaac, she's telling you.

Nonon lets her do it for a moment before she just...sighs, looks right at Isaac, and flops her ears back over.

And the screaming stops.]

Told you.