foolishwren | 64. [Voice/Action for Goldenrod] Backdated to Friday/Thursdayish.

_{[It's probably been a week and a half or so since anybody's heard a whole lot from Heather's end of the line-- given the recent turn of events, coupled with catching up on things with her father, she just hasn't been talking much.]

[But if anyone missed the sound of yet another ranty teenager on the 'Gear network, well, today their wishes and hopes will be realized.]

[A crackle of interference precedes her voice, and in the background there's the steady rumble of a Steelix making headway on a dirt path.]}

Heeeey Johto, what's crackin'?

Totally fell off the face of the planet for a bit there.

Anyway, for those who care, Goldenrod just came into sight over the hill, so Dad and I'll be strolling into town within a couple hours, probably.

I'll be lookin' for a few of you as soon as we get checked in and stuff-- you guys know who you are. _{[She's lookin' at you, Kaito. Dinner plans aside, she still needs to give him that hug.]}

And uh-- Snake, you still in the hotel? I'll heal Solid up at the Center first if you want me to, but otherwise, I'm sure he'll be glad to see his Trainer. Sorry the trip wound up takin' so long.

Anyway, uh-- ... see you guys in a few hours.

... Feel free to call me up and chat, though, the road's dusty and it's a real bore to look at for hours on end.

_{[ooc: For Action, feel free to encounter Heather in the hotel lobby or Pokemon Center healin' up her monsters after arriving.]}

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And that failed to help anything...

[He shrugs.]

Built for war. Spent millions of years in combat... That sticks with you. If you came from a violent planet, then, yeah. Probably be all right there.

Well, not a violent planet, so much...

_{[... More just a violent backwoods town that stayed under the radar of the rest of the world. ... Like a festering infection that no one knew about until it was too late.]}

... So, millions of years, huh?

_{[Guy must be pretty GOOD if he'd lasted THAT long.]}

Then what?

[Because now he's curious.]

Yeah. Been around a long time. Sounds longer in your years.

... Hm. _{[She can think of a few appropriately-vague-but-still-disturbing metaphors, but given that she's talking to something that's used to being a machine... she's not entirely sure the effect would quite be what she's going for.]}

... Just a bad neighborhood.

_{[Understatement of the millennium.]}

Yeah, won't lie, it does. Do things get boring after that long?

Hmn. Bad neighborhood... I get that.

[Ironhide isn't one to really understand the various social norms of his own people -- much less humanity. But even he can see that pause. He won't push it.]

Not in war, no. If you get bored, you get sloppy. End up a pile of spare parts in the enemy's medical bay.

_{[Probably a good thing, in this case.]}

Guess a human wouldn't last long even if they could. We get bored pretty easy.

Your soldiers are tough. They last just fine.

Not for millions of years. That's a little steep.

[Okay, he has to laugh a little.]

Yeah, good point.

Yeah, don't get me wrong, I'm not sayin' we're not tough or anything.

_{[... Says the stringy teenage girl who probably looks like she's been rubbing her face in the dirt after being on the road this long.]}

Just short-lived. And fragile.

[What's a little dirt? He's old. He shouldn't be talking about fighting anymore.]

Not that fragile!

_{[She can't argue the short-lived part, though. ... Psuedo-immortality aside, she still knows that better than anybody.]}

[A chuckle.]

Yeah. Not that fragile.

So, d'you have a name?

_{[Because-- well, hey, robots. Maybe they'd developed beyond names or something.]}

Ironhide.

You?

Heather Mason.

I will remember that.

Good!

So, Ironhide, huh? Like the ship?

_{[... That's Ironsides, Heather. Learn your history.]}

... Like what ship?

Eh, never mind. Human thing.

So, are the, uh... other robot people who've been brought here from the same place you are?

_{[Not that she's... talked... to many.]}

Hmn.

Cliffjumper... I know him from my world. But this one... he knows about things I have never experienced. Starting to think he is from somewhere else.

[Wait. Hold on.]

... when you say 'other robot people'... who do you mean?

Cliffjumper? Doesn't sound familiar-- but there was at least one other guy I talked to who claimed to be a robot.

Guess he could've just been messin' with me, but he sure did sound robotic. _{[With less of a sense of humor than Ironhide, even!]}

Did he tell you his name?

[This is important. He suddenly looks quite serious -- maybe a little hopeful.]

Uhhh...

_{[She pauses, wrinkling her nose thoughtfully and rubbing the back of her neck.]}

I don't... exactly remember. Sounded kinda like 'Harpoon', though. I think.

... Harpoon?

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