foolishwren | 73. [Video/Action] Afternoon

_{[What tiiiiiiiiiiime is it?]

[.... GYM BATTLE TIME!]

[The feed, as often is the case whenever Heather actually films one of her battles, seems manned by the resident camera-crocodile, and airborne thanks to Honey the ever-patient Butterfree (although not quite as airborne as it was back in Violet City during the victory over Falkner-- Godzilla isn't exactly a little baby anymore...]

[Nonetheless, the fight is filled with the usual combo of snippy one-liners from Heather and NON-STOP ACTION, because man, if it's gonna be broadcast, might as well make it showy! The first half of the battle is largely dominated by Cujo-- but when Jasmine sends out her monstrous Steelix, Heather recalls the pup and turns briefly to the camera to smugly reassure the viewers--]}

Cooj totally has this, but it wouldn't be fair to let him have ALL the fun, y'know?

_{[With a knowing grin, she promptly hucks a different ball onto the field-- releasing a dainty Ponyta.]}

GET 'em, Carousel!

_{[For something that had been a gangly little foal around Christmas, Carousel's done a lot of growing-- which is PARTICULARLY evident in the fight that she proceeds to put up against the metal snake's attacks, prancing and leaping to avoid most of the blows-- Heather had clearly been training her quite a bit during the month or so she'd been in Olivine by now.]

[Although, something a little odd-- which could of course be because of Zilla's filming, the Totodile doesn't exactly have the steadiest hands (claws?) when it comes to holding the camera... but... did Carousel suddenly get quite a bit BIGGER as she came leaping over the Steelix's flaming coils...?]}

_{[... HUH. Well, whaddya know. What lucky timing!]

[As the Steelix comes crashing down to the Gym's sandy floor, rolling feebly to put out the flames, the audience is treated to a very artistic sideways view of the a set of long, snowy legs trotting over to their trainer, who is looking surprisingly NOT triumphant over her victory. In fact, she looks kinda... shell-shocked. Aaaand then the camera swings away again to show the defeated Gym Leader, who fortunately handles these sorts of things a LOT more gracefully than You-Know-Who in Goldenrod...]}

My goodness...

_{[The camera shuffles a short distance away so it can get a good view of both trainers-- Zilla wants to give people the FULL EXPERIENCE, after all!]}

That was a quite exciting battle... Did you know your Ponyta was about to evolve?

Um...

_{[Shooting the now-Thoroughbred-sized animal beside her an unsure look, Heather startles sideways slightly when the Rapidash stretches her neck out to nose at the side of her face. Shuffling a step or two to the side, she pats Carousel's nose distractedly, more with the intention of pushing her gently away than anything else.]}

No...

Well! What a... lucky coincidence! ... I'm sure you would have done fine anyway, though... your Pokemon are quite the little spitfires! Please, um... take the Mineralbadge. You've earned it!

Thanks--!

_{[Too distracted to even snicker at the unintentional pun, Heather sloooowly steps away from the fiery unicorn and starts to head across the sand towards the camera to claim her prize-- which is where the feed cuts out.]}

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

S-so what if I am! They're creepy!

[......Heather. :c]

But in a gym battle, your Pokemon'd be doing the fighting, not you.

_{[Yeah, your opinion on spirits and the like tends to sour after one pushes you onto a set of traintracks ... Casper the Friendly Ghost, my ass.]}

They're still scary!!!!

[....Heather how did you survive.]

Pshhh, they're not that baaaad. _{[Just teasing now.]} You're being ghostist. ... Anti-ghost? Whatever.

_{[Well see, the funny thing is, a few times she didn't-- By climbing back up really quickly.]}

I don't care what it's called, I can't stand them!

[~~HEATHER OH GOD NO.~~ Please stop getting into dangerous situations.]

Awww... you'll hurt their feewings.

_{[YEAH DYING IS PRETTY UNPLEASANT. YOU CAN TAKE HEATHER'S WORD FOR IT Hey, it wasn't her fault some angry spirit decided to shove her into the path of a train... she was just trying to get home! :(]}

Ghosts don't even have feelings!

And stop acting like Kaito!

[~~WILL DO.~~ Why didn't she take a safer way, then.]

_{[Tee hee!]}

How do you know? They might be really emotional deep down.

And I'm acting like myself, not my fault Kaito's got a similar sense of humor!

_{[the subway was the only way :( and it wasn't normally abandoned and filled with monsters...]}

Then they should stay away from me!

It's so similar, it's creepy.

[Let's hope not.]

_{[Just... beaming.]}

[Not beaming. Opposite of beaming.]

You're mean.

_[HEEEEE.]

Yup.

[Sticks out her tongue like a mature person.]

_{[RETURNING THE GESTURE. She'll take 'What is maturity?' for 300--]}

[HER TONGUE IS LONGER. You're gonna lose some points--]

_{[... AOKO ARE WE REALLY GETTING INTO A 'WHOSE TONGUE IS LONGER' COMPETITION.]}

[.....PROOOOOOOOOBABLY.]

_{[... Heather can see why Aoko and Kaito have been friends for so long.]

[WELL TWO CAN PLAY AT THIS GAME. She can't stick her tongue out any further, so she just goes and makes a weird-ass face to go along with it.]}

[Yep. Same maturity levels and all.

...the face makes her laugh.]

What kind of face is that?

The best kind.

[pffff Heather, why you so damn funny.] Obviously.

_{[She is Heather. It are her job.]}

[She be having the best job evers. Not wait. Lemme say it right.

EVAHS.]

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