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.]}

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If they used awesome futuristic technology to zap us here, they could make roads!

...I think!

I mean, even they don't seem to know how they zapped us here...

_{[The locals all seemed just as in-the-dark about it as the otherworlders...]}

...you sure it's not just an act?

A nation-wide, coordinated act?

That'd take some serious effort to pull off... not to mention I'm pretty sure SOMEONE would've messed up and let slip with something by now.

You got a point...

Oh yeah, I'm Clover.

Clover, huh?

Cool.

I'm Heather.

Nice to meet'cha, Heather.

You've been here a while?

More than a year, now.

_{[She doesn't... sound particularly upset about that.]}

Wow...there's more people who've been here for a long time than I thought. I've only been here for only a couple of months.

Heh, yeah.

I think I was one of the first ones to get here, actually. So me and a few others, we've been around the block.

You were one of the first?

Mmhm.

There's still quite a few people around who got here around the same time I did, but there's... definitely a lot more people now than there were back then...

And it doesn't look like whatever's letting people in is gonna let up soon...

Probably not.

There's a new crop of people every week... s'been that way ever since I got here.

Always? As in, no breaks?

Well, there's been a few times where there doesn't seem to be any new people, I guess ... but as a general rule, that's pretty much how it is. Once a week, newbies.

...

Yup, this place really is crazy.

Yeah.

It still surprises me every so often, even now.

_{[That was the worst part... it would get good-- so good that it lulled you into a sense of false security. And then WHAM. Lifeless insect husks that sucked out your soul.]}

...Guess I'll have to always be on my guard no matter how long I'm gonna be here.

I'd recommend that, yeah.

Don't get me wrong, I love it here...

But if there's one thing I've learned, it's that nowhere's completely safe.

Ever.

...

Not even the inns? Or the Centers?

... Well, I was thinking more along the lines of like... worlds. And countries and shit.

But to be fair I've seen shit go down in Centers.

_{[... Like the time one transformed into a hellish otherworld right before her eyes, forcing her to fight for her life to escape. ... Except that she'd been hallucinating and it hadn't actually happened, but.]}

...I gotta admit, I didn't exactly come from the safest place on the planet.

Wait, the Centers?

From what I've seen, a lot of the people who come here had crappy stuff of one flavor or another going on at home.

But anyway... uh, yeah. Centers.

I don't like hospitals.

Skeezy places.

Yeah, they smell funny and sometimes, you don't know what's gonna happen.

...but the Centers I've been to seem okay. Like that one where I woke up after the Shedinja came around.

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