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007. Video

_{[It's dark. But judging by the orange, flickering light lighting up Heather's face as she does the customary squint-at-the-screen-to-make-sure-it's-recording motions, she's got a campfire lit. Satisfied, she puts it down on her pack and adjusts it a little before taking a seat in front of it. She's already laid out the sleeping bag and everything.]}

[Cujo the Growlithe and Arty the Sentret are both out of their Pokeballs, for once-- both are curled in a furry heap somewhere just barely in-view of the camera. Both are asleep .... unlike whatever owned the big red glowing eyes that were glimmering faintly in the dark somewhere behind Heather's back. She doesn't seem too concerned, though, as she's not paying much attention to them, for... for some reason. ... You'd think she'd be concerned.]
Yo.

Sorry to disappoint and all, but unfortunately, my little science experiment did not result in my death, so here I am to annoy you all a little more. Merry Christmas.

I'd also like to extend my thanks to Zack for helping me out with it. He fought valiantly in the great bee battle._{[She flips the horns at the camera and gives a serious nod.]}
You rule, bro.

Anyway. Was hopin' to catch one of those things, but by the time I got back to the scene of the crime-- _{[Why yes, the 'great bee battle' HAD mainly consisted of them running like sissies back to Cherrygrove. Is anyone surprised by this?]} -- they'd all decided they had somewhere better to be. Figures. Ignorance always flees in the wake of science, am I right?

Anyway..._{[The customary pause in which she remembers what she'd originally decided to annoy people via pointless video transmissions for anyway. ... After a moment or so, she snaps her fingers before tugging her knees to her chest and propping her chin on them. Now she remembers. Camping in the woods at night was something she'd never done as a kid (she and her father hadn't really been the country type), but every kid knows there's a few traditional activities one must take part in. She doesn't have anything to make s'mores with, so that left...]}
Oh yeah. So. Nighttime on the way to Violet City. Did I mention before that these woods are creepy as hell at night? Camping sucks. But... I'm bored, and even though I'm prooobably gonna regret this...

_{[She sort of wished she had a flashlight to hold under her face spookily, as was tradition, but aw heck.]}

...Anybody got some good ghost stories?

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_{['Stupid' was putting it kindly. This was not a very bright dog. At least he wasn't violent.]}

Oh-- yeah. That's how he introduced himself to me, anyway.

_{[She brightens up hearing that he's sticking around town for awhile-- she's fond of him and... well, especially after hearing what he'd told her tonight, what she'd sort of gleaned from him before had become even more obvious. He'd had a hard life.]

[IRONICALLY, he had mentioned that he worked with a soldier, and LIQUID was a soldier, so Heather just sort of assumed... WRONG ENFANT TERRIBLE, KIDDO.]}

Hm. I see.

[It's an easy mistake for her to make without any more information than that.]

He's been working in the Pokemon Center. You'll probably run into him sooner or later.

Yeah, considering that's probably where I'll be staying. Dunno if I'm gonna wind up getting a job myself, though... I've still got a decent wad of cash from the last job and being tied down somewhere gives me cabin fever.

_{[Not that she did a whole lot of traveling at home, really, but she did have a tendency to wander.]}

I understand. I was never particularly fond of staying in one place for very long, either.

[Normally because he was in a warzone at the time and hanging around meant getting caught by the enemy, but even to an extent outside of battle. Since he didn't have a place to call home, he never had a reason to stay somewhere unless he was ordered to.]

Yeeeah. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's not like I'm a hobo or anything, but anything that's like, 'stay here for seven days OR WE WILL ARREST YOUR ASS' is just... no thank you.

_{[It was likely that there would be at least a few warrants for Heather's arrest out there before this whole epic Pokemon adventure was over.]}

It does seem like something of an overreaction, doesn't it.

[There might be a few out for Liquid eventually, as well-- he didn't like it when people told him he had to do something OR ELSE. He'd usually take the else.]

Seriously.

Not a fan of the no-weapons thing, either. I'm sorry if like, the Pokemon are supposed to protect us from everything ever but I'd be a lot happier if I had my guns with me, personally.

_{[... Of course, Heather + guns in the Pokemon world was more or less a disaster waiting to happen so, y'know, it's a good thing she doesn't have them.]}

I'm not afraid of being in trouble with the law, but it's pretty inconvenient if they're going to jump on you because you only wanted to work three days before moving on instead of SEVEN.

Tch. I hardly need weapons to hurt someone, but I share your sentiments.

[God help the police if they tried to apprehend Liquid against his will.]

[The girl liked explosions, wreaking havoc, and carried guns. Liquid was liking her more every minute.]

What kind of firearms did you carry?

Neither do I, but they help.

_{[Said the scrappy bottle-blond teen who was probably easier to imagine hanging out in the food court of some mall or whining about having to do homework or something. Buuut, she wasn't lying.]}

Well, I guess 'carry' isn't exactly the right word. _{[It wasn't like she packed a handgun while she just wandered around in public.]} But a variety, I guess. _{[She doesn't know all the technicalities and brands as much as she just knows that she can shoot them and they go boom and kill things, which was really all she cared about at the time.]} Handgun, shotgun, submachine gun... That one's my favorite.

[Her punch hadn't been half-bad, and Liquid knew a fighter when he saw one. Heather was definitely the type who could see herself through a sticky situation.]

So you like a little firepower, eh? Good.

[Though he was willing to bet that she couldn't tell a Makarov from a Winchester.]

_{[That much was definitely true. If nothing else, she was a real survivor.]}

Oh yeah. I used to think guns were kinda nasty, but my mind got changed in a hurry. If it goes boom and kills the bad guys, it's good enough to me.

_{[THAT she couldn't. Her guns had come to her by chance and supernatural manifestation-- she hadn't had much choice in the matter so aside from knowing how to FIRE one, most guns looked more or less the same to her.]}

[He tilted his head towards her.]

But what does a girl like you need with that kind of weaponry?

_{[That gets him a significant glance, one brow rising.]}

... I hope you meant that to be a question regarding my age and not my gender. _{[Because hey, she can understand being surprised at a barely-out-of-highschooler needing weapons, but being surprised at a female needing weapons, pffft!]} Otherwise I'll have to kick your ass on principal.

_{[Poking at the fire with a stick, she shrugs her shoulders.]}

I have some stalkers of the psycho variety. If I didn't have some of that nasty equipment on my side, I'd probably be dead by now.

_{[And so would the world. Or... well, her world. Apocalypse and all. ... No need to bring the monsters into it-- Heather's hesitant to talk much about the Silent Hill stuff. At least stalkers are something that most people will believe, and it's not a lie, after all. Those cultists love their holy Alessa...]}

Of course. Some of the world's greatest assassins are women. I meant that you're both young and a civilian, and civilians usually don't have that kind of firepower.

[He doesn't completely buy it-- Liquid is hard to pull one over on. Especially because when most people had a stalker problem, they went to the police, they didn't grab the nearest submachine gun.]

I... see. They must have been very persistent stalkers.

[But he won't push it. It's not as though he's told her much of anything about his life-- she doesn't have to tell him about hers.]

Oh. 'Kay, we're good then.

_{[And yeeeeah, Liquid's right to be a little suspicious. There's a lot more to it than just 'stalkers'. .... Even without the monsters, there's STILL a lot more than just 'stalkers'.]}

Persistent isn't the half of it.

Anyway, long story short, about a year ago, it got to the point where... well, let's just say that firepower was very necessary.

[Everyone has their secrets-- hers just happen to have monsters in them.]

I understand. [Situations where firepower was necessary were kind of his specialty.] You did what you needed to do.

_{[Monsters and happy fun times!]}

Yeah... anyway, my dad taught me how to use that sort of stuff when I was pretty little, so I've always been more or less able to do that kind of thing if I had to.

_{[Harry Mason: teachin' his kid how to defend herself against crazy cultists and legions of the Otherworldly, right from day one. Not bad for a single father.]}

[He raised an eyebrow at her.]

Your father sounds like an interesting man.

[Most dads didn't spend their Saturdays teaching their daughter how to use a shotgun.]

_{[She kept a straight face-- she knew how weird it sounded, and to be sort of honest, she kind of liked keeping other people in the dark. Part of it was because she was a brat, and the other part was just because she was so used to it.]}

Heh, yeah... he was.

_{[Especially not when they were a sweet, well-mannered author who far preferred falling asleep in his chair while watching cheesy retro TV shows to fighting.]}

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