114. Fourth Wall Post [VIDEO/ACTION FOR ANYWHERE]

[foolishwren]

.... Yeah.

Yeah, you're in the complete wrong region.

Mount Moon's in Kanto.

_{[Heather huffs out a sigh and takes hold of Cujo's mane as the wayward Grey and his weird spacedog head back to their spaceship, which had landed conveniently on top of one of the Pokemon Centers, barely even remarkable in the middle of all the other chaos that's happening.]}

Man, at this point, the only thing that could surprise me on weekends like this are things staying normal.

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Early Morning

[no_ufo_ending]

<sub>Heather. Heather. Heather. Heatherheatherheather.

[Henry's Alarmed Monotone came from somewhere around the girl's ear. When she didn't rise, the photographer got desperate. Heather would suddenly find a sopping wet Leafeon STEPPING ALL OVER HER ORGANS as he paced in a worried circle on top of her bed.]

HeatherheatherheatherHEATHER HEATHER HEATHER SOMETHING IS WRONG.</sub>

[foolishwren]

<sub>[Possibly the only reason Henry had been able to get as far as the bed was because, sopping wet and made of ferns or not, he still smelled like Henry. Which was why Alessa just stared at him as he hopped onto the bed instead of starting to growl like she would with any other unfamiliar face coming into the room.]

[Heather, meanwhile, groaned.]</sub>

Henry... m'tired, leave me alone.

_{[And, as an afterthought, she bucked her shoulder a little.]}

N'get your stupid cat off me.

_{[It was hard to tell the equally-light footfalls of a Leafeon and a Glameow apart when you were half awake.]}

[no_ufo_ending]

_{[Henry's stupid palmtree ears droop. Henry Volume wasn't doing. It wasn't doing at all. He sits down on her, tips his head back and lets out one of his Swan Songs.]}

AAAA.

[jellyjar]

[Speaking of weird alien creatures...]

[There's a pretty big jar rolling down the sidewalk, and doing the rolling is the little green lizardthing inside. Making squeaky 'ehn' noises, because rolling such a big jar when you're that tiny is hard work.]

[It stops to gape up at the leaving spaceship though. Envy's never seen anything like that.]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[SPACESHIPS. Enough to draw even the eyes of resurrected-from-the-dead monsters.]

[Unfortunately, Envy's moment of distraction costs him, because in the time he stops to stare at the silvery disc in the sky, Cujo's keenly-trained senses alert him to the fact that there is what is obviously A TOY rolling down the sidewalk!]

[Panting like an overexcited toddler who's just seen a balloon, Cujo leaves Heather's side to trot over and snatch the entire jar up in his mouth. He has a big mouth.]</sub>

[jellyjar]

[AUGH NO NOT A TOY.]

[There's a lot of squeaky indignant shrieking coming from the thing in the jar.]

Hey! Put me down, you stupid animal! How dare you!

[What do you know it sounds just like a certain treehead. Although this...isn't the right Envy.]

[a_sin_for_him]

[Funny how things seem normal after enough exposure. Lust's unfazed by the madness around her. If only Guttle would remain similarly unaffected, but the spheal was easily excitable and wanted to investigate everything.

Lust's been trying to keep his attention with food. It's become a game, her spearing a bit of food with one of her talons and dangling it for him like one plays with a cat as she goes along.

Only now he's ignoring the treat on the end of Lust's extended claw entirely, rolling off with excited exclamations toward a girl and her dog and...whatever had just walked away from her.]

This must be what humans go through when they take hallucinogens.

[foolishwren]

<sub>[Cujo turns before Heather does-- like the Spheal, he is more easily excited than his trainer. Tongue lolling out and cream-colored mane flapping, the Growlithe bounds happily towards Guttle because he looks like a BALL and Cujo LOVES balls!!]

[At that point, Heather looks over her shoulder-- and her face lights up in recognition. Oh... oh hey! She remembers that face! It's... well, actually, now that she thinks of it, she doesn't remember the name. Did they ever actually introduce themselves to each other?]</sub>

Oh, hey. Yeah, uh...

_{[She jerks her thumb at all the crazy shit going on.]} This happens sometimes. You get used to it.

Sort of like everything else.

[a_sin_for_him]

That's what I've heard. Guttle, don't be a bother.

[She flicks the treat off of her talon and retracts it, shaking her head at the spheal as he rolls in rapid circles round the...dog bear thing. He'll eat it or someone else will.

Why does everyone else have more intimidating pokemon than her?]

I know your voice.

[haveyouseenalittlegirl]

[Harry misses the aliens, he's been offering directions of his own to another random group of newcomers, before he walks over to Heather.]

Another strange weekend it seems.

[foolishwren]

_{[Heather's still looking up at the sky with one hand shading her eyes when Harry comes up behind her.]}

Yeah...

_{[She turns around and rubs the back of her neck.]}

At this point, I'm kinda used to them. Better than getting freaked out all the time, I guess.

_{[And she hasn't seen... the thing she'd come to associate with these weekends (and DREAD) in about a year now. She's just hoping he doesn't rear his ugly head NOW.]}

[haveyouseenalittlegirl]

[He chuckles.]

You're right about that.

Since it's one of those weekends, what do you say we find something fun to do while we wait it out?

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[bat_schway]

Sounds like stuff gets pretty crazy around here.


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Was that really an alien? [ NOT THAT HE'S SURPRISED BECAUSE JUSTICE LEAGUE AND ALL BUT... WAS THAT AN ALIEN? ]

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[foolishwren]

Unless that was a really good costume, yeah.

_{[Even a good costume wouldn't explain the spaceship, though. But honestly, she's really not all that surprised by the alien's presence to begin with. :I She's seen weirder.]}

[envy_the_sinners]

[Barely even remarkable, Heather? Well, nothing FLIES in Amestris. Sure, birds do. But giant metal ships? Absolutely not. And what was that thing that just boarded it before it flew off? Scar's voice is completely deadpan-]

I wish I could say that that was the strangest thing I have seen all weekend.

[And it damn well might be. But he's not going to tempt fate. Scar isn't even particularly addressing the woman standing nearby who's just dealt with the... close encounter... but she's nearby enough to hear it.]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[RELAX SCAR, STAY HERE AWHILE. WE'LL LEARN YA.]

[She looks over her shoulder, quirking her brow. She's never seen Scar's face-- what little communication they've had was through text. So needless to say, she doesn't recognize him.]</sub>

Yeah?

These weekends can get pretty nuts, no joke about it.

You probably haven't seen anything yet.

[envy_the_sinners]

[HE'S NOT SURE HE WANTS TO BE LEARNED...]

I'd like to think that I have, though nothing should even surprise me at this point.

[Bright orange dogs shoot fire from their mouths. And that's normal. No, Scar, you really shouldn't be surprised at anything.]

This happens frequently, then?

[PLEASE, NO.]

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[fourwayconnection]

Wait, aliens really do look like that? With the grey heads and everything? Aw man.

[#priorities]

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[foolishwren]

Well, I mean, he had a spaceship. I just sort of assumed he was an alien.

I wasn't about to ask.

_{[YOU CAN'T JUST ASK PEOPLE IF THEY'RE AN ALIEN.]}

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[fourwayconnection]

Seriously? I mean, I know it's super easy to get desensitized to this stuff, but you weren't even a little curious?

[crystalballer]

[Seemingly out of nowhere, Hagakure comes running up with his own little alien Elgyem as the alien and its dog leave for their ship.]

Holy crap! Was that a real Grey?!

[He looks pretty disappointed to have just missed it.]

[foolishwren]

I think so? I mean, I wasn't just going to go 'Hey, are you a real alien?'

That's probably racist or something.

_{[She offers Hagakure a shrug. Her Growlithe, though, happily waddles over to snuffle on his shoes.]}

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[ossifragant]

[Who should pop up in time to see an alien leave? This guy, naturally. He'd ask more about it but he hasn't actually spoken to her since the huge fight with Envy and wow is that more than a little awkward.]

Er. Hi there.

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[foolishwren]

_{[Yeah. 'More than' being the key phrase there.]}

... Oh.

Uh.

Hey.

... Glad to see you weren't capslocked to death.

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[ossifragant]

[He really should probably leave or something, but he really does owe her an apology, and he and Envy are on speaking terms again anyway.]

Look, ah, not that it'll do much good since you saw that whole fight happen and everything, but Envy and I have sorted things out. We're not about to go around trying to kill each other.

[Not that they would have to begin with but that's beside the point.]