ghostytrainer | prank #37

[When John clicks on the feed today, he's accompanied by not one, but two Lopunnies. The One of them (Casey, judging by the pink sweater) is half-cradling the other and stroking its head, occasionally making shhh'ing noises. A Shinx lays next to them, and in John's lap rests the head of the saddest looking shiny Gallade you'll ever see. John himself looks exhausted, though moreso in the emotional sense than the sense of needing to take a nap.]

[He stares at the screen blankly for a good minute before finally speaking, in a voice that sounds as dull and tired as he looks.]

Vriska Serket has gone back home. If any of her Pokemon found their way to you, please let me know. I want to make sure they're all accounted for. And if they did just...promise me that you will take good care of them.

[He falls silent again, looking as though there's more he wants to say. In the end, he can't figure out what to say and ends up tightening his grip on the (what appears to be) a piece of twine clenched in his right hand.]

That's all.

[Click.]

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Mmm. Of course, if it passed from somebody else first that won't really help you. It only keeps track of the first person to own it.

But with your two, that makes ten. So only eight more to go. Not including her Grimer stalker but since she never actually caught him so...he probably just went back into the wild. To find somebody else to follow around. I guess.

[ She will just fiddle with the dex function before responding, and comes back with a mildly baffled expression. ] Myself and Tavros, apparently. I mean, Aerodactyl - I suppose I should nickname him, since no one else did - was mine, and it says Lucky 2 belonged to Tavros.

Grimer stalker? [ From baffled to amused, yep. ]

Heh, yeah. Tavros got lost in Ilex forest and saved Lucky from...I think it was a Pidgey? Something like that anyway. Hence the name. Hehe...Vriska had to go and track him down after that.

[Good times. Only not really because they're making him sad.]

But yes, Grimer stalker. Team Rocket had this...grand master trash scheme earlier this year. A bunch of garbage became sentient and it was disgusting, but basically it was all a distraction so they could try and capture Suicune. It actually worked, but that pissed off the other two beasts so, in the end, all three of them escaped. Anyway, one of the Grimers from that started following her around everywhere.

[Fuck. He can't help but smile a little fondly remembering all this.]

[ ...Oh, Tavros. Why can she picture that so clearly. ]

...A grand master trash scheme? [ How does anything that starts with that sentence actually result in a scheme that works? Does she sound startled enough? ] Everything I've heard about Team Rocket is such a mixed bag.

I can picture that, though. One of them following her around. [ It's an amusing image. ]

Hehe, yeah she wasn't really too happy about it.

[So. Gross.]

Team Rocket is kind of a mixed bag themselves though, so that doesn't surprise me. Sometimes they manage to really fuck shit up and other times they're easily thwarted. Lately though, it seems to be more the former. They actually managed to put some centers and gyms out of commission in June.

Put them out of commission? How so? [ Although tomorrow they will apparently manage to put another one out for a while. ] So far I've heard about...well, obviously Sprout Tower, and then something about bombs and a plague?

Well mostly they blew them up.

[Only mostly, though.]

But yes, bombs and plagues have both happened. They are fond of bombs. Also radio waves that make Pokemon go nuts, they've done that a couple of times now too.

[ That's a pretty effective way to shut something down, yep. ]

Radio waves through the gears or something else? [ Should she be worried? ]

Probably a little bit of both the gears and just...on the air I guess? I don't know, science-y stuff isn't really my forte. I don't know how they did it, I just know that they managed it.

I guess it's not really pertinent at the moment. But thank you; I keep meaning to learn more about that group, ever since Sprout Tower got set on fire.

Yeah. Might be something to look into if they ever try it again. Which I wouldn't be surprised if they do. I'm just hoping they are done with genetic experimentation or whatever the fuck that plague was. That was by far the worst, in my opinion.

[He's just bitter because he got super infected.]

Genetic experimentation?

[ Yeah she definitely wants details on this, since you seem to have them. ] ...Something you experienced first hand, or something someone else did?

I honestly have no clue what they were doing, so genetic experimentation is just a guess. But that plague you mentioned hearing about earlier? It wasn't normal. I'm not sure how much detail you were given before but it mutated people and gave them powers. Like...Pokemon powers. Shit like thunderbolt and fire spin. So to answer your question, both first hand and watching it happen to other people. Because it affected a whole lot of us.

[This is a good topic of conversation, yes. It has nothing to do with Vriska...even if he can't help but think of the fact that she totally commanded him like he was a Pokemon.]

Reality does not seem to be very consistent here, does it? [ She means the vague memories of being a troll from the other weekend and. This genetic experiment nonsense.

Aradia sort of got distracted from the Vriska issue - she's gotten too used to not seeing the alpha timeline team members for long stretches of time. ]

[It's okay, John doesn't really want to talk about the Vriska issue right now, but he does still want to talk to people. So he's more than happy to have distracted conversations. It's better than sitting alone in his room with a bunch of sad Pokemon.]

It really doesn't. Have you tried going up the ledges yet?

No, I mostly take the longer routes just to see everything there is. Should I attempt it or is this some sort of warning...?

Edited 2012-12-15 19:48 (UTC)

Heh, definitely a warning. Or perhaps a suggestion. Depends on if you want to see more illogical Johto things first-hand or not.

Well, I'm always up to seeing things first hand! Although given the context I take it I'm going to either fail or something strange will happen.

Little bit of both, really. But that's all I will say in case you do end up trying it for yourself.

How can I not when you're being mysterious?

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