ghostytrainer | prank #41

[When the feed clicks on, it's to a close up shot of a Shedinja floating inside what appears to be a hotel room. The ghost is just staring blankly at the screen, neither moving nor giving any other sort of indication that it's alive or that it really had any reason for apparently deciding to turn the gear on.]

[Just. Staring.]

[It's probably kind of unnerving and the worst part is that this goes on for a good twenty minutes before something else finally happens.]

Ugh, Phoebe did you hide my gear somewhere again? It was cute and kind of funny like the first maybe...three times? But that's really starting to wear off, sorry to say. Jeez, where is everyone it's like a gravey--

[John's voice can be heard in the background, and just as he wonders to himself where all his Pokémon went, his feet can be seen in the background behind the Shedinja. He sighs.]

Well that explains where everyone went at least. [The neon green argyle sock-clad feet approach the bug ghost and the camera.] Exos, what are you doing over here...oh. Ugh, not you too! Jesus what does a guy have to do, I swear... [The camera jostles as John, still mumbling to himself, picks the 'gear up. He redirects the camera to his own face, looking a little exasperated.]

Sorry about that. Exos is...well okay I have no idea what the fuck he was trying to accomplish there, if anything at all. But since this is already on, may as well make some kind of point here I guess. Umm, let's see...

Tell me about your favorite type of Pokémon. Or your favorite species, anything like that. Feel free to gush about your team and the things you have accomplished together, I don't mind. It's actually kind of fun to hear what other people have to say about their companions.

Here, I will even go first. Ghost types are my favorite and thanks to Bro Strider, I recently finished my collection of grim, grinning ghosts. I now have at least one of every ghost-type evolutionary line. My favorite species is Haunter. Mostly for nostalgia reasons but Haunters have the added benefit of just being pretty awesome in general.

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I think it was something of a test, for the two of them. Seifer did not try to eat anyone again after Squall stood his ground, and Squall was much less dismissive of Seifer after the incident. But theirs was an extreme case; Excalibur was a sweetheart both before and after she evolved, and Gyarados has been perfectly civil and nice since I received him.

So like...a battle of wills, boundary-setting sort of deal? I think I get it...maybe.

[In a way, at least.]

A sweet Gyarados though? There's something you don't hear every day. So you have two then?

Three, as a matter of fact. Seifer was the first I received, and twice at that. Gyarados ended up with me almost a year ago, and I found Excalibur when Bartz disappeared.

Hehe, it's funny how that works sometimes. You're like a Gyarados magnet. My friend Dave once wound up with three Ninetales from people who left. Different Dave than the one that's here since he's come and gone an absolutely stupid number of times at this point.

Did he, now? Were those Ninetales passed from... himself to himself, or were they separated once he first disappeared?

Little bit of both. All three of them stayed together when he left but they all went to our mutual friend Rose. It was like this weird Ninetales legacy.

Well, if they keep accumulating and going to new trainers over the years, it could someday lead to a whole team made up of inherited foxes. That'd be interesting to watch.

Aha...well unfortunately the group was broken up. A couple of them were stolen and Rose ended up having to let the other Ninetales she already pre-inheritance go because she ran out of box space. Our other friend disappeared recently and yeah...you probably know how it is when somebody's lost Pokémon shows up after they leave.

But it definitely would have been interesting, yeah.

...Stolen?

[Well, that was an abrupt conclusion to that particular story.]

Was it by Team Rocket? Has the thief manifested themself since then? If they are still in this world, finding them and getting them back is still possible.

Dunno if you know him but it was Bowser. Big guy, has a very distinctive laugh and brags about everything evil he does? He got a couple of mine too but...

[John frowns. He's still kicking himself over this whole mess nearly six months later. But he's not really sure what to do about it.]

Finding him is a lot harder than I thought it would be.

A big braggart with a distinctive laugh? I'll keep an eye out for such a person in Celadon. How did he manage to steal so many Pokémon?

Yeah, chances are he will tell you his name in whatever he next broadcasts. "Braggart" is really putting it lightly, dude thinks very highly of himself.

I'm pretty sure his own Pokémon helped him pull it off though. And he had a few distractions going off at the same time. I don't know if you heard about it, but there were a bunch of poisonings in Goldenrod around Christmas time and he was behind that too. I don't know if the poisonings were necessarily meant to be a distraction for the thefts but that's how it ended up working out for me. Basically, he's a lot more capable here than I gave him credit for. In my world he was a video game character and kind of a comedic pushover one at that.

Poisonings? I knew a few people had been sick around that time, but I'd not realized it was deliberate... Why would any Pokémon help steal and enslave others, knowing how much they'd be hurt if they were separated from their own trainers?

He confession-bragged about it later on. Like I said, he's really proud of his evil accomplishments. And I...am not entirely sure if the Pokémon did it of their own free will. Apparently he has ways of brainwashing them, I don't know if he's using a psychic type or what but it's messed up.

Others have previously mentioned seeing Pokémon that appeared mind-controlled. Whatever is responsible for such a terrible power should be destroyed at any cost.

Most definitely. That's just wrong on so many levels that I'm not even sure where to begin. I would say it's inhumane but since Bowser isn't human that seems a little pointless to comment on. That's probably why he can do it so easily and not even give a shit.

Even non-humans can easily have a moral compass that does not lead them to theft, mind control and assault. I've met plenty of beings with the same interests, and all would have been just as nasty if they were human.

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