You got a good shot on it, Tron? Like you can see the whole thing, right? [There's absolutely no chance that "it" isn't the giant crystal spire growing out of the ground behind John. Or one of them, anyway, Azalea's from the looks of things.]

[As for John himself, he's dressed a little differently than normal and floating high enough in the air to be on level with the top of the tower several yards behind him. Just by looking at the overly large hammer in his hand, it's probably easy enough to guess what he's about to try and do here. At an affirmative sounding buzzing from the camera itself, John flashes a thumbs up and a goofy smile.]

Alrighty then let's do this then! Let's see if I can be a one hit wonder!!

[Laughing, he turns around and zooms closer to his target, pulling his hammer back until he's right in front of the crystal. He swings with perhaps surprising ferocity and with a loud 8ANG! the crystal starts to crack. But wait, that's not all. the force of the impact sets the dice in the back of the hammer spinning and a roulette momentarily appears in midair, spinning wildly. Of course a hammer that ridiculous looking was going to have some kind of gimmick to it. Of course.]

[>16 Sugar High]

[We're not left wondering what that roll could mean for long, luckily. As the crystal continues to crack and shatter from the impact, a strange, sugary transformation takes place. It...it sure is raining rock candy crystal in Azalea now. That's definitely a thing that just happened.]

Hehehe!!! So how was that?! [He turns back to the camera, hefting his hammer over his shoulders.] Pretty sweet, huh?

[John, you and Tron are probably the only two laughing at that...]

A: Video/Action for Goldenrod Hospital
[The Rotom’s face that appears when the feed flicks on isn’t so much IN the screen as it just plain IS the screen. Seems the little booger thought it would be funny to possess a Pokegear. The ghost laughs, sending a jumbled string of letters, 1s, and 0s across the screen because apparently the thing couldn't decide if it was speaking English or binary. A moment later, the face blips off the screen and turns to a view of a hospital room.]

[On the bed sits John, glasses-less and looking only half awake (at best) and more out of it than usual. But what’s really strange is the fact that instead of wearing a hospital gown or even one of his silly Pokemon shirts, he’s wearing this little number, complete with white tights and a matching hair bow stuck in his messier-than-usual hair. In a chair next to the bed sits Rose, wearing what is quite possibly the biggest shit-eating grin in the universe. Despite this, she somehow manages to keep her voice completely level and normal.]

Good morning, sweetheart. I see you are finally awake. How are you feeling, beautiful?

[John gives a sleepy grunt and rubs at his eyes.] Mmm...like death warmed over? Holy shit, I'm hungry...

Well, luckily for you the nurses want you to eat before we go anywhere, though that doesn't mean I can’t take you out later if you'd like, darling.

I would like that, yeah. But before anything, I need my glasses and also my legs feel weir-- are these tights? [Still mostly blind, his hands trail up his own legs, eventually reaching the edge of the dress, at which his expression deadpans and his voice goes flat.] I am wearing an absolutely ridiculous frilly dress right now, aren't I?

And if you are? [Where before her voice was pretty even, she can’t keep the hint of mischief and amusement from it now.]

You're broadcasting this, aren't you?

And if I am?

[At that, John turns to where he thinks Rose, and therefore the camera, is (really, he’s a little off, but the CameRotom moves a little to adjust for this error). Using both hands, he forms identical "v-for-victory" signs to frame his face, pulling the biggest, dorkiest, most painfully cheesy grin he can muster. He is pretty much straight from the mangas right now and his Prankster’s Gambit is plummeting.]

[...yet somehow, it seems impossible to read anything other than murderous intent from John right now.]

[The Rotom cackles and the feed ends for now. Though Tron's work is far from done here, he still has a few tricks up his non-existent sleeves.]

B: Action for Goldenrod City
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((ooc: John's back from hiatus coma-land, responses may come from both.))

( cut for violet city action + incredibly crappy pixel art )

[Video Transmission; some time later...probably about 30 minutes to an hour.]

[When the feed clicks on, the image is very dark. Like, really dark. The only thing you can actually, sort-of see is John's face. And that's only because the dim light of the pokegear screen is reflecting off of his face. It's causing some major glare issues with his glasses, so you can't really see his eyes. However, he has what is quite possibly the biggest, most excited, grin ever on his face.]

Hey, did anyone know that the zig-zag pattern on Dusknoir's body is actually some kind of mouth? [A stifled, giggling noise.] Guess where I am right now?

[The feed clicks off.]

((ooc: Since the second one can technically also be action, please specify which scenario you're doing if you're going the action route. Thanks! :D))

[So it's what...2 in the morning? Yeah, some retarded time like that. Very, very late at night when people (especially growing thirteen year old boys) should be asleep and dreaming and definitely not in the middle of patches of grass right outside of Goldenrod City.]

[Unfortunately, that's where John is tonight. Why? Because his Eevee somehow just knew that tonight was the night for evolution. So that meant that they had to go outside and train RIGHT. NOW.]

[And so they did. Or well...Lestat did. John just tried his hardest not to fall back asleep.]

[At some point all of Lestat's hard work paid off, because when the feed clicks on it's to a very excited John sitting in the middle of the grass hugging an extremely wriggly and irritable-looking Umbreon.]

I knew you liked me! I knew it! Haha, you can't hide it from me anymore, Lestat. You couldn't have evolved unless I made you hap--EEOOOWW!!!

[Seems Lestat decided that that was enough gushing out of the boy for one night and that the perfect way to get him to shut up was to sink his teeth into the boy's left shoulder. Hard.]

[The feed clicks off as Casey abandons the 'gear in favor of pulling the two apart.]

[Perhaps you recognize this Buneary. Perhaps you don't. Regardless, she is on your screen today. No, she's not coloring this time...she's battling. At least, the fact that she's facing up against one of those swarming blue bugs seems to indicate that she is in a battle. But really, she doesn't look too bothered by it. She looks pretty happy right now actually, but then again when is she not happy?]

Okay Casey, finish it with pound. You can do it!

Eary!!!

[She scampers over to the Surskit, quickly closing the distance between them and...kinda...flops on it, beaming happily.]

Bun! Bun!

Ngghhkk...so cute!

[Yes, John, it's downright adorable. And surprisingly, the flop attack was actually enough to finish it off.]

Good job, girl I knew you coul-- [His voice tapers off as Casey starts to glow with that all-too-familiar evolutionary light. Yup, two months of constant spoiling babying singing to dancing with brushing their fur every night love will do that to a Buneary, but hell if John knows about happiness evolutions. Nope.]

No. Way. Really? At level twelve? There's no--OH MY GOD...........CASEY HIT PUBERTY.

[Guess who's never seen a Lopunny before, guys? It's a shame those of you watching the feed can't see his face right now, it's a pretty humorous combination of disbelief and shock with a dash of abject horror mixed in there. Casey doesn't seem to notice though, as she is far more interested in examining all the changes that have occured to her body thanks to her evolution. Satisfied with what she sees, she closes her eyes and starts bouncing up and down excitedly, clapping her paws together and grinning as best as a Lopunny can. Can you see all those hearts and sparkles? Because I can. Suddenly, Casey is a shoujo-anime heroine.]

Pun!! Puuunn!!!

[Yeah, this is pretty much like one of the best things that's ever happened to her. She suddenly stops bouncing and opens her eyes, looking straight at the camera, a delighted and excited look on her face. Well actually, she's more interested in the boy holding the camera, but psshh, semantics.]

Lo!

[And with that, she dashes forward, arms flung out. HUG INCOMING, JOHN...BRACE YOURSELF.............]

Ack! Casey, no, wait! CASEEEYYYY!

[Yeah no. Predictably, John fails to brace himself. The pokégear goes flying as Casey gives her daddy the biggest, bestest tackle-hug in the universe! She is just so excited to finally have arms suitable for doing such things! Before she could only manage to hug ankles and the sides of people's faces, so this is a dream come true for her. Finally, she can properly show everyone her affection. Anyway, have a lovely view of the sky, Johto, until the pokégear hits the ground and the feed cuts out to static.]

[John is in the pokécenter today, holding a tiny silver something between his fingers. Yup, guess who just beat Falkner?]



So, I ended up challenging the gym...even though I hadn't originally planned to.


...It went well. [No shit, Sherlock, they can see that.] And that's really all there is to say on the matter.

[For a guy who just got his first gym badge, he doesn't seem too excited. You would think a thirteen year old nerd would be over the moon about this, but he really isn't. Truth of the matter is, he was pretty excited until he made the mistake of thinking "Oh boy, I can't wait to show...Dave..." What's the point of earning a sweet badge if you can't even show your best bro because he disappeared three days ago?]

Oh, and if anyone could tell me about the Azalea gym, that'd be cool.

((ooc: badge was mod approved. :3 And sorry if this was a double post for anybody...I did something wrong with the dates again... -_-))

( action for route 32. )

[John turns on his video feed with a dumbfounded look on his face. Those who are just tuning in may wonder why he's on the ground this time, but that's not the issue he wants to address here. In fact, he'd rather not talk about that at all.]

Okay...does anyone know if this... [He turns the camera so that anyone who's watching can see the Quagsire who is completely engrossed in the trainer's manual at this point. He then turns the camera back to himself.] ...is normal? Do all...Quagsires do this? [Yeah he had to look in the pokédex real quick for that one.] Can pokémon even read!? What am I looking at here?!

[He clicks the feed off and gets to his feet, brushing himself off. Hopefully somebody would have the answers to that. For now, there was something else he needed to take care of. He raised the pokégear once more and called Dave. Hopefully the coolkid had had enough time to cool off by now.]

( voice for dave. )

[Since John was finally starting feel a little better (his voice was still a little messed up but hey, at least that cough was finally gone) he decided that this was as good a time as any to do a little training with the Wooper Dave gave him last week.

So he's on route 32, standing in a patch of grass with a disheartened look on his face. His Dunsparce is sitting on his head looking derpy as usual and his Buneary is rolling around happily in the grass a few inches away. Apparently he still doesn't fully understand the concept of keeping all his pokémon in their pokéballs.]

[His Wooper though...is supposed to be fighting a Mareep, although that's not what's happening.]

Rose, please...use mud shot.

[The Wooper ignores him with a very bored look on her face. This has been going on for the past five minutes, even the wild Mareep isn't sure what to make of this at this point.]

Rose...pleeeaaaassseeeee. I am begging you. Do...something! Anything!

[Woop. She is so bored by all of this. John is past the stage of disheartened now and now entering the realm of utter soul-wrenching despair.]

...Flighty Broad...Please. Use. Mud shot.

[The Wooper complies, and then continues the rest of the fight without her master's direction as he had sunk to his knees in defeat. It's really tough to say whether there has been a victory here or not.]

[A video feed clicks on revealing a picture of...the ground. A pair of bright red sneakers with flames on the side are also visible peeking out from under a pair of dark jeans. A Dunsparce crawls into frame and stares(?) up at the camera curiously(?).]

Okay I think this is on...uhm. Hi everyone! It's John, and I finally made it to Cherrygrove! Aradia showed me how to use the video function, so this time you can actually see me instead of me typing all this out. Isn't that great!?

[A Pidgey joins the Dunsparce on frame, also looking up at the camera with a look that can only be described as exasperated. Clearly it does not approve of this utter failure of a video.]

Yeah, this is great. Except...I don't really have much to say. The trip was pretty much uneventful. I caught a Pidgey though! I named him Tripp after Matthew McConaughey's character in Failure to Launch. You know, because he's a bird. Failure to Launch. Bird. Get it? Haha! Come over here Tripp so they can see you. Come on.

[The Pidgey gives John (who is still off-screen except for his shoes) an 'are you serious look' and doesn't move.]

Okay well it looks like he's feeling kind of camera shy right now. Same with Colonel Sassacre...what are you both doing down there anyway? Okay well whatever, that's really all I have to say at the moment. Vriska if you're still in Cherrygrove I guess I'll meet you at the inn or something. You did wait for me, right? Right?!

[The video feed clicks off.]