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[The feed comes up on Blake outside the Violet City gym. He's holding the Gear in one hand and tossing something small in the other. Behind him his Snubbull is sitting on his Mareep, both looking proud of themselves. For his part, Blake doesn't look so thrilled.]

Hell of a loaded word, "badge."

[He catches it on the toss and holds it up to the camera.]

Look at that. Does it looks like much use to you?

[He sighs and slips it in his pocket.]

Zap the crap out of a kid's birds and get a medal that lets you fly.

You know what the worst part is? It's not until right now I realized there's anything wrong with that. I'm getting used to it.

[He starts walking aimlessly down the street, Pokemon trotting after him.]

It's baseball season, not that you'd know it here. Can't remember the last time I missed Opening Day. But hell, now it's been more than a month. Just went right by. How's it even May if you're not arresting drunk idiots on Cinco de Mayo? It's not right.

[Blake looks troubled.]

It's too easy to get caught up in this animal fighting crap and forget about the real world.

[His expression shifts toward its more familiar flinty pugnacity.]

Almost everybody here's been here longer than me. Give me some proof you haven't forgotten. Tell me something about home. Anything, I don't know, something you miss.

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[Well, Rude's no Rambo but he's no pushover either. Rude has no idea how this guy looks either, but it's rare to find people interested in a good fight and he's not going to let this opportunity slip through his fingers.]

Good.

You sticking around Violet City? Or heading on?

For one thing, having a dog that big is cheating. What do you feed that thing, alligators?

[Oh, Blake gets it.]

[In the patient, broad tone of talking to a bona fide crazy]

I see. These corrupted souls you have to kill, who tells you who they are? The voices in your head?

[types with no little satisfaction]

Finally got everything done here.I'm getting out of this backwater hole.

I like to think that they just happened to have too many puppies around the lab, but they probably have ways to find out about us. They did have to find and drag us here in the first place, after all.

[But it does make him wonder what he would have been given had there been no Houndours available. A part of him doesn't want to know.]

Might be too commonplace and normal for the writers' tastes. The point of sci-fi is seeing a completely different world, right?

I'll meet you at the next place. Azalea.

[The kid talks about this like it's something he's seen for himself, and more than once.]

Here's a crazy idea.

How about you don't go on missions into enemy territory to begin with until you're old enough that a fake ID could fool somebody?

Whoever's in charge of all of this is one sick fuck.

The fuck is wrong with you? I'm not here to amuse some pervert loony!

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It's either one year or the other, it can't be technically two at the same time.

[That's not too big a difference, though.] Hell, these days somebody claiming to only be a couple years' worth of time traveler is a goddamn relief. That's almost normal.

With all these fire-breathing animals, that's probably next.

[That is unnerving information.]

Four times.

Four fucking times?

Jesus christ, kid, you're getting yanked back and forth like a goddamn yoyo!

Hey hey don't be like that! Seriously, it's not like I'm Kakashi or something, he started at five. I got graduated with my class at nine, and if my cousin is any indicator, in the future they like, waited til age 12 to graduate people. But times of war, you know?

It's okay.

I'M A TEENAGER, DUDE.
THAT SHOULD TELL YOU EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME RIGHT THERE.

It wouldn't surprise me, given how they generally are. Then again, the natives seem a bit inconsistent...

I've always assumed that fairly reasonable limitations apply, honestly. For example, I'd expect my 1.6 meter tall Noctowl to be able to carry me, given both her size and the fact that bird Pokemon are probably stronger and less subject to conventional rules of flight than an actual bird would be. However, I really doubt you'd be able to get anywhere using a Pidgey or something similar.

Well, they can't read any minds except for each other's! I doubt if they could read minds, Johto would be dealing with crime on a regular basis. What type of mindreading pink blobs are you talking about? [ She's ... never heard of this pokémon, but she might just be thinking of something entirely different like Chansey or Clefairy when it comes to pink blobs. ]

I sure hope they do against a strong man like you. [ She does a heh type of chuckle before nodding. ] A pleasure to meet you, Lieutenant Blake.

No... we kill them because they attack people and pure souls. That, and, they radiate a gross energy of chaos and destruction. They just act primarily on destructive instinct and that type of energy is very palpable. [ She's a bit confused by the question. Voices in her head? What does that even mean?! ]

So that's who the instructions on packs of fuckin' toothpicks are for.

That's another thing I can't get used to. Why is crazy bullshit island on the metric system?

[Carter looks pained on behalf of physics and reality.] Tell me nobody's flying anywhere on a pigeon.

Lie if you have to.

You know that real specific mindreading doesn't make it make any more sense, right?

Little floating ones, look like a cross between a balloon and a piggy bank. Never blink. Creepy little bastards. Mona? Munna? Something like that. Every time I let the thing out of its ball, I turn my back for one second and it floats away somewhere and doesn't come back til morning.

And the little bastard chews on my head.

[The compliment surprises the scowl off his face and makes him straighten his shoulders.] Likewise.

[Lady, you are digging yourself deeper and deeper into the pit of crazy.]

Energy. You read "auras" to figure out if something's evil and then you stab them.

I sure hope nobody lets you near sharp objects.

[Blake's starting to think the guy's looking extra crazy on purpose.]

In that case, watch out for the crackers, too.

[Blake's face is overcome with nostalgia] Sounds like my kind of place, even if you have to go to the 40s to get there.

Five?

You're kidding me. That's not even physically possible. You can't kill somebody when you can't even color inside the lines.

[Blake's voice is rising. The more Obito says, the more convinced he is that he comes from some kind of dystopian hellhole. The worst part is the kid himself doesn't see what's wrong with it.]

How long has this war been going on?! Christ, even then they still don't draft anybody under 18.

No, it's not okay! [The tendons are standing out on Blake's thick neck. He doesn't hear the curious noise Steve makes behind him.] What kind of twisted son of a bitch lets little kids die to prove his point?!

I can sew perfectly well with hooves and magic, thank you very much. Hands are actually a downside in that sense; I have to learn a completely new way of sewing.

I guess the easiest way to put it is that...the bigger dragon blew up.

[Talking to this guy is fun. c=]

Hey, this is sophisticated for my time period. Look, it even has a spring.

[He demonstrates the spring before putting his leg in the proper place.]

If you don't like sushi, those are the best restaurants Goldenrod has to offer, in my opinion. Besides, every place has a weird name.

OI! My sensei would never let any of us die okay? I died when I wasn't with him and that was my own stupid fault so don't get all lumping in like that. We're not like the countries that require kills to graduate. We're not the countries that send genin to the war front and hope for the best. It's just. Not like that. Especially not my country.

The war started right before I graduated, but things were tense before that so just CALM DOWN AND LISTEN PROPERLY!

A teenager with a weird obsession with grown men hating each other. You have a special kind of problem, kid.

[Who says it can't be both? Poor guy would probably start the Gods of the Furthest Ring in the face and claim the horrors were just painted on the black expanse.]

Good thing my string hasn't snapped by now, or we'd have a really big mess on hand when I got yanked again.

There's a whole list of people this place keeps claiming and tossing back. It's like fishing only a lot more annoying. [Not that he's ever fished before.]

That would be it, yes. Though the examples that stick out in my mind as inconsistencies seem to be odd even by the standards of the strangest natives...

Are you joking? The only ones who still use the Imperial system are you Americans, and this place seems to resemble regions of Japan more than anything else. Perhaps you'd be more comfortable in that Unova place that keeps coming up in my research...?

And no, thankfully. Not Pidgey, at least-its evolution Pidgeot seems large enough that it would be doable.

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