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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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I'll hold you to that.

Yeah, I have no idea how to explain it, except for that it's a shield that I learned to fight with. It's handy when you're getting shot at.

[he hopes that's good enough for Blake, expects it won't be]

Home anything would be nice. Good proper burger with fries and a soda sounds ideal about now.

Oh, you mean a riot shield. Why didn't you say so?

[He sighs deeply] Yeah. I tried a burger here and it was full of shrimp. Why the hell do these people put shrimp in everything?

There was this great place not far from the station back home, greasy as hell, guy who ran it had this thick black mustache and wouldn't do anything except grunt at you. Best fuckin' burger I ever had.

[well.. Close enough]

Yes, we just call them shields in my department, but yes.

I haven't tried one here yet, but thanks for the warning. I've never been big on shrimp.

[grins] Sounds like how they should be made. Oh, back in Brooklyn, there's this burger joint that doesn't mess around, none of the artificial modern day stuff or fancy toppings, just good greasy burger with homemade fries.

[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.

Shrimp crackers? [makes an unpleasant face at that]

With how they're making burgers and fries these days, you probably do have to travel back to the forties to find many places like that. Luckily this one is found in modern day Brooklyn.

[Carter makes a similar one] You know what really makes it? The element of surprise.

[You're not supposed to have to carefully read the packages of these things.]

Never been there, modern or otherwise. Lot of places I figured I'd get around to seeing one day. Figured they'd always be there.

[cringes] Makes it worse, you mean.

[Hesitates at the use of "figured"] You can visit when you get home, yeah?

Yeah.

When I get home.

[oh good, Steve thought Brooklyn was gone or something]

It'll happen, you just have to put up with all this "nonsense" for a while yet.

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