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Duel 01 // Video & Action // New Bark Town

[A blurry splotch of white and red fills the screen, before the camera zooms out to show a Ponyta standing in an open field. It sniffs the air curiously before it faces the camera again, and trots over as a girl speaks in the background]

Hey, careful there-oof!

[The Ponyta's face fills the screen and the camera jerks around wildly, before focusing on a large, blue eye. It blinks as it zooms out again, finally revealing the owner of the pokegear: a young girl in her early teens, with an angular, heartshaped face and long, bright pink hair. The pokemon nuzzles against her, and she sighs as she strokes its nose with her free hand. Compared to a human, it appears quite small; about the size of a miniature horse. Once it settles down, the trainer turns her attention to the camera. Her brow furrows as she begins to speak]

Is anyone out there? I just got done with that professor guy, and – look. I don't know what you want us to do with these “battles”, but first of all, I don't have any time for that. I've got more important things to worry about right now than some silly game! And second...

[looks back at her Ponyta] Even if I was interested, these guys don't really look like fighting material to me. Maybe if they were bigger, or stronger, or....huh?

[Pauses, and blinks while Ponyta moves away – there's a rustling sound as it nudges the bag off-camera. She sighs, and the camera jerks a bit as she pulls it away from him]

...look, all I need is a way out of here. If any of you guys know something... well, I'm all ears.

[and off goes the transmission]

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Trust me, we all felt the same way when we first woke up here. Well, with maybe a few exceptions.

[Some people might actually like being in Johto and not have any real reason to want to go home, after all.]

If by "around here" you mean the natives... I don't think you're going to get anything useful out of any of them. Ever. Save for advice about how to get along in this world, but even then you're better off asking the network. When it comes to finding out things about the mystery of how we got here or how people leave, we really are all completely in the dark. All we have are wild guesses.

[So, even they don't know anything? Great. Just...great. Sighs, and scratches the back of her head]

Well, a wild guess is still better than nothing. What do you think is responsible for all of this?

[After all, she seems like she has a good head on her shoulders, if nothing else]

It could be anything. A natural phenomenon, one of the extremely powerful "Legendary" Pokemon, a science experiment gone wrong... I can't even begin to narrow down the possibilities. About the only things I know for sure are that none of the natives seem to be responsible for our situation.

... Well, except maybe the Rockets.

[her eyes widen as Twilight Sparkle speaks - there's a couple things she mentioned that the kindly townsfolk left out. But, one thing at a time]

Wait, hold up. Who are these Rockets you're talking about? The Professor and "Mom" over there didn't say anything about them, and I didn't see anything about them in the book we got, either.

Edited 2012-07-26 06:48 (UTC)

The Rockets, or Team Rocket, are... Well, to put it in the simplest terms, they're the enemy. Of pretty much everyone who isn't one of them. They steal Pokemon, destroy property, try to instill fear any way they can, and just generally make life around here much, much worse than it has to be.

Geeze, talk about a nasty bunch... but what would they want with a group of people from another world? They sound pretty bad, don't get me wrong, but they seem more like a bunch of crooks than mad scientist material.

Edited 2012-07-26 17:53 (UTC)

They're both. They supplement their more ordinary crimes with the mad science.

Of course, they haven't displayed anything remotely powerful enough to pull in people from other worlds, so it isn't likely it's them. It's just something we can't rule out.

Both!? [shakes her head] Even if they aren't responsible, I still wouldn't want to run into those guys. What do they want from everybody, anyway?

As far as I can tell? Our Pokemon and all our worldly possessions. We really just seem to be incidental to their objectives, but that doesn't mean they won't take advantage of our presence if they can.

So, we're just another bunch of suckers to them.... [sighs. She's not really sure what else to say about them. Time to switch gears]

Okay, so what about those legendary pokemon you mentioned? Like, what makes them different than regular pokemon?

That's what it looks like, yes. [The warning's been given, so she has no problem moving on to other topics.]

In a word, power. Legendary Pokemon are so absurdly strong that they can cause phenomena the likes of which I've never seen. Some of them can actually twist the weather around them just by being there, and those aren't even the strongest ones. The problem is that we don't really know much about any of them. They're elusive, some of them are probably one of a kind, and several of them don't even seem to live in this region of the world.

Whoa... [her voice is quiet with awe, and her eyes widen as her mind races with a million different possibilities. And to think, just a minute ago she was worried that pokemon were too weak!]

That's really something! But if they're legendary... shouldn't there be, well, legends about them? Like some kind of stories, or legends, or-or something. Have you asked any of the...

[Aaand she trails off as she remembers just how useless the townsfolk are]

Nevermind. But are there any books you can check out? I mean, this place is weird, but it doesn't look that different from home - except for the pokemon. Maybe there's a library or something like that around here.

Edited 2012-07-29 00:58 (UTC)

Legends, stories, myths, yes, and I've been studying them ever since I first encountered evidence that they actually exist. But nothing concrete. There are stories that say, for example, that Lugia can flap its wings once and create a powerful windstorm, but no proof one way or the other.

[Though after what the three beasts showed up last time, she's starting to be more willing to believe what the stories say as being fact. But there are some legends that just seem way too wild to be accurate.]

And the ones that could do something like this, like Palkia, who supposedly controls space, I don't think there's anything but rumor about.

[well, if she has a horse that can shoot fire, then a pokemon that can create wind doesn't seem that far out there.]

So, they're just like our pokemon, but stronger. And if one of them is responsible...

[Thinking, thinking]

This may sound weird, but are there any pokemon who can move stuff around? Like, you blink, and- [snaps] It's gone off somewhere else. I mean, normal pokemon, the kind that we all have.

Sort of. Some Psychic-types, like Abra and its evolutions, can teleport themselves, and they also have telekinesis.

And I can tell where your thoughts are going. There are a few Psychic Legendaries.

So, if anybody's responsible, it's probably them. Though, we can't really tell unless we can see them, can we?

[Scratches the back of her head]

But you said you had evidence that these Legendaries exist, right? What kind of evidence was it?

Correction. I have evidence that some of the Legendaries exist, in the form of eyewitnesses, plus first-hand experience of some of the phenomena they caused. But just because some of the legends are true doesn't mean they all are.

[Of course, they are, but Twilight's well known for playing it cautious.]

Anyway, the ones that I know to be real are Raikou, Entei, and Suicune, the three Legendary Beasts of Johto. There's a lot of information about them in Ecruteak city, but it might take a while for you to get there. Still, none of them are Psychics, so they probably aren't involved in us being here.

At least it gives us something to watch out for. Who knows, maybe if they show up again, they'll bring some friends along.

[She's half-joking there, but...well, it sounds like weirder things have happened. However, it does make her think of something else]

Though...you said they're elusive, right? What made them come out the last time? I mean, they sound like the kind of creatures that like to keep to themselves.

Edited 2012-07-31 02:12 (UTC)

That might not be a good thing to hope for. The phenomena I was referring to amounted to one of the worst storms I've ever seen in my life.

[She nods at that question, her expression growing very grim.]

They were provoked. A massive amount of pollution in some of the larger cities started to cause environmental damage outside of them, to the point that it created a population explosion of some Poison-type Pokemon literally made from polluted sludge and smog. Suicune moved to clear up the pollution, and the other two followed.

[She understood that the Legendaries were powerful, but this was more serious than she thought. The muscles around her mouth tense up, and she gives the camera a solemn nod]

So they only come out when they absolutely have to. Which means...

[glances down]

Which means that finding them might not be worth it after all.

[She wants to go home more than anything right now. But if that's what it took to get the ones from Johto to show up... well, she didn't want to think what would have to happen to make the other ones come out of hiding]

Edited 2012-08-05 18:46 (UTC)

I'm afraid so. If we could guarantee that one of them could send us home, and that we could find the right one, that would be one thing. But there's no way we can do either of those. They might not even be involved.

It's way too much to risk just on a hypothesis. Even if we knew what would make one of them move, which we don't, aside from Suicune.

[She shrugs, letting that thought just trail off. She knows it's not encouraging news, but honesty is the best policy. It's what AJ would do.]

So that's where we stand on the Legendaries. What else do you need to know?

[Because after dumping that deluge of cold water on her, the least she can do is answer a few more of the poor girl's questions.]

[breathes in, mind still heavy with the news. So much for that plan...]

No, I think I'm good for now. It's just a lot to take in, you know?

[forces a smile]

But thanks. I mean it - you really helped me, Miss...

[shakes her head]

I'm sorry - I just realized that I never got your name.

Twilight Sparkle. Pleasure to meet you.

Utena Tenjou, and I'm glad to meet you, too. It's always good to see a friendly face in a place like this.

Well, on the bright side, most of the people around here are pretty decent. It's just that small percentage you have to watch out for.

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