Chapter 8 - Warning
Twilight chatted quietly with Elaine as they waited for the Pokémon to be returned. Elaine was growing intensely curious about the two visitors and where they had come from, especially now that an apparently large company had taken an interest in them, but Twilight just didn't know what to tell her.
A little voice in her head, that sounded suspiciously like Applejack, kept prodding her to just tell the truth, but Twilight had no idea how Elaine would react. Being treated like a lunatic wasn't high on Twilight's list of things to do at this moment in time. Then again, having someone around who knew what was going on would probably make getting home a little easier.
As Twilight was mulling over what to tell Elaine she was distracted by the sight of Nurse Joy returning from the back rooms, carrying Sunset in her arms. "All done! She's feeling a little down in the dumps at the moment, but with a little rest and some tlc she should be right as rain in no time."
Twilight couldn't help but wince as the nurse gently placed Sunset on the countertop. She looked miserable. "Uh, Sunset? Are you okay?"
Sunset just grunted and teleported down to the floor. Nurse Joy sighed and dipped her head to Twilight. "I do apologize. I tried to handle her as little as possible since she didn't seem to like it, but for the sake of her health this procedure was absolutely necessary."
"It's okay," Twilight replied, glancing worriedly at Sunset nonetheless.
Nurse Joy smiled and placed a Pokéball on the counter in front of Elaine. "And here is your Bellsprout. You don't need to worry, she's a picture of health!"
"Excellent, thanks!" Elaine slipped the Pokéball into her pocket and turned to Twilight. "Do you reckon we should go and check out the mart like Clive suggested?"
"Oh, okay." Twilight glanced down at Sunset. "Er, what do you think? Are you okay to walk there?"
Sunset looked over at the door, then sat and held her forelegs up in a clear invitation to pick her up while obviously trying not to scowl. Twilight had to bite her lip to stop herself fawning over how adorable Sunset looked with her little legs held out for a cuddle, especially given that that was not going to make the person-turned-Pokémon feel any better about her situation.
Keeping her expression carefully neutral, Twilight bent down, slipped her hands under Sunset's forelegs and picked her up, gently shifting her around until she had Sunset cradled in her arms like a puppy. "Okay. Is this, er, comfy enough for you?" Sunset just rolled her eyes and pointed a hoof at the door. "Alright, let's go!"
Elaine took the lead once again as the group set off. It didn't take long for them to find the Mart, a small store just around the corner from the Pokémon Center.
The store was full of things that Twilight had never seen before. It reminded her strongly of a pet supply store, only one geared towards Pokémon. The shelves were stocked with all sorts of odd toys and tools for looking after various Pokémon, along with bags of feed and medicines for minor ailments.
Before Twilight could start shopping, however, there was something she had to do first. Leaving Elaine to browse, she headed straight to the cashier and told him that she had a package waiting, handing over the details that Clive had given her at the bank.
"Oh, so you're the one getting all of this stuff!" The cashier cried loudly. "I've been wondering what all this was about. Okay, here we go." Twilight blinked in surprise as he pulled a rucksack out from under the counter. "First of all we've got the backpack for you. It's got plenty of pockets and space for all of your Trainer essentials."
Twilight couldn't help but stare mutely as the cashier opened the bag and started pulling things out, lining them up on the counter. "As requested, we've got ten of your standard Pokéballs here. Next we've got two of our basic Potions for starting Trainers." He pulled out a pair of thick white and purple spray bottles and placed them next to the Pokéballs. "We've also got a set of antidotes."
A set of yellow spray bottles joined the rest of the equipment; two with labels depicting a stylized purple skull with a line through it and three with labels depicting a stylized caterpillar with a little stinger on its head. "These first two are general antidotes, but these last three are specialized for neutralizing the poison of the specific Pokémon you'll find in the Viridian Forest."
"Wait, poison?!" Twilight yelped.
"Shimmy?!" Sunset piped up.
The cashier gave her a blank look. "Well, yeah? You know, from the Weedles and Beedrills?"
"Uh…" Twilight looked around for Elaine, but she was busy checking out little clothes for Pikachu.
"You're pretty new to being a trainer, aren't you?" The cashier asked.
Twilight smiled shyly. "Is it that obvious?"
"Heh, don't worry about it, I'm sure the other trainers will help you out." The cashier packed the things back into the backpack and pulled one more small box from beneath the counter. "This is the last item." He pushed the box towards her, and she realized that it was a brand new smartphone. "All of the instructions are included in the box, and the details of your network plan are in this letter." The cashier placed an envelope on top of the phone. "And this completes your order. Was there anything else I could help you with?"
Twilight just stared in shock at the phone, letter, and bagful of goodies sitting in front of her. "Uh… no. I'm good, thanks!" She gently set Sunset on the floor, pulled the backpack on, slipped the letter into a pocket, tucked the phone box under her arm and picked Sunset back up. Thanking the cashier again, Twilight let Elaine know that she would wait outside and hurried out.
Finding a nearby bench, Twilight set Sunset and the backpack down before sitting herself and inspecting the phone's box. "This is crazy, isn't it?"
"Shimmy!" Sunset replied with a fervent nod.
"Ah, that reminds me! Should we get you some chalk first?" Twilight asked. Sunset shook her head and pointed insistently at the phone. "Alright, let's get this set up first."
First of all, Twilight opened the envelope. To her surprise, when she pulled the letter out a second smaller envelope fell out, too. She stared at the two in surprise, then set the smaller envelope aside and unfolded the letter. "Dear, Traveller, please find enclosed a micro-sim for the smartphone we have provided for you. Once you have finished setting up the phone please call the first number in your contacts list immediately. Yours sincerely, L."
Sunset raised an eyebrow curiously. "Shim shimmy shim?"
"That's all there is," Twilight replied, checking the back of the letter just in case.
Setting the letter aside, Twilight turned her attention to the smartphone. After a little difficulty opening the box, largely due to well-applied cellotape, she finally managed to get a look at her new toy. It didn't look like anything special; just a simple black smartphone with a small brand logo at the bottom that she didn't recognize.
Surprisingly, the phone was already charged and switched on without any issues once Twilight had inserted the micro-sim. It ran through several diagnostic and setup routines before finally settling on a home screen with a picture of a galaxy or a nebula in the background. The apps were mostly exactly what Twilight would have expected from a smartphone back home. Ordinarily, she would have spent a while excitedly searching through the few apps that she didn't recognize to see exactly what they did, but first she had a call to make.
"I guess we'd better see who sent all of this and what they want," Twilight said quietly as she brought up the first number in her contacts, rather expectedly named 'L', though she was strangely hesitant to actually call them.
"Shimmy!" Sunset put in, raising a hoof encouragingly.
Twilight smiled and, with a deep breath, pressed the call button. It rang for barely two seconds before being answered. Unfortunately, rather than a person on the other end, a jaunty little tune started playing. "And, I'm on hold. Typical."
"Shim! Shimmy!" Sunset said insistently, pointing a hoof at her ear.
Twilight rolled her eyes. "Hang on I'll put it on speakerphone-"
"Do not put it on speakerphone," a deep, heavily distorted voice said sternly, all trace of the jolly hold music gone.
"H-hello?" Twilight said shakily. "I'm Twilight Sparkle and, er, my friend Sunset is here, too. We're the people you sent the phone to?"
"If that is true, then you have already met our mutual acquaintance."
"Mutual acquaintance?" Twilight frowned. "Do you mean Professor Oak?"
"No."
Sunset patted Twilight's arm to get her attention, then mimed a series of letters in the air.
"Pink… pink fa… pink fairy?" Twilight said uncertainly. "Oh! You mean the weird Pokémon that apologized to Sunset on Route 1?"
"That seems likely, though Keres is no Fairy type," the voice replied.
"Um, what's with all the secrecy, if you don't mind me asking?" Twilight asked.
"It is necessary to protect all of us. Do you have anyone you can travel with that you can trust?"
Twilight glanced over at the Pokémon mart where Elaine was still shopping. "I think so? We're traveling with one of Professor Oak's friends, a Pokémon trainer named Elaine."
"Good. Do not travel alone under any circumstances. If you need to move between towns and Elaine cannot join you, contact me. I, or one of my associates, will provide an escort for you. I'll stress this again; Do. Not. Travel. Alone."
Twilight couldn't suppress a shiver at the voice's forceful tone. "What do you mean? Are wild Pokémon really that dangerous?"
"It is not the Pokémon that worry me, it is the people that wish to control them. We have spoken too long already. I will make arrangements to meet you in person as soon as possible, but I'm afraid that that will take some time. Once again, do not travel alone, or your very lives may be forfeit. Until next time, Miss Sparkle, Miss Shimmer. Good luck."
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Oh look, drama! Poor Elaine, being volunteered for bodyguarding duty without knowing it.
Oooooh and just when I was rereading this today, good timing lol. Man, the mystery continues to thicken, huh?
Isn't it nice how the people who volunteer you to save their world are always so free with their information? At least this person has given some promise to explain the various amounts of "what the hell?", even if later rather than sooner.
Has it really only been two months since the last chapter? It felt longer.
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Being open with world-saving information will enable the world-dooming party to overhear it and then prepare to counter it.
Oh goodness, imagine if you had to buy specific antidotes for different Pokémons' venoms...
"You know, assuming they don't pick fights with you because you made eye contact."
"Wait, what?"
"So, about the rest of your order!"
And a most ominous benefactor. This should be very interesting indeed.
Now THAT is generosity!
L...Lugia?
If L isn’t Looker, I don’t know who it could be.
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My first impression was the same as 10344769's, with an added "oh great, not this idiot". Admittedly, most of the perceived idiocy comes from being introduced with a poor grasp of the local language, but even in Kalos he's still kind of a goofball. And thinking on it further, he already has a canonical precedent for looking after the dimensionally displaced.
Even though the games are terrible now, at least I still have this fic.
Poor Sunset. I guess they're lucky she didn't know any fire attacks at this point, otherwise I'm sure she'd have set everything on fire for the back end temperature check.
That's not ominous at all. I wonder how long it will be until they inevitably err on that particular warning.
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If you think the games are boring why not check out Mr Birdy’s YouTube series of what if ? Was a Pokémon Reign? He has done Australia, Greece, Scavegnaigia ( Norway, Sweden, and Finland.), United Kingdom, western USA, Italy.
They are all good and they range from 30 minutes to 2 1/2 hours.
Shimmy used fake tears
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Twilight's Sp. Defense sharply fell! (Because that's the effect of the real move you either didn't know about or forgot to capitalize properly)
Miss Shimmer? So whoever this L is know a lot about them.
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L might not know Shimmer is a pokemon, although that seems unlikely. Twilight introduced her as a "friend" during the call, so L could be assuming things.
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Maybe it's this guy.
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...Fraz frazzle fraz fraz fraz frazzle fraz frazzle fraz Frazzle fraz Fraz frazzle fraz fraz Frazzle.
[...I get the feeling that it’ll be more than just Jesse and James going after Sunset.]
Isn't Celibi a legendary Pokémon? How come there seems to be more than one? There's the regular ones being seen everywhere, but that can be excused with wibbly wobbly, timey wimey, stuff...but then there's the shiny one.
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There's more than one of a lot of the legendaries
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Aside from Shiny... there should only be a handful. But to answer your question... Celebi's can travel back/forward to a point in time it has already existed... as seen in the Pokemon 4 Ever. So, technically... if you look at it in that light. There is only 2.
Also Arceus probably created more on a whim
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That seems... kind of against the whole idea of a "legendary" Pokémon. I thought a Pokémon being legendary meant that it was unique, one-of-a-kind, and held some sort of important role in the ecology of the world.
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I knew about the time travel bit. That's why I didn't bat my eye at all the regular green ones. It was the shiny that threw me off... since I thought that, by definition, a legendary Pokémon is considered unique and special.
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Mewtwo was originally said to be created from a fossil of Mew that was discovered, so that implies that there was more than one Mew around, and that's not even getting into how the anime handles some of them.
However, as for Keres and the other Celebis, there's going to be an explanation for that later in the story...
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Hmm... Maybe my perception is just a little skewed, since most of my knowledge comes from the anime and movies - and the continuity is sometimes a little wishy washy there. I never actually played any of the games.
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That's fair. I can't say too much as a related topic is going to be a plot point later in the fic...
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Like i said Arceus made another because why not. That's an event (payed) in HG&SS... you get a key item to find Arceus in mid creation of the 3 other deity pokemon, whom then become roamers.
So after re-learning some lore. Legendary doesn't mean there only one... just that they are very very few in numbers, like there almost existent low numbers.
I really want to read more chapters!
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Even the anime had multiples of several legendary Pokemon with no admission that this was even unusual. The Genesect movie, in addition to the giant swarm of its star, had a second Mewtwo, which is supposed to be one of the ones that there definitely can't be more than one of, again without providing an explanation of what the ****.
What is Sunset's Ability?
It probably isn't one canon to Pokemon because I couldn't find anything about sunlight in general.
I looked at both Fire type AND Fairy type abilities for Pokemon on Bulbapedia.
Closest I found was Solar Power, but that not only boosts Special Attack in Harsh Sunlight.... it also drains the Pokemons HP every turn.
Unless you're doing something outta left field like Chlorophyll on a non-Grass type, or using the version of Solar Power from Gen 4 to Gen 6, I will be eagerly awaiting that reveal.
If you plan on continuing this story, that is.
This does not update as often as Fallout Girls...
I just realized this.
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Regarding the temp check.
Agreed.
Regarding the quoted passage.
It's subtle.
Like Luna on the Nightmare Night episode.
So.... You got an estimation of the next chapter for this story?
Also I really liked what you did with Fallout Girls this week.
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It's in the works. I've not done much of the next chapter yet, so I can't really give a time for it, but it's one of three stories that I work on every day, even if I only manage a single sentence I at least try and get something written for it.
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I only know of one worse poison vs. antidote scenario in the area of game mechanics, albeit because I invented it for a theoretical MMO it's seeming increasingly unlikely I'll ever get a working demo out of. Due to faction biology issues (basically, it's too varied, too little of it resembles normal life processes, and too much of it is subject to drastic voluntary modifications), if you want to play with poisons or antidotes... in fact, with potions in general since most of them double as at least one of those... well, you can make something which'll have about the effect you wanted on you and most of your natural allies and is unlikely to do the exact opposite to any of you, or you can make something very and reliably effective on a single person (such as yourself) who you have up-to-date medical data on for as long as that information's still valid and is probably mildly poisonous to most other friendly targets, or you can make something which shouldn't have any negative effects from one dose if you weren't aiming for that but has at the best mild and unpredictable positive effects even on a consistent target, or you can make something horribly uneconomical. Pick at most two of those, and trying for two will be painful.
Interesting little story you have here, hope to see more of this and like and track with a fav from me for how interesting this story is.
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It's true enough from a narrative standpoint that there is no need to so lock down the account, however whoever set up the account clearly doesn't believe that is the case or they'd not have bothered with the restrictions in the first place. In that case, it just seems like a terrible oversight, and I don't think any bad faith argument would protect the account's creator in this case. Then again, I'm not a lawyer in real life, let alone a Ponymon one; so, who am I to say really?
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It is possible the restrictions weren't intended as restrictions, but as a discreet warning away from dangerous activities. To give a concrete example (which shouldn't itself apply in this case), consider the hypothetical that a helicopter service exists which could be easily chartered given adequate funds to rapidly convey Twilight everywhere she needs to go. Presuming it's safer than the land routes (and if one actually operated it probably would be) this would be the obvious option. Now consider that the company which has a monopoly on this service is being run by the exact people Twilight would be in danger from. Actually telling Twilight (in writing or via bank manager) not to charter a helicopter would create gossip and rapidly call her to the attention of the company running that service. However, specifically gifting her a new model of bicycle to use on her travels and requesting regular reports on its handling given the specific road conditions between specific cities sounds completely innocuous while serving the same purpose.
L? For Looker?
And is that an unintentional death note reference?
I can only think of one L. An that is from Death Note
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Most people familiar with Pokémon are assuming it's Looker, who is admittedly also a detective and weirdo.
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If it were Looker, why would he be talking like a man who has more than just secrets to hide?
So because of the phone background and the emotionless voice that was L I thought that the benefactor would be Team Galactic, but unfortunately for my theory there are no Galactic Admins that start with “L”.
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Considering his Gen7 appearance, possibly the fact that he's not from this reality either.