victory_road | Fifth 👻 Story [Video]

[You know who hasn't really been around lately? Ashley, who is just kind of...kneeling by her desk, in front of the hotel bed, adjusting the camera as it turns on.]

And that- okay, uh-- [Clears her throat, looks kind of...awkward.] I, um. Okay, this is kind of weird to ask about, since- I mean, people find eggs all the time in their rooms from br-breeding. [Turns like two shades redder, takes a deep breath, charges on-] But all my Pokémon, they were in their Pokéballs, or with me, and when I got back from work today, I found--

[It's better to just move aside, huh, shuffle away and sitting on her bed, oh well, it's just a Pokémon egg in a basket, Ash, why are you being so weird? It's protected by an odd blanket, one that's pattern resembles space.

From off-screen, Ashley continues:] Just here, like this, all...not like it appeared out of nowhere, like someone delivered it! But I had my door locked and the staff said no one left anything for me, and there is no note or anything and it's just so bizarre.

[...Nudges the PokéGear sllloooowly back so the egg basket's out of focus, behind her.]

I've been here for...almost five months now. [A little somber. Shakes herself out of it.] But this is... Has anyone seen or heard about...anonymous egg deliveries? It's kind of freaking me out.

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_{[Oh, wow, it's been a while! He forgot about this sort of thing happening.]}

Don't panic. This sort of thing just happens--usually around the holidays. My Glameow was a mystery egg too. And my Litwick.

Mystery egg? [Well, if there's precedent this isn't as bad...] Okay... But, this isn't a holiday...that I know of?

That's happened a few times. I've given up trying to figure out where they come from, myself.

Oh...hmm. Still, I wouldn't worry. Word of advice, though, don't carry it around in your backpack too much or it might hatch in there without you knowing.

... The eggs just show up? Normally, I mean.

[SHE'S ADJUSTING BUT THIS PLACE IS VERY STRANGE.]

So this is something that just happens? You have no ideas, no one's...owned up to it?

[OH, HI... BLAKE... This won't be too awkward right??]

Uh, yeah. Um...breeders don't really know where they come from? [...] Like, there's an assumption but it's never proven, they always show up when people are...out, or something. It's weird.

Oh, well, of course. I mean- I've hatched eggs before. A lot of them, they've just always been something I bought from someone.

Well I mean, it could have been Arceus. He's basically this place's god, so I wouldn't exactly put it past him. But who knows.

I guess they just... like their privacy.

[I MEAN. SHE IMAGINES SHE WOULD. BUT SHE HAS NO IDEA HOW SEVERAL OF THESE THINGS POSSIBLY MAKE EGGS HAPPEN.]

I guess the thing to do is just wait until it hatches?

Wow that is super weird and that blanket looks pretty cool maybe you'll get a space-mon but the real question is [oh boy oh boy] did you kiss that boy?

The...really big heavenly... Um... He's like a llama, how do I describe him without worrying he'll smite me?

[NO ONE KNOWS HOW THEY MAKE EGGS HAPPEN]

I guess. ...I just have no idea what it is. Like, what kind of Pokémon. It's not like it came with an instruction manual.

CHURCH. [if you're trying to be quiet with that hissing ash i think you've failed??] OH my God, just saying it like this, out in the open, REALLY?

Yeah, the goat with the wheel thing.

[what is a llama, and what is being properly reverent]

First time I met him, it was when he was cleaning up some crap Team Aqua and Team Magma had pulled. And then there was that party on the moon, with the cat I'd never heard of. So he doesn't show up often, but he's got the power for it.

Perhaps a pokémon partakes in a legitimized form of the stork baby delivery myth. Was a window left open, Ashley?

That... would be strange. Maybe the blankets are a clue? [MAYBE IT'S A STAR, THERE ARE PROBABLY STAR POKEMON]

The cat! Oh, yes, I remember that one too! Some people were talking to them I think, but...I dunno, it felt weird, so I just watched.

[and admired the way that cat's fur sparkled like for real]

Who're Team Aqua and Team Magma, though? I've only heard about Team Rocket.

Bunch of assholes. Team Aqua wanted to expand the oceans or something, and Team Magma wanted to expand the land. Claimed they were doing it for the Pokemon's sake, even though if you expand the water, the land ones have nowhere to go, and vice versa... But they got control of a couple of legendaries and were fighting and generally making a huge mess.

Daring deduction, Dirk, but doubtful. [...smile] No open windows either.

Oh, you think? [Soft tongue click, some shifting. Audio sounds a little farther away now:] You know, maybe. There were crystals on the moon, so...there's bound to be an alien-type.

It's as good a guess as any. Doesn't seem like a huge stretch to guess that Pokemon can come from space, too.

[Ashley's brow furrows.] Oh. Jesus, that sounds... That sounds awful, and really, really stupid.

[Like really, what good would that do for anyone?]

Obviously you said Arceus was cleaning it up, so, he stopped it, but- not without some trouble, huh? Powerful Pokémon fighting each other's a recipe for disaster.

Probably... I read something about a theory that that's where they originated to begin with? There're some that are definitely alien-like, like Belgym, and some like...like Clefairy, that's a pretty cool one to read up on.

[Hmm.]

But if I think like that it doesn't really narrow it down at all...

[Confession: Ashley's partly thinking so hard on this topic so she doesn't ask Blake how things have been, because she is itching to know but that is maybe not the best question she gets the feeling?]

[THERE REALLY ARE ALIEN ONES...........

But okay, one of those things does catch her interest.]

I guess not. But... where does someone go to read up on this world, exactly? Or are you just talking about the Pokedex? Just... curiosity.

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