victory_road | 6th Match // [video] Violet

[The video starts off with one supremely zoomed-in eye - Krieg's eye, surrounded as usual by the eyehole of his mask. Once the device is going he pulls back to a slightly less uncomfortable distance (for the viewer, anyway, let's be real here), and announces:]

MnahahAHAHA! THERE'S NO FENCE ON THIS FENCE!

[That is one proud Psycho. He flips the 'Gear so that it no longer displays his mask-covered face (you're welcome), but instead one (1) Electrode, looking like a very smug asshole, and one (1) enormous - well. That has to be a Muk, no Grimer is that big. One Muk, looking very pleased, and...just a tiny bit demure? Well, it sure is nice to know at least one of Krieg's Pokemon has some modesty.]

The Spark Ball and the Slag Stack owned the birds!

[Spark Ball lights up briefly with a crackle of smug static, while Slag Stack seems to gather itself up as if to sit (or stand?) a bit straighter, and wave one oozing limb at the camera. They are the champions, yes, it is true!]

The bug gym is next!

[Only Krieg could make a harmless announcement sound like a threat.

...But, let's be real, here; now that the Vault Crew is taking on the Gym Challenge, the bug gym's days are numbered.]

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Of course they did. Still, as the one who raised them you deserve some credit.

[A+ monster parenting, good job!]

A very solid plan. I'm sure he'll enjoy the exercise, and the opportunity to have his skills officially recognized.

[Cecil, please, you're going to make him blush.]

I can't wait to let him fight! It's gonna be a fire blast!

[...Wow that was terrible.]

[Terrible it may be, but it gets a laugh from Cecil.]

I've no doubt it will end in a fiery dance of destruction, inflicted upon your cowering opponents.

Pfmnahahahahaha!

[He giggles for a bit longer, pleased with Cecil's laughter and his response, before adding:]

Hope it won't be too easy. He needs a challenge!

A challenge, you say? Let's see, now... what's his current level?

[Because if the answer is something like 50, that challenge is just a pipe dream.]

One hundred!

[This is what happens when you spar every day with your pokemon, day in and day out, for nearly ten months.]

[...Yeah, no, there's nothing to be done with that.]

Obtain all of Kanto's badges, then return to Azalea and battle the Elite team. It's the only challenge you'll find there, at this point.

Pfff, mngh...!

[The noise he makes in response to that is equal parts disappointment and derision. He was afraid Cecil would say that.]

That's gonna take too long.

[He'll do it, of course, but so much for the hope of instant gratification.]

You could keep earning Johto's badges, and then attempt to battle celadon's Elite team, I suppose. They're Grass-types instead of bugs, but it'd still be a pleasant fight for Murder Chicken. That'd be somewhat quicker to accomplish.

[Sure, it still involves eight badges, but at least there's one done and over with already.]

...Mnff!

[Have another disgruntled noise, Cecil.

...And then a shrug of resignation. They're already committed to traveling, so...]

Guess I gotta.

Maybe I should've let him fight the birds.

Bird versus bird, the cockfight of a lifetime? ...There's always the option of starting a kicking contest in Cianwood, but it'd not be quite the same.

[Bird versus weird kicking thing doesn't have the same ring to it.]

Pfmnahahahahaha! Kicking's just as good as a cockfight!

[Honestly, the only thing that really qualifies any of Krieg's Pokemon battles as "cockfights" is the fact that Murder Chicken is, actually, some type of cockerel. A weirdly human-shaped cockerel, but one nonetheless.]

He can fight fish for a challenge!

[Maybe. Depending on the level of the water-type in question.]

Fish...? You'll want Cerulean, though I hear their base level is relatively low.

[...Is there no way to find a proper challenge in this place? Really?]

There's also the option of finding other foreign trainers who are interested in friendly matches, of course.

I thought the gyms were supposed to be a challenge!

[It's pretty annoying to find out that they're really...not. At all. Although Cecil's next suggestion definitely has some merit.]

Should probably do that. I know Sparky's spark ball wants a rematch.

[To start. Too bad Jean and Co are in Kanto right now.]

They can be if you're ill-prepared. My first attempt was a complete failure.

[When your best bet is a Ghost-type, and your second is a Butterfree...]

To avenge a terrible loss, or because the first match was unforgettably enjoyable?

Pfmnahahaha! The first one!

[Poor Blitz took it really hard.]

Next time we see him, maybe.

It would be polite to allow him to erase that loss. Along with the next one, and the next, and the next...

[When Cecil believes, he believes strongly.]