victory_road | mission 001- video/text

[The feeds snaps on to show a rather grizzled man with a beard and eyepatch patting a rather friendly dog Pokémon. A Poochyena to be precise. Boss grunted in amusement when the dog started to chew on his metallic arm. A toy? Well, the Pokémon thought the metal was rather interesting compared to his other normal limb.]

Hngh. A dog? Didn't think I'd end up having another one trailing after me.

[Boss picked up the empty Poke ball from his back pack and studied it. How could such a large animal fit in such a small device? It was all rather confusing right now. Also, what was that music playing? It sounded like a tape but no music he'd ever heard on his iDroid before.]

Hey! Watch the arm. [Snake scalded the energetic Pokémon when he bit down on one of Snake's prosthetic fingers. He was only a puppy but still. He needed those fingers.]

Going to call you DD. You're just like him. Good dog. [Snake patted Poochyena's head and made the dog sit. Good. At least he was learning. It wasn't the first time he'd had a dog follow him and try to lick his face. Snake focused back to the video feed and sighed.]

Anyone hear me? Can someone tell me what's going on and why these animals seem to fit inside tiny balls? [Yeah. He's going to go with that first of all.]

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It's weird, but it's better this way. There's su~per huge Pokemon out there too that gets shrunk down into that tiny little thing, so you can carry a lot of them around and not have to worry about being run over in your sleep.

[It doesn't look like a Poochyena will pose that sort of problem though, but she also doesn't know what its evolved form is like.]

You named your Pokemon double D? Does that stand for something?

Huh. Really? Good idea.

[A ball that can carry huge Pokémon? Heavy weights shrunk down into a tiny ball? How can you go wrong with that? Snake smiled at that.]

Yeah. DD. Diamond Dog. Back home I have a dog called DD. I found him in the Afghan desert wandering around as a puppy so brought him back to base. Or rather, he found me.

[Cute little puppy.]

Diamond animals are something of a trend, huh? I have a friend who's got a diamond horse, but yours is definitely cuter. The desert doesn't really sound like a place for dogs... or people. I hope you're used to walking a lot without food or water.

[Or maybe things are better now that the roads have been clearing up. She doesn't really want to go all the way back just to see how things are.]

[He's a soldier. Spending most of his life walking, fighting and sneaking his way through deserts.]

Yeah, I'm used to walking for days without proper food or water. I'm a soldier.

[Can you tell? Scarred face, prosthetic arm and toughness emanating all over from him.]

There a desert here?

[She can't tell. There weren't any wars in her short lifetime, and there are people with all sorts of ruggedness she's really bad at guessing and assuming backgrounds of. A soldier though, that gives her something to form opinions over, along with the fact that he doesn't complain about long treks without food or water. She griped for weeks over that.]

Maybe somewhere, but none I've come across so far. There's days and days of forests and plains though. Better than a desert 'cause there's shade and stuff, but the walking's endless.

[He's actually happy there are no deserts here. Too sandy and harsh. Besides, the sand got everywhere.

Forests, huh? Nice. [Yeah, he likes those. Lush green and plenty of cover. Sorry but once a soldier, always a soldier.]

I can do walking. Are there any horses you can ride here?

[There's wild Pokemon in all that cover, but he looks like he can handle himself just fine.]

Yeah, there's horses! I'm trying to find one too, so I can't tell you where they are though... [She tries to think back to when she first started, if she were to start over again, how would she do things differently to make things easier, but she's drawing a blank.] That's how it is for now. Your Pokemon, DD, will protect you when you need it, but you have to do the legwork while it sits happy in the magic ball.

[At least there were horses. Good. Maybe if he found one he could name it D-Horse and ride it around the region. What? A man could dream.]

Sounds a bit like my dog from home. DD and I go into battle and he's there for me when I'm under attack. [Vice versa too. Snake protects his dog just as much as he's loyal to his master.]

I don't mind walking while DD takes a rest. So far he's more interested in my prosthetic arm.

[Cue the camera showing DD licking at the red metal curiously.]

[Mafuyu's glad that her Pokemon didn't see her arm as a chew toy, but he's pretty chill to let DD do whatever to his arm. She supposes it doesn't hurt since it's prosthetic, but it's still part of him so it's sorta weird.]

Does it come off?

[IS THAT A RUDE QUESTION. She isn't even aware of it, she just thinks it'd be cute for DD to carry the arm around like a stick /o\]

[Oh, that's pretty rude but Venom's fine with it. He's a pretty open guy.]

Yeah, I can remove it when I need to. When I'm in the shower usually.

[Since he doesn't want to metal to rust and all the joints to seize up.]

Ohh, that's useful. You two will get along well then.

[Like a lizard's tail, sometimes it's good to have detachable limbs when dealing with bitey Pokemon]

You'd better get a move on though, if you want to be able to use a shower. Mom's good on the food prep, but stingy about letting you back in the house. Next one isn't for miles away.

That's the idea.

[Since he didn't fancy spending his days with a Pokémon who wanted to tear his arm off every five seconds. DD was loyal and behaved properly. Just like his dog at home.]

Mom? [Was she talking about her own mom?]

Yeah, Mom! You know, the one that sent you out with a backpack and boxed lunch, it felt like being in elementary school again.

[Fond memories of elementary school, where there was little homework and tests and homemade lunches were still a thing. Also introduction to bullying and fighting and spiral into darkness, but she just wipes that away from her memories for the moment.]

Though... You're kinda old, aren't you? Older than me, so she couldn't have said to call her mom. Did you talk with her? What'd she say to you?

That woman? [Yes, Snake, that woman.]

Didn't really listen much to what she said. Thought I was dreaming. [Well, that's just great.]

I'm older than most people here. Don't know why they'd want an old man inside their world. It seems more a world for kids. [Little animals to collect.]

[That's true; he isn't exactly representative of the demographic Mafuyu expected to see around here either, but she feels it's hardly a world where children should be running around unattended either.]

Well, it can't be all kids, right? Otherwise the world won't work. It's like a school: you've got lots of students, but you need teachers too. Maybe you're here to do... I dunno, adult stuff. Whatever that is.

[How would she know; she's a teenager who's given zero thought to her own future.]

What'd you used to do?

I'm a soldier.

[A tough old grizzled veteran known as Big Boss. He's been through so many battles that he's lost count. So much death and killing. Would she really want to know about that? No. It wasn't for a kid to hear.]

Before I was brought here I had a base on the ocean with hundreds of men under my command. My comrade, Kazuhira Miller, is also here with me.

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