victory_road | 2. Video

[Newt's second video to the feed is a lot different then her first. She's smiling for one thing. She also has two new pokemon next to her, a Cubone and and Absol. They're both very young and sticking very close to Newt. She waves at the camera. A little nervous still, but smiling.]

I've got two new pokemon now. This is Hudson

[She points the camera to the Cubone leaning against her. Not looking at the camera]

And this is Vasquez.

[A quick point to the Absol who is somehow glaring at the screen.]

They're both a little shy but that's okay. We're family now. Thank you Walter. I promise I'll take good care of them! I told Feathers to say hello to you for me when he left, too.

Um, I do have a question though. How do people decide what to name their pokemon? I named my two new ones after people who are ....gone now. I don't have that many names like that left that I want to use....so it's going to be harder to pick ones that fit them.

And....I'm not really good at picking names and I'll have to do that in the future...what do you guys do?

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That's a cool name.

What's Scandinavian?

It's Walter's name! Just.. nickname. Just an affectation from Russia.

It's a location on. .. er.. Earth. Well, a region, of different countries.

Nicknames can be real names too.

[Her name is Newt after all.]

Oh, I don't think we got to earth countries yet at school. I'm from a colony that was set up on a moon, really far away from Earth.

We were going there though when I got taken here. Are you from one of the Scandinavian places?

Yeah, they can... I get called Yurio a lot, myself back home.

A colony? Wow! You must be super far in the future from where I am, but it's cool to think maybe from the same world!!

I'm actually right near it, in Russia but Scandanavian ideas come over here. We had awhile in our history where religious stuff wasn't allowed so...

Is that what you want to be called?

It was 2179 where I was. I hope you're not from the same world. Bad things happened to ....a lot of people where I'm from and a really bad company has a lot of power.

We didn't learn much about religion back home. Just science.

Well I only get called that because there's another Yuuri and somehow I ended up with the stupid nickname so you don't have to call me that.

That's... pretty far. I'm from 2016. But there's a lot of really bad companies. Greedy and stuff like that.

Science is better than religion anyway.

Okay, I'll call you Yuuri.

Wow, that's a really long time ago. Do you have spaceships or androids yet?

Yeah....is there one around called.... Wayland-Yutani yet? I don't know how old they are. If there is you should stay away from them. They set up my colony and they're evil.

It doesn't seem as interesting as science.

No no, that's Yuuri's name, I'm Yuri. y-u-r-i, I'm Russian, he's Japanese!

I mean, we have rockets that go to the moon but not really spaceships. And Japan is making a robot I think? It's not that great.

No, never heard of it. Probably a good thing by the sounds of it.

It's really not.

Oh, okay. Yuri. My name's Newt.

My friend bishop is an android. They're just like people. Only if they get torn in half they can survive it....so better.

Actually yeah, androids are a lot better in the whole survival thing.

Newt? Like the lizard? or like Newt the guy that lives here?

Or wait, a newt is like a frog...

An android. Wait, he got torn in half..?

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Newts are a type of salamander. But it's my name too.

[Someone did a school project on Newts and decided they were the best.]

Yeah, but it's okay. Ripley said we could repair him when we got back to earth. Just like how we're going to get Hicks better too. He's human
and got acid on him but he's going to get better.

[If she says it enough, it will be true.]

[ Yuri only knew about cats... ]

Oh, one of those things. I don't see much of them in Russia. or at all really. I live in the city.

Acid. So an android ripped and half and another guy who got acid on him.

I don't really feel an urge to go into space, to be honest.

We didn't have any animals on the colony, but I did a project on newts for school once.

Good, you shouldn't. My colony was killed by aliens. I was the only one who survived the attack and most of the marines they sent to help, died too. Only me, Ripley, Hicks and Bishop got out.

There are dangerous things in space. Like monsters.

Damn, no animals?

[ Then she kept sending messages.

Oh.

Wasn't she like, seven? ]

Uh. Gonna say I definitely have no interest in space now. Damn. That really sucks, like super sucks. You got out? That means you're not in danger anymore right?

[She is very much seven.]

I don't think so. I was in cryosleep on a spaceship until we got back to earth but I woke up here instead. In a house with lady who lied about being my mom.

[She hates that woman.]

Yeah, she did that to me too. I think it's just like.. her job or something. She sucks.

Hopefully you make it back to Earth. Or like, to Earth for the first time? It's nice but 'm also like, super behind you.

She's terrible. Why would they have anyone pretend to be our moms. That's just ...mean.

[She might be taking it harder as her mother was fairly recently killed in front of her.]

I hope it's nice. Maybe I'll get to see what Russia and Scandinavia are like now!

~~[Maybe she won't be killed off, off screen in a terrible third movie that doesn't exist.]~~

Probably cold and dead like it should be. That's basically how it is now. Just the way I like it.

But why is dead a good thing?

Because a lot of countries have bitey bugs like mosquitos and it itches and it sucks so I'm quite happy not having any of them.

Plus, people always complain about the cold and Russia is cold and I love the cold. So I love Russia!

Oh, that makes sense.

I don't mind cold. It wasn't very warm on the moon I'm from. But we mostly stayed inside because it was too dangerous out there with storms.

I hope I get to see Russia when we get to earth.

[She still has no idea if it's even still a country. But he seems to like it so she's sure it's probably nice if it's still there.]

I hope so too. It's pretty awesome. I hope we're like, a huge world power still. That'll show America!

[ He didn't really care about that far in the future but national pride wasn't a bad thing to have. ]

I hope you find somewhere that fits you when you get to earth thoough. That's the important part.

[There's a bit of a pause before she replies.]

Thank you. I really hope so too.

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