victory_road | [Video + Text] [002]

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[The first thing you'll hear is crying. It's not Connor, though. The video is focused on a Yamask, hovering just slightly above a neatly made bed, looking at the mask in its hands and sobbing. A Popplio is trying to pat the pokemon reassuringly, and a Growlithe is bringing it random items from the room, but even with these odd things piling up around it, it continues to wail.]

Does... anybody know how to stop these pokemon from crying? He's been at it for a few hours now. I know I could just put him in the ball to stop the sound, but I'd feel bad about just leaving him to cry.

[The video switches off abruptly, since Connor has said all he thinks he needs to say. Except he totally hasn't, so later a text is sent out:]

Does anyone know where I can find a Porygon? And is anyone breeding or selling a Pikachu?

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[Connor isn't sure what a normal childhood is like, so maybe kids climbing in vents is a normal thing. He frowns and tips his head at the mention of aliens, though.]

The aliens? Were you attacked by them?

[He's been alive three months, and he's already having to contemplate aliens. Not that he ever would have argued against the idea of them being possible, but... knowing they're a reality and a threat is a lot to take in.]

[Well for the kids in the colony it was totally normal. Probably just not in other places.]

Yes. The company sent us to explore a spot on the moon where they knew there was a crashed ship with the eggs in them. ....then the egg hatched and ...they got the thing from the egg on their face and it puts a baby alien in people and then that bursts out of their chest and becomes a bigger alien....

[There is a ghost pokemon floating up behind her now because chestburster talk tends to mean she'll have nightmares later, so the gastly is just going to listen in.]

They're not....they're like animals, only evil. They don't care about anything but making more of themselves and killing. Once they made a lot, they attacked till everyone died or were taken away to make more of them. ...I only escaped by hiding in the ventilation shafts for weeks until the marines showed up.

[And then they mostly died too.]

[The thing from the egg on their face... which puts a baby alien in people, that bursts out of their chest and becomes bigger. That's a sentence and a half. A terrifying one, quite honestly.]

It sounds horrifying. I'm sorry. You're very brave, though.

[He's kind of glad that she's in a place like this for now. It's nice here, people can't die, there are no aliens.]

How did you survive for so long in the vents?

[This place is much better. She's still not sure whether she's brave like people tell her though, so she skips that part.]

Oh, I just hid in the ventilation shafts where they couldn't reach me. I'm small so I can get in places big people can't. I had to sneak out for food and stuff but they weren't always there. I just had to be careful to stay in the really small areas when they were. Plus I played in the vents so much growing up, I knew where everything was from inside them, so I knew where to go.

[She became only somewhat malnourished! And semi feral.]

So the aliens were too big to get in where you could reach.

[That's good. As brave as he thinks she is, he doesn't think Newt would have lasted long otherwise. He nods to the Gastly by Newt's head. Maybe he should try to take her mind off this conversation now.]

Your friend is interesting. What is he?

No, they get really big. They couldn't reach me when I went in the really small places.

[Oh yeah. Newt would be 100% dead if she hadn't been a vent crawling master and small enough. It's why she still retreats to vents when things go wrong. Like the prom attack. Vents are were you are safe.]

He's a Gastly. A ghost, poison type pokemon. I named him Spooky. My friend hatched him for me because he has a move that lets him eat nightmares. So now I don't have as many bad dreams.

[Spooky nods proudly and floats down to sit on Newt's head.]

Hello, Spooky.

[It's only polite to greet the pokemon, right?]

I wasn't aware that nightmares were something that could be eaten. I've never had one before, but they sound unpleasant.

[Spooky smiles hello and makes a ghostly noise. Hello there.]

I didn't know either. But my friend told me about it when I told him I had really bad ones. They don't mind eating them either, I asked.

[Spooky nods. Yummy nightmares.]

They're terrible. I told Hank to warn you about them because he said you never slept before. And nightmares can be really bad. Sometimes you wake up screaming or thinking you died, or its really hard to breathe and you start to get even more scared of everything and it's really hard to calm down again.

[Nightmares that give you panic attacks, not that she knows those are what she got.]

I hope you don't get any of the really bad ones.

He did warn me. I haven't had one yet, though. I really hope I don't, they sound awful.

[At least, Newt's nightmares do.]

Do you have any pokemon to comfort you when you wake up scared?

[She nods.]

Yeah, if Spooky isn't there to eat them, or before I had him. I have Ripley my starter pokemon. She's a Growlithe and she looks after me. She used to sleep in front of the bed when I slept under it, so nothing could get me and I felt safer.

[Because sleeping on top of beds out in the open is how you get killed.]

And the rest of my team is really nice. I try to only have pokemon on my team who want to be here. So everyone's friends with each other.

Oh? Hank's starter pokemon is a Growlithe, too. And I have one. They're named Tubbs and Lacey. They're very protective dogs, aren't they?

[He won't ask about sleeping under the bed. It's obvious she feels safer that way.]

I hope my team become friends with each other, too. They play together a lot, so I think they are.

[She nods.]

They're great. I'm really glad I had her when I first woke up here. It was really confusing.

[When you're supposed to be asleep on a spaceship and wake up on a different world, and no sign of the spaceship and your friends....]

That's good. Oh there's a nice lady named Botan. If your pokemon ever act weird or mean, you can ask her to talk to them. She can talk to pokemon and likes to help people get along. She helped me once.

Yes, especially if you woke up alone.

[It was confusing enough for Connor, a grown adult who had a friend come with him.]

Botan? Where can I find her?

Yeah. I wish they'd brought Ripley the person with me. ....I miss her.

[So, so much. Also fun fact, Ripley the pokemon only got her name because Newt was scared and alone and was calling out for Ripley and the pokemon assumed it was her new name.]

She lives in Goldenrod. She has a house there and sells really good food.

[So desserts then.]

I hope she arrives one day for you.

[It's all he can do, hope Newt has someone from home arrive here for her.]

I'll find her when I reach Goldenrod, then. I'll tell her you sent me. My pokemon all seem to be friendly, but maybe she can teach me some things anyway.

Me too.

I tried not hoping because then I'd feel bad whenever someone showed up and it wasn't her, but then I just hoped it would be her or one of my friend anyway so I gave up on that.

[Hope hurts but it's hard not to.]

She's really nice. You should try some of the food she makes too.

At least you can make friends with the new people who show up here. I know it's not the same, but it's still good to have more friends.

[Not... that he knows. He has one friend right now. The only one he's ever had.]

I'll have to ask her about her food too, then. What would you recommend I ask her to make?

It is and you can make pokemon friends too. So you get two kinds of friends.

[And they can't die on you! The best part, in her mind.]

Oh, I'm not sure its a food because it's a drink but you should ask her for a milkshake. But her cookies are really good too.

That's true.

[He considers his pokemon his friends too, he supposes. But they're a different kind of friend.]

I do seem to have a sweet tooth. I'll be sure to try them, I've never had them before.

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