victory_road | 03 | Accidental Video

[When this video turns on, it's facing out at the interior of the Mahogany Ice Rink. It's now evening, and the Mahogany Mamoswines have finished practice and gone home for the day, so the ice is currently empty...except for Yuuko, who can be seen skating in slow circles. She'd gotten a job here a few weeks ago and has been pretty good with managing the hockey equipment and helping to maintain the ice, but now that she's alone and at a skating rink for the first time in months, she just can't resist doing some after-hours skating herself.

She doesn't seem to be aware that she's being filmed; in fact, it looks like she's entirely lost in whatever music is playing through her head as she skates. At first she just slowly skates around the rink, but soon she picks up speed and does a few spins, first crouching down into a sit spin and then on one leg with her body parallel to the ice and her free leg held above hip level in a camel spin. At the moment, she's forgotten that she's been brought to the Pokemon world and is now immersing herself in the past, back to when she and Yuuri would practice their skating together at Ice Castle and try to copy the great Victor Nikiforov.

Then she picks up even more speed, and for the first time in a while, she does a jump, taking off from the back inside edge of one foot into a triple Salchow. The Salchow was the first jump she ever learned, but it's been a while since she attempted a triple; she manages the three rotations, though her landing is a bit wobbly.

There's an excited chirping behind the camera after Yuuko lands the jump, and that seems to snap Yuuko back to reality and look towards whoever's filming this.]

Wha--Twizzle?! [Yuuko's face turns red...mostly from embarrassment at being caught on camera during a private moment, but also from annoyance. She starts skating towards the camera, and the excited chirping turns into a nervous "eep!" at her darkening expression.]

What have I said about using my 'gear without permission?!

[The camera shakes and is then knocked onto its side as whoever's holding it hastily puts it down. You can briefly see a Sylveon bounding away through the doors to the front desk with Yuuko chasing after her, though Yuuko can't go very fast since she's wearing skates.] Twizzle! You get back here right now, young lady!

[The camera runs for another minute before a Snorunt hesitantly turns it off. Sorry about that last bit, folks.]

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Was that a surprise, or did you know it was going to happen?

I got lucky with Lisa. She was a Togepi when I got her, but my daughter already had one in their final form so I knew ....somehow she was going to turn into a flying type as well.

Flip was my starter, so I had no idea what she was going to evolve into until someone told me. I wonder if who or whatever brings us here knew somehow...

Somehow, I wouldn't be surprised if they were handpicked for us. By whatever brought us here.

I wouldn't either...I just wish we actually knew how they were picked.

Now that is a mystery. Maybe one of those legendary pokemon does it when we're brought here.

I wish I knew more details myself. I'd have liked to know why I got a different starter when I came here the second time. Until the ranch they have here opened up....well. I wasn't very happy with the powers that be. Whatever they are.

I've heard that a Legendary Pokemon may be responsible.

[But that last part catches her attention.] Wait, so you've been brought here twice?

Yeah. It was years ago here. But it wasn't that long at all back home for me. So it was quite confusing when I woke up in the starting town with nothing but the stuff you start with and a new pokemon.

Still, at least I remembered the last time I was here. Sometimes people come back without their memories of the place.

I see...time really is weird here, if there's a chance that you can leave and come back without any memories of when you were here.

And sometimes people go and then come back remembering. Sometimes people's bodies seem to stay here while they go home.

I think if the person doesn't physically leave they're more likely to come back remembering things, but then again. I vanished and came back with my memories so there doesn't seem to be a hard and fast rule.

I've heard about that...people falling asleep for a while and then waking up with memories of being here. [She may have seen some videos on the network about it.]

It happens sometimes. And it can be really worrying for people who don't realize what's going on.

I don't blame them. Finding someone asleep and them not waking up isn't usually a good sign after all.