8th Sprout

[toxicodendron_isley]

[Dr Isley's camera turns on with a focus being titled downwards towards one of her flourishing flowerbeds. The owner of the device can be heard making thoughtful noises and pressing buttons as she appears to adjust some settings.]

I'm in the process of taking some pictures for documentation's sake and I thought should make some video for my records also.

And for the sake of education and curiosity, I'm going to post it on here too.

[Pam's matter-of-fact tone lifts into a proud note as the camera raises to show off the huge form of a Mega Venusaur, who's being fawned over by Pam's personal mob of Grass Types.]

Noco has managed to unlock his Mega form. We still have some more work to do, right now we're determining the duration and cooldown period. But he is, rightly, proud of himself, as we all are. You look gorgeous, pet.

[Noco stands beside his incredibly proud mother, Tyler the Ivysaur, who's affectionately stroking and touching at his face with her vines and cooing in a low voice as Noco rumbles in bashful pride.

Dr Isley circles around the giant creature, zooming in on some the differences between this form and the regular one.]

I can try and assist with any questions if you have any.

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[plasticasshole]

Mega form?

[Connor hasn't seen a Mega evolution before, so he's looking at the Venusaur quite intently.]

How do you unlock a Mega form? Can all pokemon do it? Sorry, this is very new to me.

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[toxicodendron_isley]

From what I've looked it, it's only a small collection of Pokemon that can achieve it.

[Ivy holds up her Key Stone.] You need one of these, a Key Stone. [She also shows the Venusaurite attached to Noco.] And your Pokemon needs a Mega Stone, one specific to their species. The two appear to work in sync with each other.

As for unlocking it, the specifics I'm still trying to work out. But I've had the stone for a while and it seemed we weren't able to even begin the process until Noco hit his final level.

[plasticasshole]

Would you happen to have a list of pokemon? I'd like to take a look at it.

[He wonders if any of his pokemon could mega evolve. Of course he'd need the relevant items first, though. And he's not sure how easy to obtain those are.]

And this form is temporary?

[toxicodendron_isley]

The Elite Four sent me a list of options when I earned by 8th badge so I can forward that to you.

[She sends over the attachment.]

Yes, they'll eventually revert to their original form and need to rest.

[plasticasshole]

[Connor is pleased to see that a few of his Pokemon could mega evolve after all. Especially Manectric.]

It would be interesting to see these evolutions. If I ever get the opportunity, I'd like to mega evolve my Manectric.

[It's another goal he now has, which makes him happy.]

[toxicodendron_isley]

Well, like I said I was gifted my stones after obtaining 8 badges. And they gave me the option of whichever stone I wanted.

But I believe some other people got their stones through a different method. Not sure if they were given a choice though

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[sleepallthewayhome]

Oh wow! That's so cool!

Do you need something to do that?

[She kinda remembers reading something about mega forms.]

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[toxicodendron_isley]

Oh, hello sweetpea.

Yes, you need to have a set of stones. One Key Stone and another that is specific to your Pokemon.

[She shows Newt the Key Stone she has on her.]

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[sleepallthewayhome]

[Looks at it carefully.]

Where do you get the key stone....and the specific one?

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[toxicodendron_isley]

Well, I acquired mine upon getting my 8th badge. You're also collecting them too, aren't you?

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[sleepallthewayhome]

[She nods.]

I've got two so far. And I'll get get more.

Is that the only way to get one?

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[shiro2hero]

Wow -- it's nice to know I'm not the only one who managed to find out about those forms.

I was wondering if I was just crazy for a while. Congratulations.

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[toxicodendron_isley]

Thank you. Though Noco is the one putting in the majority of work.

Mind me asking which of yours has achieved a different form?

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[shiro2hero]

Well then, congratulations, Noco.

[He shakes his head, and turns the camera outside for a moment. His Aggron is busy sunning itself on the beach.]

My starter -- Kuro. He's done it a couple times now. First time ended up exhausting us both, though.

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[toxicodendron_isley]

[There's a low rumble from off screen which can be taken as Noco's thanks.]

It is rather draining. Have you used it frequently since?

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[shiro2hero]

Not frequently, no.

There hasn't been a lot of opportunity. Regular gym battles don't need that kind of heavy hitting.

ARRIVES LATE because this is relevant to ford's interests

[meteorman]

Congratulations! He looks very lush. I suppose it stands to reason that Grass types would exhibit marked plant growth as part of Mega evolution. My own Abomasnow is the same way.

[He's not gonna be like 'you might have seen her on the TV' but... Ivy might have seen her on the TV. He used her in his battle against Lance, after all.]

[toxicodendron_isley]

[She has but-]

Ah yes, I remember seeing her. They were stunning.

[She watched it purely for your Grass type footage.]

[meteorman]

[That's Ford Pines for you: take a team that's half Grass to the most difficult battle gauntlet this side of Sevii. His team was easily the most unbalanced of any that's faced the Elite Four yet, and that's a little bit of a point of pride for him.]

I was incredibly lucky that out of all of the mega stones I was given, I ended up with Abomasite. A whole race of yetis that blend in with their snowy forest habitat because they're trees themselves? Fantastic.

[toxicodendron_isley]

Well, adaptive camouflage has typically always been focused around utilizing the local flora. And when whole species of the local fauna are actually classed as being 'Grass', so I suppose it only makes sense that the two would merge.

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[badluckbabe]

Well isn't he gorgeous? I was wondering if you'd get any of your babies to Mega Evolve. I've only got my Absol to do it and I feel like he got rather full of himself after it.

[The Absol in question is off camera but makes a sort of sarcastic grumbling noise and she rolls her eyes.]

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[toxicodendron_isley]

I must admit I was rather slow to begin the research. Even I fall into the trap of procrastination now and then.

So, yours is an Absol? Did it take long for you to unlock theirs?

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[badluckbabe]

It's hard not to around here. With how easy it is just to live a relaxed lazy lifestyle it's like...just begging us to take things easy and slow.

[She turns the camera on Noir the Absol who looks pleased to be on camera. He tilts his head showing off his fedora and starts bouncing around.]

Not long actually. For awhile there Noir and I were going out every night to fight and train. I had some plans that never came through but all the battle seemed to help him figure it out and now so long as we're both on our A game we can pull it off.

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[toxicodendron_isley]

Sometimes I wonder if that's the bigger plan and trap of this world. Perhaps it wants us to be complacent.

Seems like something lit a fire under you for a little while there.

I see. And how does he seem to handle matches against opponents that aren't teammates?

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[badluckbabe]

Ick, the last thing I need is some lotus eater thing.

Ah yeah well...those plans had all kind of hinged on others that were involved and they all vanished so we had to go back to square one.

Actually that's not too different from how things were for me back home. Big plans, things get messed up by others, back to square one.

Please tell me adulthood doesn't require so much starting over?