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C'mon, big guy-- Up!

_{[The video isn't pointing at anything right away, but there's a pair of small, green hands adorned with little red claws clicking and clacking at the lens for a few moments. After a good thirty seconds or so, it finally starts to turn over, displaying a shot of Demyx... hauling something? Whatever it is, it's only visible for a split second and it's bright orange before a Lombre's face takes up the whole screen.

Suddenly it grins - it figured it out! It got the thing to work! The light is even blinking! Yes!

Trilling in triumph, it appears to bounce in place with a wide grin, and it makes some strange noises as if it's trying to speak. Unfortunately because it's a Pokemon, it only succeeds in saying it's own name and various croaks, clicks and gurgles. It doesn't matter though, because as soon as it appears to be done speaking?

It turns it around to show Demyx with a Magikarp in his arms facing down with a Spearow just outside of Azalea where it meets Route 33.]}

Okay! Just like we've been doing, Mrs. Robinson! One, two--

_{[The Magikarp appears to puff itself up and gets a serious look on its face.]}

Three!

_{[Suddenly Demyx throws the Pokemon as hard as he can in the direction of the Spearow - TACKLE IT, MRS. ROBINSON! - eliciting the Magikarp equivalent of a battle cry. As it sails through the air towards the intended target, it suddenly begins to glow bright and starts getting bigger and bigger. And longer. And the once-strange war cry of the Magikarp turns into a loud bellow as the light disappears and a massive blue serpent appears and...

lands the Tackle on the Spearow who clearly wasn't expecting it. One hit K.O.!

For a moment all parties are silent, and then the Lombre drops the camera in shock as Demyx lets out a loud whoop off-screen.]}

That was AWESOME! Oh my god! Look at you! You're so freakin' huge! I can't beli--

_{[The feed suddenly cuts out, most likely from the Lombre scrambling to pick the Pokegear back up off the ground.

Uh... Welcome to Magikarp Training 101?]}

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Did you just fuckin' yeet your Magikarp?

_{[It's some minutes before he actually responds what with having to grab his 'gear from the ground, but he looks like he's having the absolute time of his life when he finally does.]}

Yeah! And look at him! I didn't know throwing him like that would make him do this!

[And of course, there's Lena, who's hunched over and has to brace her hands on her knees because she's laughing so hard.]

Oh MAN, I didn't think that would seriously work!

Edited 2019-04-01 03:35 (UTC)

_{[This is what he gets up to when you're not looking, Lena!]}

I didn't think he'd do that!

_{[CAN HE CLIMB THIS? He's just going to

scramble right up on that Gyarados' back and give him a good ol' pat.]}

We've been doing this for ages haven't we, Mrs. Robinson?

[SHE'S ONLY ANGRY BECAUSE SHE WASN'T THERE TO FILM IT BEFORE NOW

OTHERWISE SHE'D BE ENCOURAGING THE SHIT OUT OF DUMB FISH-CHUCKING THE WHOLE TIME]

Geez, have you been doing that the entire time since you caught her??? How is your arm not dead?

He was only twenty pounds. Or, uh... Around that, I think.

_{[He looks at himself for a minute, and then... flexes.]}

I think I got a little bit of muscle doing all of that though! My arms were killing me the first week of doing it!

_{[And then after a few moments he scoots further up across the Gyarados so he can lean forward and cover his 'ears'.]}

I can't lift him anymore though, but don't tell him that.

So your arm's like. A normal arm, instead of a noodle arm.

[Good thing he's up on the safety of the Gyarados's back, or else Lena would've punched him just to test that.]

Nah, dude, you probably should. What if this big guy still thinks he's a little old fish, and tries to jump into your arms one day?

Hey, I went toe-to-toe with Hercules! I've got plenty of muscle!

_{[What he's not saying is how he may or may not have broken his arms in the process.

Just by trying to grab him.]}

Do you think he'd really do that though? he'd crush me!

[Hercules? Is that anything like Storkules? Lena tries to imagine the big buff hero from old books, the hero who could rip apart monsters and stop natural disasters with his bare hands...

... And promptly bursts out laughing.]

You?? Take on a guy like that? Good one! Ohhhh man you almost had me there dude, but you had to brag like that...

I'm totally serious! Cross my hea--

_{[He can't exactly do that, can he?]}

I-I swear, I fought him! Right in the Olympus Coliseum!

_{[THAT SURE WAS A DAY, LET HIM TELL YOU.]}

Yeah? Can you prove it? If you fought off some crazy god-hero like that, that means you gotta have super strength too, right?

C'mon, show me some of your fancy fighting!

Uh...

_{[C r a p--

Wait! Wait! The little lightbulb just went off in his head!]}

I-I would, but this place kiiiiiinda took all of that away? I-It made me into a regular human! Besides, it's... not really the best place to do any of that stuff!

Convenient.

[TOO convenient...]

But there's nothing special about just pure strength, right? So there's no reason for whoever-it-was that brought us here to change that. So either you're totally full of it, or you're hiding something.

Huh? Hiding something? Like what?

_{[Demyx, no.]}

Super crazy strength, duh! C'mon, show me something!

[She points to a rock near where Demyx and his new Gyarados are; it's not quite boulder sized, but it's definitely something that nobody's gunna be lifting easily anytime soon.]

Betcha you can't lift that with one hand.

I-I don't think that's such a good idea--!

_{[Mrs. Robinson, help him out! Please! Don't just sit there like a blue lump!]}

I gotta have, like... loads of prep time?

Well hurry up and do your stretching, I wanna see some cool super-strength!

[NOW YOU KNOW JUST HOW MUCH OF A LITTLE GREMLIN LENA CAN BE SOMETIMES. Sorry Demyx.]

[Jean is laughing so hard he can barely speak.]

Yeah! That's how it's done!

_{[At least someone appreciates his genius! It's contagious, because as soon as he catches it from his 'gear, he starts laughing too.

And judging by the deep, broken rumbling? Mrs. Robinson is trying his best too.]}

I take everything I said back about this place before - this is the best thing that's ever happened!

The same thing happened to mine, except it was during a gym. He saved all our asses by evolving.

They didn't try to disqualify you for that?

Nah. It's a natural thing to happen to Pokemon, so I guess they were cool with it.

Are those places just, like... super big on the inside for 'em to do that? 'Cause I think I saw one of 'em in Violet but the doors of the place didn't look like they could fit this guy in it.

Oh yeah, of course! The place where you do the battles has to be big enough for all different types of Pokemon.

You just have to keep them in their balls when you're coming in the door.

[While that's not the preferred method of training Magikarp...that was pretty amazing.

Noct is grinning as a normal Gyarados and a shiny variant roar their approval behind him, several Magikarp splashing about in the water around them--only visible when they leap out of the water.

He's got just a few.]

That's one way to do it.

_{[One has to improvise when the poor thing only knows how to use Splash for most of it's life. At the very least it seems to enjoy being tossed around?

Or he did, because there's no way Demyx is going to be able to lift him now.]}

How else could I? All he could do is flop around before!

_{[He sees that red one, too.

He needs twenty.]}

Y-you shouldn't throw your pokemon at other pokemon!

_{[LOOK AT THIS BIG MAJESTIC BLUE NOODLE BEHIND HIM, ARMIN.]}

Why not? He loves it! Or, uh, he did - isn't that right, Mrs. Robinson?

_{[Does the big tail flopping up and down in the background mean yes? It has to!]}

'sides, it's how we had to do it before he figured out how to tackle! All he could do before is flop around!

[The noodle is very majestic, but still!]

It's still dangerous! You could've injured him.

[Versus... sending him into battle? Which doesn't have the risk of injury? Ok, possibly not the best argument, but there is something that just doesn't feel right about using a pokemon like, well, a brick.]

If it was hurting him we wouldn't keep doing it. I'm not that heartless.

_{[He gives the former Magikarp a good, slow pat when it surges its head forward behind him, the big white fins on his cheeks just barely in frame. Who's a good murder snake? You are!]}

Plus now that he's huge, I can't imagine anything trying to put a dent on him!

Well, he's got a double-typing now, so you ought to be very careful around electric type pokemon. Those will put more than just a dent in him.

Edited 2019-04-03 22:37 (UTC)

Eugh, don't remind me about those... I wanna steer clear of 'em for as long as I can.

They really aren't that bad. Obviously, not something you'd want to try handling with Gyarados, but in general, they make for great pokemon. And really strong battlers.

_{[He waves his hand a little and leans back with a slight grimace. Hardcore battling so isn't his thing, but beyond that--]}

Iiiiii've had some really nasty experiences with electricity, dude. One time I got shocked so bad my mouth tasted like I licked a battery for a week.

Wow. Then I can really understand you not liking electric types much. I've only got one myself, but thankfully, he's never tried to shock me. I think I've been shocked more often by the static electricity the fur some of my other pokemon produce than by him.

The static part isn't bad, but if I get hit by Thundaga it's gonna be a nightmare.

_{[Especially if he's really human again, but he's been trying not to think too much about that yet. One step at a time for this 'Nobody', thank you!]}

I've always been more of a water guy. It kinda sucks not being able to control it anymore like I used to, but at least these guys make up for it.

[Armin doesn't know what a Thundaga is but Demyx just dropped a way more interesting tidbit.]

You used to be able to control water?

Yep! I, uh...

_{[He glances back to the Gyarados and after a few moments he leans back against his side, letting the big Pokemon support and keep him upright.]}

I dunno if it's something blocking my magic or what, but I can't do it here. These guys are the next best thing to that so it's enough to keep me going on that front.

It is the same way for everyone. Somehow, everybody who arrives here either becomes human if they are not, or loses any powers they have beyond those of an ordinary person.

_{[Human.

Man, that's still something he's trying to adjust to after all this time. Hearing it doesn't make it any easier either, because how does he go back to that old life?]}

Do they ever come back? Or is there a way to get 'em back? Even for a little while?

There isn't a way to permanently get them back, but there are these strange weekends sometimes. I don't have any powers back home, so I can't say if it happens each time, but I have heard of people temporarily regaining their powers or normal appearance during those weekends. I mean, the people who have been turned human on their arrival here. Sometimes people even find things from home or meet people who aren't normally in this world.

A friend of mine even met... well, he met himself. But not, exactly himself. It was a him who had lived a slightly different life.

What about... Okay, this is probably gonna sound super weird, but what about getting stuff from home that you could only summon with magic? Like, uh...

_{[He waves his hand a little.]}

I have this sitar that's... pretty important to me. I'd get that back during one of those weird days, right? But could I keep it afterwards?

_{[Running into a copy of himself might be a little weird too but that could be pretty fun provided it wasn't from some crazy timeline where he was bonkers.]}

I'm not really sure what a sitar is, but I've never heard of anyone being able to keep something after those weekends, sorry. Though we have received items from home before too. Usually as a reward or at a celebration. Those tend to be small though.

[And god only know if this... sitar is a small thing or not.]

How small we talking? 'Cause this is...

_{[He hums to himself and sticks his hand up to around his shoulder. That... seems about right, he thinks!]}

It's an instrument around yea big, but it's not exactly traditional.

[That is... a lot bigger than Armin was expecting.]

I don't think I've ever heard about someone receiving something that large. The largest I ever got was a book.

Man.

_{[Mrs. Robinson, can you believe this? This is so unfair! He knows the Gyarados can't read minds, but it's not stopping him from dropping his head back to lightly thunk against his scaly hide anyway.

At least he earns a concerned... growling-rumble for his efforts.]}

We can get big huge things like this guy, but not that? That's lame.

Well, when it comes to receiving things from home, yes. I mean, the very fact that we are sometimes gifted something from our own world is already pretty amazing. I don't think we should look any gift horses in the mouth.

But, uhm. I don't really know anything about instruments, but they do have a lot of different ones here. Wouldn't it be possible to save for a new one?

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