6. Video | Fuchsia City

[starry_forehead]

[Hey pokemon world, there's a cardboard sign in front of the camera. It reads, Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained. You can also hear a lot of kids in the background. And the sign goes away to show...yup it's Dipper. He's standing inside what looks like a kids restaurant.]

Welcome to the first pokemon world edition of Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained. We're on, Anomaly number 13 "The Pizza Parlor." Now I know what you're thinking. Dipper, this is totally just a normal place, where kids come and play games, eat pizza and learn to fear animatronics, right?

[The Camera shows scenes of all three of these things, ending with a creepy looking animatronic Mienshao. It is dressed like a ninja and very purple. The camera goes back to Dipper and you can see the group of animatronic ninja pokemon in the background.]

Wrong! This is no ordinary pizza place. I found it on a map that I got at the end of the last summer for doing the scavenger hunt. So there's definitely something different about this place. Plus I've been hearing some rumours since I got here about strange things happenin-

[Whatever pokemon is holding the camera seems to make a noise and Dipper glances behind him. Have those animatronics moved? Probably not. He looks back.]

So we're going to investigate the place and see what we can find out!

[And we go to Dipper investigating the place, talking to people. And probably something you at home might note is that the animatronic Mienshao Ninja, now seems to be orange. And around. Like a lot. Like Dipper is starting to notice. He glances over at the camera as another person almost runs off, claiming that nothing is wrong here he just really needs to leave NOW. Totally nothing to do with animatronics! Also don't work the night shift here!]

Okay so there's something....huh, we might be getting lost, Moon. I think we've passed this one a few times.

[Dipper scratches his head and then turns around.]

Well so far there's the usual, the animatronics are creepy but that seems to be it. ...Maybe Nephelis just really liked pizza and-

[And as the camera looks away there's a zapping noise and a scream and then the camera drops to the ground. The gear is dropped and there's a sound of a fight before Dipper manages to grab the gear back up. He looks slightly singed. There's also very angry Gothitelle who had been holding the camera till now. And may have just attacked something.]

I knew it! It's....

[The camera is now pointed at a beat up, now purple again Mienshao ninja animatronic. With a smug looking Rotom floating above it.]

Really!? Well I guess that explains the weird rumours, since I got here! Faraday, really? This was-

[There's suddenly a voice in the background. Apparently someone heard the fight]

"Hey, what happened to Ninja Nickie! She's all beat up!"

Uh...and that concludes Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained. Tune in next time and maybe we won't be filming this from a jail cell... Run!

[Dipper will pull the Rotom in the pokeball and make a break for it with his other pokemon. So much for the first episode.]

Comments

[starry_forehead]

Anything electronic. They're more limited then ghosts at least.

[He's totally not hiding behind a building....he's behind a building and he peeks out to make sure there's no one after him still.]

Yup! Their security guard chased me for like ...five blocks but I lost him in the crowds. And I don't think the cops got called. ...but I might leave the city for a bit just in case.

[insidescoop]

Oh! That's good, yeah!

Though I've never seen Mimi-chan possess... [Carly is slowly looking back and off camera where her Mimikyu is.

Suspicion grows.]

Oh! That's a good idea- I mean, they probably can't follow you out of town right?

[starry_forehead]

Well not all ghosts do that. I think it depends on their personality. Like today I learnt Faraday is a jerk.

I don't think they would. I mean we were kind of hiding that time we broke out of jail when we first showed up here but no one tried to arrest us after that in a different city. I think you just have to wait a bit for them to go back to trying to catch actual criminals.

[insidescoop]

Hoh, I see.

Uh.

[Hold on a minute Dipper, there's this one itsy bitsy part of what you said that's very very concerning.]

...Wait JAIL!? Aren't you a kid!? Why'd they throw a kid in jail!

[starry_forehead]

Yeah, so on the first day I was here. I showed up with my twin sister and in the first town there's a lady who gives away free Skitty's.

Only Mabel saw that and grabbed like....all of them because she didn't realize they weren't all free. And long story short, we got arrested and put in jail.

[insidescoop]

[wat]

She took all of them, really..?

Isn't that...too many?

[Proof that someone has yet to meet Mabel.]

[starry_forehead]

Mabel...

She gets really excited around cute things.

[insidescoop]

Well I understand THAT part..!

But how many kittens can you even hold at once!

[starry_forehead]

An armful. ....Maybe ten? Or more.

Mabel's pretty dedicated when she gets excited.

[insidescoop]

Well.... ...I guess the best to hope for is no repeats of that then...

[But Dang Mabel, she's almost envious of that kind of skill.]

[starry_forehead]

Well, there's no chance of that.

This place sent her home in May.

[insidescoop]

Ah...

[Oh...oh dear. Carly goes a bit quiet, rubbing the back of her neck.] I...I didn't...

...I shouldn't have said so much, I'm so...so sorry, [she rambles, swallowing.]

[starry_forehead]

That's okay....

[He rubs the back of his head.]

I'm just...not good at talking about her like she's not here.

[insidescoop]

Ahhh... ...If you're siblings, it's only natural right..?

....I...guess I wouldn't really know though, aha...

[Only child syndrome...]

[starry_forehead]

Oh, you don't have a sibling?

Yeah it's...um. She's my twin and my best friend. We kind of always had each others backs.

It's just kind of wrong...that she's not here.

But....that's uh, just the way it is and I have to be able to deal with it.

[Totally. He's not going to try and build a portal. Or get lost in the woods. ....his bars are low okay.]

[insidescoop]

Nmmmh, only child over here...it's pretty common where I'm from, if I'm honest. I...

...I think I...sort of get what you're saying though? ...You're doing really well, best I can tell...

[starry_forehead]

Thanks. ...it's getting there.

So, um where are you from?

cool fact carly's in like the year 2021ish actually. WE'RE REAL CLOSE TO HER TIME

[insidescoop]

Neo-Domino~!

It's ah, it's an area of Tokyo, in Japan. [It is Also in the Future. But not that far in the future, weirdly.]

I am excited for our card game future

[starry_forehead]

There are people from all sorts of places here.

[He should know, he has a growing list.]

I'm from Piedmont, California in the United States. But I was still in Gravity Falls, Oregon when I got pulled here.

marching steadily toward a life where things can be fixed w dools,

[insidescoop]

Oooh, America~!

...I've heard...a little about California? ...Not much about Oregon, is it any nice there..?

[starry_forehead]

The place we were staying was nice. It was a small town, kind of isolated but good people and a lot of paranormal phenomena in the area."

That apparently is just normal to him.

"We were there visiting our Grunkle Stan for the summer. I think our parents wanted us to go outside more or something....I mean it worked. There's a huge forest around the town I spent a lot of time in."

[insidescoop]

"Hooo...countryside..." Carly suspects Nothing. "Yeah I guess that would do it, at least if there was nothing much to do inside...apparently there's good spots like that outside of town back home, but I guess I won't know now huh..."

[starry_forehead]

"Yeah plus there wasn't much going on in town. Even the Mystery Shack, Stan runs and we were living at was out in the woods as well."

Totally why they were infested with gnomes.

"Also inside, Stan just tried to get us to work in the Shack all the time."

[insidescoop]

"Ohhh? Mystery Shack? ...What's a Mystery Shack? Is it like an Escape Room?"

Definitely Not, but it probably could be.

"...sounds like how working with relatives goes though yeah..." Not that she got to experience it, but she knows enough people!

[starry_forehead]

"Escape? No, it's a tourist trap that sells stuff to gullible people and has fake exhibits about paranormal creatures that don't actually exist. It's a neat place but I don't know how so many tourists keep falling for all the fake stuff."

I mean Stan is really good at scamming people so that helps.