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[It's a very familiar big pink face taking up most of the gear screen, but Rose is looking very concerned today.]

Hello everyone....

I was wondering how many others have tried communicating with our...displaced visitors? I think I might be getting somewhere, but...

[The gear bounces and shifts as Rose angles it to show a Poipole on the road behind her. It looks like they're somewhere just outside of Goldenrod, and none of Rose's Pokemon are anywhere to be seen.]

[The Poipole keeps moving down the way...then stopping and spinning around and drifting just a little ways back. Rose makes a graceful sweeping gesture with her free arm, waving towards the Ultra Beast and angling her hand down at the road beside her. The Poipole just repeats its back and forth.]

I think it wants me to go with it!

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That sounds like something from a scary movie to me.

Like right before something goes horribly wrong.

[He's still going to grumble but he's at least sort of listening now.]

How do you mean, don't use language?

It is the time of year for scary movies!

Well they haven't listened to anything I've said. But they can understand what I mean through movement. At least that's what it seems like.

So you're making friendly movements at it, and now it wants to bring you along...to somewhere. I'm getting this right?

[...]

[Envy squints for a few long moments at the background of the shot. It looks sort of familiar...]

Where are you exactly?

It's more like...we're speaking through dance. And it looks like it wants me to come with it, doesn't it? I keep asking it to come back, but it keeps...waiting for me.

Oh I'm just outside of Goldenrod, the western end!

Yyyeaah, it really does. It does look like it likes you.

[GIVE HIM A MINUTE TO THINK. He's pretty sure that Rose is about to be abducted by an alien in an irony he's not fully aware of.]

Look, if you're gonna go following it no matter what, I might as well come along so you're not wandering after this thing on your own.

Then if something happens, you won't...I dunno, die or get pulled into a wormhole, and I'll get to say told you so.

I'm sure I'm not about to have anything like that happen!

But you're welcome to come along, we can wait for you.

[Or so Rose assumes, her new friend hasn't actually gone further than a few steps each time.]

[PSHH.]

[Honestly, he's never really stopped associating frequent kindness and empathy with inability or unwillingness to defend one's self. So clearly! She wouldn't! He makes a vague waving off gesture, but his expression does finally change to one of his normal smirks instead of the grouchy frown he's had on so far.]

Yeah, I'll be there, I'll be coming in from the air. Easier to find you that way, even if you move.

[He's going to hop on Carl, his quickest flier, and start making his way over. He is bringing Laelaps with him, although the Type: Null is safely away in their ball for now. It doesn't take long to spot Rose--she stands out!]

[He has Carl land a little farther away...not that it takes much convincing, since even the Aerodactyl seems uneasy landing too close to the Poipole. Carl shifts from foot to foot, staring straight at it as Envy dismounts.]

Hey! Found you!

[Rose is extremely easy to spot. Especially as she starts waving. holding her arm up as high as she can to make sure she catches Envy's attention.]

[It's almost funny, how worried he seems. But Rose isn't going to deny him coming along, if it makes him feel better. And the more hands to help with...whatever might be needed is always better.]

You did! It's still here...it just keeps doing the same thing, more insistently.

[As a low sort of hissing noise begins coming from Carl's mouth, Envy gives him a quick pat on the side and recalls him to his Pokeball--as suspicious as he is, Envy didn't come here to START a battle.]

[....but he's still ready.]

[And now it's his turn to squint at the dancing creature, able to get a much better look at this one than he did at the ones who were zipping all around the Game Corner the past week.]

So getting impatient, you think?

[He begins to slowly approach Rose, not ever taking his eyes off the Poipole for long.]

I'd say so!

[That sort of body language is very clear, as far as Rose is concerned. It wants them to follow, and it wants them to follow now.]

I wish we knew what it was it wanted...but maybe it can show us something to help figure that out!

[It obviously wants to communicate, is trying whatever it can to get its point across. How terrible that must be, to not be understood no matter how hard you tried... With an encouraging smile, Rose approaches the distraught Pokemon and gestures for it to lead on.]

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