So you want to be a Pokemon Master?

[championbound]

Who: ANYONE AND EVERYONE
Where: ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE
When: November 25 - 27
Summary: GET YOUR BUTTS IN HERE AND HAVE A GOOD TIME
Rating: BUT PLEASE PUT APPROPRIATE WARNINGS IF ANYTHING COMES UP
Log:

Everything's ordinary, and then, all of a sudden, it isn't. Oops~! Enjoy all the weird new Pokemon roaming about, and have a good time! Any and all are welcome to join in the glitch-ridden festivities!

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[no_ufo_ending]

_{[Henry does not know this however. He blinks rapidly at Ironhide from behind his shaggy mop of hair, dazed, wondering if he heard him right.]}

You what?

[heavyweaponsbot]

A long while ago -- for you. All of you. It was... strange. Heather was there -- and we tore apart an amusement park.

[And then had adventures in a haunted car wash, but still.]

[no_ufo_ending]

_{[Henry turned and promptly sat in Ironhide's palm. Well. Maybe. Just maybe. Since it was one of those kinds of days, maybe Ironhide really could put Walter in his place at least for the weekend.]}

Okay...I don't know where he is though. He says he doesn't want to kill me but I don't believe him--and if he has his powers back, he's probably looking for me right now.

[heavyweaponsbot]

[Oh Henry. Don't tell the old man that. You really shouldn't tell him that.]

[Because suddenly, that big, scarred old face is splitting into a grin.]

Looking for you, you say?

[no_ufo_ending]

<sub>[Henry manages to keep his face stony, determined, tired.]

[But inside he is SCREAMING because in this moment he decides he really likes it better when Ironhide just frowns and grunts.]</sub>

Yes. I'm the final piece in a ritual that needs to be completed in our world to summon a demon and bring on what sounds a lot like the apocalypse from the texts I've read.

[heavyweaponsbot]

In that case...

You will be the perfect bait.

[Ironhide NO.]

[He honestly doesn't know how much he believes all that demon summoning nonsense. But oh well. If someone wants something, dangling it in front of them is a surefire way to draw them out.]

[no_ufo_ending]

...


.......

Ironhide, put me down right now.

[heavyweaponsbot]

Come now! It is a good plan!

He has no idea I can transform. You sit with me, and we draw him out.

[He's still grinning. Widely.]

[no_ufo_ending]

Ironhide, no!

_{[He peered through the bot's fingers as though they were huge bars of a cage. It wasn't...that far to the ground.]}

I don't want you getting pulled into this!

_{[The flesh man makes a break for it, trying to slip out and actually jump.]}

[heavyweaponsbot]

It is too late for that nonsense! I have involved myself.

[Oh my god, Henry.]

[He's going to fumble a bit, because dammit, boy, you're twenty some feet in the air.]

Stop that!

[no_ufo_ending]

_{[Henry lets out a loud grunt as he is caged again like a grasshopper reluctant to be caught. He pounds his tiny flesh fists against Ironhide's thumb.]}

Let me go!

[heavyweaponsbot]

No.

[The most deadpan response ever.]

If I am here, I will assist. This is not up for debate.

[no_ufo_ending]

_{[Henry finally stops trying to break a hole through Ironhide's palm and falls slack against his fingers.]}

I hope you're good at fighting ghosts then...fine. Fine, I'll stay.

_{[And then there is an awkward silence.]}

It's been a while.

[heavyweaponsbot]

Can it hurt to try?

[He doesn't think so. But once Henry chills out, he slowly uncurls his fingers a little.]

Longer than before, I think.

[no_ufo_ending]

_{[Henry looks up and up and up into that big metal face. Even after all these years it's so easy to see traces of the stern bald man he'd met in the flesh. And he was helping him.]}

I have a job now.

_{[It was the first thing out of his mouth--SOMETHING to try and prove to the old warbot that he was something besides a smelly hippie.]}

[heavyweaponsbot]

... I thought you always had that.

[SORRY, HENRY. He thought the whole pokemon thing WAS a job here.]

Did you mean another?

[no_ufo_ending]

_{[Henry instantly misinterprets that as Ironhide just assuming he had a job to make money from all along. It made him feel a little better to have that assumed of him.]}

I work at the Pokemon Center.

[heavyweaponsbot]

[Didn't everyone just 'have a job'? That was a human thing, right?]

You work with the pink humans now?

[no_ufo_ending]

Er...yeah. Luckily they didn't make me dye my hair or anything.

[heavyweaponsbot]

[There is a deathly silence.]

Then how will you blend in with the autumn trees?

[SOMEONE STILL HASN'T FORGOTTEN.]