Video 1: Oh God WHY CALI!?

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The video rolls as though it were a nature documentary on some weirdo in a brightly colored outfit with hair to match and a plague doctor mask of all things. In her gloved hand is an Applin who isn't too pleased with this arrangement, he clearly would be much happier in a pokeball. Oh yes, the smell of a newbie that is doing uncomfortably well in this new environment. Like the happy-floppy phase of rabies, Cali goes up close to the camera for an uncomfortable close up with her new found Pokemon, Sweet Sixteen.

"Oh Hi! Hello! Is this a Pokemon I found?!" Good grief, her speech is too fast and high pitched, Sweet Sixteen not too keen on having his ear drums ruptured.

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Jotaro's eyes widen as he sees her stagger and for a second he thinks he needs to catch her. But he sighs in relief as it seems it's nothing dire, just inconvenient. The man shakes his head.

"Very. You could probably jump down," Jotaro says. However, he still reaches up for her. She's no longer that high up and Jotaro's very strong so the man plucks off the tree as if Cali was a particularly colourful, ripe fruit. "But better to not risk an accident. Orquesta, go get the bag."

The Pidgeot gives an affirmative nod and flaps his wings. He finds himself eye-level with the Applin and he smirks as much as you can with a beak. Need a help, Sweetie?

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Picking up Cali is very much like picking up a young puppy where it feels like the bone structure is pure noodles. Upside, she doesn't do the puppy flops that some tend to do when being picked up and Jotaro gets a scratch n' sniff sticker that smells like pineapple in return!

"Thank you so much for the help down and for getting Sweet Sixteen down from that tree." Cali cheered as she looks right up at Jotaro.

Back in the suspiciously cotton candy scented tree, Sweet Sixteen looks right back at Orquesta. Weirdly enough, Cali didn't get a young starter for some reason, instead, she got an older middle aged Applin for a starter. He certainly could use some help, poor Pokemon got drafted to the circus...

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Oh... she's light. Jotaro didn't expect any trouble picking her up but Jotaro's still surprised at how small Cali is. Ignoring the sticker plastered on him, he puts Cali down onto solid ground.

"Are you okay?" He asks her. "You were up there for a while."

That is a strange scent on the tree. Now Orquesta's close, he can really smell it. The Pidgeot would investigate if there wasn't an old man to rescue. Orquesta chuckles and picks up the poor Applin in his mouth by the apple, before he flies down to return her to Cali. Tah dahhhh~

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"Thank you so much for helping me out and I should be fine after moving about for a bit." Cali beamed happily, having already moved passed the plague doctor eating tree.

Sweet Sixteen was ready to escape the tree the moment Orquesta picked him up. Oh boy, the Applin strongly smells like cotton candy after being in that backpack this whole time. Cali happily accepts her cotton candy scented old man Applin as Orquesta delivers him to her.

"Yay! Sweet Sixteen, you're alright. Thank you Orquesta!" Cali cheered as her Applin gave a gruff huff at being stuck in a tree of all things, Kids...

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Orquesta drops Sweet Sixteen into Cali's hands and then flies back to Jotaro's side. Jotaro pets the big bird on its head.

"Good job, Orquesta." Jotaro glances at Cali and her Poemon and shakes his head. "Good grief, you have energy," Jotaro mutters.

Orquesta laughs. The Pidgeot says Sweet Sixteen reminds him of Jotaro. Just slap a hat on him and they'd be indistinguishable.

"... Now. Can you read a map?"

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Somehow, Cali managed to look confused with the mask on. It never popped into mind that having too much energy was a thing as she held her clearly very tired apple dragon as he gets laughed at, I'm too old for this....

Though..now that the hats are mentioned...that would look great on Sweet Sixteen who reflects on this as Cali thinks for a moment before asking, "Oh, is the map on the fancy phone?"

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Jotaro also thinks he's too old for this, and he's only forty. But he patiently nods in response.

"Yeah, your Pokegear. It's not the most accurate thing in the world but it gives you the general gist of where you are. You can use it to navigate the shorter routes like this one. People... usually don't usually get lost between New Bark Town and Cherrygrove City." He gestures for Cali to pass him her Pokegear so he can show her how to open the app.

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Cali hands Jotaro the PokeGear as this is pretty fancy tech right there, the fabled digital device that she's heard about in rumors, "Oh, that's what it's called! I figured it was just a very fancy Tuppi."

Sweet Sixteen for once made this weirdly gruff laughing sound from Jotaro pointing out how very bizarre it was to get lost between New Bark Town and Cherrygrove City. I think this Applin has appreciation for dry humor...

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"What the hell's a Tuppi?" Jotaro asks as he pulls out the Pokegear.

He leans over so Cali can see what he's doing and shows her how to get into the menu. Then shows her how to open the map and see her little flashing icon.

"There. See? New Bark is here," he says pointing, "this is the route, and this is the next City. You can just follow the route."

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"Oh! A Tuppi is sort've like the PokeGear here, but modified to function out in space. They're nowhere near as nice as the PokeGear though." Cali explained in an upbeat manner and more than happy to explain what a Tuppi was.

Cali goes to watch Jotaro on how to use the PokeGear carefully, wanting to learn now that she knows this isn't the paradise planet Earth. If it weren't for the mask, you could tell Cali's eyes were lighting up at how neat the map feature was.

"I see, so that's the route! This is insanely cool! What's the next city called?"

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"I see... So you're a space traveller?" Jotaro asks curiously. The ocean is his first love but Jotaro's always liked space. As his attire may suggest, he's always had an affinity for stars.

The man passes her PokeGear back and nods.

"Cherrygrove City," he repeats patiently, pointing to the next city with his finger. "Use these buttons your cursor around to look at the names of the City. It's relatively close, all things considered. After that, is Violet City which is much further away. You should stock up on supplies once you get to Cherrygrove."

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"Not exactly, I used to live on a colony on the exoplanet, Orion 34. The magnetic field there is strong enough to mess up digital devices, so we tend to rely on analog devices like the Tuppi. I heard the Mars, Moon, and Europa colonies have a better luck with some digital, but I'm not entirely sure on the Venus colony." Cali answered in a casual, upbeat manner as though she was talking about the weather.

Cali perked up big time after learning on how to use the buttons on the PokeGear along with the city names, "Oh! Okay, so I want to be at Cherrygrove first, do you know if they carry self-cooking hotpots or ramen at the grocery stores there?"

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"... Orion 34. Never heard of it. But I've heard of the others before... Sounds like you're from somewhere pretty advanced." Jotaro nods along, fascinated but accepting the new information for what it is. He's not one to emote much anyway. "Well, there are plenty of digital devices to get used to here. Thankfully, not too many though." He's never been a big tech guy himself.

"They'll carry ramen but the hotpots won't self-cook," Whatever that means. "You'll have to cook manually yourself. Will that be a problem?"

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For once, Cali was stumped on something after her hyperactive entry: What year was this and they don't have self-cooking (sometimes labeled as self-heating) hot pots? It takes Cali a moment or two before she collects her rampaging thinking process before asking the question:

"I realized I forgot to ask and it's gonna sound super weird, but is this the year 2288?"

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"It definitely isn't that year," Jotaro replied immediately. Well... that explained a lot. Not only was this girl from space but she was from the future. Lovely. "I'm not from here either but it was only 2012 when I was last in my world. The technology here is around that generation, maybe a bit more advanced. But that's it."

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That answered one of Cali's questions how she managed to not get blasted into atoms by Earth's patrol forces. Though it did just confirmed that time travel as well as parallel universes are real things and not urban legends as her Mom would say. Upside, all of these mean that Cali received the best ever Medical School Graduation gift ever besides her license.

"Holy smokes, so I'm in an entirely different time? This is super awesome! What was 2012 like where you came from?" Yep, Cali is taking this news extremely well.

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She is. Almost as well as Jotaro did learning that his daughter was three years older now despite him seeing her right before he got here. Jotaro stares at Cali for a long moment, as if to comprehend how she was so upbeat about things, before he snorts.

"Fine. Boring. Pretty comparable to here." Wow. Thanks JoJo... Even Orquesta gives Jotaro a disappointed look at how 'descriptive' he was. Jotaro catches the look and shrugs. " It's hard to talk about things you assume are normal."

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"Oh my mistake, I'm excited because time travel and parallel universes are considered urban legends where I came from. To see that it's real is really amazing!" Cali happily explained, yep where she's getting this upbeat energy from is beyond even Sweet Sixteen's understanding.

Sweet Sixteen, on the other hand, looks very much like the parent that got dragged into Chuck E. Cheese's on a weekend and the alcohol there was all out of stock upon arriving. It truly had been a day for this Applin as he had no clue how to manage a super happy and hyper trainer like Cali. He had been hoping for an equally crusty old soul for a trainer, but alas, the PokeGod had other plans.

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"It's fine to be excited. I just suppose it's not as thrilling for me... It's all speculation in my world too but it's never grabbed me in the same way," Jotaro says. He's far too old to do the spiel but he knows he doesn't have to. If someone else on the network doesn't fill Cali in, the Trainer's Guide 'Mom' provided in New Bark Town will.

Orquesta gives a sympathetic laugh. Too bad, Sweet Sixteen. Maybe she'll calm down in time, or you'll get a pep in your step.

"Shall we get you to Cherrygrove?"

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Cali, oh Cali, didn't encounter Trainer Guide 'Mom' as she pretty much sped out of the house before meeting her. Good news is, Cali is eager to learn from Jotaro, "Oh man sure! Also, are you into science too?"

Sweet Sixteen gives Orquesta a very tired old man look of , 'I don't think this kid is gonna calm down and I'm like fifty four years old, I'm way passed getting that pep in my step.'

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Oh dear. Hopefully, she still picked up the backpack with her starter kit. The guidebook is at least in there. Jotaro's a Breeder, not a Trainer like she is.

"I'm a marine biologist. I like studying the ocean and everything in it... There's so much unseen..." Jotaro softly smiles in the way he always does when he thinks of the ocean.

Orquesta chuckles loudly. "I wouldn't have guessed that you're older than my trainer. You don't look your age, gramps. Maybe you'll get peppy when you evolve. Evolutions does numbers for your energy levels." He would know! He's done it twice!

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Thankfully, Cali managed to remember her backpack, likely out of habit. She does, however, perks up big time upon hearing that from Jotaro, "That's so cool! I've only heard stories about the ocean, what was it like being a marine biologist?"

Sweet Sixteen looks flattened by the chuckles, "Moisturizers does wonders kid. I don't think my pep will be back after evolving, though, it would mean my moves base will be able to grow, finally."

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"Long months out in the ocean or in the lab. Travelling the world. Charting under the water great abysses and expanses. It's exciting in so many different ways. The ocean is like a completely different world, and the deep ocean is almost untouched by humans. It was an amazing job..." Better than the other half of his job that demanded him around the world. Jotaro had to deal with Stands for the Speedwagon Foundation as much as he did his work as a university professor. That part of the job was... less amazing.

"What moisturizers do apples use..." Orquesta mutters to himself, as if he actually knows what the hell a moisturizer is. He's a bird. He just wakes up like this, with fantastic feathers that he just needs to clean with his beak every now and again. "Oh? You don't get a lot of moves? I knew that JoJo's Applin doesn't have many but I thought it was just because they were a baby!"

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"Woah that's really awesome! Marine Biologists are really cool, they get to do a lot of fun research projects. Did you get to see the whales there? I've only heard stories about them where I'm from, but they sound amazing to see in person." Cali was now fully invested in learning about the marine biology field, then again the ocean is always super awesome.

The strange thing about Applin is...they get moisture from the apple they live in the little weirdos and Sweet Sixteen wasn't any more different. He gives the much younger Pokemon a tired look, "Yeah like two, even Magikarp can easily kick our little Apple covered asses in battle. Though we can get three from a TM, but that's Attract and frankly kinda creepy."

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"Yes, I got to see whales. They're a lot bigger in person. I was lucky to get up close to one," Jotaro says with a small smile. If Cali is serious about learning, he's happy to teach her about the ocean. "If you travel around here you'll see Wailord. They're the whales of this world.

Orquesta laughs. "Nah. It's turning the old charm on. Nothing wrong with learning how to flirt to get the advantage in battle!"