Turn Back Time

[indigo_league]

The air is humid, and unusually warm for this early in spring. The plants around are just a bit unfamiliar: giant ferns, things that look like palm trees mixed oddly with towering conifers, shrubs with fan-shaped leaves, plants sprouting objects that look halfway between flowers and pine cones. Water splashes and trickles, probably from a stream somewhere nearby. Leaves rustle in the breeze, and there are distant animal noises - but none that sound like the Pokemon cries you'd expect to hear in the forests of today.

...is it still today?

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[phdepression]

Bearbarian, used to Jotaro's idle musings, doesn't think anything strange of the idea of an alarm Bronzong. She just lies down and rests, dreaming of sweet treats as she always does. Toshihide chuckles quietly, shaking his head. Don't worry, Molly. You'll get used to this.

After some walking, the duo will come across a clearing. It's not exposed but at the same time there was a good view of the surrounding area, while still being relatively sheltered. Jotaro hums quietly.

"How about here? Seems safe enough."

[phoenixwiz]

“Pichu, Pi-Pichu! Pichu pi!”

Molly is liking this place so far as indicated with how she is hopping in joy and relief. As long as they can stay away from the sight of the dinosaur Pokémon, they can make a safe base camp here.

“Hm… Looks safe to me as well. I don’t see any menacing dinosaur like Pokémon anywhere in here so far.”

[phdepression]

"Hopefully, it'll stay that way." Jotaro sighs. He kneels down and starts unpacking his bag with his usual camping supplies. Luckily, they all came with them when they were warped here. "I wish I brought my Aurorus with me. That's a fossil Pokemon, presumably from ancient times as well. I'm sure he would have been able to help us out here."

"... Don't know what my Dracovish would have been like if I brought him. Maybe it's for the best I don't have him right now."

[phoenixwiz]

“I take that they are also dinosaur Pokémon as well, just not as, erm, terrifying or scary as the others?” Harry asks, wondering if there are more less scary dinosaur Pokémon out in the wild as he begin to unpack his camping equipment too.

“Ah I see, I can understand: I think that it is for the best that Dracovish had stayed back in the present,” he politely nods while he brings out the tent stuff and starts building it.

[phdepression]

"Mmm... I think Paradox Pokemon are more terrifying than dinosaur Pokemon. But yeah. Aurorus isn't scary at all. Like a brontosaurus with icy fins," Jotaro comments idly as he also builds.

Meanwhile, Toshihide puts Molly and Bearbarian down. He's gonna help their trainers. Stay out of trouble, girls.

[phoenixwiz]

Harry does his part in building the camp with his equipment while trying to keep an eye on both Molly and Bearbarian once in a while. Can’t let them wander off on their own while they’re currently not in their normal levels and forms at this time.

“An icy brontosaurus? Hm… I bet that it looks rather regal with those icy fins of theirs. Maybe one day I can try to find one someday and befriend it,” Harry muses on, “Oh right, I shouldn’t forget that most Paradox Pokémon can be scarier than the average dinosaur Pokémon would be.”

[phdepression]

Bearbarian isn't one for trouble. The adamant Pokemon curls up for a nice nap, especially since Jotaro and Toshihide are happy to do the work for her.

"He is. Remind me to show him to you when we get back. I left him in my PC because I didn't want to bring him to fight Pryce but I can show you where I got him." Jotaro nods slowly. "I'm sure some are pretty terrifying... So we should still be careful regardless. Still..." Jotaro's eyes glitter. "This... is a unique research opportunity..."

[phoenixwiz]

Thankfully, Molly isn’t that crazy enough to wander off so carelessly to give anybody trouble. If wrangling after multiple Pokémon (baby or otherwise) taught her anything, carelessness is always a bad trait to have and she had to deal with multiple cases where someone in the group would just slip away mostly due to distractions and she had to chase after them relentlessly. So she stays put on a small tree stump, climbing onto it before sitting down patiently. She will be waiting on standby if Harry needs her help.

“Um, yeah. I still remember hearing about them during the Paldea trip and how they differ and resemble certain Pokémon in many ways at the same time. I can tell that the possibilities of whether they are meant to be ancestors or future evolutions of them fascinate plenty of people. As long as they don’t possess any danger to everyone of course.”

[phdepression]

Molly really would get along with Jotaro's starter, Star Platinum. Despite his jolly personality, he's very much the caretaker of Jotaro's usual Pokemon team and helps JoJo wrangle baby Pokemon too.

"Yeah... I have a couple of the robot-looking ones. None of the ancient ones." Jotaro winces, thinking at his two robots. His Iron Treads is fine... but his Iron Valiant... "They do tend to be aggressive as all hell. I suppose that we'll see if it's because they are anxious about being displaced through time or just naturally hostile from this trip, huh?"

[phoenixwiz]

“Hmm… Both are very possible,” Harry notes as he continues to set up the camp.

“If they really did got very anxious from being displaced through time, they might be finding ways to vent them out: it is likely that their aggressive behaviour could be the result of all that anxiety being let out. Or maybe that is just in their nature to be hostile towards strangers. We’ll have to see how they will continue to behave themselves out in the world.”

[phdepression]

"Yeah... It's part of the reason why I'm doing the gym challenge, you know," Jotaro comments idly. "I want to help them but I need sure I'm strong enough to deal with them. The gym challenge gives me another goal to work towards and provides a benchmark for me to see if my skill and my Pokemon have the skills to beat my Paradox Pokemon."

It's not the only reason but, like Jotaro said, it's one of them!