Video 7: All Fall Down? (Action for Route 33 just outside of Azalea)

[justanexpression]

[That’s a Gyarados. That’s a Gyarados roaring in what seems to be either amusement or rage as it rolls about on its back, taking out a tree or two here and there in the process. It probably shouldn’t be so hard to tell the difference between those two emotions, but when your only volume setting is ‘loud’, things tend to blend together.

Dingle the Derpados Gyarados finally rights himself, crushing one last tree as he contorts himself into something like a corkscrew shape. As close as a Gyarados can get to one, anyway.

And that... that seems to be an Eevee climbing him. And a second. And that's a third? Eventually, a dozen or so Eevees, Eeveelutions, and assorted cat- and dog-type pokemon (and one very excited Pachirisu who had catapulted herself directly to Dingle’s head the second she had a free shot from the nearest surviving tree) have arrayed themselves wherever they can reach along Dingle’s back.

And then they wait.

The entire scene goes quiet for a long minute until Dingle starts to slowly tip over sideways, sending the various smaller pokemon jumping for cover and squealing, which sets Dingle off making noise, and rolling, and crashing into things, until it all starts over again, with Dingle finding a new, and (to a Gyarados) interesting shape to assume.

The camera doesn’t turn away from the scene right away, but Jack speaks up to make sure his voice will be heard over the chaos. He sounds amused.]

So he used to play a game sort of like that back when he was still a Magikarp, just kind of more floppy and less property-destroying, but I never thought he’d teach it to the others. You think anyone’s gonna get mad?

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[yoctogram]

So that's where they've been.

[Sho didn't mind, not really. Look! Damage and Eevees playing! It's pretty awesome. He chucks a sack lunch at Jack's face and settles down to watch.]

[justanexpression]

[Which, luckily, Jack catches, even if he does give Sho an unamused look for it. He appreciates the lunch, just not so much the lunch to the FACE.]

Yeah, they looked bored. Figured I'd take 'em on a walk since you've been kind of distracted lately.

[yoctogram]

Been busy.

[He agrees easily, ignoring the unamused look. Belphe gives him those all the time.]

Thanks for playing with them. Trying to get evolution stones for the 3 little ones.

[justanexpression]

[You'd think maybe he'd realize there's a reason for that.]

Yeah? What kinds? Pretty sure Dingle has at least one of them convinced they want to be a fishdragon now.

[Or all of them, but they're tiny, and have tiny attention spans, so it'll pass.]

[yoctogram]

Not sure yet. Leafeon, maybe. Or Glaceon.

[Yes, well. Unamused looks still mean attention, so he doesn't mind.]

Can't turn them into a dragon. Might try to get one, though.

[justanexpression]

[Fine, if his unamused look is going to be ignored, he'll just dig into the lunch instead.]

Maybe get one that can fly. You don't have one that can yet, do you?

[yoctogram]

Never heard of a flying cat.

[Sho muses, tapping a black finger on his lips]

What are you suggesting?

[justanexpression]

I dunno. They all seem to be based on something, right? Maybe there's a Sphinx one. Didn't they have wings?

[yoctogram]

Sometimes, I think. Dunno if there are any pokemon with human faces, though. Also Bell might be weirded out by naked breasts.

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[justanexpression]

[JACK might be weirded out by naked breasts, now Sho mentioned it, actually. At least ones on a pokemon of all things.]

Right. Never mind. Bad idea.

[yoctogram]

Yup.

[He's just kicking back and watching their Pokemon play. It's nice to have a calm lunch.]

[justanexpression]

[That sounds like a perfect idea, especially now that, with the Eevees slightly more distracted by their audience, Dingle has slightly less reason to be... so enthusiastic.]

So what've you been gone so much for, anyway?