[Video/Action for Mahogany Town]

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

[For those who pay attention to backgrounds, Apollo's sitting against a tree near the Mahogany Town PokéCenter, turning over a standard pokéball in one hand and looking a bit worried.]

Has anyone ever met a Pokémon who didn't want to come out of their pokéball and wanted to be left in the PC Box all the time? I thought that they would all want to come out as much as they could, but he doesn't. Does this happen a lot with Pokémon?

[He opens the pokéball to release...

...a Yamask that goes flying straight for the pokéball, yelling in pokéspeak as it does.]

Put me back in the PC! I don't wanna forget again! Let me in the ball!

[Apollo swings the ball around wildly for a few seconds so that the viewers can actually see the Yamask before it returns to its ball. It finally manages to get inside after a moment of that and Apollo returns his attention back to the camera.]

I found him in the PC Box when I was in Goldenrod a while ago. I think he might be the Yamask who was controlling my body before, but I don't remember catching him. The only thing that I've been able to get him to tell me is that he's afraid of disappearing or forgetting something, so he wants to stay in the PC Box because those things won't happen there? He's like this every time I try and take him out. He won't stay out long enough for me to ask him anything else.

Does anyone have any idea what's going on?

Comments

[captainash]

He did seem to know exactly what he wanted.

[And was very loud about it.]

It depends on the type, severity and source of the amnesia. Normally I'd say ask the nurses to examine him, but if he panics everytime you try to take him out...

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

Yeah, I tried when I was in Goldenrod, and then again for the past few days while I've been in Mahogany Town, but he does the same thing every time. I put him in the healing machine at the PokéCenter this morning while he was still inside his pokéball, but it didn't change anything. I guess that I could have Fearow fly away with all my pokéballs so Yamask can't get back in, but with how he's been acting that seems kind of mean.

[captainash]

It would be. I couldn't hear his words, but he seemed pretty upset. If there was a way to communicate with him while he's still in the PC...

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

I don't think there is. I can't talk to Pokémon when they're in the PC or in a pokéball. I can't even talk to them when they're in an egg, even though I can do that with birds back home. They're different somehow.

I don't know what else to try, other than taking him out every few days and asking him to explain why he wants to stay in the PC. Maybe he'll tell me eventually.

[captainash]

If you could find out more about his likes and dislikes... or maybe where he comes from. He could become more talkative in a place that's more familiar to him.

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

I remember him being familiar with Cianwood City when he was controlling me, so he's probably from there. I'll have to fly back there once I've been paid. Hopefully the snows don't come before then. Flying while it's snowing probably wouldn't be as fun.

[captainash]

The visibility would be terrible, at the very least, Besides, aren't Flying-types weak to Ice? That might apply to snow, too.

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

Being able to see is the best part about flying. [His enjoyment of his previous experiences with flight is obvious in his voice.]

I know that Fearow just getting brushed by an Ice-type attack nearly knocked him out. [A pause, glancing up and to the side.] He says he wouldn't be hurt by snow, but it would be uncomfortable and make him tired faster.

[captainash]

The view's always pretty nice, especially on Earth.

[Though he likes space a lot, too.]

No wonder. If it sticks to his wings it's that much weight additional weight he has to transport, and it'd get in his eyes, too.

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

I never knew how big the world was until I saw how small Johto was from the sky.

[Apollo will too. In less than 24 hours, his world's time, he'll be sitting in one of the cockpits of a giant robot. If and when I ever canon update him, Ash will have another pilot to talk to.]

That makes sense. It wouldn't be much better for me if I was riding him either.

[captainash]

And this is only a small part of a world. Then you get to space, and everything you've ever known feels tiny.

[And another to complain with about their lack of robots?]

At that speed, even the best coat wouldn't help. You'd need something that covers your whole body, and I doubt they make those for Pokémon.

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

Space? That's where the moon and stars and planets are, right? You can go there?

[He'll be more focused on the forest where he lived catching fire, dealing with fragmented memories of his previous incarnation, a scorned ex-lover from said incarnation showing up and being pissed that he can't remember him, the reincarnation of the lover his past incarnation dumped the ex for showing up and trying to get him to remember her and their mutual friend, who's reincarnation also showed up, the safety of his co-pilots after losing their first battle, and the aftereffects of a giant robot that, when it activates for the first time, amplifies its pilots' senses to the point that they can hear the footsteps of ants, see the entire planet and once, and witness all human suffering. Not having his robot is going to be the least of his worries.]

I don't think that Fearow would be able to fly with something on his wings.

[captainash]

With the right type of spaceship, yes. My world even has colonies floating there, but I haven't heard of any here.

[...Ash will buy him a drink. Or twenty.]

Probably not. The feathers are an important part of flight, right?

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

I wonder if my world has anything like those.

[He's 13, Ash! Way to corrupt a minor!

The sentiment will probably be appreciated though. Canonically he claims not to remember the battle, though I'm not entirely convinced he isn't just pretending so that he won't have to talk about that whole mess.]

Yeah. I don't know exactly how it works, but they need to be clean and able to move if a bird wants to fly.

[captainash]

It might, but usually that's common knowledge.

[Same age as his boy! Hot chocolate is totally a drink, too.]

That would explain why Luster, Watcher and Princess glares at the rest of the team when their attacks throw mud on their wings.

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

I've never left Grandpa's forest other than coming here, so I wouldn't know about things like that.

Probably. They would have to do extra preening to get the mud off.

[captainash]

...You're doing pretty well with the Gear and the PC, for someone who's always lived in a forest.

They can work together to go faster, thankfully. And now that Stumbly knows Water Gun, they can ask for his help.

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

I just copy what other people showed me. I can't read, so I don't know what other things they can do, but I can talk to people, use the Pokédex, and get Pokémon and things in and out of the PC, so that's good enough.

[He isn't concerned about his failings there, nor is he overly interested in learning to do more. He can get things to work by rote, and that's good enough for him. The Joys do get called over to the PC a lot though.]

[captainash]

It's still not bad at all. I've known people who can read instructions perfectly well and who'd still manage to permanently damage within ten minutes. Along with others who just wouldn't bother at all.

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

If you can read instructions how could you break something right away?

[Because some things are very, very complicated, Apollo.

And he doesn't bother trying to understand everything he should himself.]

[captainash]

There's a very big difference between being able to read instructions and caring about them.

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

I guess. Maybe they don't think that they need the instructions?

[captainash]

Probably, but the more people think that, the more they do need them.