whateveryoueatliveitspart: (calm)
[54 Combee eggs. That's what this video opens on. Someone who's been to the Lake of Rage before might recognize them as being in the cheapest cabin in the resort, but they fill so much of the shot that it's hard to see anything else besides the eggs and the Vespiquen and Combee who are responsible for filling up Apollo's PC box nearly to capacity over the last several months.

Apollo's voice comes from behind the camera.]

Vespiquen and Combee have been getting ready to start a hive for a while now, so they've been laying eggs and having me keep them in the PC. Vespiquen decided that they had enough eggs now, so she's going to let them hatch. She wanted to show them to everyone first though.

[Vespiquen speaks up in pokéspeak.]

With my trainer's assistance I have amassed a vast starting population for my future domain! Surely no other Vespiquen in history has presided over so many children at their hive's inception! I doubt that any of you watching this will have their offspring turn out even remotely as impressive as mine!

[Apollo isn't going to bother translating that for the non-Pokémon who are watching. Vespiquen doesn't need her ego stroked. A question occurs to him though, one that he had assumed the answer to already but hadn't actually asked yet.]

These eggs are all going to hatch at around the same time, right?

They will.

I should make sure that they all have food waiting for them then. You two are going to be busy.
whateveryoueatliveitspart: (down)
[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?

[Video]

Oct. 1st, 2012 02:15 pm
whateveryoueatliveitspart: (down)
[The video opens on a Growlithe lying on the floor of a PokéCenter. Some may recognize it as Lea's Growlithe, Firaga. Firaga isn't looking so happy, which isn't surprising, considering that his trainer is gone. The fact that this is the first time Apollo's been in a PokéCenter in a while and thus Firaga's been stuck in Apollo's PC Box for almost a month can't have helped either.

The camera rotates to focus on Apollo's face.]

He was in my "PC Box" when I got to Olivine City. He says that he was with Lea before he ended up there. Did Lea get sent home?
whateveryoueatliveitspart: (confused)
[The feed comes on sideways as the PokéGear hits the ground. You might catch a glimpse of a group of Blitzle stampeding off into the distance, but the main view is of Apollo rushing to use a Potion on an unfortunate Winter Deerling that couldn't get out of the way in time and got trampled. Once it recovers some of its HP, it gets to its feet and looks Apollo in the eye. What follows is... a whole lot of nothing, since they're passing mental images between each other and all that can be seen by the viewer is Apollo's expression going from concerned to pleased and then to increasing levels of awkward. He finally stands up and the Deerling makes its move, shoving its head under his cloak.]

Hey!

[The subject of the conversation is apparent when a Pokéball falls to the ground and the Deerling nudges it, going inside. Apollo stares down at it and scratches the back of his head, then bends down to pick it up. Congratulations! The wild Deerling has... caught itself?]
whateveryoueatliveitspart: (calm)
[The feed comes on to show Apollo walking along Route 31 with a Sentret on one shoulder and a large Spearow preening on his other shoulder, the image shaking as he walks. There's a pause before he says anything.]

Can anyone else talk to the animals here? Where you hear what they say in your head? Or can most humans not do that?

[He ends the feed and waits for an answer. He doesn't like the idea of having to ask random humans, but if it turns out that most people can't hear what plants and animals are saying, maybe that's why they can hurt them so easily. He'd always assumed that they knew how much pain they were causing and didn't care, but if they didn't know...]

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