006 | Violet City | Video / Action;

[nostabbing]

[Who in their right mind would be up at the crack of dawn on this delightful Thursday in July, traipsing down to the Pokemon Center to make a Very Important Withdrawl™ from her PC? Well, possibly nobody in their right mind, but it certainly is Parker. Bright and early (or possibly really, really, really late, depending on when you consider "bedtime" to be a thing), she can be spotted heading out of the Violet City Pokemon Center with a fluffy red and blue egg in tow — and, impressively enough, followed along behind by just about every member of her roster, save for the evil ones and the horses (but she repeats herself).

Coincidentally, shortly thereafter she can also be spotted, still rather impressively — this time, atop some random south-facing shop's structurally sound purple awning: ]



Recording courtesy of GummyCam™

[Whether or not one also hears a bout of muffled yet vaguely melodious chanting that may or may not sound conspicuously like NAAAAAAAAAAAANTS INGONYAMA BAGITHI BABAAAAAAAA as this is occurring is, of course, entirely a matter of speculation.

JESUS CHRIST IT'S A LION AN ARCHEN GET IN THE CAR]


[OOC: As a note, Parker is far enough off-camera here to conceal the fact that her face is still somewhat messed up from her encounter with Blake; if you'd rather avoid your character having to see/deal with that, feel free to use text or voice instead of video or action! Just leave me a quick OOC note and I'll make sure she doesn't utilize video or bring it up in conversation. o/]

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[video]

[rocketralph]

_{[Ralph is up at the crack of dawn and working deep in the shit mines (literally) but it's early enough that he can get away with surfing his gear. When Alice's amazing lion king video pops up, he can't help but laugh. He needed that.]}

Hey, congrats on your bird-thing, Rafiki.

_{[Of course he knows what the Lion King is. 1994, man. All the kids had those shirts on.]}

[video]

[nostabbing]

[It takes a little bit for Parker to return the message — she's got to get down from the awning, after all, and her cameraman frog is on the ground. But she's grinning despite the fading bruise on one cheek and the healing cut on her chin, and cradling her Archen a little too protectively as she does so.]

She's not green! She came out funny colors, instead. I guess that means she's pretty special, huh?

[video]

[rocketralph]

Are they supposed to be green?

_{[Ralph doesn't know his pokeymans. She seems happy though so there must not be anything wrong with it. It takes him a moment but he notices that shiner. Alice is pretty active and he doesn't find the idea of her having bumps and scrapes hard to believe but that looked a looooot like something left behind by a fist.]}

Y'got a little somethin'. Right there.

[ACTION]

[diamondo]

Hey, it's supposed to be a lion, not a bird!

[Good thing Mondo's loud. He doesn't even have to raise his voice to be heard! That said, he's grinning like an idiot. Nice show, brosis.]

[ACTION]

[nostabbing]

[Everyone's a critic.]

I don't have a lion yet!

[Meanwhile, the assembled ground troops — which includes a Hippopotas, a Carnivine, a Gloom, Breloom, Swalot, Aron, Banette, Zweilous, Seviper, Pikachu, and of course her Aerodactyl, Purrloin, and Nate and Sophie (whew!) — are all basically eyeing this newcomer in their midst. What a menagerie, huh.]

[ACTION]

[diamondo]

See if you can get a Shinx! They're lions!

[And wow, that sure is an impressive menagerie there!]

These all yours?

[ardent]

[The crack of dawn is around that hour when Ishimaru isn't really awake, but he's doing a fine job at pretending to be. Thankfully he doesn't actually have work this early, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't have other things to take care of - securing food for at least himself and his brother is one of them, and he'll often do so for the others as well in case they want it, and for the time being they are out of various essentials (it's only been four days, guys, can we stop eating all the things) and that is not going to be satisfactory. Even if a fair amount of places are not open at ugly o'clock in the morning, Ishimaru knows of a few that are, and he's currently trying to remember exactly where they're located when there is a...

...procession, apparently, on the next block over. What in the world.

He catches the end of it just out of the corner of his eye, but that's more than enough to get him to follow; it takes him a moment to make up for the delay but at least he manages eventually, though the reason all these Pokémon are just kind of clustered around this random shop is nowhere to be seen. Surely this is the work of a trainer, and whatever it is they're doing it's highly disruptive even if it is stupid o'clock and no one in their right mind is even awake and somebody is getting a talking-to.

...And then all of that goes right out the window because of course it does.

It takes him a moment to process what he is seeing (other than "an Archen being christened or something", because that much is completely obvious, right) but that...that certainly is Alice up there, isn't it.

...what the ever-loving christ, Alice, you are going to do his head in one day...]

Alice-san!

[His voice is more than loud enough to carry over any subsequent ingonyama nengw' enamabala going on over there; it occurs to him after the fact that possibly startling her might not be the smartest idea he's ever had, but uh...he can cross that bridge if they come to it.]

You really shouldn't be up there, you know!

[nostabbing]

[She's somewhere in the middle of jesus christ, that surely is a lion / get into the car, that is a lion (having forgotten most of the words and substituting Hardison's personal variant instead) when the shout for Alice — oh, wait, no, that's her, she's Alice — comes ringing up from below.

Still majestically holding her weirdly-colored Archen aloft, she peers down to see — oh, hey, it's Ishimaru. Awesome! He of all people will truly understand the importance of this event.]

Hey! Great, you're just in time, look! She hatched, isn't that cool?

1/3

[ardent]

Cool indeed! But that really isn't the-

[ardent]

[...wait.]

Just in time for...what, exactly?

[Please tell him you're just referring to the...this and that you don't have anything else planned...]

[ardent]

[...RIGHT, WE CAN DISCUSS THAT LATER.]

Either way! You really should get down from there!!

action

[mayushiii]

[Mayuri is walking by the area and her first thought upon seeing the obvious reference was deciding Archen was a very ugly bird. And this wasn't suppose to be a movie! Actually Mayuri still hadn't decided if she was in a video game or not. Oh whelp.]

And she waves from on the ground. Her Togepi is also with her as always, clinging to her hat on top of Mayuri's head because she had a thing for hair instruments.]

Tutturu! Good morning, whatcha doing up there? Practicing for something?

[Maybe for acting.]

action

[nostabbing]

[Oh, huh. It's a girl with an egg on her head.

...Cool.]

My egg just hatched! See?

[She motions as best she can, while still holding two handfuls of rockbird in them.]

action

[mayushiii]

How exciting~

[And now she can see that Parker's face is disfigured.]

Are you okay? The birdy didn't hurt you, did it?

video

[usedacrobatics]

[She never saw him without the mask, but... heck.]

Four out of ten.

[He sounds a little bored.]

Stock parody. Doesn't fit the creature used. Most popular animated movie of all time.

You can do better than this.

video

[nostabbing]

[...Wow, excuse you, Judgey McJudgerson. Allow her to clarify the important significance of this particular momentous occasion.]

They're extinct. And she just hatched, it's kind of a big deal.

[Contrary though that may seem at first glance...]

video

[usedacrobatics]

Clearly not extinct in captivity. I know they make a big deal over it every time a panda is born in China, but they don't go this far.

Couldn't you have done an homage to We're Back instead?

video; before i forget

[cakelover]

[ Honey isn't one for the crack of dawn, but he's usually up pretty early for training in the morning, so this comes a little while after the video. He's grinning, amused, at the clear reference to disney on the gear.

It's been a while since he saw that film, but... ]

Ah~? Got a new pokemon, Alice-chan? Or am I meant to call you Rafiki-chan?

video;

[nostabbing]

Hi, Honey-senpai!

[That's sort of just habit by now, regardless of what the actual meaning of "senpai" as pertaining to their respective ages and positions actually means.]

Yeah, she just hatched! Isn't that great? She's a special bird.

video;

[cakelover]

I'm not familiar with her type, I don't think! What type is she? Ah, and what's her name?

[ He's never been that interested in fossils, though, so. But that bird sure is cute!

...He taps his own cheek, however, looking at Alice curiously. It wasn't visible in the initial video, but... ]

Training accident? [ Benefits of doing martial arts all his life: he recognizes injuries caused in that sort of thing when he sees them.

He's also not immediately worried so much as he is curious. ]

ACTION!

[angerpoints]

[So one of the disadvantages to pet ownership, as many people know, is that said pets occasionally need to do their business at hours that most normal people would consider inconvenient at best. This is how an extremely disheveled and out-of-it Yusuke, clad in sweats and a t-shirt and wearing his hair sans Metric Craptons of Gel for once (because not even he wears his Pompadour of Power to bed), ends up outside at half past WHY in the morning, shifting from one foot to the other and yawning as his Houndour, Taro, takes his sweet time hosing down somebody's perennial garden. As expected, he's not particularly happy about being up this early, so when Taro doesn't finish doin' what he's doin' in an acceptable amount of time, Yusuke heaves a loud sigh and regards him irritably, telling him:]

C'monnn. Hurry it up. I was kickin' a whole lotta ass in my dream 'til you woke me up.

[Taro makes a sniffy noise up at him and looks indignant. YO MAN, YOU CAN'T RUSH THIS PROCESS, OKAY? Yusuke rolls his eyes in response, but decides to give him a few more minutes anyway; better to let him finish what he started rather than drag him back to the hotel and give him reason to piss in the laundry again. It's as Yusuke's standing around waiting that he JUST SO HAPPENS to turn his eyes skyward and spot some crazy lady advancing up an upwards-sloping awning, where she proceeds to hold up a fluffy little bird thing and thrust it majestically into the air. She's a little too far away for him to hear any chanting that may or may not be going on, but the sight in of itself is enough to send his eyebrows slowly creeping up his forehead. What... the...

. . . OKAY. Cool beans, he guesses. Yusuke never thought of Assclown AM as being a prime time for the weirdos to come out, but hell, not everyone can be nocturnal. At any rate, he's perfectly content to just ignore whatever the hell it is that's going on over there and pretend he didn't see anything, but just as he's looking away again...

... his fucking dog suddenly takes off running, galloping down the street and disappearing around the corner. Tired and foggy-headed as he is, Yusuke's a little taken aback at first, but once he recovers, he immediately gives chase, letting a few colorful swear words loose underneath his breath. Dammit, he should've known Taro would notice the lady on the roof and get all excited! He just hopes he can catch up with the idiot before he does something stupid...

Alas, his efforts are all for naught. By the time he himself has reached the scene, Taro is already on his way to barreling into what looks like a friggin' wall of Pokemon standing at the bottom of the building that the lady's perched on, barking and growling and generally stirring up a fuss proportional to a creature much larger and less stubby-legged than him. Shit. Sorry, Parker! Looks like your Lion King re-enactment is now being crashed by a yelling teenage idiot and his equally loud dog.]

ACTION!

[nostabbing]

[Unfortunately for Yusuke, the veritable wall of Pokemon waiting at the bottom of that building are not going to sit around and take the sudden arrival of a snarling, yapping intruder lying down; almost as one, the mass reacts, with the smaller and shyer ones like her Gloom and Aron receding into the background as the bigger bruisers like her Aerodactyl and Hippopotas snap to attention.

The advance guard, however, is Nate the Poochyena and Sophie the Vulpix (forever adorned in their fedora and diamond necklace, respectively), and this time is no exception; when Taro comes charging up barking, Nate's right there to yap right back at him, setting his paws into the ground and showing his teeth in a warning gesture.

Sophie, on the other hand, seems to have a different perspective of what's really needed here, and chooses her moment carefully. Flicking her tails in what could only be described as a flirtatious way, she wanders seemingly aimlessly across Taro's path, pausing to gracefully lick at one of her paws so he has time to notice her — and presumably, to get distracted from his barking.

Nate, coincidentally, looks none too happy about this.

Equally coincidentally, nor does Parker, who just noticed.]

Hey! Cut it out! We're trying to have a thing here!

ACTION!

[angerpoints]

[Yusuke's never been great at showing discretion as far as, you know, not jumping into potentially dangerous situations like the Shounen Idiot he is, but even he finds himself stopping short when he notices the big fuckin' dinosaur and the pissed off hippopotamus standing at attention amidst the menagerie formed at the foot of the building. The fact that he, you know, wouldn't be able to defend himself or Taro very easily if either of those things were to charge helps; yeah, he'd do it if he had to - it wouldn't be the first time he's stuck his neck out for an adorable little dumbass, after all, and at least this time he (supposedly) wouldn't be at risk of dying - but as it is, it's early in the morning and he's tired and pissed off, and given the choice, he'd rather fight monsters at an hour that isn't quite so hideous.

(All of this is, of course, assuming the lady on the rooftop was too wrapped up in... whatever it is she's doing to call her Pokemon off in the event that they got aggressive. Given the level of, uh, effort put into this spectacle, he's not too hopeful that she wouldn't be.)

Fortunately, it quickly becomes evident that Yusuke doesn't have much to worry about: the first line of defense, on the side of the Wall of Pokemon, comes in the form of an equally yappy little dog and a fox, the latter of whom shuts both dogs up by - well. He doesn't know how to describe it, exactly - at least, not in a way that doesn't make him feel totally stupid - but as far as he can tell, she seems to be flirting with Taro, which would explain why Taro seems totally dumbstruck. Yusuke doesn't exactly have a lot of patience for weird animal mating rituals, though, so without another moment to spare, he creeps on over to collect his dog and bug out...

... and is then distracted by Rooftop Lady yelling at him. Now, Yusuke probably wouldn't have been difficult to provoke regardless of what time of day it was or what mood he was in to begin with, but for obvious reasons, he's feeling particularly belligerent right now, and so it comes as little surprise that he stops and scowls up at her when she tells him off. It comes as even less of a surprise that he then yells back at her, loudly enough for her - and probably the rest of the goddamn neighborhood - to hear him.]

Oh, I'm sorry! Maybe next time you wanna offer up a sacrifice to the Sun God, you should try leaving your zoo at home and picking a ritual site that doesn't suck!

[... okay, that wasn't the greatest comeback he's ever made in his life, but whatever, he delivers it with enough Attitude that it makes up for the lameness. Seriously, lady, what the heck are you doing? It's at this point that he realizes her voice is familiar, but with the sun in his eyes, he can't quite gauge who it is he's talking to. Now how many weird blonde chicks does he know...?

Meanwhile, Taro is completely enamored with Sophie. Heeey there, beautiful lady! He regards her with a big doofy doggy grin and wags his tail. COULD THIS BE TRUE LOVE???]

video... kinda.

[godaime]

[ In, what would be possibly the strangest response to this exciting day in Parker's life, only an old lady hand is visible. And by old, we mean like, 70s and 80s old. The hand fumbles as a voice seemingly shrills out a high pitch wail along. ]

Agh! Agh! What is this chanting and this light?! It's so bright! My hangover! Agh! My headache! It can't handle this! [ Why?! Why?! ]

video... kinda.

[nostabbing]

[...]

IT'S CALLED THE SUNRISE.

[#helping]