keychained | 024; video/action for Goldenrod

[as much as Sora loves bugs, and as he would have liked to leave Goldenrod to beat up certain bugs for a certain gym badge, this kid appearing on the network this afternoon is in Serious Battle Mode- a mode he hasn't been in ever since he got here and finally had a chance to relax.]

It's just one thing after another... Hey! How is everybody holding up? No serious injuries, right? If you're somewhere around Goldenrod and you need help, lemme know. I'll come get you.

[a pause.] Is anybody else out there trying to fight these things? They need to be kept as far away from the pokecenters as possible so people can still get in.

[Sora shakes his head. he may or may not have been on the receiving end of a Yanma attack earlier, and quite frankly he found it worse than taking a wing to the face from a Wyvern. not something he wants to experience again, nor does he want anybody else experiencing it. luckily he's armed and ready for the next battle he's about to run headfirst into: a carved Keyblade! a single pokeball! ... a pair of earplugs! Sora that is not a good weapon at all.]

I'm gonna try one more idea. Stay safe you guys!

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... Sorry about your Butterfree... [even if face-down bugs are a pretty funny sight.]

Now we just need to figure out what to do with the bugs!

_{[She's already bending over to gently return Honey to the Pokeball.]}

S'okay, we prooobably shoulda thought that through a little more... uh.

_{[She looks around at the slumbering horde, knowing full well that they could start waking up at any given moment.]}

... I don't have anywhere NEAR the amount of balls it would take to capture all those...

_{[did you see what she did there]}

[... that was terrible, Heather. it's going to hit Sora like five minutes later; he's too fixated on picturing capturing what is essentially a bug disaster on the ground.]

I don't think I do either... [neither of them have the balls, Heather. neither of them.]

_{[AREN'T YOU GLAD BIG SIS IS SUCH A PARADIGM OF MATURITY SORA]}

... Something tells me that the locals wouldn't respond too well if we just went around banging on the doors and yelling 'GET OUT HERE AND CAPTURE SOME OF THESE'...

[SORA ALWAYS NEEDS SOMEONE TO BE IMMATURE WITH! HEATHER IS THE BEST KIND OF IMMATURE.]

... You never know! But I've got a bug net... it came with the outfit I got back when I first came here.

[it may take him a while, but he could scoop the bugs up and dump them somewhere that they couldn't get out. a locked room in the hotel, maybe!]

Maybe you should get that out... I have no idea how we can move ALL of these before they start waking up, but...

_{[... That would be the worst, most nightmarish surprise EVER for whatever maid has to take care of that room the next morning. THEY SHOULD DO IT.]}

Keep the earplugs in; if they start to wake up, we'll put 'em to sleep again.

[IF THEY GO HALFSIES ON THE ROOM THEY CAN TOTALLY DO THIS. or they can stuff them all in a room in the pokécenter that Nurse Tank oversees.]

Gotcha.

_{[She sticks the plugs back in, but leaves them loose-- she wants to be able to hear what Sora's saying.]}

Let's do this!

_{[Sob poor Nurse Tank.]}

[... unfortunately, he's only able to squish a few Pinecos in his bug net before it's almost too full, and the shaft is bending threateningly under the weight. nevertheless! Sora's going to make a break for the center.]

Heather, keep an eye on the rest of 'em, okay?

Uh-- ... okay!

_{[She'd just... keep... an eye... on all the slumbering bug Pokemon that might wake up any second. Yep. <8)b]}

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