ITT: We are all Pokémon Trainers

DS' Room

Rex: Hello, strange and incredibly loud Delibird...

Silent's Room

Baby Eevee: <Eeee~ I'm going to be a tough Nidorino someday. :3>

Blossom: <Wonderful!> *smiles at Maekrite and Ichtacya* <I'm sure you'll both be great influences on little...oh, we still need to come up with a name.>

Baby Eevee: <And then when I'm a Nido, I can beat up mean Pokemon with my horns. My Horn Drill will pierce the heavens! :3>

- Looks around at the others who apparently just got here -

Oh, hi!

Goggles: (takes the Skitty statuette out of my hand, I don't really make much effort to prevent him from taking it) <Hi!> (grins) <I'm gonna call you Fluffy!> (hugs the statuette)

Crewe's Room

Ichtacya: <Awww, how sillycute... "[pierce]", heh...> — cuddles the unnamed-as-of-yet Eevee — <You can be a very cute... let's see, Espeon instead.>

-Enters the room-

-To DS-

Oh, hi.

-Takes the giftbox-

Hopefully it's better than DS' gift, but considering my luck...

Thanks Pentigan.

-Opens it-

Baby Eevee: <What's an Espeon? Does it have horns? I want horns to poke people with. :3>

Rascal: *overhears Ichtacya* < Pierce? ...Oh, you think he might want to be a Jolteon?>

Blossom: <Well, it is as close to a Nidorino as you can get...and it is a rather darling name.>

Pierce: <Yay!> *nuzzles Ichtacya* <It was Auntie's idea!>

-Within the gift box is a rainbow scarf-

-follows Slouch into the room to keep an eye on Cirrus-

Hi!

Rex: Hi, Every! And... *sees Slouch* ...umm...oh! I remember you! You're that broken video game character that Ohm was talking about! Umm...Slump!

Hi Rex! How's being conscious again? :3

Hi, person I've never met before!

...Slouch, actually... But you were close.

Inn

Rex: It's alright. I woke up as the Lord of the Spinda, though. *to Slouch* Oh, sorry. And I'm Rex. It's nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you, too.

-Holds the scarf-

The fuck is this Pentigan? It's er, a very nice scarf Pentigan.

DS' Room

Rex: *thinking* Ugh, he got a nice gift for Tagg too... And I didn't get anything other than these cakes! *feels bad, man*

-Mezzo is eating cake-

Wow, this cake is really nice. Where'd you get it?

Forte: Oh, just some store in town.

Mauville Cafe

Read: -approaches whatever walkalong Vilkas might have out- <Hello! What are you all doing here alone on Christmas?>

Ryklys: -glances at Vilkas and Read without emotion-

???, Clock Striking One

Who's there?!

Celebi: -appears before Mew, phasing in and out of the time stream somewhat-

I... am the Ghost of Christmas Past.

What does any of this have to do with Christma-

Your past.

Holon, Millenia Ago

-a pink kitten plays in the treetops with some Spearow and Pidgey-

Past!Mew: Wheee~ can't catch me!

Past!Kakuna: -Lands on Mew- <Haha!>

Past!Mew: AHHH!

-past Mew and her friends all laugh-

Future!Mew: Oh... these times... back when I was first created, and had such fun with...

Future!Mew: ...my friends...

Celebi: It didn't last, did it?

Future!Mew: ...

Several Decades Later

Past!Mew: -is floating through the woods dejectedly, looking for friends who have all passed on-

Past!Mew: Why... do I have to stick around here? My friends have left me, their children don't know me...

???: YOU HAVE A SPECIAL ROLE TO PLAY... YOU SHALL REMAIN IN THIS WORLD UNTIL THE END OF THE AGE, ASSISTING OTHERS AND GUIDING LIFE, YOUR DOMAIN. YOUR FRIENDS MUST BE MYRIAD.

Past!Mew: A...ssist?

Celebi: You know what you were tasked with... keep making friends, even as you were to watch them die, year after decade after century... and use your gifts, to help them with their troubles.

A century or two later...

Future!Mew: But they kept dying! All that work to know them, wasted!

Machoke: -struggling to unblock a cave- <Ack! So many rocks, and I can only move so many...>

Past!Mew Oh, what's in the cav- no. You know what? What's it matter, I'd ask you that, then we'd start talking about your family, I'd get to know you, then a couple decades later you're all dead and I'm in mourning.

Forget all that, just have a new evolutionary form.

Machamp: <M- more arms?! Uh... thanks, I guess?>

Past!Mew I should have done this a long time ago...

Celebi: You never really made a proper friend after that...

Future!Mew: Well, no... but I got my job done a whole lot better! He was happy, right?

Celebi: Your defensiveness suggests you know the answer already... but that is for another spirit.

-returns Mew to ??? and fades out-

-sighs, alone-

edited 25th Dec '11 3:57:58 PM by Tangent128

Mauville Cafe

-Klavazazel sniffs at Read- <By choice, mostly...Vilkas doesn't really hang out with anyone besides us. And you?>

-Vilkas has noticed Ryklys by now, but is pretending not to, not wanting to get into a fight this publicly-

AU!Spirit World

-To Dintel-

<Rotom: "Well? What are you waiting for? Pick an event already!">

AU!Spirit World

Dintel examines a listing of the games and points at a particular one of them.

Dintel: <There! It says    Treasure Hunt   ...> — leaps to poke the listing.

Swampert -to Rotom: <It is the deadly, millennia-lasting one, I hope?>

Mauville Cafe

Read: <Ryklys is kinda a loner, too. Except when she's battling... ugh, she's very inspiring as a trainer, but I really wish we could have more fun with others...>

<Especially on a fun night like tonight.>

Ryklys: -sloooooowly gets up, to collect Read-

Read: <Do you feel the same way?>

AU!Spirit World

<Rotom: "It's not MILENNIA long! We've been working overtime lately thanks to the rush of new trial participants over the last couple months! But... As for the consequences... Heh heh... Well... Odds are that you shall be able to see for yourself...">

-And spirits Dintel and the Swampert off to the staging area for the Scavenger Hunt-

Elsewhere in the AU!Spirit World

<Gengar: "Ugh... I can't believe this, we're getting swamped by the dead from a few months ago and I have to worry about filling slots to run a trial!">

<Mismagius: "I told you that you were going overkill trying to finish that Sandshrew off. You scared off all of the more normal spirits!">

<Gengar: "Yeah, yeah... I kno-">

<Rotom: "Hey! Anyone there?">

<Gengar: "Coming! Did you get more-">

-And notices Dintel-

<Gengar: "OH HELL NO!">

-Puts the scarf in my backpack to be stored...forever-

Anyway, I have something to give you DS.

- Looks over at Tagg -

Oh?