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[The camera's shaking a little bit when the feed turns on, with a Torchic and a Zubat play-fighting on the floor nearby. They get hushed and told not to use any special attacks before a pale hand reaches for the camera and turns it upward. Sure enough, there's Sasuke, holding the container for his egg and wearing something other than his usual attire of blue and white. The zipper is pulled down by quite a bit too, revealing the black t-shirt beneath the coat as well as some of his neck. Wait, is that egg moving in the container?

He sighs, noting the gathering of clouds on the horizon before he speaks into the feed.]

Where and how do you train in thunderstorms?

[He could deal with training in the rain, but even he knows that the lightning would be pushing it for himself and his pokémon. That would just be an unnecessary risk. By the looks of it, that storm is going to ground him in Cherrygrove for a while...

His question asked, he shuts the feed off and instead turns his attention onto what he can purchase now with his newly-gotten wage. At least this way he can work for another week to get his funds up, if only so that he won't have to stay in Violet City for that long.]

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[What? When did risk get involved in some hard core manly training in a thunderstorm?]

'Too risky'? Are those the words of a COWARD! I'll tell you what's risky, not jumping on a live grenade when it's tossed in your direction!

[When the kid knows just how dangerous lightning can be. The stuff he could generate himself was capable of killing people, and natural lightning makes his pale in comparison. ~~What's a grenade?~~]

You don't know how dangerous lightning can be.

Edited 2012-09-10 00:51 (UTC)

[Ah, regard for others' safety, something that Soldier could respect ~~but was never good at~~.][

All right, little soldier, you take good care of those... things. Leave this kind of training up to the big boys, the men! We risk everything so that no one else has to, ain't that right, Frenchie?

[The punching in the background pauses as Soldier's Sawk, Spy appears to stare at the Pokegear. Oh, his master was just ~~trolling~~ talking 'American' to another person. Spy salutes the two before disappearing offscreen to resume punching a tree.]

Heheh... you should use that disguise more often, Spy, makes you less smelly but really weirdly quiet!

[He's not sure if he's more stunned at this guy being a moron or annoyed that he's being talked down to. It's apparent that he's some kind of soldier, however... An inexperienced soldier.]

What kind of pokémon is that?

Say what?

[OH RIGHT Spy is disguised as a poke-ay-mon.]

Oh, he's a uh...

[What was he? Soldier scratches his chin before tapping the Pokegear.]

Well this doodad here called him 'Sawk,' and apparently he's a fightin' type. A damn fine fighter too! [He chuckles as he recalls how they beat up four men at Cherrygrove...]

... What the hell is that thing you're holding anyway? [Soldier had been staring at it, but his mind can't seem to accept that it's a big egg.]

An egg. [He holds up the container to show the small object resting in it, then rests it back in his lap before leaning back on the bed.]

It's going to hatch soon.

[.... What?]

An egg!? What in the world laid an egg the size of your head!?

[Actually, an egg that big would make an AMAZING omelet...]

... Did you at least fight the mother for it?

I got it from the breeding center. They sell them.

[You want a mama bird? Try to make an omelette out of Sasuke's egg and you will GET a mama bird in the form of an angry thirteen-year-old boy skilled in martial arts and lethal weapons usage, mister!]

[Oh but Soldier just might to get in a good fight! Don't tempt the man into fights he can't win!!]

So, they have a center where you pay to fight a mother poke-ay-mon and if you win, you keep the egg. I wonder if this Cherrygrove place has this kind of center...

[Then don't try to make breakfast out of his soon-to-be thunderhorse!]

... No. It's more like a pet store. [Even if what he's describing sounds kind of interesting. Hm.]

Huh... a pet store... Do you know if they got such a place in Cherrygrove?

[If he could get his hands on an egg... he wouldn't have to eat anything else for a week! There is a rumble of thunder faintly in the background...]

You contact them over the network. It's run by a guy named Seta.

[Soldier just might have to look into this eheheheheheh]

Thanks, little soldier--

[There is another rumble of thunder, though closer now, and Soldier glances around him.]

Storm's almost here! Let's move out, Spy! [A pause; oh yeah, Sasuke's still on the Pokegear] Good luck with your not-training-in-a-thunderstorm... and get a haircut!

<[Beep! The feed is promptly closed.]

[And there goes the feed. Well, whatever, he probably won't run in this crazy guy on the way to Violet City when he does get the chance to leave. ~~Also his hair is perfectly fine, huff.~~]

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