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Stanley Pines | Gravity Falls

[hackedup]

[Action]

Come on, guard your chin! Er, whatever you have where a chin should be! [Have you ever seen an elderly man coaching a two-foot crab in the fine art of boxing? Well, you have now.

The crabrawler bubbles enthusiastically.]

Now give me a jab! [The pokemon gives a one-two punch. Stan laughs.]

Look at you, you're a natural! [Crabrawler bounces for joy.]

[Network]

So if you were gonna cut down some trees, uh, anybody got a quick and easy way to make sure that they're not. Alive?

[This shit is weird.]

i'm gonna pretend they already know about each other being there so we can save The Reunion

[meteorman]

Maybe give them a prod first. Not too hard, because if they are alive they will absolutely attack you.

[hackedup]

[Turns. Looks.]

What are you, a teenager? You're sitting right next to me, you don't have to use this smart phone thingamajig.

[meteorman]

[Also turns. Also looks.]

This may be a question other people have. I felt it prudent to post the answer where they could also see it. The whole point of these 'smart phone thingamajigs' is for easy information gathering.

[hackedup]

[Anyone watching this now has a view of two near-identical men in profile bickering at each other offscreen.

Complete with one doing a near-perfect impression of his older twin's voice.]

Welcome to Science Hour kids, make sure you give all the trees a good tickle before you go knocking them down for wood.

[meteorman]

[They are adult men who definitely are not arguing like ten year olds it's fine]

It's prudent! Do you want to be devoured or cursed? Because this is how you get devoured or cursed, Stanley.

[hackedup]

[These men are almost 70 years old]

Are you going to help me cut down the trees or not?

[meteorman]

[mmmmmmMMMMM]

Fine.

[He reaches into his coat for a Pokéball. Claudia knows Air Cutter, which ought to work just fine on the trees. Halfway through pulling it out he pauses.]

Also if we do disturb a Trevenant and wind up having to fight the whole forest I am putting the blame squarely on you.

[hackedup]

[At that, Stan grins.]

Sounds like a good time to me, Poindexter. What do you think, Lefty?

[Ford, but not anyone tuning in, will see Stan's Crabrawler knock its claws together and bounce back and forth with a pleased bubbling sound.]

[meteorman]

[Lefty is a good boy.

Claudia, by contrast, is a horrible fanged purple sky orb. She bursts out of her ball with a screech, immediately does a flip, and baps Ford in the face with a wing hard enough to knock his glasses askew. He sets them back on his nose with a fond sigh.]

Alright, Claudia. Would you like to destroy something?

[This is Claudia's favorite thing to do, apparently, because she screels with all the enthusiasm a round purple bat can muster. Show her. Show her the thing to wreck.]

You may want to move back a little, Stanley. She's... enthusiastic.

stares....

[kindaruledatit]

[Wendy pops onto the feed, brow raised, something of a smile there.]

Have you tried... asking if they're alive?

stares back...

[hackedup]

[Stan lights up a little at the sight of Wendy.]

'Course I tried asking. Ole Lefty got pretty tired of fighting all the rats that dropped out while we were "asking," though.

[Asking, here, meaning "punching"]

[kindaruledatit]

[It's Wendy! The life of the party! Now, the Pokemon training apparently sitting at a counter.]

...You're punching trees to see if they're alive or not? Stan, isn't that a little... y'know, rude?

[hackedup]

Hey, I didn't say I was doing the punching! You seen Ol' Lefty? Hold on, I gotta show you this thing. It's better than anything I could'a stapled together at the Shack-

Crazy- stupid newfangled thing- kids these days with their skeeps and their face-time-

[Shakily, with inexperience, he turns the screen around to show off the purple crab with bright blue claws that were shaped like boxing mitts.] You see him? Say hi to Wendy, Lefty. [It grits out an excited noise and bounces from side to side, throwing a one-two jab. Stan laughs from behind the camera, and turns it back around to show his face again.]

[kindaruledatit]

Yup, skeeps and face-times. [That's it, Stan. You're getting it.]

Oh. Wow, that's... [She squints, peering at the pokemon.] Is that like, a crab with a punching glove fist? ...That's pretty cool.

[She approves.]

Action!

[rambling_runner]

It's always cool to see people training their Pokemon. As it is, Ash is passing by with An Tintreach, his wrestling Raichu (don't ask) and sees Stan pumping up his crab-boxer. An Tintreach cheers for them encouragingly. You go little dude!!

"Oh man, hey! Sorry to interrupt but I ain't seen one of those before. What kinda Pokemon are they?"

[hackedup]

Crabrawler startles at the sound of the Raichu, turning to face it and waving one huge boxing glove-like claw in greeting.

"Uh..." Stan rubs his shoulder thoughtfully. "I'unno, I just call him ole Lefty."

Crabrawler, "Ole Lefty" supplies helpfully, with its voice that's not quite as rough as its trainer's.

[rambling_runner]

"Cool! This here's An Tintreach. She's a Raichu-" Ash gestured to the Raichu with him. She immediately grinned and stepped forward. She let sparks fly from her cheeks, flexing and striking a pose to show off her muscles.

"...And she's a right show-off." Ash added, folding his arms and smiling at her. She didn't give a damn, flicking her tail at him with a whip-snap and clearly giving him a confident smirk. She knows he loves her.

"So Lefty's a boxing crab? Man, I've seen quite a few Pokemon but I ain't seen any boxers yet!"