ohmyarceus | SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER TEST DRIVE MEME

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[It's night in the Viridian Forest. Early enough that you might be still walking around, looking for a place to spend the night, but late enough that it's dark out. All's tranquil and quiet, save for the shuffling and cries of surrounding pokemon.

Unless, of course, you find yourself nearing a certain clearing. In which case, you will the muffled sound of frantic muttering, as if someone were reciting a mantra to themselves. It's frankly a little unnerving. If you were to investigate, though, you'd find a teenage boy sitting with his legs crossed, balancing spiral notebook on his thigh as he writes. There's a sleeping Togepi leaning against him and Skitty watching the notebook curiously.

His muttering becomes much clearer too.] ... can be used to counter the lack of offensive moves, but there's still the problem of defense, ah I could use a TM with protect to hold on until it evolves but I'm already buying one and I can't use that much money and Togepi can't overwhelm enemies with brute force yet...

[He's getting his light from a small fire and a lantern, the latter of which is now tipped over due to Skitty swinging its tail and is sitting dangerous to the fire.]

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[There's a curly haired teenage boy on the camera.] Ah, it's working! [Cough cough.] Uhm, hello. I'm Midoriya Izuku. I just arrived. This... [He pulls up a Togepi, who cries in delight and waves at the camera.] Is my partner Togepi, Deku. I... I think I understand some of what's going on, but I do have questions, so I was wondering if anyone would like to help me for a bit. I'm in... Pallet Town if you want to meet face to face. Uh... I think that's it. [A beat before he speaks again!] Ah wait, that's right! How do you turn off the radio of this thing? [He gives his Pokegear a slight shake for emphasis.] It keeps playing music.

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[Elsa replies with audio, finding it more comfortable than broadcasting her face to someone she's never met before.]

You can't turn it off, actually. The music.

[Elsa is pretty good at tuning it out, so she doesn't sound particularly bothered.]

It's one of the weirder quirks about this place.

[Audio? Huh... Well, Izuku changes to audio to match her, figuring it's polite.]

You can't, huh... Wait, what do you mean 'weirder quirks about this place'? Isn't it coming from the radio?

[Well. Fuck this.]

Deku! You've really gotta follow me everywhere, huh? [This is said complete with wild gesticulations, which. Deku can't even see, but that's not the point. The point is Deku is here, with some stupid, weakass Pokemon covered in eggshell.] And with something that looks just as pathetic as you!

[Does he knows anything about Togepi? No. He'll have to look into it, later, but it doesn't look as impressive as his Cyndaquil, so clearly that means it's not as good.]

[Well, this is perfect, isn't it?]

Kacchan! You're here too? [This is... Weird. And unusual. But apparently, fate just wants them to be in the same place, huh?] Is anyone else we know here, or is it just us?

[He's ignoring the comments about Togepi because it's 2017 and we don't take Kacchan's bait, we're developing self esteem now.]

No, it isn't coming from your device, but explaining it hard. It comes from... everywhere.

[Elsa sounds a little confused herself, because even she doesn't know where it comes from.]

Kind of like magic.

[Dot dot dot, please let him process this.]

... Huh? So... This place has its own background music?

Yes.

[She laughs lightly.]

You get used to ignoring it after a couple of days, at the very least.

[You can't ignore him forever! Not with the way it's clear he's not moving as he talks, making his way to Palette Town.]

Why the fuck would I know? I'm not their keeper. [Which translates to "I haven't looked." Why would he, anyways? The rest of their classmates would be an unwelcome nightmare.

For the most part, anyways.]

You're going to battle me.

You could still know if you've been here longer than I. At least Kirishima. [It's ok Bakugou, we know you have a soft spot for the redhead.

... But wait, what? Kacchan no! No battle!!]

I JUST GOT HERE!

I guess that can't be helped... [It's still weird, but what can you do?

And also...] Ah, I'm sorry, but I didn't ask for your name, did I?

If any of them are here, they haven't plastered their face everywhere! [He wishes Kirishima were here, instead of Deku. The guy'd be a total fuck up, but a tolerable one. They could team up and it wouldn't be the worst thing.

And, okay, posing a question on the network isn't really "everywhere", but details, shmetails.]

So? You got a pokemon, don't you? Means you can battle!

Oh, of course- I'm Elsa.

[It only took a few days for her to stop instinctively saying "Queen Elsa", considering that title is rather meaningless here. It takes some of the attention off of her, as well. That's always a plus.]

And you?

[Details absolutely matter, you loon!

But he does know that Bakugou won't stop until he has his battle, so he figures they might as well get it over with. Even if he has a feeling Togepi won't be quite up to the task just yet. Guess he'll just have to do justice to both his hero name and Togepi's nickname and do his best]

Ugh... Alright, alright, I'm near the lab.

Oh, I'm Midoriya Izuku. It's nice to meet you, Elsa.

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[It is... not remotely close to Halloween yet. But it's fall, which is close enough for the seasonal displays in the marts and department stores, which is apparently enough for the local ghost types, in the places that have them. As far as they care, it's time to kick up the pranks and hauntings, and get into the spirit of the holidays.]

[Or, as many of them seem to be doing, just time to swarm and terrorize any wandering trainer that will take it.]

Stop that nonsense this instant.

[And a few that won't.]

[If you've ever wanted to see a Scottish woman dressed vaguely like a gothic Mary Poppins and staring down a confused Gastly at umbrella-point, now's your chance.]

Hush now, and enough of the penny-show dramaturgy. I'm a busy woman, and I've seen and done worse long before you were a wisp of ectoplasm percolating in one of those ridiculous eggs. You can float along and pester someone who can actually be intimidated, or you can find out what happens when I need to deal with a roadblock.

[The umbrella point drops to the ground with a deliberate click, and Missy smiles brightly at the Gastly.]

Do we understand each other then, dearie?

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I'm curious.

The Pokémon Eevee has a rather astonishing number of possible evolutions.

How many of those different types of techniques would you say the base form is capable of learning, with careful breeding and tutoring?

Call it the start of a scientific inquiry.

[Details are for nerds who write down everything in a notebook. Not winners.

He shuts off the feed as it stomps his way over, but it doesn't take him long until he turns up to the lab. His Cyndaquil is nestled in his arms - because it's so small and slow and he's not about to leave it in some stupid ball. That's all.]

There you are!

[Yes, Deku told him where he would be. But he's still going to act like it was some massive hunt, why do you ask?]

Sorry dude, the radio's not the problem.

[Have a small, apologetic kind of wave.]

I mean, it might be, but then you'd be getting music in stereo and it'd probably be all dissonant and clashing, which it doesn't sound like, so I'm guessing not?

But yeah, the music's just kind of a thing, it's weird. I've tried figuring out how it works, but so far I've got nada, bro.

[Elsa is just minding her own business she witnesses Missy's confrontation with the Gastly. Ordinarily she wouldn't pay any mind, but it's impressive seeing such a mischievous Pokemon get told off so... casually.]

You really put him in his place.

[She can't help but comment on it, chuckling lightly.]

[And yet details was what let Deku beat him on the first training exercise!!

When Bakugou shuts off the feed, Deku just sighs. Of course Bakugou would jump to the chance of a battle, why wouldn't he? Bakugou was Bakugou even in a whole new dimension, or whatever this place was. He just hoped Togepi could handle it. From what he knew and had briefly studied of its skill's, it would a battle based on luck on his side. But maybe that would be fine, if Togepi manage to lower Bakugou's Pokemon's attack it would certainly buy time to see if luck of the draw would allow him to get a good hit with metronome, but even so it could go south in so many wa-

His thoughts were interrupted by Bakugou announcing his arrival, for better or worse.]

I did tell you were I was...

[Seriously dude... But Izuku notices the Cyndaquil om Bakugou's arms and looks at the little thing curiously.] That's your Pokemon?

[He puts his hand on his chin, pondering over the response.] That is really weird... What could possibly be the purpose of it?

[Being a copycat is what let Deku beat him! Which is a fact that he's still super sore about.

Because, you know, why try to move on to things when you could just hold onto it forever. It didn't help that it kept happening; at every opportunity, there was Deku, using someone else's fucking moves to put himself ahead. Thinking about it just makes Bakugou angry.

Or, well. Angrier. It'll be a cold day in hell when he finally calms his tits for a solid minute.]

This is Grenade.

[What's smaller than a bomb? A grenade. It's very clever, he knows. He stoops down to place the Cyndaquil on the ground, though it doesn't seem very keen on being let go.

The thing is awesome, though more impressive when actually on fire, but so far doesn't seem to have the same passion for fighting that Bakugou does. Which is disappointing, but it's basically a baby so he won't hold that against it.

For now.]

You're not going to win this time, Deku.

[Don't hate him because he learns and you don't, Bakugou, it's a bad look. You should learn to actually calm your tits, it's wonderful.

Izuku's first instinct is to walk over to Grenade and crouch next to it to take a closer look, but he knows for a fact that Bakugou wouldn't let him, not before battling. So he just crouches and looks at the Pokemon.

He has to admit...] It's kind of cute, isn't it?

[Izuku's Togepi also took an interest in the other Pokemon, walking to approach it until Bakugou says his name. This makes the little egg pause and look up at Bakugou in confusion. He doesn't know you, bruh.]

[He'll learn how to calm his tits when you learn how to not be so pathetic.

And he learns stuff!! He has better grades, at the very least.]

Cute?! Grenade's not cute!

[It's vicious! Totally vicious and yes okay maybe a little bit cute, with how round it is and its pudgy little snoot.

Also yes he doesn't know if his Cyndaquil is male or female. Sure, the information is available to him, but Bakugou works off of instinct. That hasn't let him down yet.

Okay his instincts have let him down multiple times. But still! He doesn't need to rely on some stupid bullshit to be the best in this place.]

Did you really call that thing Deku? That stupid egg?

[Don't give him that look, more-useless-Deku. He's not the one who can't name things, here.]

[He did! He got in UA, remember?

And Grenade is totally cute, but he's not pushing that point because Bakugou asked a legitimate question.] I did. I noticed my quirk no longer worked, so... I figured I didn't have to hold on to it until that's fixed. So I named him Deku. Not Deku for useless, but Deku for working hard.

[And Deku the Togepi lets out an angry noise of approval while he points at Bakugou. Don't call him stupid, he will fuck you up!]

Ah... And I guess he's ready, then?

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