Second Punch [Video/Action]

[hige_san]

Video

[The sound of a young man's excited screaming against the backdrop of one of Union's many streets greets anyone tuning in to the Warp Band's feed late that afternoon. The image, featuring one Harima running circles around a very bewildered looking beast of a boar, wobbled as the recorder adjusted focus. Varying cries of 'Napoleon? What in the Savior's name happened? and an low (and incredibly confused) 'swiiiiiiiiiiine~' can be heard at varying points.

Harima expected Napoleon to evolve at some point soon. He just didn't expect his little friend to become bigger than his bedroom!

The rough looking young man shot a glance directly at the feed, not seeming to realize that the whole scene was being recorded.]

Alexander, stop goofing off! Get Channa, or Yakumo-- or anyone but Itoko!

[The feed cut off abruptly as it was dropped into the streets, closing out with a short and pointed 'Poli!' before it went out.]

Action

[Unionites: beware! Hurtling down any and every street around the city is a newly minted and incredibly confused Mamoswine. Napoleon's hungry, and a few curry puffs isn't going to fix that problem this time....

Fortunately, there are plenty of restaurants in town that throw perfectly good food away!]

Napoleon-- don't eat that! It's gross!

[Harima, who had been riding atop the pokemon all afternoon in search of a reasonable place for his friend to stay, pulled at the pokemon's ears, tusks, tail-- anything to try to get Napoleon to not raid the dumpsters. Unfortunately, Mamoswines are a lot harder to budge than a Swinub...]

Comments

Action

[radiantwingedone]

[ This is not what Duke ever expected to see while he was out shopping. He shouldn't be terribly surprised, this is Union, there are pokemon running around everywhere.

Fortunately his confusion doesn't last that long, and that's when he decides to be... smart and perhaps stupid at the same time. He drops the chunk of metal he'd been using to practice with. With that as his anchor, Duke shoots up into the air.

... Unfortunately, if the Mamoswine moves his anchor, he won't be up here for very long. He'll deal with that if it happens. ]

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[hige_san]

[Fortunately (or unfortunately) the newly minted Mamoswine doesn't notice a thing in the middle of his feast. They found a place that sold curry and, while there wasn't a lot of it, he managed to find little bits of it mixed in with the rest of the food! Little bites of gold were better than nothing at all!

Harima had long given up on trying to steer Napoleon away from eating out of the dumpster. It was gross, but Napoleon was a hardy pokemon-- he could handle it.

The dumpster, unfortunately, was not very well anchored. It shifted as Napoleon dug deeper into it, sticking his entire face in the mess-- he didn't care where it was going, he just wanted to eat! If it hit anything on the way, that so wasn't his fault!]

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[radiantwingedone]

[ Duke is rapidly discovering why monopods are not exactly used for anything. That's why its all tripods, at the very least.

Only that third thing grabbed is starting to shift, and so Duke is slowly wobbling awkwardly in the air with it. ]

.... The dumpster is going to occupy him for a bit, yes?

[ Look up and don't shout too much, please? ]

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[hige_san]

Huh?

[Harima did look up-- and promptly forgot the question being asked when he saw the man floating that high in the air.]

Hey! How the hell did you get up there?!

[Unfortunately, 'quiet' is rarely used as a descriptor whenever Kenji Harima gets involved.]

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[radiantwingedone]

To get up here, pressure on one object, and it moved me because I cannot shift the earth. Staying up here, equal pressure on three different objects.

[ ... He's using his enlightened powers, tl;dr. ]

Your friend won't go charging off again any time soon, yes?

[ video ]

[3rdpartyprick]

[ With a high, arched brow ]

You seem to be in peril.

[ video ] -- I apologize for Harima. He's a jerk.

[hige_san]

[--The sound of another voice (that wasn't a pokemon) stopped Harima mid-rant. Scowling in his frustration he wheeled around and all but glared daggers at the person on the other end.]

And who the hell are you?

[He's kind of in a mess right now, and he's got no patience for weirdos who butt into another person's business.]

s'kay. Metalhawk's kinda of a jerk too :>

[3rdpartyprick]

[ He unleashes a trademarked, Metalhawk scowl. It's the kind of face that says PAH-LEEESE, I GOTS NO TIME FOR THIS ]

A spectator. If you're so adverse to onlookers, I suggest keep domestic affairs private.

[hige_san]

[Harima meets the scowl with a lens flaring one of his own.]

I dunno what you're talkin' about...

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[psychicsister]

[She'd seen the video feed, and that'd set off quite a few warning bells...and then Alexander had come running by the house and prompted Yakumo to start off looking for Harima. Riding through the streets on Teru, the Rhyhorn's feet scrabbling on cobblestones as she rushes on, sending Shintaro out to search.

It doesn't take her long before she finds Harima in an alley. Or rather, a Mamoswine blocking said alley.]

Harima? Napoleon?!

[action]

[hige_san]

[The Mamoswine visibly halts his struggle to get through the cramped alley way at the sound of Yakumo's voice-- and Harima peeks around his old friend to get a better look at her. He was visibly stunned...and, by the look of things, he had been trying to lead Napoleon to a place where he could roam around and not knock any food carts over.]

Oh. Hey, Yakumo.

[That was all he could manage to say, in a surprisingly non-chalant tone. No, there was nothing weird going on here at all...]

[action]

[psychicsister]

[Iori hops down of Teru's back and looks up at Napoleon too. Dude, what are you doing? Seriously? That's garbage.]

Harima. What's going on? I saw Napoleon evolved, but Alexander showed up at my house excited and agitated.

[action]

[hige_san]

[Napoleon snuffled and looked away, embarrassed. Kenji never has a lot of that green paper stuff lying around, and he didn't want to bother his friend...

Harima, somehow, managed to keep his cool under Yakumo's concerned gaze.]

We were surprised. I expected Napoleon to get a little taller, but not like this!

[He patted his big friend on the nose, almost tenderly.]

...You should'a just said you were hungry, yanno. We could'a worked something out.

Action.

[future_sight]

[Delicious meat buns. Hot, steaming, tasty. Nozomi was so ready to get them home, but was suddenly stopped by the scene of a Mamoswine on a food-crazed rampage.

Wait, that name, those sunglasses--]

Napoleon? Harima?

Action.

[hige_san]

[Both the young man and the pokemon stopped what they were doing when they heard Nozomi's voice-- Napoleon mid-bite, Harima in the middle of yanking on one of his tusks.]

Nozomi!?

[Napoleon snuffled happily, earning a curious look from his human friend.]

--Wait. Napoleon, you know this chick?

[Not that he had problems with Napoleon making friends on his own...]

Action.

[future_sight]

Wow, you got really big. [Giggle.]

Yeah, we met a while back. He was a lot smaller, though.

Action.

[hige_san]

[The Mamoswine snuffled his nose at Nozomi-- now clearly searching for a snack. Did she have those delicious meat buns again?]

Yeah, this all happened kinda suddenly. It's...gonna take a bit getting used to.

[Action]

[novegetables]

[There's a lone Luxio out and about feeling great today! He doesn't need his trainer, he's going to win all the fights and be the greatest Luxio there ever was. Now he just needs to win once and he'll take his first step forward on the path of awesome. This Luxio is going to be a machine! No one will be able to stop-

Wait, what the heck is that?] Luxi? [That's a Mamoswine eating out of a dumpster...]

Luuuxio! Lux! [Dude, that's so gross! Stop that!]

[Action]

[hige_san]

I know-- that's what I keep telling him!

[Harima glanced at the wandering Luxio before returning to trying to pull Napoleon away from the dumpster. Sorry, little guy. They'll play next time- they've got a little problem to resolve right now.]

[Action]

[novegetables]

Luxio! [Disgusting and unhealthy! No one should eat garbage, they should eat good, filling food!

Luxio will not stand for this, so he goes to bite Napoleon's tail to tug on it, and he's not being gentle either.]

[Action]

[hige_san]

Swiiiiiii--!!!

[Napoleon reared back in his surprise, abandoning his dinner because something just grabbed his tail! He wheeled around, snorting in agitation-- that wasn't cool, you jerk!

Harima grabbed onto one of the Mamoswine's tusks and patted it gently before turning on the Luxio himself.]

Hey. You didn't need to go that far!

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[unbalancedlove]

[There is simply no way that Kotori wouldn't get worried after that transmission which promptly made her leave in his aid!... only to remember that she doesn't actually know where he lives by the time she reached the shopping area. Well, she could have calculated that better.]

Should I call Yakumo?--- Ah!

[Wait, there it is! A wild Mamoswine enters her field of vision with a certain damsel in distress by it's side. She hurries over there.]

H-Harima, are you fine?

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[hige_san]

[Harima wouldn't be too comfortable with being referred to as a 'damsel in distress', but that detail isn't something he's privy to.

Harima looked up from his small chore of reeling Napoleon away from his most recent dumpster feast, not entirely too surprised to see the girl at all.]

Just kinda got my hands full, Kotori. No biggie.

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[unbalancedlove]

[A beast in distress then? The birdy girl may be no knight in shining armor either but maybe this is something she can help with. Kotori begins looking inside her bag.]

So it seems... he'll get sick if he keeps eating that.

[Aha, there it is! The girl pulls out a container with a Butterfree pattern filled to the brim with pokepuffs.]

Are bitter pokepuffs fine?

[Kotori, it's eating trash, of course it's fine.]

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[hige_san]

[That bit of information seemed to take Harima off guard.]

That's right. Even good restaurants can have bad food.

[Although he knew that both he and Napoleon were both fairly familiar with dumpster diving, Harima himself had never done it for food. That was just....no.]

I think he'll eat just about anything, Kotori. Evolving into something so big must've taken lots of energy.