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[The feed snaps on to reveal a concerned looking Goku, glancing behind him a few times before speaking. He seems to be in the Habitat.]

I think I might need a little help with this one.

[He turns the Warp Band, showing the image of his Volbeat. Sitting under a sprinkler and looking depressed. When the sprinkler stops, it picks itself up with great effort, lumbers over to another sprinkler, and sits underneath it, letting the water pour on it.]

He's been doing that all day. When one sprinkler stops, he just moves to the next. I think he's depressed. I tried talking to him, but all he does is look at me like he's about to die or something. I've never seen him so sad, I thought everything was going great! He's usually really happy... He doesn't train because he's way too concerned with going out on dates, and he's been going out on a ton of them! But I think the last girl he went on a date with really dropped it hard on him.

I don't get it. [He scratches his head in confusion.]

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[The Volbeat in question is headed home after his 150th failed date. His little buggy hand slides across a wall as he drags himself home, bent over with sadness. He can't believe this happened again.

No girl wants to date a loser like him.

He starts eating some of the comfort food he'd taken from the date. He knew he'd need it.

The poor guy looks like he's had a bad night. He takes the wrapper of his food and chucks it behind him, not caring if it hit anyone or not. Bleh.]

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You have no other pokemon he's fond of?

I guess when they aren't a challenge anymore, it would get pretty boring.

[And it probably is pretty annoying too. He'd even get annoyed after a while.]

I'd rather them keep trying and get stronger at least. [That would be fun.]

[Thanks! I really like this one- he shows her a picture of a particular extra grey rock that he found- because it's so gorgeous! And yeah, the Weedle did get in the way, but they were pretty nice.]

[I'm glad you like them! No one ever really likes them!]

Volbeat Vol! Beat, Volbeat. Volbeat!

To be honest, he doesn't really spend any time with my other pokemon. He's always out working on something, he's hardly ever home!

[They're alright. Good for rocks. Not the most enthralling, but I'm not a rock Pokemon. I'm more a...y'know...run around kinda Pokemon. Do you exercise much?]

Sect! Paras-Par

Frogs against dragons. Honestly, Goku did you ever think it was a challenge?

[The Buddhas has been tough because she'd had to focus on protecting Suzume, but...the average toad?]

And that's good in theory, but they've been attacking me in the streets. Where there are civilians. I don't want anyone getting hurt because a frog decided to take a hostage.

[Exercise? Not really...I really like to clean though.]

Vol Volbeat!

[He figures you never know if they've been training enough to get the upper hand on someone, but it's concerning when she mentions that they've been attacking where there's innocent people.]

Hm. Taking it out on the citizens is going too far. I sure hope it doesn't come to that. [That wouldn't fly with him, not at all.] You'll let me know if it gets that bad, won't you Yuuna?

[Cleaning is good, but training is better! If you're worried about being boring for ladies, maybe try getting stronger? That's the kinda guy she likes!]

Parasect Par par!

[There's a reason she wears a Spiritomb on her back and travels with Kaiju.]

I will, yeah. You're someone I trust to watch my back, you know.

[Volbeat does like to work hard, but not on training. He almost winces at the idea of it.]

[Well! I could! But, wouldn't the ladies also really like it if I get a job and help pay for things?]

Volbeat, Beat, Volbeat Vol?

[Yuuna will get a smile in response. He's more than happy to help out, anytime.]

Well, I might take your advice and have someone figure out exactly what's going wrong with Volbeat here. He can't sit under the sprinklers all day.

Worse comes to worse, let me know and I'll lend you Kintsu. A Spiritomb should have no problems.

[Maybe. But strong, athletic sorts also get lots of dates...]

Sect!

Man, no kidding! I wish I could phase in and out of walls. Must be really incredible to be a ghost pokémon, you know, except for the whole dying part.

Yeah...

[That...hits close to home, actually. She seems to withdraw, looking uncomfortable.]

Yeah, I bet it's great till you die.

[He holds his arm up and flexes all the fat in it. Hmmmm.]

[I can lift buckets of ice really well! Not big ones, but they give me a pretty good work out!]

Beat! Volbeat!

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Well! [Panic] I mean you'd already be dead! So it's not like-! Ehhheeeeehhhh....!

You know what I mean!

You...don't know Martin, do you?

I do, I know what you're trying to get across Yuuna; but there is an exception to every rule, too.

[Poor Martin. Goku still doesn't understand how the guy is alive. Well, as alive as a guy who died and came back as a ghost type can be, he guesses.]

[Try real exercise then. Ask your trainer, he'll show you what to do!]

Sect!

Were you at the guy's funeral?

[She was.]

And...have you run across any Yamasks yet?

[She's totally got an angry one! and she won't get into Eluvian.]

There are exceptions. Yeah. Generally the other way around. I've totally made friends with some pretty awesome ghosts, but I think those tend to be rarer.

Sorry...just...had ghosts on the brain a lot lately. I've taken charge of some of Martin's therapy.

[....Sure! I will!

Why do all the ladies tell him this? He hates working out...

Hey, do you think you'd want to come admire the stonework of some of the shops around here? I like seeing how many cracks are in the walls, and how well they've been holding up over the years.]

Volbeat Volbeat! Beat, Volbeat, Beat Vol?

[Rest assured there is nothing fascinating about the walls of the shops in Union.]

[He wasn't at the funeral, but he has run into Yamasks, pretty childish ones at that, but he just...doesn't answer, not with how she speaks right after that.]

His therapy? I didn't know anything was wrong. Maybe coming back from the dead really did do a number on him that he didn't know about, huh.

[Before Martin said he was healthy and fine. What happened?]

Yeah, his body's a little outta shape. All that time in the hospital? I mean, he's in good shape for a dead guy, but he's not where he was. We met back when he was a Sword, and he was one of the better swordfighters in Union. Now? I'm not so sure.

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