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WHO: Everyone!
WHAT: Traveling to Aquacorde, and then Pokemon Catching 101!
WHEN: August 28th
WHERE: Vaniville, Route 1 and eventually Aquacorde!

Well, after that strange introduction from Professor Sycamore, and all the introductions being out of the way, the Aides pull out some Pokeballs and continue with their explanation.

"All Pokemon come from these Pokeballs. We are going to teach you how to catch a Pokemon, so that you may use this knowledge. Not all of you have to become Trainers. There are Pokemon Breeders, and all sorts of things you can do here. We will be taking all of you to Route 2, just past Aquacorde Town, on some larger Pokemon that you can ride so that we may get there faster. It will be a one hour ride."

The Aides tossed their Pokeballs, and multiple Pokemon appeared - including a large orange and black dog, a large fiery horse and a giant rocky triceratops-looking thing.

"Please do not be afraid, they will not harm you. Hop aboard, and let us get on towards Aquacorde!"

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[Everyone hop on those riding 'mons and let's go to Aquacorde! Thread your characters getting on the Pokemon if you wish, or thread with each other for the way through Route 1!]

[The Aides stand ready at the edge of Aquacorde and Route 2, ready to demonstrate how to catch Pokemon. Of course, someone else might end up hopping in and demonstrating for them...

Kotoha has permission to partycrash and teach it herself, if she wishes.]

You've all been wondering what we were talking about back in Vaniville. Well, allow me to explain...

[The aide pulls out two devices.]

This first device here, the Player Search System, is a small tablet/watch combination that allows you to view the Network. You can also text one another through this device. As for other methods of how you post to the Network, there is the Holo-Caster. [He holds out the Holo-Caster and it projects a triangular blank image.] With this, you can video and voice chat with one another, and also make voice and video posts to the network.

This is how you will all stay in touch throughout your adventure. Any questions?

Before the Aides can launch into the explanation, Kotoha raises her hands in the air and claps three times.

"Okay, everyone, time to learn how to catch Pokemon! Today, you'll be learning from Special Guest Lecturer Kotoha and her assistant Kasumi!"

With a flourish of both hands, she indicates the Froakie standing next to her, who draws herself up and does a little bow in greeting.

[Oh... dear. Well, she did say she was from Unova, and she's had plenty of experience with catching Pokemon, so... the Aide that was going to explain steps out of the tall grass.]

Kotoha taps something behind her right ear and is suddenly wearing glasses. Striding into the tall grass, she is already speaking.

"Now, here's the deal: Wild Pokemon live in tall grass."

No sooner does she finish saying this than a Pokemon pops out!

As Kasumi somersaults into position, Kotoha adjusts her glasses and continues speaking.

"When they pop out like this, you send out your own Pokemon to battle them! In general, it's best to weaken them first - Kasumi, use Growl!"

As Kasumi Growls at the bird, it launches itself directly at the Froakie in a Tackle attack. Kotoha nods in satisfaction.

"Use Pound!"

As the Pokemon exchange blows again, Kotoha fishes a Pokeball out of her bag.

"And then, once it's been weakened, you go like this!"

With that, she throws the Pokeball at the Fletchling, which opens up and sucks the bird inside with a torrent of red light. The ball shakes once - twice - three times (a lady) - and throws off small sparks before lying still. Smiling, Kotoha steps forward and picks it up.

"This concludes Catching 101 with Kotoha and Kasumi! Any questions?"

Kotoha raises her hand.

"Does modifying it to accept secondary input devices void the warranty?"

"What kind of secondary input devices, if I may ask?"

Tapping behind her ear, Kotoha's glasses once again appear from thin air.

"Nanomachines."

...nanomachines?

I have a question...

[Surely, it's an important question this time, right?]

Are there any games on here?

[...Or not.]

Yeah. Any games?

[What do you mean, of course that was an important question.]

[Better answer wisely, Aide...you have two very expectant gamers staring at you.]

"You could definitely try... but I cannot guarantee the safety of such a thing, or the consequences of what it might do to yourself or the network. As is the risk with combining any technology like this."

[...why did they both have to team on him.]

Well, what kind of games were you hoping for?

"Oh, alright."

Slight pause.

"...just to be certain, I do sound like I'm speaking Kalosian without an accent, right? The translation function is still working?"

All kinds of genres! It'd be terrible if we were just limited to one, you know?

[And she is definitely getting passionate here, whoops.]

Action, adventure, puzzle, horror, strategy...all of those genres are wonderful in their own way, so you can't just choose.

Okay battling doesn't sound too bad. Sure it's not as satisfying as battling robots, but he could get used to it eventually.

The throwing the pokeball and trapping them on the other hand, hit a little too close to home. Mainly that it reminds him too much of Eggman's capsules that he would use to trap small animals, and use them as fuel for his robot army.

"Yeah. Do we have to use those balls and keep them in there?"

Even if she said no, he was going to try to keep his out of them as much as possible.

"You can't catch them without the Pokeballs, but it's not necessary to keep them in there, no!"

The aide blinks a couple of times.

"...Yes, you do. How does that translation function work?" He might need to see it. For science.

Well... it might have Tetris? [Maybe he shouldn't have asked that last question.]

Kotoha's glasses light up as she activates the augmented reality overlay feature and starts typing on an invisible keyboard.

"The specs should be in here somewhere...ah, here we go! The COMP is a rudimentary AI with a heuristic learning program - as it's exposed to more languages, it will continually update it's database. The process for creating the COMP...yadda yadda, DNA bonding, blah blah blah...geeze, I think I know who wrote this; it's totally his style..."

She spends a while scrolling through help files only she can see before coming up with an answer.

"Okay, looks like it's a two-part system, both of which involve the nanomachines that make up the COMP...if you need me to, I can...probably set them to produce more nanomachines that aren't gene-bonded to me, but it'll take a while."

Sorry, Kotoha, have a very confused looking ninja staring at you with his litleo setting patches of grass on fire next to him. Ignore the odd facepaint, it's just a thing he does. For some reason. Puppet theatre and all of that particular kind of nonsense.

"So how do they fit in those balls? Like I can't see how anything could fit in them and that makes no... sense." As much as his sister carrying a giant fan and summoning a weasel from thin air totally does, okay.

Jouri on the other hand is quite content to keep setting the grass on fire, she's a bit of a firebug like that and paying no attention to the froakie or fletchling.

Okay, Kotoha will just invoke her Persona without summoning it and stick her hand in the little patches of blazing grass.

Absorb Fire: good for dealing with pyromaniacs.

"Well, the short answer is that the Pokeballs maintain an extradimensional space inside themselves, and the long answer is...quite a bit longer."

...she is remarkably blasé about glowing blue and sucking fire into her skin, isn't she?

Wait, back up, what just happened there. He's seen people do that before, but those were shinobi and this girl is pretty obviously not a shinobi in his experience.

"... Extradimensional space." Nope, still not understanding this nonsense. But he's just going to calmly shrug it off before scooping up Jouri and letting her chew on his sleeve.

"Has anyone ever told you none of this makes sense and who the hell thought this was a good idea to give anyone creatures that can do, well, that?"

Good thing Kotoha's used to dealing with people from worlds without Pokemon!

"There are wild Pokemon that don't like humans - if we didn't cooperate with Pokemon, we wouldn't have a civilization at all."

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