十 [Video/Action for Goldenrod]

[usedfuryswipes]

[Ken's feed snaps on to Ken, surrounded by his team, looking...kinda uncomfortable really, and the reason for it's clear enough. There's someone crying and yelling at him--a familiar sight to anyone who's either challenged Whitney or watched someone else do so.]

"Y-you poisoned them! T-that's so mean!"

Look, it's...kinda your job to do this, right? I mean. I'm sorry and all, but...

"You're not sorry!"

Well it's not like I was just gonna let you win! That's what this whole gym battle thing is for, isn't it?

"Didn't your mom ever teach you to go easy on girls?!"

What...? No, she didn't. Look, like it or not, we beat you. Stop crying about it and...

"And what?! You just want the stupid badge, don't you? Well, fine, take it!"

[Ken frowns and reaches out to catch the Plain Badge Whitney just threw at his head--she pauses in her angry tirade for a moment just to stare before stomping her foot and storming off.]

Hey, wait just a bloody minute!

[Ken starts after her, then stops when he realizes that one of his team has his 'Gear--Yuriko the Breloom, who'd been recording...that whole mess. He frowns before reaching out for it and turning it off.]

[It comes back on about thirty minutes later--Ken's outside the Pokemon Center and...is it a trick of the light or is one of his cheeks noticably redder than the other? He's sitting in the grass, leaning against Nana's dark purple carapace, Omi the Furret curled up next to him and Natsuki--now a Ninetales--laying with her head in his lap enjoying a bit of attention.]

Well, that kinda sucked. If she hates losing so bad, why the hell did she become a gym leader anyway?

Least now it'll be easier to go back and forth...all this for one damn little squirt bottle?

[ooc: Badge is mod approved! :3]

Comments

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

Looks like you earned that fair and square.

[IS HE REFERRING TO THE BADGE OR THE SLAP? The world may never know.]

[usedfuryswipes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, that would be what the battle thing is for, Kudou.

[coolest-cat.livejournal.com]

Don't care what you say, nothing's worth such distress to an innocent girl.

[usedfuryswipes.livejournal.com]

If she was gonna pitch such a bitch about losing, she shouldn't have taken the job in the first place.

[coolest-cat.livejournal.com]

Maaaaybe the poison was a bit much, though.

[usedfuryswipes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, that's kinda what Nana does, okay? She's a giant bloody scorpion if you haven't noticed.

[coolest-cat.livejournal.com]

...who'd you hate enough to name a scorpion after them, though?

[Random subject change is random. Youji is capable of recognizing a pattern, kthx.]

[usedfuryswipes.livejournal.com]

...why would you think I hate her?

[coolest-cat.livejournal.com]

Scorpions aren't the most flattering thing to point to and say, "This reminds me of you, so I borrowed your name. Hope you don't mind."

[usedfuryswipes.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I think she'd at least be consoled by the fact that she's strong.

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

I'll take your word for it. Reluctantly.

[...]

Do I get to hear anything about this aspiring Amazon?

[usedfuryswipes.livejournal.com]

Ask Chloe if you really want to know, he's known her longer.

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

I'd rather talk to myself.

[gentiana-clusii.livejournal.com]

Oh good, so you are getting along.

[coolest-cat.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure whether I should be flattered that you wanted to replace me, or insulted that you actually thought you could.

[YEAH HE DOUBTS this was conscious but hey.]

[gentiana-clusii.livejournal.com]

There's no replacing you, Kudou.

Chloe doesn't drink as much, for one.

[coolest-cat.livejournal.com]

You could have chosen a more flattering example.

[gentiana-clusii.livejournal.com]

He doesn't smoke as much either.

[coolest-cat.livejournal.com]

And I'm sure he donates half his salary to orphans who need soccer cleats.

[gentiana-clusii.livejournal.com]

Nah, I don't think he likes soccer much.

[coolest-cat.livejournal.com]

[Dry as a Saharan summer.]

How do you live with him.

[gentiana-clusii.livejournal.com]

Same way I lived with you.

[coolest-cat.livejournal.com]

Purely out of spite, then.

[gentiana-clusii.livejournal.com]

Pretty much.

So did you just ring me up to nag about my way with girls?

[coolest-cat.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one who copes by being spiteful.

But I was also wondering about how long you two were taking. And now I know. It's more important for you to make girls cry than to annoy me.

I see how it is, now.

[gentiana-clusii.livejournal.com]

This way we can use the shortcut, genius. We've also been looking at what it'd take to rent a house.

So in other words, being more productive than your lazy ass.

[coolest-cat.livejournal.com]

See, I've been missing your vitriol. So refreshing.

[He stretches his arms back behind his head.]

Well~? What have you found out? If we're going to be dawdle somewhere, it would be nice to have it on a permanent basis.

[gentiana-clusii.livejournal.com]

And here I've been enjoying the break.

[He stops scratching Natsuki's ear, she scoots her nose under his hand in protest.]

Goldenrod's the biggest city too. Fairly central location. If we're going to sit somewhere, it makes the most sense. We can get a place for P9000 a month.

[Video]

[deadfreesia.livejournal.com]

It seems you truly earned that badge, didn't you? Congratulations, Ken-kun.

[Video]

[usedfuryswipes.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Mamoru. [Grins.]

Was all their work though. [He's ruffling Natsuki's long crest of fur now.]

[Video]

[deadfreesia.livejournal.com]

I wonder about that.

Of course, the credit for the battle belongs to them.

[Video]

[usedfuryswipes.livejournal.com]

Wonder about what?

[Video]

[deadfreesia.livejournal.com]

No, it's nothing.

How are you finding Goldenrod?

Re: [Video]

[usedfuryswipes.livejournal.com]

[Don't you just love how oblivious he is?]

It's pretty nice. Seems to be the place a lot of people end up staying.

[Video]

[deadfreesia.livejournal.com]

[It's okay; he suspects it'll click sometime after you hang up.]

Does it? Why do you think that is?

[Video]

[usedfuryswipes.livejournal.com]

'Cause it's big, I dunno.

[Video]

[deadfreesia.livejournal.com]

Is that the cause, or the effect?