2 - Basic Badge

[bestwishes]

[A: Park, during the day.]

Okay, Infernape... Use Flare Blitz!

[Training in the park as he often does, Ash Ketchum watches as his flaming ape charges the tree... and goes right through it, causing no damage at all. Not even the slightest scorch mark.]

... Huh, that's weird.

[He'll walk over to the tree and decide to try punching it to see what happens. He finds that his fist connects with a now rather solid trunk.]

Ow! That hurt! Infernape, return.

[With the primate Pokémon now returned to it's ball, Ash shakes out his hand a little as he and Pikachu investigate the solidness of the tree.]

[B: Evening, phone]

Hey, anyone else notice anything odd the past few days? I was training this afternoon and Infernape managed to go right through a tree without causin' any damage...

Comments

PHone

[infourbooks]

It's like a bunch of charms all went wrong at once.

[bestwishes]

Even if his attack was lowered that much, he still shouldn't go through the tree.

[... It's not that kind of Charm, Ash.]

[infourbooks]

I... I'm not sure what you mean?

[Is this some Muggle meaning of Charm he's never heard before?]

[bestwishes]

Well, Charm is s'posed to lower a Pokémon's attack, right?

[infourbooks]

I'm not sure what a Pokémon is...

[bestwishes]

Well uh, I guess the simple explanation is that they're creatures with all kinds of mysterious powers?

[infourbooks]

Oh! Magical creatures.

[Makes sense to him]

[bestwishes]

More or less, yeah. There's a lot of scientific research on them, but there's still a lot that's unknown about 'em. There's at least 500 different species in Japan alone.

A:

[foreverandever]

Ah-- It's so cute, so cute!

[bestwishes]

Huh?

Pika?

[foreverandever]

That animal you have is really, really cute! I want one, too!

[1_truth]

I would say so. I fell right through my bed.

[bestwishes]

I'd suggest visiting the Viridian Forest, but it's not exactly possible to get there from here, so...

Pi Pikachu...

[bestwishes]

... Right through your bed, huh?

[1_truth]

Yeah, I guess there's a glitch or something in the system... I'm sure we'll hear about it from Mayor-san soon.

[bestwishes]

Yeah, it's gonna be tricky if people keep goin' through things. It kinda reminds me of the time I was a ghost...

[1_truth]

We'll just have to warn everyone to be extra careful, right? [ He won't comment on the ghost thing. Better for everyone that way. ]

[bestwishes]

I guess, but that ain't gonna stop things from bein' go-throughable.

[1_truth]

[ ....'Go throughable' ....really? That's not even a word. ]

I think you mean briefly intangible.

We can't stop it, but people need to be aware of what could happen if they try and pick up something heavy.

A

[quickly]

[Scout is standing off to the side, watching the entire event unfold before him. His eyes are glued to the giant flaming monkey and as soon as it's sent to some weird little ball, Scout runs over to Ash and starts yammering at a mile a minute.]

DUDE.

DUDE! What the hell WAS that thing?! I ain't ever seen anything like it before! Geez, it was HUGE and the fire, oh man the fire thatissocool

Hey hey hey man can it come out again? I dunno how it even fits in that little thing but I don't care 'bout that right now I just wanna see it wait what's that -- [He finally notices Pikachu.]

This thing ain't as cool as the monkey.

[bestwishes]

R-right, briefly on-tangent. Anyway, I suppose that's a good point too.

[100000v]

... Pika.

[He'll place his tail on scouts leg and let off a minor discharge through it.]

[1_truth]

Intangible.

It'd be pretty bad if someone wasn't careful and lost a foot or something, right? Better warn them.

[bestwishes]

I wouldn't wanna lose any inches, let alone feet.

[1_truth]

[ ..... ]

[ Excuse him while he resists the urge to beat his head on something. ]

...Now's not really the time for jokes.