samsa | 005 | Accidental Video

[Something curious has appeared on the Network this morning. There's no visual whatsoever, just blackness, but it is a video, strangely enough. The only thing that seems to be coming through is audio in the form of muffled shuffling followed by a barrage of rapid clicking every now and then. It'll stop for a while before starting up again, sometimes louder when the source gets closer to the Gear. The video continues rolling for what feels like an age, occasional noises unceasing.

Almost twenty minutes after the odd noises started up, a visual starts to emerge...sortof. A light can be seen that slowly starts to illuminate wherever the Gear in question happens to be, and after a moment it's clear that it's inside a bag. ...and whatever scuttled in and accidentally turned it on is still in the bag. Said bag is being lifted and jostled around, which causes the clicking to start up again, quickly joined by some very harsh hissing that doesn't sound happy at all.

The light grows brighter as the bag is opened, causing the Pokemon inside to recoil and hiss even louder, knocking against the Gear as it moves. All that can be said is that it's a bug of some sort, its hard shell a deep purple in the darkness of the bag. It recoils even further as a hand from above can be seen reaching in...and once it gets close enough, the Pokemon strikes hard and fast.

There's a sharp cry of surprise and pain and the bag is abruptly dropped, spilling out half its contents and the Gear along with it. From the ground, the video now shows Kaneki clasping his left hand with his right, holding it tight to his chest while his Zangoose just stands next to his ankle and stares at the bag, dumbfounded. A second later the hissing and clicking intensifies as a tiny Skorupi scuttles past, tail arched high over its back in anger and defiance. THIS IS HIS HOUSE. DO YOU WANNA GO.

...apparently, yes, because it takes about a second for everything to go straight to hell as soon as the Pokemon reveals itself, Rikki diving at the thing like a linebacker with a hiss rivaling its own. Her momentum is enough to knock the Gear away again with enough force to finally turn the feed back off, but not before giving a wild shot of the sky coupled with the hissing and shrieking of the Pokemon fighting one another.]

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...Dude, seriously? You alright over there?

[When Kaneki actually...gets back to Kirikou he's seated awkwardly in the grass with Rikki bristling nearby. The fighting has stopped but his hand is angry red. But hey, nobody died so that's a plus. The Skorupi is nowhere in sight, though.]

I think so...I didn't realize my Gear started recording. Sorry about that.

It's fine. It just seems like your Pokemon are giving you trouble.

Your Skorupi must have felt pretty comfy in there...

Is that what it is?

[He frowns, turning his hand over.]

That Pokemon doesn't belong to me. I didn't even know it was in my bag...

...Seriously?

Well...yeah. I put it down for a few minutes, and when I came back and picked it back up, it was inside.

You have really bad luck or need to, like, keep it super zipped up.

Although I guess you shouldn't leave any of your stuff unattended when you're traveling in the middle of nowhere.

[Kaneki, bad luck? Naaaahh.]

Well, I'm not really that far from town. I can see the buildings from where I'm sitting, actually.

[...speaking of buildings, he's probably going to have to go to the Center after this because wow if his hand isn't starting to ache.]

But...y-yeah, you're probably right. ...the only problem is that...Rikki chased it back into my bag.

...so now I can't get it back out.

Then chase it back out.

[Kirikou it's not that simple, child pls]

[...Kirikou that's not.]

...I don't think it's that easy.

Sure it is, c'mon, we can do it, man. [Kirikou what do you mean we] What Pokemon do you got on you right now?

[...YES, KIRIKOU, WHAT DO YOU MEAN this is Kaneki you're talking to, here.]

Well...I have Rikki here- [He glances down at the Zangoose still lying next to him, who glares up at the camera and at Kirikou by extension.] -a Kadabra, Smeargle, Sneasel, Pidgeotto, and Yanma.

[Hey, she recognizes that voice, who's Kirikou talking to?]

What's that? What's the Pokemon you're up against right now?

[A pause.]

Oh, hi, Kaneki.

Maka?

[Oh, well, this is a surprise.]

It's a, uh...Skorupi, I think he said.

Ah, I see you've met Kirikou. He's a friend from my world.

[Y'know just, casually get that out of the way.]

You can use Lee or Carrie against a Skorupi, though Rikki would probably be all too happy to beat it up herself. Normal types do normal damage against Bug/Poison types.

[Funnily enough, Carrie's out and could be helping, but instead she's just watching the cat fight as it unfolds.]

I'll probably have to let Lee out, then...as I was telling...Kirikou-san?

...Rikki chased it into my bag again.

Pfft, you don't need to call him "-san" either, we're not fussed about titles.

[#America.]

Someone's going to have to flip over the bag to get it out again. Lee can probably do that, birds should be good at getting bugs.

Oh, right. Kirikou, then.

[Yeah, he'll be letting Lee do that. He's had enough of being on the wrong end of a stinger for today.]

...by the way...can Pokemon...poison people the same way they do other Pokemon?

[This is kindof important also his hand is throbbing.]

Ummm...

[Oh geez, Kaneki, can she just not leave you alone for a second??]

I try to avoid that, but...you should probably get yourself to a doctor, I don't think Antidote will work on people.

[It's not like he does these sorts of things on purpose, okay.]

I didn't think so...I'm not far from town, at least...

I'll head back as soon as possible.

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