3rd Sapphire Cupcake: [Video / Action for Cianwood]

[rather_eat_turquoise]

[The feed clicks on to Spike looking cheerful but a little dubious. He's sitting on an already made-bed, surrounded by four large eggs. Luckily his Trapinch is off destroying something else in another room, and his Pineco seemed content to stay sleeping on the window sill.]

Hi, it's Spike here, your friendly neighbourhood dragon.

So, everypony is out working or training right now, and I'm stuck here looking after these eggs.

[Yep, Spike may have gone a little overboard with his egg collecting. So being back at the inn 'egg-sitting' is his own fault really.]

Does anypony know exactly how to look after these guys? [He rubs an imaginary dirt mark off one with the edge of the blanket]

I mean, I'm not supposed to sit on them or anything, right? Coz that would be way too weird.... And Fluttershy went home before I came, so I can't ask her.

[He looks a little concerned now]

If anypony can give me any advice on what I'm supposed to do to hatch eggs, that would be great.

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[soundmind]

Mm...sometimes, a little bit. But she doesn't try to actively hurt me, sometimes she just has too much electricity stored in her body.

[rather_eat_turquoise]

[Spike's finding this quite interesting, and grabs his notebook to jot some information down about electric pokemon.]

They can store it? You mean, kind of like magic?

But what happens if there's too much? Because that doesn't sound fun...

[soundmind]

Umm...I guess! [She wouldn't know, she can't do magic.]

If there's too much, Bolt generally goes off and flies around to discharge it. Otherwise when you touch her, it's a lot like touching something charged with static electricity.

[rather_eat_turquoise]

Huh. Well, I haven't really seen Twilight 'discharge' magic or anything. Maybe you can't get a build up of magic...

But what about if she uses it all up? She won't die or anything, right?

[Spike suddenly looks concerned, and pauses in his notetaking to look at Maka.]

[soundmind]

[By the look on her face, she seems as though she hadn't considered that!]

Oh, gosh, I...I think they get sick or at least tired if they use up their electricity, but...if it got any worse, maybe they would die.

[HOW UPSETTING.]

[rather_eat_turquoise]

[Spike realises he totally said the wrong thing, and a panicked look crosses his face as he tries frantically to backpedal.]

Oh, uh...I'm sure that's not the case! I mean, I'm pretty sure she'd know when she was running low or something and let you know, and then you could take her to a pokemon centre or something. I mean, it'd be like being hungry, you know? Everypony knows when they're hungry, and then she'd just have to replenish...

[Now he's just rambling in a rush, trying to ease Maka's mind.]

[soundmind]

Ahh...

[Ironically, when he starts trying to ease her mind, she becomes embarrassed about freaking him out in the first place.]

No, no, don't worry about it! Bolt's smart, she'd tell me what's going on.

[Yes, Spike, she did in fact just say for YOU to not worry as opposed to her.]

[rather_eat_turquoise]

[Spike breathes a sigh of relief.]

Yeah, pokemon seem to be pretty smart. Sometimes a little too smart if you ask me.

Why did you name her Bolt?

Is it like, from lightning bolt? You know, because she's electric and everything.

[soundmind]

Uh-huh! I know it's pretty cheesy, heh, but she's so speedy too I figured it was appropriate to name her after lightning itself.

Ah sorry for the massive delay!

[rather_eat_turquoise]

Well, I named Pinchy Pinchy because he always bites me, and because he's a Trapinch.

So I guess we both give our pokemon some cheesy names. [He laughs]

Maybe that's why he doesn't like me?

No no, the blame for the delay is on me always

[soundmind]

I don't know if a Pokemon is entirely conscious of the meaning behind the names that you give them, they can probably like the sound of it while not getting the meaning.

[Shrug!]

I generally name mine after figures in mythology or characters from books, but maybe it's just in Pinchy's nature to bite? If he's a Trapinch and all.

Re: No no, the blame for the delay is on me always

[rather_eat_turquoise]

What's a mythology figure? [Spike's not familiar with the word or how it relates in his world.]

That sounds like something Twilight would do. She loves books way too much.

[He sighs]

It's probably why his mouth is so big. I just hope it doesn't get any bigger when he evolves.

Because that would not be fun.

[soundmind]

Um, someone that's in a story that's been passed down for a really, really long time. A story that you're not sure is true or not, but mostly myths are considered to be not true.

[Give her a moment, she'll look up what a Trapinch evolves into.]

...Huh. Actually--[she shows him a picture]--it looks like Pinchy won't have a mouth at all when he evolves.

[rather_eat_turquoise]

Oh! We have stories like that! Like the one about Nightmare Moon! Except that turned out to be real...

[Spike peers at the small image on the screen, brightening up.

No mouth! That's great!

Uh...how will he eat?

[soundmind]

Well, since he looks like a bug, bugs have mouth parts that they use to feed. It just looks like he won't have those big teeth anymore, and maaaybe he won't bite so much.

[rather_eat_turquoise]

Really? [Spike had never really given much thought about how bugs ate. That was more of a Fluttershy thing.]

I hope so. Because I'm pretty tired of it. Although this is Pinchy we're talking about. I bet he'll do something else just as painful or annoying.

What about your pokemon? Does she evolve into something?

[soundmind]

Doesn't seem like it, but that's okay, she's fine the way she is. [Besides, something potentially bigger clinging to Maka's head doesn't sound very appealing.]

[rather_eat_turquoise]

Hmm I read that some don't evolve. It's really weird that some do and some don't. Even Twilight couldn't really explain it.

I wonder if they'll evolve more one day?

[Not that he'd want Pinchy to get bigger. That's just a big fat no.]

[soundmind]

Maybe they will, though I imagine it'd take a few years. That is how evolution comes to be in the first place, little changes over a long period of time. I wonder how long it took Pokemon to achieve evolving in the way they do in that case? It doesn't seem like it has any actual ties to science that I know of.