4th Sapphire Cupcake: [Video / Action for Cianwood] - Backdated to 27 April, early morning

[rather_eat_turquoise]

[The feed suddenly clicks on at an ungodly hour of the morning, on a weird angle which shows that it's obviously sitting on the floor and has been accidentally turned on. There are crashes as growling Trapinch dashes past, followed by an annoyed looking Pineco.

The feed shows the two attempting to tackle each other and dodging, hitting furniture and slamming into the walls.

At this point, if anyone is wondering where the heck their owner is, he's dead to the world, snoring on the bed. You can just hear him in the background over the noise these two pokemon are making.

The pair become tangled up in a corner of the blanket which is draped on the floor. Struggling to both get loose, they pull the entire blanket off the bed, dragging three eggs with it.

They hit the ground with a crack and the feed blinds everyone watching with a series brilliant white lights.]

Karp...karp...karp...karp.

Reeeeep, Mareep?

Hor...seaaaaaa.

[The light fades and Spike's three newest pokemon are revealed (well, at least two of them...the Magikarp egg rolled off screen). Spike's Trapinch and Pineco, obviously surprised by this development, immediately start arguing, each blaming the other for what happened.]

What? Who's there?

[Cue their bleary owner, who has finally woken up.]

What the!?! YOU GUYS HATCHED?

[You can see Spike's feet as he hops off the bed, and starts frantically running around the room]

Oh Celestia, whatdoIdowhatdoIdowhatdoIdo???

Okay, stay cool Spike...you can handle this....

Wait, YOU'RE A FISH?!?

[A beat]

Water! I need water!

[Spike's legs race past into the bathroom, and you can hear the water being turned on in the bathtub as he dumps his Magikarp into it.]

Comments

voice

[griptape]

Isn't your other Pokemon a sea horse? Shouldn't you put that one in water as well? Or maybe the best idea would be to put them in the balls seeing as it seems to be an universal container for all Pokemon types... but wouldn't that mean there has to be water in them and how would the fire types react to it...

[Shinji's muttering becomes less and less audible as he pretty much forgets he was talking to the Pokegear and moves away to discuss the innards of a Pokeball with himself]

Voice

[rather_eat_turquoise]

[Shinji will probably hear Twilight come busting into the room in the background. Spike hears Shinji on the Pokegear, which he didn't even realise was on until then and belts back into the room.]

OH CELESTIA! MY HORSEA!

[The feed will show him screeching over to her, hauling her up and running back into the bathroom to drop Horsea into the tub]

[A short time later, after leaving Shinji to discuss pokeballs to himself, Spike comes back to the gear.]

Ahaha thanks for that. Sorry if that woke you up. I don't know how this turned on, although I have a pretty good idea. [He turns to glare at Acorn and Pinchy, who are all of a sudden looking extremely innocent.]

I don't know...I mean, I know you're supposed to keep them in pokeballs, but that seems kind of mean.

Voice

[griptape]

[Seriously, it's like everyone just had to be noisy today.]

I don't know, I keep the furball out whenever I can [and there's a swii in the background] but he doesn't seem to dislike the Pokeball and in the case of your Pokemon... well, I bet they would prefer being put into Pokeballs over slow and painful death of dehydration... I wonder how long would they be able to survive without water.

Voice

[rather_eat_turquoise]

Death? [Spike looks alarmed.]

Well...uh...I mean, they're both in water now...so they'll be fine, right?

Voice

[griptape]

Yeah, that's probably the case. However, you might look into their specific requirements when it comes to water, if their natural environment is seas or rivers... I haven't been here long enough to be an expert but if they are similar to fish I know, they would have their preferences...

Voice

[rather_eat_turquoise]

[Spike nodded as he listened. The more information he had about his pokemon the better. Besides, Twilight would probably be watching over his shoulder to make sure he wasn’t slacking off.]

I didn’t think about the type of water. [He glances towards the bathroom with a frown.]

They seem to be pretty happy now. I’m sure they’d let me know if it was the wrong kind, but I’ll check anyway.
 
Do you have any water pokemon?

Voice >> Video

[griptape]

Water Pokemon? Nope, I only heve the furball here and unless I'm missing something, he doesn't seem particularly watery, he's more on the icy side... hey, I'll show him to you.

[The video clicks to reveal a boy with serious expression trying to hold a Swinub within the camera's range. After a few mumbles about Pokemon who just wouldn't sit still followed by daring escapes by the Swinub, Shinji just sighs and pulls out a berry. Placing it in front of the Pokegear actually works!]

"Swii!"

[With that breathtaking commentary delivered by Swinub, Shinji returns to the Pokegear.]

So, do you know this type of Pokemon? This is the one that has been with me since I arrived here, I haven't tried catching others yet...

...although I guess it won't be long until I get some more.

[He holds the Pokegear so the camera would catch the two eggs resting nearby.]

Voice >> Video

[rather_eat_turquoise]

[Spike studies the small brown pokemon. It kind of looks like a baby boar]

I haven't seen one of those before. What's it called?

[Gee it seemed like everypony had eggs to hatch around here!]

Do you know what's in the eggs?

Video

[griptape]

It's a Swinub or so I've been told but I refer to him simply as the furball, to think of it, I probably should give him a real name soon now that I know it's a boy...

[Shinji mutters some possible Pokemon names under his breath until he finally returns to the conversation.]

Oh, eggs... I know one is supposed to contain a bird of some sort and the other is a plant. I was told how they are called but I've never heard about them before so I don't remember...

Video

[rather_eat_turquoise]

A swinub huh? [Spike takes the opportunity to quickly scribble something in his notebook and sketch a picture of the swinub for future reference]

A plant? That's kind of a weird animal...although I have an electric sheep, so it's not like I can talk.

[Spike crosses his arms] Hopefully your bird isn't an owl.

And if it is, don't call it Owlowiscious...

Video

[griptape]

If you want to see them, I can contact you once my eggs hatch and show you the Pokemon? But they will probably turn out to be really boring and you'd be disappointed...

[Owlo-what?]

That name sounds weird, I definitely wouldn't be using it... if one of my eggs hatched into an owl, I'd call it... [He starts muttering again, this time about possible names for an owl Pokemon.] Did you have some kind of bad experience with owls?

Re: Video

[rather_eat_turquoise]

[Spike waves one hand]

Pshaaaw. These guys (pokemon in general) definitely aren't boring. Difficult to handle, yes. I want to see what they hatch as. Are you a breeder too?

[Spike huffs]
Let's just say, owls and I don't get along so well.

Video

[griptape]

Huh? No, I'm not a breeder, just a regular trainer. However, this breeding thing seems like something many people around do. What's it like? Do you, uh, force your Pokemon to make babies all the time?

[Shinji starts mumbling about something and blessed be Arceus for the low volume of his voice as said something is probably details of Pokemon reproduction.]

Re: Video

[rather_eat_turquoise]

[Spike blinks. This conversation suddenly got awkward.]

Er...well no. I mean, I'm just starting out...and...oh man I really don't want to think about how they make babies.

I guess they'll....have eggs whenever they want to. I wouldn't force them to do it. It's up to them.

Video

[griptape]

[Awkward? Why would you even think that.]

Starting out, huh? Did your Pokemon have had any eggs yet or are you yet to become a Pokedaddy?

Video

[rather_eat_turquoise]

Um, no not yet. I got all these guys from other breeders and the breeding centre. I'm not sure how long it will take for them to start breeding.

I really hope it's not soon...

So coz you're a trainer, does that mean that none of your pokemon ever have eggs? That seems kinda weird...