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[ ACTION (NEW BARK TOWN) ]

[Waking up in a strange world and being kicked out of the house you woke up in before you're fully awake is kind of weird. Nowi's still struggling to take in her surroundings as she leaves Mom's house. She's not used to getting up this early. "This early" is about ten in the morning, so it's not really early at all, but that's not the point. Nowi finally finds a nice patch of grass and flops down, lying on her back and stretching her arms above her head.]

Maybe I'll just get a little more sleep before I start that adventure or whatever...

[She should probably find the Shepards first though. Chrom will probably be annoyed that she's run off again. She doesn't recognize this place, but surely things will make sense eventually.

Nowi moves to push her hair out of her face only to come to a startling realization. She sits up immediately, reaching up to her ears.]

Wh-What!? What happened? Where are my ears!?

[Her ears aren't missing, they're just small. Instead of long, pointed ears, she's currently sporting human ones.]

How-- How did this happen!? What's going on!?

[Now that she's more awake and she's getting a better look at her surroundings, Nowi's beginning to tear up. Nothing here looks familiar. The buildings look completely foreign and not in the same way most of Valm looks foreign. They were last in a volcano, how did she get here? It isn't long before Nowi's in tears, rubbing her gloves across her eyes in a futile attempt to stop the tears.]

What's going on!?

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[About an hour and a half later Nowi posts a video to the network. Well, it's probably not Nowi doing it, since she's not holding the 'Gear, but probably some poor sap she roped into helping her. The camera is angled down on her, which isn't really hard since she's so short.]

Hi! I'm not really sure how to start this, so I'll get to the point. I've been told that this is "Johto" or something, but I don't really care about that. I'm looking for a bunch of people! An army! We're called the Shepards and our leader-guy's name is Chrom, so if anyone's seen them, let me know!

[There's a pause while Nowi tries to remember what she was going to say. She tilts her head as she taps a gloved finger to her lips. It seems the cameraman (or camerawoman) has decided to keep the 'Gear focused on Nowi's torso, so you're not getting the full horribleness of her outfit. It's still pretty bad though. Yikes.]

Oh, right! I've got a question about my ears.

[She pushes her bangs back to show off her perfectly normal human ears.]

They're not supposed to be like this! They're like... long and pointy and stuff! They're really cute and not... tiny. These are human ears! I'm not a human!

[Way to just announce that, Nowi...]

And one more thing! What's this?

[She points to the ground and the camera pans down to show a Dratini curled up at Nowi's feet. She quickly hurries before the cameraman can say anything.]

Yeah, yeah, I know, a Pokémon or whatever, but that's not what I'm asking! Is it a dragon? It looks kind of like a dragon. It's kind of nice that someone gave me a dragon, but why was it in a ball? --Yeah, a Pokéball, that's not the point!

[She balls her hands into fists and stamps her foot as the camera moves to focus on her again.]

This is really annoying! What's going on around here? I was in a volcano last time I checked, so why am I here!?

[But as quickly as the anger comes it leaves her and Nowi sighs and folds her arms.]

Well, I guess that's all the questions I've got. So if you're listening and you've got some answers, let me know, okay? Thanks!

[And with that, the video ends.]

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Nope!

[Unless you count the everything October decided to be, but he'll just...not talk about that for now.]

They do get a little roughed up, yeah, but there are Pokemon Centers in all of the towns that you can take them to to get healed when that happens, so it's not a problem!

Oh, that's handy! So do they just attack anything they see or what?

No, you gotta tell 'em what to do! ...unless you've got a Pokemon that won't really listen, but that's what getting badges are for.

Anyways, your Dratini knows some moves already. When you battle with them they'll get stronger!

...Ohhhh so you're a Tactician!

[Nowi nods, like this makes perfect sense. She can't even reclass into Tactician, but sure, why not!]

I don't think I'll be very good at that, but I'll try my best!

[...SURE, LET'S GO WITH THAT.]

It's not really so hard, once you've done it for a while! And your Pokemon learn along with you, and kinda know what to do on instinct...if that makes sense?

It'll prolly just be easier once you start traveling.

My name's Jimmy, by the way! What's yours?

Okay! I can handle that!

[She puffs out her chest a little and jabs a thumb at herself.]

My name's Nowi! It's really nice to meet you, Jimmy! You've told me a lot more than that "Mom" lady!

Haha, yeah, Mom's...well, she's nice!

[She...yeah...]

If you've got any more questions, I'll do my best to answer 'em for you! I've been here for a while, so I'm more used to how things work around here.

Hmm... Oh! Where am I supposed to go? That Mom lady said I was supposed to go on an adventure or something. I think. I wasn't really awake so I wasn't paying too much attention.

Well...there's two ways you can go. You can take the ferry over to Kanto, but it costs some money...or walk to Cherrygrove, which is about three days from where you are now.

I went to Cherrygrove myself. It's not really all that bad of a walk, and there are a lot of Pokemon to see on the way!

A little walking never killed anyone! I didn't really like being stuck on a boat for too long. I mean I could turn into a dragon and fly around, but here... Hmm. I'll think about it! But is there like, some specific place I'm supposed to go?

Not really? I mean, you can go pretty much whichever way you want. A lot of people just go straight along the paths and stop at towns and get badges and stuff. Once you get something that can fly, it's a lot easier to backtrack or jump ahead to a new town you wanna visit.

My friend Joker and I did that one month last year. We kinda just flew to different towns every couple days.

Oh wow, so you can fly on one of these Pokémon? I've got to get one! That's probably one of the things I'll miss most, I think. Besides y'know, being able to turn into a dragon.

Mhm! I've got a couple that can fly...but your Dratini there will actually evolve into a form that can fly, one day! If they want to, of course.

[How Dragonite can fly with its teeny wings is another mystery entirely.]

Whoa, really? Maybe she'll look like me!

[...]

Are you a girl?

[The Dratini gives an answer that doesn't help Nowi at all, but she moves on anyway.]

That sounds really cool though! So these guys change forms or something?

Most do, but some don't! I know Dratini is one of those that has three forms- Dratini, Dragonair, and Dragonite. Each form they become is permanent though- they can evolve, but they can't go back to the form they were before once they have.

Huh, that's odd. I mean I can go back and forth between my dragon form and my not-dragon form. But I'll be sure to remember that!

Yup! I have some Pokemon that can evolve, but just haven't for whatever reason! Sometimes they don't because they prefer to stay the way they are, yaknow?

Oh yeah, I can get that! It should be up to them since it's going to happen to them! I'll be sure to ask them!

[...]

But uh, are they all like this guy? Girl? I don't understand anything she-- or he says.

[Jimmy nods.]

Yeah! Some Pokemon- like Psychic types- can talk to us using telepathy, but other than that they can't really talk. But you'd be surprised by how well they can talk to us in other ways. Right?

[That's said to the Manectric next to him, whose ears perk. He gives a low growl, his tail thumping the cot.]

Huh. Well, I'll try to learn how to understand them! Thanks for the advice!

You're welcome! Good luck on your journey, Nowi!

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