1st Station ➲ Video

[infinitegrin]

[Hey, haven't you seen this face before, Luceti? Isn't it usually more frown-y, and doesn't that guy wear black?

...Nah, it can't be the same guy, this guy seems so much more exuberant in comparison.]

Got it to work! I am Emmet! I am a Subway Boss. I like trains. I like combinations of two Pokémon. If you have Pokémon, we'll have to battle sometime!

Right! I see a lot of people disembarked on this station instead of the next - I am from the most recent arrival on the schedule! But Ingo is showing me around, so I don't need that much help.

And for those of you who were taking care of my brother while I was away, thank you! He's fussy, but he's a good guy.

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[tsuntrader]

[Oh. Uh. Well he kind of already did when he was inside your brother as a subway, but-]

Which Pokémon do you have? [QUICK, EVASIVE MANEUVER]

[infinitegrin]

[That was a multi battle, Silver, don't get that mixed up! Also, Ingo is a good battler but Emmet is a fantastic double battler.]

Right now? Galvantula. I haven't found the other two.

[tsuntrader]

One of them's some weird metal bug thing, right?

[infinitegrin]

Could be! I have a good number of Pokémon.

[tsuntrader]

Which Pokémon have you had for the longest? [He doesn't want to say "which ones are you the closest to," but...]

[infinitegrin]

Hmm... hard to say! I've been traveling with most of them for quite a while. Galvantula was the Pokémon I started my journey with.

[So yes that explains why he has her.]

Archeops was revived from the first fossil I ever found. Those two aside, most of my other Pokémon have been with me for about the same amount of time. I did have a list of those I use most in the battle subway, so those are the ones I'm expecting to see.

[tsuntrader]

...Archeops? [Fossil Pokémon. Tell him more, Emmet.]

[infinitegrin]

Said to be one of the ancestors of all bird Pokémon! It can't quite attain true flight, but it is a ferocious predator. I have one! She's very cute!

[tsuntrader]

If I see her in transit I'll try to transfer her to your line. [And maybe try to learn at least something about her because he may or may not have picked up some enthusiasm when it comes to fossils thanks to his dad, okay.]

[infinitegrin]

[Man how can Emmet just keep grinning wider and wider like that]

[tsuntrader]

[...Wait, what's with the grin, what-

...Oh god dammit he made train puns again didn't he.]

[infinitegrin]

You really do spend a lot of time on the same track with my brother!

[Grin grin grin]

You should consider becoming a Subway Boss when you arrive at your home station!

[Emmet the requirements to be a Subway Boss should not solely be a love of train puns.]

[tsuntrader]

[Becoming a- what- but--]

I'm from Johto. We don't even have a subway. [We... Have a Magnet Train going to Kanto, but...]

[infinitegrin]

Ah! You have the Magnet Train!

[Excite excite!

He looks about ready to spout off fanatical babbling about oh my god trains.]

[tsuntrader]

...Yeah, we do. [...And the magnet train is great. It's easy access to Kanto. Or rather, it's an easy route to Blue.]

[infinitegrin]

[BLAH BLAH MAGNETS BLAH BLAH LEVITATION BLAH BLAH TECHNOLOGICAL MARVEL BLAH BLAH COMPLICATED TRAIN TERMINOLOGY

Emmet just goes off, babbling excitedly and becoming gradually less coherent in his sentence forming.]

[tsuntrader]

[...Oh good god help

help help]

[infinitefrown]

[Oh. Oop. Oops. Uh-oh. Sounds like a trainwreck is coming out of Emmet's mouth. Time to come to the rescue.

Ingo scoots his chair over until he's in view, then puts a hand on the still-babbling Emmet's shoulder.]

Emmet. [Come back to him. Come back. Back to earth.]

[infinitegrin]

--Huh? Oh! Oops.

[tsuntrader]

[You... Are way too chatty, Emmet...]

[infinitefrown]

Thank you. [With that done, he'll release Emmet's shoulder and look more apologetically back at the journal.]

Greetings, Silver.

[infinitegrin]

Couldn't help it, I was charging straight down the track!

[Emmet laughs, grinning unabashedly.]

[tsuntrader]

[No, Emmet. You went straight off the track. You were a flying train, venturing off into the vast Unown.]

Hi. [Your bro is crazy.]

[infinitefrown]

[...silver's face.]

I apologize for the tangent. As you know, the two of us are both immersed in the workings of trains...

[He's.... smiling, though. Just being able to sit here next to Emmet and talk to Silver.... and poor Silver's confusion is a little humorous. He can't help it.]

[infinitegrin]

It's a love for trains that keeps us bonded!

[Aww yeah Silver all that effort into getting Ingo to smile, now you know the kind of contentment it takes.]

We're a perfect two-car train.