comeatmibro | fifteenth fault; video/action for vermilion

[ Miyuki's been back in Vermilion for the better part of a day by the time she shows her face on the network. She looks cheerful as usual, as if nothing's wrong. The backdrop is a mildly noisy Pokémon Center. ]

So, next stop: Fuchsia City Gym!

I'm gonna check out the Safari Zone after I kick that old man ninja's butt. Most of the stuff there sucks, but I want a Scyther. Turns out they evolve into something pretty cool, for bugs. Who knew? [ She grins cheekily. ]

When I'm done there, I can go hit Cinnabar Gym, then just, like, hang out on Cinnabar Island, maybe. The Seafoam Islands suck. Then I'm just gonna power through Viridian and Pewter. No rush. It's not like anyone's gonna beat my record, hehehehe.

[ Wow, how many things does Miyuki have coming right now? A lot. She doesn't know the Fuchsia Safari Zone is closed, or that the Fuchsia Gym is led by Janine, or that her hopes of sweeping the Kanto circuit at a leisurely pace while still beating everyone else and her own old record have been pretty much dashed, because she's been gone for five weeks.

Feel free to crush her dreams and/or welcome her back to the wide world of Pokémon. ]

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[ Obligatory face-making commencing. ]

Yeah?

[IT'S YOU. ~~HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMAN~~]

I expect you'll be hearing a lot of this in the near future, but: you're back.

Back? Dude, I didn't go anywhere.

[ Side-eyeing you so hard rn, Yagyuu. ]

And evidently you don't remember any of it, either.

[Come at him, little girl.]

You disappeared for at least a month, Chitose-san.

Disappeared?

[ Scoffing! Yagyuu, you must think she's a moron. ]

Dude, I'm not stupid. Find someone else to play your lame jokes on.

[Well, he does, but not because of this.]

Then tell me, without looking at your Gear. What's the date today?

[ Confidently, without hesitation: ]

July 12.

[ Oh, Miyuki.... ]

Now, remembering that I couldn't possibly have touched your Gear, being that I'm currently in Goldenrod City — check your Gear.

[ She looks suspiciously at him, but pulls up the menu on her 'Gear. Yagyuu is treated to her expression of confusion, which first intensifies, then gradually gives way to uncertainty. ]

August... 20?

As I said.

Welcome back.

... Did I, like, fall asleep?

[ She's heard of the long sleeps that the Johto interlopers sometimes succumb to, but she doesn't remember falling asleep, or waking up. ]

Just earlier today, it was July 12....

You disappeared. And in what appears to be an inversion of the paradox, you seem to have returned here at the moment you left — or at least, the one you think you left. While the rest of the world continued along without you.

For what it's worth, that seems to be going around lately. Shiraishi-kun recently made a trip back home, as well.

[BUT NOT YAGYUU, OH NO. NEVER YAGYUU. Because karma could never be so considerate.]

[ Miyuki's eyes roll a little as she glances away, suddenly sullen. ]

Yeah, well, he still doesn't remember me, so whatever.

And I don't remember anything new, either.

What an odd phenomenon. It seems as though you spent no time at all back home before being dragged back here. What point could that serve, I wonder?

Shiraishi-kun, on the other hand, came back a bit distraught himself. It seems his team just lost a rather important round at the Nationals.

[He says, with a perfectly straight face.]

[ Yagyuu, you monster. ]

Not Nationals this year, or he'd remember me. [ They're talking about tennis now, though, so she looks up. ] Were they in the finals?

[Better believe he's enjoying this.]

No, I'm afraid they didn't make it that far. There's no reason to be ashamed of the loss, though — the team they fell to did go on to be the overall victors.

Losing sucks no matter how good your opponent is, dude. [ Deadly serious, here. ] But at least it wasn't the finals.

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