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1st Genius α Video/Action for New Bark Ω

[It takes him a bit to figure out how the hell to start the feed. When he finally does, all PokéConnect is treated to the sight of a deceptively calm man dressed in purple pants and a white shirt tied with a gray obi, the traditional psychic’s outfit. An Absol keeps pacing behind him, as if expecting him to fall over at any moment and preparing itself to catch him. Honestly, that’s because it is, since its new Trainer has had a massive panic attack that caused him to pass out once already, and Absol can sense that there will be more to come. This is going to be a long partnership.]

Morgan, if this is a prank, alright. You got me. You win the war.

[The man holds up his hands in defeat, still unnaturally calm.]

I don’t know how you did it, but you can stop now. I get it. You can make the Pokémon go away. Once again, I have no idea how you did it…

[His throat gets tight. He struggles to keep his breathing even.

Please, Morgan. Please oh please make this stop.]

But you can stop it now. I have a lot of work to do, and giving me strange clothes, asking a woman to pretend to be my mother, and trying to make me doubt my own sanity is not helping.

[Please let this be a prank. Please say he’s not completely insane.]

And you can turn off the music while you're at it.

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I don't think it's a joke.

[She hesitates a moment, not sure if she should get involved (not sure if she's mentally capable of handling that yet), before she sends another text]

Do you need help? [because asking "are you okay" seems kind of dumb when he's clearly not]

I'm very, very sorry, but this isn't a prank. It's quite real.

[He remembers thinking that this was a prank by his own schoolmates once... so he can relate. Even if he took a little more humorously.]

I first thought this was a prank, but I can tell you it's not... it's all real.

[Oh fuck. Fuck fuck fuck the weird computer thing is beeping at him. He almost doesn't look at it because he's still on the edge of another panic attack, but then he finally pulls it from its place on the ground.]

No. This has to be a joke. Pokémon aren't real, that woman is not my mother, and the creature that keeps pacing behind me is not biologically viable.

[Yes. Yes, he needs help.]

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You don't look so good.

[Oh shit, this thing has a video function too?]

That's not possible.

[Stop it. Stop saying things that further confirm that he is having a massive psychotic break.]

I've never heard of pokemon before, but I guess we're in the same situation. I think a lot of people are, actually. Like we've all been spirited away.

[She considers her options for a moment] Are you in this town too? Bark Town, or something?

My name is Mio.

[She wasn't much better off than him a few hours ago, but she's gone from the point of being too exhausted to do anything but cry, to being too exhausted to do anything but accept that her life has taken another strange, reluctant turn.]

I know- I know it all seems very hard to take in, but it is possible.

Sorry, but it's really not a prank.

[Yeah, you'd take it less humorously too if you'd spent your whole life terrified of inheriting schizophrenia from your mother.]

Why do people keep saying that? It's not true. Look--

[He sits down on the ground, his psychic outfit fitting him very well (he'd actually sort of like it if it weren't for the fact he's panicking) and he points at the Absol. The Absol actually rolls his eyes and pads closer to his Trainer, but Reid shies away immediately, every instinct screaming for him to get away from the wild animal.] I-its--its paws are clearly made for traversing a mountain environment, b-but it has red eyes, which in mammals are usually indicators of albinism because they're caused by a deficiency in melanin which would be extremely bad in an environment with a lot of sun and a requirement to see sharply during the daytime--I mean, it's possible that this animal is an albino of its species, but everyone insists that it's normal and even then that doesn't explain the extremely inefficient placement of its horn--

[He's talking at lightning speed now. Absol sits down on his back legs, wondering if he should do something to prevent another panic attack.]

I'm fine, I'm fine. [He is not fine.] I just have a lot of work to do, and my teammate is taking a joke way too far.

Then explain what it is, because it's not real. [Either it's a prank, it's a psychotic episode, or something else that he can't really think of and that he hopes you can explain.]

Stop talking and breathe steadily through your nose before you start hyperventilating. Around here, wandering around talking to yourself doesn't just make you look like an idiot — it attracts the local welcome wagon to turn up and stumble through trying to explain what's happening to you, and who knows, you might want to be conscious and coherent for that.

[... well, yes. In that case he wouldn't.

Shiraishi tries to keep up and listen to the whole explanation. It does make sense in the real world, but in Pokémon world logic could sometimes be thrown out of the window.

... but of course if you were knew, you wouldn't think like that.]

Ah, yes. I understand it's illogical and too strange to be true... but it's just how things are in this place. Some things here just aren't possible, but they happen. [Uh... how can you explain this properly?]

So please, calm down? I can explain what's going on... well, most of it.

Right, sure. Your partner was really joking, how'd he manage to get so many people in on it?

Pokémon is a popular franchise that rose in popularity while I was still a minor.

Yes. New Bark Town. That's what the people around me are saying. Are you here?

My name is Spencer.

Yeah... The music won't be stopping any time soon.

I am conscious and coherent!

[But yay! Someone who's approach to calming him down is slightly more than saying 'nope this is real and maybe you should chill out'.

He takes a deep breath through his nose, then back out, then in, then out, over and over. Absol raises his head to look at the man who got his Trainer breathing properly, nodding quietly in thanks.

Finally, he's breathing normally again. We'll see how long that'll last.] Who are you?

No. No, it really isn't.

[Trying to get him to accept that it's real and he's not batshit insane will be like smashing her head against a brick wall at the moment. He needs to stop panicking and start breaking it down in his head before he can even consider it being real.]

I can tell, sunshine, you're talking to me.

[Possibly also soothing is that now that the Gear camera is pulling away from his face, there's a better glimpse of Albert available — labcoat and gloves, but sadly no scalpel. Every so often there's a glimpse of something orange wrapped in white bandages shifting on the table in front of him, but it's never enough to see in its entirety what it is.]

Albert Rosenfield. And I'm not the welcome wagon, so don't start asking me to explain what just happened to you. If I knew what the hell was happening around this damn place, I wouldn't still be here.

[Huh, well that's weird then. If it's not supposed to be real, then... Were the things she was told true? Different worlds and the like?

...She doesn't want o think about it right now.]

I am. I'll see if I can find you? I recognize the area fro your video.

No. The definition of 'not possible' is that it can't happen. Everything beyond an atomic scale abides by a certain uniform set of rules. There is no 'it's just how things are'; there are always reasons and there are always constants and there are always cause and effect.

And this is calm. [Sort of. Or, well, it's calm compared to how he was before he started recording. Which is sad, but Absol can attest.] What could possibly make this make sense?

Morgan once got an entire city's worth of investigative journalists and a few dozen people besides to call me on my cell phone. He's pretty good at getting a lot of people in on things.

Where is it coming from?

[Because it's starting to drive him nut. Or, well, more nuts than he probably already is.]

[Wow, that man was amazing -- not the time for praising the Morgan man.]

Wow. ...Well I've never heard of Morgan, so I can't be in on the prank.

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