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[Well, sort of accidental. Reid doesn't know about it, but Missy totally turned it on on purpose.

At first, all there is is smoke, and the sound of coughing.

And then there's light, and for those who are familiar with it, Violet from outside the Violet Gym. Missy felt the need to televise this because LOOK LOOK HER TRAINER GOT HIS FIRST BADGE EVERYBODY! 8D

While Missy is chattering about how awesome the battle was and how proud she is of Reid and how she wants to ride a bird now and on and on, Yang looks ready to collapse, Reid is cradling Elle in his arms because she's already collapsed, and Reid is doubled over in a horrible hacking coughing fit. Missy flies circles around him with his Munna (who is being ridden by a Litwick) and a Yamask, and after about a minute of straight coughing, the Yamask starts to grumble and floats right at Reid, pressing one appendage to his back, another at his throat, and forcefully straightening him while massaging the esophagus.

The coughs stop immediately, and Reid gets rigid at the unexpected contact. After a couple more moments, the Yamask releases him and floats back into the ring of undamaged flying Pokemon, grumbling about how he should just be like everyone else and go into a gym with massively over-leveled Pokemon next time.]

Uh, thank you, Amanda. You see, guys, this is why I teach you about physics. He was more experienced than me and had stronger animals, but taking advantage of thermodynamics--

[Elle paws him in the chest. Less lecturing, more going to the Center.]

Oh, right, sorry. [He starts approaching the Center, and his new badge gleams on his shirt.] While the nurse is looking at you both, I'll get something to thank you.

[And he is still blissfully unaware of Missy broadcasting the whole thing.]

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[THIS IS AN ACCURATE ASSESSMENT.]

You're just finding the ghosts particularly fascinating, aren't you? You said you were planning to try for one of every type, but I count three ghost-types and only one of each of the others.

Well, I didn't intend to keep Amanda. [But yeah, you got a point, and yeah, he feels comfortable enough to give a straight answer.]

I do have to admit that I find Ghost- and Psychic-types particularly fascinating, but considering what I do for a living, it's not unexpected. I'm not sure exactly from what year you're from, but depending on that, I'm from the Behavioral Analysis Unit or the Behavioral Science Investigative Support Unit. The name changed in 1997 before I was a part of it. You may or may not know about it, since it wasn't considered as important in the nineties and its focus has always been on violent or extremely destructive crime, not on theft.

I may or may not know about it?

[The thought is somehow so charming to her. Nobody ever assumes she doesn't know something — what an utterly novel experience.]

I do keep tabs on the FBI, you know, in a...professional capacity. Confidential files tend to make slightly better reading than an in-flight magazine.

But please do keep showing off for me. It's fascinating to listen to.

Oh, no, I didn't mean to imply--it's just that the, uh, the BAU and its predecessors didn't enjoy much prestige, considering the stigma of psychology being a soft science, and I thought you might have--never mind.

[Too bad you can't see him on video, because he's always cute when he's flustered. Don't worry, Carmen, he doesn't doubt your intellect for a second.]

What I mean is that my career revolves around death and psychology, so it makes sense that I would gravitate towards Pychic- and Ghost-types.

That, and Ghost-types have extremely fascinating characteristics, like Litwicks and their evolutions consuming life force or Misdreavus and their evolutions consuming fear or Yamasks being able to possess a person with a mask. I'm interested in learning more about how these things work.

[It's probably for the best that this isn't video, anyway, or she might take it as encouragement to keep teasing him.]

Assuming you were of a mind to continue your career here, during this little vacation from your own world. You might've just as easily done the opposite and gravitated to Grass-types, just for the sake of a change of pace.

But if it's Pokemon characteristics you're interested in, you should play Trivial Pursuit with Zack sometime. He's never one to turn down a willing partner.

[He gives a soft laugh at the mention of Grass-types.] I'll be honest: I don't think I can even imagine myself not doing what I do. I think I'll always gravitate to it.

Zack? Who is he?

I couldn't imagine doing anything but being a detective, once. Life is full of surprises.

[And for a long time there she couldn't imagine going back, either, BUT LATELY...hnnnnngh.]

A type of Pokemon I happen to find particularly fascinating — a Porygon2. The first artificially-created Pokemon.

[Well, as far as Reid can see, the only way he'd decide to stop hunting down serial killers is if he really did develop schizophrenia. As comfortable as he is with Carmen, that's not a topic he will ever bring up under any circumstances, so he just leaves it at,] Well, you have a point.

Artificially created? I've read a little about Porygons, but there isn't as much publicly available information about them as there is on naturally-occurring animals.

He doesn't need to eat or breathe, and he's generally happiest when he's interfacing with the network through my PokeGear. He also previously had a bad habit of sneaking onto my account when he thought I was otherwise occupied and trying to make friends with our fellow residents by telling them puns. That's mostly ironed out now, though, but he does still like to talk to people. It helps him learn and refine the nuances of human interaction, and that's a pursuit I don't mind encouraging.

Just don't ask me to explain how I managed to hatch a bird comprised of programming code from an egg. There are some mysteries that seem destined to remain that way.

Does he have a physical form, or does he only exist on a digital level?

[Once he's done with his other research, he wants to look at these things.]

I'm surprised that they managed to artificially create a creature with a personality. How much do you know about the process of creating a Porygon?

He has a physical form, but he seems to be able to switch between the two. And I suspect he likes the incorporeal one better, given the amount of time he spends inside my Gear. [Pause.] And the fact that it's easier for him to make himself understood that way. Outside of cyberspace, his range of speech is mostly limited to a handful of tonal sounds, and it tends to be much easier for his audience to read words on a screen than to translate his Morse Code from dots and dashes into sentences in real time.

[But she considers that second question a minute before answering, her tone highly amused.]

Ask me that again the morning after I find the lab that first created one.

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