[Event] Clinic!

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Characters: OPEN
Location: Death City - Clinic
Rating: Various
Time: February 2nd and onwards!
Description: The doctors and nurses are scrambling throughout the clinic to help with the sudden influx of patients.

The first casualties of the invasion started to limp their way in not long after the zombies and familiars began attacking people in the city. Fortunately there are a few concerned citizens doing their best to protect the clinic from being overrun while those within worked frantically to help anyone who was injured. Despite the desperate situation, the clinic personnel have so far been keeping their calm and working professionally to help any and all injured who come through their doors.

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[pathofstrength]

[...That all seems so normal. Weird, but normal. By the end of Haruka's summary, Sapphire's looking at her like she's grown a second head. The expression eases a little as she glances off to the side to think for a moment before starting her story.]

I'd been a trainer fer years before I left Littleroot. Papa gave me an Aron an' a Torchic ta raise, an' we trained against the wild Pokemon in the woods. An' then I heard about somethin' that happened in Kanto region, where an eleven-year-old boy just became the youngest trainer ta win the Champion title. So Toro an' Rono an' I planned ta go ta other places around Hoenn, an' try ta become as strong as that boy got.

I met Ruby when he had been runnin' from some wild Pokemon. We ended up makin' a bet, ta see who could reach their goal first. Ruby ta win his twenty ribbons - four levels of five categories - an' me ta win eight badges - one fer each gym in Hoenn's League. We had a limit of eighty days...

...we tied. That ended a little more'n a year ago. September 20, an' when BREW brought me here it was nearin' the end a' July. My team's Blaziken, Aggron, Donphan, an' Tropius, an' I've got a Wailord an' a Relicanth that live in the ocean instead a' goin' into Pokeballs.

[hoennmaihime]

[Only because she left out the times they saved the world, Saph. Haruka's not... staring at you as if you've grown a second head, per say, but she's... certainly frowning at you in some confusion. After a minute, she collects herself and raises a hand to tick off her questions with.]

Okay, I have a bunch of questions, but I'm going to do them one at a time, so that things don't get even more confusing?

One: how were you allowed to become a trainer before you were ten? Can you get a trainer licence at an earlier age in your world?

[pathofstrength]

...License? Why would ya need a license?

[hoennmaihime]

[...Well that answers that, huh.]

Because... So that little kids and... evil people? Can't own Pokemon? ...At least legally?

[Actually, why do they have this law if they're not going to enforce it that well? COUGH, TIME TO MOVE ON...]

My second question: why did he have to earn 20 ribbons to win your bet? I mean, yeah, it's possible, but you only need five ribbons from whatever region you're competing in to enter that year's Grand Festival?

[pathofstrength]

[F...rown? Uh. Okay.]

'Cos that was every possible ribbon, same as there's eight possible badges? Ain't ever heard of a "Grand Festival".

[hoennmaihime]

[W h a t. And then, quite flatly:]

The Contest system in our two worlds are kind of different from each other.

[She sits up straighter, and occasionally makes hand gestures while explaining.]

The Grand Festival is like the Championship, except for Coordinators, right? Hundreds of Contests are held all over the region, and Coordinators have to get five ribbons each. Then at the Grand Festival, there's usually one or two appeal rounds, and then after that there's battle rounds until there's one winner left.

[pathofstrength]

Why would there be a "Contest Champion"...?

[That seems really unnecessary.]

Th' way Ruby explained it, there's five different kinds, an' four ranks ta win in a row. An'...

[……okay she has to hold back a giggle. It comes out as a low snicker. Battle rounds?]

An' not tha' it has a thing ta do with Contests, but Hoenn's never had a League tournament.

[hoennmaihime]

Wh- really? Why? I've watched it in person, two years ago when my friend Satoshi entered it!

...And yup. Your Contests are completely different from ours. We don't have anything like that. But why shouldn't there be a Contest Ch- actually, the correct term is 'Top Coordinator'. And why shouldn't there be one? That's my goal!

[pathofstrength]

We ain't in a hurry ta get rid of our Champion!

[Seriously, why would they have a tournament up until now?

Errrrgh.]

I don' know, that's enough about Contests! Our worlds really are different ones, after all.

[hoennmaihime]

[Huh? Also she is holding in a 'HMPH' over that Contest dismissal. For now.]

Why would having a League tournament mean getting rid of the Champion? It only gives the winner the right to challenge them for the title, and that's after they get through the Elite 4. A Champion needs to defend their position, anyway.

[pathofstrength]

...I think we ain't talkin' about th' same thing anymore. Here's what I know - Kanto holds its tournaments ta choose their champion, an' there's chatter 'bout their new system comin' across th' sea ta us. In Hoenn we get in new Champions by a straight-up challenge, but th' Association wants a tournament so that people will really challenge the Gym Leaders! But th' League's got enough on its hands right now without tryin' ta change things around like that...

[hoennmaihime]

...Okay. So we've even got different Gym and League systems as well. I wonder why everything's so different?

Um... and what do you mean by "the League's got enough on it's hands right now"?

[pathofstrength]

[Well, what else would she be talking abou-

.....if the differences between their worlds were that different already, then....

Sapphire's eyes widen.]

Maybe ya don't…well. Ya ever heard a' Pokemon called Groudon an' Kyogre?

[hoennmaihime]

[Jeez Sapphire, do think she's stupid or something?]

Yeah, of course! Who in Hoenn hasn't heard the legends?

...Except they're not just legends. I saw them fight, did you? Stupid, stupid Magma Gang and Aqua Gang.

[pathofstrength]

[Mood shift! It's not possible to be jovial when those Pokemon are the topic of discussion]

...'Cos I did. Everyone saw what happened, didn't they?

[hoennmaihime]

[She shakes her head.]

No. Only the people who were there, and that was just those two gangs, Satoshi, Pikachu, Takeshi, Masato and Wataru. And me.

[pathofstrength]

[…Something tenses in Sapphire's stance, like a slow, held wince.]

An' tha's all ta say about that.

[A question with the tone of a statement. That awakening - that cataclysm - had barely enough significance to speak of?]

[hoennmaihime]

[Haruka's reaction is... decidedly different. Her eyes dull, and her voice sounds tired. Bored.]

Yeah, pretty much. It's not like I was allowed to actually do anything. Other than pray for their safety.

[pathofstrength]

[…there really aren't words to describe Sapphire's thoughts on this.

It just didn't happen.

Sapphire sags a little, feeling as though she's had the wind knocked out of her.]

How'd they stop 'em? Maxie an' [slight cringe] Archie, how'd that end?

[hoennmaihime]

[good god the episode summary on bulbapedia makes no sense why did the writers not care about what should have been the highlight of ag >:c

Also, Haruka is frowning in thought. It's been a while since things went down.]

Umm... the Orbs fell out of Pikachu and Aogiri, the two Orbs became one somehow? Then Kyogre and Groudon stopped fighting, and Matsubusa and Aogiri saw the error of their ways, I guess? So I guess the gangs disbanded as well?

...It was a weird day.

[pathofstrength]

[(because it was such an awful, awful pair of episodes featuring boobsdon and derpogre)


Only one day. No death, no destruction, just some in-and-out deal that Haruka has to think back to remember.

...Sapphire feels a little sick. Topic change time.]

Got it. Anyway, was that the last a' yar questions?

[hoennmaihime]

[(//// that's what I meant - why did the show's writers not care enough to write episodes that weren't awful and not fun.)

Now Haruka's curious as to how things went down in Sapphire's world, but... it's also not hard to pick up on Sapphire's discomfort. So she's no going to push it.

...Okay maybe just a little.]

Um... at a better time, can I ask you about, um... how things... went for you? During that showdown? You don't have to or anything, I'm just... interested, I guess.

Oh, um, I have two more, kind of. Why was the bet for 80 days? And um... what was... Professor Birch like as a dad?

[pathofstrength]

[(it could have been so much better 8'C)

...Haruka is from Hoenn. A Hoenn. She has the right to know.]

Sure, at a better time. After ya've gotten outta here, at least.

[She can figure that having to stew on the story without distractions wouldn't be fun.]

Eighty days - 'cos at the time I met Ruby, I was eighty days from my birthday. I'd heard from Papa of a boy in Kanto who became th' Champion while he was eleven years old, an' I wanted ta be as strong as th' Gym Leaders at th' same age, once I learned it was possible fer a kid so young ta be such a great trainer.

[Talking about that seems to relieve Sapphire's discomfort from the previous topic. She's not quite smiling, but there's a hint of excitement in her expression.]

Papa's great! He's kinda messy, but he keeps his piles a' papers in his office now I've bugged 'im about it enough. I've learned all kinds a' cool things from him. Before I left, we'd go out inta the woods together t' do research on wild Pokemon, an' sometimes he'd keep a Pokemon in th' house he was studyin'. That's how I got Rono an' Toro!

[hoennmaihime]

[...He clearly loves her. And she clearly loves him.

...It's surprisingly hard to hear this. Haruka's head droops and her fringe hides her eyes. Her hands grip the sheets a little too tightly.

Her voice is just as chipper as always, however.]

I... see. You guys must have had a ton of fun. That's great!

So! What happens once you've won all of the badges though, if there's no League to participate in? That's awesome, by the way! What you did, I mean. And that kid who became Champion, he's awesome too!

[pathofstrength]

[…she's acting weird. Hmm.]

There's gonna be a tournament when th' League reforms, so maybe I'll do that. But since that journey I've been trainin' with Winona in Fortree, helpin' th' Gym Leaders - an' a mission fer one of Papa's colleagues.

[A whole different can of worms that would require explaining a lot.]

Senior Red is awesome.