Pokémon battle! And we'll see who is the better trainer! And we'll see who has the bigger Pokéballs!

[mischiefbreeder]

Who: Gold (mischiefbreeder) and Silver (tsuntrader), plus any spectators!
What: Silver issued a battle challenge to Gold, who accepted.
When: Saturday afternoon
Where: The Battle Dome
Summary: Gold and Silver have been in Luceti together for a year and yet have never had a single Pokémon battle. Deciding it's time to rectify, they head off to the Battle Dome to throw down!
Rating: PG? I mean, it's Pokémon...
[Gold had been anxiously waiting for this day. Sure, the standard format for Pokémon battles involved just battling whenever your eyes meet, but if they did that, there'd be constant battles all day, every day. Therefore, these things had to be planned.

...Besides that, Silver was his rival. Always has been, always will be. That makes this battle special. A battle to settle old scores... No, a battle to determine who's the best trainer out of the two of them, and furthermore... To show everyone just how it's done.

It was time. Their battle lies ahead.]

Comments

[infinitefrown]

Hmm. I see. [A nod. Well, good for Masaomi! Ten points! ...but, er, do be careful.]

Go ahead, then. I'll answer as best I can.

[generalflirt]

How do you feel about weapons?

[infinitefrown]

Weapons? [Well, that's kind of a difficult question. Weapons like... the RPG ones he handled a few weeks ago? Like guns and stuff?]

I can't say I've had much experience with them. They aren't used very often at all, at home. [ahaha gameverse...] Overall, Pokémon and their abilities prove more capable for work that might require something like that. [Like policemen: they have billy clubs, but no guns-- just Arcanine and Herdier.] Owning firearms is discouraged.

...While I wouldn't classify Pokémon as mere weapons, their abilities can cover a weapon's jurisdiction. Naturally, one ought to be just as careful handling them, if not more so.

[generalflirt]

So firearms exist, after all?

[infinitefrown]

Unfortunately. [There HAS been a war in the past, at least. Lt. Surge would know.]

[generalflirt]

Ah.. [...] I guess there would be an equalizer needed, after all.

[infinitefrown]

Equalizer? [Ingo's brow furrows. He doesn't mean putting humans and Pokémon on the same level, does he?]

[generalflirt]

Well not to day I would subscribe, but if a bunch of wild Haxorus were to attack a town, they couldn't survive. [Unless they shot them all dead with a machine gun or five or something]

[infinitefrown]

[His frown deepens briefly, but returns to normal soon enough. Masaomi's views may be-- well-- wrong, but he's not from a world with Pokémon. It makes sense that he would think differently.]

There are other ways for a town to defend themselves, outside the realm of human weaponry. Trainers' Pokémon could easily fend them off with the correct type advantages. [His voice is neutral.] Weapons are not to be used against Pokémon. Indeed, they are ineffective against many durable species.

In addition, Haxorus are docile unless their territory is threatened. Towns would not be built inside a group of Haxorus's territory, so an attack would be quite rare.

1/2

[generalflirt]

[...What in the hell]

[generalflirt]

Sideburns-san, you run a Subway, right? Or at least ride on one.

[infinitefrown]

That is correct. [Why do you ask?]

[generalflirt]

By definition, the creation of one of those is going to destroy all sorts of habitats.

[infinitefrown]

[...] Some habitat will be damaged, that is true. However, construction methods are designed to minimize such effects. For example, Pokémon called Onix dig their own large tunnels through the ground. There is a type of Pokémon that normally takes residence in these tunnels afterwards, but they are not native to Unova, leaving the tunnels empty. Therefore, the natural tunnels made by a trained Onix can be used for subways and leaves out the need for other digging instruments that might cause more of a stir.

[Ingo pauses, and regards Masaomi thoughtfully.] I can't say what the relationship is between humans and nature in other worlds, but in mine, humans and Pokémon strive to harmonize their existences. There is, and has been, a balance between the two.

[generalflirt]

Wouldn't those Onix be an invasive species?

[A hum. And he sighs] That's alien to me, I wouldn't know. [He shrugs dramatically, even] Nature's been the antithesis of progress for centuries, and people have only backpedaled on that more or less in my lifetime.