peridork | May 8th, 11 PM | Video

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May 8th, 11 PM | Video | New Bark Town

[In contrast to the handful of messages that Peridot has sent out to the network in the past, there’s no dramatic lead in to her video message this time. It’s just her, in front of the camera, looking exhausted and just generally annoyed, and she cuts right to the chase:]

…So apparently I’ve been “gone” from this world for a significant amount of time, however that’s supposed to work.

[There’s a moment where she seems like she’s going to ask for some kind of explanation, but you know what? Ugh. No. She’s not going to bother complaining or trying to make sense of this nonsense. YOU WIN, JOHTO. Forget questioning the mechanics of time and space here, this gem’s just going to move on to the bigger fish that need frying:]

I don’t suppose anyone has any idea where I might find the rest of my Pokemon? Clod’s here, [and sure enough, the little Elgyem is poking her head into frame, and she looks pleased as punch to be reunited with her trainer,] but the rest are conspicuously absent.

[Midnight approaches, and with it, Glitch City. Anyone who answers her call is in for a potentially unpleasant conversation, once everything around turns into blocks.]

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[Oh, it's this one again. Good news? Envy has one of her Pokemon. Bad news?]

Oh, I have an idea where one of them is.

[Bad news is that Envy is the world's most petty person and he's still kind of mad about that whole Eevee-stealing thing.]

[Oh no. It takes some effort for Peridot to avoid grimacing visibly, but even still there's a distinct tension in her shoulders as she gears up towards answering.. She gives Envy a hard look.]

You don't say.

[BIG OL' GRIN.]

Yeah, it's the weirdest coincidence. I think I might have even seen your purple rat not five minutes ago, running around my house.

Amethyst!?

[She tries to curb her enthusiasm, mainly because she doesn't want to let on that Envy has something she very badly wants back, so WITH GREAT STIFFNESS:]

Great. You can go ahead and send her back over to me, then.

I could...

Or, I mean, I could just keep her. You're so big on taking other people's Pokemon, you get it right?

[He doesn't even want to keep Amethyst permanently, but that doesn't mean he can't be a jerk about it. Besiiides, what's she gonna do from all the way over in New Bark? This can just be a problem for Future Envy to deal with.]

Are you SERIOUS RIGHT NOW?

[Sure didn't take long for her to blow her stack. She's right up in the camera and everything now too.]

Look, you got your stupid eevee back, didn't you!? So give me my rattata back before I come over there and I TAKE HER from you!

Oh yeah? And how're you gonna do that? You won't even be able to get here for weeks.

[He is wearing the smuggest of faces right now. No matter how much of a redemption arc he's had, Envy will basically always be an asshole at heart.]

[And no matter how much of a redemption arc Peridot has had, she will always be a high-strung brat. Case and point:]

I don't care how long it takes, I'm going to get my rattata back! She's MINE, and you can't keep her!

You can just TRY it.

[And with that last smarmy comment, Envy hangs up on her. Ah yes, this will surely not come back to bite him at all.]

[Peridot spends a few long seconds staring at her blank gear, utterly INCENSED with fury, before she gets it together and starts snatching her stuff up to hit the road. SHE'S COMING FOR YOU, PUNK.]

[Envy will be out in Goldenrod for the afternoon, wandering around because he was dared by his housemates to see if he could find any giant skeleton dinosaurs in all the blocky mess.]

[He even has Amethyst's Pokeball with him, although he doesn't have any Pokemon out because their weirdness was creeping him out.]

[Even with the glitch in effect it takes Peridot several hours to catch up to where he is. Several horror filled, panicky hours of staring at the blocky landscape in dismay and yelping every time she gets ambushed by pixelated animals in the tall grass.

Unsurprisingly, she's in a horrible mood when she does finally catch sight of Envy. She screeches to a halt, eyes narrowing, growling and scowling with ill intent. She points.]

YOU...

[Guess what voice Envy wasn't expecting to be hearing for another couple of weeks or longer?]

[...oh right. The block glitches. He's willing to bet that they had something to do with this. But no time to really think about that, because this became Future Envy's problem a whole lot quicker than he'd thought it would.]

[He hates being Future Envy.]

[He whirls around, a big scowl on his face that's mainly there to hide how startled he is.]

You! What are you doing here already?!

Maybe your friends have them? I'd check there first! Or maybe one of the Pokemon Centers, they seem to like taking care of pokemon...

[But geez, your companions just kinda get set loose when you leave? That's.... a little worrying.]

... Was it weird, coming back?

[If Peridot looks taken aback, it's only because answering that question... is...]

I don't... really... [muttering] have any here, YES. It was quite "weird" coming back, if by weird you mean jarring and disorienting.

What? That's silly! Everyone's gotta have a few friends here, with how nice everyone is.

[Ruby focus.]

Can you, uh... tell me about it? If that's okay?

[She huffs, rolling her shoulders.]

It's not like there's much to tell, really. I was home. Then I was here. Same as the first time, I just... remember having been here before.

[Well that seems to match up with what everyone else said that one time Ruby sent a public video out. But still...]

Were things... different at all back home? Thanks to this place?

What, like, does this world have any effect on the one I came from? Negative. I noticed absolutely no changes. In fact, my friends didn't even seem to realize that I had been gone in the first place, even though I was present in this world for months.

Look who's back.

_{[Yeah, he remembers dunking her in the trash.]}

Ralph?!

[Peridot's picking up her gear and preparing to storm out onto the trail when the call comes in. She's actually kind of visibly excited to see that familiar mug, for a second? But then she remembers their last interaction before she left for a while and then she's not quite so happy anymore.]

Can't talk. Need to go fight Envy.

[Except she's not hanging up so. Y'know. Obviously she's fishing for a conversation.]

_{[Her sudden excitement comes as enough of a surprise to wipe the smirk off his face. His surprise is quickly traded for confusion when she swaps gears.]}

Woah, woah, hold up! Why?

Because he has Amethyst, and he's refusing to give her back!

_{[Ralp blinks for a moment. Envy is his buddy but that's...]}

Not cool. If I see 'em first, I'll get her back for you.

_{[Sure Peridot's a horrible goblin but they're on the same team. Or so he assumes. He's suddenly wondering why she isn't in the base.]}

[She pauses in her flurry of activity and looks directly at the camera. She seems... Choked up? Her voice sounds kind of watery at any rate.]

W-wow, really? Thanks...!

[SNIFF. She tries to hide wiping away a single tear by rubbing her one leaky eye under her glasses. SHE'S NOT CRYING. Listen, her voice is even back to its usual obnoxious nasally timbre now:]

Just for that, I forgive you for locking me in a garbage can one time, and I officially rescind my vow to make you pay for that action.

_{[The surprises just aren't stopping today, are they? What is this all about? Is this the same Peridot? It has to be! She remembered her grudge against him.]}

Uuuuuh, you...okay there? And I didn't lock you in, you're just too puny to lift the lid.

[Canon updating to after several episodes worth of learning the POWER OF FRIENDSHIP will do wonders for your shitty personality like that.

Well. That, and she's just very stressed out right now.]

I-I'm fine! It's just... If I'm going to be stuck here again, I just want my Pokemon back! And achieving that would be so much EASIER if I'd woken up back at the Goldenrod base again, I don't understand why I'm all the way out in New Bark Town, I mean what even IS THIS?

_{[He can't really blame her. He'd miss Blanca and Sonic a lot.]}

I dunno...by all means you oughtta woken up out here.

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[Her brows crease with worry. It really doesn't make sense.]

Do you think I should head back to base? The admins haven't contacted me...

[She feels strangely not keen on re-assimilating into Team Rocket, truth be told.]

Now that's odd...let me try something.

_{[The feed ends and for a moment there aren't any replies. When he returns, Ralph is looking worried.]}

Okay, so, turns out I can't get the private channel to connect to you so...maybe you...shouldn't.

_{[Uh oh. Is he going to have to beg somebody he SHOVED IN TRASH CAN not to rat him out for being a rocket?]}

[Fortunately for Ralph Peridot's not enough of a jerk to do that.]

W-wait... What's that supposed to mean?! Did they kick me out or something?

[THE VERY THOUGHT. It's so offensive. She doesn't want to go back but she wants it to be on her terms, not because the admins gave her the boot.]

_{[Ralph is still in fret mode so he offers up a broad shrug.]}

Beats me! Count your blessings, pal.

What blessings!? What if the admins have my other Pokemon!?

Yeah, but you don't have to answer to anybody.

[Pause. Frown.] Honestly? That sounds kind of intimidating. Like, what the heck else am I supposed to do around here if I'm not being yelled at about swiping people's Pokemon?!

Anything you want.

You could literally be anything. Be a Pokemon Master. Be a firefighter. Open a deli. Run an underground Mr. Mime charades competition ring. The list goes on and on!

But -

[The frown deepens. She looks down towards her feet, brow creasing.] How am I supposed to - I mean, I can't just restart like this! How am I supposed to do anything without my Pokemon? I want them back, I'm the one who trained them, they're mine!

Hey, hey. Don't sweat it, little sister. I'll help you any way I can.

_{[Like a GOOD GUY!]}

[Ralph you're gonna make her cry again. SNNNFFF.]

Wow, th-thanks...! Y'know you... You're a real gem, Ralph.

...

In the metaphorical sense.

...

Not the literal sense.

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