friendyousohard | 21st Spell: [Video/Action for Olivine]

[The view opens to a shot of the sea. Pure, pristine, gorgeous...

And apparently filled with swarms of oncoming Pokemon.]

Tesla, fire!

[A huge blast of electricity rips past Twilight into the sea, striking all the nearby swarming fossil Pokemon and knocking out a good chunk of them.]

Thank Celestia for strong Electric-types... Does anyone know what's causing this? I woke up this morning and the town was practically covered in these ancient Pokemon. I've been doing my best to hold them back, as have several others, but they just keep on coming no matter what we do. Is this happening everywhere?

[A small group of Kabuto, Omanyte, and Tirtouga dare the beach again only to be zapped into unconsciousness by Tesla. The Magnezone doesn't even seem tired when Twilight turns the camera on it, though it would probably be hard to tell...]

We've been okay so far, but we can't keep this up forever. And what if they start coming from somewhere aside from-

[There's a loud cry from behind. Twilight whirls around and the shot pans up to show the top of the lighthouse-

Which is covered in Archen that have just flown down from Route 39.]

The sea. Oh horseapples.

[One of the Archen screeches as it lifts off, and the feed ends with that ominous shot.]

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True. It's like the inverse of the old saying that you don't know what you've had until you lose it. Which also applies to our current situation, given how often we seem to think of ways our magic would be useful.

[She could also apply it to her human body as opposed to her unicorn one, but she knows full well talking about that with Kayneth will just make him uncomfortable.]

Yes, exactly. At this point, I find both to be extremely valuable, so I'r really rather not do without either of them. If only completing the gym challenge returned your original abilities to you as some sort of tangible reward...

The TMs and money are a bit of a tangible reward, at least? Though honestly only a couple of the moves have been all that useful to me.

They seem like they may be interesting to experiment with, but the fact that they're one-use makes them a bit limited... surely, they could at least provide some sort of repair service for completing the league challenge. And... honestly, if that was meant to be the actual reward for challenging every gym, then I'd imagine people would just challenge the gyms that give out useful TMS and the most money.

Well, if you're in a city already, you might end up deciding to challenge the gym anyway, just on the basis of "why not, I'm here and I might as well". Also, the cities people are most likely to avoid because they're out of the way are Azalea, Cianwood, and Blackthorne, and two of those have some of the best rewards, the Fly HM from Cianwood and the sheer monetary reward from Blackthorne.

Hm, yes, that's true. It's a shame that Azalea, at least, is ignored outside of that due to being out of the way; outside of the fact that you can't get a decent drink to save your life, it's a fairly pleasant place.

...actually, thinking about it, maybe it's some sort of strange means of attracting tourists? It does get you traveling and seeing the sights, at the very least.

I suppose that could work as a plan. If you get someone to come to each and every city, chances are they'll find the various shops and landmarks while they're there. And they'll pass those on, which would-

[There's the sound of several angry screeches and a lightning strike in the background, and she turns away.]

Oh dear, that's a lot of Aerodactyls. I seem to have forgotten that I'm in the middle of a battle here. A one-sided one, but still.

[...he would have been happy to consider more tourism talk but it... seems as though some of the fossils surrounding him heard that and... did not take it particularly well.]

Ah, yes, I did get a bit sidetracked, didn't I...?

[He glances a bit furtively over his shoulder to his increasingly frantic Archeops and sighs in frustration.]

...well, it seems as though negotiations may be breaking down, so I'll leave you to that. I'll talk to you at some other time, I suppose.

Yes, I'll speak with you again later. Tesla, Zap Cannon!

[The crackle and boom of the electric blasts echoes over the gear as Twilight switches it off.]

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