Tenth Transmutation | [video/action for Shark House] These are not the Rockets you're looking for...

[armoredsoul]

[When Al flips the feed on, he looks rather perturbed. He opens and closes his mouth several times, trying to find a way to start this whole thing a few times before silent ly shaking his head and turning the Gear around.]

[On the lawn of a certain rowdy house in Goldenrod sands a lone Golurk of unusual coloring. It is waiting patiently, and from behind the screen Al gives a signal. For a moment, everything is still...and then something starts rumbling. The Golurk shakes as if something is rattling around inside until--]

[Lifdoff.]

[The camera tracks it's slow progression up and over the house, rising like some ridiculous mecha out of an 80's anime, before Al whips the Gear back around to his incredibly distressed face.]

Why can it learn Fly?!

[It's been two weeks and he is still not over this.]

Comments

[video]

[bent_the_world]

That's a ghost type?

I mean ground I get, but...

[adai]

Yes! They come in all sorts of shapes and colors, though they usually look a bit more menacing. But the ability to fly... That's not something I've seen any gunmen possess...

[Though now he's wondering if that's possible. Too bad he's not canon updated.]

[video]

[armoredsoul]

What could possibly be weirder than this?!

[video]

[armoredsoul]

I-I don't know! It just...it has rockets! Why does it turn into a rocket?

[video]

[armoredsoul]

[...well.]

[Okay, he probably should have expected that.]

Ah...no, I know how rockets work, I just don't understand why Buddy would have them.

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

I--okay, that's fair, but...why brains of all things?!

[armoredsoul]

It's not a Flying-type at all, though! It can just...learn it!

[CAN THIS WORLD NOT EVEN ADHERE TO IT'S OWN RULES.]

[video]

[armoredsoul]

[Al looks back up at the (now descending) Pokemon, then back to the Gear and shrugs.]

According to the Pokedex they were created a long time ago, that might be why.

[armoredsoul]

Well, if they're made of metal it would take a lot of force to get them up in the air to begin with...Buddy's just made of haunted clay or something, and those rockets already put out plenty of force!

[video]

[defyingfrigidity]

What... what are its types? Maybe that has something to do with it?

[SHE CAN'T BELIEVE SHE'S TRYING TO APPLY LOGIC HERE...]

[Video]

[callbacks]

I don't know, dude, it's not like he was even a Hero of Mind. At least the guy whose planet was all nastily awash in blood had the Blood Aspect to make it make some kind of marginal sense.

[video]

[bent_the_world]

Okay you're making less sense. Aren't Pokemon natural? They hatch from eggs, right?

[adai]

...I wonder if it would be possible...?

[FLYING GUNMEN, JUST IMAGINE...]

Oh, that's right, they're Ghost-types, aren't they? What an interesting type combination...

[video]

[eclectictype]

Because he's a robot, silly, haven't you ever heard of robots?

[He knows about rockets but not robots? What is this??]

[in4apounding]

Oh. That IS very strange, then.

[Technically no weirder than a Fairy-type learning almost nothing but Grass moves, she supposes, but at least Ruby sort of LOOKS like she'd have Grass typing. This thing didn't look particularly like an airship until it actually took off.]

...Can I ask what made you think to try teaching it, then? Flying has to be taught, doesn't it?

[armoredsoul]

I was...a little desperate at the time. I was stuck out in the woods with next to no camping gear, and it was starting to snow. I didn't have any of my flying types with me, but I did have the HM, so I just...tried to teach it to everyone I had.

[video]

[armoredsoul]

I--I mean, I've heard people talk about them, but...

[Look, the kid is from 1920, give him a break!]

[armoredsoul]

Uh-huh. It's definitely unique, though I don't know how that allows it to learn a Flying-type move of all things...

[He's still stuck on that.]

[video]

[armoredsoul]

Yeah, they do! I'm guessing it means the species was created back then...the little blurbs don't really go into a whole lot of detail.

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

[Wait what huh? Is this more of that weird video game world stuff?]

Hero of...what do you mean by aspects? Is that supposed to be like Pokemon types or something?

[video]

[armoredsoul]

Ghost and Ground. There's--there's no connection at all! I know some Pokemon can just learn a wide variety of moves, but--!

[video]

[defyingfrigidity]

... Wait, what? B-But....

[She's understanding this even less!]

If it was part Steel, I might have understood. Maybe it was somehow part machine... but those types..!

[video]

[eclectictype]

It's not unusual for robots to be equipped with rockets so they can fly! My grandpa built a couple like that.

I have not seen this Pokemon yet, what is its name and typing?

[Video]

[callbacks]

[Dave opens his mouth to respond, but then closes it and thinks for a second.]

Kind of, actually. Though I don't think any Aspects were particularly effective or ineffective against each other. They were just kind of there.

[adai]

Well, a lot of Pokémon learn strange moves. I would assume it had some need to fly at some point in the past and it's a move it kept.

[...EVOLUTION????]