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]

[adai]

...It can fly?

[Rossiu looks absolutely fascinated.]

That's really awesome! It looks sort of like a gunman...

[And weirdly enough, that actually makes him miss his crazy home world.]

[video]

[armoredsoul]

Apparently!

[AL IS SO CONFUSED.]

Wait, really? He does?

[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.]

[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]

[eclectictype]

...Holy shit.

[That was honestly a pretty impressive display!! Not only is it a Pokemon Jade hasn't seen before, but--]

Oh my god--it's a robot! It's a robot with rocket boosters! It's a Pokerocketrobomon! So coooool!

[video]

[armoredsoul]

[He. Okay, he guesses it is pretty cool.]

Ah, yeah, I guess? It's just...he's Ghost and Ground type, being able to learn Fly of all things makes no sense at all!

...unless I'm missing something? [You seem vaguely knowledgeable on this stuff, please fill him in.]

Re: [video]

[eclectictype]

[No.

She's got that look.

He just asked a space nerd that dabbles in nuclear physics about rocket science .

She's so excited!!!]

Of course it's not weird, it's rocket propulsion! When a great force pushes an object at a rate more powerful than gravity, it will fly! According to Newton and Galileo, the concept of inertia is one of the key basis of rocket science and flight itself--that is to say, an object that is in motion will stay in motion. What your Pokemon seems to be doing is having a reaction similar to crafts used in space travel or jet planes: its fuel creates a reaction and pushes it off the ground, the necessary opposite reaction is its flight!

It does not matter if it's a "ground type" if it's got the right amount of force to push it!

[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

[bent_the_world]

Whoah!

What is that?

I mean what Pokemon?

[video]

[armoredsoul]

Huh--oh! He's a Golurk. They evolve from Golett, and they're Ghost and Ground type.

[video]

[bent_the_world]

That's a ghost type?

I mean ground I get, but...

[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.

[Video]

[callbacks]

That is going on my team.

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

Ehehe, it already is! This is what Golett evolve into. Yours will probably be different colors, though.

[Video]

[callbacks]

Yesssss, that's what I'm talking about. Can they carry people? Tell me they can carry people.

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

As long as they have the actual move Fly, they can. The Gym Leader that HM hands that out as a prize is out in Cianwood, though.

[video]

[defyingfrigidity]

... Um.

[Elsa's pretty sure she should be laughing ,r offering some sort of advice, but she's gaping just as much as Al is right now.]

H-How... did it always know Fly...?

[video]

[armoredsoul]

[That's okay, Al will accept fellowship in the gawking at this mess.]

No, I had to teach it--I only thought to try because I was out stuck in the woods with no flying Pokemon and I needed to get home!

[video]

[defyingfrigidity]

... O-Okay. Well. It being unable to learn it naturally makes this very marginally less bizarre.

But I still just... am unable to wrap my head around this. How would it even know to do that...?

[video]

[scratchitti]

...

Not the weirdest thing that can use Fly, but that's pretty high up there.

Literally

[video]

[armoredsoul]

What could possibly be weirder than this?!

[video]

[scratchitti]

[He whistles and... one of his Smeargle bounds up, barking and flicking paint here and there]

This right here.

[in4apounding]

That's amazing!

[Nothing helpful, sorry Al. Just starry-eyed wonder.]

I thought flying types just looked like birds!

[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.]

[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?