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]

[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

[bent_the_world]

Whoah!

What is that?

I mean what Pokemon?

[Video]

[callbacks]

That is going on my team.

[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]

Apparently!

[AL IS SO CONFUSED.]

Wait, really? He does?

[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.]

[video]

[armoredsoul]

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

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

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

[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]

[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]

[callbacks]

That's fine, it'll just be my first stop once this goddamn geologic age of frigid murder is over. I don't expect this almost tolerable spell to last.

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

Don't like the snow, huh?

[Al pauses for a moment, watching his Golurk land again with a frown, before he continues.]

You'd have hated this summer, then. We got a freak blizzard out of nowhere for a week in August. Actually, the weather had been all over the place that whole month.

[Video]

[callbacks]

Snow in August is unconstitutional. How does that even happen? Isn't this place supposed to be all, like, in tune with nature?

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

Most of the time, but then we've also had a tornado made of sharks before, apparently. I've kinda given up on making sense of a lot of things that go on here.

[Video]

[callbacks]

[A tornado made of sharks.]

...

Kind of almost sounds like home, except with less space travel.

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

[Okay, he has to laugh at that.]

Seriously? You've had weather with animals before back home?

[Video]

[callbacks]

Naw, nothing that weird, but we definitely had a lava tornado at least once. And someone's planet apparently had floating fucking brains everywhere? I don't even know, shit was disturbing.

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

...floating...brains? Real ones?

[Thaaaaaaat is a new level of disturbing.]

[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

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]

[callbacks]

It's not like I went up to any of them to check, bro. I like poking dead shit, but I've got limits.

[in4apounding]

That's amazing!

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

I thought flying types just looked like birds!