united_one | Intro - Video/Action

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Yuuma had been fiddling with his X-Transceiver for a fair bit since arriving at this place, with a bare minimum amount of luck in regard to what it did really. At last, it seemed however, he got the video on. ...Though anyone watching would probably be more in the loop than anyone there, given that speaking to thin air could now be attributed to speaking to...

Someone off screen. Yea. "Is it on? Is it on..?" The light on the device blinked, and Yuuma grinned widely at the screen. "Aaaaaahh! Finally..! Between showing up here in my pajamas... And finding out no one duels..."

A sudden idea though- Not that any one can hear it. "Nn. Yuuma. Perhaps, if this gathering of dimensions is common..."

"Ah, right!" Yuuma, who are you talking to. There is nothing there. "Is there anyone else out there that plays duel monsters..? We should definitely duel! Definitely!"

"...Yuuma, we do not have the full deck with us, if you recall. Only the numbers cards."

"Eh. Well... Then... ...We could at least talk about it..!!" One would almost wonder how long he would be able to simply talk about something without doing something really...

At that moment however, mid-way his pleading rant, a third (really, second to most) joined the on-screen crew by means of jumping atop her trainer's head. ...And throwing said trainer completely off balance. "AA- WUAAAAAHHH-"

"Zoooo! Rrf!" Surprise attack- success!

"Aahh!! Get off!! You're pulling my hair..!!" The screen flies this way and that way, but it doesn't seem to turn off...

All there is now though is- "Zoo! Zoo!" "AAAHH!!!" "Zoo!!" ". . ."

...And the occasional blur of red and black.

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Estelle blinks, taking this moment to decide to stop reading all the books in Nacrene Library (SHE'S STILL NOT DONE) and check up on the video feeds on the network.

This boy's situation reminded her a bit of her own actually, causing a small giggle out of her before she realized she already turned on the recording function.

"Ah~! Excuse me, are you alright~?" Estelle inquired cheerfully, willing to help, but probably giggling too much for anyone to take her seriously.

Well she wasn't a person who came off as bearing ill-will after all.

"Eh?"

"...There's a response..."

"I know that..!!" So he shouts... Off screen? (That's off screen right?)

Oh, he's looking back now. "I'm okay!" Despite the Zorua curiously staring from between the red shocks of hair. "I'm about to start gathering gym badges..! It might not be the same as duel monsters, but I'm going to give it my all! Kattobingu!"

How ODD. It appears that word doesn't have a translation equivalent!

Estelle giggled, like she always did, man does this author make her do anything but? New twist, she's smiling, wait that's what happens when people giggle.

"Ah I'm glad! And Gym Badges!? I'm starting to obtain them myself! I've gotten one so far but I've been engrossed in this library for quite a while so I haven't made any progress with the other seven unfortunately~" Estelle laughed nervously, but decided to proudly display her hard-earned Trio Badge.

"Isn't it neat? This really shows that you've bonded with your Pokemon as a team!" Estelle giggled, now just proud of herself.

"So on the other hand, what are these 'Duel Monsters' I keep you hearing about Mist..." Estelle started, before becoming extremely flustered. "Ah! How rude of me! I've forgotten to introduce myself!"

Though it really seemed like she would but too flustered to actually perform said action for the moment.

"A library..?" Sounds like a friend of his. Oh well~! Paying more attention to that badge! "Oh-! So that's what the badges look like..!"

He looks as though he plans to ask about that, but in the end winds up latching onto the duel monster's comment instead. "Ah! Duel monsters is a card game where I'm from..! It's played through AR vision, so it feels like it's completely real..! Ahhh..." Um. "But, when I woke up, I didn't have all my cards, so..." Oops.

"So what's your name?"

"Oh! A card game is it? It doesn't sound like old maid or blackjack though... And what is this AR Vision?" Estelle mused, a brooding expression on her face. "Oh well if you don't have a deck I doubt we could play unfortunately~"

It seems she's gotten over her earlier flustered state at the moment as she introduced herself with a curtsy.

"My name is Estellise Sidos Heusserain~ Please, call me Estellise or Estelle if you'd like~ And you are?" Estelle smiled.

"AR stands for 'Augmented Reality'..! So it looks like all sorts of things are happening...! It makes it really exciting and..!"

Beat.

~~And 'icon'.~~ "R-Right, no deck..." A cough.

"I'm Yuma Tsukumo! Nice to meet you..!!"

"Oh~ Like blastia-generated holograms! Or are they mana generated now in my world? Good question." Good question indeed, what is this stuff you're blabbering about anyway, Estelle?

"I'm sure you could teach someone through the use of simple paper and pencil though! It's not as if there's too much needed for the cards is there?" Estelle suggested, being completely clueless about things but helpful nonetheless.

"And it's very nice to meet you as well, Mister Tsukumo~"

"Eh... Mana...? Blastia...?" What... What?

He quickly shook his head. "There's too many cards to get into it like that..! I could try the basics but..." Ehhh...

...Mister Tsukumo..? "J-Just Yuma is fine..!" Though at least the zorua was 'behaving' and Astral was quietly observing for the moment.

"They're energy sources in my world~ Well blastia are defunct since we destroyed them to create mana I guess but that's a story for another time~" Estelle smiled, handwaving the topic out.

"Oh no! Well that's quite a shame... I'm sure you can see if they sell the cards somewhere. Not that I'm sure what they look like," Estelle suggested.

"Yuma then~ Very well." Estelle's smiles are pretty bright please wear sunglasses at all times.

"...Does this mean... There is actually a location here that sells-"

"DEFINITELY NOT..!" ...He shouted to... Someone off screen (at least it wasn't at Estelle). "Ahhh- I mean, they probably don't sell them..." Don't shout at people, ahhhhhh...

"Huh!?" Estelle jumped, knocking quite a few books over in the process, and looked quite confused at who Yuma was talking to.

"Oh, I should check! I'm sure Duel Monsters would possibly jog the hobby store person's memory! ...If there's one in my area that is... ehehe..." Estelle sweatdropped.

"Um also... is there someone else there with you?" Estelle ventured to ask.

Oh boy.

"Heeehhhh... So there really might be..." Probably nooooooot.

He looked to the side. "Ah- Yea. Astral- you can't see him though." Ohhh, the double meanings..!

"I'll certainly check and get back to you but I'm quite... occupied at the moment!" Estelle chuckled, brushing a book off her head.

"Oh is he like... invisible? Or a spirit perhaps!" Oh how exciting

Yuma had been counting on the offscreenness to cover for him, but oh-

One can practically see the stars in his eyes..! "You don't think I'm crazy..!?!~" She might if he keeps responding like this... "Haaaaahhh... It took ages to get the others to believe me..!!" Yesssss!!

Oh, but... "Hnnn... How do I describe him..."

"Zooo!"

"Ueh? You-"

Oh- The Zorua seems to be oddly helpful for the moment, taking a brief illusionary form to the point of mimicking the pose and expression Astral is holding most of the time- though of course, the real one started staring curiously the moment she put on the illusion.

"Ah! Right- Alright... That's what he looks like- Kuribolt can see him too!" ...He named her 'Kuribolt'..?

"Well I'm sure you have a reason~" Estelle replied. Seriously her world is probably filled with more surprising things that duel spirits from different dimensions.

His Zorua then... transformed? She didn't know Zorua could do that! Well she did it anyway. And wow!

"Oh! That's... like an elemental spirit! Maybe like Undine but a guy? Well... I doubt you have actual elemental spirits where you're from...." Estelle pondered.

"Eh? An elemental spirit..?" While Kuribolt is apparently content to hold the illusion for the moment (albeit sitting and no longer bothering with pretending to be Astral), the real version is now looking at the screen himself.

"Interesting. What are these 'undine'..?"

"Hnn... That too..." She didn't hear that. "Ah- Astral can't remember much... So maybe that's really it? What are undine?"

Probably not even close, that's what.

"Oh! Spirits are formed from the dead cores of Entelexeia who are really noble creatures that kept the balance of aer flow in Terca Luminereis. They convert aer into mana for one thing and Undine is the name of one of them that I named myself~ Well I named all of them myself but Undine is a Spirit that governs water~ She was based of a sort of mermaid I've read about~ The name I mean! I thought it fit~" Estelle rambled, cheerful all the while.

"Ehhh..." Most of these terms... He doesn't even-

"I have never heard of Entelexia..." Astral blinked. "However, I am fairly certain I am not formed of these 'dead cores', nor have I heard of a matter called 'aer' until now."

"Hahhhhh... I guess that isn't the answer then..." Yuma. Yuma, she only heard one quarter of that conversation..!

"Ah! Well don't worry! I'm sure your memories will come back someday Mister Astral!" Estelle smiled, clapping her hands together.

"Oh and good luck on your journey, Yuma!"

"Right..!"

"...So I hope. Thank you."

"He says thanks by the way! Good luck with what you're doing too!~"

"Of course! Until we meet again~" Estelle smiled...

...and the connection cut off. Well time to do some research.

[Grimsley, believe it or not, is off training. And trying to grab his own Trollua. He turns to watch the screen - and then starts to chuckle a little.]
Is that yours?
[However, now his Trollua has taken... form of Grimsley! Just off-camera, sadly. And is mending the wounds of Scraggy, who was fighting.]

"Eh?" Yuuma had his for all of two seconds before it turned into a frighteningly cheery Astral.

It's currently peering over his shoulder, with Yuuma giving it an odd look before shaking his head. "Yea! She doesn't act like it though..! She just listens to..." ...Well, since no one can see the real one... "That guy..!"

You're pointing at the shifted Zorua silly.

"Heh, I've got one like that too." Grimsley then said, looking behind him. And then he saw that it'd used illusion. With a growl, he sent out Liepard.
"Liepard - take care of her already!" he growled - and the three rushed off, more off-camera.
"She only listens to herself - and won't let me catch her. It's a bother."

"No I mean... The one who looks like that..!"

...The Zorua promptly blew a raspberry before turning back. Oh you mean looks like a zorua then? "AAAAAAH. Stop that..!"

Right, back to the video. "If she won't let you catch her, why is she following you..?"

The Doctor was finding it enjoyable enough to just watch the boy babble on to thin air, waiting for the right moment to ask what exactly "duel monsters" were-- Were they like Pokemon? Sounded like Pokemon. Monsters that you fight with. But there was something intriguing about Yuuma's one-sided conversation, especially when he noticed his Elgyem taking a particular interest in it as well.

He was about to speak, ask what exactly "duel monsters" were, but the boy seemed to be suddenly under attack by a black fox.

"Oh, blimey!" he nearly shouted, leaning in a bit to his Xtransceiver to squint into the screen. "Now that was quite a scene, eh? Hullo? Are you alright there?"

It took a few moments of prying an overly cheerful zorua off his face, but he managed- "WUAH!" With a loud gasp of air thanks to an earlier attempt being blocked by fluff. "Heehhhhh... What's wrong with you..."

"Zoo!"

"Eh?" Yuma looked at the screen, blinking. "Oh- I'm alright! She's a bit of a pain, but nothing I can't handle!" Look at that grin! Well, he's certainly positive about it.

Astral seems to be interested in something on the other end himself- not that he's saying anything for the moment, though it's likely he didn't miss Elgyem's interest.

But hey, Yuma's the one talking. "Thanks for asking..! You on a 'pokemon journey' or whatever too?" H-He'll get the term right, trust him! (Besides, it DOES sound exciting...)

He pulled back away from the screen with a smirk. Hey, he always likes the positive ones!

"Good, then! It'd be a bit of a letdown to be actually mauled by your starter, eh? My own isn't quite as excitable." He nudged the Elgyem with his shoulder, and she quickly hid behind it.

"As for the Pokemon journey part-- Oh, well, of course I am! I'm always up for adventure, you know! Even if I'm sort of thrown in unannounced." He grinned. "I'm the Doctor, by the way! And this here is Astrid." So he said, nodding to the Elgyem. The Pokemon's green eyes peered shyly out from behind his shoulder. "You a newcomer, then? What's your name?"

"Yea! I just got here- My name is Yuma Tsukumo, and this Is..." He picked up the Zorua, grinning despite the fox pokemon's slightly confused expression. " Ah..." Oops. Forgot about this. "I think I'm going to call her Kuribolt..."

"...Zo?"

Astral made a slight face from behind at that, which Yuma chose to ignore. "It's nice to meet you..! Maybe we'll run into each other sometime!"

"...They might be nearby."

"Eh, you think?" Who are you- "Ah- Where are you, 'Doctor'?" Apparently, when one of your 'friends' (he considers him a friend at least) is called 'Shark', calling someone the Doctor without question is also normal.

"Yuma Tsukumo!" he repeated. It sounded Japanese... Then again, he could never be too sure. "Good to meet you too, Yuma Tsukumo!"

His eyebrows arched at the question, and he scratched his head. "Me? Ohh, one of the routes, yeah... Route, Route, Route..." He mouthed some numbers silently, before coming up with his answer: "Route 5! Yes, five! Been sort of... walking back and forth on these routes for a bit. Don't want to miss anything, you know."

"Route 5... We're still on route one, ahahahaha..." Whoops. "What's it like over there?"

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Intro - Video/Action

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[Video] what if they actually sold cards uhhhhhhhh

[Video] That would be insanityyyyyyy xD

[Video] We should ask kururu to just THROW IT IN CANON or make it ourselves

[Video] Ohgosh- His pokemon would never level up ever. ;;3;;

[video] usagi what are you doing up at 6:30 AM

[video] -caught- Had to wake up sister for work. Couldn't go back to sleep. :|

[video] It's like you're really Yuuma And let's just use this Icon for no reason

[video] Ohgoshthanksand- WHAT, SWIMSUITS-

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[video] Last post before I go to bed

[video] Okay! Night~ (Funny, this is one of the few times Yuma passes Astral's words along...)

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[video] sorry for late!!

[Video] It's okay~

[video] /ssssh this isn't late

[video] -chokes on tea and glees everywhere-

[video] MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

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[video] -though they should really be coming to Striaton by now. :U -