[video/action ✿ 004]

[overbite]

Hi, everybody! Oh, you guys say hi, too. [The video feed you're seeing now shifts from Jade's face over to the team of Pokémon behind her—a Roselia has a very terrified-looking Poliwag behind her and she looks like she's trying to chastise a Growlithe who just wants to play. It looks like the lot of them are goofing around in a Pokémon Center, Mistralton, if you want to be specific.]

It's Jade! Um, I was thinking about some things and wanted some advice! My team and I have been training and we've been traveling a lot, but...we haven't really gotten much done, you know? Soooo, I was thinking of taking the gym challenge! That's the popular thing here, right? [She sounds mostly sure of herself here, but despite the nearly two months she's been in Unova, she obviously hasn't totally caught on just yet.] I...think we're strong enough to at least start and try! What do you think, guys? [She turns towards her team again and now they're all just making noises at each other.] No, ugh, stop! [There is some shaking and clattering, as if the Xtransiever is being dropped, and in the background Jade is exasperatedly scolding the team.] Leave poor Bilious alone, Bec! [And she picks up the Xtransiever again and half-smiles at the screen.] Okay, so we've still got a few problems to be worked out... Bec just needs to calm down, is all!

Oh, and somebody mentioned I should evolve him soon? I don't know how I ought to do that, though. Zinnia just kind of evolved on her own. Um, I'll figure it all out soon! Probably...

004 ♖ [audio to Dragonite and Thomas/action for Nimbasa City]

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[N is having a bad day. Well, he's been having a bad week, really.

When his Xtransceiver crackles to life, there is none of the usual video recordings he makes-- just audio... And said audio is, at first, just a cacophony of Pokemon voices: growling, chattering, chiming, and-- loudest-- barking. They seem to be a empathic to their trainer's discontent, which is apparent when he begins speaking.]

Dragonite? Thomas? Are you there? [Months in Unova or not, he's still not entirely sure how to use all the Xtransceiver's functions. He sounds tentative, and his voice is a bit gruff.]

... I need to talk to you both. As soon as possible. If either of you are in Nimbasa City already, find me. [He debates adding more to explain himself, but decides against it by cutting the feed. For all he knows, Miror B. has some way of hacking into his Xtransceiver. This is all frustrating; he doesn't like not having a plan, nor does he like turning to the pair for help. But he doesn't have much choice.

He waits outside Nimbasa's Musical Theater, watching trainers walk in and out of the doors, and occasionally glancing at the amusement park's ferris wheel, just barely visible from his people-watching spot. His Pokemon continue to squabble. Apparently, his Snivy, Nidorino, and Absol are debating over which of them is the strongest, while Darumaka and Zoroark try in vain to calm them. Meanwhile, Growlithe is just shouting about the magnificent bed he's made out of N's clothing. N rubs at his temples.]

I... have to think.