Fourth Card - Clothes Make the Trainer

[kattobingu_ore]

 It's been a strange few 'days' for the past bit thanks to all that dreaming, but Yuuma is happy to wake up fully refreshed and ready to get a move on. So maybe his back's a little stiff from sleeping under a tree on Route 3 but...

"Phaaaaaaaaa... Those were weird dreams..." Nonetheless, pushing on! He's wearing NEW clothes now! Though his jacket will be tied around his waist due to the weather of course. But hey! Wearing a decent t-shirt and jeans...

And shoes!

Those are kind of important.

A trilling sound comes from his side- the pokemon have woke up too, and they seem about ready to pack up themselves. "Ah- hah! You guys didn't have weird dreams too right..?"

"...Admittedly, I am considering that..."

"Eh?"

Eventually, Yuuma HAS to realize that he left his X-Transceiver feed rolling.

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[ryuusei_subaru]

[Subaru makes a surprised noise, then a sheepish sort of chuckle.]

"Only when wearing these, yes..." [And he fingers the green-tinted glasses on his head.]

He's still gonna go to Nacarene first, for the Grimsley plot though. :|a

[kattobingu_ore]

"Eh..? Those things let you see him?" Hoh. "Cool..! We should meet up..!!"

ahhaa that is fine

[ryuusei_subaru]

"Mmm. Somehow I ended up in Accumula Town after all those dreams, so I do want to go back to Nuvema Town first, so..."

[And he chuckles a bit.] "It'll take me a while to catch up, I think."

[kattobingu_ore]

"Alright..! Well, I'm going to be going to Nacarene with Shinta..." Though..

"How come you're going back to Nuvema though..?"

[ryuusei_subaru]

"Mmm, when I went through the Entralink portal, I ended up in people's dreams instead of Nuvema Town, and then I ended up here after all those dreams. I heard there was a lab in Nuvema Town, so I originally wanted to go there..."

[kattobingu_ore]

"A lab?" Of course he wouldn't know. Wasn't paying attention. "What sort of lab would they have there.."

"...Pokemon lab..?"

[ryuusei_subaru]

[Neither Astral's waves nor his voice actually gets through the communicator due to it likely just not channeling that frequency well enough, so Subaru does not hear the blue being's words. However...]

"I heard it was a Pokemon lab...it sounded like a good place to get some information, and possibly help with a technological problem of mine..."

[kattobingu_ore]

"He is having technological problems?"

"Eh? What's wrong?"

[ryuusei_subaru]

"It's just a device that came with me from my world, the Hunter VG. From what I can figure out on this Xtransiever, it pretty much serves similar functions. There's no problem with it, it's just that there's no network to power it here, so I was thinking of modifying it to work with a different power source..."

[But...if it's mostly the same...why would you want to change it, Subaru?]

[kattobingu_ore]

"But if they're both the same, then why do you need 'another one'?"

[ryuusei_subaru]

"It's mostly for personal reasons, really. It's my source of ID and my own account of money, as well as my Battle Cards. It's also War-Rock's home, and he can't be visible or solid without it."

[kattobingu_ore]

"War-rock?"

"Ah- The dragon being that was with Subaru..."

"Ah- you know someone like Astral??"

"...I wouldn't classify it in that way..."

[ryuusei_subaru]

"Ah, War-Rock's made of Denpa, so he's usually invisible to the human eye. Denpa's also what we use as our energy source back home, so he likes to live in technology back in our home, and usually he's in my Hunter."

[kattobingu_ore]

"Ahhhh so that's why..." Well. "Good luck then! Hope that lab has something for you!"

[ryuusei_subaru]

"Hehe, thank you, Yuuma-kun...I hope so too. It's a little tiring listening to War-Rock complain about how cramped the Xtransiever is compared to the Hunter..."

[And then Subaru seems to be listening to something before looking slightly off to the bottom left of the screen, clearly addressing the aforementioned War-Rock.]

"Well, I admit you don't complain that often, but you complain enough for it to be a headache!"

[kattobingu_ore]

"AH- You mean he's in your XTransceiver right now..!?"

[ryuusei_subaru]

"Ah, he is. I told you, he likes holing up in devices..."

[kattobingu_ore]

"I didn't expect him to be in the one you were using though..."

"Is it different from how I reside within the key at times then?"

Yuuma turns to shout back at 'thin air'- "Of course it is..!!"

[ryuusei_subaru]

[While Yuuma's shouting at 'thin air', Subaru's listening quietly to apparently nothing.]

"Mmm, he says it's just cramped in there because the Xtransiever isn't made to hold something like him, and it's different technology anyways..."

[kattobingu_ore]

"Mmmm... If it's something for a different world, that's expected right..?"

"If that is the case, wouldn't anything found within the Pokemon Lab likely be ineffective?"

"Hehhhhhh don't say that..!!"

[ryuusei_subaru]

"Mmh. It makes it unlikely that I'd find something in the lab, but since there are Pokemon that can see War-Rock, there might be a chance, right?"

[There's an expression of determination on his face for a brief second as he contemplates this.]

And finally the similarities come rushing in.. ;u;

[kattobingu_ore]

"Nn, I gu- AH! That's what Astral was just saying..!!!"

reason 1: comet-hair, reason 2: the blue oni to their partner's red...

[ryuusei_subaru]

"Eh? Really? But I didn't hear him over the communicator..."

;;u;;

[kattobingu_ore]

"Ah, well he's right here... ...Oh! It might be the transceiver- Shinta sometimes sees a hazy bit where Astral is, but he couldn't over the transceiver."

...Nope. He saw STATIC.

Re: ;;u;;

[ryuusei_subaru]

"Hm...I wonder..." [And Subaru slips on his Visualizer, only to let out a noise of shock.]

"Eh?! Noise?!"

[What.]