Box 3 [The birds are coming!]

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[The video cuts on with Bill fumbling around with the camera, trying to find a steady position for it with one hand as the other is being used as a perch by a colorful little mess of feathers. Once the camera is settled, the Chatot has already started making its way up Bill's arm as if it was pretending to scale a mountain.]

Ah, hello! Does this little fellow belong to anyone? He seems very well socialized.

Yo ho!

...Among pirates, apparently.

Call me Ishmael! Chato~!

[A chuckle] He's safe and happy right now, but if he looks familiar I'm sure he'd very much like to get back to his home. Thank you!

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[puppypaws]

"RRF-!" Oh boy. If you landed on his head, good for you as Otogi stumbles- he still yelped in shock.

Course with all the flailing, Chatot might have just smacked into his face instead...

In any case, the others aren't pleased. "Oii oiii!! What do you think you're doing..!!!"

"Get off..." Golett adds with a stone warning.

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Hey--! Cut that out, what are you doing!? [Bill rises to try and coax Chatot back over, but it isn't attacking or anything, just...proceeding with the human mountain climbing he'd done before. Only this time down Otogi's back.]

[puppypaws]

"Nn-" GET OFF GET OFF GET-

And now he has Audino snatching at the bird too- "OI OIIII!!!! WHAT'D I JUST SAY..!!"

It seems Golett is the only one realizing what's wrong here- "Ahhh-"

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Chatot, come on!

[Chatot stops somewhere on Otogi's lower back, making a very odd-sounding, yet recognizable imitation of a Zorua's call.

And then Bill sees the anomaly.]

...Huh?

[puppypaws]

Ulp.

As Audino finally gets a swipe toward Chatot going (FLY, FLY-), Otogi stiffens.

Uhhhh... "..." After a few awkward moments he'll eventually manage to cough and type in a 'sorry'.

Eventually.

[eeveedispenser]

[Chatot finally lets off, landing on Bill's shoulder as he tries to process this new information. Was it...an accessory? He's seen people wear costume parts like this, but...]

...For what?

[puppypaws]

Ahhhh... Well, I might not have been entirely honest about being mute.

"Hrrrnnnnn...." That sounded suspiciously like a zorua whine there, and-

Here- I have a feeling the pokemon in unova aren't familiar to you, right? Look up number '570' in the pokedex. Uhhhh...

Okay?

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[...Well alright. Out comes the Pokedex and he scrolls through, reading the text under his breath.]

#570, Zorua, the Tricky Fox Pokemon. To protect themselves from danger, they hide their true identities by trans...forming into....people and....Pokemon.

[His eyes widen as he reads, slowly looking up from the Pokedex back to Otogi's face.]

[puppypaws]

"Rrrrnnnnn..." And yet this is a little more than mimicry it seems, as he rubs the back of his neck uneasily.

It's a little more complex than that on my end... In my world, I was turned into a zorua from a human for some reason... ...but when getting here, I was stuck in shift instead of just turning back, or being a normal Zorua. It's troublesome..!

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I...I see. [The information takes a few more moments to process.]

A Pokemon...trainer. [A glance towards Audino and Golett] Yet, you're not a Pokemon at the same time? That is confusing...

[puppypaws]

As the others nod, he shrugs, smiling and laughing sheepishly.

It can't be helped..! Golett was with me when I woke up, and more importantly, the only way back is supposedly through the badges- Plus, like this, I can't fight as a pokemon... ...So can be read as he looks over his hand with a frown.