7th pokeball

[ghostytrainer]

Characters: John Egbert and YOU
Setting: Meadow floor; March 1-3
Format: either
Summary: Followup to this post. John managed to catch the soul extraction process on tape. Not wanting to expose himself any more than necessary, he avoided sharing it on the network and instead put note in everyone's mailbox. Now he's waiting to see if anybody responds.
Warnings: Probably just language

[Just as his note detailed, John can be found in the middle of the meadow floor between 1pm and 4pm on March 1st-3rd.]

[Not wanting to waste any time, he decides to train his Litwick and Zorua while waiting for people to show up by pitting them against one another in a play-battle. Yeah...experience gainage will be a slow process this way. He'll have to go monster hunting later. His Dusknoir floats at his side, arms crossed over his chest as he watches over the fight.]

[Now hopefully anybody who's here about the tape will be able to recognize him based on the dumb little doodle on his note...]

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[ghostytrainer]

"Likewise, Shion. Though...admittedly the circumstances are a little less than...ideal but still! It's nice to meet you. Err...anyway." He pulls his Pokegear out of his pocket, taking a few moments to load up the video before handing it to Shion.

"Just tap the screen to play. But as a head's up, once we start chasing after the worker unit, you can turn it off. I left it running in case we came across something else important but we found Jason instead. So there's not really anything useful at the end."

[savedbyasong]

Shion nodded, much less than idea but... He doubted they'd be having ideal circumstances any time soon.

"Thank you." He took the device with a tiny smile and tapped the screen, watching...

...

...

It's been a while since Shion has felt the swirling darkness of utter despair, of the world making no sense at all, of everything he knew being wrong.

He hadn't missed that feeling. His hand came up to grip the metal badge he worse pinned to his clothes and he took a few deep breaths. So this was it... the process Jason had spoken about the last few times he had died. The process that Jason didn't even understand completely.

He turned the video off and handed it back, concentrating on making his hands not shake. "Thank you..."

[ghostytrainer]

John takes the small device back with a somewhat melancholy smile. It was his choice to share this and well, he wants to help even in insignificant ways like this but...this is still kind of a really shitty way to meet people. At least after a full day of showing the tape he's gotten better at not thinking about what's on the screen while it plays.

"It's no problem. I'm glad I could help."

[savedbyasong]

Shion nodded, not quite able to smile back but still breathing so that was good at least. "It was clever of you to think to take a video." Shion wouldn't have thought of that even if he had had a way to do so.

[ghostytrainer]

He rubs at the back of his neck, looking a little unsure. "Heh...it was more luck than cleverness on my part, really. Mostly because of how long it took them to climb up that giant machine."

John has never really been the best with praise. When you receive it on a near-constant basis from your dad, sometimes it can be a little hard feeling like your actions are really worth it. "If you have any other questions about what happened down there or anything, I can try my best to answer. I hardly know everything but I did at least learn a few things while down there."

[savedbyasong]

Shion nodded, sensing that he had embarrassed him and feeling a little awkward.

"Did you see how Jason put the souls back into the bodies?" He had always been back in his body by the time he had woken and Jason had spoken to him, he thought there was more to it than just replacing the soul because Jason seemed to be doing quite a bit of work.

[ghostytrainer]

"Unfortunately, no. I only got a quick glance before we started focusing more on hiding and listening than seeing. But he had a computer with a scanner and I guess it reads some kind of information off the collars. Because the first thing he did was scan hers." John sighs, folding his arms over his chest.

"Sorry man. I wish I knew more than that."

[savedbyasong]

Shion nodded, impressed that they had gotten down there and somehow not been caught, managed to leave with this footage. "No, that is a lot of information, much more than we knew before... I think it's the biggest concrete thing anyone's managed to prove since I've been here at least."

[ghostytrainer]

"Really? Wow..." Sure, it's big, even someone who's only been here a couple of months like John could tell that much. But the biggest thing? And he was part of it...? Wow. "Well glad to help. Hopefully we can figure more stuff out from here..."

[savedbyasong]

Shion nodded, "I hope so, the more information we have the better position we will be in..."