land of dweebs and conversations

[longwinded]

Characters: [OU] John Egbert (longwinded) & [AU] John Egbert (ghostytrainer)
Setting: Observatory, and maybe other places.
Format: Action
Summary: Two dweebs play verbal catch up and probably get up to some mischief.

[A couple of days after his initial arrival, and talk with himself, John decides that today is the day to have that talk face to face with his other self. Here we can assume they spoke the night before through the terminals and set up the time, around one in the afternoon John shows up at room 1-12 and the two of them begin walking up to the Observatory.

Little John leading the way obviously.]

Okay, I sorted my thoughts out at least before we did this. But first of all, I need to know the very last thing you remember before Pokemon land, okay? So I know where to start or something.

[TAKE THEM TO A NICE PLACE TO SIT TOO.]

Comments

[longwinded]

[Haha, no. You're a good man. Alternate John Egbert.]

How about just giving me an overview?

[ghostytrainer]

[No, you!]

Alright well...I think I told you but I was there for almost two years exactly. I somehow managed to go backwards and got there on January 17th because that makes sense, right? [Universes, man. Time bullshit.]

It almost everybody from home was already there though, Rose was the only one from our session who wasn't and I guess there were some trolls missing too, I don't really remember who at this point. But Karkat and Vriska were there. Then Rose showed up a week later and that was pretty cool. Uh...we all managed to meet up in Violet City eventually which is kind of like...the analogue to Pewter if we're comparing it to the games. First badge city. We got stuck there for a while and that blew chunks but eventually we left.

Some stuff happened...we traveled around for a while. There were some undead cicadas that snatched people's souls that first summer. Some more stuff happened...lots of people came and went and came back again and for some reason Dave did this five times because Johto just couldn't decide if it wanted to keep him or not.

Team Rocket pulled some schemes and basically all of them failed. There was a Pokémon love song-spell thing on my Second Valentine's there. Um...what else. I'm trying to think of the big stuff. Oh! There was that one time I was turned into a freakish Pokémutant. That pretty much sucked Pidgey eggs.

Hmmm...

[Thinking, thinking...what else happened.]

[longwinded]

[Wow does he really have to insist that you are the good man here!?]

Right, because everything with time involved makes sense. [He laughs.] Protip man, it never will make sense.

[John gives himself time to process the rest of it. Yeah sure John had played plenty of Pokemon games. Original ones included. So he's playing out the maps in his head. Oh man getting stuck in first badge town would really suck balls (haha, punny as hell).]

Sounds like Team Rocket, no lie. They never succeed anyways. But some of this stuff. Like that doesn't sound like something that would happen. Like, becoming a Pokémutant. Is there really an explanation for that?

[ghostytrainer]

Actually that was apparently a Team Rocket thing. I guess they were trying to like...give themselves powers or something? That's about the only thing that makes sense to me in retrospect. They captured Suicune at one point, which pissed off Raikou and Entei and the weather pretty much flipped its shit for a few days because of that. Then like a month later people wound up mutating into like...mini Johto beasts. And had powers to go along with it.

[Let him tell you about being a level five, John. Let him tell you how much it sucked.]

And there were some Rocket attacks alongside the outbreak too, on some of the gyms and the centers and stuff. I think basically their plan backfired. I don't think they meant for it to infect the general population.

[longwinded]

Oh dude. Not even cool. you can't just take Suicune out of the picture like that. I mean, it fucks up the balance! [John knows his Pokemon, okay. You catch one you have to catch all or shit will just not be right.] Team Rocket never really wins though, so I guess that's a good thing.

[Ew, weak man. Weak.]

Whether they meant it or not is pretty irrelevant. They still tried to fuck shit up.

[ghostytrainer]

Well luckily all three of them got away, but yeah. Dumb move on their part. But they are actually more competent in the real Johto than they ever were in the games. It's kind of weird. They hijacked the magnet train when it first opened too.

[John looks almost wistful for a moment.]

It was a ride to remember! [John, train heists are really not all that cool wtf is wrong with you.]

[longwinded]

I would assume an actual Johto with actual Team Rocket would be a little bit more realistic and tough rather than that of a story driven video game.

[John crosses his legs and rests his elbows on his knees.]

Tell me about that. I want to know. [You have him curious. Okay.]