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for those who care to know: my work contract has been extended, so i live under a roof until the end of the year! (that's great!) but at the cost of my crashing the moment i get home. yea it's that tiring.

i'll most likely be back after i decide where to take post-timeskip yuuki. most of my plans for him still hold water, but i'll be ridding my shoulders of the thread backlog. (we can work out what the ending was and consider that canon if you want! i'm down for that.)

bad paint job

bad paint job

             “ Uuuaaah!!!! “ She broke her self-imposed rule!! 

                        Whatever would little Hikari do now, hm? Maybe, she’d find some sort of excuse to validate her slip-up… Hikari Corong never gave up on a nickname, especially not when a friend was still calling her by one of her’s. Hearing someone besides Dad call her ‘ Hika ‘ was a little weird, but… it was a nice change from Barry and Lucas and Benjie always calling her ‘ Dawn ‘, in its own way. 

               “ Imma only say ‘ yuuki ‘ if I can add extra ‘ ooooh ‘ to it, y’know! Like…. here, just like this! YuuuUUUuuuUUUuuuuUUUUki! Otherwise, it’s Yuu, Yu, Yuuie, or maybe… Yuko! “

Uh-oh! Maybe he shouldn’t have pointed it out to her! Now she was going to sound like a spirit in a haunted mansion every time she called him by his full name.

He wanted to push her lightly, like how the nice old people at the pokémon daycare did to break pokémon out of wanting to bite other pokémon, and --

Nah.

Hey! What do you know! The dude actually showed up!

Not that Barry ever had a moment of doubt, though. Who would ever turn down a free ticket to some of the greatest matches that will ever have happened in wrestling history!?

…Or, that’s how they advertised it, but now that he thought about it they always said the matches that were about to happen would be the greatest ever.

“Yuuki!!” He greeted, jumping up and down a tad and waving his arms to be sure his attention was grabbed. Getting through the crowd was full of bumping and ‘excuse me’s, but after a minute he’d finally made it to the stand as well.

“Glad you could make it! Hope you weren’t waiting too long. I always come an hour before everything stars in case the snack lines and bathroom lines get long. If you gotta go, I can buy your snacks for you. What’d’ya want? My treat!”

It wasn’t hard to spot Barry, not when he was waving like a madman to get his attention.

The atmosphere was abuzz with a sort of static, the sort that crackled and hurt when one lunged too close, but the rush that came along was undeniably fun. It was one of those situations where it was supposed to feel good to let loose and join the crowd in its hyped-up madness.

Yuuki waved back, a little more reserved than Barry was. He didn’t feel like a changed man.

“I’m good,” he eventually said, trying - and promptly giving up - on matching Barry’s enthusiasm. He turned, and started towards one of the stands that sold brightly-coloured popcorn. “Well, actually, something to snack on would be nice.”

And then something else caught his eye. Something so wild, too colourful, quite Barry out of ten. Something that he, had he been six and totally into Mighty Morphin Pokémon Rangers, might have wanted at a summer festival.

“It’s much more than just a gym, though,” there was a spark of passion in his eyes as he activated the primary computer, and several holographic screens appeared. “This system here also has access to Sunyshore’s power grid, security systems, and environmental monitoring systems, most of which I designed,” as he spoke, he brought up footage that appeared to be taken from the ocean floor, not far from Sunyshore’s coast. “The gym is designed to withstand a large scale catastrophic event, so if something were to occur, this little control room could be activated to maintain essential services within the city - though not many know about this function.”

He gestured toward the screen, “but this is the project we’ll be working on - or part of it.  The aquatic monitoring and protection system, or AMPS.” With a few keystrokes, the screen changed from real footage, to what looked like a model of a small, unassuming device. “A few years back, I worked closely with a team of seismologists to design this device, here.” Volkner went on to explain, in detail, how the device worked to detect seismic activity with greater accuracy than ever before, while at the same time monitoring ocean wildlife - and how he’d recently developed a new prototype which would detect and collect data on unorganic materials, trash and spills, and release tiny marine robots to remove or absorb the material. 

“This new upgrade will be piloted first in Snowpoint, since the system has yet to be installed there anyways, and if there’s a notable decrease in deep sea and coastal pollution, this will be the version installed across the Hoenn region. Follow so far?” 

It was amusing to note that not everyone knew about a disaster response system -- but of course. If Sunyshore knew of it, there would most certainly have had been a disaster on a scale large enough that neither of them would be standing where they were at the moment.

Like, say, torrential rain and drought lasting weeks...?

Yuuki’s lips pulled themselves upwards in a polite smile, and he punctuated Volkner’s explanation of the systems with an occasional nod and interested hum.

“Why Snowpoint?” he asked, bluntly.

Snowpoint’s climate was a far cry from the tropical humidity of Hoenn. On the surface, it didn’t make sense. He didn’t doubt that Volkner had his reasons, but a conversation wasn’t made by one person’s monologuing.

i really really wanna like ultra sun enough to make th- (grumble grumble)

hi guys, it’s why the lion’s been gone. ultra sun, other school stuff, and getting ready for a new life (?) and things like that! so this blog is going back into semi-hiatus.