[Video]

[defiantstand]

[The video feed flickers on, there's some random burn marks on the sand as the image focuses and reveals a helplessly flopping red fish on the ground.]

What the hell is this?

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[little_anchor]

You can't eat those fish!

[defiantstand]

Yeah, the Poke'Gear was tellin' me that. Plus it took a tackle from Gurren without even a dent.

Trying to eat one of those things... tch, might as well be tryin' to chew on a rock.

[little_anchor]

Gurren? What's Gurren?

So even if it's dead you can't cut it?

[defiantstand]

Gurren's the little bugger I started with. He's a little thing with fire on his back.

And the thing's hard as a rock, movin' or not.

[video]

[honor_first]

[Zack's really starting to feel sorry for those fish pokemon. Hoothoot, who is enjoying his first long-term outing away from his pokeball, is ... staring blankly into the PokeGear from his shoulder, left eye blinking every other second.]

Well... what are ya gonna name it?

[Video]

[defiantstand]

Dunno... I ain't had a chance to see what it'll look like if it evolves or anything. I know some of 'em can look nothin' like what ya caught 'em as once they evolve.

[Video]

[honor_first]

That's what I've heard, too. But you gotta call it somethin'.

[Video]

[defiantstand]

Huh... it'll still probably live in the water. Hmm... a manly name for something that lives in the water...

[10yen_idol]

Ah, you're letting your Pokemon help you catch wild ones, too?

[defiantstand]

He's not supposed to. But the book was goin' on about trust and respect between a trainer and Poke'mon...

So I'm gonna see how this rolls for now. If the fish is useless, I'll toss it back later.

[10yen_idol]

Huh? Throwing the fish back is trust and respect...?

[defiantstand]

Tch, lettin' my Pokemon catch one's supposed to show him that I trust him.

Throwin' the fish back if it's useless is just freein' up a Pokeball.

[beware_of_bears]

That's the biggest fish I've ever seen!

[defiantstand]

Not to mention the weirdest lookin'... it's got fins like these.

[He pops the Magikarp out again to show it's fins.]

The fish back where I'm from have fins like hands.

[beware_of_bears]

......hands?

[defiantstand]

Yeah. The tail fin on 'em looks like a hand.