oo1; video|action for the rocket base in mahogany!

[useddeathbound]

[ A nondescript ceiling comes into view as the pokégear starts recording, with a nondescript lamp hanging from it. Any Rocket out there is free to recognize this as a standard room for grunts in mahogany town, while a hand fumbles visibly with the 'gear, as if the person in question is reaching for it blindly. Finally a teen comes into view as

Comments

1/one day he'll stop being shocked.

[usedrage]

[Hahaaaaaaa Ken recognizes those rooms. 8(]

2/these are all video.

[usedrage]

[... He recognizes that hobo, too]

3/seriously, one day a canonmates gonna show up...

[usedrage]

[Oh, come on, Johto. Are you really going to do this to him again?]

4/and ken's just gonna be like

[usedrage]

[Wait... that is a Rocket room, and that is a Hobo-senpai.]

[miniworth]

[ ...Oh hey~

I mean. ]

... Mr. Aragaki?

[ But I thought you-- ]

[useddeathbound]

[blink. Blink.]

Do I know you?

[miniworth]

I-- No.

[ Stay calm Edgeworth. Stay calm. ]

[useddeathbound]

Then how do you know my name?

[video]

[bufudyned]

[One day she will also stop being shocked]

-- Aragaki!

[video]

[useddeathbound]

[First Amada and now...]

Mitsuru. You got some explanation for this?

[A certain hobo is not particularly happy.]

[video]

[bufudyned]

[she'd be more relieved if she recognized the surroundings he started in]

Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. But it's quite an incredible one.

[video]

[useddeathbound]

[A shrug. Look, he used to spend his free time fighting things nobody else even knew existed. How bad can it be?]

Let's hear it.

[Admittedly, he's a little bit tired of incredible things.]

[video]

[usedvolttackle]

[He can't really manage any words. Yes, Mitsuru had told him about the whole time issues here. Yes that meant dead people could be here. But that doesn't mean he's at all prepared for this. So he just touches the screen lightly, dumbfounded.]

[video]

[useddeathbound]

[On the otherhand, Shinji, actually looking for the responses now, looks right back. With the look on Aki's face, he's not really sure what to say either. Any bets for eloquent greetings are definitely off. A long moment of silence.]

...hey.

[It's tentative by his standards. What to say to your best friend you deliberately died on?]

[video]

[usedvolttackle]

...h-hey.

[His eyes are huge, and when he was younger he might have been crying. But not now... and not due to the pure muleheaded stubbornness he'd wrapped around himself for the years after Miki's death. Instead he's a little older, a little tougher then he used to be. After all, crying won't change anything.]

Where are you?

[video]

[useddeathbound]

I... [You seem different-] don't know. Mahogany Town, if that means anything to you. Underground, I think.

You?

[Like it or not, Shinji realizes they have a few things to talk about. But that's not something they would do over some kind of device, it's in person or bust. They grew up together. He owes him that much, at the very least. Probably much, much more. Shinji's usual gruff calm seems only slightly shaken, but the fact that it shows at all already gives him away.]

[phoenix_temple]

[Shinji might catch a Priiiiii~ Priiiiiiiiii~ and a togepi face all up in his business with a blonde in his background.]

[useddeathbound]

[Shinji looks at the screen, profoundly confused, but then decides to let his pokégear lie on the bed, so his own Togepi scuttles right over to it. Animated, cheerful pokémon conversation is a go?]

[phoenix_temple]

[Totally. Meanwhile Fuu is peering over wondering wtf her togepi is at...]

Hello?

[useddeathbound]

Huh? ... [Shinji will be looming over his pokémon too now, while the Togepi... seems to very cheerfully introduce him? If the arm-waving in his direction is any indication.]