Blastoise Fortooate
Geographical!
"Well, do we at least know what egg group it is?"
Oak scratched his grey hair with the newspaper in his hand. He muttered a perplexed 'no' to his younger colleague, Elm. The little thing had turned up an hour ago, attached determinedly by the claws to an oran berry tree by the older professor's mailbox. He had unhooked it amiably and put it into the research chamber in his main office. Oak even remained calm as he awakened his visiting friend, decades of experience with strange occurrences (time travel, cloning, all that jazz) allowing him to focus and not freak out over the very strange creature that had made its way to Pallet Town. The two scientists, Oak in a thrown-on lab coat and slippers and a barefoot Elm in rumpled pika-print pajamas, walked excitedly back to the chamber.
Their first course of action was the tried-and-true pokédex scan. Although the computerized voice tentatively announced the little oddity as female, it had absolutely no other information to give. This had, of course, happened before; in Unova, Klink and its relatives hadn’t emerged as a group until about a century ago, at most. However, this specimen was strange in other ways as well. It was simple-looking, a Normal-type if anything (although the ‘dex was unable to read any energy signs that would indicate that). It was orange-furred though, so maybe a fire type? But its body temperature was only a tad over one hundred. Elm and Oak bounced ideas off of one another like that for hours, at one point calling it an eeveelution and at another dubbing it a close relative of meowth (due to the similarities in their cries). The creature didn’t talk much, and when it did an abra they had on hand couldn’t translate any of it.
It took about an hour total for things to sink in. This was an unprecedented discovery, bigger than the Mewtwo scandal or the discovery of clefairy tracks on the moon. It wasn’t a pokémon, as far as either of them could tell! A non-pokémon higher animal (that wasn’t a human) was the greatest scientific breakthrough since the disprovement of volcoronacentrism!
Oak hurriedly logged the important data on his oldest, trustiest computer. Elm bustled off to convey the groundbreaking news to Rowan and the rest of the gang. The abra looked around for a moment, sniffed the creature, and teleported off somewhere.
Meanwhile, Mittens the cat licked herself and sneezed.
Oak scratched his grey hair with the newspaper in his hand. He muttered a perplexed 'no' to his younger colleague, Elm. The little thing had turned up an hour ago, attached determinedly by the claws to an oran berry tree by the older professor's mailbox. He had unhooked it amiably and put it into the research chamber in his main office. Oak even remained calm as he awakened his visiting friend, decades of experience with strange occurrences (time travel, cloning, all that jazz) allowing him to focus and not freak out over the very strange creature that had made its way to Pallet Town. The two scientists, Oak in a thrown-on lab coat and slippers and a barefoot Elm in rumpled pika-print pajamas, walked excitedly back to the chamber.
Their first course of action was the tried-and-true pokédex scan. Although the computerized voice tentatively announced the little oddity as female, it had absolutely no other information to give. This had, of course, happened before; in Unova, Klink and its relatives hadn’t emerged as a group until about a century ago, at most. However, this specimen was strange in other ways as well. It was simple-looking, a Normal-type if anything (although the ‘dex was unable to read any energy signs that would indicate that). It was orange-furred though, so maybe a fire type? But its body temperature was only a tad over one hundred. Elm and Oak bounced ideas off of one another like that for hours, at one point calling it an eeveelution and at another dubbing it a close relative of meowth (due to the similarities in their cries). The creature didn’t talk much, and when it did an abra they had on hand couldn’t translate any of it.
It took about an hour total for things to sink in. This was an unprecedented discovery, bigger than the Mewtwo scandal or the discovery of clefairy tracks on the moon. It wasn’t a pokémon, as far as either of them could tell! A non-pokémon higher animal (that wasn’t a human) was the greatest scientific breakthrough since the disprovement of volcoronacentrism!
Oak hurriedly logged the important data on his oldest, trustiest computer. Elm bustled off to convey the groundbreaking news to Rowan and the rest of the gang. The abra looked around for a moment, sniffed the creature, and teleported off somewhere.
Meanwhile, Mittens the cat licked herself and sneezed.
