24th - video/action for Olivine;

[islandshore]

[When the feed starts up, it's upside-down, but there's a clear shot of a very angry Riku standing next to a large pile of exhausted Pokémon including a very large Charizard, Feraligatr, Nidoking, Scizor, Lucario, and a Rotom, which manages to float over to the Gear and slowly lift it up.

Riku, however, looks less than impressed.]

Get back up! You can't just sit there.

[The Pokémon groan and shift a little, but alas, they're just too exhausted to keep going.]

C'mon. You're going to keep fighting, you got that? I don't care how tired you are.

[There's a sad sounding vrrrrrm from Surge, who hovers over to Riku.]

See? If Surge can do it, so can--

[Aaaand then the Gear falls. Looks like even Surge didn't have the energy to keep going.]

Can't believe this...

[After a moment, he scoops up the Gear and shuts it off. Those in Olivine are free to see this unpleasant display. A little while after his defeat, Riku's going to be working his team incredibly hard, putting them up against each other.

Someone's a sore loser, to say the least.]

Comments

[voice]

[islandshore.livejournal.com]

Maybe, but you're not talking to some rookie trainer. I know what I'm doing; don't have all the badges for nothing.

[And yet, there's still a lot he has to learn. Maybe not about battling techniques, but of the more intimate side of Pokémon and trainer bonds. The stuff beyond shouting orders.]

[voice]

[shellderkillder.livejournal.com]

[Or trust, as Shelly would put it.]

... Is that so? I only have four badges. Will you think less of me for it?

[voice]

[islandshore.livejournal.com]

All I'm saying is that I've got experience, and I know my team better than anyone else.

[voice]

[shellderkillder.livejournal.com]

Yet, you still clearly overworked them.

[voice]

[islandshore.livejournal.com]

I don't pull punches in a Pokémon battle. Doesn't matter if I'm up against strong or weak opponents.

[voice]

[shellderkillder.livejournal.com]

That is not the point.

[voice]

[islandshore.livejournal.com]

Then what is?

[voice]

[shellderkillder.livejournal.com]

You should learn to work with your Pokémon, not merely order them around.

[voice]

[islandshore.livejournal.com]

What's the difference?

[In his mind, this is working with them.]

[voice]

[shellderkillder.livejournal.com]

They have needs and desires as well. You can't forget that.

[voice]

[islandshore.livejournal.com]

Not like I can read their minds. Besides, some of them wouldn't fight if I wasn't there to keep them in line.