"This isn't gonna hurt, is it?" Korrina eyed up the large, dust covered machine anxiously, as well as the helmet sitting next to her, connected to said machine. Clemont sighed from inside the machine, muttering just loud enough for the girl to hear, "It shouldn't. We'll just have to find out." Korrina snorts with disbelief, folding her arms.
"That's what worries me. This thing is how old again? You haven't touched it for how long?" she said, giving the machine a light kick - skates removed, thankfully. This didn't stop the boy from removing his head from the wiring compartment and snapping, "Don't do that!" As he returned to his final touch-ups, Korrina rolled her eyes and asked, "Any pokémon in particular you want me to use, or am I good to use any?" He doesn't answer immediately, either thinking it over or focusing on his work, but when he does, it's an absent, "Any should do." Another roll of the eyes and Korrina stood, walking to a small bag she'd brought with her. Digging inside it, she removed a single Poké Ball. She gave it a quick toss into the air before she released the pokémon inside; her Pangoro let out an almighty roar, making Clemont jump, hitting his head inside the machine. Removing his top half from the machine, his jaw dropped as he stared with disbelief at the pokémon.
"You did say any pokémon would do. Before you go nuts," Korrina says with a smile, batting her eyelashes and looking the very definition of smug. The boy's mouth flapped open several times, as though he were contemplating saying something about the situation, however he instead removed his glasses and pinched the bridge of his nose in an attempt to clam down, muttering to himself, "It should still work. It doesn't matter." He put his glasses back on and gave the compartment a quick once-over, checking everything was in order, though not without saying under his breath, definitely not for Korrina's ears, "Though something smaller to start would've been good."
"You still didn't say how old this thing is or how long it's been since you last worked on it," Korrina piped up. Clemont closed the compartment door, lips pressed tightly together in frustration - there were reasons he wasn't...particularly fond of spending time with Korrina, namely how often she annoyed him, intentionally or just rubbing him the wrong way accidentally - as he answered, "I don't really know. I guess I started it when I was 11 or something then forgot about it. You ready or what?"
"Is it gonna hurt?" she asked again, making the boy press the ball of his hand against his forehead and take in a sharp breath. He paused before answering slowly, "No. It won't. Now put on-" He was interrupted as Korrina said, "You didn't say it wouldn't, you said it shouldn't. That means you don't know." Seeing that she was driving the blond to the edge, as evident by him taking his glasses off again and putting his head in his hands, she coughed and quickly tried to remedy the situation by saying, "But it should be fine, it won't fry my brain cells or give me some weird helmet hair or anything. I mean, I already sort of get helmet hair already but..." She trailed off, sensing she wasn't helping things, but when she opened her mouth to try again, Clemont quickly stopped her, holding up his hand and saying, slowly again, "Just...put on the helmet."
She did as she was asked - without a word, to his relief - while he handed her a visor that was connected to the machine like her helmet, telling her rather briefly that it was for Pangoro. As Korrina placed the visor carefully onto her pokémon's face, the boy pressed a button on the machine, and it came to life, revving like a car engine almost. The Fighting specialist jumped, and her Pangoro growled at the machine. Korrina gulped then began rambling, sounding slightly panicked, "I know that this is probably gonna bug you since I've asked this now like 15 times but are you sure this is safe cause this does not look or sound safe and Pangoro's freaking out here and don't get me wrong I know your a genius an' all but I trust her judgement a lot more than your smarts."
Clemont, who'd flipped open a small keyboard and began typing some sort of code as she'd been talking, turned as she finished her panicky outburst, wearing an eerily neutral expression - so noticeable considering how frustrated he was just 1 minute ago - with a single eyebrow raised. Then, he shrugged, and before Korrina could panic again, he hit the 'Enter' key on the keyboard, and Korrina immediately dived for the cover of her partner. She waited, for an explosion or beeping, something to indicate that the machine hadn't worked so she could go home, hopefully intact. Nothing. Nothing but her fellow gym leader's highly amused sniggering.
"Korrina, you can sit up straight now. Nothing bad's happened." She didn't straighten up immediately, not sure if he was only joking with her or not. However, she did sit up, though she kept her eyes closed, despite being somewhat aware of some sort of movement going on in front of her, movement that didn't match that of being alone in a small room with a large black and white pokémon and a small boy in a blue jumpsuit.
"Opening your eyes would be nice. You need to focus on the visor of your helmet to do this thing," Clemont said, faint exasperation entering his voice now that she was acting silly and he'd had his small moment of fun. The girl sighed and did as she was told, and immediatly, she gasped.
"Woah! This is cool! It's like a stadium!" she laughed, head darting around to take in the so called stadium only she could see. She grabbed her pokémon's arm and shook it, giggling with excitement as she said, "Pangoro, you have got to see this. Can she see this? Help her see this, Clemont. This is awesome!" He rolled his eyes, but did as he was asked, walking over to the large furry pokémon and flicking a switch on the visor. As soon as he did this, the Pangoro's normal scowl changed to a look of wonder, clearly as fascinated as its partner.
"Do you want me to show you how to work this thing, or do you need five more minutes?" Clemont asked, and he couldn't help but smile at her enthusiasm. Korrina's head snapped to where he stood and she lifted the helmet just enough to peek out at the boy from below the visor before putting it back on and saying, "Alrighty then, show me what this thing really is and why we're using it."
"I'm not quite sure how to explain what this thing does, if I'm honest. I mean, I know what it does, I just don't know how to explain it," he said as he walked to stand in front of the girl and placed his hands on either side of the helmet. Pressing a small button on one side made two dials pop out from under his hands. "But using it," he continued, "I can explain. You use these dials and this button," he lifted Korrina's hand to rest on the dial, then pressed her index finger lightly so she could feel the small button beneath it without pressing it, a different one from the one he'd pressed to release the dials, "to control it. Want to select a level? They should be on the visor screen." Korrina nodded, and twisted the dial, her mouth forming into a small 'o' shape as she watched the visor screen with intent fascination.
"Okay, I want to try this...Attack level. Do I press the button?" she asked, and after recieving confirmation, she entered the level. "Okay now what?" Taking advantage of the fact that the small game, so to speak, hasn't begun yet, he placed his hands over hers on the dials to help with his explanation.
"Well, to start, you do all the work. Pangoro gets to see it, but you'll be doing to work. Understand?" She nodded. "Good. Well, you use this dial," he squeezed her right hand gently, "to move up and down, and this one," then her left hand, "to move side to side. Maybe if you get used to it, you could use both in tandem someday. And then the button to shoot." Korrina's mind alternated between asking what he meant by 'using both dials in tandem' and 'shooting', then decided on the latter.
"Shoot? What am I shooting at?" she asked, her grip on the dials tightening, not from fear but a sudden sense of competitiveness. Clemont rolled his eyes and said, "Before you get too excited, it's not...exactly like your normal First-Person Shooter you can play on a console or at an arcade. Yes, you're shooting at something, but it doesn't shoot back. Though I have been thinking to add that in," he added absently at the end. Korrina snapped him back from his thoughts as she repeated, "Yeah, great, good to know, what am I shooting at?" He frowned, slightly annoyed by her attitude, however he simply sighed and said, "It's a pokémon shaped balloon. And before you get all disappointed, it's not as easy as it sounds. There're specific areas you have to hit and the balloons move, so you have to match the movements if you want to hit the hit boxes. And, as you'd expect, later levels would be harder." Korrina removed her hands from the dials to stretch out her arms, intertwining her fingers and cracking them as she did so, making the boy wince.
"Alrighty then," she grinned, placing her hands back on the dials as soon as she'd finished stretching, "I'm ready! Let's play!"
Here, have a quick drabble I typed up in the early hours of the morning.
This was suggested by Tsukuyomi, who wanted to see Clemont showing Korrina his super training invention. The way I've done this, this is like an early model he's showing her and she's like his test audience, so to speak. She's gonna play it, and give him advice, though how well the advice would be would depend.
And I must admit, the helmet idea was sort of inspired by another method of showcasing Super Training in fic form, from SDproductions' fic, The Kalos Chronicles. It's not exactly the same, but I did take the helmet idea. I don't mean take, I mean I was inspired!
/facepalm
Anyway, the next drabble will either be something featuring the champions (Note: I've been trying to hold off and featuring the Kalos champ due to the fact that some people might not yet know who that is and I don't want to spoil them, especially since some people will have gotten the game for Christmas and some people may be playing through the game slowly), or, it might be something with the Unova leaders in it, cause seriously, I've beat the Nimbasa Gym now (More updates about my gaming yay) so that's 6 gym leaders - 7 if I maybe include Cheren cause I saw his anime episode - I can write about.
Maybe. We'll see.
As usual, thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed. Please do review, fave, follow and suggest, cause I like writing suggestions, I really do. It at least gives me a basis to write off of instead of just sitting for five minutes thinking "I want to do a drabble with [character] but how to write it?"
Thank you once more!
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