POKÉ WORLD WAR
Friday
The following has been transcribed by the Pokémon Channel Radio Station crew in order to archive the World War Week Special.
VENETIA: Good morning, Johto! This is your host, DJ Venetia, and welcome to another episode of our special show World War Week! It's Friday already and it's a bittersweet feeling to remind you all that this is the last episode of our special show. I'm sad because I enjoyed so much doing this, but I'm also very, very glad everything happened the way we wanted, the show has been a success, and we will have lots of specials for you in the future. Today I'll interview Margaret Fournier, a beautiful lady from Kalos that was a doctor in the battlefields, helped rebuilding the world after the war ended and currently is the owner of the largest Pokémon Day Care in the Kalos Region! Hello, Margaret!
MARGARET: Hello, Venetia! It's an honor to be here.
VENETIA: It's an honor to have you, Margaret. I'll finally interview a girl!
MARGARET: That's true!
VENETIA: I'm in love with your accent!
MARGARET: (Laughs).
VENETIA: So, I want to know everything about your life, but we should focus on the war, ok? Because that's what this show's all about! You served as a doctor for the Kalos army, right?
MARGARET: Yes.
VENETIA: What does a war doctor do, exactly?
MARGARET: That war was kind of a turning point for the way we do everything, right? It wasn't different in my area.
VENETIA: Tell us all about it.
MARGARET: In the first years, we rode skiddos into the battlefields and took the wounded to one of our bases. If the injuries were too bad sometimes we took care of them right there, in the field.
VENETIA: We're talking about people or pokémon here?
MARGARET: Both.
VENETIA: Ok. You had your own skiddo? Did he belong to you or the government?
MARGARET: The army gave the pokémon to the soldier. I still have mine.
VENETIA: How do you call him?
MARGARET: Comte Aurele
VENETIA: (Laughs). That's so cute!
MARGARET: He's great. He's a Gogoat now!
VENETIA: Awesome.
MARGARET: In the last years of war, when Kalos soldiers started to use pokéballs, everything changed. Our main transportation was now a big van with a healing machine inside. A similar device to the ones you see in pokécenters today. Of course it was bigger back then. We only used our mounts to enter dangerous zones the van couldn't. Then we took the patient to the van as fast as we could.
VENETIA: Interesting. Big evolution, right?
MARGARET: It was safer for us, doctors, of course. And it was more efficient too. Yeah.
VENETIA: You don't sound convinced.
MARGARET: (Laughs).
VENETIA: Why?
MARGARET: Well, in the beginning, when we were riding through the battlefield, potions in our hips and skiddo between our legs, it felt real. It felt like we were something else, apart from the war. People who were there to save lives instead of taking them. Then we became just another piece in the chess board, you know? Getting the pokéballs of any Kalos soldier we saw, trying to heal as many pokémon as we could, so they could go back to battle and hurt themselves again. Just one more gear in the war machine.
VENETIA: Yeah, I understand your point. Now, Margaret, I...
(STATIC NOISE): skrrreeek!
MARGARET: Ouch! That was loud!
VENETIA: Wow. I'm sorry about that. Ouch! My ears hurt! (FAR FROM THE MIC) Guys, what was that? Please, fix this! (INTO THE MIC) Sorry, everyone, we had some technical issue here, but our team will make sure I doesn't happen again. So, Margar...
(STATIC NOISE): SKRRREEEK!
(POKÉFLUTE SONG)
MYSTERIOUS VOICE: Hello people from Johto! I'm here to make you all wake up!
VENETIA: (FAR FROM THE MIC) Guys, what's this? What's happening? Someone stop this madness!
MYSTERIOUS VOICE: For all your lives you've been told lies, but this week was the summit of the filthy falsehood we've been dealing for so long!
VENETIA: This is so disrespectful! You stop doing what you're doing right now, mister! Or miss...
MYSTERIOUS VOICE: This show has been the most delusive piece of media to ever exist! Oak's interview was ridiculous! The man that gave total control of the world to the leagues and Silph Co. pretending he's one of the good guys! And that Leopold Darrel? Oh! Thinking about him makes me nauseous! Such a cat's-paw! A gear in the war machine, like Margaret said, but he knows it! And he likes it! You, listener! Don't you buy that man's innocent disguise! Released that early from prison because he helped the government to put an end to the war? (Laughs). Sure, sure.
MARGARET: Venetia, can't we just... Shut this person down?
VENETIA: I'm trying! (FAR FROM THE MIC) Guys?
MYSTERIOUS VOICE: Silph Co. leaked the pokéball. They were friends with Team Smoke the same way they were friends with Team Rocket later on. Only a blind person wouldn't see! The company gave the pokéball to the criminals and brought chaos! They wanted war and war they got. Then Silph Co. gave it to the army. To the army of every country! The company knew it would be impossible to stop using the product after it proved to be so useful. With the help of your senile friend Oak and a scary population they managed to pass all kinds of aberration as products. Silph Co. now have a monopoly in TMs, ruining the jobs of thousands of move tutors around the world! And, of course, the license to produce the aberrations of aberrations, a ball that destroys the pokémon! Yes, destroys! What did you think it did? Destroys and makes a digital code of it. And then creates a tamed copy of the creature whenever you want to. That's sick! That's outrageous! How can you all just close your eyes to this?
VENETIA: That's not how the pokéball works! The pokémon that comes out of it is the same that came in. He remembers stuff you told him.
MYSTERIOUS VOICE: Memory is as copyable as their physical body. Now, what will prevent Silph Co. of making a humanball?
VENETIA: (Laughs). You can't be serious! The pokémon DNA is very unique. Look at ditto...
MARGARET: Venetia, stop encouraging this crazy person...
MYSTERIOUS VOICE: Let's talk about ditto then. Have you ever seen any reference to this pokémon before the war?
VENETIA: If you had paid attention to the show, you would know there's very little references of anything pokémon related before the war...
MYSTERIOUS VOICE: Ask any old person if they knew about ditto before the pokédex. If they have a good memory, they will say they don't. Ditto is a product of the evil experiences Silph Co. made with mew through Team Smoke! All to create the most powerful war weapon ever!
VENETIA: (Laughs). Unbelievable!
MYSTERIOUS VOICE: And if you think a humanball is such an impossible concept, you better know both Bill and Silph Co. have been messing around with human teleportation for years now! That bizarre creature Leopold saw in Cinnabar is a consequence of this! Do you think people will rebel against the company if they attempt to make a humanball or something similar? What could we do now that the power of trainers is restrained? Now that we have a limit of moves in our pokémon and a limit of pokémon in our pockets? Now that a big part of the monsters and products we use are created and made by this very company that plan to usurp us? Now that we're not taming wild creatures anymore, but robotizing and throwing them into a virtual warehouse controlled by our very enemies? Don't you buy that old man's speech of independent PC systems, that doesn't make sense at all!
VENETIA: Well, guys, with sadness I announce that the last episode of our show will have to end sooner than we all expected because of this ridiculous invasion...
MYSTERIOUS VOICE: Don't use pokéball!
VENETIA: Thanks for coming, Margaret.
MYSTERIOUS VOICE: Don't teach your pokémon pre-made moves!
MARGARET: Thank you, Venetia.
MYSTERIOUS VOICE: Use move tutors!
VENETIA: Hope we can talk again, sometime in the future.
MYSTERIOUS VOICE: Battle in your own terms! Not using the league's set of rules!
MARGARET: Me too, Venetia.
MYSTERIOUS VOICE: Let your pokémon know all the moves it can, don't limit them!
VENETIA: I had a great time with you, guys! You're a wonderful audience!
MYSTERIOUS VOICE: Keep your pokémon free!
VENETIA: Bye!
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