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Meanwhile, in Galar
BGM: Hammerlocke (Pokemon Sword/Shield)
Bede walked around in Hammerlocke, munching on a churro as he walked before spotting Hop. "Hmm?" He wondered as he walked over. "What you doin' all the way out here for?"
"Eh, just wanted to wander around a bit." Hop said. "Aaaand I realized I was about to miss a stream."
"A stream? I don't recall Raihan doing streaming now."
"Nah, it's this girl from Paldea."
"Girl from Palde-... oh, her? Eh, I don't really like her that much."
"Why not? Too clickbaity?"
"Naaaaah, she's just not really my thing. That and her voice is kinda grating."
"Really? Her voice ain't that bad."
Bede shrugged. "Well, more power to you. I'll see you around."
"...You don't have anything going on."
"What? No, I do! I have loads of things going on! As a gym leader, I-"
"If you have stuff going on, you'd still be in Ballonlea right about now."
Bede stiffened. "...Okay, you got me. Nobody's challenging the gym today so I thought I'd visit Hammerlocke for a bit. Might go see what Marn's up to or see how Bea's doing with Alister and Korrina. Heck, I might do some swimming with Nessa, who knows."
"You sure you don't want to join me?"
"Yes." Bede nodded as he bit into his churro. "...Eh, on second thought, maybe five minutes just to see what that chick's doing."
"Alright, pull up a seat!" He said as Bede did so, and the moment he sat down, the video went live.
End BGM
BGM: Iono Zone (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet)
"Ello, ello, hola! Ciao and bonjour! Your eyeballs are MINE - caught in my Electroweb! Whosawasit? Iono! We're live worldwide with another one of my awesome streams!"
Bede rolled his eyes. "Ugh… can't she come up with a better catchphrase?"
"It's iconic!"
"Sure, maybe to you…"
"Today's stream is gonna be some rapid fire topics before we go into today's gaming sesh! First topic of the day! Galar's top supermodel, Alessandra, has been offered a deal to do fashion modeling here in Paldea, that's crazy! Not only that, but her brother Cian and her parents are also coming here!"
"Alessandra?!" Hop said in surprise. "Shoot, I haven't heard that name in a while."
"You know her?"
"She and her brother were me and Gloria's childhood friends. They're a bit older than us, but they were really close! Unfortunately, they moved away and we never saw 'em again."
"Aaaah…"
"I wonder if she'll be a student in Naranuva Academy? …I wonder if I could run into her and interview her. Maybe we'll do makeup together! Maybe she'll give me fashion advice even though I'm fashionably cute~!" Iono giggled. "She might make me pretty like a Gothorita! Oooh, just the thought of having her being on my show makes me all tingly! …I'm probably still tingly after letting a few Joltik crawl all over me. Visiting Chargestone Cave was worth it for that!"
Bede rolled his eyes.
"Speaking of Chargestone Cave, let's talk a little bit about Unova… specifically one of their Gym Leaders, Clay! Apparently the big guy dug up some curious material recently, and on close inspection, he dug up something called Black Augerite! Not only that, but some Scyther seemed curious about this Black Augerite… and get this! Apparently they evolved into some ancient Pokemon called Kleavor! KLEAVOR! Apparently they were a big deal back in ancient Sinnoh which was called Hisui back in the day. You heard that right folks! Clay just brought back an extinct species! Scyther now has two evolutions! That's pretty cool! I wonder who's superior… Scizor or Kleavor? I'll put up a poll for you guys after this stream so we can determine who's the better Scyther evolution!"
"...You're kidding me." Bede said.
"Holy crap! I need to tell Gloria that!"
"What ya boys watchin'?" A voice asked as they turned to see Raihan approaching them.
"A streamer." Hop said.
"An annoying one at that."
"Oh?" Raihan leaned closer. "Oh hey, I've heard of that girl. Iono, right?"
"Bingo!" Hop nodded.
"Sweet. Heard she's pretty cool, but tends to be a bit clickbaity sometimes."
"Next up, there has been some strange sightings in Paldea and unfortunately, I'm not talking about the Ten Sights of Paldea. No, apparently a lot of folks saw some kind of Dragon Pokemon diving into the Great Crater. Some say it was a missile, some say it was a Dragon Pokemon with fire coming out of his butt, but regardless, no one knows for sure what it is. But, ya know how it is, no one's allowed in the Great Crater so we'll possibly never know. Personally, I say it looked like a jet, but it didn't seem like a Latias or a Latios…"
"Interesting…" Raihan mused.
"Speaking of these weird Pokemon popping up everywhere, I heard a juicy rumor that scientists are creating a new special type of Pokeball that will capture these new Pokemon and will be distributed worldwide!"
Iono brought up a picture of a Rathalos. "That's right, you too can capture one of these ugly mugs!" She then brought up pictures of a Glavenus, Pukei Pukei, a Rajang, a Nargacuga and an Anjanath. "You can even capture these weird Pokemon and a whole lot more! I hope I can capture that electric dragon that's been hanging around my city soon. I think it was called… Asta… something or other?"
Hop sweatdropped. "Capturing those things? …I'm not sure how to feel about that."
"Good luck trying to catch a Nergigante." Bede chuckled. "There's no way-"
"According to what I've heard, these Pokeballs are gonna be called Monster Balls. The name might be changed later on, but these Pokeballs will come in four flavors! Normal Monster Ball, Great Monster Ball, Ultra Monster Ball, and, the creme de la crop, the Master Monster Ball! It might be more plentiful than a regular Master Ball, if you can believe it! They might even do a water based Monster Ball too… like a Dive Monster Ball! Nah, that sounds dumb…"
Bede groaned. "Spoke too soon…"
Raihan chuckled. "Well, how about that… welp, see ya kids later."
"Now before we go into our gaming sesh, I want to give a personal shout out to the social media star of the week! This week's social media star is none other than Galar's own Dragon master, Raihan!"
Raihan froze mid-step, blinked and then quickly backed up and peeked back in. "What'd she just say?"
"I have to say, his pictures of him posing and doing all kinds of shenanigans with his Pokemon, not to mention bringing his bestie Piers into the spotlight, his photos are so totally cool! His Pokemon battles that he shares are totally raw! It's inspiring! So, Raihan, if you're watching this, you are one cool dude! Maybe we can do a collab together sometime~?" Iono winked. "Just hit me up in Levincia and I'll make it happen!"
Raihan jawdropped. "Oh… oh my…" He said as he smiled. "I'll be right back, I need to… do something." He quickly took off running.
Hop and Bede looked at each other with raised eyebrows before shrugging.
"Oh, I just got a hundred Pokedollar donation from BelliboltEnthustiast! Thank you so much! Love that name, by the way! Let's see what you have to say: "You do know that Raihan probably doesn't watch your streams, right?"." Iono sighed. "Yeah, I'm aware, but hey, a gal can dream, right?" She giggled. "Anyway, let's get on today's video game stream! Today, we'll be seeing if I can finally get through that one segment in Resident Evil 2! I am NOT going to let Mr. X give it to me this time! Let's rock!"
"Good luck…" Hop chuckled.
"Eh, I'm bored now. See ya." Bede walked off.
End BGM
As Bede walked off, he rubbed his chin in thought. "I wonder where Raihan ran off to…"
Meanwhile, with Raihan…
"Wait a moment, you want to go where?" The receptionist asked.
"Paldea! It's… a business trip." Raihan said.
"Oh, okay! Your flight should be open… oh, right about now!"
"Thank you."
One trip to Paldea later…
BGM: Levincia (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet)
Raihan walked into Levincia, looking around to see the town as lively as can be. "So this is where Iono hangs out in, eh?" He chuckled as he walked around, where some Skiploom flew around with some Rookidee and Wattrel flew around as well.
Raihan glanced over and saw some kids riding around on some Cyclizar. "Heh, cool bikes…" He chuckled as he continued walking around town.
At that moment, a girl with sunglasses, light brown hair that went down to her shoulders along with some Bellibolt hairclips on the side of her bangs, as she also wore a yellow shirt with Kilowattrel on it and some blue shorts and sandals walked by and spotted Raihan.
"...Wait, is that…?" She wondered as she let out a gasp, pulling down her sunglasses to reveal her green eyes. "Oh. My gosh." She whispered as she quickly took off running in the opposite direction.
"Excuse me, sir. Do you happen to know where Iono is?" He asked, only to be met with a guy talking in Spanish that caused him to sweatdrop. "Aheheh, sorry… I… don't speak Spanish."
"Ah, apologies, senior!" He apologized. "Iono should be wandering around town. You can't miss her."
"Thank you so much! Er, I mean… gracias… I think that's what you guys say?"
"Si!"
"I'm gonna go with yes." Raihan chuckled as he walked the other way, blushing in embarrassment. Man, why did I skip out on Spanish classes in school? Nessa'd never let me hear the end of it if she was with me! Heck, Sonia would get on my case too…
Raihan turned the corner as he looked through his Rotom phone, only to accidentally smack into someone. "Oooof!"
"Wah! Oh, I'm so sorry about that!"
"Nah nah, it's my fault. You're oka-" Raihan paused, staring at who he ran into. "Iono?!"
"Raihan!" Iono said in surprise with a smile before helping him up. "Wh-what are you doing here?"
"Heh, well, I caught your latest stream. The moment I heard you giving me a shout out, I thought I'd swing by!"
"O. M. G. That's incredible! You actually saw it!" Her eyes sparkled, letting out a fangirl squeal. "Oh, this is so cool! You're always so incredible with your flash photography! You're a social media celebrity all over Galar! It's just… just… can I have your autograph real quick?"
Raihan grinned. "Sure, anything for a fan!" He said as he pulled out a pen.
"Sign on the back of my jacket!" She turned around with a smile as Raihan smiled, proceeding to write on it.
"Shoutout to the number one streamer of Paldea! - Raihan"
Raihan took a picture of it and then showed Iono. "How about that?"
"Eeeeek! It's perfect!" Iono grinned. "Okay! Deep breaths! Hooo… okay, so, you wanna do a collab together? I can hook you up into my streams if you want."
Raihan smiled. "I'd be honored. Heck, if you want, I can invite you over to Galar and we can do a Social Media photography party with just the two of us."
Oh my gosh, I think I just died and went into heaven! Iono thought. "I'd love that! We should definitely collab often!"
Raihan grinned. "That'd be cool!"
"Really? That's awesome!" Iono giggled. "Oh, give me your number!" She requested as both of them traded numbers. "Sweet!"
"Heh, pretty cool." Raihan chuckled. "Well, since I'm here, I might as well check out the rest of the town and probably hit up the beach."
Iono smiled. "Alrighty then! Oh, wait, before we go… can we do a selfie real quick?"
"Yeah!" Raihan nodded as Iono brought out her Rotom Phone.
"Alright, little farther… perfect! Smile and do a pose~!" Iono grinned as they both posed for the camera as the picture was taken, then Iono took her Rotom Phone. "Soooo, I'll see ya around for a while?"
"Yeah. Catch ya later!" Raihan waved as Iono waved goodbye as well.
"That was amazing…" Iono giggled, proceeding to post the picture to her social media.
"Look who paid me a visit! And no, it's not photoshopped, it's the real deal! #Starstruck"
End BGM
Iono walked into her home as comments started pouring in along with positive reactions. She smiled, putting her Rotom Phone on the sink… then she removed her hair, jacket, contact lenses and Magnemite hair clips, revealing brown hair with Bellibolt hairclips and her green eyes. She even took out her razor sharp teeth, revealing normal teeth underneath.
She let out an exhausted sigh before chuckling. "The things I do for my fans." She smiled, still starstruck over her meeting with Raihan as she changed into her casual clothing. She looked at Raihan's signature and smiled.
"Wouldn't trade that autograph for the world." She said as she pulled out some ramen and sat down on the couch.
"Hmmm… wonder what our collab is gonna be."
And now, for something that I've meant to do for a long time. A Gaiden featuring none other than the gremlin herself, Iono!
Ibuki: Ooooh, girl goes incognito? Nice!
Deadpool: Even she needs some down time every now and then!
Yup, I have this headcanon that when she puts on her a hyperactive persona in her streams and in public, but outside, she's just a cool and casual gal.
Now, does this seem like filler? Yeah. Do I care? Absolutely not. Nothing wrong with a few fillers here and there. It's all in the fun!