01x. Action for Ecruteak City - Fourth Wall Event

[ardent]

[It's been a little while since Ishimaru's been here, and he can be found in...well, the exact same place he was last time he made a broadcast from this area - several stories up, on top of the Tin Tower. However, there's a marked difference from the last time he was up here - whereas he was a bit excited and generally getting his enthusiasm for life fired up and raring to go back in September, he's currently standing stock still in the center of the roof, his expression the sort usually reserved for those who have just had either a religious experience or a really, really spectacular acid trip (that may or may not have culminated in a religious experience, because hey, who are we to judge how these things happen). At least he's...not quite crying, though wow does he look tempted.

He's holding something tightly in his hands - a pair of somethings, really, the first being a ridiculously vibrant feather that glitters in various colors when it catches the light; the second is a small gold pouch containing...something light, from the look of it, but it's difficult to say. Either way, he's seeming a bit overwhelmed.

...to the point that he hasn't...quite noticed the Eevee horde that's trooped up here after him just yet, um. He'll probably wonder where the hell those came from once he's done, but for now they are just kind of...wriggling excitedly and once in a while bouncing, like they're trying to start some sort of tiny, fluffy mosh pit.

...Dangans, man.]

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[gummyfrogs]

Yeah, that's kind of what I do.

[...]

Wait, did she say what we do?

[ardent]

Illegal things. To help people.

[gummyfrogs]

Okay, look, it's a little more nuanced than that, but — okay, yeah, that's pretty much what we do, yeah.

Is that why you and her started hanging out? She was trying to help you?

[ardent]

Well, we met because I hadn't been outside in a while before I was brought here, so I was outside looking at the sky and appreciating it! And she found me doing that and asked what I was doing, and we had an awkward conversation about ritual suicide and honorifics and how there was an incident in my school, but I think we became friends quickly after that!

She helped me later with...things, but that isn't how we met; she didn't know about the things she eventually helped me with at the start!

[gummyfrogs]

...Oh my god, you're like a little uniformed shouty-Parker.

[...]

Oh my god, no wonder.

[ardent]

Well, I've been told we seem to understand each other in ways that no one else does.

[...]

My brother also says we're very weird but that's just because we see the world differently, so there's that as well, I guess!

[gummyfrogs]

Hey, man, the geeks shall inherit the earth, and I guess we'll take you weird guys with us when we do. It's cool.

So what's your story, man? Kiyotaka Ishimaru, that's Japanese, right?

[ardent]

It is, yes!

[You are getting a rather crisp salute for your effort, Hardison, before he's back to forming fists at his sides.]

I'm a member of the 78th class at Hope's Peak Academy, selected for my dedication to law, order and justice, and given the title of Super High-School Level Hall Monitor!

[gummyfrogs]

...Okay, right, and what's next, are you gonna whip out a transformation montage and summon your Gundam or something?

[ardent]

No, but I do have something that's very similar - Parker-san gave me a Pokémon that resembles one, his name is Dai-Gurren!

[gummyfrogs]

...Wait, wait, hold up. Dai-Gurren. You mean like Gurren Lagann, Dai-Gurren? Like, used to be Dai-Gunzan but captured by our heroes and renamed by Kamina, Dai-Gurren?

[ 8D ]

My man, up top.

[AND UP HE GOES FOR A FIVE AGAIN.]

[ardent]

Yes, that's exactly it!

[He will actually return that! Very enthusiastically!]

And my Gyarados is named after Kamina, actually!

[gummyfrogs]

Yeah, I can see it. Big giant hoversnake, piercin' the heavens, whaaaaaat.

[Hot damn, he's getting to like this kid.]

All right, all right. What else you got on your go team?

[Because we have to share Pokemon lineups now, apparently.]

[ardent]

Luxray and Gallade are the strongest for battling, outside of Kamina, and I have a Swellow for whenever I obtain the HM for Fly - I use Misdreavus for daily things and keeping an eye on people that I want to check up on, and I battle with Beedrill in complete seriousness just because people said I shouldn't!

[gummyfrogs]

Ahahahah, sticking it to the man, I see. Very nice.

[ardent]

I usually don't, but I see no harm in it this time!

[gummyfrogs]

Hey, there's nothing wrong with a little — wait, wait, you said you were a hall monitor. Okay, so maybe you do see a little something wrong with...

...

Good for you for being a rebel, man. Live the dream.

[ardent]

...Right!

[...moving...right along, um]

So what is it you do, anyway? Parker-san mentioned that there were various jobs you all do; which is yours?

[gummyfrogs]

That's weird, don't do that. She's just Parker.

[But he holds up his PokeGear obligingly, anyway.]

Team Geek, baby. That's how I got all that stuff on you from before; I just cloned your Gear and checked your network history, scoped out your account and contacts, stuff like that. There are no secrets on the internet. Even the Pokemon internet.

[ardent]

Ah, so you're like Fujisaki-kun! She's one of my classmates; she's excellent with computers and programming. Do you create AI as well?

[gummyfrogs]

Not for lack of skill! I'm a little more in the, you know, top secret database hacking, stock market finessing, getting the bank of Iceland to pay off Nanna's hospital bills-ing...that kind of stuff.

I build Parker robot toys, though. I mean, if that's close enough.

[ardent]

[ ... :|a ]

Fujisaki-kun could probably do that if she really wanted to, but she's entirely too nice to do anything like that, I think. But the robots are good!

[gummyfrogs]

Did she tell you about the Parker 2000?

[ardent]

No, she didn't!

[...]

What...is it?

[gummyfrogs]

Only a first-edition ASCD — automated safe-cracking device. It can crack a Glenn-Reider 1185 in just under four seconds.

[...Wait.]

That's — that's like a safe? Like a really tough safe, it can...just. It opens safes. For Parker. Um, not that she needs help with the — okay you know what you're a little kid and a hall monitor so I'm gonna stop talking now.