The 1st Roar | Accidental Video / Action for New Bark Town

[usedroar]

[It wasn't that his PokéGear was looking particularly tasty that afternoon, nor was it giving off any significantly threatening sort of air...

[No, twas curiosity that caused the cat to chomp down on his hard metal device, succeeding only in unintentionally beginning a broadcast and scaring the absolute piss out of himself.]

What the--!

[Yup. That shiny rock you just bit sure did just make a sound, and now that you've pulled it far away enough from your face to see what's going on on its screen, you...

[...yelp like a little cub and chuck it across the way!

[Goooood going.]

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[usedroar]

[Whoops. Almost took out one of those weird monkeys with that scary rock, didn't you, big boy? Can't really bring himself to care at the moment, though. A little too freaked out for that.]

Hey, you better watch out for that thing!

[Why? He doesn't know, it made a sound, okay? And rocks don't do that.]

[alwaysonline]

<sub>[Watch out for it? Well, duh, when it's hurled towards you like that, then absolutely - but come on.]

[Having retrieved it, Skipper holds it up as if showcasing it. ... Her Porygon is slowly hovering up to her side, too.]</sub>

It's a cell phone.

_{[SHE HAS NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.]}

[usedroar]

Huh?

[alwaysonline]

... you know. Calling, texting, gaming?

[usedroar]

No, I don't know. What are you talking about?

[alwaysonline]

_{[Just what]}

How have you never seen a cell phone before?

[usedroar]

I don't even know what that is.

What...this is!

[Gesturing toward his PokéGear.]

[alwaysonline]

_{[She looks uncertain for a moment, then looks at his gear to check there's nothing particular with it, and it looks just like hers, so ...?]}

Okay, well ... you probably won't get far without knowing how to use it. You use these things to talk to people.

[usedroar]

What?

How? It's just a...

[A rock? Obviously not.

[Whatever it is, she seems to know enough about it, and...now that she's not asking obnoxious questions anymore...

[Sigh.]

...Whatever. Whatever, just...get it over with. Are you gonna help me, or not?

[alwaysonline]

Well, yeah, but you don't have to be so angry about it.

<sub>[JUST SAYIN, KOVU. Just saying.]

[Nonetheless, she gives him a mixed sort of look but steps over, producing her own gear in the process. She hands him back his.]</sub>

[usedroar]

[He doesn't bother apologizing, or responding at all, for that matter. He does, however, reluctantly accept his PokéGear back and wait for instruction.]

[alwaysonline]

_{[Well, geez, aren't you a sourpuss. She looks at him for another second or so before she sighs and opens her gear and touches the screen to bring up the keyboard.]}

Okay, this is where you type. You ... do know how to do that, right?

[usedroar]

[It does startle him a bit when the keyboard pops up, but he recovers quickly, shooting her an irritated glance.]

No. I have no idea what you're talking about, actually.

[Surprise, surprise.]

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_{[Skipper shoots him an equally annoyed look, then sighs and takes the keyboard down.]}

Okay, no typing, I get it. Here, try this thing.

_{[She presses, on her own gear, the shortcut for audio recordings.]}

You press this button and you speak into it.

[usedroar]

Okay...?

[He says, brow furrowing as he leans in entirely too close to the device.]

What am I supposed to say?

[alwaysonline]

Anything. It's just a test.

_{[She says, somewhat patiently.]}

[usedroar]

Well...when do I start?!

[After all, he has already said something...]

[alwaysonline]

Did you press the button?

[usedroar]

What? No. You did!

[Grrr...]

I thought you knew what you were doing!

[alwaysonline]

I know what I'm doing! Look, just mimic what I'm doing on my phone on your phone. Press the button on your phone. Then talk into it.

[usedroar]

[Grumbling something to himself about bossy monkeys...

[He does what he's told, though, however stubbornly.]

Okay, now what?

[alwaysonline]

_{[She rolls her eyes.]}

Press it again. It means it stops listening.

Then go ... here.

_{[She points to the little icon that lets you listen to the recording, and will be watching his face as he presses it, thank you.]}

[usedroar]

[Rolling your eyes at Kovu, who do you think you are. He'll just be rolling his eyes right back at you and grumbling some more, thanks.

[He presses the button though, then the other button...

[And...sure enough, he's shocked.]

What the--

[...]

Is that...?

That's what I just said!

[alwaysonline]

Yep.

_{[See, she does know what she's doing.]}

And if you go here ... or here ... you can send it to people. This one lets anyone know what you said, I think. And then here you can pick who to send it to. You enter their numbers here.

This is mine.

_{[She holds up her gear to show him the sequence of numbers accompanying her picture. ... maybe a bit too much too soon there, but. She doesn't have all day, either, you know. Especially not if you're going to be such a grouch.]}

[usedroar]

No way...

It's just...some weird rock or something, how can it...?

[His voice trails off there, and instead of entering the number as she tells him to, he just sort of...stares at his PokéGear, far less grouchy and much more...amazed than he was before.

[And still pretty freaked out...]