king_of_flames | Seventeenth Move

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Seventeenth Move

[Action, Celadon City]

[Roy walks out of the gym triumphantly, a Rainbow Badge in his hand. He turns around and waves to the women who gathered outside the front door, all of them calling "good-bye, Roy" and "Come back soon!"

However, this means he isn't watching where he's going, and so something bounces off his leg. He turns around and looks...

...and sees an Eevee. A familiar looking one, at that.]

Hey...Elsie?

[At the sound of her name, the Eevee runs up and begans rubbing up against Roy's legs, looking utterly distraught.]

...no...

[Roy was at a loss for words...and for just about anything else. He sands there, frozen, for a while.]

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To those who knew Brigadier General Maes Hughes: he has disappeared. I have his Eevee and his Alakazam. If you received any of his Pokémon, let me know so we can account for them.

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[WHAT?!

Did her heart just stop beating? What's that thing people call breathing?

...

No. Lies. Liar. Hughes couldn't be... He was just... ...He...

Pokémon. What? Right, maybe Winry should check. Just in case. Sure.]

[...Since when did she have a dit--? Hey two pokémon who she didn't catch or hatch or... Well, damn.]

His Audino and Chansey are in Goldenrod with me.

[Roy pauses when he sees the name attached to the text. Winry Rockbell? She had returned?

But now wasn't the time for that. Roy focuses on responding.]

Good. I know you'll give them a good home.

[Oh right, she hasn't seen you before this... Hello very unwelcome topic to this first contact thing.]

Thanks. I'll try my best, they deserve it.

[And when she says try, she means she'll give them the best adoptive home ever. Oh, sounds much like what Hughes gave her too...]

Yeah. They do.

I'm sorry

[For your loss? For Johto's loss? For ... this feeling like his death again. For the fact that Hughes is not going home like most people who disappear and everyone who come from Amestris know it?

Or because she's out of words for this one? Or because crying starts right now? Or because she probably couldn't write anything else to that line right now without making it look like a keysmash or something?]

[Roy takes a while to respond to this one himself. He's too busy thinking over things in his own head.]

Everything will turn out all right.

[Winry's not fast with her responses either. And this would be so much worse if she was still the little girl from that train... But nope, she went home for a while. Briggs is a cold place, etc. She kind of learned to live with it, somehow. Well, this is still hard at first.]

Yeah, everything always turns out all right. Well, at least he was still around when I got back here.

That's right. You got one more chance to meet him. I'm sure he enjoyed it, too.

Right. I just hope I didn't bother him too much when he rushed from Kanto to Johto, just to meet a girl.

[Well, maybe he did it for other things too, but... Still.]

Are you kidding? He was probably thrilled to do so. I can't imagine him acting any other way.

[Good job, Roy, you actually earn a ~~sad~~ smile with that text.]

No, I'm not kidding, though I guess I'm not thinking very much -- or clearly -- right now. But you're right. I can't imagine him acting any other way either.

Right. Just keep on pushing ahead for now. That's all any of us can do.

You too! I'll be okay. It just takes some time to get used to it again. Well as much as one can ever get used to it anyway.

[And who knows, he might come back someday. With or without memories from Johto. But Winry won't say anything about it aloud.]

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[ Text ] That icon incites sobs wherever it pops up.

[ Text ] I know. But Winry needs hugs atm, so at least she can get them on icons~

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