20 - Video / Action for Goldenrod

[show_my_cannons]

[At first, it's just Ironhide's face. He's looking out across the way at something, bundled up like a mummy against the cold.]

Huh.

[He turns the 'gear, and shows his Aggron, Egg, apparently having a wrestling contest with a tiny green creature. Egg isn't trying very hard, mostly just shoving the little Pokemon away from him with a foot.]

Why do we even need to bother capturing these creatures, if this place just dumps them on us whenever it sees fit?

[Another, thoughtful, pause.]

Think I will call it... "Green."

[Ironhide you are terrible at naming things.]

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[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

... I named my new weapons system back home. Called it the 'Heavy Iron'.

[He is completely, 100% serious.]

[Video]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[Do you hear that sound of faint sobbing, Ironhide?]

[Yes.]

[It's coming from Heather.]

[You've killed her.]

[She is dying.]</sub>

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

[He tilts his head.]

... Kid?

You okay?

[Video]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[Her hands leave the top of her head (where they'd been clutching at her hair dramatically) and make some melodramatic WHYYYYYY motions in the air.]

[It's okay, Ironhide. She is just being Heather.]</sub>

... I can't.

I just can't.

Heavy Iron.

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

[... Yeah, okay, she's fine.]

[He sits back, arms folded.]

Yeah. And it fit them.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

I just-- ... Heavy Iron?

And they're-- ... and they're made by someone named Ironhide?

I can't.

I can't.

<sub>[And then there's another thump as she lets her head meet the desk melodramatically.]

[... And then lifts a hand.]</sub>

It's better than 'Green', though!

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

They are heavy, and they are mine.

[It's... only belatedly he catches himself using present tense. They were heavy. They were his.]

[He pauses.]

Green is fine, too.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[... Oh yeah. Now that Heather... knows, she's just sort of religiously avoiding mentioning it.]}

Fine, it's fine.

But it's also boooooring.

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

[Oh, he's fine with avoiding. More than fine, in fact.]

It does not need to be 'exciting' if it is appropriate.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[She might not be able to leave it alone forever, but for now they can just happily ignore the elephant in the room.]}

Yeah, but it can be appropriate and exciting.

I mean, EVERY one of its species is that color! What if I just called you PEACH because that's what color most humans are?

That's appropriate, but I bet you'd be totally mad at me.

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

Yeah, they are. But they would not be Green.

[This makes total sense to him, just bear with it, Heather.]

They would be... other names. But they would not be this one.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Okay. Okay, fine. Jeez.

_{[A pause.]}

... So can I call you Peach now?

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

Do that, and we will cease having pleasant conversation.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Awwwh...

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

[He just gives her a look.]

[Video]

[foolishwren]

.... What about Ironpeach?

That sounds badass, right?

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

No.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Ironpeachide?

... No, that sounds like Iron Pea Chide... _{[Which has band-name potential. But not robot potential.]}

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

Heather.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Okay, okay.







.... Heavy Ironpeach.

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

Hea-ther!

[... military-grade barking of her name? Check.]

[Video]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[There's no immediate reply because she's sort of leaned off-screen, laughing like an idiot.]

[In person, she'd probably have leaped right out of her skin at the shout, but HAHAHA SHE'S A COUPLE HUNDRED MILES AWAY AND CAN BE A BRAT WITH NO REPERCUSSIONS OLOLOLOL.]</sub>

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

...


[HANGING UP NOW B(]

[Video]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[ROFL BYE IRONPEACH]



[just wait until she tries calling him that in person and gets hung off of a tree branch or made to do a hundred push-ups or something]</sub>