21 - Video // Action for Goldenrod

[show_my_cannons]

[The video features Ironhide and his Onix -- Napalm -- exiting the doors of the Goldenrod Gym. Judging from the angle of the video, the 'gear is being held by the newly dubbed "Green", since it's so close to the ground. From inside the Gym, one can clearly hear the sound of sobbing...]

[Ironhide shoots a glance at Napalm, who, despite not having any shoulders, does a fairly good impression of a shrug. He shakes his head, then steps forward and takes the 'Gear, revealing that it is, in fact, Green filming.]

Never thought a Leader would start to cry when they were defeated...

[He pauses, chewing his lip for a moment.]

... Never thought I would be here this long. A year should not feel so...

[He looks to Napalm, who snorts, and lowers her head. Ironhide heaves himself up, as Green scrambles behind him.]

Cliffjumper. Get your things. Time to roll out.

Comments

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

Yeah. Once Cliff has his things in order.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

'Bout time, you guys. Jeez.

I was beginning to think you were gonna be pickin' out curtains there.

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

Picking... out...?

The hotel already had curtains.

[This time, the saying really does go right over his head.]

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[IT'S OKAY BY THIS POINT SHE JUST EXPECTS THAT. She waves a hand dismissively.]}

Don't worry about it.

S'good to see you guys get on the move.

So! Where ya headed?

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

Cliffjumper was getting tired of this place.

[He shrugs.] Whichever town is next.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

That'd be Ecruteak.

Quaint, but nice.

... Lots of old people.

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

"Old people", huh?

[You mean like him, Heather?]

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Mmhm.

_{[Exactly like him.]}

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

... That where you are?

[Video]

[foolishwren]

No, but I was there until not that long ago. I was there from the beginning of September all the way to early February.

In Cianwood now.

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

... Then we missed you by a long shot.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[A sheepish grin.]}

That seems to be the way things go in this place. Seeing people in person's hard when everyone's so spread-out.

... How long you thinking of staying there?

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

Yeah. So it is. Easier if I had my normal self.

... Long as we have to, I guess.

Video]

[foolishwren]

It's nice.

I wound up there for months and didn't really mind.

S'peaceful.

_{[... Of course, she'd left mainly because now she can't associate it with anything but Kaito's disappearance...]}

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

Peaceful, huh?

[He scoffs quietly.] Cliffjumper will hate that.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Obviously that means he oughta create a ruckus to stir things up around there, then!

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

...

Are you serious?

[Video]

[foolishwren]

How long've you known me now, old man?

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

Hmn.

Year now, I guess. Huh?

[Video]

[foolishwren]

S'gotta be.

Or almost a year, at the very least.

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

I was not keeping track.

... was I supposed to?

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[A chuckle.]}

Heh, nah.

Hell, a year's probably nothin' to you, right?

_{[She figures after a few millennia, a year must seem like the blink of an eye after awhile.]}

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

Hn. At first, it was.

... longer I spend with your kind, the longer it seems. Must be glitch or something.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

... Nah. S'just being human.

... Y'know, the FUNNY thing is we sorta work the same way.

The years never seem longer than when you're a kid.

The older you get... the quicker they seem to go.

... We just have so much fewer than you guys.

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

Then by your logic, your years should still pass in a moment's notice for me. And for Cliffjumper.

[Her last statement though, makes him pause. And turn serious.]

... Maybe before the war, you did. After... the young ones were lucky to make it that long.