Here's acceleration, find the mass.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Who: Spencer and Mio
Where: Route 36, a little outside of Violet City
When: Today, 11/3/12
Summary: Reid's Pokémon were kind of useless when he was possessed, because apparently they suck at strategy. Reid's decided to remedy that by teaching them physics. And Mio's gotten dragged along for the ride.
There is no way that this can go wrong.
Rating: PG
Log:

This should work out fine.

[Reid pries Flora off his head, cradling her in his arms, and sits down on a big rock placed before a pond. They're in a small clearing by the pond with trees surrounding them in a semi-circle, and Reid's perch on the rock gives him a spot to talk at everyone. He carries his three eggs in his bag, letting them rest on his side in the sun, and his Pokémon settle near him in a loose group, except for Amanda. Amanda hangs back near the treeline quietly, and since her eyes are always huge and red, it's a little hard to tell what kind of expression she might be making. Either way, she stays apart from the group, since she and the other Pokémon still haven't really gotten past their differences. Or even attempted to do so, really.]

Everyone's here, right?

Comments

[remainingtwin]

[Mio stood her hand hands on her hips, surveying the little group. Mary, without any ceremony, trots over to join the little group and settles in comfortably. Yami remains gripping onto Mio's skirt a moment or tow before he lets go and waddles off to plop down too, looking up at Reid, and around, expectantly]

I think so. [She casts a look at Amanda and purses her lips. She's still not sure where her thoughts are regarding the pokemon, so she hasn't been either welcoming or unwelcoming. She can't even pretend to feel bad about it though.

Instead she walks over and brushes her skirt down before taking a seat.] What are we learning?

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Physics, and the application thereof. Mainly electricity and thermodynamics--that is, the branch of physical science that deals with the relations between heat and other forms of energy. [Reid looks over at Mio, resting his hands in his lap.] It has a lot to do with what I started teaching last week. Atoms and molecules? Try naming the three main particles that make an atom.

[remainingtwin]

[She's still processing that when Reid asks his question, startling her and catching her off guard.]

Um- It's... Protons, neutrons, and- [A pause] Electrons. Right?

[Talk of electricity? Mary is so for this. She sits up some and looks at Reid, clearly listening intently]

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Yeah, exactly. Nice job. [He gives Mio a smile, then looks back at the ground, his hands coming up to gesture as he speaks.] Protons and neutrons are both located in the center of an atom, or in the nucleus, while electrons form a cloud around that atom. Atoms are microscopic--tiny building blocks that make every kind of matter in our universe. They're the reasons why solids are impossible for to pass through--for everyone other than Ghost-types--why water bottles bulge if they're full of water that freezes, and why matter can change states between Bose-Einstein condensation, solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Electrons are negatively charged, protons are positively charged--

[As all of Reids' Pokemon's eyes glaze over, Amanda jumps off her perch on a branch, swooping to another branch closer to the group and crouching down to murmur to Flora. Flora immediately translates telepathically:] Amanda says skip the lecture for now and go straight to the demonstration. None of the other Pokemon have taken Physics 101 before.

[Flora doesn't entirely know what she just said, but she hopes it wasn't rude. Reid pauses, mentally backing up, but takes absolutely zero offense at being interrupted.] Uh, right. Sorry. Mary, you mind coming over here for a second?

[remainingtwin]

[Bits and pieces of that made sense to Mio, in a general way, and she was wondering if she should speak up to prevent a talk that was more rant then lecture. Amanda seemed to beat her too it though and Mio hid a smile behind her hand.

She looks to Mary and Mary looks to her; there's a moment of silent communication as Mio nods permission and Mary stands. The sheep shakes a little to get some of the dust off of her, before padding over to Reid; she looks to him expectantly.]

Mary's electricity'll be able to help, right? [Mio took a guess at what he'd need Mary for] Because of charging it... [She trailed off. The 'charging' part that clued her into 'something to do with electricity' was all she had]

[leftinbasketforfbi]

[Hey, Amanda may be a brat, but she's got her good moments. She'll just stay perched on her branch now and listen.]

Exactly! Mary, would you mind generating a current for me? Nothing too powerful--just enough to give someone a moderately painful shock. N-not that I'm actually planning on shocking anyone: don't worry.

[remainingtwin]

[Good thing you added that in, Reid, because Mary was starting to look like she was going to refuse. And possibly shock you a bit for the suggestion.

But there's a bit of concentration and an electrical charge states up, the crackling of electricity going off in her fluff every once in a while. She then looks to Reid for further instruction]

[leftinbasketforfbi]

[Reid takes something out of his pocket that looks like a rectangular piece of metal, he ties a string around the middle, then holds it by the string in the air, so it hangs suspended.]

Come closer, Mary. Don't touch it, but get really close to touching it.

[remainingtwin]

[Mary gives him a wary, 'i hope you know what you're doing' look and inches closer. Electricity sparks between Mary's fur and the little metal piece.

Mio and Yami lean in some, impressed. Mary looks to Reid again as if to ask, 'Is this how it's supposed to go? Should I be trying to reign it in some?']