I CAME IN LIKE A POKEBALL

[these_balls]

Who: ANYONE AND EVERYONE
Where: ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE
When: May 29 - June 1
Summary: GET IN HERE AND MINGLE
Rating: BUT PLEASE MARK YOUR THREAD CONTENT ACCORDINGLY
Log:

"" (Watch on YouTube)

There's something strange, a sudden change
Around, all across the sky;
A change of scene as The Machine
Goes wild, and no one knows why

Everyone will say it's a great display
And we brought it for you
Cynthia and Lance set off Nukes From France™
Now you know what to do:

WE'RE KICKING OFF A ROUTE FOURTH WALL
BRING EVERY JOURNAL, ONE AND ALL
HAVE A PARTY, BREAK DOWN ALL THE WALLS
'Cause it's our game's anni-ver-er-sa-ry
And we're, so ha-a-a-ppy!

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Comments

[rocketralph]

_{[The little pixel Ralph breathes out an animated SIGH speech bubble with capitol letters and all. He shoves it back into the file and keeps digging.]}

It's kiiiinda creepy to take pictures of people while they're sleepin'. Just sayin'.

[rarestcandy]

You offerin' to pose like that for me when you're awake?

[Because that would be pretty neat, too. Picking his nose with his eyes open. What a novel idea!]

Anyway, it's just for fun. No sense in complaining about it.

[If he continues his search, he'll find nicer pictures she's taken of him, usually when he's smiling, and lots of pictures of their teams. Since losing all the pictures from her first trip to Johto, Vanellope had made a dedicated effort to using the camera function whenever possible.]

[rocketralph]

HMPH!

_{[Ralph goes back to rooting through her files. Pictures, applications, folders open all across the gear's home screen.]}

My dump was more organized than this! How do you find anything?

[rarestcandy]

It's organized! I've got a system, okay? An' you're gonna screw it up, if you keep knocking everything all over the place!

[If she was still standing, she'd be tapping her foot impatiently on the ground. Instead, she settles for a disapproving shake her head.]

If you're still in there after the coding days are over? You're cleaning all that up. Could be your new home, after all.

[rocketralph]

_{[Ralph shoves an animated gif of a waving Psyduck out of the way to peer out of the clutter.]}

I'd better not be stuck in here!

[rarestcandy]

I'd take good care of you! Draw pictures of food and drag them over to you, let you wrestle with Pixelsnake to keep you strong...

[...She'd probably be a little lonely, always talking to a screen, but she doesn't stop joking. Everything would reset in a few days, she's...sure of it... She's not worried, and that's totally not why her hand phases into pixels and her chin hits the table.]

Ow! Stupid glitch...

[rocketralph]

_{[Ralph rolls his eyes but doesn't hide his worry as well as he would like.]}

Oh, yeah, a steady diet of Smeargle-Paint lollipops. I can't wait for that.

_{[The gear shakes and some of the apps tumble to the 'ground' as Vanellope takes her bump. Ralph climbs down and presses his nose to the screen again.]}

You okay, squirt?

[rarestcandy]

[Hey, she'd eat those for three months if she had to. Can't be that bad...

Vanellope rubs at her face, trying not to grimace too hard.]

Yeah, yeah... Good thing m'not carrying you around anymore, huh?

[For everything being crazy for these periods, it was never quite as fun as it should be.]

[rocketralph]

_{[Once he's satisfied that she's okay he turns and starts sifting through the mess he's made.]}

Yeah, well...like you said, it'll be over soon. Probably.

[rarestcandy]

[She sighs, biting back a comment on how he should really clean the place up. Her system would just go to ruin, anyway... Instead, Vanellope gently rests her sore chin against the table, watching his progress.]

...I'd feed you other things, too. If you got stuck in there, I'd give you, like, cereal. And burgers. Whatever you wanted. You know, if you got stuck.

[Because he wasn't going to.]

[rocketralph]

If. If, right. If.

<sub>[Ralph's not getting nervous as he pokes through the debris. No sir!]

[Suddenly a yellow ball of hate interrupts them by leaping up onto the table. Bossy the Sandshrew has a poke'gear in her mouth and she looks exhausted.]

Shrew! Shrew!</sub>

[rarestcandy]

[She jumps a little bit at the Sandshrew's arrival, glitch jittering through her again. Once she recognizes her though, Vanellope quirks an eyebrow at Bossy.]

Listen, Bossmaster, I didn't stick him in there.

[JUST SO THAT'S CLEAR.

...Also even though her offers have been refused before, Vanellope slips a candy bar over to the pokemon. Sugar up, girl, you seem tired.]

[rocketralph]

_{[The Sandshrew takes it gratefully and starts cramming it in her mouth, wrapper and all, before shoving the poke'gear at Vanellope. It's Ralph's.]}

What's goin' on out there? I can't see! Did that rat steal something again?

[rarestcandy]

[alright well that's one way to eat it uh]

I don't...think so?

[Vanellope turns her 'gear around to face Bossy, squinting at the device the Sandshrew's holding.]

I mean, maybe. But that's probably yours?

[rocketralph]

Wait, y'mean she found it? I thought it was lost for good! Good girl, Bossy!

_{[Bossy wearily gnaws on the candybar and doesn't so much as flick an ear toward her trainer's voice. MEH.]}

If I could figure out how to get over to it at least I could get outta your hair.

[rarestcandy]

Well...

[There's another glimmer of pixels as Vanellope glances between the two 'gears.]

I guess I could...email you over there? As an attachment? And then open you back up.

[rocketralph]

_{[Ralph scratches the back of his head. It's...an idea.]}

Beam me up, I guess.

[rarestcandy]

[Her brows furrow as she begins prodding the screen, like she's concentrating really hard on something. She can't glitch while she does this -- there was no telling what kind of disaster that'd cause.]

Come on, come on... There!

[And sent! Time to grab Ralph's 'gear to wait for her message. As long as she kept it under control, it was safer in her hands than Bossy's, probably.]

[rocketralph]

_{[Ralph puts up a bit of a fuss when he's stuffed into an email but once he's on the other side of the poke'tubes he tumbles out of his own inbox amongst his own icons.]}


Whoof! That was a ride and a half!