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Post by DataNinja on Dec 18, 2019 5:58:56 GMT
"Ah, okay," Rainbow says, nodding. "Were you wanting to eat in at a place, or grab some food and sit by the water, or what?"
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Post by Robot on Dec 21, 2019 14:38:25 GMT
"Let's take it down by the water, there's a lot to appreciate in the way the world works when you know the little mechanics of everything... I mean uh... hah, watching the ocean is nice." He picks out a place with heavier fare and orders a more sizeable portion then he might normally consider, before guiding Rainbow and yellow off towards the nearest beach.
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Post by DataNinja on Dec 21, 2019 21:46:33 GMT
"That's what science is, after all, isn't it?" Rainbow asks.
Sitting on a dock, snacking on some fruit and letting her bare feet dangle into the water, the girl is clearly a lot more comfortable with the surroundings than when she first arrived. Even if only a little. She isn't even staring into the water to make sure nothing bites her legs off. "I might not know how the ocean works, but I can still appreciate the beauty in it. I wonder what far-off shores these waters might touch. Other places supposedly exist... but nobody really knows anything about them."
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Post by Robot on Dec 22, 2019 2:29:16 GMT
"There are so many places I've heard of, but never been. If memory serves, Kanto and Johto are the nearest populated regions. Do you not have maps, and records of the world beyond Hoenn in your time?" He asks between bites, his feet dipped in the water beside hers. He's hardly considered the ocean, too busy looking at Rainbow as they talk.
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Post by DataNinja on Dec 22, 2019 2:59:24 GMT
"There are tales," Rainbow says, "And things that speak of there once being land. But... most things specific about them have been long since lost. Either considered unimportant compared to information needed for survival, or just lost to the winds of ages. Even our own maps of Hoenn from the past have been rendered inaccurate by time. Time, and the ravages of the gods."
"The seas are vast, and while there is some vague ideas of where they may be, it is not worth trying to search on fancible stories. Some have set out over the years, in hopes of finding aid, or perhaps safety. None returned successful. From those that did come back, we learned there is not enough land to safely fly, and the waters are infested with dangers." She shakes her head, sadly, looking down at last at her feet kicking in the water.
"I hope that there are other places that survived as we had... but it's a mystery for the ages. Perhaps after success we will be able to find out for sure."
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Post by Robot on Dec 25, 2019 3:34:56 GMT
"I suppose given all the problems, exhausting yourself searching beyond the horizon without safety or food wouldn't really be a priority." He commented quietly, giving her a playful nudge. "Hey, you don't need to be so gloom and doom. We're going to fix it, alright? You might be the only one to remember when it's all said and done, but you can't let that drag you down. Just learn from the mistakes that were made, and carry on. Any failure can be turned around by rolling your sleeves up and trying something new, and you're doing that already."
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Post by DataNinja on Dec 25, 2019 4:27:36 GMT
"Wait... do you really think that I might be the only one?" Rainbow asks, paling. "That this might all be different? That if we actually do manage to change things... all that I knew might be gone?"
"Nonononono… that can't be," she shakes her head. "It's never been like that before... but if this is a big enough change... ohhhh…"
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Post by Robot on Dec 25, 2019 10:31:28 GMT
He nods an affirmation. "With events in the present being undone, the only people that will know the old future are you, Yellow and I. And I guess anything else that can see things like that expressly. For everyone else, we'll have changed the course of history and undone a great tragedy. The future you go back to won't be the one you know. I also suspect, outside of intentional paradoxes such as existing in the same moment as yourself, you are very resistant or immune to large flexes in time."
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Post by DataNinja on Dec 25, 2019 16:42:24 GMT
"But... we're not changing the now, are we?" Rainbow asks quietly. "We're going to the then to change it past the time that I know. We won't change here just by taking Yellow from this time... will we? That's not big enough, is it?"
She falls silent, just kicking at the water and watching the ripples spread into the waves.
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Post by Robot on Dec 26, 2019 13:56:56 GMT
"We won't know that until we get there." He reassured her with a gentle hand on her shoulder. "No one has ever attempted something of this scale before, in my time or yours. If there's even a chance of sorting it out before it all goes to ruin, I'd much rather do it that way. Wishful thinking. Who is to say Yellow doesn't grant a wish with unforeseen repurcussions, or my involvement in this doesn't reshape the past? My course has changed since you arrived, so only time will tell."
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Post by DataNinja on Dec 26, 2019 16:58:40 GMT
"Hey, hey, hey," Yellow protests, "Don't go laying it on me to make her feel bad! You're wanting me to do something, but I've half a mind to not do it if you're just going to go about blaming me for everything." He huffs. "Ain't my fault what happens."
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Post by Robot on Dec 26, 2019 17:30:28 GMT
"I'm not blaming you for anything, it was a hypothetical, there's no need to get defensive Yellow. The point I'm trying to make is I don't believe that history is as static as Rainbow thinks it is. I'm suspect that there will come a time that our actions will be weighed against the fabric of time, and either it'll bend or we will. That's why I'm doing my best, and taking this so seriously. I don't want my home falling into ruin, as much as you don't want to go bonkers."
"All I've got is wild theory, and hope... until we get word from Evelyn and reach Mossdeep."
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Post by DataNinja on Dec 26, 2019 18:07:11 GMT
"I mean, it's not like it's your home that's getting ruined," Yellow says, nonchalantly. "Just some place that shares the same geographical coordinates."
"Yellow!"
"What?" He shrugs. "Just 'cause you don't want to hear it doesn't make it any less true. It'll be different people, different places, a different culture - things might be almost unrecognizable. Do you think the people who first built things here would feel at home or even recognize the city of today? Of course not. Whether you want to think about it or not, the time and place that you can recognizably call 'home' is very fleeting."
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Post by Robot on Dec 26, 2019 18:29:07 GMT
"Preserving even some small fragment of our culture into Rainbow's modern day would be... a wonderful thing." His expression fell a little, and then lit up again. "I'll start making a time capsule to go home with you, just in case." He couldn't help but grin, pulling his feet up out of the water and getting upright on the dock with a stretch.
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Post by DataNinja on Dec 26, 2019 18:30:49 GMT
"Time capsule?" Rainbow asks. "I thought you said that you didn't even know if time travel was possible. But now you have capsules that travel through time?"
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Post by Robot on Dec 26, 2019 18:51:27 GMT
"No... no no..." He laughs beaming, and offers her a hand up. "A time capsule is something people in this age do to leave behind record of the way things were. It's a very sturdy container that resists the passage of time, filled with all sorts of things in a similar venue, that explains how things were. It is called a time capsule because you seal it away and bury it somewhere, or launch it into space, and so on."
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Post by DataNinja on Dec 26, 2019 18:55:11 GMT
"Ohhhhh..." She goes red briefly. "I see. That makes sense. Mostly. Not sure how launching it into space would help. ...I know we sure couldn't get it down from there." She takes his hand, though it's obvious from her fluttering wings that she really doesn't need any help getting up. "Are the stars that much closer in this time?" she asks, gazing upwards into the blue cloudless sky. "Not, uh... not literally. But... more accessible. Where you could consider storing things up there."
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Post by Robot on Dec 26, 2019 22:29:58 GMT
"There's always been hope, and speculation, that some Pokemon came from space, and that there -is- life beyond our galaxy. So some people made a capsule like I described and launched it into space. It was in the hope that we'd be discovered and they would learn about us in their findings. A message in a bottle, if you will. It might be idle fancy, it might not. Another one of those 'we may never know' things."
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Post by DataNinja on Dec 27, 2019 3:03:31 GMT
"What a quaint little practice," Yellow says. "Says a lot about how important you all think you are."
"Well, I think it's a wonderful hope," Rainbow says. "Memories are important... they are our legacy, even if we all pass. The sky is so big, though, with so many stars. I wonder where it would end up..."
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Post by Robot on Dec 27, 2019 23:03:52 GMT
"When you can't bend reality or step through time, you make due with what you have." He quipped at Yellow softly. "Trying everything is certainly an option for those with the imagination, drive, and know-how." He shrugged in response to Rainbow's question. "Anyway, I don't have anything else planned for today, barring finding some work. Maybe come morning when I'm back to myself I'll look into the gym."
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