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[Fortunately, Sollux's little run-in with the Yamasks had not been televised at any point. This is mostly because he was too busy hiding in corners and screaming about THE VOICESSSSSS. But before that had happened, he had also caught one of the little buggers, and it was now sitting in its Pokeball like a child in time-out because Sollux was angry at the Yamask that had made him flip his shit, and therefore the entire species had to suffer for it. He's really a very mature adult. Aren't journeys supposed to make people grow up?]

[But that is all in the past now, thank god, and as the feed begins, he's just sitting in the Pokemon Center's lobby petting his Absol. D'aww. How cute.]

...So.

[He glances over at a laptop sitting nearby. Of course this little nerd had bought himself a real live computer, even though he has a perfectly functional Gear right there.]

Sollux Captor reporting live from the shitty chunk of rock that is Cinnabar Island. According to everything I've seen and heard so far, there's supposed to be a Gym around here, but all I see is a Pokemon Center and a hell of a lot of Krabbies. What's the deal?

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[France looks momentarily surprised before waving his hand vaguely as if trying to indicate something only he can see.]

Vesuvius was a volcano that erupted and buried a number of populous cities and towns before my time. Beneath the rock and ash that formed, those and that which were buried remained preserved in their final moments for over one and a half millennia.

[He pauses, seemingly turning over something that those words stirred inside of his head. The moment passes, and he turns his full attention back to Sollux, curiosity now sparking in his eyes.]

No, I've been here for just over two years now. I got to Lavender Town but had to go back to New Bark for someone who returned. You say that there's only a Pokemon Center and Krabbies there now? Do you know if anyone's tried to salvage the place?

[Sollux just looks at the screen for a moment, stunned. Any reasonable person would think it was because he felt bad for all those people who died; that would be incorrect. Powers from a past life had trained him to think in terms of how long it takes people to die -- because as they die, he heard their thoughts -- and all the people trapped in that rock and ash? They'd be saying the same thing for fifteen hundred years.]

[...But he snaps out of that when France starts talking again. Oh, conversation going on, right.]

I dunno, I guess someone has. There's sone bigass construction site over a little ways, but I don't know what they're building.

[It's probably better that France interprets that expression as stunned; if he actually knew why Sollux reacted like that, he would be irrevocably creeped out. Instead, he listens intently to Sollux's observation, his curiosity blossoming into something closer to coveting interest.]

I've always enjoyed excavating lost civilization. Does anyone know how long ago the volcano erupted?

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I dunno? Not too long ago, I don't think. You're not exactly 'excavating lost civilization'.

[France laughs at that.]

Oh, no, I would never suspect anything quite so phenomenal as a lost civilization from this place. For all it's technology, there's precious little of culture.

[He shakes his head.]

It does look like an interesting treasure hunt, though. There's probably some value to whatever is there, else there wouldn't even be the Pokemon Center.

I'd imagine they put a Pokemon Center there so that all the people who spent a lot of time and energy trying to get here wouldn't have to push their Pokemon to get back out once they realize it's all a total fluke.

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