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17th treasure [video]

[Ah, such a lovely day this is. Seriously, it has everything needed for perfection: a wobbly video feed, a fluffy lime green afro taking up most of said feed, a Relicanth swiftly swimming away from said afro, and an original score -crashing waves, Eevee screams, the shouts of a hundred furious souls- that matches the action perfectly.]

Look at that fish go-

[For a man who has to deal with an Eevee screaming in his ear and digging his claws in his shoulder, Ash sounds much too gleeful. The image starts to turn around, shaking even more as it moves.]

-and look at those turtles follow!

[Ash also sounds much too cheerful for a man being pursued by dozens of angry Tirtougas. He might even sound like he's laughing.

...He is laughing. Oh hell.]

Looks like they're gaining on us. Afrodite, show them what we can do!

[Not that anyone else will get to see what exactly that is, because Evo chooses that moment to try and get away from this madness, hitting the Gear in the process.]

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There's also the possibility that we don't hear about any other than the worse of them because they cannot go as far as permanently killing people. Even your Pokémon likes hurting others more than it should, a simple visit to the Center fixes it all without worries.

Still, you'd think people would be mildly concerned about those sorts of cases and try to correct them. It simply doesn't reflect well on the Pokemon or the trainer, and if whatever prevents us and Pokemon fails at any point...

Correcting certain dangerous behaviors isn't always easy, even when you can identify them and recognize that they are a problem. But if the locals take their protection for granted and grow complacent...

Well, at the very least, there are fairly convenient ways to contain Pokemon to prevent them from becoming truly dangerous, even if they don't exactly work as disciplinary measures.

Until the day they figure out how to escape from the PC. I'd bet a few Porygons can do it already.

...I'd really rather not think of that, though I really wouldn't be surprised if that just happened one of these days.

...Suddenly, without even a warning, repeatedly for a few days... And then they'd stop, and we'd have to wonder if they'd forgotten how, or if they were just biding their time...

Honestly, in a case like that, I would assume that there was simply some brief problem in whatever causes the system to function which would be fixed after a few days. I haven't the faintest idea of how that's supposed to work, but that's usually how it goes, isn't it...?

Normally, I'd say yes. But in a world where sentient creatures can be converted into data and data can become a sentient creature, who knows what they could do?

True enough, but I suspect the scenario I provided would be the one we would be given, regardless of how true it was - or wasn't.

Ah, government coverups. I almost hope they'd claim that; it would make this world feel just like home.

Well, it doesn't necessarily have to involve the government; after all, does this place even have one?

...It does have a police force along with free health care, though for all we know they might be private...

[Definitely staffed with clones, though.]

...it's honestly difficult to say what's behind those, honestly... perhaps they could even be charitable or volunteer organizations? That wouldn't explain everything, though...

It definitely wouldn't explain where they find identical employees, unless they also offer plastic surgeries.

...no, it certainly wouldn't. And even if that was the case... why? It's really quite bizarre.

It might be some sort of tradition, or an homage to the first legendary nurse and policewoman to work in the region, but if that were the case someone would have told us that story by now.

Plus, isn't that taking things too far? ...Maybe they're just some sort of Pokemon, or something...

...They could be Dittos. Do we really want our Pokémon healed by an army of Dittos?

I don't think Ditto are quite that competent. They do seem as much like actual people as any of the other natives outside of their uniformity... isn't there some sort of fox-like Pokemon that's actually very good at imitating humans?

That's Zorua, right? Their imitation might be good, but can that compensate for their lack of opposable thumbs?

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I would expect it'd actually be their evolution, Zoroark, but... well, even though those are actually bipedal, they don't have opposable thumbs either. Perhaps there are measures in place so it isn't actually an issue?

It could be that healing Pokémon is a mostly automatized process with only a few button presses necessary, or that all the relevant machinery is adapted to paws. But at that point, human employees would be far less expensive.

If anything, I'd think it'd be a cheaper investment in the long run, particularly if this practice has been going on for several decades and the machinery was designed with Pokemon in mind in the first place.

Even with all those Electric-types around to potentially fry the circuits? The repair costs would add up quickly. Though they'd have figured that out by now and found ways to avoid it, probably...