He pointed a claw at Coleane, standing on his seat. "You're a trainer too?"
And now they're talking, too?! Violet and Hazel both echoed within in their minds. For Violet, an exciting opportunity. For Hazel, a terrifying revelation.
"Yeppers, I am!" Coleane said, fanning her wings out in pride. "You're one too? I thought I was the only trainer who was a Pokemon in the whole human world!"
June grinned, showing off his fangs. "Yup, I'm a bona-fide trainer with four badges, see?" He took out his badge case from a backpack only he and Evie could see, showing off said four badges from Kanto before putting it back. "You're like the second Pokémon I've met that's also a trainer." He stuck out a claw. "I'm June, nice to meet ya, and that Pokémon sitting across me is Evie. She's a pretty cool gal."
"That makes two
Pokémon-Pokémon trainers then; now that is tantalizing development I hoped to see on an outing like this!" Violet proclaimed, looking back and forth between Coleane and June as her eyes glimmered.
"'Check' these out," Violet replied, trying to use modern lingo. She dug into her pocket and pulled out a case for her own badges, but only two were present: one for Snowpoint City, and the other from Eterna City. It was likely the gym leaders had used their easier teams given her early career. "I am quite the 'radical gal', am I not?"
Violet leaned in closer to the two Pokémon as she assaulted them with a barrage of questions, "So, what kind of teams do you run? Are you able to be more in sync since you can directly speak to each other? Do
you sometimes get in the battle, too?"
She looked over at the phone on the table, with the strange symbols she could inexplicably read now. Her bananas shook, and she asked, "What's a Faller?"
Upon the seeing Tropius stare at her device's words, Hazel hastily grabbed her Rotom Phone and clutched it to her chest.
"A-A Faller is..."
She gulped and shook her head. This Tropius could very well have also been a victim in this elaborate trap. She had to keep her head cool and gather more information.
"A Faller is... someone who arrived to the present world," Her gaze moved to Violet as she added,
"... be it from another time," then her eyes moved back to Coleane,
"...or another world entirely."
Loosening her grip on her phone, she began to furiously tap on the device as made as many notes on these developments as she could. There were far more questions than answers.
[Could every Pokémon on this ship speak in a human language?]No, otherwise she would have been able to as well. Perhaps it was a biological makeup unique to the Pokémon at the table.
She erased the first line and and added a different question: [
Was this ship entirely filled with Fallers?]Possibly, but there wasn't enough evidence to support that claim yet. She decided to leave it in her notes just in case.
[...Could we be trapped in some grand illusion?] At that point, Hazel would need to question her reality as she knew it, and that was a Bunnelby hole that she did not want to go down. She deleted that last line without any further delay.
"Noperdoodles, I didn't go through any portals! I came here in my sleep! A voice brought me here! I think it's the same voice that brings humans to my world!" Coleane said, before looking at Hazel. "Yeppers, I'm from another world!"
Hazel paused her typing as the Tropius's words sank in.
"A... voice?" She carefully asked, raising a claw. Arceus almighty, was this "voice" a powerful pokémon responsible for all of this then? Could they have disguised themselves and called themselves 'Xavier' as part of their scheme?
No, calm down Hazel. Those were not hypotheses, just nervous conspiracies. She wasn't going to be like one of those people that went around claiming the Skarmory were causing the sky to tear apart by flying in the air, or that the world is only round because it was modeled after a Voltorb. She needed to be more like Violet—
Violet appeared to be giving a finger guns gesture to the two Pokémon in an attempt to look cool.
...In some respects, at least. She took a deep breath, and carefully asked,
"What did the voice say? What did they tell you?"
"Just so you are aware Hazel, I still cannot understand a word you are saying," Violet remarked. That at least confirmed one suspicion.
