[The answer comes in the form of a thoroughly frazzled Lucario fumbling with the Pokegear, pointing over his shoulder to where he was unceremoniously dropped on his bed in the Goldenrod breeding center. (Presumably by said Lucario.)]
[In the background is a wide-eyed and unblinking Espurr making a constant whining sound, while a severely hassled Houndoom makes attempts to comfort the miserable creature.]
[The Lucario's face all but screams 'please send help.'
[Carmen honestly doesn't use the video function of her Gear all that much — professional habit, really — but given the utter fucking chaos of the situation she's just been presented with, it seems like this is worthy of an exception.
So on it goes, and she motions over her Kadabra, Chief, to act as translator if need be while she attempts to engage this poor agonized Lucario.]
I see. He's unconscious, then. How long has he been out, can you recall?
[Lancer had never bothered teaching any of his Pokemon to speak normally; he understood them well enough on his own. (Particularly the canines, but he wasn't about to admit to that.)]
[That or he didn't know they were capable of learning to speak.]
He passed out sometime around six days ago. Most of us assumed that the cat's screeching knocked him out.
It's possible your cat knocked him out, as you thought. It's also possible he's in one of those temporary comas that happen sometimes — if that's the case, he ought to come around in a day or two.
[Of course, then there's the third option.]
The third option is that he's the first to fall prey to whatever strange happenings are going on this October; last year many of us were knocked out for the better part of a week, too, and were taken somewhere else in our dreams.
If he doesn't wake up sometime in the next few days, call me back and I'll do what I can to assist you in getting help for him. For the time being, there's still the chance that this is a benign coma, whatever it is.
[...]
As for the cat, if you go to the PC at the Pokemon Center in your city, I'll send you a few vials of Sleep Powder. So long as you don't breathe it yourselves, that might help in affording you some temporary peace and quiet.
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Are you back in Goldenrod yet?
HA HA OH GOD also video
[In the background is a wide-eyed and unblinking Espurr making a constant whining sound, while a severely hassled Houndoom makes attempts to comfort the miserable creature.]
[The Lucario's face all but screams 'please send help.'
video;
So on it goes, and she motions over her Kadabra, Chief, to act as translator if need be while she attempts to engage this poor agonized Lucario.]
I see. He's unconscious, then. How long has he been out, can you recall?
video;
[Lancer had never bothered teaching any of his Pokemon to speak normally; he understood them well enough on his own. (Particularly the canines, but he wasn't about to admit to that.)]
[That or he didn't know they were capable of learning to speak.]
He passed out sometime around six days ago. Most of us assumed that the cat's screeching knocked him out.
video;
Six days. And he was one of the ones who ended up in that spooky castle last year...
[...GAE BOLG MADE AN IMPRESSION, UHM.]
I wonder, then. That brings the possibilities up to three, as opposed to two.
video;
Possibilities? [Tyrfing tilted his head, frowning. Leave it to his trainer to be difficult.]
video;
[Of course, then there's the third option.]
The third option is that he's the first to fall prey to whatever strange happenings are going on this October; last year many of us were knocked out for the better part of a week, too, and were taken somewhere else in our dreams.
video;
[The Lucario sighed, ears drooping slightly out of annoyance.]
video;
[...]
As for the cat, if you go to the PC at the Pokemon Center in your city, I'll send you a few vials of Sleep Powder. So long as you don't breathe it yourselves, that might help in affording you some temporary peace and quiet.
video;
[it has been a very hard few days, carmen.]
video;
It certainly sounds like it. I'm sure this goes without saying, but: take good care of them, all right?