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Soooo...I woke up in Goldenrod City today.

Last time I checked I was in Ecruteak, getting ready for my gym battle. Does anyone know what happened? Did I fall asleep for a week or something? I mean, who would go through all the trouble of bringing me back here anyway? As far as I know, Minnie's still in Olivine....

Right. So, did anyone else wake up somewhere they weren't supposed to be today?

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I cover it up.

[He brushes aside his cloak to reveal a sleeveless green shirt, loose green pants without a fly or any openings, and a strip of green cloth tied around his waist as a belt. What, did you think he wasn't wearing anything under there? He lowers his arm and the cloak falls shut.]

It hurts if you scratch it on a branch.

What does this have to do with these underwear things though?

....Well, if you rip your pants, I guess? I'm...really not one for free ballin'.

...

[Alright he's just getting confused by all this. Hopefully the other thing he was wondering about will make more sense. Of course it has to do with human civilization too, so...]

...So what about these things?

[He pulls out some containers: a bottle of soap, a bottle of shampoo, a bottle of conditioner, a Repel, a Max Repel, and a tube of toothpaste.]

Whatever these are they all stink. I'm not sure if I can dump them anywhere without them poisoning the water.

[Apollo doesn't actually smell as bad as Danny might have expected. The only bad smell is a faint whiff of dirty clothes that a decent breeze would hide, and that's only because he hasn't washed them in a while, not out of a day-to-day lack of cleanliness. He mostly smells of earth and green. Kind of a less fake version of a nature-scented air freshener.]

Well, the first two things, those are soaps to wash yourself with. The other two, those are Repels, you spray those on to keep wild Pokémon away. Uh, like how some animals use mud to keep bugs off them.

Why don't you wash with water?

The Repels make sense, just a really bad scent. These two don't like it though. I don't want them to have to smell it while we're traveling.

You use it with water. It's good at cleaning all the dirt and crud off you.

So don't use it then. You can sell it at a store or just give it to someone.

I've never needed anything other than water to get clean. This soap stuff smells weird, too. I don't want to smell of it.

Stores will buy these from me? [Gesturing to all the stuff he pulled out. Including the underwear.]

Yeah, if you haven't used it yet. Not so sure about the underwear though.

Do you want them then? [Gesturing to the underwear.]

What? No, that's nasty, dude.

[Apollo's not sure he'll ever understand all of this conversation.]

Maybe they'll make good fuel for a fire.

[He shrugs and starts putting the things back in his bag. He points at the books and PokéGear still on the ground.]

You said one of these has a "map", right?

[*cough* Getting back on track with this thread after that entertaining interlude.]

Oh, right. Yeah, your Gear has one. It's like this- [Holds up his own.] You do have one, right?

Yeah. [Holds it up, the screen showing the main menu with all the functions including "Map" clearly labeled.]

I couldn't have talked to you without one.

Well, at least you figured that part out. Look, see that icon there? That's the map.

Spearow showed me, but it was the only thing he knew how to do.

[He presses the icon and... a screen of labeled lines and boxes appears. The idea of a symbolic depiction of reality isn't one he's familiar with.]

How's this supposed to help?

It's a map, see? That little blinking icon is where you are.

[Apollo looks at it for a while. The look of confusion on his face doesn't leave. He doesn't see the relationship between the map and reality.]

This doesn't look anything like where I've been so far. [He points to Goldenrod on the map.] We aren't in a red rectangle, we're in a city.

Yeah, it's just a symbol for the city.

What's a symbol?

Ugh, seriously? Okay, it's a marker. Like...breaking twigs and branches of trees in the forest so you know the path through, right?

Only bastards damage trees because they're too stupid to pay attention to the paths that are already there.

So it shows where a certain place is? A city's a pretty big place to have only one marker for.

[Just think, Danny, all this work explaining things and all you'll get out of it is an offer of underwear and Killua wondering if he should gag you.]

Not everyone was raised by wolves and bears, dude.

It's just an icon. Besides, where I'm from this isn't even half as big as some of the bigger cities.

Doesn't mean they should damage nature just because it's convenient.

A lot of the markers on the map look the same. What places do they mark?

Other cities. Didn't your grandpa teach you to read?

He tried to teach me but it didn't seem interesting. I just let him read all his books to me and teach me the important stuff from them.

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