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[Video.] What Has Science Done...

Hey, uh... C'mere.

[Joel ducks out of frame for a moment, obviously trying to grab something that's moving around out of sight for a few seconds. There's whimpering and the noise of a rattle.]

I'm guessin' this is a Pokémon of some kind? Found him on my mornin' hike sniffing around the edge of the woods.

[He holds a small creature out to the camera. It's a puppy! Or a snake! Or... an unholy abomination. Or All Three. It's small though. My Little Unholy Abomination.]

If any of you trainer types know what he is, I'd be obliged. Figure I might keep him. Weird looking little fella but he ain't as mean as y'figure he'd be with a face like that.

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DUDE, WHAT IS THAT THING?!?!?!?!?!

Well, near as I can figure, it's a Pokémon. One of the dog kind've ones. Like that big fella who's kind of a dog mixed with a tiger, except this little guy's mixed with a rattlesnake.

[This makes perfect sense. It really, truly does.]

You want to come see him? I'm takin' him with me later when I go do maintenance on the chicken coop.

What, dude, how can you be sure that thing won't just kill all of my chickens? How do you know it doesn't eat chickens? It looks like it eats chickens!

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I hate t'break it to you, but that's not a Pokemon. Least, not one that's been discovered.

You sure?

[Joel was unaware, of course, that Vinnie WAS a Pokémon. So far as Joel knew, Vinnie was just a green haired kid who was in Woodshop class.]

He sure looks like one. I mean, I'm no expert obviously. How common is it to discover a new species?

~~Every couple of years a new region with over a hundred or so get discovered actually~~

I guess Pokemon science is a pretty growin' field... really, there's one surefire way t'tell. If it fits in a Pokeball, it's a Pokemon. Works with all've'em. You throw one at any other animal, it just bounces off.

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[No sorry that icon is too cute to signify him being that pissed. XD ]

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I don't have enough proper angry icons!

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...not a pokemon, babe.

Seems that way. Had a little help figuring that out. Going to keep him anyhow.

You mean, at the dorms?

[Not that she was scared of it or anything. She could easily have her pokemon guard her in case that thing decides it's not human friendly. But for now.]

I'd happily examine it if you want. In case it needs any medical treatment.

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Ah, Joel.

I assume you have been told if it was a Pokemon or not by now so...what is the creature?

He ain't a Pokémon. Tried a Pokéball on him and it didn't take, so, short answer is, I ain't got a clue.

Long answer is, he's some kind've yellow dog with a rattlesnake head and tail and patches of scaly skin. He hisses and yaps, rattles when he gets excited. Seems to like biting on my boots and about anything else he can get his teeth on.

...Sounds like a hound with some specifics similar to a snake. Nothing more or less.

[Meaning why were people freaking out about this? Connor didn't see a problem.]

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[HOLY HELL WHAT IS THAT]

...That looks like a chimera to me.

I'd agree. Rattlesnake and some kind've yellow dog thrown together.

[Of course, his notion of Chimera and Flint's are probably kind of different. For example, Joel would not know what to make of a mixture of chicken and dynamite. Or a jack o'lantern yam that could run around and attack you.]

He ain't a Pokémon. Don't rightly know how he came to be.

[Joel was no scientist but he was pretty much 99.9% sure that a rattlesnake shtupping a Labrador wasn't about to produce viable puppies.]

[YEAH Flint is definitely thinking of those kinds of chimeras.]

If it's anything like the chimeras I've seen, I might have an idea. But you said it's friendly.

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CAN I PET HIM.

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NO

~~What was that Jock I'm sorry no-one could hear you over the sound of how great my new dog is.~~

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[There was one excited kid.]

Sure. You want to, you can come on over. Got to get him used to being around people.

[Blue clapped her hands in front of her in delight.]

I'll be right over! You're over in the teacher's dorms, right?

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That is no pokemon. It holds a superficial resemblance to a Mightyena, although that is the extent of it.

Yeah, we tried a Pokeball on him just t'see if it would take, but it didn't. Which leaves me back at square one.

What the hell is that?!

...No, really. What the hell IS that?! It looks like a cross between a coyote and a rattlesnake. A chimera of some kind, maybe. Is he cold-blooded?

[This is what you get for showing the scientist, Joel. At least he's not asking you to bring it to the lab yet.]

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You know, good question.

[Joel picked the puppy up again and it squirmed in his hands. He placed his fingers in the dog's armpits...]

....he's warm. Maybe not as warm as I'd figure he might be if he were a regular dog, but yeah. No. He's definitely gettin' that much from his Mammal side.

As for what he is, all I can say is he ain't a Pokémon. Tried a Pokéball and it didn't work. I hadn't thought he might be part Coyote... I guess his fur does kind've look like a 'Yote pelt more'n it looks like a Labrador or Goldie.

[It's... kind of cute when it's curled in Joel's arms like that. In a terrifying, eat-your-face-off sort of way, anyway.]

Where'd you find him again, exactly? Biology's not exactly my field, but I can't help but wonder what kind of environment he came from.

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