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Dot had started streaming around 20 minutes ago, and at this time she had hit the time in which things could truly begin to get more interesting. Not that the beginning had been boring, but the time was spent in streaming formalities such as waiting for more people to join, greeting everyone and a bit of small talk, but now the time had arrived.
The plan for today was answering a Pokémon quiz she had prepared for her followers; it was going to be a fun little bonding experience for the community. Or at least that was the plan.
She was taken out of her plans by a message from one of the chat moderators:
Ik its technically not allowed but I swear its really funny.
At first she didn’t realize what they meant but quickly figured it was about a donation that had been let through, but which one exactly? Donations had begun the moment the stream started, and there was a quite long list of rules that would have your donation rejected if broken so that wasn’t a clue.
Until the robotic voice began reading the most confusing message she had ever received in her very short career as Nidothing.
Hello, could you please say happy birthday to my subordinate? He is a big fan of yours and I am sure he would appreciate it as he could not join today’s stream. His name is Zir.
Dot faked a cough to avoid outright laughing at the message. Happy birthday. For a subordinate.
On her time streaming Dot had received plenty of donations asking for a happy birthday, for a friend, family member, even pets, this had led to the rejection of such donations as they would quickly eat away her time from the sheer number of requests but this one… it sure was different.
“YO! What’s with the formalities bro?” she naturally fell back on her streamer personality, her eyes searched for the name of the user: xXcharcadetXx.
“Happy birthday? For your henchman? Are you guys of an evil organization or something?” that came out of nowhere, she thought, except it didn’t.
Over the last few days Liko and Roy had insistently tried to befriend her from the other side of her door, which led to them telling her all about their experiences out there, mostly related to Liko’s pendant and the bad guys chasing after her.
Of course, she didn’t actually think this rando was going after Liko but she couldn’t just hand them their request without annoying them a bit, it was against the rules after all.
A highlighted message from the user popped up in her chat, thanks to the mods who took care of that not going unnoticed.
He is not my henchman and we are not an “evil organization”, he is my subordinate and we just… explore I guess.
No. This just couldn’t be right.
A million alarm bells rang in Dot’s head. The organization Liko told her about was called the explorers wasn’t it? And Roy did tell her lots about the edgy teen chasing after her and his two weird henchmen.
But no. This couldn’t be. She took a deep breath. As if members of an evil pendant stealing organization would visit her stream. She almost laughed at her dumb moment of worry.
It was time for Dot to stop worrying and Nidothing to take over.
“Well, ex ex charcadet ex ex, we don’t accept birthday congratulations anymore, as you would know, if ya read the rules” she said letting out a laugh “I’m just messing with you! But there’s a price you must pay!” she added while reading the chat.
How much more do I need to pay?
Serious guy this one! “mmm well let me think” she tapped her temple with her big paws “what do you think Quaxly?”
Quaxly posed as in thought for a second and then as if getting hit by a sudden burst of inspiration he pretended to talk in her suit’s ear.
“You’re right Quaxly! That does sound like a fair price” she dramatized “it’s gonna cost you…” she played a drumroll sound from the soundboard “a cute photo of your charcadet!”
She waited reading the chat for a reaction, everything seemed to be going well and the whole ordeal was apparently interesting for the viewers. Of course, it wouldn’t last for long and soon she would have to move on to-
I don’t have a charcadet anymore.
She almost spat out her imaginary drink. Her thoughts began moving at a million miles per second. Did she just ask for a photo of some guys dead pokemon? Ohmygodohmygod she needed to apologize and give him the thing he asked for and maybe-
It’s ceruledge now.
Ah, evolution. Naturally. Not that she’d think he meant anything else. (He? Was there a person she was conflating this rando with?)
Unless.
She tried to quickly remember more details on what Roy and Liko said. There was a teen, his henchmen and their pokemon. And his pokemon were a corviknight he rode chasing them through a storm and… ceruledge.
This had to be him. The world was playing some weird tricks and the sprigatito kidnapper somehow ended in her chat, asking for birthday greetings of her. But it was also an opportunity to learn more. A funny idea crossed her mind.
“Ceruledge? I think it’s cute! It’s fine if you don’t want to send a photo tho” she knew the probability of him not dropping the stream completely instead of sending the picture was almost zero if this was The guy she thought but… “still, you need to do something for me…” she laughed devilishly at the camera, frothing her paws together.
What.
He was starting to get fed up, oh this was going to be interesting.
“I need to practice Quaxly’s psychic abilities you see” Quaxly looked at her with his head tilted, a questioning look on his eyes.
How do I have a hand in this?
“Oh, Quaxly, tell me mmm what do we want to know about them chat?” she tried to catch what she could from the fast moving chat, a lot of people were asking the normal stuff like favorite color or the more obvious like favorite Pokémon, but she needed something she could actually answer “their eyes, Quaxly, chat wants to know their eye color” only one person, but still.
Quaxly was already all in on the role, moving his wings up and down, his expression as if something was being revealed to him. He looked towards her. Quaxly he mouthed (or beaked).
“Quaxly tells me… your eyes are” she paused dramatically “purple”
She waited for an answer. Did she push him too far? Maybe he considered himself exposed and was about to leave?
Nice guess. So are ceruledge's.
This was the final confirmation. This was THE guy. Pendant stealer, sprigatito kidnapper, child endangerer.
“Did you see that chat?” she pointed both paws towards Quaxly “psychic I tell you!”
Quaxly fell into the dramatics, posing pridefully at the camera. Oh boy, but this wasn’t over yet.
Better yet, guess the color of my hair instead.
This guy. He really thought it was a guess based on ceruledge. She knew what was going on, this one was a hard one to guess if what Liko told her was real.
“Quaxly” she muttered dramatically “this guy doubts your power” Quaxly huffed at the camera and looked at her once more. Quaxly he said.
“Foolish!” she dramatized “Quaxly sees through your deceit!” she exclaimed, deepening her voice. “This a trick question!” a pirate now? she was getting distracted “This is a trick!” she repeated “Your hair is not one, but two colors!” she did an evil laugh which Quaxly followed with one of his own (or as evil as he could sound at least).
…
Did she kill the guy?
Well, it was deserved for chasing Liko around. She decided to mess with his head one more time.
She got as close as she could to the screen “stop covering your camera” that should be enough messing around, probably.
Are you telling Zir happy birthday or
It was him. He was certainly insistent on his goal, but that she already knew. It was probably going to be hard to get any other information from him now, dammit, she got too lost on the dramatics of Nidothing.
The chat was going crazy, questioning if she knew this guy or Quaxly was an actual psychic, but she needed to wrap this up with as many unanswered questions as possible, it was funnier that way.
“Alright, alright, I’ll stop messing with you!” she gave a thumbs up for the camera “clip this” she warned before starting.
“YO! Zir happy birthday from your very nice -and insistent- boss Ameth-“ she stopped herself on her tracks, but it was too late, ohgodohgod “your very nice boss ex ex charcadet!” oh god, it was too late now, she regretted telling them to clip it, not even deleting the vod could save her now.
“Well guys this stream was awesome!” chat was going crazy with the questions regarding the slip up combined with the apparent wrap up, but god, she couldn’t keep going right now, she needed the earth to swallow her, were the explorers coming for her? God, she needed to start packing.
“Oh! Look! Iono is streaming! Go watch her!” what was the word vomit coming out of her mouth even about “bye!” she finally wrapped things up and ended the stream.
She stared at the now empty screen, the offline chat still there, questioning everything.
She screamed.