Envious One

[The feed comes on to show Envy's face, and he looks like he's in a remarkably good mood today. He also looks like he's standing about thirty feet up in a tree and attached to a climbing harness. All around him are other trees with rope bridges and platforms and fun stuff like that.]

I didn't know there was some sort of tree-climbing adventure park out here, it sure wasn't here the last time I came to Azalea.

[You know where else doesn't have tree-climbing adventure parks or ziplines? Amestris. So now ziplining is going under "surprisingly good ideas modern humans have", right up there with paintball. Not even it being pretty chilly could stop him once he found out it was here; he's just wearing layers and a jacket. And earmuffs. He doesn't like being cold, okay? But there's another reason for this video. He reaches down into his pocket and pulls out a Hive Badge, showing it off to the camera.]

Got this this morning, though. It was an easy win, but now I've got all eight of the Johto badges. Now maybe when I fight the ones in Kanto they'll let me have battles that are actually challenging.

[Offscreen and down below on the ground, there's a faint shout for him to put his 'Gear away while on the ropes course. He frowns and looks like he's about to make some sarcastic comment back, but then the person shouts again that if he doesn't comply with the rules he'll be removed from the park. So he sighs, shrugs, and shuts off the feed for now. He'll just have to respond to any replies when there's nobody watching.]

[The video feed turns on to show Envy's face; for once, he's contacting the network on purpose. In the background, one might hear the sounds of a minor wild pokemon battle. Clearly not too important, since Envy doesn't look like he's paying much attention to it.]

Hey, I've been wondering. Does anyone else have a pokemon that's taken a weirdly long time to evolve, or--

[Envy's question is cut off by the distinctive noise of EVOLUTION HAPPENING, and he looks up with an almost startled expression. Quickly followed by one of vague annoyance. Chimera would wait until Envy actually asked to get around to it, wouldn't he?] …Never mind.

[The camera turns to catch the tail end of the evolution, and when the light fades away…]



…What. [Okay, pokedex checking time because what. Envy had expected more along the lines of a bigger dinosaur the way his Ekans had just turned into a bigger and fancier snake, which would make sense. But a rock cocoon thing?] Pupitar? Larvitar and Pupitar. What's he going to turn into next, some kind of butterfly?