001 | Text | New Bark Town

[doesntdomuch]

[Okay the new guy is just going to cut to the chase here.]

2 questions:

1. why am i human?

2. what is the fastest/easiest way to get home?

[There is a pause before his next text, realizing that he should probably be more polite about these questions.]

please respond asap. i'd really appreciate it.

[Perfect.]

Comments

[doesntdomuch]

well it's good to know that Bartholomew won't start attacking people if i tell him not to

so team rocket are the villains here? I'll have to keep that in mind.

[He may or may not be thinking about trying to thwart them already.]

[islandshore]

Some Pokémon do. Depends on their attitude. Trust me, you'll want to be careful what you catch.

[He caught a Haunter who's been endless trouble ever since. Do not make his mistake, Perry. Bewaaare...]

Heh. You say that like you're used to villains.

[Or maybe he read too many comic books.]

[doesntdomuch]

i'll keep that in mind

you can say that. i sort of specialize in thwarting bad guys.

[islandshore]

Like a superhero? A cop? Something else?

Never would've guessed you led such an interesting life.

[But then, he's just met Perry, and text can only say so much.]

[doesntdomuch]

thanks, i think.

[Gosh does he really sound boring?

Perry ponders a bit before deciding that it wouldn't hurt to mention that he's an agent. Sure he's being secretive but it's not like anyone would recognize/get super angry at him anyway.]

i'm an agent, actually.

[islandshore]

[Wasn't his intention. He said he wasn't human, but that could mean anything. It's just so vague!

But hey, now he knows, and now he's even more curious than before.]

an agent, huh? not bad.

you do a lot of stealth missions? sabotage? daring rescues?

[doesntdomuch]

[To be fair, Perry's mostly being secretive in case his family shows up, so outing himself as an agent might actually help hide his secret. It's not like Phineas is going to go "This guy who claims to be an agent is teal and calls himself Perry so this must be my pet and he's been a secret agent behind my back this whole time."

Still he's going to try to leave out as many specifics as possible just in case...]

mostly i stop bad guys from taking over the area with their schemes.

or, usually just one guy but he recently became good so i just go around covering my coworkers and random bad guys now.

[islandshore]

just one guy, huh? must've been a big deal if he was your sole enemy for that long

what made him clean up his act?

[He always figured villains stuck to their guns until the end. Then again, Vanitas was kind of a brat when he first showed up, and he changed. Maybe Riku's too pessimistic.]

[doesntdomuch]

kind of.

[Sure he is a real threat sometimes but even his boss doesn't know why they assaigned their best agent to him.]

someone finally made him realize that he wasn't as evil as he thought he was and to stop living in the past.

[islandshore]

Hoo boy. And by living in the past, do you mean he had some kinda baggage? I know some villains get big on the whole revenge schtick, but that almost never works out.

[At least, not in movies, books, and TV. Maybe the real world's different.]

[doesntdomuch]

[Well, that seems a tiny bit personal information of Heinz to give, but honestly what villain isn't at least partially fueled by revenge.]

It's almost like you already know him.

oddly enough i don't think he actually tried to get revenge on the exact source of his baggage.

[Sure he went after his brother every once in awhile, but every scheme involving his parents was trying to impress them.

Wow that's kind of sad thinking about it.]

[islandshore]

Heh. It's probably just a lucky guess, unless this villain had an unhealthy snake obsession. He's about the closest thing to your standard baddy this place has ever seen.

[Well, other than Seth, but he's thinking more along the lines of those wacky, cartoon or B-movie baddies. The kind you'd see on TV.]

Good to hear he worked out his issues, though. Revenge barely ever accomplishes anything.