flight 05 → inventing invented things. [video / action for cherrygrove... route 30]

[allthreefourths]

[this afternoon, (unwilling) residents of Johto, this broadcast is airing through... your pokégears, obviously. Those who've seen this before may find this setting familiar. Just outside of Cherrygrove... another showcase of Hiccup's Inventions (TM). No catapult this time, though, folks

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[ video ] 1/?

[wantnotneed]

I might have congratulated you, Hiccup, but...

[wantnotneed]

The bicycle is already invented.

[wantnotneed]

And look! Look! [She shifts the screen to her own bicycle.]

Mine already has a basket and even a bell. [She taps it twice. Ding ding!]

DONE

[wantnotneed]

But instead of riding that thing, you can always ride on the back of a Pokemon. That always goes smoothly.

[ video ] HDU MAMMON 1/???

[allthreefourths]

[oh. oh.

how-- what. just let hiccup catch up on this. yeah, that looks kind of like his. It has--

a basket. a bell, too. that fiend.]

[allthreefourths]

[it's ringing. look how smug she looks.

why is she always so smug.]

Well--

[allthreefourths]

[oh god what can he even say to this. other than sarcastically state:]

. . . Well. Thank you for summing that up, One of the Seven Stakes of Purga-- [too long. too long!] Mammon.

[allthreefourths]

And-- sometimes, the basics of design are better! Without the... the... bell and the basket. Fundamentals.

[who is he kidding. just mentally facepalming right now.]

done.. sob

[allthreefourths]

. . . I'll keep the Pokémon riding thing in mind.

you know you love it

[wantnotneed]

Fundamentals don't exactly work when the actual invention doesn't work, Hiccup.

UNSURE

[allthreefourths]

Well-- I, you know--

[and this is when he raises his index finger, wagging it to stress his point. it's still pretty obvious he has no clue what he's talking about, though.]

It's... Baby steps!

always and forever :3c

[wantnotneed]

Right, right.

But you know, you have that wooden... [she does that quote thing with her fingers] "dualwheel" thing, which is already invented and it's called a bicycle. And do you know what fuel is? We use that on a motorcycle which is sort of like a bicycle but it can go really fast.

troll

[allthreefourths]

Are you rubbing it in?

I feel like you're rubbing it in. Just... an educated guess.

YOU LAAAAAAAV IT

[wantnotneed]

Would you call that a hypothesis? Why don't you test it out and see if your guess is right?

/MACHINE GUNS

[allthreefourths]

I'll... have to pass. I'm not really sure how I'd get to testing that, anyway.

It sounds kind of ominous, though.

/EATS

[wantnotneed]

You say everything I do is ominous. It's time to go see a therapist about your paranoia, Hiccup.