001 [audio --> video]

[chasingkid]

Ah-- no, that's.. audio... now I think this is-- aha...

[After this satisfied chuckle, the audio feed turns into a video, and the proud, grinning face of a young man with brown hair appears on-screen. He's seated on a rock on Route 29, judging from from faint background music, and a dainty looking Vulpix is just visible in the corner of the screen,

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[Video]

[usedgrowth]

[WTF? What's Hakuba doing here? Okay Kudo, remember that you've never met him before.]

Saguru Hakuba? So, you ended up in this crazy place too, huh? [Rhetorical question is rhetorical. What is this, the thing you know Hattori will be here too. Jeez.]

[Video]

[chasingkid]

--Ah, you're Mr. Kudo! [Polite smile is polite.]

I was just on my way back to London, yes... this really is a strange place. I hear that you, me, and Kuroba are the only ones from our world.

[Hattori and that reserved Ran and hopefully Shiho once she fixes her app. *A* ]

[Video]

[usedgrowth]

[So he really had been back in Japan huh? No need to mention that they'd sorta just missed each other not too long ago though. He smiles back.]

That's correct as far as I know. So do you and Kuroba know each other then?

[Video]

[chasingkid]

He's a classmate of mine. Do you know him as well?

[Video]

[usedgrowth]

No, I only just met him when I arrived here.

[Annnd then Shinichi is interrupted as a Growlithe barrels into him, "SHINICHI SHINICHI WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! 8D AREN'T WE GONNA GO TRAINING AGAIN NOW?" (in poke speak of course) And now a fire doggy is licking his face again.]

Oi! Doyle! Get off! I'm talking to someone right now!

[Video]

[chasingkid]

--!

[Surprised Hakuba is surprised! He blinks at Shinichi for a few moments before...]

Is that a... tiger?

[Video]

[usedgrowth]

[Eventually Shinichi manages to get his overenthusiastic partner off of him again.] Jeez, do you always have to do that?

[He sounds annoyed, but he scratches it between the ears anyway, as he turns to look at Hakuba again.] I think it's supposed to be a dog of some kind. The Pokedex device I got when I got here says it's called a "Growlithe."

[Video] Did I tell you I love his expression in that icon? *A*

[chasingkid]

That is most intriguing..

I suspect that my partner here Irene is a fox. A "Vulpix," I think they said...

[Video] I don't think so. XD It's my favorite Annoyed!Shinichi icon

[usedgrowth]

Oh, really? Irene, huh? [This gets a small smile. He remembers Hakuba had a hawk named Watson back home, so he's not surprised.]

[Video] It looks great! I love his faces. <3

[chasingkid]

Yes, just like Miss Adler, the one woman Holmes was said to love.

Although -- excuse me, it was you that was named the Modern-Day Holmes, was it not? [His smile isn't mocking, but it's still got that cocky Hakuba air to it.]