An Earthbender in Chicago [Active, Open]

[layerofdirt]

Characters: Toph Bei Fong, OPEN
Time: Late Morning
Location: The Shiny Lima Bean statue and the immediate area
Content: Toph arrives to Chicago.
Format: Prose
Warnings: She's a cranky earthbender. Hard hats required.

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[notnamedash]

"Sorry, but I'm used to everyone freaking out about them," Red scratched Pika, "This one on my shoulder is Pika. The one eating by himself is Poli. And you met Saur already. I'm Red." Red held up Pika's slice, a few fingers on the front as well as his other hand on the crust. Pika did a quick flip and cut the piece in two. Red didn't miss a beat handing the smaller part without any crust to Pika to chew on. It was too big for Pika to maneuver on his own. Red took the other part of the slice to work on for himself. Saur just snagged a full slice to chew on. Poli... Red wasn't sure how Poli ate anymore, and he usually moved off for some solidarity when he ate, after it became Poliwrath it always liked to not be seen eating. Red wasn't sure why... but he let it go.

"Anyway, these three are Pokemon. They're what else share my world. They help out with just about every part of life. I'm helping a researcher with his study of Pokemon, so I was sent out to catch and document things about them," Red hoped that explained things, "Some time ago, Pokeballs were invented to carry them. Because Saur and Poli are a bit large, and they aren't even the largest ones I've caught..." He looked down, a bit of sadness in his voice, "whatever pulled me here didn't get me with the rest of my team so they got left behind. Questions?"

Now he wondered if this was how Professor Oak felt all the time.

I'm assuming Pika is a Pikachu?

[layerofdirt]

Toph ate her pizza as she listened. What he said didn't make much sense to her, but he explained where his pets came from and such, and she wasn't much interested in the rest anyway.

"Yeah, just one. What kind of name is 'Red?' Did your mom like the color or something?" Toph had com across strange things before, mostly because of Aang and the fact that he was the Avatar, but this was the dumbest name she had come across.

"We don't have those kinds of things where I come from. I mean, we've got animals like platypus-bears and flying bat-lemurs, but nothing like those things." She waved her arms towards Red and his Pokemon.

Absolutely!

[notnamedash]

"What kinda name is Toph," Red didn't think too much about his name, might be cause of his red eyes, might be his mom liked the color. He thought it was a local thing, with Green, and Blue, and Yellow. He never really considered why, and it didn't matter right now... right now he just wanted to throw the same question back at Toph for asking it.

"Most people I've met don't have animals like these guys, way of things I guess. We don't have Earthbenders where I'm from," Red ate some more pizza. To be fair the animals she listed sounded very interesting but that could wait till later. "Moving on. You're in a city called Chicago. If you've never heard of it you're in the same boat as me. There's a fog barrier around the town we can't escape through. Even if we could who knows what's outside of it. All in all this place sucks."

Red is so tactful about bad news.

Re: Absolutely!

[layerofdirt]

Toph frowned as she chewed her food, though she didn't follow through on the argument. He did say he was from a different world. Maybe people there were just named after colors there.

But it was still ridiculous.

Anyway, Toph brushed the comment aside, instead focusing on what Red said about this 'Chicago' place. "A fog barrier? Pffffffft. Fog doesn't bother me." As long as the ground was still beneath her feet, Toph could get around quite easily. "You're right about this place sucking though. It's almost as bad as Ba Sing Se."

[notnamedash]

"Might be worth getting you to the edge to see if you can feel better than my pokemon can hear," Red had tested the barrier, but Pika warned him away when his senses stopped being helpful. If he had Vee with him he could use Espeon's whiskers to sense through the barrier, or Green's Golduck like at Saffron City.

"It's probably not just fog, fog disorients pretty well if you work from smell and sight, but it shouldn't mess with Pika's ears like it did," Red considered, having something like a ground pokemon might give other options... like a tunnel. He could suggest that later.

"So other than seeing through your feet, what else can 'Earthbenders' do," Red did have guesses, but he has long learned you can only guess lucky so many times. It really helps to know answers every so often.

[layerofdirt]

It was weird to hear that the fog had messed with Pika's ears. Toph had been through fog before, and it just felt like she was going through a cold mist. Her 'sight' is unaffected by it. She put her hand to her chin, thinking about it.

At least, until Red asked an earthbender could do. Toph grinned mischievously. She took one more bite from her pizza, then stood up and cracked her knuckles. With her mouth still mostly full, she answered. "This." There was a statue nearby, and Toph moved as if attacking someone with a form of martial arts, and a ripple went through the concrete. It reached the statue, and it was catapulted a few yards away, landing on it's head. Toph swallowed the pizza and sat back down, satisfied in showing off.