4th gear | video

[paishodown]

[Here's someone who hasn't been on the network so much lately. When Asami appears on the camera, anyone who hasn't seen her recently will notice that she looks a bit older.]

I finished it!

[Stepping away from the camera, she reveals a hotel courtyard with various tools and scraps scattered about. A metal contraption that appears to be some kind of battery sits a safe distance away at the center of the shot.]

At home, we employ lightningbenders to make our electricity. They shoot energy straight into batteries, and it can be stored efficiently without having to burn coal. I'm hoping I can get something to work similarly with Pokémon's electric attacks.

[She glances off camera.]

When you're ready, Supāku.

[A Flaafy shuffles onto the camera, winds up, and releases an electric attack at the metal conductors of Asami's invention. After several moments, an indicator meter on the device's facade turns to maximum, and the Flaafy stops.]

I think it worked!

[Asami trots over to the device with another 'Gear in hand (sorry Korra, she had to steal yours for science purposes) and plugs it in.]

It's charging!

[She turns back to the camera.]

I'm hoping I can continue working with this idea and eventually come up with something small enough for trainers to keep on their person while they're traveling. The technology here is evolved so much farther than at home, I think it might be possible.

Comments

[paishodown]

I'm 99% sure I've seen a picture of a Pokémon that looks like a refrigerator.

[bylight]

Doesn't mean appliance is a type. It's probably a Pokémon who can either turn into one, or posseses it.

[That makes sense to Lightning at least.]

[paishodown]

Oh- well, no, that part I knew. But biology actively mimicking technology is backwards from what I'm used to.

[bylight]

It's not uncommon where I'm from. There's even living creatures fused with technology so they can be controlled. Then there's automatons that have a mind of their own. That Pokémon isn't that strange to me.

[paishodown]

That's wild. To people understand how it all works?

[bylight]

Yes. The military does. Not sure about civilians. They might have an idea since those creatures accompany the PSYCOM in keeping people in line. I was in the Guardian Corps, and trained against creatures like that. The automatons on Gran Pulse were created by the Fal'Cie there to help with various tasks.

[paishodown]

[Asami is trying to figure out if that's a good thing or a... very bad thing.]

We've only recently started exploring spirit energy in our technology. Of course, it was immediately weaponized and that went about as well as you would probably guess.

[bylight]

There's no record on Gran Pulse of when they started to weaponize certain creatures. Or on Cocoon. I can only guess maybe about 2,000 years or more.

[Lighting has only been around for about 500 years. Two of her friends for a lot longer.]