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As the scroll turns on, it pans over a complicated-looking array of pulleys and levers before revealing Mako, her mane mussed and hat askew.

"Hello! I've been setting something up, and I thought I'd broadcast the first attempt, see if it worked!"

With that, she turns the scroll back to the array, revealing that set within them is...a mirror? Humming softly, Mako places the scroll in a portion of the array and begins chattering as she starts to operate it.

"This is something I got in the dungeon before it closed up in April - a relic from my homeworld known as the Reveal Glass. I thought it might be interesting if I set things up to project what's reflected in the mirror onto the scroll, since...well, you'll see in just a few seconds, so why spoil the surprise?"

Indeed, the scroll has been manipulated so that the interior of the Reveal Glass takes up most of its available visual space as Mako moves around underneath it, positioning herself to reflect in the mirror.

"Tah-dah!"

On the scroll, a young woman grins confidently, her blue eyes sparkling merrily.

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"I think I know what geckos are...I'm pretty sure the closest thing to them we have in my world control plants, not breathe fire."

Not all geckos breathe fire, but the ones that do are a lot meaner than the others.

*Also the only ones ~~animal friend didn't work on~~ he really had trouble with.
Also also he doesn't have the best of experience with attacking plants.*

Do you have a lot of that, animals that can spit fire or control plants or, uh...affect water somehow?

*Water just seemed like the logical next thing to go there. Possibly in some sort of rock-paper-scissors way.*

The reflection nods.

"The eighteen elemental types are Normal, Fire, Grass, Water, Ground, Rock, Bug, Flying, Fighting, Poison, Electric, Psychic, Dark, Steel, Ice, Ghost, Dragon, and Fairy."

"And everything fits into those types?"

Hm, but wasn't he two of them when he was that bird-thing.

"Or two of them, was that the limit or were there three or four or however many combinations?"

"Ah! There are, of course, many Pokemon that combine two different types - such as Flying, for example, which is nearly always found in combination with a second typing. The only exception is Tornadus, a Mythical Pokemon native to Unova, who is known to be the only extant example of a monotype Flying Pokemon."

"Mythical pokemon? So they're not just like...animals that are all over, they're special too?"

"Well...yeah? Unova was founded by two brothers with the help of the power of the twin dragon-gods of truth and ideals, for example, and down in Sinnoh they believe that the Legendary Pokemon Arceus created the entire universe from an egg...I've studied a little of Arceism, myself, and while I don't think Arceus created the universe he definitely had a hand in creating Pokemon..."

Words words words.

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Oh god, she's just going to TL;DR all day if he doesn't stop her, isn't she?

"Ah, so they formed a religion based around something really powerful. I get it."

Tribals would do things like that sometimes, sometimes he could see why and other times it was just a lot of wtf.

"They formed a religion around a Pokemon that can warp reality and has been demonstrably verified as the creator of the dragon-gods that rule over space, time, and antimatter."

"Warp rea...uh..." Well, it seemed clear something here could do that, but it still sounded so out there. "Yeah, I can understand why somebody would call that a god."

There's the sound of a hoof scraping across the floor as the reflection shrugs.

"I've never gone in for that, personally, but my perspective is...a little different from the norm. If you want to get technical, I'm a religious figure, as the chosen champion of Zekrom, dragon-god of ideals."

"What."

Alex's look hardens; he's dealt with a religious figure before and it didn't really go all that well.

"You don't have an army or nation, do you?"

Because then they might have problems.

The reflection looks shocked.

"Mew, no! What would I even do with something like that? I mean, all I really want out of life is to live peacefully with my Pokemon and pursue my research!"

Its just the last one he knew was trying to take over the world and all. Though in the end he died like any other man.

"So no proclamations to your followers or commandments or anything? That's probably for the best."

"Yeah, what would I even say? 'The Great Zekrom prefers Oran tartlets, not Leppa tartlets'? 'This is where The Great Zekrom prefers to have his tummy rubbed'? You can't really build a lasting religion around a god that likes tummy rubs."

Alex chuckles, "Yeah, I guess not."