Hot Spring Party & Luffy's Birthday [Video]

[smokinghunter]

[A slightly unusual sight for you all. Smoker and Luffy are hanging out at the hotsprings, a pirate flag backpack sits in the background while Luffy splashes about noisily. Smoker looks practically asleep, up to his neck in hot water, though every so often he opens an eye and hooks the kid back by his floaty device to keep him from drifting too far. By the time Smoker notices the pokegear is recording, he's about to shut it off when he thinks better of it.]

I'm making ice cream for the brat's birthday later if anyone is in the Ecruteak vicinity, feel free to drop by. We'll be -- What the hell is that?!

[ATTACK OF THE GRIMERS! They start bubbling up from the water and soon they're flooding everything!]

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[Audio]

[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

A Pokemon. A Grimer to be precise. If I remember right, they're essentially living toxic waste!

[He is way too happy about such a thing existing.]

Enjoy trying to fight pollution incarnate!

[Audio]

[justicereigns]

[Way too happy.]

So that's why it looks like a melted Magellan? Tch. I guess that makes it poison type. Well whatever, if the brat doesn't faint it with his drifloon, he can just keep the disgusting thing. Weird kid.

[Audio]

[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

A sssingle Grimer is hardly the least of your problems. Apparently, the trash around Johto has come to life and is attacking every major city! At this rate, I imagine soon you'll have a whole army of Grimers to contend with! And other things too!

[Yeah, he's really enjoying this.]

[Audio]

[justicereigns]

[God Cobra, you're as bad at keeping criminal plans a secret as Luffy is. And Luffy's incapable of lying!]

You don't say. Guess I'd better bring some soap to clean it all up. [Smoker of course, 100% believes this... and 100% acts like Cobra is making it all up to sound cool. So pretending that he thinks Cobra is lying? Yup yup. Although he is legitimately cocky about the pokemon, because Smoker is arrogant about almost all things fighting and justice.] What "Other" things do I not have to worry about?

[Audio]

[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Oh, I think you'll need more than that. Haven't you been watching the Gear? There's things that look like overgrown Grimers, walking mounds of trash, it's an environmentalist's nightmare out there!

[And he's just going to cackle now because it amuses him.]

[Audio]

[justicereigns]

[Stares at blankly.]

What's an "environmentalist?"

[Audio]

[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Someone who cares about the environment! Don't you have those in your world?

[Audio]

[justicereigns]

No. Why would anyone need to "care" about it? It's just there. That's like caring about air.

[Audio]

[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Exactly! It's ssstupid! But in my world there are people who do! Who get mad if you level a forest or dump industrial waste in the ocean! For them, the idea of trash coming to life must be the worst thing ever!

[Audio]

[justicereigns]

"Industrial waste"? Wait, why the hell would anyone level a forest on purpose?

[Audio]

[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Because they're in the way! And industrial waste is what's produced by factories! Don't you have those in your world?

[Audio]

[justicereigns]

Factories, yes, but I'm pretty sure just about everything is used so there's not really much by way of trash and waste.

How can a forest be in the way? That's like saying a mountain is in the way. Yes it can be, that doesn't mean you level it.

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[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Ssssimple. Let's say someone wants to build a road, or a factory, or whatever! And there's a forest there taking up all that ssspace! Then it's in the way!

[Audio]

[justicereigns]

Okay, but only some of it is in the way. Forests are pretty big, even on islands.

[Audio]

[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

No! The whole thing is in the way! That's how it works!

[Audio]

[justicereigns]

You're kind of an idiot. It's not like a forest is one whole piece. You can take out several trees without taking out all of them.

[Audio]

[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

I am not an idiot! And I'm not talking about what I would do! You asked why ssssomeone would think it was in the way, and I tried to explain! If it were me, I'd burn the entire thing down just because I felt like it!

[Audio]

[justicereigns]

Well that's even more idiotic.

Do you actually think before you do these things?

[Audio]

[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Of course I do! It's not my fault that people can't understand my thought processss!

[Audio]

[justicereigns]

Maybe because the thought process is faulty?

[Audio]

[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

It is not faulty!

[Audio]

[justicereigns]

Doing things just because you feel like it causes a backlash of consequences. Often ones that are worse than doing something with reason.

As you are not a child, you have had more than enough time to see this in action and learn to adjust accordingly.

[Audio]

[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

How dare you lecture me! Who do you think you are?

[Audio]

[justicereigns]

Vice Admiral Smoker. I'll lecture who I want. [And deal with the consequences? Well maybe.]

[Audio]

[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Vice Admiral? You'll have to forgive me for not caring. I've ssspoken with admirals before and they've done nothing to impress me. Nothing!