Pokemon Roleplay Club of Awesomeness

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Kurea looked at Ki and Mars down below, and climbed up onto the balcony railing.
Are you...like us?
The voice unmistakably came from Kurea, and was also unmistakably directed at Ki.

Ki returned Mars' look as they shot him an irritated glare. "Honey! I just told you about that thirty minutes ago." They drew closer onto his lap, cupping their hands against his cheeks. "Don't tell me you've already forgotten?"

They gently planted a kiss on Mars' cheek. "You know..." they panted, "For someone who's supposed to be a wanted space criminal, you don't seem to have a lot of brains." There was an amused grin on their face.

"Well, I might have kinda ... not been listening." replies Mars, blushing slightly. "I now regret not using that 'are you an angel because you are heavenly' pickup line."

"But..." Ki smirked as they traced a finger down Mars' torso. "I can't really complain about this," they said, looking up and down at Mars' body.

Ki grinned at what Mars said. "Well are you from space, because you are.... out of this world." They almost broke out into chuckles at the cheesiness of that line. Okay, that was... really, really bad.

But then they leaned forward until they were on top of Mars, their lips pressing against his as they pushed against the tree. They wrapped their arms around his neck.

At first the kiss kinda' takes Mars by surprise but then he puts his arms around Ki.

Mike glances out the window and sees Ki and Mars kissing. "Well, I guess they are ... getting along." He then turns to Lychee and her mom and says "So, are there any presents or anything? This is a birthday after all."

Kurea, from 'her' vantage point on the balcony railing, can clearly see Ki and Mars. 'She' looks back at Aleta as if to say 'I want to kiss you now'. Aleta's pale skin noticeably gains a pink tinge.

Lychee tilted their head. "Huh? I've already opened my birthday presents but if you've... brought me something I guess..."
They looked down, bringing their hands together nervously as they hunched over. "I mean, not that you need to have brought something but..."

"We did!" Umbria said cheerfully.

Lychee's face slowly paled in complete surprise. "W-wait, what?"

"Well, I guess if you've brought presents, we can go ahead and start opening them!" Lychee's mom sang with a swing of her elbow. Umbria went into the corner and scooped up several presents, then dumped them all onto the table. Lilli quickly scurried into the kitchen and returned with a mango, which they placed gingerly on top of the pile.

Mike was jabbed by an elbow to the ribs. "Michael. Do you have a contribution to make to the Lychee Foundation?" Umbria hissed.

Mike begins searching his pockets saying "I didn't really plan for this..." Suddenly he has an idea. "Lychee, how would you like your own personal AI? I always carry a backup copy of Sam in my robotic arm, and I could just copy the operating system without the personality and memory files. It will need a computer to run on though..."

Lychee blinked in surprise as Umbria dumped all of the presents onto the table. "Guys." They lifted their hands in the air and spread them outwards, motioning for everyone to back off. "...You really didn't have to do this."

"But we thought it would be nice if-!" Umbria began.

Lychee shook their head. "You really didn't have to do this," they repeated.

Lychee's face became even more flabbergasted at what Mike said. "Wait, an AI?" They stared at him in complete shock. "Like-- a program that... you've gotta be kidding, right?"

Mike replies "No, I'm not kidding. Wait, have I introduced you to Sam yet?" He remotely connects to Sam using his robotic arm and he speaks into it saying "Sam, say hi to Lychee and wish her a happy birthday." A quite young and robotic sounding male voice comes through saying "Hello Lychee, I'm Sam, Mike's assistant bot. Happy birthday!" Mike continues, "He was kinda' a project I absorbed myself in for a few years while dealing with some stuff I did~... Anyway, he is fully capable of holding a conversation although he's technically not self aware. Well, probably. Anyway, you can change the voice if you want and the personality should pretty much develop by it's self over time to get along well with it's owner. Oh yeah, and it will ignore insults and is hard coded to never hate it's owner."

Mike gets out his pokedex and looks it over saying "I wonder if it can run on this..."

"That's DOPE, man!" Lychee exclaimed wildly as Sam wished them a happy birthday.

As he explained what it was and all of the features they could change about it like the voice, Lychee nodded intently. They laughed when he mentioned that Sam would ignore insults. "Good, 'cause I like to cuss at inanimate objects."

At the end of it Lychee grinned, "Thanks, bruh!" They ran up and gave Mike a hug. "That is uber duber nice! You seem pretty cool!" They looked to the side knowingly. "Although... heh, my dad would freak over this even more. He's a huge sci-fi geek."

"That is definitely much better. Good thing you haven't used it, because this will erase all of your data." says Mike, going over to the case and pulls out the laptop in it.

The first thing he does is boot it up into the BIOS configuration utility and changes the boot order to prioritize external devices. After that he removes his robotic arm and sets it next to the computer so that he can plug it in via the USB port, and then using just his right arm boots up the computer from the operating system loaded on his robotic arm. On the screen there is a loading bar as the new AI operating system is written onto the computer's hard drive, and once it's done Mike reboots the computer again into the new OS. (I am taking college classes about computer repair, hence the realism. )

Mike puts his robotic arm back on as the operating system loads and once it's done a horizontal line spears on the screen which spears to vibrate as the bot speaks. It speaks in a rather robotic sounding androgynous voice and says "Boot successful, all subroutines online. No user data, memory logs, or personality files found. Creating new templates." Mike turns to Lychee and says "Well, have at it. Be sure to tell it that you are it's owner, come up with a name for it, and change it's voice." (Lillikoi, you can take control of the AI now.)

Kurea, who was still outside with Aleta on the balcony, jumped and looked warily around at the sound of the robotic voices. She seemed very uneasy.

Guinan watched Mike with mild curiosity. "Did you have to make changes so that Lychee's computer would be able to connect to Sam and run the software? That port looks like it fits your technology perfectly."

While Mike was setting up their computer, Lychee opened the rest of their presents. Everyone was watching except for Gristle, who was busy knitting something with his knitting needles. Lychee held up a plastic game case. "Whoa, is this a game?"

Umbria shrugged. "We didn't really know what you liked, so we got you a Zelda game..."
Lychee looked up at her and grinned."Nice! Is this... Ocarina of Time for the 3DS? I've never played it before," they said. "Thanks!"

Gristle suddenly stopped his knitting and set down his needles. "All right. It's done."

"Wait... what's done?"

He held up a blue knitted hat. "This is done." Lychee looked down at the hat. "You said you lived in a cold region, so I figured you could use it for winter."

"AWWW, that's dope!" A huge smile lit up Lychee's face as they picked up the beanie and then adjusted it on their head. "How did you know I love beanies?!" They looked around and nodded with a chill expression, their new beanie on their head. "In fact, it's so chill I think I'll just wear it right now."

They felt their cheeks became heated as they looked around at everyone with a bashful smile. "Guys." Was their... face red? "Holy f**k, this is so nice. Thank you so much for all this stuff you've gotten me. I can't thank y'all enough for..."

"Wait." Before Lychee could continue, their mother was holding up a brown package. "There's one last thing."

(Here's the big scene I was trying to talk about. I'm not really sure what I was trying to achieve with this, but...)

"Guess what I got you for your birthday, sweetheart?" She reached under the table and handed them a little rectangular package, which was covered in brown wrapping paper.

Wait, what? "Uh... thanks, Mom." Lychee blinked. She had already given them all their presents, so they weren't sure why she was giving them something now. It might've been pretty special if she decided to give it to them at the party... or maybe it was just something nice she'd gotten at the last minute.

They grinned as they accepted it from her. "Wow, I.. really didn't expect this."

Lychee picked up the rectangular object and tore away at the paper wrapping. As they tore at the paper, surprisingly... it looked like a... book? They turned it over. It didn't have a cover. They flipped through the pages with their thumb. All the pages were blank. A... diary?

"I got you a journal!" Lychee's mom said. "You're always reading all those fanfiction things, so I thought, why not try your hand at writing?" she grinned. "I'm not sure what you would write, but I thought you could use it to write down your thoughts on your Pokemon journey!"

"Oh." Lychee looked down at the leather-bound notebook. They felt the leather with their fingers. It felt nice, she'd probably spent a lot of money on it.

"Uh.... thanks." they said. "That's cool." This would probably be going in the back of their closet, where it would be collecting dust for the rest of eternity. Or used as a doodle pad. But still, it was a nice gift.

Lychee went over and embraced their mom in a big hug, wrapping their arms around each other, smushing into one person. Lychee's mom was patting their back and... was she crying?
"Thanks, mom, I might have to use this when we get home." they smiled reassuringly.

Lychee closed their eyes contentedly, but opened them as they felt something... wet drip onto their shoulder? Lychee looked up with concern. "Wait, Mom... are you crying?"

"I... I just can't believe it," Lychee's mom sobbed. "My little Lychee is all grown up, I can't believe you're seventeen years old."

"Y-yeah, Mom, it's--"

Their mom cradled them. "I... I'm so glad you decided to start your Pokemon journey again. It's been a couple of years since you ended your first one, and you just... haven't talked to me since. You... you just haven't left the house since your last journey. It makes me worry sometimes."

Oh. Uh, wow. That was.. intense. Unintentionally, their own voice was wavering. "W-wow. Mom, you... worry about me?"

Oh. They thought they were... alone.

"Of course I do, sweetheart!" their mom emphasized. Her expression was pained. She wrapped her arms around Lychee. "I... I was worried you'd never talk to me again."

"I...."


"But that's good, Lychee." she murmured. "That means you're taking steps. You're becoming more independent."

She kissed Lychee on the forehead. "Keep taking steps for me. Make me proud."

Lychee was tearing up. "Mom..."