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So, who here's heard of dinosaurs?

[ He's been reading Michael Crichton lately, sue him. Also, he genuinely wonders how many not-Earth people have, given a lot of animals do seem similar between a lot of worlds, but... dinosaurs though. ]

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[ Well, there are normal staples of Masaomi's day: you can see him working the Convenience Store if you want, you can see him shopping for clothes, you can see him in the library (perhaps picking up some books in the aforementioned dinosaurs), or training (in a tank top and shorts) at the Battle Dome. At the end of the day you might also see him going to HQ for the end of the night.

But... something else is at the Dome today fore someone who wants special stuff. Namely, once he's tired and sweaty and Linda has worked herself hard, Masaomi is still using his room, but he's using it to project images of all sorts of dinosaurs based on a picture book that he picked up at the library. To see them in motion, because why wouldn't you try to do something like that? ]

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Dinosaurs? [Hrm] I think I saw them mentioned in a book here, once. They sounded a little similar to some of the ancient Pokemon we used to have where I'm from, if I recall correctly.

Oh ho, there would be ancient and extinct pokémon out there, wouldn't there have been?! I barely even considered that!

Yes, that's right. There are quite a few Pokemon that used to be around during prehistoric times, but are no longer living among us today. And, naturally, there are many researchers and archaeologists dedicated to studying Pokemon fossils from the ancient past in order to try to better understand the Pokemon that once predominantly roamed the world. Some of them have even created special machines that can revive these Pokemon using the fossils left behind...yes, the world of Pokemon archaeology has quite a fascinating taste to it when you think about it!

[...And yes, he really did just casually say that they have the technology to bring dinosaurs back to life where he's from, you're not imagining that.]

[ He mutters "three for three" to himself here and then there's a long, drawn out sigh. But with that done, he rolls his shoulders and then speaks up again ]

Yeah, so you guys must have a good idea about what ancient jungles were like, huh?

["Three for three"? Should we ask what that's supposed to mean...]

Yes, I think so. There are plenty of things that have still been yet to be discovered about the past, I'm sure, but we do at least have some clue of what the world might have been like before humans came along, and what kind of Pokemon may have been around during that time. There were many Pokemon that used to live in ancient jungles, or even some that once lived in our oceans as well.

Wooow. and we can just guess at our own, more or less. You'll have to show me, sometime.. [ Unless of course he doesn't know ]

Sure! In particular, the ones I'm most familiar with are ones like Tirtouga and Carracosta, which were known as the "Prototurtle" Pokemon, and they once dominated the oceans of Unova. Then there's also Archen and it's evolved form Archeops, and they're known as the "First Bird" Pokemon, because it's believed that they are the ancestor of all the birds living in our world.

[Ash probably has data on other fossilized Pokemon from other regions that he's been to, but those are the ones that Cilan knows of from when Ash was traveling in Unova, and they actually got to see those Pokemon in person.]

Only those two...? [ They must be the famous ones. If he's fair, he only really knew like five dinosaurs off hand by name. But the king of the seas and the king of the skies, huh... he wonders who ruled the land ]

There are other Pokemon that you can find fossils of, but those two are probably the most well known where I'm from. My friends and I even got to meet those Pokemon in person on separate occasions, which was certainly a "blast from the past", so to speak--they both had a very intriguing taste to them, and getting to find out what kind of abilities they had was exciting, too!

[ Well known... you know, that makes sense ] You must've grown up hearing about them, so seeing them had to be pretty awesome!

Indeed, it was. And the technology that was used in order to resurrect them was very impressive, too!

...Of course, now that I think about it, it would also be dangerous if that kind of technology was in the wrong hands. If I recall correctly, both times my friends and I got to meet those Pokemon, we were attacked by Team Rocket, who wanted to steal the Pokemon for themselves. Thankfully, we were able to drive them away and they gave up on acquiring them when the Pokemon proved too difficult for them to handle, but it was still an intense situation to deal with nonetheless.

[ Team... Rocket? Wasn't that the deal with Silver's dad...

Well, that's a secret, but ] Yeah, wouldn't want the super-criminals to have the lords of the sky and ocean under their control. You'd have nowhere to run.

[Ahahaha] Yes, I suppose that may have been the case. Plus, there's no telling what kind of ramifications their actions may have had on both the past and present, had their plans succeeded on one of those occasions. When my friends and I met Tirtouga, Team Rocket also wanted to try using it in order to open a passage that led directly into the ancient past, so that they could capture all of the Pokemon that used to be there too.

[...Let's just say the Team Rocket of his world have some bizarre schemes sometimes, even when it doesn't involve a legendary Pokemon.]

[ What. ]

... How does that even work?

[Yeah.] I can't say I understand their peculiar taste in ideas and planning, but yes, they really did try to do something like that.

How to explain...see, there's a place in Unova called "Twist Mountain", which is made up of a series of many tunnels and caves. It's very easy for someone to get lost when traveling through there, but usually there are miners working nearby that can be of assistance when people are lost.

My friends and I met one of them, who had just found the fossil of Tirtouga when excavating there. He had a theory that time behaves strangely there at the mountain, speaking of a "gateway" in time that he found when he was younger, where he was able to meet these Pokemon in person. Of course, that seemed too unbelievable to be true, but apparently Team Rocket believed this story, so they stole the fossil he found and planned to use the technology they had to revive Tirtouga, believing that it's energy was needed in order to find and stabilize this time gate that led into the past.

I'm... going to regret this. But in your professional opinion, is there any credibility to that?

[ That does seem like it couldn't possibly be true, but then the Pokémon world (worlds?) always have defied his expectations in terms of the fantastic. ]

Hm...as a Science Connoisseur, at first I might have said that it was far too unbelievable for it to be true...even with how fantastical some things may be in our world. [He's a least semi-aware that stuff in his world is pretty out there in comparison to some other people's worlds here.]

...But, and I hate to say it, it turns out that Team Rocket was right. This "time gate" we were told about really did exist, so we had to fight with them to try to keep them from succeeding with this plan of theirs once this rift suddenly appeared.

Oh my -- you're serious? You're totally serious?!

[ And he bursts out laughing here. Good lord ]

...Is it really that amusing?

['Cause uh, it wasn't that funny, at least not during that particular incident anyway. ~~It was serious enough to warrant two episodes to deal with it!~~]

I'm-- sorry-- but! I know that should be spooky- [ Pfftahahha oh my god ] But who would think of - and it was real?! [ HAhahaa ]

Well...I suppose it is kind of funny, looking back on it... [He didn't even get to the part about describing the fighting mostly involved dealing with the comic relief trio of TR.] Plus, everything worked out in the end--Tirtouga had evolved into Carracosta, and it was able to get some of it's friends to cross over briefly into our time so that they could drive Team Rocket away, which certainly made this taste a little more satisfying.

[Because...again, really, whose bright idea was it to get Pokemon from dinosaur times to be brought to the future, did Team Rocket really think that was going to work out...]

So he's the prophet of the sea gods, who pulled them into the future-past? That's deep.

[Pffft] I suppose that's one way to look at it...either way, after we met them, those Pokemon went back to their own time and Team Rocket had been successfully defeated and chased away from the mountain. So, everything since then has had a normal flavor to it, at least from what I can recall.

[Or rather, "from Cilan's current canon point", anyway. He hasn't been updated on TR's next plan involving Meloetta and all that stuff that happened, or the stuff with Team Plasma, so...yeah, as far as he knows, things are alright at the moment.]

[ He nods, chuckling a bit more as he thinks about it. But soon enough, he clams down and asks, quite rationally: ] So that would make you and yours right heroes, wouldn't it? You fended off some big time criminal organization's plan, even if it was whacky.

Heroes? [...] I don't think I've ever thought of it that way before, but yeah, I guess that would make us like heroes, wouldn't it? [ahahaha]

...Oh, but I think those Pokemon we met were perhaps the true heroes of this particular encounter with Team Rocket, since they were the ones that were able to give the extra push needed in order to drive them away. Without them, I'm not sure how things would have gone otherwise.

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