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>Vegging out felt wrong.
>Not in this body.
>Gently, you tested your leg’s movement.
>You bent your knee back and forth.
>Almost normal, though a little stiff…
>Which might’ve also been the case because you’ve sat on your butt all day.
>You needed exercise.
>But this was a special occasion.
>For the first time since becoming lucario, you wanted to use the computer more than going outside.
>Human-you called the shots today.
>You couldn’t help but chuckle at the thought.
>Definitely not the same person from a month ago.
>You resumed browsing.
>You were on the frontlines of how the world was changing and it still blew you away.
>Seeing the big, mainstream news reporting this felt like a fever dream.
>On CNN, the hosts couldn’t agree if it was ‘poke’, ‘pokey’, ‘pokay’, or ‘pokuh’.
>MSNBC settled on ‘pokey’ but dedicated a good five minutes to ‘mon’ or ‘man’.
>When was the last time you heard ‘pokeyman’ unironically?
>You only saw a few clips, but FOX even brought one of their “Pokémon master” interns on with the big-wigs to explain what the Pokémon were in each clip.
>The guy was a dork in every sense of the word, and he was loving it.
>Everything the big networks showed off was downstream of social media.
>It’s all the streamers talked about.
>You thought you’d seen a ton the evening you met Kat.
>But you had to go out of your way, searching for it.
>Peanuts compared to today.
>And a small part of this frenzy was you!
>And Aggron. You had her to thank for getting yourself on camera.
>Whoever uploaded your fight had the shakiest hands you’ve ever seen.
>They held their phone vertically.
>And being so far away, coupled with you moving so fast, you were a blurry smear jumping above cars.
>Two different users uploaded photos of you in the crowd.
>Thank goodness you kept it together.