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[When the recording first starts, Chili just stares at his journal, looking lost. There are entirely too many boxes of pastries and donuts entirely cleaned out save for some stray sprinkles, gathered all around him.

He brightens up rather quickly, though, wearing a big grin and presenting compass.]

Hi, this is Chili!

I'm looking for Mars! She saved me when I was in a real jam, so me an' Pansear have been trying to find her, but... has anyone seen her?

Long black hair, red skirt, looks kinda like those schoolgirls from Kanto...

Um, I think she's a Firebender? Anyone know for sure?

I gotta return something to her!

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[Zuko barely gets there and finds himself accosted.]

Wha-Hey!

[He seems to have little choice in the matter as he's pulled away.]

Look!

[His enthusiastic kidnapper hauls him into the store and pushes him none-too-gently in front of... boxes! Boxes with pictures!

Very tiny actors? Are there plays inside? Maybe they're very flat books. Exciting.]

Tapes! Pick something!

[Zuko stumbles as he's shoved towards a wall of... boxes?]

What?

[Clearly he's confused. He picks one out randomly and looks it over.]

What'cha pick?

[Chili scoots over to get a better look at the cover. Well, what genre does it look like? Zuko, what did you pick up?

A period piece? An action flick? A romcom?]

[Zuko looks really confused as he looks over the box.]

The Mighty... Ducks?

[The heck? Whoever heard of a mighty duck? And those don't look like ducks.]

Look anything like those turtle ducks you mentioned before?

... but sure, if that's what you wanna see...!

[He'll grab it and go] Let's go watch it!

They look like kids... with helmets on.

[Weird. He then blinks as the tape is snatched. Well... its all the same to him really. He doesn't care what they watch. So he just follows Chili.]

[In we go (wait, whose place is this? Is this even where Chili lives? Who knows!), locate the TV, and hey, there's a VHS player, let's pop in the movie! TV's on, everything's ready~~ smaller black box is fed into the bigger black box, stuff starts clicking and whirring aaaaaand—

BOOM, music, colourful logos and pre-feature previews—]

Laaaame, let's skip!

[Noisily fast-forwarding with all the shaky lines and things. Wacky stuff, right, Zuko?]

[What is all this stuff... what is he doing.

Zuko folds his arms and watches as Chili puts a little black box into a bigger box... and... an even bigger box suddenly lights up and blares sound.

Eyes wide and fire in his hand, Zuko suddenly leaps back!]

WHAT IS THAT?

[Bro, he's kind of fast-forwarding past the boring previews, there's really no need to get violent. He just turns back to stare at Zuko with the machine still making weird skipping sounds. It's a comically accompaniment to the silence and crackling flame.]

...

I said we were gonna watch a movie. Don't set anything on fire, will ya? Just sit 'n watch! It isn't real, you know. Just a bunch of pictures and sounds, they can't hurt you.

[He reaches up and knocks on the screen.]

Oops, might've skipped too much. [Gotta take it backwards now! Right 'til the start of the movie.] There!

[It's paused. Can he hit play or is Zuko still having a crisis?]

[He's still a bit uptight from the draft and stuff okay? But Zuko does squelch the flame and folds his arms again with a dubious expression on his face.

So yes, Zuko's crisis is over and he can proceed.]

[Great! He hits play and the weird shaky lines are no more, now, it's a nice clean picture and sound!

Watch pictures of people and music and hear people talking and you're the only two people actually here, isn't that magical?]

[Zuko continues to watch and leans down a bit to tap on the screen a few times.]

How is it doing that?

[There are... people doing things in that box. Whoa. Talk about weird.]

They're pictures! Like when we use our journals.

One picture after another, looks like it's moving! [He starts doodling in the corners of pages, to make a short flipbook.

It looks like either a stick person with a pile of poop on its head or maybe it's him. Or his Pokemon. Hard to tell. But the little stick person appears to jump when the pages are flipped fast enough!]

See?

[Zuko looks at Chili's demonstration and then looks back at the screen, not looking entirely convinced.]

But they look like real people, not a drawing.

That's because they used cameras! Y'know, to take a lot of pictures that end up moving, just like these drawings. Your journal does nearly the same thing, y'know!

And mics record the sound.

Now, just watch the movie, maybe I can get you some popcorn! It's like, traditional movie food.

[Well... okay. He supposes that makes sense, sort of. Though he has no idea how any of that works, but it doesn't seem to matter. So... Zuko just sits down and starts to watch.]

[Enjoy your kid's movie, Zuko.

Chili will be back soon with POPCORN.

It's white and puffy and crunchier than it looks, judging by the noisy sounds Chili makes as he walks over, shoving handfuls into his mouth.]

Here's yours!!

[He might've eaten like, half of it on the way. Half the box is empty.

It's inside another box. That's completely empty aside from a few unpopped pieces. May or may not have eaten all of his and started on your share on the way over. ~~Special ability: gluttony.~~]

Havin' fun?

[Arms folded, Zuko sits and watches in silence, perhaps looking a bit too serious as he does so. This is just... weird. He doesn't get most of what's going on. There's a bunch of kids whacking something around with sticks on... ice? And some guy telling them what to do.

So when Chili reappears with the popcorn, he takes the offered snack, not even bothering to look at it cause he's motioning a hand at the screen.]

What are they doing? Are they training for battle?

[Cause those sticks look like weapons and that one adult guy got hurt there in the beginning.]

Nah, it's a sport!

Y'know, like how us trainers battle Pokemon as a sport. We compete. Nobody's supposed to get really hurt or die.

... except in accidents.

So it's a game?

[He looks back at the screen dubiously then down at the popcorn that he now notices is half eaten. ... Nice.]

Yeah!

[Heeey, Zuko, if you don't start eating quick, Chili's hand might find its way into the box you're holding.

Best person to watch movies with, clearly.]

[Okay... well then. He turns his attention back to the tv. But as Chili reaches for the popcorn, Zuko will swiftly move it out of his reach. His own then going in to grab a handful of the stuff and put it in his mouth.

He blinks in surprise and looks at the box.]

What did you say this stuff was?

[Drat! Zuko's too fast. Oh, well, fair is fair, they outran him the last time...]

It's corn. [That's got to be a lie, right?] Corn kernels. They kind of burst open, see? [He'll fish out an unpopped kernel. It's small, fairly round, and a golden brown, not white and puffy like the rest.]

Corn?

[He knows of corn, though they have it more in the Earth Kingdom than the Fire Nation.]

How does it do that?

[It's pretty good though.]

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