[The phone camera is held at shaky arm's-length, opening on Serena crowded around a pair of tables with a large group of teenagers holding a peace sign at the camera. They're outside, seemingly some public park or food court- several trays of fries and sodas sit around the middle of the table. It's impossible to tell what belongs to who.
"Alright! I'm Serena- obviously- and these are my friends! Everyone introduce-"
"Wait, are you recording?" A girl with a pink crop top and brown hair loops interrupts. "I wanna show them my-"
"In a minute!" Serena says. "Introduce yourself first!"
She turns to point the camera at the dark haired girl- you can see something green by her feet, but most of it is out of frame.
"My name is Shauuuuna! And this is Acorn!"
The girl picks up the green thing to show it off to the camera- A chespin, grin just as big as shauna's.
"Alright!" Serena continues. "Your turn, C!"
The camera swivels to a boy with long black hair, a blue coat, and a froakie on his head. The boy and the froakie blink at the same time. Neither of them say anything.
"Uh... Well! That's Calem!"
The shaky camera swivels around to two more boys, one short and ginger, the other with an undercut and ponytail. The ginger boy does a formal bow to the camera.
"My name is Trevor. This is Tierno."
Tierno smiles and waves to the camera. "Bonjour!"
"Alright that's everyone!" Serena laughs, setting the camera down- unattended, the perspective now just stares straight up at the sky. "Thanks for humoring me, it's just like a... Video diary project, kind of. I wanna record my journey so I can look back on it once I'm champion or whatever" she chuckles.
"That's a high boast to make," says a voice we haven't heard before- clearly one of the children, but we can't see who's talking. A froakie hops over to investigate the camera.
"Wait wait wait!" Shauna exclaims. "You should record your first battle then! Me and you! Our trainer debut!"
Serena squeals. "Wait that's a great idea!"
A hand reaches for the camera. The froakie hops out of the way.
"Oh crap, I was still recordi-]
