Election Bonus! Pokemon Go to the Polls!

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***Pokemon Go to the Polls*** is a one-shot story unrelated to the main campaign. It was put out as a reward for voter registrations with Headcount and uses the system outlined in Executive Decision by Greg Stolze..

Anthony Burch runs the game, while Will Campos, Freddie Wong, Beth May, and Matthew Arnold play the President and Cabinet Members.

## Description

We promised, you delivered! We got a bunch of folks registered with Headcount.org and as promised, our Pokémon themed West Wing-inspired political thriller one-shot. Enjoy, and for those of you in the United States, go vote on Tuesday!

## Characters

* Matt Arnold plays The Secretary of the Interior, Caleb B. Smith Jr., who is the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of United States Representative Caleb Blood Smith.
* Beth May plays Babs Jetson, the Secretary of Defense. She and Caleb have issues with each other.
* Freddie Wong plays Freddie Wong, the Vice President.
	+ (This is because, during the intro, Anthony ran his "attack ads" against Freddie Wong for Will Campos.)
* Will Campos plays President Will Campos.

## Plot Summary

### The First Cabinet Meeting (Part 1)

We open on a broadcast by Daddy Master News (DMN). The Daddy Master reports that Pokemon have appeared all over the world, that the government is unsure about what to do about them and unsure about their threat level, and that a house fire was started in Scottsdale by a Charmander. This fire caused the death of a single mother.

The game begins, and the President, Vice President, and Secretary of Defense are already seated and ready to begin the meeting. Caleb B. Smith Jr. rushes in late, and asks Freddie to scooch over so he can sit next to the president. When President Campos asks Babs what she (and the military) thinks they should do about the Pokemon, she inadvertently suggests that they blow them up. When Caleb asks if this happened in a national park, President Campos turns on the TV. DMN reports that the Pokemon are appearing everywhere, including national parks. President Campos flips through the channels, and ends up on Bill Maher, who he mutes and plays in the background.

Babs insists that the entire country is a national park "if you park your ass in this country and you call yourself an American." Caleb agrees with her. After President Campos goes on a tangent about a farm, values, and the ideals of our forefathers, Vice President Wong brings up some more *important* questions. ("Are these things dangerous? Do we need to be rounding them up?) Then VP Wong suggests that they capture and study the Pokemon. Babs counters, asking, "Do you think that single mother in Scottsdale, Arizona wishes that you had *caught* the Pokemon? Or do you think that she wishes that the Pokemon hadn't singed her ass off in the first place?"

Caleb suggests a more imperialistic approach where they would annex a country like Haiti, turn it into a national park, and put the Pokemon there. This would be similar to a zoo. VP Wong suggests that they enact martial law, and Babs agrees. President Campos snaps and demands respect, then sums up everybody's points. Caleb tries to backtrack, but President Campos doesn't let him.

President Campos kicks Caleb and Babs out of the Oval Office so that he can talk to the Vice President in private. On his way out of the room (where he will listen in on the conversation via a glass cup against the office door), Caleb mentions Amy, who is presumably President Campos's wife. Once the President and Vice President are alone, they reminisce about their time at Harvard, where they started a social media company (Googlebook), and about how Vice President Wong is the only man President Campos can trust. However, when President Campos asks what VP Wong thinks about the Pokemon, Vice President Wong barely gives President Wong some advice that doesn't truly help: "Drop the 'The'."

Babs and Caleb re-enter the office, and everybody makes their assertions in-character. VP Wong's assertion has to do with the topic of sentient Pokemon asking for rights; Babs's is about covering up the good deeds of Pokemon (and how pissed she'll be if she has to do that; and Caleb's is about how, if they don't relocate the Pokemon to a park or zoo, the productivity of the country will go down. There is a bit about Caleb and Bab's history, which is related to a war. President Campos decides to go with Caleb's plan, then prepares his cabinet for a briefing. He reveals that Babs is a war criminal.

### The Second Cabinet Meeting (Part 2)

The news (DMN) updates again, reporting that a Twitter poll provided four options the American people are okay with when it comes to taking care of the Pokemon:

1. Classifying them as pets
2. Classifying them as legalized fighters
3. Making them full citizens
4. Wiping them out entirely

President Campos laments that Pokemon See Island is no longer an option. Babs insists that they should choose the fourth option (annihilation); Vice President Wong agrees with her. Caleb pulls out a Pokedex and shows them a dog-looking Pokemon, trying to appeal to President Campos's love for his own dog, Roscoe, to get him to choose the second option.

Everybody's phone begins to vibrate. They speak for a bit about viral tweets and the Department of Memes before looking to what actually caused the alert: a video of the Scottsdale house fire. It is revealed that the mother began the fire and the Charmander may have saved the girl's life. It is also revealed that a wave of anti-Pokemon sentiment has begun to cross America.

Caleb insists that the problem with the country is single mothers, and Babs agrees. VP Wong texts his aide, telling them to short Petco's stock. President Campos weighs his options (seeing the Pokemon as potentially helpful and gentle, or riding the wave of anti-Pokemon sentiment for his own gain).

Caleb reminds Babs that this is the anniversary of her ex-husband, Dave (Secretary of Fun), who was mauled to death by his underground cockfighting ring. Babs insists that, like President Campos did with the passing of Dave's Law, they need to wipe out the Pokemon. Caleb decides that he is okay with killing the Pokemon as long as it doesn't harm the national parks.

All four of them decide to kill the Pokemon.