ITT: We are all Pokémon Trainers

Ren: And with that, the Appeals round is over! Our Judges will now pick eight finalists to advance to the battle portion of the contest!

-Eight empty picture Frames appear on the screen.-

Judges, begin your deliberations!

Aaron: -Gets hit by the Acrobatics- @_@

Go Sue!

Sue: -Roars coming out of her ball-

Stone Edge!

Sue: -Sends out her own stone fragments at Emolga-

edited 8th Mar '14 7:59:25 PM by rmctagg09

Parfum Palace

-heated discussion can be heard from the main two judges. A "remarkable" can be heard, followed by a condescending pat-

Parfum Palace

-Some harrumphs and a surprised choke can also be heard.-

Parfum Palace

-a stream of Kalosian can be heard. The sentence ends with what sounds like the address and room number of a hotel-

Lumiose Gym

Emolga: <Next, you can— OOF!> -knocked out-

Clemont: One more to go! -sends out a Heliolisk- Focus Blast!

Heliolisk: <In the yellow corner, weighing in at 44 pounds, it's....HELIOLISK!>

-the Heliolisk darts forward, leaps onto the ceiling, pounces down onto Clemont's head, leaps up into the air, and spikes a sphere of aura towards Sue's head-

Parfum Palace

-The discussion goes quiet as some scribbling on paper can be heard, with a small Kalosian confirmation at the end.-

Parfum Palace

-a quick acknowledgement, and the judges have made their decisions-

Dodge it!

Sue: -Moves her head to the right to avoid the Focus Blast-

Now, Earthquake!

Sue: -Roars as she creates a tremor-

Lumiose Gym

-the Heliolisk leaps into the air again, lessening the force of the Earthquake and dropping to a little above half-health, before spiking down another Focus Blast-

-After several minutes of such hilarity, deliberations ended.-

Ren: And the judges have made their decisions!

-Ren point to the screen above him.-

Ren: Here are our eight finalists!

-Mimmy's picture appears in the bottom left. Crewe's picture appears in the top left-middle. Joseph's picture appears next to Crewe's. Hyacinthus' picture appears in the beneath Joseph's. Elise's picture does not appear.-

Ren: Ouch. Sorry, Elise. better luck next time. Congratulations to the finalists! Let's give a sounding applause for all the coordination teams we've seen today!

-Ren leads the applause.-

edited 8th Mar '14 8:14:56 PM by keys2tkingdom

Backstage

-Joseph and Mimmy join together in a chorus of squees. Joseph hugs Scarlett, Munn and whoever is nearby, whereas Mimmy is frantically dialing a number-

Mimmy: Did you hear big sis I'm in the quarters with the grown ups!

-she darts her eyes over to see if Joseph heard that-

Backstage

-Crewe just barely resists a squee and hugs Clockwise-

Sweet! We made it!

... I gotta change out of this thing if I'm gonna be actually battling. Seams!

-she runs (carefully) off to find Seamstress-

Backstage

"WOO! GO JOE! Yeah!"

Munn grabs Joseph and lifts him into the air, swinging him around.

Lumiose City

-Pent's still studying in the park-

Lumiose City, After The Contest

Munn strolls into the park.

"Yo, Pent! Thanks for the help earlier."

sorry this isn't advancing much today, been kinda... out of it today, and sleeping in a few minutes

Lumiose River Island, Two Nights Ago

-blip! Clemont's group teleports onto the island-

Clemont: OK everyone, there should be something big going on in this old factory...

-he looks at his sensor-

...under it?

-there is a freight elevator visible nearby-

Lumiose Streets, Two Nights Ago

Teddibot: -takes another round of damage, and decides to try another tactic. It reaches down to try and grab somebody.-

edited 9th Mar '14 5:19:49 PM by Tangent128

No problem, happy to help.

-He shrugs-

So, guess you're headed off into the depths in the morning.

Lumiose City, somewhere

-a particular green-haired girl receives a call from another particular green-haired girl-

Noelle: Wow! That's great! I'm so proud of you, sis! Keep up the good work!

Lumiose City

"Yeah, yeah, most likely. Weeeeell, probably. Weeeeell, maybe. Weeeell, no. I was kinda thinking of heading down tonight."

edited 8th Mar '14 8:40:09 PM by BluBeriPi

Oh, okay then.

-Nods-

Lumiose City

"Problem is, I only got one mon in my team nowadays, and whatever the hell is down there... even I don't wanna be chasing that down alone."

Right you need backup?

Lumiose City

"I'd certainly appreciate it. I doubt we'll find whatever it is tonight, but still. Best to take precautions."

Okay, I'm fine with coming along.

-He packs up the maps he has laid on the ground-

Let's get going.