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Anistar

- Notices Maggie -

Oh, hi.

Anistar Pokemon Center

-Herbert is sitting in the lobby, his notebook open on his lap with several diagrams and annotations written out in it. He's currently chewing the end of his pencil thoughtfully, Bishop reading over his shoulder.-

Bishop: <So, what have you got here?>

Herbert: I'm not 100% certain it'll work, but I think I've got a plan to rescue Kirk. I'm going to need some help executing it, though...

Anistar

Maggie: "How have you been doing? I don't think we've talked in a while."

Sack: -to Sylvester- <So... who are you supposed to be and such?>

Anistar Center

-Crow may pass by and notice Herbert's plan-

Crow: "Hey, Bert. What are you working on?"

edited 17th Apr '14 2:37:04 PM by crowlover

Anistar Pokemon Center

-Herbert looks over at Crow.-

Herbert: Oh, hey Crow. Haven't seen you since the trial. That was... well, I wouldn't say it was fun, but I reckon we made a pretty good team, right?

-He taps his notebook with his pencil.-

Herbert: Anyway, I'm working on a plan to rescue Kirk. One that I might just need your help with, actually.

Anistar Center

-Joseph and Samantha, in separate corners of the Pokemon Center, wake up and yawn-

Both: Oh?

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Oh, um... I've been... I don't know...

Sylvester: <I'm Sylvester, and I'm a scary ghost!> (waves arms) <Oooo...>

Anistar Center

Crow: "Yeah, I think we make a good team."

"And ooh! How so?"

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Maggie: "...What do you mean?"

-Sack does not have any visible reaction at Sylvester's attempts to be scary-

Sack: <If you say so... Maybe it might work better on others or something.>

Anistar Pokemon Center

-Herbert taps his notebook with his pencil.-

Herbert: Well, the problem we ran into the last few times was that the Malamar has a bunch of hynotised flunkies. We can't hit him, because he's got a bunch of mons ready to take the blows for him, and no matter how strong our teams are we're always going to be overwhelmed by sheer strength in numbers. But I reckon if we were to have one of our mons pretend to be hypnotised, they could get close to the Malamar, taking him out and causing the rest of his minions to panic. Hopefully. That's the plan, anyway. Of course, we need to make sure that this mon doesn't actually end up getting hypnotised in the process.

-He looks back up at Crow.-

Herbert: Which is where you come in. Whilst you were spying on Cipher, did you happen to come across anything...

-He visibly hesitates for a moment before continuing.-

Herbert: ...Anything that interfered with Auric abilities?

edited 17th Apr '14 2:57:41 PM by Herbert40k

Anistar

Crow: "...You mean Allen's devices? I'm pretty sure they just block Fighting Aura."

Anistar Pokemon Center

Herbert: They were essentially just modified radios, weren't they? If I change the frequency, I might be able to get it to affect the other three quadrants as well... this is just an idea, mind you. If it doesn't work... well, I'm sure I'll think of something...

-He looks distinctly uncomfortable with the idea of having to use Allen's tech, but gives Crow a hard look nonetheless.-

Herbert: So, did you get your hands on one or not? If you didn't, then the alternative is asking Lyuri, and I'd much rather avoid resorting to that...

edited 17th Apr '14 3:11:32 PM by Herbert40k

Anistar

Well, I... um... I'm... considering leaving the J-Team, going home to Sinnoh, and focus on my writing when I'm done here in Kalos...

Sylvester: <... Um, maybe?> (muttering to himself) <Is there something I'm not doing right? I should ask DS to introduce me to one of those friends she mentioned who might have Ghost types who can give me some tips...>

Anistar Center

Crow: "Huh."

"But, yeah, I do have one, actually."

-He fishes into his pocket and pulls it out-

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Maggie: "...You are?"

Sack: -to Sylvester- <Hm...>

<Her Highness used to have a Ghost-type on the team, but apparently the only one who found him really scary was her boyfriend or something.>

<Apparently there is someone who she's talked about who might know more Ghost-types. I think his name's... Sombra or something?>

Anistar

- Sighs -

Yeah... I don't know if it'll be safe, or if it'll be possible for me to have a normal life, but... I don't think I can keep going like this...

Sylvester: <Huh, really?>

Anistar Pokemon Center

Herbert: Thanks...

-He takes the device from Crow, shuddering slightly.-

Herbert: Ugh, I feel ill just being around one of these things... it's not even on, for Arceus' sake. Still, if it's to save Kirk...

-He pulls his toolkit out of his bag and starts taking to the Aura jammer with a screwdriver.-

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Sack: <Probably, yeah.>

Maggie: "Well... I guess I can understand that, but at the same time, it's going to feel weird with you not being on the team any more."

Anistar Center

Crow: "...Right, then. Was there anything else you wanted to talk about?"

Thanks to Silent for spagging this with me.

Anistar Gym

-At the center of the space aberration that comprises the Gym, a sphere of hard light held in place by SHEER PSYCHIC POWER shines. At the center, Olympia is standing in her usual attire, eyes barely open and holding a welcoming gaze-

-Ammy barges in-

-Olympia flares her cape, revealing yet another recursive innerspace folded in it-

Olympia: Welcome, challenger. I foresee people's desire to face me and the strategy they bring, but even as we speak the universe holds some mysteries for me to have fun with. I assume you are here for a battle?

Human!Ammy: Yep! I'm Ammy and I'm here to challenge you!

Olympia: Very well, if that is the desire that brings you here. Let's hold a ritual, like the ones of olde. -winks-

Human!Ammy: Ritual?

Olympia: A Pokémon battle where the fate and future of contestants is decided. -manifest psychic powers making the hard light change color- Step into the light!

-Ammy does so-

-Olympia starts floating backwards while holding her cloak open, allowing a ball of light to emerge from it; the ball of light decomposes slowly to reveal a Sigilyph-

'Human!Ammy: Go, Issun! Thunder!

Issun: <Feel the [lightning,] birdie!>

-Zaps the Sigylyph-

-The Sigilyph hovers around and wobbles, trying to evade the attack, but is still hit by the Thunder attack, which causes her to shriek in otherworldly sounds; however the Pokémon recovers and manages to finalize her Air Slash, sending a couple of barely visible blades of air towards Issun-

Issun: -is sliced- <Ack!> -tries another thunder-

Olympia: -waves her hands: - Sigilyph, the strategy is a frontal and decisive one, hover up this time and attack with a Psychic!

-The Sigilyph tries to hover up tracing the arc of the Thunder, but despite her efforts is still hit by it and drops back to the ground, her attack interrupted-

Olympia: -Fascinating Eyebrows- Compound Eyes, I see...

Human!Ammy: It's handy in times like these! Bug Buzz!

Issun: -lets out a screech-

Olympia: A sound strate-... oh dear Arceus I'm becoming like Korrinagy...

-waves to Siligyph, who starts beating her wings, taking the full strength of the attack and dropping to the last of her energies, but still holding enough to build a full Whirlwind attack-

Olympia: …but we do have clarity of mind to choose our battles.

Issun: <Uwaaaaaah!> -is switched for Lyn, who blinks-

Lyn: <Someone summoned me?> -Olympia seems to "hmph" at raising yet another bug, and motions Sigilyph to float up-

Olympia: "Seems like the universe has dealt a fierce hand to us. I must draw my own path through this...

Human!Ammy: -grins- As will I. -touches her Key Stone-

-Lyn is enveloped in a cocoon of light and emerges a Mega Pinsir-

Mega!Lyn: <This power... It's amazing!>

Olympia: The definitive time draws near, Sigilyph. Cut the Pinsir's moment.

-And the Sigilyph emits an eerie chant after which with a single beat of her wings she unleashes a barrage of large, but weak, Flying-type energy slices aimed at Pinsir's general position-

Human!Ammy: Return!

Mega!Lyn: -tanks the Air Cutter and slams into Sigilyph-

-The Sigilyph, too weakened to resist further, is Return'd in the torso and sent down to the ground, where given the relatively little friction of the hard light-made floor, she just continues to slide farer and farer away until reaching the edge, where she just dematerializes-

-Olympia's first Pokémon defeated, she steps forwards and performs a small dance, summoning energy in her hands to draw the form of a gate in the hard light floor-

Olympia: Come, fellow warrior! Stand here and write history in the constellations with me!

-The gate drawn in the floor opens, revealing a stairwell from which a Slowking emerges-

Human!Ammy: X-Scissor!

Mega!Lyn: <Normally I'd give him a chance to fight but CHAAAAAAAAAARGE!> -slices the Slowking-

Olympia: Slowking, remain calm, attain the state of mind to determine your way in life through your own efforts!

-The Slowking assumes a defensive stance and closes her eyes, channeling energy from the stars through her body; she manages to draw enough energy to build up her defenses before being hit by the X-Scissor and being pushed away-

Slowking: <…The time is now. The deal is here. We see your deeds and we shall show you how the world responds in kind!>

Mega!Lyn: <...Tougher than I thought.> -X-Scissors again-

-Olympia turns around fast when she sees Mega!Lyn go for the next attack-

Olympia: This world is complicated and one can easily lose their ways. Show them, Slowking!

-Slowking draws energy and manifests a Water Pulse that she manages to hold on for enough time to fall to her knees from Lyn's attack, barely holding at the edge of the hard light platform, and still lunge the Water Pulse at Lyn-

Mega!Lyn: -Water Pulsed- <Gah!> -flails-

Olympia: -smiles- Now it is our chance to write history!

-The Slowking moves closer to recover some ground, and then Olympia instructs to for a Zen Headbutt; after a moment the Slowking manages to catch her breath and charges at Lyn-

-Lyn is slammed and goes down to low health-

Mega!Lyn: <One more time...> -another X-Scissor-

-Slowking seems too tired to resist the attack, shares a knowing look with Olympia-

Olympia: So be it. The "light" of history shines always after the fact, Winner or loser, we tie our fate to our hope, but also plan for the best!

-Slowking hops back to give herself time to cast a Light Screen, building a faint wall of cyan light; however Lyn goes through the barrier effortlessly and lands the X-Scissor, knocking Slowking down unconscious-

Mega!Lyn: -somersaults- <Yes!>

-Olympia recalls Slowking, causing the Light Screen to turn into a milliard of light particles that start floating around. Then she calls to the sky.-

Olympia: In this path we shall not desist! Even if our hopes are shattered…

-And flares her dress, causing the platform of hard light to shatter in pieces, leaving only one platform for herself, one for Ammy to stand on, and several small hard light "stepping stones in the sky" floating around aimlessly-

Olympia: …I trust my fate to the sky! Or, -winks- to the ceiling, so to speak…

-And then, points to a Meowstic constellation on the sky; the constellation starts becoming smaller and drawing closer, until it lands on one of the floating platforms, envelopes itself into a cloud from which a female Meowstic emerges-

Ceiling Meowstic: <…I am here to judge. I shall test your goodness.> ¬¬

Mega!Lyn: <I used to be a Shadow Pokemon, does that affect anything?> ._.

Ceiling Meowstic: -yawns- <I'll have to claw inside you to see how much has that changed you…>

-And assumes a threatening stance, from which Olympia assumes the Meowstic is ready-

Olympia: Very well then, start with a Shadow Ball!

Human!Ammy: Return again!

-Mega!Lyn charges, being brought to the red by the Shadow Ball-

-The Meowstic does not have the time to correct stance after launching the Shadow Ball, and only manages to curl a bit before taking the attack and being sent across the empty space; she seems to summon some psychic force to maneuver one of the nearby stepping stones to land on it harmlessly (because she's a cat)-

Ceiling Meowstic: -pants- <Interesting. You shall place your trust on those who light your life? You shall value them for their company and not for their mistakes or mishappenings?>

Mega!Lyn: <Uh, yeah?>

Olympia: -points to Lyn- Okay that was a good attack, now let's seal it! Extrasensory!

Ceiling Meowstic: <That sounds only sightly, barely hesitating. Let me help yourself express it!>

-Extends her paws, raises her ears to send a ripple of psychic projections of intertwined sensations from both the Trainers and the Pokémon in the field, including trying to "squeeze" her feline field of vision inside Lyn's sense of smell-

Mega!Lyn: <URK> -faints and reverts to a normal Pinsir-

Human!Ammy: I'm not done yet! Robin!

Robin: <Huh?! Me?!>

-Olympia sees the last mon sent out-

Olympia: This is where fate is set then. -to Meowstic- Don't allow this Pokémon to get close.

Ceiling Meowstic: -observes the Light Screen particles fade away, turns to Robin- <You don't seem too attentive to the plight of your Trainer. Here, let me raise you.>

-and leaps to another platform from where she sends out a Charge Beam-

-Robin is hit by the Charge Beam and screams like a little girl-

Human!Ammy: X-Scissor!

Robin: <F-fear the great Sir Robin!>

-hops over and X-Scissors-

Olympia: Shall physical attacks be our doom? Hit back and put some distance!

-The Ceiling Meowstic awaits for Robin to land and endures the hit as well as she can, though she screams like a little cat.... girl-

Ceiling Meowstic: <You fight for your own name? Not for her godly-given burden?>

-And dashes in to girl-slap Robin in the face with a Covet-

Ceiling Meowstic: <Not for the egg? Not for cleansing her heritage?>

-After she hits... like a girl, the Ceiling Meowstic takes advantage of the momentum to leap away, to another hard light platform floating nearby-

Human!Ammy: Pursuit!

Robin: <The g-great Sir Robin has no idea what you're talking about!>

-Dashes after her and slices with Obscura-

Ceiling Meowstic: <…MEOW!!!> ¬¬

-is hit squarely on the back as she was landing and almost knocked down from her stepping stone in the sky-

Olympia: Fate is hard on us... presenting us with many obstacles... many false goals, many mirages! Meowstic, play Fate's paw to endure this!

-The Ceiling Meowstic rolls from her stepping stone and casts a Double Team, disappearing into an orb of light with a halo; after a moment the orb breaks into six beams of light that land each on one platform in the sky and materialize each into a Meowstic figure-

Ceiling Meowstic Voices: <You play The Fool, I play The Fate? Senseless...> ¬¬

Human!Ammy: X-Scissor the group!

-Robin does so-

Olympia: Cut their path short with Charge Beam!

-The Meowstic figures each shoot a Charge Beam from their position trying to aim at Robin. While most of the beams miss by enough margin, so does Robin as the first image he slashes just poofs into rings of light. Two of the remaining figures leap to other platforms closer to Robin to aim better-

Robin: <AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH> -slashes wildly-

-Yet another Meowstic figure poofs into light after having its head slashed; the other images don't take it too kindly and they try to Covet Robin out of balance, though in the process of aiming their attack yet another mirage gets too close for comfort and is Diagonal Cut out of existenc for her troubles.-

-This leaves only the real Meowstic and two mirages; the "three" Pokémon arrange their platforms in the sky to try and circle around Robin-

Robin: -rapidly Pursuits the middle one-

-The mirages are about to Shadow Ball Robin, but when the middle one is hit she turns out to be the real deal and is knocked out into the empty space with a hiss; this also dispels the two remaining mirages and seems to trouble Olympia enough that she crosses her arms, eclipsing her dress's inner galaxy.-

Olympia: Is this the best approach we can take? Is here when the mystery is walled and I am sent back to mind my own business...?

Ceiling Meowstic: -pants, glares: <The pain… becomes unbearable. But I still can try and impart you a lesson… all I need...>

-Olympia instructs the Meowstic to fire a Shadow Ball, but being adrift in the empty space makes it troublesome and slow for her to aim at Robin-

-Robin ducks and X-Scissors again-

-The Ceiling Meowstic is sent spiraling a fair distance until she bumps against another platform she manages to claw herself to. She tries to recover her balance but looks obviously dizzy, and unable to battle.-

Ceiling Meowstic: <…Ugh… I better get good Whiskas out of this…>

-Olympia steps in and conjures a powerful light that slowly makes the hard light surfaces grown into a new floor.-

Olympia: Well done. Your mystery is kept, and your fate is made your own future.

Human!Ammy: Thank you!

-Olympia gestures Ammy to approach while she produces from inside her dress's inner galaxy a small box, made of some metal, with star-themed ornamental details.-

Olympia: You have shown skill and a solid state of mind. This for you is the Psychic Badge. And inside the box, a TM as well, although I wonder if you'd really need it. -smiles-

Human!Ammy: Don't worry, I will!

-Leaves-

-As soon as Ammy leaves the sphere of light, Olympia casts her psychic power over it as if it was a scaffolding, helping the battle space reconstruct from the inside. Meanwhile, the Ceiling Meowstic slowly dissolves into a shower of starlights that, summoned by power from beyond the stars, raises to take the form of the Meowstic Constellation once more-

Feline Voice from Afar: <Our tests show progress. Even the strongest individuals behave well to cats. Soon the time for our domination will come...>

Anistar

... I guess it will...

- Thinks for a moment -

I wonder... will the J-Team be okay without me...?

Sylvester: <Hmm... Cool.>

Anistar Pokemon Center

-Herbert is quiet for a moment, seemingly engrossed in his tinkering, before pointing at Crow with his screwdriver.-

Herbert: ...You wanna be a detective or something like that, right?

Anistar

-May end up running into Jacob-

Anistar Center

Crow: "I do, yeah."

"Why do you ask?"

Anistar Pokemon Center

-Herbert gives a small smile.-

Herbert: Ever thought about throwing in your lot with a fellow protector of truth, justice, and the Unovan way?

Near Herbert

-Eowyn is nearby with Lina and heads over to Herbert and Crow-

Eowyn: <Wait, what is this about?>

Anistar Pokemon Center

-Bishop, who has been silent up until this point, looks over at Eowyn.-

Bishop: <Well, Herbert here has been discussing a way to try and free Kirk from his current captivity... and as it turns out, we might just have a way to incorporate you into the plan.>

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Maggie: "Hm..."

"We'll miss you, but we should hopefully be fine."

Anistar Center

Crow: -to Herbert- "Oh, huh, sounds interesting."

"But why Unovan? I'm not Unovan and I don't think you are either."

-to Eowyn- "Oh, Herbert's making a plan to try and free Kirk."

edited 17th Apr '14 4:05:10 PM by crowlover

Anistar City

-A random Illusion member is around.-