Route 207

-Sarah blinks-

Sarah: Wait, that wasn't the big problem?

-She follows after them-

-To Jacob-

Tell me about it, them and the World Tree Project are actually some of the least messed up things we found Pokefutures had done. I still get nightmares about some of the stuff we found in their old files...

-Beat-

But anyway, I'd suggest the assistance of any number of Scyther Line members.

-To Pentigan-

Since that thing seemed to be activated by that one text I saw when I checked through my spam last night, I'm sure you can get some rest now. You need it, especially if we're going to be dealing with Glitches in Sinnoh again.

Route 207/Entrance to Zrone's Base

Zrone: "Sadly no, only the most frequent. The biggest one... well, it'll be easier to show you."

Loripha: "I still say it's the staff drawing them here."

Zrone: "Ridiculous, the scepter shouldn't attract these things. Anyways, I've spent twenty seven years on that scepter I don't care if these anomalies are attracted to it, I won't destroy it. Besides, it never did before."

Loripha: "Whatever boss..."

OMEGA: <Scanning. No new anomalies. Three currently. Hearthome anomaly: unresolved. Mt. Coronet anomaly: unresolved. Undefined: unresolved.>

Zrone: "Yes yes, thank you Omega."

OMEGA: <Reminder: An apple a day keeps maintenance at bay.>

Zrone: "ESSENTIALLY, what this... "glitch", bothering me here at my base looks like... is silhouetted versions of all of you, your friends. They come out and infect the local mons and make my machinery malfunction."

PEFE HQ

Jacob: "... Man, that must have been rough. Any archives I can read around here to catch up on all your long stories? And... I don't have any Scyther line mons... I should ask Regina to ask Seth if he can help out... Or I can try catching one. I could use a few bugs."

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The Zrone Zone

Sarah: So... basically shadows of us. Being colossal dicks to you. That sounds insulting to everyone involved honestly.

Battle Frontier

"Well, you're not that girl who had that video call with me, are you her brother?" she asked.

Battle Frontier

"Sakura? No, actually she's my girlfriend"

-Blitz rubbed the back of his neck-

"She asked me to come since none of her pokemon could get here very easy"

The Zrone Zone

Zrone: "Indeed."

Loripha: "Now, generally we'd just leave them be for research but..."

Zrone: "Let's just say I'm not fond of things mutating other things."

"Now, Omega here can handle most of them, but they keep coming back, and I'm not sure where the source of it is."

OMEGA: <Further unresolved anomalies detected. Cannot locate sources.>

Zrone: "Yes Omega calm down."

OMEGA: <Re-initiating standby.>

Zrone: "Now, if you can handle them all on your own, GREAT. Otherwise, anything you can do is appreciated."

-The elevator comes to a stop and a pair of massive three story tall industrial doors open-

-On the inside is something resembling a sci-fi movie lab, the immediate entrance is a large open space, to the left is a large hanger, with several docking stations and many large bipedal Sectopods, and a large thick glass wall revealing tunnels deeper into Mt. Coronet, dimly lit with mining lights, straight ahead is a hallway lit by red and green lights, with many doors on either side, to the right is a door that's open to a large room with a wall of monitors, otherwise the room is obscured-

-Though sitting next to the chair in the monitor room is a staff with an orb on top of it that looks like some unholy fusion between the Adamant Orb, Lustrous Orb, and an egg of some sort, it sparks with black pixelated energy-

Battle Frontier

"Oh..." she glances at Sensei "Is that true?" she asked

Sensei just nodded at her

"Well... Then I guess I should give him back now." she sighed.

Battle Frontier

"Well, that is why I came. We've been looking all over for him for a while now... Has he been with you this whole time?" Blitz said, suddenly feeling awkward for a different reason

The Zrone Zone

Sarah: I'll... see what I can do, even though I was hoping to return to the Battle Frontier to keep training soon.

-She looks around and notices the scepter, but decides not to ask questions-

Zrone HQ

Zrone: "OH! The Battle Frontier? Weeeeell in that case feel free to leave and get back to that. Now that I only have one of these to deal with, I'm sure I can handle it."

OMEGA: <Probability of mission success due to anomaly reduction, 75%.>

Zrone: "Eugh let's see if we can bump that up a bit later."

The Zrone Zone

Sarah: You sure? I could stick around a little bit longer if you need me to.

Battle Frontier

"Since I went to Mauville, yeah." said Akane

"<She kinda fell on me.>" said Sensei.

Zrone Zone HQ

Zrone: "Oh yes I'm sure! Just, throw a request by your friends later."

Loripha: -Twirling her hair- Does it really look nice?

Zrone: "And also please keep the entrance a secret if they reach out to me I can just tell them where to meet me!"

Mt. Coronet

-Edge finally lands at the base of the mountain-

-THWACK-

Edge: <OOOW.>

<... Wait, my coffin isn't even dented. How durable AM I?>

Route 202 Last Night

Silas: You should probably change back then.

Battle Frontier

-Blitz suppresses the desire to snicker at the image-

"That's when he disappeared all right. We've all been kinda worried" -He gives a little smile at Sensei- "But I knew you were a tough old mon, figured you knew how to take care of yourself one way or another"

Route 202 - Last Night

Shinobi: <You just wanna see if it works in reverse, don't you?>

-He nods to Ammon-

<Alright, might as well>

-The Arcanine uses Sunny Day to summon some sunlight in the area, and and after a repeat of the shadowy thing Blitz is back to his normal human self-

Blitz: "Tada, back to normal"

Battle Frontier

"<You just had to call me old didn't you>" he let out a chuckle

"All right then, so first I need to actually release so you can bring him back..." said Akane.

The Zrone Zone

Sarah: Oh, sure. Uh, anything in particular you do want me to tell them?

Zrone Zone

Zrone: "Um. There's a glitch in Mt. Coronet and it'd be nice for them to get rid of it when they're in the area?"

"Throw in any details you want."

Dreamscape

Seeing herself surrounded and her minions tossed aside like yesterday's garbage, Valentine grimaces.

"This isn't over yet. On my turf, you play by my rules." She strums a few bars of a discordant tune, disorienting all but Noelle.

"Another songbird, I see? Well, let's get down to business."

"If you don't mind, dearie, I'll start first."

The Zrone Zone

Sarah: That works!

-She starts writing a text-

-She sends the text and then puts her phone away-

Nightmare Scape

Jacob: -Clutches his head- "Eughghghghhh... can't... focus... must... slaughter... vampires..."

PEFE HQ

Jacob: "Okay, so I'll see what I can-"

-He looks at his phone- "..."

".... She didn't."

Zrone Zone

Zrone: "Thaaaaank you deary. Thank you for the help! Maybe we can do business again some time."

The Ball

Blue shrugs, and sits down on the catwalk, bow close at hand just in case.

Red, meanwhile, is not happy to be denied her fight.

Red: COWARDS! SPARKLY COWARDS! EDWARDS, THE LOT OF YOU!

PEFE HQ

I'll see if I can get Tangent to donate Rosary and-looks at my texts-Jacob, who has Sarah been talking to? It wouldn't be a certain cyborg pain in our sides, could it?

PEFE HQ

Jacob: "I think the mentioning of Tetris is all we need to confirm that."

"..."

"....."

"... Wait doesn't that mean Zrone infected a glitch rather than the other way around?"

edited 23rd Jan '16 3:54:38 PM by Verax