-Lanie notices the Emboar and approaches.-

Lanie: Oh, hey, Squealer.

-There is a Zeal and a Gui around and they are open for interaction.-

Squealer: <Oh, hey, Lanie! You're not dead! What's been going on?>

-Slight headtilt-

Shinobi: <Oh? Team get shuffled around or something?>

-Shrug-

<I imagine that'd help, yeah>

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"Haha, I can sorta understand that. There is much to be said for going easy."

<"Yes, well, you would think that, wouldn't you?">

An icy Alolan Ninetails approaches the two from down the beach.

"Ah, princess. I see you're back from your walk?"

<"No, this is just a projection. Of course I'm back.">

"Whelp. Ask a stupid question, I guess."

<"Aren't you going to introduce me?">

"Ah! Right, Kalani, this is... er..."

<"Don't tell me you forgot to ask his name.">

"Uhm, well..."

<"I do apologize for my trainer's utter lack of manners. As she said, I am Kalani, and this is Youko. It is a pleasure to meet you.">

Lanie: Well... I'm not dead. And right now I've kind of lost my brother.

-The Munna floating next to her radiates a feeling of annoyance as if punctuating her statement.-

Ghostus: <More Sholto's in another universe, apparently, and he's just letting the team decide what they want to do from here.>

Squealer: <Aw, that sounds annoying.>

-to the Munna- <Especially with the annoyance you seem to be punctuating things with.>

-to Lanie- <Want me to help find him?>

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Wela Volcano Park, Some Time Later

-Ludmilla sighs in relief as Hiker David's last Pokemon goes down. He takes off the Growlithe ears and gives her a thumbs up.-

Kiawe: Excellent work! And now, for the last go!

*Whistle~*

-GROWLITHE EVERYWHERE!-

*Whistle~*

-GROWLITHE STOP!-

Ludmilla: ...

Kiawe: ... >:)

Ludmilla: ...

Totem Salazzle: ...

Mother Arcanine: ...

Ludmilla: ...

Totem Salazzle: ... o_o;

Ludmilla: ... That one.

Kiawe: B-but how?! Incredible!

Lanie: That would be nice, but you don't have to.

I'm worried he's gone off and done something reckless again.

-Espero radiates a questioning feeling.-

Lanie: ...Okay, I've been reckless lots of times. But he has more.

Seafolk Noodle House

Yvan: Missingno fucked up a lot. It fucked up both the spacetime continum and our lives enough to be forced back in time into the place of the avatars of life and death. Our mentor suffered a worse fate as one of the cores of Zygarde.

-he pauses-

A lot of the original Yveltal imprinted on me. How the whole genderfluid thing happened, he used to be all male. Gabriel got a split personality, but he barely remembers a thing. As aggravating as he gets, that means I have to protect him at all costs.

His left eye suddenly takes on a green, slitted appearance-

B͍̥̮e̢̥c̶̬͚͇̰a̙̦͢u͈̻s͉̜̫̺e̤͞ ͎̤I̖͉̜̹̱͈ ̰̣̺r̠̹̞̞e̪m͈e͖̳̟̮̟̝͇m̰̩̥̥͚̖ͅb̬̗̤̙͉̮͕e̵͈͍̼̗̣ŕ͕̹̙̦͔̝̮ ̤̘e̻̺͉̜͉v̳͙͍̻e̞r̗͔̯̯͔͘y̝̣͔̤̥t҉̩h͙̞̪̫̖̼̮i͖͎͓͚̜̬ng͍.

Squealer: <Oh, no worries. I'll get someone to go find him.>

-He pulls out some sort of communicator and gives a description of Zeal-

Squealer: <There we go! Now we'll know where he is soon enough, probably!>

-Zeal might be accosted by a Kadabra and Metang-

Kamdida: <Okay, uh, I think this is the guy?>

Metang: <You aren't doing anything reckless, ARE YOU?>

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Lanie: Well, thanks, then.

What have you been doing lately?

-Zeal turns away from them, puts on a fake mustache, and turns back toward them. He begins speaking in an accent that is very inconsistent and clearly not real.-

Zeal: I think you must have the wrong person.

edited 15th May '17 6:45:03 PM by AZealousIndividual

Route 8

Joseph: Oh, hi! I'm Joe.

-foxpets-

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<"Greetings, Joseph Hudson. We know You.">

Kalani preens, taking Joe's attention as her due.

"Oh, don't mind her too much. Half the things she says don't make sense. The rest is just vanity."

<"Hmph.">

Near Lush Jungle

It was a bit of a hike, but Zeke insisted on walking instead of just driving or flying. He wanted to experience the air of the world before they set about for their next big adventure. Johnathan tried to remind him that they would have plenty of time since they hadn't yet finished the designs for the drive and thus the Mars Mission would be kinda a impossibility.

Silas hung back with Hacks right by his side, Carol laughing at this all.

"I get the feeling this space mission will be harder than expected," Silas commented closing up the map on his P-Droid. ~Well when we finally get to space, hopefully you'll show some more emotion,~ was all Hacks had to add.

Silas understood what Hacks meant and shrugged, "I'm not broken you know."

Squealer: <Oh, I joined the X-Nauts! It's fun!>

Kamdida: <...You know we saw you without that r->

Metang: <Oh, my apologies! I'll look elsewhere, then!>

-They start heading off and Kamdida shakes her head-

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-Joseph tilts his head. Rather than act in shock or confusion upon the Ninetales knowing his last name, he just giggles-

Joseph: Oh, the cutie knows me already!~

Lanie: X-Nauts... As in Paper Mario X-Nauts?

Gui: Did... did that work?

Zeal: Apparently.

Squealer: <Yup!>

-He gestures to his current robes, which have a prominent X on them and also look a bit like Peach's dress-

Kamdida: <Well, just on them.>

Metang: <What do you- HEY!>

-They come back-

Lanie: Now I really want to know more, but I'm sure it's a long story.

-He forgets about the fake accent and starts it again halfway through the sentence.-

Zeal: Is there something I can help you with?

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<"Indeed. Your name is on many lips, these days. It does one well to keep informed.">

Youko just shrugs.

"If you say so."

Meanwhile, nearby in the shade of a tree, something slithery is watching.

Quick thing. When Aurora translates, I'm not going to show her speech so I don't have to write as much. Is that okay?

Route 8

-Ahe and Arashi land. Ahe looks around and frowns. There's no one here, weird jackets or not. Ahe sends out Aurora to translate-

Ahe: Arashi?

Arashi: <Yes?>

Ahe: Why is nothing here?

Arashi: <I got bored.>

Ahe: You got bored. After five seconds.

Arashi: <There was nothing out here to fight, so I tried to provoke something into fighting me.>

-Ahe facepalms and sighs-

Ahe: And how did that go?

-Arashi points behind Ahe with a wing-

Arashi: <See for yourself.>

-Ahe turns around to look behind him. The sea is boiling with angry Wishwashi, and they're beginning to school-

Ahe: I don't like swearing, but... fuck.

Buckbuck: It's fine, yeah. Plenty of people do that

Squealer: <Oh, well, I will say these X-Nauts are a bit different from that game thing, but...>

<Pretty much, they're associated with the Alakagross. They ended up kidnapping me to be the vessel for the Hundred Thousand Year Door's treasure. TEC ended up taking over part of the group, Maggie's boyfriend took over the other part and also caught Grodus after he submitted himself to be the treasure's vessel and... yeah, I've been doing X-Naut stuff for about 2 years now, one of them while not a hostage of some sort.>

Metang: <We were sent here by our second in command to make sure you weren't doing anything reckless.>

Kamdida: <Uh, also, I'm... second in command too. Just for the record...>

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Wela Volcano Park

Ludmilla: Go, Gelert!

-The Lycanroc takes the field. The Salazzle winces slighty before regaining her composure.-

Kiawe: Oh, that's actually a good Rock-Type.

Ludmilla: Gelert, Axelrock! Er, acceleraro- um, Acce- ax- acks- The fast Rock-Type move!

-Gelert rolls his eyes and uses Accelerock, smashing into the Salazzle at lightning speeds. The Salazzle hisses and fires a Dragon Rage, knocking the Lycanroc back a ways. The commotion attracts a Salandit, who joins the battle.-

Ludmilla: Oh, right, they do that. Um, quick! Use Rock Slide!

-The Salazzle ducks under the rocks, but the Salandit is thrown out of the caldera.-

Kiawe: I feel kinda bad for those little lizards...

Ludmilla: Awesome!

-The Salazzle fires a Fire Burst, and another Salandit shows up.-

Ludmilla: Not awesome! Rock Slide again!

-Gelert, getting winded, launches another barrage of boulders. The Salazzle takes the brunt of the attack and flinches, while the Salandit manages to duck.-

Ludmilla: Yeah! Accelerock- OH! Right! Accelerock is how you pronounce it!

-Gelert strikes the Salazzle again, knocking her out.-

Gelert: <Hehe YEAH! I did i->

-The Salandit fires a Dragon Rage and knocks Gelert out.-

Salandit: <Ha HA!>

Ludmilla: D,=

-The Salandit looks quite proud of himself.-

Ludmilla: >:C

-Ludmilla sends out Hermes!-

Ludmilla: Thunderbolt!

Hermes: <With pleasure.>

Salandit: <Nonononono->

*Crackthoom!*

-The Salandit twitches on the floor.-

Kiawe: Well, that went a lot faster than I thought it would. *Ahem* Anyway! Well done, challenger!

edited 15th May '17 7:10:39 PM by DuneTheWanderer

That's fine.

Route 8

La: ...Well this is just great.

-Ilya is trying to get someone to notice them for assistance-

-Lanie stares.-

Lanie: I missed the J-Team.

Zeal: Nopenothingrecklessherenopenotatall. Is that it?