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There were 3 paths going separate into empty rooms. The singing returned, Terry cringed and almost didn't step forward.

Silas blinked, opened his mouth to speak, and then it clicked.

"No fucking way..."

His team looked at him, Bishop asked first, "What is it Captain?"

"Blitz..."

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<If you want to transition to [Texas Hold 'Em], just give me the deck. But shuffle it first please,> Sylveon offered.

<And if we could get chips - even illusory ones - that would be well beyond helpful.>

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"We might need some reliable way to get full communication... what would be a good way to convey anything specific? Do we have scratch paper, or something to that effect?" He asked Terry, almost somewhat blind to his wincing.

Jessica: <Don't get too cocky!>

-She gives chase.-

-Tsunami visibly tenses, but relaxes when she sees Krasnaya is joking.-

Ace: <You'll have to do better than that, miss.>

-Celena slowly glides, soaking in the view herself.-

Lyra: <There's telepathy.>

-Haku watches Terry flinch with concern and intrigue.-

Elizabeth: "Should we, er, 'open up a channel', or...?"

Haku: <See if they can speak back. They understand us.>

Elizabeth: "So they should be able to."

Lyra: <I'll take Petey.>

-Petey the Pikachu should feel a mind touching his, a curious, caress-like feeling.-

Elizabeth: "So Haku..."

~You.~

-Liz nods. Terry should feel another mind touching his, this one smooth and warm.-

-The mew jumped behind the bed as it realized the teleport he'd been expecting included some unexpected guests-

-Not that there was any point to hiding-

Mew!Blitz: <Down? What's the big idea?!>

Down: <Rocket suggested bringing them>

Rocket: -facepalming- <Don't pin this on me birdbrain, I expected you to teleport us outside>

Mew!Blitz: -_-

-Sighs and climbs back onto the bed to hit his game's pause button-

<Riiight... Well, yeah that's me, more or less. What's up?>

Amber opened her mouth to speak, only to get it covered by Hacks.

Silas stepped forward and began to observe Blitz, eyeing him, even pulling out the P-Droid to snap some photos and scan him. He stopped after a minute and said, "Okay last I saw you, you were a lycanthrope ninja. Now? You are a Arceus damned legendary! Sitting in a hotel room playing- what edition of Last Legend is this? 6, 7, 8? I got a stronger preference for 6 and 7 due to good direction and train suplexi-"

<Getting off track boss.>

"Thank you Snakeye. Okay... what the hell just happened?!"

Petey and Terry looked at them, but all they got was a thick static, as if their nature was a error upon existence.

Terry sighed and picked up a sign, spinning it and it suddenly said "There are rules to our existence. It's painful. What do you want to know?"

edited 20th Oct '17 8:01:29 PM by EchoingSilence

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"'Rules to your existence?'" Colton parroted, somewhat intrigued. "That would insinuate that Zachary also must follow those 'rules'. What do they entail?" He asked, genuinely intrigued.

Lyra: <Well I suppose that won't work on any of you. And why didn't that occur to me? The sign, like in [Roadrunner] cartoons..you guys are goverened by toon logic.>

Elizabeth: "Oh, you poor things..."

Haku: <How?>

Lyra: <Yeah, how do you guys exist? Is this like one of those glitches? Is the Ink Machine a glitch?>

Another Spin. "Toon logic only seems to work when most convenient."

Spin. "But we think it's the Ink Machine. Something turned it on."

Spin. "Couldn't have been Kevin. He was one of the first victims."

Spin. "We're trapped down here. Zachary's twisted-"

Spin. "And Lena? She's no better."

Spin. "Also Glitch? What's that?"

Lyra: <Interesting...as for your question, a Glitch is like...something wrong with our world.>

Elizabeth: "Something that shouldn't exist."

Lyra: <An eldritch abomination.>

Elizabeth: "How long? How long have you two been living like this?"

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Grabbing his phone - on Airplane Mode to conserve battery, lord knows how long they'll be down there - 77%... Colton started ticking away at the keyboard what he knew.

A project known as the "Ink Machine" drove the producer crazy, driving the voice actors to quit.

Toon Logic follows plot convenience.

Zachary and "Lena" have become "twisted". Stay away from them.

The "Ink Machine" seems to be the reason they exist.

He shut off the phone and stuffed it in his jacket, inhaling."That 'Kevin' character, I think his name is, knows what [Nickelback] is." He added.

edited 20th Oct '17 8:18:24 PM by AbsentCoder

Spin. "We don't know, we think the Ink might also be affecting the other victims. Just one day we woke up, and we couldn't keep track of time."

Spin. "Kevin's knowledge of that... is that a band? We think he only knew of it when it would best subvert a horrific situation."

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"So Kevin has become equally corrupted by the ink, it seems." He noted. Again summoning his phone, he edited something.

Kevin has also become "inked", but to a lesser degree.

"But yeah," he started while pocketing his phone. "they're a band known for being irredeemably horrible but still making money, but that's not relevant." He considered some questions, humming.

"I'll get back to ya," he clarified.

Lyra: <So rather than being made out of ink, it sort of consumed him. No...it merged with him. They are now one being.>

Terry shrugged and frowned, Petey on his shoulder, one last spin, "I'm just a cartoon bad guy. I can't really say."

The singing stopped, a soft voice came out, "Oh... visitors. So many of you, who gets to come forward, and face the Leader for a badge? Or maybe you're just here for a date~" a flirtatious laugh echoed.

Terry headed over to the Elevator and stepped into a corner, spin, "I'm staying here. You can deal with the crazy #$%!!"

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"Following the alliterative naming scheme here..." Colton started, looking in the direction of the voice. "THAT might be Lena.

"I don't think I ever saw what type she specialized in. Poison? Nah, too predictable."

Mew!Blitz: <Hey, hey knock it off with the tech>

-Blitz ineffectually tried to wave the P-droid away. But, assuming there was accurate data available, scans would probably confirm that's a genuine mew standing on the bed with it's tail twitching in minor annoyance-

<What just happened is you barged into my room and started taking my picture>

-Taking the opportunity while the camera isn't looking, Blitz shifts into the human form Silas would recognize, albeit currently in pajamas-

Blitz: "But assuming you're wondering why you found me like that, it's... Complicated. Guess you could call it a favor or blessing if you really wanted"

-Sigh-

"And yeah, it's number 6"

Down: -Chuckles- <A better reaction than I expected~>

Rocket: <You know if this gets onto the internet it's your fault, right?> -_-

edited 20th Oct '17 8:48:28 PM by BlitzTrain

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-Pent just silently watched the conversation... And just smirked, this was rich. But before he could ponder too hard about how to turn this raw narrative contrivance into an upside for the party there was the matter of the singing madame up ahead-

So it sounds like the ink doesn't intrinsically rob the voice... Anyone want to step up to the plate and glass or should I?

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"I actually only brought two 'mons with me. Let's see if she'll play a fair game, and then we'll decide who challenges her team," the Unovan proposed.

"And then let's delegate the rest of us to find a way out of dodge."

"But they did say that she was "inked", so we may need to be pretty meticulous or whatever when she's around."

edited 20th Oct '17 9:06:42 PM by AbsentCoder

Silas put the P-Droid away, "No leaks here I assure you. Just that such a rare opportunity has to be documented. Seeing a actual legendary pokemon in the flesh, even if it is someone I have met before, is a huge event."

Hacks was smiling, ~You got him to drop the monotone, always a plus in my book.~

"As for why we're here. Down and Rocket were talking with my crew and I, Hacks here," Silas remembered, and sighed, "Hacks here convinced me to go hunting for specific rumors again after my return from another dimension."

That got him looks from his team, save Bishop. "I must ask though wh-"

<Oh no you don't. You haven't summed up the full story!> Amber shouted cutting Silas off.

Silas sighed, "Do I have to?"

<Yes, or we'll do it for you!>

Silas grumbled, "Okay fine. I went to another dimension, fought in a Interplanetary War, got turned into a Riolu and eventually a Lucario morph because neither humans nor regular pokemon exist there, killed a giant brain, came back home."

~That's good.~

"And now Hacks is looking into rumors relating that middle part. Me? I'm just looking to learn and discern the truth now, which I have learned is stranger than fiction. What has it been like, to be a Legendary anyways?"

Lyra: <Thanks Terry.>

-Eyeroll.-

Elizabeth: "Hey, I have a full team. We don't have badges in Alola, maybe I could get one."

-She laughs.-

Lyra: <Well you better hope she's not a Dark-type specialist. Remember Nanu?>

Elizabeth: "Oh Lele don't remind me."

-A Thousand-Yard Stare takes over her face for a moment.-

Blitz: "Really? Huh, never heard of a dimension like that..."

-He rubs his chin for a moment-

"Well, dunno that I'd call myself a legendary right now. Shapeshifting aside, I'm not nearly as powerful as the real things without help... It's been interesting, I suppose. Mostly confusing when I think about it too hard, but day to day is surprisingly mundane for me since I'm not filling in for Prime"

Silas wrote down what he could, "Wait, Prime? You mean there is a legit singular in charge?"

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Colton - against all sense - approached the direction the voice was coming from. "Yeah, most people tend to forget Dark's third weakness: Bug," he mused. "There's more than Fighting and Fairy." He gestured for them to follow.

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Amélie: "Welp. I'm not much of a fighter to be honest... More of my bro's specialty. If there's a fight I'll try to help though."

-Squealer pulls out a bag of potato chips-

Squealer: <These work?>