ITT: We are all Pokémon Trainers

Masako jumps as the J-teamers blip out. Artoria is unperturbed.

Masako: <...>

Artoria: <...>

Masako: <I guess we should get back to finding the others.>

Artoria: -nods- <We should.>

All are significantly abnormal in a normal world... All are significantly normal in an abnormal world.

Security Guard: "Investigate our facility? Suspicious matters? What kind?"

"life is just a series of increasingly canon-eluding ao3 tags" ~ everydunsparce "Keep your hellfruit away from me, tempter" ~ also Every

Galant Groudon

<It is your weakness, after all.> Helmsman shrugged, able to fidget his second paw free to get a little more ability with his attack. Musing that he was right about his hydraulic options being a strain, he elected to draw on another crowd favorite. He drew on the water surrounding him, and siphoned the heat from it all, and fired the ice at A.

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The need not arising, Colton absorbed the Dark Pulse Orbitars through his jacket, not really getting it all, but at least the illusion wasn't siphoning his stamina.

He also bit his tongue, knowing Anabel and Looker knew how to handle this, bumbling as the latter was.

edited 27th Nov '17 7:36:49 PM by AbsentCoder

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-Brie is following along, dressed in her Cipher armor with Zebub perched on her shoulder-

Brie: This is fascinatingly uncomfortable.

Zebub: <Probably because of the arid desert climate.>

-Brie tilts her head-

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

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-Jason makes a point not to do the talky bit this time. Hide the metal arm, and just...don't do anything stupid.-

This is killing you, isn't it.

SHUT IT OLD TIMER

-Blitz simply keeps his hands in his pockets and tries to look relatively bored while glancing at potential entrances and exits to the building as he waits-

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Anabel: Possession of a number of Pokemon belonging to some J-Team members — which themselves were previously in police custody prior to the company's acquisition of them.

Looker: Which, of course, is why we are accompanied by the J-Team ourselves.

-Kaito waves from behind the two, smiling.-

Kaito: Hey there. If you're not familiar with us, we're the J-Team. Basically, we're what no plan survives contact with.

Anabel: As well, we've gotten word of possession of a Mewnium Z. That's a rather odd thing for a fruit company to be in possession of, don't you think?

-Kaito gives a quiet exasperated sigh at the words "fruit company", but maintains their friendly smile.-

In the forest lined with fog, a strange, rhomboid raise in the ground juts out like a sore thumb in a forest clearing. While most of it is covered in grass and astroturf, the two thick and heavy steel doors on the front of the raise give away that this is clearly not a natural feature.

Inside the entrance, three Neo-Flare Grunts monitor the cameras and security of the surrounding forest area. Gone is the old crimson uniform of the Flare of old, replaced with a black suit with red highlights. Though the hair and glasses are still that bright, crimson red.

One of the grunts notices the fog rolling in at high speed, and leans in suspiciously towards the screen, before barking out to her co-worker looking at a selection of other screens behind her.

Neo-Flare Grunt #1: Hey, was it forecasted that we'd be having fog today?

The other Flarite checks his screens, noticing the fog filtering in as well.

Neo-Flare Grunt #2: No... Not something as sudden as this at least. It could be nothing, but-

Neo-Flare Grunt #1: -But we're not taking chances here.

The grunt clicks to gather the attention of the grunt sitting on the opposite side of the room.

Neo-Flare Grunt #1: Put the base on stand-by! We may have trouble on our hands...

Neo-Flare Grunt #3: Right away ma'am!

The third grunt sends a message to the lower floors that suspicious activity has been detected in the area, and that everyone should be on stand-by in case of an attack.

I'm having to learn to pay the price

Shaun: "Sure. Unless you wanna save us some time and surrender."

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Aela: <Weaknesses...>

-The Shadow Ball dissipates as it strikes Faras's shield, dealing decent damage.-

Farkas: <Good.>

-He tries a plain ol' Slash.-

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Shaun: "...I should be going."

-He taps the Rapidash's sides with his shoes and they go galloping off.-

"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"

Line A: Grand Darkrai

Sure. Lemme just prep a nice big Blaster for ya...

-He shrugs and looks around-

Oh and I guess everyone else should prep up too.

Line 1: Shadows of Driftveil

-Pent waits, checking over what he could battle with and waiting for things to escalate or else his skills no longer be needed-

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.

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-Hangs around the back, prepared to move if Anabel and Looker give the signal-

I don't know why you guys are so surprised about it being an evil fruit company, haven't you ever heard about what [Dole] did to Alola? Fruit companies are almost always evil by nature.

 The Forest 

The Wanderer: -Using heat vision- My fog should cover their approach, at least until they actually reach the base.

Pikachu: <Plus he and I went around destroying their motion trackers surrounding the perimeter, so they should be mostly blind.>

Judith: -Looking through the scope of a sniper rifle- Hope so. You think the Flarites picked up on it?

The Wanderer: Oh, almost certainly, I made the fog appear a little bit too quickly than I should've so they'll be on high alert. But like Pikachu said, they'll still be walking blind.

edited 27th Nov '17 7:49:26 PM by rmctagg09

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Driftveil

Lina: -cracks her knuckles- We'd really like our Pokemon back, ma'am.

Grand Dad Darkrai

-Duolis sighs and tries a Shadow Sneak while the Blight isn't looking-

Hyul Castle

Gudrunn: Hmmm... In that case, have you tried not being a glitch monstrosity? Mabye then it'll recognize you as a hero.

Forest

Jean: -peering through the fog- I think they're on alert.

Jared: This is where the Cipher Bois come in, right?

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Giselle: -to the Wanderer- ~If worst comes to worst, I can help dismantle any other dangerous security measures and Trina can pick grunts off.~

Trina: It's been a while since I've really used my powers in this world, and longer since I've used them on Nazis. This will be fun.

edited 27th Nov '17 7:59:13 PM by Umbramatic

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Who seems to be the leader Grunt of this particular group of sycophants is frantically mulling over systems

Neo-Flare Grunt #1: Motion tracker's down... Body heat detectors down... Scanlines down.... Something or someone is definitely trying to mess with us... You two! Prep yourselves for combat!

The two other grunts pull out what looks like to be a black with white, glowing paneling rod while the leader grunt pulls out a matching rod as well as puts her hand on a black and white Pokeball with the Flare logo on the button.

Neo-Flare Grunt #1: We'll weed them out by force if we have to...

I'm having to learn to pay the price

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Kaito: Evil, yeah. That much is to be expected. But sinister? That's the part that gets me. And just, the phrase "evil fruit company" is one of those phrases you don't expect to hear on an everyday basis regardless of how true it is.

Foggy Flare Forest

Mason: Seems like it. We stay back, let the Cipher Bois be loud and proud.

Security Guard: "Hmm..."

She presses a button on a switch she has and a siren pattern starts blaring while lights turn on that light up the area as brightly as during a Sunny Day.

A voice plays over the loudspeaker.

Security Voice: "There is a dangerous person who has Entered at Entrance A. Please take cover and evacuate when it is safe to do so."

"life is just a series of increasingly canon-eluding ao3 tags" ~ everydunsparce "Keep your hellfruit away from me, tempter" ~ also Every

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Jason:Welp...

-He throws off the shoulder cape to let his arm out-

There went diplomacy, never can use diplomacy.

-He gets into a ready stance, pokeball in one hand, metal arm out in front of him-

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"Yeah, and so would the phrase "scarf that turns you into a Pokemon"," Colton whispered to Kaito. "so why do I have one?"

And then the alarm blared. In preparation, he grabbed Ammy's Great Ball.

edited 27th Nov '17 8:04:40 PM by AbsentCoder

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Santalune

-The Primarina yawns and ducks under the Slash before firing another Shadow Ball-

AU Opdeluid

Locke: Wait!

-beat-

You could stay in our airship?

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-Immediately Ammy takes off her armband-

Ammy:    <Sun? Bad idea.>   

-she flamethrowers the area as the rest of Team Umbra and Bartelby scatter, the latter turning into a Houndour to do so-

edited 27th Nov '17 8:08:56 PM by Umbramatic

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"WOAH!" Colton hollered, raising his hands while approaching Ammy. "Much as you love to    burn    things, isn't this a little... preemptive?"

"No going back," He shrugged, putting on his scarf. The Lycanroc stood beside Ammy, summoning a few stones before bifurcating them. <Let's rock- oh my fucking god.>

Colton facepalmed.

The sound created destroyed the microphones attached to the cameras, sparks flying in all the little black domes. Any kids in the vicinity started crying if the entire fracas didn't cause it already. Ammy herself would probably fall twitching with her ears pounding. It would entirely be possible that with Anabel and Looker around, he would be brought into study to find out what makes his facepalms so legendary.

edited 27th Nov '17 8:19:25 PM by AbsentCoder

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-Farkas grunts as he's hit.-

Farkas: <Fine then.>

-He tries a Sacred Sword.-

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-Shaun and his Rapidash wheel around.-

Shaun: "I have a house. But I'm legally an adult, so..."

Rapidash: <Want me to run a message?>

Shaun: "Sure, Solarfax."

RapidashSolarfax: <Be careful.>

-Shaun dismounts and Solarfax gallops off.-

"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"

-The Security Guard sends out a Lurantis, who attempts to throw down a Solar Blade to keep too many people from heading in-

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-Those heading in may notice that, as they first step in, it looks kinda like plain office space. Some employees are hiding underneath desks, but a few are blocking the way, trying to stop people with largely Fire and Grass-type Pokemon-

"life is just a series of increasingly canon-eluding ao3 tags" ~ everydunsparce "Keep your hellfruit away from me, tempter" ~ also Every

The Pen happily conjured up a Gaster Blaster, -Oh hey. Had to put less of myself into that, you're getting a bit better.-

Dreamblight projected a pouting face, "Okay this is all fascinating, but you forget one thing."

Several more Dreamblights appeared and surrounded everyone, "This is my domain!"

Jester looked at Gurdrunn, "Ah yes. Just stop being a abberation of nature, so easy. I'm certain you know how to do it..."

He leaned down, "It's not possible for me to do that. It told me that from the start I couldn't be the "Grand hero".

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Kaito: Oh, huh. Guess you've probably got Solarbeam and Solar Flare users all around here if you're making your siren as bright as sunlight, huh? Cool, good to prepare for.

-They put on sunglasses and send out Spectrum as Anabel puts her hand up to her earpiece.-

Spectrum: <Agent Colorbug is ready for action!>

Anabel: Pursuit Squad, onto the roof. Make sure nobody attempts to Teleport out unchecked. Evacuation is fine, escape not so much.

Looker: So the creators of the Fruit Friends are fiends after all, then! Fruit Fiends, even!

-Anabel gives the signal to the rest of the raid team, then sends out her Salamence, while Looker sends out an Arcanine. Spectrum and the Arcanine both use Flamethrowers on the Lurantis, while the Salamence breaks down the doors for easier entry for the rest of the team.-

edited 27th Nov '17 8:26:52 PM by BittersweetNSour

Blitz: "Oh no, someone dangerous? Where?"

-Blitz glanced around as if looking for someone else to show up as the others got ready for battle-

-He then moves quickly out of the way of the Lurantis to let others deal with the distraction while he hops through the now opened door-

"Thanks"

edited 27th Nov '17 8:25:44 PM by BlitzTrain

-the siren sound from below filters up-

Sol: That's our cue. Presta!

-the Mr. Mime (Ms. Mime?) jumps out of the basket, followed by the rest of the team; she forms a conical Barrier underneath-

Sol: Brace for impact in 3

Ton: 2

BreBre: <1!>

-CRASH!-

-the drill-shaped Barrier penetrates the building roof, slowing down somewhat, then a floor, before partially dispersing to break the team's fall-

Sol: Fourth floor.

Presta: <Not the third? I was hoping to break a little farther.>

Ton: We'll just have to bust our way to the stairs. What have we got in our way?

Veterinarian knights? Pomaded apocalypse cultists? Apocalypse veterinarians?

-a staff member walks around a corner of the faux-wood-panneled hallway they've inserted themselves into, holding a cheap paper cup of water-

Ton:    ...middle management.   

Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?