ITT: We are all Pokémon Trainers

Vali City

Make way for Colton 'Can't Remember Names for Shit' Rever! he mentally snarked, tugging on his hair and getting out of the pod.

"Yeah, that's the one," he remarked.

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Constantin has made his way down to the Labs, surveying the area and assessing the damage done while looking for any more stragglers.

Constantin: ''Hmm… Most of the damage done to the facility seems to be fixated on the upper levels, thankfully leaving the production lines relatively intact. It seems that out "Cipher" friends were in too much of a hurry at this point to bother with trying to break the whole place down..."

He observes a heavy dent on one of the machines.

Constantin: Though it does seem like there was some sort of ruckus going on here…

Kamehameha stops in his tracks, his whole body going still. Constantin catches this from the corner of his eye, and turns his attention to his companion.

Constantin: Oh? Have you noticed something awry, Kamehameha?

Kamehameha leers around the lab.

Kamehameha: It seems like we have a tarrier, sir Kamehameha lightly rings his tail scales.

Constantin focuses and scans around the facility with his Psychic powers in order to suss out the critter Kamehameha picked up on. His senses bring him to focus on a a set of particularly bent out of shape machines with a narrow space in between them - and the scratching noises emitting from them.

Constantin: Hmm, it appears to be nothing more than a lost Pokemon. From the sounds and patterns I can pick up, probably something no bigger than a mere Sableye. Kamehameha, at ease.

The Kommo-o slacks his shoulder as Constantin walks towards the machine and kneels down in front of it - peering into the crack. Through a gleam of light, he can see the reflection of the creature's gem eyes.

Constantin: It looks like my suspicions were correct. Kamehameha?

The Kommo-o looks over.

Kamehameha: <Yes, sir?>

Constantin: See if the storerooms have any evolutionary stones left in them. I don't think the raiders had the time to pillage everything from our stocks.

Kamehameha: <As you wish, sir>

The Kommo-o begins heading towards the storerooms, his glistening scales jangling as he does so.

Meanwhile, Constantin returns his attention to the Mega Sableye cowering between the machines.

Constantin: Hey, are you okay little one? The danger is gone now, you have no need to be scared anymore.

The Sableye hisses in response, but Constantin remains undeterred.

Constantin: I understand. This is scary. Confusing, even. And you are in pain. The chaos of earlier has gotten you worked up on top of all that. But I can assure you, little one, that anything that would harm you is now gone from this place. So, let me help you.

Constantin extends a hand out towards the goblin mon, who takes cautious steps towards Constantin. Constantin: There you go. See? I'm not that scary after all.

Constantin slowly moves his hand to pet the Sableye. The Sableye initially flinches at the touch, but slowly begins to lean in to the gentle gesture,

Constantin: What a trooper you are.

Mega!Sableye: It… Hurts

Constantin: Ah yes, the pain. It is terrible that you have to go through that constantly. Truly awful. But, little one, sometimes sacrifices have to be made for the greater good. Do you understand that?

The Sableye looks up at Constantin and slowly, but surely, nods.

At that moment, Kamehameha returns with a handful of evolution stones

Kamehameha: Here you are, Master

Constantin: Thank you, Kamehameha.

Kamehameha nods as he passes a Dawn Stone to Constantin.

Constantin: Here, have something to eat. You look awfully hungry and I don't think the Infinite Energy residue was that nutritious for you.

The Sableye tilts its head back and forth at the stone, before grabbing it and devouring it in haste.

Constantin: Does that make you feel better?

After devouring more of the stones that Kamehameha placed beside Constantin, the Pokemon nods.

Constantin: Good -To Kamehameha- Find this Pokemon's Infinity Ball immediately.

Kamehameha: Yes, master.

Kamehameha begins scouring the area for the Sableye's Infinity Ball. Constantin, meanwhile, looks the creature straight in its gemstone eyes.

Constantin: Now, little one. Please tell me

What exactly did you see?

edited 13th Dec '17 9:57:44 AM by PippingFool

I'm having to learn to pay the price

As if speak of the devil, a grumbling is heard, <If I didn't have enough problems already I'd swear existence had it out for me. Not only do we have that giant Articuno blasting any airship that tries to get near it, AAAAAND freezing up our own ships on important runs at random, now we hav->

Out walked a large Braviary, wearing what looked to be insulated armor of sorts, <Okay hello... What do you 3 want?>

Revali did not seem like he'd be very pleasant.

Wolfe steps out, <Glad that's over...>

The Guardian floating above did nothing.

Vali City

Cynthia: "We're here to kick cold bird ass and chew gum, and we never bought gum to begin with. Nice to meet you. You must be Revali, right?"

Phaz: ~Surprisingly accurate.~

edited 13th Dec '17 10:24:48 AM by Phazya

What's the use of money if you ain't gonna break the mold? Even at the center of fire, there is cold All that glitters ain't gold

-Inside the prison, the door of cell #134 opens, and the Counsellor steps through once again. The cell's occupant is still sat on her cot, but her demeanour has changed entirely - where before she was apathetic and withdrawn, now she is tense and tightly coiled. She watches the Counsellor warily from her perch, like one predator observing another within her territory.-

The Counsellor: Shard, I presume?

Shard: ...Shouldn't be here.

The Counsellor: My apologies for the intrusion. I spoke to Lucille a couple of days ago, but I don't expect you'd remember.

Shard: Not worth bothering with her. Who are you?

The Counsellor: Consider me a sympathetic party. You see, I work for the authorities, and have taken a personal interest in your case. When I spoke to Lucille, I made her an offer that would result in your release, subject to your participation in a brief medical trial.

-Shard glares at him.-

Shard: Don't believe you.

The Counsellor: I assure you, this is all entirely above-board. The tests are simple and non-invasive. They will take no more than an hour, after which you will be allowed to simply walk out of here. I've already pulled all the necessary strings.

-He smiles as he holds out a slim briefcase.-

The Counsellor: So, shall we begin?

-At the hospital, Shun is tentatively walking out of the door, his torso still wrapped tightly by bandages and braces beneath his jacket.-

Gregson: <How's it feel?>

Shun: No worse than the binder, to be honest. I will admit that speaking with Volpe has convinced me to pursue my work with renewed fervour.

Tara: We among the criminal underclasses are quaking in our boots over here.

-Shun wheels around to see her and Dani leaning against the hospital wall.-

Shun: When did you two get here?

Tara: When we heard you got beat up. Which took way longer than it should've.

Dani: Yeah! Would it have killed you to send a text or something?

Shun: I think my phone was broken alongside my ribs.

Dani: Well, we'll buy you a new one~

Tara: Alongside a few drinks, of course.

Shun: ...I'm pretty sure that's illegal.

Dani: Doesn't matter. Supervillains, remember~?

Tara: Tonight we are finding ourselves a bad guy bar and getting captial-W wrecked, capiche?

-Shun rolls his eyes defeatedly.-

Shun: Do I have a choice?

Dani: Nope~

-Tara sighs in return.-

Tara: Obviously you have a choice. I just thought it might be a nice thing for your friends to do for you, seeing as you nearly died and everything.

Shun: ...I suppose you have a point there.

Trans rights are human rights. JK Rowling preaches hate. If you sit at a table with five bigots and say nothing, there are now six bigots.

Vali City

Colt said nothing, instead electing to refuse eye contact to make his guilt a little more pronounced.

He fiddled with his scarf, not even caring that it was on Phaz's neck. "The Articuno you described as giving you trouble," he ultimately said.

edited 13th Dec '17 11:04:15 AM by AbsentCoder

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-Ever and PEFE!Every follow Dune. Ever taps his forehead-

Ever: Hey. I hate to do this, but I'm going to need all of you out for the time being. I can't have myself noping out if things get rough, okay?

-there's a sound like a number of voices sighing, and trickles of obscura pour away from Ever, drifting off on the breeze-

PEFE!Every: That looks unhealthy.

Ever: Probably.

-and in they go-

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

Vali City

Kass: <Yes, we're willing to help you stop it.>

   Saffron Department Of Health   

-Everyone descends into the tunnel-

Poni Shore

Sora: Look, the long and the short of it is you're all in trouble and will have to deal with us. Also we want that bell back.

Joyful Forest

Duolis: -sighs- Thank you, Dekarule.

-she feels the tug of the sword but resists-

Contact Me!

Joyous Forest

Daydre is about to book it as per Shaun's suggestion when Dekarule seems to calm down. She breathes a sigh of relief.

"Oh, phew... And uh, yeah I'll make sure to keep a close eye on it."

Speaking of that, Daydre is still holding on to the sword when Spinme goes to grab it.

"Uh, what are you doing? Also it's not like I have any powers either.."

off the shits

Saffron Dilapidated Health

"So how are we going to go about this?" Colt asked just loud enough to be heard. "Who's going first and where? We need to establish a plan," he reasoned.

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Channah: See.

Lo: <The last time you battled anyone was almost four years ago.>

Channah: Yeah? I know.

Lo: -shakes her head and flies a little ways away-

Channah: -scratching her head- So. Yeah, I guess if you can contact me about whether it's okay to come to the party at some point, that'd be cool. Seems pretty fancy, by the looks of that invite.

There is no disdain in nature, there is no humiliation.

Pianis: This makes me uneasy.

Yukikaze: <No kidding.>

Pianis: But there, the message is sent.

Do not fear power... fear those who wield it.

Nimbasa City

Near Channah

Human!Ammy: Knowing Ren, it will be.

edited 13th Dec '17 2:06:09 PM by Umbramatic

Contact Me!

Saffron Tunnels

Deziree: I'm going to the place with the most consoles first. I find that messing up the consoles tends to screw things up quite a bit, so going for them first will probably prevent whoever's manning them from locking down sections or something like that.

Dune: And I'm going to the biggest room or hallway and making the most amount of noise I can.

-Ludmilla fiddles with her Pokeballs.-

Deziree: Alright, here we are.

-She points to a wall. It's a blank wall. No secret doors, nothing.-

Deziree: We're going in this way.

PEFE!Every: Ooh. Are we digging? I love digging.

Ever: I think we're not being quite that subtle about it.

PEFE!Every: Well, explosions are cool too.

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

Joyous Forest

Good, good?

-Pent shudders and carefully sits himself down-

Someone shut that drone down before it finishes Dekarule off okay?

Saffron Department of Health

-Pent just hangs about in the main room watching the others descend-

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.

Ren: No door. No Problem. Brun, Arbor, and Nix; Helping hand! Rio, Aura Storm!

-The Lucario and Three Eeveelutions take their places. As the the three fox-mon give an empowering cheer, Rio eyes glows with blue aura.-

Ren: Aim!

-Rio scans the area and finds a nice angle that don't hit any pillars and gathers a massive amount of aura in front of him-

Ren: FIRE!

-Rio looses a massive stream of aura at the wall.-

Saffron Tunnels

-Lina smirks-

-she sends out Chrome-

-Neon gulps-

Lina: Ready to do some demotition work?

Chrome: <Most certainly.>

-She Mega Evolves him and he tears into the wall-

Contact Me!

Phoenix: Yeah, that's... alright. Larry.

-Phoenix takes out the Nidoking.-

Phoenix: You thinking tail or beam?

Lawrence: <Tail.>

-Lawrence smashes his tail into the wall at full force.-

Saffron Tunnels

-After his earlier transformation ran out, Evan is now smacking the Omniband as if percussive maintenance it would do anything.-

Evan: Come on, turn green so I can go Armbeetle and wreck the place!

Driftveil City

-Mason bursts through the doors of the Driftveil Gym-

Mason: Gym challenger coming through!

-He realizes he's shouting into a room with nothing but an elevator and the Gym Guy, who waves.-

Mason: ...I'm gonna just head down there now.

Saffron Department of Health

Colton threw up 9-Volt's Pokeball and one of his Dark Pulse Orbitars, summoning the other one as the Electric-type donned his wise glasses and chirped something about high voltage.

"Let's shut them down," Colt chimed, Dark Pulse Orbitars whirring into action. 9-Volt used no moves yet in the knowledge that he'd need to be smart with his selections.

And then Colton lobbed one of the Orbitars at the wall that fire was concentrated at and watched it explode in a spectacular fashion. Whether it even did anything, he didn't know; there were four other sources of fire.

edited 13th Dec '17 3:15:32 PM by AbsentCoder

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Unpleasantness is happening.

Specifically, there's a helicopter about to crash into the ground.

Fortunately thanks to dimensional shenanigans not a full travelling velocity.

But still.

Crash. Bang. Boom.

AU!Natalie: "Scheisse."

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

Saffron Tunnels

-The wall buckles before turning into dust and shards with comical speed.-

Team Iron Auxiliary Base, Cafeteria

-Mister Taylor laughs at the acoustic engineer's joke. He doesn't actually understand by what he means when talking about "countering wavelengths", but he's sure it would be a good joke otherwise.-

*Blip*

-Mister Taylor's nose crinkles at the sound. He turns to see a man wearing purple armor.-

-It takes him a split second to realize what that means.-

Templar: ~COGNITA VOL NEX!~

-Mister Taylor barely has time to flip the cafeteria table before the Templar explodes in a massive concussive fireball. The engineer's shoulder gets caught in the blast as he screams in surprise, and then pain.-

Mister Taylor: WE'RE UNDER ATTACK! CODE BLACK!

-His visor's voice recognition pings, and the base's alarms immediately go off as doors lock and Aulstyne's Security radios buzz like an angry Beedrill nest. Fire suppression kicks in and dowses the cafeteria before the fires from the bomb get out of control.-

Saffron Tunnels

-The blast pierces deep. Really deep.-

Templar Base

-The base is rocked by a series of explosions as the blast goes straight through the outer wall of the training area, through the inner wall of the training area, through the training area itself, out into the outside hallway, and through the nearby armory. Alarms blare as Deziree steps through the now very respectable hole.-

Deziree: Alright, let's find ourselves some nice, squishy tech to destroy!

-Dune rushes past to the hallway to intercept anyone coming this way.-

-Anyone willing to look around the area that they had just demolished will notice a great many unconscious and bleeding Templars. They might also notice the strange metal that had been lining the outer wall of the base that seemed to block out all psychic sensory information. That might explain how it was under a city that trained some of the strongest psychic Pokemon trainers in the world undetected.-

Phoenix: SOMEONE ORDER A PIZZA, EXTRA PEPPER?

-Phoenix fires off Satan's Toothbrush, releasing a Unovan Pride rocket with a bundle of M-1000's tied to it. It goes far and blows... something up.-

Templar Base

"Remember, 9-Volt, try not to kill," Colt reminded his Bug-type as he fired a couple of Dark Pulse shots at some grunt 'mons.

9-Volt had elected to start with Electroweb, same as always. Spacing out the contacts large enough to address a team for an Electroweb-Beta, he used it to trap some unconscious grunts. Some 'mons belonging to a Grunt dived to nullify him, and he responded with a Bug Buzz.

Colt looked around the room, lined up and down with cold steel. "Huh. So that's why it's taken forever," he thought to himself as he had to lob one of the Orbitars at a rather persistent Girafarig.

edited 13th Dec '17 3:49:47 PM by AbsentCoder

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