ITT: We are all Pokémon Trainers

SPORTSBALL

-Evan turns and grins at the two, almost makes a witty comment, and then falls short upon seeing Amber's getup.-

Evan: ...So are you always wearing every team imaginable or is this just a special occasion?

Amber: Well! I didn't know whats Sports was gonna be playing today! Because Rémy didn't tell me!

Rémy huffs

Amber: So I decided to cover all my bases!

Rémy looks at Evan's hotdog with slightly pleading eyes.

Rémy: I could go for something greasy and fatty and fried right now...

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Trial of my garage

The scarf is not reclaimed as Phaz jumps away from Colton before he can do that, and Cynthia tries to use Psychic to retain Colton from slamming himself into the wall.

Cynthia: "Colton you will chill right this instant."

Phaz: ~We're not even of the J-Te- Wait.~

Phaz begins to count on his stubby digits for a moment, looking away.

~...Holy fuck, we are of the J-Team now. Uh... Right, you need to chill! Don't go throwing your life away! And by life I mean body and by away I mean the wall. Plus you're weird too. You got a scarf that makes humans Mons and weird dark powers.~

Trial of study for your damned tests

"And you guys went to Mars," he countered as he fidgeted in Cynthia's psychic grip. "now which of us do you think stands out more?"

"The one who's practically a Zoroark, or the ones who went to a different damned planet?" He let his throat recover. "I'll give you a hint, I can find Zorua in my metaphoric backyard."

lets play a game

Evan: Oh. Well, it's a soccer game today, since fancy-pants over there won't tell you.

-He takes a bite of his hotdog.-

-He stops.-

-He narrows his eyes.-

Evan: ...Wait a sec was that a baseball pun.

You're about to witness the Trial of Street Knowledge

Cynthia: "We merely went there two weeks! We did nothing else! You can transform into a Zoroark anytime with a teeny tiny piece of cloth and we cannot go to Mars every day! I mean it even takes three days to go here."

Phaz: ~I mean torch drives are cool and stuff but come on. It's not that cool... Okay it's damn cool but transforming is too! You can transform anyone as long as you have that scarf!~

Amber: o3o

Cupid: ovo

Rémy: Don't worry, she knows now. -Beat- Are you going to the game?

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Oron Mountain

Hyp looks at the bubble.

Hyp: <...Something wrong with bubble?>

Trial of - wait, how long?

"Three days," Colt exhaled. "Not only did you manage to go to Mars - something hypothesized to take until 2030, but you managed to do so with a system that only required you be holed up in a shuttle for THREE DAYS?!!?

"Look, we got things to do, and I'm just kinda jealous that you guys went to Mars, okay? I mean, I myself wouldn't want to go, but it's not the kinda thing you just mention offhand. What if someone casually mentioned they found out if that top fell over?" He reasoned.

"And that scarf turns me into a Lycanroc, not a Zoroark," he added. "The latter are just the closest parallel."

TRIAL OF THE DRAAAGOOOOOON

Cynthia: "If it can make you feel better, you could enter one with some appropriate training."

Phaz: ~Well that means someone made a top that never stops. Dude, you're talking with your dark powers in a cave with ancient tech and a mummy that talks to us via who knows how, and we got here because of a glitch organism who travelled to Mars and back just like us! And us going to Mars is weird and unexpected? This is real life. Real Life Is Unrealistic.~

take me out to the sportsball

Evan: :/

-He shakes his head-

Evan: Anyway, of course I'm here for the game, I haven't gotten to see Home Team since...

-Beat-

Evan: Since, uh, I went away!

Trial of Lampshade Hanging

“Jump Cut to 20 Minutes in the Future where Time Travel through Ludicrous Speed is done and Faster-Than-Light Travel can be done without bending reality.

“And I’ve learned to accept that Reality Is Unrealistic, comes with the territory,” he relented. “But this is the same year that people will be impressed by a VR headset that doesn’t give them motion sickness. I just want my worldview slowly distorted until nothing surprises me, not, ‘Fancy meeting you here, Mr. Rever! My name’s Keldeo! The other Swords are off doing something else, but I have time to get to know you off of a recommendation from Virizion!’

“And the scariest part is I know that could happen because people with your level of shenanigan inducing can practically encounter Legendaries walking down the street and not Squee over it.

“The problem is you’re still talking to an average chump who has spent a good while processing that he has Obscuric Powaz, much less that he was told of them by a fucking Darkrai named Walt,” he finished. Not because he had no more to say, but because his throat was dry.

Trial of whatever at this point

I hope the mummy has popcorn while watching this.

Cynthia: "You need to chill down by like... ten notches. Yes, it's surprising. We get it."

Phaz: ~Look, just... Yeah, let's stop here. We should continue when we're stopped, in the calm, paused, relax, having a barbie, a coldie, whatever, but we don't need this now for the moment.~

Cynthia: "We need to move back toour main topic, not attacking Foxeria next."

Trial Of The More You Know

Kass: <Will you two stop?>

Nimbasa

Neon: It's not a problem.

-he gestures to Colton-

To be honest, I'm kind of lost and... He and I have been looking for a good group of Trainers for me to stick with. Like, with the J-Team, obviously, but... I guess more a good squad within them to stick with? If that makes sense? I don't know, I feel like if this anti-Templar thing is gonna work I need a squad.

Stormchaser

Nimbasa — Past

-Corrin sweatdrops at Artoria, Mordred, Astolpho, and Masako-

Corrin: Right. See you around!

-She heads off to look for Mason

Pizza Parlor — Further Past

Kaito: Tell me about it. Would be nice to have that sort of idealism again, but alas.

-They take a bite of pizza. Wow, uh, they've really gone to town on that, there's only a couple slices left. It was a large, right?-

Kaito: Remember the "die in each other's arms" promise? That was really naive. Cute, cheesy, but damn if we weren't fooling ourselves into thinking everything was perfect.

Trial of valid arguments

Colt nodded slowly. "I think I'm fine," he breathed.

Nimbasa City

"There's actually gonna be a gathering of the entire group rather soon," he recalled, drawing the invitation to Renier's party. "I don't know if I can get you in as a plus-one or if you have one yourself, but we could probably find some dudes who want in at the party."

PEFE!Every: What do you mean, it has no chemical properties?

-she's currently videoconferencing with a Chingling-

Chime: <I mean it doesn't have any chemical properties. We checked it under an electron microscope— it's not even made of atoms. It is exactly the same on every level of magnification. Just...fluid.>

PEFE!Every: That's obviously impossible. Did you try running any tests?

Chime: <We were going to put it through a mass spec, but when Scorch tried to burn a portion of the sample it started screaming again, and it wouldn't evaporate.>

PEFE!Every: ...I see.

Chime: <Then it started growing appendages so I shoved it back in the vial.>

PEFE!Every: That's...wildly disconcerting. Okay, what about physical properties?

Chime: <Somehow, even weirder. We've been able to incinerate chunks of it, but if we have any kind of measuring device on it, it won't boil or freeze no matter what temperatures we subject it to. I got an Abomasnow to use Sheer Cold and it called him a punk bitch.>

PEFE!Every: It...spoke?

Chime: <I mean, not really, but it was subtext.>

PEFE!Every: ...Right.

Chime: <Also, uh, I technically can't verify this because we haven't been able to mass it without it starting to crawl off the scale, but if you assume a consistent density, it gets bigger.>

PEFE!Every: What?

Chime: <Hey, Scorch! Soak!>

-the screen is suddenly filled by the faces of a Simisear and a Simipour. Chime jingles in alarm as he falls off the stool he was using to view the camera-

Scorch: <Yeah, it's growing!>

PEFE!Every: On what?

Soak: (brightly) <No clue! But it grows to fill whatever we keep it in, including entire rooms if you take bits out to look at them. Plus, it'll start growing extra parts. Tails, blades, claws, you know.>

PEFE!Every: That's rather concerning.

Soak: (still brightly) <It's incredibly concerning!>

Scorch: <Don't worry. Soak and I have been freezing or burning anything after studying it inevitably fails.>

PEFE!Every: Wait, if you two are talking to me, who's doing that now?

Soak: <Well, you know how Season doesn't really like to talk...>

-they move the camera to where a Simisage is blasting a lump of goo into nonexistence with Seed Bombs-

Scorch: <We think she's got it under control.>

-PEFE!Every nods, as Chime climbs onto the heads of the two monkeys-

Chime: <So, yeah, that's all we've got. It's completely impossible to analyze and we think it hates us.>

-PEFE!Every frowns-

PEFE!Every: Alright. Get rid of anything not in the vial and I'll send Rotary to pick it up.

Soak: <On it! Come on, Scorch!>

-Scorch nods and follows after. PEFE!Every sends out Rotary, who Click!s away-

Ever: You're not bringing Glitches into my house, are you?

-PEFE!Every jumps-

Ever: Are you?

PEFE!Every: It's contained, it's fine. Also, wait, Glitch?

Ever: Uh, yeah, did nobody ever tell you that? Jacob's pretty sure all the Shards are glitches.

PEFE!Every: ...Well, that's irritating. I don't like things that don't adhere to usual physical laws. Or black boxes.

Ever: What do plane crashes have to do with this?

PEFE!Every: Not that kind of black box. You know, a system that can only be defined through induction.

Ever: I don't know.

PEFE!Every: Never mind.

Rotary: <This is a bad idea.>

PEFE!Every: Yes.

-she takes the vial from Rotary, staring at the squirming fluid inside it-

...I do hope Jacob's alright.

Nimbasa, Neon lights

Megan: -to Colton- I didn't know the J-Team knew the Swords of Justice...

...which Legendary?

-blinks- Since yesterday I think, when it got beamed into my head! I think I remember you there too...?

-to Neon- Ah, you're part of the J-Team too...

-she thinks for a moment- ...if my team's up for it, and if you'll have me, I could be part of your squad! -she smiles brightly-

Nimbasa, empty field

Pippy: <...perhaps it would be best to demonstrate.>

Vee: -in the middle of the field- <On your mark, big guy!>

Pippy: <Okay, um. You know moves, right?>

-he turns towards an unoccupied section of the field and calls up some scattered geysers, creates rejuvenating rings of water that spin around him, spits a spinning top of water, and calls freezing winds from around himself.-

-he huffs quietly by the end of it, but turns to the group and continues speaking-

Pippy: <So, yeah, moves.>

Vee: <Moves, however, don't have to be the way they are—they can take other forms, be repurposed—>

<—be refined...>

-Pippy and Vee grin at each other, then:-

-at six evenly-spaced points around Vee, some of them on solid rock, water shoots upwards-

-rather than losing momentum and falling, with a flash in Vee's eyes, the geysers extend into watery ribbons that spiral upwards-

-they spin into patterns—a Fen Badge, an asterisk, a loose wireframe model of a Pokéball-

-then they come together into a single ring that slooowly spreads and thins out to encircle all of the mons present-

-both Pippy and Vee light up with a blue aura, and the ring glows and swells into a whirling wall of water that stretches from the ground to six feet above it-

-And, with one singular burst of cold..-

-...they freeze the entire wall solid-

Pippy: <...Any questions?>

-any of this may be noticed by anyone around-

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-a Mantine, possibly interested in the blizzard, drops from the sky and crashes to the ground-

Brie: Ow...when am I going to learn not to trust you when you say you've figured out a better flight strategy?

Foam: <Hopefully, never!>

-Brie glances sheepishly at the assembled Pokemon-

Brie: Uh...sorry. Am I interrupting?

Trial of the Bookshelves

Cynthia: "Good."

She lets go Colton.

"I got another question. Do you know if the castle is protected right now by the Giant Legendaries?"

Route 4

-Jacob is not alright-

-I mean, he never is, but at least he's doing better today-

-Jacob is stumbling along, until he finds a rock to sit down on-

~Not good... my arm is working again but...~

-He pulls out his X-Transceiver and messages a certain someone-

Nimbasa, Ice Ring

Pippy: <Not at all!>

Vee: -seeing that the attention of the "class" has shifted to the newcomers, sighs- <A little. But you're free to stick around for the next part~>

Vee: -to Pollen, seeing a familiar buzzing- <Hey! You can see if they want a battle after this, but right now, we've got something to show you!>

Pollen: <Ugh, fiiiine>

-...-

Pippy: <...um, also, are you all right?>

Cupid caws

Cupid: <Went away? To where?> ovo?

Amber beams.

Amber: Oh! I know what that's like! Rémy and I have been doing hard work for the last few years since he got the inheritance!

Remy groans.

Rémy: I've been doing all the hard work! You've just be the annoying hanger-on!

Amber places her arms on her hips and pouts at Rémy.

Amber: Oh c'mon. That trip to [Italy] and getting a business partnership with my older cousin wasn't your idea, yannow!

Rémy's Rattata clambers onto his shoulder.

Emilie: <She's got you there mon ami>

Rémy: Touché.

Amber focuses back at Evan.

Amber: Anyway, what seats do you have? Fancypants here has enough cash and clout to nab one of the Stadium's private boxes!

Vast Poni Canyon

-Ludmilla flips the Dragonium-Z in her fingers before getting curious about the path behind the totem pedestal.-

Sandnix: <Stupid clinkyclangs. Not respect Sandnix's burnysmash.>

Seafolk Village

-Deziree flips her phone open.-

Deziree: *Sigh* Wuffles, call the speeder.

Wuffles: ETA two minutes and thirty seconds. Fuel reserves: Maximum.

Deziree: And message Ludmilla that her uncle Jacob did something dumb, and I'll see her at Tapu Village.

Wuffles: Acknowledged. Sending prerecorded message labeled: "Jacob did a Jacob".

Deziree: Thank you.

Route 4

Jacob: -He pales- "There are two women who truly terrify me and I think one of them is mad now."