ITT: We are all Pokémon Trainers

-Stalactite staggers back, but doesn't seem particularly fazed by the Iron Head.-

Stalactite: <Not craven. Just dumb.>

Shard: Will destroy you first, then the gods. Don't care for the killing. Simply won't allow you to get in my way.

-She slices at Ever with another Shadow Claw while Stalactite swings at Letter with a Wood Hammer.-

-Meanwhile, from somewhere within the midst of the Hail, a shadowy shape lunges at Gabe with a Night Slash-coated claw.-

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.

Team Iron Base

-The Dragon Pulse hits hard, and Mako stumbles, briefly being easily discernible before he gets up and disappears into the sand again.-

Mason: Sorry, is there a problem? You seem a bit grumpy. Are your little brother and his lizard getting on your nerves?

-He clenches his fist. The blue flashes in the storm suddenly start becoming more and more common. To Sombra's right— no, to her left— no, right in front of her — wait no, behind her!-

-Wherever the real Mako is, he's making this as hard as possible with an erratic dance.-

Mako used Dragon Dance!

Ever: I could use a little help, ye—

—Oh, I see you're occupied. Never mind, carry on.

Letter: <Ha! I'm not the one who brought fists to a sword fi—>

-he's planted into the ground by the Wood Hammer. While he seems to still be conscious, he's also very stuck-

Letter: <...Well, that's just rude.>

-unable to find a better position, he simply brings his blades around like a large pair of scissors-

Letter used Iron Head again!

-Ever, meanwhile, was not particularly expecting Shard to rejoin the fight. He steps back, and the Shadow Claw only rakes across him rather than removing anything vital-

Ever: Augh!

-and, given as he's not really watching his footing, he slips and falls-

Ever: Ow!

Today is going well, I think.

-somewhat desperately, he shoves both of his feet at one of Shard's, to try and destabilize her footing-

Ever: You don't consider destroying Tapu Bulu to be killing?

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

"Wait a minute..." Bishop has realized something. "You're a android! Holy shit your a android!"

"How? Why? Where did you even get this body? I have to say the control scheme is rather impressive, familiar even! This thing is set to run with Pory-OS!"

Bishop attempts to make Owen slap himself.

Silas sits the body up, "There we go," he then observes the convulsing Owen, "wait... Where did Bishop go?"

Snakeye takes the Thunderbolt, he does not like it, at all.

<Ya'know... if you can just shoot lightning bolts... why not start with that next time?>

Snakeye used another Payback, <Cause opening with a strong dark move, good choice, but not a great one.>

Artoria shakes her head. <Must have been nothing.> She turns back, and sends a Solar Blade at Nissa as Mordred hits her with a Brick Break, slamming her out of the air and into a wall unconscious because 400% of a 130 STAB attack hurts.

Natalie: "No!"

Astolfo and Masako are unconscious and basically unconscious, respectively, but Tamamo and the Sabers are (more or less) fine.

Natalie: "Marie, Jenkins, run, I'll hold them off."

Marie: "Doctor, no, we'll surrender, you run!"

Natalie looks to Jenkins, who nods.

Marie: "Okay, okay! We're just interns, we surrender!"

Artoria puts her scarf back on. "And you?" She looks at Natalie.

Natalie: "... No." -She throws a flashbang, and when everyone can see again she's gone.-

Tamamo puts her armband on and starts (fruitlessly, because they don't have the security clearance for that) interrogating Marie and Jenkins.

Artoria gets an ominous feeling again.

Artoria: "..." She wanders off, trying to find the source

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

Lewis: This doesn't seem fair, oddly enough. While we're taking a turn to power up... How about a Screech?

Pupitar: -slowly goes over to Sombra, deep breath- <EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE>

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

 Route 14 Gate 

-Looking between the gate entrances between White Forest and Black City-

Okay, which one to go to... Black City has that creepy miasma about it, but I've already been to White Forest before...

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Channah: Black City. I've never been there either.

Lo: -sighs- <I like forests... But, it's not my choice.>

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

Team Iron Fuckhouse

-Gabe's hand goes to one of his Pokeballs-

-A certain gas-masked Aromatisse is sent out and fires a Moonblast from his gun at the shadowy figure-

Plague Doktor: <HA! I ROCK THIS GAS MASK ASTHETIC BETTER THAN THAT HUMAN!>

Gabe: Quick, before it can retaliate! Misty Terrain!

-Plague Doktor sprays a thick pink mist all over the battlefield-

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Alonya: Of course you are! But you know why? This is serious, and siblings or not Mason I'm not letting the J-Team stop Ir-

-It is at that point, disoriented by the Screech and the blue flecks, that Sombra fires a Dragon Pulse in what she thinks is Mako's direction.-

-Turns out it's Alonya's-

Critical Hit!

---

-Owen is successfully self-slapped, and is about to retort, when his hivemind picks up something on the Iron security feeds-

Owen: ...Alonya... ALONYA!

-he expunges the injured Bishop from his body in a sheer force of willpower, recalls the badly-damaged Haggar, and runs-

---

-Something taps Artoria on the shoulder-

Contact Me!

-Stalactite reels back again, now in the red.-

Stalactite: <Fists speak louder than manners.>

-He slams the ground with another Bulldoze. Meanwhile, Ever actually succeeds in kicking Shard's legs out from under her, and she lands face-first with a crack as one of the lenses of her mask shatters.-

Shard: Ack!

-She starts hauling herself to her feet, clutching her broken mask.-

Shard: You... you don't care about killing. Why should I?

-Meanwhile, the shadowy shape dodges out of the way of the Moonblast as the pink mist washes away the Hail to reveal... another Shard?-

Shard(?): "It"? How insulting.

-She darts forward with another Night Slash as the Froslass fires a Shadow Ball at Plague Doktor.-

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.

Silas blinks, pulls out some potion and spritz both Snakeye and Hacks, Bishop smacks into Snakeye.

"Captain!"

Silas looks at Bishop, "What just happened?"

"That guy was a android! He-"

"Explain later. We got a job to finish."

Bishop hops back into the Body and the 4 rush off to the central servers.

Silas waves his pDroid over some computer towers as Bishop plugs the body into a server tower. "There's a lot of data here sir. What do I take?"

"Everything you can grab in 7 minutes."

Bishop nods and heads to work, Hacks and Snakeye stick close scanning the room, ~This place is surprisingly empty... wonder why.~

Silas looks up as his pDroid asserts it has control over some security systems, "Bishop make that 4 minutes. Corrupted data is acceptable so long as we get something."

"Roger that Captain."

Silas turns back to his pDroid and activates feed of security cameras and systems. "Okay... gonna shut down those and unlock those to make escape easy. How are you doing Bishop?"

"Captain, we don't have a lot and 3 minutes have passed."

Silas sighs, "Did you recognize anything with the words Tapu Bulu?"

"Already got some of those."

"It will have to do. Move people!"

Silas puts his pDroid away as Bishop unplugs and they start rushing out.

Iron Base

-Mason's blood goes cold as he realizes what just happened.-

Mason: Alonya!

-He immediately drops the illusion, and runs over to her to check her injuries.-

Mason: Fuck, fuck, fuck, that wasn't part of the plan...

-Ever breathes in the Misty Terrain, smiling under the sheet-

I might not die here! Yay!

-like Shard, he begins struggling to his feet, though since his arm is trapped under the sheet, it's harder than it looks-

Ever: Where do you get the idea that I don't care about killing? I've had to kill two things, and both times was because they were in the middle of trying to kill me. Also, they were both legendaries so wouldn't that earn me some cred with you guys? It's not exactly something I have an interest in.

-meanwhile, Letter, who is fully immersed in the ground, is knocked unconscious by the Bulldoze, his swords clattering on the ice-

Ever: Crap...

-he recalls him, and sends out Access-

Ever: Foul Play!

Access: <...You want me to fight that?>

Ever: We've been fighting him for a while, he's on his last legs!

Access: <...Okay then.>

-she skitters forwards and leaps at Stalactite's fist, attempting to shove it into his face with a pulse of darkness-

Ever: Uh, nice costume, by the way.

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

 Black City 

-Looking around-

I never did ask the others what their path to the Grey Ruins was...

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Lewis: -stops and stares- Oh... Riot? Come with me.

Riot: <If I recall correctly, that woman just tried to stab you a couple minutes ago. And you're about to make me try to help her. And both of us don't care about that fact for different reasons.> -sighs as she follows-

Lewis: -coming over to Mason- How bad is it?

Channah: Eh, looks kinda brutalist. Is that a marketplace over there? -strolls over-

edited 7th Jan '18 5:43:40 PM by Metanoia

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

Artoria turns around, preparing to punch something.

---

Masako and Mordred are back up, and Marie and Jenkins have are both shackled in frozen vines

Marie: "Th-th-th-ese ar-r-r-re c-c-cold"

Jenkins: "It's not that cold, Marie"

edited 7th Jan '18 5:35:12 PM by Izshta

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

Team Iron Fuckouse

-Alonya is lying prone beneath a dent in the wall-

-She's breathing, but unconsious, bleeding from the mouth, and with a few broken bones apparent on inspection-

Sombra: <No... No! I've failed you, Alonya!>

-it is then Owen enters-

Owen: Out of the way, all of you!

-He rushes up to Alonya and cradles her head carefully-

Alonya, please, stay with me... What happened?!

---

-Plauge Doktor is hit but shoots a Flash Cannon back at the Frosslass from his gun-

-Gabe meanwhile ducks the Night Slash and attempts to thwack the second Shard over the head with his backpack-

---

-It's Heracles. He snarls a greeting-

edited 7th Jan '18 5:50:25 PM by Umbramatic

Contact Me!

Alolan Sea, The Red Wings

-Zrone tries to stagger to his feet, his body just shoots out sparks and he crumples to the ground-

-The light on his mask dilates, expanding, spinning and reconfiguring, constricting, and then shifts from red to green-

"...Cid, I'm giving us five minutes to win this or I'm bringing out the Mark II's."

-Comet and Havoc are harried by attacks and can no longer focus on the grappling lines, instead turning their attention towards the Pokemon attacking them-

-X and Leyusark manage to snap one more line before falling back to the rest of Zrone's team-

-Reaper tosses a few trainers over her shoulder as she charges to regroup-

"If there is no way to win, I will simply force a way."

Artoria: "Oh, um, hello."

-She goes back to being a Lurantis-

<I take it you're here to help?>

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

Iron Base

Mason: It's bad, but not fatal, she—

-Mason is interrupted and shooed to the side by Owen, but stays by Alonya-

Mason: I'm her brother, chill. We fucked up and she needs medical attention that I don't have the expertise to give. You Iron folks have the resources to heal her, don't you?

-Sure enough, the Foul Play of Access coupled with Stalactite's own strength is enough to KO him, and he falls backwards with a loud thud. Shard snarls and looks back at Ever, her hand dropping from her mask to reveal pale skin and a narrowed grey eye.-

Shard: You turn a blind eye to it when it suits you. You're happy to watch the corruption spread through your team, just as the gods do. They don't care about us! We're just tools to them!

-She aims a Shadow Punch at the bridge of Ever's nose. At the same time, the second Shard cuts through the straps on Gabe's backpack with another Night Slash and looks over at Ever.-

Shard(?): Thank you. Yours could use some work. Cryokinesis, Ominious Wind.

-The Froslass takes the Flash Cannon and responds by raising her arms, blowing a deathly-cold wind of Obscura down the corridor.-

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.

Team Iron Fuckhouse

Owen: Well with you all tearing this base down not here! But we can find something.

-beat-

...Wait, you're that brother she always talks so nice about?!

---

-Heracles nods, then is enveloped in a cocoon of snow and lightning until he emerges as a rather large Black Kyurem-

Kyurem!Heracles: -gives Artoria a snarl politely telling her to stand back a ways-

---

-Gabe scoops up the backpack and carries it-

Gabe: Oof... I can fix that... But made you look!

-While buffeted by the Ominous Wind, Plauge Doktor blasts the second Shard point-blank from behind-

edited 7th Jan '18 6:14:39 PM by Umbramatic

Contact Me!

Artoria looks on in awe, the fact that she's apparently friends with a Legendary now really setting in seeing that Legendary in their true form.

Artoria: <Oh, um, yes.>

-She steps back.-

---

Mordred: <... Wait where'd Artoria go?>

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

-Ever is whacked directly in the face, and his efforts to stand up are impeded. He falls back on the ground, blinking stars out of his eyes-

-also his nose is broken but that's more of a long-term issue-

-but hey, he's still breathing in Misty Terrain. Does wonders for your recovery time from being stunned-

Ever: ...

(sadly) Oh, Lucius.

Access: (skittering away from Stalactite) <Yes! I am the champion of kicking big people in the fa— oh dear. Need a hand?>

Ever: I'm not sure which pun to make in response, so I'm just going to say yes.

Access: <Alright! Hit him high!>

-Access dives at "Shard"'s legs with...I guess it's a Play Rough, but it's basically just a flying tackle backed up with a little Fairy power...at the same time as Ever kicks at "Shard"'s chest with both legs-

Ever: (to Shard(?)) I know my costume could use work! It was kind of a rush job, okay?

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

Lewis: -taps the Helix fossil worriedly-

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