ITT: We are all Pokémon Trainers

Ever: Made it!

Glimmer: <And now we're here.>

Ever: Well, when you put it like that...

Glimmer: <...How am I putting it?>

Ever: ...You know, never mind.

-he pats the Litwick with his ivory arm. She smiles her little smile-

Chiazard: < Well, Tropius have a notable sauropodomorphic body structure. It's generally considered to be a result of some linkage to the Amaura line. Meanwhile, Charizard—>

Chiazard: < Tropius have fruit!>

Chiazard: < That's at best a minor phenotypic distinction. It's perfectly plausible that a Tropius could be born with no fruit whatsoever.>

Chiazard: < Why are we arguing with ourselves? We should be turning the Tropius into a Charizard. She has fruit, she shouldn't, right?>

Chiazard: < ...You're right.>

-they fly in, poking at Basket-

Chiazard: < Why isn't this working?>

Chiazard: < We probably need to weaken her before capture.>

Chiazard: < That scans.>

-one of the Chiazard experimentally Scratches at Basket-

-the Lava Cookie stand is new. Grandmother said there wasn't any point selling them in the town, everyone knows you want a Lava Cookie when you're watching the lava. They don't taste nearly good enough to have a craving when there's...well, anything else available-

-but you know what? He knew it would work ou— -

Muninn: <SURPRISE MIMIKYU TO THE FACE!>

Lava Cookie Salesman: AUGH

Muninn: <I NEED EVERY LAVA COOKIE YOU HAVE! IT'S A MATTER OF LITERALLY PLANETARY IMPORTANCE!>

Lava Cookie Salesman: OH GROUDON TAKE WHATEVER YOU WANT JUST PLEASE DON'T HURT ME

-Muninn grabs the tablecloth, tying it around the entire stand's worth of Lava Cookies, and scampers off-

Lava Cookie Salesman: ...Grandmother knew what she was talking about...

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

Artoria and Mordred come back.

To a bunch of babymons attacking J-teamers, someone charging them with a quarterstaff, and a green zoroark yelling.

"Recklessly charging in is a valid trope—"

Mordred: "HEY! LEEROY JENKINS WIPED HIS RAID!"

And a Chiazard.

Artoria: "... Nope, nope nope."

Mordred grins and takes her tie off. <Alright whomst wants a fuckin' solar blade.>

Artoria sighs, takes her scarf off, uses Sunny Day (this will come in handy later, though not for the reason she thinks!) and puts it back on. "There. You got my help. Have fun, Mordred."

Mordred: <Great! No charge ups! CLARENT BLOOD ARTHUR!> -She sends a Solar Blade into the babymon anime club.-

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

 Sootopolis 

Muddy: -To Izana- <They said that in Angela too. War, war never changes...>

-To Channah-

Tokarev and I fought, like, hand to hand, not with our mons like back in the Under. Foolishly, I decided to mostly use my fists instead of my powers and he got the better of me. While he was beating me to within an inch of my life he said that after he was done with me he'd kill everyone I cared about. So I snapped again.

-Pulling out my dagger and forming a sword construct around it-

Cut out his eye, and cut off his right arm and leg. I was going to finish him off as he bled out, but then DS was going to fall into lava and for a split-second I actually considered letting her die so that I could definitely finish off Tokarev. But I saved her, and Tokarev got away in his escape pod that he somehow crawled in without bleeding out.

The aftermath... you already know about.

-Sighs-

I know Lucius wasn't even the only person who felt that way, they were mostly just too polite to call me a sociopath to my face. And someone else tried to kill me once in Oblivia because my mons broke their leg during one of our raids while they were disguised as a Peon. It's what I deserve, should've flung myself into the lava, would've if I actually had decided to let DS fall.

 Route 117 

Ann: -To Kai- I'm sure he'd help you, though he's been in a bit of way lately himself.

edited 31st Jan '18 8:47:13 PM by rmctagg09

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

-Yeah, the Weed Team's dead silent after that. Until...-

Setsuna: <If anything, dude... I respect you more? Like, some of our warriors back home have been through like half that.>

Kaden: <Yeah! You have guts keeping going after that!>

Izana: <You have an unwavering spirit, a soul made of silver, and I sense it will not be let down so easily.>

Azama: -shrugs- <What they said!>

edited 31st Jan '18 8:31:04 PM by Umbramatic

Contact Me!

Kai: See, that just makes it worse. If he's in A Way™️, I'm probably the last person he wants to see coming to him for advice.

Ramona, realizing that Blitz may want to change back: Oh, right, sorry miss demon.

-"Ramona tosses Blitz into the changing room and closes the curtain."-

Ramona, to the very confused Roxie: She wanted privacy.

Roxie: Right? So what brings you to Virbank?

-"Ramona and Roxie sit down to talk. Ramona tells Roxie about a rumor that there was a ghost in the power plant area."-

Roxie: You heard about that?

Ramona, eagrly: Mmmhm, I'm a be pro paranormal investigator. -Proudly pulls out her camera- see, I've got a camera and a You Tube account.

-"Victor and Riolu walk in. Victor is panting and falls to the floor."-

Victor: <I feel like my insides are going to explode.>

Riolu: <You... are a wimp.>

Roxie, looking apologetically at Ramona': Sorry pinky, but they sort of figured that out. Turns out it was just a magnamite caught in pillowcase.

Ramona, shocked: W-what :(

-"Homer wakes up, feeling sore in the face."-

Homer, groggy: W-where am I... huh?

-"Homer looks over, and sees a crying Brawly digging a large hole."-

Brawly, crying and digging: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry I'm -notices that Homers awake, and starts acting cool- Oh, hey bro what's up?

-"Brawly quickly tosses his shovel into the ocean"-

Let's all have fun

-the Teddiursa are lifted off of the Zoroark-

Zoroark Green: <Whew, now how do we->

The Cacnea Again: <DEATH FROM ABOVE!>

-Night-Slash'd-

Zoroark Green: <-how do we cure Colton?>

Pichu Brothers With Sharingan Contact Lenses: -leap at Azure with Thundershocks-

Vanillite With A Bedazzled Cone: <You won't stop the Ragnarok Connection!> -flies at Thespi-

Shuppet That Is Not Riding A Motorcycle But Dragging A Toy Under It: -blocks Mordred's Solar Blade with a metal pipe with a cardboard scythe at the end-

Munchlax: -charges at Diane and Sky, trying to grab the jug that Amateratsu did not stash in her ball-

-Basket is Scratched, to no effect yet...-

Basket: <Well maybe Chiazard should have fruit! It is stylish and practical!>

The Sunlight Faded!

Basket: <...oh Muk.>

-her leaf drape and shroud begin growing prolifically, consuming the rest of her hide-

Basket: <A LAVA COOKIE WOULD BE NICE RIGHT ABOUT NOW!>

-teeth taking on a predatory shape... claws growing out to tear... bones crunching as an unguligrade quadrupedal stance breaks into a plantigrade bipedal stance...-

Basket: <Muninn it's now or never!>

edited 31st Jan '18 8:48:52 PM by Tangent128

Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?

Mauville Town

Surrendering himself to his Fire Prison cage - even getting into a more comfortable position - a Chiazard found a conversation playing in his mind. He paused, listened and spoke up to it.

< If I were to hazard a guess as to why she is not becoming one of us, it would be due to the possible existence of Leaf Guard. Now, I don't know what a Tropius' abilities constitute, so don't hold me to it,> he contributed, earning a glare from Amaterasu.

That distracted her from her thought process about the Charizard Sauce, and she had an idea. She shimmied a Nest Ball in the jacket she stole from Colt and Pyukumuku appeared. She scratched her head as the Shiny Ninetales returned herself, came back out with the sauce, put the scarf on and opened the lids. She aimed Pyukumuku above the lids and gave her a simple instruction.

"Purify."

She looked behind herself as Pyukumuku attempted to dilute the sauce. "You'd think a "Mind of Crystal" would have a better mental constitution."

Roy intercepted a Munchlax by trying to strike him with feet to the face.

And then Colt's mind got the feeling a second Sunny Day faded. < NOW!>

edited 31st Jan '18 8:49:09 PM by AbsentCoder

[Insert Unoriginal Stinger Here]

Megan: -hearing, looks over- Oh hi Daydre! Aww, fox ears...

-she stares at her, smiling...then shakes her head and looks back at the fight-

-mostly-

Pollen: -holding the Teddiursa out of the fray- <Koko, this is a mess...hey! Didn't anyone tell you not to believe everything you see on...TV? Is that what anime is?>

Megan: You really should join us on more movie nights...

-and Pollen sprays a Fairy Wind at the Cacnea-

-Thespi pauses, realizing that she really doesn't want to hit kids with a metal stick-

Human!Thespi: -pausing, over her shoulder- Effectiveness does not correlate with validityyyyy!

-she is smacked by something very, very cold- ACK!

-and then the sun-

Human!Thespi: ...

-her hair bleeds from white to a blazing red-

-the pale blue of her eyes is swallowed by a molten orange-white-

-the scarf, where it touches her neck, turns from blue to a blinding white, the white of the sun at noon, the armor blazing, the cape thinning, almost burning, into sheer cloth like cirrus clouds, blowing in the wind-

Sun!Human!Thespi: ...aaaahahahahaha...

-a wide, terrible grin spreads across her face-

-and she casts off the scarf, which is blown directly back into Megan's startled, open hand-

Sun!Thespi: <It's time to shine~>

-and she blasts a thin, unfocused Heat Wave in all directions (the Vanillite's included), dramatically knocking back more than damaging-

Megan: -stunned- ...

Pollen: ...

edited 31st Jan '18 8:52:17 PM by Asterisk395

No mind to think. No will to break.

Daydre lets out a stupid giggle then snaps her attention back to the fight.

Azure leaps out of the way of one Thundershock, but gets hit by the other. He pulls out his guitar (where was he keeping that?) and strums a chord.

Azure: <If you think you can Fight me you must be Dreaming!>

Rowan, who is still out by the way, breathes a Flamethrower at the jug the Munchlax is going for, possibly hitting the Munchlax in the process.

off the shits

Mordred: <NEON GENESIS EVANGELION IS A TERRIBLE SHOW TO TAKE MORAL LESSONS FROM WHY DID YOUR PARENTS LET YOU WATCH IT.> -She fires another Solar Blade at the babymons.-

Artoria sighs. "Why is this happening."

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

-Muninn is scampering down the ledges as fast as his tiny pseudopods will carry him, when something occurs-

Muninn: <...I can't fly.>

-he's very far down, and The Chiazard Formerly Known as Basket, as well as the rest, are very high up-

Chiazard: < You there! Mimikyu! You too will become one with us!>

-the Chiazard dives down, a green aura springing up around it as it crashes headlong into Muninn-

Chiazard used Wood Hammer!

Muninn: <Oh n— ...>

Muninn's Disguise was busted!

Muninn: <...Hm. Useful for one more thing, I suppose.>

-shoving a Lava Cookie into the Chiazard's mouth, he surrounds himself in the same green aura-

Muninn: <And yes, technically I can use this move on my own. On the other hand? Thanks for the lift.>

Muninn used Copycat! Copycat became Wood Hammer!

-and he ascends skyward. Another Chiazard dives towards him...-

Muninn: <This will hurt you more than it does me.>

-and he places the bag in between the attacks-

-it explodes in a shower of Lava Cookie dust, coating the Chiazard-

Pop! Pop! Pop pop pop!

-a number of Ayn Rand Society members rain from the skies, crashing into the ground-

Muninn: <Huh. You would think they could just pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.>

-and the identity of the Chiazard Muninn collided with is revealed-

PEFE!Every: Wait what AAAAAAAA—

-Muninn grabs her...and then starts falling himself-

Muninn: <Oh dear Basket if you could use Fly about now it would be very appreciated!>

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

Tori: "Thorne, if you're being overly formal, but you can call me Tori. And glad to help you get to wherever it is you're going"

-The 'plushie' gives a squeak as it's tossed behind the curtains!-

....

F!Blitz: "Okay, one problem solved, I think..."

-Now human and female again, Blitz comes back out-

"Magnemite? Bummer... Maybe we should have gone for the beach after all"

Channah: Welp. -raises an eyebrow at the Weed Team, then sits back and sighs- -somewhat quietly- Yeah. Wouldn't it be great if we could, though. Like. Just off ourselves when we stop working properly, and have it be the moral thing to do. But no, that's not how shit works. Ugh. -Beat- Not that I want you to. It's just, I kinda know that feel.

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

Ramona, bummed out: okay, I guess I'll just go home then. -to Blitz- let's go miss demon.

Roxie, sympathetic: Hold up, sense you guys are here, how's about taking on my gym.

-"Ramonas eyes go wide, and she stares at Roxie with shock."-

Ramona: ...huh?

Victor: <Yes Ramona take on a gym, and then have another nervous oh god my stomach -Victor keels over in pain->

Riolu: < ...I find this funny>

Ramona, nervously: Oh, I'm not really much of a-

Roxie, pumped: Oh come on cutey, I ain't taking no for an answer.

-"Roxie grabs Ramonas hand and starts pulling her to the gym."-

Ramona, being pulled: Wait, I can't, I'm not, cutey?

-"Riolu and Victor fallow."-

Victor: <Oh god more running.>

-"Homer and his mons are sitting in Brawlys gym."-

Brawly, to Homer: So um, sorry about punching you.

Homer, with an ice pack on his face: It's fine you couldn't see... that might be the concussion speaking.

-"Mokuba jumps on a treadmill, and starts running."-

Mokuba: <Mor, your ruler needs more speed.>

-"Morrigan turns up the speed on the treadmill."-

Mokuba: <Little more.>

Mor: <I don't think that's a good idea.>

Mokuba, smiley: <Don't worry about it being a good idea or not.>

-"Mor turns up the speed some more."-

-"Mokuba is shot off the treadmill and into some weights."-

Mokuba, dazed: <~yeah... feeling the bun @.@>

Let's all have fun

 Sootopolis 

-To the Weed Team in a tone that suggests gratefulness but trouble actually believing it-

Thanks, I guess.

-To Channah-

I understand what you're trying to say, though I'm surprised you haven't left after hearing all that. The folks who joined us after that, they have no idea, but I know they'll probably find out eventually one day though.

-Sighs-

 Route 117 

Ann: -To Kai- What's your story with him? Can't be worse than say, Verax's, and they're somehow friends.

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Nyoom!

Basket: <Great job everybody! Woooo!>

-she grabs Pefery, Muninn, Clerk 26, Clerk Z, a few Surskit and Marill, and her cell phone out of the air-

<I enabled cloud streaming, but hold tight to the phone just in case, Every! We're gonna have so much data to analyze after this!>

-As for the Randians... they'll live. Might need to avail themselves of socialized healthcare for those broken bones though-

-Basket flies back towards Mauville, coming down off the adrenaline high-

<...so. Every, Muninn, you both okay?>

Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?

Muninn: <We have a moral imperative not to limit their choices by bringing them to a hospital, frankly.>

PEFE!Every: -taking the phone- Mmm...I've felt better. (to Muninn) You know, this wouldn't have gone so badly wrong if we hadn't gone flying.

Muninn: <Nobody got hurt, we have staggering amounts of data on the physiology and psychology of emergent hivemind status conditions, and you learned how to fly. What would you say has gone wrong?>

PEFE!Every: ...

You know, I suppose you're correct.

-she grins-

How about you, Basket?

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

Channah: Eh, who knows. Maybe they won't care like I do.

Montanari: -subtly shakes his head at her-

Channah: -shoots Montanari a "what?" look. Getting another head-shake, she turns back to Tagg- Well, it'll still be fucked up either way I guess. Honestly, I'm surprised you told me this. Lot to process.

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

F!Blitz: "Cutie sounds about right"

-Blitz chuckles- "Go for it, Ramona! when else are you going to get a chance to visit Virbank and try it?"

-She then picks up Victor before following along to the gym-

"Come on lil guy, I'll give you a ride this time."

-"Victor growls at Blitz."-

Victor: <Tell no one.>

-"Roxie burst into her gym, which seems to double as a bar, with Ramona in tow."-

Roxie: Yo, we got a live one get ready.

Drummer: Oh, okay Rox.

Bases: Give us a sec.

-"Roxie jogs to a stage in the back of the gym/bar and starts helping her band set up."-

Ramona, nervous: O-okay.

-"Ramona, not sure what to do, pulls out her camera and starts filming."-

Ramona, knees shacking: W-whad up ma daemon, it is yer girl. S-so, it looks like instead of ghost hunting, I'm a be in a gym battle... hurray.

Let's all have fun

Teddiursa: <WE'RE FLYING!>

Zoroark Green: -ducks the Fairy Wind and lets it take the Cacnea out of play-

<Would boiling the virus kill it?>

Vanillite With A Bedazzled Cone: <AUGH! THE LIGHT! IT BURNS!>

<...because I am an Ice type, not because I don't go outside.>

Pichu Brother With Sharingan Contact Lenses: ...

-he starts to swing his hips-

<Dance-off, bro!>

Shuppet That Is Not Riding A Motorcycle But Dragging A Toy Under It: -again tries to block Mordred with her "scythe"-

Basket: -smiles-

<The only unsuccessful experiment is one where you don't learn anything. I think this experiment was very successful!>

<But we are starting movie nights ASAP. Ghostbusters will be the first.>

Clerk 26: That's nice, but we get off break soon and need to be back at the stand.

Basket: <...what exactly is your break schedule???>

Clerk 26: Our timesheet is a fractal, really.

Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?

 Sootopolis 

-Half-jokingly-

I guess I really do need to do the caring out of the two of us...

-More seriously-

But it wasn't fair for me to keep it from you, considering we've been stuck together for about a month and someone from my past is hunting for us, that's why. That could get you killed. Also, you didn't leave even after I mentioned killing the first time back in Lavaridge, so I guess I wanted to return the trust you appeared to have in me.

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Mauville

In the midst of the Fire Spin, the Chiazard stirred once more. < I... I think I’m myself again,> he realized as he looked to Amaterasu.

Even Pyukumuku paused too look up and point a finger at him. “Yeah, prove it,” Amaterasu spat.

< The other night I dreamt of knives,

Continental drift, divide,

Mountains sit in a line,>

“<LEONARD BERSTEIN!>”They chorused, Pyukumuku snapping her fingers and closing the lids.

“You’ll have to forgive me for forcing you to stay in there,” Amaterasu apologized.

Colt shrugged. < Wakaru - I get it,> he shrugged. < Besides, I fear contagion - I think even wearing the Orange Scarf, I can assemble a legion,> he mused. I mean, I was always a bit of a loner, but this is kinda disconcerting,' he considered.

Roy and Rei had returned themselves, neither wanting more to do with Coltazard.

[Insert Unoriginal Stinger Here]

PEFE!Every: Easily solvable.

-she sends out Rotary to return the Clerks-

It won't make me cry, will it? That was embarrassing.

Muninn: <Come on, we should pick up our things before anyone finds them.>

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.