<I don't know any healing moves...> Silas admitted.
Hacks sighed, <I do, I actually spend a lot of time learning how to use my full movepool...>
Hacks took a deep breath and used Heal pulse on the two.
Silas looked over, <Yeah we're staying out of werewolf stuff. We're more kind of steel and skill over that...>
Hacks looked around, <You really think you could forge something down here?>
Silas clasped his paws together and charged a small aura sphere, smiling, <I might just be able to.>
Meet The New Boss
Fey Feind: My problem? My problem is you are disgustingly in over your head! You can't use that Omniband properly, what makes you think you're worthy?
-More attacks assault the bench-
Dave: Okay then, for further clarification... Basically the serum itself's made of various esoteric ingredients, including the DNA of whatever you're trying to hybridize with the target Pokemon, and can only induce minor mutations on its own. However if it's infused with Infinity Energy it can rewrite the genome of every cell in a Pokemon's body like something out of a fucking bad sci-fi novel.
-he sighs-
I only got to help with development of this particular project sparsely back in the day; most development was handed to people like the Memitos. Like the other Pokefutures projects I thought I'd never have to hear about it again after you guys brought them down... but... Well, you remember that Max Rubeloff guy, right?
-Svin attempts to nodnodnod before floating away-
Contact Me!
Cephas: <"Too big"? That's an understandment.>
<The company caught the wave of bioengineering hype that swept the Angela Region a couple decades back, and did they ever ride it. They teased work in synthesis organs, lifespan extension, human augmentation, even vanity Eeveelutions.>
<There were red flags if you knew where to look, but the hype took on a life of its own. So much money was pumped into them that were able to expand into or acquire nearly every market in the region, from insurance to semiconductors to avionics to agriculture.>
<At that point, were they to collapse, they would screw the whole region over- easily half the population could lose their jobs, directly or indirectly. Of course, they were an institution- a collapse would be unthinkable, short of the reveal of an equally unthinkably dark secret.>
<Here is the story of how the unthinkably dark secret came to light.>
Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?
pain peko
The Harbringer: <Yes, if you wish to join the Circle.>
-As Cris and Tsubasa drink, they turn into Rockruffs.-
The Harbringer: <...odd.>
-He turns to Silas and Hacks, nodding. Aela growls.-
The Harbringer: <You're not the first. Ria made the same decision. You may return to your quarters. But tell no one of this place or what we discussed.>
edited 22nd Feb '18 8:33:16 PM by SwiftSeraph
"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"
Dunsparce Cloud
Glimmer: <...Lifespan extension. Interesting.>
-Muninn tilts his head at Glimmer-
Muninn: <They seem like an easy source of dark secrets. What happened?>
-PEFE!Every looks up from what was at some point a vague planning session and is now a group nap at the mention of bioengineering, though she doesn't comment-
Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.
Flying Colors
-Evan dives out from behind the bench.-
Evan: What, you think you can do better?
???: Hey, glitter goth, heads up.
-Suddenly, someone drops in from the ceiling and crashes down on the Fey Fiend. A Sableye likewise jumps up and clings to World's Oyster's face.-
Vierr: Kid, how does trouble always manage to find you?
-Near Shaun and Jessica, a certain Frontier Brain is here on her day off, lying on her stomach as a tattoo artist works on her back.-
Tattoo Artist: That's a pretty nasty lookin' scar you got there.
Kai: Yeah, it sucks. The story's not pretty. Weird, definitely.
Silas and Hacks nod walking off, Silas still thinking about the things he could forge.
<I want a sword... Or a crossbow... something.>
<Later Silas. Later.>
The Wanderer
Lilycove Alley
-To Dave-
Yeah, I remember Odin, including how he ended up food.
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
pain peko
Shaun: "..Kai?"
Jessica: "Hey! We'd look at you but we're kinda busy."
edited 22nd Feb '18 8:46:13 PM by SwiftSeraph
"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"
Flying Colors
-Kai just sorta idly waves in the direction of Shaun and Jessica's voices.-
Kai: Hey. Been a while, hasn't it?
Tattoo Artist: Friends a' yours?
Kai: Well, friendly acquaintances, at the very least.
Meet The New Boss
-World's Oyster yelps as she claws Elysia off her face-
-A strange noise - distinctly artificial, but distinctly also not metallic- reverberates from within the Fey Fiend's robes as Vierr slams into him and he recovers-
World's Oyster: Gah! Looks like he found some help! Really annoying help!
Fey Fiend: How dare you get in the way! Regardless, two more of you should be easy to-
-A Psychic Terrain flares up as the Fey Fiend and World's Oyster dodge Dragon Pulses, the source soon revealed to be Neon flying in on Haku-
Neon: Hey! How do you like the numbers now?
Fey Fiend: Grah... We'll be back! And we'll be ready for the likes of you!
-There is a poof, and the Fey Fiend's party is gone-
Neon: Phew... You guys OK?
Haku: <They didn't hurt you too bad, did they?>
Dave: Yeah I don't know where he got the Infinity Energy for it but he used Fafnir Serum and he got how to make it from somewhere Pokefutures related. And we've been trying to track down where he got it and who else has it, and guess what, we just recently we stumbled upon a whole bunch of ex-Pokefutures asshats previously affiliated with Cipher.
-Arika hesitantly slurmps-
-Zumi also hesitantly slurmps-
edited 22nd Feb '18 9:27:25 PM by Umbramatic
Contact Me!
Flying Colors
-Evan gets up and brushes himself off.-
Evan: Yeah, I'm fine. They only hit me the first time, and I was Bad Dog when it happened.
Vierr: Well, congratulations. You now have someone with a personal vendetta hunting you down. Get used to it.
Evan: Hey! I'm not totally inexperienced, you know! There's plenty of bad guys who don't like me back home.
-Vierr stares.-
Evan: ...Yeah, when I say it out loud, not something to be proud of.
No voice to cry suffering
-they follow the group inside, now bickering comfortably-
Megan: If you're staying behind and fighting to the death, I'm staying too, obviously.
Vee: <Aw, Meg, that'd just defeat the point.>
Megan: -crossing her arms- Well tough Turtwig, then, 'cause Ever said we should do everything together and I'm listening to Ever.
Vee: -gasps- <You'd take the word of a Gym challenger over mine? I thought we had something ✨special!✨>
Megan: Hey, you were the one who asked him for advice! >:| !!!1!
Vee: <That's different. Obviously I am very special to me as well, but I need to make room in my life for others. I had a long, emotional talk with myself, and thankfully I understood me completely. You, however, can't get enough of me~> ;3
Megan: -Jacobface-
-but also pets-
Vee: -purrs~-
Pippy: -to Megan, lightly- <Are you sure? It seems like a fast-track to being a hero of some sort...?>
Thespi: -reappears- <There's a whole bunch of origin stories like that!>
-Pippy grins-
Thespi: -sounding like she would be gesturing widely if she could gesture at the moment- <It could all be yours! Your tragic loss driving you to gain strength in grim isolation over a number of years to enact bloody revenge on those who've taken your precious ones away!>
Rabbid!Megan: Bwah?
Thespi: <Oh, there'd probably be a place for you, too! There's like, the tragic reminder of what she's lost, or the Morality Pet that causes her to stay her hand at the last minute, or—>
Rabbid!Megan: Bwah! ^w^
No mind to think. No will to break.
Cephas: <Pokefutures had made the devil's bargain. They'd shift the price to others, and reap the boons themselves.>
<Their organ synthesis? Harvesting form-locked Ditto for parts. Lifespan extension? The same theft of Infinity Energy that was AZ's eternal shame. Augmentation? Just a "Drive" system that desecrated the Pokémon's essence even further by burning through it like it was cheap. ...and such was the fate of many of the "reject" Eevee. "Waste not, want not,"> -he nearly spits-
<The Pokémon paid with their lives, and all Pokefutures gave up were their souls.>
<But while the money kept many people from asking questions they may have suspected they'd not like the answers to, Pokefutures could not fully hide all their victims they had to acquire.>
Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?
The Wanderer
Lilycove Alley
-To Dave-
Let me guess, you want us to take care of it?
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
That's just how it is on this bitch of an earth
Daydre has misgivings, but she follows the others. Dragging Rabbid!Daydre along with her.
off the shits
Meet The New Boss
Neon: -blinks- Um. Anyway, I'm the Noble Elemental -
Haku: -snerk-
Neon: You guys?
Dave: Well, yes. Basically from the information we got they've recently brewed a bunch of the stuff and are planning on testing it on at least one Shadow Pokemon - the one confirmed was a Horsea that apparently had a hell of an attitude problem before they even Shadowed it.
Mia: <We have a very good spy.>
Jean: Sounds like something that would be my specialty, as long as my karma's clean.
-she rocks her Dwebble nervously a bit regardless-
Contact Me!
Flying Colors
Vierr: The Noble Elemental. Witty. I'm the Squidblood Wizard and this kid's the Amazing Ever-Changing Runt.
Evan: Hey!
Vierr: Believe it or not, this is not his wimpiest form. It's a sight to see, truly.
Evan: Excuse me, I did not ask for your input!
The Wanderer
Lilycove Alley
-To Dave-
Any idea where this is supposed to take place?
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
Dunsparce Cloud
PEFE!Every: -winces at the mention of Ditto. She's always been sure to get permission (and in one case disturbingly enthusiastic consent) before borrowing so much as a cell, but it's still jarring to hear how close your ideas cleave to the ones that came before-
-and then again at the mention of the Drives. Though she makes a note to look up some things-
Glimmer: <...Horrible.>
Muninn: <On that, we can agree.>
-he frowns-
<And so they were discovered? And destroyed? I may not have heard of them in depth, but I'm familiar with institutions. Such a destruction is...complex. Simplifying it leaves nothing but ruin.>
Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.
Cephas: <Pokefutures tried to evade discovery, of course; snatching up strays here, sneaking off the local routes there. They played with breeding programs occasionally, but were ultimately too ravenous not to eat their seed corn.>
<So ultimately they ended up sending poachers to other regions, and from there their destruction is a story of on-point branding and meddling Pokédex researchers. Angela, to its credit, could not overlook the actions of Pokefutures once its deeds came to light, and many, many people went to jail.>
<But your intuition is indeed valid. The corporation itself was too big to let fail- you'd be hard-pressed to find a single sector of the economy, or even a line on a municipal budget, that was not legally entangled with the corporation's existence.>
<So in the end, the PEFE was tasked with cleaning house at Pokefutures and keeping the lights on.>
Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?
Dunsparce Cloud
PEFE!Every: ...
This is what my parents did for a living, I guess.
Glimmer: <I support keeping the lights on.> -flickers-
Muninn: <...Quite a story, Geodude. And well-told.>
Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.
The Flamebringer
This last one's no different.
Trainer Kid: "Here... here's your money."
Mordred: "Keep it, kid. I don't need it."
Kid: "Oh... Oh! Thanks!"
Mordred: "You ever want a rematch, I'll take you on."
Kid: "Oh, I'll take you up on that someday."
Mordred grins, before walking off.
???: "Mordred?"
Mordred whirls around, standing up. A woman in a black and red dress stands with a Nihilego behind her.
Mordred: "Iris? But... you - you died!"
Then she notices the Nihilego.
Mordred: ... Fuck.
??? Iris: "Come home, Mordred." -She gives an incredibly creepy smile.
Mordred: "Iris, wait, you need help that thing has neurotoxins that -"
Iris' expression darkens into a sneer. "Ahriman, Retrieve her."
The Nihilego floats lazily towards Mordred. The Nihilego can't grin... but would decidedly be grinning if capable.
Mordred looks between the neurotoxin jellyfish, and the balcony.
Beat.
She rips her tie off, tossing it over the side, before jumping off herself.
Iris snarls. "After her."
Mordred, upon slamming against the ground from two stories up and in quite a lot of pain quickly puts her tie back on and takes out her phone.
From: Mordred
iris isnt dead, probably -
Mordred: "... Fuck."
Douglas is... all but holding the line from breaking by himself.
Ponyta: <... Yeah let's not get involved.>
Cecilia: <We must! I will not stand idly by while one who fights for Etruria fights!>
Ponyta: <... Fine.>
Douglas punches a pawniard into the ground before slamming his obscura axe into him, knocking the pawniard out. He raises his axe, pointing towards the enemy commander. <FOR ETRURIA! CHARGE!>
Despite the vast majority of the pawniard not knowing what Etruria is, it's a rallying cry, and a rallying cry is what the battered army needs. Many of them echo him, surging foward.
Cecilia certainly does, spurring Ponyta forward.
Ponyta sighs, very half-heartedly echoing it, but, well...
Hello Flare Blitz into a mass of Steel-types.
Suffice to say the Shiny Pawniard Army were not expecting a sudden cavalry charge into their flank, and the mass confusion doesn't help anything.
Well, it helps Douglas.
Cecilia raises one arm, a bright light coalescing at her fingertips.
Cecilia: <Keep your distance, or perish!>
PMD-N, Underforge
Cris gets up.
Cris: <Four legs? This is weird...>
He walks around, trying to get used to the feeling of it after having been a Metapod for a bit.
Tsubasa: -a bit less flustered, but sitting still- <So, we're not supposed to tell others, huh? Are we gonna get those bands, then?>
edited 23rd Feb '18 6:07:40 AM by CorvusAtrox
"life is just a series of increasingly canon-eluding ao3 tags" ~ everydunsparce "Keep your hellfruit away from me, tempter" ~ also Every
Shaun: "So what are you getting pierced?"
Jessica: "I dunno. What do you guys pierce?"
Punk Girl: "The usual. Ears, eyebrows, noses, tongues, belly buttons, ni-"
Shaun: "Ears should be fine."
Jessica: "Yeah. I might get an eyebrow or belly button piercing, though. Or maybe I'll pierce my ni-"
-Jamie hums happily as the Hex Mainac washes his fur.-
"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"