Felis: <Wait, that was it?>

Mezzo: Yeah, sure. Are they hurt?

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

It's kind of hard to hug a sword, but, F!Robin is trying.

F!Robin: "He won't, Lucina. I won't let him."

edited 14th Mar '18 8:39:28 PM by Izshta

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

Amanita: Brie's in pretty bad shape. Ever might be, or he might just be being a baby; I can never tell. For someone who doesn't lie, he's nonsensically duplicitous. No wonder you like him.

PEFE!Every: Why do you have a Helioptile on your shoulder?

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

 Channah's Mindscape 

-To Truth-

You could be a bit more considerate towards the feelings of others, yes, but I get that you have problems in that department and I'm pretty sure you do have it in you. Even if you have basically verbally insulted me to my face several times, which I'll admit kinda hurt even I don't think you fully mean the stuff you said.

And I don't remember saying that, I wouldn't be here if I thought that. It's not wasted effort to care about people, and that includes you. Sounds funny coming from me, but you gotta try forgiving yourself.

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Mezzo: She wanted me to help deal with the darkness.

Sunny: <And she has a boyfriend!>

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

-Thespi soon loses some grip on the Hydro Cannon, and is hurled backwards by the recoil, hitting the wall behind her-

-the technique dissolves, and both she and Ceal slump to the ground, wheezing-

-rather than pursue or attempt to drag the pirates back down, Tripod drops a barrier over their drained friends and watches carefully as the scuttled ship floats away on a wave of glitter-

-also, the Plusle and Minun are hurled off the ship by the expanding shield-

Plusle: <AAAAAAAAAAAA>

Minun: <...>

-the Minun pulses with energy and floats in midair, catching the Plusle-

Minun used Magnet Rise!

Plusle: <...oh, right.>

<Can we head back down? I'm bushed.>

Minun: <mmm.>

Plusle: <...carry me?>

Minun: <'kay.>

-and they float back to shore-

-Chrom steps forward and (very carefully) hugs Lucina-

-unless Sumia and/or Robin hugging Lucina counts as an improper wielding of Falchion, in which case she can't cut anything and he hugs tight-

Chrom: <We'll all protect each other. We've done it before and we'll do it again.>

No mind to think. No will to break.

-The sounds of a fight can be heard.-

???: <Come at me, bastard!>

???: <Gladly!>

-The Jolteon runs faster, rounding a corner.-

Jolteon: <Hey, dumbass!>

<Aw, hell.>

-He watches a Gigalith slam an Umbreon down.-

Umbreon: <I'm drunk and I can still handle you!>

-The Jolteon darts at the Gigalith with a Double Kick, boosted by the Umbreon's Helping Hand.-

-Which is followed up by a Psybeam and a Night Daze.-

Umbreon: <What the hell?>

-The three fighters stop and stare at Jess, Cereza, and Achille.-

Jolteon: <Who're you?>

Jessica: "Nobody important!"

-The Jolteon blinks and shrugs.-

Gigalith: <You think you're all gonna fight me? Ha! Think again!>

-A nearby trashbag morphs into a Ditto while a Rotom appears from an electrical box.-

Cereza: <Is that supposed to be a challenge?>

-A Chansey with a black bandana covering their mouth appears from the shadows.-

Gigalith: <No...>

-A Focus Energy-boosted Octazooka nearly nails Cereza in the head as she flips out of the way at the last second.-

Gigalith: <That was.>

---

-Lucina says nothing, but her throat relaxes.-

-This is what she fought for.-

"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"

PEFE!Every: Well. Mission accomplished then.

Helioptile: <He's a concrete entity!>

PEFE!Every: Doubtful.

Amanita: Can you stand?

PEFE!Every: Yes.

-Amanita lets her go, heading over to Ever and Brie-

Amanita: Ever, need a hand?

Ever: I'm good.

-wincing, and with some difficulty, he maneuvers himself to his feet-

Amanita: Wait, you're okay?

Ever: I've been better.

Amanita: Why were you just lying there?

Ever: My two strongest mons were down and one of my arms wasn't working. Was there something you wanted me to contribute?

Amanita: ... -sighs-

Ever: It's Brie you want to check on. I didn't pick a fight with three augmented supersoldiers at once.

-he waves weakly to Mezzo while Amanita goes to do just that-

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

-Mezzo waves back-

Mezzo: Well, I'm glad you're all right. What's this about augmented supersoldiers though?

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

Truth: -kind of sighed and looked wholly disinterested during that speech- Cool story, bro. -idly plays with the bandages on top of a Wobbuffet mummy- Look. Even if I wanted to, it's impossible. Deepest Self ate everything possibly useful about me years ago. My therapist thought I had depression and anxiety. -looks skeptical of this diagnosis- This is just who I was supposed to become. So no, I don't "have it in me". Not a huge loss, in my opinion.

edited 14th Mar '18 9:04:09 PM by Metanoia

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

Ever: Well uh...hostile invaders from an alternate universe with the energies of Pokemon harvested and used to enhance their abilities? I think?

PEFE!Every: More or less sums it up.

-Amanita, meanwhile, is helping Brie to her feet-

Brie: Ow...I feel like...

Amanita: Like you picked a fight with three supersoldiers at once and lost about as badly as expected?

Brie: Pretty much.

Amanita: Well, we're good now.

Brie: What happened?

Amanita: ...As to that, I have some questions.

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

-Mezzo blinks-

Mezzo: ...That's a new one.

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

-an Alolan Marowak finishes connecting ten ethernet cables and five network switches into a pentagram on the floor, standing back and nodding in satisfaction-

-a Quilava looks on in bafflement-

Lua: <That is not a spanning-tree. What are you planning for this to do?>

Fuego: <I'm going to watch cartoons online! By connecting directly to the internet instead of using a site that can be taken down!>

Lua: <That's... not how any of this works.>

Fuego: <It's an experiment! Can you pass me that ulexite?>

Lua: <Ulex..?>

-she suddenly realizes that the book on magic-circle construction next to her is in fact not a book, but a glassy mineral that was merely projecting the texture of the book under it to its upper surface-

<Cool!>

Fuego: <Yeah, it's also called TV Stone. It seemed semiotically appropriate.>

Lua: <...> -shrugs, this is out of her filesystem root-

-Fuego places the stone in the center of the circle, and ornaments the network switches with a tinfoil-wrapped knife placed on top of each, before placing two paws on the circle-

Fuego: <𝓒𝓻𝓸𝓪𝓰𝓾𝓷𝓴 𝓒𝓸𝓵𝓪, 𝓲𝓽 𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓵𝓮𝓼 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓪 𝓽𝓸𝔁𝓲𝓷>

-the perimeter cables start to spark and glow with purple energy-

Fuego: <𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓽𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓫𝓾𝓭𝓼 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓫𝓮 𝓻𝓸𝓬𝓴𝓲𝓷' 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓶𝓸𝓾𝓽𝓱 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓼𝓸, 𝓸𝓱>

-the inner cables begin sparking likewise; Lua starts to slowly back away-

Fuego: <𝓒𝓻𝓸𝓪𝓰𝓾𝓷𝓴 𝓒𝓸𝓵𝓪, 𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓹𝓾𝓻𝓮 𝓟𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓪 𝓯𝓲𝔃𝔃>

-purple auras glow around the knives, then the color of the glow shifts to gold and the light arcs into the ulexite crystal-

Fuego: <𝓙𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓼 𝔀𝓮'𝓻𝓮 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓲𝔃 𝓸𝓯 𝓫𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓳𝓸𝔂, 𝓸𝓲!>

-there is a bright flash of light, before an image of a shiny bird resolves on the stone's surface...-

Previously, on Valiant Knight Skarmory!

Lua: <!>

<It's Valiant!>

Our hero has been captured by the fiendish Dr. Exeggutor and his mysterious new ally, Infinte!

-Lua cringes at the memory-

Now, he is being held at the Doctor's high-security Death Egg base in Mossdeep City, where they've been torturing him for months!

Lua: <I have to rescue him!>

Fuego: <Oh, yeah, we should->

-CELL!-

Fuego: <...or you can grapple-hook out by yourself...>

-he looks down at the stone, then smiles-

<I need to show this to Celeste and Ephemera~!>

edited 14th Mar '18 9:29:44 PM by Tangent128

Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?

Banquo: <Kinda corny, but... it works, yeah.>

Basil: <...Yes, thank you. Thank you all from making sure this... yes.>

<But, that said, yes, we do need to find Ratigan. We need to keep our eyes vigilant.>

As he says this, Dawson is suddenly pulled underwater.

edited 14th Mar '18 9:42:32 PM by CorvusAtrox

"life is just a series of increasingly canon-eluding ao3 tags" ~ everydunsparce "Keep your hellfruit away from me, tempter" ~ also Every

Ever: Yeah, that's this arc for you.

PEFE!Every: Pardon?

Ever: You know. Overarching sequence of events, in this case the weakened multiversal barriers? Arc.

PEFE!Every: ...Sure.

Ever: (to Mezzo) Hey, do you have strong feelings about being in Kalos vs. returning to Hoenn? I've got a friend here, and I don't really want to be teleporting Brie cross-continent while she's like this.

PEFE!Every: I can just—

Ever: If they're not at risk of passing away—

PEFE!Every: —Then don't reset their DNA. Fine.

Ever: We can get her medical attention like normal people.

-a cat, drawn by the magic or perhaps the mention of her name, peeks out from behind a couch-

-Delphox?-

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

 Channah's Mindscape 

-To Truth-

...I'm no psychologist, but that sounds like symptoms of depression to me, emotional numbness can be part of it. I work for a time god, I can tell you destiny is rarely set in stone so I doubt this is just who you're meant to be. Like, I remember what Constantin said to me, that night in Shalour four years ago. That I was emotionless and felt nothing aside from rage towards others, which hurt extra because... you know what wasn't too long ago at that point. Nearly broke me, he did.

-Almost pleadingly-

i just... want you to get that there's another path, it might take a while, but you can claw your way out of this. Our pasts don't have to define us.

Even more than my dumbfuck crush...

Who is this "Deepest Self anyway? Could I meet them?

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Mezzo: Sure, so long as we don't stay at either Hotel Richissime or Noelle's house.

Noelle: -sneezes-

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

Ever: Uh, can't remember anything about the first, hard pass on the second. Though this guy does have green hair.

On the other hand, he's not a fairy-obsessed stalker, which was always more of the issue. I guess the green hair was a ...red herring.

-he giggles-

Ohhh, Reshiram, hurts to laugh.

PEFE!Every: What's a herring?

Ever: Anyway, texted him, he'll be here in just a sec.

Twang!

Guillaume: Hello again!

-he notices Mezzo, and waves-

And you are?

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

Fuego: <Ephemera! I got a spell working!>

-he gestures to the ulexite playing a very pirated episode of Valiant Knight Skarmory-

Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?

Mezzo: Hi. Mezzopiano, Mezzo for short. I'm Ever's girlfriend. And you are?

Felis: <He sounds like no one of importance.>

Sunny: <You think that about everyone.>

Felis: <Only because it's true, runt.>

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

-the rain has faded-

-Thespi and Ceal are still recovering from the energy expenditure-

Thespi: <owwww...>

Ceal: -huffs exhaustedly-

Tripod: -feels a bit tired out of empathy, but still stares intently out to sea-

-so they see Dawson go under-

-they ping the bunnies, urgently-

Minun: <You're not the boss of—>

Tripod: -frustrated shriek, then a dive under the water-

Minun: <...>

-she casually floats out in the direction Dawson went under-

-meanwhile, Tripod is below the water's surface and can thus likely see things rather clearly-

edited 14th Mar '18 10:01:33 PM by Asterisk395

No mind to think. No will to break.

-Ephemera blinks-

-Kecleon Ducklett-

-she curls up to watch-

-Skarmory x2?-

-blink-

-blink-

Guillaume: (to Ever) ...You know, I did not think you liked girls.

Ever: -shrugs- I didn't think you could Mega Evolve your Gardevoir and go toe-to-toe with a being claiming to be able to raze planets. It's a day of surprises.

Guillaume: ...Right! (to Mezzo) You can call me Guillaume, then. Short for...

Ever: What could it possibly be short for?

Guillaume: -grins- I'll think of something. So, need something?

Ever: Can we get a ride to Lumiose? My cousin's not in a great way, and I'd like to get her looked at. And would also like to find a place to sleep.

Guillaume: ...You do realize I live in Lumiose, right? I can just put you up at my place for a couple days and have Damascus heal her, right?

Damascus: -rolls his eyes- <I'm very good at it.>

Ever: ...Okay, fair enough.

edited 14th Mar '18 10:07:15 PM by memyselfandI2

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

Truth: ... -stands still for a few seconds, head bowed. Finally, she snorts and lifts her head- ...You want to meet Deepest Self? I... can arrange that. Also, that speech was alright but it's funnier watching you actually plead. Like, what the fuck. -sounds almost amused- I think we're done here, don't you?

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

Mezzo: A place to sleep sounds lovely.

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

 Channah's Mindscape 

Does she have some sort of masochism kink or something? Or maybe more of a sadist one since she's not being humiliated here...

-Dryly-

Yeah, take me to your leader.

edited 15th Mar '18 1:42:48 AM by rmctagg09

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.