-Carol notices Eva from Lou's shoulder.-

Carol: <Hmmmm.>

Lou: *sighing* What?

Carol: <You need to meet new people! You can't just sit around surrounded by Pokémon and eat popcorn!>

Lou: Can, should, will.

Carol: <No. I'm going to make you a friend, you lonely man!>

-Carol jumps from Lou's shoulder, onto K9's back. The Arcanine runs towards Eva, stopping in front of her.-

K9: <BE FRIENDS WITH THIS LONELY GUY>

Lou: Arceus fucking damnit I'm going to get arrested.

edited 22nd Apr '18 9:47:18 AM by redneckphoenix

-Odin stares at the phone, then Tagg and Muddy, then gives a long, drawn-out sigh-

Odin: This whole reform and helping and not being a dick thing is going to be difficult...

Grima:    Got it. Hey you shrimp of a seahorse! Neener neener neener!   

-Takumi yells and fires a Hydro Pump, which Grima effortlessly flies out of the way from before sicing Poke Risen on Takukmi-

Azama: -shrugs- <I suppose we just watch?>

-The group sees something moving among the snowdrifts and sand-

-There is a Litwick staring at the group-

edited 22nd Apr '18 9:43:19 AM by Umbramatic

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-Ever is lying on a bed, staring at the ceiling-

Zekrom...can't just one goddamn thing from Orre stay dead? Did we even really accomplish anything there, or were we just patting ourselves on the backs a little while everything festered a little more subtly? Maybe Lucius was right...

...

Maybe let's not go too deep down the rabbit hole there.

Maybe it's a lie. I should check...

-he sighs, and puts down his phone-

-to find a Litwick staring at him-

Ever: ...Hi, Glimmer.

Glimmer: <You're in distress.>

Ever: Thanks for noticing.

-he pats the ghost candle on the head. She flickers cheerfully-

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

Spandex!Macraul: Surrender! My, someone's feeling rather full of themselves.

-the suit-wearing Macraul tosses another Pokéball in front of the Inferno, releasing a massive Araquanid, whose Water Bubble blunts the fire's impact-

Totem?Araquanid: <Noooooope.>

-the Salazzle spreads the stream to engulf the Bullet Seeds as well, losing some ground to the water-

-Pippy is now getting increasingly overwhelmed by the Muk and Toxicroak, despite his taunts-

-and then-

Megan: AHA! You fell for my plan! Which will execute now!

-they pause warily as Megan recalls all of her mons, Silas presumably doing so as well, and Megan wraps an arm around each of Silas and Kaisei, and pulls them close-

Megan: So see ya! -_•

-Beat-

Suit!Macraul: ...Technical difficulties?

Spandex!Macraul: Would you like us to take a picture?

Megan: I—

Spandex!Macraul: -waving a hand, as the mons march forwards- A bit disappointing an end to the hunt all around, but I guess the novelty—

-vwip-

-and there's only Pollen hovering there now, vibrating with a number of Quiver Dances-

Suit!Macraul: !

-happily- A bug!

Pollen: <Yo.> Oh thank Koko, they didn't get her. Should've gotten a timer or something...

-grinning, facing five mons at once- But I FINALLY got a command! And maybe she won't mind if I fight just a bit...

---

Rooftop

-vwip-

Megan: -breathing again- Oh thank Palkia. And Dialga.

Omen: ~And me!~ .. / .... . .-.. .—. . -.. ^* I HELPED!

Megan: -...blink-

Omen: -Staryu cough- ~Hecate's timely intervention. As prophesied.~ —- —- .—. ... .-.-.- ^* Oops.

Megan: Wait, if you're here, can you—

Omen: ~No.~ ... —- .-. .-. -.— .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.- ^* Sorry...

Megan: But, but why—

Omen: ~Follow me! And send out your Vaporeon.~ .— . / ... .... —- ..- .-.. -.. / .-. ..- -. —..— / .-.. .. -.- . / -. —- .— ^* We should run, like now.

-Megan does so, following the mysterious Staryu after her mysterious plan mysteriously enacted-

-she doesn't seem to be doing anything else with it, if that's relevant-

Tripod: -recognizing the stuff- ( • )–( • )–( • )

Thespi: <Hey, that looks like—>

Tripod: <...>

Thespi: <...oh.>

-sighing- <Well, go ahead, lock us up, until you find out who actually did it.>

Tripod: -practically exudes the abstract concept of no, among all the other concepts they're currently exuding-

-unrelatedly, there's a faint, high-pitched ringing, likely unconscious-

Agrabah, Setting-Ambiguous Pirate Ship

Ceal:<...m-mm.>

<That. That doesn't mean we like. Killed them, or anything, d-did it?>

edited 22nd Apr '18 11:35:45 AM by Asterisk395

No mind to think. No will to break.

 Lilycove 

-Is eating lunch when I get Ever's text-

Ugh...

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Mauville airport, a few hours ago

Lila walked up to the check in desk.

Lila: I'm here to check in for the flight to Hau'oli airport.

Receptionist: That flight's been cancelled. We're so sorry.

Lila: What? When's the next one?

Receptionist: We've booked all the passengers on your flight onto one leaving from Lilycove.

Lila: When is it?

Receptionist: About a week. Don't worry though, we have given you a full refund and some accomodation in Lilycove.

Lila: Ok, thank you.

Receptionist: You're welcome. Have a nice day!

Lila left the airport.

Lila: I guess I will have some time to surf with Marie.

Lilycove beach, now

Lila is doing complicated manouvers on her Mantine slightly off shore.

Lila: Wahoo!

Lilycove

Eva jumped as K9 ran infront of her, shouting something.

Volt: <Aah!>

-fires thunderbolt on Eva's head-

Eva: GYAAAAAAAAH!

Merah: <Fwaaaaaaaaah!>

Eva: -dazed- Why did you do that?? You made him -pointing to Volt- char my favourite fleece. Not impressed.

I used to plug my deviantart here but turns out the link was too long.

Silas had recalled his mons, and lets Hacks out, "Uhh...."

Hacks blinks, ~What the crap just happened?~

"And what are we gonna do to help Pollen?"

~Not much we can do... We just have to hope that Pollen is okay.~

The answer would come in the form of a large bug.

<I saw there were many good birds in Kalos... I am seeing no birds.>

16 had made it to Kalos, somehow and looked about, <There are no birds here...>

He looked up and saw Pollen and the Macrauls, <Hello. Have you seen birds?>

-Lucina, Laurent, and Sumia watch intently, the latter leaning on her Luna lance.-

---

Elizabeth: 'Oh."

"Well, if you guys are banned from Pokémon Centers, I'll just stay there..I d-don't want to intrude."

Lyra: <She means we'd be happy to accept your invitation.>

-Naganadel and Oberon look at each other.-

"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"

The PEFE researcher just stares and lets out a Luxray.

PEFE Researcher: "Uh... what's going on here?... Anyone need help?..."

Kaisei: "...Yeah, can you recall her from-"

And then 16 appears.

"Uhhhh...."

Krokorok: <And let you roam free to do as you please?>

Slliuq: <Su fo emos dloh tsuj dluoc uoy ebyam?>

Jasmine: <I want to get to the bottom of what happened with my father too and this will make it much easier.>

Cacturne: <...Fine. Some of you stick with the guards. The rest, follow me.>

The Cacturne takes off while the Krokorok begins leading some of the group to the dungeons.

Louis: <From that big hole that could've broken my trumpet if it'd been a bit to the right? I doubt it. More likely we found some way to escape and bide our time. Maybe that genie or whatever Harun was able to get fix the ship.>

edited 22nd Apr '18 12:36:19 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 sighs-

Glimmer: <You have a bad feeling about this.>

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

Lou: *muttering* Why do I let you do these things...

-Lou strolls over to Eva.-

Lou: Sorry about that.

-Lou glares at the Shellos, then the Arcanine.-

Lou: Name's Lou Natbar. This is Carol, my Shellos, and K-9, my Arcanine.

Lilycove

Eva: Oh, I'm fine. Just a bit charred after that Arcanine startled my Joltik. Not the first time I've been hit by a pokemon move and far from the worst. My phone would have been busted though, had I not pre-emptively designed a device to absorb the electricity. Probably the worst I've been hit by a mon's attack was when I got hit in the face by a poison powder-spore combo. My eyesight has never been the same since...

-looks around-

Sorry for rambling on there, I just love to go on and on and on if I feel passionate about something. Hmm... Sometime it would be cool to research the effects of pokemon moves on humans... Oh how I would love to become a researcher someday. A proffessor, aether foundation scientist, PEFE... Anything would do.

Lila had been wondering around looking for the hotel she had been booked in to and heard some of the conversation.

Lila: Nah, you do not want to work for aether. That place is a wretched hive of pokemon-abusing scum.

I used to plug my deviantart here but turns out the link was too long.

-Odin peeks-

Odin: <Er, oh yeah, I wound up telling that Ever friend of yours about the flash drive problem.>

-The group splits up, Umbra and Ammy going with the princess and the rest heading to the dungeons-

-Enzo has been silent and looks mighty conflicted-

Litwick: -to the group- <Ohoho~ You all are very interesting...>

edited 22nd Apr '18 12:08:39 PM by Umbramatic

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Lou: Wow, information flow ain't stopping, huh. Well, I'm just an unlucky guy from Jubilife. If you want to research rare Pokémon, I've got someone you can say hi to...

-Lou takes out Heztun.-

Heztun: <The fuck you want?>

-Lou turns his attention to the Litwick.-

Lou: Get your beady little eyes off of me if all you're gonna do is stand there.

PEFE Researcher: "Oh, wow, you sound a lot like what my boss has told me about Kukui. At least in the sense of topics of research."

Luxray: <Researcher, huh? You were about this girl's age when you tried joining, huh, Ma->

And then she sees the Litwick. And offers a glare.

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

Lilycove

Lila: -to the litwick- Why would you say that?! That's just... just so wrong! -to the luxray- joined what? Who and what are you talking about?

Eva: Erm, how are you speaking to the mons? It's like you're fluent in monese or something!

Lila: Yep. Well, it's not like I'm a psychic or something!

Eva: Well, you only said psychic. That means you could be an auric or obscuric and you're just not tellinng me.

Lila: Well I'm not any of those either.

Eva: Well, how do you know monese then?

Lila: Long story, tell you later.

Eva: -to the researcher- But, what did you join when you were about my age, if of course what that girl -points at Lila- says is right?

edited 22nd Apr '18 12:27:26 PM by QuantumMelody29

I used to plug my deviantart here but turns out the link was too long.

 Lilycove 

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

-there's no reply for a while after the text is read-

-not even a typing notification-

-and then it very abruptly appears-

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

 Lilycove 

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Suit!Macraul: ...oh.

My god.

-taking off the mask, revealing starry eyes- That's an amazing bug!

Spandex!Macraul: Yes, yes, Henri, amazing. But our prey is escaping—

Pollen: <Would you just FIGHT—>

-she fires an Energy Ball at them, and the poison half respond with a barrage of attacks-

Suit! Henri Macraul: Forget the hunt, this—this would be—

A perfect addition to my collection.

-and he hurls a Net Ball at 16-

---

Distant Rooftop

Megan: -jogging- Pollen's fine! Pollen's just going to get away from them. She shouldn't have too much trouble with her boosts, even with the fire and the spiders and stuff. She's tiny, and really fast.

-Vee stares at her-

-there's a dumbfounded pause, before she finds the words to say-

Vee: -urgently- <So you're telling me the keystone of your grand escape plan where we all get out okay was to leave Pollen, surrounded by enemies, itching for a fight like this, as ordered by you—>

<And to expect her to RUN?>

Megan: I—

-glancing around, no line of sight to Pollen- ...

-panic- F U C K

YOU I D I O T

Omen: ~I can get a message out!~ -. —- / .—. .-. —- -... .-.. . — ^* No problem!

Megan: -hopeful- C-can you? T-tell her—tell her—

-a green Psychic Gem floats out of Megan's pack and pulses-

-Megan gets an image of Pollen, barely hanging on in the face of a lot of fire and poison-

Baton Pass out. Right now.

Omen: ~Done. ...in the meantime we really need to move.~ •

Megan: But—

~Right NOW.~

-and he starts spinning off, Megan soon following-

-Thespi moves to follow the Krokorok to the dungeons. She glances back at Tripod, who blinks back at her, waiting back to go with the Cacturne-

Thespi: -grin- <I'll...tell you all about it later?>

Tripod: <...> -nod-

-and they go separate ways-

Agrabah, Setting-Ambiguous Pirate Ship

Ceal:<...oh.>

<H-ha ha, I'm g-glad that d-didn't g-get you...!> oh noooo...

<...g-genie...?> ._. ...oh, that's not good...

Chrom: -watches, concernedly- <...I was hoping whatever he did to make that...living wall terrified of him would come to the fore.>

Lissa: <Eh, at least it's someone he can't just beat down? Maybe it'll go on long enough to get some of that BETRAYAL out...>

No mind to think. No will to break.

The ball hits 16 and he's swallowed up inside... only for 2 seconds later the ball to explode and there 16 stands.

<You are not a friend. You are not good bird either.>

16 looks over at Pollen who seems to be struggling and lowers his cannon, <I will assist you fellow bug.>

16 marches forward, techno blast charging, his footsteps heavy and audible, <This entire situation is too one sided... these bugs have poison. I am a steel type with advanced cybernetics. these parameters... are acceptable.>

16 fired the Electric Techno Blast at full power, his eyes glowing as he started to analyze the situation.

Silas follows close behind Megan, loading his blaster with yellow cells, "I've got concussive shots, if I can get a good line of sight at the macrauls I should be able to just end this prematurely."

~That's unlikely to work out...~ Hacks adds.

Odin: -reads the texts- <Eeep, I knew this would happen, I know I can't convince him to trust me but just don't let him->

-A voice booms out-

   Yveltal: <I can confirm that despite your well-earned greviances against this fellow if you even attempt to harm him and derail his mission I will take your souls personally.>   

   <Though a remimder that Odin, dear? Behave yourself or I will let them have their way with you.>   

-Odin curls into a ball best a Sandyghast can-

Odin: <I-I will, boss...>

Litwick: <Well, enough messing around. Have any of you seen an Oricorio anywhere?>

edited 22nd Apr '18 1:16:10 PM by Umbramatic

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The researcher sees that Lila's translating for this person so se drops er guard a bit.

PEFE Researcher: "Oh, I joined PEFE. As an intern, but I know some others who went to researcher."

"At any rate, nice to meet you. My name's Maggie."

Luxray: <If I have, why should I tell you?>

Kaisei: "...Fuck."

Not thinking, he throws Tale's ball down in Henri's direction, possibly leading to a Tentacruel falling on top of or nearby him.

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

Lou: I agree with the Luxray. You've ticked off every single one of my required "Evil Stereotype" boxes, so I'd choose your next words very carefully.

Carol: <This is not what I had in mind.>

K-9: <It's probably good for him to knock out a villain every once in a while.>

Carol: *In Lou's arms, being held like a gun* <That's not what I meant and you know it.>

Glimmer: <...>

-...-

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.