ITT: We are all Pokémon Trainers

The Honchkrow considered for a bit.

Honchkrow: <I can tell you you don't seem especially Sneasel-y to me.>

-the Victreebell is grappled-

-Nana or Candy may notice a strange gray node with glowing red lines on its upper back-

-The kids stare at EMPEROR-

Rod: ...Yes?

-Reina sighs-

Reina: We ought to go back to the Bwah Bunker... Take a breather... Regroup and figure things out from there...

 Route 4 

Ann: Yeah...

“D... do y’all see that... on its...?”

Before anyone can tell her not to, Nana jumps up and lunges for the Victreebel while it’s restrained, attempting to remove the... whatever it is!

Nix: <Ugh, boring, mostly. You wouldn't believe how little there is to actually do at the Battle Frontier on a daily basis.>

Kai: Nix...

Nix: <What happened to the exciting stuff? The adventure?>

Kai: I don't— I don't do adventure anymore. You literally came to me because of my new, not-adventure-y job.

Nix: <I knoooow. It sucks.>

JD shrugged, "I have worked with Interpol before, ended up beating up this large Neo-Flarite who insisted on posing and how great the science was."

JD shook his head, "Of course my employers at the time had me employ a sudden but inevitable betrayal."

Brie: Adventures aren't all they're cracked up to be, you know. ^_^;;

Foam: <Yes they are!>

Brie: Don't encourage her!

-PEFE!Every has not moved in a while-

-her team is getting concerned-

Cervantes: <She smells alive...>

Checkmate: -peering over her shoulder- <Oh.>

Cervantes: <What?>

Checkmate: <She's...browsing alternate universe memes.>

Cervantes: <...Well. See you all in a few days, I guess.>

EMPEROR: (Still posing) <W Ould you happen to know anything about a company called Mobius?>

"Sounds good."

Nix: <Psh. I bet I'd have more fun with the Bronze Birds.>

Kai: Nix, we've already established, as long as your father has entrusted your care with me, I'm not going to let you join them. Their work is dangerous, and I imagine being a legendary bird is going to draw a lot of attention to you among them.

-Nix pouts. Kai pinches the bridge of her nose.-

Kai: Gods, I feel like such a dad.

-In his cabin in the Stormchaser, Lucius is slouched back on his bed, phone pressed to his ear in preparation for an important family conversation.-

Liam: H-hello?

Lucius: Hey, bro! Happy -hic- birthday!

Liam: ...Huh?

Lucius: Y'know, your birthday! You're nineteen now! Don't tell me you forgot!

Liam: Er, n-no, I think you forgot. That was l-last week.

Lucius: ...Oh?

Liam: Last F-Friday. Me and L- a f-friend of mine just stayed in and watched some m-movies.

Lucius: Oh.

-There is an awkward pause.-

Lucius: Happy Sixdaysaf- Sixdayaverser- happy late birthday, then!

Liam: ...Lucius, are you d-drunk?

Lucius: What, me? Nah. No no no, I'm not drunk. Tipsy, maaaaybe.

Liam: Oh, o-okay. It... sounds like you're having a g-good time?

Lucius: Oh yeah! What with me and Kai and the rest of the gang and... it's just like old times, yannow?

Liam: Erm... not r-really, no, but I'm glad you're recovering with, er, f-friends and everything. I don't wanna k-keep you if you're-

Lucius: Nah, you're fiiiiiine. Don't you worry about me, you're the birthday boy. I'll letcha go now. Good talk, bro. Good talk.

-He hangs up, drops the phone, immediately picks up a bottle, and turns back to the bootleg copy of From Space With Love playing on the laptop.-

Lucius: Maaaan... I coulda made it big in Pokestars...

Brie: The Bronze whomsts?

Foam: <You can't be bronze, you're gold. It wouldn't make any sense.>

-a voice comes from nearby Lucius-

Ever: Dude. This is depressing, and that's coming from someone who scooted halfway across Lumiose on their face instead of admitting they weren't cis.

-uh, when did Ever get here?-

-...they're here now, anyway-

-they seem to be texting PEFE!Every, who is sending them memes from other universes-

Ever: (to Lucius) Are you, like, okay?

Lucius: Oh, hi Ever~

-Lucius rolls off the bed, apparently without noticing any change in his own relative positioning or velocity. Or that of the laptop, for that matter.-

Lucius: Me? I'm fiiine. Just fine. Livin' love, lovin' life, lifein'... Luvdisc. What I wanna know is, how're you?

edited 6th Jun '18 5:44:55 PM by Herbert40k

-Kai sighs-

Kai: Bird superhero agency she got word of.

Nix: <Of course I'm gold! I'd be a Bronze Bird in disguise. It's brilliant.>

Kai: It's reckless. Trust me, I miss being reckless, but I'm not going to endorse you putting yourself in danger because of it.

Channah: -distantly- Everything. And now I'm dragging you guys down with me. Oh well.

-Song's eyes flash as it shrinks away and summons three ghosts with white lights for eyes - that of a Wobbuffet, a Gliscor, and a Floatzel, the latter of which absorbs the Screech. They appear to be searching for something among the group, but the Wobbuffet and Floatzel appear to give up, using Safeguard and Surf respectively as Song attempts a Hypnosis on Jimmy-

-the Gliscor sniffs the air and flies forward, examining each trainer rather than attacking; when he comes to Hae-Won, he hisses nastily but doesn't attack-

-the grid is empty but for the numbers printed in, but below lie five paper cards with tarot-like designs that would perfectly fit the spaces on it-

-the cards each display one of the four currently trapped in the room as well as Tagg, all dressed in fantastical clothing like medieval characters and surrounded by symbolic imagery apparently relevant to them-

-there's also a poem that doesn't scan properly-

Pidge: <Jean here is my Trainer!>

Jean: It's nice, yeah. You want a look inside?

-The thing's in there pretty tight-

-It seems to be implanted-

-Takumi is helping restrain the thing with Ice Beam arrows-

Laura: Uh-huh! It's Dad's!

Lucas nodded, because why not.

Lucas: Oh, uh...sure.

Angel: <by that i assume you mean the woman my trainer has met?.>

edited 6th Jun '18 7:34:17 PM by medievalParadox

“It’s fuckin’—way in there, I’d need a knife or somethin’ to—“

It’s a good thing she receives a nasty electric shock right then, because she actually is carrying a knife on her.

-Ever blinks a couple times-

Ever: Those are certainly a series of words, each with a definition in the dictionary.

-they frown-

I'm not doing too badly. Kalos isn't exactly my favorite place but it's nice, and a good friend of mine lives here. Things have been quiet lately...

So two questions. Whatcha watching, and also can I have a drink?

Brie: Bird...superheroes.

-Kai can probably hear the gears crunching-

Brie: ...Okay. Neat.

-...-

Foam: <Ooh, a masked hero! Perfect!>

Brie: Come on, Foam. Yeah, it's dangerous. I know you're young, and it feels like you have to do something now, but trust me, heroics aren't the kind of thing you want to rush into.

Ares: <BLERGH>

Amanita: You okay?

Ares: <I HAVE BEEN TAKING ATTACKS FROM RANDOM PUPPET MONS SINCE WE GOT HERE!>

Amanita: Well, dish some back out! Cross Poison that Floatzel!

Ares: <With pleasure!>

-he dives at the Floatzel, lashing out with his bottom two wings, though he's started to look fatigued-

Amanita: ...So, uh, anyone here good at puzzles in high-stress situations?

Lucius: Good! Good. That's good. Quiet's good. I'm quiet, for instance! Well, I'm not quiet now, 'cause I'm talking. You're just gonna hafta take my word for it.

-He rolls back onto the bed and tosses Ever a bottle.-

Lucius: 'Course you can! I'm reliving my fifteen minutes of fame in With Space From Love. Did you ever watch it? It's terrible. You should watch it.

Route 4

Alright, let's head on 'home'.

-Pent retrieves his gun and slings it over his shoulders-

It kinda feels good to be a sniper. Little out of touch with our usual standards of combat which might be why it feels like a refreshing change of pace.

Hangar World

Alright, you lot fend off the sand. I've got this. Now then, the arcana is the means by which all is revealed.

-He smirks and begins thinking-

Every row has something but there's no full rows. Five cards so that's two rows of two and one with only one.

I stand on a Tower, all alone... But being on the left wall and with two filled diagonals means that I can only be in the middle of the left column.

Now, Performer goes on the bottom middle, with the Soldier one space to the right in the corner... That puts the only other female in the top mid with the Commander in the top right corner. Now of course I'm gonna just assume that they're not being dickish with who's who and get this all solved up okay?

-He starts placing the cards; himself in position 4, Tagg in the top right corner marked 3, Jimmy two spaces down in 9...-

Wait which one of you is a bat and which one's a performer?

edited 6th Jun '18 6:22:43 PM by Pentigan

-Record Scratch-

Laurent: "...I'm sorry, Robin."

Morgan: <You...killed mother? No, no, that can't be right...>

Laurent: "He didn't. It was his body, but not his mind."

Morgan: <You mean...Grima?>

-A tear rolls down her face. Laurent nods solemnly.-

-Shaun frowns at the bleached flag.-

Shaun: "Where were the Big Four during the Space Race, huh?"

 Binary Room 

-To Channah-

I would've come anyway, you know that. No one could've predicted an evil twin plot caused by multiverse bleed.

edited 6th Jun '18 6:38:13 PM by rmctagg09

Jimmy stared at the Poem and sighed, "Okay... Doubles..."

Then when asked to defend against the sand, Jimmy smirked, "Okay finally. A clear order."

Jimmy started to command his team to fire various beam attacks, he didn't want to waste any more bullets, "Whatever you got Magic Man, figure it out."

Silas gives a soft sigh as he walks over to the landing site and looks it over.

Hacks shrugs, ~He's a actual astronaut, he and Siobhan are probably the only ones here who could actually interact with this thing.~

"Time has not been kind to this thing, but it's still amazing to see none the less. We're not the first ones to come back here, but it's always a amazing site. Bishop, wanna take a picture with everyone?"

Bishop nodded, "Yes Captain!"

He rushed off back to the ship and Silas looked back at everyone.

"Current plans for the Moon come after the Mars Colony is finished, building a spaceport here on the Moon to help commercialize space travel and make it more accessible. However that's gonna take years... Heh... I'll be a old man by the time that happens."

Silas sighed wistfully, Bishop came back with a camera on what appeared to be a drone rig.

Sholto: <Neo-Fla->

<...Wait, you! I remember you! I was part of that! Why'd you betray us and what are you planning on doing now?>

Hae-won reads the poem over, unsure what to do when the Gliscor hisses at her, but doesn't attack them as they don't attack her.

Hae-won: "Thank Reshiram my parents were sure I learned Korean."

She is about to say something, but Pent figures out most of the puzzle.

As if to respond, she throws up an amount of glitter, making sure that it spreads all across the room and possibly onto the Gliscor.

Akravator, meanwhile, gets on top of/near Amanita and spreads a fake cape.

Akravator: <Bluh!>

Libby has had enough of this, pops out of her ball, and tries Shadow Raving the Gliscor.

JD blinked and squinted, he didn't recognize the Honchkrow, so he shrugged it off. "Sorry about that then, but orders are orders and we felt the scientist would be better suited working with us, that failed, so we gave everyone pizza."

JD tapped a pen at one of the papers, "And nothing involving the Rossum Institute, they're too busy making sure the next big product works for our... clients. Me? I'm just trying to get into policework."