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Twinleaf Town, Past

- Has returned home -

DS' mother: It is nice to have you home.

- Smiles -

Yeah, it's good to be home.

DS' mother: So, I saw this news report on this volcano in Hoenn nearly erupting... I'm guessing you and your friends had something to do with stopping it?

Well, yeah. Sort of...

DS' mother: You know, I'm glad you're travelling with your friends and all, but... I wish you wouldn't get yourself into such dangerous situations. You're the most important person in my life.

I know. And you don't have to worry about me, my Pokèmon are always by my side.

HotStuff: (clenching her fist, which crackles with electricity) <Count on me to keep her safe!>

DS' mother: Well... Promise me you'll stsy out of trouble for a while, okay?

Sure. I mean, that shouldn't be much of a problem, right?

Twinleaf Town, Present

- Watching the outside from a window, Velvet and Ribbons shuddering somewhat -

... This doesn't look good.

HotStuff: <What's happening out there?>

Twinleaf Town, Past

-greets DS' mother-

Airship

-wakes up-

Ow, my face...

Amanita: ...At least you're not dead?

Hush.

T: <Excuse this one? The Every?>

Hm?

T: <The Every may want to take a look out the window...>

Twinleaf Town, Past

DS' mother: Oh, hello there, Wolf.

Twinleaf Town, Present

Why is this happening now? Why here?

Crush: (barking at one of the windows in response to what is happening outside)

Great Marsh, past

Rex: Haha! *leaps from a bush and tosses a net at the Skorupi* Did I get him?

Celestic Town, sometime in the later past

Rex: *looking at the ruins with Melody*

Canalave City, present

Rex: *looking for Lina, likely still with Melody*

Rex's Pokegear: *rings*

Rex: ...? *answers*

Faith: Hello, kiddo.

Rex: ...Oh, hi, mom! What's up?

Faith: Nothing much. Just wanted to let you know that your arrived here safely. She must be good with directions.

Rex: Cat?

Faith: Yes, the Skitty.

Rex: Oh, my Ski- ... ... ...   WHAT!?    She knows where I live!? *thinking* Nooooo; now she'll never leave! @_@

Faith: So it would seem. Oh, and don't worry about Reed and Threedot; they're both doing fine...though somehow they've both managed to get driver's licenses. Lyra is taking them driving right now.

Rex:    QUE!?   

Faith: Well, that's all the news from home. Call me later, okay? I love you~

Rex: Y-yeah, I love you too, mom... *click* Urgh...what else could go wrong.

Nearby Keystone: *trollface*

Pastoria, last night

-Umbra and his Pokemon see a wave of Twilight washing over everything-

Styx: ...That ain't good.

Alduin: What's going on?

Umbra: I remember the historians back on Shadedrake talking of someone with this kind of power... A sorcerer that makes my Shadow Claws and Shadow Balls seem utterly pathetic.

Lumos: You mean the Obscura King?

Umbra: Yes.

Susano: That doesn't sound good...

Umbra: That's because it isn't. At all.

Canalave, last night

- Lina and co. see Twilight washing over everything-

Lina: Oh no... I heard about something like this in history books...

Chrome: Oh Arceus... He's back!

Axel: Ghosts, one-o-clock!

- They all notice a bunch of Spiritomb -

Hilde: Eep! The Absols were right! It's the apocalypse!

Lina: -extends a Shadow Claw- Finally, I get to do my job.

edited 16th Feb '12 8:35:57 AM by Umbramatic

Sunnyshore City

Citizen A: Hey, the power stopped working!

Citizen B: Nooooo; I can't take all of these rolling blackouts!

Citizen C: Who is responsible for this!?

Sunnyshore City Gym

Volkner: *sighs* Better start getting my alibi ready...

-Jeff tries to turn his TV to a Jubilife station, but just gets static-

"What's going on with my TV!?"

Canalave City

- Lina has just scared off some Spiritomb when she notices Rex-

Lina: Rex! You're alright!

-runs over to him with her mons. -

Over Sinnoh

- Umbra and Styx are flying on Mata Nui to Canalave -

Umbra: Are you sure that library will have info on the Obscura King?

Styx: Well, the internet is down, so it's our only chance we got.

Mata Nui: I haven't protected Umbra very well lately... maybe now is a chance to step it up...

Canalave City

Rex: Why wouldn't I be?

Rascal: <Did something happen?>

Gaea: <The atmosphere does seem...unsettling.>

Ohm: *looks at Lina curiously* Baah.

Deep in the recesses of Tagg's subconscious

Cynical!Tagg: I can't believe that we'd fall for something like that. We should've just Aura Sphered him in the face.

Idealist!Tagg: He's a Soul, like us?

Cynical!Tagg: That doesn't exactly bode well.

...Don't remind me.

Idealist!Tagg: Oh, looks like we're waking up now...

Inside the cave

-Groans-

Nudi: <Tagg's getting up.>

Ana: -Telekinetically lifts me up- <Are you alright Tagg? Now tell us, how did it feel to get hit by a Dark Pulse?>

-Slightly annoyed-

It hurt. A lot.

Ana: <Oh.>

Garchomp: -Sighs- <You were never taught much tact growing up, were you?>

-Leans against a cavern wall-

What happened while I was out anyway?

Vanilluxe: <Well, we tried to blast that guy and then he teleported away, and then Xatu teleported us here.>

Artemia: -Currently hugging my leg- <I was so scared when the bad man shot you.>

Pica: <Me too...>

-Looks around and turns her snout up-

<Not that I care, or anything. I just didn't want to end up stuck with those two up here.>

Tropius: -To Bohr- <Such a mouth on that one, how did you even handle her?>

Bohr: -Yawns in Pica's face- <Like that. Though once she evolves...>

Pica: <But I don't want to take a nap yet...>

-Falls asleep-

Audilith: <You might want to take a look outside Tagg.>

Well that can't be good.

-Looks outside, and is greeted by a plain unearthly sight, the skies awash with a twilight haze as loads of Spiritomb fly around-

What, what happened?

Nudi: <Well, that happened not too long after we got here.>

-Checks my Poketch and X-Transceiver, to see that neither are working-

Darn it.

-Gets out the watch Anom gave me for my birthday-

Good to see that this is finally getting some u-Grunts in pain from my back injury-

Tropius: -Moves over to support me before I fall over- <We need to find the others.>

Right, right.

-Gets out a paper map of Sinnoh-

To Twinleaf, I suppose.

-Recalls most of my mons before getting on Tropius and flying off-

edited 16th Feb '12 8:50:54 AM by rmctagg09

[AU] National Park, Yesterday

A portal opens and a Nidorino runs in from it carrying his Gracidea flower.

Vinollo -looks back: <Thanks! We gotta share more lore some day... somehow.> — lowers head in reverence and walks away into the grass.

The portal later closes.

Pastoria Gym — Past

CRASHER WAKE!!!: "You think you might have won but the true believer knows, only the end brings the end! Go, Quagsire!"

Tosses a Pokéball and a Quagsire appears.

Billy: <Oh hai~> — derpily waves a hand.

CRASHER WAKE!!!: "It is time to show the true strength behind the masks we set up, Billy. Don't let yourself lapse in your laurels if he can be clouded and lost instead!"

Billy takes the hint, casts Amnesia ("Memory Lapse") on himself then crosses his arms releasing a strong Rock-type aura~

Billy: <Be lost~> — casts a Sandstorm!

At the door of Faith's house

Inka: <Good boys, so here you live...> — pats Pierce on his head — <I'm gonna deliver you to your home then I have to go look for that    silly cat   ...>

Canalave

Lina: There's all this shadowy stuff covering everything and Spiritomb everywhere! Don't you see it?

Chrome: <It's quite possible he actually doesn't notice, Lina.>

Ruto: Ooh, an Ampharos! -Nuzzles Ohm.-

Meanwhile

- Umbra, Styx and Mata Nui land in the city-

Umbra: Okay, to the library.

- They head in Lina's direction-

Flying over Jubilife City

-Has been using a combination of Cloak and a Someone Else's Problem field to avoid getting attacked by any Spiritomb while injured-

Eh?

-Notices a lot of green flames as well as the giant TV screen displaying nothing but static-

Now that's just weird.

-Lands-

Tropius: <Well, there were people there earlier when we went to fetch supplies.>

Let me see something then.

-Starts focusing, the flames revealed to actually be humans-

The flames, they are people.

Tropius: <How'd that happen?>

Not sure, but it probably has to do with this twilight haze.

Victini: -Points up ahead- <Over there!>

-What appears to be two suits of armor are up ahead, with Obscura subtly emanating from them-

Looks like potential trouble.

edited 4th Jan '13 6:14:33 PM by rmctagg09

Rex/Faith's House

Pierce: <Cats are pretty silly, aren't they? :3>

Minty: *knocks on the door*

Faith: *answers* Hel- ... ...Oh! More of my son's Pokemon, I presume? *inspects them* Oh, I see you've evolved, Minty! Good for you! *pats his head; looks over at and picks up Pierce* Are you...Rascal's son?

Pierce: <Oh, I remember you from the hotel!> *yips* <Yes, it's me, Pierce! :3>

Faith: Awwww~ *cuddles him carefully* Aren't you just the cutest thing? *looks over at Inka* Hmm...oh, you're Inka, aren't you? So that's why these guys have been just wandering in. *smiles* Thank you for escorting the three of them to me; would you like to come in for a snack?

Rex/Faith's House: Roof

Pidgey: *coos at Copahue and Harriet, who have been cuddling for several days straight*

Pastoria City Gym, past

Rex: Hey! I thought you were a Water-type Gym Leader. *covers eyes*

Nico: *takes damage from the sand* <Eek! You can't hide your valuables from me like that!>

Rex: Use Thief!

Nico: *goes to frisk/rough-up Quagsire*

Did the chatroom server just have a SERIOUS hiccup?

Faith's Rooftop

Harriet blushes profusely, then fires an Air Slash at the Pidgeys.

Harriet: <Leave us alone, coo~!>

Copahue: <...> — ruffles feathers — <Perhaps we should return inside.>

Harriet: <Awww...>

Chat appears to have died for me.

Airship, bridge

Icicle: <Hey! Why are things being so jerky?>

Shadow: <Got attacked by a Pawniard. Couldn't do anything to get her off the controls. We should be stable now.>

Icicle: <Couldn't you have just used your weird mind-scan trick to use a fire move or something?>

Shadow: <...How did I forget about that?>

Airship, elsewhere

Pianis: -is looking out a window at Sinnoh- That's not normal...

Yes. Chat's dead for me to, which sucks because I can't tell Rex to edit his post...

edited 16th Feb '12 9:22:00 AM by Umbramatic

Rex's House: Rooftop

Pidgey: <Eep!> *flee from the minor damage*

Canalave City

Rex: There's a...what? ... ... ...oh dear...they're coming to Sinnoh aren't they?

Rascal: <It's entirely possible that they're already here.>

Rex: Well...at least there aren't any volcanoes around. ._.

Gaea: <They? Volcanoes? What's going on? Have you gotten involved with the mob or something?>

Ohm: <Hello!> *hugs Ruto* <What kind of Pokemon are you? How do you do the things you do?>

Tanith: *looks at Lina's mons from Rex's shoulders*

Damian: *is paying attention to the city more than everyone else* <Oh, this is great! The Port City of Canalave, if I'm not mistaken? It's close to Iron Island, which is where it exports iron for usage in the city. There are also two neighboring islands which are said to house two Legendary deities, Cresselia and Darkai.> *flails excitedly* <And there's a library!>

Avice: *is asleep in her ball*

Current Team: Rascal the Flareon (♂), Ohm the Ampharos (♀), Damian the Heracross (♂), Avice the Doduo (♀), Aloise the Ponyta (♀), Tanith the Seviper (♀), and Gaea the Golem (♀)

Canalave City

Lina: Ack! There's a swarm right behind you!

- Goes to attack the Spiritomb with her mons-

- Umbra suddenly stumbles on the scene with Mata Nui and Styx-

Umbra: What in Giratina's name?

Mata Nui: We should help!

Styx: Yeah! I HATE Spiritomb!

-Umbra lets out his other Pokemon and they join the fight.-

PEFE HQ, [REDACTED], ~1h ago

Some employees are working on simulations, feeding and other things when one of them notices something.

"Hey guys, the particulated matter measurements from Valley Windworks are no longer flowing in..."

"Ah? That's weird, I upgraded the software this morning, it just- wait, why can't I get a ping?"

"Perhaps it's something with the weather?"

"..."

"..."

"It's not responding either..."

"What the heck? I was just talking to the captain in one of our freighters and we lost all comm..."

"This is weird."

"Try calling again?"

"Lemme reroute through the Fiore antenna..."

Lawyers Room

Silent and Tracer are still videoconferencing with the lawyers when suddenly the signal goes dead, the screen turning to a blank white black.

Tracer: "...Did you do something, Silent?" — looks around.

Silent: "No, Maekrite is not here... perhaps the connection to Jubilife just died..."

Tracer: "...Can't we resume it?"

Silent -types stuff in terminal: "...Not from here, it seems. Apparently there's something wrong on their end."

Tracer stands up and starts checking the piles of documents, letting a couple of minutes pass.

Tracer: "Come on, come on." — observes the screen for a moment — "Perhaps they had to abort for some reason. We shouldn't be losing all contact just like that."

Silent: "Still nothing... Perhaps we could ask someone else..."

Tracer: "A shame, we'd have to leave for that..." — looks at the screen — "But hey... it was not us who cut off the comm..."

Silent: "And we can not resume it from here..."

Tracer -turns to Silent, hand on chin: "Which means..."

The two look at each other for a moment, then smile, big grin, laugh.

Both: "We are excused from this [REDACTED]! Whoo hoo!"

They quickly stand up and leave the conference room to head to the habitats and check up on their mons.

Canalave City

Rex: *finally notices the Spiritomb; to himself* Oh, that's what she was talking about. I guess we'd better take care of this. *lets Avice out of her ball*

Avice: *wakes up from the noise* <Squawk?> <We were sleeping...>

Rex: Oh, but Avice... *points at a Spiritomb* That guy called you ugly!

Avice: <...   WHAT?   > <   WE WILL EAT HIS EYES   > *attack with Pursuit*

Rex: *points at another Spiritomb* Look, Damian, that guy borrowed all of the books that you wanted to read at the library...and doesn't plan to return them!

Damian: <   YOU FIEND!   > *Megahorns a Spiritomb*

Rex: Ohm, that Spiritomb...umm...insulted Dintel!

Ohm: <   THIS IS UNFORGIVABLE   > *Thunderpunches a Spiritomb*

Rex: *continues on like this for a while*

Twinleaf Town, Present

DS' mother: (checking up on the electronics in the house) What's going on? None of the things here are working!

- I examine my Poketch and X-transceiver -

My things aren't working either...

Sparq: <Something is messing with the power?> (to Swindle) <Hey, Swindle? Think you can steal whatever is causing this?>

Swindle: <Um... Sorry, but I can't really steal something unless I know what it is, and where to look for it.>

Sparq: <Oh...>

PEFE HQ

Helios: -Is looking at a documentary about different kinds of honey when a news report about the Sinn communications blackout cuts it off- <Huh? Tagg and the others are probably in danger! I have to go rescue them!>

-Tries to fly out of the HQ-

Jubilife City

-Has been trying to get people's attention as we approach the armor-

Darn it, it's like we're invisible or something, even when we turned all of our cloaking stuff off.

-One of the suits turns around...revealing an Odd Keystone in the center-

Controlled by one of those, eh?

Armor!Tomb: <You will bow before us or be destroyed, Soul.>

Tropius: <I don't like the way you're talking to my friend.>

Armor!Tomb: -Pulls out a massive sword and has it glow purple with Obscura- <So be it!>

-Attempts to slash Tropius, but he uses Protect-

Tropius!

-Tosses him a Salac Berry and focuses a Foresight on the Armor!Tomb-

Use Natural Gift!

Tropius: -Uses the Salac Berry's power to fire a blast of Aura potent enough to send it on it's back-

Armor!Tomb #2: -Runs towards us-

Not this time.

-Shoots it right in the face with a Foresight assisted Aura Sphere, which drains me quite a bit-

Tropius: <We need to get out of here, we can't prolong this with you in your current condition.>

Please, they're nothing, we can easily trash these punks.

-Falls on one knee-

Alright, you may have a point there, but we can't let them follow us.

Tropius: <Right.> -Trips the two Armor!Tombs with Grass Knot before opening a hole in the earth with Earthquake under them so that we can fly away-

Hopefully that won't make our rep go down even lower.

edited 16th Feb '12 9:50:04 AM by rmctagg09

Airship

-Mezzo has woken up and is on her laptop-

Hmm. I think I'll box Dreadwing for now. While we have the airship I don't really need a flyer. And Charybdis is gone, so... two to withdraw. Let's see who wants to come out...

-click-

Yin: <Something terrible is going to happen! You need to run for your life!>

Okay...I think you can stay put.

Yin: <No! Listen to me! There will be darkness and doom everywhere!>

It's all right. You're safe right where you are.

I think I'll let Cerberus and Muramasa out. They've been boxed up for a while...

-Mezzo deposits Dreadwing's ball, and gets the other two out of the PC-

Airship, bridge

-Icicle and Shadow are looking at the cloud of twilight over Sinnoh-

Icicle: <What's that?>

Shadow: <It's Sinnoh. Or it's supposed to be, at any rate.>

Icicle: <Yay! Sinnoh has lots of snow! We can go to that one city with all the snow!>

Shadow: <If we can find it.>