ITT: We are all Pokémon Trainers

Sootopolis

Edge: <Hey, you're you! I'm me. Your powers probably work completely different for you than for me! At least materializing them. The finer details are probably more or less the same. Still, good exercise!>

-Nods- <For now, probably just focus on being able to materialize the energy. If my way works, great. If you find your own, fantastic! Eventually you figure out, kinda like Aura, I assume, I wouldn't know, you just find that switch that you use. It's learning how to flip the damn thing on that's hard. Once you do, you're gold.>

<Oh and after a while it stops being self-loathing stuff and stress. It's just easier that way! Or it was for me. Granted I was better when I was younger. Well better in that I could do more things. Once I was a Bisharp I could create homing Shadow Ball volleys and it was great. I can still do that. Sacrificed technique for power but it worked!>

<Anyways after you find out how to manifest it, you'll probably find a niche of constructs you like creating. Like Tagg and his chains and me and my claws or now shadow balls. Just... can't stress this enough really, your gut is always right with this. Always.>

Sootopolis City, with Edge

Lucius frowns.

Lucius: I dunno. My gut's a treacherous bastard. Or at least, my old one was. This new gut might be more reliable. We'll see, I suppose.

Sootopolis City, with Lillianna

Bishop looks wretchedly at Lillianna.

Bishop: <I've lied to him in the past, for his own sake. I can lie to him again.>

Sootopolis

Edge: <As was mine! They got us killed!>

-He laughs- <... But reason being you're working with a natural force here. This is something your body can direct, even if you've never done it before. It will try to do so in ways natural for it. Do yourself a favor and listen to it! It's like every other natural urge. Eating, drinking, reproduction, revenge, dancing, maniacal laughter, it always has a good reason!>

Neo-Flare Base

-Chrome flings himself in front of Lina to block the Psycho Cut-

Chome: <Gratuitous Kalosian aside, you seem an awful lot like Odin. Along with attacking my partner, that's good excuse to take you down now.>

-He immediately goes in for a Meteor Mash; Waka and Kiki follow up with Dragon Pulse and Tiana with Surf. Duolis tries to take Constantin by surprise with Shadow Sneak-

Excess Express

-His mons try to stop it, but Nico is still being flung around, too dazed to get out of it himself.-

Sootopolis

Lillianna: ...Thank you. With any luck, you won't encounter us again anyway.

Sootopolis City, with Edge

Lucius: I'm starting to think that we don't see eye-to-eye on what constitutes "a good reason", but I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the help, Edge.

He blinks.

Lucius: ...Wow, it feels weird to say that. Anyway, I haven't seen the others in a while, so I should probably let them know that I'm not dead. Or at least, no deader than I was when I last saw them.

He waves and wanders off.

Sootopolis City, with Lillianna

Bishop: <I would hope not.>

The words come out sounding more vitriolic than he intended, and he bows his head.

Bishop: <...Apologies. I can't claim to know what circumstances brought you here, or why you have chosen to remain. I only ask that you leave Lucius be.>

Sootopolis

Lillianna: We are still here because we have no future worth returning to. My father is a mass murderer, my mother has thrown her life away, I suffered neglect for seventeen years, and the world is a wreck even beyond my own personal life story. The more I work to prevent any other events that could lead to that future, the better.

Future!Bishop: <Thankfully, it no longer appears that Lucius's role in it is a concern any longer. We have no more grievances against him. And frankly... one death is enough.>

With Lina

Constantin raises an eyebrow as he drops Lina from his Zero-Point grasp. Morphing it into a shield to

Constantin: Should it surprise you that mon cousin and I resemble each other?

As the attacks are blocked, Constantin zips around leaps up towards Arika. His left leg coated in a pink aura.

Constantin: But here is where you'll stop!

Constantin begins to bring down his force

Main Group

Salvador: You go on ahead. I'll be able to handle Lex here, after all what is a spat between friends.

Hologram!Lex: How on Earth could you send me back to our time? I mean, unless that's a metaphor or something.

Salvador: -Looking to the side- The world moves in mysterious ways.

Hologram!Lex: It's an empty threat if you ask m-

Salvador suddenly pulls out, from a pouch obscured by both his priestly garb and obscuric cloak, a familiar, roughly cut pale blue orb.

Salvador: Does THIS, answer your question mon frere?

The hologram is shaking.

Hologram!Lex: Why... How... Where... When did you get that, Sal?

Salvador: I've had it for over a decade, since father's passing. It's a long and brutal story...

edited 2nd Sep '15 8:25:53 PM by PippingFool

Sootopolis City, with Lillianna

Bishop shakes his head.

Bishop: <...No. One death is too many.>

He turns away.

Bishop: <You have my deepest sympathies for what you have endured, but... speaking from experience, it is easier to accept the past than to try and change the future. Focus on what is, not what was or could be. Goodbye, Lillianna.>

He buzzes off in search of Lucius.

Neo-Flare HQ, Main Group

-Ever's jaw drops-

Ever: ...You know what, I'm going to listen to him.

-and he sprints away past Holo!Lex-

Neo-Flare HQ

Mezzo: Is that... wait a sec, didn't Tagg have that? Did you nick it from him?

Excess Express

-Jones gets whacked by the Tentacle-

Jones: <Agh, hey!>

-He sprays a Scald at the tentacle-

-Maggie meanwhile looks as the Smorg picks Nico up-

Maggie: "Nico!"

-She sends out Yuuya-

Yuuya: <Salu->

Maggie: "I don't care, get Nico down from there now."

Yuuya: <...Well, alright, then.>

-He tries to strike at the claw holding Nico with an Aerial Ace-

Sootopolis

-Future!Bishop wistfully watches his present self leave-

Future!Bishop: <...Truly intriguing, how much two decades can change one's ideologies.>

-Lillianna, on the other hand, slumps against the wall, finally letting go of the tension-

Lillianna: Thank you for not asking about Mom.

edited 2nd Sep '15 8:32:52 PM by BittersweetNSour

-Ren and Co. blink at the Adamant Orb.-

Ren: -shaking his head like there's water in his ears- I think I'm starting to hate time travel...

Raid, past

-To Mezzo, annoyed-

Not anymore, though I'd prefer you didn't spread around that I had one.

Neo-Flare HQ

Mezzo: So he did steal it?

Raid, past

...

-Facepalms-

Arceusdammit.

Muddy: <Cobalt... You think?>

Cobalt: <It is an Adamant Orb alright, but I think it was Tagg's in particular. If Salvador has it, however, what happened to him in his future? It's not like he'd just give it to anyone, let alone the son of Constantin.>

Muddy: <...Probably nothing good.>

edited 2nd Sep '15 8:50:10 PM by rmctagg09

Main Group.

Salvador: What I told you is no lie. When my father passed I inherited a rusty old key to the study he locked himself away in so often. Which contained his journals amongst...

Salvador squints slightly.

Salvador: ...All kinds of ill-gotten goods.

His eyes shift towards Tagg, hoping he got his inferral.

edited 2nd Sep '15 8:51:35 PM by PippingFool

Raid, past

-Is troubled, but hides it under an impassive face-

Please don't tell me he got the journal too. I'd hope in the event of my death my mons would manage to either spirit it away or destroy it, there's too much there to let fall into the wrong hands.

Draca: <How could we have failed so badly as to let that worm murder our trainer?>

Ren: -also putting the pieces together- Shouldn't we discuss this later? You know, after we kick Odin's butt and free the captured Kyurem? Especially after Arika's group was kind to tell us where that twisted Dedenne is hiding?

edited 2nd Sep '15 9:01:00 PM by keys2tkingdom

Camryn was walking through the cave, turning to look at new things almost constantly. Her eyes were the size of dinner plates as she gasped, "Whoooooooaa! This place is so cool!

The cave was filled with gems and minerals that reflected the light in just the right way, causing the cave to be brightly lit no matter where you went. Some of the gems gave the light their color as well, so it was almost as though you were walking inside a rainbow. The inside was almost entirely undisturbed by human hands, which made it pristine. Overall, the cave looked like a portal to an ethereal otherworld. Camryn, of course, absolutely loved it.

She gasped. "I know who'd love this!" She unclipped a Pokéball from her belt. "Go, Uri!"

The Jumpluff appeared in a flash, which set off a chain reaction of sparkles and flashes from the numerous gems. <What did you say I'd - Whoooooooaa!> Uri's expression almost matched Camryn's exactly. <Where are we?>

Main group.

Salvador: ...

...There is no time to dawdle on past yet future events now...

He catches wind of a crash further on down the hall.

Salvador: I'll explain later, but for now. Don't you want to spare your friends that fate?

edited 2nd Sep '15 11:36:01 PM by PippingFool

Raid, past

Right, let's go guys, Constantin likes to play with with food so we have some time, but we can't dawdle here.

-And my mons and I immediately start running down the hall-

Raid, past?

Ever: -waiting down the way-

Oh, hey again. The moth guy said we should run, and I didn't really feel like arguing with someone carrying a token of Dialga. Did I miss anything?

Ren: -to Ever hurrying after Tagg- Oh, not much. Just that Tagg gets murdered in a bad future, and that over half the Admins here are from said bad future - as is Father Reverend Salvador.

edited 2nd Sep '15 9:48:11 PM by keys2tkingdom