ITT: We are all Pokémon Trainers

Game Night

-Gabe shrugs-

Stormchaser Arena

-Julius sighs and helps Elizabeth up-

PMD-N

Arika: Sweeeeet!

Zumi: Thank you...

Edited by Umbramatic on Jun 30th 2018 at 10:33:37 AM

Skull Mansion

-Matthew notices Tagg as well-

Matthew: Hey! You're that guy, the one who put Jen in the hospital!

Hazard hears the description and then realizes what Silas meant by 'Shadow Guard'.

Hazard: <...Oh.>

<OH...>

<Mm...>

-to Tae- <I'm up for seeing what you come up with, but that said, might wanna try going off on a limb like the others...>

Lei strokes his mustache, then addresses the guard whose attention he got.

Lei: "Well, just wanted to say, handsome, how'd you get a job here? Seems my luck's run out and I could use another job."

Cris: <Ooh...>

Charles: <Very well, what will you give me for this?>

-Elizabeth laughs awkardly and accepts Julius' help.-

Elizabeth: "I'm gonna pretend I didn't get a burst of confidence and horribly fuck up."

"Do you need anything before I hide in my room for a week again?"

Jessica: "Suspicious.'

Aela: <Very well. Silas and Hacks...>

-She offers them two Moonbands.-

Aela: <Don't worry, you don't have to drink my blood.>

Harbringer: <And Silas, you could use a longer blade, so I offer you and your partner these.>

-He pulls out a golden sword in a sheath. A ball of light blazes in the hilt.-

Harbringer: <You'll recognize this. Dawnbreaker, the Purifying Blade of Meridia, slayer of the undead.>

-He then pulls out a sheathed katana, crackling with electricity.-

Harbringer: <Dragonbane, the weapon I use to slay Alduin. It is imbued with the power of lightning and the antithesis of dragons themselves. Use these blades wisely.>

-Tagg walks directly into the middle of a Smash Bros tournament.-

-Over the course of the next fifteen seconds, every head in the room turns to face the one person here who is not wearing anything resembling the Team Skull getup.-

Paula: ...Really? Now?

-One of the current Smash Bros players takes advantage of their distracted opponent to finish them off.-

Grunt 1: Hey! Foul! That doesn't count!

Grunt A: Pay attention, dumbass.

Shady House

One wonders why Lily asked me to help in the first place...

-To Matthew before entering-

Stay out of trouble kid, or you'll be making the same mistakes I did, if not worse.

Game Room

-To Paula, dryly-

Well I can always wait until you're done, or I can just beat you in Smash instead.

Edited by rmctagg09 on Jun 30th 2018 at 11:30:17 AM

Skull Mansion

Matthew: Whatever! Like you know anything about that!

-Paula blinks behind her sunglasses, and smirks.-

Paula: You know what, sure. Throwing out the battle format completely is exactly the sort of fuck-the-rules attitude those of us in Team Skull love. Fuck the trials, we'll settle this shit in Smash. Hey, y'all, out of the way, we've got a game to play.

-The grunts involved in the previous match mutter under their breath and back away from the console.-

Paula: You wanna do this with an audience? Or do you have those burning questions you wanna ask during the match that the kiddos really shouldn't hear?

-She winks.-

Shady House

-To Paula, deciding to ignore Matthew's comment-

The kids can leave, except Matthew, he can stay since he's like... quasi-J-Team already.

-Paula clears her throat-

Paula: All right, y'all, you heard the guy. Everybody out except Matt, unless you wanna leave too. We've got business to settle. We'll save the replays, don't worry.

-The other grunts awkwardly shuffle out of the room. Paula rolls her swivel chair over to the Wii U in the room, setting a Buginium Z on top of it.-

Paula: First to three wins, yeah?

Shady House

Matthew: I'm not part of your stupid team, okay?

-despite this, he says in the room-

Rocky: <We needed a break from cleaning anyway.>

Shady House

-To Paula-

Fair enough.

Stormchaser

Shutter exits with Aphrodite, trailing a large leather case with him. He is wearing a backpack, which presumably contains the stabilizer he usually carries along with him, along with a tripod's head sticking out. A rotom follows him around.

Shutter: Whoa. Sweet digs.
Gimbal: <Puh, you've seen one laboratory, you've seen them a... holy crap.>
Shutter: Yep, Gimbal. It's a dirigible. Don't act like you've never seen one before. We worked in Valencia.
Gimbal: <They look nothing like this. Don't you have bad memories of that one airship that crashed near Shamouti?>
Shutter: I was more freaked out about the apocalyptic weather.
Gimbal: <Aw, come on. You've told that story about the airship in Shamouti more times than I thought was mathematically possible. How are you not nervous about this?>

Gimbal nonchalantly floats around the luggage. She dons an incredulous look on her face at the sight of how large it is.

Gimbal: <Is all this stuff really necessary? I thought doing it guerrilla style meant sticking to the basics.>
Shutter: It is all necessary. You're talking like we haven't been in this industry for years. Besides, our host was gracious enough to have all the other stuff delivered.
Gimbal: <And are you sure we're not gonna need that hotel reservation. My followers on Imperapic need to know I'm near the Prism Tower.>
Shutter: I should revoke your social media privileges. Small wonder I couldn't get an account in.

Shutter turns to his host.

Shutter: Thank you again for having me here, madam. I haven't seen one of these airships up close. The blimps from Kanto were never this fancy.
Gimbal: <Okay, any bet that this one is capable of massively pissing off the beast of the sea?>
Shutter, to Gimbal: Ahem. to Aphrodite: Pardon me, madam. Is casual photography allowed inside the premises?

Edited by MasterJayAM on Jul 1st 2018 at 12:02:02 PM

Paula: Sweet. Make yourself comfortable.

-She picks her character, which happens to be [Capumon equivalent of Mewtwo], specifically with this palette◊.-

Shady House

-To Paula-

Shadow palette? Seriously?

-Goes with Ness with his default costume-

-Elizabeth is walking back to her room, a donut in hand.-

Jessica: "Hi Lizzie!"

-Elizabeth jumps a bit.-

Elizabeth: "Oh. Hey Jessica."

Jessica: "What're you doing?"

Elizabeth: "I'm going to go into my room, eat this donut, then I'm gonna take a long shower and cry."

Beat

Jessica: "I got a better idea. You're 20. Come on. We are going to have a girls' night."

Elizabeth: "...I don't have a choice, do I?"

Jessica: "Nope!"

Elizabeth: "...can I change first?"

-Paula shrugs nonchalantly-

Paula: I figured it would be a good conversation starter.

Stormchaser

Aphrodite: Hmmm... I should probably ask Tagg about it but as long as you don't do it in private quarters and sensitive areas you should be fine. I'll keep an eye on you, kid.

Edited by Umbramatic on Jun 30th 2018 at 12:45:19 PM

Shady House

-Sitting down-

I would assume you're picking the stage.

Paula: Well, duh, I'm in charge here, of course I'm picking the fucking stage.

-She picks the Colosseum Coliseum.-

Shady House

-Looking at the choice of stage-

...Of course. You know, the last I saw of you before all of... this, was back when the Unown dragged you away in Fiore. And now you're back with a glitchy Aura, so my first question is how you managed to escape and became a separate entity from Rose.

Paula: Ooh, I'm glad you asked, I was wondering if that was gonna come up. See, the Unown decided the best way to keep me in check was to scrape Rose's mind clean of everything about me, and stick all the leftover me in a fun place called Dashedreams, way on the far reaches of the Collective Unconscious. By "fun", I mean the place is boring as shit.

Shady House

So she's like Noir, or Basket's Charizard aspect, an aspect given separate life from their progenitor. I wonder if they ended up there as well and then somehow escaped like she did.

-To Paula-

How'd you manage to get out, if the Unown decided to stick you in a place so inaccessible? It's surprising you didn't just become demon food. I'm guessing a Glitch because of your Aura.

Elizabeth: "You never said this was a karaoke bar."

Jessica: "Well originally I was gonna take you to a strip club or a topless bar but that seemed a bit too much."

-Elizabeth just blinks in shock as they enter and take their seats at the bar.-

Jessica: "Bartender! Four shots of vodka and an order of mozarella sticks, please."

-She turns to Liz.-

Jessica: "What about you?"

Elizabeth: "Uh...I like nachos, and...piña coladas are alchoholic, right?"

-Jessica giggles.-

Jessica: "We are gonna have fun tonight."

Paula: Oh, of course. Hitchhiked out on none other than the big one, in fact. A-block. The Missingno wannabe. Ol' 20K. You remember my cameo there, don't you, during the Pause?