Stormchaser

July 31st. The day he met that really mean Delphox he still wanted to know more about. The day that he was turned into a Rockruff. The day he met the J-Team.

The day his life turned upside down.

He stared at the clock, counting down the seconds.

<Explain to me again why I’m wearing this thing?> Sunny asked, a replica of Quirinus’ mask on her face.

“Nostalgia,” Colt said flippantly.

<Vague,> Sunny snarked, her staff out and being twirled in one hand.

Colt drew out the Prax Obscura 2.0 and took a pencil and its eraser to the page. He scratched some things, rubbed some things out and Sunny just stared, backed up and leaned against the wall.

“Dammit!” A half-human Roy swore from a nearby convenient seat, a plastic cup half-full of coffee shattering in his talon before melting. “There’s something I’m missing, I know it! The Prax just shuffled the nonsense in the back and now I gotta do it all over again!”

<The riddles throughout the book probably follow the old format,> Sunny proposed. <Shouldn’t take but another two weeks at most!>

“There’s a series of numbers that’s completely irrelevant to everything else,” Roy complained as he returned to a page early in the book.

Sylveon and Lucario, who were also out, looked at Roy being a studious Blaziken gijinka boi. They rolled their eyes and approached their trainer.

<Eight years, now?> Sylveon asked.

<Yeah. July 20, 2010,> Lucario confirmed. <We never managed to satisfy the main point of the journey. Team Plasma was beaten by the J-Team, not us.>

<But we’re J-Team now, so did we beat him?> Sylveon asked. <Wait, don’t answer that. We weren’t J-Team when they beat Gutless, so we never satisfied our trainer’s life’s goal.

<You know I say that aloud and realize Colt used to be kind of a single-minded jerk,> Sylveon realized. <He wanted to live vicariously through us to satisfy something he never knew he had - a sense of justice.

<The day he was given Helmsman was the single most important day of his life,> Sylveon considered. <But meeting the J-Team? That was the greatest.>

<“Hear, hear!”> Everyone else chorused.

<Did anyone lock the door?> Sunny asked.

“Hey, it’s fine either way.”

Ersatz Alliance

Channah: -shrugs- There's always something, but I'm out of ideas...

-as she talks, a young man silently slithers into view behind her. He is dressed to the nines in white and gray, with a fluffy white scarf and a silky black scarf underneath it. He has a certain uncanny resemblance to a wealthy ex-Champion of Hoenn. He sees Kala and Kael and puts a finger to his lips in a clear 'shhh' gesture, smirking-

Channah: -oblivious- Once you meet people it'll be more interesting. Maybe.

Lumiose past

Lucas runs over to Golu to apply potions and a burn heal.

Goku <You put up a good fight, we shoulda do this again sometime.>

Lucas- hold still, I need to clean the ember out of your eyes.

Ersatz Alliance, Present

-Kala looks back at Bitey.-

Kala: <When in doubt, forget the manual and just do things how you feel you should. That's what I'd do, at least.>

-He looks back to notice the new person, but pretends he didn't see them. Kael doesn't really notice, though.-

Kael: <Probably.>

Lumiose, Past

Kael: <Someday... mainly so that one day I can prove our tie was just a lucky guess on your part.>

-Kael starts to get back up.-

Ersatz Alliance

human!Dolabella: -places a hand on Channah's shoulder and leans in close- Hey little mama, lemme tell you about my rock collection -

Channah: -jolts as she turns her head, then shrieks and dodges away from him directly into a clothes rack, which nearly tips over-

human!Dolabella: -breaks his suave profile to point at her and just laugh-

Ersatz Alliance, Present

-Kael and Kala are... unamused.-

Kael: <Really? That's what you're choosing to do? Well, it's your time as well, not just mine...>

Kala: <I was hoping it'd be funnier than that... now I'm just disappointed. Oh well.>

Lumiose Past

Lucas finished cleaning off Gokus eyes, as the Lucario stood up and opened his eyes

Goku <I would say it’s battle experience and skill, but call it what you like. But a word of advise, when fighting against someone like me, never expect them to stay still.>

Lumiose, Past

Kael: <Likewise, never expect someone to be so easily defeated.>

Kala: Well, that was certainly explosive... though I was hoping they wouldn't get so roughed up before stopping.

Ersatz Alliance

human!Dolabella: -grinning- Didn't expect you to. What's important is that she knows -

Channah: -with a look on her face- ...Take it off.

human!Dolabella: Already? Well, who am I to say no... -lazily traces a hand down to his belt-

Channah: not that

human!Dolabella: -gets distracted by his reflection in a mirror and makes a pleased sound- ...Whoa. ...Damn. I am hot.

Channah: Aztec.

-Aztec Camera knocks out the narcissist with a Psychic, then thinks for a moment and unwinds the scarf from around his neck-

Channah: -hastily withdraws Dolabella and turns to her tour group- Okay, congrats on winning the game, let's get out of here. -power-walks out-

Ersatz Alliance

Mr. Bitey: <I dunno if that's such a good idea. There's a lot of stuff in here I don't know anything about...>

(Noticing Dolabella) <Hey, mister, if you wanna keep that you're gonna have to do a trial.....> He trails off as Dolabella is knocked out and recalled.

Edited by Daydre on Jul 30th 2018 at 1:20:58 PM

Ersatz Alliance, Present

Kala: <Well, yeah, but sometimes you just gotta take a chance with—>

-Kael grabs Kala and brings him along before he's able to finish.-

Kael: <Sorry, but we really have to go...>

-He then brings them both back to Channah.-

Kael: <I had a feeling he was going to be obnoxious, but I didn't expect that, of all things!>

Stormchaser, past

Channah: -squeezing her eyes shut as Aztec Camera waves goodbye to Mr. Bitey, she doesn't respond for a minute- ...You. Didn't. See that. Eurgh. -stops to collect herself, then speaks again to the pair, still looking unsettled- Welp. That's, that's about all I can do for ya. Exit's that way if you want. I'm gonna go. Bleach my eyes. -wanders away-

Lumiose past

Lucas-yeah that did get volatile quickly. But the important thing is, it stopped before it escalated further, although that would be because of the type advantage.

Goku <Duly noted.>

Stormchaser, Present

Kala: <Well... now what?>

Kael: <I suppose we're doomed to do what we always end up doing: wandering and looking for something else interesting.>

-Kael brings Kala along and starts wandering the halls, looking for people to interact with when they come across a group of peoplemon.-

Kael: <Shh... quiet.>

-They try to be sneaky and watch the group from behind a doorway, but it's pretty obvious given the brightly-colored Braixen.-

Lumiose, past

Kala: Well, I'm gonna go bring Kael to a Pokemon Center just to make sure nothing else is wrong and to stock up on stuff again. You're welcome to come with, but... chances are you'll lose track of me, so it's better to assume we'll meet again later.

Kael: <When he wants to move, he means it... farewell for now.>

-They both then walk off, Kael being in a significantly better state than before.-

Edited by GenericGeneral on Jul 30th 2018 at 1:54:07 PM

Stormchaser

Roy reached for his coffee, seemingly forgetting about the red plastic that melted onto the floor by his own hand.

He started to turn around but he paused when he saw the Braixen looking in through the doorway. He rolled his eyes and gestured for him to enter before he got back to looking intently at the book.

A can of soda came flying out of a backpack before landing into the other human’s hand, but whether or not the Blaziken gijinka counted as human was up in the air.

Stormchaser, Present

-Kael and Kala enter the room where the group is situated.-

Kael: <Are we interrupting something?>

-Kala just watches them nervously. He's usually fine with meeting new people, but he's not exactly keen on meeting entire large groups at once like this...-

Lumiose past

Lucas- See you later then.

Goku waved goodbye and got back in his pokeball, leaving Lucas with the realization that he was low on money. Leading him on a the road to the present, looking for a quick way to make some money.

Lucas-.......Shit.

Lumiose present

Lucas is still looking for some money.

Stormchaser

“Not really,” The one with the soda and the one with the book chorused.

“Plenty of seats, soda and woes to go around,” the full human stated as he opened the soda with a snap of his fingers before chugging it for about half a second.

Stormchaser, Present

-Kala and Kael both take seats. Kala is still nervous.-

Kael: <...Kala, isn't there something you'd like to say to them?>

Kala: <Uhh... h-hi?>

Kael: <Yes, his name is Kala, and mine is Kael. We don't deal in woes, though, but we do apparently end up tripping through abandoned storefronts into random airships, if that's anything interesting to you.>

Stormchaser

“Oh, you patronized Ersatz?” Colt asked, moving his can of soda to his other hand. “Which of you is the human-turned-mon?” He asked. “Is it you?” He asked, pointing to the Espurr. “No human evolves so soon after their first transformation,” he reasoned.

A Shiny Ninetales materialized, sat down, slowly turned her head to her trainer and slapped him upside the head with six tails.

Stormchaser, Present

Kala: <W-well... actually, yes, but, uh...>

Kael: <That's not the storefront I was referring to, but yes, he did indeed turn into that because of this "Ersatz" place. The storefront in question was from before that happened, we were wandering along Lumiose's streets, minding our business, then he sees an abandoned storefront and says "let's look inside" and carries me in with him, and then we ended up on this airship by some unknown force.>

Stormchaser

“Yep,” Colt stated bluntly. “That’s how the place works - every door has a chance to take you there, and leaving the place will drop you off where you wanna go.

“To my knowledge, ya don’t have a destination in mind, yer defaulted to dah Stormchaser,” he concluded, Castelian accent slipping through.

Stormchaser, Present

-Kael gets a bit frustrated.-

Kael: <No... we STARTED on the streets of Lumiose, went through a door, and ended up on the Stormchaser, not the Ersatz shop. We were led there by someone named Channah when we got here. That is the part you are misunderstanding. This is something different entirely to what you're referring to.>

Kala: <Kael, please, c-calm down...>

-Kael does so after hearing this.-

Kael: <...Yes, you're right. Thank you, Kala.>

Edited by GenericGeneral on Jul 31st 2018 at 3:08:15 PM

Stormchaser

Seven tails met the back of Colt’s head simultaneously, which only served to dampen the attack due to all the floof.

“New one on me,” he conceded. “I’m used to Ersatz being the one storefront that takes you wherever, but the Stormchaser’s interior? New one on me,” he conceded, gesturing with his soda can to Kala before drinking a little more.

Stormchaser - Past

Elizabeth: "Naganadel! Naga!"

-Just as suddenly as jt started, the fit stops.-

Nagandel: I am fine, Lizbeth.

Christina: <You just had a seizure!>

Naganadel: Do not apply your body logic to mine. I am not wholly organic. That was merely a simple fit. I assure you it will not happen again.

Elizabeth: "..."

Christina: "..."