Fwomph
PEFE HQ, Training Deck
-Pent has returned here to just... Punch stuff-
N's Castle
-With the Bwahtmon free of that plantacular corpse he stands triumphantly over his victory-
-Pent sighs and wanders over to the center to check on the new arrival and the dropped device-
It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.
Flying Colors
From: Kai
I know, I know. The problem is I didn't know "big gig for a job I want to keep in mystery" was code for grand theft until after I said "I'm in". Because I thought she was a friend and that I could trust her. Both of these facts turned out to be dramatic misinterpretations of reality.
At the very least I managed to twist the remainder of the deal to minimize my involvement and also guarantee that it doesn't hurt the people I care about.
-Beat-
Vierr: What the sincere fuck.
Corrin: I know, I know! Look, the point is, we wanted to know if you had a way to track portals made from Obscura.
Vierr: Oh. You could have started with that, sheesh. I'll... maybe figure something out. Where was the portal? And, er, how long ago?
Edited by BittersweetNSour on Sep 14th 2018 at 9:23:54 AM
Dunsparce Cloud
???
-Guillaume reads the text-
-and bursts out laughing-
Ever: What's so funny?
Guillaume: Dramatic irony.
-he shows Ever the text-
Ever: ...I'll admit, it's something.
To: Buds! 💜
From: Ever
well
good luck i suppose
dont get caught
Edited by memyselfandI2 on Sep 14th 2018 at 6:39:35 AM
Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.
Flying Colors
From: Kai
Your invocation feels oddly less potent than usual but I nonetheless appreciate it 💜
promise to keep this confidential? I know how you are about opsec but it's particularly urgent now
at the very least don't let Authority Figures know
Edited by BittersweetNSour on Sep 14th 2018 at 9:40:11 AM
Dunsparce Cloud
???
Guillaume: What the fuck is opsec?
Ever: Opsolutely Secret.
Guillaume: ...
To: Buds! 💜
From: Ever
your secret is safe with my indifference
Flying Colors
-Kai furrows their brow a bit.-
From: Kai
don't get me wrong I absolutely appreciate the percy quote
but like...
I really do need a more explicit yes or no for this
I don't know what could happen if it slips out
I'm like legitimately scared about this
Dunsparce Cloud
???
To: Buds! 💜
From: Ever
relax
no one will know what we know
Flying Colors
From: Kai
...that is a significantly more concerning reference and yet a more reassuring statement
Thank you
Dunsparce Cloud
???
To: Buds! 💜
From: Ever
mhm
take care
Flying Colors
From: Kai
I'll do my best to
Kai: (I'd love to say that helped me feel better about this, but...)
The Wanderer
Ken: "Well... what kind of hobbies do you have?"
"life is just a series of increasingly canon-eluding ao3 tags" ~ everydunsparce "Keep your hellfruit away from me, tempter" ~ also Every
Meet The New Boss
N's Castle
-it is a perfectly normal gramaphone-
Reina: This must be one of the Artifacts Of Goodness we're supposed to find... Question is where the others are.
PEFE, Fire Emblem bunch guest starring Vierr
Robin: My room, about fifteen minutes ago?
Contact Me!
Some Rando
N’s Castle, Past
“A... gramophone,” Colton observed sardonically. “Is an artifact. I get that it’s old tech, but c’mon,” he sighed.
[Insert Unoriginal Stinger Here]
pain peko
PEFE HQ
Cereza: <Good. Now, which alternate universe?>
Isle of [Sicily], Angela
Luca: "Uh, I like video games, anime and manga, cosplay, food, and men..."
"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"
Eclipse the Moon
PEFE HQ, Past
Lex's face falters somewhat.
Lex: -Trying to smile but clearly stressed- Ah yes, well... Sorry for any spoilers?
Anka: To be fair, they did walk in on the middle of a conversation...
Solana has been pinching her nose bridge this entire time.
Solana: Look, Lex. Let's cut the bullshit and get right to the point. Okay?
Lex: -Drumming his fingers- A-Ah! Y-Yes, c-come this way.
He gestures to Anka, Sol and Tagg to follow him as he heads towards a door and starts to open it.
Lex: This science is relatively new, and it still needs to have more testing done to make it efficient, but I feel like we've really cracked the code on reversing the effects of Infinite Energy dependency!
Lex enters the lab. The actual lab seems to have been modified over the time, with many "futuristic" additions to existing tech and yellow Flask Robonoids performing what seems to be maintenance checks on the equipment. The floor itself is littered with shards of Key Stones, Mega Stones and Z-Crystals and to the side is the trolley full of Infinity Balls - kept on what seems to be life support by a machine that draws energy from Mega Stones and Key Stones.
Lex: The tools that were left to me in this prison-lab facility were a little dated. So I tidied it up somewhat and made a few additions of my own. Hope that doesn't violate any company policy...
The actual research table itself is littered with an empty and broken Infinity Ball, Z Crystals, Metal scraps, Chips and all sorts of other dissembled machines. While attached to the table on the right is what looks like a medical cot with a regular Pinsir resting within it, basking under a peculiar light from an equally peculiar machine.
Solana: Is... is that your Pinsir, Anka?
Anka: -Looking away- ...So.
Lex: This is what we've developed so far, and it seems like it's working. Anka here... she found some theoretical reports during the time we were working at Neo-Flare and...
Lex stops, and looks over to Anka.
Lex: Would you like to explain...?
Anka gasps and freezes.
Anka: Y-yes! Of course!
She clears her throat.
Anka: While working at... Neo-Flare... I came across some obscure old reports while trying to find... references for the... Infinity Technology we were creating and how to stabilise it... that postulated that the Light Energy from the Z-Crystals originating in Alola has a counteractive effect on the soul-based Infinite Energy. Essentially neutralising it in great enough quantities.
Lex nods.
Lex: Yes. I used those reports as a basis to... stabilise the IE based technology I developed while working at Neo-Flare. Even...
He looks over to the broken remains of the Infinity Ball, before shaking his head.
Lex: It worked, to say the least. Not perfect, but drawing the right amount of energy from a Z Crystal would uh...
Anka: Stabilise our products.
Lex: That, yeah.
Lex gulps and tugs at his collar, while Anka sighs and continues.
Anka: So that got me thinking, if equal measures of "IE" and Z-Crystal based "LE" has a neutralising effect, would a greater amount "LE" to "IE" have a potential... reversing effect on the presence of IE in a system.
Lex: So Anka and I went to the drawing boards, and vigorously tested everything we could try under the sun. Prototype after prototype after prototype, until...
Lex walks over to the strange device pouring light onto the Pinsir and give it a light pat.
Lex: We got to this point.
Anka: -Adjusting her glasses- At this point, it's just called a "Light Stabiliser". Once you place Z-Crystals in this hatch, the machine extracts the light from the crystal, distils it, and emits a purified version of "Z-Light" or "Light Energy", directed in a pointed fashion to whatever lays in this cot...
She begins petting Agrippina, who stirs slightly.
Lex: Three days ago, we sat Agrippina in this cot to use her as our first... live test... Well I say "sat", we kinda had to bind her initially.
Anka: The Light had noticeable reductive effects almost immediately, which was a good sign for us. We took our notes and observed her for a full day and a half, before Lex made the executive decision to-
Lex: -Safely break the Infinity Ball containing her.
Anka: And since then she's been in this... Slightly comatose state...
Anka looks down and clutches her chest.
Lex: But thankfully, she's still alive which is the main point. Beforehand, if a ball was forcefully broken, well...
Lex looks away.
Lex: You know what happens.
He then looks back.
Lex: I ran tests and hopefully Agrippina here will be awake and functional in a day or two. From there we can assess any permanent damage on her body or mind and see where to go from there.
Anka: Of course, this is still early stages...
Lex: Right. The issues at the moment is that this method isn't very resource efficient. It takes a lot of Z-Crystals to just work on one patient, and the process is slow And Z Crystals aren't exactly a renewable source.
Solana: -Muttering to herself- And who's fault is that?
Lex grits his teeth and bows his head in shame.
Anka: But the point is, we're getting there. We're working on how to make the extraction process more efficient and less wasteful, so we can get more LE per Z-Crystal.
Solana taps on her arm, and looks to the Pinsir with a sort of melancholic expression.
Solana: Poor thing. -Snapping to Lex and Anka- You two better hope to the gods that you can fix this catastrophic mess you caused.
Lex gets slightly frustrated.
Lex: H-Hey! We're trying!
Anka: -Grabbing on to Lex's carapace- Lex, please! Don't get them more mad at us than they already are!
Yveltal's Mansion, Past
The figure in blue makes a long winded sigh of confusion?
"Aunt Dolores": Aaaunt...?
She stands up slowly
"Aunt Dolores": ...Whooo... are.... you...?
She wobbles as she leans forward, the scar on her forehead oozing.
"Aunt Dolores": ...Issac...?
Edited by PippingFool on Jan 2nd 2021 at 12:45:11 AM
I'm having to learn to pay the price
That's just how it is on this bitch of an earth
N's Castle
"... Well, at least it's not a piece of a blender."
off the shits
The Wanderer
PEFE HQ
-To Anka and Lex, clasping my hands behind me as I turn my back to them-
...When Dr. al-Cygni and the other senior scientists here, the people directly below us Founders, decided to whistleblow on Pokefutures, they said that working here to strengthen the bonds between humans and Pokémon would be their penance for aiding and abetting their old bosses for so long, even if they felt that nothing could really remove the stain of sin from their past actions.
I suppose that what you're doing here will be your penance for each and every mon you managed to get hooked up to those accursed Infinity Balls. The Drives in the end weren't really all that much different from your Infinity Energy experiments.
-Audibly sniffs the air-
I guess in the meantime I can go back to Lumiose and see if that Z-Crystal-esque thing Mobius used has enough usable pieces for your tests, I doubt it would be all that different.
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
Eclipse the Moon
PEFE HQ, Past
Anka bows.
Anka: Y-yes, sir...
Lex perks up, enthusiastic about the process of potentially being able to disassemble another evil team's tech and see how it ticks.
Lex: Really! You could get us some tech to dismantle and assist in our cause of invention!?
Anka shoots a glare at Lex.
Anka: Lex! Take this seriously!
Lex: What? It's for a good cause!
Solana grumbles in disdain.
Solana: Don't push it.
Lex cowers in response to Solana's growling, giving a sheepish smile to her in fear.
Lex: S-sorry madame...
Edited by PippingFool on Sep 15th 2018 at 7:51:05 PM
I'm having to learn to pay the price
pain peko
PEFE HQ, Isbrand's Module - Present Day
Kaiiseii: "Told ya that minor in clothesmaking would come in handy."
Isbrand: "Who provided the fabric?"
-Kaiiseii sticks his tongue out at her and goes back to his sketchbook.-
Isbrand: "Mask...armor...bow..."
Shaun: "Kaiiseii?"
Kaiiseii; "Hmm?"
Shaun: "Your Z-Ring...what happened?"
Kaiiseii: "...it was my inheritance. Picked it from the ruins of our house."
-Shaun looks down at his own Z-Ring, immediately understanding.-
Kaiiseii: "..."
"I know you're a dark color guy, but what about white and red?"
Shaun's Mindscape
-The Templar barrels past Pessimism and Intellect.-
Templar: "Move move move"
PEFE HQ
Shaun: "Sure."
"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"
"Neat, is your Sister as well?" Harold asked.
<Why are you asking this?> Stylus questioned, <There are bunches of aurics.>
"Not around us typically."
Meet The New Boss
PEFE, Cerzera
Enzo: <This place called Whittington. Why?>
N's Castle
-Chrome places the gramaphone on his back-
Chrome: <In any case, let's find the others.>
-the group heads off-
Angela
Coil: -smirks- That's for you to find out.
-he leaves-
Mansion
Odin: E-er, if I may ask, what happened to your head, auntie?
Contact Me!
The two look at each other, "Guess we have to go to the gym to find out."
<Can we get something to eat first, I've got a major craving for something meaty.>
"Makes sense, you are a canine."
<Woof woof, get me a burger.>
Harold laughed and started walking.
The Wanderer
PEFE HQ, past
-To Lex-
I don't know if I can get you the exact tech, but there has to be at least one crystal piece out there big enough for testing.
And I've got more than one reason to head back to Lumiose anyway...
N's Castle
-Ann and co follow, Rabbid!Ann having evolved into a Loudred-
Edited by rmctagg09 on Sep 15th 2018 at 4:35:26 AM
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
???
Guillaume: Your friends make foolish decisions.
Ever: You do, yes.
Guillaume: -sighs-
To: Buds! 💜
From: Ever
um
why
what would convince you that that was a good choice of action