Marlon: Ok, Starmie psychi-!

-"Victor sticks his head in the water and uses thunder fang. Starmie is electrocuted and faints."-

Marlon: ...Well, that sucks.

Ramona: Yahh, way to go Vicky!

Vicky: <Don't call me that!>

-"Marlon returns Starmie."-

Marlon: Alright, hows about I plug up your electric attack. Go, Qaugsire!

-"Marlon throws out Qaugsire."-

Quagmire: <Giggity, giggity, giggity!>

Victor: <...I'm going to murder it.>

Let's all have fun

Stormchaser pool

Blitz: "Aaaah, I thought I felt something like that"

-He smiles and gives a small bow, and with his own glow shifts to his mew form-

Mew!Blitz: <Thanks for showing me, Mahina>

Stormchaser Pool

Mahina: <Ohhhhhh you're a Mew! Things make more sense now.>

-shakes her head-

<Anyway. You know anyone else on the J-Team who would know where my brother would be?>

Contact Me!

Stormchaser pool

Mew!Blitz: <Yeah, though a lot more recently than any of the other ones> ^-^;

-He chuckles and pulls his phone out somehow-

<I think the one most likely to know about your brother would be Tagg, or at least he might know who else would have some hints>

Stormchaser Pool

Mahina: <Thanks!>

-looks around-

<Say where are the actual humans around here? I love hanging out with humans. Humans are so interesting.>

Contact Me!

Lycanrow Catacombs

The materials are... Yeah, Alakar gold and Dwemer brass, but... If this were purely Alakagross then you'd see a lot less cooperation between the styles and a lot more mechanical bodies and crystalline souls... I think a human's come along and built this thing using their own techniques, and said human's probably either the skeleton or inside the machine...

-She takes one glance at the sarcophagus in the center and gives it a wide berth-

If that thing wakes up, we're in a boss arena. We should blast it to bits before it wakes up...

Reversal Mountain

-Pent glances at the skies briefly and sighs-

Taking Spawny forward through the mountains is likely mandated by the Megabug...

-He rolls his shoulders and starts advancing for a moment before having a thought-

... Though... Okay so this might be panic-causing but what if we put a blindfold over the eyepiece to prevent any accidental merging?

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.

Reversal Mountain

"From what I could discern," Colton started, "Spawny's merging of objects seems to a panic response. If we can just keep him from panicking too much then we can avoid any inadvertent fusions," he considered.

Lycanrow Catacombs

"If we engage it in any way, though," Lamb observed, a few wisps orbiting her hand. "Who knows what could happen. I do have a bit of an idea, however - I could seal it up with some carefully-placed flares, like a welding torch," she offered, crossing one leg behind the other.

Edited by AbsentCoder on Apr 12th 2019 at 4:43:08 AM

[Insert Unoriginal Stinger Here]

Kukui's "Lab"

Silversmith: "Before I state my selection, I must point out: it's such an honor to meet you, Professor! Your research on the functions of moves has been invaluable in my studies! Truly, your breakthroughs on Stockpile, Swallow and Spit Up were immensely beneficial to the world! How did you do it? And your analysis of Tackle's average velocity! Basics are the bread and butter of science! How did you do it? *looks around lab* Seriously, this doesn't exactly look like the average laboratory. Where's the giant purple glowy thingies? Sycamore didn't have em either. How does one calculate a move's power in relation to another move without mechanical devices? Or is there an entire floor of them I'm just missing?"

Aqua, on Silversmith's shoulder: <Are we going to meet these pokemon?>

Silversmith: "This is more important! Great advancement in science is conducted here daily! When measuring the intensity of fire type moves, how do you keep track of the heat? What do you burn? What moves... *swallow* inflict were-monism? But how would you test that, that wouldn't make sense, I'm sorry...

Aqua, to Popplio: <Hi! What's your name?>

Silversmith: "Not now, Aqua. Speaking of, how did you discover Toxic's increased intensity of poison? Are there any poisons incurable by pecha berry? When—"

Silversmith continued his barrage of questions.

Stormchaser

Mew!Blitz: <Well, I used to be human?>

-He shrugs-

<But I imagine they've gotta be around somewhere... Could be off exploring the town or something instead of hanging out here>

Lycanrow

Phantom: "Yeah, cause Murphy's Law definitely won't take effect. I've noticed stuff like this hates Cutting the Knot."

-An armored foxgirl flies in, holding an Alolapix.-

Vulpecula: "What'd we miss?"

Spectre: <How'd you get here so fast?>

Vulpecula: "I was offscreen!"

Spectre: <...what?>

"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"

Stormchaser Pool

Mahina: <Hmmm. Should we go look?>

Contact Me!

Reversal Mountain, past

Ann: That would probably be a good idea.

Stormchaser, today

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Vermilion City, Clavis Insurance

Me: -bows- It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Tenembaum.

Piku-chan: <Don't even think about saying it, Ian...>

Me: ♪O, Tenembaum... O, Tenembaum...♫

Piku-chan: <*sigh* What am I gonna do with you?>

Me: Anyways... What's the "Stormchaser"?

Edited by AnimeboyIanpower on Apr 12th 2019 at 9:39:24 AM

♪Show me the wisdom of the world... Tell me the secrets of the heart... and the sweet~ mysteries~ of love~...

Stormchaser

Mew!Blitz: <Sure, wanna check the town then since it seems pretty quiet here?>

-He then checks his phone and starts typing-

<Oh, good, Tagg knows La, though hasn't seen him... You remember what kind of secret mission he was on?>

-Another sleepless night for Rose. She had a lot of those, for one reason or another — because she had too much racing through her mind, or out of fear of nightmares, or simply because she spent the entire day sleeping already.-

-Today's a "racing mind" night.-

Rose: (Come on, asshole. I know you can hear me. We said we'd talk later.)

...

Rose: (We had... a deal. That you're not holding up your end of.)

...

Rose: (...So, this must be part of my whole cosmic punishment. You had to be called a Shadow, didn't you?)

...

Rose: (Ugh.)

-She flips open her phone, switching to the Metanav app.-

Rose: ...So, Jerry West, huh...

Metanav: Candidate no longer available.

Rose: Right. You got any other folks you can go ahead and tell us?

Metanav: Candidate not found.

Rose: ...Right. Maybe we can be specific. Metanav... does the name "Paula Jaide" ring a...

-She trails off as the Metanav app suddenly spontaneously crashes, complete with an error message.-

Rose: ...

-She sighs.-

Vermillion City

A certain trainer is sitting here with her mons on a park bench. No, not that one. The other one. Yea, her. The one with all the Oricorio.

Alana: "... Mm. The weather's pretty nice today." -She looks very slightly to her left.-

"Hey, isn't that that J-team ship? Whatever that's called."

Maria: -Not even bothering to look up- ~Yeah, probably.~

On the floor nearby, a Cherubi wistfully stares into the middle distance.

Sakura: ''<It's been almost a year since I came to this world... Has anyone noticed I'm gone? I hope they haven't been too worried… Will I ever be able to ret->

Sakura stops and looks around. She could've sworn she'd just heard someone shout her name. But that couldn't be, nobody aside from Alana and her mons knew what it was. And it wasn't one of their voices...

<-kura!>

Sakura: <There it is again.. H-have I finally gone mad->

<Saaaaaaaaaaaakuuuuurrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!>

Sakura is interrupted from her thoughts by a Gothita high impact tackle-hugging her.

Sakura: <???>

Elise: <I can't believe you're here too!! I knew some of the others got sent here but I didn't think->

Sakura: <Th-that voice... Elise?>

Elise: <Mmhm! The one and only!>

Sakura: <Oh my.. I can't b-believe- W-wait. How did you know who I was?>

Elise: <Weeell... I was just passing by but you were like, thinking really loud? And I kinda guessed?>

Sakura: <You can hear me think..ing..?>

Elise: <Yeah!>

Sakura stares at Elise.

Vermillion City, One Explanation Later

Sakura: <Oh, so the.. Whatever you are can.. Oh, okay. I know one of the others can do that.> -She sorta gestures to Alana's mons.-

Elise: <Yup! I dunno why we're like this and not human though... > -She shrugs- <But whatever! I'm so happy I found you!>

Sakura: <Y-yeah, it's nice knowing I'm not the only one here...>

...

<Wait, you said there were others?>

off the shits

Lycanrow - Alakgross-styled Lab

Skadi: "I'm with Nightingale. We blow it up. Of course, that's contingent on one of us have explosives?"

Reversal Mountain

Rin: "Fine, but when something goes wrong, I told you so."

Pendragon Estate

Artoria and Kaze, now plus Mordred's transformation trinket, are having a conversation.

It's really a rather awkward conversation for Kaze at this point.

Artoria: "I... just... why? Why did you leave us behind."

Kaze: "I... I shouldn't have. I just wanted to protect you."

Artoria: "You left us behind! And then you died!"

Kaze buries his face in his hands.

Kaze: "I know. I... shouldn't have. I know that, I've had years to think on it."

Artoria: "And we've had years to wonder if we could've saved your lives!"

Kaze: "... Yeah. For the record, I firmly believe you could have."

Artoria: "I-"

She pauses.

Artoria: "Thank you."

Meanwhile, Mordred is trying to corral a sword and an octillery.

Okita: <Hey! Stop shoving us offscreen!>

Mordred: <Hush, adults are talking.>

Okita: <We're adults!>

Mordred: <You're irrelevant adults.>

Nobbu: <We're never irrelevant!>

Mordred stares into the camera.

All are significantly abnormal in a normal world... All are significantly normal in an abnormal world.

Kukui's Mildly-Questionable "Lab"

Kukui motioned for Silversmith to calm down.

Kukui: Whoa, easy with the Barrage of questions. I can see you Covet knowledge, and if you went downstairs I'm sure you'd have your Mind Blown, but how about you just pick a Pokemon first and I can share my research files digitally with you. I'm kinda busy with my research. You have two choices here right now - Rowlet and Popplio. If you want I can fetch a Litten for you, but that would take a little time.

Popplio: <Um, we don't really have names until we get a trainer. For our future trainer's sake.>

Shadow, to his new Litten: I'm going to name you Scorch! And I can have you annihilate anything weak to fire for me!

Heheheh

Stormchaser - Elizabeth's Room

Naganadel: "It's been a while since we've hung out like this."

Elizabeth: "It has."

Naganadel: "..."

Elizabeth: "..."

Naganadel: "I'm changing my name to just Naga. I'm not a Naganadel...anymore, since I think I used to be..."

Elizabeth: "That's good."

Naga: "...something's wrong, huh?"

-Elizabeth glances at him. He doesn't know about Personas, so she has to choose her words carefully.-

Elizabeth: "Do you ever feel like...you hurt everyone you know, no matter what?"

Naga: "My boyfriend is a constant reminder of that, Elizabeth. All that pain I inflicted...the wound is ripped open when I see that gaping hole where his eye used to be."

-Elizabeth balks.-

Elizabeth: "I-I'm sorry..."

-Naga shakes his head.-

Naga: "You didn't mean too. And...my problems do not diminish yours."

Elizabeth: "..."

-She fidgets with her sleeve and bites her lip.-

Elizabeth: "I think normal people talk about stuff like this. Like, with therapists."

-Naga chuckles heartily.-

Naga: "I walk into a therapist's office and they'll need therapy."

-This prompts a small giggle from Elizabeth, putting a smile on Naga's face. Eventually this devolves to the two of them bent over in fits of laughter.-

Naga: "Man, we're really not right in the head are we?"

Elizabeth: "Nope!"

-As she winds down from her mirth, Elizabeth hears a voice in her head.-

I am thou, thou art I...Thou hast acquired a new vow.

It shall become the wings of rebellion that breaketh thy chains of captivity.

With the birth of the STAR Persona, I have obtained the winds of blessing that shall lead to freedom and new power...

Edited by SwiftSeraph on Apr 13th 2019 at 8:28:06 AM

"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"

Vermilion City

Tenembaum rolls his eyes. The aipom in his shoulders is doing a facepalm with its tail-end.

Tenembaum, in a grumbling mean voice: A pleasure.

Priscilla: Well, Ian, the Stormchaser is a massive airship seized by the J-Team from the Illusion Project and is currently one of PEFE's most important assets. It's also got enough facilities to handle smaller anomalous objects.

Tenembaum: A challenge to adequately insure, as Ms. Kwan and her predecessor can attest.

Priscilla: We're having the ship upgraded, Mr. Tenembaum. But its current state and that of the pending upgrades should impress you and the higher-ups enough to reconsider that rate hike.

Tenembaum: We have had enough tax deductions from covering PEFE's damages, Ms. Kwan. I would be the judge of that.

Priscilla moves toward her Ferrari parked nearby, which would take them to the Stormchaser's general area. Good thing there's no traffic.

Edited by MasterJayAM on Apr 23rd 2019 at 2:48:32 AM

Vermilion City, En Route to the Stormchaser

Me: -still somewhat of a child- Um... Priscilla? What are tax deductions?

-Sees the Aipom on Mr. Tenembaum's shoulders-

-checks my Pokédex-

Pokédex: Aipom, the Long Tail Pokémon. A Normal Type. It lives atop tall trees. When leaping from branch to branch, it deftly uses its tail for balance.

Me: So that's an Aipom...

♪Show me the wisdom of the world... Tell me the secrets of the heart... and the sweet~ mysteries~ of love~...

Vermilion City

The aipom waves back at Ian with his tail.

Tenembaum: Maynard seems to have taken a liking to you.

Priscilla: A tax deduction is anything that people and businesses can use to make their taxes lower, which is usually things like business expenses, charity donations, or using clean energy and not polluting so much. In Mr. Tenembaum's case, their business expenses happen whenever the J-Team use PEFE's equipment, which his company insures.

The Stormchaser comes into view.

Priscilla: Well, here we are. Lemme just parallel park this baby.

Tenembaum: It looks a lot less dented than I remember. Will it stay that way, though?

Priscilla: That baby can survive things that mortal vehicles cannot with nary a scratch.

Tenembaum: Have you seen your re-painting bill?

Edited by MasterJayAM on Apr 15th 2019 at 4:34:50 PM

Vermilion City, by the Stormchaser

Me: Wow... it's pretty...

Piku-chan: <So THAT'S the Stormchaser, huh?>

♪Show me the wisdom of the world... Tell me the secrets of the heart... and the sweet~ mysteries~ of love~...

Outside the Stormchaser

Priscilla finishes parking the car.

Priscilla: Remarkably resilient old bird, too.

Tenembaum: Wow, it's so resilient might not even need insurance!

Priscilla: Not gonna lie, I considered that but given what Team Mobius is capable of fielding today, I understand why we're not taking any chances. Paying for timely repairs could mean the difference between victory and defeat.

Tenembaum: Just be glad that I really hate Dr. Multiman, Ms. Kwan.

Mr. Tenembaum releases a watchog and a dunsparce, both of which have tiny action cameras strapped to their heads. With a switch of his phone, the cameras turn on.

Tenembaum: Carla, Smithee, roam around the building at your leisure until I blow my whistle.

A voice from Priscilla's phone says "Oh god, not the whistle." A porygon with weird colors manifests nearby.

Tenembaum: Oh, you brought your porygon.

Priscilla: Standard issue, and do remember our whistle protocol. Do it outside and don't blow hard.

Edited by MasterJayAM on Apr 14th 2019 at 12:06:21 AM

Outside the Stormchaser

Me: You have a Watchog? Cool!

-looks at the Dunsparce-

Me: Who's that Pokémon?

-I check my Pokédex-

Pokédex: Dunsparce, The Land Snake Pokémon. A Normal Type. When discovered, the Dunsparce uses its tail to burrow into the earth and evade capture.

-I suddenly see a strangely colored Porygon-

Me: Huh? I've never seen a Porygon in THOSE colors before...

-I check my 'Dex for a comparison-

Pokédex: Porygon, The Virtual Pokémon. A Normal Type. A Pokémon that consists entirely of programming code. It was built over 20 years ago by scientists who dreamed of exploring space.

Me: Hmm... The Porygon shown on my 'Dex is red and blue... This Porygon is green and yellow...

♪Show me the wisdom of the world... Tell me the secrets of the heart... and the sweet~ mysteries~ of love~...