Velvet Room

Caroline: -at Julius- Use your head, inmate!

-Caroline zaps the bars of Julius's cell.-

Caroline: Fusion is safer for you all! The master was trying to be kind to you!

Justine: Indeed. Negotiating with demons is dangerous and requires you to be in a position of power. Fusion is the safer option to allow your rehabilitation.

Edited by keys2tkingdom on May 1st 2019 at 8:34:08 AM

-Mason smiles, still somewhat flustered (what, no, not flustered at all, don't be ridiculous).-

Mason: Sweet. Hey, uh, get well soon, okay? Best wishes and all.

The Velvet Room

Susan: <I...>

-Finally, finally, Pent speaks up from his cell-

Intimidation.

-With that word said he slinks back to the back wall-

Reversal Mountain

-Pent braces himself through the wave and flinches-

Yeah but it gets a load off our backs and we can focus you down.

-He tries to fire off a shot but it swings wide given the recent wave-

Cerulean City

-As though carried on a whimful wind, a faintly cerulean envelope sealed with the crest of the Macrauls ends up in Luciana's hands. In carefully-calligraphic silver ink on the cover is their name-

-Dare you open it?-

Elsewhere

-Similar fateful occurrences happen with a cinnabar, saffron and viridian-colored envelope, ending up in the hands of those they are addressed to...-

-Dare you open them?-

Edited by Pentigan on May 2nd 2019 at 12:57:50 AM

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.

Reversal Mountain

Kazuma once again bounces off of Helmsman's head to avoid the Sludge Wave, leaving the water-type turned human and his starter to take a fair amount of damage from the attack.

Helmsman takes a shot from Sylveon's Desire, subsequently, feeling much better as he unloads Category 5 in Neo Alovye's general direction.

Velvet Room

"With all due respect," Colton started, eyes darting between Igor, Caroline and Justine as he held onto the bars, hoping that one of the Magnemites would shock those instead of him, if they elected to shock him. "we've been becoming fast friends with our Personas, and I don't think I can bring myself to so callously sacrifice them."

[Insert Unoriginal Stinger Here]

Velvet Room

-Ren sighs-

Ren: -calling out- No longer an issue Colton...

-to Igor- Thank you for telling us about negotiating with demons, Igor. I think that will be more palatable for us, even if there is more danger involved.

-Ren breathes.-

Ren: Still. I know you aren't allowed to give out a lot of hints, but is there anything that you can tell us on how to proceed with our "rehabilitation" and preventing the coming ruin?

Edited by keys2tkingdom on May 1st 2019 at 9:40:03 AM

Velvet Room

Julius: I... I...

-he falls silent-

Contact Me!

"Speak for yourself, Solaire rarely talks because honestly this is just driving me insane everytime we do this song and dance... I'm actually surprised we're back here," Silas muttered, he then recalled a little something, "Ever since getting involved in this I've been hearing a voice in the back of my head, it sounds like mine but... angry and snarky."

The ice beam damages the dragon and it flops over, dead.

"Hm... how tragic."

The Salamance then gets back up and shakes it off, <Didn't think it'd be that easy did you?>

"You can't keep us down, not anymore. We have returned, and we will keep living for a long time."

It was then Helmuth noticed Gaia's many weapons, "Cute, you think you can hurt me with those... things?"

Jackal raised his laser rifle and opened fire, "Thank you Foxverse..."

It did little, so did Gaia's attacks.

"Great, just great. How do we fight a... synthetic glitch?"

~Best term for it really.~

The beast roared and Hayon took a opportunity and fired a aura sphere right into it's mouth, the beast roared in pain as the glow coming from it's gaping orifice weakened.

~Hey it seems weak from the inside! Try to find openings in its skin!~

Jackal nodded, "Gaia, see if you can get up high and spot some more weak points, I'll stay down here with my team and keep it busy!"

Mercer and Hayon continued to attack the mouth area.

Edited by EchoingSilence on May 1st 2019 at 9:46:39 AM

Reversal Mountain

Rabbid!Ann: -Is this time able to hide behind cover before attempting to shoot at one of Neo-Aloyve's eyes-

Velvet Room

Intimidation huh...

So we'd only be able to negotiate with demons once they're at our mercy. And demons seem to have a limited concept of "mercy" at best...

Igor: Precisely Richard.

-To Ren-

All I can say is that the next step towards your rehabilitation may come sooner than you think, and involve some familiar faces to your fellow inmates.

Edited by rmctagg09 on May 1st 2019 at 10:54:24 AM

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Ren: -shrugging helplessly- Vague as usual. Still. Thank you, Igor, for you answer.

Cerulean PMC

Shaun: "Mmhmm. Take care of yourself, Mason."

---

Velvet Room

Elizabeth: "..."

-She sits on her cot, back to the wall, face hidden under her hair.-

-Oberon watches attentively, while Christina gazes down upon Igor and the Twins with distaste.-

—-

Reversal Mountain

Isbrand: "I don't trust like that."

-Isbrabbid and Isbrand crouch down and raises their shields to part the Sludge Wave in front of then, while Shade catches a lift on a piece of rubble.-

---

Lycanrow - Tomb

Phantom: "Should have gone for the head."

-He leaps at Helmuth, attempting to stab the ancient king with the Osbcura-infused knife of his kyoketsu-shoge.-

-Spectre launches an Ice Beam, but tight and focused on the Salamance's head.-

---

Lycanrow - Dig Site

-Vulpecula cracks her knuckles and leaps into the air, firing a few rounds at the beast to get its attention.-

"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"

-Mason grins, gives a quick wave, and heads out.-

Near: ~Truly the smoothest the world has had the pleasure of seeing.~

Mason: Augh!

-Mason flails and staggers into the hall.-

Mason: Don't do that!

Near: ~Do what?~ c:

Mason: First off, that face, and second off, the sudden appearance while my guard's down thing!

Near: :c

-Mason grumbles-

Mason: ...And I don't know what that "smooth" was about, it was just a normal conversation.

Near: c:

Reversal Mountain

-The attack on Neo-Alovye's eye isn't that damaging, but it smarts-

   Neo-Alovye: A̯̭̤͙̲͢c̙͍̼̪͈ḳ!̵͙̥͉͓̟ ̧͚̜̞̫̹̦̻R̲͙rr͔̳̞̪͘r͓͕̭r͍̩͙̜͝r͕̯.̞̗͈.̵. ͏̮̼̞͙͔̹ỳ̠̫o̤͙̩͚̝͜u ̮̝̫͎Į̜̼̞̼̰̣̮D̻̙̮̻I̭͇̰̖̻̗O̲̬̺͇̳T̨̗͔S̭͎̤!̢̙̤̱ͅ ̴͙̪͙̠̠̻Í͚̟̞̞'̪̞ḽ͖̫͞l̺̝͎̤̣ ̦̜̻͟r̹͍͍͓͞oa̻̥͎̻͎̩̞͡s̰͖̗͕̼̮̼t̴̥͙̼̜̹͖̰ ̱͉̫̟y̻̻̤o̷̱̪̰̟̪̙u͕̪̭̞̲ ̘͘al̸i̺͍̘̺͔v̟̣̣͎̼̮e̟͙̳̩̟̗̻͜!̧̟̱͕   

-The walls start coming down as Neo-Alovye screeches and unleashes a Draco Meteor-

Contact Me!

Velvet Room

Caroline: Alright! That enough out of the inmates! The Master can't tell you EVERYTHING, so figure it out yourselves!

Justine: Indeed. Learning things for yourselves is import to your rehabilitation. So good luck in your struggles.

Caroline: So farewell inmates! But if you need to visit use to fuse something for you, just fall asleep somewhere! We'll pick up right away!

-The inmates will feel dizzy as the Velvet Room seems to dissolve around them.-

-Upon waking up, everyone will remember all that transpired.-

-And the vague feelings in the back of your mind are back!-

Velvet Room

Realizing that he would not be tased anytime soon, Colton released a breath he didn't realize he was holding. The world began to fade away around him.

Stormchaser Room 713

He woke up from his bed, a sensation back in the back of his mind he recognized as Mercury and Camazotz.

I promise I won't sacrifice you, he thought as he dragged himself out of bed.

Stormchaser Room 713 - Later that day

"This is so weird," Colton considered. "It's like I can just put my headphones on and somehow appropriate music queues up whenever something happens," he considered as he continued practicing a combo in FighterJ, using himself, naturally.

After he knocked the opponent into the wall with an Assurance Palm, knocked them skyward and slashed at them with his Night Slash Claws and knocked them down to the ground, he was interrupted from the spectacle of his level 1 super by a sudden breeze. He didn't even know a window *could* be left open. The envelope landed in his outstretched palm, and, with a Claw acting as a letter opener, he opened the envelope, which he noticed had his name on it.

Reversal Mountain

Kazuma and Helmsman took a few shots from the attack while Colton took more than a few, but he wasn't going to stand down anytime soon. Colton elected to recuperate himself while Helmsman and Kazuma rained down gunfire.

[Insert Unoriginal Stinger Here]

Vermillion PC

Silversmith was debating with himself. Again. His desire to do good and his fear of polymorphism clashed in his mind. He knew which one had to win. He knew which one did win.

Flashback!Blitz: "That depends, how much do you think you'll regret not going?"

Flashback!Silversmith: "I have to go. If I don't go when the world doesn't need me, how can I trust myself to go when it does? I've lost enough honor today. To not go would bring yet more dishonor on my name. By my troth! *slams table lightly* I shall go! And I shall do whatever I can be it fight or aid!"

Silversmith: "..."

Silversmith removed the locked box containing his pokescarf, and looked at it. He shook it. He could feel the scarf in it, though it was nearly weightless.

Azalea PMC, roof

Ever: ...Hey, Brie, does that Whismar look familiar to you?

Brie: Runty, indifferent, missing an arm?

Ever: Oh, fuck off.

Brie: There are Rabbid versions of us?

Ever: Apparently.

Brie: I mean, I knew there were the ones of the team in general, but...yeesh. They really do look like us.

Ever: Right?

Brie: Who's this Atropos?

Ever: New J-teamer with a superiority complex?

Brie: ...Okay.

Ever: Ugh. Brie, can you go meet her?

Brie: Her?

Ever: Psychographic thing. I don't wanna go to Celadon...

Brie: Didn't you just say nobody cares about the Whismur?

Ever: Nobody does. I just want to find out what's up with this weirdo.

Brie: Not enough to go yourself, though?

Ever: -frowns-

Brie: It's alright, I'll go.

Ever: Ugh, I'm not actually letting you do that. I'll come along.

Brie: You sure?

Ever: Yeah, what's the worst that can happen?

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

The GM House

-Ludmilla looks up at the towering, massive, ashen-skinned Machamp. The Machamp just looks down at the comparatively much smaller girl.-

-Despite being much closer than he usually allows, the Machamp is being comparatively mellow around Ludmilla, much to Dune's confusion.-

Ludmilla: He's tall.

Machamp: ...

Dune: ... Okay this has gone far enough into the realm of weirdness where I'm gonna send out a text about it.

???

Reversal Mountain

Ann: -As she tries avoiding the meteors- Just how more can this thing take?

Edited by rmctagg09 on May 2nd 2019 at 3:21:11 PM

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Stormchaser Gym

Ian the Pikipek: -thinks to self- I guess they're not up to responding at this time... Oh well... plenty more time to continue my training

-I jump down from the rafters quickly and fall into an open box...-

-...filled to the brim with Rattatraps-

-The Rattaraps snap shut on me-

-I jump out of the box screaming, only for Piku-chan and Piper to blast me with a double Thunderbolt attack-

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

Cerulean City

-Lucius, who is presumably still being accompanied by Winter and Luciana, has returned to the site of where he found Halis after Metus's attack.-

Lucius: Okay, this is the place. Maybe there might be some traces of the gas around here or something...

-He hears his phone go off in his skirt pocket, but pays it no mind.-

Lumiose City Jail

-In a small, solitary cell, a bedraggled young woman sits staring blankly at the wall.-

-All the vibrant confidence and energy that usually eludes from Kahlia seems to have disappeared. Her hair is thin and straggly, and a prison uniform hangs baggily on her near-skeletal frame. Hundreds of tiny, bloodshot veins are visible in her sunken eyes, and her skin has a colourless, deathlike pallor to it. A gendarme puts a tray of food in front of her before regarding her with a raised eyebrow.-

Gendarme: ...You know we can't set a date for your trial until you submit a plea, right?

Kahlia: Doesn't matter. He'll kill me whatever I do.

Gendarme: Which is why we need you to cooperate. The more you tell us, the more likely we are to catch this guy, and the more security we can give you while you're in custody.

-Kahlia remains silent. The gendarme shrugs.-

Gendarme: ...Fine. Crooks killing crooks. See if we care.

-He turns and walks out, leaving Kahlia alone once again.-

Lumiose City

-Elsewhere in the city, in a large, comfortable apartment, a mousy and unassuming girl is looking at a photo on her phone. It's a selfie of pair of costume-clad individuals, one a figure in full-body, dark silver Skamory sentai suit and a girl in a Salazzle-themed catsuit holding the camera. She sighs quietly-

Mr Smith: Amel, you gotta get up to get down! Dinner's ready, and it's hot af!

Amelia: Coming, Dad.

-She switches off her phone, drops it in her pocket, and trudges downstairs.-

Castle Lycanrow, Dig Site Tunnels - Day 2

Gaia: Got it!

-She fires her Grapnel Gear and starts swinging from the ceiling, trying to lash out at openings in the Beast's flesh with her Vine Whip while Foxglove flies in the other direction and does the same with Razor Leaf.-

Trans rights are human rights. JK Rowling preaches hate. If you sit at a table with five bigots and say nothing, there are now six bigots.

Cerulean

Winter: I'll be honest with ya. I know less about mundane tracking than I do about Aura tracking.

Stormchaser

Priscilla: Okay, who approved the rattatraps? That's against regulation. Were on a strict "catch and release" policy for rattata.

Murphy: I think they're meant as traps for our security system. You know how Memito is with her security.

Macraul Manor

Lowell: It's perfect.

A shadowy though not very tall figure looms in from behind Lowell. Upon entering the light, he is revealed to be a largely disinterested teenager playing Capumon on his Switch. He approached Lowell, walking on a line of laminated halite tiles that adorns the floor..

Lowell: I didn't see you there, Gaspard.

Gaspard: I didn't think you made sculptures out of base metal, uncle.

Lowell: It isn't mine. Alas, metal is fragile, prone as she is to tarnishing and rusting. But it is part of your cousin's collections and he had always wished for his pieces to be displayed prominently in the family home.

A magnemite pulls itself out of the statue—a rearing rapidash made of auto parts—and drifts on its way.

Lowell: Though Cold Iron always had its je ne sais quoi.

Gaspard: Quaint. Cousin Syl never gets any of his... interesting pieces displayed.

Lowell: Indeed.

Gaspard: Lamarck and her peers shall do their part well.

Stormchaser Gym, A Few Minutes Later

-Ian the Pikipek finishes picking the last Rattatrap off him and throws it back into the box-

Ian the Pikipek: Ow ow... That was six on my legs, five on my cape, two on my helmet, at least ten on my hands, one for each finger...

-Ian then does an Aside Glance-

-whispers- Which, Just Between You and Me, were the hardest to remove...

-...and we're back-

Ian the Pikipek: And there was one in a place which I cannot mention because there are kids reading this...

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

Cerulean City, PMC.

Luciana frowns at the envelope, before pocketing it for later.

Cerulean City

Luciana: "Hraesvelgr, can you look for that?"

Hraesvelgr: <Not without a forensic team.>

Luciana: "Unhelpful."

Reversal mountain

Rin is, fortunately, still in cover. Or, rather, she was until the Draco Meteor hit.

She returns fire at the eye.

Ruby is still being thrown around by attacks.

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

-Ivan also emerges from the bushes.-

"Heya. Long time no see, pally-o."