Hearthome City

-Pent quickly types something into his phone as he glances at the oncoming glitchstuff-

Okay, time for a brawl.

-He pops a cocky smile and raises his fists-

C'mon, I ain't a magical girl but I can still punch ya out.

Hearthrome

Luca: "...I'm not even sure what my powers are?"

-He rubs his eyes.-

Luca: "This is my punishment for being a weeaboo."

Stormchaser

-Ever looks up from their cuddlepile-

Ever: You've come to the right place!

Brie: Has he?

Ever: Yep!

-they take Tanten's resume, and grab a green highlighter from Brie's pocket (Brie: Hey!), poring over it-

Ever: Hmm...TV experience, that's good, you're already used to it...

Brie: Uh, Ever, I'm sure you're not looking at an application to join the J-team, because that's not a thing...

Breeze: <Though it could be!>

Ever: (ignoring Brie) Oh, good, you can whistle. That'll be important later.

Brie: Will it?

Ever: I've decided. Ooh, O positive.

-they tuck the resume behind Breeze's bell, and hand Tanten several sheets of paper-

Ever: Just sign there, there, and there. I took the liberty of checking the organ donor box on your behalf.

-the contract appears to be fairly standard boilerplate stuff: Waiving of the right to lawsuit in the case of injury on the job, waiving of all personal fictionalization rights, waiving of Gauss's laws of force shells-

Breeze: <Also, give us your jam! I can smell it on you.>

Ever: Do you have jam? I love jam.

Brie: (to Megan) Why are they someone you choose to look up to?

Ever: Wait, Robin Fireemblem, why are you here? Are you joining the J-team too? Don't we already have a Robin?

Brie: That's a guy.

Ever: Gender isn't real.

-A chatot flits over and hands The Stamp to Tanten. He stamps down his signature in the spots Ever directed.-

-Doesn't look like he really even read over it, but that's probably okay.-

Tanten: "Here, also, I guess. It was like 2 bucks."

-Tanten hands the jar over.-

Tanten: "So, I suppose I should intro you to my co-stars. Just for posterity."

-Tanten drops a few pokéballs and the room gets a lot more cramped as a 6 foot crobat and a 7 foot bewear take up the real estate.-

Tanten: "You've met Laren, the chatot, but this is Gerald and Langston."

Gerald, stooping down: <You could be hugging with more efficiency.>

Langston: <Is this Pokemon Resources?>

The Stormchaser

Astraea: "... My name is Astraea."

She frowns.

"And I was under the impression I already was. I was following him to make sure he didn't get into any trouble."

She gestures to Tanten.

Megan: -to Brie, cuddling Ever into a display position- Because?? Cool and nice??

Pippy: -pats Megan's head-

Megan: -starry-eyed- Like an actual guide fairy mixed with that person whose job it is to stand in front of a gym and say hi to all the little kids coming through...

Vee: -poring over the contract, coiled over someone's shoulder- <...I feel like I maybe ought to object to this, but...nah.>

-and two rather large Pokémon are introduced to a room containing five and a half feet of pretty metal penguin and nearly four feet of one-eyed snakey Vaporeon-

Vee: <Nah.>

-and she slither-purrs back into the hugpile-

Pippy: -to Gerald- <But inefficiency lasts longer!>

<More hug.>

Megan: -to Tanten, a cheerful, muscly 5'10"- Welcome to trouble! ^_^

...J-Team. I mean the J-Team.

Pippy: -shrugs blithely at Astraea-

Edited by Asterisk395 on Jul 14th 2019 at 7:44:28 AM

"Yeah kind of a carrier. I'm working on one last major upgrade, stealth systems but enh..."

Silas leans back a bit... "Wanna see the fighters? Most of the stuff we've done as friends has been me showing you the crazy stuff that is our existence."

~It has... Maybe you two could find someone to fight one on one, technically Megan does have a Lucario on her team.~

"You just want me to put the scarf on again."

~I like being the competent Lucario.~

Hearthome

-I raise my magical wand and the heart-shape in the orb glows a bright pink-

Me: Here we go...

-Noelle hugs her pillow again-

Noelle: I need a hug. I just want someone to hold me and tell me I'm okay...

-she then snaps her finger-

Noelle: Wait, that's it! I can go on a cuddling spree like Kai did that one time! That sounds way nicer than sitting here feeling sorry for myself, at any rate.

-she gets up and sets the pillow down, then pops another mint into her mouth-

Noelle: Now who would be up for that...

Stormchaser

A Dusk Lycanroc laid on a bed, curled in a sleeping position with a microphone beside him, hooked up to a karaoke machine no bigger than him.

Another microphone trailed into the backpack that rested off to the side of the bed. A Zorua clawed her way out of the backpack via rappelling up the cable before she leaped onto the bed and let herself get comfortable.

The coffee machine whirred to life as the Dusk Lycanroc soon opened his eyes, stretching and yawning. He stepped down from the bed and stared at the coffee, watching as milk and creamer poured themselves into it and the coffee was grabbed by a floating glove.

He walked back to beside the bed and leaned against it as he chugged the coffee in one go before he set the cup down on the nightstand and pawed the door open, walking out after grabbing a jacket’s sleeve with his tail, flinging it up and flipping into it so he was wearing it.

He was anticipating being encountered.

Edited by AbsentCoder on Jul 14th 2019 at 12:20:14 PM

Stormchaser

Brie: (to Megan) ...Sure.

-Ever blinks at the sudden presence of an enormous quantity of mon-mass-

Ever: Wow, you really just went right ahead and signed that, huh

-they pocket the contract, and take a spoonful of jam-

Brie: Don't use my pen as a spoon!

Ever: Don't tell me what to do.

Huh, duly noted, not-Robin. A pleasure!

-they pat Gerald on the head-

Breeze: <I am Pokemon Resources!>

Ever: Oh no.

-Noelle looks around and spots a cute-looking Lycanroc-

-and immediately glomps him-

Noelle: I um, sorry, really needed to hug someone... you're nice and soft, though.

Stormchaser

Silently, the Lycanroc readjusts his posture so that hugging him is more comfortable, additionally using one paw to hug her back.

-Noelle adjusts her position accordingly, holding him for a little bit-

-then she lets go-

Noelle: Thanks. I feel better already.

Stormchaser

Talbain's tail wags and he barks a quick <Glad to hear,> nuzzling her leg.

-Tanten recalls the trio of Pokémon.-

Tanten: "Great!"

...

...

"So, uh, what now?"

The Stormchaser

Astraea frowns at Ever, crossing her arms, before turning and giving Breeze a hard look.

Hearthome

Luciana tightens her grip on the flute.

And strange, glitchy, vaguely-pokemon shapes start slowly crawling towards the group.

Most of them look like hybrids of multiple species, and occasionally the particular species of one glitch monster flickers to a different one.

It's altogether a rather disturbing image.

Luciana: "Nope. Don't like that."

Luciana attempts to fire a beam of firescura at one and suddenly speed up their approach towards the group.

Hearthome City

-Lucius blinks and floats back a couple of feet, shaking his head.-

Lucius: Nope, me neither. Usually my sleep-dep hallucinations are way more symbolic, so...

-Suddenly the syllables emerging from his mouth aren't anything he or anyone else around him can understand, as the tendrils around his wrists form into Venom-esque spears and lash violently towards several of the approaching hybrids.-

Hearthome, Glitch Battle #1

Me: Eugh... These things look like something out of [Frankenstein] ... Here goes nothing!

-I raise my wand to the sky and draw a circle in the air-

Me: Soaring Esper Sunrise Beam!

-I bring my wand down and unleash a pink beam of psychic power on the glitch monsters-

Edited by AnimeboyIanpower on Jul 14th 2019 at 7:14:43 AM

Hearthome City

Given clearer targets to aim at, Max and Sunny went to town, the former holding out her palm as her ribbon circled around it and subsequently firing concussive blasts of glitter while Sunny's flame whip was directed with a pirouette towards one and lit him on fire while Sunny pulled another one from the scabbard, having consumed the whip to conflagrate the Glitch.

Megan: -opens her mouth, raises finger-

-...-

...y'know, I've totally forgotten what the J-Team actually does, other than raids?

Megan: -with a weird look on her face- ...I'm not sure if I need much more induction into weird adventurer life at this point, Silas.

-and then her expression clears, and she beams-

-shoveling the stuff back into her bag, getting up to follow him wherever he'd like to go- I'd love to see these fighters, though! And anything from the weirdnesses of your life, really—we've got a lot to catch up on! ^_^

Uh, as a consequence of the environment they came from, pretty much all the tech I brought back is pretty energy-intensive, but maybe if you'd like, something we could do is maybe help you work out some kind of a stealth thing with what you have?

Suit!Vee: <Hey, I'd be down for a fight~>

Pippy: <I'm up for anything!>

-and he hands Silas a basic stone abstraction of the Oblivion Wing, bird-beaming-

Stormchaser

Breeze: (sulkily) <Nobody lets me do anything fun.>

Ever: Because we've learned, Breeze.

Brie: (to Astraea) I'm so sorry about them. They're normally not this...actually, yes they are. But not to strangers.

Ever: Well, what I do right now is I eat jam.

-they take another penful of jam-

Breeze: <Gimme.>

Ever: Magic word?

Breeze: -levitating jam into his mouth- <Psychokinesis!>

Ever: That'll do it. What we do...well, the raids are sort of the important bit, I guess. Other than that we're just a bunch of squatters in an airship who hang out, you know?

The Stormchaser

Astraea: -To Brie.- "I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse."

She nods at Ever's comment.

Astraea: "This... correlates with what I've seen, yes."

Silas looks a little concerned at the weird look, "Hope I'm not being insulting or anything, was just trying to reminisce about how our friendship got started."

~He's come a long way.~

"Hey I'd say "Actually dating" is fantastic progress," Roxy noted.

Silas sighed, "Anyways, yes let's take a look... also I'm kind of hungry and since I haven't stocked up yet. Bishop."

Bishop popped out, "Yes Captain?"

"Take us to Johto, there's a spicy ramen place I wanna show Megan."

"Of course Captain."

Bishop vanished and the ship lurched and began to move, Silas giving a weak smile as he lead Megan into the Cargo bay.

Silas lead Megan into the improved cargo bay, it was empty at the time, "Gotta get supplies again but for now."

He pointed to 3 15 foot tall Mechs crouched in the Cargo bay, one shaped like D.Va's MEKKA, one patently [Gundam] looking, and the last one in the shape of a Groudon.

"Standard Fighter designs don't work as our technological level is too low... however if we were to make something that could make use of varying terrains and environments..."

~He is a nerd that's why!~ Hacks cut short.

Roxy laughed, "He is, he really is."

Hearthome

"Uhhh okay time to figure out how this works..."

Rowan: -Is Suddenly Here Now- <If I did it right, it's probably knives. I know you're bad with range.>

He sends a gout of flame at a glitch trying to attack Daydre.

Daydre focuses, and two globs of Obscura appear near her. These Obscura blobs reform into knives, which Daydre grabs and uses to slash a nearby glitch.

"Aw, you know me so well."

Edited by Daydre on Jul 14th 2019 at 11:00:35 AM