PEFE HQ Depths

-Now seems like a perfect time for Mason's phone to get a single bar of reception, doesn't it?-

-His phone buzzes, drawing his strange look away from Kahlia and toward the screen. And as soon as he reads the message, it turns to a look of realization.-

Mason: ...You're a Schoolkid?

Fuschia City Zoo

-Lissa shrugs.-

Lissa: Maybe it's for kids? I didn't know Kabuto was a fossil mon back when I was, like, six.

-She thinks for a moment.-

Lissa: As for my job, I'm a... actually, I dunno what you'd call it. I guess it's kinda like being a hybrid of vigilante and social worker. We find Pokemon that have been poached or Shadowed, return them to their owners, and make sure the people doing the poaching and Shadowing aren't around to do it any more. It's good work. Makes me feel like I'm making a difference for the first time in ever.

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-In a moment, all the colour that had previously returned to Kahlia's cheeks drains from them again.-

Kahlia: Wait, you... you know about the School? I'm not... I wasn't born there, they took me, I'm sure of it, and then they... they...

-She seems to be struggling to put this sudden wave of emotions into words.-

Fuschia City, Zoo

"For real? That sounds so cool! You're like some kind of superhero for hire. When I was six that's what I wanted to be. And still wanna be.

They go over to the Voltorb. Lita reads the placard.

"The very image of POKE BALL...-sharp inhales-."

"So, what brought you to the J-Team?"

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Mason: Yeah, I know about them, I was born there. Phantom Class, huge failure, we kept escaping. But... you said the took you? Is that why...?

-He gestures vaguely.-

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-Lissa chuckles slightly.-

Lissa: It is, kinda. And hey, no reason to give up on your dreams. Plenty of folks are doing the superhero thing, and I'm pretty sure I could talk Alice into finding room in the Faction.

-She shrugs.-

Lissa: As for the J-Team... I hang around people who hang around them. That's all there is to it, really.

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-Kahlia nods, her hands trembling slightly.-

Kahlia: ...Yeah. They made me... they thought I had some talent for it or something. Locked me in a room with the other students until I...

-She takes a deep, shuddering breath.-

Kahlia: ...I'm sorry. This is the first time I've told any of this to... anyone, honestly.

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Lita starts to pull her towards the Lapras pen.

"I've never seen one of these if you can believe."

She tilts her head.

"The Faction? What's the Faction?"

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-Mason nods.-

Mason: I don't blame you. There's... not a lot of people we can talk to about this sorta thing.

-He leans back against a wall.-

Mason: For me, it was illusions — duh — and everything that follows. The big end goal of my "schooling" was turning an illusion into a living being, but...

-His gaze falls toward the ground.-

Mason: ...I'm not planning on repeating that any time soon.

A Cafe Somewhere

Two redheads sit across from each other, each with a cup of something hot in their hands.

Sunny readjusted her posture, trying to power through the scabbard digging into her back.

Roy felt the makeshift scabbard that Sunny made for him, running his fingers along the painted-on pattern.

"Again," Sunny started. "I'm sorry I had to take your scabbard without permission. If it makes you feel any better, though, it's been serving its purpose incredibly well. I can summon, like, tendrils of fire from it," she said, considering demonstrating before remembering they were in public.

"Sunny, it's fine," Roy warded off. "I'm not mad, I promise. I never was. But I will say that I want you to keep that safe, okay? That scabbard means a lot to me," he said.

"... You miss home, don't you?" Sunny asked, placing a hand on Roy's. "I'm sorry. I've been trying to make you happy, make you feel like you belong."

"But I'm still an outsider," Roy sighed. "True, my story is done, but is that really a bad thing?" He asked. "Maybe I don't want to be involved in any more adventures or battles. Maybe I just want to settle down, take things slow."

"And I'll support you all the way," Sunny said, before the two of them clinked their cups together.

Edited by AbsentCoder on Jul 27th 2019 at 8:27:43 AM

The gas cloud around the life support dispersed with the thermite explosions, clear to be shut off and for the air quality to become less deadly cake flavoured.

Braun could only scream angrily, and that glitched out after a few moments, and then all was silent.

Rogue's radio cracked and in came Jackal's caller ID, "Rogue we've got a situation on the roof. Large Future series cyborg frame, based off of Palkia, Braun's in there and we're not punching through as easily, we need every bit of backup we can get. Get up asap!"

Braun frowned as Murphy cut off his access to other systems, "I won't go down so easily... and a thumbdrive... to hold me... to hold my soul?"

He laughed, and soon the world around Murphy started to disintegrate, "I should really thank you, I extended myself too thin, didn't have enough processing power."

Braun's clipped form began to regenerate, slowly growing larger, "You want to talk operating systems? RAM? Keep in mind this is a body meant to run cybernetic parts and living tissue, both of which require massive amounts of RAM, even moreso when it's a supposed god..."

Braun now towered over Murphy, "You cut me out of everything else... but it worked out in the end."

The combined attacks dented the frame and damaged its talons, even damaged the energy projector in the mouth, but the limbs? They held.

Jackal grunted, "How, how is it still standing?"

"This was made to hold the power of a so called god... Did you really think we'd make it to weak to hold that power?"

Fox sighed, "Least we're making progress."

~Yeah bad news, the incomplete soul? Yeah it's whole again and all in there. I think Murphy's plan mighta backfired.~

"Craaaap... Back to it people, we're focusing fire now, all on the head!"

The missile fired by Taipan flew through the air majestically, the trail behind it clear as day, it approached the torso of the behemoth, struck- and harmlessly dinged off.

"Tai... where in the hell did you get that missile and why does it suck?" Fox asked, legitimately concerned.

Braun stepped forward crushing it underneath, Jackal released his team, raised his rifle, "FIRE!" he shouted, and the entire team threw every attack they had on hand.

Arthur and Hayden stared at Clutch, who looked over himself, <Fascinating.>

"Yes that's great and all but do you mind-"

Clutch used psychic on the Nargacuga, letting out a evil laugh.

"Honestly, I'll take it," Arthur remarked before firing his bowgun.

Orre, Factory Raid

Stranger quickly drove behind the cover Gaia was behind.

"Wish I packed something with a little more stopping power than salt."

He sent out BRG (Shiny Gyarados).

BRG:<Follow your nose!>

"Not now. Take this." He injects an X Attack into the beast and set it loose. "Go hurt that thing."

BRG: <Aye aye!>

The Gyarados slithered over and started Outraging on the machine.

"You guys keep firing." His Pikachu continued to fire Thunderbolts at the frame as his Xatu fired Psychic attacks at the joints, trying to weaken them.

"...Crazy day, huh?"

The New World, Jungle

The Nargacuga was bombarded by the Psychic and couldn't do much as it was restrained by the Whirlpool as was whacked by the Umbrella. It flailed and bit at the air helplessly as it was peppered by the fire from Arthur's Bowgun.

Colton's sword pierces its side, causing it to wince as Megan's expertly thrown tranq ball struck it in the face. The electroweb kept it from moving as the tranquilizing effect took place.

It swayed groggily from side to side before collapsing onto the ground, asleep.

Good job you lot. We'll bag 'em and tag 'em. You lot get into that base and give 'em hell!

Edited by PhilosopherStones on Jul 27th 2019 at 9:19:39 AM

Fuchsia City

-Standing in front of a 1918 flu memorial-

Death doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes, and it takes, and it takes.

-Walks off-

Orre Factory, FuturePalkia Battle

Taipan's face couldn't be seen under the mask, but it was definitely making that expression that says "are you fucking kidding me!?"

Taipan: Okay, Murphy, status report.

Murphy: Well, talk about your Deus ex Machina. Lemme guess. You got [War Machine]'d?

Taipan: Don't rub it in.

Murphy: Someone's definitely losing a customer. Hmmm, I wonder, though. Now that he's in his powered robot armor, which means if he goes down, it's light's out.

Taipan: Isolating him toward the robot was probably a bad idea.

Murphy: I know, right.

Taipan: Oh, I know that sound. You've been acting like a megalomaniac since you got here, Murphy.

Murphy: It's a machine, and I'm just saying we have legal right of salvage.

Taipan: He's not guarding the databases. Go search for its weakness or at least its chemical composition so we'd know how to corrode it.

Murphy: I blocked him from everywhere and he's now in one place. Then where the hell am I if I'm still interfacing him?

Edited by MasterJayAM on Jul 28th 2019 at 6:22:47 PM

Orre Factory - 25th Floor

-Vulpecula holds out a hand.-

Vulpecula: "Come on. I'll get us there fast, promise. Just hold on tight."

-She "winks" again.-

Orre Factory - Rooftop

-Phantom swings his kyoketsu-shoge in the air and laughs.-

Phantom: "Know what, Braun? I think you've got a bit of a god complex!"

-He channels a huge amount of Obscura into his kyoketsu-shoge's knife, yeeting the blade at the Mecha-Palkia's head, still channeling Obscura from the handle through the chain and into the blade.-

-Spectre settles for rapid-fire Ice Beams while the Armored Arcanine flies in with a superheated Iron Tail.-

Futures Factory, Floor 25

Rogue: Right, on it!

-They decloak and turn off the life support, and leave another thermite charge to burn through it so it can't be turned back on.-

Rogue: All good down here. V!

-They rush over to her, take her hand, and wink back, complete with a heart emote.-

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-Vulpecula giggles and scoops up Rogue in a bridal carry.-

Vulpecula: "Hang on tight!"

-She rushes over to the elevator in the room...and visibly deflates.-

Vulpecula: "Oh. This is awkward."

-She turns around and presses the (^) button with a tail.-

Vulpecula: "Seems this elevator still has power."

-Vulpecula smacks her lips behind her helmet.-

Vulpecula: "I should put you down now."

-Nonetheless, she's still holding the blue superhero.-

Edited by SwiftSeraph on Jul 30th 2019 at 11:08:48 AM

Futures Factory, Floor 25

-Rogue is scooped up, and does not protest in the slightest.-

Rogue: I know I'm not complaining. This is nice.

-Their grin can't be seen, but it can be felt radiating off of them.-

Orre Factory - 25th Floor

-Vulpecula blushes underher helmet.-

Vulpecula: "That's a dangerous game, you know. Keep making me weak at the knees and we'll both fall."

-She climbs into the elevator - still holding Rogue - and presses whatever the highest-numbered button is.-

Vulpecula: "So...you come here often, Rogue?"

-She giggles.-

Futures Factory, Elevator

-Rogue snickers.-

Rogue: Didn't you see the show? Falling is my specialty.

-Another wink emote.-

Rogue: And if I came here often, you'd probably have to kill me, and I don't think either of us wants that.

Edited by BittersweetNSour on Jul 28th 2019 at 10:19:19 AM

Orre Factory - Elevator

Vulpecula; "Good point. Plus I doubt I could take you in a fight. But damn if it wasn't cool watcbing you blow shit up."

Futures Factory, Elevator

-Rogue giggles-

Rogue: Why, thank you, I do my best. You know the thermite's part of my tragic backstory? It totally has to do with why I turned to a life of crime, it's quite the tear jerker.

-There's not a drop of gravitas in their voice in the slightest.-

Orre Factory - Elevator

Vulpecula: "Oh, really? I'd love to here your dramatic backstory over coffee or something but, alas, your true identity will forever be a secret to me."

-Were she not holding Rogue, Jessica would be going full drama queen with her body language.-

Futures Factory, Elevator

Rogue: Alas, were you to discover my true nature, I could never show myself to you again. Oh, woe!

-Being the carried party, Rogue has full room to dramatically swoon in Jessica's arms, and takes absolute advantage of this fact.-

The elevator moved slowly, standard speed was normal, thoug-

The Elevator suddenly jacked up the speed as the control unit realized they were headed to the roof, Vulpecula and Rogue would feel some minor G-Force as the Elevator used whatever power was left on its controls to rocket up to the top.

Orre Factory - Hellevator

-Vulpecula doesn't even stumble.-

Vulpecula: "We'll pick this up later, babe. Though, I gotta ask, do you act? You have a natural talent. I wouldn't want to see it wasted in some cheesy B-plot sci-fi movie."

-She 'winks', and though her face is obscured, one can't help but feel the knowing smile on her face.-

Futures Factory, Elevator

Rogue: Pssh, nah. I was a theatre kid for maybe a year, and that's it.

-They smirk, and right themself out of Vulpecula's grip as the elevator approaches the top.-