1940s Alto Mare
Jonathan: Just great. At least we weren't stuck during the invasion. But what are the odds that you'll end up killing me on my next jump.
Goober: If I leave you here right now, it'll solve a lot of my problems.
Jonathan: What's that supposed to mean?
Goober: You'll figure it out, Halliburton.
Jonathan: How did you know my name?
And they blast off yet again.
Portokali City, Angela, March 2008
Goober, Mack, and Jon land on a couple of bushes. As they regain their composure, they can hear the murmuring of reporters, followed by the pitter patter of expensive leather shoes on concrete. They hear the name of "Kyle Armitage."
Goober: Oooh, Angela. Nice.
Jonathan: Don't you know how to work that thing?
Goober: Would you believe me if I said that this is the first time this has happened.
From a distance they can hear a reporter talking to the camera.
Reporter: We are reporting live from the Angelan State Capitol as the state senate convenes for an emergency meeting in an attempt to resolve the looming economic crisis in the wake of the forced closure of Pokefutures. The region is facing a disastrous recession the likes of which have not been seen before as very few former Pokefutures-owned enterprises could be run without a successor to guide them, and millions of workers could face unemployment in an economy that has ground to a near standstill.
Jonathan: Ah, Harvey did a write-up on this event.
Goober: Hold on, I got it!
And bam!
August 23, Castelia City Streets
They materialize on the sidewalk. Conveniently, they're near a clock.
Goober: You're back. You're welcome.
Jonathan: About time.
Goober disappears into the crowd.
Jonathan: Where'd he go?
Priscilla: Jon, what are you doing out?
Jonathan: Pris, hey. You wouldn't believe what I've been up to today.
Priscilla: Oh, try me.
Edited by MasterJayAM on Nov 20th 2019 at 2:51:05 AM
Trans Terminus Homo
Hau'oli
Alyesha was currently walking around with Matvey and Semyon, noticing the crowd, she got closer, trying to find out what was happening
"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"
Meet The New Boss
Outside The Stormchaser
Daisy: Thank you! You all are so kind.
Herdier: -woofs-
Aphrodite: I'll tell the kids you're here.
Cafe, past
Ishtar: Ah, I get it, I get it...
Julius: -orders the food-
Hideout Of Gluttony
Julius: ...What even is this place?
Contact Me!
Hau'oli City, Geographic Society Open House
The Hotel Grounds are revealed to have become an open house, promoting the Geographic Society and its publications to the people of Alola. Free admission, the signs suggest, though the place is hardly too difficult to enter despite the crowds. Also, there's like a dozen signs asking people to buy subscriptions to the Geo Soc magazine, and shelves of Geo Soc books and other materials.
A handsome yet somewhat nerdy looking surfer dude approaches them. He looks like he should be someone familiar, if said onlooker were a [K-Pop] fan. He's wearing board shorts, flip-flops, and a dark blue t-shirt with the logo of the Omastar Oceanographic Foundation on it. It spells OOF.
Ryan: Hey, you're here for the open house?
The Wanderer
Hideout of Gluttony, yesterday
-To Julius-
A shrine to past conquests, which makes me wonder if there's similar trophies of the other mons she and Herbert have stolen.
-Looking around-
I figure the real Treasure, once it takes a proper form, would have to do more with Gogie anyway considering their longer history and why we're here in the first place.
Thread: <We should probably keep moving. Pink, anything else?>
Pink: <It's gonna take me a bit, Galen can only scan so much at a time.>
Edited by rmctagg09 on Aug 25th 2019 at 3:57:41 PM
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
Trans Terminus Homo
Hau'oli City, Geographic Society Open House
Akyesha was not a particular fan of [K-Pop], as such, the face was completely new to her. Yet, she still waved as the man came to her, shaking her head.
Alyesha: "No, actually, I've just been wandering through town to have a nice noon with my team, then we saw the crowd and looked what is going on"
Having said that, Alyesha smiled
Alyesha: "But it definetely looks interesting~"
"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"
pain peko
Fuchsia City Café
Elizabeth: "..."
-She takes a deep breath.-
Elizabeth: "S-so, Is-Ishtar, how's...life?"
"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"
Stormchaser, Past
Beck arrives to where Daisy is, pushing a cart of tea, while Jules flutters around with a container full of sugar cubes and another container with alternative sweetener.
Beck: Spot of tea, ma'am?
Jules, speech device: Sugar or stevia?
Edited by MasterJayAM on Aug 25th 2019 at 4:48:12 PM
amazing glazing
Vermillion City, Cullen Battle
Cullen: Hm. You seem to know a lot about type weaknesses.
Cullen: ! THAT QUICKLY!?
Milagros: -shrugs- Probably just luck.
Dunsparce Cloud
Kalos Route 7, Newsstand
Ever: Oh, yeah, he used to be one of them, then he got kicked out for such-and-such. You know how it is.
Drift: <Frillish?>
Ever: Well, yes.
PEFE Medbay, Megan
PEFE!Every: I suppose that's fair. -she nods to Vee- I'm sure I will. Ever told me you've been up to a number of interesting things.
Cytosol: <Our year's been pretty boring, if you discount finally getting caught out as a traitor to the Mobius Project and having to flee. Also the alternate universe, but I wasn't around for much of that.>
PEFE!Every: I got to tell off my mom! And also experience decompression sickness. And start an apocalypse, but like, a good one.
-she takes the "syringe" curiously-
Very impressive, Vee. Would you mind documenting how you did that?
-she hands the syringe off to Cytosol, who mixes the blood into something small and pink, that briefly squirms and manifests what Megan would probably recognize as one of her eyes before subsiding back into pink goo-
PEFE!Every: Anyway, you may experience an intense pressure, deep nausea, mild to moderate pain, existential questioning of whether the restoration of your non-nervous systems constitutes a replacement of you as a person with an identical copy...eh, enough about side effects; you'll only get more stressed the longer I put this off I'm sure. Three, two—
-Cytosol loads the pink goo into another syringe and sticks Megan with it-
Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.
The Flamebringer
Torna
The Grunts were about to break, and with XB!Siobhan taking another one down and under the continued pressure, they do, running down one of the two tunnels on either side of the room. There's another door on the wall opposite the front entrance, but that doors open and seems to just lead to a kitchen. One of the Grunts seems to have left the stove on, making boiling water.
XB!Siobhan: "Well. Left or right?"
From this room, there doesn't seem to be any difference in the paths.
Magical Girl Fight, Distant Past
The Flash does what it's intended to - illuminate the area. The glitch seems slightly offput by this, but the giant arm swinging down at the party is illuminated all the same - as is where the Glitch is. The illumination seems to be fading fast, but for the moment, there's an opening.
All are significantly abnormal in a normal world... All are significantly normal in an abnormal world.
Meet The New Boss
Cafe, Past
Ishtar: Oh, me? I've been... adjusting.
Stormchaser Entrance
Daisy: Oh, thank you!
-sips the tea-
So I heard Ivo was looking for you... K-Team?
Hideout Of Gluttony
Julius: Who's "she?" Who's "Gogie"? Are they the same person?
Contact Me!
Some Rando
Stormchaser Entrance
"J-Team, but yes," Max explained, browsing the available tea before shaking her head. "We're in direct opposition of his goals. He wants to blend the universes together to be reunited with a relative of his. And we want the fabric of reality to remain intact."
Magical Girl Battle, Long Ago
Given the chance by the Flash, Max and Sunny fire off another round of Detonation Dust.
[Insert Unoriginal Stinger Here]
No voice to cry suffering
Logan: The pleasure is mine.
Hm. Is there a tactful way to mention that your son's a supervillain?
Not really—remember Mom Ironspine?
ahahahaha—
Logan: He is looking for us, in a sense! And if we see him before you do, we'll let him know you're looking for him.
Vee: <We've done a shenanigan here'n there, yeah.>
Pippy: <Oh gosh I'm glad you're alright...> •^•
Megan: c-ongrats on the spy work?
Vee: -wrinkling her nose- <Yeah, good apocalypses're a lot more fun than the bad ones.>
<And hey, congrats on parental confrontation! It—Azelf beneath, where's my son>
Pippy: <Ever's got him, remember?>
Vee: <Aha.>
-to PEFE!Every, relaxing- <Oh yeah, 's simple. Basic'ly, through a couple 'f syllogisms, every part of my body is completely undifferentiable from every other part.>
-holding up a claw- <This's a fang.>
-pulling back her lip, as her mouth turns to metal- <'nd this's a tail.>
<'m not a Ditto—>
-Megan, (v)naturally, is rather used to eyes forming out of goop, but is nevertheless a bit put off by its...humanness-
-and...her-ness-
-she's read up, though, so she's prepared-
Megan: -barely listening- oh gods here it comes
-she's not prepared-
-poke-
-and she dissolves-
Vee: -staring- <...fr'instance, I don't gotta do that.>
-from base proteins, Megan's [REDACTED]-
Pippy: -trips over to a trash can and throws up-
-[REDACTED]-
Lapis: b w
-and it all [REDACTED]-
-so Vee doesn't relax, or look away, until she hears Megan's heartbeat reform-
[REDACTED]: -with a death-grip on the bed- —eeeeeeeeeeeeee
-and [REDACTED] doesn't relax until her new fingers start listening to her old nerves-
[REDACTED]: —hhhhoooo gosh that was a rush.
[REDACTED]: Is this—normal?
[REDACTED]: I mean—I dunno if anything about this could be described as—normal.
[REDACTED]: ...Ditto are Normal. Heh.
[UNREDACTED] Megan: ...pfffffheh heh ha ha ha—
-she takes a couple deep breaths-
Megan: !
-she's taking deep breaths-
Megan: oh dear gods
-delighted- It worked!
I can breathe!
-double fistpump- I can FIGHT!
Oh thank you so much it's so nice to not get my oxygen intravenously all my muscles seem to be working again I think I'll go for a swi—
-she looks at her hand-
—oh come on...
-the weird marking's
still there-
-and Vee tackles her, shrieking happily-
Vee: -to PEFE!Every, grinning- <Eh, what'd anyone's nervous system do for 'em, anyways? Y've got Aura~>
Pippy: -panting- <You—you went on two.>
<I-I wasn't ready.>
Edited by Asterisk395 on Aug 25th 2019 at 7:34:46 AM
No mind to think. No will to break.
Stormchaser Entrance
Beck braced himself. From what he had picked up about the Clavis family's dramas, the relative Ivo wants to reunite with is his son.
Miss Daisy's grandson.
Empathic Kid Hero-in-training
Kanto Route 7 Newsstand
Me: I see... Also, do you happen to know anyone named "Lati"?
Hearthome Magical Girl Fight (Distant Past)
-Raru continues to sing-
Raru: <♫Ware Momo No Yo Chima No Hiru Wo Sugikoshi~♪>note
<♪Ayashi Kamiwaza Nasu Mifude~♪>note
<♫Waga Mi Wo Toki Hanachinu~♫>note
<♫Ashi Yami No~ Kegare Kiyome~ Tamaiki~♫>note
<♫Ito~ Kiyorakeki~ Hikari Yo~♪>note
<♪Shiroki~ Miashi No~ Kake Idzuru~ Miato~♪>note
<♪Hana Saki Midaruru~♫>note
Me: The Flash gave us an opening to attack! This might be our big chance to save the guy that glitchy fiend possessed!
-thinks to self- Hopefully we can also figure out how it happened...
♪Show me the wisdom of the world... Tell me the secrets of the heart... and the sweet~ mysteries~ of love~...
pain peko
Fuchsia Café
Elizabeth: "Mmm."
-She clasps her hands together.-
Elizabeth's Imagine Spot
-Elizabeth is shoveling baked goods into her purse.-
Elizabeth: "Sorry I gotta go curl up in a hole and die"
Fuchsia Café
-Elizabeth takes a deep breath.-
Elizabeth: "I'm still very confused so I want to set something straight between the three of us."
"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"
Galen would probably find a trophy stand or two as it continued to scan, of things like Lopunny and Persian. A few scattered plushies of similar mons with visible stuffing showing seem to be lying around too.
No sign of anything like Gogie yet, though. It's definitely deeper in. But he might notice a direction where there seem to be a few more mooks... more heavily guarded.
"life is just a series of increasingly canon-eluding ao3 tags" ~ everydunsparce "Keep your hellfruit away from me, tempter" ~ also Every
"It might not be Jay... I think this may be her Conkledurr, cause she learned my name and gained the power to speak to Pokemon duri..." Jackal stopped when he realized what he was saying.
"Okay I was captured by Jay at one point and trapped in Pokemon form, hence the statue of the Lucario with the scarf, that's me there."
"Usually I'd mock you right now but this entire area is deeply uncomfortable to us. So you're getting off easy today."
Bishop sifted through the ship's systems, he was the central core of the Oblivion Wing, a proud ship that had been modified over and over again to become a versatile ship. His captain was Captain Silas Grant, and working for him meant something interesting was always going to happen, even if it got them in trouble.
Bishop was a proud Porygon, sifting through code with little issue, if there was a encryption he would break it, and the code of the hunter Delta, very much to be broken. Bishop did what he did best and directed it, understanding how the encryption worked a little better than before.
He took off another piece when the autoprogram kicked in, and there was a location, good, it was about time they fou- Bishop paused, the nanoseconds felt like aeons as he stared at it, Angela, the King Industries building at Gold Canyon. He had to tell the Captain soon, because in the next 3 seconds the encryption was back up and the location was gone.
But it was there, what they had been waiting for, the next hit against the Hunter's Guild, damn Meatspace for being too slow to communicate.
Dunsparce Cloud
Kanto Route 7, Newsstand
Ever: ...Nope. Never heard of them.
-they send out a Piplup next to Drift-
Okay, just copy what he's doing
Arc: -using Aqua Ring, pulling the water away from the fire and around himself in a whirling spiral-
Ever: No that's going to make it worse, Drift help—
Drift: <Lish!> -attempts to pull the water away with his own hydrokinesis, finds Arc oddly strong- <Frill!>
Ever: Yes I know he's a baby you're not going to break him
Arc: <Mine!>
Ever: there's a fire
PEFE Medbay, Megan
-PEFE!Every tilts her head curiously at Vee, rather impassively as everything with Megan goes down-
PEFE!Every: That's really fascinating. Is it an ability intrinsic to Vaporeon or yours specifically? Could I teach it to Cytosol?
Cytosol: <Not sure what it'll get you. The only part of me that does anything is my brain.>
PEFE!Every: A fair point, admittedly.
-and it works-
PEFE!Every: (smiling, maybe?) Congratulations. You're actually the first subject of this batch; I had to make fresh stock after that bitch dumped my module into the Underground.
Cytosol: <You know, she is technically your daughter.>
PEFE!Every: -stare-
Cytosol: <...Right. Also, I'm not sure she'd want to know the thing about the batches.>
PEFE!Every: Information is always necessary. (to Megan) There are tropical water modules if you require water of functional human temperatures, and arctic water modules if you require water of less functional temperatures. (to Vee) A fair point, though it is more relevant to those with non-fluid biology. (to Pippy) Yes. That's how you make sure they don't flinch.
Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.
Empathic Kid Hero-in-training
Kanto Route 7 Newsstand
Me: Need any help, Ever?
♪Show me the wisdom of the world... Tell me the secrets of the heart... and the sweet~ mysteries~ of love~...
The Wanderer
Torna, very far past
-To XB!Siobhan, turning off the stove-
Let's see...
-Tries using Aura Sense to peer further along the tunnel-
PEFE Medbay, far past
-Having watched Megan get reformed-
0_0
Well, the Aura's the same, at least.
Hideout of Gluttony, past
-While moving-
Other stands... I remember those mons.
-To Silas-
But it was Jay's name that got us in here, so I don't think that's the case. Unless... if it's possible for Mindscapes to fuse, it's not impossible that this Palace might belong to both of them, but that needs confirmation.
Pink: <Chances are that more heavily guarded place is where we need to go.>
Can you try seeing if you can sense the Palace Master?
Pink: <Will do.>
Edited by rmctagg09 on Aug 26th 2019 at 3:12:12 PM
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
That's just how it is on this bitch of an earth
Torna, Past
Daydre is about to turn the stove off, but Tagg gets to it before she can.
"Geez, even if they were in a hurry you'd think they'd at least turn off the stove... Then again it'd probably be better for us if this whole place burned to the ground."
Magical Girl Fight, Also Past
Seeing as there's an opening, Daydre and Rowan waste no time in trying to exploit it. Daydre throws a volley of obscura knives, while Rowan lets loose a Flamethrower.
off the shits
Fwomph
Magical Girl Fight
-The mystery robot girl brandishes her blade before leaping sword-first at the illuminated glitch-
Torna, Past
-The eye of the dagger regards the stove-
?: Good. Safe.
It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.
PEFE Medbay
Daydre waves goodbye and ducks out of the room.
off the shits