???

And so the group was sent hurtling through the blind eternity.

Tesse: "We're in the cheese now, folks."

Through the swirling chaos they could see a green light, slowly blinking.

Tesse: "There it is!"

The light grew brighter and brighter until...

??!

Waking up the group would find themselves on a plane. Massive claw-like cliffs jutted out from the ground around them. Some holes and tunnels winded through hillsides, likely a part of some underground cave system. There were a few massive crystals scattered throughout the surrounding area.

Everyone seemed to be present and accounted for.

Except Tesse and their way back home.

Turffield Stadium Entrance Room, Pre-AFD

Suzie comes back from her remembrance to see Ian and Evelyn making their plans.

Suzie: It's probably about time I go check on Will, see if he's... what's the word Galarians use?

Fuka: Skivving?

Suzie: That's the one. Skivving from the task I gave him.

At that moment Suzie's Rotom phone buzzes. She looks at it, turns it a few ways, looks at it in confusion, then hands it to Fuka.

Fuka: Sami says Will got into a Pokemon battle with a trainer at the Water Stone, they're going to have lunch at the other trainer's food cart, and that she expects you to give him a stern talking-to.

Suzie sits there in surprise.

Suzie: One, how can Sami even use a Rotom phone with her claws? Two, how in the Wild Area's green hills can you read that? And three, what kind of food cart?

Fuka: One, with incredible delicacy; two, I'm the one who taught her about emojis in the first place; and three, sounds like pretty good variety, actually.

Turffield, Standing Stone of Water

Everyone opted for Sinnoh-based dishes. Will is eating with a knife and fork as his chopstick skills were not great. Everyone else had bowls or plates they were eating from by hand, claw, or beak.

Puri: <So you messed up?>

Will: Yeah, I sent Moka out a the wrong time.

Puri: <Do you know why Sami wanted your phone?>

Will: No. She sent something to Mum, but when I looked it was all emojis.

Puri: <She's probably getting you in trouble. Hope it was it worth it?>

Will: Absolutely. Thanks for keeping Sami busy, by the way.

Puri: <Anytime.>

The two share a quick fist/flipper bump.

Halis: <...The more I hear, the less I'm liking this plan, mainly because it sounds like a bad idea to get incarcerated by choice in here. At that point, you've more or less already lost unless you have some sort of backup plan.>

Halis: <Hmmmmhhh...!>

They seem to be trying to work themselves into a mood of some kind, but it's hard to tell what. Thankfully, Asterios is also here to help ask the question for you.

Asterios: <...What are you even doing?>

Halis: <EEP!>

This spooks them and they fall over after hopping into the air.

Halis: <Oh, it's just you... uh, I'm trying to learn Explosion.>

Asterios: <...Why?>

Halis: <Because... I had a thought. If I can learn a move I shouldn't be able to use, I might also be able to 'game the system' in other ways, too.>

Asterios: <...And how does this make that happen? You can't just... practice exploding.>

Halis: <Not with that attitude, you can't!>

Asterios sighs and Halis resumes trying to do so. Even if it's futile, even if there's no chance of it working, as long as one person on the internet said Lopunny can learn Explosion, Halis will keep trying to do so, because the internet never lies.

Edited by MetamorphicHalis on Jun 16th 2020 at 10:14:43 AM

Wherever This Place Is

(Kim, still completely unfazed, looks around in disbelief for a few moments, before adjusting her glasses and taking out her notebook.)

Kim: "Well, this is... certainly interesting."

(She writes down the following:)

...WHERE ARE WE?

(Orwell, meanwhile, is so dazed by the portal travel that he falls down on the floor and faints. Kim looks down and notices.)

Kim: "Oh. Orwell has fainted. Well then." (she turns to the others) "Do any of you have Potions of any kind?"

Turffield Stadium Entrance Room

(Ozzy nods— then proceeds to fly around the room carrying Ronin by the bone. Kim giggles at this display, before turning straight to Ian.)

Kim: "A picnic? Hm. That sounds like a fairly good idea, if you ask me."

Power Plant, Surtr Battle

Evelyn: This is it! Surtr has four champions under his control, and... Wait, What?!

-Evelyn surveys the battlefield.-

Hatty: <There's Galar's former Champion, Leon... pants with directions as usual...>

Evelyn: Quite right, Hatty... Also, there's Steven Stone, one of the Champions of the Hoenn Region.

Hatty: <And let's not forget Diantha of the Kalos Region.>

Evelyn: And... Red...

-Evelyn points nervously at Red.-

Hatty: <Wait... That's Red?! THE Red?!>

Evelyn: 'Fraid so, Hatty.

Hatty: <How would Ian have said it? Taihenda...>

Evelyn: I definitely think he would say "Taihenda" at this point in time...

Hatty: <Still, if we can talk to them somehow, we can turn the tide of this battle.>

Evelyn: Quite right!

-Evelyn telekinetically lifts her phone out of her pocket and then angles it over her and the champions, and begins to record the battle. Evelyn then telekinetically pulls all her Poké Balls off of her belt, and throws them into the air.-

Evelyn: Come on out, everyone!

-The Poké Balls burst open and out from them jump Axon, Kako, Mirai, Simon and Yumi. Hatty jumps off of Evelyn's head and joins the battle.-

Evelyn: Alright everyone, here's the plan...

-Evelyn pulls her Pokémon into a huddle and make a plan.-

Evelyn: -whispering- Okay, so here's how we'll divvy up the battle. Axon, you and Simon are going to face Steven Stone.

Axon: -telepathically- ~I shan't let you down.~

Simon: -whispering- <Yeah, what he said.>

Evelyn: -whispering- Yumi, you and Hatty can face Leon.

Yumi: -sleepily- <No prob...>

Hatty: -whispering- <I won't let you down.>

Evelyn: -whispering- As for you, Kako...

Kako: -whispering- <Is it Red? Do I have to face Red?>

Evelyn: -whispering- You and Mirai will be making movie magic with Diantha.

Kako: -whispering- <Phew... And for a moment there, I thought you were going to say-

Evelyn and Mirai: -whispering- <All of us will be facing Red.

Kako: -whispering- <I just HAD to say it, didn't I?>

Mirai: -chuckles quietly- <If not you, then most likely Simon.>

Simon: -whispers- <Yeah, most likely... Hey...>

Evelyn: -whispers- It'll be fine... We just have to get the Champions off the others' backs, and defeat Surtr. Simple as can be, right?

Simon: -whispers- <Can't argue with that logic...>

Axon: -telepathically- ~I agree with Evelyn in that we all have a part to play, and ours is a very important part indeed.~

Evelyn: -whispers- Well, there's no more time to waste...

-Evelyn initiates a Team Hand-Stack, to which all the Pokémon follow suit.-

Evelyn, Kako and Mirai: <Lights...

Simon, Yumi, Hatty and Axon: <Camerrrra...>

All: <Action!>

-Evelyn and her team break the huddle and prepare to face the Champions they were assigned to.-

Turffield Stadium Entrance, Pre-AFD

Me: Thought you might like that idea. Shall Evelyn and I meet you outside?

Edited by AnimeboyIanpower on Jun 17th 2020 at 7:50:08 AM

Surtr Fight

-Heroes, corrupted.-

Phantom: "I'm sorry...he won't let me hold back."

Vulpecula: "This is...my fault..."

-The Armored Arcanine whines.-

-Spectre is nowhere to be seen, though. Was she ever under Surtr's influence?-

-On the non-corrupted side...-

Laurent: "Lucina! To me!"

-Laurent reaches out for her, slipping two candies into her mouth...-

-Lucina's eyes narrow as she bonds to Laurent, wrapping her ribbons to his arms as he wielss her Aegislash forme as a sword-and-shield.-

Lucina: "Which one?"

Laurent: "Sumia?"

Sumia: "The big one!"

-Sumia scoops up Laurent and takes to the air, flying at Helbindi.-

Hubert: "Mercedes, stay back and provide support. Morgan's team and I will deal with the sisters."

-Indeed, the two trios opt for interference, attacking Laegjarn and Lævateinn.-

-Misaki stares down Shaun.-

Misaki: "Legatus initialization. Phalnax mode."

-Misaki's Legatus launches out her Haxorus, Labrys.-

Shaun: "Misaki...move..."

-Misaki draws her X-Baton and switches it to Blaster mode. She preps her styler in her left hand.-

Misaki: "You two owe me dinner after this. And Marie, too."

ersatz

Evo: I think it's some weird fey stuff or something.

Stow-On-Side, a few days ago

-Violet walks out of the gym with her badge.-

Violet: Phew. Finally.

Shutter's Apartment, Past

The Albrights probably spent the entire day not arguing about anything, which had started to weird out both Shutter and Tommy at the same time. Galen never misses the opportunity to snark at his brother... and he hasn't all day.

Shutter: So, did anything in particular happen in Galar?

Tommy: Well, funny you should say that...

Galen: Oh, boy.

Tommy: You said we could tell him. No backsies.

Galen: Fine.

Stormchaser, several weeks before

Galen is having a hangover and is lying prone on the bed. His head is buried in a pillow.

Galen: <OTHERWORLDLY MUFFLED ADOLESCENT SCREAMING NOISES>.

Tommy: Yeah, this is definitely your first time. I'll go get you a coffee.

Gimbal: It's 2018 all over again.

Shutter's Apartment

Tommy: I was not prepared for this.

Shutter: Baby can't handle his liquor.

Galen: Everything was honestly a blur after that. Except the vomiting.

Tommy: Didn't know he could puke that much.

Galen: You'd think the puke would've scared the muggers, though.

Shutter: Didn't you have like B vitamins with you?

Tommy: The pharmacists were closed by the time he stopped drinking.

Galen: I may have puked at Arachna-Guy, too.

Beat.

Galen: Where were you? Did you run away and leave me with vomit-coated muggers like a bitch... again?

Tommy: I got you home afterward, didn't I?

Shutter: Yeah, that sounds about right.

Tommy: Anyway, we had a lot of laundry. No better place in the Stormchaser to discuss things like that, eh.

Shutter: Just like the first time we were there.

Edited by MasterJayAM on Jun 17th 2020 at 7:05:33 PM

!!!

-Gale was ecstatic. Here she was, in some place entirely different from the world she had departed from! There were crystals and arcing rock structures and the telltale openings of cavernous depths and underneath her feet she felt power-

-That last bit stuck in her mind a little but surely it was nothing to worry about right now, she was here in whatever-this-place-was with Des and Kimberly and Tess-...-

Uh... Guys? Tesse is uh...

-Her mood crashes immediately, a sudden and precipitous drop once she realizes that at least for now, the three who were here were stranded in this wild and untamed world-

"All good answers," Delta responded, "The simplest answer is we have a short term goal to achieve and making it clear that we want that goal done is effective. Hence, threat, of course make sure you're willing to follow up on that threat or else it's empty air."

The Grunt gulped as he opened a door with a keycard. Behind that was another set of doors, Delta sighed, "Anyone here care to try getting this thing open?"

The Grunt looked at him, Delta tilted his helmet, "We've already been spotted. Just run."

The Grunt nodded and ran away screaming.

It was almost too easy, Delta was keeping that in the back of his mind.

Stow-on-Side

"That was kinda sad," a trainer mused, exiting the gym. "I mean, that was boring to watch; I feel like I let everyone down. Watching Bea do her best to chase you down and we just continue to ignore them. Honest-to-Arceus, Sierra and Ignacio just... wow."

Unsure how to react, the recently-evolved Corviknight flying beside her nuzzled her as best she could despite the metallic armaments on her. "Vatista, you know that hurts!"

She continued to walk to the center, not really noticing Colton and Ammy looking up at her, their respective Pyukumuku and Shiny Goomy going at each other.

Edited by AbsentCoder on Jun 17th 2020 at 7:41:38 AM

Logan: Oh, yeah.

-they, naturally, immediately enter-

-following them, Rikuo would trot into the burrow-

-oddly, though the entrance isn't very large—just a ring of discolored stone, jutting from the side of the river at the shoreline—the burrow continues quite a ways-

-it isn't full, even—water trickles endlessly downward, into the dark, filling the void of the fading echoes-

-Addie draws on the awesome power of a Hidden Move and fills their little segment of the tubular cave with a Flash of warm, uniform fluorescent light-

-she illuminates patches of drifted, shattered dust, and the pulpy body of a Pumpkaboo, at the end of a seedy trail crawling from the deeper dark-

Addie: -to Rikuo- <...hungry?>

-Abilene definitely does not squeak-

-she does, however, draw her posture a bit more upright under the sudden display of approval-

Abilene: -cough- wEll then. That's good to hear.

-rolling her shoulders- ...if that's all, I suppose I'll be off. Unless you're headed Hulbury-ward as well?

Byleth: Lysithea. Made it before the bell. . _.

-she's changed her clothes again—from an outfit befitting a trainer to a raiment for fighting gods-

-gods, kings—what's either to this mob?-

-...granted, it isn't suited for much else, but then neither's this bunch, haha-

-Teleport-

-Byleth doesn't recognize any of the Champions-

-but her Professor's Eye categorizes and quantizes the strengths and weaknesses of her adversaries as readily as it ever has, within the new context of Trainerdom-

Mimikyu!Sothis: -internally- Oh, this isn't good.

Byleth: We'll survive. Sometime or another.

-Byleth extends her hands, her Crest of Flames burning into existence behind her—and a Thunderbolt leaps from the goddess she houses-

-toward Red-

Pippy: -glance- <...I suppose I should get on with that now, huh? Will you be okay, over here?>

Vee: <Yeah. Go get 'em, pal.>

-he offers a kind smile and leaves...and a pall immediately falls over the surroundings, despite her reassurances-

Vee: -stewing- <...>

Castanea: <...>

Megan: Time for the finisher!

Abilene: You're forgetting I'm thoroughly familiar with your tactics, new partner aside.

-smirk- Your favorite techniques, the keywords you use to call them, the works. Countertactics will prove trivial.

Megan: -inhale, exale-

-she scans the field, oddly invigorated—planning the next move in this game-

...use…

-point, grin- Your new move!

Fraidy: <U-um!!>

-she focuses-

Abilene: Mmm. Moderately clever.

-drawing concentration tighter and tighter—Sobble don't have sweat glands next to their hyperactive tear ducts, but it's easy to imagine the classic close-up focus sweatdrop in this scenario-

(-a small part of Fraidy's brain does, on a whim-)

-and one, then two, then a very shaky ten targeting reticles take aim around Tremulo, still tangled in twine-

Abilene: Leveraging an unseen context to permit instruction beyond my knowledge. The fact remains, however—

(Rosa: -jab, poison dripping off- <Are you really going to let it come down to something as arbitrary as a bad deflection?>)

Tripod: -...dejected beep-

-they reach out—-

-and Tremulo's stick falls out of wherever it was here in front of him-

Abilene: -flatly- You're still eminently predictable. Tremulo?

-he flings out a vine and scoops it up-

Abilene: Use yours.

-taps it against the street, for attention-

-and bobs it in sequence: center-

-left, right, center-

-shots ring out, clumsy but fresh—and in the face of them Tremulo only conducts-

-leading an imaginary symphony, or merely invisible and inaudible, he stands-

-and a note rings-

-filled with green and growing things-

-a wave of verdure pulses out, swallowing the teary-eye shots in perfect time—bowling Fraidy off her feet-

Fraidy: <OOF!>

-and pinning her to the masonry-

-freed, Tremulo gives the final floral flourish, trundles over—and taps her once on her upside-down forehead with his stick-

Tremulo: <I win.>

Fraidy: <...> ;-;

Tremulo: -reaching out, familiar- <Come on, you need to get up.>

Fraidy: <...>

<...the secret?> Q~Q

Tremulo: <...>

-Tremulo furtively glances left-

Abilene: -holding out her hand- Pay up.

Megan: -forking it over- Haha, oh man. ^_^;

-then right-

Castanea: <—so really, I don't see what you're getting so worked-up about.>

Vee: -fixed-grin- <Wow, you wouldn' believe how little I wanna talk about this right now.>

Castanea: <We take and survive. Nothing can change that, so why bother?>

-leans in close-

Tremulo: -murmur- <All life rose from water.>

-with that whispered utterance, he helps her to her feet-

Glimwood Tangle

Ever: That settles it. We're lost.

Spaghetti: <No we're not. Just send up Scramble to figure out where we are.>

Ever: I didn't say I was concerned.

After that little scrap with the Impidimp, I noticed I wasn't feeling nearly as frustrated as I normally am after letting a mon get away.

Spaghetti: <You can be frustrated?>

Oracle: <I feel awfully betrayed.>

Ever: Heh. Yes. Emotional control does not preclude emotional experience. My theory is that the Impidimp feeds off negativity in some way, hence its proclivity for pranks—

Muninn: <Yes, it does.>

Ever: ...Oh. You could've said something.

Muninn: <Knowledge is worthless if unearned.>

-Ever rolls their eyes and recalls Muninn-

Ever: Soooooo what I'm gonna do is I'm going to sit here, lost, and I'm going to stew for a bit, and see if that attracts our mischievous little friend.

Glimmer: <Can I help stew?>

Ever: Sure. What's on your mind?

Glimmer: <Aside from having still not evolved?>

Ever: Yes.

Glimmer: <Nothing, because I'm very upset about it.>

Ever: That's the spirit.

-they scoop Glimmer into their lap, leaning against a mushroom, and wait-

C'mon, bad vibes...

???: <Excuse me, but could you not?>

Hammerlocke, far past

-To Surtr-

Doesn't matter how many people you've managed to coerce to your side, it's over for you!

Stow-on-Side Stadium, past

Go Magtail!

Magtail: -Appears, having evolved into Centiskorch offscreen-

Use X-Scissor!

Magtail: -Swings her body around in an X-shape-

Pangoro: -Is brought down to half health- <Ack!>

Bea: Use Stone Edge again!

Pangoro: -Sending out stone fragments- <Gonna get some spice with my crow pie!>

Magtail: <Think again!>

-Dodges the Stone Edge and attacks with another X-Scissor, fainting him-

Vs Surtr

Lilith: <... I don't know who half these people are, but I will aid all of you regardless!> And she rushes towards Leon with an Aqua Tail.

Lysithea: <Wait, you're the dullard that brought me here in the first place!>

Still not quite used to this body, Lysithea musters what she's able and aims a Miasma Δ Hex at Surtr.

Elise: <If we beat him we get to go home?>

Sakura: <I-I think so?>

Elise: <Uuuuhokay then!>

Elise sends a wave of psychic energy at Surtr, while Sakura stands by and heals anyone who might need it.

Turffield Outskirts, Somewhere Out There

<Huh! I didn't know they had burrows like this out here.> He says, partially because he wants to avoid awkward silence, partially because he really didn't know that.

And then they come upon the body. <... I guess that's where that noise came from.>

Metropolis of Vanity

"Maybe if we distract him he'll forget to do it right away. That's how it works with me anyway."

Hammerlocke Power Plant

-The Champions immediately send out their mons and start blastin'-

-Sutur's minions also start blastin'-

-Sutur plows through Gale's attack, grabs her, and grins.-

Sutur:    <Rise and shine.>   

Metropolis Of Vanity

Flamel: <So someone has to be the distraction!>

Royal: ...Not me.

Ersatz

Coil: Like... Like Fairy types?

Iris: They are known for this kind of trickery.

Hulbury

Jackie: ...

... ...

... ... ...

-sighs- Fine...

-she picks up the ball and mopes off-

Halis: <A distraction? Mmmh... alright, fine, I'll do it then. I can already see where this's going, and I'd rather be semi-useful than just completely useless.>

They seem settled on this matter already, even if it does seem like a debatably bad idea to them.

Vs. Surtr

As Gale was grabbed and the phrase growled... as Sunny use one paw to reinforce the screens she set up and another to throw Mystical Fires... as Roy darted in numerous directions, delivering Blaze Kicks, Close Combats and Slashes faster than the eye could see as his Speed Boost put him into overdrive, a black portal appeared on the opposite side of the entrance.

Out of it, stepped a certain jacketed Unovan, and once the realizations hit,

Colton facepalmed.

Sunny's Light Screen was distant and strong enough it could bear the brunt, and Roy was fighting worse than the facepalm's blast zone due to the starts and stops brought on by needing to keep moving erratically, but what of Surtr and his forcibly recruited army?

Metropolis Vanity

Before Rage and Love offered to throw himself on the grenade, someone else had already done so.

"Oh, okay then. Just as well, I need to see if I can't get Mercury stronger," he admitted.

Edited by AbsentCoder on Jun 19th 2020 at 5:31:13 AM

Forward Fronts

Kitbash: Hardwire, if you would?

-The rotom nods and dashes at the door to attempt a very manual override-

Vain Metro

Anthem: <I was gonna offer to be the distraction and do the idol thing. Wait does Halis even have their Persona yet?>

They don't, which is why they should do it.

Anthem: <Wait why???>

Consider, when did you get your Persona?

Anthem: <When my life was... Oh.>

Hammerlocke Power Plant

-There is a moment of absolute serenity that flashes across Gale's face... Before her eyes flash a luminescent red-

Booting... Sequence: "In the Name Of The Moon"

-Gale's phone beeps, hovering out of her pocket on it's own will. A faint voice emanates from it-

Skeleton Key: >Wait, I didn't order this. Cancel sequence. Cancel? Boot sequence you will respond please I created you.

-Time slows to a crawl as a bubble of the world around Gale becomes near-black silhouettes on green-tinted beige:-

Sequence: "In The Name Of The Moon"

-The blank shape of Gale floats in the void, vibrant red lens flaring from where her eyes should be and the shape of the red slate visible upon her back. The phone floating before her shudders and erupts with ribbons? No, ribbon cables. Gale is trapped in the cables as the void around her floods with meaningless code snippets, among them are messages from Skeleton Key attempting to halt the program or get it back under their control to no avail-

-In the wake of the cables Gale is rendered no longer in silhouette as her outfit changes in brief close-ups; Delicate gloves, long boots, the graceful skirt of an elegant dress, the alchemical symbol of the moon emblazoned in so many places upon the outfit. Finally, her glaring red eyes are hidden away behind a ribbon cable that fades to become a black blindfold. The code in the background fades to a single symbol, a best attempt by a Porygon to blend moon symbolism with the obvious aesthetic 'inspiration'-

-This thing-that-was-Gale reaches out and grabs the phone as the last of the ribbon cables vanish, letting the phone glow before she flicks her hand out and the glow extends and fades to reveal a white sword-

In the name of the moon, for the will of mankind...

-The void around her is filled with flame, she shudders and twitches amidst it-

F-for the g-glory of Surtr! I will perish h-his foes!

-The background behind her shatters as reality spins back up to normal speed following the completion of this very obvious Magical Girl transformation sequence-

Hammerlocke Power Plant

-This thing that is very clearly based on a very specific character falls out of her sequence, landing perfectly on her feet before going into a kneel that leans against her sword-

The Flamebound Automata: Your orders, sir?

Hammerlocke Power Plant

-Kako and Mirai jump into action, facing Champion Diantha's Gardevoir.-

Kako: -to Mirai- <The cameras are rolling, Mirai.>

Mirai: -to Kako- <Let's put on a show!>

-The phone camera is shifted into place, filming Kako and Mirai's battle with Diantha.-

Evelyn: -to Diantha- You wanted a film shoot? I'll give you a film shoot!

-Evelyn smiles at Diantha, knowing that Diantha will put on as good a show as her title of Champion lets on.-

Evelyn: Break a leg...

-Axon focuses his mind on Steven's Metagross and prepares to fire a Shadow Ball with pinpoint accuracy. Simon, on the other hand...-

Simon: <What color is a Dragonite?>

-Hatty fires a beam of psychic energy at Leon's Charizard while Yumi curls into a ball to increase its Defensive power.-

-Evelyn then turns around and looks on in horror as Gale is transformed into a Magical Girl and placed under Surtr's control.-

Evelyn: Oh, that's not a good sign...

Vs. Surtr

Roy, Sunny and Colton look at Surtr and the Automata in abject terror, the thought of their ally turned obedient doll aiming to possibly kill putting a pit in their chest, a knot in their throat and a phrase to their lips.

<"Arceus' unholy flank...">

Well, not to Sunny's.

<I'm quitting that stupid contract. Roy, remind me so I can give you your scabbard back.>

Sunny knelt against her screens, praying for something to help her and her team out. Roy quickly dashed behind them and began to do the same.

Colton also flashed behind the screen and began to pray as well, but only felt the need to use one hand to reinforce their little section with a Protect, kneeling between and in front of Sunny and Roy.

With his other hand, he rested it on his racing heart, the pressure of what he was getting involved in hitting him.

What I would give to let Pent have my Mind of Crystal; what I'd give for the chance to go back and tell Pent that costume would yield; what I'd give to be able to trap the two in a Dark Void...

Those thoughts and others like those raced through his mind, as he reached through his shadow.

Stormchaser

Koyasa raised a cinnamon stick to his mouth, casually chewing on it before he suddenly bit down quickly, the stick pirouetting into the sky before it landed, perched in his staff's crook. He turned to look at the gray-haired 20-something beside him, sharing a similar look of panic.

A hand reached out from the wall, grasping the Nameless Longsword and tugging it back through.

The two looked at each other, recognizing Colton having grabbed the sword and swiftly reaching the same conclusion.

"<We gotta find Xatu.>"

Edited by AbsentCoder on Jun 19th 2020 at 8:41:45 AM

Glimwood Tangle

Ever: ...Okay, I've been staring at you for a day, you've been staring at me for a day, I'm getting hungry, you're probably—

Yes, It's A Hattena: <I don't eat.>

Ever: 'Course you don't.

Hattena: <You're awfully calm after 48 hours of sitting.>

Ever: What's to get worked up about? Have you seen an Impidimp.

Hattena: <...No.>

Ever: Great. Well, you're adorable, can I offer you something to help me find one?

Hattena: <Impidimp are Dark-type. I'd be no help.>

Ever: Shame.

Hattena: <But you may be of interest. I'll assent to this experiment.>

Ever: ...Great. I'll have to introduce you to my cousin.

Hattena: <Is she similarly composed?>

Ever: Uh, no, she's a scientist. She's about the least composed person I know. She's the emotional equivalent of a Prince's Rupert's Drop.

Hattena: <...Hm. She'll make for an interesting secondary group, then.>

Ever: Right. I'm going to choose to see that as positive and not ominous. Now, for a name...

Hattena: <Misery.>

Ever: You came up with that quick.

Misery the Hattena: <You'll find it suits.>

Ever: ...I feel as though I may be making errors.

Misery: <It's sealed between us, Ever.>

Ever: Oh, of course. You're psychic.

Misery: -thin little eyeless smile-

Ever: ...This ought to play out just fine.

-they tap her on the head with a ball-

Halis: <Come on... why can't I...!?>

They're still trying. It's midnight, and Asterios is trying to sleep by a fire.

Asterios: <...Give up, please, and rest.>

They fall over, exhausted from just trying to build energy for an attack that never happened.

Halis: <Alright, fine... maybe I'm just too weak.>

Asterios: <Not weak, just... uhh... Maybe... augment your other attacks...?>

They brighten up mood-wise immediately after hearing that.

Halis: <That... that makes sense! Why didn't I think of that before? I can just twist up something I already know how to do into a new technique instead! Oh, thank you so much!>

They hug the Tauros. He seems a bit shy about it, but stays where he is.

Asterios: <No problem... now please sleep. Sounds like a lot of work...>

Without any further words, they both drift into slumber once more. The seed of a new idea is planted, but how long until it comes to fruition is yet to be seen.

Ersatz alliance

Evo: I think it's stuff like mythical pokemon or something, I dunno.

Glimwood Tangle

-Cady is wandering around. She is approached by a Shiinotic.-

Cady: Hi! Can I help?

Shiinotic: <Where is my son?>

Cady: Wait, do you mean Amadeus?

Shiinotic: <Of course, who else would I be talking about?!>

-Cady sighs and sends out Amadeus.-

Shiinotic: <My baaaby! You've grown so much!>

-The Shiinotic hugs Amadeus tightly.-

Amadeus: <Hello mother...>

Shiinotic: <Come on! You have to tell me all about your journey!>

-The Shiinotic starts leading Cady and Amadeus through the woods.-

Hammerlocke, past

Shame I got caught with my proverbial pants down...

Hitodama!

Hitodama: <Right!>

-The Chandelure unleashes an Inferno on Surtr's approaching forces-

Gotta make sure he won't just revive this time...

Metropolis of Vanity

-Stepping forward-

I'm willing to volunteer, if our friend isn't willing.

Edited by rmctagg09 on Jun 20th 2020 at 4:54:54 AM