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POSTED ON Jul 6, 2019 4:51:54 GMT
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silas is dead. rocket is disbanded. hoenn is saved. so why isn't that enough? the televised feed of mossdeep plays on a constant loop back at league headquarters and fernando's made it evident that his return is not to be interrupted.

"fuck!"

a furious silph enters the main lobby, ignoring anyone who dares reach out to him. it would take herself to stop him, to even warrant a second of his time, but she's not here. she's never here. not when he needs her. not when he wants the only person who supersedes him to comfort him and tell him the situation will be handled. resentment runs deep and fernando will have none of it.

"isra!"

his doors swing open and fernando marches toward his desk, itching to get his fingers on the only trustworthy ally he has. "cancel all my meetings. unless it's someone from mossdeep or fucking dahlia goode her fucking self feel free to tell them to fuck the fuck off." quick fingers find comfort against the smooth plastic of his keys, tapping increasingly aggressively as he unlocks his computer and starts to get to work.

jirachi's tag backfired but that doesn't mean project avalon is done for.

no, this is only the beginning.


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POSTED ON Jul 6, 2019 6:09:45 GMT
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The world has been busy and as such so has she. In more ways than one. Very much so as the Mossdeep event puts several more papers on her desk now that the league must not only contest with the fact the event happened but what if it happens again. just because they survived it once does not mean they will survive it twice. Hoenn can't catch a break and that makes her role beside a councilman worth putting effort into, if nothing else the benefits of her efficiency can help keep one branch of their people in power running smoothly.

Speaking of, he enters like a battering ram and she's not sure why. She might have written it off as some sort of bureaucratic idiocy if not for the above average agitation. Isra makes a note to most definitely not tell them to fuck off but kindly wait for another day to meet with him. Later. Despite the troubles of their own relationship that is something she can always do later.

"I have tea already made, would you like a cup?" she seems unphased but its not because it doesn't bother her, rather in her experience it helps greatly when only one person is having an outburst, not two. Regardless of why. "You're welcome to keep going while I get it for you." she wouldn't stop his tirade, if it helped it helped and if it didn't it would hopefully give her something she could work with to help fix whatever had him wound up tonight.

She's already getting up from her desk to retrieve it, she needs to refill her own anyway.


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POSTED ON Jul 7, 2019 1:24:14 GMT
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"no tea." his remark is as exasperated as his typing. his eyes narrow in and the winkles of his eyebrow become increasingly folded as his expression darkens to something unseen. "water. iced. lot of it." his annoyance runs deep and there's little outlet for him to vent. doing so is wasteful so he takes it out on himself. tight lips bite down on each other and the ridge of his teeth draws blood. even the taste of iron doesn't bring him comfort.

"cila. protect, wide guard, king's shield. double layered. battle routine king's indian."

fernando racks his brain with a problem he's never encountered before. for a man so confident, so reassured by his own dedication and tenacity, he seems to unravel at unsolvable puzzle before him. whatever he's looking at on his screen is clearly not the answer he wanted. his computer beeps and sound of his porygon rings in a sharp high-pitch, 'survival rate: zero.' color fades from his face as he slams his fist against his keyboard tray.

"fuck!"

with an annoyed click of his tongue, he pulls out a pokeball, releasing the ditto inside.

"run it against the data we have on regirock. calculate protect from an impervious shuckle."

the answer doesn't change. this time it sounds more robotic, automated by a quick calculation based off his estimates with the limited data he could piece together.

'survival rate: zero.'


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POSTED ON Jul 7, 2019 2:03:42 GMT
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"Survival rate: zero"

High pitched and robotic sounding doesn't change the familiarity of those words. It's a term she's heard through out her childhood and for reasons she cannot place it fills her with a sense of dread. She stops dead in her track and listens. He's running against a wall, heaven knows what kind, Something is off about the scene that has been thrust on her and she doesn't know what still.

Isra resumes retrieving the drink, opting to bring him both with an unusual silence. Her heals tapping against the floor in a steady contrast to his furious typing as she returns, stone faced and calm. It's obvious when she sets down the drinks and looks at his face that if he continues this will likely only get worse. He's running too hard to outlast himself.

The woman is shit with software but comprehends a machine put in front of her well enough to make a move she doubts most would have the gall to do to him. She walks around the desk and reaches for the power button to his monitor. The action isn't meant to stop him so much as redirect him. She's putting herself directly in his path to force his attention away from whatever is devouring him.

"Drink" it's a command, because regardless of what he's doing he has to snap out of whatever state he's in first.



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POSTED ON Jul 7, 2019 2:25:10 GMT
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fernando ignores her at first. he's too focused on thinking of a way, any possible way, to find a solution for an attack that has no solution. from the footage from mossdeep, he's able to piece together a very rough estimate of the attack's potency. cross referencing the damage done to the surroundings and the personal accounts from those who survived all point at one thing; there's no way to survive such an attack. which, by all means, would've been an acceptable answer for nearly any other trainer. they could just come up with a counter measure to work around it.

but not fernando.

not the man who's spent years amassing a wide almanac of different techniques and combinations to provide a solution to every conceivable problem. that's his life's achievement and the only things he can boast proudly on his personal pedestal. and all the comes to shambles when he faces the one thing he can't overcome.

this ruins everything and what's worse is that it ruins him.

only when he catches her get dangerously close to his machine does fernando tears his attention away. all his fury and frustration channels into a single funnel, exploding at the only other thing in his way. "not now, isra!" he opens his mouth to scold her further but doesn't. instead he tries another option.

"wonder guard."

"survival rate: eight percent."



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POSTED ON Jul 7, 2019 4:08:37 GMT
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He snaps and she glares in return. It's not because she's mad but rather because he needs to get himself under control. whatever it is that's got him wound up can wait until he's not so wound tight. "I didn't stutt-" the computer changes it's answer and she looks at his screen. Something tells her that's a good thing and she's stuck in between letting him keep at it and interfering.

She chooses to move the cup in front of him and states again, just as sternly. "You got a different answer. Now drink." She turns back to him. "Before you get blood on your shirt." She watches his face, his expression. Because if he digs too hard she'll pry him away. Nothing about his fury here is healthy.He's as stubborn as she is but sh'es not afraid to match it if she must.

"Whatever it is can way 2 minutes."



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POSTED ON Jul 7, 2019 4:27:48 GMT
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"that's not the answer i wanted, isra. that's not supposed to be an answer. period."

ultimately, fernando succumbs, grabbing the glass and cleansing himself of the dry throat that clumps at the thought of his eventual conclusion. the only reason he allows it is because he's at a standstill. there's no point in arguing when he doesn't have another answer to test with.

"fuck."

fernando backs away from his computer and allows his gaze to sit on the floor, pacing in circles as he tries to piece together a solution. the comment about the blood makes him conscious of his bite mark and he presses his lips together, applying pressure to the wound.



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POSTED ON Jul 7, 2019 5:25:46 GMT
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The sigh is deep. She's not sure what he does really counts as listening but she accepts it nonetheless. She leans back against his desk, watching him pace. It's hardly better than what he was doing, only being better for the fact he's not at the computer. For a moment she thinks it cruel not to do more, perhaps because some part of her thinks him as one of her's in an abstract way be that for the better or worse.

She moves to her desk and riffles through her bag for a stray handkerchief kept for just such reasons. She returns to where he's pacing and reaches out to grab his arm and turn him toward her, grip firm and implying there's little intention to let him stop her from reaching up to wipe off his lip and inspect the damage he's done to himself. He's trouble she decides, feeling like it's something she's done before already. And yet here she is.

"What were you doing?" she finally asks, hoping that he's mellowed enough to answer.



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POSTED ON Jul 8, 2019 9:03:24 GMT
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fernando's pacing is endless. it's almost neurotic how adamant he is about solving an unanswerable question. the challenge to do the impossible strings him higher then most have ever seen him. it's a side of him that only comes out when he's truly unraveled, stripped of the safety of his facade and thrust into the spotlight of who he truly is.

a troubled man who cannot be anything but right. so when he's told he's anything but, he has no choice but to double down until he proves it to not only himself but everyone else around him. pride is a vice he's long disowned but here it is, dormant until called upon by the crux of his being.

only isra's touch brings him out of it. the physical touch of someone else acting upon him waking him from his deep thoughts. "what?" he answers on reflex and it comes out harsher than it should have. but that's the brunt of his bite and he makes no move to swat her away.

"analyzing the attacks of whatever the hell attacked mossdeep. reports dictate that these huge pokemon have destructive capabilities that make regirock look irrelevant."



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POSTED ON Jul 8, 2019 10:27:56 GMT
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Isra knows how she should be responding. She should either be angry with him for barging in like a raging bull and behaving like an angry child or she should be franticly trying to calm him down but she does neither. The woman reaches to grab his chin and narrows her eyes at him ever so slightly, the closest she'll get to scolding him for his behavior but for better or worse she accepts it. A fatal flaw in her world view fueled by the disconnect of her isolated and broken childhood. People are how people are and she accepts it. His anger is not unfounded so she will let it be. For now.

The problem will hang in the air while she looks him over, it is both for his sake and for her's. The severity lets her gauge just how tightly wound around this problem he is and what she's going to have to deal with for the rest of the evening. "Try not to put a hole in your lip first" The statement is firm, she expects it of him at the very least.

"I feel like it would be appropriate to tell you to calm the fuck down and go back to bed but I have a feeling that won't do any good. For all I know you'll just go home and do the same thing and I won't be there to keep you from doing something worse." she gives him a pointed look, she can sense that under other circumstances the comment would have likely been twisted into something about her going home with him and it irks her but she drowns it out. "So if you're not going to calm down and go get some sleep..." she trails off trying to find the right words again. "Tell me how you were doing it, what you did first that got the 0 survival rate and how it differs from the one just now."

She's not sure he'll do it, but she figures talking through it is better than him sitting in his own head until he breaks instead.



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POSTED ON Jul 9, 2019 9:06:08 GMT
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the way she treats him almost feels motherly and that in itself sends a shiver down his spine. fernado eliard silph is not a man who needs to be babied, to be coddled and held as his booboo is kissed and sealed with a band-aid. yet, here he is, being examined by his secretary.

his eyes narrow at her comment until she reaches the part about wanting to understand his method. in that regard, he'll accept her, if only because he's been around her long enough to understand that she has a genuine interest in learning his thought process. it an act he tries to shy away from but he sees a potential to mold her. she's adept and adaptive but surprisingly ignorant. that or his expectations are too high. realistically, it's a little of both.

"the footage of the attack is limited until the camera feeds were cut off. we take that as our first hand basis and visual guide. then we survey the damage done to the area and based off the impact of the damage and the proposed trajectory of the attacks, we create a hypothesis of what happened and the attack's potency and damage. from there, it's not hard to reverse engineer values until the math adds up both ways and you can have a very accurate estimate of the sheer impact of the attack your judging."

he's still frowning but his tone is very informal, matter-of-factly as if this was a presentation.

"we measure that against the world's record for defensive maneuvers and calculate that against the strength of my own pokemon. it's not too different than calculating ballistics from a crime scene. the only difference is that this HYPER BEAM cleaved through multiple buildings and from downtown mossdeep into the outskirts of the city."

only now does he pull away. he's given her ample time to examine him and nothing else she can do will help. at least nothing substantial. 

"wonder guard is an ability unique to shedinja. it makes the pokemon immune to all basic attacks except for ones super effective against shedinja. at least to our knowledge. the thing is, HYPER BEAM shouldn't damage it at all since it's a ghost type. the predicted survival rate should be a hundred percent."




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POSTED ON Jul 10, 2019 0:51:31 GMT
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Truthfully the woman keeps hold of him for longer than she needs, just because she can really. She needs no other reason and it's fairly evident once he begins explaining. Isra is attentive, putting the pieces into place in her head. What he's doing makes greater sense to her than he probably realizes. Though the idea of doing it via a computer is foreign to her it fits feels like something she has likely done on paper before, or at least something similar. She lets him explain in full regardless, because knowing it from his point of view is the difference between understanding from beginning to end or being the idiot in the room.

It isn't until he pulls away that she comments, hand moving to her own chin in a mimicked gesture to imply thinking something her brain has already turned over. "If the estimated damage potential breaks through wonder guard then that either implies it's not entirely in line with known pokemon attributes due to it's unknown origins or it's strong enough to override the ability all together and leave only a slim chance of survival- one too small to count on because outside factors could easily drop that to zero." Her brows furrow but her eyes stay on him.

"When you ran wonder guard does it run it as strictly against wonder guard?" a necessary clarification due to her lack of understanding about the program he's running.



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POSTED ON Jul 10, 2019 8:06:07 GMT
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"so you see the problem and my frustrations. we cannot defend against that. that, that is the end game. that is my life's work unraveled before me. that is the one fucking thing that should not be possible."

fernando can feel his fists curl as his anger boils within him. years of meticulous planning unraveled at the whim of something no one knew existed. the universe itself has come to fuck him and deny him his throne. it feels like a shiv straight to his backside, blindsided, betrayed.

"it ran it off wonder guard when applied to the most popular known instances of it being used in public battles as well as my own. regirock's HYPER BEAM knocked out an aegislash, a ghost type pokemon from kalos, so it's not unheard of. that too is my fear."

irrational anger only lasts so long. with time his calms down but his frustrations remain. he returns to his computer. he'll attack it from another angle. "isra, how capable of a trainer do you consider yourself?"



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POSTED ON Jul 10, 2019 8:27:38 GMT
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And there it is, the thing that has been eating him alive since before he even walked into the room. He says it aloud and Isra is surprised by it but only barely, not enough to show. Still unused to the idea that things between the two of them might not be as distant as they seemed they would be, especially now. Isra does not know for sure how to answer because it is not something she can sympathize with. She makes a note to return to it late once she has had time to think about it.

He returns tot he computer and she follows suite, she doesn't prevent him from returning tot he problem, satisfied that he seems mellowed out enough. Rather she makes a clear spot on his desk for her to sit on- as she often does when they talk. "You ask a loaded question." she tries to avoid answering because it is not something she has really addressed with him. Isra does not play by the rules and it is something she prefers to keep to herself.

"Why not use wonder guard as a building block? The base of a series of defenses to create something that may up the outcome?" he may have thought of it already, but if he's set the potential aside she wants to know why.



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POSTED ON Jul 10, 2019 8:42:06 GMT
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fernando continues to work but his screen shows a different project. his proposition for the elite four initiative fills the right side of his screen while a list of current league members sit on his left. is an interesting prospect and fernando opens a small window to debrief himself on the only member capable of standing up to . he debates reaching out to with his suggestion but only because the proposition was for each endorser to propose their own representative.

kyle lopez is his current pick but he has someone else in mind too. he wants them both.

"good enough to be compete for a spot on the elite four initiative?"

her perch on his desk places her right where he wants her. the other inquiry is addressed with a knowing glance of disappointment.

"already did that. compounding it with wonder guard doesn't work. wonder guard is all or nothing while the other techniques, such as protect or iron defense can compound upon each other." fernando's half right but also half wrong. the only basis he has for that answer is repeated evidence across the the scientific community. unfortunately, the scale of the damage in mossdeep is not something that can be replicated, not something that can be experimented with.