"Eh if a Gyardos is the worst thing we run into then I'll call that a win...." Considering everything else they had to deal with on what felt like a daily basis, a Gyrados was the least of his worries. So he placed the Fishing Rod into her hands should she accept, and he cast his own line out to sea. The day was nice, the sun was shining, the waves were gentle, and he wished that the days could keep being this peaceful. That would never happen of course, but a dream was still better than nothing.

"I never got to fish much as a kid....But in Kalos I lived near the ocean, so I've always just enjoyed being near the water. It's why I live in Lilycove....It's essentially the same as where I'm from...." He said as he enjoyed the serenity that the place brought him. Back when Draco was just a Dragonair they'd go surfing in the water, he remembered how worried his caretakers had been. It was a fleeting moment of happiness for him.

"Besides if a Gyrados does show up....Reiner will be able to take care of it easily don't you think? Or Draco could...." They were perfectly safe as far as he was concerned. Except that was the worst assumption to make, on the horizon dark clouds loomed at the corners.

Eris Halla

"Are we....? I wonder...." He looked her over the specter of a person he use to know hovering just at the edges of her shadow. "Have you ever heard me call myself a good person....? No, you haven't....Because I'm not delusional....Unlike some of you?" To fully know oneself, and be aware of what you were, and weren't capable of was something he prided himself on. There was no length he wouldn't go to in order to achieve his goals, no stone he wouldn't overturn, no corner of his soul that he wouldn't give up for just one more step towards that goal.

"I do know things about you....I know your real name....I know where you are from....I know that you helped me search for murderers once upon a time...." Which is why her presence infuriated him so. "I don't want to hate you, Yuina....I don't want to despise you the way I do...." Perhaps hypocritical considering how their last meeting had gone. "But it is difficult when you wear the face of someone I use to know....And refuse to acknowledge her....Are you okay with only being half of a whole your whole life?" He doubted she would actually answer him, but it was a genuine question.

"In this entire region....There are few people who know your secret....Even fewer who met you before you were you....Or am I wrong....? If you are....Then I'll stop wasting my time....We can be bitter enemies, and I'll stop wasting both of our time...." The little emotion that could be heard in his voice despite the modulator drained away.

Despite how it might sound this was his sincere attempt at extending an olive branch to her, a chance no matter how small....He wanted to thank her properly, but he couldn't do that....

Yuina Higashi

"Well I feel bad for whomever the company set it's sights on...." His lemonade arrived, and he took a large sip of it and relaxed further. "Can I get a basket of sweet biscuits as well...." He spoke to the waitress with a bright smile, and when she hurried off to fulfill his order he turns his attention back to the other two. Not giving them an inkling as to whether he was oblivious still or not.

"Dewford has some interesting companies....As does Slateport....I guess it just depends on what sort of acquisition you are looking for. One is more stable than the other...." His biscuits came, and he happily took one, and popped it into his mouth since they were bite sized, and nommed it. Completely acting out of the norm, but when he was truly comfortable this could be said to be his natural state.

"Though getting the entire board on the same page....That is going to be the real trick...." He directs that statement more to Cillian Quinn than ameena abadi.

Rocket he felt was far more organized than the League, but that didn't mean they didn't have their own red tape to deal with. All it took was one snide remark, and then everyone else would just disregard you. Not that it bothered him, but if they were going to put in the effort to actually do this. He sighed just imagining the next meeting.

"C'est la vie...."

Cillian Quinn ameena abadi

He just chuckled at Makoto he didn't expect them to worry about why he had chosen them over others. Though there was a very simple reason, he trusted them implicitly more than anyone else in Rocket. Out of every other member in Rocket, only Makoto Kurumi held his unvarnished trust. Not that they needed to know that.

"I like Tempest Quinn, but this is not suited to their skillset. If I simply wanted Taika Cadell dead then yes....Just like if I wanted to erase their identity I'd go to howard slayte. You have to use the right tool for the situation, and for what I want you are the best....You have the best record of gathering intel, your pokemon are suited to deception, and you will be able to glean the most out of them in the end...." He expresses to them shifting his weight so his bruised, and cracked ribs could have some semblance of comfort.

"Sure I could just get Taika Cadell into a room, and torture the information out of them....But pain doesn't always break someone....Sometimes pain allows them to focus, physical scars heal...." He pointed to the numerous ones that he carried, and his currently healing wounds from the Regidrago Remnant. "But the mind doesn't heal so easily....It's why I use my Beeheeyem....The mind is a powerful thing, but it's also a humans weakest point....You can trick someone into trusting you, and when you shatter that trust, it will leave a scar so deep that it haunts them for years upon years....You can make someone fall in love with you, and when you break their heart it has the possibility of crushing them so thoroughly they never recover...." He explains to them with an easy smile.

"What I want to understand is his mind, so if he turns out to be a traitor I can reduce him to dust on a level so thorough no one ever thinks of defecting again....I can't have another Isaac Merlo...." For as much as he liked @isaccmerlo, he needed to dissuade others from taking that route. He would use Taika as an example to this end, and if he got rid of another traitor in the process that was just a bonus.

Makoto Kurumi

"Good luck, Amor."

Did he really need luck? Perhaps he had only gotten this far due to his luck. Maybe in some ways he was luckier than most, and just as cursed. If a plan went awry what was there to do, but to improvise, and try again, and again. Maybe that is why he had been put in the Dummy Ward....Some would call the way he trudged forward, and smashed himself against those walls the very definition of insanity.

It could be an admirable trait, but it was just as toxic.

His thoughts faltered as the dream ended, and before she faded.

"Good luck to you as well, Lulu...." They were going to need every shred of luck, and skill they possessed to make this work.

Lulu Flint

A quirk of the brow at the mention of her haunting his dreams, and he just smiled a bit.

"I wouldn't consider you a nightmare....Ameena...." However that would be all she got out of him before the dream world around them both collapsed, and forced them back into the waking moments of this hell. Would he take his vengeance on the Ugly Ward? Yes. However he would have to exempt her from it....Was that favoritism? Absolutely, but he was no longer a mere grunt, and could afford some measure of hypocrisy just like all the other Rocket Higher Ups. As Cillian Quinn once told him, there was no use in playing fair.

Perhaps he would have to embrace this version of himself a bit more in due time, but would that mean forsaking who he was? He'd cross that bridge later.

As he woke up the lingering feeling of her hand against his shoulder made him wonder just how much of a dream that really was. Looking over at his cellmate, Melody Miro, if she went along with his plan that would give him four others for this plan of his. All that mattered was that they succeeded in the end.

ameena abadi

"I do....For a mortal to fight a god, you must first understand how they operate...." He expresses to them with an easy smile as two more Pokemon approach, and he looks at the pair of pokemon. A sneasel, and a Donphan neither were enticing to him, and so he ignored them, he had plenty of pokemon that either filled the same niche as those two, or were just blatantly stronger. There was no need to bloat his home further with Pokemon that might never see use. However he did feel good that he had helped a new recruit gather more power for their team. With the battles coming up, they were going to need all the firepower that they could get.

"I recommend battling as many others as you can in the meantime, build up your personal strength....Keep in mind that we are outnumbered two to one....So we have to make up for all that with quality...." Of course that was just his personal take on the matter everyone would have differing opinions. So far though, he had yet to be wrong, a point of pride.

"Looping back....Are you interested in learning about my research? I can explain some things to you, but as with all unexpected foreign technologies....New things are being discovered all the time...." Much to his chagrin. He had thought Primal, and Infinity Energy would be the end of it. Then Dynergy, and Tera Crystals appeared out of thin air forcing him to incorporate them into his studies, and experiments as well.

He wanted to consider himself an expert, but despite his best efforts he still felt stupid sometimes....It was a delicate balance to hide his incompetence beneath a facade of confidence that everything would turn out for the better, and thankfully his luck had yet to run out.

Fenelle Miller

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When he heard the voice he knew that his plan had paid off....Or his bet as Lulu Flint had put it. All that mattered is that he had been right in the end, he had been correct, and their words had reached Azelf even if only a little. They had stirred it, and now they had a plan of action. They had to free it, they had to free it, and that would require them to all work together, despite his hatred of the Ugly Ward (except for ameena abadi), he would work with them for survival.

So the day continued with nothing exciting happen, but the clock was ticking, and on the morrow all hell broke loose. Chaos erupted around him, and every was fighting with everything that they were worth. His mind had been on one thing ever since he had seen Draco trapped in the dream with ameena abadi. To get free, and to take his revenge, and now he was going to be able to do that. This entire time freedom had been focus, and that's why the ability that his Toxic Chain granted him was the power to seize that freedom with his own hands.

For as long as he had been alive Amor had enjoyed flying, on the back of one of his dragons the sky was freedom to him, the vast blue ocean of clouds above them, was the essence of freedom. His feet lifted off the ground, and he blinked as he realized that he was floating, and then another blink as he realized that he could fly through the air around him. For the brief time he was able to fly, the question became whether he'd fly to close to the sun?

The answer....He'd dive straight into it which is what he did grabbing a sharp Tera Shard off the ground he launched himself through the air at top speed towards Munkidori with the full intent to stab the Tera Shard straight into it's skull. Of course it was all happening so fast that he didn't tell Melody Miro about his plan, nor did he notice the truth of his ability. Metallic Wings had sprouted from his back which is what propelled him forward, and the feathers were bladed so as to cut open a path in front of him to grasp the thing he desired most.

All of the guards that were held in place by Eris Halla's ability were summarily hacked apart by the bladed wings as he flew towards Munkidori, he was indiscriminate for the first time in his life, as the rage at seeing Draco in that state boiled over, and for the first time he acted like a true Rocket. Perhaps to the horror of those who knew how much he detested killing unless necessary. None of that mattered right now as he jetted towards Munkidori carving a bloody path towards the object of his hatred, and with his wings, and the shard in his hand he attempted to hack the creature into pieces.

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TLDR
Toxic Chain Ability - Archangel's Wings - Amor's desire for freedom, and revenge along with Azelf's will gave birth to this set of Metallic wings that possess the ability to allow him to fly. The feathers on the wings are as sharp as a sword, and are able to cut through flesh like butter.

Amor is currently really pissed off after seeing Draco in a test tube, and is hacking his way at top speed towards Munkidori with his new ability!
Anything, and anyone that gets in his way will not be spared!
Yippee for murder!

"And when I pass?"

He quirked a brow at the statement seemingly confused. Did she expect a pat on the head? To be told that she had done a good job? He had expected her to be above wanting such things, and his confusion only deepened. The Magearna in her possession was apparently not a good enough reward.

"What do you think you deserve....? I've just given you an incredibly rare, and powerful pokemon.....What more could you want?" A twinge of annoyance in his tone, and his eyes stayed trained on hers. "IF you pass....I'll consider a request, and depending on said request I will either agree or disagree....Don't get your hopes up...." He expressed to her flatly. This wasn't a place for participation trophies, if she showed genuine progress in two weeks with Duchess, then he would grant her a reasonable request.

If he felt she hadn't made any progress at all, then she would be denied. It was that simple to him.

Looking over her team he realized just how little time they truly had to get prepared. The clock was truly against them in these moments, and he hated it. Though if he had time to hate the clock, he had time to use it to the fullest. That was the only solace he could take in their predicament.

"That will be all for today....If you have further need of me....You know where to find me...." Returning his Gallade to it's ball, and the rest of the pokemon that he had used he made his way over to the great dragon that hadn't moved an inch to battle at all. If she didn't stop him, he'd simply climb atop his dragon, and take off into the sky without a further word.

ameena abadi

"As your superior, I'm telling you that you're not allowed to die...." He frowned at her pessimism, but she did raise valid questions. "I don't know if it will be freed....But it is our best chance, if that doesn't work....I'll think of something else...." He always did. Failure after failure mounted up to lay the road to a single success, that was all that mattered, as long as the end justified the means, he didn't care about failing. Perhaps that made him strange? Maybe he would ask an outside opinion when he wasn't fighting for his life.

"We will get free, and we will take them down...." That was all, and he had absolute confidence in their plan, because in the world that he lived in he wasn't allowed to not have that. If he feared failure he knew he'd never take another step forward again. "Will you believe me on that....?" Amor was many things, but he was always a man of his word at the very least. Though whether she believed that or not wasn't up to him. Looking at Azelf he he hoped that their thoughts, and prayers would reach it....

"We'll be waking up soon....What a shame...." Came the absentminded statement.

ameena abadi

"It's a calculated risk...." He stated to her, but he had enough reason to believe that the Tera Crystals along with enough willpower could bend reality in certain conditions. This scenario fit the bill for everything that needed to be checked off, and so he was willing to take that particular risk no matter what.

"I have....They are all trapped in oversized test tubes....I don't know what for, but I presume it's the same for many others." That was the best he could do, but they had a plan now, all that remained to be seen was to see if it worked or not. "I suppose we should be waking up soon...." Time passed strangely in this waking dream.

Lulu Flint

"That depends solely on you Miss Higashi....Did you kill that person?" Came the simple question, because her existence was an affront to her memory. Part of him wanted to take his helmet off, to try, and stir some memory, but she had seen him without his armor before, and nothing had come of it. It was pointless.

"Allow me to tell you what I think....I could accept it if you truly had zero memory....If you hadn't reacted at all when I said her name I think I could have accepted it...." That was the truth, he wouldn't have liked it, but he could have accepted that she was truly gone, and moved on. "However....You reacted....That means there is some core part of you that knows she is still in there....Some part of her exists....But you deny her....You deny that very part of your being...." Words coated with venom.

"To deny someone life is no different than murder, or torture in my eyes....Yet you prance around like some saint acting like you're better than the people that you so detest...." A hidden frown on his lips as he regarded.

"So you have a choice Miss Higashi....Are you a murderer, or are you actually as good as you pretend to be...."

Yuina Higashi

This was becoming increasingly tedious the longer this drew on the more ants would come crawling out of their hole to come, and pester him, and those that were nearby. These people didn't know his rank, and so he didn't really care to let this drag on further so they could glean even more information out of him. A beam of light came out of nowhere the other pair would recognize it as a Flash Cannon that came out of seemingly nowhere, and it would strike the roof of the cave, chunks of it starting to fall, and crumble down. It wouldn't take much more before a rockslide would bury the pair unless they decided to move.

The pokemon that it came from was nowhere to be seen as if it had vanished as suddenly as it appeared.

"You're free to stay here, and be crushed like the ants you are, or you can leave...." As far as he was concerned it wasn't murder if they were crushed underneath rocks despite him giving them the chance to leave. Their deaths would be due to natural causes, literally. So he turned his back to them, and he vanished further into the area to continue his own mission. It had been a nice distraction from the monotony of the work that he was doing, but that is all it was. A distraction, and they weren't worth his attention any further.

Still it would seem that the League had infected others with their false ideals, perhaps he would have to make a visit to remiel, and check up on the little prince....Maybe if he killed the man, and his dragon that would crush the morale of the league enough to halt, any, and all future advances they might make to encroach upon Rocket.

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