Well... it was on the way, and it wasn't like she was hurting for more safari balls...

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Catch attempt on Mienfoo, 2/4 Safari balls left

Yep, same place as about fifteen minutes ago. Even better, they hadn't caught on to June's goals yet. That's why the ball arced beautifully, and caught the Fletchling without any problems. Unfortunately, they rest of the pack flew away from the disturbance.

Fuck.

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Catch attempt on Fletchling. 3/4

Stupid idiots should've given June a whole basket of Safari balls. Whatever. All it meant is that the front desk got to sigh and roll their eyes as she immediately turned around and asked for another run. She knew where to look this time, so it'd be a lot faster to get what she wanted and leave, only to return moments later.

They'd probably hate her soon enough, but that implied she cared about them. 

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4/4 Safari balls

PURCHASING/REDEEMING

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1X Premium Safari Ticket (50 PD)

TOTAL

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50 PD

June never thought the sky could explode twice. Granted, that was before she flew an alien spaceship into an active thundercloud as another massive creature hurled streaks of lighting up at them. A dizzying amount of yellow-white flashes filled the cockpit, and it felt like she was about to tear the stick out of the console.

“What the fuck is a Zekrom?!” She yelled out. Her hand relaxed around the stick as the first volley faded, but she knew a second one wouldn’t be far behind. “You didn’t think to fucking tell me about–”

Sure as rain, the next barrage started in earnest. It probably aimed as blindly as she flew, but that only meant their inevitable death would be due to random chance. That wasn’t a prospect she liked, so when Annalise offered an alternative plan, she jumped on it as she jumped out of the seat.

The stick stuck in the up position. “Of course we’re abandoning ship! Out, before the engine stalls!”

June grabbed Annalise first, and then she grabbed Gears, who still held onto A/C for dear life. The abrupt conga line was dragged back to the door, which she did her best to shoulder through. Stuff like this had emergency mechanisms, right? Where she could just brute force the door?

Thankfully enough, A/Cs desire to break free helped break open the door. And when it did, it opened fast and violent. The hinges broke in record time, and the door spun like a top as it arced into the grey angry clouds. “One, two–”

“Three!” June jumped, everyone in tow. Hopefully Annalise really didn’t hate heights. She was perfectly fine herself, as air assaulted their hair. All they had to do now was–

A very, very, very loud crash echoed above them. Like, maybe a mile above them. The airship had enough thrust in it to make it that far, surely. But… what? No way in hell there was a second aircraft in the air above them. It sounded like a high-speed car crash. 

Prompt Complete: Using a repaired megalopolan spacecraft and/or pokemon, discover that the sky is false and has an endpoint. reaching the boundary means hitting an invisible barrier, similar to the invisible dome hoenn had been contained in before

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annalise henderson
 

This wasn't the ending June had in mind, per say. The Litten rolled over and exposed its belly, and who was she to say no to an exposed Litten belly? Even better, it wasn't a ploy. The small feline let her rub it underneath the sun rays, without a care in the world. "Annalise and Grigori will show up soon, right?"

"Right?"

Litten had no answer, but it purred reassuredly into her hand. And that would have to be enough, she supposed.

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Catch attempt on Litten. 0/4 Safari Balls left

Nope. June ignored the stupid rat as she delved further into the safari. Surely there were better things to use this last poke ball on, right?

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Skipping Pichu (No care space (please don't fucking tell her it's just a bit oh god oh fuck she's right there AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA--))

1/4 Safari Balls remain

“Wh-what does that– oh, that’s what you mean,” June said. Sure enough, there was a very big thing in the darkness. It returned to the cover of pitch black after the lightning faded, and her imagination had to fill in the gaps. It was big, it was vaguely round, and it was awfully big.

She squinted her eyes, as if that would suddenly let her see through the black of night. “Well… Regieleki sure has gained a few limbs, since we last saw it.”

What other explanation was there? Not like there were many other massive creatures in this stupid awful place. It was either the Regieleki in a new shape, a conglomerate of Xurkitree on the hunt for their missing friends, or some secret third thing that Annalise had never told her. Or her bosses. Someone didn’t tell her, that was for certain.

“But I’m not sure if now’s the time to go after it,” she said. Lightning crackled in the sky, dangerously close to them. “If it doesn’t blast us out of the sky, the weather will. And then it’ll kill us.”

Even if every bone in her body egged her to jam the stick as far forward as it would go and charge in, her promise clung to her skull like a kernel between her teeth. It’d be too hypocritical too soon after she made it. Couldn’t have that on her conscious. “Maybe we should–”

Another surge of crackles from the sky sent June’s mind into a tizzy. Not because of the suddenness, but because of what it revealed: the thing was not a Regieleki, it was just as big as it, and it had gotten a lot lot closer in the last twenty seconds. Even worse, it had electric potential as well.

Why else would it suddenly lift an arm and point it at their vessel, its tail aglow with blue light? “Fuck, fuck fuck–”

The stick flew backwards, and her stomach went into her shoes. Her body imprinted in the chair as they rose suddenly, up into the nearest stormcloud. “Wh-what the fuck is that?!”

Prompt Complete: Encounter a ZEKROM that seems to have been intentionally let loose into the realm; however, it has decided that this realm has LOST ITS RIGHTEOUSNESS and in doing so, has decided to annihilate it. battle the ZEKROM to prevent it from annihilating you and the realm temporarily.

Use unusually low hanging lightning clouds as cover, though using such an endeavor is dangerous.

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June kicked the Lileep as she walked past it. Gave her bad vibes. howard slayte vibes. Some part of her hoped that he could see her right now, kicking a stupid fossil. Hopefully he tried to get back at her, and she pushed him into the mud and kicked him a few times. Saw how it felt to have it done to yourself.

"Sorry," she said to the Lileep. It was an unfortunate bystander, in her mental struggle. But she did not stay to make sure it was alright. If it wasn't, then... tough luck.

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Skipping Lileep. 1/4 Safari Balls left

Bingo. June used another her already short supply of Safari balls on the miniature living engine. It didn't seem like a very mobile creature, which concerned her. Weren't these things supposed to be a little faster? Agile? Hell, she saw them being raced on those online videos all the time. Things could go so fast, they broke some laws (and records).

Then, she remembered that they had a particular Ability. "FUCK, IT HAS SLOW START!"

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Catch attempt on the Varoomfie, 1/4 Safari balls left

Not what she was here for... but fuck it. When in Hoenn, right? June tossed the poke ball at the Mienfoo, as it balanced on one foot on top of a tree stump. It never stood a chance, and entered the ball with little fuss. Maybe it could spar with Buddy. Or they could wail on each other and destroy her apartment. Time would tell.

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Catch attempt on Mienfoo, 2/4 Balls remaining

“Never ready,” June responded. “And sorry for ignoring you there– hard to talk and work when thinking.”

“No idea what it is, never flown anything that wasn’t a Pokémon, that log might as well mean nothing to me, and Knight would be very upset with you if he were here right now,” she rattled off the answers like she was uninterested and wanted to rush to the end of the segment. “But, y’know, it’s like riding a bike.”

A very big, dangerous, alien bike with no training wheels. That didn’t stop her from touching more buttons, the ones with the pictures next to them, and putting both hands on the stick. The Magearna ground its gears at June, and flailed the black cable in its arms around. “A/C’ll be fine. Might get it a vantage point to find what it’s looking for.”

Thus, she pulled slightly back. The spaceship grunted against the stone and screeched in anger, but they did rise into the air. Very, very slowly. “If you’re airsick… please be airsick somewhere away from me and the electronics.”

They rose further into the air, until they were a solid ten meters from the ground. Then, she pushed forward. They went forward. No reversed controls let her heart rest easier, but it pounded inside her chest as they continued on. Eventually, they went above and over the edge of the rock. Now they were truly in the air, without any vague safety below them.

If they fell, they’d likely die.

She spared a glance to the Magearna, with the black cord still in its hands. Looked like their passengers were still around. Good. "So... what's new?"

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annalise henderson