Before he could make an equally-knowledgeable retort about what other information he knew about Sygna suits—the ground rumbled.

Just his luck he wasn’t in the air this time!

“Wha—WHOA!” he would yelp as the ground shook violently; which resulted in him almost kissing the ground with his ass had he not managed to regain some kind of balance.

He was worried for his companion, though, since she’d gotten tossed towards the ground and—oof, ow, ouch, that looked like it hurt!

“Are—are you okay?!” he would exclaim once the shaking had stopped—but that was just the beginning of the insanity!

A familiar, discordant noise that sounded very vaguely like a motorbike revving itself up to top speed would follow right after the… huh.

What the hell was up with that shit?!

And then the steaming hot air would hit them like a brick wall.

“Ack!” he would cough, immediately waving his hands around to clear it out.

“Geez, what the hell.”

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• ROLL 89 - 98. - Hear the following cry echoing from somewhere deep below (using the 93 from my previous post for this fill):[break]
[player]https://file.garden/ZXZrnWMYuz15frfJ/HOENN%20MUSIC/MYSTERIOUSCRY1.mp3[/player]

Little did he know he was about to land in something… juicy, the moment he realized he may have to get out from the tree so that his Braviary could find him!

The strange, metallic scent drew his attention and—

“Oh, gross… why does it stink like motor oil?!” he would mutter to himself, looking around and hoping that his Braviary hadn’t gotten lost.

Over where the avian was—the Braviary was so clouded by panic he was completely and totally bringing Miss Elise to another location altogether; because why did he just agree to leave him alone out there?!

What if there was a heebie-jeebie nearby?!

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• ROLL A 1. - Step in Paradox Pokemon droppings or Paradox Pokemon "juice" (the mysterious liquid in 'Future' Paradox Pokemon). [using the 1 roll from my previous prompt for this fill.]

At the mention of ‘Sygna Suits’, he drew his mouth into a rather thin line.

“Asides from the fact that some owners have this entire ‘magical girl transformation sequence’ when they put the danged things on, they can only be suited up to two distinct Pokémon, and you can’t use it alongside pretty much most anything like Mega Evolution, or I think Z-Moves and all that…”

(This was what you get if you have a friend who beta tested the very first iteration of the Sygna Suits before they were released to the public!)

“…although, my partner’s suit design… the last draft I remember seeing…” he trailed off; feeling an embarrassed blush creep up on his face.

Yeah…

And just like that—

“Oh, you have got to be fucking kidding me.”

To be fair, the Zoroark line was one of the few Pokémon that could pull off an ‘illusion’ to near perfection without giving themselves away; however fact of the matter was that the incoming Flamethrower was going to endanger them all.

Thankfully… he had a back-up plan on his ass.

Reaching deep into a pocket, he would produce—not his Braviary; but a Ninetales, whose Flash Fire ability would kick in at the sight of the flames—before she would stare down the other Pokémon who’d almost incinerated the tent to a crisp before attempting to land a Feint Attack on the slightly-different looking Zoroark.

“Miss Elise, get back—” he would blurt out before the incoming burst of electric energy—

Shit, he couldn’t be in two places at once! Here’s to hoping she had something that had Lightning Rod to draw the electric energy—

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• Area Zero Excursion: D
• oh hell naw Alex.exe is now pissed, no burning down the medic tent!

This was fucking insanity, for lack of a better term.

The size… the size of the Venusaur immediately reminded him of Shalin Nariya and… well, her insane antics while riding the whip of one, so there was that!

Of course, there was only one way to handle this—oh, yikes.

This time he’d picked out his Salamence, who actually balked at the sight of the two gigantic-ass Venusaur; however he shook his head lightly.

“Let’s do this.”

The Salamence then came screaming forward in mid-air, breathing down the hottest instance of Flamethrower he could muster up so that he could at least break one of the strange segments surrounding these humongous Pokémon.

It was like his nightmare had become fucking reality…

“I knew it!” he would hiss.

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• assist by attacking/breaking the sixteen dynergy barrier segments (first 16 will receive 2 mochi instead of 1).

“It just… winked out of existence, like that,” he would remark in Hideo’s direction; while Ethan gave him the same update over on the earpiece.

“You be careful out there,” he would tell his ‘search team’ before tapping the mic off and turning back to the other.

“I don’t know why, but looking at it even for a few seconds made me shiver all over. It… it didn’t feel the same as the ones that used to appear around the region; and have all kind of rampaging, crazy Pokémon show up in them. Like… you think that distortion that came into existence was trying to get a feel of this strange place?”

The troubling thoughts were there, if he was going to be honest.

And then—unlike the repeated calls he’d heard from the last time; this time it was the more… discordant call that would sound after the ‘distortion’ had vanished into nothingness.

“And there it is again! You think they’re trying to have like…” he trailed off, wringing his hands in mid-air because how the hell was he going to explain ‘mating calls’ to a kid?!

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• ROLL 89 - 98. - Hear the following cry echoing from somewhere deep below (using 93 roll from previous post for this fill):[break]
[player]https://file.garden/ZXZrnWMYuz15frfJ/HOENN%20MUSIC/MYSTERIOUSCRY1.mp3[/player]

“I don’t know why it took them a while to tighten up the screening for whoever wanted to apply to a Gym Leader spot,” he hummed quietly once the tremors had passed and everything was quiet once more.

(He made sure that the mic on his headpiece was off, because boy there was a lot of information being exchanged between the two right now that was definitely… yeah. Risky, if it fell in the wrong hands.)

At the mention of the paradox beasts and how some of them looked like—

“Wouldn’t put it past ‘im to do that, knowing him,” he would quietly cackle.

The moment he would mention one that looked like Cobalion, the cackle would become a snort of laughter.

“I have the exact same one, too. it’s like a vicious mockery of the actual one running around with Melody Miro—yeah, I’ve seen the real thing with her some time ago. These ones that came from… from when that gigantic ice dragon woke up—they’re not the same…”

He would fall silent as he thought long and hard between the previous and what he wanted to say next.

Another snort would escape him.

“Funny you say that. We broke up before he joined Team Rocket, so… nothing of the sort happened.”

(But that wasn’t like that one time he had with Sorrel, too… boy that was even worse when he found out the other man’s secret, too. And that sucked ass.)

“My partner… Guillermo Marceliño has a jealous streak because of you know. Inferiority complex issues. About how all my exes were handsome compared to him, but I shut him up with these words.”

He would then clear his throat.

“Does physical looks really matter, when it’s the personality that you should focus on? Looking handsome is just a bonus. What really matters is what’s inside.”

It wouldn’t take too long before he would hear Ethan’s voice this time.

“Look out in your area, there’s a—whoa!” the yelping noise would make him look up right in time to see that there was… there was an anomalous space-time distortion that had appeared some distance away from where they stood!

He then turned to Hideo.

“You’re familiar with the distortions, right?” he would ask the other.

“Can you hear the familiar crackling noise that comes along with their sudden appearance?”

(Because asking the blind kid to take a look in the direction where it had appeared was pointless!)

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• TOTAL OF ROLLS MADE BY ALL WRITERS REACHES 666. - A rift to the DISTORTION WORLD opens briefly, like an opening eye. Peering into it fills your characters with dread. You can not enter this rift, but one may theorize the DISTORTION WORLD is attempting to map out this new area in order to create an antimaterial counterpart for the world.

‘Oh, my god. You know, if you gave your name earlier—’

“Now’s not exactly the time for that, is it?! I know a lot of tales about the fae and once they have a human’s name, they’re not going to return it that easily!” he would holler as the telltale signs of a Tailwind would blow—but not from his direction.

Which meant they were essentially going to get fucked over.

“I don’t want to fight—” he would yelp; however the Ribombee would sigh.

‘Too late for that!’ the not-Carina would holler, quickly fluttering her—their wings and preparing a Quiver Dance, the better to be able to get the hell out of firing range the moment—

“Are you kidding me?!” he would all but shriek a few moments afterward as the ‘Tornadus’ set up the weather with a Rain Dance, which made him groan; and he already knew what was coming a split-second later as he quickly zipped up his jacket and threw the hood over as the torrential downpour began to rip through the foggy area—

A Hurricane force burst of wind would come screaming their way; had it not been for the earlier Quiver Dance they would’ve been pretty much fucked.

Thankfully, though, the Shield Dust that clung on the Ribombee’s wings would protect them from further harm; before the tiny little body mustered up all the force it could throw behind as it would meet the Hurricane head-on with a sudden flash-bang of light that took the form of a Dazzling Gleam.

Huh. That was definitely not one of the attacks his Carina knew—because the affectionate Ribombee that traveled with him knew Moonblast and not this variant.

Uncowed, but not deterred, an Air Slash would come screaming their way; and one flap of the tiny wings later, a loud, discordant racket in the form of a Bug Buzz would shake the clearing, forcing him to stuff his fingers into his ears.

Oops.

He forgot his earplugs.

A surprise Hammer Arm would come screaming from the ‘djinni’s’ direction; and thankfully the ‘Ribombee’ was fast enough to get the hell out of range, flying upward before commencing…

The Pollen Puff bombing run. Or at least that’s what it looked like, as one, after another, after yet another, and yet more purple poisonous strings of ‘candy’ would start falling towards where the ‘Tornadus’ was…

This was… definitely a ‘David and Goliath’ situation, wasn’t it?

The good thing here was that he wasn’t afraid of spiders, so this was perfectly fine for him to handle—unlike his poor friend who was fucking terrified out of his wits at the sight of one of—

“Geez, what’s up with all these traps, do I gotta do an Ethan Hunt here or something?” he huffed at the sight of the multitude of traps that had been laid out across the route.

Honestly, this was nuts. Way too nuts. Like a Mission: Impossible gone all wrong.

“Much as I want to incinerate everything with fire, that’s not exactly feasible, so…” he sighed, before finding his Skarmory’s Heavy Ball and popping it open.

Tine to fight the goop with a slash here and there, right?

“Alright, Valk, let’s free some poor people who almost ended up becoming lunch.”

The two would then go over to the nearest wriggling pod and the Skarmory would then get to work, trying to cut open the nearest human-size cocoon.

Yikes.

What had he arrived into?!

The entire place was a mess, however…

“Alright, Kyouya… let’s deal with this shit.”

He then threw the black orb and saw the funny hat appear once more in a burst of light. He would follow by example today, using Terastalization to help with the current situation.

(Those Bug-types stuck on the trees though. Maybe it was a good thing he wasn’t terrified of them.)

He knew these imp Pokémon were nocturnal (because Guillermo Marceliño knew the lore behind them) but goodness. Wouldn’t Shalin Nariya be annoyed at all the graffiti on the trees when she saw this in the morning?!

Poor girl.

Putting out the electrical fire with water was a bad idea, and some shuffling later he would eventually pull out two Pokéballs—one with his Charizard, and another one containing—surprisingly—a Ninetales.

Why Ninetales?

“Ravana, I’m going to need your help! Can you help put the fire out?” he asked his trusty Charizard—before the Ninetales then rushed forward, seemingly drawing the fire unto themselves thanks to their Flash Fire ability.

“Yeah, any missed spots will do!” he added as he then chased after the two Pokémon, recalling the Tornadus before things got even further out of hand than they already did.

They would have to deal with putting out the electrical fire now, after all.

This was their last chance to show what they had—and he had an idea.

Although, the problem now was—which of the two would he use? He would continuously ping-pong between the two Mega Stones until he’d made his decision—

And rubbed his Charizard’s neck for good luck.

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They would be the next up to perform on stage, and so he got this crazy idea—to ride out on the back of his Charizard—not seated, but standing on their back! It was a crazy-delicate balancing act, however he knew that he had to ‘wow the crowd’ with this one last performance.

He knew that smashing rocks was what he got away with last time; so it would be the Scorching Sands that would signal their entrance this time; almost like a blazing-hot version of a sandstorm—

And then, he timed it right, pulling out his bird whistle and then blowing one unheard note.

To his Charizard though, that was the key to start transforming.

As they flew over the crowd’s heads, the Scorching Sands would somehow transform into space glitter that shimmered silver, black, and blue as the normally-orange body of his Charizard transformed with the light of Mega Evolution, revealing the black-bodied, blue-flamed Charizard he would emerge from once the ‘attack’ had cleared out.



“Don’t count me out of this, not yet!”

And they would then fly, soaring above the crowd while the cosmic ‘space dust’ of silver, black, and blue glitter would rain down upon everyone watching in the crowd.

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Charizard used Scorching Sands & Mega Evolution into Charizard-X for their final presentation!