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POSTED ON Aug 6, 2021 13:41:38 GMT
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this is reconciliation. this is the moment before her rebirth, where the limbs she has battered and beaten, the body that she has ground beyond repair (or so she thought) - this is her last fight in a body that is her own. there is a calmness that washes over her, despite the conflict now ever-present in her rattled mind.

lyune strains beneath her. heavy wings fall, each clasp against the air causing lightning pain to lance through his side. she had protested. he had not. they know things may be different after this.

she accepted the mission several hours ago. a call from the league ensued to ensure that this was, in fact, freya morningstar reporting for duty. 

'you'll be paired with a partner.' and yet i can raze mountains. but she had not spoken, just gave in with quiet acceptance. 

lyune lands heavily, just outside of petalburg, some good distance away from the district that house the supposed crime syndicate, if the league's intel is correct.

lyune's sides heave. despite the contraption bound to his body, lovingly, gently fashioned by so that he might fly again, he is still in pain. she soothes him, body and mind, with a touch to his foreleg - all she can offer in comfort. 

"rest now, lyune. we'll see this through." he settles down on his haunches as she releases her charizard. his tail glows in the quickly darkening twilight.

she waits for her ally.

// petalburg poachers
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POSTED ON Aug 6, 2021 14:01:29 GMT
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[attr="class","lance"]much like his partner, lance has no need for another, but perhaps the league thought it best to pair two broken souls together in hopes it'd make one functioning unit.

unlikely, but he doesn't voice his complaints.

he simply ventures through the darkening twilight, approaching the flickering light in the near distance.

"freya."

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POSTED ON Aug 6, 2021 15:41:18 GMT
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he does not keep her waiting long. the forest could swallow them whole. light continues to wane until nothing is left to filter between the leaves. it's a new moon tonight. there is an eerie silence to this sort of darkness.

calcifer growls lowly to signal the arrival of another. his tail whips around as the newcomer shoulders aside some trailing vines. embers give his face a cherry glow; both trainer and pokemon recognize him from the dossier photos. 

once upon a time, she would know his standings, his assets, his reputation, but he's just another face amidst the walking dead to her. 

"lance," she says, returning the greeting. calcifer ducks under her waiting arm. "two miles west of here is the warehouse. it's nestled in the shipping district, disguised as a poffin manufacturing center.

"i already have two pokemon inside. they'll be prepared to tell us where the cargo is by the time we arrive. extract covertly,"
she continues. calcifer swipes his tail. "and then we burn them down."
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POSTED ON Aug 6, 2021 19:41:09 GMT
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[attr="class","lance"]she's done most of the groundwork, laid out the foundations to ensure the success of the mission, and so there's little else for him to do but nod and follow.

"sounds like you don't even need me here."

despite the chuckle, he's quite sure she doesn't.

"ready to fly, then?"

his gaze drifts past her, landing on her salamence with the odd contraption bound to its body. it's unlike anything he's ever seen, and so the question that escapes is only natural:

"what happened to her?"

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POSTED ON Aug 7, 2021 19:54:06 GMT
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she doesn't need him. but there are some who consider her a liability right now. she can't fight them on that front. so she doesn't acknowledge his comment - which speaks for itself regardless. 

her smile is amused as he eyes the resting salamence. lyune picks up his head, blinks his reptilian eyes. not many can spot the gendered differences of dragons. lyune flutters his massive frills and rises slowly. 

he is weathered with battle scars, many before he'd been passed down to her. the claw wound over his dulled eye, the tattered wings like ripped sails, and the lacerations where scales no longer grow - all of it is unsettling to look at. the sight of a monster. but she figures he's asking about the contraption, his handicap. 

she turns her head, presses a palm to the side of his cheek. "war happened to him," she says softly. to us. 

she drops another pokeball to the ground and her flygon emerges, wings half-unfurled. she gives a stretch, exposing the sleek saddle strapped to her back. freya mounts. "would you prefer to go into the belly of the beast or wait for my command to finish it off?" she says.
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POSTED ON Aug 8, 2021 14:26:41 GMT
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[attr="class","lance"]war.

"ah."

it happened to him, too, as evident by the marks that litter his body, so he understands all too well. his gaze retreats then to the pokeball that drops, choosing that over the memories that threaten to invade.

her question is met with an unusual pause; unusual only because the answer would've been instantaneous before.

but now?

"i'll go in with you."

there's a little more hesitance.

"might need to hitch a ride, though."

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POSTED ON Aug 8, 2021 23:41:19 GMT
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she nods and turns to check the straps on echo's saddle. it's made for a single rider, but the complex is a short distance away. "you can handle that, right, girl?" freya says. the flygon flaps a couple of times in response and then hunkers down, baring her neck for boarding. 

while freya ensures that echo is prepared to carry the weight of two people on her back, lyune rises. the dragon's size is no joke; he lumbers to lance, tail trailing through the nettles on the forest floor. his forked tongue flicks in and out as he cocks his head. 

he pauses and freya watches out of the corner of her eye. and then he puffs smoke, almost decisively so. his muscles bunch, rippling, and then he unfurls his wings, snarling as he leaps into the air. his weight threatens to pull him back down the earth, but he nearly breached the tree line with his leap and a fleeting moment's struggle turns into ascension. 

freya smirks. "show-off." she mounts up and echo stretches herself as though trying to make her body look just as formidable. "come. i want to approach when it's darkest."
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POSTED ON Aug 12, 2021 11:55:25 GMT
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[attr="class","lance"]the display is amusing, powerful, and he's left in the wake of salamence's departure as dust and dirt cloud around him.

"salamence are quite proud creatures."

but then again, so are most dragons.

he turns then, nodding as he follows suit, mounting with trained ease despite the flare of discomfort in his leg.

"i'll follow your lead."

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POSTED ON Aug 12, 2021 21:47:08 GMT
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echo's muscles bunch as the riders board. she straightens her spine, tail swishing experimentally as she finds her balance. she stays tucked over, hind legs kicking out powerfully. freya leans forward, to the side of her neck, grasping her reins. 

she flits through the trees and half-unfurls her wings, gaining speed as she approaches a nearby clearing. once she breaches the fringes, she leaps and her wings catch the air like sails. 

she dips upward with a grace lyune will never have. but she's far more slippery than the salamence freya has grown accustomed to. freya squeezes her legs as echo's insect-like body shudders beneath her. 

the world turns and soon the warehouse comes into view. freya looks up at the moon and tugs on echo's reins. the flygon banks, circling wide, waiting for her next command. silver glints past the barbed-wire fence and freya spurs the dragon again.

there is a break in the watch; the flygon folds her wings, sailing like a silent dart through the air. the landing, however, is a bit hard. with all of the weight on her back, she stumbles, panting with exhaustion. she runs to slow herself down and when she finally stops, she takes a couple of steps and freya can feel her favoring her right side. 

she recalls her, despite her protests. calcifer and lyune will still be able to get the job done. 

the emergency exit door they'd landed beside groans. freya starts just as the door swings open, revealing one of her dragonair. she looks to lance. "let's go. sypha will take us to the cargo."
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POSTED ON Aug 13, 2021 12:57:29 GMT
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[attr="class","lance"]the inside of the warehouse is dark, damp, and the stench is horrid and overwhelming. he makes sure the door behind them closes silently before turning his attention back ahead.

the scent, though mixed and polluted, is familiar enough to an experienced ranger.

"it's piss and shit. i assume they don't let the pokemon out of their cages much."

his voice is low, quiet, as are his footsteps as he ventures deeper into the warehouse, following after freya's dragonair.

a hand curls around a pokeball, at the ready.

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POSTED ON Aug 16, 2021 19:37:40 GMT
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she brings her arm up to cover her nose. sypha leads them forward, through twisting corridors, around the patrols and guards as they make their rounds. the dragons have been here for hours - more than long enough to learn what they must to infiltrate. 

still, freya drops another pokeball to her side. her kingdra curls reflexively around her waist. its head pokes over her left shoulder and it balances with its fin, eyes waiting like a sentry for any sign of movement ahead. 

sypha pauses. freya strains her ears and can make out the sounds of scrapings and chittering. the dragoness moves forward, slowly this time, and they come upon a door left slightly ajar. 

inside, there are four men, sleeping hounds at their feet. smoke curls from the table where they play...chess? freya rolls her eyes. 

"you take out the two on the left. i got the right." sypha holds up her tail, pointing to the catwalk up in the rafters. "fuck. two more on lookout. sypha, go. we'll help dispatch them when we're through with the ones on the ground."

she grins at her partner. "ready?"
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POSTED ON Aug 20, 2021 14:25:40 GMT
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[attr="class","lance"]nothing wrong with chess...actually looks like a pretty intense match going on right now. but they don't have time to dwell on it.

"don't worry. i got the two up top."

returning the grin, lance nods, then after counting to three, pushes through and immediately rolls pokeballs out into the open. they flash open, blinding as pokemon emerge free.

click, click.

the two on the left are quickly dispatched by a SUCKER PUNCHING spiritomb. HYPNOSIS pulses after, guiding them off to a different realm.

a more towering presence, urshifu sends SURGING STRIKES up to the two in the rafters. the impact knocks them back, causing them to stumble and inevitably trip and fall. urshifu is there to catch them, making sure they don't die from the impact.

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POSTED ON Aug 21, 2021 16:17:14 GMT
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it's not very often that she's impressed. but she's caught off guard as lance quickly replies with no, he's got this. she emerges and sen takes aim, sniping both smugglers with a powerful blast of hydro pump, enough to knock them both back and unconscious onto the floor. she has to focus in order to hold her ground with both blasts, but she's free enough to watch as sypha twists to follow her orders, only to come slinking back to her as his pokemon dispatch the threat with ease. 

perhaps i'm the unnecessary one in the equation, she thinks. but it doesn't bother her. these missions are for one thing and one thing only: to build her reputation, to save face, and to establish her foothold in this region again.

another dragonair rustles into view, this time with a band of sickly-looking pokemon. freya approaches the guards' table and helps sen to a position attached to the bolted-down metal table. 

she unshoulders the small pack she's been carrying and opens it to reveal a plethora of pokeballs. "this should be enough for all of them. start extraction."
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POSTED ON Aug 23, 2021 13:20:51 GMT
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[attr="class","lance"]they make quick work of the poachers, reducing them to nothing more than mere beings unable to do anything but succumb to their dominance. it's impressive; she's impressive, and he takes note of how efficient her pokemon move and act.

"good job."

and with that, he begins extraction, taking the pokeballs to each individual cage to capture the trapped pokemon. his urshifu and spiritomb stand guard, ready to react should any resistance show.

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POSTED ON Aug 25, 2021 21:09:26 GMT
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lance starts their work; aeris and sypha help, communicating as well as they can with the wounded pokemon to ease the process along. only a few of them pop back out of their pokeballs, hissing and spitting, terrified of the next thing that will cause them pain. 

sen floats, posture rigid, though freya expects there won't be any more trouble coming for them. she traces her fingertips along the table, knocking over their precious chess game, examining the score cards they'd kept for tallies. they've been here quite a while, by the looks of it. 

she wouldn't have put it past the league to wait until the operation were big enough to make the news. but ah, it's just an assumption. 

she turns the cheek of one of the grunts with her boot. dirt smears his face. "you were so gentle with them," she comments to lance. not quite an accusation, not quite a question, but still more than an observation.

"sen, call them in." he cranes his neck at her command, tail coiling. his snout wrinkles and then there's a shunk sound as a black pellet expels from his mouth, arcing up and into a glass skylight. the ball of condensed smoke screen explodes, shattering the glass. 

a moment later, calcifer is there. and when she cuffs the grunts, he spreads his wings to ferry them somewhere safe while the rest of the place burns.

it's too bad they won't be inside when it happens.
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