Cleaning up all this soot

Mission with Melody Miro.

"GOOOoood evening, Gym Leader Miro! It's a wonderful night for a bust, wouldn't you say?" Came a voice directly behind Melody, having seemingly approached her with the silence of a ninja.

One fully uniformed Gwyar Wledig stood at attention, saluting the girl with a smile on his lips. Besides him, Raki stood saluting the Gym Leader as well, a replica of Gwyar's own police hat atop his head.

There was the barest hint of a farmer's tan for the gym leader to find near the short sleeves of the blonde man's uniform, after several days of legwork out in the blazing hot streets.

What qualified as blazing hot for him, anyway.

"It gladdens me to see you well, despite the recent unfortunate circumstances."

It was truly unfortunate; perhaps he should have become her bodyguard for real.

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Bingo Prompt: "Farmer's Tan"

Cleaning up all this soot

Mission with Melody Miro.

"Right you are, Ms. Miro!" The man said with a smile, his puppy partner trying to wrap his arms around her as she hugged it. "I made the decision after our gym challenge, as a matter of fact."

Well, it was made for him, really, though he did have the idea.

The man sighed next, his salute weakening.

"Unfortunately... I didn't manage to sort everything out before Team Rocket's attack." He said gravely, pulling his cap down as his lips set onto a grim line. "By the time I was an Officer, the city had already been captured and Councilman Bill Anderson had been chosen as its representative."

The new Councilman's double election as both council and mayor of Sootopolis was truly fortunate for him; it allowed him the perfect excuse to slip into the force without being questioned too badly- most just wondered if he was sane.

"Since the Sootopolis PD was- is in desperate need for new officers after mass resignations, I managed to get myself assigned here without trouble." He said, before frowning and crossing his arms over his chest. "I had intended to work in Sootopolis after what happened in the gym challenge already, but... things are much more dire than I could've imagined."

The people of Sootopolis thought they wanted this- some of them did, at any rate. But he was not ready to leave them at the mercy of rocket just because they had been fooled.

"It's no coincidence I'm the one here, Ms. Miro. There really isn't anyone else they could've sent. We're spread quite thin as is." He said before his arms dropped to his sides, his puppy companion nodding in Melody's grip.

"But never fear!" The man suddenly said loudly, flashing a bright smile at the woman and tipping his hat. "Raki and I are quite capable, despite appearances! We'll have the Police Force back in shape and the streets clean in no time!"

He would figure something out!

In the meanwhile... was that Cobalion?

"By Callyrex's Crown..." Gwyar muttered, starstruck, as the Sword of Justice approached their group, blinking slowly.

Meanwhile Raki held up an arm in the air and waved excitedly at the new, imposing friend.

After a moment, Gwyar brought his hands together, laying one palm atop the other. Immediately after, a sword shot out from the man's own shadow, its pommel crashing into Gwyar's palms.

Galatine the Aegislash's tip was pressed firmly to the ground as the man the man bowed at the Sword of Justice, smiling.

"Hail, Ser Cobalion. I am truly honored to have met you on this day." He said, and seeing his thorough politeness, Raki ceased his waving and stood up on Melody's hands, clumsily bowing to the Sword of justice as well.

His hat fell off.

"They don't? Such admirable stoicism!"

Cleaning up all this soot

Mission with Melody Miro.

Raki grinned wide as Melody Miro placed his hat back atop his head, his paw reaching up to the tip the brim at the popstar.

For his part, Gwyar maintained eyecontact with the legendary pokemon, somewhat disappointed at the eventual lack of acknowledgement.

"Of course... I shouldn't have expected any less." The man sighed. Given the Swords of Justice's stories... He smiled, then nodded. "How very nostalgic... Yes. I'll prove myself as many times as it takes."

The man turned his ever-present smile at the gym leader, nodding.

"Yes. Raki, Galatine; show your best!" He said as he followed behind the Avatar duo, his Aegislash sinking into his shadow as Gwyar stealthily approached the warehouse.

"Go." He muttered softly. The darkness of his shadow visibly lessened as the ghost sword within slipped into the warehouse for recon, before the wall was blasted to pieces by Cobalion's sacred sword and his roar made the metal rattle.

Certainly effective at throwing the people inside off their game!

Panicked shouts filled the warehouse as the black market profiteers rushed to put up a defense, pokeballs flying through the air even as lights curiously began falling off the ceilings, the bindings holding them up cut cleanly through.

As the lights crashed atop pokemon and men alike, Gwyar finally sprinted into the warehouse, a sharp whistle from him sending Raki leaping off his shoulder and at a nearby enemy pokemon, his arm flashing as a sword of light extended from his forearm...

And he swung it like a baseball bat, sending the pokemon crashing into a wall.

The blonde man for his part, leapt deftly over a cage as he chased one of the blackmarket men, his foot extending out sharply as he cleared the metal box and crashing onto the man's chest, all 250 or so pounds of muscle sending the man wheezing to the floor as Gwyar landed on top of him, hand snatching the back of another nearby man's collar and yanking him off the floor, before he threw him at yet another would-be escapee.

"Find the leader, Ms. Melody!" He boomed at her as he caught another man's fist, twisting his arm at the wrist.
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Raki used Copycat. Raki used Sacred Sword!
Gwyar used Juggernaut. It's super effective!