somehow, matias is able to find time for a quick lunch break at one of mauville's cafes. just his luck (and stupidity) for picking the busiest one. it is also just his luck that his peace and quiet will soon be interrupted.[break][break]

"belle delphox?"[break][break]

who? matias has no clue haha![break][break]

but at the growing sounds of commotion, he finally looks up to see a swarm of porygon.[break][break]

"huh?"[break][break]

one even bumps into him which causes him to bump into his drink, spilling his nice cup of coffee all over the counter.[break][break]

"you bitch."

[attr="class","ooc"]Andrea Vaneau[break]

[attr="class","pkspr pkmn-charizard color-shiny"]

After zoning out for what felt like months, Andrea finally got a grasp of the situation. A massive cyber attack seemed to be taking place, judging by the terrified cries of citizens that could be heard throughout Mauville's commercial district. This wouldn't have happened if they had used SnomVPN to keep their personal data safe.

One of the people being harassed by those digital monstrosities at the cost of his priceless cup of caffeine was Matias. Let's pretend that this was the first time Andrea met him and will have forgotten by the time she meets him a second time. Those temporal distortions were getting out of hand!

Luckily, Chomper the brave little Deino had recovered from the harrowing symptoms of brain freeze enough to assault the Porygon with a mean Crunch attack, forcing it to flee while leaking literal ones and zeros from its wound. "Good thinking, Chomper. They're still Pokémon, which means we can battle them!" The draconic cosplayer mused.

MATIAS SILPH

☉

matias' memory is pretty bad as is, so no worries there! wonky time distortions begone![break][break]

for such blocky pokemon, the porygons are surprisingly agile. by the time matias turns to look at one, it's already ducked under his arm, his shoulder, and would zip back and forth to avoid being caught.[break][break]

"that's it."[break][break]

a pokeball flashes open to reveal his own porygon-z.[break][break]

"stop them!"[break][break]

after a moment of LOCKING-ON, porygon-z fires the first ZAP CANNON that shoots right past andrea's head.

[attr="class","ooc"]Andrea Vaneau[break]

[attr="class","pkspr pkmn-porygon-z"]

The draconic cosplayer let out a shocked gasp as the Zap Cannon barely missed her bespectacled face, hitting the Porygon that was floating behind her instead. Its poorly rendered body twitched, before it fell unto the floor, its eyes turning into pixelated swirls.

The rest of the Porygon seemed to become aware of their interference and closed in on them, forming a wall of sorts around the two humans. "Chomper, Outrage!" Andrea cried out, as her Deino was coated in a powerful aura, before barreling towards the cybernetic mob, knocking several of them as if they were bowling pins.

MATIAS SILPH

☉

"NICE!"[break][break]

it seems as though matias isn't the only one handling the swarm of porygons. he looks around to find the other person only to be quickly distracted by a peculiar porygon that barrels towards him.[break][break]

"?"[break][break]

he wants to duck but he knows there's someone behind him. so, he simply reaches out to grab the porygon before it has a chance to smack into his face. he holds it with the strength of a thousand men.[break][break]

"PORYGON!"[break][break]

his porygon-z's taking a while to LOCK-ON.

[attr="class","ooc"]Andrea Vaneau[break]

[attr="class","pkspr pkmn-porygon-z"]

"Thanks!" Andrea flashed a smile upon hearing the man's compliment, who seemed to have problems of his own, trying to keep one of the Virtual Pokémon at bay with his sheer upper body strength. Unlike the average Belle Delphox subscriber, he actually worked out.

"Chomper, we have to help him!" The young PokéManiac called out to her Deino, who seemed too preoccupied spamming Outrage on the ever decreasing Porygon horde, and as such could not hear her. That wonky-looking Porygon was also taking its sweet time, so it was up to Andrea to save the day.

Grabbing a nearby fire extinguisher, she pointed it at the Porygon that Matias was holding. "I use Hydro Pump! It's super effective!" The dragon-hooded girl yelled, spraying the digital duck with copious amounts of white foam, which was similar enough to a Hydro Pump in her head.

MATIAS SILPH

☉

porygon-z must be suffering from a slight malfunction or something because it's taking forever to LOCK-ON. when it finally does, the ZAP CANNON comes a little too late.[break][break]

"ARGH!"[break][break]

he yells not out of pain but because the blast of air feels cold against his skin. it causes him to flinch as he drops the clunky porygon onto the table. ZAP CANNON shoots right through the white cloud to break through the window.[break][break]

"woops!"

[attr="class","ooc"]Andrea Vaneau[break]

[attr="class","pkspr pkmn-porygon-z"]

Okay, so they had unwittingly caused some damages to the café, but that window could just as easily have been shattered by one of the non-evolved Porygon, and there were no eyewitnesses on the scene who could claim otherwise other than Goldeen Memory Matias and Head-in-the-Clouds Andrea.

Still armed with the fire extinguisher, Andrea sprayed as many wild Porygon as she could with its white, foamy contents, allowing a still rampaging Chomper to finish them off with his Outrage. After she was done shooting her load, she lied down on the floor in an exhausted state, her chest heaving up and down. "Hah... I think that's... all of them..." She said mid-panting.

Even with the unconscious bodies of Pokémon scattered all around them, Chomper kept growling and yapping in an agitated state, as if trash-talking a non-existent foe. He seemed to have gotten a tad Confused from his constant Outraging and thought that the battle was still ongoing.

MATIAS SILPH

☉

goldeen memory matias will forget this encounter as soon as he leaves the cafe. for now, he takes a moment to enjoy the peace they fought so hard to acquire.[break][break]

he doesn't slump to the ground but he does slump back into his seat. he sighs, leaning his head back as he peers up at the cracked bulb hanging above him.[break][break]

"clean up this mess, beep boop."

[attr="class","ooc"]Andrea Vaneau[break]

[attr="class","pkspr pkmn-porygon-z"]