It shouldn't come as a surprise to the good ol' captain when she loses her way between the tall boughs of ancient trees. Though GPS coordinates glare at her from a cracked phone screen, they are of no use to her here - not when most of her electronics had given up on life some time ago.

The reason for it looms large and ominous, a thick membrane of darkness that extends well past the local canopy in a dome-like shape. Reality crackles and flickers around it, as if locked in perfect discordance with itself.

"Just another day in Hoenn, huh?" A calloused hand pats the Samurott by her side, who doesn't look too impressed. Given the last few months, surprise is equally absent in Skyler's expression. She tests the barrier, fingers sinking past the miasmic surface. When they return mostly unharmed, Skyler shrugs and steps in.

"Shit!"

She doesn't expect the claws that slash the air inches from her face. Instincts alone allow her to duck and roll away from a snarling mouth of razor-sharp teeth.

Samurott launches forward with a snarl, claws sinking past fur to draw blood. She seems unaware of the darker coloration that spreads across her body, crimson blooming in sharp relief. CEASELESS EDGE darkens her blade as it sinks into the opponent's flesh, eventually scaring it off.

Skyler would only notice the changes after, away from the gloom of the rift. Unbeknownst to her, Phione shudders in its pokeball, the space-time shifting trickling past the flimsy curve of pokeballs to imbue it with a new power...

- samurott > forme change > turns into hisuian samurott
- samurott > level tutor > learns the move ceaseless edge
- phione > level tutor > learns the move take heart

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Things in the wild had been acting up. So naturally as a Ranger Razz is at the seen, kneeling within the grass to try and see what he could find. For awhile nothing seemed wrong and he was becoming skeptical of the claims.[break][break]

Until it finally happened...[break][break]

Around the area he was in a dome appeared, and inside became dark and wild. As suddenly the pokemon that were there before were gone. Most of them replace. Some be normal pokemon he's seen, others being larger than usual and not only that but some were attacking. One being an odd looking Avalugg. As it tries to attack with a BLIZZARD. Razz and Salem manage to get out of the way in time but Sable isn't as luck as she is struck. "Sable!" the ranger cries for her as he moves toward her to take the zoura seemingly frostbitten over. [break][break]

Cold and struggling... how?[break][break]

Once more its about it attack but Salem takes the lead as he uses psychic to grab one of Razz's pokeballs and calls on the infernape, Cynder. Seeing their comrade hurt in such a way there seems to be a Ranging Fury that takes over as the Infernape attacks the odd looking Avalugg. After it's defeated it seems to disappear and other pokemon show up. Though thankfully the team up of Salem and Cynder was enough. Though as time goes on stuck fighting Sable's colors go from black to white. At first Razz thinks something is wrong until a Gengar comes at them trying to attack. [break][break]

Worn down from the other pokemon Salem and Cynder seem in danger themselves and while Razz is prepared to do something, its Sable that saves the day. using some move he is unfamiliar with with BITTER MALICE to take out the gengar with ease. And with one more pokemon beaten Razz decides they need to leave now. [break][break]

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[break]+ Shiny Zorua form changes to Shiny H!Zorua
[break]+ Zorua learned Bitter Malice
[break]+ Infernape learns Raging Fury

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Monkey see, monkey do.

Derek needn't give himself any other reason to head inside the distorted realm.

Some were strangers, and others were a familiar sight to see. Though separating them were...pokemon? Aggressive ones at that, relentless in their assertion of dominance over the land. Loosing his own pokemon to combat them, one immediately seemed to experience an abnormality thanks to the distorted reality they were in.

He was almost going to ask his Zoroark if it was okay, but the pokemon let rip with a move he'd never seen, fending off an attacker and riddling them with frostbite.

Another pokemon came, this time an Infernape — Just like the one he brought! Only, it used a move he'd never seen or heard of before. On Derek's Infernape, to boot. Must've had good reason to attack one of it's own kind...

"It's no use reasoning with it, fight back." Ridden with rage for it's (ancestral) brethren, Derek's Infernape mimmicked the move that had just knocked it on it's ass.

"Huh...nice one, Infernape."

Monkey see, monkey do...apparently.

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tl;dr
- zoroark became h!zoroark
- zoroark learned bitter malice
- infernape learned raging fury

SPACE-TIME DISTORTION

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