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Kep
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March 03
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POSTED ON Jul 27, 2022 21:25:35 GMT
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Oort had a bruise beginning to sluice down the front of his teal, tear-drop shaped form-- but he didn’t let that stop him, firing off a crisp salute and a cheerful “WAAAAA-BUFFET!” Kepler and Isaac couldn’t understand him but what he was saying was get good, scrub.

“Yes!” Kepler cheered, punching both fists skyward, as Isaac pushed away from him, releasing the tension in his grip and in the air. Kep wanted to run forward and hug his Wobbuffet. But then all of Isaac’s team began attacking the downed Swampert, and doing so would have put him right in the line of fire.

Isaac’s team went to work handling the Mega Swampert. The Dhelmise dragged it, stunned, out of the water-- just in time for it to jump up and start fighting back. Kepler was so focused on this aspect of the altercation that he didn’t notice the Cultist leader tackling Isaac to the ground until it was too late, Isaac going down in a rush of air and fabric behind his back.

“No!” Kepler yelled, throwing himself forward, not thinking-- for once in his life, he wasn’t thinking. He was wet and bedraggled and tired and done, and he all but launched himself at the cultist’s wrist, hitting it with enough force to divert the downward stroke of the knife. Instead of stabbing Isaac, the Corsola shard raked a stinging line down the inside of Kepler’s wrist and forearm, opening a slice in the underside of the limb as he grappled for the weapon. The force of the thrust coupled with Kepler’s weight drove the shard down into the wet ground, Kepler coming face-to-face with the fractured Sharpedo mask and the anger of the eye behind it.

Then there was a sickening thud sound as Gaia Bounced off the back of the cultist leader’s head, sending him forward with enough force to crash his eye socket against the shard buried in the ground. It went straight through with a sound like a cracking egg, puncturing-- cornea, iris, pupil, lens, vitreous body, Kepler heard his anatomy and physiology teacher rattle off in his head-- and the cult leader spasmed once, twice, and fell still.

Kepler froze, hands up, blood streaming out of the long slice on his forearm, from wrist almost to elbow. He was suddenly very cold.

Meanwhile, back in Crazy Mega Swampert Land, Oort glowed faintly teal, little spirals of energy, like DNA, flying through the air and linking him to the Mega Swampert in a Destiny Bond. He then hobble-hopped closer to the thing, aiming to get in close, within the reach of its flailing body, in the hopes that, now that they were intrinsically linked, if Oort fainted, so too would the mega-evolved Pokemon.


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The Liberator
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Lavaridge Town
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Pocket fulla sunshine
Short King height
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POSTED ON Jul 28, 2022 3:17:06 GMT
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[attr="class","skulltitle"]導通抵抗
[attr="class","skulloverlap"]BUT HOLD YOUR BREATH, GUESS WHO'S RUNNING THE SHOW?



[attr="class","skullbody"]It all happened so fast. One second, Isaac was pinned to the ground, about to become the next sacrifice. The next minute, the lead cultist was face down in a pile of blood and eye goo, the Corsola shard embedded in the exposed eyehole of his mask. What happened? Was he . . . had they . . . [break][break]

Isaac could feel his breath hitching. No. He couldn't. He didn't have time for that, damnit. So what if some masked asshole died trying to kill him? Kepler, who had already been through so much shit today, was hurt. Bad. Blood practically cascaded from his wrist. Isaac was not going to let his trauma-driven inaction lead to more people getting hurt. He bit the inside of his cheek hard enough to taste blood, forcing the unpleasant sensory rush to snap himself out of his reverie. And then he got to work.[break][break]

Ugh. This was such a long cut. "You're gonna need stitches," Isaac said, voice heavy with concern. "I'm calling in an evac for us. Don't ask questions about where you're going-" Luckily for Isaac, Kepler was already aligned more with Rocket than the League. Not that he knew that. Or, shit, even Kepler's name. "-But you'll be taken care of well there. And if you aren't, I'll give them hell until you are." With that aside, it was time for the usual. Was the wound clean with some water. Dry it off with some rags, applying pressure to try and stem the bleeding best as he could. Put on some disinfectant to avoid the wound festering. Finally, the special sauce; a blast of Pollen Puff to diminish pain and promote faster healing.[break][break]

He wrapped the wound in simple wrappings once he was finished. It'd do for now, at least until transport arrived with something better than a field medkit. "There you go. It's okay. You're okay. And . . . you really saved my ass out there. Thank you for that," Isaac said. "My name's Isaac, by the way. What's yours?"[break][break]

If the cult was closing in, they sure as heck stopped when Dhelmise held the (unconscious? Dead? Who even knew anymore?) figure of their leader aloft. He dangled limply in the Dhelmise's vines as the cult stared in a state of mutual shocked silence. Finally, Dhelmise looked to who seemed to be the leader of the remaining group and tossed the leader at his feet. The message was heard, loud and clear. The cult grabbed their leader's body and broke out into a run. They wouldn't be giving this route any more trouble.[break][break]

How did the Dhelmise even have the time to do this? Well, without his bondmate's consciousness, the Mega Swampert's energy reserves rapidly fell. Its eyes rolled into the back of its head as its consciousness faded. So, too, did its muscles begin to fade. All that was left was a single, exhausted Swampert lying in a KO'd pile on the ground.[break][break]

Isaac took out his Rocket burner, preparing to flag down a transport. Against all the odds, he and Kepler had won the day.

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Kep
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March 03
Alamos, Sinnoh
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POSTED ON Aug 7, 2022 13:29:47 GMT
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Kepler’s eyes flit back and forth between the gash in his wrist and the dead body of the cultist, pale face growing, somehow, paler.

Isaac was over his shoulder and saying something about calling in an evac team and Kepler heard but he didn’t really hear. He hadn’t been this jacked up in a while-- ever since probably seventh grade when the class bullies jumped him on the way home from school and put him in the hospital. Since then, he’d had rules of engagement-- mostly being, do not engage.

But then his rational mind began to take shape and he lifted the arm up and held it parallel to the ground and above his heart. He slipped out of one sleeve and began to wrap it tight around the slice. Apply pressure, and elevate. His face had turned into the stony mask of flippant intelligence he usually wore, an expression of boredom, cultivated in order to form distance.

He jumped-- literally jumped, startled-- when Isaac took his arm and began his own ministrations. Kepler’s heart did a funny thing and he had to look away.

“Thanks.”

At least he wasn’t going to die from blood loss-- and his radial and ulnar artery seemed okay, given that he wasn’t spurting blood like a fountain.

“You saved mine first,” he pointed out, finding the courage to look back at Isaac. “I’m Kepler.”

He watched with a stony silence as the Dhelmise lifted the proffered corpse aloft and tossed it at the cultist’s feet. He watched with stony silence as Gaia and Deimos returned to his side.

Oort, of course, had fainted, given that Destiny Bond was a river that flowed in two directions. Kepler took his arm gently back from Isaac and sloshed through the mud to pull the Wobbuffet back into its Pokeball. “That’ll do, pig.”

A beat of silence.

“Guess we go home, now.”


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The Liberator
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Pocket fulla sunshine
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POSTED ON Aug 7, 2022 22:59:41 GMT
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[attr="class","skulltitle"]導通抵抗
[attr="class","skulloverlap"]BUT HOLD YOUR BREATH, GUESS WHO'S RUNNING THE SHOW?



[attr="class","skullbody"]"Then that makes us even," Isaac said, a soft smile on his face. "I'm . . ." Shit. He didn't know this guy's allegiance. Was saying his name going to be trouble? The right person in the right place could leave a lot of trouble for an up and coming grunt. At the same time . . . shit, the guy looked harmless. Maybe it was the fact that he spent half of this mission looking like a drowned puppy. Or the fact that he saved Isaac's life. But Isaac felt like he could trust this guy.[break][break]

"And I'm Isaac," he said. What the hell. It wasn't like he was in his Rocket disguise, anyway, even if he clearly had his fingers in some pretty dangerous pies. Maybe he'd encounter the guy properly as Blackjack another time. But for today? He was willing to let his guard go down so Kepler's comfort can go up. "Good to meet you, Kep."[break][break]

Right. There really wasn't much left to do here, huh? The transport caravan would be on their way here shortly. The Aqua cult was in full retreat, the body of their leader being brought behind them. The poor Swampert had just been ditched. Isaac pitied it, but the fact that it almost snapped Kiryu in half like a twig made him feel a lot less charitable. Now there were just two drenched, exhausted, and banged-up boys standing around in an empty field.[break][break]

"Guess so," Isaac said. "But, before we do . . . you okay?"

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Kep
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POSTED ON Aug 7, 2022 23:40:21 GMT
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Kepler paused. It had been so long since anyone had asked him if he was okay. Least of all immediately after being kidnapped and roughed up and almost sacrificed and roughed up some more and almost deveined.

He was touched. That was a weird feeling.

But was he okay?

“I’m still alive,” he said, as the roar of the unnmarked Rocket ‘copter hovered overhead.

He blinked.

“Same hat,” he said, by means of explanation, as the vehicle lowered down to scoop both of them up.


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POSTED ON Aug 8, 2022 10:19:38 GMT
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