Well, that was a relief as most of everyone at their terminal chose the ‘odd Darkrai’—
Then again maybe not, because the track that played afterward began to glitch and—
“What?” was all he had time to say before, once again,
all fucking hell broke loose.
And it was
worse than the earlier chaos!
Instead of having to deal with just two Pokémon, there were now—
four, and the two that were mentioned, the funny-looking ones whose names started with the letter ‘Z’ or something—began to chase
someone down.
At least that someone wasn’t him!Thank fuck I went with the majority! he thought as he quickly turned Memo around as best as he could, his eyes looking around like a panicked Deerling’s before reaching into the inner pocket of his jacket and him hissing as quietly as possible into the other’s ear.
“Take this,” he began as he pulled out
one of the purple-tipped green feathers and shoved it roughly into the other man’s free hand (because there was a very high chance
he was going to ask questions)
“…but don’t use it unless the situation becomes extremely dire.”Was it a part of the last piece of what they talked about before getting involved in this mess?
Maybe.
But for Alexei to trust the other with something so
precious, so
important, meant there was
something in the air—something that his
intuition had picked up on the moment he thought he saw something manifest through the ‘rings’ in the air—
Did he mishear things, or was that a train coming out of the—
The brain cell between them sprang into action.
“What—ever you do,” he said in both the other man’s and Kaida’s direction,
“…don’t get fucking hit by anything, do you understand?”There was
something in the air, and he didn’t like it—
“And stay near me!” he added as an afterthought, realizing that he may have to reveal his
ace in the hole a
little too early for his liking. But the circumstances were dire.
They were so fucking dire.He didn’t want to have a Pokémon out, and hoped that in the mass chaos that was breaking out around them, his little gesture would go unseen—
As he thought he was staring down at the barrel of a train (was it) coming out of the floating ‘rings’…
There was nothing else to it.
Somewhere, he remembered that in one of the movies he’d watched with one of his exes (he isn’t going to name names) that the boldest thing to do was to take a step forward.
In a way, he was going to do that.
There was something gripped so tightly in between his thumb and left pointer finger, and he hoped that nobody was looking in their general direction as the train came screaming down on them—
Just how powerful was wind, against a mass of incoming steel?He then purposefully aimed the purple tip of the green feather at the mass of incoming metal—
And let it fly.
He then braced himself, very much certain that whatever resulting blast of air would come from the feather would definitely knock him (and his two companions) backwards. Or even off their feet.
Just to be on the safe side, his gaze looked around the area, and he willed himself to be calm.
(Because oh, hell, he was literally SCREAMING internally right now. But he didn’t want to show that fear. He didn’t want to make either of them a target.)
“Brace yourselves,” he said through gritted teeth; as quickly as his other hand could manage he pulled out
another one of the strangely-hued, purple-tipped green feathers and let a
second one go into the airspace around them.
Was it going to work…?
R52PhH|A
• is thankful that the collective picked a unanimous answer
BUT THEN—
•
someone had to go wreck the unanimous decision with Zacian and Zamazenta•
‘whoever you are, I’m coming after your head! And I want it, ON A SILVER PLATTER!’• quickly reaches into his jacket pocket before his bravado deserts him, very discreetly pulls out
one of the purple-and-green feathers, and
gives it to Memo to hold onto (cleared this specifically with Shiv, MWUAHAHA!)
• realizes that mass chaos is about to engulf them all, his
gay man’s intuition is going off like
MAD• is surprisingly KALM about the chaos, but has his eyes peeled on whoever moron chose the funny Z answer (and WILL chew them out later SHOULD THEY GET OUT OF THIS IN ONE PIECE)
• warns Memo and Kaida to be on their toes and to not get hit by anything
• was he seeing things, was there a mcfucking
TRAIN coming out of those rings floating in the space above them—
• NOPE DEFINTIELY NOT, THAT’S REAL YO—
• is holding another one of the purple-tipped green feathers and makes the decision to let
the first one go in the direction of whatever the fuck train that is coming out of those holes, an attempt to handle it
• but he fears one feather isn’t enough, so he pulls out
ANOTHER and lets it rip
• total feather usage this round: a grand whopping total of
two, plus one is currently with the other man
•
seven feathers remaining•
‘oh djinni save us all.’• Alex has
no Pokémon out. What a crazy man, eh?