[attr="class","illeana"]

[attr="class","illeana b"]

[attr="class","illeana i"]he can't be serious, right?

a glare of her own turns on him, eyes narrowed in irritation.

whatever's happening right now, in this dimensional plane, is no laughing matter. not to her, anyway.

besides, her first thought hadn't even been palkia...

it had been a watery saw and blood.

something breaches through the gates and her head whips back around. despite herself, she takes a step back. closer to protection, closer to him.

her golurk slips into shadows quickly, fully prepared to strike. glare holds the pokemon in place but a low, shuddering howl escapes it. and in its frenzy, it snarls.

"this isn't a distortion."

it lacks the chaos...

"i thought the rift had been closed?"

behind the paralyzed pokemon, another emerges and fast. her golurk slips out of shadows to knock it out with phantom force before it can snarl its way to her.

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[attr="class","illeana b"]

[attr="class","illeana i"]her face twists into a scowl.

fucking copycats...

"great," she hisses. her golurk rumbles a warning before slipping back into the darkness.

more. there's more coming.

fernando begins his routine. he sets it...

and it fades into background noise.

a sensation of paranoia, desolation, ruin, abandonment… it rushes in without warning in the form of memories.

words from spear pillar come in whispers. it tickles the mind and leaves her distracted, an open target.

an invading pokemon lunges for her thigh while her golurk takes care of the ones at the gates. the frenzied pokemon is held at bay for a moment, knocked off course by a curious aura sphere from an undisclosed location...

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[attr="class","illeana"]

[attr="class","illeana b"]

[attr="class","illeana i"]the telltale mewling of a certain fetal-esque pink cat snaps her back to attention more than fernando’s command.

and honestly, what does look alive even mean? how can one look more alive in a single moment than they already are?

she frowns, eyes darting toward him. she hates saying it, especially to him but…

”i’m sorry.”

she doesn’t disclose the rest of the concept. instead, she focuses on the onslaught of more frenzied bodies rushing toward them. her golurk swings on those it can reach, ignoring the sound of cracking bones beneath a hulking hand. mew chooses to stick closer to illeana herself, perching itself on her shoulders to fire off more aura spheres when pokemon break through the defenses of the golurk and zygarde.

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[attr="class","illeana"]

[attr="class","illeana b"]

[attr="class","illeana i"]he forces a retreat without so much as breaking a sweat.

somehow, it's almost impressive.

she observes him with muted eyes, with a quickness to the way they stray soon after.

her golurk stills as the bodies begin to shuffle back toward the portal. there's an oddness to the way it stands, however... as if it's not quite willing to give up its position.

after a few moments, she understands why.

"impressive."

the voice, so close to her own, easily summons a scowl to her expression.

"lovely."

her skin wants to crawl off bone well before she even sees her sea hoennian doppelganger.

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[attr="class","illeana"]

[attr="class","illeana b"]

[attr="class","illeana i"]while illeana, herself, stays quiet...

fernando speaks to her doppelganger with a familiarity she loathes. something about it feels wrong, uncomfortable, envious.

sea illeana flashes a smile of sharpened teeth.

"stone's a bit busy but i'll occupy his time enough to pass the message along."

somehow, the watery saw at the sea hoennian's side seems less threatening in this light.

and illeana braces for something anyway, paranoia creeping through the body like a parasite.

"now, if you don't mind..."

tension lingers well before the statement falls, building beneath two sides of the same coin.

"i have some unfinished business with your friend."

the scowl illeana wears is mirrored even after the sea hoennian woman begins the slow stalk toward her.

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[attr="class","illeana b"]

[attr="class","illeana i"]her eyes dart toward him in warning, in anger.

what a dick.

her counterpart seems more amused than before, as if the concept of being better than her is an honor.

it infuriates the scientist to no end.

"i'm useful," she grumbles beneath her breath.

and perhaps that's what makes her take the first move, that incessant need to prove herself to him.

she lunges despite grassy knots wriggling across the field. beneath her skirt, strapped to the thigh, a small knife shines with nearby light from the dimensional rift. it's a warning, perhaps. for fernando or for her counterpart... it's left to be determined.

"feisty!"

her counterpart laughs, shifting forward to meet the scientist head on.

"not satisfied with your girl anymore, stone? a pity but expected."

they clash with the sound of watery laughter echoing out of sea illeana's throat. it seems fated, perhaps, to meet again in these circumstances.

she keeps talking, eyes drifting to fernando as if the scientist isn't worth her full attention. and maybe, she's not.

"unhappy? you know, he's usually quite excited to see me... seems some things aren't parallels after all."

the sea hoennian woman drives the point home with a swipe of her water saw, slicing through grassy knots to catch illeana's shin. the scientist yelps and blood drips slow to stain the vines beneath their feet. the knife is tugged out of its holster in blinding anger...

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