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POSTED ON May 8, 2023 4:05:24 GMT

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[attr="class","omgentop"]THE WILDS: ULTRA DEEP SEA

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ONGOING EVENT

EXPLORATION

GRANITE CAVE[break]↓ ULTRA DEEP SEA

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CONTRARY TO ITS NAME, THE MAJORITY OF THE ULTRA DEEP SEA IS A VAST CAVE-LIKE WORLD. Shafts of light from an unknown source barely penetrate the dark, causing colorful diamond-like rocks to glisten against humid walls. The dim lighting makes the place seem like you're thousands of leagues under the sea... Eerily, an unceasing pulse can be heard like a heart beat that rumbles throughout the realm.[break][break]

Oddly enough, one is able to "swim" through this realm like Water-type Pokemon floating in air.[break][break]

One may stumble upon deep, cold pools of dark water and alien seaweed as they scout out the realm. Segments of this place open up into an astral sea, where islands of mysterious stone are suspended mid-air.

PROMPTS

LIST OF PROMPTS

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16 search for suitable locations to set up camp/base.
17 begin building a base camp/settlement of some kind.
22 cultivate a farm or garden to grow plants for resources or the deterrent of threats.
24 suffer a grievous or fatal injury or injuries that ends up being a hallucination.
🗺️ utilize a paradox pokemon in an advantageous way.

EXPEDITION TREASURES

AT THE END OF EACH EXPEDITION THREAD, all characters must ROLL for their final post. The HIGHEST FOUR ROLLS will be counted for what TREASURES are retrieved from the location. These treasures will be returned to each faction for future use...

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RULES

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING GUIDELINES. A more comprehensive list of rules will be published in each event thread. These rules are also subject to change.[break][break][break]

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Your character can only be in ONE EXPEDITION THREAD at a time.
You may participate with all of your characters; however, be aware of your ability to post.
If a thread partner has not posted in awhile, please skip them in this event. Momentum is important for engagement.
Since these threads may feature combat, please be reasonable with your battling. Discuss with your group if you'd like one move per post, how many Pokemon are allowed to be brought, etc.
Try to keep posts short for clarity and speed.
Please be trusting and open to communicating with all of your thread partners.
Please INCLUDE WHICH PROMPTS you are using in your expedition thread.
Please have at least FIVE POSTS PER CHARACTER in your expedition thread.

IN YOUR FINAL POSTS, PLEASE ROLL.

Michael Navidson Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki Colton Boothroyd

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A body is impaled on a pale purple crystal. The battle for the seal stone ended weeks ago, but the body has not decayed. They are caught with flush skin in the moment of their demise. Soft light filters through the crystals, creating an outline of the bones. It is a morbid reminder of how fragile human life can be.[break][break]
“Arceus…” Navy curses, half under his breath, as he looks at the dead man. At least this one is in his twenties. Younger men than he have been killed on both sides of this gang war. Beneath him, Lizzy swims through the air. If he comes to this place a hundred times, he will not grow used to the sensation of swimming through empty air. All around him is the sea. This place terrifies him, whispers to the darkest depths of his mind. Pulls at the edge of his reason.[break][break]
And he has brought a girl touched by this place back into its depths. Basking in the glow of her angels’ light, Tsubaki looks like the goddess of a pale moon. This place accepts her, embraces her in a way the world far above never will.[break][break]
Navy sees the matter as a contest of wills – a battle between himself and the great creature inside of whom this sea rests. All he has to do is hold out and defeat this creature and Tsubaki will be free. He’ll come down here as many times as he must to make that happen.[break][break]
“We’re almost to the spot the rangers told me about.” Swapping stories with rangers at the local station, they told him about a grotto not far past one of the wormholes that lead back to the real world. “Just gotta set up camp. We’ll need a base before we strike out again. Build up some resources, create a safe place to restock before we head out.”[break][break]
There’s an unspoken implication there, of course. Tsubaki disappears from time to time. Falls down into the deep blue. Navy wants to control the fall, give her somewhere safe to land. He’ll come in her and grab her as many times as it takes.[break][break]
The caravan of Pokemon coming after him, all laden with supplies, is testament to how unwilling he is to lose her to this place. Almost every Pokemon he owns is chipping in with the strength of their backs. They’ll build themselves a nice base, and then…[break][break]
Well, he’ll see how deep this rabbit hole goes. Better Tsubaki do this with him rather than anyone else.

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+ Colton Boothroyd Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki

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POSTED ON May 9, 2023 23:20:41 GMT

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[attr="class","star2tsu2"]In the end, you could not resist the call of the void.[break][break]

You're down in the deep again. Against your better judgement. Against all reason. [break][break]

A constant drumming heartbeat pounds in your ears. You can't tell anymore whether it's yours or an echo of the pulsing star you saw in your dreams.[break][break]

You wonder if there's a real difference anymore.[break][break]

It's self-mutilation, the worst possible thing you could've done to return here, and now you're at the bottom of the sea again in this place that devours dreams.[break][break]

You follow behind Navy, absentmindedly reaching for something that could generously be called platlife if only in an abstract sense. Growing beside a crystal that glows with an ever-so-familiar light, it recoils on touch, curling reflexively like a feeler of some submerged beast.[break][break]

You stop and gaze into the crystal in front of you. It fills you with a warmth you’ve forgotten, something so full and inviting you want to dive straight into it. [break][break]

Impale yourself on it. [break][break]

You’ve almost forgotten what true happiness feels like, bathing in that light. The ambient hum that soaks off that light drones incessantly, both a warning and a call to come closer.[break][break]

”The lights are… pretty…”[break][break]

You say it like you’re half asleep.[break][break]

The glowing light is a mere refraction of something that glows brighter than the sun, a mere remnant of a god. Still, you float in its direction, captivated.[break][break]

Reaching for it, you're tugged backward by something wrapped around your ankle. Tendrils that trail into the dark, remnant of a fluttering mane, something grabs hold of you and pulls you away from it. [break][break]

You turn to look, and that seems to break the spell. [break][break]

She is the same ghost of the deep you encountered the last time you were here. Something you thought was a fever dream, a collective hallucination staring back, purring as if she were a cat.[break][break]

”... You're… that ancient pokemon?”[break][break]

You swallow, and realize suddenly how dry your throat has gotten. Your heart is racing a million miles per second. [break][break]

But in that cold gaze of hers, your dizziness seems to find peace, and you right yourself. Her captivating ancient stare grounds you, time stands still in the presence of this primordial whisper forgotten by the void.[break][break]

”... No good, huh…?”[break][break]

You sigh.[break][break]

The ecosystem seems to be supported by these glowing hotspots. But you, touched by the call of the deep, can’t venture too close without tempting eternity. [break][break]

She seems to know. She seems to want to stop you from making the same mistakes.[break][break]

”Fine… fine, I get it… I owe ya one. You live here, don't you? I remember you, from before.”[break][break]

You reach out a hand and place it on her head. It passes through harmlessly, and she gives a knowing smile.[break][break]

”You wouldn't happen to know a good place to set up shop, by chance, would you?”[break][break]

It feels stupid to ask, but she seems to respond eagerly, taking off into the air and turning about to beckon you forward. [break][break]

Nobody else reacts like they can see her. [break][break]

Maybe you're seeing things. But all the same, figment of your imagination or not, you start to take off after her, not a word to Navy or anyone else.[break][break]

+ Michael Navidson Colton Boothroyd

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Colton wasn't sure why he had come back to the Ultra Deep Sea. Why he had willingly decided to dive back into this hellhole and risking madness with every step. Truthfully, he didn't really have to ask himself that question to know the answer. Curiousity, plain and simple. As terrifying as Ultra Space was, he was just as equally fascinated with it and the things it produced. Namely, the two robotic Pokemon that he had collected during the battle against Team Rocket. What were they and what purpose did they serve wandering the endless depths of this alternate reality?

It was that curiousity that served as the only thing grounding Colton back to reality, letting him keep his head about him when he'd be unable to even consider stepping foot through the rift. If anything, he was far more concerned with Navy's decision to bring along Tsubaki again. He could see it in her face, already. That same fixation with the eldritch beckoning. It was a complete gamble on how long she'd stay lucid before whatever creatures resided here decided to rear its ugly head to drag her down into its depths.

Then, as if possessed, Colton watched her eyes focus, conversing with something that wasn't there. He narrowed his eyes, looking back and forth between Tsubaki and the empty air in front of her. He reached down to his waist, pulling Arti's ball out and releasing the Rotom. "Stick by her, Arti. Make sure she doesn't get too far away from the group, but keep your distance," he instructed. After what had happened last time, Colton felt he had to take some precautions. He had the feeling that if they let their guard down even once, it could spell disaster...

"Feels like that should have been the first step before we jumped feet first into Moby Dick's cousin's belly," he remarked, urging MM to speed up. He had been using the Iron Moth to pull him through the air, hanging on to one of its horns as its wings spun like a propeller to keep itself moving forward. The creature didn't seem to mind all that much, likely just pleased to be back int its home dimension more than anything else. "What's our ETA and do we have anything set up as a marker as the ideal spot? Coverage from the elements, easily defendable..."

Colton began rambling on the theoreticaly this they would need to properly establish a camp out here, all the while, Arti was floating a short distant behind Tsubaki, its eyebrow raised in confusion.

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Navy

He/Him

October 13th

Slateport

Heterosexual

E4; Gym Leader

Sheriff

5'10" / 177.8 cm height

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POSTED ON May 10, 2023 6:27:01 GMT

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Navy sees the look Colton’s giving Tsubaki. Hard not to. Only an idiot would keep bringing a girl like that here – at least under any other circumstance. He’s left with no choice. He can either run from what seems to be this girl’s destiny or embrace said destiny.[break]

“When the League calls, you don’t really get a choice.” Navy sounds grim. “Well, you do, but when they really want you, they know just how to sweeten a pot. Those rangers weren’t gonna rescue themselves.” And they damn well nearly followed them down into hell. At least they’re taking steps to do this right on their second try. Better late than never, huh?[break][break]

Navy looks to Tsubaki. He sees the way she’s looking at the world around her. He sees her talking to- is that…? It’s a shape that reminds him of the monsters he fought with Kouji Matsubara on an ancient battlefield. Creatures that wish to force them to join the dance of the dead.[break][break]

Tsubaki rushes off without a word to anyone. Voyager and Colton’s Pokemon are there with her to keep her safe. Voyager rushing off at a speed only Arcanine can manage cues Navy into something being wrong.[break][break]

Thin Lizzy’s barreling forward, tossing her supplies up onto Junior’s back and making room for Navy. Falling into the driver’s seat, he chases after her. She swims through the air, igniting the way behind her. Lizzy knows how much Tsubaki means to Navy. She won’t lose her…[break][break]

Tsubaki is the first to see it by merit of following the ghost in the depths. The grotto is beautiful. Coral gently sways like grass in the breeze. It’s a high cave, with sunlight streaming down. Caves lead off to nowhere, creating more pockets for storage and rooms. Between the copious light streaming into the center of the grotto, along with the fixtures up the high walls, it looks like a small safe haven from their troubles.[break]

The light streams down, shifting into different colors. It’s like a rainbow show, fascinating and vexing. Navy soon catches up and he sees it as well.[break][break]

“Baki, you gotta be more careful than that.” He chides her. “Colton, looks like, looks like we might just be able to do somethin’ with this spot, huh?”

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Baki

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Saffron City

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POSTED ON May 10, 2023 22:56:25 GMT

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[attr="class","star2tsu2"]You skim along the bottom of the deep as you follow her. Fluttering hair trailing behind her it tangles up around your wrist and pulls you along, guiding you some way away until you come to a large cliff. [break][break]

You peer down from the large over-cropping of rocks. Peer down into that secluded navel she has brought you to. From this vantage you can see nearly everything within, everything that is not obscured by the dark. As she turns around and floats over the hole, you understand what she's saying. What she desires from you is really quite simple.[break][break]

From this perspective it couldn't be more clear.[break][break]

A crystalline structure juts from the bottom as an enormous pike, disappearing into the black below.[break][break]

"Ah, so this is..."[break][break]

Yes, the place where once whatever forgotten past she witnessed came to an end. [break][break]

... where past ends, where future begins...[break][break]

You grasp your stomach, breaking out into a cold sweat as she stares through you.[break][break]

"... Y-yeah, sorry. My bad. I'll stay close by..."[break][break]

You respond to his scolding, eyeing the hollow in the earth with trepidation. Whether this is advantageous, a good place to set up a base for further study, you don't know any of that. [break][break]

All you know is what she desires of you.[break][break]

"... she's found a pretty good place, you think?"[break][break]

Your eyes don't look at the rest, focused only on how sharp the crystal looks from all the way up here. [break][break]

+ Michael Navidson Colton Boothroyd

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POSTED ON May 12, 2023 13:38:14 GMT

Colton considered what Navy had said, thinking back to what he had witnessed in the depths of that ship. How Tsubaki had been beckoned by the call of the deep, the creatures made of flesh and meat embracing her and threatening to take her where only madness lay. She had wanted to go, completely entranced by the singing of those monsters.

Had anyone they found dead in there actually wanted to be rescued?

"If you say so," was all Colton said, giving a shrug of his shoulders. Voicing that thought probably wouldn't have been good for morale, but they had just barely escaped from that horrible place, in no small part due to Tsubaki's strange behavior. This place had an effect on people, digging deep into their psyche to turn their darkest fears, traumas, and secrets against them, with some being easier to pick apart than others. With how quickly Tsubaki had given in, Colton could only think of her as a liability for these expeditions, so it made no logical sense as to why Navy had insisted she come with them.

But there was no logic to it, not in the way that Colton would understand. To him, these expeditions were purely for research purposes, to better understand the Ultra Deep Sea and the creatures that resided there. But that just made him the third wheel, entirely unrelated to why Navy and Tsubaki were here. For whatever reason, there was something here for them, something that they could only understand by enduring whatever mental torment the Sea sought to inflict upon them.

Colton pulled back on MM's horn as the group stopped above the grotto, adjusting his glasses as he studied the space. "As good as any spot in this place. Even after setting everything up, we can't drop our guard," he said, pushing down on his Iron Moth's, it's wings moved above their heads an dbegan to spin again, slowly lowering them down to the ground.

Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki Michael Navidson

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Navy

He/Him

October 13th

Slateport

Heterosexual

E4; Gym Leader

Sheriff

5'10" / 177.8 cm height

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POSTED ON May 12, 2023 21:57:50 GMT

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“Just don’t go where I can’t find ya.” His voice is soft when he say that. He gives her shoulder a little squeeze, ruffles her hair like she’s his younger sister. Navy’s sharp as a whip in some ways, but in others, he’s oblivious as only a man can be. His caravan roll up onto the spot. Each Pokemon takes in the beauty of the spot. Surveying the landscape, each of them understands it’s time to get to work.[break][break]
Each of the next three days are spent building. Planning. Surveying. Cassius the Machamp chips in with a laugh, contributing all four of his prodigious arms to the task. Kai, Navy’s Lucario, quietly hammers away as well. An Abra Navy won at a gambling corner hastily teleports goods and personnel to and from the wormhole that serves as their pathway into ultra space.[break][break]
At night, they make camp with people taking shifts. Navy starts the process of cultivating a garden in the light. Under the sea, plants seem to take well to this soil – better than they should. Were it not for occasional attacks by Sharpedo, fended off in no small part thanks to Shuwen and Roland, it would be easy. Always, far away, is the pulsing of that heart. They are inside of a beast, and that beast would not have them forget they are merely dwelling inside of something far greater than themselves.[break][break]
“Good job, gang.” Navy says on the third night. Their new base is coming along. Wood, metal, and stone have been consigned to forever hold permanent shapes. Pillars, barricades, walls, doors. They’ll soon have a communications center set up. The League will have a foothold in the realm. Thanks to the reluctant help of a few ground type Pokemon in Navy’s PC, they’ve even dug out more tunnels up into the caves, giving them more room for storage, beds, and whatever else they need.[break][break]
“The rangers and whatever other idiots wander in might just have a place.” He eats some homemade chili, trying not to dwell on the heartbeat.[break][break]
Although the rest see nothing unusual, Tsubaki can feel something caress her. Vines. Vines that are growing out of the ground, like her Venasaur’s tendrils. They wrap around her as gently as a lover.

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+ Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki Colton Boothroyd

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[attr="class","star2tsu2"]The caress of a lost future beckons you desperately. [break][break]

Every time you look into her eyes you are drawn to the point at the end of that towering crystal. [break][break]

You're reassured by his touch, breaking you from those thoughts. He seems to think nothing of it. And you forget it as well, just as easily. But it leaves an impression that's not so easily discarded.[break][break]

You chip in over those few days. As always, you are not the most committed, but you help where you can. Always, always coming to stop and rest on the edge of the cliff overlooking the grotto. Always, always looming over the crystal that stretches up into the sky, where a reflection of that alternate world takes shape as a blooming flower.[break][break]

You don't consciously aim to arrive there. And yet, you find yourself there all the same. The same time every day, peering peering down into it, determining what was lost that can still be found... [break][break]

And then, you're free from its grasp again, forgotten, as if it never happened. You move on, and help out Navy and Colton, as if nothing was out of the ordinary.[break][break]

Finally, he says it's done. [break][break]

Determined to work himself to the bone, whenever Navy sets him mind to something it's like nothing else. That work ethic, it's borderline insane, you think. But you don't have much room to talk.[break][break]

As you look down at your pre-packaged food with disdain, gently sifting your fork through it but not really finding anything appetizing, you gather a strange feeling. Like something gently embracing you and caressing your wrists, your ankles, and even your waist. [break][break]

You glance down, noticing the tendrils wrapping around you. Panic rises in your chest, and you open your mouth to call his name, but...[break][break]

"N--!!"[break][break]

The moment you open your mouth, it's covered by those same tendrils. Wrapping slowly around you, embracing you, coveting you. You can't call for anyone else. It would never allow for that. The twisted love of the sea would never, ever permit you calling someone else's name.[break][break]

+ Michael Navidson Colton Boothroyd

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Once they had finally settled into the grotto, much of the next three days were a familiar site for Colton. Wires and metal and electronics. He had his own little pack full of any tools he would need to properly set up any and all electronics and power in the area. So, while Navy and his Pokemon worked on setting up the garden, defenses, and what could loosely be called "housing," his own were helping him run wires and set up self sustaining batteries.

It didn't take long for for the walls of the cave to be lined with yards of wire and string lights, illuminating the space around them and even running into the rooms Navy's Pokemon had dug out. It was a mess of colors and lines that only Colton could ever hope to decipher, but it ran in ways that let different groups turn off and on separate from others, while still having outlets that ran independentaly of it all. If central heating and air hadn't been too heavy and impractical to bring along, he would have figured out a way to make it work as well. All they would need is to maintain the solar and dynamic batteries he had in different spots around the grove.

To Colton, it was pleasant work, one that kept both his hands and mind busy and off of the space around him. Rather, in the evenings, when the work was done for the day and they were each left on their own, his mind always wandered to the Ultra Deep Sea. This alternate reality that could bring both dreams and nightmares to life, two of which he carried around on his waist. Robotic Pokemon, birthed from the wishes and desires of others. It was everything Colton could dream up to simply try and figure out how their biology worked, but it also instilled a deep fear in him. Did he even dare to imagine what else could exist within this place, for fear that his imagination would be turned against him and bring his very nightmares into reality?

The third day had been spent much the same for Colton, this time attempting to set up the communications array. It was being particularly stubborn and he had elected to forgo the food Navy had prepared for the time being as he fiddled with wires, dials, and switches. "I certainly hope they appreciate all this effort. My fingers are starting to go raw working with all this small stuff," he answered without looking towards the other two. His focus on his work kept him from noticing the vines that began to wrap themselves around Tsubaki's body.

But Arti did.

True to Colton's orders a few days before, the Rotom had been keeping a watchful gaze on Tsubaki to make sure nothing happened to her. Now that something was, Arti went into action. Its began to beep rapidly in various pitches, a clear panicked tone to its cry as it knocked itself against Colton's body. "What's your deal? You see a ghost or -" His voice caught in his throat as he turned around to see what was going on.

"Navy!" Colton shouted, pulling Optimus' Pokeball from his waist and releasing the Iron Valiant out. "The vines!"

Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki Michael Navidson

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Navy

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This world is so cruel. It comes to consume them, to claim them. Reality fades and each of them, man and Pokemon, is left in a terrible way. This place consumes them. Completely and utterly. The ground they have cultivated and tilled opens up to swallow them whole. Whatever god rules this place seeks to remind them of something: you are never safe. Vines wrap around Tsubaki’s throat. Caressing them at first, and then squeezing. Squeezing the life out of her, like it’s a hand gripping a jar too tight, twisting her like it wants the head to snap off. It wants the jam inside. It wants to spill it all over the crops, give them new life.[break][break]
“Baki!” Navy cries, trying to reach out before tomatoes, grown too quick, have their own vines choke him. The black dragon’s ball slips free. Barnacles grow from Vortigern’s eyes. It pays no mind to Tsubaki, no mind to Colton. His eyes, his love, his everything are for Navy.[break][break]
The monster eats his guts from his stomach, consumes them while he is alive and screaming. Chained to the rock, he can do nothing but sit and scream in the agony. Above them all is the beating of the heart. Far away is a tower of purple crystal, humming as if to mock them for their arrogance. Crying for them. Saying that they, too, will never die. Not while the rift has them.[break][break]
Navy can’t turn. He can’t see Colton or his Iron Valiant. He can do nothing but watch the dragon consume him. His coarse tongue his like sandpaper, his teeth sharper than any behemoth blade of legend. He saves the heart for last. The monster is laid out across the sandy floor, sprawled, making a leisurely thing of this meal. His eyes never leave Navy’s as he eats the heart out of his chest. He never blinks. He doesn’t allow Navy to look away.[break][break]
He shows his trainer this ultimate act of love.[break][break]
And then, he blinks.[break][break]
The world is normal again.[break][break]
They’re all just eating chili.

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+ Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki, Colton Boothroyd

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Baki

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[attr="class","star2tsu2"]The sea coils about you, embraces you as a lover. It seeks to claim you again, and you're helpless to resist its pull. [break][break]

With every slip against your skin growing tighter and more bold the vines resemble the slimy appendages of the angels more and more. Their desire is unbound by any reasonable understanding of life and death, of the fragility of life. [break][break]

For they themselves know nothing but desire in their immortality they will treat you accordingly. [break][break]

You are crushed, completely and utterly. [break][break]

You can feel them quiver with anticipation as they squeeze tight enough to break the skin, as they bleed their twisted love into your pores, as they become one with you and draw you out to become one with them in a dance unlike any other. [break][break]

It is like a waltz of deadly consequence your writhing against their pull does little to affect. You become one with the waves. There can be no other end for you.[break][break]

As they close round your neck, as they steal even your last breaths for their own in a bid for monopoly in their maddening obsession, you hear them whisper your name over and over in your ear, calling, beckoning you to join them. You, too, can live forever if only you might breathe the void.[break][break]

Dark.[break][break]

Dark, sinking, falling into dark. [break][break]

And then you wake, like a nightmare. Always, before you hit the bottom, waking up and looking around disoriented. [break][break]

This isn't where you belong, at the bottom of the sea. This isn't where they want you to be. This isn't right. But, it's where you are, and where you were this entire time. Slipping into madness like a tangent, without skipping a beat, as if it never happened.[break][break]

You stare down at your food and finally give up on it, setting it aside.[break][break]

+ Michael Navidson Colton Boothroyd

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Despite his order, Optimus didn't move to help, instead watching the tomatoes tear their vines from the earth as if it were the most normal occurance in the world. Was it because this was where it came from? Had he made a mistake attempting to rely on something the Ultra Deep Sea itself had created to try and stop its assault against them? Colton looked to Arti, ready to order the Rotom to take over and free the others, but it had vanished without a trace.

Colton barely had time to process the absence of his partner when pain arced through his body. His muscles seized as he felt the familiar stinging burns of electricity, only turned up to an unbearable degree. It pulled away for a moment, but there was no reprieve as he collapsed to the ground. His body spasmed as he feebly tried to crawl away, sparks crackling off of his back and fingers. "O-optimus...help..." he weakly called out to his Pokemon. Clanking footsteps marked the Iron Valiant's approach, adding to the din of screams and messy eating. He didn't dare look up, didn't dare try and see what horrors were playing out in the grove. All he saw was Optimus' foot rearing back before its metal leg connected with his jaw.

Colton felt his teeth shatter, the coppery taste of blood filling his mouth as he was knocked onto his back. His vision was fading in and out as he rolled onto his side, coughing up a puddle of red with flecks of white mixed in. His head was swimming, hardly aware of the black wires slowly crawling across the ground and wrapping themselves around his arms. It was only when the wires grew tight, squeezing and twisting his limbs and sending white hot pain through his body, his mind instantly becoming aware of how much pain he was in.

The wires snapped tight, breaking his arms as he was slammed into the cave wall. Pain unlike anything Colton could ever imagine filled every nerve on his body. He couldn't form a coherent thought as his body was mangled and twisted into an unnatural shape, yet there was one clear message that was seared into his mind: there was no security in this place, no solace to be found in the technology of their world. He was subject to the mercy of Ultra Space and he would find no escape from their wrath. More wires reared up, poised like cobras waiting to strike as electricty sparked off of their exposed ends before they latched onto his chest. He couldn't even scream as his vocal cords were burnt to a crisp.

And then, he was back in front of the communication array, tools in hand as if he had never stopped working on it.

Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki Michael Navidson

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Navy

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Sheriff

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Waking up from the nightmare, he scrambles to his feet. All his Pokemon are there, looking at him. Confused. None of them seem to have had any strange dreams or visions. Navy’s hand goes for his stomach. He’s still intact. Still whole. He has all his limbs. There’ll be time to break down later, when he’s got her safely back to the surface.[break][break]

“We…” He struggles to speak, looking around, trying to breathe. “…we gotta get out of here. We’ve built the base. The crops’ll grow fine. I’ll check in on this little base every now and then. Come on.”[break][break]

He packs his bags, practically manhandles Tsubaki as he throws her onto Voyager’s back. Somewhere in his menagerie, there’s a ride for Colton, too, if the scientist wants one. Navy doesn’t rightly care right now. He just wants out. He wants to take her out. He needs Lopez. He needs Kingsman. He needs Goode and her army. Hell, in that moment, he needs Rocket’s mysterious boss.[break][break]

He needs anyone willing to help him fight this monster, this place where simply existing is a risky proposition.[break][break]

The deeper you delve, the harder it’s going to be to go back up. He tells himself.[break][break]

Some doors should remain closed. Some impossible spaces shouldn’t be questioned. Better men than you will solve this mystery.[break][break]

But he can’t. Not while she needs him. She’ll come down here with or without him. With or without a mission. Better that it be him than anyone else. The only person he’d trust her to is Kyle himself, and the top champion has a hundred other problems to deal with.[break][break]

“I’m with you, Baki.” He reassures her. “No matter what. Thanks for being here, Cole.”[break][break]

They’re back on the surface before they know it, dreaming of spring and the summer soon to follow.

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+ Colton Boothroyd Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki

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