Elinor made her way through Route 114. Though those that looked upon her might not recognize her as she had taken to wearing her newly acquired Sygna Suit. Its black body is adorned with near metallic looking silver gray scales as it creates an almost armor looking appearance.

For those looking from a distance they might accidentally think of her as an Aggron with no tail and no horned head, when compared to the Aggron walking by her side.

But the sight of the two would quickly be overshadowed by the sight of one peculiar person. Though admittedly it was not the sight but the sound that at first alerted her to the person and her Pokémon.

As Elinor laid eyes upon the source of the sound, she knew immediately who it was.

Shalin Nariya

Elinor decided to have a look. Only to mutter “Wait, is she on its wing?” in disbelief to Aggron as she noticed Shalin’s particular location on her steed's body.

MISSION: SYGNA SIMILITUDE: Act 1
LOCATION: Route 114
TAG: Shalin Nariya

Shalin would not have recognized the suited Elinor Anderson unless she could see her face. She and the Aggron were too far away to recognize, even if her vision was clear. And her vision was far from clear even after the wing she held onto started beating. For less than a second, she could see them clearly until both of them started buzzing, albeit at different speeds.

Unlike all of the other times Shalin had done this, she intended to take off and fly rather than remaining stationary. It would add another layer of disorientation, but it would be needed to truly master what she could do with her suit. It would be especially helpful when she attempted this same thing with her Flygon, Sandy, whose wings could beat far faster.

The thought, of course, did not downplay how wild the physics-defying ride was, powered by the visible link of green INFINITY ENERGY between the two. The stunt was clearly pushing her suit's capabilities. Her surroundings had vanished, replaced with an abstract palette consisting of the blues, greens and browns in her environment. Though she let out a scream of joy, Elinor may not have been able to hear it due to her presence on the wing amplifying its volume. Shalin was also oblivious to the dark cloud of a Space-Time Distortion forming above the plateau...

Realizing that Shalin might recognize her as she approached, Elinor gave the mental command to release the sygna-suit helmet. It began to fold down forming a sort of necklace around her neck.

By now as they approached Shalin was clearly well on her way to defying Physics once again, and it was accompanied by a scream of joy though faint it was to her ears. Still it was the sort of scream one might hear in a theme park. And honestly, Elinor appreciated it. The simplicity of joy, no matter the cause.

And so, she came close and watched, not interrupting for now. She would let Shalin finish her, whatever it was she was doing.


MISSION: SYGNA SIMILITUDE: Act 1
LOCATION: Route 114
TAG: Shalin Nariya

Every hair on Shalin's body stood on end as the buzzing speed peaked. It only stayed that way for a few seconds, her Flygon visibly perspiring from the SYNC STONE's discharge needed power the suit. The piercing buzz dropped in volume and in pitch until it ceased completely, revealing an incredibly dizzy-looking Shalin that was clearly seated on Queen Zing's now-still wing. In her extreme disorientation, she lurched back and forth, side to side, the Shiny Beedrill tilting her wing to keep her trainer from falling while the green-ette slowly regained her senses. "Oh... hi there Elinor!" she waved weakly, recognizing the Councilwoman now that she wasn't wearing her own Sygna Suit. While she wasn't hyperventilating like she did the first time she got on her Beedrill's wing thanks to the powers of her suit, her breathing was still elevated.

With a thunderous crash, the Space-Time Distortion closed, two figures appearing within its broad confines in a flash of light. The first was a horned, blue-and-white equine Pokémon with a thick, orange mane flowing from the back of his head. The deep blue horn looked sharp as a sword. Rearing impossibly high by ejecting HYDRO PUMP from his hooves, the fighting-type thoroughly soaked an Incineroar that had, to Shalin's unawareness, appeared behind her and would have ambushed her if not for the Sacred Sword's intervention.

The second figure looked exactly like Shalin, except with a blue motif instead of a green one, and with orange hair instead of golden hair. The Sacred Sword and her were the spitting images of one another. "I'm really impressed with what you just did with your Beedrill!" the girl greeted them, waving with the flat of a sword that looked exactly like her companion's horn. Holding the water-type's reins in her other hand, she dared the Hoennian daredevil to push her body further. "But it pales in comparison to what Lucca here can do!" she grinned.

Shalin blinked.

This strange girl that appeared out of nowhere looked like a palette-swapped version of herself, and even sounded exactly like her! Without looking, it would have been impossible for Elinor to tell the difference between the two voices!

“Hi!” Elinor replied, waving at the woman in response.

But before much else could be said a loud thunderous crash announced the closing of a Space-Time Distortion.

Elinor and Aggron immediately tensed, ready to defend against any dangers that might emerge.

But danger didn’t arrive. Only a double. For a moment all that Elinor experienced was confusion as a palette swapped Shalin and her stead appeared. She had to do a double take as she realized just what the stead was. Keldeo.

Something wasn’t right.

Elinor hurried closer to Shalin alongside Aggron, both intent on taking a position that would allow them to shield Shalin should this person prove to have nefarious intentions.

“I apologize for interrupting, but who are you?” While Elinor did her best to seem neutral, Aggron did not even try to hide the deep threatening growl that was growing in its belly and pushing itself out of its metal jaw.


MISSION: SYGNA SIMILITUDE: Act 1
LOCATION: Route 114
TAG: Shalin Nariya

Shalin could not stop blinking in dumbfounded awe. Had she become so drunk on her Sygna Suit's energy that she wasn't seeing straight anymore? The girl before her, dressed in light blues and oranges, again induced a sharp rear from her Keldeo steed in an attempt to intimidate Elinor, Shalin, and their Pokémon. "You stand before Hoenn's Wildest Rider, Shalin Nariya, the Resolute!" The last word of her introduction echoed throughout the distortion, its walls reverberating the message as though they were within the depths of an enormous cavern.

As if to prove her point, she mischievously touched her sword to Keldeo's horn-blade, water geysers erupting around Elnor, Shalin, and their Pokémon, sending them flying toward the Distortion's ceiling. While she meant no harm, confident that both of them had a Pokémon that could catch them or at least break their fall, it did put them all in danger. As the wet trainers and Pokémon peaked in height, Shalin sent out her Flygon to catch her, then Elinor if she needed it. The Beedrill could only nosedive to the ground, frantically buzzing and sending mist flying everywhere around her in an effort to dry herself off enough to take back to the sky.

On the way down, both Elinor and Shalin would get an amazing view of Keldeo leaping into the air with the Resolute aboard him, then firing twin jets of HYDRO PUMP from his front hooves. The swordswoman entered a pinwheel so fast that she and her steed were a blur to anyone who watched her. "Let's see you top that, girl!" she crossed her arms and huffed after landing, acting ready for more despite tumbling through the air fast as an engine-powered wheel.

The real world's Shalin was in utter disbelief at what she had just seen. Was this what others thought of her when she used her suit's power to survive being flung about by a Beedrill's wing buzzing at full speed? "...How? Just... how?" was all she could say.

This stranger did not do much to ease the tension building up within Elinor. Grand proclamations aside, Keldeo was a Pokémon of some renown even to Elinor. While it didn’t hold the same sway as Groudon, Raquaza and Kyogre to the Hoenn native, it was still a foe that she would have rather not been facing.

Moments later she found herself in midair, the growling Aggron by her side as they were both sent flying with powerful geysers.

Elinor activated her Sygna Suit once more, covering herself in its protective armor. But that was not all. Aggron grabbed her as well, held her tight in its arms as they began to descend, landing upon the ground feet first, almost creating a small impact crater from the weight of the landing.

And while Elinor was gently placed back on the ground, she had to reassure the Aggron to not take offensive actions. From the looks of it, this new Shalin merely wanted to show off some tricks.

MISSION: SYGNA SIMILITUDE: Act 1
LOCATION: Route 114
TAG: Shalin Nariya

Lucca the Keldeo met the Aggron's protective gaze, the aggression noticed. The Sacred Sword only backed down through a command with The Resolute's motion of his reins. With water pressure as forceful as large artillery being fired, Lucca went from standing on all fours to rearing sky high in a split second. Was this what the legendary Pokémon Shalin sought was capable of? That would have unseated her instantly, and she wasn't even trying.

Not answering the Resolute immediately, Shalin reined her Beedrill toward Elinor and Aggron. She approached her partner and softly asked her, "What did she call herself? The Resolute? Is she... an Avatar? Now I'm scared..."

Not appreciating Shalin hiding her intentions, the Keldeo-mounted look-alike drew her blades and slashed the air in front of her and above her steed's head, creating shears of water that would rain upon them and get them wet if they didn't move out of the way. "Speak up! I can't hear you!" she taunted.

The Resolute rose high into the air in challenge, at least so it seemed to Elinor.

But where Elinor had expected Shalin to throw herself head first into it, she found itself Shalin posing a softled asked question. “Probably. It definitely sounds like the sort of title bestowed upon an Avatar.” Elinor replied.

But it seemed The Resolute had quite the need for attention. Shears of water began to rain down from above, but before they could hit Aggron met the display with its green spherical PROTECT, offering the pair dryness should they stick close to it.

“It seems they don’t like to be ignored.” Elinor mused.

Before turning her attention to The Resolute. “So, what do you want?” She called back.


MISSION: SYGNA SIMILITUDE: Act 1
LOCATION: Route 114
TAG: Shalin Nariya

The Resolute sounded just like Shalin in her goading, too; the flamboyant Avatar's tone and demeanor were identical to her own when she was lost in the bloodrush of some of the most dangerous ride Pokémon she had at her beck and call. It was uncanny, making the green girl's skin tingle. It was almost like this Resolute was her in another timeline. If she were to be favored by a god, would this be what she was like?

"Alright, 'Shalin', I'll give it everything I've got," Hoenn's Wildest Rider answered, ready to push her suit to its limits. She slid off her Beedrill and onto her Flygon, letting the green Sygna Pokémon lift her off the ground and atop one of her large wings. "Elinor, you might want to take cover. If you remember how loud your Kommo-o are, this is going to blow that away by a long shot." The INFINITY ENERGY flowed between the rider and her Flygon, manifesting itself as a green glow emanating from the Crystabloom within her suit and her Flygon's Sync Stone. She tensed up and braced herself for the worst. "...Sandy, show her your BOOMBURST!"

Shalin disappeared into a streak of green light as her Flygon's wings began to hum. The pitch grew progressively higher the faster her wings churned, their green glow getting brighter from the energy discharge needed to keep Shalin from being ripped off the buzzing wing. The drone turned into a nails-on-chalkboard shriek, cutting winds uprooting and shredding grass in a wide area around her. Faster and faster the wings buzzed, Shalin's world a red-tinted swirl of colors.

A colossal layer of shockwaves flew outward from Sandy as her wings reached top speed, the source of her BOOMBURST the wingtips going supersonic. The green glow from the two was so bright that it even drowned out the red tint of her Sygna Suit's eye shields, that combination of color the only thing she could see. No object permanence reached her eyes. All she could feel was the heat of her suit's Crystabloom being pushed to its limits; her entire body felt so much like jelly that she had no meaningful sense of touch.

Though she could not see it, the Resolute applauded her for the bond between Sygna Pokémon and rider being strong enough that perhaps even the highest-frequency Boomburst known to mankind couldn't unseat her. Knowing she couldn't be heard over the sonic explosions and the roaring wind, the Resolute idly sat on her Keldeo's back, her hair and that of her legendary mount whipping about in the wake of the unfathomably fast motion.