Peace.

War.

They bicker over it. Eva’s soul yearns to agree with freya morningstar. Peace is in her blood, in her patron’s blood. They prioritize peace to conflict but the table fails to see the middle ground. Eva leans back, accepting her place as a ‘weapon’ as skyler dross so astutely points out. It hurts to realize that more than any personal betrayal. Her gaze shifts down to her lap as she swallows back the knot in her throat.

If only they could see there’s so much more at stake.

The ground quakes. At first, it is subtle, but it progresses quickly. Her fingers curl into the arms of her chair. Eva sucks in a sharp breath as she witnesses a crystallized structure impales a nearby guard. Instinct kicks in, she stands, ready to rush to their aid but there’s no time.

Suddenly, they’re falling. The ground beneath them gives way and the tables, chairs, their council falls. Eva finds herself caught in the familiar sense of a free fall. Her instinct shifts to something more primal, something hidden away that even she can’t access. Save what you love.

Freya.

Her hands snap out to her right, finding nothing but air. A flash of white lockes catch her eye, “Freya!” she barks out loud, shifting herself to streamline her way towards the councilwoman. She grasps at what she can, nails borrowing hard into flesh in an act of desperation. Arms, legs, whatever she can manage wrap tight around her body, tangling their fates together. DELTA STREAM erupts in the cavern. A powerful force fights gravity to slow their descent. It’s not a graceful landing, but it keeps them alive.

Poor Callan Young’s gym is shattered by the ferocity of an angered God. The roof caves in beneath the urgency of the dragon’s EXTREME SPEED. The serpent descends after the council, lashing out to save those that seem desperate for it.

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@aquapt4
+ Eva attempts to save freya morningstar with DELTA STREAM
+ Rayquaza scoops up anybody that needs saving, feel free to mention it if needed ^_^

one moment mercurial eyes are staring daggers through her heart, the blues of their beloved casting a sideways glance. her hometown flickers on holo and dahlia opens her mouth to speak, closing their edict and shifting to matters of other importance. 

and then they're falling.

moxie wraps around her neck, too young still to fight instinct. as the floor disappears and she plummets, freya's hands scrabble against the noose around her neck. thumbs press under the soft neck of the dratini and moxie relaxes in her arms, slithering into a bundle she cradles close. 

her hair whips around her as she falls. and falls. it's a feeling she's accustomed to after years of training, but that doesn't make the landing any less terrifying. above her, whatever remains of the earth shatters. debris falls and she flinches, reaching for a pokeball, but rayquaza and their avatar race towards them. 

freya stretches out an arm and the professor collides with her, clawing with a vehemence that rocks freya to her core. she burrows into her, nose in her neck, eyes squeezed shut. one arm snakes around eva's midsection and the other holds onto moxie for dear life. 

after all of this, she thinks, are we too late?

flashes of the moments before. guards pierced through with deadly precision. did Gunner Graves and paxton concordas get out? 

"eva," freya says urgently, lips against her ear so the peacemaker can hear her over the delta stream. "i don't think this is coincidence."

her skin prickles as a cry echoes down the crystalline tunnel.

AQUA ASSEMBLY: TERA TIME

✦ thought: after all of this, are we too late?
✦ is saved by her beautiful knight
✦ this was planned
✦ scawy sound

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[attr="class","illeana i"]as the ground quakes, dread lurches up into the throat. she stills, eyes wide with alarm as crystalline spears shoot up around them. the impact snuffs out guardian life around them, the masked guard reduced to lifeless husks within seconds.

there's no time to idle, she realizes.

a pokeball is released and the familiar form of her shiny golurk quickly rises. with a slight panic to her step, she steps into the golurk's hand and is quickly hoisted up onto its shoulders.

"grab MATIAS SILPH, too!"

one look in his direction is all it takes for her to surmise he needs aid. his seat, formerly occupied, has overturned beneath the sheer force of the chambers tilting on its axis. her golurk reaches, then, for the elite four member and tries to hold MATIAS SILPH in its hand as it escapes.

phantom force brings both illeana and MATIAS SILPH safely to the ground without risk of injury from falling debris. her stomach flips with the sensation, but it does little to bring the head scientist to her knees.

and with both safely on the ground, it leaves the scientist with the opportunity to survey their surroundings.

pretty crystalline structures sparkle, winking in their direction. everything looks blue in some regard, from the ground to their bodies - even her hair is more pastel blue than white at the moment. and as her chest begins to settle out of panic, an echoing cry sounds off from somewhere beyond...

a thought rises, then, and with it... dread: what else is down here?

instead of indulging in the concept and conjuring up monsters or, worse, sea hoennians, her head whips around to find the remaining members of their roundtable. her voice rises a moment later, tight with tension.

"is everyone alright? any injuries?"

aqua assembly.

tl;dr |

- big yikes
- releases shiny golurk before the floor gives out
- shiny golurk saves herself and MATIAS SILPH (ooc permission)
- shiny golurk uses phantom force to safely place both on the ground below
- surveying the surroundings
- thought: what else is down here?
- asks if everyone's alright and if there's any injuries

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from her pokeball, dahlia's DRAGONITE springs forth. in midst the chaos, the dragon catches her with its back. though TAPU LELE is swift to approach, the safe commissioner delivers a quick wave of gratitude toward it and John Sullivan.[break][break]

meanwhile, the dragonite's verdant wings keep them afloat before meeting the verdant scales of Eva Morales's RAYQUAZA, allowing the commissioner and her pokemon a safe ride down on the serpent's long body.[break][break]

while dahlia whispers thanks to the rayquaza, her dragonite stays behind her. it shields her body with its larger size, shielding her from any possible debris that may be falling from above.[break][break]

as everyone assesses their conditions, the commissioner holds her hand to her own chest. her heart beats rapidly; though this is no chien-pao, she almost wishes it was, for this is unknown territory undocumented by simulation or foresight. illeana reyes's check-in is met with a quick nod of reassurance.[break][break]

Laurence Anderson approaches her with a question and she answers, still in the process of catching her breath.[break][break]

"lars, why do you think there is another way of attempting to assist avatars and their patrons other than the highly specialized program that has been designed for such a thing?" she huffs as her hands pat down her coat. "if your connection is so important to you that you keep things in secret and do not seek the resources we provide in excess, then it may be a good idea to reevaluate your station as head ranger and focus on recuperating said bond instead." [break][break]

a serious suggestion: one that may very well come to fruition by this meeting's end.[break][break]

after all, the heavens only know what slithers here with them. without articuno, the horrible cry that echoes from the deep's bowels adopts perverse tones orchestrated by the shape of this crystalline laybrinthe. [break][break]

shoal cave would not be unfamiliar to such sounds, such shining from unnatural crystal lights.

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"I would be more than happy to share my knowledge of my old home as any advantage that can be given will hopefully help," Razz shows his willingness to help with whatever plan the league ends up. He cares about the safety slightly more than getting rid of Rocket but if they could ensure both Razz would work toward it.[break][break]

For a moment he keeps to listening before Laurence Anderson seems to be bitter that he didn't audibly mention his own stone even though the scientist mention wanting to study both. "I have no objections to letting illeana reyes take a look at it if it has the potential of solve things, I just don't have it on me Anderson as who knows if it has any unsafe energy coming from it," he gives his reason for not just presenting the rock out of thin air. [break][break]

Unlike what seemed to happen to their very floor. [break][break]

Crystals suddenly shoot out and the floor shatters beneath them and now once again has their meeting sent them else where. Rather than panic, worry, or even a plan run through his mind. The first thought he had was 'If I had a nickel for every time this happened,' he'd only have 2 but it was weird and probably suspicious that it has happened twice. [break][break]

Thanks to John Sullivan it seems the Commissioner was safe so rather Razz focus' on his own landing strategy putting his hand aimed at the ground before he sets off a small fireball once to slow his fall. Then another time to slow it more before Salem uses PSYCHIC to slow his fall until he had a complete safe landing. Razz just giving the group a thumbs up of being fine as he scans the area to see if anything could be identified from this place to being similar to anything they've seen before.


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+ @ aqua
[break]+ Sygna Suit
[break]+ Willing to give his Dynergy Core to illeana reyes for science.
[break]+ Falls and thinks "if I had a nickle"
[break]+ Uses his FIREBALLS as a way to slow his fall before Salem uses PSYCHIC to catch and safely land.
[break]+ Takes a look around where they're at.

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Time slowed to a long drawl of air after a lifetime spent underwater.
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When the ground crumbled, and the wind whipped all around, sending herself and the others tumbling down, no urgency clenched her heart. This wasn't like before. She wasn't 6 months younger, or an arrangement of brittle bones and skin strung together by a single black tie and badge decorating her rank.
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Change had molded her with deft hands, keen eyes, and boundless imagination.
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When the wind howled, so did her heart. When the world blurred, so did the limits that strangled her.
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Click.
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An arc of scarlet lashed out from her Pokeball, and out from its jaws sprung an Charizard, vicious and loud, with snapping jaws that dragged her back to reality. Without directives, his clawed hands coiled themselves around her fallen body. With two beats of his wings, they were able to safely glide to the ground floor of the newfound chasm, where the others already stood, looking as dumbfounded as she felt.
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"Thanks," she murmured, rubbing the bridge of his snout. Once stepping away from his grasp, the councilwoman wasted no breath calling out any names or extending any questions that would ultimately be asked and answered by those more loquacious than she. She instead faded into quiet shadows, her gaze whispering the tiny question her heart hadn't dared ask.
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ollie morales.
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He was okay. Swaddled by that head ranger, who had probably jumped without question or approval, but alive. A sharp breath forced her to look away, back to the chaos.
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For the briefest moment, she thought to look for MATIAS SILPH, to ensure his own safety and wellbeing, but dismissed the notion quickly and without question. He was probably fine, her subconscious answered her. And if he wasn't?
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"Not too rattled, I hope," She'd meant the comment to come out in the classic witty tone she'd often don around angelo vestri, but it came out breathless, almost an admission of her own subconscious mental state. It was quickly covered up by a slanted smile, directed at the Nautica pair, skyler dross and angelo vestri, "I'll be the first to say: this doesn't typically happen."

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