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Naomi Sato

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When she had been invited by the professor she'd met in Slateport City on another expedition out to that desolate city that lay beyond their world... Yuina almost hesitated. She hadn't gone into the city with anyone except ollie morales up to this point, but... She did also promise Nomi that she was ready, willing, and able to assist with dimension research... And she was.[break]
Now more than ever Yuina wanted answers, she needed to know everything that she could about dimensions, portals, distortions, and other disturbances, she needed to know... How was she involved? And did these things have anything to do between her and the Drk Triad...[break][break]
Yuina contemplated heavily the Pokemon that she needed with her, knowing the city was dangerous... And in a brash moment perhaps, she chose too to bring along the monster that had found its way to her... The one that the Drk Triad sent after her. It was from this place, or at least, from these dimension portals, involved with the Megalopolans...[break][break]
Together Yuina walked with Nomi as they made their way through the barren city streets, the tower looming in the distance. Daikenki strode beside Yuina, the Samurott ever vigilant, and soon enough they were at the base of the tower once more, where she and Ollie had been last. This time though, the doors were locked tight, she wondered if the Megalopolans really had that much forethought in their inhuman state...[break][break]
"Light... That does seem to be the driving force around here... When the tower blinks, it draws them all out...," Yuina returned, and it made sense, that light would be more powerful here than anything else. It was like their world, almost, but the lack of light and it being gone, made the resource that much more powerful...[break]
Yuina looked on, watching as Nomi had released and worked with one of those metal creatures that had come from the icelands... And she had to wonder if she had been there too? But, there were so many, there was no way they could be contained and erradicated before they might get into other parts of the Hoenn ecosystem, it wasn't out of the question that she'd found one elsewhere...[break][break]
"The only thing is... it always gains their attention...," Yuina spoke then, and Daikenki hissed as the doors opened at the brilliant pink light that the iron Pokemon used... As soon as the sound of the gears stopped, the sound of the awful snarls and groans of Megalopolans could be heard encroaching upon them quickly. Yuina took up one of Daikenki's seamitars, and the Samurott wielded the other, she was ready to strike.[break][break]
The couple of Megalopolans surged towards them and met two blades, and were knocked back with the force of both Yuina and Daikenki attacking them in tandem. One of their helmets clattered to the ground, and as Yuina stood upright, she remembered one of the times that she and Ollie had come here...[break][break]
"We might want to take what we can of their uniforms... It's always a great help."

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Naomi Sato

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Yuina never wanted to come back to this place without being prepared to take on the worst of what was here, the Megalopolan zombies that wandered the city streets were truly a terror... She and Ollie had been lucky the couple of times they were here she felt like, and given a handful of other things that Yuina had already experienced, she felt it more pertinent to be a bit more on the offensive side of things.[break]
She knew that those monsters were still lurking somewhere around the swamps and around Fortree City, they had to be, they were biding their time, after the events of that blood moon night. They would come out of hiding soon enough, and Yuina was going to make sure that she could fight against them. Knowing what could have happened instead...[break][break]
Standing back with Daikenki's blade in hand, Yuina glanced back to Nomi, a bit of passing judgement in her tone. She had no reason to think anything ill of Nomi, but she also figured that Nomi had had no reason to consider herself anything other than a passerby that day that she had visited the university.[break]
"I've been here a couple of times... I don't want to know what happens if one of them gets a hold of you," Yuina returned, a bit haunted, at the idea that they would sit there and likely eat someone alive... Like the others had... It wasn't a chance she was willing to take.[break][break]
Yuina sheathed the seamitar that she weilded back to Daikenki's arm as she and Nomi worked to grab a couple of things off of the megalopolans, uniform pieces and other things in an attempt to hide themselves, an attempt to make it out of here unscathed.[break][break]
Donning what she could of the uniform, Yuina kept Daikenki close as they started into the tower, and Nomi in that moment returned the shining bright metal creature she had with her. For now, if they could, it did sound best to abstain from drawing too much attention. However, as a small figure hovered towards Nomi, and then two more appeared, Yuina couldn't help but stare a moment... Those... Those were the same things that that man had, that opened the portal to the past...[break][break]
"What-what are these? Are they Pokemon," Yuina wondered, a bit cautiously, glancing at each of the single eyes that peered around their surroundings.

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Naomi Sato

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Looking at each of the single staring eyes that peered down at her, Yuina heard Nomi regard them, a name to what they were... Unown...[break]
For a second, Yuina may have thought Nomi was joking, calling them unknown and leaning into her question of not knowing what they were at all. But they were Pokemon, and Nomi went on briefly to explain she had a 'special relationship' with them...[break][break]
It was an odd, peculiar thing to say... Yuina did glance at her at the mention, but she didn't have anything to question because she didn't know exactly what that entailed... What Yuina did pause on though was Nomi's mention of the Drk Triad, that there were some Unown that were within their forces... She tried to swallow the feeling of going absolutely pale.[break][break]
That man that had come to her in the middle of the night, thrusting her into the past, to fight in a Hisui that couldn't be hers... He... He was a part of the Drk Triad all along? Did she do something then, in that encounter, and that was why they were looking for her? Why that woman sent the Naganadel after her...?[break]
To know that the Drk Triad was more than just a figment of a memory that wasn't hers, more than just a concept that the league council refused to tell her about... Yuina felt a heavy weight sink into her chest...[break][break]
"Uh... No, I mean, kind of? I've only heard the name, I didn't know it actually meant anything," Yuina offered after a moment. It was jarring to know already that any of these 'unown' could be associated with the DRK Triad, and the way Nomi spoke... It only solidified Yuina's idea that whatever they were, whatever it was they wanted with her... It couldn't be anything good...[break][break]
"I haven't encountered any other 'unown', I'd never seen them before... But it's good to know that there are good ones out there with you Nomi," she returned, watching the small figures hover around them both for a moment, the ? in particular blinked at her a couple of times before Nomi gestured to move forward.[break][break]
The trek up the stairs was arduous, the gear that they'd managed to pick up was a bit heavy. Yuina was doing her best to keep herself together, climbing set of stairs after set of stairs. Each landing proved to be just as desolate and destroyed as the last, papers strewn all over the place, desks turned over and tossed. Yuina took some moments thought to glance through a set of papers as they took a short break to rest. There were so many strange creatures depicted in some illustrations, foreign text that she couldn't make out, but it seemed like there were size or power comparisons being made in some way, two of the same creature illustrated next to each other with a jarble of figures that she could guess to be numbers of measurement perhaps.[break]
She worried, or hoped maybe, that it was speaking to a decrease in their power, that they were getting weaker... That would be helpful information...[break][break]
They made it to another landing, through a set of doors, finding nothing but darkness... A consuming darkness that could be hiding anything within its depths... Nomi moved first though, the couple of Unown hovering forward and instantly disappearing into the blackness, and no sooner did they too enter, becoming swallowed by the pitch black... They were in danger.[break][break]
It was impossible to see, Daikenki couldn't do anything as the Samurott hissed with an open maw, Yuina couldn't see him and he couldn't see her. Yuina began to panic, she heard Nomi, she was trying to follow her, when a particular groaned hiss grew closer towards her. Yuina didn't know which direction it was coming from, but where she may have thought she would have to wrestle off the grip of an undead, the ? that Nomi had with her popped into the line of fire, a psychic force of Hidden Power pushing back and thrusting the undead back into the depths of darkness.

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Naomi Sato

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Within the darkness of the upper floors, it was near to impossible to understand what was truly going on. Yuina heard something coming towards her, felt the unease of something encroaching upon her. And just when she might have thought that the undead looming within the depths did in fact get a hold of her, Yuina gave a short scream at something grabbing onto her.[break]
She was being pulled back towards the doorway, and had the fleeting reflex to fight against being held, but she realized it was Nomi as the dim light from the outside began to open around them from getting closer to the door.[break][break]
The relief was palpable, but only for a moment, it sounded like there were so many of those things that were getting ready to come at them through the doors, there was no way it would hold... Yuina gasped, feeling Nomi latch onto her tightly, and then she blinked, and... What?[break][break]
Yuina's eyes glanced around, otherwise unmoving, finding that they were back at the base of the tower on the outside just as they had been before...[break]
"Wh-what? How did you do that," Yuina questioned, more out of a place of curious shock than admonishment. She had never teleported before... She glanced though to the couple of Unown that hovered around them then, finding the ? moving closer towards her and lofting right above her shoulder. Was it them? Did these Pokemon have the capability to do that?[break][break]
"Oh? But, you said they were with you...? I- I mean, if it wants to though, that's different," Yuina fumbled, she wasn't sure why a Pokemon that Nomi expressed were trusted companions to her would show interest in another human? She didn't want to take it away from Nomi at all...[break][break]
Where it was quiet after having left the higher floors of the tower, leaving the snarling undead to their own devices again, there was a sudden tremble that shook the ground beneath their feet, a low rumble that shuttered through the surrounding buildings... Something was approaching, and it sounded big...

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Naomi Sato

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While the sentiment of a Pokemon, or something that seemed to be as special in a way as an Unown, that was a partner to someone else selecting her to stay with should have been a wonderous feeling... Yuina couldn't help but wonder why... She was almost afraid... If these Unown were once tied to the Drk Triad... Did this ? know that? Was it choosing her because of a tie or an allegience she didn't know she had, something she didn't remember? The idea terrified her...[break][break]
"I... Alright, I wouldn't want to argue... It's already saved me, the least I can do is be kind in return," Yuina mentioned after a moment, trying to swallow the terror that threatened to consume her, the darkness of her shadows that grew more pitch black. She wasn't inclined to reveal the darkest parts of herself, even if it meant that something about Nomi's involvement might be able to help her... She just couldn't, not when she still knew so little for herself...[break][break]
Yuina reached out a hand beneath the Unown, it's lofting form lifting only barely to accomodate the new space, and it followed atop her flat palm as she held it out in front of her now. Staring at it for that brief moment, Yuina was fighting herself, struggling between wanting to know what it knew if anything, and wanting to shove it back into Nomi's collective... Why did it always feel like everyone was always looking at her like they knew who she was, when she was still shrouded in darkness...[break][break]
Before much else could be said, the ground began to shutter around them, decrepit buildings giving in their last bit of structure before crumbling and succumbing to the force of something that was moving towards them. Where Yuina had seen the lithe, colorful creature that lunged towards them through the streets before, she had not ever seen the lumbering black mass before...[break][break]
"What... What is that thing," Yuina murmured, stepping back, the Unown still held out in her hand. What were they supposed to do about such a monster?

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Naomi Sato

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The Unown that lofted atop Yuina's hand was quick to draw back into the collective unit as Nomi's Unown rushed to hover in front of them both. They were staring down two incredibly feral monsters, their power was undeniable as they approached. Yuina could feel the heat of the Flamethrower as it rushed towards them, it surely would have been all consuming if it had struck, but through a power Yuina couldn't have ever fathomed from the symbols in front of them, the Ultra Beasts were trapped. Only just.[break][break]
The ethereal display of some dome, some forcefield that was made up of something that did not belong in this existence was truly enigmatic. In a way thought some things started to make sense, the incredible power that these strange Pokemon had, no wonder they were able to open a portal to a past that was never meant to exist in fruition...[break][break]
In spite of their collective power though, the Ultra Beasts were stronger, cracks and breaks began to shift along the barrier... It wouldn't hold long enough for them to get away...[break][break]
"It doesn't look like we have much choice... We'll just have to see what happens," Yuina returned, tapping the release of one of the Pokeballs she held, the barrier continued to crack.[break]
From the energy of the Pokeball, Centos the iron sword emerged, gleaming silver armor and glowing blue energy alight with purpose. He stomped his hooves on the ground, Electric Terrain crackling beneath his power, a piece of the barrier broke.[break][break]
"Centos, hold," Yuina spoke, bidding the sword to garner his strength. His horns lit up with bright blue energy, froming and holding a powerful energy that continued to grow in size and strength, a Focus Blast that he held until the moment was right.[break][break]
The barrier continued to wane, the ultra beasts were relentless, and as the energy shattered, unable to contain them, the sword released his hold, sending the amassed Focus Blast sailing through the air towards the lumbering black monster, and Yuina threw a Pokeball to follow, hoping that one of the beasts would be quelled.

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