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POSTED ON Mar 19, 2024 0:46:20 GMT

Midori proudly reared as Shalin tugged on her reins, the Iron Leaves looking as happy as any of her other Pokémon. There was something about Area Zero that soothed her. Made her relax and forget about all the stresses of when Kyurem and Hoopa burst open and exposed the entrance to the Giant Chasm. She cleaved through an overgrown Terastal crystal with ease, her SACRED SWORD looking like a laser saber much like Virizion's did.

She truly was like MATIAS SILPH 's Sacred Sword, wasn't she?

As fun as the playful romp was, she and Lathiel had to get to work. A drilling rig had been hidden in the alleyway between two research stations at the very bottom of Area Zero. The Captain and DESIREE BLOOMS would need to work together to get the rig in place and defend it while it collected valuable data about the caverns. It would be easier said than done; the rig would emit an energy attracting Terastallized Pokémon of all kinds. Dangerous ones.

The duo would be players in a real-life tower defense game, the onslaught growing more intense by the moment. Could they survive long enough to secure the data the League needed?

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Lathiel Type: Null Good
Sandy Flygon Good
Treble Kommo-o Good
Serena Persian Good
Dizzy Starmie Good

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POSTED ON Mar 19, 2024 2:14:06 GMT

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A situation such as this one did not seem to be the most beneficial in pushing the IRON LEAVES to learn how to love— the crystalline in the rip of the earth was made of vitriol, much like the beasts of the mist. Though it had been born of similar treachery, Desiree wished to teach it how to indulge in liveliness rather than its dreadful nature. Yet, perhaps it was the secret of life, going through bleak moments to find the light at the end of the tunnel. That bright light in which she was unsure would ever shine through the chrome of the glimmering beast she now considered one of her own.[break][break]

There was no choice but to let the depiction of Virizion sulk through the jagged cracks, using its lack of composure to their vantage while the set of apple dragons remained closer to the drill and its occupants. “With the pressing of this button, it should be all primed and ready to run the survey,” she said to the ranger captain softly, orienting herself to meet her companion’s gaze rather than the drill itself.[break][break]

Activating such a thing was said to draw forces into the glimmering thicket— and it had been quite some time since they last acquainted, her demeanor of paranoia was replaced with preparedness and grace instead. Promises to the universe had led her to destroy fear as a means to truly make a difference. As for Shalin, the universe had led them together so many times while in the shadow of danger that fear was of the essence of nonsense.[break][break]

She was a ranger captain now, after all— she surely could handle herself, especially with the twin beast she called her own, too. “Perhaps I should leave it to you, pressing it and all? Only if you’re ready,” she nodded, moving to mount the glimmering Salamence that rested beside her in its wannabe apple glory.[break][break]

“I know I am!”[break][break]

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POSTED ON Mar 19, 2024 23:50:00 GMT

The cheerful Desiree seemed all too calm in the face of danger. A lot had clearly changed about the music artist since they last run into one another. She and her Applin family had finished setting up the rig for her. It was time for her to do the honors.

Sliding off the Iron Leaves, Shalin brought forth a third Pokémon: Treble, her Kommo-o. With her Sygna Suit inactive, riding on the scaled Pokémon was out of the question; a powerful burst of vibration could dislodge her, if not really mess up her insides. "Midori, can you crouch for me? I'll probably want to get back on you after I turn this thing on. And quickly." The grass-type chirped before doing as asked. Nodding, Shalin did as Desiree asked, pressing the button. With a hum, the machine started to work. "Keep your eyes peeled, Desiree. I get the feeling we'll be fighting multiple fronts here."

With Treble, Lathiel, and Midori guarding the rig, alongside Desiree's dragons, how could they lose? Little did they know just how many paradox Pokémon the drilling rig would attract...

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Serena Persian Good
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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2024 20:28:24 GMT

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Optimism was a fleeting aspect of life now, yet times of reacquaintance led her to hold onto it ever so slightly more than before. It was a troubling doubt, believing that it was becoming more and more lost as the days strung by; but if a smile before the storm was enough to make life feel like it truly was worth living, so be it. She believed frowning and giving into fear consistently was indeed something that would make the sad world even sadder, even if it was the easiest, most instantaneously gratifying thing one could do. An ultimate struggle that sought to conquer.[break][break]

It did not help that she was in Shalin's presence, for when she was around her it was like staring into the eyes of the wild forest itself; the ranger captain did not seem to feel fear mounting the whipping vines of the Venusaur, after all. Desiree wanted to feel the same, to take inspiration from such things and apply them to her life as a whole. Taking to the back of the beast was beginning to feel synonymous with standing in the fields of the world, for there was just as much beauty as there was danger at every turn.[break][break]

"Absolutely," she nodded in response, guiding the ground-based apple family upon the back of the Salamence with a flick of the hand. "I'm trying to decide what's worse, the hordes, or the persistent earthquakes.. it's like the domain wants to keep expanding." Like a plague upon the lands- or perhaps the rip was simply an unveiling of secrets hidden by the thrashing of loam.[break][break]

If more was unveiled, threats to fantasy would flourish- those that bore evil eyes against those she loved and admired deep down. "No matter how many keep coming, I've got you up here." She said softly, holding on tight to the saddle of the dragon as it slowly lifted off the ground with hefty flaps. The hum of the machine was matched with a rumble from a southbound continuation of the gemstone chasm, sending a hum of chill down the pinkette's spine.[break][break]

✨ IRON LEAVES gracefully stepped through a slit in the crystal, turning to face Shalin's with stillness in its chromatic eyes, ELECTRIC TERRAIN manifesting from the slits in its hardware. It felt hesitation in participating in wondrous interaction, especially now that cries echoed from ticks away- yet it felt the strange feelings of joy in fighting alongside a familiar being, swords taken up against the ruthless.[break][break]

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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2024 23:18:47 GMT

While Shalin wasn't completely fearless, to those who did not know her well, it sure seemed like it. What she endured with part of the essence of a Flygon and Venusaur in her body was among the harshest motion imaginable. Being struck by a whip was incredibly painful and inhumane. Sitting upon one, and right on the cracker at the very end of it no less, took a special kind of courage. To be hurled through the air so fast that all went silent, not to mention fast enough for even flesh to slice through other flesh, was a testament to the power of the Sygna Suit and the trust its wearer had in her synced Pokémon.

"The hordes, by far," Shalin answered as the first paradoxes arrived. Scream Tail, and lots of them. "...See you on the other side." The Electric Terrain left by the ally Iron Leaves charged their QUARK DRIVES. Shalin clutched Midori tightly as she danced and pranced around with her PSYBLADE lowered, looking like a pink-and-green top.

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Sandy Flygon Good
Treble Kommo-o Good
Serena Persian Good
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POSTED ON Mar 21, 2024 0:05:13 GMT

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The hordes being the bigger of two evils was ultimately true— unlike those spawned by the interdream mist, the earthquakes eventually stopped making their grand appearances. Feelings of optimism faded as the rumbles and cries manifested, expectantly targeting the mechanism conducting survey. Fear wanted to take root, the fear that the two of them would not be enough against those that bore ancient, sharpened teeth.[break][break]

“We’ll be enough,” she said softly, painfully from dragon back, “.. the softer side, once it has all died down. I’ll see you there, mon ami.” Speaking it aloud could, possibly convince the cosmos to let it all be true— it was what she believed in her forest-kissed heart, even if they were just as unworthy as the innocents that had been made to make the gemstone caverns their graves.[break][break]

But, still, she was fear-struck like a Sawsbuck sitting within the gaze of a modified Revaroom. Flying to the upper parts of the crystalline depths, the Salamence found a large dazzling piece to perch upon; a place of safety, at least, until the fear could fade into adrenaline. As for the ✨ IRON LEAVES, it wished to gracefully follow suit in the shadow of its counterpart. Swinging a protruded SACRED SWORD from its forehead, it sunk it into the side of a Scream Tail before continuing its wild clash.[break][break]

Fear that these creatures deserved the same chance as the Iron Leaves and the Scream Tail of her own prospered all the same up on perch of recon and long-ranged attacking.[break][break]

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POSTED ON Mar 21, 2024 7:04:03 GMT

Desiree had completely changed since the last time she and Shalin had met one another. Contagious positivity had eroded to reveal naught but somber melancholy beneath. Just what had happened to her? They would need to catch up. Perhaps on the way out of Area Zero.

But now was not the time.

Shalin and Midori whirled through the many Scream Tail, even her Sygna Suit not protecting her fully from the wave of dizziness that hit her from sitting on the back of a futuristic Sacred Sword. With how much of a whirling blur the girl's surroundings were, the adrenaline rush of the great centripetal force keeping her on quite the high, she failed to notice that Desiree and her Salamence had retreated to the top of a giant Tera Crystal.

As their numbers dwindled, they joined together in deadly coordination, SINGING a lullaby that threatened to put Shalin, her Type: Null, both the Iron Leaves, and possibly even Desiree herself to sleep. Only Treble's discipline let him stay awake; no matter how hard Shalin and her other Pokémon tried to fight it, their eyelids became too heavy to keep open. Falling asleep wasn't the most dangerous part; with her Flygon also asleep, her SYGNA SUIT deactivated...

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POSTED ON Mar 22, 2024 20:52:13 GMT

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The crumbling of bones brought more change than she ever would have imagined; such came with living life in a hospital bed for weeks on end, spiraling in the mind and having to sneak out to experience release. So many words had been spoken into the universe from the tongue of Kyurem and the lips of Desiree herself, both those that she considered equally important- but if they were granted the opportunity to catch up after the scan, she surely would refrain from speaking the part of pleading for the lives of those she loved and admired, Shalin included.[break][break]

She feared that Shalin would perhaps take it differently than how it truly was, a virtuous wish for herself and all the others to ascend into the greater world that existed behind dark-stained glass. As she sat upon the perch, 'The True Dragoness', the Salamence, channeled energy of draconia into tomes that sprawled through the crystalline by its maw. It was to summon a stream of a FLAMETHROWER from above, singeing the outskirts of the approaching Scream Tails as their song came to fruition.[break][break]

"Shalin..!"[break][break]

A song, a tome of the fairies that she had heard often from the one that she had been granted the ability to tame. The eyes of the apple dragons, much like herself, became heavy due to the sheer amount of melodies that crept outward and upward; they caused her to become drowsy to the point of collapsing on the neck of the Salamence, catching a mere glimpse of STRANGE FOOTPRINTS that sprawled on the perch beside her.[break][break]

The eyes of the Virizion automaton stayed open in the name of the adrenaline that coursed through its chrome. Yet, they faltered at the rumbling that accompanied a large burst of light- it was none other than a stray DOOM DESIRE channeled through a wandering Jirachi, picking off some of the horde and their vicious melodic verbiage. Such an exhibition brought light and partial awakening, yet everything still appeared as a blur upon the crystalline perch.[break][break]

Exquisite fear that this could be the end played a big part in that, too. She felt powerless in her mortal, jewel-adorned husk of a body.[break][break]

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The Steel-type wish granter, in its own way, granted their wishes: to dispatch the many Scream Tail surrounding them. Its chrome light morphed the performer's voices from a beautiful unison to a dreadful cacophony, putting "scream" in their species' name. The Kommo-o shook the rest of Shalin's Pokémon awake, then Shalin herself, then any of Desiree's Pokémon awake if she allowed it.

"We... did it..." the still-drowsy girl exhaled, cuddling and embracing Lathiel after finding herself on foot next to Midori again. The progress bar on the device's small screen completely filled, indicating their task had been completed. illeana reyes would have a field day studying the great amount of compositional data the probe collected. Before she could say any more, she collapsed, face to the ceiling, in the ankle-deep water. Were Desiree to examine her, all her vitals would be perfectly normal.

She had merely been kidnapped by the tendrils of sleep.

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Serena Persian Good
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Wishes were indeed granted, even if they were made by a slumbering subconscious with an undying urge to survive. Nudges of the dragons from the wandering Kommo-o made the blurry world existing before drowsy eyes clearer for each of them, one by one- and as soon as the pinkette had control over her body enough, she removed a pink energy drink from a slit in her purse and downed it in seconds. While it was a blessing that the Jirachi had descended, that which she only saw a fleeting figure of in the haze, she dismissed it as yet another fickle spirit born of the cosmos with a knack for love.[break][break]

If it were truly a deity, why did it bestow aid so sparingly? Unless, of course, it had only done so to those who were truly in need of it- unable to thrive on their own. It was a beautiful act by a beautiful soul, but her mind slipped into an embarrassment of falling so easily to the song and thinking for a split second that she wasn't as prepared as she now believed she was to take up the sword.[break][break]

"If I'd envisioned taking a nap here, I would have at least brought a blanket and a pillow," she said softly, trying to joke in an attempt to push away the mental turmoil that came through surviving by chance alone, ".. but we did it.."[break][break]

She would have said more had it not been for the collapse, water splashed upon her cheeks. It brought her to gasp, quickly orienting herself to rest beside her inside of the puddle to check her pulse and breathing- but she was alright, of course. Wading through the water to quickly pack up the scanner, she loaded it up on the Salamence before gasping once more at the trembling of the earth.[break][break]

Yet another earthquake, though it seemed a bit farther away than the ones she bore witness to on all the other trips inward. "We've gotta get out," she said quickly, forcefully. "Can't let this be your last slumber, not here.. not now." [break][break]

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