[S][C/Alexei] Purring Like a Motor

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December 12
Goldenrod, Johto
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Mauville Gym Leader
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6'1" height
"With great speed comes great responsibility."
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POSTED ON Apr 1, 2024 21:48:13 GMT
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It was another overcast day near Meteor Falls, with rain forecast later on. With the newly-minted Champion trying to keep his divine power under wraps until the Sootopolis invasion discussed at the so-called Gym Jam, he had to go to some truly secluded locations to practice with Swift and get him combat-ready in time. With him being able to use only Spark, he was... underwhelming, to say the least. He had scheduled appointments with both and to figure out why the Raikou was but a shell of the Pokémon in the legend.

One thing that didn't seem to be affected was Swift's great speed. The Raikou could run fast as the legends stated, able to outpace even Josh two Arcanine in a full Extreme Speed sprint. All he could do was get a feel for how Swift behaved and keep trying to bond with the ashen Beast. Drawing a lightning bolt in the air with his RAINBOW FEATHER, electricity raced down the ashes in the feather's wake, coalescing into the form of the legendary Pokémon within.



The excited Champion boarded his prized Beast and leaned as low as he could, bracing himself for the brutal acceleration to come...







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NAME          SPECIES        STATUS
Swift         Raikou         Good
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Alex / Lexy
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POSTED ON May 8, 2024 20:40:51 GMT
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So remember that time after Gym Jam where they were supposed to meet right afterward to talk about things?

Well, that didn’t happen because he’d immediately booked it out of Lilycove the moment the meeting had adjourned. Too much of his mental energy had been expended—

And fact of the matter was that the little rat had broken his trust. Breaking someone’s trust was bad enough, but breaking his trust, boy, one would literally be asking for sheer death after all the shit that would go down.

(For it would be extremely difficult to regain that trust once again, after it had been broken.)

For today’s video he was flying around on aerial patrol when… the sight of something drew him to come down towards the ground.

The shiny Braviary would make the quietest landing after that little spectacle, and he would then slide off Kyouya’s back, arms all crossed.

“Well, well. Look who it is.”

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POSTED ON May 8, 2024 23:46:45 GMT
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The anticipation was off the charts. This was going to be Josh's first truly fast run on the Johtonian god of speed. He expected the Beast to accelerate so quickly that he might just ragdoll in the thundercloud saddle. That was one nice benefit of the shape of Raikou's thundercloud, and why he thought of the legendary Pokémon in the way he did.

"Alright, Swift! Let's go!" Josh cried, about to slap his legs into the Beast's sides when he heard a familiar voice. With the young man pulling back on the outer two tufts of thundercloud, the monochrome Raikou reared and about-faced.

The source of the voice was none other than the Fortree Leader, .

"Hi, Alex!" he greeted the Birdfather. "If you're still at Fortree, then that must have meant and didn't write you up, huh? How you been?"






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Swift         Raikou         Good
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POSTED ON May 15, 2024 20:19:26 GMT
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There was a scowl on his face, the moment the younger man turned around to face him.

He let out a snort, before giving him the best ‘bombastic side-eye’ he could muster up.

“You know, having to share the Stormbringer… it doesn’t really sit too well with me, know that?” he would begin; no preamble whatsoever.

“There was a reason why I kept him a secret—because who knows when the fuck Rocket is going to come besiege Fortree and we don’t have any hidden aces up our sleeves.”

The look on his face was an incredibly dour one.

“And let me guess, you’re keeping that one a secret too?” he would drawl, tilting his head in the monochrome-colored Pokémon that the other was currently riding on.


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POSTED ON May 15, 2024 20:44:41 GMT
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Reflecting the hostility Josh sensed, Swift reared a second time, this time higher and nearly causing his rider to tumble off. It was only the tall rear of the Raikou thundercloud that kept Josh seated. "Easy, Swift! He doesn't mean any harm. Alex and I are good friends!" His eyes shifted back to Alex. "And yes, I named my Raikou the same I would have named him when I was a kid, imagining myself owning one." As cute as it was, this impromptu meeting was far too serious for small talk.

A meeting that could shape the duo's relationship going forward.

"I get where you came from at Lilycove," Josh tried to console the Birdfather, to convince him that he understood his friend's perspective. "I know that you want to keep him a secret from Rocket. I do, too. Having a hidden weapon is such a huge tactical advantage."

The constant side-eyeing put the Master of Faster more visibly on edge. "From the public, yes. From the League, no. All the higher-ups know. You as Fortree's Gym Leader, you should know. You didn't get that email I sent you? I sent it as soon as possible after Kyle made me a Champion. And now, he's... gone. Rocket will think that Swift died with him. Will they ever be in for a shock when they found out -- at war!"







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Swift         Raikou         Good
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POSTED ON May 15, 2024 20:57:44 GMT
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“Then tell me.”

The scowl on his face deepened as he brought out the ‘fangs’, so to speak.

“Why’d you sell me out to the fucking crowd, then? Just to keep your job?”

His arms were crossed, and there was no uncrossing them once he’d gotten them settled on his chest.

“You know full-ass well about potential leaks. Who knows if there are still others out there, operating under a disguise, and may very well have access to that information?!” he would go on.

“Temp was my fucking ex. We’ve known each other for too long. During the short time he was Gym Leader over at Pacifidlog, it’s very possible that he’d gotten access to information that only Gym Leaders should. And willingly volunteered that information to Rocket.”

Behind him, the blue-plumed Braviary stood off to one side, quietly plucking some feathers from under his wing.


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POSTED ON May 15, 2024 21:25:34 GMT
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Josh at first flinched when he heard Alex swear at him. Swift growled to mirror the steam starting to build up within the Champion's subconsciousness. "Is something else wrong, Swift?" the rider asked as he tried to get a read on his legendary partner. Just sitting on the purring cat's back made his thighs twitch.

"You don't have to swear at me," Josh replied, trying to calm Alex down. "We're both adults and can talk it over as adults. Don't get me wrong, I think leaks are a danger. You know well as I do that security gets updated every time there's a new Gym Leader or higher-up. Every time there's such a staffing change, we're asked to change our passwords. This is precisely to prevent such leaks from happening." Sure, could have leaked outdated documents, but by now, many of them would have been declassified. Still, the point stood.

"The Elite Four, Council, and AQUA have more information than we do, and are in better positions to enforce security. That's why I did what I did. They deserve to work with every piece of the puzzle. It's why I notified them as soon as I could after the Great One blessed me with Swift."

A beat of silence followed.

"But yes, my job was part of the motivation. And not just for myself, either. I have a hundred and twenty Pokémon to take care of at Mauville Racing Grounds. Were I to be demoted to the Minor League, I would have to let go of... two-thirds of them. To lose my job would be to lose them, too."






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Swift         Raikou         Good
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POSTED ON May 15, 2024 21:41:55 GMT
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As the owner of a sanctuary, he had it much worse.

“Oh, cry me a river—I have… so much more to worry about than you do. I run an actual sanctuary service that helps the general public. If I lost funding for that because of me getting suspended—or at the very worst, fired—then I’d have to close the entire place down.

You’re not the only one who has an entire army to worry about. I have a lot of Pokémon who can’t be released back into the wild because of human negligence, or some other things that happened to them that’s made them unfit to survive without human assistance, so losing my job will be a lot, lot worse.”


That was not even counting the number of people in his employ, to boot.

Oh, and he did not want to even mention the angry visage of his partner; who had already pretty much lost faith with how the system worked as a whole.

(Hi . Love you.)

“I’ve been around the longest. You full-ass well know this. The only reason I’m still here is because of the length of my tenure,” he would hiss.

Behind him, the Braviary would squawk quietly; realizing that something was up.

“If I were to be fired, or suspended, or whatever, then Rocket will definitely win the battle inland. Once they get Fortree, everywhere else on the western side will easily fall.”

And he did not want that to happen.

“And you know how stubborn some of the figures in power are. Offer alternate propositions, you’ll get shot down. Not once, but many times. Why do you think I distrust the higher-ups?”


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POSTED ON May 15, 2024 22:01:23 GMT
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"So you get it, too," Josh replied, his volume slowly starting to rise. "Plus, all the people to take care of those Pokémon, keep the Gym running, take challenges when I'm gone... I'm sure you know how many people it takes to run a Gym. Most of those people would lose their jobs if I had to scale back."

If had taught one thing to Josh at Lilycove, it was the importance of transparency.

"I'm getting up there, too," the Master of Faster retorted. "You're not the only tenured Gym Leader. I'll be what, two years in the fall? That's way more than most people last. People like , ... they clearly couldn't handle it. But I can. And I've shown that."

Mauville Racing Grounds had been busy for the longest time, only at last calming down in the last few months. And he expected volume to return in the warm, summer months.

"If you recall, I was suspended. And how long did it take Rocket to attack my Gym while I was gone? Less than a month. But did they take over? No. And that's because my team is strong. Were it not for SHAWN RICHARDS being so brave, Mauville Gym would have fallen. But it didn't."

Some of the higher-ups he didn't agree with, but they were mostly good at what they did. "Like I've said, they also have more information than we do. We can give our feedback, but it might not make sense with what they know that we don't. That's why I'm so quick to trust them. As a whole. I'm glad is taking some time off, though. A megalomaniac like him should not be anywhere close to the reins of power." Little did he know the truth of what had happened to the Volatile, leaving him even more in shock when he did find out...







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