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Fire and chaos erupted just above them as
John Sullivan and Yuina leapt into the dark depths below, and where it seemed they may have avoided some serious glancing blows, the structure of the prison itself could only bear so much. The fall was daunting, Yuina could only stand the feeling of free falling for so long as she clutched Doug's hand, but wishing for a landing came with its own set backs.[break]
Yuina landed, hard, stumbling, it was impossible to see and focus on where the ground was, there was no preparing for it. She came down on her legs, on her hands and knees, broken body unable to take too much more. They'd already gone through so much... How much more could any of them possibly take before their bodies couldn't weather any more? Another question Yuina shouldn't have given to the universe, debris rained down from The Feeding Pit above and in trying to recover from the jump she couldn't get out of the way in time.[break][break]
There was a pained, strained scream, Yuina slumped to the ground when a chunk from the debris above came down and hit her shoulder, a crack, numbness... She couldn't support her weight on her right arm any more. It was only with Doug's help that she could get up off of the ground and out of the way of all the other debris, everyone else falling and jumping to the depths from the hearth fire above.[break][break]
It was always difficult to understand the sheer enormity of the ship they had been trapped in until Yuina glanced around and saw dozens and dozens and dozens more Pokemon suspended in the same green liquid as they were in the dream scape... And there were doubles upon those dozens... A matching set of every one of their Pokemon... Yuina ached to know that her own Pokemon were alright, she needed to see them open their eyes, anything...[break][break]
There was a red flash, then one of the tubes burst in a shower of the green liquid, but instead of it being a mark of a threat to come, the energy, the same energy of will that bid them all to this place freed them...[break][break]
Yuina drew in a full breath, the toxic chain gone around her neck, and where she felt so much relief, like focus coming back slowly after a blood rush had pooled in her vision, there was also... A longing emptiness still... Was she pining for that vision still? Or how familiar the feeling of the chain's influence had become with nothing else to focus on? The chain granted her a connection to her
anomalous existence, a connection to 'time', to her mystery, and it was more than she had gotten in the entire time she'd spent in this life thus far... Then it was taken away from her as if she'd been taunted with its power just as that voice that called to her within the distortions lorded over her... She didn't ask for a connection to 'time', but when she had it, could it have helped her solve her mystery? Take her back to a time before she lost everything...?[break][break]
She didn't have time to dwell, even though she fought herself over knowing the toxic chain was wrong, it was... right? ...
John Sullivan was free of his chain as well, and was now empowered again. He would have given her enough of his energy to heal her as if they'd never gone through this in the first place, if only they had the time (if she could have kept her brief influence...) ... When she could move her arm a bit and at least feel the tips of her fingers, that was good enough, there were so many others.[break]
"Go, go I'll be okay, there's others who need you more right now," she urged, with a small hint of a lie. She needed him more than anything, with as confused and divided she felt, as if there were still tinges of magenta at the edges of her vision... But she didn't matter, not right now, not when there were so many other lives at stake. (Others that truly had influence, others that weren't an anomaly...)[break][break]
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So much chaos, the haze was still so heavy... It wasn't until Yuina heard the voice of an angel amidst everything going on, and the barking of Daikenki looking for her that she felt like the magenta began to fade, just a little bit more. Yuina blinked heavily, first finding
DESIREE BLOOMS beside her, a sweet promise, unyielding love... They wouldn't die here, and now they were together...[break]
"Desiree...," Yuina breathed, and everything fell away for just the briefest moment, as if they were tucked away within their own flower petal world... Then her Pokemon found her, Daikenki, Kano, Rasza... This was real, she could do things and it mattered with or without the toxic chain (time mends all things... can't have it back...). Yuina blinked furiously again, reaching out to clutch Desiree's hand. Tight. She couldn't let her go, and they needed to get out...[break][break]
"No dying, promise," Yuina trembled, but said it with a squeeze of her hand, bidding her Pokemon closer, until she heard screams in the very near distance. They couldn't manage to lose any single one amongst them, rocket or not, Yuina bid Desiree with her to make sure that no one was getting hurt, that a threat hadn't come to them and they didn't know.[break] Instead though, what she found was.... unsettling and disturbing.
A woman that she recognized from her ward was trying to take a Megalopolan child away from those that were hidden. Yuina had the briefest, smallest flash of anger still,
the hisuians that died at the hands of megalopolans didn't deserve to die the way that they did, but looking at the child, an actual kid... She couldn't feel anger. They were just a kid,
was she mad at every civilian in Hoenn that didn't take a stand for the league or against rocket? When they were only trying to live a life...[break][break]
She couldn't let it happen. Yuina bid Kloa the Zoroark forward, and the fox hissed with malice as he disappeared from their plane and came into contact with the woman and the child, using
Thief to try and take him back.[break]
If Yuina was able to return the child to his family, she hoped to garner maybe trust, or at least cooperation as she and Desiree moved into the room. Yuina began
check the windows, trying to open the metal, to see if she could see out while she spoke out to the otherwise frightened Megalopolans that did not bear a toxic chain.[break][break]
"I don't want to be your enemy, we're prisoners like you, and we want to get out. Please, we can work together, we should try while we can...," Yuina pleaded, they were just people, from the first night they were in the dream scape it was plain that they were being held here too, and for far longer. In this moment, rocket vs league didn't matter, hoenn vs megalopolans didn't matter... All of their lives were at stake.[break][break]
"Do any of you know anything that can help us get out? Do you know where we are, what kind of ship we're in if this is your technology? What about anything about the tera crystals, are they being used to power the ship, or a time space distortion? How were they getting loaded onto the ship, that could be a way out, we can use any information that any of you have," Yuina spoke directly, but tried to give as much compassion to their situation as she could. They were each other's last hope, was there anything that they could do to help each other finish this before more lives were lost?
John Sullivan[break][break]
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NOTES
- Kloa the H!Zoroark is active[break]
- Roll Outcome Injury: Falling debris from The Feeding Pit. Let's just keep beating up the same shoulder lol, Yuina gets hit good in her right shoulder, there is an audible crack, much pain, can't much move right arm now[break]
- Toxic chain is gone, Yuina feels empty. The chain gave her a connection to the mystery of time, and then it was taken away from her just as quickly as it was granted. She almost wants it back...If it would help her find out what happened to her... If it would help them escape...[break]
- With some of
John Sullivan's healing, shoulder still really hurts, arm is pretty sore and tender, but it'll do for now[break]
- The lingering influence of the toxic chain makes for some very intrusive thoughts[break]
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DESIREE BLOOMS is an angel, she's lying. Yuina won't let go of Desiree now, and they're going to work together[break]
- Screams? Someone is taking an actual child?
Kloa the H!Zoroark uses thief to try and take the megalopolan child back[break]
- Should Yuina be successful in gaining the child back, she hopes to gain the smallest amount of trust, or at least cooperation with the megalopolans. They don't deserve to be here any more than they do, and she has questions[break]
- Key questions pieces: Do they know where they are, about the ship or tera crystals, or a time space distortion?
Yuina wants to break the time loop[break]