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There was so much debris in the way, attacks to dodge, so many faces that were too trying to fight for their freedom from this place... Yuina lost sight of Doug more than once as she tried desperately to make it to him, sprawled out on the ground at being struck by something. But even as she rushed with Daikenki trying to keep close beside her while volleying attacks at the dynamaxed monsters that were their wardens, she kept getting knocked back or pushed around by one thing or another.[break][break]
There was a series of shrieks and screams as the masks broke and the loyal three fell, and Yuina couldn't help but stop to see the results of their work... Where she knew that their defeat was imminent, it had to be if they were to escape, to see their mutilated bodies fall... It was a result of their own doing though, the masks ultimately that they coveted for power were their final undoing... That may have been the end of things, but the small berry shaped Pokemon took on a dynamax form all its own, and Yuina feared the worst that they would have to fight all over again, but she dodged and ducked into Daikenki's frame as another furious flurry of attacks volleyed through the air. The megalopolans... And the Pokemon that they made for themselves fought too, for their own freedom.[break][break]
There was a brief moment that Yuina continued her sprint towards Doug, she could see him, nearly there with Daikenki trying to guide her way, but she stumbled with the onslaught of another time loop. Her vision blurred, she blinked and found herself staring at the ground on her hands and knees, breath heaving through her chest.[break]
'I can't keep doing this... please stop...,' she pleaded, to nothing... She still doesn't know what is causing the time loop, why she can feel it...[break][break]
There was a crash of glass, debris surging through the area at a whipping wind, an impossibly blinding light and then a calamitous, horrendous crash... In that split second Yuina was thrown to the ground but was enshrouded by Daikenki's figure atop her. The Samurott held fast when she couldn't as the entire ship was wracked by the crash landing it took, everyone tossed violently from were they stood and coming to a complete stop.[break][break]
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Yuina heaved in coughs and shutters, slowly emerging from beneath Daikenki's worn figure, only just managing to sit up and slumped against his body laid out on the ground. She coughed again, gritting her teeth, she knew she needed to find
John Sullivan, through all of this, she needed to know that he was alright, where was he... But she blinked, finding a small fluttering green Pokemon just in front of her. It took a moment for her to focus, as jostled and bone tired as she was, but... It... Looked familiar?[break][break]
"I know you... You were in the woods, trying to fight off a toxic chain... What are you doing here," Yuina murmured, she wondered where it came from, if it had been captured too. The small sprite held out its hands for her, and Yuina did reach out, at least glad to see the Pokemon was alright from its circumstance in the woods...[break]
Immediately she was flooded with the same feeling of losing control of what her consciousness was presenting, when her thoughts were not her own and the forefront of her mind was filled with visions thrust upon her. And what she was being shown, what this Pokemon was presenting to her...[break][break]
Yuina came out of the vision just as stricken as the face of the commissioner reflected, the abject fear in her eyes staring right at Yuina forever burned into her thoughts. Yuina trembled, hands quaking as she lifted them up to look, nearly expecting to be covered in blood... She looked over herself in shuttering breaths, tears pooling in her eyes, it was so real...[break]
"Wh-why? Is... is that why she's looking for me," Yuina choked, was this a warning? A threat? Was this a future that she was destined to fulfil? A fate forced upon her and lines drawn before she could even realize? She... didn't want to kill anyone... but would she have that choice? Would she ever be given a choice, or would this happen out of her control just like everything else in her life thus far?[break][break]
Yuina was terrified, seething in fury, wracked with the pain of this burdensome weight being forced upon her... She almost wished the Pokemon gone, did she send it? Another omen upon her to harbor? Another anchor to drag her deeper into the depths of herself and knowing that her choices were being taken from her at every turn? Until... in only one moment of clarity Yuina understood that this Pokemon was the cause of the time loops, an attempt to stave off how long they were departed from Hoenn... So it was there to help, and it was there of its own volition, not sent...[break][break]
John Sullivan had come to her amidst the rising chaos, but Daikenki barked with vitriol as chains shot out from the never-rot, threatening to ensnare them all all over again. Yuina reached out in an instinct to help the small green Pokemon just like she had before in the forest, clutching it close to her as she tried to shrink away into Doug's frame, feeling the chain constricting her again, fueling the emptiness inside... How hollow she truly was... But... giving in to it all over again... would it take away the thoughts of that horrible vision? Would it give her peace...?[break][break]
All at once, the ship erupted into an immense violence that overtook nearly the entire group of them, where the megalopolan was trying to plead mercy, only wanting to return to the city that they had descended upon.[break]
Yuina looked out, the small green Pokemon held close in her arms, watching as seething anger, vengeance, volatile hatred coursed through so many of them, the most violent, caustic attacks ordered and thrown with orders full of ire. She saw rockets, she saw league reps... she saw... her friends, fueled by such rage... Even within each 'side', they were attacking each other for daring to take a stance that opposed those who thought they held the power over the situation...[break][break]
Where Yuina did believe that in the end there was no difference between league and rocket, that they could work together when it did truly matter, this only proved it to be true... In this moment, now more than ever, there was no difference between league and rocket. There was only fury and violence and hate...[break]
And if she too stepped into that same fury, would she set herself on the path to that vision? Her hands stained in blood, setting fear into those around her...?[break][break]
This was a pretty grim example of humanity...[break][break]
Yuina didn't call for an attack, she didn't move from Daikenki or Doug and held the tired, green Pokemon close. If not mercy for the megalopolans, she was trying to choose mercy for herself while she might still have a chance... Maybe she could spare herself from the blood on her hands... for just a little while longer...
John Sullivan[break][break]
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NOTES
- Daikenki the H!Samurott is active[break]
- Sygna Suit active[break]
- Tries to run and get to Doug on the ground, but there's a lot of debris and attacks and people in the way[break]
- The loyal three get brutalized... Was it their own undoing, coveting the masks that inevitably finished them all?[break]
- Time Loop! Yuina doesn't make it to Doug, and then she blinks and the ship has crashed, big yikes[break]
- The small green Pokemon from Petalburg Forest is here? And it grants her a vision that is really super not fun... Yuina is not taking this information well[break]
- Understands at least that the Pokemon was here to help and not sent as another omen,
Yuina does take Celebi into her party[break]
- Momentary intrusive thoughts... maybe give in to the toxic chain again so she doesn't have to think about that vision...[break]
- Vengeance and hate is a truly powerful motivator that erases the line between league and rocket entirely... Yuina doesn't see two factions, she sees one violent union that makes them all the same, including her friends...[break]
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Choice: Allow them to go free[break]