A Much-Needed Taste of Peace [S]

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A Much-Needed Taste of Peace [S]

POSTED ON Jun 3, 2024 0:57:10 GMT

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[attr="class","textbox"]"Don't tell me you've got another one."[break][break]

When you needed actual medical care performed by an educated and (relatively) sane professional, you went to John Sullivan. But when you needed a miracle in the face of an imminent death, keeping the reaper at bay if but for a moment, you went to Isaac. It was something he never quite understood about his own powers, but maybe he didn't need to. Desperation had a way of sending his willpower into overdrive.[break][break]

It was a lot harder for Isaac to feel that desperation when one of the League's fightiest men had him on speed dial.[break][break]

Still, he liked Navy and he owed Navy. That meant he'd squeeze out those miracles whenever he could. Worst case scenario, he could always ride the winds over to Doug for a quick house call. In another world, perhaps the two of them could've opened a clinic together and become mega-millionaires. But that would require either of those two prideful wanderers to stay pinned down for long.[break][break]

Those frequent visits would at least give Navy an insight into how Isaac's life was going. Backyard visits to Dewford became tents at the edge of the Petalburg Woods. Those tents became the skeleton of a home, knitting itself together with hard-fought hopes and precious memories on each successive visit.[break][break]

Now, at the edge of the horizon, something greater still brewed.[break][break]

"C'mon. Follow me." It wouldn't be Isaac's home they'd stop at today, but instead a building further down the former floristry's property. It was just close enough that, were the spirit of winds to put his mind to it, he could cross the space between the two building in an instant. Instead, with the Petalburg Woods in full bloom to one side of them and a view of the bustling town to the other, he decided to take the scenic route. "Think we both earned a change of scenery, eh?"[break][break]

Frankly, either view'd be paradise compared to where they'd just come from.

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A Much-Needed Taste of Peace [S]

POSTED ON Jun 3, 2024 7:37:42 GMT

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“It’s Shuwen.” Navy says, which serves well enough to explain everything. On most days, while Navy busies himself helping bring Pokemon HOME to fruition, Shuwen is left in charge of protecting Granite Cave. His fighting bear is relentless in his pursuit of Rockets and Nihilegos alike. Although he took quite the beating during their stint in prison, the bear refuses to let someone else do the work.[break][break]
When his Urshifu acts like this, Navy becomes convinced all over again that the bear really was born from his fighting spirit in interdream mist. Given how random the bear’s insertion into his life was, it serves well enough for an explanation.[break][break]
Navy himself hobbles along on a cane. When forced to make the press circuit or train with the troops, he hides his limp with his sygna suit. When his soul melds with Arthur or Vortigern’s, he finds he can ignore the pain. He has not, as of yet, found occasion to put this to any sort of test in actual combat. Navy considers himself a sensible man, who follows sensible orders. Commissioner Goode has ordered him to stay put, so he stays put.[break][break]
“You’re doing wonders with the place.” Navy says in a husky, tired voice. A month of overwork has left him fatigued, and their prison escape did him no favors. His eyes betray a longing for Suicune’s pool, where he can at least relax and forget the many scars his body as accumulated.[break][break]
“Any of our buddies giving you trouble?” He speaks of his fellow League officers with all the affection one might address a venomous Seviper.

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A Much-Needed Taste of Peace [S]

POSTED ON Jun 4, 2024 23:43:26 GMT

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[attr="class","textbox"]Any snark in Isaac's voice evaporated at the mention of who today's treatment was for. Isaac was no stranger to tending to Shuwen's injuries, but it never made the process any easier on poor Navy. The two were close as brothers. It didn't help that, as the guardian of Granite Cave, his injuries directly hinted at how messed up the Hoenn Region was.[break][break]

"They're getting bolder."[break][break]

Who was they, even? Team Rocket? The Ultra Beasts on the other side of the veil? Even your average day-to-day criminals, taking advantage of the League's war-weariness to line their own pockets? Perhaps it wasn't a surprise. If Rocket could get away with it, so could average joe poacher. If it was this bad now, how much worse would it get when war actually broke out?[break][break]

Navy didn't look like a prize either. Isaac faintly remembered the days before Galar, the two of them having their first meeting in a city wrapped in blues. Navy was moving on up in the world. Isaac was slipping away from the seedy underbelly of his own. They were young then, so foolhardy and excitable. Now they were nearly unrecognizable. Isaac wore the mask of a far bolder, stronger, and more confident man, only swellings of legendary power keeping up the facade. As for Navy?[break][break]

With his cane and his stress-laden wrinkles, he was an old soldier in a body that got less young each day.[break][break]

"Necessity's the mother of invention." They'd walk past the rest of the property for now. As much as Isaac would love to show Navy his burgeoning treasure, priorities were priorities. Instead, they'd head for a shadier part of the treeline. The foliage was unrecognizable; with Dandori's help, it always was. Instead, the buzzing of Sectonia's drones served as the only clue on how to solve this forest's maze. "Why else'd I come up with this?"[break][break]

At the end of the unfamiliar flora came an all too familiar site. Still waters filled a small, man-made oasis, light from the trees above casting faint shimmers along its surface. The air was heavy and cool with mist, a strange energy seeming to linger wherever it touched. Isaac, undaunted, walked over to the pool. As he grazed it with his fingers, it began to shimmer with the essence of life itself.[break][break]

"Beats trying to bail you two out with a fistful of mist."[break][break]

As he reclined at the side of the waters, Navy's question left him smirking. "Best part of keeping myself busy? Not having to deal with 'em." It was the strategy that had gotten him by in Rocket, and by god he was going to put it to good use here as well. "Less red tape, more red alerts, catch my drift? I'll take doing some good over being asked if I'm suuuuuuure I'm not a traitor any time."[break][break]

" 'Course, if I'm a betting man, I'd say the League's gonna whip up one of those councils soon." All of the most self-important and bureaucracy-burdened people in the Hoenn Region, locked under one roof. Navy had warned him about these meetings, but like hell was Isaac going to spit on kyle lopez's memory by spurning his invitation. "Bet they'll find all the time in the world to give me the business then."

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Navy

A Much-Needed Taste of Peace [S]

POSTED ON Jun 10, 2024 1:22:04 GMT

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TIN SOLDIERS AND WALSH'S CALLING

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“Ain’t that the truth.” He remarks at the notion of keeping himself busy. Orders are orders, and he’s been forced to slow down. Think. Let other people step up for a little while, at least until Isaac and John Sullivan’s treatments stick. Between Suicune and Tapu Lele, he won’t be out of commission for too long. For all the apprehensions he has concerning Hoenn’s menagerie of gods, he does not deny their power.[break][break]
Shuwen appears, lowered into the water. The bear remains unconscious, slumbering like an ancient king waiting to return in an hour of great need. Without ceremony or modesty, Navy kicks off his boots and most of the rest of his clothes, slipping into the water and joining his bear. After his stint in prison, with so many allies and enemies mocking him for the notion that no one had to be hurt, he finds he cares little about something so banal as being half naked.[break][break]
It feels good. When Isaac works his miracles, his body feels whole again. His pinched, frayed nerves move like he had so much as cracked a knuckle. Muscles which scream from overuse hum and stay still. Even his leg, aching and scarred with a deep, white X-shaped gash, does not bother him.[break][break]
“Arceus, never been so happy to be cold.” He closes his eyes, trusting that Isaac will watch their backs while he and his Pokemon rest. “Feel like some folk are gonna try to take us both to task for some things, when the next assembly’s called.” The pool gives him clarity. His body feels whole, freeing the mind.[break][break]
“Hope you’re ready for a fistfight, ‘cause it’s gonna be one. They’ll probably talk policy ‘bout the war, how they want to divvy up avatars and Elites while we draw battle lines.” That he understands. He doesn’t enjoy that they have to march to war, but he understands the necessity of the task. People will die, and many on both sides will not deserve it when their life’s book is shut early.[break][break]
“If they can find time to try and dress us down in the middle of all that, they need to look out the window.” He speaks the words with a faint growl. “Or else they’re gonna realize too late more and more people will listen when Rocket says the League don’t care.”

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A Much-Needed Taste of Peace [S]

POSTED ON Jun 10, 2024 1:59:27 GMT

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[attr="class","textbox"]"Damndest thing, y'know. I can't even feel cold anymore." Mankey see, Mankey do. Once Isaac saw Navy was joining Shuwen, he figured he might as well slip in as well. "Isn't that crazy? I can walk around the Giant's Chasm with my tits out and barely feel a thing. If anything, this feels like a trip to the beach for me."[break][break]

It was fascinating, in a sense. In some ways, Avatarship dulled one's sensitivities. In others, they turned them up to 11. Lost the ability to feel the cold. Gained claustrophobia. Lost the overall sense of panic and dread he felt in the shadow of Hoenn's war. Gained the wrath of a hurricane when pushed far enough. Isaac was still Isaac, and yet he was Different.[break][break]

Navy was the same, and he hadn't even been touched by a legend. This war changed everything for everyone.[break][break]

"Least we're in this mess together." It was clear Navy thought the League would try something, and equally clear he thought that idea was hogwash. Isaac couldn't even imagine taking time on the brink of a war to kick up a bunch of petty squabbling. At the same time, he couldn't imagine being on the brink of extinction and throwing the first punch, so clearly his expectations needed an adjustment. "Maybe if we're lucky, the League'll get that goes for all of us."[break][break]

If they didn't realize? Well, Navy painted that scenario all too succinctly. "It's the damndest thing, y'know," Isaac admitted. "Rocket sure as shit doesn't care more. They dropped that facade ages ago. But people keep flocking there anyway. Is it because they got suckered in? Or are they just so worn down and pissed that they'll join up with whoever lets them lash out the hardest?"[break][break]

And then they're trapped. And then there's no way out. And then either they become monsters or corpses. Just ask howard slayte.[break][break]

With a sigh, Isaac turned to Navy. He opened his mouth to speak, then let his eyes dart across the treeline. Nothing. Of course there was nothing. Only Isaac, Eris Halla, and the forest's guardians knew the way along this path. Besides, if the League had prying eyes on him, he'd be hung from the gallows months ago. With his nerves ebbing away, Isaac took in a sigh and finished his thought.[break][break]

"You know the League better than I do, man. Do you think they care?"

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A Much-Needed Taste of Peace [S]

POSTED ON Jun 10, 2024 2:13:40 GMT

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“Silph cares,” Navy says, his eyes still closed, “like a computer cares about solving a problem. Maybe there’s a heart buried down there, but he’d let forty-five die to save fifty-five.” It’s unflattering to say that about someone who’s been fighting as long as FERNANDO SILPH has, but Navy listens to the wisdom of his heart. It tells him that Fernando Silph’s title would be the Iceman if the Dark Triad had sense, tact, or panache.[break][break]
“Freya cares a whole lot.” He smiles at the thought of freya morningstar. “Her heart bleeds all over the place, and that blood’s warm.” She reminds him of him, which is why he avoids her unless there’s an important matter to discuss. When people like them meet, fireworks fly. He trusts she’ll do right, in the end.[break][break]
“Livy? She’s too busy fighting the wrong enemy. Rocket’s bad, but every time we act as bad as they are, it’s a victory for them.” An equally unflattering assessment of PENELOPE LIVY, who would be his enemy if she knew for certain about Naomi Sato. “But she loves this region. She don’t want it to fall. She’s right ‘bout Rocket being terrorists and monsters, but she’s too hard on the dumb kids on the bottom.”[break][break]
Adjusting in the water, his voice grew lower and lower, like he might fall asleep. It was peaceful in these woods. It reminds him of eating hotdogs and marshmallows under an open, bright sky with Kyle. The thought makes his heart hurt, and not because of the scar tissue on the muscle.[break][break]
“I almost joined Rocket twice in my life. Once when I was seventeen, once after Sootopolis.” How odd that must sound to Isaac. “Someone in Rocket killed my brother. I was stupid enough to consider goin’ undercover, trying to figure out who it was. I’d have ended up in too deep. I see the rot in the League enough, and I’m stubborn enough, that I wouldn’t do what you did.”[break][break]
He laughs.[break][break]
“Broken records say that took balls.”

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