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MOSSDEEP CITY - JUNE SLEIGH & SHRED ZEPPELIN

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WHY US? A question that may forever remain unanswered. As Anomalies, the universe offers no explanation. Instead it seeks one. Urges both june sleigh and Shred to forge an answer for themselves.

Even the DRK Triad, witnessing the abominable union between contradictions, watches these first instances of paradoxical pairings with fresh, virgin eyes. Humanity is rejected in favour of cruel, cruel fatge.

When the ELECTRO DRIFT and COLLISION COURSE crash into each other, the resulting explosion knocks june sleigh and Shred to the ground (if they weren't already). The amassed Infinity Energy spreads outward and courses through the unfortunate two, tangling together a single unfair destiny that has been thrust upon them.

[attr="class","chosen"]YOU ARE WORTHY

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koraidon has chosen Shred, the boundless, as their avatar.

Shred receives the following perks:

• Shred has the ability to "shift" into "paradox versions" of himself, born from alternate histories and timelines that never were. this allows him to change his physical appearance and build, allowing him to alter his fighting style, gain odd armors or weaponms, and "recover" from damage. curiously, usage of this ability may cause parts of his hair to turn white.
  
  however, overuse of this ability can severely harm him.



• shred can "hear" and "talk" to Pokemon; however, the mileage of this ability may vary in events.



• shred can augment his body with orichalcum to use defensively or offensively; however, when shifting into "paradox versions" of himself, this ability can not be used. the orichalcum can be adorned so that shred may be burlier, stronger, or protected from devastating attacks. when the orichalcum is struck by another or by his own hand, the orichalcum can EXPLODE.



• shred can summon ANCIENT SUNLIGHT (SUNNY DAY) or emanate an aura which can empower PAST PARADOX POKEMON around him.



• under ANCIENT SUNLIGHT, shred will be able to devolve a Pokemon back to its first evolutionary stage temporarily, before the Pokemon reverts back to its original state.



• KORAIDON will be able to track HERBA MYSTICA and consume it (yummier in a sandwich!) to power itself over time.
  
  the name of KORAIDON and its epithet, THE WINGED KING can be known through the RKS SIMULATION.

[attr="class","chosen"]YOU ARE WORTHY

[attr="class","chosen2"]
miraidon has chosen june sleigh, the boundless, as their avatar.

june sleigh receives the following perks:

• june is a walking battery, able to power things on demand if they are able to be powered by electricity. june is able to redirect electricity to herself, acting as a LIGHTNING ROD when desired. however, there is a limit to how much electricity she can weather until she "short circuits".
  
  furthermore, due to this change in her physicality, she now has NIGHT VISION due to her changes in her vision. her eyes can be compared to that of glowsticks or car headlights; however, this physical change to her eyes also extends to her ability to see junes in other alternate realities or timelines.



• june also possesses a supernatural affinity for electronic devices and electricity. she can perceive the location/presence of electrical devices. furthermore, her abilities will allow her to intermittently go invisible like a short-circuiting gadget.



• with her eyes, june can witness other junes, what they do, what they look like, and more. by doing so, she can briefly adopt their skillsets—but the inherited skillset may not always be applicable to the situation at hand.



• once a thread, june is able to emit a LARGE ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE (EMP) that deactivates technology and saps the electricity from devices, while also disorienting people and Pokemon caught in its blast.



• june is able to summon an ELECTRIC TERRAIN or emanate an aura which can empower FUTURE PARADOX POKEMON around her.



• in an ELECTRICAL TERRAIN, june will be able to evolve a Pokemon back to a later evolutionary stage temporarily, before the Pokemon reverts back to its original state.



• MIRAIDON will be able to track HERBA MYSTICA and consume it (yummier in a sandwich!) to power itself over time.
  
  the name of MIRAIDON and its epithet, THE IRON SERPENT can be known through the RKS SIMULATION.

The energy continues to surge into the draconic leylines: paths of energy left behind by MIRAIDON & KORAIDON'S competing escape routes. TING-LU, rooted to the old world, had forced them out of HOENN'S AREA ZERO with the ceaseless waves of fear. The lines have bent into the seas, disturbing the PRIMAL KYOGRE into the next stage of its pained frenzy.

In a mad rush for SOOTOPOLIS, like a spawning salmon, the Leviathan seeks an old home for answers, for remedy.

By the end of their battle, Shred and june sleigh hear the bells of war. MOSSDEEP is under attack. SOOTOPOLIS is approached by League vessels. PETALBURG is lit aflame.

As MIRAIDON & KORAIDON recover from their duel, june sleigh and Shred must contend with their new realities in a region ripped apart by war.

june sleigh Shred

Shred would get his wish. Power would finally be his, given by the blot of Scarlet that bounced back from its collision with Violet. Power surged, and infinity energy engulfed the husk in all of his dangerous glory. June couldn’t see it, but she could feel it.

He finally found what was at the end of his road; he could leave her to rot. Abandon her like everyone else.

Except… the world turned its cold gaze to June. Finally, the world looked upon her with eyes of pity. Bright cyan acknowledged her for what she was:

Beyond the bounds. And thus, she would be granted its grace. Infinity energy overtook her as well, while blood blinded her and everything hurt.

But those were mere blips, scrapes compared to the raw rush of rough rakes that scratched and clawed its way throughout her muscle, her flesh, her bones and her very being. Like she’d stuck a fork into an outlet, or licked a car battery, or held onto one end of a suicide cord plugged into the worlds biggest power plant. Like she’d been struck by lightning.

What it’d feel like if Eleki turned on its master and ended her once and for all. Except she lived. Survived. She buzzed– literally. The electricity physically vibrated her skin and sent shocks down her spine. It felt uncomfortable, and painfully so. As the transfer of power completed, her eyes opened.

The world was too bright. Way too bright. Every neuron in her brain moved faster than normal, and faster than weird. A dazed hand tried to cover up the infernally bright sun, but that did nothing to quell the brightness. It only served to highlight just how charged she was.

The light came from her eyes. From her eyes. How? That wasn’t possible. Humans didn’t have lights in their eyes. She blinked, but the brightness pierced through her eyelids. No matter how many times she tried to force it down, it stuck around.

“Wh… what’s going on?” June clawed her way backwards once more, away from Shred. Violet was there, off to the side and across from Scarlet. Its gaze fell upon her, confident and ready to serve. As if it expected her to give a command.

“Make it stop,” she asked. It pursed metal lips and slightly shook its head. “What’s happening to me?! What did you do?”

Her body churned. Something was building up. A few feet behind her, the power started to surge away from the machines. How could she know that? Why did it come straight for her? “I– I can’t– I don’t– aah, aah–”

Like her guts were on the brink of exploding. Her eyes threatened to pop from their sockets. She panted, groaned, and finally, burst.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA–”

Her scream cracked the sky, and power burst from her body. An electromagnetic pulse escaped her nerves and shook the earth. The generators and sensors and machines all exploded proper, their energy spent and circuitry fried. Shred would feel his new limbs turn to spaghetti, and so too would Scarlet and Violet.

But it was unafraid of the EMP. She looked back at the world with one yellow, one purple eye. Tears streamed down her face, and the crooks of her mouth bent downward. She panted as the tenseness left her limbs. The electricity had mostly left her frame-- but it would never truly leave. It tingled and mixed with her blood, powered on by her changed heart. “What did you do to me?”

“Mirai.”

“Gave you purpose.”

Its eyes flickered to Shred. A holographic eyebrow raised, and June followed its cool gaze. Then her own two eyes widened. He’d… he’d…

What was that?

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Shred

If her alterations were foul, awful, twisted…

Then Shreds was appalling.

Like a Butterfree, or a Beedrill, but without the cocoon to protect it from the elements. Blood flowed freely, flesh cracked and peeled from the frame. Eyes melted upon themselves and bones twisted and bend in unnatural ways. It should not be possible. None of this should.

Was this a dream? A nightmare, if anything. Horrific in every sense of the word. Their lives were irreversibly changed, and he’d come out for the better of it. Reborn from new flesh and sinew, given shape by a Scarlet King. And what did she get?

She did not gain anything. What little she had before the transformation, nothing at all, was taken from her still. By giving her power, the world had taken her freedom. Her fists balled, knuckles white, and electric light flashed upon the newly birthed man of legend.

“You… YOU…”

She was standing. Her pathetic arms raised in combat and she ran forward. Except her body went limp, blood erupted from an invisible spigot, and her body collapsed on the floor. All in the span of five seconds, June died a horrific, awful, terrible, realistic…

Fake death. June hadn’t moved an inch. She stared wide-eyed at the apparition. A figment of her imagination. Her lips trembled, and she reached forward toward the fake body. But it vanished too fast, as suddenly as it’d been born. Given life through her eyes and her eyes alone.

Miraidon did not move. It only watched with vague interest. Did June control it, or did it guide June through inaction? She pointed where the dead figment had once been and gulped. If she charged, she…

Died. How did she see that? Why did she see that?

June stumbled upwards, a shaky, terrified mess that could never hope to stand as tall as the thing in front of her. It wasn’t possible. “You…”

“You’ve ruined everything…” she trailed off. All of this was insane. None of it made sense. Never could. But by this point, she’d backed up and been tossed around enough to be close to the machines and generators. Near her toolbox. Quickly, she bent down and grabbed the first thing that came to hand with weight behind it.

A wrench. Sure. Finally, one step brought her forward. Then a second. Each one more unconfident than the last. Anger built up inside her meager frame, but a healthy dose of fear kept it company. “You… did this to me…”

“You bastard!” She flung the wrench with all her might. A solid throw, as it aimed to dome the freshly birthed being in front of her. What else could she do but rebel against the world that finally noticed her struggle?

Made it all for nothing?

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Shred

The wrench fell apart, crumped up into a meager ball and discarded for the scrap it was. Impossible for a normal person, let alone even the strongest alive. Shred made it look easy. Comically so. As if it wasn’t made of metal but plastic. Flimsy and easily torn apart.

“You…” she muttered. All her newfound confidence faded, and she returned the back foot. But each step back was a half step for the newborn Shred. Gone was the contempt, the hatred, the vitriol. Replaced with something else. A lot scarier than all of those combined: excitement.

Victory was no longer a desperate struggle, but a guarantee. A test run before he wreaked havoc onto the world. They were still uncreated equally, despite having their very fates intertwined, like a DNA helix. “Back off– I don’t want any–”

She blinked from existence. Disappeared. Vanished into physical obscurity. By the time his claws swiped forward, she reappeared a half-meter to his right. Unharmed. Even she looked confused by the act.

“How did I–”

Gone again but for a much shorter time. A blink and she emerged from the light. Dazed, she crashed back into the first machine, the one she’d abandoned with Shred’s arrival. Back to her toolbox, she sank down and grabbed yet another tool.

A hammer. With one final blink, she lifted the hammer and disappeared. Before her eyes, she saw another vision. Her clone went to the right and swung hard to the left. Her arm flew from her body and she followed it to the ground.

Thus, she went left. The ‘cloak’ lasted for only a moment, but she emerged swinging hard to the right. “Try me!”

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Shred

Shred did not miss the third time. June flew. Not a mere drop, or even simple collapse onto herself. She flew from the impact, and stars danced in her head. She did not feel the sand beneath her or know which way the sky was. Reality was forced from her mind and she danced among the divine.

But as her senses returned, and she once again tried to find her breath and pull herself up, a few thoughts danced in her head. Once more, why her?

Once more, was this how she went? Pushed around for a while, then slain when the oppressor finally got bored with the spectacle? Her bones threatened to collapse, and vertigo rushed through her veins, but she stood again. Again. Dazed, illuminated eyes met Shred’s arrogant and uninterested ones.

If she had to, then she’d not go down like a dog. Even if the world cared, or it did not– it would not humiliate her and not expect her to put up resistance. But her foe’s struggles against the world had been met with a much more powerful boon. In her ignorance and passivity, weakness had taken root.

But the desire to struggle kindled inside.

“It doesn’t matter,” she parroted. Even now, as death came knocking, it still couldn’t matter. Everything had been ruined. It was all that mattered. Yet it couldn’t. “None of this matters. The League will shoot you down from a mile away. Rocket will too, once they see the monster you are.”

She did not know of the powerful Declan Walsh, or the omnipotent Zev Harcourt , or the dozens of other threats that threatened to snap and end their existences. Shred was the most powerful thing she’d seen so far, and that was bad enough.

“Killing me still won’t do anything for you!”

Even as apparition after apparition moved, only to fall seconds later like dominoes, she had to do something. To not was to die. If the world had given her electricity, then maybe… she could…

Yellow streaked towards her, like lightning to a rod. It felt horrific, as it invaded her bones and synapses. And thanks to the abundant energy in the environment, it did not take long for her frame to feel supercharged. Then, she pushed more. More. Too much power broke systems with ease.

She was just another system. When electricity threatened to break her system, only then did she charge at Shred. A living battery. One which aimed to fry them both alive. Her muscles screamed. So did she.

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Shred

Humans were not built to withstand so many amps in their bodies. It stopped hearts and fried nerves. Left them dead or dying in most cases, and the rest were lucky breaks granted to those who had capable people nearby. By rights, June and Shred both should’ve perished from her stupid attack.

But yet again, they weren’t quite human anymore. Not even their screams sounded normal. They sounded ugly, violent, like their spasms into one another. June did her best to wrap around Shred with her limbs, to ensure they both experienced the same voltage. A completed circuit.

But it couldn’t last. After ten seconds had passed, the electricity had been spent. June, the living battery, had been drained of all her power. Only then did she let go and collapse back onto the sand.

But this time, she did not try to get back up. With splayed limbs and defeated eyes, she stared up at the sky and Shred. Muscles twitched, controlled by an outside force. Yellow returned to the environment, and her eyes no longer glowed. They still held their heterochromatic hues, but no one was really home. She simply stared at him, her mind turned to jelly.

Everything hurt ten times over. It felt almost as bad as when she'd been gifted the powers. Except this feeling lingered. Electricity was a fickle creature, and she'd learned the hard way that its current was unmatched. Electrons did as they pleased. Anything to reach their higher potential. June was a simple proton, stuck to where she was. She'd never rise higher. And she'd get hurt every time she tried.

Unfortunately for Shred, his assumption had been correct: his opponent was not on the same level as he. Not even close. He’d ascended to divinity while his ‘equal’ still relished in the Stone Age. Ironic, given the looks and designs of their new partners. The ones that stood back and watched their children fight.

Violet watched with keen interest, yet hovered back in eerie silence. Save for the passive thrum of its thrusters, it stood as still as a statue. It waited for something. Perhaps for June to ask for help. Or until she killed herself, as one last act of cruel punishment. Whatever the case, it still stood as a bystander.

And waited. Eyes locked onto Shred. What would The Boundless do?

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Shred

Shred was inhuman. That much was certain. He clung to such a new fact with the arrogance of a king yet the confidence of a surgeon. How he expertly carved away the undesirable parts of his body. Then replaced them carefully, as to hide who he ever was. Born in a new shell, given new purpose. No longer would he be denied.

Yet June wasn’t exactly human either. Humans didn’t see reflections of themselves, alternate selves who failed and died. Nor did the conure lights from their eyes. or charge themselves with the voltage of a generator.

She could not hope to fix herself. Only watch the world around her, like her avatar.

Who, upon given the opportunity, slowly slid forward. Careful cyan eyes watched the opposing Boundless and its kin as it leaned forward. In careful, strong arms she was lifted and held in. Her weak muscles helped her slide backward, onto its back.

“Mirai.”

“Until next time, kin.”

Violet did not like to act. It enjoyed the spectacle of it all. The struggle, the fight, the will to live given physical form. Even if out of spite, it was a powerful force. One that could drive anyone to their brink. June had simply found hers rather early– but no matter.

All it had to do was watch. And wait. For what was time but a passage of humanities folly?

By the ninth second, its engine thrummed loudly. Enough to drown out the distant Wingull and drive away any unwanted attention. Before he could get to ten, Violet rushed straight past him. Centimeters from his form.

A reminder that even if he thought himself god, it was by their will alone that he achieved such. If given the desire, he could be unmade as fast as he'd been reborn. But ultimately, it was up to Scarlet to act upon such a threat or deny Violet the ability.

Regardless... Shred best not forget his place. June wouldn’t hers.

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Shred