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EARLIER[break][break]
Tapu Bulu sat before her, the grave made. A white egret orchid sits on the grave of two Pokemon, in a fight that meant everything to them. A memory to never forget those who helped her reached this. She limps to the beach, Tapu Bulu follows lazily behind, noticing
Hitoshi Inoue first, a snort pushing orange-red hair over Genny's eyes. The bell rings, to gain Genny's attention, to let Hitoshi know of his foe's new friend with a thinly-veiled threat.[break][break]
Their duel had ended. With a hand clinched tightly on her other arm, as she looked on. The adrenaline hadn't yet fully worn off, but it was. The burns on her back were going to scar, and the many wounds she suffered needed treatment.[break][break]
But. Hitoshi was right. This wasn't over. When she turns to Tapu Bulu, and the bull would snort again. Tapu Bulu hated unnecessary violence. But Genevieve knew that she could not avoid this. If she laid down her sword now, she wouldn't be able to fight anymore. In one word, she responds to Hitoshi, returning Tapu Bulu to his ball, for now. Best to keep Rocket guessing her ace in the hole.[break][break]
"Deal."[break][break]
And that was that.[break][break]
---[break][break]
NOW[break][break]
The journey was quiet, silence as Genny tried to push down the urge to surrender. She thought about her Pokemon she had left, how much energy in the tank she had left. But she had little time to think. Sootopolis was in the distance.[break][break]
Wordlessly, she departs from the ferryman, falling backwards into the sea, and sinks down. For moments under the sea, she felt peace in the violence of the turbulent waves. She could see the storm that brewed above, and the abyss below as its own endless ocean. She could let go now. She could rest her eyes. She could fall.[break][break]
The moment of tranquility can't last forever. What feels like an eternity goes by, when Sasha the Milotic is released, and Genny grabs on. And together, they split the other direction under the water.[break][break]
It's not long before she reaches the cliffside, and with it, the climb. Everything in her body is telling her to stop now, that she can rest, and she pushes against it. She races upwards, her Milotic following suit best she can, as the duo make their way up the cliffside, and reach the summit into Sootopolis. Like a scene from a nightmare.[break][break]
"No," she cries out quietly.[break][break]
She'd seen Kyogre well before arrival, but the horror of seeing the whole of Sootopolis flooding was something else entirely. Sasha cried next to her, as she gazed down towards the battlefield. A Lugia bathed in shadow duels the maddened Kyogre. A Galarian Moltres duels with Rayquaza, joining in with Necrozma, a memory of
Andrea Vaneau at the beach resort burning into her memory. Fear started pushing through, laboring her breathing. Below, a legendary dog duels an apex dragon. All Genny had was one steely dragon, a half-dead thunder god, a cuddly water snake.[break][break]
And Bulu, who forcibly re-emerges from their ball, snorting at landfall, and staring at Genny. Eyes filled with a stone cold determination to fix things. Blue eyes that mirror hazel eyes. Genny smiles.[break][break]
"Let's go," she stumbles forward into Bulu's bulky arm, the bull snorting out once more, the hot air over her ever-lengthening hair. A challenge?[break][break]
The bull would stare on. Some woman was flying through the sky (
Absinthe Blackwood ) southward. Violence was useless on her. She hurt no one, and therefore did not need to be hurt. For now.[break][break]
Tapu Bulu would instead help Genny back to her feet fully, patting her back.[break][break]
It's okay to go slow.[break][break]
All she wanted to do now, was to subdue. To defend. To be the shield. And now, she was needed. Some crazy dragon was trying to blast away at Rocket or League. That would stop now.[break][break]
"Take it down!" The roaring cry of the guardian deity comes, Tapu Bulu flexing its muscles, as it slams downwards with everything it has, the bull smashing both of those golden, cloven hooves into the ground to cause a
NATURE'S MADNESS from the cliff above, intent to attack the Koraidon, and its maddened rider with a shockwave of pink energy, the pink bolts and energy intent to strike at it, even in its flying magnificence, right for
Shred .[break][break]
She calls out from above.
"Only false gods declare themselves so divine!"[break][break]
Genny doesn't need to win. But to give cover to Councilwoman
freya morningstar , to the blonde (
ana fell ), the black-haired man (
Roy Aker ), and Sheriff
Navy ? She can do that much.[break][break]
Tapu Bulu from behind Genny floats like a guardian, smashes their hooves together. They deem the Koraidon rider a threat, and are ready to throw down.[break][break]
JVdEckKE@sootopolisletsball[break][break]
NOTES
-
SUIT, minus jacket, ripped[break]
- Earlier flashback scene after scene with Tapu Bulu, and accepts
Hitoshi Inoue 's ride, breaking off on her Milotic before they are seen together. Too many questions. Hitoshi sees Tapu Bulu himself before Genny returns him.[break]
- ENTER SOOTOPOLIS A2 ->
end at C2[break]
- Arriving, she sees the insanity of legendary-sized battles, such as
Cillian Quinn 's Shadow Lugia, or @barnab's Moltres and
freya morningstar 's Rayquaza. Also terrified of
Zev Harcourt 's Necrozma.[break]
- Tapu Bulu forces himself out of his Pokeball, wanting to provide courage for Genny, despite the exhaustion hitting different. Sees
Absinthe Blackwood , but Tapu Bulu does not wanna beef when unnecessary.[break]
- Also sees
Shred 's Koraidon as he spouts nonsense and attacks Leaguers in
D2, including a clash with
Navy 's Zacian. Genny ain't having this.[break]
- Racing to
C2, and striking from a vantage point, has Tapu Bulu attack, uncertain how they fight. They release a Fairy type
NATURE'S MADNESS on Koraidon and Shred to strike at them.[break]
- One madness to another, Genny calls Shred a false god. She's beefin'.