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A MILLION MILES AWAY

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[attr="class","eris101"]WHEN YOUR SKIES ARE GREY, AND YOUR WHOLE WORLD IS SHAKING

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[attr="class","eris102"]TO THE MOON AND BACK, I'LL LOVE YOU MORE THAN THAT

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[attr="class","eris109"]The desert is a harsh place, undiscerning in its efforts to pick off the healthy and the weak. It is most certainly not a place where she should go, especially considering the fact she had been let out of the hospital not too long ago.[break][break]

Covered almost head to toe in bandages and clothes, the sun cruelly mocks her travels across the endless dunes. And yet there is comfort in knowing that the winds do not blow. That they do not brush against her figure and attempt to cook her alive, or swallow her in a howling sandstorm.[break][break]

Better yet, it gifts her the chance to seek, to follow the trails of shifting rocks and sand with a dogged passion.

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shiv has approved the funny rock man (Regirock) appearing, buckle up

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POSTED ON Sept 8, 2024 17:40:33 GMT

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[attr="class","textbox"]"This is an awful idea, y'know."[break][break]

And yet, here he was, by her side as always.[break][break]

A part of Isaac hated himself for not being able to properly keep Eris' worst impulses in check. But he knew her. He knew that she'd sneak out on her own the second he'd turned his watchful eye away for one but one second. If it wasn't business with @navy in Dewford, it would be when AQUA inevitably came knocking. He'd have to go, and she'd disappear. She always did.[break][break]

He knew in her shoes, he would, too.[break][break]

It was a frustrating paradox. The safest way to handle Eris was to enable her. She could put herself in risk, and he could at least be somewhat content knowing he could spare her the worst of it. He could tend to her wounds, even as she denied them the long-term rest they truly needed. He could fight by her side, even as he wished she'd never fight at all.[break][break]

He could selfishly feel less like such a fucking failure.

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POSTED ON Sept 9, 2024 1:06:12 GMT

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[attr="class","eris101"]WHEN YOUR SKIES ARE GREY, AND YOUR WHOLE WORLD IS SHAKING

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[attr="class","eris109"]"You didn't have to come along. You're injured too." She doesn't mean it in the harsh way. She really does try to tamper that tone. It's not that she isn't grateful for his company, but his worries and hers tend to go in conflicting directions. "I won't push myself."[break][break]

So you shouldn't either.[break][break]

No deceit belies the look in her eyes. That is her compromise, much like the many ones he must have made for her to be here. For once, her flame is tethered to reality, the way she burns contained before him.[break][break]

"If it gets too much, we'll retreat." Another step. Her feet shuffles against the unending sand. "I promise."

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POSTED ON Sept 10, 2024 17:35:22 GMT

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[attr="class","textbox"]"Nowhere I'd rather be." Because when push came to shove, she was and always would be his precious little sister.[break][break]

It wasn't like he had room to judge. Rest had been the last thing on his mind. Survivors' guilt drove him to the towns hosting Petalburg's refugees. If he could just heal a few more wounded, grow a bit more food, comfort the weary and the broken and lost and the damned, maybe he could make up for it all. Petalburg wasn't a place. It was a people. Even as its buildings burned, he'd be their light.[break][break]

A fresh infusion of waters of life made up his mask each morning. Few saw him without it anymore. Few had seen him in general. He'd become the mirage he'd bonded with, blowing across the region to perform works he'd insisted only he could do. Only when he returned to his anchor's side did he let the winds fall still and the cracks show through the facade.[break][break]

He wasn't at his best. But who was, anymore? Instead, he was what he had to be.[break][break]

"And what would 'it' be?" he asked, trying to piece together the plan that Eris had spared him only fleeting bits and pieces of. She was always a puzzle box to try and figure out, but when the pieces pointed to the Ultra Wilds it was hard not to find himself a little concerned.

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[attr="class","eris101"]WHEN YOUR SKIES ARE GREY, AND YOUR WHOLE WORLD IS SHAKING

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[attr="class","eris109"]Sometimes, it's tough remembering that she means to him just as much as he means to her. Those words he speaks of so easily provide a brief glimmer of life, one that is quickly lost to the endless heat and sand.[break][break]

"Regirock."[break][break]

A name she loathes to hold upon her tongue. One that holds a lot more weight in the wake of Petalburg.

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[attr="class","textbox"]"Oh."[break][break]

Regirock alone hadn't flattened Petalburg. The boots on the ground from Team Rocket, a mix of names and faces he'd once adored and total strangers to him, had done the city far more harm. Despite that, the visual of a Dynamaxed Regirock casting the ruins of Petalburg in its shadow was a hard one to shake.[break][break]

It was a people, not a city. Objectively, he and El Sunderland had ensured countless people would live on even as their homes fell to ruins. That didn't make Isaac feel any less helpless about where he'd failed.[break][break]

"This isn't gon-" It wouldn't. Nothing would. What was done was done. The die had been cast, and its face came up with skulls emblazoned. Not even petitioning time itself could change it; Celebi had made sure to teach him that. Nevertheless, if the chance were to ever arise, Isaac would be sorely tempted. "You're right. We really should prepare."[break][break]

"We know better, now."[break][break]

Isaac didn't know if he could give up on howard slayte. But by now, it had become clear just how one sided that feeling was.

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[attr="class","eris109"]He understands, and therefore he does not stop her. She wouldn't allow him to either way.[break][break]

In another life, across the vast expanse of time and space, there must be a world where she'd listen to him. Where she does not do this. Where she is never dragged into the conflict of Rocket and the League. Where she simply remains ignorant to the cruel realities that befall every other version of her.[break][break]

But she was not born blessed. In this one, the match that howard slayte has struck has become a fire that will slowly consume her. For the sake of humanity, they would both burn.[break][break]

An earthquake rocks the desert, the silence of the dunes shattered by the howling of winds. Louder and louder, a sandstorm grows as it hungrily rips the ground from beneath their very feet. Amidst the storm groans a lonely titan, the earth rumbling with its every step. The shifting sands that make up its body whisper of their approach, showers its attention upon them as the golem begins to turn.

And without care for who or what reasons they have arrived, it greets them with a heavy rainfall of boulders.

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POSTED ON Sept 14, 2024 1:27:36 GMT

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[attr="class","textbox"]Theirs was a world that was born damned and only got worse. Three years ago, in a cyberspace tucked within the fabric of reality, a scientist told the people of the Hoenn region that they would bring about the end of all realities. Isaac had called him mad. He knew, as his wits returned to him in the aftermath of his sure demise, that he would devote his days to proving Maldacena wrong.[break][break]

Where had that gotten him? The League slaughtered their own civilians, using the rampage of a great fish as a convenient excuse. Rocket, in spite of atrocity after atrocity, only seemed to grow stronger, more supported. Legends twisted humans into pawns, those humans lording demigodhood over their lessers as if they meant nothing. Every few months, a new source of forbidden energy tore the land apart. Hoenn had enemies within, without, beyond dimensions, between dimensions, and even in the form of god itself.[break][break]

There were days where Isaac wondered if, in spite of all his hatred for them, the Triad was right.[break][break]

He dreamed of fighting for a world where Eris could finally know peace. He knew all too well that he'd be dead before such a world could take root. If he was lucky, he would die helping to bring it about. If he wasn't, a fact he grew increasingly convinced of, the only peace they would all know would be the stillness of the grave.[break][break]

Compared to all that, an angry rock meant nothing to him.[break][break]

Knuckles and Reverb, two of Isaac's moth faithful Pokemon, stood side by side. What rocks Reverb's telekinetic prowess couldn't hold at bay were to be smashed beneath Knuckles' spiked fists. Together, the two of them carved a path through the storm, hoping to create an opening through which Isaac and Eris could proceed.

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