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POSTED ON Oct 11, 2024 18:32:41 GMT

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Heavy fog rolled low at their feet. The Border sprawled out in all its monochrome glory, desolate and supernaturally quiet. Robin's own Marshadow led the charge, though she had never felt lost in the Border. "I have fought a vestigial Victini here before, a ways ahead." She had no idea if it was the same or different from the soul shard itself. Illeana held the soul dew. Robin imagined it yearned to be complete. [break][break]

"If we don't encounter the soul marchers, we should make good time." Those spirits tended to travel in long packs and in tactical formations that took up too much space to easily maneuver around. Recently, they had not picked any fights with her, but she had been in a different headspace when she last visited with Evelyn Vespera . [break][break]

She felt safe with Lam, and she trusted the fighting spirit so clearly burning in Rex to help them if things turned violent. But it was Illeana's expertise that she relied on the most, here. "Will the dew react when we get closer to the soul wisp?"

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"Even if we do encounter them, we'll make good time because I'll beat their asses!" Rex spoke up, his Togepi waddling along next to him through this line between life and death. "We're gonna be victorious, right? Doesn't that mean we have fate and destiny and all that backing us up?"

Compared to Head Professor who could teleport through space to acquire an infinite amount of macaroni and cheese, Lilycove's Gym Leader, and a genuine psychic, Rex's greatest accomplishment was being one number off from Caleb Harcourt in the phone book.

Him being here was a freak accident, but they would've had to lock him in a safe and toss him into an undersea trench to actually stop him from following this expedition. It'd give him something to brag about on Trainer's Eye when this was all over.

"So you're telling me that Victini is inside that rock? Sweet! And if we just... glue it all together, it'll just come back to life?" Rex scratched his chin. "That's pretty convenient!"

Bold words for someone who didn't know about angelo vestri 's transatlantic voyage to chase soul wisps.

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POSTED ON Oct 14, 2024 17:18:38 GMT

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"it should, but it might need a little infinity energy to fully work."

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she's not entirely certain. the small glittering orb rests in her hand as they continue on, its glass-like composition shifting with the faint glow of the border.

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will it act as a beacon? or will they need to manually activate it?

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her head turns slightly as Althus Rex pipes up, focus rippling away from robin coello and honing onto the new face.

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"that's the theory, yes. there's two wisps of victini's soul already within the soul dew, but we're uncertain what will occur once all the fragmented pieces are brought back together."

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she flashes a small smile, discovery whispering louder over the usual cacophony of discourse in the mind.

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and yet, the looming threats in this dimensional rift are still plaguing the journey. they exist as dreadful beings, haunting the peripheral just out of reach.

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"i'd almost rather the soul marchers to the warden, though, if we have to encounter anything."

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Okay, the obvious answer is following after robin coello to keep her out of too much trouble (though it’s debatable how successful he actually is when it comes to that,) but like– what is he doing out here?[break][break]
The murky gloom of the Border rises up around them with the oppressive force of something sinister and slow-creeping. It gives Lam the shivers, if he were to be frank–which he isn’t, because naturally he’s going to save face.[break][break]
Most of the strange worlds that have lodged themselves against Hoenn’s reality unnerve him. That uncanny offness sets him on edge, and despite the fact that numerous people traipse through these spaces constantly, that doesn’t make it any better.[break][break]
Still, even then, he’ll take this place over the Deep Sea. Hands down. Any day.[break][break]
He’s wearier than Althus Rex–someone he’s never met, who practically lights up the eerie pallor of their surroundings by sheer enthusiasm alone. He’s got that headstrong bravado Lam recognizes in the particularly feisty trainers that wander through his gym doors.[break][break]
Hold up, when did he start sounding like an old man?[break][break]
Anyway, the togepi that toddles next to him is cute. It reminds him of when his togekiss was that little. Egg resides snugly in her pokeball at his hip. It is his shinx that takes the charge ahead of him, yellow and lavender fur casting a luminescent glow as he bats at the togepi. Mischievously attempting to knock the baby pokemon over to see if it will roll like a ball.[break][break]
“Noodle,” he warns before stooping to scoop the kitten up fluidly as they continue walking. He doesn’t break stride–almost like he’s done this countless times, because well, obviously he has. Noodle mrrps in surprise, but lets Lam carry him.[break][break]
Admittedly, he doesn’t actually know all that much about Victini and the remnants of its soul, or the Soul Dew. Only what he’s already told Robin, which he got–in passing–from Caleb Harcourt in the first place. “What the hell are soul marchers…” he mutters, green eyes squinting as if whatever they are will materialize out of the mist from mere mention alone.[break][break]
His consolation is that the magical leaf imparted by Virizion rests safely in his coat pocket, as always. And above them, Tornadus drifts along watchfully. The bottom of his rolling cloud only just visible through the rising fog. It’s a reassurance that he can play muscle, or support. And that’s what he’s there for.[break][break]
There’s little point in worrying about having the knowledge to back everything up. That’s what illeana reyes’s here for. His glance skitters to the orb in her hand. “So does it just…suck the wisp in?” His mind conjures the vacuum-like thing they used in that one movie. With the ghosts.

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POSTED ON Oct 15, 2024 19:54:42 GMT

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Rex referring to Fate and destiny brought a smile to her face, but she didn't double down on the idea. She knew they were all on the righteous Path. "We will be victorious," she echoed. There was no other possibility. The soul dew would gain another wisp, even if they required a little infinity energy to make the soul dew do it's thing. "We could take the warden," she added confidently, sure Illeana was referring to the fearsome Gorlurk that speared souls. [break][break]

"I fought the vestigial spirit of Victini not far from here. It might be separate from the wisp entirely, though I didn't defeat it when I last visited." She had only done enough to clear the path to safety with Evelyn. [break][break]

She felt a presence. "There's -" [break][break]

No time to warn. A shadow snare rose from the ground to hold them all in place. Shadow figures closed in on them. The one closest to her looked like Rex. "Shadow mimics," she hissed, Marshadow diving in close to shadow punch the dark specter. The apparition melted to the ground before dissipating.[break][break]

She hadn't seen these since her first trip to the Border. Normally, she faced few obstacles here. She felt like a native to the Border when she visited, but now, she felt they were receiving the outsider treatment. "Can anyone break the snare? We don't want to be sitting duckletts."

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encounter shadowy copies of yourselves or your pokemon that mimic movement, form, and more.

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POSTED ON Oct 19, 2024 7:35:58 GMT

"Oh." He stared at Illeana with the wide eyes of a student who nodded in understanding, before immediately going back to doodling cubes in his notebook once the lecture was over. He cocked his head in confusion when she mentioned Infinity Energy. "I don't know what that is."

The education system hadn't bothered to bring Rex up to scratch by the time he had graduated. Infinity Energy this, Dynergy that, Tera Crystals over there, and sometimes someone would mention Z-Power before Rex slammed them with a Breakneck Blitz. Still, he nodded along, so that Illeana didn't think that he was a complete idiot.

Besides, he needed to impress Lam to get his Gym Badge from him. The objectives were simple: take a selfie with Victini, get Lam's badge, get some extra victory for the road, fight some shadow mimics, and run off into the sunset.

It was a good plan, all things considered.

Wait.

Shadow mimics?

"Uh oh." Rex knelt as a corrupted version of Robin attempted to brain him with a malignant fist. He tapped a Pokeball in a fluid motion, before his Gallade emerged to split the alternate version of Robin in half with a Psycho Cut. "Gotcha!"

He didn't make a note that this shadow Robin was less scary than the normal Robin, with her thousand yard stare and vaguely murderous gaze.

"Dunno anything about a snare! I'm just here for the fight!"

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POSTED ON Oct 20, 2024 5:19:20 GMT

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"oh, it's like - hm - the lifeforce of humans and pokemon in the form of energy."

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is that more or less confusing for Althus Rex, though?

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she has little time to process it, however, as lam logan's question floats over on a stray breeze. her head turns slightly toward him, attentive.

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"i believe so? unfortunately, i have yet to see the soul dew actually absorb a wisp so we'll be finding out together."

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kind of exciting, though, isn't it?

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robin coello mentions they can take the warden, then, and her mouth opens with a mild foreboding sentiment on the tongue... only words aren't filtered out into open air. instead, a shadow snare lurches up and effectively squeezes them into place.

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a copy of herself rises up, shadowy and wearing a different face when she blinks. her resulting scowl is bordering feral.

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"got it."

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while robin coello and Althus Rex work to cut down their counterparts, she wiggles her idle hand free and plucks spatial energy from the spaces between to form faint pink claws over her hand. a few swipes and her body is lurching forward, no longer ensnared.

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she shifts toward robin coello, Althus Rex, and lam logan to cut them out as quickly as she can, choosing to ignore the shadowy version of herself lurking a step or two behind.

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POSTED ON Oct 22, 2024 19:41:26 GMT

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He casts a weary glance toward robin coello as she speaks in triumphant declarations. She sure is confident in their odds, and yeah, Althus Rex speaks with high enthusiasm as well, but…the cadence of her words ring a bit differently than the zeal that bolsters the other trainer’s steps and keeps his head held high. We will be Victorious. It’s almost ominous. Maybe it’s just what he knows has been going on with her coloring things. Yeah. Maybe Lam’s just imagining what he hears, combined with the unnerving vibe saturated in every piece of the scenery around them.[break][break]
And she knows this place better than he does. [break][break]
“Do you think it is separate from the spirit you thought, then?” he asks, “or maybe it’s guarding the actual wisp..?” He’s thinking out loud more than putting down any concrete beliefs.[break][break]
illeana reyes’s admission earns a nod of understanding from him. It makes sense, he supposes, if the orb was in someone’s possession until recently, not many have had the chance to witness how it works. But before he can open his mouth to say as much, the shadow tag curls up to lock them all in place. It’s cold like dread seeping up his ankles to his legs, an icy shiver darting up his spine.[break][break]
The shinx in his arms presses closer into that hold–small body tense and amber eyes wide as he looks for the source of the disturbance. A feline awareness of the supernatural makes his fur fluff, and Lam can feel his claws flexing and hooking into the fabric of his sleeve. As if he could bat at a spirit and make contact.[break][break]
An impending sense of doom only swells out around them with greater intensity as they’re quickly surrounded and the real fight breaks out.[break][break]
He doesn’t have any solution for the bind keeping them in place, but as Illeana plucks herself free, he lets his shinx jump free to assist. “Back her up!” Noodle shakes his fur and sparks crackle around him as he darts forward between the head scientist and her umbral doppelganger. As she works to untangle the rest of them, he leaps up to tackle the mimic with a WILD CHARGE that leaves its imitated body wracked with electricity.[break][break]
So if there was a shadowy counterpart for each of them, then there was one for him, right? He scans the fog, but what appears isn’t the creepy manifestation of himself that he expects. A spectre from the back of his mind stalks forward through the mist with disjointed, uncoordinated steps on flat, taloned feet, and despite being freed from the shadow snare, the sight of his dead quaquaval locks Lam in place.[break][break]
Tattered feathers poorly conceal the gore of her eviscerated abdomen as it unspools from the downy fluff, and the long plumage of her tail feathers hang limp behind her as her beak clicks and the grating coo that scratches up her throat sounds in accusation.[break][break]
Lam blanches and the din of their fighting fades to muted static in his ears. He hadn’t had a choice, but he’d left the mangled remains of the bird to rot in the murky depths of the Deep Sea. And he’d never ventured out that far again to find her. Abandoned. That’s what the croak of her cry seems to say, and she is right. He can’t tear his eyes away, but realizes a beat too late that the eerie, clunky pattern of her walk is the beginnings of AQUA STEP.[break][break]
He feels his pulse spike, the flush of adrenaline through his system as fight or flight kicks in. But he does neither. It is Tornadus who intercedes, snapping Lam out of the daze as he descends into the fray–slamming a HAMMER ARM into the soft, rotted melon of Ginger’s head.[break][break]
“What—“ Only then does he let out a shaky breath, and look around. “—the fuck?” He searches the space for Robin reflexively. Protective instinct, though his earlier wariness doesn’t diminish.

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ALL PATHS LEAD TO VICTORY

ROBIN X ALTHUS X ILLEANA X LAM

THE DUPLICITOUS DEMONS ARE BUT THE FIRST WAVE OF THEIR TRIAL. However, Hoenn, this universe, has steeled the spirits of those who live within it.

That is not to say those who wade within this spectral surf are not disturbed. Not shaken. To see a mirror self is to gaze into a part of the soul not meant to be seen by mortal eyes. To see a lost companion, blood and muscle marionetted by the darkest of worldly emotions, is to unstitch an ever-bleeding wound.

The spirit of VICTINI that resides here is made of such emotion. Of the bitterness of sacrifice. Of the unjustness of guardianship against threats never meant for this world.

Immediately after the zombie QUAQUAVAL is dispatched, the VICTINI cuts through the fog with crematory flames. It hisses, eyes glowing with fervent vengeance. Throughout the fight, the spirit speaks. It snarls of its sacrifice. Of its unfair death. Blame is cast to those present, even if they had not experienced the invasion of Ultra Beasts so many years ago.

Cradled within the spectral body, the SOUL SHARD can be seen. It is the hearth of this spirit. Once this spirit is felled, only then can the SOUL SHARD return to the SOUL DEW. Once it returns, the SOUL DEW will feel heavier, fuller. It is almost to completion.

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ONCE THIS SOUL SHARD IS PROCURED, the spirit of Victini will no longer be present in The Border.

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"Man, at least hesitate to cut down my likeness," she teases (hypocritically, after taking down the shadow Rex immediately). The excitement of Border activity riles her up into near hysterical - but joyous - laughter. Illeana's spatial manipulation cuts her free of the shadow holdings as Marshadow zips to shadow punch the shadow Illeana behind them all. "Fighting a gang of look-alike shadows makes me think the spirits are reacting to us intentionally rather than instinctually."[break][break]

Then, flames separate the suffocating fog. [break][break]

A v-create comes down on them all. Marshadow flickers far ahead of the group and offers a drain punch to try and sap strength from the assault, but it fells the ghost almost immediately. Even a hundred feet from where they're grouped up, the heat of the assault can be felt. And even where they're grouped up, the illuminated shard of a soul rests inside the chest of the spirit Victini can be seen clearly. This is precisely what they've come to look for.

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Ironically, Illeana's explanation does make sense. Replace 'infinity' with 'life' and the whole explanation gets a whole lot simpler. Why didn't academics just call it life energy, instead of making it sound cool and mystical? Before Rex can yap back at the Head Scientist, Victini appeared.

Then everything went up in flames.

Hot. Burning. Home. Oh, how victory hated them all. Yet the Three Days War has long since ended, and even the majority of the Megalopolans stranded in Hoenn are long gone. Victini was just a rabid soul that remained affected and broken by war, and that was something that Althus Rex could respect.

Littleroot had changed him, too.

"All right, now this is what I'm talking about!" He felt immense satisfaction at seeing Robin's Pokémon falter before the V-Create. It meant that this was an attack worth meeting head on. If Rex couldn't take this hit, then it wasn't worth living. It wasn't that Robin Coello was inept. She evidently was not. Rex was just built different. "Alright, Gallade. It's no Roar of Time or anything like that, but..."

He smiled widely as he and Gallade marched forward to join Robin's symphony of self-destruction, the Psychic-type's blade turning a hue of aquamarine as he prepared to use Aqua Cutter.

Hell, maybe this would get him the illusive badge he craved if he bragged about it enough on the internet.

"...we can block this one! Isn't that right?"

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her eyes flicker with mild recognition, as if victini's spectral form has been plucked right out of a book in the lab and placed before them.

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and as their shadows fall beneath the sacred flame of victory, she catches sight of something shiny within its body.

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the object of their expedition: the soul shard.

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she feels a faint stirring within the soul dew, but it doesn't quite spring into full awareness just yet. when it's free, perhaps... for now, they must fell this ghost too.

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"shit."

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she steps forward, tucking the soul dew into the fanny pack on her hip. something in the deep reaches of space stirs, turning carmine eyes toward this pocket of dimensional existence.

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but they can't wait for the arrival.

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her arms sweep out from her body, a large pink barrier stretching itself into creation from her palms.

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"get down!"

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they'll need to tank their way through this, but faint trepidation lurks in the depths of her body for she's uncertain if the spatial barrier can withstand the sheer force of v-create... not without injury.

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He expels a breath as the tattered quaquaval crumples under the force of Tornadus' hit. With haunt out of view, the clutch of fear around his heart eases and his shoulders relax slightly. His guard remains risen, though, as his eyes sweep through the fog for any return of things he'd rather forget. "Why would they seek us out intentionally?" he asks Robin. But actually, he's not sure he wants the answer to that question.[break][break]

Similarly, the other shadowy copies dissipate, but they are not given much reprieve to regather their bearings, are they? Maybe they were in the right place, as robin coello had mentioned earlier, or maybe the disruption summoned the vengeful spirit right to them.[break][break]

Victini's spirit flares with heat and flame. Fiery shades that stand out with sharp contrast to the bleakness of the border's sky. A blaze through the mist as the V crashes down over them. Marshadow's efforts are valiant, but near futile under the sheer force of the attack.[break][break]

Lam ducks behind the barrier that illeana reyes erects, but Tornadus follows the Althus Rex's gallade as it rises to the challenge. "Yep! Easy peasy." Or so he says, anyway. Another question rises as he spies the glow of what he assumes is the shard contained within Victini's body. "Was it this strong last time you fought it, Rob?"[break][break]

A chill seeps in as the air stirs around Tornadus. It amplifies the already dreary mood that permeates the terrain of the border, as the winds whip up into gales at the cyclone pokemon's behest. A BLEAKWIND STORM is the sort of weather that suits the space they inhabit - opening up a crater of hollowness in the chest. A cold that crawls down through the bones and into the pit of the soul.[break][break]

But even as the currents rip outward from Tornadus' presence with wide berth, the force behind the attack is channeled more toward victini's spirit where it burns bright. flame that flickers in the wind, but refuses to be put out.

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i keep one of the z-moves in my back pocket, depending on what the group needs (damage v. healing)??? for now, tornadus uses bleakwind storm

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Aqua cutter, spatial manipulation, and a bleakwind storm collectively keep the vicious v-create from burning them all to a crisp. The last of the fiery attack is visibly extinguished as it strikes the spatial construct - leaving an absence and a chill. The vestigial spirit shivers before them, but a flare blitz surrounds the spirit, and the heat of its flames restores it of any frostbite. [break][break]

"We created an opening and ran last time," she answered Lam. Her voice was filled with awe rather than trepidation. "But we didn't experience such a strong force, then. It seems more powerful than before." More emotional, more burdened. [break][break]

The ground beneath them cracked. [break][break]

A poisonous gas billowed up from the ground, reminding Robin of the month where toxic chains were abundant over the region and sickness was impossible to avoid. The stormy weather kicked at it, but the pure amount of gas rising kept replacing all that the winds displaced. It curled hot and acrid around them. Robin coughed and nearly hurled as the poison sat heavy on her tongue. They needed to scatter since the gas could be flammable. [break][break]

Victini charged, overheating.

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