Nyeh

What's up, Isaac Merlo.

Doug snorted.

"Lotsa things can make yer heart go faster— or slower." Excitement, for one. Of multiple kinds. "But yer still human. Anything workin' with machine-like precision oughta at least be looked at it. Preferably by a pro."

Technically, Doug wasn't a pro(fessional), but Isaac would just have to settle.

Slowly, his Orbeetle hovered down to float besides him, staring silently at Isaac for a moment longer than was comfortable before turning to Doug.

The other seeming youth tilted a brow at the bug.

"Uh... So what're we workin' with?" He asked, before his pokemon's eyes glowed.

A few moments later, the youth raised his hand as if he was about to backhand Isaac, stopping himself just short before taking a deep breath.

"... Hoo. _{This region won't stop rewarding reckless behavior, huh...?} ... Congrats." He said flatly, clapping his hands dryly twice, not quite explaining why he was saying it before unceremoniously shoving Isaac onto the bed. "You're getting surgery. Don't resist."

Supply

With Hideo Kino.

Doug stared at the message on Hideo's phone, mouth left open in an 'oh'.

For a brief moment, he considered simply agreeing and letting the little green man looking pokemon work his magic. Whatever Hideo didn't remember, wouldn't hurt him.

But Doug wasn't a child anymore.

"Ya sure that's for the best?" Doug asked the pokemon simply, before slowly drawing an arm around Hideo and half-hugging the kid against him. "I... don't know if we should do that."

Hideo was going to be in a lot of battlefields from here on out. A lot more mistakes were bound to happen.

Would Elga erase his memory every single time?

Trauma was awful— Doug knew from experience. But it was also part of the experiences that shaped him, that guided his choices. It wasn't something one could just erase.

Secret

With Eris Halla & Isaac Merlo

Isaac wasn't wrong, but that didn't make Doug's contract any less ridiculous if you asked him.

"Enough. Ya wanted a check up, yes?" Doug surmised, slapping away the blame hot potato. "Alrighty."

He crouched back down to look over Eris, crossed arms atop his thighs as he gave his favorite little gremlin a squint, as if trying to peer into her soul.

"... Oi, Lele, I don't have x-rays. Lil' help here?" He called out after a moment.

A moment of silence and nothing followed, before Eris' hat suddenly rose off her head.

A conical hat poked beneath it as Lele rose with a yawn, floating out of the hat like a bunny getting pulled out during a magic show.

The ever radiant Tapu Lele lazily fell atop her avatar's back, locking her arms around his shoulders and reclining her rounded chin atop his head as she gave Eris a half lidded once over.

Doug wondered briefly what she was seeing...

Birth by Sleep

Round 1

"What the hell are these choices?" He scoffed as he stared at the text window, lips pouty as he considered his 'options'.

Quack or 'jinxed'?!

"I get 'redneck' and quack, whatever, but... why Jinxed? My luck ain't that bad! I've never even lost a game of jinxed in my life!" He protested as he tried to grab the window, quickly finding out that, other than the choices? The thing might as well not exist.

Which is to say, he phased through it and nearly faceplanted, accidentally making his 'choice' in the process.

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'THE JINXED'!

Occasionally, bad luck will strike someone or something around you at random.

Doug stared at the window before him for a moment, brow twitching, mouth slightly agape.

"Oh, this is BULLSH—!"

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"—IT!" Yelped the youth as a familiar silhoutte came flying down upon him from the canopy above, the gleaming blades unmistakable despite the dark.

For a moment, it seemed as though his very own Accelgor was gonna be sending him right back to his bedroom.

Until it suddenly, without warning lurched back midair, releasing a gagging wheeze as its scarves caught onto a branch, leaving the bug shinobi hanging like a prisoner on the gallows.

"... Oh shit!"

One dream ball later, Doug was sighing in relief, his Accelgor's snazzy new ball held tight against his chest.

"Sheesh, almost went and got yerself killed." He said, scowling at the ball. "What kinda ninja roars before attacking anyway?"

He could really use a rewind button on the shadow nonsense right about now.

And on that note...

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PURIFY YOUR POKEMON'S HEART

Warning! Doing so will take away power that can help you protect the ones you care about.

Continue?

"... Huh. How convenient." He said simply, before finishing his Accelgor's purification with a flick of his digit. "Lucky!"

He didn't need shortcuts to strength anyway.

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Accelgor forgot Shadow Chill. Accelgor learned Helping Hand!

LEAGUE FACTION RACE

Holy duckin' races Batman!

This was a long fucking day.

As ever, nothing in Hoenn could just be normal. And even though he should've known from the moment the island just magically unearth and unsea'd itself that things would likely be getting weird, he had still somehow not expected to find this.

A goddamn Regice and a Godder-damneder Power Spot. Of all things dahlia goode had to be right about. He was already beginning to get a headache— worse yet, he was pretty sure he was starting to hear voices, too...!

"Garo!" He shouted over the murmuring in his ear as the giant Regice's eyes glowed and shrill noises filled the air.

If the thing was anything like the Regirock in past reports, then they needed to act fast.

His chest shone brightly with the crackling light of Mega Evolution as his Orbeetle was enveloped in an dark egg, growing larger and larger in size before suddenly bursting open.

The Mega Orbeetle hovered over its trainer and his crew as they all squared for a fight, its eyes a neon blue as the space around it began to contort, the distortion swiftly spreading over the chamber as Gravity was flipped on its head, eliminating any hold gravity might've had on the League's crew or the giant.

With a strong push, the Orbeetle attempted to assist the rest of the league out the Hyper Beam's paths as his trainer hopped onto him, the duo zooming around the chamber and evading Hyper beams while trying to assist their allies in doing the same.

Doug's eyes glowed cyan and magenta as he subtly tapped his Orbeetle's carapace with his foot, seemingly prompting it to summon a Psychic Terrain— which fell upon the Regice like a tons of sand, trying to slow down its movements.

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TL;DR:

-Aw shit, here we go again.
-Mega Evolution.
-DEFENDING: G-max Gravitas to turn the room into zero-G moon jumping fun. Don't let gravity tell you what you can do, y'all!
-Zooming around assisting people.
-Psychic terrain in place, trying to slow down Regice.

Smog

With Yuina Higashi

An arm wrapped around her firmly, the other cradling her head.

Needing to work towards a cause... he couldn't blame her for wanting to make the world better— The Hoenn region specially.

"Thank goodness I was the one who found you." He said softly, worry welling up in his chest. Just as he had begun to worry less for Hideo Kino and Eris Halla, he had found Yuina deep in a battlefield.

He had no idea what he was to do with her. Escort her off the battlefield...? Guide her to the nearest medic camp, and hope she could make it home...?

"Yuina..." He said, gently untangling himself from her arms, yet still keeping his own on her shoulders. "What'cha planning to do? I think ya have done yer service. Combat and warzones ain't the only way to help the region."

MP
+50 MP for Participation;
+50 MP Posts;
+25 MP Use a legendary Pokemon;
+10 MP Spawning Paradox Pokemon;
+10 MP assist another character;

Smog

With Yuina Higashi

Now he was even more confused!

"Wha— I thought ya were a museum curator!" He said, grabbing her cheeks and tugging them apart with a squint. They let a young, amnesiac woman into the force?! "You're even an elite?! Dang, way to go— No, no, wait... Ranger work is super dangerous, ya know?!"

He didn't look happy at all— Well, his face had lit up when he saw how well she had been doing, though he managed to catch and re-center himself— but his creased brow softened before long, a sigh leaving his lips as he release the young woman's face and threw a hand over his face instead, dragging it over his hair.

Recon and Perimeter work... that was still very dangerous, but he supposed it wasn't the worst thing they could've had her doing.

"Haaah... Guess I should just be glad you're... whole." He said, looking her over once again before giving his pink companion a meaningful glance.

Casually, the deity gave the girl her own once over, at which point Doug gave another sigh of relief.

"Okay, good, you ARE—" He said, stopping short. He stared silently for a moment. "Yuina."

His hands fell atop her shoulders once again.

"Take a deep breath." He said— no, warned. "I'mma boutta hug ya."

MP
+50 MP for Participation;
+40 MP Posts;
+25 MP Use a legendary Pokemon;
+10 MP Spawning Paradox Pokemon;
+10 MP assist another character;

night life fever

Switch, ON! It's NIIIIGHT Time, Kazimir Wynter!

"Aw, I ain't even that smart. Want me to rec ya a couple books?" He offered, eyes glinting with a subdued madness. "I know just the right philosopher for a hero of the people."

Briefly and for no particular reason, he wondered if FERNANDO SILPH's distaste for the vigilante would grow even more if he became an avowed socialist.

At Kazimir's next words however, Doug could only offer an unworried grin and a shrug of the shoulders, his gaze wandering over to his hand as it glowed.

"... Yeah." He said, letting his hand fall to his thigh, patting off some dust as he rose up from his crouch. "No point in wonderin' if they'll help or not. In my experience, they choose the folk who are strong enough to not need their help anyway."

He hummed.

"So just keep getting stronger, Pokkenger. Makes it more likely that they'll help us."

Sky

Lulu Flint vs Doug

He simply nodded, before watching her and her dragon sped off.

He already knew as much, but it was nice to have it confirmed that not every rocket he had the misfortune of running across was a murderous brute.

Slowly, he released a sigh of relief, before turning his attention back to the on going battle around him, raising a digit to the comm in his ear.

"Enemy commander has left the skirmish. All injured personnel, gather at the following coordinates—"

Time to do his real job.

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MP
50 MP for participation in a RT Battle/Mission.
50 MP per IC post in a RT Battle/Mission.
10 MP KO'd an opponent's pokemon.
100 MP from Mission.
150 MP from victory.

= 360MP

COURIER CARNAGE SIGN-UPS

Character: John Sullivan [break]
Pokemon (3 Max, List Ability and Moves):

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What Does Your Character Want For Christmas?:cheap Gigantamax on the shop[break]

Amigo was cheaper.

SEA

FERNANDO SILPH and Doug vs mint frost

Doug's hair whipped back as the electromagnetic blast launched forth like a railgun, blasting apiece the beach side the rockets had been trying to dock on and sending grunts in a panicked scramble.

"Understood!" He said as he watched the scene unfold on the beach, binoculars in hand. "They're reacting well!"

His gaze was drawn away from the beach by the rapidly darkening skies above— before their ship suddenly came to a jarring stop, throwing off the balance of many of the crew men aboard, making Doug grab onto the handrails nearby.

Peering down over said rails, his hand was already fishing through his boxy briefcase as he found the reason for their impromptu stop.

"This again." He huffed, finding a vortex trying to sink his ship for the second time that day. "If I had a penny..."

A pokeball was pulled out of his bag, before getting lobbed at their ship's forecastle.

"Deal with it, Toripo!" He said as his Kabutops landed upon the forecastle in a low crouch, the screeching sound of its scythes dragging over the steel deck filling the air as it rushed for the railings.

It leapt down into the whirlpool below, landing on nimble feet over the spinning current as if it were surfing upon it, before its entire form was enveloped in a swath of water, its Aqua Jet allowing it to slide into the water below and ride the vortex's current to its source.

After a moment of staring into the water, Doug turned to Fernando, his hand fishing into his bag for another pokeball.

"I'm gonna go raise some hell at the beach; if I see anything weird, I'll let'cha know Sir!"

REDEEMING

From bag.

1X Move tutor
1X Egg tutor

Blastoise learned Hydro Cannon, Blastoise learned Aqua Jet.

TOTAL

do come again!

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