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We meet again, Josh Devlin.

GET READY!

He could feel the intensity in the air. Sweat began to gather in his brow as his grip on Llamrei's reigns tightened and his posture shifted. The clap of lightning did little to break the knight's concentration, the men around him slowly fading away to nothing, the track spreading out before him.

He was getting fired up...!

"GO!"

"FULL SPEED AHEAD!" Roared the blonde excitedly as he snapped at the reigns, Llamrei bursting forth with a spirited neigh.

What had been their place last time? Third?

Absolutely unacceptable results! This time, she was in it to win it! This time, the gold medal was hers!

"Speed is your game, Llamrei!" Gwyar shouted as the first straightaway spread out before them, eyes narrowing. "Make them eat our dust!"

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Llamrei's Stats
Speed S, Endurance E, Reaction B

Apologies for the wait. Thank you for the Arcanine and Porygon. Both to Gwyar.

UNEARTHING MYSTERY

ATLANTEAN ARTIFACTS

"Oh? What is t— Hold that thought." Gwyar mumbled as his Empoleon scrambled back and away from the mass of angry muscles with a cool fish skull still attached to one of its steel fins.

Much like the blonde, Tiberius did not pay much attention to his prize, both keeping their eyes on the oversized Huntail, Gwyar feeling a sense of nostalgia swell in his chest.

"Dynamax?" He wondered outloud for about as long as it took the giant sea serpent to turn its attention onto their team. "Blimey! To action, Tiberius! Drill Peck!"

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tl;dr:
-Empoleon used Drill peck!

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KINGAMBIT SWARM

CLANGOROUS CELEBRATIONS

"How is it?" The knight asked the blue Gallade as yet another Bisharp crumpled to the floor.

Gawain rolled his shoulder experimentally while staring at his arm, before lengthening his elbow into a blade. His forearm seemed to thin into a razor sharp edge even before a blue glow surrounded the arm completely, transforming it into shimmering sacred sword.

After a moment, the Gallade simply nodded at his trainer.

"Good. The sooner you get used to it, the sooner we can move on to the next stage." Gwyar said as he swept his gaze over the battlefield they had intruded upon.

The clashing of enemy Kingambit's armies had offered an opportunity for Gawain to put to the test the new abilities the open rifts had granted his kind.

The never before seen ability, 'sharpness', and the move that he had never been able to successfully utilize on his own before, Sacred Sword... they had been incredible additions to his arsenal. With this on hand, several options had opened for the swordsmon.

"Now... go forth and take down their leaders." Gwyar said simply with a dramatic sweep of his arm, his coat flapping in the conveniently blowing wind. "Make them regret inconveniencing everyone."

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MECHANICAL KINGDOM: HGCA

Shall we?

"Shush and run!" Snapped Gwyar at Arashi Akiyama as they sprinted away from the automaton and towards the Castle.

Bit of a pity to have to immediately go for the obvious crowning jewel of the site when there was so much left to explore, but he wasn't about to risk his life to maintain the authenticity of the experience.

They managed to lose the giant automaton once inside the safety of the castle's walls, the large man taking a moment to breath a sigh of relief. Besides him, Raki dropped on his bum and panted, gulping onto a bottle of water.

"Is that my—?" Deal with it! "I thought so."

Having followed the surprisingly agile Hideo Kino into the castle walls, they all now stood in a spacious chamber with, as it turned out, quite the macabre décor. At ana fell's commentary, the blonde man released a soft whistle.

"Terribly dreary." The man said as he approached the fossilized bodies in the wall, cupping his chin and rubbing it in thought. "It does not fit the gear aesthetics at all."

He half turned back to the group.

"Think it might be related to whatever ended this civilization?"

ana fell, Arashi Akiyama, Hideo Kino,

Quick Badge

We meet again, Josh Devlin.

"Hello again, Mr. Devlin." The blonde man said with a polite smile, lightly tilting his head towards the youth's Jolteon. "A pleasure, Blinky."

How quaint. Raki would've surely enjoyed the introduction, had he been there. Unfortunately, it was just him and Llamrei.

Last he had been in the track, he had lost at 3rd place. He had no intention of letting such a thing happen again.

"Ah, these are our opponents, then?" The man said shortly after Josh finished introducing the other racers, looking the young men up and down and smiling.

The one named Shawn, specially, he would need to keep an eye on, if Josh's words were anything to go by.

"A pleasure to make your acquaintance, gentlemen. I shall see you all again at the finish line." He said as he swung himself atop Llamrei, the mare slamming her hoof against the soil experimentally before snorting.

"It wouldn't be worth doing if it were easy, my friend!" The man said with a laugh as they took their spots at the starting line, patting the side of his pokemon's neck before smiling confidently. "Llamrei did a little training on her cornerning work since the previous race. You'll find us to be quite a bit more agile than last time!"

Poor cornering had costed them a lot of time during the last race... Not this time!

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Llamrei's Stats
Speed S, Endurance E, Reaction B

MECHANICAL KINGDOM: HGCA

Shall we?

"Language." The cop chastised Arashi Akiyama absentmindedly while still taking in their surroundings, a little too giddy to really care about the youth's potty mouth. "Hn? Did he?"

He stopped and half turned, giving the frozen Raki a curious look for but a moment before himself noticing what the puppy was looking at.

A hideously green spot savagely contrasting with the beauty of the ancient machinery.

"What in the blazes is that?" The man said bluntly as he stared at it, brow furrowing ever so slightly.

At that moment, the young Hideo suddenly raised his voice, the words reverberating through the seemingly empty Kingdom with an omnious sonority, drowning out the constant echo of clockwork for but a moment.

And in response, an eagle-like screech rang back in return, the shrill sound thrumming through their bones as the entire kingdom quaked.

A large shadow swept past the group, the children, the cop, and the unknown woman, with startling swiftness, a sweeping gale of wind that threatened to throw them off their feet following in its wake.

Stumbling to the side, Gwyar didn't even notice the green spot bolt into hiding as he looked around wildly.

"What was—?"

CRASH!

A booming clap sent them all flying as something giant crashed behind them without warning, blocking off the path from which they had come from.

As Gwyar forced himself to his knees and looked over his shoulder, his eyes grew wide, his jaw slightly agape as he found himself staring at a—

"A Dynamaxed Corviknight...?" The man mumbled to himself briefly before the giant 'creature' reeled back and released a deafening screech, the power behind it enough to send even the heavy man hurtling back, his puppy flying after him with a panicked shout.

"Not a Corviknight!" Hissed the man as he skidded along his back before rolling backwards and to his feet, his gaze more focused now. "That is not a Corviknight's cry... — an Automaton?!"

Upon closer inspection... yes. They could see intricate designs similar to the clockwork around them if they looked hard enough into the joints of the beast; see the lifeless glow in its red, crystal like gaze.

Gwyar's arm snapped towards his belt—

And the creature moved with startling speed, bolting towards them before the man even reached his pokeballs.

"Galatine!" The man shouted; his shadow jolted upwards on cue, taking upon the form of a sword and shield and summoning a barrier!

"We must retreat to shelter!" The man shouted, picking up Raki as Galatine struggled against the sheer bulk of the giant automaton.

This thing was massive, could fly, and moved at speeds that challenged its bulk. They did not have enough information to fight it without the very real possibility of injury or death... best to retreat for now and gather information later!

ana fell, Arashi Akiyama, Hideo Kino,

GWYAR'S ADVENT CALENDAR

Day 25 - 1x Custom Pokémon Ticket Gwyar Wledig pc

F to pay respects

Psychic / Ghost SW with Fire-type Incense

So many rare psychic in these mountains...

"Are you not far from the desert, my Merry friend?" The man asked conversationally of a Claydoll as it floated about him, a faint smile on his lips.

Truly, the pokemon seemed thoroughly out of place; down to its cheery mood.

"Some might take offense to your cheer, my friend. 'Tis a place of rest and mourning, after all." He informed the Claydoll simply, before gesturing down the steps.

"Let's make way out of here fast."

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Pass the Claydoll.

SECRETS OF THE SWORD

VOLUME 2, PROLOGUE; EXCERPT BY kyle lopez

Gwyar laughed. He really, really laughed.

"Well... it means you can skip the Body conditioning phase of training." The knight said simply, smiling wide as he gave the younger man a thumbsup. "Which leaves a lot more time for intensive training!"

Gwyar had no idea of who exactly was Kyle's 'personal trainer', but they had certainly done an enviable work. The body of the youth before him was at complete odds with his seeming character; not work as hard? His humor was as good as his battling skills!

For, surely, a man with a body as perfected as was already well acquainted with hard, nay, brutal work!

At the champ's words, Gwyar gently placed his sword back at the table, before reaching over the other side for yet another blade leaned against the furniture.

While the earlier blade had been, in videogame terms, a 'broadsword' (or a rather thick longsword, rather), this one was... different.

Slightly longer than the man's arm, thin, with a single hand grip and a simple, if ornamental guard.

"As far as swords go, Melody's is certainly on the lighter, more agile side." The blonde said, humming. "Her swordsmanship relies on her inherent qualities; Ser Cobalion's teachings are quite adaptable."

As a dancer, she needed to go beyond her limits. Beyond the limits of others.

"Legends praise Virizion's blinding speed, Terrakion's overwhelming might, and Cobalion's Steel body and will." The man expositioned briefly. "With such a thing in mind... I cannot help but wonder what Ser Terrakion's approach to teaching might be."

He was getting giddy already. Placing the Jian besides his Longsword at the table, the man turned back to Kyle before grinning.

"Shall we ask him to choose your arm for you?" Gwyar asked, before smiling as he turned his gaze towards Terrakion. "As I am but a simple assistant, a translator if you will, the task of choosing your weapon —and thus, style— is best left to the master."

Before long, Gwyar had a surprisingly expansive selection of arms, western, eastern and everything in between alike, set upon the table, left for the legendary to choose.

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F to pay respects

Psychic / Ghost SW with Fire-type Incense

A bronzor floated past the man as he rose to his feet, mostly ignoring the blonde as it went about its day. Such pokemon were a rare sight; Gwyar briefly wondered just what business the little sentient tablet could have at the cemetery, but he dismissed the thought quickly.

It didn't matter; he had no intention of getting in its way. Turning away, the man began to descend the steps of the cemetery.

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Passing on Bronzor. Next!

MECHANICAL KINGDOM: HGCA

Shall we?

"Quite astute— indeed, 'tis shockingly similar to the cacophony heard within Galar's Big Ben." Observed the oldest of the bunch; Sootopolis Police Deputy Chief, Gwyar Wledig. "'Tis rather bizarre... Historians oft theorize the first man made gear to have been inspired by Klinklang and its kin— but such pokemon were mostly confined to the western hemisphere before travel brought them across the globe... For an 'ancient' kingdom such as this to be found within a land as far east as Hoenn... Hmm..."

Assuming they truly were explore an ancient Hoennian civlization... well, either historians's theories needed to be revised, or intercontinental travel had ocurred much earlier than most historians believed.

But even assuming it truly was ancient... how? The amount of resources, technology, man and pokepower, required to build such a place. Found in such a tiny piece of land...? Gwyar could feel goosebumps crawling over his skin, his smile stretching slightly.

How very exciting...!

"Such an gargantuan, yet intricate system... One cannot help but wonder. Who —or what— winds it back?"

Besides the man, Raki the Riolu peered around with open great curiosity, a wide smile on his face. This was... an completely new experience in all senses! The puppy's excitement was palpable, and fortunately for Hideo, hearable.

Due to how quickly his gaze fleeted from mechanism to mechanism, Raki almost missed the flash of neon green at the corner of his eye.

Almost.

Swift as any pup, Raki's gaze snapped in the general direction of the green. But he didn't quite see much... wait. Was that... a patch of green on one of the gears...?

The puppy stopped walking besides the group to stare at the patch with open bemusement, slowly tilting his head to follow it as the gear continued to turn...

TL;DR
-Gwyar speaks about Galar, Gears and their theorized history.
-Raki spots something green.
-Raki stops and stares at it.

ana fell, Arashi Akiyama, Hideo Kino,