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POSTED ON Sept 18, 2022 3:34:05 GMT

Eva lights up like a friggin’ megawatt lightbulb whenever she talks about something interesting-- which, Memo is led to believe, a lot, by just how frequently she flares up. She talks about her discoveries like a wine mom looking at a very extensive tasting menu, like there’s just too much to sample, and nothing she could pick would be bad.

He wrinkles his nose. “Extinct?”

He tries to follow along as she explains it but he just sort of gets lost-- which is funny because it’s frankly a simple concept.

“What gives you the impression they’re from the past?” he asks, head tilted. “As opposed from, like… the future?” And then he wants to smack himself because it sounds dumb as hell. What else would be opposed to the past, you nitwit?

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POSTED ON Sept 17, 2022 21:57:15 GMT

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Yes, thankfully Guillermo acts before anyone can think-- before he can think, even. Because panic spiking a Pokeball down is still an action, panicked or not.
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“Right!” He follows after her, but keeps his eyes locked on Oona and the Arbok. The snake’s coils loop loosely around her-- not a species made for squeezing-- and she slips through like a greased pig, teeth clacking together just millimeter’s away from purple scales. She skids backwards, claws dragging in the tunnel floor, and launches back in.
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It has to be the head, Memo thinks, the line from a childhood favorite movie coming back to him all of a sudden, the head above the hood. And once I am there, I must never let go.
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Luckily, unlike Rikki-tikki-tavi, Oona is not alone. Cotton Candy swoops in, talons looking more deadly than they might seem. Faced with the two-fold attack, the Arbok lashes back and forth; Oona chases it, and manages to sink her teeth into its side-- on the wrong side of the hood. The Arbok writhes and contracts the hood, twisting its head in an impossible shape to bite Oona’s back leg.
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They’re locked momentarily in an ouroboros of predation, but the snake seems to have the upper hand, using leverage from its long body to try and lift Oona off the ground, make her lose her footing-- but they’re Pokemon, in the end, and Oona’s fur crackles with energy as she cranks a thunder into the thing at point blank range. The air snaps with the burning of ozone and the flash is lightning-bright, but in the deafening silence following, the snake goes limp. Charcoal smoke rolls up from its blackened purple scales.
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“Holy-- crap,” Memo says, the words coming out of him like a cough.
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With great effort, Oona drags the snake back to them, drops it on the ground at their feet, and goes to grooming herself, putting her fur back in order.

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POSTED ON Sept 15, 2022 14:26:33 GMT

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“Sibella,” he managed, against the roar of the wind and the rush of air in his face, stealing his breath, “we have to--”

She chirped at him, irritated. Rerouting to Alex would mean losing the race.

"Okay.” And he let go, pitching off the back of his bat, arms opening in a spine-first free fall down through open air. Everything disappeared except the noise of gravity pulling him downward and his stomach lifted in a deliciously floaty feeling.

He managed to twist himself in the air in time for
Sibella to swoop down beneath him, chittering angrily at him as he came to rest on her back again. She was still shrieking at him when she landed near Alex; Memo slid off her back, smile sunbright, shaking with giggles.

"That was so fun. We should do that again sometime. Hi, honey.” He stretched up on his tiptoes to give Alex a kiss on the cheek--

--like a meteor coming to earth (ha), Freya crashed in riding down on a knocked-out Mandibuzz like a surfboard. The bird dug a long furrow as its impetus dragged to a stop. Memo bounced a Pokeball off its head.

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POSTED ON Sept 15, 2022 1:10:17 GMT

Inhale. Exhale.

“You know… the plan.”

Inhale. Exhale.

“For the Meteor?”

If you close your eyes and hope hard enough maybe you can be anywhere else. Anywhere else.

“We had the Ranger meeting about it yesterday.”

If he closed his eyes and thought hard enough maybe he could be anywhere else. A different universe. A different Hoenn. One where he didn’t have to say this. One where he wasn’t choosing between the fate of all the worlds and this one. One where the survival of both things could be possible.

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POSTED ON Sept 15, 2022 0:37:46 GMT

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For as much as everyone was preaching it’s about Hoenn as a whole, they all seemed to be missing an important part.

“People are allowed to be scared and frightened about their homes being destroyed, in any context,” he said, looking measuredly at Calliope Marks , whose only contribution seemed to be useless, vulgar outbursts. Thank you for your intelligent contributions. He looked at ollie morales when he added, “Even Rangers.”

When Josh Dragomir brought up the not caring about civilians and being in the wrong business bit he desperately wanted to point at Calliope and paxton concordas , who were, honestly, being prime examples of just that. But he wasn’t just a recruit, anymore, and he couldn’t do that. Unfortunately.

He looks at Raziel Beckett next.

“It’s not a pissing contest. It’s a simple declaration of facts. We’re only as strong as our weakest point. What Primal Point will have the largest effect on infrastructure? On the places where people actively work and live?” He put a finger down on the map. “In the city. Not in the desert. Not in the middle of the woods.”

He felt a migraine brewing.

“Look, Lars is going to tell us what to do and we’re going to do it. But we can’t-- we can’t say if we don’t do this there is no Hoenn and then… not plan for there to still be a Hoenn.” There was that ol' Guillermo spark of positivity, firing up again. “We have to have forethought. We have to utilize our resources and protect the people. I’m not arguing against the location, at this point. But we have to proceed with intelligence and compassion.”

He was also very confused as to where everyone thought he was arguing from. All he wanted was the consideration due to where the area of effect was going to be worst. He wasn't arguing the plan. He'd accepted the plan. But they had to look beyond the plan.

"It's hard to see past the end of the world," he added, "but that's part of what we have to do here."

Maybe they never would've gotten to this point if things were a little more proactively managed-- if Dahlia didn't have to shoulder so much of the heavy shit. But that was neither here nor there.

Maybe that was asking too much of people. Maybe he should've just kept his mouth shut.

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POSTED ON Sept 14, 2022 20:37:21 GMT

What to say.

How was he going to say this?

Something to deaden the blow, perhaps. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

"I got promoted.”

He just sort of, floats. In Alex’s living room. Hovering. Noncommittal. Like if he waits long enough he’ll float away and nothing will matter anymore.

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He doesn’t cry. He does quake, a little, shoulders shifting like tectonic plates. His stomach grinds.

"Yeah.”

He shifts a little to the side to breath, catching sight of--

"Your noodles!”

--boiling over on the stove.

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POSTED ON Sept 14, 2022 19:32:08 GMT

"Sorry,” he says, sheepish smile crawling across his face. He warms in the light of Alex, but even that is not enough to beat back the shadows of dread licking across his skin.

He knows that Alex has differing opinions on PDA than he does. He knows. But this is a lot of weight to carry, and he can’t decide what’s more painful: carrying it himself or handing it over.

He drops the bag of ice cream sandwiches, kicks the door shut behind him, and wraps his arms around Alex, burying into his chest. He isn’t crying, not yet, but everything is just too heavy right now.

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POSTED ON Sept 14, 2022 18:40:21 GMT

Sibella swings low over the Sanctuary, buzzing Kyouya with an impish chirp, before she pulls a reverse c-curve and lights on the landing pad.

Memo slides off her back, grocery bag of frozen offerings rustling as he crosses the roof to the door.

He knocks.

"Here,” he whispers into the phone.

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POSTED ON Sept 14, 2022 18:29:45 GMT

He's already in the air. Beneath him, Sibella purrs, her high-powered hearing able to follow the conversation.

"You-- you can always say no."

It is important that he knows this.

"But.... maybe now?"

And ever so slightly, the top layer of his voice peels back, like skin parting from a wound. The tail end of his last word hikes in a crumbling burst of static, his resolve plummeting even as Sibella rises. It's as close to coming apart as he's ever been, around Alex, save their traumaparty in binary land.

"Please."

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“I guess,” Memo said, fixing paxton concordas with his brightest smile, "you could call it being self-obsessed. You would be wrong. But you could call it that.”

He looked at Julia Davis, SACHA ROSIER , Kaida Adachi , his Fortree (and not-so-Fortree) Rangers, buoyed with pride.

"I won’t argue the necessity of Fortree's place in the plan. The time for that is past. We’ll do what we have to do to the best of our abilities. But my job, now, is to take care of Fortree, it’s citizens, and its environment. It is not my job, with all due respect, to account for Petalburg’s lack of staffing, or whatever the case there may be. Of course, we’re all going to work together as a team. But it is inarguable that the threats facing the people of Fortree are larger than the other locations. It is the League’s responsibility to plan accordingly for its citizens.”

He looks at Julia Davis . His heart hurts. He wants to soothe all their concerns and make them his.

"Of course. Evacuation will be our first priority. Buildings can be rebuilt. People cannot. So we’ll need places for them to go, organization to get them there.”

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POSTED ON Sept 14, 2022 17:36:42 GMT

A swell of panic spiking up his trachea makes his voice go ever so slightly squeaky when he answers.

"I, um. Was just wondering if I could drop by. I'll bring ice cream?

It isn't a lie.

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He stares at his phone for longer than necessary, working up the courage to work up the courage to do it.

Hey!

Innocuous. He was trying not to raise alarms.

Are you home? And, like, unbusy?

And not holding any sharp or heavy objects. And sitting down.

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POSTED ON Sept 14, 2022 13:41:58 GMT

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Guillermo felt the weight of Lars’ gaze, and it took every piece of him to not wilt beneath it.

Something bad was coming. He knew it.

He had to swallow his words and not say something smartassed when Lars asked if they knew what kind of danger they were in; like he’d told Alex, I’m gay, not blind, deaf, or senile.

At least he had a little bit of his spark left.

It fizzled and died under Dahlia’s boot.

His world spiraled and crashed around him. Oh, god, he was going to have to tell Alex.

But he was still doing such a good job of faking. He hugs annalise henderson back; he smiles politely at her.

Someone (Calliope Marks ) says something tone-deaf and brash and he has to swallow his retort to that, too. Sounds like I’m not the only one faking it.

Oh, god, he’s going to have to tell Alex. And given his last interaction with Dahlia there was no way in hell Alex’s wasn’t going to see this as a retaliation. A way to crush dissenters.

But he has a position of responsibility now. He has to be smart. In what he says. In what he does.

“You have to understand, this is going to seem like a punishment for something. Like we’re being targeted.” His voice is measured, tone even. "The only populated area being selected? Because I'm assuming Petalburg Woods is going to be the main area of focus? Regardless of whatever tactical point being made, the populace at large isn’t going to see that. And,” he paused, to allow the weight of his next words time to settle in, “that is going to fall back on its leadership.”

On Alex. And him, now, but he didn’t so much care. He could take those blows. Would, willingly. He was born to be a scapegoat.

And then.

And then.

Kaida Adachi launches to his defense. Well, not his, really, but-- Alex’s city. The Sanctuary. His, by proxy. He warms like first spring, oily tendrils of fear soothed by the fervor of her words.

"I expect the League’s full support in loss mitigation. Possibly even moreso than the other locations. As I said before, we’re the only city proper that’s been chosen. People will need to be evacuated. Pokemon, too. And, after, infrastructure to be rebuilt.”

Quid pro quo, Clarice.

He wasn’t going to argue the plan because nothing was going to change. They were running out of time-- collectively, as a whole.

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