The moment he saw the Shaymin that the Gym Leader was carrying along with her, it was on sight.

“Oh, shit—I didn’t realize you have one of them, too!” he would remark, blinking and looking up at the Shaymin for the briefest of moments, before realizing that his Absol was already rolling her eyes his way.

“Cordy, what?” he would continue half a second later, blinking as he turned to stare at her; before resisting the urge to roll his eyes where present companion could see!

“We may not have met, but—if you remember that tournament earlier in the year, I entered with my Absol. Vital City Tournament, down at Lilycove?”

He had a rather decent win / loss streak from the entire thing, so there was that.

When he was prompted about the challenge, he would dig around his lighter jacket a bit before pulling out a rather worn-looking notebook—to be honest he was the only one that called it a tome, so there was that.

He would then flip the front flap open, to show the Weather Badge he’d also won from that particular tournament her way.

“Well, asides from collecting tales and stories about legendary Pokémon, I wanted to see how things were done around here. Back in Alola, we don’t have Gym Challenges—we have Island Trials, you see,” he would explain.

Maybe that should explain his Alolan accent that was bleeding out a bit, before he reeled it in and returned it back to the ‘neutral’ accent he normally used.

“And I want to see how the Gym Challenge compares to the Island Trials back home,” he added.

+ DESIREE BLOOMS
+ in typical Alolan fashion

To be honest, this was the Pokéjob that he had a very difficult time picking out someone suitable to send; because while he did have a slowly but surely growing collection of Water-type Pokémon, well, fact of the matter was that this particular listing needed any Pokémon that knew a Dance-type of move…

And so the easiest one that came to mind was Rain Dance, of course.

Once he’d dropped off Miri the Azumarill at Slateport Park with very specific instructions to only use Rain Dance when asked, he would then go off to get some tea.

This would leave the adorable water bunny Pokémon blinking at the Bronzong, the Florges, the… she didn’t know the other Pokémon species (the one that looked like a gray-skinned kaiju) but—

The moment she heard the magical words ‘Rain Dance’, she would then turn slowly on the spot, before a gentle kind of rain began pouring down around everyone.

Normally this would be torrential, but not today—it was time for her to show off that she could dance!

+ Victoria Beckett, calla roth, Ettie, Navy
+ Miri the Azumarill used Rain Dance!

Normally he’d have worn his favored overcoat atop his usual outfit however this was Lavaridge and the place was terribly hot—due to the proximity of Mount Chimney

(Like, really, who would build a town right at the foot of an active volcano?!)

Several minutes of asking around later, he would eventually find the Psychedelic Chateau—an aptly named location that looked much bigger than it sounded (on paper); with the several domes reflecting the harsh sunlight off them.

Now that he was here—after making his way inside—what next? He was told to bring one Pokémon, and he was definitely making the trip with his trusted Absol, Cordy.

What insanity awaited them today?

+ DESIREE BLOOMS
+ oh boy here we go

It was pure, sheer, unadultered luck that the next Pokéjob they had was very close to where they normally ‘hung around’ (being a hobo with no permanent address sometimes had its perks after all) so they didn’t have to make the trip too early in the morning; in fact he’d already stopped by for some tea and had already sent his Magnezone on ahead to help with these ‘research papers’ that needed another run-through.

He would be waiting outside; sipping on his tea while the Magnezone set to work; magnets whirring and electricity crackling as it scanned through a pile of newly-delivered paperwork for them to check if any of it was plagiarized.

In no time flat there would be an isolated stack of papers separated from the main ‘pile’ via magnetic waves; the pile on the left was the original pile of papers that had been dropped off; while the pile on the right were the papers and reports that had some form of plagiarism contained with them.

(Thank you, Analytic.)

All in a day’s work!

+ kyle lopez, Gwyar Wledig, mikael rosenberg, Elise Calcifet
+ pkjob done!

This was really funny, since the script had a ‘dream sequence’, and what better Pokémon to use than a Musharna?

Sure, it would hit all the boxes for being overused and absolutely cliché, but at least the representative Pokémon would be easy enough to move around—all things considered.

While he knew Livia was the sweetest Psychic-type around, fact of the matter was she slept maybe a little too much—was she a Snorlax in a past life, maybe?

Either way—Jack would be whistling quietly in order to get the Musharna to move where they wanted her to go; because she had sensitive hearing and so her scene had to be shot in near silence.

(The sound editors would fix this shit later anyway, so.)

+ Yuina Higashi, Leo Winters, DESIREE BLOOMS
+ black & white pkjob

There was nothing else to it—he could see the checkered flag up ahead—and he knew that he had to either go out with a loud crashing wave; or force everyone to eat his surfing dust.

“Ri, let’s go! Hit it!”

Without further preamble, the Mantine would suddenly lighten their body; the beginnings of an Agility speed boost kicking in as he hung on for dear deer fucking life on the dual-type’s back!

No time to look behind, Jack!

Only look forward!

Only look forward—and put the pedal to the damned-ass fucking metal!

He could feel the thrum of energy between himself and his Mantine—this was the farthest they’d rode out together!

Normally they would only catch a few waves and rest afterward; however today was literally a show of endurance; which was his Mantine’s greatest weakness, all things considered.


+ @tag
+ using Terastal! (3 of 3)
+ Speed: B ↠ A, Endurance: C ↠ B, Reaction: B ↠ A
+ using Agility to BOOST and ride on to manifest destiny!

Sand.

It was coarse, rough, irritating and it got everywhere, especially if you weren’t used to living very near or by the beach.


However, since Jack came from a place with a lot of it, this was practically nothing to him at this point.

(Just don’t get him started on Pyukumuku. Those were another entirely different nightmare altogether; one he didn’t want to think of, thank you very much!)

“Huh. What’s gotten them all… wait one second…” he stopped to gape at the Sandygast and the… whoa, that was one big-ass Palossand!

“How the hell did y’alls get here?!” he exclaimed; quickly calling his Absol, Cordy, forward.

“Let’s go on some clean-up!” he called her way; before she lashed out with a Night Slash!



+ @tag
+ notes here

They had managed to coast through the previous wind funnels; and thankfully his timing of popping out the funny balloons paid off to be a good choice, all things considered.

However now was their actual challenge since they—

No time to look behind you, Jack! Keep moving forward!

This was actually the first time he’d ridden on the back of his Terastalized Mantine under such conditions (as they had very little time to practice before the race) but all things considered they were doing considerably well—all he had to do was keep his balance on the suddenly crystalline surface!

“Come on, Ri! We’re so close!” he would cheer the Mantine on; seeing that the waters up ahead were looking particularly choppy.

All he could do was lean into the wind; brace himself for a potentially rough patch of waters as the choppiness was sure to throw their rhythm off…


+ @tag
+ using Terastal! (2 of 3)
+ Speed: B ↠ A, Endurance: C ↠ B, Reaction: B ↠ A
+ we RIDE THE WAVES

There was one other Pokémon lurking in the back of his head that he knew had a Galarian forme, but couldn’t recall for the life of him.

Not until Yuina began sharing about the differences between the Zorua and the Samurott she owned did he realize that—compared to how her Samurott looked, the normal one was less… how was he going to put this?

Edgy?

(For that was as close as he was going to get when it came to comparing Pokémon. Either way.)

The clue here was that she’d mentioned the space-time distortions—while he’d heard about them, he had yet to venture inside of any of them so there was that.

He felt his eyebrows raise as he took another bite of the musubi he was holding; if but to gather his thoughts.

“So you’re saying,” he would speak up once he was done with the bite he took, “…that these forms can be gotten through the strange distortions?” he would confirm.

Well… that would definitely lead him to try and look for an Oshawott of his own… maybe even see if he could find two of them; for posterity’s sake.

+ Yuina Higashi
+ jus a lil’ ol’ tiny case of déjà vu