Why, oh fucking why, did he have to be stuck with the world’s most useless Yamper alive?!

Not only did Sumi not know how to properly herd Wooloo, she would just chase after treats and nothing else!

“Where are they?!” he exclaimed to the canid Pokémon, who tilted her head at him curiously before yipping and yapping uselessly before running around his legs, wanting to play and get belly rubs.

“Gah!” was all he would screech to the heavens before raising his arms up in mock celebration.

On the opposite side of things, right close to where a certain young lady had decided to sit down and take in nature…

The sound of bleating, getting progressively louder the longer they would listen, would be heard. Not only that, but there were also jingling bells that were part of the… stampede.

A stampede of four completely, absolutely unrepentant, stubborn Wooloo that were engrossed in a colossal game of ‘tag’ that they had deliberately wandered away from that loud, annoying Yamper that did absolutely nothing!

+ @maoja
+ Jack is not there yet at the park, but his four Wooloo are headed your way!

That burn felt too painful to be even real (if that even made sense. Of course he wasn’t going to allow Emm to get roasted alive, hell, he’d throw himself in front of any of his Pokémon as a shield if it so warranted!

Unfortunately, though, it was looking like things were going to get rather explosive in short order, and since he was so fucking tired (plus his Gardevoir was extremely exhausted at this point; one more move would end her) he regretfully called back his Gardevoir—only to replace with his Absol.

“What?” he blinked as the Dark-type looked around in alarm.

“I know, I know! But we have to get the fuck out of here! Let’s go!”

With a resigned sigh, the Absol allowed him to get on her back before bolting the hell out of there—but she couldn’t help but resist to peek into the future a little using her Future Sight; was there a chance that they could return to what would remain of this island in the future?

+ @tag
+ heat exhaustion is really starting to set in
+ swapped out Gardevoir for Absol!
+ time to gtfo of here! Jack gets on Absol’s back and they make a fucking run for it!
+ to sate the curious, Absol used Future Sight to see wtf might happen in the near (or far?) future for the island, if it’s possible to return to it in the future

See, if he still had Gor the Tyrantrum handling the rampaging beast would be but a simple matter!

However, stupid decisions made earlier in the trip cost him that, so now he was reduced to banking extremely heavily on Emm the Gardevoir, which was definitely taking its toll on the dual-type.

“Shit, I shoulda bought that goddamned accessory when I had the chance, huh?!” he exclaimed as he stepped in front of the Gardevoir; there was no way he was going to let her get the brunt of the blast of… whatever the shit fuck was coming.

“I know you’re sick and tired of dealing with these things, but please, one more time, Emm! Hopefully this is the last!”

As he valiantly pointed forward, she raised her arms, and for what felt like the umpteenth time, conjured up a burst of fae energy in the form of a Dazzling Gleam and sent it hurtling towards the drunken Charizard…



+ @tag
+ heat exhaustion is setting in
+ Gardevoir used Dazzling Gleam once more (what other choice does he have at this point?!)
+ Jack will protect his Gardevoir no matter what happens!

Thankfully Miri’s aim struck true, and the powerful burst of water helped subdue some part of the horde… but he knew they weren’t out of the thick of things, not by a long shot!

There’s a reason why I don’t like volcanoes! And this is it! he thought angrily as he blinked once, twice, several times as he welcomed the change of weather—for the moment…

Only for the biggest Charizard to start sprouting the same funny-looking hat like the Druddigon from far below…

“Are you kidding me?!” he exclaimed before spitting out a few choice Alolan swear words as he swapped out his Azumarill for his Gardevoir once again, because honestly if he still had Gor in a functioning state he would literally have the Tyrantrum rush at the giant-ass Charizard much like how a Rhydon had the same idea of bodying it…

However his tactic would have to do.

Once Emm the Gardevoir was out again, she blinked and saw the exact same hat from earlier and sighed.

“Please,” he whispered, the heat exhaustion starting to get to him before the Gardevoir released a potent Dazzling Gleam and aiming it right at the biggest Charizard with the funny hat forming on its head!



+ @tag
+ Swapped out Azumarill for Gardevoir!
+ Gardevoir used Dazzling Gleam and aimed it towards the Charizard with the funny dragon hat!

Maybe it was a good thing that he saved his Azumarill for later, all things considered. Thankfully they’d finally made their way up and out of the damned place.

“Never…again,” he hissed, swatting at his clothes to make sure that there were no embers that remained on them.

And just as he thought that they were out of danger?

More trouble comes literally knocking!

“Are you kidding?!” he exclaimed as he swapped out his Gardevoir for aforementioned Azumarill, and then without further ado aforementioned water rabbit Pokémon opened fire with Hydro Pump on the closest Charizard it could reach!

He was more than surprised that he got one of those weird… ooh, shiny. He would keep the Dragon tera shard for later…



+ @tag
+ Jackie is keeping the Dragon Tera shard!
+ Swapped out Gardevoir for Azumarill!
+ Azumarill used Hydro Pump on one of the many Charizard in mid-air!

Of course he had no idea that he was going to be walking straight into a trap of his own, due to what had happened to him earlier when they came tumbling down into the depths.

They had to find their way out of this place, and soon—the heat was starting to get to him…

Little did he realize he’d drifted away from DEREK HOFFMAN and Isaac Merlo, lost in thought as he was trying to find a way out. He’d gotten so engrossed with trying to find a way out he didn’t feel the mind prickle until it was far too late—

“WHOA!” he yelped as he looked up and saw that there was a band of Delphox that had followed him from the shadows, breathing out so much fire and redirecting the magma, leaving him, alone, on the island—

“Emm? Emm, where are you?!” he yelled as he hurriedly looked around—his Gardevoir was nowhere to be seen.



+ CIAN MAHER, DEREK HOFFMAN, Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki, Navy, Isaac Merlo
+ doing personal prompt: During the final ascent, JACK NAPIER will be ambushed by several DELPHOX attempting to cut him off from the rest of the characters by trapping him on an island surrounded by rising magma.
+ his Gardevoir is with the other two (Isaac and Derek) while he remains stuck on the lone island, trapped!

Seeing that there was a Musharna that had released a dazzling light show with the help of Moonlight, Emm the Gardevoir wasn’t going to let herself be outshined.

Never mind if there were humans fussing all over her face and applying all kinds of weird shit on her face, but no matter.

She knew that she had to make Jack proud because she was here to help, so with dignity and grace, she allowed the strange, funny humans to continue approaching her and applying all shades of makeup to her face, her arms, her hair even—

Once she was deemed ‘ready’, she then popped a subtle Dazzling Gleam to enhance the lighting as she took her own catwalk down the runway.

+ Eris Halla, lam logan, @saturn, El Sunderland, kyle lopez, Elise Calcifet
+ pkjob: make-up models

His Gardevoir felt the mental touch of the Noivern in her head; after a few seconds she nodded at the other Pokémon so that they could proceed.

“Who’s splitting and going with who?” he asked a few moments afterward. They already had the Gardevoir and the Noivern linked up, so it would all determine who was going into which group.

“Since our ‘mons are psychically linked, we can have two groups as Isaac Merlo suggested; faster for us to find a way out rather than travelling together so our ‘mons can get in touch with the other group once they find a way out… besides, who knows how the other group is doing up there since we’re all the way down here,” he mused.

+ CIAN MAHER, DEREK HOFFMAN, Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki, Navy, Isaac Merlo
+ setting up the split into 2 parties to find a way out faster (and also setting up his prompt in the process on his next post pog)

Thankfully the angry, angry Druddigon with the funny-ass looking ‘hat’ (if he could call it that) had been handled with, and not a moment too soon!

“Uh. Okay, I have a Psychic-type with me, so… who’s coming with me?” he gestured, tilting his head in his Gardevoir’s direction.

“Did anyone else bring a Psychic-type down here?” he asked everyone else once they were all together and ready to… pretty much get the hell out of here.

But little did he know that he was going to get himself into some kind of trouble…

+ CIAN MAHER, DEREK HOFFMAN, Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki, Navy, Isaac Merlo
+ offers his Gardevoir to be one of the two Psychic-types needed so they can get tf outta there ASAP

Huh.

What was this garden doing all the way out here? He blinked…

“Okay, hey, whoa, back off!” he shouted at the Kangaskhan that had come rampaging into the garden—it was too pretty to look like it was randomly like that—and he then saw that there was a Sunflora in the garden that was literally distressed and trying to shoo away the rampaging mother Pokémon.

“Emm, go!” he shouted as he pulled out his Gardevoir’s containment unit, who then dropped onto the ground and then firing off a blinding Dazzling Gleam without further ado at the Kangaskhan.

“Dunno who owns this garden, but hell y’aint touching those Berries!” he barked as the angry Pokémon came in for a Stomping attack, only to be thwarted by a Teleport from the Gardevoir; and clobbered in the back of the head with a Psychic.

“Yeah…”

He then threw a Pokéball at the Kangaskhan.

+ @tag
+ oops