“Alright, physical,” she replied to the weird stranger that had appeared. Seemed like those three were some kind of group going in here. Strength in numbers and all that. Obviously, Lash knew about that. But she always found it too much of a hassle. She was hunting distortions. Those could dissipate any moment. So a second spent searching for someone to join her could easily mean missing out. Like that one time when she met the weird riding woman on her way up a mountain.

That being said, she now had those people around. And they seemed like the ‘save the kid’ kind of people. For once, she could make use of that stupid body, then. “The distortion is exactly why I am here. I have to get in there. You can bring me to ‘safety’ or whatever, but I will just go straight back towards it.” Petulant child mode would be useful here, she decided. Plus, that was how she felt here to begin with. It was about 70% acted, but only because she usually did not like to show it.

But who cared? The distortion was right there! “So, yeah. Go and take a look. I’ll stick with you instead.” And that was final. Lash had decided. Those strangers would do well to just accept it. Not like she would be easily pried off of Elinor, anyway.

ALEXEI IVANOV IVANOV @guillermo @marceliÑO ELINOR ANDERSON ANDERSON

The world needed to stop spinning, first. Then, small talk. This body really was not made for mid-air maneuvers like this. Well, not yet. She still remembered that aerial battle with a Charizard two years ago. She had managed to endure that one much better. But that had been her in her prime. Not her in her…formative phase? Yeah, let’s call it that.

Lash sighed, holding onto the stranger in front of her after having been flung onto the Braviary. That probably was the safest space for now. Not that she was too scared now, being on an actual ride Pokemon for the time being. One that did not, apparently, seek to throw itself into the sun.
But that wasn’t the important part, anyway. Lash shook her head, trying to get back on track there. “I am Lash, and I evidently did not plan on hitching a ride on that thing in the first place. That just kind of happened,” she replied, a palpable pout to her voice. She did not quite being rescued. Well, she did not like needing rescue. Getting it when needed was probably good.

But being in that kind of situation was still bad, so she was not exactly happy about it.


Alexei Ivanov IVANOV @guillermo @marceliÑO Elinor Anderson ANDERSON

What were the odds? Scratch that. She knew they were fairly low. And while she did briefly consider wondering as to why other people were here, Lash swept that thought away. It mattered not why and how lucky that was. That woman and her Braviary were here. Which was good enough. “Lycanroc, see that one? Discard and draw.” It was a set pattern she had trained with it. Granted, she had been bigger and older then, but fortunately, whatever had happened to her had not happened to it. That Pokemon still knew how it was done. Hence, it growled lightly as it took aim.

In the meantime, Lash prepared herself for her own part in this play. It was dangerous, certainly, but in the spur of the moment, it seemed better than just flying one of the Pokemon into a distortion. That would only bring her higher, further lowering the chances of survival. Best to take the better ones she had right then. Holding onto the Pokeball tightly, she braced.
Then, Lycanroc jumped. Its timing and aim were good enough. Immediately after jumping off, it turned, leaving Lash to face the newcomer. Trusting that one, she clicked the ball, recalling Lycanroc to make this all go smoother while hoping she could catch the small body thrown her way. And that they had not built up too much momentum doing this.

ALEXEI IVANOV GUILLERMO MARCELIÑO ELINOR ANDERSON

There it was! The grand distortion! Her sources had been right. The odd lightning seen the day before had now given rise to a proper rift in space and time, sending ripples through the fabric of the universe! Or something like that. Honestly, she no longer gave that much of a toss about the way this all worked. Just as long as she could get there in time and hopefully take back the years lost, she would be happy.

And thus, she was rushing towards the mountain, her Lycanroc bursting through the forest, breaking branches and trampling grass and mushrooms, as uncaring about what that did to the place as she was. Following its trainers wishes, it was single-minded to get up there, even as it reached the foot of the mountain. From there, things switched – but only in the sense that the Pokemon no longer made long strides trying to cover as much ground as possible.
Instead, it started to climb upwards, jumping from ledge to ledge, prompting its rider to hold on tighter. It was a bit dangerous, but Lash could manage. At the very least, she could do that much in this body. Even if holding on was not exactly a grand ambition.

Still, they rose – until Lyconroc did suddenly have to stop after jumping up a ledge, into the dark, skidding to a halt just so it would not crash right into a person it had not been able to see until it was almost too late.
Fayne Abernathy

Thought one: again, she should have brought a flier.

Thought two: if this was a TV show, this would be the perfect place for a freeze frame followed by a disembodied voice-over going something akin to “Now, you are probably wondering how I got here…”. What could she say? Lash had always liked those kinds of shows. Yet, when they had set out to the crater following a lead that a time-space-distortion was active there, she had not expected to star in one.

But then again, those things were always volatile, rare, and likely to, well, de-spawn at a moment’s notice, for lack of a better word. Hence, she had mounted her Lycanrock and rushed in, regardless of a lack of preparation and scouting. Granted, that was kind of how she had gotten stuck in this form to begin with. But she had seen when climbing that mountain that doing it properly could just get you stuck watching it disperse – oh, that word was indeed better – right in front of you.

And she wasn’t going to let this happen again. Hence, the rushing in. Her Rock-type Ride was deftly manoeuvring through the jungle, seeing that familiar atmospheric flicker in the distance, dodging geysers here, there and everywhere. This was not a gentle place, so they had both come here with game-face on. Being someone with a lot of experience with Pokemon, Lash made sure to direct her own to dodge wild ones.

For the most part. After all, she didn’t know every single Pokemon yet. So, when Lycanroc hopped from one branch of a strange tree-like rock formation to the next and things started to shake, they briefly stopped, thinking it was an earthquake or something. Staying put and holding onto something was a viable thing to do in such a situation.
Less so when you were holding onto a living rocket ship. But they only realized that when it was already taking off, carrying them with upwards, skywards. Lycanroc frantically scrambled to dig its claws into the smooth metal somehow, as Lash held onto it for dear life.

Because, well, that was what she did. And hence, the freeze-frame. Captured probably when the Cele-Rocket passed by a not-rocket woman riding her breviary in mid-air. But Lash didn’t quite notice that. She had her eyes closed for the sake of protection against wind resistance. And absolutely no other reason whatsoever.



Alexei Ivanov Guillermo Marceliño Elinor Anderson
prompt: cele-rocket

After choosing Rockruff from my gacha, I am using a type 1 evo and a rowap berry on it to evolve it into shiny Lycanrock, then feed it the pasho berry to teach it Splintered Stormshards

picking a rockruff for now

None, really. Maybe something mountain-y?

So, it was a rider. There were quite a few of them these days, were they not? She had met one on the way to a space-time distortion recently as well. Though she reckoned that an Houndoom, especially a big one, was a reasonably….reasonable mount in comparison to what that woman had fielded.

Still though, Lash regarded the stranger with skepticism and some apprehension. As someone with her frame probably should, but she hated to think of herself that way, so she discarded the thought. Instead, she calmed her own Houndour down by briefly patting its back. “He was not scared,” she plainly replied, as always not liking it when she felt herself or her Pokemon being belittled. Even when they were not. Emphasis on felt, really.

Either way though, she was about to say more when suddenly, another kind of roar sounded. A bit drowsy, maybe, but deep and certainly at least a little bit powerful, as somewhere in the grass, smoke started to billow.



TAG WITH Josh Devlin

Hmm, Lash is actively hunting them, so Fayne could either link up with her doing that or run into Lash and, by extention, the distortion

1 immediately harvestable/redeemable passho berry.

2 250 pd

12 2x shards of choice (e.g. red, blue, green, yellow).

19 3x level tutors.

21 100 pd

21 100 pd

22 100pd

23 100 pd

33 1x warden's safari ticket.

49 5x pokeballs.

56 100 pd

64 3x type 2 evolution candies.

68 3x tm/tr.

68 100 pd

71 2x type 1 evolution candies.

72 100 pd

77 3x gachapon tickets.

78 100 pd

86 3x incense.

91 2x salac berries - immediately harvestable/redeemable.
(1050 pd)

From lucky letter event all go to Lash. I added stuff to the inventory and would like to roll her Gacha tickets here

this is a gacha, 1% SSR rate

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1 immediately harvestable/redeemable passho berry.

2 250 pd

12 2x shards of choice (e.g. red, blue, green, yellow).

19 3x level tutors.

21 100 pd

21 100 pd

22 100pd

23 100 pd

33 1x warden's safari ticket.

49 5x pokeballs.

56 100 pd

64 3x type 2 evolution candies.

68 3x tm/tr.

68 100 pd

71 2x type 1 evolution candies.

72 100 pd

77 3x gachapon tickets.

78 100 pd

86 3x incense.

91 2x salac berries - immediately harvestable/redeemable.
(1050 pd)

all to Lash···················