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PP2: LATIAS
POSTED ON Mar 26, 2024 8:13:28 GMT
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The next thing that happened, well… he could only watch in quiet terror.

While he didn’t know of ’s connection to Latios as much as did, fact of the matter was that there was a Latias firing haphazardly all manner of…

“Whoa!” he yelped as he narrowly avoided the Mist Ball that came close to detonating in his face.

What made this worse was the tropical rain that was pouring all around them—typical from the Hoenn region to just suddenly change weather like it was some crazy—

“Yikes,” he would hiss quietly as the rain hampered visibility. Hopefully he’d be able to get close enough to help the Latias as it was trying to fight off the noxious chains that were trying to hold it down…

Were the chains causing this to happen without warning? Such terrible power…

Never mind if the same rolling feeling in his stomach was back, he would have to bear it just to get more information about what was happening!



• notes: does not have 20 mochi
• reference the weather (tropical rain or weather moves).
• if your character has participated in AT LEAST 3 POISON PATROLS, they may feel slightly unwell during this patrol; furthermore, your character may be able to discern that the TOXIC CHAINS do corrupt and imbue Pokemon with unique abilities…

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tinkatons gone rogue, more at 11 [pp]
POSTED ON Mar 26, 2024 6:20:43 GMT
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The Tinakton he was tangling with was very much intent on squashing the Blaziken with another mighty swing of the enormous hammer, but realized the hammer was being too heavy!

So instead…

A surprise Flash Cannon attack would explode from the Tinkaton’s direction as they bid their time before they could swing the gigantic hammer again—

“Whatever you do, do not let them get past you! There’s way too many of them attacking as it is, if we lose our current position, then they’re going to spread out from where they’re coming from!” he would holler as this time, the Blaziken would best the burst of metallic energy with a Flame Burst of her own.



• this is carrying over right after the events of pp2: hammers
• apparently, they took hammer time a little too personally


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tinkatons gone rogue, more at 11 [pp]
POSTED ON Mar 26, 2024 5:00:26 GMT
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The chains, he noticed, were ominously binding the hammers that the Tinkaton held to their hands in case these were sent flying away.

“What in the absolute…” he would hiss quietly, realizing that the Tinkaton was laughing like a mad person possessed, before coming in swinging once again with the comically-huge hammer that was headed their way!

His Blaziken let out an angry squawking noise; before quickly using Mirror Move to throw the incoming Gigaton Hammer attack back at the culprit!

“Ugh, what is up with these shits?!” he would hiss under his breath as the two Pokémon clashed in an explosion of ringing steel.



• this is carrying over right after the events of pp2: hammers
• apparently, they took hammer time a little too personally

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POISON PATROL BYPRODUCT (PP)
POSTED ON Mar 26, 2024 4:52:26 GMT
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“Geez. This is just way too much trouble happening all at once.”
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PP2: HAMMERS
POSTED ON Mar 26, 2024 4:47:30 GMT
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Okay, if it wasn’t bad enough they hadn’t finished mapping out the entirety of Area Zero, this had to happen as well!

He sighed, before pinching the bridge of his nose. Normally, he would bust out either Alpha or Ro, however these Pokémon with the comically-huge hammers were causing mass mayhem and panic, swinging them around and… whoa. Those chains really had a macabre look to them, wouldn’t you say?

He blinked.

Okay, it was time for the heavy artillery.

Whipping out a particular Pokéball, he would then summon his Blaziken, aptly named Guinevere, in a flash of red light—just as one of the Tinkaton came screaming at him swinging that comically-large hammer!

“Whoa!” he would yelp as the Blaziken would swing into action, catching it off-guard with a surprise Blaze Kick and hopefully forcing the strange pink Pokémon to crash into another nearby Tinkaton!

Yikes.



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• attack/defend against the TINKATON.

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DUSTOX/BEAUTIFLY SWARM (PP)
POSTED ON Mar 23, 2024 19:10:00 GMT
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Fact of the matter that when Dustox—normally nocturnal Pokémon—were being spotted in broad daylight, he realized that something was definitely up.

Geez, what in the flying absolute fuck was going on?!

(And to think he’d stopped by the city to pick up some buttermilk as well as some actual butter for cooking something! Well, cousin dearest had asked him for something to eat so who was he to say no to her?!)

Either way…

“Geez, this is bad,” he would continue quietly, radioing in the situation to any and all Rangers who happened to be nearby—and trying to summon to help deal with the extremely thick horde of Dustox and Beautifly that had settled around the city like a literal, living, flapping blanket…

“This shit is getting out of hand!”

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surprise, you're dinner [az:e]
POSTED ON Mar 23, 2024 18:55:25 GMT
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Now, this would resolve into either one of two things:

The first instance would be the Gyarados chaining into Hurricane to blow all the Unown away; and they could make a clean getaway.

The second instance would be that same Gyarados would this time fry all the remaining Unown with a highly-potent, concentrated burst of Thunder damage…

Seeing as the little Josh was already making his getaway, he would whistle sharply once in Kali’s direction; and she was then free to drop whichever attack she wanted.

However, do remember that this is a perpetually angry Gyarados, so…

The first Hurricane cone of wind would come sweeping up any remaining Unown stragglers; before she would release another angry bellow and then drop a bolt of Thunder on the ones that she hadn’t managed to funnel away!

(Now that was a Gyarados for you!)

“Coming, coming!” he would yell as the silver Metagross would attempt to follow the other man down and out of the stretch that they were supposed to be explore—only for them to be repelled back by the sudden barrage of Unown that were coming from multiple directions all at once.

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• Kali the Gyarados dealt a one-two punch in the form of Hurricane to sweep up all the Unown, before dropping a bolt of Thunder down the funnel!


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POISON PATROL: WEEZING
POSTED ON Mar 22, 2024 18:28:56 GMT
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As they would say, ‘desperate times call for desperate measures’.

The moment all the Koffing and Weezing were sighted, several APBs had been put out for Pokémon that had the Damp ability—simply because this particular Poison-type’s line had a tendency to detonate at completely random moments!

Thankfully he wasn’t too far away from where the veritable horde had been sighted.

“Yikes,” he would cringe the moment he arrived; immediately pulling out a Dive Ball and popping out Ryujin the Swampert.

“I don’t think they’re going to come after us, because you can prevent them from exploding, right?” he would confirm with his dual-type companion; who would nod as her Damp ability would come into play.

“Let’s get to work and thin the horde out.”

While he’d managed to locate other fellow Rangers who were helping with clearing out the hordes of Koffing and Weezing—some of them complained about headaches, and a general sense of unease and dizziness.

To be fair, even he was feeling the symptoms of being around so much poison for too long. Ugh. He could feel his stomach rolling the longer they stayed out here…



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• if your character has participated in AT LEAST 3 POISON PATROLS, they may feel slightly unwell during this patrol.

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the sulkfest [s][c]
POSTED ON Mar 22, 2024 18:22:05 GMT
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The fog pouring out of the chamber’s opening would only thicken; the Volcarona and the Rotom would look over at the incoming thick blanket and both would immediately react; turning up the temperature around the area so that the other human—who was sadly not immune to the low temperatures in the cave—would be kept warm for as long as possible.

The Volcarona would then perform a quick, little Fiery Dance to keep the cold away from the general area as long as humanly possible.

Back inside…

“Well? What’re you waiting for?” he would continue, looking up at the scorned Legendary Pokémon who was still glowering at him from their airborne perch.

“It was down here, right in this very cave, that you passed judgement on so many people several years ago now. Out of all of them, you chose me. Despite my personality being the near-exact opposite of what you represent. But you gave me a chance.”

He couldn’t stand not knowing.

“…why did you turn on Senri, anyway? What had he done to displease you?”


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RKS: Andrea & Lars
POSTED ON Mar 22, 2024 18:11:17 GMT
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His companion’s comment about equines made him smirk a few moments, before wondering—where did that statement come from? It was completely from out of nowhere, so…

She then got the idea of asking him if he could do his ‘magic’ on the Glastrier…

“It just so happens… I have one of these myself,” he would tilt his head in the frozen equine’s direction. “They just don’t like coming out of Shoal Cave too often, because Hoenn is, of course, a region perpetually experiencing summer. You know. Ice melting faster when exposed to heat, that kind of thing.”

He would then blot out the screaming that was going on all around them because of the sight of aforementioned Glastrier, and he squared his shoulders.

“Sometimes, you know,” he would continue as he concentrated hard enough and ‘produced’ some small chunks of ice in his right hand before holding them out for the Glastrier to sniff at (and eventually eat), “…the most obvious answers are right there in front of us.”

While it was no Iceroot Carrot, it would do in the meantime!



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AZ EXCURSION B: LARS & LANCE
POSTED ON Mar 22, 2024 18:00:24 GMT
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“Hey, I’ve been through worse, you know,” he would crack; his mind’s eye flashing back to the time that he and had to do actual, legitimate construction work back down in… was it Oldale, or Petalburg?

It was either one of those two places, and even then the locals from around those places wouldn’t stop watching them as they helped rebuild destroyed houses from the aftermath of a surprise Team Rocket attack around those parts previously.

His nose wrinkled at the smell of paint.

“Oh, my god. Did they not read the order form correctly?” he would blurt out as he took the other… canvas paintbrush and rolled it over in his hands!

They were going to be here for a while, weren’t they?

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• omg they’re gonna be here for a while huh


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surprise, you're dinner [az:e]
POSTED ON Mar 22, 2024 17:52:02 GMT
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It was at this point he noticed something—

Unlike the other Unown that could warp their unfortunate targets to another dimension (hell, even a pocket dimension if they so desired) these Unown just… continued attacking them with Fire and Ground-type Hidden Power projectiles that kept raining out from several directions.

The Metagross let out a cry of distress; before switching from telekinetic powers to outright Psychic powers to divert, or at the very least redirect, some of the incoming projectiles!

“Have you noticed something?!” he would shout over the racket of projectiles.

“They haven’t tried to warp us to another dimension yet!” he would add while the Gyarados, ever so pissed that the Fire-type projectiles would not stop coming—immediately set up the area with a torrential Rain Dance.

“Get your hoodie up!” he would holler, because he already had a feeling he just knew what Kali was going to do next…

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• Ro the Metagross used Psychic in an attempt to redirect the projectiles; while Kali the Gyarados begins the set-up with Rain Dance!


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AZ EXCURSION B: LARS & LANCE
POSTED ON Mar 21, 2024 20:14:19 GMT
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“Look, when he started training with my Lucario, they kind of. You know, had to respect each other! That was entirely him, not me! I would just watch their sparring sessions as the referee!” he would continue, holding up both his hands and then watching in silent awe at the ‘secret handshake’.

Damn. Maybe he’d have to figure something out like that down the line.

“At least we only have to paint, right?” he would continue, looking over at the half-finished structure. “Get this place tidied up in time for the—”

His attention would be drawn to some… some strange ‘footprints’ that were leading away from where they were supposed to be standing guard.

“You seen those around here?” he would ask while pointing at said strange ‘footprints’; while the Urshifu stood guard close to the edge.

(Nobody would dare attack a Pokémon that powerful who stood guard, right? Especially one that could Mega Evolve…)

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surprise, you're dinner [az:e]
POSTED ON Mar 21, 2024 20:06:19 GMT
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“You… you WHAT?!” was all he would exclaim the moment the other man confessed they hadn’t brought any Water-types along with them for this trip.

He would have to deal with the potential aneurysm later; for now though, he would then dig deep into his pockets and pull out—

Oh, shit.

The red beam immediately materialized into his angry, angry, perpetually short-fused Gyarados, aptly named ‘Kali’; who would then bellow at the seemingly insurmountable wall of Unown that were attacking them before roaring in the Unown’s general direction and then releasing a powerful burst of water.

Not a Surf, but a Waterfall of crashing, pouring water, which she would then hurl at the learest ‘pile’ of pesky Unown.

“See?!” he would exclaim in the younger Josh’s direction.

“Do you want to be perpetually chased down by these—by them, just for a chance to become friends with a Legendary Pokémon?!”

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• Kali the Gyarados is ANGERY and immediately lashes out with a Waterfall attack at the closest pile of incoming Hidden Power projectiles!


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GC EXCURSION C: Lars & Doug
POSTED ON Mar 21, 2024 19:56:55 GMT
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“I’ve seen some of the early reports from this place—some of them mentioned encountering a Regirock of all things, while others mentioned seeing a space-time distortion just suddenly appearing in the middle of the damned place like it’s nobody’s business before disappearing,” he would muse once the shaking of the ground below had passed.

“If you have someone that can fly as fast and as far as logically possible, then send ‘em out, we’re going to need all the help we can get especially now since these things are just popping up—”

He would trail off because this time, there were even more tracks than the last time!

“Hey, Doug,” he would muse once he’d gotten a good picture of the ‘tracks’ and showing it to his companion, “…you think these tracks belong to that Suicune-adjacent… Pokémon?”

If they could even be called Pokémon, at that.

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