"Looking for a specific Pokemon then, hm? Even a poison one as well, my specialty~" The Salandit hiding in Himiko's coat let out a pleased hiss. Its snout was briefly sticking out of of neckline before sniffing the air and squirming back inside. "I've heard about them. Finnicky little things. We'll see if we can find one out here."

Himiko listened to Lulu's brief tale, a hand going to her chin in thought. Those scheming eyes moved back to the wilderness around them, imagining a fearsome dragon being the cause for a freakish wintery mountain to remained trapped like this for likely some time now. Although its presence and a Hoopa's was certainly a cause for some type of ecological anomaly. How amusing.

"I had only heard of its aftermath back when I was still in Kanto. Quite the show indeed that you Rockets over here gave us." The woman took a moment to gaze over the rocky landscapes at the many miles of ice and snow across form them. A few stray Pokemon wandered across the snow filled landscape as she let out a soft chuckle. "Never thought I would get to see it in person. Really puts things into perspective, doesn't it?"

It took some amount of time as Himiko watched the scenery before she turned back to Lulu with amused eyes. "If I may inquire, is there any reason why you specifically invited me out here?"

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Lulu Flint

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Himiko had gotten the message when she had returned back from her patrol mission with a set of other grunts in the force. There really wasn't much of a reason to see it as anything important given that they seemed to be a test in patience more so than keen eyesight. She returned home to get the message and location sent to her by a higher up, Lulu Flint. Something about wanting company by the silent icelands.

Color her interested.

Some time after Lulu arrived, Himiko would approach dressed in a worn yet cozy winter coat, alongside winter pants and boots. Her eyes carried themselves over to the other woman as she approached. Wrapped up tidy around her neck in the coat was the cozy head of her Salandit. "Flint." Himiko put it shortly, her stoic gaze never faltering. "Wonderful to talk with you in person. I'm a bit of a scientist myself."

She offered a casual smirk and continued forward to look over at the icy landscape. The white color edged on the light beige color of rocks and earth while the temperature around them. "I wasn't here when this all took place. What happened to create this ice filled crater?"

Lulu Flint

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Himiko ran across the burning forest as her Salandit and Zoroark continued to dash through the hedges and underbrush while trying to keep distance between them and the freshly evolved Pokemon. Rougue let out a hiss and rode on top of Himiko's head, continuing to spread its POISON GAS across the way.

"We're almost there. Keep her off of us, Onna."

The Zoroark growled while watching the other two run off with the Silvally behind them. They had a few yards just from the poisonous smog alone, but things could happen! They had to get to the checkpoint and everything would be okay! They continued on with the encampment in sight as the Zoroark barked out in relief. Himiko smirked with the mega stone in hand.

Then, the ground beneath them shook violently. Her feet scrambled to remain upright before falling directly on the ground. Trees fell down around them, with Rockets falling back and away from the falling structures. Pokemon around them fall, trees smashing some poor rockets below them while cracks in the ground were painted on by whatever the source had been.

"What WAS that?!" Himiko asked, looking up to see the remnants of the camp currently attempting to collect themselves and search for whatever may have caused the extreme case of the earthquake.

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10 MP Posting MP
100 MP Thread Complete
300 MP Rocket Loss
680 MP Total

Shalin Nariya

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Poor Himiko wasn't having the most ideal experience here, choking on a mega stone as her Zoroark worked endlessly to free it from the inside of her throat. The Sharpedo had managed to get enough speed to smash into the side of the Type: Null, damaging itself from the recoil, though anothing but a minor bruise. It gnashed its teeth against at his opponent, beckjonging it to come at it again.

But just as things were turning in their favor, the Pokemon surrounded itself in a bright energy, causing Himiko to take her attention away from choking long enough to see what was going on. No sooner had it come out of its shell did the light draw away to reveal the true form of the synthetic Pokemon.

"Grk!"

The Zoroark had punched her in the gut with enough force to knock her breath away. the force of which caused her to spit up the mega stone just in time for the ghost to catch it. Now fully able to breath again, Himiko fell into a coughing fit. The odds were against them both, especially as the Sharpedo was smashed with an electrical Multistrike, fainting from the sheer power of the attack.

"Tch, beginner's luck." she asked, gritting her teeth. "Rouge! Clear out this area! We're falling back!"

The Salandit began to expel a purple smog around the area, using POISON GAS as the area around them filled with toxic, overwhelming gas. Himiko took a breath and shoved her face into her uniform short, recalling Sharpedo back to his Pokeball. She turned tail, collecting the mega stone from the Zoroark and beginning to make a run for it.

While not entirely able to outrun some mute and her caravan of Pokemon, all she had to do was to get back to the main forces and she'd likely retreat. Nobody was suicidal enough to try and take on an entire army alon, especially one gladly turning most of the forest into a charred reminder of what it was like to cross Rocket.

The Zoroark ran alongside her, keeping Shalin and her forces at by with another SHADOW BALL.

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10 MP Posting MP
50 MP for getting your Pokemon knocked out in your prelude thread.
260 MP Total

Shalin Nariya

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The Beedrill was out of the way, causing Himiko to cast the Ranger a knowing smirk. She tossed the mega stone between both hands while Onna delivered the casting, final blow. With the biggest trump card dealt with, the grunt had a slightly better chance of things going her way.

"Aw, did your little Beedrill faint so easily?" she said in a mocking tone, akin to baby talk. "Poor wittle mute wanger. How about you actually try harder?"

The response was to bring out two more Pokemon in front of her, ones that caught the Rocket's eye. A Venusaur and one of those freakish artificla pokemon she had heard so much about. She laughed, throwing her hip to the side as a Sharpedo erupted from its ball, teeth gnashing at the paters before it. Himiko laughed and held up the Beedrillite before her.

"I don't know if you realize it, but bringing out a grass-type's not going to-"

Instantly, a vine came directly at her, causing her to sidestep in an attempt to dodge. The attack had stuck her directly in the shoulder, jerking the arm up as her grip on the mega stone slipped and rocketed into the back of her throat. Himiko's eyes widened as she stumbled onto the ground, trying to dislodge the item blocking her throat.

The Salandit switched targets to the Venusaur, quicking firing off a gyser of fire with FLAMETHROWER. The Zoroark rushed to her trainer's side, trying to help her cough up the megastone, while the SHarpedo charged directly at the Type: Null itself with a TAKE DOWN.

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10 MP Posting MP
50 MP Have your character make a regrettable decision.
50 MP Have your character be injured by another's pokemon directly or indirectly.
200 MP Total

Shalin Nariya

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The Zoroark had been strong enough to repel the Beedrill's thrust to avoid her chest being punctured. The retaliation had been successful enough to deter the opponent away, as the bee and her rider back away slowly. Her eyes locked onto the Salandit on top of the Beedrill while her toothy grin grew wider.

While the ranger and her mount would begin to bask in a great light before them, Himiko shielded her eyes from it. The Salandit on top of the bug-type, however, would tilt its head at the mega stone embedded in its saddle. Rouge spat out another short burst of poison with VENOSHOCK, coating the saddle in a hissing, acidic byproduct. Once, done, the Salandit bit into the part of the saddle containing the mega stone and pried it loose. With her quarry successfully thieved, she skittered away back to her owner.

Once slithering up her leg, Rouge deposited the pilfered mega stone in Himiko's hand. She held it up, minding the poisonous saliva coating the treasure.

"Oh? What have we got here?" Himiko said, flicking the mega stone through her fingers, taunting the ranger. "I think it looks better on me than you, don't you agree?~"

Onna would take the opportunity to then swing her claws down at the Beedrill with a fierce SHADOW CLAW.

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10 MP Posting MP
90 MP Total

Shalin Nariya

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Himiko had to admit that resting on the wings of on bug type going so fast was near impossible without the use of some kind of outside help. She wasn't one to go and jump on board, liquefying her innards in the process. She'd just have to bid her time and wait for an opening.

"Not one for conversation, huh?"

The Hisuan Zoroark leaned forward, almost beckoning for the Beedrill to attack. Once it was attempting to rush her with its FELL STINGER, Onna raised her arms and caught the attack just before the stinger could plunge inside of its body. The force had pushed the Zoroark back, her hind legs digging into the ground as the tip of the stinger gently traced around her stomach. Onna grinned at the bug-type before its body started to emit a dark aura around itself, using BITTER MALICE.

The Salandit, meanwhile, would skitter back from its recent attack and with something to prove. The salamander-like Pokemon hopped on top of the back of the Beedrill's abdomen, then make its way to the thorax and start nibbling at the bug type's neck.

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10 MP Posting MP
80 MP Total

Shalin Nariya

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Once the Beedrill had turned to face her, Himiko winced at the ear piercing noise that had taken the Rockets around her by storm. Clutching an ear to keep at least one way to hear others, the Rocket growled in defiance.

"Noisy little shit, aren't you?"

She spat out as the Flygon and Beedrill neared close by. The rider on top of it sat on the wing, in some strange and suicidal kind of tactic, while buzzing about in the area around them. The Salandit scurried about, on edge as the two Pokemon outnumbering it. Once the two had wandered closer, the Salandit raised her head to spit out a VENOSHOCK at the approaching Beedrill and its riders. The other ranger's boot met with the the poison type as she passed, sending the Salandit rolling away. Now thoroughly angered, Himiko growled at the display.

"Fine, two can play at this game."

She threw out another Pokeball, calling out her Zoroark as it stomped onto the field. The ghost-type pumped itself up for the battle at hand, cradling the ground as it would lighten its body of any loose debris and kinks. Readying itself to increase its speed, Onna saw the Beedrill as its direct opponent, ready to contest it in a battle of speed alone.

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10 MP Posting MP
70 MP Total

Shalin Nariya

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The marching feet of Rocket grunts everywhere filled the path leading to Petalburg. The trees around them were subject to a growing forest fire. They had began to employ scorched earth tactics in order to draw the rangers away from the city to deal with them. Among the force of grunts was Himiko, silently marching along with the Kantonian Rockets as they had continued to march towards the city. The forces had split up into smaller teams, poised to start as many fires as possible.

Sitting on top of her shoulder was her Salandit, the dual type aiding the other fire types in their destruction of the forest. A hand came up to scratch her small head in affection. She had been pushing herself with the forces here, surprising everybody else by her abilities to tend to most of the flames here into a widespread fire.

"You're doing good, girl. Hang in there and we've got this."

The woman continued along until one of the grunts had noticed the presence of a ranger in the area. And not just any ranger either. Himiko hadn't really been too familiar the entire roster of upper rangers, not did she really care. They were lapdogs of the actual important people at work, footnotes in the after battle report that was this operation. So at the chance to grasp power for herself, Himiko charged forward in the direction of the ranger.

There she was, standing atop the biggest Beedrill that she had ever seen. The Kantonian stared up in amazement. The price for this specimen alone would have been enough to secure a way back home once her superiors could catch sight of it. The potent venom that could be brewing inside of that stinger made the Rocket all the more eager to crack it open. It was her best shot at getting back home and one of the main reasons why she was even in this war. Rouge the Salandit appeared to share the same thoughts, and opened her mouth to charge a sudden blast of flame inside of her mouth.

Beside Shalin, a torrent of flame shot through the air and began to spread flames throughout the vicinity. The Salandit looked up at the opposing Pokemon while Himiko let out a soft whisper.

"You've got quite the Beedrill there, Ranger." Himiko said. "I think it would be a better fit in my hands, though. So I'll be taking it off your hands now. Unless you think you can stop the forest fire we're currently making."

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10 MP Posting MP
50 MP have an antagonistic exchange of dialogue between your character and another writer's character or NPC.
60 MP Total

Shalin Nariya

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"Th-The Drudi...."

Himiko's expression faltered at the mention of the Druddigon. the very reason she was bound to Hoenn and not her home region. The reminder of it caused every fiber of her being to go from playfully smug to furious in only a few seconds. She clenched her teeth in a silent fury. Had she the ability to, she was surely ready to order Onna to launch an attack at Thomas for his transgression.

"You want to talk about previous mistakes, you smug wannabe rebel? I don't care how you figured it out, but I'm sure as hell not going to let you think for a moment that I'm to blame for that."

Himiko was ready to go into another tantrum of obscenities and "colorful descriptions" for what she thought of Thomas as, but was so rudely interrupted by him walking away. She growled in frustration as Onna returned to her side and tended to her angry trainer.

"Next time, I won't be so forgiving, Benoit! Ugh, I'm going to wrap my hands around your neck and squeeze until I see brains, you hear me?!"

She shouted at him while walking away to claim her prize.

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Thomas Benoit

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