Ameena does as he requests. After all, it'd be silly to burn a bridge with an established scientist and Rocket member, and she had room to carry two in her arms. "These better not hatch and cry for mum," she said lowly as she readied for them to leave. But something in Seraphim's voice caught her attention as he looked out in the distance. [break][break]

She turned and stood at his side, looking out. There was... a pulsing. [break][break]

"This area is huge; nothing could be so big as to... I mean, we saw the abyss and all of the pokemon in this area. A wailord could not even contain a fifth of what we have explored." And yet, the pulsing was there. It could, hypothetically, be something energy-related, but she felt a foreboding pit in her stomach that suggested that wasn't the case.

TAGS – Amor Rose [break]
NOTES – [break][break]

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"Drowning?" Her question is barely asked before the scene shifts into Verdanturf. She intuits some of the exposition by way of the simulation's impact on her mind, but. She wasn't there. She doesn't know this battle. [break][break]

"What is this?" She steps closer, curious of the tag in Fernando's hands. She slowly recognized it to be related to Jirachi. The problem, Ameena had surmised years ago, was that there were too many deities across all the lands, and far too many of them infesting Hoenn and its people. The average region had a few to worry about, but Hoenn's oddities left them contending with every god. [break][break]

She had been in Alola during this, she thinks. Maybe her timeline is off. She's spent many years involved in her research and nothing else. "What happens if we take the tag?"

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[attr="class","itemcoltexttit"]VERDANTURF 1

[attr="class","itemcoltext"]After Slateport, Silas Blackwell's Rocket attempts to invade Fallarbor and Verdanturf. However, it is in Verdanturf where the first iteration of Team Rocket's Hoenn branch falls. By Evelyn Silph, Fernando Silph, and Kyle Lopez's intervention, SILAS BLACKWELL falls.[break][break]

But not yet. In this simulated universe, you encounter the final face-off in the battle-torn town. In Fernando's hands, he holds a JIRACHI WISH TAG.[break][break]

What do you do?[break][break]

Of course. She should have expected a fight between gods to break out after touching a rock.[break][break]

The simulation was the thing of headaches. She huffs as her vertigo settles and the scene unfolds to reveal a tree and a series of petrified pokemon. It asks for water. [break][break]

Playing along with the simulation has revealed any grand truth. "I will touch this one," she appeases. They had been a good sport about the space rock, so she will tackle the life tree. She releases Honedge and shares her plan with him. The sword uses aerial ace, but hits the ground at the base of the tree to generate a spark and then a flame. Its speed makes it an easy enough task. [break][break]

The tree is ablaze in fire. Ameena can't help the grin that splits her face. She wants to know what happens next. "Do you think a deity will come from this, too?"

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Their pokemon put up a good fight, but they are fighting a deity. She watches as her pokemon fall one by one to the Thundurus. The storm worsens in the sky as if the god is disappointed in his challenges. Distantly, Ameena wishes she had a gun with her. [break][break]

Their ship breaks under the assault of Thundurus and the storm and the sea. A large wave threatens them in the distance, and it's clear their exit from the simulation this time will be underwater. "Well, it has been an honor." She speaks with mirth and a sardonic amusement, always one to enjoy dark humor where she can find it. The wave looms, then crashes. The simulation is washed away.

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[attr="class","itemcoltexttit"]THUNDURUS 1-B

[attr="class","itemcoltext"]You battle the THUNDURUS, but it is unwise to do so in these conditions. In the THUNDURUS' element. After a long fought battle, lightning annihilates your ship's structure. Planks of wood are torn apart. The hull is burst right open.[break][break]

A large wave overtakes the sinking vessel, plunging you all into the dark sea.

Kazuya brings up a good point. The crystals could very well be valuable to the paradox pokemon for reasons unknown at the moment. Since there's no greater collection of tera crystals on Hoenn - that is discovered, at least - it is a good hypothesis. She hasn't studied tera yet, though she thinks there's a lot of potential there. [break][break]

"They look rather robotic. Perhaps the tera is a power source for them." She considers them as they move through the chasm. She stops suddenly at a pool of pink liquid on the ground. "This is from the paradox pokemon. Some of the researchers I was with previously have already collected samples, so it is only a matter of time before we understand what is inside them." Excretions weren't often interesting, at least for someone who did not study zoology, but she was rather curious to see if these new creatures had traditional organs or not. [break][break]

TAGS – Kazuya Yoshida [break]
NOTES – [break]a33mMtPG[break][break]

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The simulations loved to throw legendaries and insane battles into the mundane. Deoxys up-close is quite a sight, though, so she doesn't find herself rolling her eyes. Eternatus is something she read about somewhere in a Rocket file, but she hasn't made time to dive in. [break][break]

"Why would Deoxys have a problem with this pokemon?" She has had little need for deities outside of Cresselia and Darkrai, but she gets the impression that Deoxys is the protector, not the true instigator. [break][break]

She turns to Makoto, understanding their stunned state quite well. The simulation moved very quickly... Even now, it blurred around them, revealing some tree.

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[attr="class","itemcoltexttit"]TREE OF LIFE 1

[attr="class","itemcoltext"]You enter a resplendent glade with a large white tree growing in its center. Although it is devoid of leaves or fruits, it is a sacred and splendid scene seemingly untouched for one thousand years. Around its base, Pokemon kneel though they do not seem alive. They've been petrified into absolute stone.[break][break]

Coming close, you sense the tree "speaking" to you. It beckons for you to water it.[break][break]

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[attr="class","itemcoltexttit"]WISHING STAR 1-A

[attr="class","itemcoltext"]You touch the purple chunk. Suddenly, you and everyone nearby is overtaken by a horrific vision of a skeletal dragon soaring above the planet, its ribs and claws as sharp as its tendrils. From a nearby meteoroid, a DEOXYS shoots outward. It attempts to attack the ETERNATUS.[break][break]

In the process, a fragment from the ETERNATUS' BODY falls toward the earth...[break][break]

All of you come to and see that the mysterious material is pulsing. With every pulse, the purple chunk begins to manipulate the spatial elements of reality around it and yourselves. Paranoia begins to settle in... before the scenario shifts.

He was more direct this time. "Rocket, yes. One of Lulu Flint's colleagues. I am Ameena Abadi." The introduction might have been redundant if he dealt with information technology, as her company Abundance Connections had made a name for itself beyond its home in Mauville. Thankfully, even if he knew her, her Rocket affiliation was well-hidden to date. [break][break]

She was pleased to hear he held a science background. The rod beeped unhappily, spitting out an unclear reading on its screen. She had set a few of these up, but she wasn't familiar enough with the technology to properly troubleshoot. [break][break]

"Please, help yourself. Another set of eyes cannot hurt." She hoped he would be able to interpret the readings if they were valid, or fix the rod if it wasn't. She wasn't intending to submit incorrect data today. She assessed him more carefully; she would not have associated him with paleontology, but it seemed like a science that only interested children and elders. With the paleontological failures in her homeland in Galar, she didn't particularly put stock in a paleontologist without results. [break][break]

"If you study the physical past, what brings you here? Is there a connection between the recent tumorous growth of the tera crystals with the history of this area?"

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Seraphim jumps into action. She's not intimately familiar with Elise -- only knowing word of mouth -- or the Nagandel beyond what she's read about the Deep Sea, but steps into a sludge bomb it must have launched into the ship while circling. She quickly steps out of it. Then, she turns to see the Nagandel pierce her, having rammed straight into her chest. It punctures her heart out of her body alongside many ribs and-- [break][break]

She comes to herself when Edith snaps at her fingers. Ameena shakes her hand defensively, irritated at the sharp pain and drawn blood, but she exhales all the same, relieved to have her bits all attached. "Get that thing out of here," she orders the bird pokemon. Ever the opportunist, Edith attacks the Nagandel with disarming voice as she can keep a distance that avoids getting hit by friendly fire while she disorients the beast. [break][break]

Ameena turns back into the corner of the ship with the eggs. Not all have hatched. "Is it worth it to take one?" She asked mostly herself. It was clear that they could turn into strong pokemon, but she wasn't sure how well they could acclimate to the outside world. Well, if an Elise had had one in regular Hoenn...

TAGS – Amor Rose [break]
NOTES – 24 suffer a grievous or fatal injury or injuries that ends up being a hallucination.[break][break]

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