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"i will."[break][break]

noah can not help but sense a cryptic strata in the hot, gym air. it settles upon him like cobwebs. intricate nets, shrouds that hang from his shoulders, his neck.[break][break]

from its corner, the universe dares not speak. dares not tell.[break][break]

when noah receives black roses one day from an unnamed florist (Elisabeth Fiorelli), he would finally understand. even then, he would not dust the gossamer off his body.[break][break]

instead, he would hide in it for a little while.[break][break]

"here." noah leans down. grabs the other's hand firmly, a cold-cut shape digging into their palms. still, the smooth curve of his ring touches matias too.[break][break]

"bested me. bested my grapploct."[break][break]

he leaves his badge in matias' hand.[break][break]

"you've shown me enough."

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and so he was, bare arms sleeved by suds. fingers meshed with mightyena furs. [break][break]

"just a sec!"[break][break]

the gym leader yoinks a hose, its lotad-shaped nozzle spewing water to rinse the dog's black-gray tangle. noah senses the mightyena's rise and before he can say anything, the canine shakes itself wildly. water flies. noah gets wet.[break][break]

an ordinary day. [break][break]

noah wipes his brow of dog water and flaps his shirt against his chest in a futile attempt to dry it. no matter. the sun will dry it anyway.[break][break]

"what's up? does terrakion need a bath too?" noah says as he arrives.

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within the electric rivers of toxtricity's song, noah runs alongside gwendolyn. he captures glimpses of the deranged. the megalopolans that have fully succumbed, mental faculties as ruined as the cityscape that surrounds him.[break][break]

his urshifu sustains enough damage. its strict stance crumbles away. a geyser of energy finalizes the metamorphosis—and as the ULTRA BURST showers the battlefield with the torrent of its rapid strikes, no flinch nor alien binding can stop it.[break][break]

it protects the toxtricity too, fist after fist accompanying strummed strings.[break][break]

"quick picture... uh, uh!" noah looks behind him, gaze flickering back and forth between the exploding blacephalons, the tossed bodies, and the exit rift before them. "sure! just... just make sure you get my good angle!"[break][break]

the simulated shutter captures the candid chaos—and the posed memory of their adventure.[break][break]

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tatami strikes the hariyama as it buckles. the LOW KICK is potent—and the DISABLE is too. medicham limbs fall limp. knuckles dull and drag into an invisible mire.[break][break]

"your heart's in the right place," the gym leader says, "you just gotta make sure it doesn't break!"[break][break]

the floor is no stranger to noah's pokemon. even when pinned or forced to the stable firmament, panic dares not settle.[break][break]

"hoenn? living here? it's been a true test of my strength. my discipline."[break][break]

his hariyama needs time to recover; however, the medicham closes its eyes. with pure focus, the medicham thrusts its palms toward the wigglytuff for a reverse defib: DRAIN PUNCH.

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galar haunts noah. it reaches for noah, algid fingers curling around shoulders, his neck. he can comprehend little of it, just the phantom touches. the phantom pains of a memory he has never lived or dreamt.[break][break]

kyle's absence had been an ordinary occurrence to noah. but the revelations come one after the other like matryoshka dolls birthing lifetimes with every new emergence.[break][break]

"i don't know what to say... but you're wrong about one thing." [break][break]

noah's breathing slowly returns to regular pace, but it never quite returns to the same depth.[break][break]

"i can tell he still loves you."

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"ohhh, that's the spirit andrea! that's more like it!" with every forceful strike, the cage rattles like a stoked crowd. "give me more!"[break][break]

noah's hitmonchan glares, the ridges on his head reminiscent of the jagged pass as it struggles to withold its dormant furor. finally, all hell breaks loose.[break][break]

as if reverting to a primeval era, the hitmonchan closes the gap with a barbaric advance. a BULLET PUNCH threatens the buzzwole with a relentless bludgeoning.[break][break]

the DRAIN PUNCH matches the gym leader's CHESNAUGHT. as vitality is siphoned from the pericarp dreadnought, the thorns on its arm burst into LEECH SEEDS.[break][break]

the kernels flare outward like firecrackers and attempt to take root in between the kommo-o's scales.[break][break]

"you and your pokemon are beasts! dang, andrea!"

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noah didn't sneeze. or did he? gaslit by his own conscience, the gym leader wrinkles his nose. between his fingers, he rubs the megalopolis dust he had swiped off slumbering walls.[break][break]

robin's gushing of Gwendolyn Conway could be enough to wash all the cobwebs away.[break][break]

"yeah, i was pretty lucky wasn't i?" noah says. he drifts into the romanticism of it all. its song, its season and gale. "but you're the luckiest of them all, robin."[break][break]

noah's urshifu growls. the lights flood into the tower, purging all darkness. the blinding deluge is matched with a soaring chorus of crazed aliens.[break][break]

"oh fuck, shit and balls," noah says, eyes winced like faulty blinds. he grabs robin's shoulders to comfort her—or perhaps to ascertain her presence through the sensory overload. "the tower's in the center of the city... they'll be coming from all sides. we gotta fight through them, okay? my urshifu can lead the charge."[break][break]

the lights remain on full blast.[break][break]

his urshifu kicks open the door. a WICKED BLOW launches several intruders back, allowing the bear space to charge into the megalopolan mess of it all. like carnivorous ants, they swarm the ursine fighter.[break][break]

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there is no repose allowed. just the smallest pause for breath—and that is enough for noah to face thea head-on.[break][break]

"don't let the ape wait, fong!" noah leaps and punches the air. his shirt billows around his stomach as he lands. "don't be scared of her! match her strikes, roda!"[break][break]

the gym leader's hariyama rushes for the primeape, nimble tabi-shaped feet darting across the tatami like skipping stones. throughout its charge, its flat palms fan the air as a WHIRLWIND develops behind, propelling the pokemon for a pounce on the ape.[break][break]

meanwhile, noah's medicham is grappled. the pink seizes its body—but a BULLET PUNCH compensates for its compromised stature, fists colliding with loud crashes against the wigglytuff's relentless PLAY ROUGH.[break][break]

"so thea!" noah says. "why do you and your pokemon fight? why so eager?!"

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the buzzwole refuses retreat. that defiant stillness. that refusal to move, to be displaced. such a staunch stance ignites the battlelust within noah. like the boiling sands of the ultra desert kicked up by war winds, noah howls: "that's what i'm talkin' about!"[break][break]

a LEECH LIFE is thrust into the hitmonchan. life is siphoned and although paralysis fails to manifest upon the ultra beast's generous body, the boxer does not seem discouraged. quickly, the lithe fighter pries itself from the proboscis. quickly, it dips low. a RAPID SPIN of glove-like fists cycles across the buzzwole's legs: smaller, thinner limbs compared to the beast's massive arms.[break][break]

as the steel cage rattles, the chesnaught nears. a NEEDLE ARM swings toward the shiny kommo-o, thorny peaks eager to strike scale.

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"hah! you've loosened up, noel. this is the side of you i like to see!" [break][break]

noah's hariyama grunts, brows furrowed tight like knotting rope. the rotund juggernaut heaves its heavy palms into position as if they were anti-tank guided missiles.[break][break]

"close the gap! knock it down!"[break][break]

the hariyama charges forth. from its wide hands, a FORCE PALM is loosed. the concussive blast collides with the ENERGY BALL—and through the resulting smog of their impact, the fighting-type rushes through.[break][break]

as tendrils of smoke trail back, the hariyama attempts to HEAVY SLAM the defiant shaymin.

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though losing his lunch did not cross his mind, robin's jest of a suggestion lines his gums with the brief warmth of nausea. he swallows it down. shakes his head like a paintbrush loosing excess pigment.[break][break]

the mural stands before them. an ominous painting that resonates with hoenn's history even within this extraterrestrial space.[break][break]

"necrozma..."[break][break]

his train of thought is broken by robin's free-and-easy spirit. the border had been an intriguing site to explore; however, noah's last visit had been a violent, terrifying test of wits and survival.[break][break]

"hah! are you interested in becoming a gym leader?" noah asks. "actually, that reminds me... i was on a mission with a ranger recently. she mentioned a robin. i think gwen was her name? know her?"[break][break]

the tower stirs. his urshifu sniffs the stale air. the lights—whichever ones remain unbroken—whisper invisible signs of coming back to life.

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