"Bring it on big guy." Confidence and cockiness oozed from his words. So far the battle wasn't going in his favor what being down a member of his team already, still whether it be adrenaline or his opponents aggression he was starting to get fired up. His heart beat faster and his blood burned hotter. He was going to enjoy taking this guy down. Part of him wished they had solid ground under their feet, how he wanted to test this guy's muscles out like he did with Kouji Matsubara before.

What snapped him out of the encroaching punch drunk fever was the blinding light that burned ever so slightly. His Braviary flapped his wings as he could see the faint shadow of the Gyarados and flew in with his beak ready to raze against the serpents skin with an aerial ace should he find his mark.

As the world stopped being so bright in Kaz's eyes he patted the head of his dragon, "Aim a bullet at them again. Hit that little bug buddy." The dragon roared and fired off another shot of flame at the fairy bug to try and burn it away just like the other Pokemon before it.

tldr;
-braviary and charizard, AND KAZ, are hit by dazzling gleam!
-braviary uses aerial ace on gyarados!
-charizard uses flame burst on rhombee!

He felt his fist slam against the man's cheek. He could see the other fist coming right at him. All it would take was a simple slide of his head to at least have it graze his face. He could handle that. Only...did it seem to slow down?

That's when it hit him, from right under his nose was another fist that he didn't see. It collided with his chin and his head was sent rearing back that it could have hyper extended if more force was put into it. Still it was enough to bring darkness to Kaz's mind as the world around him faded from his vision.

A welcome embrace for fighters like them.

Oh so he was an idiot.

"Huh."

Matias' name he could understand but who the hell was Whitedaughter Blathers? Melody Miro? If she was here she'd probably roast this dude alive, just like he was about to with those Origami samurai as the second one joined in on cutting up his bread. Its remains fluttering into the winds behind the plain. He was definitely going to have to stop at the grocery market after this.

"They're called tactics. Look it up baka-Rocket. Here's another helping, Stella! Fertilize them! Pyro Jack! Outlet Shock!" The toaster oven opened its door once again as the sparks of a discharge rushed out to stun the samurai Ultra Beasts. The Celesteela raised one of its large arms and took careful aim, its targets being way too small for it to accurately aim, and fired off a leech seed at the one called Kusanagi to try and keep it settled down.

"And for the record! You're fighting former elite four member, Kazimir Wynter! Got it memorized?"

Oh another origami samurai came out. Maybe he should consider getting one since he had a few Ultra Beasts already. They looked cool enough. They were probably deadly enough as it suddenly charged at the toaster oven with a tera blast fueled by hydro power.

Too bad Kaz was aware how bad electrical fires could be. "Pyro Jack! Late to school!" The oven's doors open up and a loaf of baked bread shot out to act as a substitute for the tera blast while the Rotom flies over the Origami beast snickering at it making wet soggy bread. "Do you know how badly this is gonna go for ya baaaaka?" Kaz chimed in, smirking from underneath his mask as droplets of water hit his face.

Sky battles always did have their moments didn't they?

There was a bit of charm between two dudes having a chat in the sky. It was almost something out of the movies. Then the word "kill" was dropped into the conversation.

Crap. That meant he had to get to work didn't he?

"Yeah, 'fraid so. Would if I could buddy but," He takes out a ball and tosses it towards the plane, from within comes out a haunted toaster oven on the opposite wing, "Gonna have to ask you to land so I can take ya in. Or we can do this the hard way."

It was only fair that he give him the chance to surrender, the guy did the same thing first.

As the Iron Bundles were beaten back and the Ranger pulled to safety the king just looked down at Razz and smirked. It seemed he must have had the wrong person. Guess that just left one thing then. "To defy a king means you offer your neck to me. Very well, one must dirty his own hands to get the job done after all."

The Gyarados lowers its head so that the king jumps off and raises a hand. Pink mist swirls around it until a shimmering long sword with light dancing along the blade as if it was light reflecting off a pool of water. "So bow your head and kneel worm." The royal wouldn't even wait for Razz to do as he commanded as he swung his blade down at the ranger.

"Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!"

A roar echoes through the mist as a figure suddenly jumps out and kicks the sword out of the king's hand. The real Kazimir Wynter who puts himself between Razz and this other Kazimir. As the Gyarados rises up to do something to protect its monarch a yowl comes from the mist as a yellow cat creature jumps onto its back and discharges the electricity in its body to stop the serpent in its tracks and have it thrash about trying to throw the Zeraora off.

"Razzy you ok? Sorry but it looks like this one's on me. He didn't give ya trouble or anything did he?" The real Kaz looks back, concern on his face as he sees the fellow Ranger in Razz's care. Then he turns back to his "other self" "Much as I'd like to catch up you gotta go."

The king just smirks as another blade forms in his hand and he swings again, barely missing Kaz as he side steps around it as a flick of red hits the sand.

"Alright fruit, fruit. Think you got this Buttermilk?" The two of them turned around to go over their ingredients and the sound of a jar smashing caught Kaz's attention. Turning around he saw an Eevee of all things going to town on their table, taking in anything edible into its mouth, sucking it all up like it was a pink blob of destruction. "What the heeeaaaaaaaaaaah!" It took him a second to realize what he was looking at and soon jumped on the little creature.

Behind him Buttermilk was busy looking at their options for their next drink. Fruit flavor was pretty simple to make but they would need to do something a little bit different. Strawberry seemed to be a popular choice in the last round so it was unlikely it would be chosen again by the other contestants. At least that was the hope.

"Arceus damned furball-!"

The Alcremie picked up a banana and studied it. It reminded her the little fruit that a Tropius grew on its neck and if it remembered its facts right those were pretty sweet. A banana might not be as sweet but it definitely had flavor to it. Maybe mixing it with Strawberries would give them that original twist they were looking for!

"Ow! That's my finger you fu-!"

So they mixed together a blend of Strawberry boba pearls with some banana flavored milk with it. There was a little bit of an infusion of vanilla extract and some brown sugar to give it that even sweeter taste. After all nothing was too sweet.

"Get in there. You damn dirty! Evil! Gremlin!"

Kazimir slammed a pot that growled and was shaking in his grip onto the table as his Alcremie was putting the finishing touches with some more whipped cream on its concoction. As the camera crew approached them Kaz looked at the pot with the eevee belonging to Tempest Quinn and just tossed it at a random direction, hoping that some poor soul didn't get subjected to the hell he went through before turning to the camera.

"Hey there! This time around we got ah uh...wha-what do we got Buttermilk?" The little cream pokemon lifted up the scraps of a banana and straberry pearls along with a carton of milk. The clues were enough to give Kaz a good idea of what was going on. "Uh right, so we have a banana milk tea with some strawberry pearls! Strawberry 'n banana is always a favorite combo of mine so I really hope its a favorite of everyone else here! My buddy Buttermilk put her heart and soul into this recipie!" Meanwhile he put his sweat into shoving off a rabid gremlin onto someone else.

In order to earn a little extra money for the holidays Kazimir had gotten a job being one of Santa's little helpers in the mall so he was dressed up as one of the elves standing next to old Kris Kringle helping him funnel the kids along the line. While the kids enjoyed spending their five minutes with Santa Kaz was busy keeping the parents entertained, namely the mothers of some of the kids as they all wanted pictures of not just Santa but of his attractive elf who's shirt slowly stretched into a crop top. Seriously could they not spring for larger clothes for him? Or was this some kind of Christmas curse put upon him?

Oh well money was money.

The sound of shoving and shouting reached the front of the line and in the front of the line was an Iron Bundle, something Kazimir recognized and couldn't believe was just standing here. "What the, where did you come-" Then its beak opened.

The foulest smelling and looking stuff came out of its mouth and sprayed all over Santa Claus. People and children were screaming. Saint ol' Nick was screaming. Kazimir was screaming as he rushed over to pick up the robotic bird. "Don't worry Santa! I got it!"

He picked it up but it wouldn't stop spewing, in fact it seemed to only spew more. Kaz swung it around to aim it away from Santa but aimed it towards the crowd instead causing other people to scream and children to cry. They were all drenched in the awful bile of this bastard Pokemon from the future. "Crap crap crap watch out!"

Turning it away from the crowd Kaz aimed it at an empty space in the crowd...only that he didn't see that Tempest Quinn was actually standing there probably. Or someone who looked close to them anyway.

"Captain get back here!" Chasing down his Roserade through the forest was way tougher than he thought it would be. For some reason the heroic flower 'mon seemed to be full of energy moresoe than usual and was actually managing to out pace Kazimir. Then again being a strange little avatar chibi or whatever he was didn't do him any favors here. It also didn't help that he had to dodge other Pokemon that were running around the forest floor trying to attack him specifically, leaving his Roserade alone and unharmed.

"Dammit! This is getting me no where!" He cried out as he ducked under the water gun of a Wartortle before running up to it and kicking it towards the forest line. As he watched it sail he took out the Dream Ball given to him and wondered what he would do with it, he knew he could capture his Roserade but what then? Before he could even think about his next move a black tendril suddenly wrapped around his wrist and more around his whole body and spread them wide to hold him in place as his Roserade appeared before him.

Something about its eyes did not look kind.

"Hey! Easy! What ever's wrong with ya we can work out!" Holding out one of its bulb hands towards its trainer and fired a round of Magical Leaves at Kaz who closed his eyes at the sight of them. Then nothing. Opening an eye he saw what looked like a snowman in front of him with the leaves sticking out of its body. Waving a stick arm at the ginger giant it suddenly crumbled before him and a text box appeared in front of him saying;




"Huh...useful." With that he gently tossed the dream ball down to his feet to kick it at the Roserade who was dumbfounded at what just handed only to get hit in the face by the ball as it was sucked into it, its capture making the black tendrils around Kaz fade away as he walked up to pick up the ball. Then another text box appeared giving him two options.

Purify or keep it shadowed.

"Hm...let's try...this." This was all just a game right? Or a dream? So it was probably just for dramatic effect.

Route 119 "Blood Moon" Incident

Submitted by Kazimir Wynter and others to the desks of dahlia goode , freya morningstar , FERNANDO SILPH , & PENELOPE LIVY on XX SEPTEMBER 2023.

This report is compiled from multiple testimonies to cover the events that unfolded under a blood moon in Route 119. 

This summary will include details relevant to the Megalopolan presence discovered in the swamp of Route 119 as well as help corroborate other details within other reports;

First is the discovery of them as they appeared before the search party from the undergrowth of the swamp and multiple attacked and dragged a few of us under the swamp. It should be noted that a few of these "bodies" seemed to be in a state of decay of sorts, possibly controlled by something other than the Nihilego toxins they are famous for. Or it could be a new facet of the toxin yet to be discovered.

Next is the discovery of an underground (underswamp?) base of operations that the Megalopolans were hiding in and building Shiny Machines among other things in small workshops. Curiously the name Velmos came up and the Megalopolans claimed him to be a "traitor" to them personally. It seems as if they wanted nothing more to return home and were upset with his actions. Could require further questioning.

The party was split into two groups while exiting the workshops and found ourselves in two separate tunnels, my group was wading through water fill tunnel when we were attacked by Dhelmise that tried to drag us underwater. Could almost see the silhouette of other Megalopolans when looking into the water but...unsure. At the end of the tunnel we were presented with "prisoners" that they had captured including one Spencer Modell and attempted to free them.

This turned out to be a bad move.

Upon finding a craft of some sort we made our way down and reunited with the other half of the party only for Spencer Modell to reveal himself to be a Megalopolan in disguise and attack us to take us with them into the ship. The most likely reason was for food for whatever trip home they were attempting.

At the same time "toxic chains" sprouted from various individuals, self included, and attacked the others in the search party. From what memory serves there was a strong desire to listen to what the Fake Spencer Modell was telling us to do. Memory is not very clear.

Once he was taken care of and the victims free of their chains we all gathered into the ship as it started to take to the air as more and more Megalopolans entered the cave. During then a space time distortion occurred that seemed to swallow them all up. As we left the cave in the ship it soon made a crash landing and disappeared along with any remaining toxic chains. The fate of those Megalopolans left in the cave is uncertain.

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Members who participated in Blood, Mud, & Iron can submit their own testimonies of the event, to be collected here for IC information gathering purposes. Give your document an attachment name so I can put it here!

"Mini Sheriff, Tyramigo. Tyramigo, Mini Sheriff." Sweat rolled down Kaz's face as he did a quick round of introductions to the girl who was Navy's replacement and his giant lizard as it towered over the two of them while keeping its eyes train on Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki. While its attention was elsewhere Kazimir took out two halves of a Pokeball and an Ultraball and held them both up to catch them in the peripheral of the Tyrantrum.

"Now now buddy, why don't you just get into this new ball and we can-" Kaz was knocked onto his feet as the t-rex turned around and slammed its tail on top of Kaz squishing him against the ground with a yelp as the balls he was holding rolled right to Tsubaki's feet.

The king turned his attention to the smaller human. Did she really dare to defy him and stand before him? Only the court jester he rightfully punished could do that! So with a roar the dinosaur lifted a foot to try and step on Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki and bring this to a swift end by flattening her like and bring her defiance flat against the concrete.

"Oh my god you're one of those guys." His face is nothing but shock at the revelation. The Top Champion of Hoenn, Avatar of a legendary bird, dog sitter of three ancient beasts, was some guy who just copied whatever he saw on t.v. Kaz couldn't tell if it was respect for Kyle or the position that was going down the drain. Ok maybe that was a bit harsh because seeing him fall on his back after drop kicking a grunt and suddenly feel the pain of it all put a smug grin on Kaz's face.

"And that's why they say don't try these stunts at home. Don't worry after this I'll take ya to the gym, build up that tolerance of yours." Reaching down he grabbed Kyle by the wrist and helped him back onto his feet while his Lycanroc took the rest of the on coming grunts, summoning a wall of stone edges to block off ones from coming from within deeper in the complex.

"Starting to think this might be a bust. What say we skedaddle before you sprain yourself trying to suplex someone." That grin was still on his face despite the genuine concern in his voice.

If only it was that easy to meet up with a Legendary...then again Kaz thinks back to all the ones he did meet personally. "Y'know what I'm not one to talk. I had one living inside of me. I think." Did that thing count as one? Oh well. Time to at least play along normally for now.

So he scrolls down to a list of pokemon and picks out the Arcanine belonging to Josh Devlin, big fluffy dogs made the best steeds.

["Accept the ride from one of Josh's Pokémon [Arcanine] and chase him down"]