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Post by getsuga on Feb 25, 2018 18:08:46 GMT
Together, the three trainers make it back to the Dragon Palace on time. "If ya'll are done messing around, let's get to it yeah?"
Everyone recalls back to the meeting room. Jack's face is shown on the monitor in the middle of some discussion. "...Also, the Boss would like to..."
"Oi, R-Tully! Mind explainin' to me what this is!?" Felicia, who finally arrived, is compelled to interrupt the meeting with a piece of folded paper in her hand.
Before Tully or the others can get a word out, the meeting becomes chaotic.
"Are all the gym leaders so self entitled?" Tatsumaki seethes.
"No, but we've earned the right to be. Don't look down on..." Rime begins to challenge Tatsumaki, before an unknown voice puts all three women on alert.
"Good morning, my most skilled members of Paradise." The voice makes everyone's chest rattle with either adrenaline or anxiety. The sounds made from the monitor are uncanny, but it's hard to believe the voice is distorted. I think of you all as my limbs and organs, this organization, nor I can function without your support. I pray for good fortune in our upcoming mission."
The monitor turns off. Moments pass and the first one to take a breath is none other than Jeremiah. "Raise your hand if that also scared the shit out you, ya dig?"
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Post by Trixander on Feb 25, 2018 23:04:07 GMT
Jace raised his hand. "Yeah, I dig," he says. "But I would like to know what Felicia has."
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Post by getsuga on Feb 25, 2018 23:24:25 GMT
Felicia finally takes in the setting she's in. "Er, nothin' important to you really. I ran into some authority asking some questions I didn't want to hear. The whereabouts of my previous challenger..."
"So the beast can listen to reason."
Felicia turns red in the face. Jace's question put all eyes on her as she fidgets with the paper. "This is a letter for Tully, if he wants to share with the classroom he can!" She forces it in Tully's chest as she storms out. "I'll be waiting outside, Jeremiah!"
Felicia dances around Jace's question. Roll intuition
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Post by Trixander on Feb 27, 2018 14:06:32 GMT
After realizing what the paper was, as well as the mistake he made in asking, Jace tried to put the team back on track. "On second thought, we should focus on the mission. Time's running out. How are we getting there?" Hopefully the question would get things going again.
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Post by kurohagane on Feb 28, 2018 1:09:14 GMT
"Yes, you were saying about Pokemon training Jace, let's get to it!" More than ever, Sana needs her Pokemon team to be at full strength to tackle the oncoming trouble.
Sana feels as if Tully and Felicia are somehow close. She can't seem to think why, but feels she that maybe they are close associates. Out of respect Sana doesn't ask. She lifts herself from her chair.
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Post by getsuga on Feb 28, 2018 15:25:56 GMT
"1 hour" Says Tatsumaki nearing the exit. "Others are leaving earlier, but I'll try to arrive with haste."
"If any of you have last words to say to your loved ones, let me know." Yozora says. The group is unable to tell if she's joking or not.
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Post by madandy on Feb 28, 2018 16:18:30 GMT
Tully, having been somewhat frozen since reading the letter, finally snaps from his trance and gently slams his head down on the desk in front of him.
Friggin' figures. When you're makin' a spectacle of yerself, you can do whacha like an' no one can touch ye for it but if you try to keep yer head down, every tiny little mistake snowballs into something that'll crush ye 'less you stay ahead of it.
Groaning and raising his head, he folds the letter and stashes it in his coat. "Well, that's kind of a bummer for me, but it ain't gonna make much difference if we lose this battle, so let's not get distacted. Better to just get to trainin'."
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Post by getsuga on Mar 2, 2018 1:06:06 GMT
After some last minute training the four leave for Oar's Rest Port. If Paradiso loses, the world loses.
Tatsumaki and her pokemon manage to catch up a few minutes behind the other members. They look up at the obelisk, standing around 100ft in the sky. Then the cobblestone stairs which are also pretty high up. Then their eyes drop to the garden of destroyed Regibots lying at their feet. If they weren't so cut up and human-like it would be simple to mistake them for rocks. A portal opens above them and Nadar's voice comes out.
"Good to see that all of you are doing so dandy. Unfortunately you missed the rock concert, pack your bags and split. Oh, what's this?" Nadar puts his eye in the portal. "Aside from Roderick, it looks like you brought the kids here too!? That's just sick. Sick I say!"
The people around Jace, Tully, and Sana are Tatsumaki, Roderick, Jeremiah, Natasha, Rime, Felicia, and two men with similar appearances to Five from yesterday. Everyone is too far away from the base/stairs to perform battle just yet.
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Post by Trixander on Mar 3, 2018 17:36:34 GMT
Immediately upon arriving, Jace was trying to get a feel for the situation. They were going to have to fight an uphill battle, literally. With Nadar and the others being capable of teleportation, there was no way that they could beat them to the top. Tatsumaki was fast, but she wasn't "get from A to B instantaneously" fast. He had to assume that they would be fighting against opponents with the higher ground. Still, they had the numbers, as well as the space to effectively spread out.
Just as he had feared, a portal opens up above them. Jace considers his options for ranged pokemon. Gengar was much faster, but he had the smallest variety of moves. Instead he released Seadra, which he hoped would be able to attack anything that got too close. Ace, who was always out and about with him, stayed close by. He would be needed to take out a major threat quickly, like a Dragon-type or something.
"Sick? You don't know the meaning of the word," he says at the portal. "And besides, the show's only just begun." Was this fake confidence again? No. Something about being on the battlefield in person energized Jace. The Pokeball that was in his hand. The pokemon that were by his side. Paradiso all around him. The goal in sight. He wasn't just here to fight.
He was here to win.
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Post by getsuga on Mar 3, 2018 23:34:47 GMT
Natasha scans the area and looks at what she can work with. She locks eyes with Felicia who gives a confused look right back at her. Seconds later she whispers under her breath.
"Drei..."
She turns around to face her group, she makes such a large impression that the portal above them seems small. "Three minutes of focus. That's all I need to take them off that spire. Can you do that?" She asks the group.
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Post by Trixander on Mar 4, 2018 2:41:24 GMT
Jace did a little bit of mental math. Sixteen pokemon, two-hundred and forty seconds. That was... fifteen seconds a 'mon. If each of their pokemon bought fifteen seconds, that would be enough.
He simply gave Natasha a thumbs up, not turning away from the portal.
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Post by kurohagane on Mar 6, 2018 19:27:15 GMT
This setting is a little too convenient. No guards waiting for them, as if they are like flies walking straight into a Victreebel's mouth, attracted to the sweet scent of acid. Sana remains cautious like an owl, scanning around the temple on a lookout for Hayate. Which is how Sana was able to feel a piercing gaze coming from the left side on the residential area. She knows it well, judging from their previous sneak attack from the United Front, that they are preparing something big and dangerous...
Sana sits on her magic wand, making her float in the sky like a witch. She needs to prompt Jace or Tully before she leaves. "I have to intercept an ambush, I will be back!"
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Post by getsuga on Mar 7, 2018 14:19:05 GMT
Sana flies to the house she suspects the trap is coming from. From the looks of the house, it is a two story building just like any other. It looks occupied from the outside, bur there doesn't seem to be any sign of struggle if there is a trap waiting. After circling the perimeter, she can't see anything just by looking through the windows.
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Post by kurohagane on Mar 7, 2018 17:07:34 GMT
However, the occult-freak Sana refuses to leave without erasing the fear of ambush. Her left-hand has already taken a piece of Cleansing Tag, concentrating fairy power into the talisman, she dispels any invisibility cloak a ghost Pokemon might have, then sticks the tag on the window. Sana utilizes the effect of How to Avoid Being Spooked, Rank 1 Effect. Cleanse Tag allows Sana to see invisibility capability of both trainer and Pokemon.
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Post by kurohagane on Mar 9, 2018 1:27:35 GMT
Not seeing anyone using cloaking or skills that allow invisibility, Sana believes her foe might be hiding near the front door to ambush her.
Are they assuming she is going through the front door because of her politeness? An uneasy feeling of fear surge through her, realizing her foe might know her more than she lets on.
Is the unlocked window a trap too? She shakes these feelings off, to progress she must quietly sneak in to check. She carefully open the window, shaking in what she thinks her first unwanted trespassing.
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Post by getsuga on Mar 9, 2018 5:19:49 GMT
Sana enters the second floor of the house unopposed. The inside resembles an ordinary study with books lined across the room. On the other side she can hear what seems like snoring. In the main hallway you also find a staircase leading to the first level.
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Post by kurohagane on Mar 9, 2018 5:49:47 GMT
Just to be careful, Sana tiptoes and takes a sneak peak at the room with the snoring.
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Post by getsuga on Mar 9, 2018 5:55:33 GMT
She sees a man, a woman, and a Luxray sleeping in the same bed. None of them wake up to your approach.
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Post by getsuga on Mar 10, 2018 0:18:17 GMT
"Your opponents are right here... Jeez." Nadar says as Sana goes off on her own. Moments pass...
"I don't want to interrupt our staring contest, but aren't you going to do something? At least charge at us! Yvette can only shoot down so many people before any of you reach the stairs." Nadar says impatiently from the portal. It's true, they can wait there all day long if push comes to shove.
"I think they need a bit more motivation. It's morning after all."
Yvette closes the portal near the Paradiso group, and opens another near herself, jumping off the spire to somewhere unknown. Now, only Nadar is left to defend his position.
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Post by kurohagane on Mar 10, 2018 1:39:44 GMT
Sana realizes they are still having their sleep. She can't afford to wake them up and involve a third party. She has to quickly settle this issue and escape. Sana closes the door carefully, then brings out Silvia and Whimsy respectively. She carefully checks the first floor, knowing someone will be there. Who could it be? She has to convince him or her to stop whatever they are doing.
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