AETHER VS. ULTRA

[indigo_league]

Who: The Aether Foundation, the Ultra Beasts, and YOU!
Where: Aether Headquarters on the Sevii Islands.
When: October 30th-31st, immediately after the Emergency News Bulletin
Summary: Showdown at the Aether HQ! The Ultra Beasts have found what they were looking for...
Rating: PG for action violence.
Log:


If there's one thing that can be said about several weeks straight of chaos, it's made the general response-time of rescue teams and emergency services across Johto and Kanto alike extremely quick. Within moments of the urgent news bulletin regarding the Aether HQ going live, relief efforts start taking off from every feasible point. With volunteers eager to watch the Aether Foundation go down in flames help any way they can hopping on board with the rescue forces, aid is coming, and fast.

... But not as fast as them.

At the exact moment of the broadcast, almost as though heralded by some unknown frequency, every Ultra Beast in land, sea, or sky drops whatever they're doing and turns their heads (or... headlike appendages, in most cases) to the south. And then they'll take off, pausing ONLY if they happen to have befriended a human or two over the weeks. These ones will gesture-- beckoning, dancing, even dabbing (because you KNOW at least one person taught one to dab)-- anything at all that they may have picked up throughout the month in order to communicate with the "aliens" they've met in this world.

Wherever they're headed, they want their strange allies to come with them.

And, if their invitation is accepted, they will sweep a trainer or two right off their feet and shoot off for the Sevii Islands.

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The temporary Aether Foundation HQ, a rather advanced building considering it went up in a matter of weeks after they first arrived that year-and-a-half-or-so ago, sits on the water's edge with its floating Pokemon sanctuary (which many consider to be the Foundation's crown jewel) neatly attached.

It's normally a pretty peaceful place, with volunteers coming and going as they please. While no small amount of property damage and general chaos has gone down on the mainland over the course of October, at no point had the marauding Beasts launched a concentrated, or indeed deliberate-seeming, attack against any one location at all.

This is clearly no longer the case.

An explosion sends billowing smoke (and a fancy white golf-cart) high into the air above the palm trees surrounding the building. Local islanders and wild Pokemon spill onto the beach to escape what has seemingly become an all-out warzone between Aether agents and Ultra Beasts of all shapes and sizes...

But while there is definitely fighting going on, taking a closer look will tell anyone that the Beasts are focused mainly on the building... and not just destroying it, either. The battering they're delivering seems to be with the intent to find a way inside, only stopping to attack humans and Pokemon who try to get in the way.

But why?

What's in there?

Whatever it is... those Aether agents who haven't already fled aren't keen to let anyone, human or Ultra Beast, too close!



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Comments

[schachmeister]

Armin's pokemon are still leveled high enough that he won't need any particular strategy to take on these trainers, but... he doesn't really want to. He didn't befriend any of the ultra beasts and while he absolutely feels the Aether foundation has crossed the line in terms of what should and should not be allowed, these employees that are just trying to protect their little charges aren't representative of the higher-ups who make the decisions.

So first things first, he'll withdraw Magellan and Octavius for now (especially Octavius) to try and put them more at ease. His first move here will be trying and talking things out. He'll explain to them that he understands that they are just trying to keep the little pokemon safe. He'll tell them about his own sobble (safely left at home) and how he genuinely feels they are all trying to accomplish the same goal here. There is no need for them to enemies. He'll mention his friendship with one of their fellow volunteers (Kazuki). In fact, if he spies Kazuki anywhere, he'll try and team up with him, hoping two can do better than one at convincing them. Even if the employees release their pokemon, he'll keep his in their pokeballs as long as he can without getting attacked himself.

For the employees willing to listen, he'll try and help them out as much as he can by trying to herd the Sobble/Scorbunny/Grooky away from the glass (Maybe the ultra beasts won't attack the dome if they cannot see them), barricading the doors (he's got a few repels in his bag, maybe those will work on the ultra beasts as well?), and he'll release his Feraligatr Farida and his Shiinotic Gus. He's hoping Farida's intimidating bulk and strength will help dissuade the ultra beasts away from the dome and instead onto where the big bosses are. He'll also have Gus scurry further on and use Spotlight to try and draw the Ultra Beasts' attention. He won't be fighting the ultra beasts, of course.

For employees unwilling to listen, Armin will as a last resort send out his Electrode Circinus, though rather than focus on harsh, damaging moves, he'll command him to try and stun their opponents (ah, the joy of electricity) to try and disable them rather than outright take them out. These aren't bad people, after all. They are just trying to protect the little pokemon.