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The Indigo League ([personal profile] indigo_league) wrote in [community profile] victory_road2019-10-30 09:54 pm

AETHER VS. ULTRA

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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marmoron: marmoron (glaring over shoulder)

[personal profile] marmoron 2019-11-05 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Keith's busy ransacking the labs for information because jfc how deep does this Aether shit go. He loves a good conspiracy theory and all, but people with the power to open up wormholes into other realities at will? Yeah. Yeah he's seen this song and dance before. It doesn't end well. Not back home and given the number of friends who have found their happiness here? He's not gonna stand back and do nothing.

But even without that fun backdrop of disturbing parallels between the incident that caused so much pain and suffering, Lusamine's obviously unhinged. Gotta take that down ASAP. Her pokemon are vastly stronger than his own though, which really means one thing. It's time to Buggy. By which we mean the good Buzzwole's gonna swoop in and attempt to muscle his way through at least some of Lusamine's team while Keith uses the cover of the UB fighting as well as the general chaos of other trainer's fighting her to try and cut the wires powering her damn heal machine.

But there's really only so much time Buggy and the others can buy. Buggy is showing signs of getting tired after fielding a few fairy type moves from Clefable, a few psychic moves from Espeon and though Buzzwole continues to flex on, eventually Keith's muscly friend staggers.

"Buggy!"

That's yelled out and while Lusamine is busy calling out a final attack to knock out the Ultra Beast, she uh... may or may not find herself getting tackled. And while Lusamine obviously takes wonderfully to this bit of assault, Keith shouts over to his trusty Houndoom.

"Buddy! Hit that button, NOW."
Edited 2019-11-07 02:50 (UTC)