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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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[personal profile] foolishwren 2019-11-05 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, Heather had never been particularly intrigued by the Aether Foundation one way or another. Sure, the squeaky-clean persona all their employees had kind of made them look like chumps, and yeah, it was kind of annoying to have to walk extra fast past their booths at every single ding-dang big event or festival lest they make eye-contact and draw you in with their cheery spiel, and you know what, fine, that Lusamine lady has literally always seemed creepy.

But it's when the big bomb about Type: Null's true origins drops that Heather gets interested, so here she freaking is.

"Seriously?" she groans when confronted with the grunts at the door. "Ugh... Tricia, you know what to do."

The Manectric at her side perks instantly to attention. Oh boy! Time to work!

With a whistle from Heather, the Lv. 100 electric canine makes short work of the Wingull and Trumbeak unfortunate enough to be sent out by the first couple of grunts, and dispatches an Inkay with Signal Beam next. EASY PEASY! Don't mess with a Champion, biotches!