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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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quizzak: (Default)

[personal profile] quizzak 2019-11-07 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
Wait, by yourself? What if more Aether staff are there?

[ she's just worried. she doesn't like the sound of keith going alone. ]

Keith, let one of us go with you. It's always good to have backup.
marmoron: marmoron (mild levels of concern)

[personal profile] marmoron 2019-11-07 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
[he knows there's strength in numbers, but...]

Romelle. It's bad enough that you and Allura got dragged into this mess in the first place.

[and though he's not going to point out the underleveled pokemon situation explicitly, it's what he's thinking.]

I don't want to put either of you in danger.
quizzak: (romelle 4)

[personal profile] quizzak 2019-11-07 07:59 am (UTC)(link)
...Can you at least promise me you'll make it out of there in one piece?

[ a beat. she looks into the camera and steadies it as best as she can. her brows are knit and her lips are pouting. she's concerned. ]

Please.
marmoron: marmoron (teeny smile)

[personal profile] marmoron 2019-11-08 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
[he's still rummaging through lab materials, though something in romelle's voice makes him lause to look directly at the pokegear.

the concern feels a little strange. considering all the fights he's been in where their enemies had massive robeasts and weapons that could vaporize entire planets, these aether guys barely even register as threats. and maybe he's wrong for downplaying it as much as he is in his head.

whatever the case may be, however, it does get him to pause.
]

You know, I don't think anyone's ever asked me to promise that.

[which is besides the point perhaps, but...]

You needn't worry though.
quizzak: (romelle 11)

[personal profile] quizzak 2019-11-08 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ he seems surprised by the sentiment, which gets romelle to raise an eyebrow. she's not sure she understands what's so strange about being asked to come back safely, but...well, taking his past into account...she supposes that's why the little things count.

she grins at him, keeping that in mind.
]

Alright, alright. Enough doting then, I'll see you once this is over.

[ she's still worried because keith is pretty reckless, but he's been through worse and made it out alive. he'll be okay. ]
marmoron: by request of the icon creator, pls do not take (team leader)

[personal profile] marmoron 2019-11-08 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
[that actually gets a laugh. it's chaotic as hell right now with people coming in and out trying to figure out what all aether's been up to behind the scenes this whole time, but there's still time to let a friend know she's appreciated.

.... especially after the way his younger self had been dealing with her.
]

You got it. [a beat.] If you need another pair of hands to help you out with the crybabies, I can send Friend, your way.

[mimikyu's pretty underleveled to be much help in the actual battling, but maybe he can assist romelle by telekinetically lifting a whole bunch of the pokemon...]
quizzak: (romelle 8)

[personal profile] quizzak 2019-11-08 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ romelle is totally blanking out on which pokemon he's referring to, because there are too many buddies and variations of the name on keith's team. she doesn't think too hard on it though once the sobbles start wailing again, and one sticks its face in front of her camera.

keith may have a hard time hearing her through the screeching, but from behind the sobble, romelle says:
]

Please do!
marmoron: by request of the icon creator, pls do not take (pleasant)

[personal profile] marmoron 2019-11-10 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Keith looks off screen for a moment.]

Friend, go help Romellle out, alright?

[Well that sure doesn't clarify which pokemon it is, but Keith's giving Romelle a thumbs up.]

He's on the way. Take good care of him!
quizzak: (romelle 18)

[personal profile] quizzak 2019-11-10 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
I will! Be careful, Keith!

[ she cuts the feed. she'll keep a close eye on friend for him. ]