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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] lioness_rampant 2019-11-10 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
I don't... I don't know. The data was incomplete. I don't think they created the most recent wormholes, but it's hard to say.

[ Allura hates feeling helpless, and she hates seeming helpless; fortunately, Keith's hand on her shoulder helps her center herself. Both of her hands reach up, fisting into the fabric of his jacket, and she closes her eyes as she takes in a long, juddering breath then slowly releases it.

Whether or not she believes things will be okay is immaterial--Keith's level head is what she needs in the moment. She nods, fingers uncurling. ]


Yes, of course. It will be fine. We just need to focus. [ This said more to herself than to him. Her voice is more businesslike when she straightens up. ]

The device wasn't in the laboratory. I'm not certain it's even in the compound. But wherever it is, we need to prevent them from using it.
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[personal profile] marmoron 2019-11-10 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
[In the brief moment that Allura pulls herself in close, Keith unwittingly freezes. It's hard not to be reminded of the time they all parted ways with the princess, each of them holding her tight for a moment. Parted ways -- he catches himself after a split second; they don't get to use a pretty euphemism like that. Left her to die alone.

Allura hadn't seemed nearly as shaken back then, which only makes her fear now all the more haunting. He wants to assure her in so many words that it's not going to happen again, that she's safe, but there's only so much time they have to act. The Aether scientists were already trying to cover as much of their research up as possible and they need to keep that in perspective.

But all the same, he wraps his free arm around Allura's back, pulling her into a one armed hug. Maybe she doesn't neexd it if she's found some resolve, but maybe that's not the point. Maybe in the end, he's the one that needed to hold onto the friend he wanted to save but couldn't, however selfish that might be.
]

And we're going to. [He stays that way for another beat before letting go and letting the hand on her shoulder slip down to grab her hand.] I'm not gonna let anyone make you go through anything like this again. Let's go.