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Entry tags:
- !event,
- !ultra october,
- allura (voltron),
- armin arlert (attack on titan),
- dipper pines (gravity falls),
- fred jones jr (scooby doo mystery inc),
- hank anderson (detroit become human),
- jane crocker (homestuck),
- john egbert (homestuck),
- kazuki hihara (la corda d'oro),
- keith (voltron),
- maya (borderlands),
- peter venkman (the real ghostbusters),
- rebecca “newt” jorden (aliens),
- romelle (voltron),
- ryner lute (legendary heroes),
- shadowmaru (brave police j-decker),
- stanford pines (gravity falls),
- winston zeddemore (real ghostbusters)
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 towatch 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.
_______
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!
[Happy Halloween! See the updated info post for more info... and comment below to join the fray...]
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
... 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.
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!
[Happy Halloween! See the updated info post for more info... and comment below to join the fray...]
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"How is solving different than fixing?" he tries and then gives up, finally leaving his post just behind Dirk to stand facing both of them, scowling. "OK actually I am sick of playing this game where both of you pretend you don't give a shit about each other. I know why Jane is doing it but it makes no sense from you, Dirk. You are both lying! It is not that easy to suddenly not give a fuck! This is stupid! This is all so stupid!"
Can't they all just enjoy the shenanigans caused by cool stunts going wrong? Isn't that enough?!
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See. Here's the thing.
The Kartana are back from wherever they'd split off to--probably just checking it out ahead, and they'd begun filtering in between Dirk and the parasympathetic pair, darting up and sideways in sharp, cutting little motions. And Dirk was 99.97% ready to bounce on this conversation, for once vaguely satisfied with its conclusion. That his little side issue was settled.
And then John opened his fat fool mouth.
He doesn't have to turn to stare at John, but he doesn't move his head at all. His hand finds the back of the much-abused chair and closes over it.
"Neither of you are playing the game any more," is what he says--his voice is cool, unyielding, solid like a metal. "Which is obviously for the better. I've chosen to play. I also chose not to give a fuck. I've also chosen not to lie to you, which is a courtesy neither of you requested nor expressly deserve, but which I fucking chose to extend for the sake of time and clarity."
If John doesn't want to play, then Dirk can just as easily take his ball and go home.
Proverbially speaking. And perhaps soon, literally.
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I mean. He's right. He's right and he should say it, and Jane knows this in her heart and really, she...she's just trying not to get hurt again. Not like before. But by gum, it's so stupid, and this isn't the time nor the place to hash it out-
...
She lets out a long, tired breath. Closes her eyes. Counts to five.
"Why the fuck would I play a game that doesn't matter here, Dirk? Why in the heck would I bother?"
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"Ok well considering that I did play the game--I even picked it back up after years of not playing to play it again to protect the truth of reality--that isn't super accurate, Dirk? The only reason I am even here is because I played it all the way to death! I'm not keeping you here, dude. Jane isn't keeping you here!" He feels his nose prickling, which is just great. Wow, he wishes he could also go back to the days where he didn't feel like crying all the time? This isn't useful to anyone.
He breathes in deep and digs his fingernails into his palms before continuing.
"If we're not playing, you're not playing. You're here, aren't you? You're stuck here too. I get that you have to go back to save canon and that's great and really fucking noble or whatever and I hope jumping in a random wormhole works out for you but canon crapped out me and Jane into Pokemon Land when it was done screwing with us so maybe you could try being mad at canon for doing that to you instead of taking it out on...I guess just Jane!? Sure, I like it here but I hate that I am stuck here! I hate that I can't see any of my non-Jane friends again! This is bullshit! I get it! I get it! But you being a jack ass over something we literally can't control is messed up!"
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Is what Dirk says, after John has finished his piece. That was a lot of repressed angst, and he hadn't asked for any of it. Just when he'd finally gotten Jane to see things the right way. His way.
And now John's throwing a tantrum. He considers it for a moment. The game John had played to death wasn't his game. Not really. It was just part of clearing the board. The setup stage, doling out the fistfuls of pretend cash before another miserably imbalanced game of Reality Monopoly.
There are a lot of ways he could respond, if he wanted to. 'Maybe if we had more time...' for example. But nah. Not even then. Maybe he is taking it out on John, maybe not. He'd like to think he's past that kind of juvenile projection. Perhaps John is the one projecting? He'll let John stew in it.
"Good luck with that."
Dirk nods to Jane, kicks off the spotless Aether floor, and hops onto his chair, the Kartana sweeping him up in a whirlwind and off down the hall like a rifleshot, leaving Jane and John and John's emotional baggage make three.
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Well that sure was a lot of emotions from John, and...Dirk just...fucked off. Not even answering her question, though in all fairness it could've been interpreted as rhetorical. Damn, she couldn't even be petty at him for that. Fuck.
Jane looks down at her shoes, brow furrowed. This so isn't the time for introspection, but now...now, she can't stop feeling crummy. Like she's not enough for John, who of course would want to see his friends from his universe, right? Not just be limited to her. He deserved to be with his actual friends he got to know after all he'd been through, not just his weird alternate universe Teen Nanna.
God, this isn't the time. This really isn't the time. They have weird shady Pokemon shit to uncover. Jane swallows hard, but when she opens her mouth, she can't find any words to say.
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"Aw man, are you ok, Jane? Dirk is a big jerk, I'm sorry."
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She looks up, blinking, but that expression on her face is a little harder to shake.
"Oh, um...yeah. Yes, I'm fine - we've got an organization to be a pain to, right? We, um, ought to...do that."
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"Yeah, you're right! Don't push yourself too hard, though, you really got bowled over!"
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"-!"
Jane doesn't stiffen, but she sure didn't expect a hug out of nowhere. At John's words, she manages a weak "hoo" and tries to pat him reassuringly on the arm. "I-I'm fine, it's fine...I'd rather be bruised than have a broken bone."