victory_road | Friday the thirteenth doesn't usually get this whacky

[The Jane you see wandering about this odd and unusual weekend is different from the usual Jane who appears on the network and makes her home here. Their demeanor is similar enough - she's calm, not too fussed at the situation around her, and interacts with her Pokemon, a Togekiss, with affection and fondness. But there's a lot of visual differences going on. This one's got a streak each of pink, orange, and emerald in her hair, and her clothes are a fair bit nicer than what she usually wears. And there's...something to her eyes, a weariness - or wariness? Maybe both? Unexpected sounds or sudden movements make her tense up, and her hand goes to her pocket immediately.

All these years, and she's still so on edge.

But hey, this is a safe place! Maybe you can reassure her?]

[ Gosh, how many times has it been since Ash has been here? He couldn't catch a break could he?

Like the world wanted him here for some reason. But couldn't hold onto him like grains in the sand.

Aw well. What's someone to do about all of this but just wander around, and when he notices Jane there with her Pokemon, he'll wave at her with a smile. ]

Hi, are you as lost as I am right now?

[ On his shoulder was Pikachu, who was looking around as usual, unconcerned with the unusualness of the world. ]

[... They're really not sure how they feel about having been tossed to yet another world but at least this one seems more... welcoming? Accommodating?

They're not being asked to solve everyone else's problems yet, that's a plus so far.

Yuu, at the very least, doesn't seem especially bothered as they wander along roads and through cities and towns with a Litten clinging to their shoulder.

... They can just kind of do whatever they want. It's nice.

Of course, if they spot someone approaching, they'll lift a hand in greeting.]

Hey.

[... nailed it.]

Yuu?

[Malleus woke up super happy that day. His horns are back! His magic is back! Also he’s walking with a Goomy in his arms and a shiny Shinx trailing beside him.]

When did you get here?

... Tsunotarou!

[Man they thought they recognized him, but they couldn't be too sure, what with all of... uh, this!]

I just woke up here a few hours ago. [... Wait.] When did you...?

Two months I think?

[He approaches Yuu, he wants to pet the cute kitty.]

[... Two months?! That makes no... oh, well, whatever, at least someone they know is here.

The Litten eyes Malleus warily as he approaches, but a pat from Yuu calms the Fire-type down.]

Two months... well, I'm seriously glad to see you. This was too soon to get thrown into another new world mostly alone, you know?

[It's the Togetic that notices him first, and Jane turns when it turns, blinking a bit.

That boy looks familiar...

...

Ah, no, it's probably her imagination playing tricks on her or something. Jane offers a smile and waves back.]

Hello - ah, maybe a little? I've been here before, but it's always a little disorienting...

Zed has no idea what's going on here. One minute, he's doing his usual Emperor of Darkness thing--brooding while sitting in his throne and gazing longingly at the disco ball he'd installed in the throne room--and the next minute, he is elsewhere with some weird creature hanging around him, which...okay.

"Ah, yeah, I get you," he says, studying the Necrozma curiously. "You want the light too, don't you?" There can be only one thing to do. "Alright then, come on, let's go get some of that shine." That smile isn't exactly a nice one.

Is there something shiny on your person? On your Pokemon's person? Is the Pokemon shiny? Zed, for better or for worse, is fixated on taking anything that shines or glitters for himself, and now there's no one here to stop him. The Necrozma doesn't seem to know what to make of this weirdo, but they're two of a kind, so why not follow Zed's lead. Zed may either wander up to your shiny item and stare intently and unsubtly at it, or you may find the area around you going dark so they can launch a sneak attack. All options are good options, as far as Zed's concerned.

He can also be severely distracted by a string of Christmas lights or a lava lamp, that too.

Ah, that's right, so have I! Several times, but I always forget about it until I arrive here. Funny how that works out.

[ Ash smiled in a friendly manner as Pikachu offered Jane a berry in greeting. ]

I'm Ash, and this is Pikachu. Have you seen my friend Goh? He might be around here. I'm headed back to Vermillion City, where Professor Cerice's lab should be. If it exists in this world.

Another world? Another world. But, Nozomi isn't too frazzled at this. This one feels very familiar - a Pokemon world. Which means she feels right at home with all of this.

Of course, it seems that this world is being ridiculously silly and not giving her her usual set of Pokemon. Which is a shame, but hey, starting fresh is awesome!

Now, if she only knew where the heck she was! Somehow not exploring Kanto has left her a little lost...

"Hello? Anyone here?!" Nozomi called out, prompting a group of Rattata to run out. "Anyone human?!"

[ A coffin containing a blank mannequin suddenly springs up out of the ground. If that's not weird enough, a few moments later it's suddenly consumed by what looks like black tar for a second or two, and a masked man stumbles out of it.

The man, Aesop, seems about as confused as everyone else.

This clearly isn't where that twisted game was being held. What is this place? How did he get here? What on earth happened to his clothes?!

The coffin practically disintegrated the moment he emerged from it, leaving him stranded in a random town full of strange animals and living people...

... Oh dear. His poor heart's already racing. He clutches his embalming kit to his chest, clearly someone who does not want to be here at all. He needs to be elsewhere, preferably somewhere quiet, less crowded. Somewhere he can collect his thoughts and figure out what is going on.

Unfortunately, he will inevitably bump into people as he scurries away from the crowds. ]

Ah! Excuse me...

Edited 2020-11-13 22:05 (UTC)

[Goldenrod, Team Rocket Hideout]
Jules had kind of sort of started adjusting to being just an ordinary old human again, so when he's suddenly not an ordinary old human again and is once more his Lurkglider self, there is a high pitched and wailing screech coming from his quarters. He's going to look much the same to most of the people there--not just anyone can see through his Mask, after all.

The sudden alarm sends his Porygon into a frantic screech of static beeping, and Rust the Scrafty sits down and starts yelling "SCRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" at the top of her lungs in solidarity.

[Goldenrod, Radio Tower]
Jules waits until it's dark, because of course he does, and sets out for the Radio Tower. He's a Lurkglider again, even if most can't see it, and he's got needs, okay. The need to be up in high places. The night is both the most comfortable for him and the time at which he's least likely to get caught, because he is going to climb the Radio Tower. He's barefoot as he does this, and as he climbs, anyone who can see well in the dark is going to be treated to the sight of a seven-foot-tall man built like a twig scrambling up the tower at a pretty good clip like a gangly bootleg Spider-Man.

He's pretty focused on his task though, and when he's almost to the top, unfortunately, he'll encounter a nesting Murkrow that's none too happy to see him. There's a bit of squawking and some yelling on Jules's part, and then he falls off the tower, plummeting to the ground with a yell, slamming into the pavement below...

...and he sits up, perfectly fine and otherwise unscathed from the fall. "Oh, come on!" He's not hurt, just annoyed.

[Cianwood Safari Zone]
Jules isn't quite sure how he ended up in Cianwood of all places, but hey, he might as well take in the Safari Zone while he's there. He's going to visit the Snowy Gorge area, because he's still a Winter Court Changeling and the cold feels like what he needs after this truly bizarre "hey you're suddenly a weird gargoyle thing again and pretty much no one can see" weekend, so fine! He'll go hang out in the Snowy Gorge!

Until he sees it.

There it is, looming on the horizon, the lumbering shape of what is surely the polar-bear-esque deposed Winter King, Frosty Jack.

And it is coming for him.

He screams, drops his tail--though to any ordinary observer it'll look like he suddenly just farted out a piece of rope--and runs like hell.

Behind him, the wild Beartic is extremely confused and a little startled by all the noise.

"Huh..."

There's something a little odd about all of this, and Futaba can't quite put her finger on it. Whether it's the barely-noticeable music playing in the background, or the fact that she's suddenly standing in the middle of a city that is clearly not her neighborhood... or something else entirely. Whatever the case, the short bespectacled girl is interested in surveying her surroundings.

And hey, the music's actually kind of catchy. She's starting to hum along as she takes a look around. The white sand-covered streets and abundance of trees are enough to put a smile on her face. It might not be Leblanc, but there's a certain charm to the place.

"... What's a mud spa?"

The underbrush rattled and from it, a young man emerged at her shouting. "Hi hi, I'm here!"

"Pika!"

"Hi, you were looking for someone? There's Pikachu and me."

Speaking of shine, Ash had noticed the familiar creature and had stopped to stare for a long moment. A settled unnerved sensation in his stomach was feeling in his stomach for a brief moment before he steeled himself.

Its okay, he reminded himself. Necrozma just needed to be fed a surfeit of light. It's... mostly harmless. When it was pacified.

"Pika..." remarked Pikachu, honestly worried as Ash smiled. "It's okay, Pikachu."

Walking up to Zed, he smiled. "Um, excuse me, where did you get that Pokemon?"

[There is a child-sized, roughly person-shaped bird wandering about, wearing a hooded cloak and accompanied by a Chatot. There are rounds of 'Chatot cha! Chatot-tot!' and the like going back and forth between the two. The Chatot is honestly a little baffled that her new trainer is playing copy-bird, but they're getting along fine so she's going with it. The probably-trainer is happy to have made a new friend, but also appears to be looking for something, and will march up on her little bird feet to look up at anyone she sees:]

I've never done this before!

[Unlike the mimicking of the Chatot, which sounds very like the Pokemon, the voice Kiri is using for that phrase is a bubbly woman's.]

Goldenrod City

Jim... was not expecting this.

He was walking through the forest, in the dead of night, with Claire and Blinky and the other trolls on the way to New Jersey--

--and suddenly it's the middle of the day, and he can't register anything else because his blue skin and black-and-red armour are suddenly sparking blue and smoking as the sun turns him to stone.

He backs away sharply, snarling like an animal, but his back hits something solid, soft, and there's a flap of wings and suddenly he's in shade and the agonising burn abruptly stops. He's panting hard from the unexpected pain, and cracks an eye open to look up - and isn't expecting to see an elderly-looking dragon...troll... thing, wings spread wide to form an umbrella of shade, and its large head looking down at him with open concern.

"Uh." And the sheer shock of this entire situation is enough: with a sudden, violent flash of red smoke, the dark armour he's wearing vanishes, and a glowing blue amulet rolls away, out of the shadow Jim is in and tinkling to a halt when it bounces off someone's shoe. And the young half-troll, now in the tattered remnants of a tracksuit jacket, jeans and sneakers, looks incredibly confused. "What the hell?"

Wildcard location!

It takes a while to acquire a large golf umbrella - longer to find a set of clothes that fit his six foot dorito form and pay for it, but eventually Jim is dressed in something comfortably familiar, sans shoes, and is wandering around with his Drampa, exploring the sights and generally being really confused.

“Woah!” Nozomi jumped in surprise before calming down. “Oh, whew, people! Sorry, I’ve never been here, so...”

“Anyway, yes I was. Mostly to figure out where I am.”

"Oh, I dunno." Zed shrugs with the air of a man who doesn't worry about such things. "It just kind of showed up here when I did, I guess."

Necrozma is staring right back and kind of waiting to see what happens here.

[Oh, aw, what a sweet 'chu.]

Well, it's nice to meet you both - I'm Jane, and this is Jeffery. [The Togetic bobs and chirps in confirmation. Hello he is Jeffery!] I can't say I know for sure what cities or even labs are here, but I don't think it's a bad idea to look around. Maybe that friend of yours has found it already.

"Ah, I see. I'm just curious. It's been a while since I saw the Radiant One and it was maybe, half a year ago?" said Ash, venturing about the conversation carefully in case Necrozma remembered him and Pikachu.

"As far as I can tell, we're near Celadon City," said Ash, checking his Pokephone. "Although the GPS on this thing is giving me fits every time I look. I'm Ash, from Pallet Town. This is Pikachu and we're headed to Vermillion City."

Zed turns to Necrozma. "Oi, you're the Radiant One? I thought you said you needed light!"

Necrozma gives Zed a fairly expressive shrug. "Ozzzzz." Fortunately for everyone involved, it doesn't appear to remember Ash and Pikachu.

"Well, you don't hear anyone calling me the Emperor of Light, do you?" Zed continues to seem unimpressed with the Pokemon. "And you got a terrible memory for faces, not knowing this kid."

“Oh, wow, if it’s that bad, then we might be more lost than we thought!” Nozomi mused.

“I’m Nozomi Yumehara, though I’m really far away from home.” She looked around a bit. “We need signs of some kind here...”

Friday the thirteenth doesn't usually get this whacky

Jane Crocker | Airlocked CRAU | OTA

Pure Boy Coming In

Yuu (MC) | Twisted Wonderland | ota

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oh, bless him

Zed | Ressha Sentai ToQGer | OTA

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Nozomi Yumehara | Yes! Pretty Cure 5 (One Too Many Games CRAU) | OTA

Aesop Carl | Identity V | OTA (CW: May get morbid, excuse the icons)

Jules Thibault | Changeling: the Lost OC | OTA

Futaba Sakura | P5R

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Re: Zed | Ressha Sentai ToQGer | OTA

Kiri | Critical Role | OTA

Jim Lake Jr. | Trollhunters | OTA

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