OOC: Stupid time-warp... Hmm, this means Sweet Dreams will have to re-post...
Good thing I saved my posts!
IC:
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All of a sudden, while Primaverde was still hugging Qingrila with her roots, something pulled on Qingrila's tail, slipping her out of Primaverde's grip. Primaverde tried to look to see what grabbed Qingrila, but Qingrila didn't make a sound so as so say what it was, and all Primaverde could make out was some sort of dark portal that seemed to suck Qingrila in.
Oh no! Primaverde thought. Where'd Qingrila go?
Primaverde tried to reach her roots through the very portal Qingrila passed through, but the portal closed before she could reach it.
Great. Just great! I just heard from Sumanguru and Circe that one particular Team Nova member had two Pokemon that could make portals. If this is one of those portals, then... Oh no! Does that mean that someone in Team Nova is right here in Mt. Silver?
Primaverde was right, sort of. For at that moment, a young woman and a Glaceon stood at the entrance to a tunnel leading elsewhere in Mt. Silver.
"Glay?" the Glaceon asked.
"Flaurel. Flor flaurel," Primaverde said, saying she was a Pokemon by the name of Flaurel. ...Flaurel? Hmm, to Danna, it might have seemed like Flaurel was either one of those Team Nova-synthesised Pokemon, or a legendary. But didn't legendaries usually use normal human speech? Anyways, Primaverde continued talking to the Glaceon, in her "Flaurel" language:
<"Oh... don't mind Qingrila here. She gets scared really easily, from what I observe. I was wandering around with my friend when I saw Qingrila, started talking to her... then she disappeared.">
There was a pause.
<"Oh, my friend is an Alakazam--she's probably wandering around. I can't move too well, so she teleports me from place to place. So... what brings you here?">
After that long string of "Flor flaurel"s, Primaverde waited for the Glaceon's reply, occasionally keeping an eye on her trainer.
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<"Oh..."> Sumanguru replied, as the sky turned a beautiful shade of deep blue. <"Well, it was just a suggestion--the plan was Auroracle's idea anyways. Perhaps she was feeling a little restless when she thought about it. Erm...">
Feeling very embarrassed, the caramel-coloured Alakazam teleported again, leaving Darthpsych alone on the beach. Then he ended up in Johtorre, to check up on how Gryphice was doing. But when he got there, the place was empty. What? Empty? ...Then Sumanguru remembered that Masteghost could teleport as well, and figured that Gryphice followed him out of some portal. If that was true, Sumanguru had no clue where Gryphice was now...but still he hoped he would be okay.
What do I do now? Sumanguru thought. Erm... well, I already asked Darthpsych about the mission, so that means I'm done. Whoopee! Ha, and Sundiata thought I wouldn't be able to find him. See? I'm smarter than he thinks. Hahaha! Hmm, I think I should tell Auroracle the news... but where is she? Is she still with Polargent? Wait... I'll ask her.
With that, Sumanguru sat there and focused his attention on Auroracle, setting up a telepathic connection to her. It wasn't too hard for him to talk telepathically to Primaverde or anyone who was Psychic-type, and Auroracle was definitely Psychic-type.
"...Auroracle?" Sumanguru asked.
"Suman, is that you?"
"Oh, wow... you remembered my shortened name!" (She has a better memory than me...) "Anyways, I just asked Darthpsych about the mission, and he thinks it's a bad idea. He says Apocalydraggon will try harder to stop the mission than Arceus will. Apparently the two are good friends."
"Hmm, I'm beginning to regret setting up this mission as well... Maybe I should just call it off. After all, I think I have an idea to have Qingrila help me just look into the new continent. I think its inter-dimension travel and my remote vision could combine to form the ability to see what's going on there. So just keep it between us, okay? Oh, and I'm with Polargent now, by the way. I'm not going to ask it about the mission--maybe I'll just keep it company for a while."
Sumanguru, having free time at last, decided it would be a good idea to go back to where Circe was. Circe had deliberately shut off telepathic communication with him, but apparently she didn't do a good job of disguising non-word-based thoughts. So Sumanguru could still use the connection to teleport next to her whenever he wanted. He promised to do this only once every two days, but since two days have already passed since his last appearance next to her... Anyways, Sumanguru was just about to do this when he thought of something else...
Oh, I'll bring her a present!
With that, Sumanguru teleported back to Mt. Silver, but not the inside chamber where Circe was. Instead he teleported to a ledge on the outside, where Mt. Silver's only Frutai Tree was. Once there, he began looking for some of the more delicious berries there.
Ah, if I could find one of those Custap Berries, that would be perfect. Now where are they? Nope, not here... no, those are Liechis...
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After Lupin finished eating the Rindo Berry the Ninetales had offered him, he took out his Pokevice to find a new text message from Brad:
"Lupin. This is Baphomet. Turns out Toxadacia and Glaciatrum died. UbeROb got them. Anyways, you shall go for Darthpsych and Polargent - I am chasing Gryphice and Isix."
Oh, so that's where the fiery comet and the screech came from, Lupin thought. ...So Glaciatrum was gone. What?!? Wait a minute--that didn't make sense. UbeROB was supposed to capture legendaries, not kill them. This meant one of two things: either Brad was lying, or UbeROB had a malfunction or something. But if UbeROB didn't kill them, who did? Lupin thought he had an idea of who the killer was, but he couldn't quite make out its identity... Gee, there was some dark presence he knew very well, but who, and from where?
Well... this ruins my previous plan. But, it also means...
With that, Lupin let his three remaining Pokemon out of their Pokeballs: Sage, Sirius, and Sinistress. Sirius, his Arcanine, yawned widely as he emerged from his Pokeball.
<"I was just taking a little nap...">
<"It's too early for your bedtime,"> Sage the Lucario said to the dark red Arcanine.
"Oh goodie goodie night! Ssssin...nights-time here-istress...!"
Sinistress was supposedly able to speak human language, but sometimes she didn't do a very good job of it, and it was often embarrassing.
"Sinn-is-tress..." Sinistress fretted, a low, dark gaze falling over Sirius.
<"What? Of course I'm not laughing,"> Sirius barked.
"Well, everybody, there's been a change of plans," Lupin announced. Then he paused and continued in a lower and softer voice. "...Glaciatrum is gone."
Another pause.
"Someone killed her--Brad figured it was UbeROB, but I'm not so sure. Now we're supposed to go after Darthpsych and Polargent. It seems so far likely that at least Polargent will be hiding inside Mt. Silver, so I'm hoping Scout and Alice have spotted it by now. As for Darthpsych... finding him will be a bit more difficult. Maybe, we should wait for Alice and Scout to come out, so as to hear from them. ...Sinistress, would you mind going in to find them?"
"Sssinnn..."
Sinistress looked towards the mountain, and nodded in agreement. Then she floated away towards the inside...
...And secodns later, she came right back again.
"...Sssssomeoneistress... is here."
Sirius stifled a snicker at this little pronunciation flaw. Then the whole group turned to someone else on the other side of the tree...
An Alakazam was walking towards them--a handsome-looking, caramel-coloured one, gleaming in the filtered moonlight through the leaves. At first he thought the Alakazam was looking directly at him, but then he heard leaves rustle above him--one of the Custap Berries was glowing.
"Oh... go right ahead, you can have them," Lupin commented, picking the other two berries and tossing them to the Alakazam. The Alakazam (who happened to be Sumanguru) stopped these three berries midair, then juggled them in his spoons for a while. What a little showoff...
"Kazam."
Sumanguru started to teleport away, but Sinistress stopped him with her own Psychic attack.
<"You're not going anywhere... until you pay the toll.">
Sinistress placed her hand right above Sumanguru's head, and wisps of energy flowed from his head to her hand. Soon these energies turned into what looked like a small misty ball, but then the skull charm on her cape opened its mouth and swallowed it. Then its eyes flashed with an eerie red light. Meanwhile, Sumanguru was slumped over, trying to use any psychic attack he possibly could, but he couldn't teleport away, and psychic attacks didn't affect Sinistress anyways.
Then Sinistress placed her hand over Sumanguru's head a bit, wiggling her fingers a bit. Then she glaced left and right to make sure no gaping wild Pokemon were watching... Nothing odd, except a dark shadow that was probably Lupin passed by on her left. Then, two things happened at once. Sinistress's hand touched Sumanguru's head, causing him to flinch for a moment and clench his fists. This moment passed quickly, but the second his fists began to relax, Lupin carefully lifted the spoon out of his right hand and snatched it away. Such a perfect opportunity couldn't be passed up.
Ah, I see, Sinistress thought as she held her hand there. You're thinking about your girlfriend, are you...? And I see... ah, there's Isix... and there's Alice and Scout. And there's Brad and Negatov and Serplesios and Draglacier. And... what's this shape that keeps appearing before my eyes? A beach? Is this where you're planning to take her on a... Ah, I see. Then TAKE US THERE!
Sinistress squeezed the Alakazam's head as she said this, her method of controlling his actions. The controlled action she had him perform was teleportation, to that very beach...
After all, now that I sapped your energy, you'll need my own psychic energies to teleport. Not to mention you're missing one of your spoons.
Soon afterward, Lupin, Sage, Sirius, and Sinistress and Sumanguru arrived on the beach where Darthpsych was.
"All right Sinistress," Lupin whispered to Sinistress, "why don't you go back and find Alice and Scout--Sirius will watch over the Alakazam here, while... Sage, can I trust you to be in charge of battling Darthpsych?"
Sage took a look at Darthpsych for a moment, then agreed. Clearly, Lupin was not going to try gradual persuasion and building up trust with Darthpsych like he originally planned for Glaciatrum--somehow Darthpsych would just not buy the same idea.
"Of course, don't fight until I give the signal, or until Darthpsych attacks one of us," Lupin continued, in an even softer whisper. "And Sirius... it might be better to keep the Alakazam hidden..."
But just in case, Lupin took out something from a pocket on his chest--it looked like a lighter. But when he pressed a button on the side gently, an electrical spark or two formed at its tip... He touched the tip of this object to the back of the Alakazam's head. If Sumanguru wasn't already either immobile or unconscious, surely he was one of those now.
As Lupin looked at Darthpsych, he thought something looked familiar about him, but then decided that it definitely was not familiar. Darthpsych was just this black, armoured humanoid figure, with arms made of some sort of red energy. But he didn't seem to be that evil--it could be argued that if you looked at both Lupin and Darthpsych and sensed their auras, you would probably see Lupin as the more evil one. Yet if you looked at Sinistress as well, she would seem far more evil than Lupin, yet still nothing close to pure evil, of which there was apparently no such thing. (Well, nobody apart from the legendaries knows about Apocalydraggon, so...)
Sage started to walk towards Darthpsych, taking each step as quietly as possible. After taking a few steps, he fired a pale red beam from his hand, which formed a little circle in front of his eye. The beam didn't hit Darthpsych--rather, it hit a circle around it, then glowed green after a while. This was his version of Foresight. Without it, he wouldn't be able to hit Darthpsych with most of his attacks--that is, if he even needed to fight. Anyways, Sage took a few more steps towards Darthpsych, planning to sit right next to it. But he didn't get too far before he accidentally stepped on a sharp little rock.
"Cario!"
Sage quickly rubbed the rock off the bottom of his foot, but when he stood up again, Darthpsych was looking right at him, having heard him shout in surprise. Sage stood by and watched him, waiting to see whether or not Darthpsych would just turn back around immediately... Fortunately, by that time, Sirius had dragged Sumanguru behind a large rock so that Darthpsych couldn't see him, and was standing right behind Sage at this point. Sinistress had been spending the last few moments forming a portal, which was concealed behind a few rows of trees, then used Sumanguru to teleport back to Mt. Silver. She was gone by the time Darthpsych looked around. Lupin was sitting down a short distance away on Darthpsych's other side. By now it was dark enough for him to not be seen as easily, but there was still enough moonlight for Sage to see.
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Auroracle was watching Polargent from a tunnel leading to a very small cavern in Mt. Silver, too small for her to fit. She was just about to ask Polargent about the mission when Sumanguru talked to her telepathically, and she decided against asking it. Polargent had noticed her thought, and was looking right at her.
"...Oh, hello Polargent. Never mind--I thought I was going to ask you something, but I forgot what I was going to say. Oh, just so you know, Gryphice has just been captured, and Isix has been attacked as well. And I'm beginning to spot two people from Team Nova right here in Mt. Silver... so be careful."
Auroracle backed out of the cavern and entered a large, moist cavern just below it. It was here that she did another remote vision check. She looked around Mt. Silver first. Two humans were in Mt. Silver, surely enough. There were three Pokemon with one of them--two dragonlike Pokemon, one based off a black orb. Isix was with them as well as Circe, and nearby were an Umbreon and an Absol. Uh-oh, Isix was under attack! Auroracle thought about helping Isix out, but if she did that, she would be spotted as well. So she moved on... Uh-oh, Primaverde was spotted as well? But was the lady there in Team Nova or not? She had a Glaceon with her... Elsewhere, she found Apocalydraggon, but he started to give her a headache when she saw him, so she moved on. Outside Mt. Silver? No one. The beach where Darthpsych was?
"OUCH!"
Just as before with the foggy area at the base of Mt. Silver, Auroracle got a very painful headache, yet this time it prevented her from seeing anything at all. What prevented this? It wasn't Darthpsych--she had seen it before without having a headache... It wasn't Sumanguru... Auroracle couldn't tell.
A while later, Auroracle flew right out of Mt. Silver--she decided it would not be safe inside the mountain if there was at least one person from Team Nova in there. So she entered out the western side of Mt. Silver--the side opposite the entrance Alice and Scout, Circe and Isix, and Brad and Negatov had used on the east. She dived down into the fog surrounding the mountain, and stopped by a small pond. A mother Machamp with her four-armed baby stared in awe at the legendary Pokemon that swooped down and sat with her body in a circle around the pond.
<"Oh, Auroracle, your majesty..."> the Machamp greeted, kneeling on the ground and bowing.
"You flatter me..." Auroracle replied. "Please, don't tell any humans or strange-looking Pokemon I was here, okay? Team Nova has raided Mt. Silver..."
The Machamp stared, wide-eyed, at Auroracle and her bright crystal eyes, incredulous.
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What, three on two? Talk about an unfair battle! Isix and Circe jumped up in surprise as Brad entered the chamber with Negatov. Then he sent out two more Pokemon: they looked rather serpentine and dragon-like, evolutions of Dragonair and Milotic, perhaps. Hmm... this wasn't good. One was Dragon-type and the other was Water-type, both of which were resistant to Fire attacks. What's more, Isix was weak against Dragon attacks. Isix had a type disadvantage here...
<"Sorry Isix--it looks like we'd only be helping him out by teleporting all over the place. I think it's best if we stay and fight--for now. Come on Isix, you know how you can get over your type disadvantage!">
"Oh, of course, you're right."
With that, Isix flipped backwards in the air. The second she did, three balls of a blinding yellow light formed where she was and flew right at Negatov. The three orbs were made of light energy, and were just made to be super-effective against any Dark-type Pokemon. This "Light-type" was also good against Fighting, Ice, Ground, and Ghost-type Pokemon, but was not very effective against Rock and Steel and Psychic-types. Arceus had apparently created this type when it created the new legendaries, but it was secretly known only to the legendaries--that is, until (and if) Team Nova was defeated. Anyways, the orbs hit Negatov in a blinding flash of light, while Isix flew in a circle around the Pokemon. Then Isix quickly flew black to her original position and engulfed herself in the same blinding light. The light could have lit up the whole cave, except it managed not to penetrate anywhere past this cavern. This was her Blind Flash attack, a more powerful of the original Flash that cut accuracy twice as much. The other attack she had used was Golden Bubble, a combination of two attacks Arceus had apparently experimented with before creating her. It was an orb attack, but also caused the target to fall asleep. Well, at least while Negatov was asleep, that was one less Pokemon to handle for a while...
Meanwhile, Circe stared at Draglacier and Serplesios, waiting to see what they would do. She had her back turned to Isix at the moment, and thus was not in the face of Isix's Blind Flash like the other two were. Circe held her crystal spoons at the ready, waiting for the signal... When they attacked, she sould either teleport away or use ehr Psychic attack to push it away, or do something else with it...
Alice and Scout watched this battle, hiding quickly behind the rock they were already behind when Isix used Blind Flash. Hmm... maybe if Brad got to the point where he was losing the battle (if he did), they would help him out...
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Sundiata had teleported to where Toxadacia was, only to see her get killed by Apocalydraggon. The gold-coloured Alakazam took a few steps away from this gargantuan Pokemon who was just brimming with evil, having also spotted what looked like a dead Glaciatrum on his other side. He was shocked and even a tad horrified--it made sense for Apocalydraggon to want to kill humans and regular Pokemon, but legendary Pokemon as well? That seemed to make no sense, and it looked like Qingrila would be next. For Apocalydraggon was holding the little white dragon, who struggled and screamed as Apocalydraggon boomed threatening words to him. Oh no, Qingrila was in trouble! Sundiata started to teleport Qingrila away from Apocalydraggon when he was stopped by a dark force...
The dark force didn't come from Apocalydraggon--rather, it came from Qingrila himself. As Apocalydraggon held him, Qingrila's body started to become purple, and his feathery wings expanded, and his tail twitched violently...
WHOOSH! Qingrila's wings exploded, revealing, larger, black, batlike wings. The force of this emergence broke Qingrila free of Apocalydraggon's grip, while Qingrila soared up and over him. His eyes were now bright red and glowing angrily, and his tail was now a spiky group of black spindles, each with a clawed hand at its end. Qingrila shouted, in a booming voice that was just a tad louder than Apocalydraggon's...
"Arceus created me as an object of peace, of harmlessness--but forgot the function of duality. Within a being of pur good lies a being of pure evil, shut away until provoked otherwise. You were wrong to think that I did not have any evil in me--I was just hiding it! Now, if you know what's reasonable for you, you will not destroy me. If you destroy me, you destroy Qingrila's evil half. And when that happens, Qingrila becomes unstable with only a good form. And when THAT happens, Qingrila's good essence will unlock a being of ultimate good hidden deep inside you, fellow being or pure evil! So unless you want your good side exposed--yes, it's there!--you will not dare touch me. Remember, I am not Qingrila's good form--I am on your side. Auroracle may have suggested entering the new continent--I say we destroy it. After evil descends upon this world, I fear that Arceus will want to call upon the new continent to help it out."
Then Qingrila spoke in a quieter voice, moving to the front side of Apocalydraggon and talking to him face-to-face.
"Now, here's another thing--I have come really close to entering the new continent just a while ago, while my good form was taking over. I know you have the power to shut off entry to the new continent, but if you let me, I can enter the continent, and together we can destroy it. Is that a plan, or is that, should I say... too good?"
