[PKMN OPEN] The Pokémon Trainer Academy (T) [Best Veteran 4Q '11]

[Nillemi]

Ellie Ward - Sky --> Rocket Base​

"Wooo!" Ellie yelled out, Clutching her pilot around the stomach as tightly as she can. She never experienced anything like this before. An odd combination of fear and excitement swept through her as they Flew through the sky.

"Ya know, It's alright if you're scared, You don't have to pretend to like it" Evan Called back to her in a teasing tone. "I am having fun though!" She called back up to him, only telling half of the truth. Looking around her She can see the other students flying through the sky, Most of the Passengers seem to be freaking out a bit. "Well then why are you holding on so tightly?" He calls back, Trying to get a rise out of her. "Cause I don't Wanna fall off, Duh!" She Calls back up, Assuming the reason was obvious.

After some time Passes the Man leading the group eventually started to Descend, Everyone else following him down towards a Cliff. "Alright, Let me tell you what to expect" Evan Started, Looking back at Ellie. "Team Rocket uses Numbers as an advantage, So stay with other people, You'll be overwhelmed otherwise. They Primarily Use Poison types but often use fighting also, Some Even use electric types. If you have Any Psychic pokemon, Its their time to shine. Otherwise Don't Be afraid to fall back if you feel your pokemon are too injured." He finishes, Landing His pokemon with the group, Ellie Carefully got off the metal bird Followed bu Evan. "It looks like we Aren't Giving them much warning" She Says, Watching their Leader Charge in almost instantly. "We cant Give them the Luxury of Preparing, Hurry in once your ready" He finishes, Charging into the building with Sophie.

Ellie was about to charge in as blindly as he did but after taking a quick glance, She noticed a few trainers taking last minute Preparations, One of them Being a girl she Made sure of taking a note of Back at the Academy. "I should do that as well... I can Only use Emil for this And He's Weak to their most common Type..." she thinks to herself. Letting out a small Squeaking noise, Emil emerges from his pokeball.

Pulling out several Colored Medicine Bottles, Ellie Has her Marill Drink from each one. "Marrr..." Emil responds with a Grimace on his face. "I know you're not Fond of the stuff But this is very Important... These People are known as Team Rocket and They may have the Secret to Fixing Nellie, Problem is though that they Carry A lot of Poison Types So I need you to be at your top performance." She Explains. Sighing, Emil Begrudgingly takes a drink from the Red Medicine bottle. Ellie Wait for Emil to finish drinking from all the bottles before Giving him her next instruction. "I also Recommend Preemptively using Aqua Ring, Can't Hurt being too prepared and it's not like they're gonna play fair." She Explains to Emil as he Veils himself in three rings of clear water. "And finally, Take this and eat it when you feel hurt" he says Handing over a large yellow berry. "Alright Perfect! Let's Go! I'm sure somebody could use a tag out!" She Cheers to Emil as they run Towards the entrance.

"Wow, They have done a number to this place..." Ellie says, Looking around at all the Damage inflicted to the Structure of the Hideout. Looking ahead it's obvious to tell where all the action is occurring as she See's Bolts of lightning and Jets of fire, Not even mentioning all the noise as they Sprint there as fast as they can. Inside of the large room there are two hall Going left and right as well as a rather complex door in front of her. Making only a small mental note of it, she Quickly locks into some action.

"Emil, Use Aqua jet!" She shouts out to her Marill, Pointing at a very Unfortunate Wheezing as Emil Rams into it. Evidently The X attacks were doing their Job as the Wheezing Is sent Flying down the Hall, The Rocket's Jaw dropping as his pokemon is easily taken out. "What the Hell!" He Exclaims, Finally recovering from what happened. Ellie Just gives him a sly smirk "This is where being the Daughter of Shopkeepers pays off" She thinks to herself. "Don't you give me that look you little *****!" He yells back at her, Sending out a Skuntank. "Lets see how you handle that!" He says, with a mug smile on his face. "Emil! Double Edge!" Ellie Calls out, Emil slamming Right into it. Similarly to last time, The Skuntank is also sent Tumbling down the hall, The Rocket Grunt not even sure what to think anymore. Emil, Slightly panting after it's last attack, Is slowly being healed by the Veil of Water around him. "What the Hell is wrong with that thing!?!?" the Shocked grunt Shouts out behind him as he Runs down the Hall, Recalling his Pokemon as he Retreats.

"Perfect! Looks like they're Working Phenomenally!" Ellie Calls out to her Marill "All we need to do is get the first attack and We'll have nothing to worry about!" She says as she looks for another target.

 

[Dawn]

Valorie Ryder - Rocket Mountain Base

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Valorie's Haxorus stalked the muk, eyes peeled for oncoming attackers. As expected the golbat foolhardily rushed in, finding itself blocked with a protect attack and struck down with a swing of Haxorus' mighty axe head. Muk was quick to follow up with a body slam, but Haxorus' counter quickly put the deadly poison pokemon out of comission. Valorie wrinkled her nose. Who trained pokemon like that?! She wouldn't be able to tolerate a muk in her presence if it weren't for the gravity of the situation. Valorie started to step back when she felt another body brush against her. Turning her head, she realized Kale was covering her. In her head, she'd always thought this would feel so much more satisfying; and it was satisfying, but she had underestimated how much more concerned she was about all the pokemon attacks flying through the air.

Rex, Valorie's tyrunt, faced off against a venipede nearby. The bug pokemon curled up and launched itself at Rex, a steamroller attack by the looks of the spikes threatening to jab her tyrunt. With a quick command she ordered Rex to brace himself and retaliated with a stomp attack. The pokemon did as told, taking the hit with a certain amount of grace before leaping up and smashing his foot down atop the bug! That was one bug squashed, but Valorie could see her pokemon were getting pretty tired. It didn't matter how strong you were, even weak pokemon could wear yours down over time.

It was time to put a dent in these Rockets.

"Haxorus! Launch Goomy, right into the middle of them! Goomy, use bide!" Valorie commanded. Haxorus would literally head butt Goomy straight into the crowd of rockets, where the poor pokemon was immediately swarmed. ...Just as Valorie'd planned. Most of the rockets seemed oblivious to her plan. As Goomy was rapidly overwhelmed Valorie expertly called upon Shu to use Night Shade. She needed to buy Goomy just enough time to... As the Rockets and their pokemon suddenly found themselves faced with an eldrich abomination in the form of an illusion effected Haxorus they suddenly forgot about the goomy near fainting amidst them just long enough for the small pokemon to glow a blinding white before abruptly exploding, slime fyling everywhere and at least a dozen rockets and their pokemon being blown off their feet. Of course, the slime was just a byproduct. Goomy laid in the midst of the groaning fallen, looking thoroughly exhausted but otherwise okay. Shu took a moment to shield Valorie and her clothes from the slime using protect.

...Valorie quietly thought to herself that she should nickname Goomy 'Grossy.'

Team Freaking Rocket - Rocket Mountain Base

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The rocket grunts began to cower in fear as they were vastly outskilled, some retreating back towards the administrative section. Suddenly a very familiar charizard and flygon shot out of the administrative ward, indiscriminately spewing two fire blasts at the group of students before immediately circling around for another go. They then both proceeded to fire off two more as they retreated back into the administrative wards, using their own attacks as protection to meet any heroes hoping to attempt to take them down. A cocky young male's voice rang out over the intercom.

"Step forward if you dare. Especially -you-, Valorie..." the boy's voice said. The rocket grunts seemed to have started retreating en-masse by this point.

Valorie Ryder - Rocket Mountain Base

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Valorie's eyes widened as fire blasts swept over the immediate area. Someone was going to get seriously hurt! Her pokemon did their best to use protect on everyone they could, but flames exploded all over the place. At the very least she and Kane by extension of being behind her would be safe.

Valorie grimaced. That voice... It was Jacob! He was taunting her, and boy was it working. Perhaps he was trying to intimidate her, but all she could feel was righteous fury. As terrified as she was ultimately anger was a stronger emotion, and boy did she have a lot of reasons to be angry. As the rockets gave chase Valorie was running after them without heed for things like traps.

"This way!" she called out mostly for Kale's sake.

She passed several rooms full of computers and other such useful living accomodations, intent on catching up to Charizard and Flygon. She had a score to settle, and no ammount of strain was going to set her back. She could already see something at the end of the hall... Valorie emerged into what appeared to be a cafeteria of sorts, though it lacked any sort of character one might expect from a place you eat. Before her stood Jacob, ...directly beside Dragonite.

The gigantic dragon pokemon stood at a massive twelve feet tall, barely fitting inside the mountain base at all. Charizard and Flygon were in the air. Mamoswine and Jellicent were similarly posed nearby. It was as if they were waiting for them...

"Haxorus, use your dragon cl--auugh!" Valorie began calling out passionately as she slammed into something entirely invisible to the human eye. It was as if she'd hit a brick wall. The tiny girl just sort of fell on her butt, entirely less than thrilled. Smug... jerk... standing there staring at her--At THEM. Valorie had to remind herself that she wasn't alone.

Haxorus however wasn't as easily disuaded. She slammed into the invisible wall, which began to glow a transluscent lavender color as she penetrated it. Valorie recognized it as Dragonite's barrier attack, which pressed a great deal of force onto anything trying to enter the immediate area against her will. Haxorus seemed to struggle in spite of her strength, slowed to a walk by the crippling barrier.

"Haxorus, no!" Valorie called out, but it was too late. Dragonite opened her mouth and fired out an ice beam. The blast nearly froze Haxorus solid, dropping her to the floor where she laid unable to battle. Valorie growled. What a wrotten turn of events. That entire room was a massive trap of deadly proportions, but... but why?

Any others that tried to rush in would meet a similar fate.

Janine looked around. "Where's Lance..? We're going to need him if we're going to break through this." she remarked grimly.

Team Freaking Rocket - Rocket Mountain Base

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Jacob scoffed. "Hah! What's the matter, shorty? Don't got time to talk? Y'know that's a pretty nifty ability you taught your Dragonite. I didn't think you had the guts to show up here after you managed escaping in the first place." he remarked, feigning good natured conversaion in a mocking manner. "Y'see, there's something I've been itching to show you, all of you, since the moment you burst into my home uninvited... and the guess who just got the green from his higher ups. ...Do you know what pokemon this is?!" the boy went on, raising both arms and dropping two pokeballs. Two Beheeyem burst fourth, the lights on their bodies flashing seemingly erratically.

Jacob's gaze turned on Valorie again, seeing the resilience of her anger. "...Of course a little -sprout- like you wouldn't, but perhaps some of your peers have heard of them." Jacob added, seemingly intent on making fun of Valorie's short stature. "They're called Beheeyem, and they're going to help Team Rocket take over the /world/..." Jacob remarked in a very dark tone full of malice. He certainly wasn't lacking for confidence.

Regardless of any amazing one liners the students might throw back, Jacob seemed unfazed.

"You're just stalling!" Valorie called out in particular, absolutely furious with the delay. Two of Lance's dragonite and his Aerodactyl arrived on the scene. They all seemed to recognize what was wrong and simultaneously opened their mouthes, charging and firing a devistating triple hyper beam directly into the powerful barrier. The very foundation of the base seemed to shake violently as the powerful barrier took the incredibly devistating attack, the beams melting away at it and weakening it. Valorie's dragonite's barrier wouldn't last more than a handful of seconds at this rate.

"...Don't take my word for it! I'm not /all/ talk. Beheeyem, /scramble/ them!" he commanded.

The beheeyem began glowing with a powerful psychic aura and the world would seem to warp around all those present in the immediate area, a powerful force gripping their minds... washing over them and briefly numbing them to the outside world. Pokemon and human alike would be affected all the same, regardless of type or other influence. When the psychic haze cleared... everyone would find that their bodies weren't quite their own anymore.

They'd seemingly been body swapped with one of the others nearby, indiscriminate of whether a human swapped with a pokemon or if a human swapped with someone of the opposite sex, though the chances of swapping with someone within a two foot proximity seemed heavily increased. Humans that wound up in the body of pokemon would retain the ability to speak English and Pokemon in the body of humans would retain the inability to speak it, for reasons unclear.

Jacob took a moment to laugh at the severe disorientation that likely resulted. After all, who exactly had seen this coming?! This was unheard of! "Now, take them out!" Jacob called out to Valorie's stolen pokemon in an effort to capitalize on the chaos he'd most likely caused. A bunch of rocket grunts burst into the room on cue, tossing weaker pokemon into the fray and generally being a nuisance magnified by the apparent body switching as Dragonite's barrier fell. They had only a few moments to get comfortable with whomever's body they'd wound up with before attacks started flying.

Valorie Ryder - Rocket Mountain Base

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Valorie shook her head as if to clear it of the interfering powers squeezing her mind, only to realize that... something didn't... feel right. She looked down, only to find she was only half a foot from the floor! Her gaze trailed further... to observe that this was not her body at all.

She was a goomy.

No, she was HER goomy! Valorie emitted a terrified whimper as suddenly it was her anger drowning in fear. Everything had gone bloody crazy! Valorie closed her eyes, as if to keep this sorcery out of them, shaking her head in denial. It's only magic... It's only magic! She opened her eyes to find that not only was she still a goomy but someone else was in HER body. Oh arceus! The magic was in her /head/! It was too much! The insanity was all around her!

Valorie promptly wigged right out, screaming at the top of her lungs and fleeing right back the way she had come in an effort to escape this madness. For once, her pokemon did not follow her. They were paying attention to the person in her body.

(See OOC thread for instructions.)

 

[Dualik]

Kale David Reynard?... Valorie Ryder?... "Kalorie?" --- Rocket Mountain Base​

Kale had followed Valorie with annoyance. "Can't that damned girl realize she's being taunted?!" He muttered. He had a fairly good idea that they were walking into a trap... though if only he had realized just what nature of trap he would be falling into.

He would have left Valorie to deal with it herself if he had.

***

Kale groaned loudly and pulled himself together after the psychic based attack. He knew those pokémon... they were Unovian in origin... he knew they were capable of powerful psychic energy based attacks. But... he felt fine? Wait no... he felt shorter? He stood up straight for a moment, it was true everything seemed slightly taller than it was before. He had to take a moment to contemplate the situation... what had happened to him exactly?

He began to think when a long strand of blonde hair fell into his eyes. He took a moment to move one his very feminine hands to push the hair out of the way before regaining his train of thought... wait. "W... what?" He looked himself up and down and his eyes widened with extreme amounts of horror. His hands were soft and feminine... his hair lush, flowing and blonde... he was shorter... In a panic he looked directly downwards and had to bite his tongue to stop himself from exclaiming. Two... well... average at best... protrusions now stuck out of his chest. Beneath them he noticed a fairly familiar mini-skirt and pair of unprotected thighs. If that wasn't enough he had just then caught on to the horrid feeling of emptiness between his legs.

"I... IMPOSSIBLE!" He exclaimed but he quickly covered his mouth. His voice was so... feminine... He taught deeply about what had happened. His familiar yet unfamiliar appearance, his momentary lapse in consciousness, the Beheeyem and their psychic attacks...

He... he was now residing in the body of Valorie Ryder! But then... where was... He looked down to his right... Aria was nowhere to be found but he suddenly noticed his own body begin to rise and stand... Talk about an out of body experience. "...mawile..." It spoke... it sounded like his voice... but it was speaking in pokéspeak. A mawiles pokéspeak...

Braving his own feminine tone... Kale spoke. "...Aria?"

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Within seconds the two body swapped partners seemed to reach an understanding. Their hearts were linked, the body didn't matter. Within a few moments they reached an agreement, they had to find Val... huh?

The sudden familiar scream of a goomy and the sight of the same pokémon running away from the scene of the incident. It couldn't have been... could it? Aria had assumed a human body in the form of Kale... but could Valorie have really assumed the form of a pokémon? Either way... Kale had no idea where Aria's body was and as such he had no way to defend himself. If Valorie really HAD become a Goomy well...

Better than no protection at all, he supposed.

He suddenly charged forward in the short girls body, Aria easily keeping pace with him in his own. Valorie was far less fit than kale... and the shorter body made a decent stride more difficult to maintain. But Kale was still able to use whatever training he had received to move at a pace he was certain that Valorie's "thighs" had never before moved at and (at the very least) he was easily able to catch up to "gooey Valorie".

He jumped forward boldly, not thinking about nor caring about the fact that almost everybody behind him would be able to see up his skirt, before landing clear in front of the slow gooey slug that was now Valorie Ryder. Standing before her in her own body, Kale stomped his foot into the ground and gave the girl/goomey a piercing stare that she would probably recognize as being a stare that only Kale David Reynard could deliver.

Putting on the deepest voice he could in such a feminine body and sounding quite frankly, ridiculous, while doing so... Kale spoke.

"Valorie! Calm down... if you panic now you'll be stuck like this forever." A slight twinge of worry entered his gaze. "And so will I." Aria moved in beside Kale... giving Valorie a perfect few of both her and Kale's bodies standing side by side, towering above her.

"Mawile!" She shouted in Kale's voice.

 

[Elikiteru]

William Blazington - The Boat​

"Fokko, wake up we are almost there now." William said quietly while gently pushing Fokko to wake up. Fokko yawned and slowly got up while William got a call from his mother on his holo caster he got last year. "Are you at the island yet?" William's mom asked, William answered in a tired voice due to being on a boat all day. "Nope, we are still on the boat, but we should be arriving very soon." "Ok, how is Fokko doing, is she tired?" "Fokko is doing good and she just slept, but she seems pretty hungry." "Good, I just wanted to check on things, i'll call back later." "Ok mum, bye." As William took the holo caster to put it in his bag a loud voice said.

"We have arrived at the Pokémon Trainer Academy, please remember to recieve you're dorm jacket before you leave the boat."

As he hears it he puts the holo caster in his bag, and then he lifts up the bag and starts to walk slowly to the top deck, when he was walking with Fokko he realised that he may not fit in like before, but then he felt better when he started thinking about all the other trainers coming at the same time as him so he could make lots of new friends. When he came up to the upper deck he was really excited seing all new pokémon that he had never seen in person before. One person had an emolga, while another person had a pidgeotto. As William walked to the exit of the boat he took his dorm jacket and started walking towards the dorm buildings with Fokko by his side.

 

[Zavytar]

Alice Crenshaw
Rocket Mountain Base
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Hilda's Braviary soon landed, and Alice was able to slowly but steadily get off the big bird. Many had landed there as well, and it wasn't long before Lance led the volunteering students through the cliff-side and into the Rocket's stronghold. Alice had to keep in mind not to look down and everything would be alright. Not being as strong as the other trainers she could see, she made the wise choice of being one of the last students in line, so that the strong ones could clear the path and Alice could handle the rest. It appeared to be a smart strategy, except... well... it was Team Rocket the ones they were facing. They weren't known for playing by the rules exactly. Alice gulped down as she realized this; they would probably send Pokémon from every direction to defend their base.

Her train of thought stopped when many of the students rushed inside. She could briefly see Valorie and Lance getting inside before quickly losing sight of them. Soon it was time for her to go inside as well. Doing her best to hold the Egg with her left arm while sending out Grace and later Jello with the other, she began to wish for the Egg to hatch soon. Her team now out and ready to go, they all took their first steps inside the evil organization's base. She could see many students fighting hordes of Pokémon raised by Team Rocket, and it wasn't long before she was confronted by Pokémon as well. A group of tough-looking Pokémon stood in front of her: a Swalot, a Sneasel, a Graveler, a Houndour and a Raticate with vicious looks on their faces and no apparent hesitation to bring down the red-haired girl. Alice looked at them and gulped down. They looked like they were very strong, but she had no time to hesitate. She had to fight now before she got turned into paste. Closing her eyes she screamed out her commands:

"Grace, use Flash! And Jello, while they're blinded, use Hidden Power!"

As all five Pokémon charged at the rookie trainer and her Pokémon, Grace emitted a bright light that made some of them stop in their tracks, while some others kept going and missed their target. Jello then glowed a bright orange and fired many blasts around him, dealing damage on all his foes but not being enough to bring them down. Alice opened her eyes, and got even more frightened, as the Graveler and Houndour who had missed their attacks were now behind her, and all of the Rocket's Pokémon were surrounding her, leaving no time for her to try to move. The red-haired girl's heart beat faster as she got more nervous and afraid for her life. She started to look at her opponents, and a possible weakness in them. Then it hit her! Wait... Sneasel is an Ice/Dark-type! Swalot is a Poison-type! she thought, I should try to use that to my advantage!

"Grace, Confusion on Swalot! Jello, use Hidden Power and focus it all on Sneasel!"

Grace used her psychic powers on Swalot, while it spat out a cloud of Smog. As the Swalot suffered the attack, Grace inhaled the smoke and began to feel weak. Sneasel used Quick Attack on Jello, quickly striking him before the orange blast dealt horrible amounts of damage to it and knocked unconscious. Then, all the other three Pokémon attacked: Raticate hit Jello with Super Fang, Graveler used Rollout on Grace, knocking her over, and Houndour used Howl. One was down, but there were four left for Alice to fight. And only one of them was about to faint. The red-haired girl was worried that the Swalot had poisoned Grace, but luckily for her, it only dealt damage. The Egg shook more violently in her arms, and Alice almost dropped it. It must be aware of all the fighting and might want to join in! But there's no time for that!

"Grace, use Flash again! Jello, you strike Houndour with Hidden Power as well!"

Swalot blew more smoke in the air, this time a purple one. The Pokémon that inhaled it would be stuck with poison definitely. Graveler kept on rolling but due to Flash missed the attack, and Houndour was forced to stop in his tracks, however Raticate was fast enough to land a Quick Attack on Grace before the bright light attack. Jello then fired another blast or orange energy, sending it against the wall and seemingly knocking him out. Two out, three to go. Alice appeared to be gaining the upper hand; however, the toxic cloud began to move closer and closer to Grace, but Jello pushed her out of the way and took the smoke himself. Soon he screamed in pain, as poison kicked in his gelatinous body. Grace could not believe her eyes. Jello, who had been hostile to her ever since they met, had just taken an attack for her. "D-Don't you say anything about it." he said before she could say something, "We're a team, and that's how it goes. Let's keep battling!" Grace nodded and awaited her trainer's next command.

Alice bit her lower lip. Great... Jello's poisoned... I have to take out that Swalot before it poisons Grace too... "Jello, Psywave on Swalot! Grace, you strike it with Confusion!"

Both Pokémon used their Psychic-typed attacks on the poisonous target. The combined power of the attacks were too much for it to bear, and it was down for the count as well. However, there were still two Pokémon left, and Jello was suffering the effects of poison again, and Grace was getting worn out as well. Graveler began to polish his body, while Raticate attacked Grace with Super Fang, leaving her with even less energy to fight. This is too intense...what should I do now? she thought, It's too hard... but I can't back down now... I have to keep going! For me, for Jello, for Grace... and for this little fella that hasn't hatched yet! The Egg began to make loud noises and shake more violently than before. Whatever Pokémon was behind the blueish shell had definitely got some fighting power inside and was itching to let it all out!

Feeling excited about the Egg being close to hatching, Alice gained a confidence boost for the now-two-on-two battle. Graveler's a Rock-type... And Raticate's a Normal-type... So Hidden Power should work on both of them. Grace should help in bringing down the most dangerous one, so I'll just hit one with both of my Pokémon! Thinking about all the Super Fangs and Quick Attacks, Alice quickly deduced that she had to take down the big rat first. "Jello, Hidden Power, Grace, Confusion!" she shouted, "Aim both attacks at Raticate!" Her Pokémon, despite being worn out, obeyed, and Jello was hit by a Quick Attack from the big rat before a Hidden Power and Confusion took it out of commission. However, the remaining Pokémon, Graveler, had gained a considerable speed boost from its previous Rock Polish attack, and it hit both of Alice's Pokémon with Rollout. After suffering from poison yet again, Jello was down to his last bits of energy to fight. Alice had to heal Jello with one of her Potions, and Grace would have to stall... But how? She knew Rollout got more powerful with every time it hit, and the next strike could knock Grace out!

However, the rocky Pokémon was not aiming at Grace or at Jello. It aimed at the defenseless Alice, and rolled her way at high speeds! The poor girl was still holding the shaking Egg in her arms, and there was no way she could dodge without bringing harm to the unborn creature! The nasty trick was more than enough for Alice's Pokémon. Grace used Confusion and made Graveler turn, while Jello blasted another Hidden Power at it. Graveler was unable to keep battling, and it appeared that Alice had won the battle. She looked at her Pokémon thankfully and called them to her side. She was no fool to see that both of them were in a pretty bad shape.

"Thank you, guys, you did great today..." Alice said, "This is a lot harder than what we expected, and I don't know if we're going to win next time..."

"W-We'll d-do it...somehow." Jello said weakly to Alice via telepathy.

The small, weakened group then moved forward. Many Rocket Grunts were retreating, as many students had defeated the grunts that fought them. Alice looked around, then gently placed her Egg on the ground. She reached into her bag and gave a Pecha Berry to Jello, curing him of his poisoning. After that, she used a Potion on each of her Pokémon and after that was all ready to go. However, two Pokémon suddenly emerged from one of the halls, a Charizard and a Flygon. They looked by far stronger than all the Pokémon that Alice had faced in the Rocket's stronghold, and with her Pokémon not as strong as they were at the beginning, there was a very slim chance that she would make it through. Alice was about to grab her Egg again, however she was hit by some kind of psychic attack and felt as if she was about to black out. When she regained her senses, she could see that not everything was quite as she expected it to be. First of all, everything looked a great deal bigger. Second, she felt all tired, as if she just had some kind of fight with someone. W-What's going on? she thought. "J-Jello, what happened?" she asked, and found her voice slightly different. The pitch was higher, and it had some resemblance to... Grace's cry!

She suddenly turned around, and was left speechless with what she saw. Before her was... herself! Her body was lying on the ground, and was slowly regaining consciousness. She looked at her own hands, feeling her tiny heart beating faster. They were white! Did she... get turned into a Ralts somehow? "G-Grace! J-Jello! H-help!" she cried. In the distance she saw the Egg she had been holding the entire time, and rushed over to it. She held on to it tight and began to quietly sob.

 

[Elikiteru]

William Blazington - The Battle -> The Cafeteria -> The Raikou Dorm​

As William walked towards the dorm buildings, he noticed that Fokko was trying to show she was hungry he answered with. "Ok, we can visit the cafeteria first if you really are that hungry but you'll have to be fast this bag isn't the lightest of all bags." Fokko just answered with a faint squeak. When they walked, another new student from the raikou dorm asked if William wanted a two on two battle, William answered. "I'm sorry but I just have one person you'll have to look somewhere else." The boy student answers. "Well how about a 1 on 1 battle then, if you aren't scared of course." William looked in the boys eyes and noticed that it was the trainer with a pidgeotto from later. "Ok then i'll battle, but you better look out for Fokko." "Fokko? What a stupid name, only stupid people use dumb nicknames but sure, let's battle in arena 2." "Sure." As they walked Fokko, showed an annoyed face expression, beacuse she wouldn't be able to eat. "It's okay Fokko we'll win the battle and then we will go to the cafeteria." Fokko was a little bit happier but she was still a bit grumpy. When they arrived at the battlefield William and the other boy took positions, at second notice William seemed to remember him somewhere, then he figured it out it was one of his childhood friends he didn't get it at first but now he got it. He seemed to have changed alot since they last met but it was someone he knew, so he started getting excited about maybe meeting his other childhood friends. William recognised his name it was David.

David says. "Pidgeotto go!" He took out pidgeotto from it's pokéball, then William says. "Go Fokko and use ember." Fokko ran onto the field and used ember and the ember goes right to pidgeotto which gets hit but gets up pretty fast. "Pidgeotto use gust." Pidgeotto uses gust which throws Fokko onto a rock, Fokko gets up pretty hurt but it's still able to fight. "Fokko use Howl!" Fokko uses howl to give Fokko a higher fighting spirit (Attack). "Pidgeotto finnish it off with quick attack." Pidgeotto lunges it self at Fokko with a direct hit, Fokko is barely standing now and William says. "Fokko don't give up we can win this, use ember one last time." Fokko uses ember and gets a direct hit on Pidgeotto, it almost didn't do anything and the pidgeotto is flying almost without any problems. "Now pidgeotto use tackle!" Pidgeotto slams into Fokko which faints and David wins. William runs in quickly to aid Fokko, David says. "As I said you are just a dumb novice trainer who doesn't know anything, i'm glad you moved you were just anoying all the time." William picks up Fokko with a tear in his eye, he whispered to himslef. "What a day, I get to meet a childhood friend who basicly just destroyed me in everything."

Fokko who is really hurt tries to cheer William up as he carries her to the cafeteria but it isn't working. When he entered the cafeteria he notices that there are almost no people left, but he tries to ignore it and walks to the first empty table there is. "Fokko i'll go get some food you can wait here if you wan't." Fokko shakes her head and wants to follow even though she is hurt, William ends up carrying her beacuse she could barely stand upright. After William gets the pokémon food and the "normal" food they go back to the empty table. When William had eaten up and waited for Fokko he noticed that there were things written everywhere on the table and that there was some chewing gum on the underside of the table. After Fokko eats up he has rested a little bit so she can walk on his own but she is struggling a little bit with it, William asks. "Fokko do you think you are good enough to walk on you're own?" Fennekin nods and they start walking towards the door, when they hear someone screaming. "Wait up!" Fokko and William waits and there comes a boy charging at them. William asks. "What do you want we have had a long day and we are going to the dorms to rest." The boy answers with. "Well I thought I could follow, I see you have the Kalos starter Fennekin I have a Froakie, so I thought we could be friends." When William looked up at the boy he saw someone around the age of 11, William answered. "Well sure I don't mind having other people following, but I don't become friends with strangers."

As they walked to the dorms the boy tried to start a conversation. "What city do you come from, I come from geosenge town." William looked at him and answered in a tired voice. "I come from Vanivile town but I moved to Lumiose city when I was around the age of seven." "Cool, would you mind having a battle sometime since we are around the same level?" "Sure, sounds like it could be fun." When we came to the dorms William asked the staff of which room he got it was the room called 107 he took the keys and started walking to his room William asked. "What is you're name?" "My name is Arthur Lane, well I think this is were we go seperate paths, I live on the second floor, see you tomorrow." Now that it was just William and Fokko they walked down the corridor to the left and entered room 107, when they first got in it felt a little bit cramped but they'll proably get used to it. William unpacked his stuff he brought with him while Fokko took a rest, after William had unpacked he also started resting to regain his power from the long boat ride and the battle.

 

[Megaman765]

Luciadore, Markbone, and SamMark

Suddenly everything was daze... Mark could feel himself clenching onto his head as if he had just received the biggest migraine ever. His vision was becoming a huge blur... soon, he suddenly felt smaller... that or everything got taller. Mark recognized that boy that Val went after. He was the spy that was fighting with her back at the school. He was involved in discovering the fact that spies were indeed within the school. But what was up with this machine? All it seemed to do was knock him out.

That was what Mark thought until he looked down at his hands. They were puny, brown, and... oh no... he was suddenly a Cubone! Sammy's Cubone at that! But that was impossible! He was a Pokemon now! "Ahhhh!" Mark shouted out in his new cubone like voice. But wait... if he was a Cubone... what about everyone else? Who was in who's body?

Snype was also starting to become conscious again and he too had a similar reaction to Mark as he was now in Lirum's body! He looked down at his new Golduck body in panic. Aw crap not this weirdo! Who knows what body he might have wandered on into!

Commodore meanwhile had been swapped into Robertos body. The digital Pokemon's own mindset were transfered into Roberto and the Scizor. He seemed to jitter around all robotic like. He'd pray for the poor soul that ended up in his body.

Mark wobbled around in his Cubone body and adjusted his bone helmet. Man this thing felt weird... the fact he was a cubone was more insane! Seeing through the eyes underneath the mask! that'd be a heck of a discovery if he could see himself without it... but enough of that! He had to figure out who was who! "Lucia! Sammy! Where are you two?" Mark shouted as he fell onto his belly.

Lucia likewise felt strange, though the massive headache only caused her to cry out in pain initially. As the pain faded she felt as if she was floating... odd. She opened her eyes only to cry out in a strange electronic voice. The cry sounded almost like some sort of electronic music she would hear on the techno station. She was indeed floating, and now that she looked down she ended up crashing onto the ground. She tried to push herself up, but her arms felt shorter at this point... not only that but her confusion seemed to be the only thing she felt. She didn't feel fear really... just confusion. That and curiosity. She pushed again with arms but ended up on her side. "What's going on?" He electronic voice buzzed out with a confused tone. She then looked over to the Cubone, blinking a bit in surprise, "Oh hai Mark. I think I'm dreaming."

As Roberto felt the attack hit he could only raise his pincers to defend himself, his Red Legion training helping him to ward off the pounding in his head. Those psychics would pay for trying to harm Lucia! He raised out a pincer... er... clawed hand? He looked down to see purple claws and quickly looked down to see a small pair of purple legs and gems on his chest... oh no.... He facepalmed and shook his head, "No no..." He looked up at the confusion happening around him and groaned louder, "NO NO!" He cried out. He gripped his forehead, "Why a freaking sableye!?"

Lirum meanwhile fell over onto his knees, rubbing at his head vigorously and looking about in confusion. He looked down and blinked, "Uh...." He cast a glance around yet again. He poked at his chest a bit and shuddered, "Okay... this can't be real!" He cried out.

Roberto, however, was quick to adapt. Yes, he wasn't as fast or as tall, but he knew how to stand on two legs at least! He quickly ran to Lucia's form and reached onto her waist, knowing by memory which balls to grab. He hurled out the two balls as Samuel and Tyro appeared.

"Okay, this will sound weird, I know that, but Samuel, Tyro, perform Red Legion order 135!"

The Absol looked back and blinked, "Uh... Snype?"

The Sableye huffed, "It's Roberto Samuel. Quick do the order now! Aim for those Bayheeyem and take them out! They did this to us and they'll do it again!"

Samuel nodded and looked at the two psychics, "Here goes nothing!" The Absol formed a Shadow Ball in his maw and sent it at one Bayheeyem while Tryo moved in. His right leg suddenly was lit with flames as he aimed to slam the leg into the same Bayheeyem that Samuel aimed for. Roberto grinned as the two went at it. Reg Legion order 135, one of the basics. Trainer is incapacitated and unable to give orders. Fight with your own intuition and take out any enemies in the area.

Sammy grit her teeth as the headache hit her, narrowing her eyes and refusing to submit to the pain. It was going to take a lot more than... lot more than... more than... than... her vision doubled for a moment - as if she was seeing the room from two different perspectives at once. It quickly settled on the second perspective leaving her slightly disoriented but feeling otherwise fine.

"Was that all? That was... uh. That. That." She cleared her throat, her voice sounded different somehow. She looked around to see if the others had been likewise affected only to find herself doing... something with her rather unimpressive chest. Cubone was.... talking?... and Commodore was calling him Mark while Snype ordered around Lucia's Pokemon.

She'd seen this movie.

Slowly looking down at herself she recognised that purple t-shirt. She seemed taller, heavier and it felt like there was something... alien... between her legs.

"Oh %&$* this! Cubone!"

She felt like she was going to throw up, but the only way to get out of this body was to find which Pokemon Cubone had been swapped into and start fighting back. That was when she spotted Lucia, cowering from Snype. The pretty blonde girl spotted Mark-as-Cubone and awkwardly ran over, trying to seize the bone club for herself.

Great. Juuuuust great.

Mark backed up when he saw Lucia suddenly snatch his bone club back! Must have been Cubone... they were very protective of it. He didn't seem to grab the helmet though. Wait... was that Sammy? In HIS body?! The Cubone gave off a blush. Awww geez... he was hoping one of the girls wouldn't end up in there! Still! He had to focus! He could hopefully still command his Pokemon and Sammy was still in a human body.

"Sammy! Send out some of my other Pokemon! I might have something that can help us out! Mind Shedinja though! One wrong move and its down!" Mark called out. He noticed that Lucia was in Commodore's body as well. She'd have to get used to that. Commodore was his biggest power house.

Cubone hugged the bone club to his... her... his... Lucia's chest for comfort, looking around in fear at the increasing chaos. Sammy kind of just stared at Mark-as-Cubone, her brain (or his) taking a second to digest what was going on.

"... Uh... Right! Okay..."

She didn't really know which of Marks Pokeballs were for which Pokemon. Did he keep them in a certain order? They weren't painted like hers were... picking one at random she released the Pokemon inside to find that she'd selected Shedinja. The one Pokemon Mark had warned her against using.

"Oh for... uh, Shedinja! Use... use..." What attacks did he know? She hadn't even known Mark HAD a Shedinja until now! "Use your full power!" That sounded like the sort of thing Mark might say. Shedinja floated, motionless, and Sammy was afraid it wouldn't obey her. But then it sped off, slashing its claws along the back of the Mamoswine as fast as it could.

"Alright! Okay, Cubone. Cubone!"

Cubone-as-Lucia jumped and stared at Sammy-as-Mark, frightened by the tone of voice.

"It's me buddy. It's Sammy, okay? I know this is weird, but I need you to give the club back to... yourself... okay? If you stay close to me I'll keep you safe, but.... that... Cubone needs to be able to fight. Please."

Cubone-as-Lucia looked about ready to cry, but the connection between he and Sammy was strong enough that he understood the need of the situation. Reluctantly he tossed the club back to Mark and ran over to Sammy who quickly embraced him.

Awww. Mark and Lucia were hugging.

This is... weird.

"Uh, Mark!" She called out, blushing more than she felt she should be right now. "You're from Kanto, you've seen Cubone fight! THROW IT!"

Mark caught the bone proficiently. He was able to adjust to his body and stand on his two feet. Thankfully this was close to human like so he could somewhat manage with his strange body shape. Just holding the bone made him feel more powerful though. Like he could actually pull off the Cubone's attacks. The fact he was watching his body hugging Lucia just made him blush again. Aw geez... it looked... well, kinda cute.

"Got it!" Cubone Mark shouted as he threw the bone straight at one of the opposing grunts. The bone hit him square across the face, only to fly past him and hit him right across the back of the head. Mark held up his hand and caught the bone, holding it up in the air. He suddenly felt like a total badass with this thing. A bit of practice wouldn't hurt...

"Hmm... I know Cubone learned Brick Break... anything else?" Mark said as he held his bone club tightly, ready to attack anything that comes close.

"Bone Club, Headbutt, Focus Energy!" Sammy shouted, pulling Cubone-as-Lucia closer and ducking as the Charizard passed overhead. What product did Lucia use? She smelled like a rainbow. "Just don't get yourself hurt!"

Mark nodded and looked down at Luciadore. "Lucia, when you get used to your body, just blast away. Use Tri-attack and just attack whoever you think you need to. Keep your distance." Mark explained to her. Markbone stood in front of Sammy-as-Mark and Cubone-as-Lucia to defend them. He had a fierce look on his eyes, likely different from what this cubone would usually be like in battle.

Snype remembered a couple of the moves that Lirum had. He just had to figure out how to perform them. Commodore meanwhile was focusing on staying on his two Scizor feet and clamping his claws together. The Porygon knew how fast Roberto was and would have to adjust properly. He didn't know what moves he knew though...

Snype quickly noticed that his old body was giving orders. Was that Roberto? Oh great... he despised him and yet there he was, in his body. The guy must have been going mad right now.

Cubone looked back to his two Pokemon getting adjusted but was focused on fighting himself, just swatting his Bone Club at his opponents, ramming his bone helmet into them and throwing his club at his opponents. Mark was doing his best to learn what the Cubone was capable of. At the same time, he wanted to show the Cubone-as-Lucia just what HE was capable of in his original body.

Lucia soon was up, but still a bit shaky, "How the hell am I supposed to do that?" The Porygon echoed out. Even though it seemed the voice wanted to show anger, it was unable to do that. "Huh... I feel so neutral now.... odd." Lucia idly remarked.

Roberto meanwhile looked down at his own claws as he thought, "Foul Play... uh... what else... I think that was it..." He looked back over and formed fists with his hands, "Just focuse Roberto... just focus."

Lirum sat up as the girl and hugged his arms around him, "Well great. I'm a useless human. What did I do to deserve this Arceus?" He called up in to the sky.

Markbone swatted at another oncoming Pokemon and turned towards Lucia. "I-I dunno! I just threw my bone and went with it! There has to be some way you can make use of your form!" Mark said he attempted to get used to his body. He tried to throw his Bone Club again at an opposing Muk only for it to come back and cause Mark to stumble the bone club in his hands rather then catch it like before. He wasn't perfect but he was trying!

If Lucia focused hard enough, she'd notice he vision had a heads up display active for combat. She just needed a target first.

 

[Zavytar]

Jello the.... Human?
Rocket Mountain Base​

The last thing that Jello could remember was eating a Pecha Berry to treat his poisoning and then being healed by one of Alice's Potions before two powerful Pokémon appeared. Then an odd psychic attack made everything blurry from him, and his eyes shut. When he opened them, everything he could see was blurry and he was feeling a strong headache. He rubbed his head with his arm... and then realised that something was really, really wrong! When did he get limbs? As far as he knew, he was a floating purple orb that relied on psychic power! He took a more through look at his new arms, then at the rest of his newly-acquired body. He could hear a voice calling out to him, but he was too shocked by the sudden turn of events. As he examined his arms, legs and chest, he realised that he was in his own trainer's body! That was bad for him for two reasons. One, if he was in Alice's body, then where was Alice? And two, where was his body?

The answer to the second question was not a hard one to answer, as he quickly spotted a purple orb that had just regained consciousness. He shakily walked over to it, still not used to his new, non-levitating body. "Who is there? Who are you in my body?" he asked angrily. The common human would see a red-haired girl saying "So,solo sis? Solo solo sis?" but the new host of Jello's original body appeared to understand every word. In fact, it appeared to know who it was!

"J-Jello? Is that you?!" the purple Solosis said, "I-It's me, Grace!"

"Grace?!" he asked. He appeared to be mad, but it was very obvious that he was glad that it was Grace that took over his body and not some other random being. Okay. I know who's in my body. he thought, Now all I gotta do is find Alice... and find a way to turn us all back to normal.

"Wh-what's going on? You look like Alice..." Grace said, "And it seems I look like you. That explains why I couldn't feel my arms or legs when I woke up."

"Ha-ha. Very funny." he said, "Now we gotta find Alice."

"AND my body." she replied with a serious look in the eyes.

They turned around and found both of them. A Ralts was holding on to a blueish Egg tightly as it cried inconsolably. The Pokémon was too frightened, and Jello immediately knew who was the host of the small Feeling Pokémon. Shakily and slowly, he approached the Ralts, and raised his left eyebrow. "A-Alice!" he said.

Alice Crenshaw
Rocket Mountain Base​

Alice was crushed. This mission had turned horribly wrong, and the worst part was, she did never see that coming. She couldn't have. She couldn't defeat Team Rocket like that, now that she was a Pokémon! She was feeling all fer hopes and dreams going down the drain. Tears continued to fall down her white cheeks and she continued to hold on to the Egg tightly, as if it was the only thing that could stop her from going down Insanity Lane. She cried and she cried, until she heard somebody walking in her direction. She turned her head, and could see... herself! Her body was looking at her somewhat confused, with the left eyebrow up. "S-Solosis!" the girl said, and Alice's jaw dropped.

"Oh, my!" she said and sniffled, "J-Jello, is that you?"

Jello the.... Human?
Rocket Mountain Base​

Oh, sweet Arceus, it was Alice! What a huge relief! He would have grabbed her and given her a big hug if he had gotten to know how to use arms and crouch. Grace floated near her. "Hey, Alice! Glad to see that both you and my body are okay." she said. "We were really worried! Do you know what's going on?" Jello said. However, to their dismay, Alice looked at both of them with a confused look. Then she looked down.

"I-I don't know what you guys want to say... I'm sorry." she said quietly, "L-Look, I don't know what's going on, but we'll get to the bottom of this. We should...probably get moving."

Jello heard his trainer and was disappointed to hear that she was unable to understand them. This was certainly gonna make this raid more difficult (not to mention that the Pokémon Trainer was now one of her Pokémon and would probably have to fight should any threat come to them). Neverhteless, he understood that Alice was right, and that they had to move. He nodded, then suddenly, a bright light among them began to shine. It came from... the Egg Alice was holding on to!

Alice Crenshaw
Rocket Mountain Base​

The Egg had shown signs of being about to hatch during the whole day. During the battle with the Rocket Grunts' Pokémon, it appeared to be about to break its shell and join in the fight, however, the fight was over before he could. But now, knowing that the group had to move on and would probably fight more, it could not resist. Alice was surprised when the Egg she was hugging suddenly turned very warm and began to emit light! She backed away, startled, then it hit her. It was hatching! Alice and her party closed her eyes so as not to be blinded, and when they opened their eyes, a Froakie stood among them. It looked full of energy and eager to battle.

"Hello, fella!" Alice said, "My name is Alice and... there has been a problem. We're trying to fix it, but... we need your help." Froakie nodded happily and looked at the rest of the team. "Excellent... Just... one more thing before we... move on. It will only take a second."

Alice walked up to Jello. "Alright, this is going to sound weird... but I'm going to need you to reach into my bag and grab one of my Pokéballs." she said and then lowered her voice, "Then, gently throw it at that Pokémon."

"SOLO? SIS? SOLOSIS?" Jello replied.

"I know, it's probably weird for you... But I don't want to risk Team Rocket stealing him." she said, "Please..."

Jello gulped down and nodded. He reached into Alice's bag and took out the small, spherical device that he knew as Pokéball. He held it shakily, still not used to having limbs and feeling awkward about the whole situation. I'm a Pokémon... catching a Pokémon... I can't believe it... he thought. Alice meanwhile was talking to the Froakie. "Okay, so you have to promise that, once you're inside, you won't fight to break free." she said, "You will be sent out to fight later, so don't worry. Will you do that for me?" Froakie looked puzzled, but nodded in response. With a small hug Alice expressed her thanks to her baby Pokémon before turning back to Jello. "Now."

Jello threw the ball the same way a little girl would throw a ball of mud. The ball slowly flew over to the frog and was very lucky to hit him in the head gently. The small frog went inside, and almost instantly tried to fight it. But then, he remembered Alice's words and relaxed. The hoped-for click was heard soon enough. Alice then walked over to the ball and pressed the button in the middle, releasing Froakie. "See? No harm done!" she said, especially to Jello who had thrown the ball like a wimp. I can't believe it. I just can't believe it. I caught a Pokémon. he thought, This feels wrong. So wrong on so many levels... Grace couldn't help but giggle looking at her teammate's face.

"Now, um, we should, get movi-ACK!" Alice exclaimed before a Zubat flew right into her. A Koffing and an Ekans soon joined the action, and it appeared that not only it would be Jello's first Pokémon capture, but it would be Alice's first Pokémon battle as a Pokémon! "Wh-What do I do?!" she asked in desperation. The only thing she could come up to was to growl, while Jello told Grace how to use his Reflect attack and Froakie just... leaped forward and used Pound on the Zubat. The rocket's Ekans looked as if it was readying an attack, however the Koffing opted for a more... 'kamikaze' approach and began to get all pumped up.

"O-oh, no... He's gonna blow!" Alice shouted.

James Eugene Vincent
Academy Grounds​

Completely oblivious to the bizarre events taking place deep inside the mountains, a rebellious looking teenager was making his way to his next class. It was called 'Pokémon Trainer Fitness' or something, and was taught by this Surge guy whose name was oddly familiar to him. He shrugged it off, however, and he was soon in the battleground where the class was supposed to take place. He walked up to the middle, and sighed. "There's nobody here... Humph!" me muttered before a voice from behind startled him and forced him to turn around.

"TEN-HUT!"

A tall, muscular man with spiky blonde hair, army clothes and sunglasses was standing before him. "You must be Vincent, right?"

"Yeah..." the boy replied, sounding annoyed.

"YEAH WHAT?" the man shouted.

"Yeah... mister?" Jimmy replied with a huff. Jeez! I don't have time for this!

"It's YES SIR!" the man said, "YOU HAVE QUITE AN ATTITUDE, YOUNG MAN! YOU BETTER WIPE IT OFF YOU OR YOU'RE NOT GONNA PASS THIS CLASS, UNDERSTOOD?"

Jimmy sighed. "Yes."

"YES WHAT?" the man angrily shouted, right in front of Jimmy's face.

"YES, SIR!" the teenager replied. Why? Why, Arceus, why?

"Better now, kid! You catch on quick! Hahaha!" he said with a smirk. "I'm Lt. Surge, and this is Pokémon Trainer Fitness! Now, you give me ten laps around the arena, now, just to get all warmed up!"

With a sigh, Jimmy walked over to the side of the field and began to jog. Surge made his way behind him. Being a former CO from the Army he could easily spot a reluctant slacker. And Jimmy Vincent was exactly one of that kind. "No walking, Vincent!" he shouted, with the kid letting out a sigh and speeding up. "Better now. Hahaha!" Why? Seriously, why did I get stuck in this class? Jimmy thought as he finished his second lap, Surge jogging behind so that the boy wouldn't slow down.

 

[Dawn]

Valorie Ryder - Rocket Mountain Base

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Valorie stopped as... she jumped in front of herself. Rather, someone in her body was blocking her way. ...Was her skirt really that short?? Valorie felt tiny even compared to normal, her goomy standing at a mere foot tall, half a foot eye level. Who was this peering down at her though? It was her vocal cords, and yet... Valorie's eyes widened as she recognized that look she was getting. The traumatized 'goomy' seemed to deflate a little under Kale's gaze, shaking in fear with this dejected look on her gooey face.

"I...--" she started. It was clear just by her tone of voice that she was absolutely crushed, and yet... Kale's words had sunk into her like a fishing hook. She couldn't back away from that. No... "I... don't know what to do." Valorie lamented, choosing instead to seek Kale's guidance.

Kale noticed Valorie momentarily gaze at what he supposed was her own skirt on her own body and, through some sort of bodily reflex, sharpened his gaze as his hands moved to push the skirt downwards. He found himself left standing there momentarily, pushing down the skirt and looking insulted... until he thought about exactly what he had been doing... "Ahem... right." He released the skirt and stood up straight. He snapped his feminine fingers and gestured for Aria to come closer. She did so and Kale gently pulled the scarf from her... er his neck and wrapped it around the lower half of his... er... Valorie's face. He wore it in the same way he did when within his own body.

He knelt down beside Valorite and placed a hand on her gooey head. His gaze was serious. "This is a question that may make you panic slightly... but I need you to answer honestly if you want me out of your body." He seemed to be showing a lot more emotion than usual, not even attempting to hold a cold and empty tone of voice... this probably had something to do with the fact that he was now residing in the body of a probably hormonal teenage girl... but he tried not to think about that. "I need you to tell me... what moves does your goomy know?"

Goomy-Valorie seemed to hesitate for a moment. Oh... Oh... This was taking loyalty to an entire new dimension. A shudder ran through her body as she considered the implications. Kale wanted her to be his pokemon, wanted her to fight for him--Her? ...Valorie's brain began aching as she tried to grasp how to address Kale in his body swapped state. At least Goomy was still a girl--Sort of? She couldn't help but puzzle over Kale's reaction to inhabiting her body. If she hadn't been so upset, she probably would've been just a tiny bit amused. ...Just a tiny bit, and only long enough for the shame to take over.

"...Bubble, Absorb, Protect, Bide, Dragon Breath... I think I---er... she learned flail just recently." Valorie replied, totally seeking comfort from the hand placed upon her gooey head. A part of her really, really wanted a hug right about now, and could anyone really blame her? ...Really? Valorie did her best to summon what little courage she had, shakily stammering out one last sentence. "I'll... I'll do whatever you ask me to." she offered, placing her full trust in Kale. She seemed to know what he had in mind, judging by the fact that she felt the need to surrender her will to him to begin with.

Kale's gaze furrowed as he noticed how quick Valorie was to trust him. He had expected more of an argument... so either she trusted him a little bit too much... Or she realized the severity of the situation at hand... for some reason the former option was appealing to him more. The idea of being trusted was a nice one to him for some reason. Probably the damned girls hormones acting up again. He stood up and looked down at Goomy Valorie... she was... a pokémon... and despite being in her original body, Kale was still Kale. He still had the link he had always had with the beasts that inhabited his World. That was something native to mind not body, if Valorie was a pokémon then... could he still establish a bond with her in battle? Could they still turn their dire situation around?

"There that's her! Valorie Ryder!" Kale turned his/her head to face the voice that had interrupted his train of thought. It was a pair of rocket grunts, alongside their pokémon... a zubat and a haunter. They obviously weren't very high ranked. Still, with no pokémon other than Valorie they could potentially pose a threat. Kale wouldn't have time to further think about how he and Valorie would work in battle. It was now or never.

"Valorie listen to me." He spoke quickly. "I need you to do exactly as I say and focus on the words I speak as intently as you can. If you follow my orders to an exact point we can win but if you can't then this is the end for both of us understand? If you act on instinct then that body should do the work for you." The grunt pointed towards them and ordered his haunter. "Now Haunter, shadow ball!" Without any more time to speak, Kale grabbed his Aria... er... himself and fell down behind Valorie's small gooey form.

"Valorie! Protect, now!"

Valorie's response was immediate. She was by all rights one heck of a coward, but that only caused her to cringe hard as adrenaline--Did she have adrenaline? It kind of felt like she did. An unknown force had filled her body, giving her strength where she herself had none and she could explain nothing of it. Something in the back of her head told her though. This was the mysterious bond between humans and pokemon all those old people had been talking about... only she wasn't a pokemon--Was she? The idea of sharing this bond with Kale would've made her blush... if she was physically capable of it. Oh well.

Any which way, she tensed and focused ever so hard on something she wasn't entirely sure existed. At the last possible moment a powerful shield formed itself to intercept the bullet-like projectile headed their way. Realizing what she'd done, Goomy Valorie looked up and furrowed her non-existant brow. She was a deity, and these two were about to become an example. (Clearly)

Kale smirked darkly, his eyes filled with the solid determination of battle. He felt the familiar feeling of the bond between pokémon and trainer... but with Valorie? It felt weird, different somehow. It was a bond yes, but her being human made it feel different in his mind, he couldn't describe it. Standing up and swiping his arm through the air triumphantly, he gloriously flicked Valories hair out of his face and pointed forward, seemingly not caring much about how "different" the bond felt. "Alright Valorie, now's our chance! Take out the haunter with dragon breath!"

Goomy Valorie seemed to hesitate for a moment. ...Dragon Breath? She felt a pressure build up inside her and she opened her 'mouth', spewing a draconic flame all over that haunter in an erratic manner. The haunter flailed as it was fried before succumbing and fainting. Goomy Valorie then proceeded to emit a tiny burp, a bit of flame coming out of her mouth. How... did she do that? Was that stuff -always- inside her or just on command? It felt so weird, surreal and yet satisfying to have all of this power behind her! It made it very easy to tolerate the whole being dehumanized and belonging to someone thing. She snickered.

The haunter fell to the ground before being hastily returned to its pokéball. The low ranked grunt recoiled slightly. "W... what? I thought Jacob was going to weaken them somehow... and who names a pokémon after themselves anyway!" The other grunt with zubat still intact audibly gulped. He was clearly not even as strong as the weakling whom had just lost and he knew that perfectly well. "Z... zubat... use... ehm..." Kale sighed audibly and clicked his fingers. "Alright Valorie, let's see how the bat likes bubbles!"

Goomy Valorie totally began to foam at the mouth in response, slime-bubbles bursting fourth moments later and flying at the zubat at high speeds. The bubbles wold rapidly pop, coating the zubat in a thick layer of goo. It struggled and failed to fly any further, collapsing in a mound of the icky goo where it presumably fainted. Valorie was slightly uncomfortable at the sight. She didn't much want to be associated with being gross like that, but she had promised Kale... and she did have more important things to worry about. She swallowed her pride, content to play the loyal pokemon for now. That... that was what was right, right? It was what she had to do! ...Right?

Realizing that they were both utterly defeated... the two rockets attacking Valorie and Kale quickly decide to flee the scene. As the first runs off, the second is left behind momentarily, frantically pointing his pokéball at the pile of goop. "Damnit you stupid useless little nuisance! Where are you?!" Kale, takes a step forward, gesturing for Valorie to stick close by him. Seeing the trainer and pokémon who crushed him in battle, the rocket panics. "Oh... screw you anyway... I'll get something worthwhile!" To Kale's disgust and surprise, the rocket drops the pokéball, which smashes on the cold hard floor.

"Disgusting... Alright Valorie lets-" Before Kale can finish his sentence, he's suddenly cut off by a frantic squealing noise coming from the ground. "...ba... Zu... at..." A feeling of incredible pity washed over Kale as he looked towards the pile of goop created from Valorie's bubbles. A single small winged form had crawled it's now goo covered body free... it used it's sonar and echo location abilities to locate the broken shards of pokéball on the ground and once found... it began to lament over them. This pokémon had trusted the rocket... considered him a friend. But his friend had left him all alone. Kale could relate to that.

Wasting no time and feeling no guilt for doing so, Kale began to rummage through the satchel that Valorie carried. It seemed normal enough... afew edibles, understandable, medicine, good idea and... wait... what was this? Kale slowly and carefully removed a small black case from the satchel, it flipped open when he pried it to reveal what looked like various forms of makeup and a mirror. Peering hesitantly into the mirror, Kale was still slightly surprised to see Valorie looking back at him. He then realized something that should have been fairly obvious at that point. Was he... or more was Valorie... wearing makeup? Kale suddenly frowned deeply and rose a single thumb, nail lovingly polished and proceeded to drag it roughly across his lips... as expected a large portion of lipstick was smudged onto Valories face.

Kale closes the case and sighs deeply. Glaring at Valorie for some unknown reason. He seemed annoyed. "I swear I will never understand you women... covering your faces in that muck... you look perfectly fine without it." Shoving the case back into the bag, Kale continued to root around in its other contents. Completely oblivious to the fact that he had accidentally complimented Valorie.

Goomy Valorie peered at the rocket as her an away, half tempted to give chase and show him a thing or two. It wasn't because she felt--Wait, what was that? Was she feeling -sorry- for the zubat..? It was eerie, feeling Kale's emotions blending slightly with her own. More importantly, she could -feel- how Kale felt for once, at least to a limited degree. That was certainly a refreshing change of pace in it's own right.

She watched him shuffle through her belongings, keeping her thoughts to herself on the matter against her instinct, just sort of double taking when he pulled out her portable makeup kit. What was he--Did he--Valorie cringed as he messed with her makeup. She seemed saddened, as if she'd lost something personally.

Now wasn't that silly??

"I think it looks nice..." she replied to Kale half-heartedly and meekly, inspecting him. She chuckled nervously rather off-handedly. "You should see how much time I spent choosing the materials for my clothes and how much time I dedicate to my hair each morning." she offered only half-jokingly. Noteworthily, her clothes were of the expensive variety. They had an unusual balance between comfort and the feminine style she had been going for, with some added practicality where possibly such as her rain boots. Apparently Valorie spent a lot of time thinking about how she looked.

As lovely as the conversation was however, it could not last. "You are so -asinine-!" Charizard's voice rang out over the yelling of combat. It seemed that Kale had accidentally provoked her with his discussion, as she was now swooping down to meet Valorie and him in combat. Kale would want to deal with the zubat quickly if he wantd to have a chance before he was confronted by the fire pseudo-dragon.

As Valorie spoke about things such as hair and clothing, Kale finally found what he was looking for, a single normal pokéball. His pity for the zubat on the ground before him was strong, so, with a decision to explain the situation to the bat pokémon at a later date. Kale tossed the pokéball onto the extremely weakened zubat without warning, capturing it easily. As a result he can't say he was paying much attention to Valorie's talk on her obsessing over appearances but oh well.

It was at that moment that Kale could feel the fiery presence of the Charizard charging towards him. Had she... Had she just called him asinine? He would have little time to find out as he dived to the side, avoiding the swooping Charizard and grabbing his newly filled pokéball in the process. He furrowed his brow and called out to Valorie, pointing towards the charizard. "This is what we 've been waiting for! Now, Valorie, another bubble!"

Goomy Valorie turned her head to acknowledge Charizard as she swooped down between the two, swiveling to face the pseudo-dragon and frothing up a stream of slime bubbles at the much larger pokemon. Charizard was covered in the slme as the bubbles popped, doubling back slightly and then... just sort of staring at Goomy Valorie as if to ask 'Really?' She then proceeded to snatch Valorie up in her jaws and bite down hard, shaking her around as if she were a chew toy. Valorie emitted a scream as her body just sort of... squishified like the blob she was. "D-Don't let her eat me!" Valorie called out in a panicked tone.

Kale flared his scarf behind him and charged towards the charizard. Maybe Valorie was a pokémon, maybe she wasn't... maybe they were "bonding", maybe they weren't. But Kale was NOT about to let any stealth rock crippled wannabe dragon damage HIS assets. As he ran, he saw a stray beam type move burst through the ceiling to his far right, various beams of metal and chunks of rock fell from the now damaged roof. Kale, began to move his feet in a strange way, before almost instantly redirecting his momentum and charging towards the rubble, he saw a specific piece that he needed. Aware of the danger Valorie was in, he quickly grabbed what he wanted and immediately hid it in the satchel. Without wasting anymore time, he charged back towards Valorie and her charizard.

Within moments Kale was upon them, using the extuinguished length of the charizards blazing tail, Kale kicked off and jumped towards the crunching jaws of the firey Kanto starter. His arms wrapped around its neck and his legs kicked into its stomach hard in an attempt to loosen its jaws. His movements were incredibly fluid, even in another body... it was almost as if he had triggered some sort of adrenaline. Using the beasts belly to kick himself off again, he managed to raise himself high enough to drive his feminine fist as hard as he possibly could into the Charizards snout. The look in his eyes was primal, feral. He showed no sort of remorse for his actions.

Finally the charizard loosened her grip slightly with a moan and Kale quickly drove his hand into the satchel, resurfacing with a small metallic bar. He quickly forced it between the Charizards jaws, holding it open long enough for him to begin attempting to pull Valorie free.

Charizard let go of Valorie, albeit not willingly. Her body just sort of... molded it's way out of Charizard's mouth and into Kale's arms where Valorie promptly burried herself against him, shivering in terror. Charizard bit down, crushing the metal bar in her mouth and just sort of spitting it out like a total macho.

Charizard scoffed. "Exhausting human..." she remarked in a mildly annoyed manner. Of course, Kale was the only one that understood her. As Valorie attempted to hide in Kale's arms for fear of being eaten or something equally awful she suddenly began to glow a bright white color. Her body began radiating an extreme warmth as a great deal of energy was unleashed. She was... evolving!

Kale held Valorie close to him as she hid. She was terrified by what had just happened and he realized that. It wasn't something he would of normally condoned but... this time he made an exception for her sake and held her close to him. He listened to the charizard comment. Such arrogance for something so easily manipulated. He opened his mouth to speak back to the fire type when he was suddenly blinded by a bright white light in his arms. "W... what's happening now?... Valorie... you're... evolving?!" His tone was filled with immense surprise as he released Valorie, allowing her to gently drop to the ground.

Congratulations! Your Valorie evolved into... Sliggoo! Sliggoo Valorie looked around, the horns on her gooey head twitching slightly. She then proceeded to abruptly spew a heavy blast of slime at Charizard, only this time the effect was far more severe. This was no bubble attack, but muddy water! ...Or muddy something. Judging by the anguished cry, it burned like nothing else. Charizard stumbled backwards, attempting to ward off the burning before abruptly collapsing onto her side. With a low groan she collapsed, unable or unwilling to continue fighting. Valorie turned her head to Kale, acknowledging him. She was thoroughly blind and Kale could most likely see that through her... complete lack of actual eyes. Yet, she seemed to face him just fine despite this.

Off in the distance through the fighting Dragonite narrowed her eyes, becoming suspicious from her perch beside Jacob.

Kale's eyes furrowed in confusion. The debate as to wether or not he should be treating Valorie as a pokémon or as herself was only becoming more complicated now that she had evolved... however... he couldn't say that he wasn't glad for it, especially now that Charizard was out of action. With that he approached Valorie with a small smirk, covered entirely by the scarf, before gently patting her gooey head. "Not bad Val, not bad at all."

Valorie could get used to this~ ...The wielding incredible amounts of power part, anyway.

Team Freaking Rocket - Rocket Mountain Base

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Jacob was pleased. Struggling against mere grunts, what could the students hope to achieve as his more powerful monsters descended upon them?! Without warning Valorie's pokemon attacked, a variety of attacks sweeping through the utterly disorientated group that, for the most part, had failed to respond quick enough to the threat. The chances of someone getting hurt were seriously high. Valorie at least had been prepared, doing what little she could and protecting Kale and Aria with her protect. She was thoroughly glad she'd taught Goomy--Er...herself... something... that move.

Jacob quickly noticed her strategy and concentrated fire on the one pokemon limiting the destruction. Blasts, beams and bombs erupted against the shield and... it held. In spite of the massive onslaught the powerful barrier held, albeit with great strain on Valorie's part. How long could she hold up, though? Valorie struggled to angle the shield to the right with little-to-no success.

"Watch out!" she called out to Kale, her voice heavily strained. It wasn't her shield failing she was warning him about though. Charizard had gotten back up. The pseudo-dragon wasn't displaying aggressive body language however. She had simply walked over as if to say hello. Stopping, Charizard stared into Kale's eyes. They had a knowing look in them.

"Command me..." Charizard said almost demandingly. Whether she realized Kale could understand her was unknown, but if that wasn't enough the pseudo dragon proceeded to turn around and face Jacob, turning her head back to Kale invitingly. It would seem she'd broken the mind control and thought Kale was her trainer!

"What--What are you..?" Valorie asked, earning her a glance from Charizard. She was understandably a bit too distracted to figure out what was going on.

"...That's not the trainer I remember. He has become a hypocrite the likes of which I no longer wish to know." Charizard replied, presuming Valorie could understand her because of her pokemon body. "Maybe his other pokemon are unwilling to admit it, but there's no way they haven't noticed it either. I'd like to knock some sense into them myself, but I need help..." she explained, earning no response from a Valorie that definitely couldn't understand pokespeak. It did however provide a curious bit of insight for certain individuals listening in.

The magical shield holding most of Jacob's stolen pokemon back abruptly cracked up the middle. It was going to shatter at any moment.

 

[Greiger]

Lucia Francisco Bernavard - Confusion in the house​

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As the various dragons descended Samuel looked up with a frown, "Evasive maneuvers!" He cried out. As the attacks came down his eyes glowed a deep green as a Protect surrounded him to block off the attacks. Likewise Roberto remembered that one time he had seen Snype use Detect so his own eyes flashed white and soon he was sidestepping around the attacks. Tyro glanced up and as quick as he could he grabbed a Arbok next to him and held it up as a makeshift shield with half of the damage being absorbed by it. Lucia likewise grunted as the attacks hit and she ended up spinning around in mid-float as a result. Lirum managed to stay out of the killer path of the attacks, mainly because he was off to the side by this point.

Samuel cast a glance up and narrowed his eyes, "We can't reach them Roberto, not with those dragons above us!"

Roberto frowned, "Okay... here's the plan! We split off respectively. If we stay in a large group then we'll only be hit more often by those attacks! Samuel, your main goal will to bring those dragons down! Aim for the Flygon first off! If anyone knows any other ice moves aim for it as well! Tyro, while we do that you aim for that Mamoswine! Hit it with some flames and take it down! And you!" He pointed right at the Golduck, "I know everyone else mostly, but not sure if you could be Snype or this Porygon, whatever the case aim for anything! Start dishing out Water Pulses and Confusions! And whoever is in my Scizor form, you have access to Protect and Hyper Beam. Use them. For close up combat go with a Metal Claw, but take down those brainwashed mon! You can go after that Jellicent and start whittling it down! That's an order!"

He looked over at the Charizard, hearing the words and nodded, "You can help Tyro take down the Mamoswine then! Tyro's the Blaziken by the way. Take him down and then go and help us take down the others, whoever's left actually.

Samuel looked up as his eyes locked onto the Flygon. He took in a deep breath and shot out a beam of ice to collide with the green form. Tyro likewise nodded and glanced about the area and saw that the Mamoswine was still around the area and looked back at the Charizard, "I don't mean to sound rude, but could I have a lift? There are too many mon blocking my way and if we get on top we can shoot down some flames to knock it out then." For now he flexed his arms, grunting as he used a Bulk Up to increase his strength and caused a bit of muscle mass to appear on his upper body.

Roberto meanwhile remembered that Snype also had Shadow Sneak, so he set about doing it. His shadow moved about, striking at the various mon from a far off distance. Lucia had likewise recovered and aimed for the Jellicent, shooting out a long ranged Tri Attack that was bound to deal some damage! Lirum meanwhile was going through the stuff on her person and saw the pokeballs on her belt. "Okay... not too bad I suppose." He was about to set them out, but paused. No... it would only cause more confusion. If they were scrambled again then who knew what would happen if he sent these mon out! And he couldn't command, he was just a simple Golduck... er, was a simple Golduck.

 

[Zavytar]

Alice Crenshaw
Rocket Mountain Base​

The Rocket's Koffing's body mass increased. Its teammates turned to look at him with a 'the-heck-you-doin' look on their faces, but it was too late. The gasses inside the toxic Pokémon's body were already too hot and it exploded. Ekans and Zubat went flying against the wall, while Alice and her team managed to hold their ground behind the Reflect barrier. Had it not been for the barrier and Alice's seemingly-useless Growl at the beginning, the whole party would probably be fainted, with a Jello who would have no idea of what to do in that situation. Nevetheless, her team was beat up bretty badly by the attack, with Froakie and Alice struggling to stay standing. Grace, on the other hand, had found out about a move Jello had learned while he was in his own body, Recover, and used it to regain some of the lost energy.

"Ugh..." Alice said as she collapsed to the ground, "We... defeated them...again..."

She began to crawl across the floor, trying to move forward. "Solo! Sis!" Jello said, and did his best to rush over to her without tripping over. With his (Alice's) arms, he picked up the original host of the body he was in, and motioned Grace and Froakie to move forward. The sounds coming from further ahead told them that it was where the action was. They were about to make it there, when suddenly a grunt appeared before them. "Humph, where do you think you're going? Throh, Sawk, stop them twerps!" he said, and threw two Pokéballs in the air. Out of them came out a couple of martial artist-like Pokémon, which took a battle stance upon reaching the floor. Grace stepped forward to fight, and Froakie tried to do the same, however, he was stopped by Alice.

"S-Stay behind, Froakie..." she said weakly, "I-It's... for the best... that I fight..."

Jello was about to go Nanabs. She can't be serious! She's almost out of energy! he thought, She's gonna faint it she fights! It's suicide! "Don't do it Alice!" he screamed, but was not understood by her. Both fighting-type Pokémon used Bulk Up under the command of the Rocket Grunt, and Grace took up the opportunity to set up another Reflect. Alice meanwhile remembered Grace's moves... and somehow managed to create three copies of herself. It would make it harder for the foes to attack, but if they managed to land a it on her, she would be history!

"Throh, Sawk! Brick Break!" the Rocket Grunt said, "And aim for the puny Ralts!"

 

[Megaman765]

Markbone quickly noticed that another small group of Pokemon were struggling a bit. Alice was swapped with Jello and the two seemed to be struggling a little bit over there. He assumed Alice was the Ralts that was desperately trying to defend their selves. The two seriously needed a helping hand against the two oncoming fighting types.

Snype meanwhile was finally on his feet. He had gotten adjusted to his Golduck body and was able to at least walk. He had to figure out how his moves worked though. He held his hands onto his head, knowing that most Golduck did this when they were trying to concentrate a psychic attack. Snype closed his eyes and concentrated on an incoming Arbok and managed to fire a Water Pulse at it! So far so good! He just had to concentrate on his targets.

Commodore was adjusting just fine. The Program felt weird being in a sentient body but his odd programing seemed to get through it alright. The Scizor's movements looked stiff but that was just how Commodore worked.

Mark looked over to the Golduck as he swatted at a nearby Ekans. "Snype! Comere!" Mark shouted. The Golduck quickly stood beside Markbone to give
Sammy and Cubone some protection. Mark had other plans though.

"Hold your ground here. Sorry Sammy, gotta lend a hand to someone! Commodore! Over here!" Markbone said as he quickly ran toward where Alice and Jello were at. The Scizor quickly flew toward Mark. Right now it was clear his strategy was to take out the grunts to take out some stress before taking on the big bad dragons as well as keep the other trainers safe.

"Look out!" Mark shouted as he stepped in front of both Alice and Jello to take the oncoming Brick Break from Sawk while Commodore slashed at Throh to interrupt him. Mark ended up taking a direct hit from the Brick Break which quickly sent him down onto one knee.

"U-ungh!" He muttered out in pain. Markbone used Bonemerang toward the Sawk to hit him once across the face, and once across the back of the head. After catching the bone, he was already showing some signs of exhaustion.

"It's me Mark. You doing alright?" Mark asked between pants.

 

[Zavytar]

Alice Crenshaw
Rocket Mountain Base​

Alice had seen herself getting knocked out by the Grunt's Pokémon, but things once again took an unexpected turn of events; only that this time it was in the girl in the Pokémon body's favor. Mark, who apparently had been the victim of Team Rocket's switcheroo trick as well, came to her rescue, taking the hit from one of the Brick Break attacks and hitting the Sawk in the back of its blue head with a Bonemerang. Apparently, the whole move had taken a lot out of him, but he still managed to ask if Alice was alright. Alice shook her head.

"I-I've been better..." Alice said, panting as well as she got back on her tiny feet again.

She glared at both of her opponents. They looked strong, no doubt about it. The blue one was hurt from Mark's attack, but in spite of that had plenty of energy left to battle. The red one looked buff, but Alice had the feeling that it was weaker than its partner. But she also knew that she was in no condition to take them both down by herself. The grunt commanded both to use Bulk Up again, and both tensed their muscles and looked stronger. Froakie, seeing his teammate in such danger, felt the urge to step in, and leaped forward to hit Throh with a Pound Attack. Grace, now accustomed to her new body, used a Psywave attack on Throh as well. Alice focused and targeted the red martial artist Pokémon, and managed to pull off a Confusion attack. The combined attacks were too much for Throh to bear, and it collapsed to the ground. The Rocket Grunt retrieved his fainted Pokémon.

"Gah! I've had it! No more playing around!" the Grunt barked. "SAWK! RETALIATE! TAKE THAT WIMPY RALTS NOW!"

The blue Pokémon charged forward with eyes filled with fury. There was fire in them, and he was targeting the poor, weakened Alice and shouting out a roar. Sawk went past the Reflect barrier, slowing him down slightly, and before he could hit the weak Ralts, Grace got in the way and took the full attack. She cried in pain, but luckily was left with a very little amount of energy.

However, the sight of seeing not one, but two taking hits for her and risking their lives for her like that made her feel puny, with no power whatsoever. But she didn't look sad at all. She looked angry. Like, real angry. She began to feel the same things she felt when she battled the wraith-man that had kidnapped her, or when she was fighting the mad Dugtrio in that cave. Only that this time, it was far more intense, and she could literally feel power building up inside of her. Grace quickly used Recover to regain energy, but Alice was still looking like that. "Um, Alice?" Jello asked worriedly, but all that could be heard was "Uh, Solo?"

"I'm not going to let anyone else take the fall for me..." she muttered, her eyes filled with fury this time, "No more people are going to get hurt because of my failure!"

With that, her tiny, white, green haired body began to glow with a mysterious power. Even the Rocket Grunt's jaw dropped at that sight. Jello stared in awe and shock as he saw his own trainer going throw the process of evolution. Grace was speechless as well. Everyone watched as Alice's glowing body changed in shape, and took a slightly taller shape. After a little while the change in shape and size ended, and the glow faded shortly afterwards. "Alice... you... evolved!" Jello exclaimed, but, once again, she could not understand.

"Now I've had it!" she shouted, "No more playing around! Let's strike real hard, everyone!"

As the Rocket Grunt took a few steps back, Froakie hit Sawk with another Pound attack. Grace used Recover again to get back to her full power, and Alice readied a Confusion attack. After it hit, the blue martial artist Pokémon stood shakily, feeling dizzy. All that was left was for 'Markbone' to deliver the finishing blow.

 

[Megaman765]

Markbone took the opportunity after the newly evolved Alice attacked the Sawk with Confusion. He wondered how the evolution felt while in the Pokemon's body... that would be one heck of a discovery! Stiil, no time to think about that sort of thing! Mark got up onto his feet and rammed his head right into the Sawk's chest, which would ultimately finish the job. Fighting so many foes was exhausting to Mark. This must have been what a Pokemon felt in the heat of battle...

"Hah... phew... you guys uh... wouldn't happen to have a potion would you...?" Mark asked them. He knew his old body which Sammy had occupied was packed with a couple of healing items but they were pretty occupied right now. Mark could last a little while longer but this was putting a strain on him.

 

[Nillemi]

Ellie Ward? - Rocket Base​

"Nice Job Emil!" Ellie cheers to her Marill as he slams an Ekans into it' Trainer, Knocking the Poor grunt out. Suddenly He's Coated in a bright White light, Ellie Tries to watch but She quickly has to close her eye, Trying to Rub the Eye Floaters out of her vision. Trying her Hardest to see without looking Directly at it, She is able to Catch Emil Growing about double his height, Gaining a Large set of Rabbit ears. "Is this Evolution?" She Asks herself, Never witnessing it herself before. The light then starts to die down, Leaving very chubby blue Rabbit pokemon, "Azumarill!" It called back to Ellie, as if He's responding to her praise from before.

Before she's able to say anything though she hears a large impact behind her, Turning around quickly Her Eyes widen As she witnesses Two large dragons, A green one and a red one, Shooting large Blasts of fire at the crowd. Without saying a word, Ellie Retreats to the closest corner as quickly as she can manage without creating a scene "Why did it have to be fire? And so much of it too, I thought Evan said they primarily use poison..." She Complains to herself as Emil follows her, Knowing too well of her phobia. Looking over at her new Azumarill she quickly stops in her path "That's Right, I'll be fine, Emil can handle this for sure After evolving" She says with renewed Confidence.

Suddenly Ellie was very lightheaded, Her head in intense pain and her vision getting blurry. "What i..." Was all she managed to say before she blacked out. "Oooow..." Was all she managed to say as she woke up, Even with her eye still closed she could tell something was off. "What happened..." She thought to herself as she tried to push herself up, Quickly Realizing how short her new arms are. "What the?!" She says out loud, gasping at her new voice. Looking up she sees her own body dwarfing her, Slowly starting to stir a bit in it's slumber.

"Azu?" Ellie's Body Asks, Looking around. Taking a look around, It quickly Becomes apparent that they're Not the only one with this problem. Putting Two and Two together, She Quickly Figures this is Team Rocket's doing. "We fell into a Trap; But how the heck did they manage this? Was it those dragons?" She Questions herself, Remaining Surprisingly Calm, But mostly out of Disbelief. The momentary armistice was finally interrupted however as the Sounds of battle Filled the room again. "Great, They're still coming? How am I supposed to fight like this?!?!" She wonders as a grunt comes towards them, Emil unsure Himself as well.

"Heh, Thee two still look mostly Asleep, This will be easy." he said, Casually Throwing a Pokeball to reveal a Rattata. "Quickly, Get them before they wake up! Use bite!" He commands at the Rat, It Lunging forward and biting Ellie on the tail. "Eeeek!" She started to squeak, Flailing around in attempt to get the Rattata off of her. "Heh, It doesn't Know what to do with it's trainer drugged up like that... Keep biting!" The Rocket commands as the Rattata seemed to Tighten its grip around Ellie's Tail. "Get it off, Get it off!" Ellies continued to panic, Trying to swing the Rattata off. Water however starts to build up around her tail, As she flailed around. Causing the next swing of her tail to be much more effective, Slamming the Rattata into the ground. Ellie, noticing the grip on her tail looks back to see the Rattata knocked out on the ground "Did I do that?" She Asked herself looking at the Unconscious pokemon.

"What the... That Useless thing! It couldn't even beat a pokemon with it panicking like that!" The Grunt said, Obviously Frustrated. "Let see if you're Less useless!" He said, Calling upon an ekans from it's pokeball. "Alright... Let see if I can do this again..." She consoles herself, Trying to Repeat what she did earlier. "Ekans, Bite it!" The grunt calls out, the ekans lunging forward Towards Ellie. "Here goes nothing..." She Says as she Turns around Timely enough to Smack the Ekans with her tail, Causing it to tumble across the Floor of the main room "Gah! All these pokemon are completely useless! How do they expect me to do anything when they're so easily defeated!?!?" He Says running off, Not even bothering to recall his pokemon.

"I did it..." She said to herself, Still in disbelief of what's happening. Her victory is very short lived however as the Two Dragons came back, Bombing the Area with large gouts of fire. Struck with fear, Ellie stumbles back at the sight, unsure of what to do."E-Emil... Help...- She studders as she slowly backs into a wall, Momentarily forgetting her situation. Feeling something on her back she identifies it as the hand of her Own body trying to comfort her. "Azu.." It says, in a soothing voice. Without warning, An orange stream of fire Heads their direction. Ellie, Too afraid to do anything, Closes her eyes as the flame rushes towards them.

"Aaaaaz.." Screamed a familiar sounding voice, Opening her eyes she Sees her old body Laying across her. "Emil!" Ellie cries in panic, Rushing up to her feet to investigate the damage. The Sweater had a large hole in the back of it, The edges still Glowing a slight orange. Horrified with what happened, she quickly tries to Rip the burnt sweater off.

 

[Zavytar]

Alice Crenshaw
Rocket Mountain Base​

The battle was over. The Rocket Grunt sent his fainted Sawk back inside the Pokéball and made himself scarce. Alice panted, still being exhausted despite the energy boost she had received from evolution. "Hah... phew... you guys uh... wouldn't happen to have a potion would you...?" Mark then asked, and Alice nodded. "Actually... we do!" she said, "I already used two before the whole body-swapping trick, but I think I still have plenty of them in my bag over there." She pointed at Jello, who was still standing there, dazzled and still unable to believe that his trainer had just gone through evolution. "Jello, could you hand over the bag, please?" she asked and Jello nodded. Now with better control over Alice's body, he handed over the bag to the girl-in-the-Kirlia. "Thanks, Jello." she said with a smile and turned to Markbone. "I also packed some berries... just in case."

She would wait for as long as it was necessary to get everyone with enough energy to face the next 'level' of the raid. Unknown to Alice and her team, their next opponents would be far more powerful than all they had faced before. Grace hoped that Alice would not evolve again, so that she could still feel what evolution was like after they were back to normal.

James Eugene Vincent
Open Air Battlefield​

After Jimmy finished his tenth lap around the battlefield, he could recatch his breath for half a minute before Surge told him to do some leg stretching. Once again, the rebellious-looking teenager put very little effort in it, but it took only one shout from the muscular, blonde man to make him do things correctly. Surge smiled seeing Jimmy feel the common pain one feels during stretching. "That means it's working, kid! Hahaha!" he said, "You're gonna have to try harder than that, Vincent! This is nothing compared to what's to come!" Jimmy said nothing and continued to do what Surge told him to.

Jeez...for Pete's sake... he thought, What's the deal with this dude?

Once Jimmy was done stretching, his teacher immediately gave him another order. "Now, give me ten push-ups, now!"

"Yes... sir!" Jimmy reluctantly replied, and proceeded to start with his next task.

 

[Elikiteru]

William Blazington The Class -> The Unexpected Battle .-> The Forest Zone

As William noticed that Fokko was done resting he read the schedule he had gotten, when he read it he noticed that a lesson started in five minutes when he got done reading he said. "Fokko let's go we don't want to be late!" Fokko and William were running down the dorm corridors when they ran right into Arthur from yesterday. "Why did you run into me like that?" He said, but William just answered. "I'm sorry I don't have time to explain now, i'll do it later." Now that they ran out of the building they couldn't find the right classroom they went to seven classrooms before they could find the right one, but when they got there, there was a not written on the door it read. "There is no class today beacuse almost all of the students are on a team rocket raid, sincerely Norman." "What are we suposed to do now then, any ideas Fokko?" Right as William said that Arthur came bursting through the outer door and asked a question. "Where have you been I have been searching for you everywhere, even in Oak town." "I have been going around searcing for the classroom until now when you came running in." "Well, since there isn't any classes until the people at the team rocket mountain base comes back, I thought we could have a battle." "Sure, I have nothing better to do." "Yes! I have always wanted to battle someone!" "Are you saying that you have never had a battle before?" "Of course I haven't I signed up for this school to learn more about pokemon but I didn't know you had to battle, but can we still battle?" "Sure but i'm not going easy on you, how about we battle in arena 10?" "Sure!" As they walked William was excited, he thought that it would be a battle he could win easily.

When they got to the battlefield Fokko jumped in ready for battle while Arthur struggled to get his pokeball out, but when he did he was ready for battle before they started William said. "Good luck, but be ready." "Thanks, and Froakie use Pound." As Froakie dashes at Fokko, Arthur seems to be really nervous like if something is going to happen but William ignores that and Fokko gets hit. "Fokko use Howl!" Fokko howls loudly and gets his attack up. "Froakie use Bestow!" As Froakie uses bestow he throws a toxic orb at Fokko, what William hadn't realised was that Froakie was poisoned all this time. "Fokko use hypnosis!" Froakie swiftly dodges the hypnosis while his Arthur says. "Use Hydro Pump and finish this!" As he says it Froakie gets confused and doesn't know what to do since he dosn't know that move. "Fokko use hypnosis again and finsish it off with a scratch." As froakie is confused he gets hit by the hypnosis, and a few seconds later Fokko starts running at him and scratches him. "But how." Arthur sists down on the floor ignoring that Froakie is fainted and starts crying, when he tries William gets closer and hears. "I know I shouldn't have come, my dad said it was just for good trainers like you." "You know you should never give up it was just one battle." William takes out his hand to help Arthur up but he refuses and says. "Go away I want to be alone, i'm calling my dad and leaving this island right now." William started to feels bad for battling him but got angry when he didn't even help his fainted Froakie lying on the ground. As William walks away Arthur screams. "If I ever meet you again outside of the island i'll show you i'll battle you and crush you for what you have done!" William just faintly almost laughed at what he said but fastly stopped beacuse of what he was getting himself into. As he walked he saw that Fokko still was ready for battle, but still was poisoned so they desided to first go to the cafeteria and then to forest zone to get a "real" battle.

When walking to the forest zone they found a weird letter inscribed with weird letters they desided to take it beacuse it looked like it could hide a secret. When Fokko and William came to the forest zone they just found one single pokemon but it didn't really seem like anything special it was just a kakuna. The kakuna didn't see them at first so they decided to do a sneak attack. "Fokko use Ember!" When they used it the kakuna suddenly turned around and dodged it. Then it used string shot. "Fokko use hypnosis!" Fokko uses hypnosis and the kakuna falls asleep but it quickly wakes up and hits with a tackle. "Fokko use howl!" Fokko howls loudly and the kakuna gets a little bit startled but it quickly uses string shot again. "Fokko use scratch!" Fokko scratches the kakuna that takes loads of damage by it but then it uses poison sting. It shoots out a purple slimy "spike" thing that flyies quickly towards Fokko and hits, but luckily Fokko didn't get poisoned. "Fokko finish it of with another ember." Fokko emidietly almost sneezes out bursting flames going right towards the kakuna and it faints. "Fokko we did it!" Fokko and William get all excited when they are going to throw a pokeball at the kakuna but when William searches through his backpack there is no pokeball to be seen. "No! I forgot to bring any pokeballs." Fokko also gets upset but they soon notice a loud noise from the forest and then a large beam comes from nowhere flying through the forest. "Fokko let's run!" Fokko and William runs without looking back while more beams come charging at them, but it didn't seem to stop following them. They ran quickly towards the academy and get back to the dorms which seem to be safe from the mysterious thing.

 

[Dawn]

Valorie Ryder - Rocket Mountain Base

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Kale acknowledged Valorie's warning, he felt worried for her... the attacks she was being forced to endure would not be so easily shrugged off and her portect would not last forever... that being the case, he had to focus on the more pressing threat to his own self, the newly awakened Charizard. Turning quickly and holding a ready stance, he prepared himself to combat the fire type in whatever small way he could... however, within moments he realized there was no need. His eyes met those of the flaming beast as it spoke.

"Command me..."

Kale straightened his pose and met the beasts gaze... did she see him as Valorie? Had she come to her senses at last? Perhaps... but Kale sensed something more there. The look in the Charizards eyes as their gazes locked... he somehow believed that the pseudo dragon knew that he wasn't Valorie. He couldn't describe it, but one could say it was attributed to the mental and emotional link between trainer and pokémon... though their bodies were swapped, Kale was still a different person to Valorie and the aura that fueled his passion as a trainer was as such, different aswell. In the same way that Aria knew Kale for who he was so quickly... could Charizard also tell that Kale was not the trainer she had served so long? More importantly... did she even care? Now was not the time for such questions, he thought.

Kale noted Valorie's confusion at the situation, she could not understand pokéspeak after all. However Kale did... and he listened intently to Charizards reply. "...That's not the trainer I remember. He has become a hypocrite the likes of which I no longer wish to know."

Kale scoffed audibly at this. "Only now you realize what a fool he is? I thought you'd be sharper... unless that famous fiery passion has clouded your sense of judgment." He sighed gently and flipped his hair as Charizard continued. "Maybe his other pokemon are unwilling to admit it, but there's no way they haven't noticed it either. I'd like to knock some sense into them myself, but I need help..."

Kale didn't say any more to the beast. He knew what had to be done. He eyes Valorie momentarily. "Valorie, I need Charizards moveset. Quickly." He could have, of course, asked Charizard for her moveset directly... however he was hoping that by the method of him asking her, Valorie would be able to put two and two together as to their current situation.

Charizard looked vaguely in the direction of Roberto and Samuel. The nerve..! Strangers, commanding her? She hadn't given an open invitation! When did she start offering free rides to strangers anyway?! ...With a dismissive snort Charizard crouched down, preparing herself to fly.

"Dragon Pulse, Fire Blast, Crunch--!" Valorie blurted out almost without pause before her protect shattered, sending her flying explosively into the nearest wall where flew everywhere on impact. She fell over, seeming to deflate a bit. Just by the looks of it one could tell she wasn't getting back up. ...Not without help, anyway. "Rock Slide, Mimic, Belly Drum..." Valorie groaned out before just sort of going quiet as her remaining strength failed her.

Charizard didn't seem to react to Valorie's fate. Perhaps she simply didn't recognize the name being used, which meant she likely didn't recognize the body Kale was using either. Rather, she turned her head back to Kale. By this point she'd recognized that Kale understood her. It didn't seem to bother or particularly surprise her. "The rest either don't know Valorie well enough or are in denial. I can handle Mamoswine and Flygon. Jellicent is too stupid to be saved." Charizard explained quickly yet curtly. She had declined to mention Dragonite...

Kale's eyes widened as he saw Valorie being crushed into the wall... he should have been paying more attention to ther condition! "Valorie..." He muttered as she fell quiet. It didn't take any greater intelligence to notice that she wasn't getting up any time soon. He took a step towards her... and then another... and then another... when his legs froze in place. What was he doing?! Were the girls hormones causing this again?... Or was it because of the bond he had felt for Valorie just moments ago? A mix of both? He couldn't tell... but he couldn't do anything for her immediately. With the battles going on all around he had to focus on fighting... but could he really just leave her there? Would she be alright with all these grunts around?

He had been in this situation before... the question of his own importance over Valorie's. In any other situation he would have left her like before... she was a liability if she was so weakened as she currently was. But something... was different this time. He felt a sense of morality. His dillema was quickly broken however, as Charizard spoke up once again. The way she spoke of the other pokémon... her supposed allies... it was cold and mechanical. Uncaring for the most part. He looked at the pokémon with shock and awe... but he couldn't judge. Was this not how he himself acted?

His legs moved without question, towards Valorie. She was... an asset for later. This was just future investment... but at the same time it was almost like a temporarily awakened part of Kale's dormant soul was denying his uncaring existence and forcing him to save the only human/pokémon who had attempted to side with him in a long time. As he ran, it was Mamoswine that noticed him, the ancient beast charged towards Kale at full speed from across the room. Did it recognize him?! Or Valorie?! There was no time to think about that, waiting for the last moment, Kale barely manages to lunge out of the raging swine's path.

"Charizard! Fire Blast now!" As the mamoswine desperately tried to stop its incredible momentum and turn, Kale hoped Charizard would intercept. Though he wasn't looking long enough to see the counter attacks result. Within moment, Kale found himself kneeling beside Valorie's bruised and beaten gooey form. Aria was beside him in a few moments with a look of concern on her face. Kale suddenly felt quite panicked, looking at the fainted pokégirl in front of him. He had no idea what he could actually do to help her in this situation so he quickly and frantically began to dig in Valorie's satchel, surely there was something in there he could use.

Charizard, recognizing the intensity of the situation. "Later!" she roared as she turned her head and spewed a powerful fireblast into the path of Mamoswine, charging off towards the mammoth pokemon. "I have a plan." she assured the blaziken.

Meanwhile, Kale would discover several super potions within her--er... his satchel. Valorie's satchel? ..Kale's temporary satchel. Producing them and applying them to the fainted sliggoo didn't yield immediate results. Her wounds were severe after taking such a humongous attack, but that was only after a moment of spraying and there was plenty more medicine to go around. As he continued using the potion Charizard followed up with the fireblast that singed Mamoswine's fur and crashed into the mammoth, knocking the wounded pokemon against the wall.

"Get off!" Mamoswine protested, suddenly in a very uncomfortable position. "Not a chance. Is this what you want, attacking children at the command of a trainer that doesn't even care?!" Charizard demanded, shoving at the much larger pokemon. It didn't really work, and Mamoswine shoved her back after a long moment only to turn and stare at her.

"So you're just a traitor then?" Mamoswine asked. "A traitor to what?!" Charizard responded, staring Mamoswine down. "-That's- not the person that raised me. That's not the person I watched...--That's... not even a girl!" Charizard remarked, raising one clawed hand and scratching at her head in confusion. "...What?" Mamoswine replied baffled by the remark.

"I remember thinking to myself all the time how good of a mother my trainer would've been while I watched her taking care of her pokemon." Charizard remarked. "You're crazy." Mamoswine dismissed immediately. "Shut up. That's not the point. I didn't fight for the love and attention of some creep who didn't care about us and just asked us to do what he said. Our trainer is -nothing- like he was before that attack, and y'know what? I don't care why anymore! If you want to blindly serve your trainer instead of helping me to take him down so I can find out what's going on, /fine/. ...But don't expect me to show any mercy." Charizard warned, overtly hostile.

There was nothing like a good threat to add weight to one's word. Mamoswine seemed to stop.and think. "...Why did he spend all that time teaching me to be gentle with people if he was just going to ask me to do this?" the mammoth pokemon finally asked, frustration evident in his tone. "Because he's a fraud!" Charizard retorted dismissively, her tone demanding Mamoswine hurry right the heck up instead of sitting there in the middle of a battle debating the subject.

"...So what, you believe her?" Flygon asked, drawing both pokemon's attention above them. Flygon hovered there. She seemed dissonantly cheery. "...I have really good ears." Flygon added after a moment, acknowledging the elephant in the room. "...When's the last time he ever told you good job, Flygon? When's the last time we trained all night? Admit it, he's an entirely different person whether you like it or not." Charizard growled out. "...I'm glad /someone/ said something." Flygon replied light-heartedly. "I just thought I was going crazy!" she quickly added. Charizard declined to comment, pointing a clawed hand at Kale.

"I don't know why, but this one... /feels/ right. Maybe it's not Jacob, but she... /reminds/ me of the trainer I liked so much in a way I can't explain." Charizard said, confusion wracking her voice as she tried to get ahold of her seemingly irrational thoughts. "Do 'our' trainer's memory proud by standing by my side and protecting 'the world' from everything he has become." Charizard finished demandingly, a sort of malice in her tone. She was pissed and wanted nothing more than revenge. She resented everything Jacob had made her become and it was evident in her tone.

"Also one of you go deal with Jellicent because I don't think that thing even understands what it's being told most of the time." Charizard added after a moment, almost comically dismissive in tone. She wasn't touching that thing. Nope.

After emptying several super potions onto Sliggoo!Valorie Kale would notice her finally stirring. Her body seemed to have bloated with the medicine, turning an odd orange'ish hue. Valorie opened her eyes and seemed to become aware of Kale. She almost hugged him on the spot, almost! ...But then she remembered she was a gross slimeball and that Kale looked so much prettier without that all over him!

...Had she just thought that? Valorie silently questioned if this was a sign of bad mental health or--or was she becoming detached from her own body? That was a terrifying thought. Was her mind so easily adapting to this new reality? ... "...Thank you..." Valorie said, just loud enough to be heard. Her tone was oozing gratitude. "I feel weird, but--" she started when Charizard abruptly interrupted her.

"We're ready." Charizard informed Valorie!Kale. Mamoswine and Flygon stood behind her.

Valorie took in what was happeing and just sort of gawked for a moment with her debatably existant mouth. "You--...You freed them all..." she remarked, utterly baffled at how Kale had accomplished this clearly alone and without help. "That's... amazing!" she uttered, breathless.

"...Why does she speak like a human?" Flygon innocently asked. Valorie's other pokemon ignored her. There was a time and place for everything, but not now. "If you want to give commands while we fight you should proably hop on someone." Charizard remarked non-chalantly.

Kale stood up to look at the myriad of powerful pokémon that now stood before him. It had been a long time since he had commanded more than even one pokémon... a very long time... He closed his eyes for a moment and remembered something painful.

***
"It's our way! You cannot hope to fully embrace our ideals unless you release your old partners! Fight alongside those we give you so that your pokémon may be free!" The older voice shouted at a younger Kale who held Aria's pokéball tightly in his hands... it was his only remaining pokémon. The rest were long gone.

"I can't my Lord! She's my oldest friend! My first friend!" The man winced and pushed his long white hair out of his eyes. "The others eant less to you then?! Why is she so special! If she is worth so much to you then why do you force her to fight!" A fist was suddenly buried into Kales gut and he fell to the ground. In his weakened state the mawile's pokéball was knocked violently from his hands, smashing on the ground. A confused Aria was suddenly released into the World.

"Aria..." Kale whimpered. The older man merely patted Kale's shoulder to comfort him. "It's alright my boy... she's safe now. Like the others."
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Kale shook his... er... Valorie's head and looked back at the girl now turned Sligoo. "Valorie... you've done much more than you should have had to." His tone had reverted once again, to its mechanical and cold state. It seemed that whatever influence Valorie's body was having on him... it was now gone. Kale was in full essence... himself, the disconnection between him and his body suddenly completely overpowered by the strength of his mind. It was almost as if a reversal of Valorie's condition... rather than Kale's mind adapting to Valorie's body... Valorie's body suddenly seemed to be adapting to Kale's mind... what triggered such a reversal would be anybodies guess.

He continued. "Allow me and your pokémon to do the rest, if you please." As he finished, Aria suddenly grabbed Kale's arm, tugging on it gently.

"Kale... are you sure you can do this? I know that you're..." He shrugged her off and gave her a glare. "Don't doubt me. I wouldn't do the same to you." With a slightly guilty look. The humanized pokémon released Kale's arm and went to sit beside Valorie, petting her head as if to make sure she was alright.

"If you want to give commands while we fight you should proably hop on someone." The Charizard had said. Kale had already decided on his mount... with the pokémon now available to him he had already devised his startegy. He stood beside the Mamoswine and patted its side gently as a sign of friendship and respect, once done he used the large beasts tusk as a leg up to jump onto its head. He sat in a riders pose, legs folded back, upper body pointed and poised forward. He looked around until he spotted Jacob, the beeheyem and the dragonite protecting all three. There was still an the remains of Dragonite's reflect holding, but that was nothing Kale couldn't deal with.

He called out to the two flying pokémon that now sided with him. "Charizard, Flygon! I need one of you on either side of me and Mamoswine... immediately!" His voice was firm and demanding, but it bore the mark of a seasoned and caring trainer aswell. Once the two were in position he tapped Mamoswine's head and continued talking. "Those Beeheyem and Dragonite need to be taken care of above all else! Dragonite's reflect is still holding but if we focus on a specific spot then I'm sure we can break through!" He paused furrowed his brow in determination. "Mamoswine... I need you to use your most powerful physical attack and charge through that wall with everything you have! Charizard, Flygon! Cover our sides and rear with whatever offensive or defensive moves you know... nothing can be allowed to interfere with this attack!" Kale kicked his legs hard on mamoswines sides and the ancient beast reared its front legs high in the air before charging forward at a speed. "Now! Lets do this!"

"I just got the weirdest sense of deja vu!" Mamowine off-handedly remarked as he began charging with Valorie!Kale on his back. Charizard and Flygon rose above and Jacob turned his head skeptically. Meanwhile, a suddenly lonely and angsty Valorie contemplated how useless she was as Aria pet her. Her head was extremely maleable, as if she didn't have a solid part in her entire body. She looked up at Aria with her unseeing eyes, declining to speak. Why did this feel so... wrong?

The grunts and their numbers had begun to thin out, but Charizard and Flygon immediately put a dent in them by unleashing a series of surprise attacks as they flew along, scattering and decimating at leat a dozen or so teams in the process. It was an effortless motion, hardly even qualifying as training beyond the physical exertion. Mamoswine, taking Kale's words entirely seriously, began to use curse. A dark aura surrounded his body, flying up over Kale's thighs without any noticable effect relating to it's proximity.

To everyone else, Mamoswine began to slow down. To Kale and Mamoswine, something even weirder was happening. Their perception was being dilated and expanded, allowing them to to continue percieving things in real time even as they slowed down to a jog. Jacob, now fully aware of what was going on, made the quick and immediate order. "Dragonite, stop stop them with a Superpower attack!" he commanded. Dragonite seemed to hesitate, rather torn as she was abruptly told to turn on her ally.

Flygon took notice of the situation and looked around searchingly. Spotting one of the beheeyem left momentarily unprotected as Mamoswine easily broke through Dragonite's barrier. Now was her chance to make everyone proud! She swooped down, opening her mouth wide and chomping down on the alien pokemon. Crunch! The beheeyem just sort of flailed as it was nommed on and attempted to run away before being bitten hard again and fainting. As this happened, approximately half of the students would find themselves suddenly and violently returned to their normal bodies. Noteworhily neither Valorie!Kale or Sliggoo!Valorie were among those freed. Those that were freed would likely have a mild headache for a little bit.

Dragonite raised a hand and Mamoswine abruptly sped up, taking the giant pokemon entirely by surprise as he lunged out and slammed into Dragonite's gut with icy tusks, a devistating blow by any standard and one you could expect to drop even the strongest pokemon... Except it didn't. Though Dragonite doubled over, grasping at Mamoswine's tusks in a futile manner, it was not the end for her. Her body began to glow with an awesome blue power and she responded by yanking Mamoswine clear off his feet by the tusks with terrifying strength. All the pain she was in didn't help her disposition at all, and she probably would've smashed the pokemon and trainer against the ground with a blow that would've left little room for recover if a certain pseudo-dragon hadn't interfered.

Charizard had been at the ready. The flame on her tail had turned a bright blue color, but this was not merely the color of an intense fire. It had an unnatural hue.. that of aura tainting the flame. Charizard's eyes similarly filled with a saturated, brilliant blue hue as she opened her mouth and roared out a visible bluish-lavenderish shockwave. The dragon pulse attack seemed to cut through Dragonite, causing her to wither under it's effects. Kale and Mamoswine would both be able to -feel- the strength rapidly leaving the gigantic pokemon's body. With a cry of anguish, Dragonite half-heartedly attempted to throw the two at Charizard instead. Sensing an imminent danger to a fragile human life as Mamoswine began to rotate uncontrollably, Charizard swooped in and snatched Valorie!Kale up, wordlessly holding him--her--in her arms.

Mamoswine crashed nearby, and while it definitely looked like it hurt he was able to get back up slowly yet surely. Charizard began circling around for another go, revealing that Dragonite looked utterly exhausted. The giant pokemon appeared dispirited, and it was apparent she did not want to fight anymore. Yet as Jacob looked around frantically, realizing that one of his beheeyem had been taken out while he and Dragonite were distracted and that his entire plan was in imminent danger of being for naught he did the only thing left he could think of.

"Dragonite, you know what to do! Use extremespeed and RUN!" Jacob called out. Dragonite looked at Jacob dejectedly but recieved only a harsh look in response. Her wings abruptly seemed to expand many times their normal size and she took off of the ground, grabbing the Beheeyem that was still functional and launching herself straight through the crowd. As she flew past she made an effort to grab several of the trainers pokemon, snatching them up and simply flying off with them at speeds nobody could possibly hope to catch. In fact, it was as if she'd simply vanished along with their pokemon Noteworthily, Sliggoo!Valorie, Commodre!Lucia and Snype!Robert were among the ones snatched. Valorie and Lucia immediately begin slapping at eachother pettily.

Team Freaking Plasma Rocket - Rocket Mountain Base

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Jacob remained standing there, grimly acknowledging his lack of Pokemon with a smile. Seeing this, most of the grunts immediately began to retreat in a mild panick.

Kale watched in anger as the Dragonite fled. His eyes opened wide and he pushed his way out of Charizards grasp, gently falling to the floor. He watched with a withering gaze as the rockets desperately tried to escape, fleeing with their weakling pokémon as best they could as Jacob watched on with a smug smile. Kale had had just about enough... plus with no other liabilities around to watch him (well none that he cared about)... he would no longer have to try and keep up the guise that he was a regular student. Rockets were such a pathetic team... he didn't like his old employers, but at least they knew what they were doing.

Kale turned to Jacob and... smiled back. But it wasn't friendly, smug, or even fake. It was the kind of smile one might give to a child who makes a silly mistake. To someone who was clearly many times more stupid than you... someone who was innocent... someone whom you almost pitied because there was always a chance that they might never learn. It was that kind of smile... that is genuine in a way that would make alot of people hate you for it and in the current situation it was surely unsettling. Especially when one considered that Kale very rarely ever gave a genuine smile.

He completely ignored the fact that he had pokémon willing to fight... he didn't need them right now. He didn't even give them any sort of notice as he slowly walked towards Jacob. That same smile becoming infused with more and more darkness with every step.

He picked up a metal bar from the floor.

The smile was fading quickly... returning to an emotionless mask.

He pulled his scarf down from his face.

The iron bar in his hands was broken and inneficient, but it would do.

Within moments he was face to face with Jacob. His expression was empty and he knew Jacob wouldn't dare to touch him, lest he was burnt, frozen and ground to dust all at once.

"You shouldn't have done that. I needed those." Without another word Kale's arms moved like lightning, he asked no questions, made no threats, the iron bar did his talking for him as it smashed brutally into Jacobs left knee cap.

Jacob's eyebrows rose as Valorie!Kale approached him, only to narrow his eyes as he... she... -something- picked up the metal debris. Jacob seemed to be somewhat aware of what Kale was thinking, his body tensing up and the smile vanishing from his face. He didn't however expect the sheer speed with which Kale lashed out without further provokation. He pulled the struck leg out from underneath him as he was struck, sucking in a sharp breath and immediately reaching out to shove Kale back. He found himself unable to follow up however as he immediatel fell over onto his rear.

"...You witch!" Jacob said rather coyly, gritting as he grabbed at his knee.

Kale didn't respond to the coy and in his opinion completely pointless taunts. Rather he quickly spun around and hammered the iron bar directly into the fallen mans back.

"You speak when spoken to, tool. I swear in my old organization we trained low ranks like you with better manners for those who are clearly in charge." His voice was completely empty as always. He spoke what he knew to be true, nothing more. Wasting no time, Kale efficiently and brutally cracked the bar off the side of Jacobs head and then once again against his lower abdomen. He was... scarily precise... he hit him just hard enough to daze him... but keep him awake enough that he would feel every tiny morsel of pain that was delivered to him. Kale spoke an order to the man at his feet.

"Where did you send those you stole weakling. Tell me and I won't kill you. Don't tell me? Then I'll take my leisure in beating you to death, before taking slightly longer to track them down myself." Kale's tone was tainted with a slight and bitter undertone of darkness. Though aside from this, the tone was mechanical, empty, devoid of emotion and life.

Jacob raised a hand to ward away Kale's blows, attempting to drag himself backwards with little success. "Gah! What is /wrong/ with you??" he demanded, taking the beating pretty well considering...

"No--Keep hitting me. I /love/ this!" Jacob quickly added rather defiantly, almost snarling through the blows. He was mocking Kale.

"Ok." Kale said blankly before driving the blunt end of the bar hard into Jacobs stomach. As the rocket tried to drag himself away, Kale stomped down and grinded his boot hard on Jacobs hand.

"I'll be frank, this for me? Fifty percent to avoid wasting time, fifty percent personal enjoyment." He idly beat the bar across Jacobs head again. "I'm finding them regardless. I can do that easily. It'll just be quicker if you tell me beforehand. Plus, you get to live a little longer... your point of hiding information seems highly illogical to me."

"Say please..." Jacob remarked coldly as his arm rose to take the blow meant for his head--The other arm that is. One could hear the strain in his voice, but pain seemed to have very little bargaining power with this one. "I can't /resist/ a girl with nice manners." he then added, once again openly mocking Kale. At the very least, he was no longer attempting to flee. What did he see in prolonging this that Kale didn't? Surely there was some reason...

He was stalling.

Charizard would interrupt. "...There's only two places she could've gone." she remarked. "My bet's on the only way you haven't been yet." she quickly added in a matter-o-fact tone. It must've been hard on Valorie's pokemon, watching Kale beat who they thought was their trainer.

Kale frowned and knelt down to Jacob's level. He drew close to the mans ear and spoke in a hushed tone. "The triad doesn't appreciate games, low rank, you're stepping on the toes of someone your entire organization could fear." Standing up Kale quickly lashes out violently at Jacobs legs, making sure that he most definitely, would not have the ability to leave his current location.

Kale spoke again, in a more audible manner. "A plasma never makes an unwarranted kill... especially in the presence of Pokémon. With that Kale would brutally smash Jacob across the face, this blow would show that all of the others up to that point were held back in terms of power, as the blow was at least twice as powerful when compared to all he had delivered before that. It was very unlikely that Jacob would still be awake after it, the man would not be killed. But Kale would be damned if he would let him have any semblence of a possible escape.

He hastily climbed onto Charizards back. He swivelled his head around and didn't see Aria anywhere... had she perhaps been swept up along with Valorie? It was possible... He tapped the fire types head gently and spoke. "If you have any idea where they are... then take me to them."

Charizard leapt off the ground and Valorie's other pokemon followed, leading Kale and any others who weren't ready to retreat back to the main area... and the giant sealed door. Before it was a puzzle, a bunch of heavy looking geometric shapes arranged seemingly without pattern in the center of the room. I seemed to be a puzzle; how classy was this?!

...But what did it meaaan? It was apparently a mechanism for opening the door.

 

[Zavytar]

Alice Crenshaw
Rocket Mountain Base​

Shortly after being given her bag by Jello, Alice felt a strong pain in her head. She collapsed on her knees once again, fearing this might be only her, however she was completely unaware that everyone on her team except for the recently-hatched Froakie was going through the same thing. She lost consciousness for a brief moment, and was surprised when her eyes opened again. She got up and realised she was taller! Her jaw dropped and she looked at her hands. They were human hands! She looked down to examine the rest of her body. She was back! She was human again!

Slowly after that, Grace and Jello regained consciousness as well. Both were then happy to find out that they were back in their original bodies, although Jello would miss having limbs. Grace felt weird, not used to the new form of her original body, but she'd get used to it. She was glad that she had another chance to experience evolution.

But the time to rejoice was a short one. The mission wasn't over yet. The raid was still on, and they had to catch up with the rest. Without hesitation, she sprayed Grace and Froakie with one Potion each, leaving them with enough energy to keep pushing through. She approached the Cubone that had helped her deal with the last Grunt, and, not even minding if it was Mark or if the boy had returned to his body as well, she sprayed him with one. Then she crouched to look more directly at him.

"How are you feeling now?" she asked gently.

 

[Elikiteru]

William Blazington - The Dorms -> The Forest Zone

But when William arrived at his room he couldn't find Fokko, so he ran back to the reception only to find that no one was there and that all the doors were locked. William started searching everywhere for a way out but didn't find any so he went back to his room to eat a sandwhich he was made to eat after the catching of a pokemon. But when he was done he heard something, it sounded like flashy beeps coming further and further away. So William starts following it and when he comes to the reception he can see a Beheeyem holding something. He comes closer to the Beheeyem to see what he holds and he holds Fokko. So William decides for a dumb plan and jumps at the Beheeyem to get Fokko. But he fails miserably and the Beheeyem sees him. Beheeyem doesn't use any moves it just stands there holding Fokko so William come close to the Beheeyem to pick her up but when he gets close Beheeyem just uses Psychic and throws him away. But then William tries to use Fokko's pokeball and it worked he got Fokko, but he was still stuck in this place with a weird Beheeyem but now the Beheeyem seems to have changed it started beeping really loud so William couldn't take it anymore he took out Fokko and started attacking the Beheeyem. But then the Beheeyem started talking in a robotic voice. "Give me the Fennekin now or you will get disabled."

"Fokko let's get that Beheeyem, use." He gets interupted by Beheeyem using a hyperbeam and hitting Fokko to faint it imideatly. So William gets Fokko in her pokeball and then he starts running to his room again he has had enough of it and is just trying to hide now as he runs in to the room he closes the door and then sees that the window is open! He quickly runs up to the window and jumps out to the grass. But when he touches the ground everything starts disapearing and it becomes black, and then it turns back to the normal world William is lying with Fokko on his side on the ground in the Forest Zone, William gets up and sees a trainers with a Beheeyem and the trainer has stolen William's backpack. "Hey, give me my backpack back!" The trainer answers with a rusty voice. "Why would I, and thank you for the bag im going but first Beheeyem use Headbutt!" The Beheeyem charges at Fokko and hits, Fokko didn't get to damaged from the attack. "Fokko use Ember!" But when Fokko is supposed to use Ember she cloaks herself with fire and dashes at the Beheeyem, Fokko had learned Flame Charge! The Beheeyem gets suprised by the attack and gets flung away on to a tree. "Beheeyem use Psychic!" The Beheeyem takes Fokko and throws her up in the air and then he throws her to the ground. "Fokko use Flame Charge and then Hypnosis!" Fokko dashes at the Beheeyem and hits again, since Fokko is now faster beacuse of the flame charge she goes first and uses hypnosis which hits and the Beheeyem falls asleep. "Fokko use Howl!" Fokko uses howl and the Beheeyem wakes up beacuse of the loud noise. "Beheeyem use Hyper Beam to finish this of!" The Beheeyem starts charging his hyperbeam. "Now Fokko use Ember and finish this!" Fokko uses ember and the Beheeyme faints. "We won! Now give me my backpack old man." "Ha ha ha ha do you really think I will give you you're backpack, go Pupitar!" A Pupitar comes out of the pokeball but it seems to be in a different color than normal. "Now we will finsh this Pupitar use Sandstorm!" Excatly before the sandstorm comes up a Kakuna jumps up with a bunch of Beedrills behind him, and then all the Beedrills start attacking the trainer and the Puppitar, the man runs away and the Beedrills follow the man threw out his bag and the Beedrills stopped and all swarmed the bag. The Beedrills seemed to want something from it William comes closer witout the Beedrills attacking them and opens the bag, and then he realises that it is his sandwhiches he has there. So he quickly takes them out and throws them, so the Beedrills follow, William gets his backpack and starts walking home with Fokko.