Part Four: Now Live
PLOT: Not only is Pokémon UNITE a thing in Utopia, it's 100% acceptable too! So Daxu decides to stream himself playing it with a few close companions.

'NOW LIVE: Spirispooks03 + 9 Others'

Utopia, as we saw when Lilosh underwent her brief change, does anything but miss out on sports. Virtual types included too! On their streaming service known as ULive, which is their version of Twitch to you and I, plenty of gamers of all kinds loved to stream their experiences with audiences large and small. Some of the biggest names on the platform were all recognisable from the genre of games that they played, such as Kyoka25 (A shiny Alolan Vulpix) for their Animal Crossing (As that exists here) streams or Clatters (A Jolteon) for their domination in rhythm games. But the competitive UNITE players on ULive were known to host thousands of viewers almost every day. And currently, one of those big names was in the middle of introducing his team like normal.

"We got a guest today folk! Besides from my buds Karlio the Tangrowth, Dipp the Oshawott with Mito the Dewott talking in his place because of Dipp being mute and stuff, Bobble the Togedemaru and myself, we have Raniel the Heliolisk here. A lot of you may know him as StumbleFumbleGame, and he's streaming this on his channel if you want his POV for stuff."

"Yep, glad to be here man."

Daxu and his squad, known as the Exactarians, were among the most powerful and well respected teams in Utopia but had decided on a more laid back stream with random matches because of their special guest taking the place of their usual fifth member Zowzi the Ledian. It didn't take very long to find a match and the team to start prepping for battle. UNITE had updated quite a lot in Utopia so each member had picked a Pokémon they wanted to play as. Daxu as a Gengar like himself, Karlio rolling with Trevenant, Dipp selecting Blastoise, Bobble picking up the recently added Ampharos and Raniel had chosen the also recent Manaphy by the demands of his chat.

"Guys, chat is just SCREAMING I use Manaphy. What's wrong with everyone else, chat? Why not Blaziken instead? Don't you want the cool fire fighting starter? That can just be lunch...!"

A few of Daxu's squad laughed at the comment made by one of Raniel's chat members had made, but Daxu quickly snapped the team to reality by announcing the match was starting soon so all eyes were fixed on the screens.


MATCH DETAILS

PURPLE TEAM
Dax_u (Gengar)
KarTangro (Trevenant)
Mute_Osha (Blastoise) (SUIT HOLOWEAR)
Bobbimaru (Ampharos) (SAILOR HOLOWEAR)
SFGameRan (Manaphy)

ORANGE TEAM
Mapapap (Sylveon)
breakitdown (Noivern) (VOYAGER HOLOWEAR)
TripleTret (Venusaur)
oranberry97 (Blissey)
FullAURA (Lucario) (COSTUME PARTY HOLOWEAR)


After a minute or two, the in-game announcer had exclaimed the start of the match and caused all members of Daxu's squad to scatter. He and Dipp had ran to the bottom path, Bobble and Raniel were up to the top path while Karlio ran for the jungle.
Both Daxu and his companion were quickly able to burn through the bottom path's roster of wild Pokémon and both reach level four very quickly. Karlio had stayed up at the top path to help out their allies who were under pressure from the opposing Sylveon and Lucario. Yup, Karlio uses they/them. Because I decided for them to be that way. Anyway, moving on.

On the bottom row, Daxu and Dipp were stuck with two enemies: oranberry97 the Blissey and TripleTret the Venusaur. The Noivern on their team had already been knocked out by a Skull Bash from Dipp (thanks to Noivern not being the bulkiest Speedster about) while Daxu was trying to whittle the pair down with Will-O-Wisps only to be met with repeated failiure. In the team's voice chat though, Raniel had suddenly started exclaiming. "Screw you chat, they need help. I know I'm normally an embarrassment at games but not today."

Shortly after, his Manaphy character had sped into the bottom lane and unleashed a Bubble Beam which successfully KO'd the Blissey and left Venusaur scrambling for freedom only to be sniped by a Will-O-Wisp and cause Daxu and Dipp to evolve, choosing Shadow Ball and Hydro Pump for respective moves while Raniel replaced his Bubble Beam with Ice Beam over Whirlpool. After this, the three dashed to the goal zone and dumped what they all had there.

(+25!)
(+15!)
(+2!)
REMAINING POINTS: 38

"Whoo, we got it going ON! You ever played this before. Ran?"

"Yes, I wouldn't just join a game I didn't know how to play. Chat, don't say anything."

The conversation was quite comically continued in an overly calm fashion even with both Daxu and Raniel being ambushed by the same Blissey and Venusaur pair with Daxu going down while Raniel somehow held the two back long enough to flee. Once the Haunter avatar had made it halfway down the lane, a surprising message popped up on screen.

'+15! Your team gained EXP points and shields!'
And just to the right of that message was Bobble's Ampharos avatar. "Target acquired successfully!" The Togedemaru had exclaimed proudly, causing some excited noises to arise from the rest of the team as everyone had scrambled up to Rotom who was already taking a harsh beating from the enemy team.

“Gah, I doubt we can make it! We need us a trump card people!” Karlio exclaimed before being cut off by an even louder response from a teammate.

“Sure we do! FIRE IN THE HOLE!” Mito had yelled in Dipp’s place, suddenly unleashing a Surf had went right up to Rotom, but was barely dodged by the opposing Noivern letting loose a Dragon Breath that had snatched the Rotom up right before everyone’s eyes. Bobble made a small comment on how that should be nerfed, but it was brushed off as the squad had began to fight back against the enemies and Rotom who stood in their way.



It was now the climax of the match because I’m too lazy to write more details out. The scores were surprisingly close for a random match and the brawl for Zapdos had only just began too with Daxu's whole team being there while only four of the enemy team were in combat. The missing Sylveon had been uncovered shortly after it had hidden in a bush near Zapdos and was swiftly taken out. But now the fight was in full swing, with moves flying all over the place.

"Just flip off already! We want the KFC tonight!" Raniel suddenly exclaimed, trying his best to hold back the Blissey who stood before him. Although his statement was swiftly cut off when he noticed an orange ring appear around Zapdos but didn't know what it meant. The whole of Daxu's gang suddenly burst into panic upon recognising it as the opposing Noivern's Unite Move: Screaming Volley. Hope seemed demolished as each sound wave chipped the Zapdos' health further and further down, right until the bottom.

"Your team +25 points! The enemy goal zones are now defenceless!"

Everyone gasped as Daxu suddenly sprang from the ground, landing a powerful Phantom Ambush just in time so that his team could charge ahead while he and Dipp finished off the stragglers in the centre. "Gotta be the protagonist somehow! Roll out, gang!"

And then came the scoring frenzy. 'What a goal!' echoed in the game as mountains of points were dumped into each goal, with Karlio standing their team's ground by staying back at their own goals and fend off anyone who tried to get the upper hand. Then as the clock ran to zero, the final scores flashed on screen for all to see.



VICTORIOUS
562

DEFEATED
294



The team burst into cheers as the match was won, despite it just being a casual Random Battle. Any victory was great for the Exactarians whether that be good or small. As everyone talked to their respective chats, Raniel had suddenly spoken up with laughter to his tone.

"I got... I think I got something really rare. Let... let me show ya!" He exclaimed while posting an image to the Discord chat the group was in. Everyone had different reactions to it, but Mito was the only one to talk about what she had seen. "That's...one of the Holowear from the energy gacha! Racer Style Wigglytuff no less, the previous primary reward for Battle Pass eight also known as Legends of Speed!"

Both players and chat alike had burst into shock, but Raniel's chat had went wild. Mostly because of a certain history their streamer shared, which he had happily exclaimed as Daxu set the lobby up for another game.

"They used to call me a Drift King back in college, and still do now you know!"

FINISH

[NOTE: Raniel is based off of a streamer I watch named RTGame! Right down to the chaotic chat and being a drift king. Also this took a few days because sickness happened. Not cool. Hopefully the next entry won't take too long!]

Spoiler:
I plan on doing Utopiabusters next, and don't want to make ALL the myths up myself, so any suggestions for myths Jagin to try and bust are more than welcome.