[WAR] Role Play: Terminus

[Neo Emolga]

Noah "Neo" Ashfield
AMS Pure Anarchy Mirage Island, Hoenn
Affected RPers: N/A

I could have laughed at Lando's attempts to pull Diabora out of his own created Ancient Burst Heart. Lando was getting pissed at it, and I could tell Diabora was now talking in his head now too, taunting him and pissing him off about the way he was failing. And he was really wondering why I had locked that thing up in the first place.

"It doesn't make any damn sense!" Lando complained at me. "How the hell does he do it!?"

"I told you," I said to Lando as I gave him that 'told you so' look. "Diabora made those Ancient Burst Hearts to fuel wars and to get people to kill each other for them. You're not getting him out of there. And good luck trying to shut him up also. We're better off just grabbing all these things and just locking them up to end his fun."

"But what a damn waste that would be!" Lando exclaimed, trying to find another way. "There has got to be something that can be done!"

Yeah, don't hold your breath, old man. I had given up on the darn thing and to be honest, Janine's Chimera mutagens were just fine. Quite a few of the grunts were enjoying them, and it wasn't hard to see why. They had some pretty good ideas for forms, and while it was tempting to try them out... I had to admit, the one I had was really kind of growing on me. Plus I had been using it for a while now and I had gotten pretty used to it.

I decided to leave Lando alone and let him vent out his frustrations to someone else. He was treating the damn thing like an obsessed compulsive freak trying to solve some stupid puzzle just for ego. I was really convinced squeezing Diabora out of his own relic was just not going to happen. Diabora was an annoying prick, but he didn't sound stupid enough to overlook something that might let him lose control of something as powerful as an Ancient Burst Heart.

I headed to the opposite side of the Pure Anarchy, just to take a walk around and to let Lando get some fun alone time all to himself. And then I started hearing some rumor about Chimera evolutions from some of the other grunts. I thought it was a joke at first until I saw what clearly looked like a Chimera that had evolved, a dark black metallic dragon that seemed bigger than the others and a heck of a lot more badass, flying through the air, demonstrating his new attacks and powers.. There was no way someone got that to happen with just a regular Chimera mutagen. Sure, I knew I had no part in making these things, but he seemed double, maybe even triple the size of some of the other Team Aqua members. Whoever that guy was, he was definitely enjoying himself.

I figured I'd rather check this out than continue to hear Lando complain over this Ancient Burst Heart thing. I'm sure he was keeping Diabora entertained yelling at him like an old geezer trying to tell his big Arcanine to get away from blocking the TV. But as I walked away from Lando, I couldn't help but feel that yeah, it was pretty funny watching him get pissed like that. I could hear him clearly from all the way over here and man, he sure could be a cranky old bastard.

I decided to check out the story with this Chimera evolver, whatever the hell it really was. If Janine really did find a way to evolve Chimeras, this war was about to get a whole lot more interesting.

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Janine "Angel" Price
AMS Deathwing, Mirage Island, Hoenn
Affected RPers: N/A

Well dang, the Meowth was sure out of the bag now!

"Guys, I ONLY HAD ONE AND IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE JUST A TEST!!!" I tried shouting to all the eager Chimeras who were going crazy and crowding around me.

I mean heck, I wasn't even sure if it would work! It could have made that guy explode or turn him into soup for all I knew! I mean yeah, I was going to make more, but it would take a bit of time first! And that was when Tiantus came up from out of his lab and onto the deck, wondering just what the heck was going on. I could have laughed, he really was always wondering just what pray tell I was up to!

"Tell me you didn't just 'invent' something new," Tiantus told me, giving me that crazy look again. "I swear, the amount of unapproved projects you keep starting-"

"I found a way for Chimeras to evolve!" I cheered at him, dancing a bit.

Ha! The look on his face was priceless, he wasn't expecting that but when he saw all the interested Chimeras waiting to see if they could get an FES syringe, it all added up to him.

"And just how did you manage to... nevermind," Tiantus grumbled. "I don't even want to look at your damn notes with all those god-forsaken doodles on them. At the rate you keep churning these things out, what do you think is going to happen?"

Oh, whatever, this stuff was fun and he just didn't want to admit to it. He also seemed surprised I had taken off the fuzzy angelic bunny form I had earlier. Hey, wasn't my fault I couldn't get through the tiny corridors with that on! But that also reminded me that, yeah, not everyone on Team Aqua could become evolved Chimeras. We'd still need some guys to drive the tanks, ships, and planes, and from the looks of it... yeah, evolved Chimeras were way too big for that. And here Titantus was thinking the whole team was going to get into this. Hey, there were some guys out there that didn't want to touch these mutagens with a ten foot pole! Those guys would be perfectly for the "we still need humans to do these" roles. And yeah, it was awful to think about it, but there was no way I could evolve the angel bunny form and still work in my lab. I couldn't even freaking work in there without an evolution!

"Oh, don't be such a bitter, little bunny about it," I laughed at Tiantus. "The configuration for Forced Evolution Serum isn't so tough, but it took me quite a lot of research to figure out. But yeah... boy do these evolved Chimeras get big. I imagine that big dragon dude is going to need ten times the amount of food to feed now!"

"Next time, let's work on the details together before you toss this stuff out there to everyone," Tiantus told me. "I'm looking at this and it can get out of hand if we don't manage it with care."

Well poo, where was his sense of fun? I mean yeah, having too many evolved Chimeras mucking about would be a lot to manage, but hey, I really felt everyone should get a chance at being one if they really wanted to! I mean heck, there were still quite a few members of Team Aqua that didn't want to be Chimeras. Couldn't we just say these evolved ones would make up for that?

But yeah, he was the head scientist of Team Aqua and I was one of his subordinates, but come on, I loved the freedom of messing around with stuff. You could make so many cool and new discoveries this way!

[Lord Celebi]

Raidon Makoto
Neither Here Nor There
Time Unknown
Affected RPers: None

Raidon Makoto stood in as best a defensive position he could maintain in front of the Eternal Chronarch, breathing heavily. He took both of his blades and ran them through the crook of his arm, wiping the blood of Kasim Lordran onto his trenchcoat. He then sheathed the blades and then got as much blood as he could on his hands, wiping the blood of his master on his face. I will not forget, Kasim. This will be my cross to bear for as long as I live. If any of you knew the circumstances, you would understand. Celebi darted past Raidon and forcibly grafted images of the various Kasim Lordrans dying onto his mind's eye. Makoto screamed in pain. I will not forget! But I will not let it stop me!

Grabbing the electric knuckles, he bashed the speeding Celebi with as hard a punch as he could throw, knocking the Chronarch into the psychic walls surrounding him. Celebi levitated back up and healed the bruise with a touch of its tiny hand. <Let's see how distracted you need to be in order to stop being such a pest.> Celebi's eyes glowed purple again. Images of Incident 731 were flashed into Makoto's mind's eye, interspersed with the death throes of the parallel forms of his master.

Over all of the images, both 731 and the Lordran deaths, Makoto could hear Lordran groaning: "Unnnngh... Why Raidon?"

Makoto fell to his knees, the blood of his master dripping from his face. Images of the dead at Goldenrod flashed through his mind with the prior two horrors. Lordran's death throes grew louder, questioning every morally dubious decision that Makoto had made up to this point. He could no longer see the Chronarch in front of him, all he could see was the slideshow of terror. "GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" he screamed at Celebi, swinging wildly around him to try and hit Celebi.

He stopped, realizing that the random outbursts weren't going to do anything. The dread lord of the Deathwing needed to regain control of his mind. He focused hard on where he was going: forward. Images of Tyrus Hale, Finch Reynolds, Noah Ashfield, Yarvick Xelsez were forced to the front of Makoto's attention. They were all on the Deathwing, calling for their commander to return to his throne. The harder he focused on his crew, the more he drowned out Celebi's horrors.

Celebi redoubled its efforts, grafting new images he had never seen onto his mind. These were images of him from a parallel universe fighting the creature called Diabora. Diabora ceaselessly ripped through carcasses, destroying minds as quickly as he did bodies. The creature then ate the bodies and shat them out as his twisted servants: The Diablos. Another image appeared of Diabora murdering a beautiful woman. Makoto was instantly drawn to her, and her death brought on a great sadness. My wife in a parallel universe? As the creature danced in her blood and guts, Makoto felt like throwing up. He had never met this woman in his life, yet the emotions his parallel self felt were flowing through his mind.

Makoto looked to his left. A parallel version of himself put his hand on Makoto's shoulder. This other Makoto said, "Fight it, Raidon. It isn't real... for you. You still have time to stop it."

Another parallel version of Makoto put his hand on the other shoulder and said, "People are not ruled by their memories, Raidon. Much less, memories that don't even belong to them."

Tears streamed down Makoto's face as he focused harder and harder on the Deathwing and his crew, completely ignoring the death of the woman, or Kasim Lordran, or the Orre refugees during Incident 731. He forced himself to his feet and saw the two parallel versions of himself smiling. The one on the right said, "Go get 'em!" The dread lord of the Deathwing pulled a cable out of each of his electric knuckles and plugged them into the hilts of his two swords. The katanas crackled with electric energy as Makoto charged like a cornered beast, chaining fifteen different sword swipes at the obviously surprised Celebi.

The diced Chronarch fell to pieces onto the ground, as Makoto picked up each individual piece and threw it to a different end of the bubble, leaving only the head. Makoto stabbed it over and over and over until it was only a bloody mess. "FUCK YOU!" As the raging beast stopped to catch his breath, the pieces of Celebi doggedly managed to reform themselves into a noticeably battered whole. The injured Celebi floated there, giving Makoto the stink eye. Makoto sheathed his blades and smiled. With a single sleight of hand, he grabbed a PokeBall and threw it at the Chronarch, enveloping it in a red energy.

The ball dropped to the ground as the psychic bubble around him faded, returning him to the Ilex Forest. It shook once, shook twice, and finally stopped, shooting sparks out of the front. Raidon Makoto collapsed. "It's mine."

[The Nonexistent Tazz]

Yarvick "The Raticate" Xelsez
Team Aqua
AMS Deathwing, Mirage Island, Hoenn
Affected RPers: N/A

Yarvick had made his mutagen at this point. Yarvick just allowed the computer to auto-fill in the Deoxys DNA rather than screw around with specific parts, he was only interested in a general improvement. It kind of glitched out for some reason and couldn't show him the results, but oh well...He'd know if it worked. Outside of that glitch, which could be easily fixed by a few seconds of Tiantus'es time, it was hardly rocket science, the way it was laid out...Granted, it was still somewhat confusing to him. It was never the interface, of course, it was just so puzzling as to how Janine managed to do it...How she could even manage all of this crazy mad science...How it was just so easy to turn into an absolute beast...How cute she managed to be.

He slapped himself, trying to not think about that too much. He had important business to attend to, and quite a lot of it. The first of which was if the whole point of the mutagen would even work, the wall climbing he needed for his plan to be a success...

He hesitated. He always hesitated. He hated needles. Then, biting his own tongue, he plunged the needle into a vein and pushed down, then removed it.

The change was much more volatile than before. It actually hurt in several points, very sharp but brief-this may have been the penalty for stretching it to his limit. He worried that he may have gone too far, but the transformation was unhindered. He grew fur out from everywhere on his torso and legs, which were becoming more Lucario/Greninja-like by the second, from five digits to three, gaining webbing for swimming and suddenly resting on the balls of his feet, which got larger in response so his footing was steady, just at the pace he recalled it...Funny, though, his arms weren't changing at all.

Then, change picked up at a rapid pace, all of it very painful; The arms suddenly deformed into a rounded point of flesh, then tore into two sets of tentacles, one blue, one dark gray. Yarvick attempted to bite down on his tongue, but at that precise moment it vanished from his mouth, along with his mouth in general, filling in with some gooey substance, as a long stretch of tongue went out under his chin, wrapping around his neck like it was the most natural thing in the world. His nine tales rushed out of his backside, each with a Lucario Hand to crown it and a small pool of fluid in the palm. A spike shot out of his chest, but it was not the metal barb a Lucario had, but a crystalline structure, highly akin to the core Deoxys had. Two more tentacles shot out just under where his original arms were on each side. His whole head rearranged itself, becoming wolflike, depsite having no mouth to speak of at this point, going so far as to recreate the triangular ears on the top of his head. Finally, perhaps the most painful part, his whole body decided to cram a 5-week workout session into a second, and suddenly several of his muscles re-inflated, even the tentacles bulged out.

As soon as the transformation was done, he dropped to the ground, putting one of the tentacles to his chest. The pain had vanished, and the Mutagen was stable. He felt completely alright, like he should have been in this body the whole time. Yet, just turning himself into this was quite a bit of painful work. Thankfully, even with the tentacle arms, getting up was not.

His height had remained unchanged almost totally, but that was it. He was now had nine hand-tails with natural fingerpaint (though unlike before it all seemed to be shades of dark blue), a wolf-like head with no mouth, a tongue hanging from under his chin, wrapped around his neck, eight tentacles for arms, a crystal spike coming out of his chest, and a physique that would scream 'HUNK,' if it wasn't belonging to a mutant wolf/frog man.

He could easily manipulate any of the tentacles like it was his own arm, though it was clearly devoid of bones. He could not see this coiling up into an arm, which kind of ruined the whole plan. He face-tentacled, quite firmly, at his luck. Ugh. He put a palm to his ear, trying to figure out for the life of him how to do it.

Then he realized he was putting a palm to his ear, and looked at it, kind of expecting it to be a tail-hand. It wasn't, it was definitely the hand that he had just face-tentacled with literally moments ago. It altered into a hand, quite similar to the webbed feet below, except with an extra digit from the thumb, without even a remote sensation. Just because he wanted it.

He then uncoiled the arm-it just took a quick thought. Sure enough, in a completely weird process, the arm uncoiled into a pair of tentacles. He recoiled it-in an equally weird process, the two beefy tentacles came together in a tight coil, fusing into a 4-digit arm. It didn't have a Lucario's spike, but that was almost irrelevant.

He wondered how tentacles would be useful, but he figured he'd find out himself later on. He also wasn't sure what the deal with the tongue was this time...It felt quite slimy and not completely solid, yet it was still totally mobile. No, the real test. The wall-climb.

Yarvick was currently outside of the Deathwing, fairly far away from anyone else. He didn't want to be bothered. He was close to the navigators room, which was almost totally slanted upwards-if he could climb up that, he would know he could execute his plan. He looked at his hands-in his palms were large, blue bulges-the sticky parts that would allow him to climb, in theory.

Yarvick put his theory to the test, and put his palm to the surface of the navigation room, pressing down hard.

...Nothing happened. He certainly didn't feel like he was stuck to it. He tried jumping up and putting another palm onto the higher floor, but, nope. Darnit. It certainly wasn't like he could levitate-

He facepalmed so hard. He could have just busted with Iapetus instead. He could have hid in the room itself, or flown to the rooftop. Comparatively, wall-climbing up there, while hardly stupid, was definitely impractical compared to, say, flying.

Nevertheless, the form was hardly tested to it's fullest potential. He would do more training with it, later. For now, he had a ferry to catch. Stabbing himself with a reversal vaccine, he almost thought of calling out Hyperion, but then realized that flying with him over to Pacifidlog, where he would take a ferry to Sandgem town, would not cotton, even as Aqua was starting to reach in and take control of Hoenn. There were still those who did not appreciate Aqua in any manner, and would fight back. That, and Johto learning that the new government of Hoenn happened to be behind the attack on Goldenrod would make retaliation-very desperate retaliation, if not outright nuclear retaliation-imminent.

That, and of course, then everyone would know who exactly owned nigh-unstoppable psionic juggernaut (and likely the ABH would also be brought up), which would get him all sorts of attention he just did not want. No, no no, no no no, NO.

Instead, to his immense loathing, he brought out Rhea again, then Oceanus. Rhea tightly gripped his arm as Oceanus reappeared.

Oceanus, however, seemed to be initially attracted to something else on-deck. Looking at it, it now seemed to be quite a spectacle, with a massive armored dark dragon flying about, learning the ins-and-outs of mayham, while every Chimera aboard the Deathwing were begging for more of whatever turned the other Chiemra into THAT monster, while Tiantus, also present, briefly looked kind of like he just witness his girlfriend cheating on him, with said girlfriend laughing at him, then asking if he wants in on it too.

...Yarvick was quite intrigued by the prospect of becoming big enough to step on Oceanus, but, he was a sneaky guy and didn't need that attention, even as a course of escape. The Godzilla threshold was crossed only in DIRE emergency, the kind he would never be caught dead in.

"OK, Oceanus..." Yarvick said, with Oceanus suddenly looking at him quite murderously, then looking to Rhea and softening. "...I need you to carry me to Pacifidlog town. Just there, OK? Me and Rhea. You know why Rhea's coming along...And let's face facts, you like her anyways." Yarvick added.

Oceanus did NOT like that comment, but he nevertheless complied and let the duo aboard, then climbed down, off of the Deathwing, and into the waters below.

Time for a new adventure, hopefully one that ended in him a much more wealthy man than he was before, as well as finally putting the question of who his father was to rest.

[Lord Celebi]

Raidon Makoto
Hellcat, En Route to AMS Deathwing, Mirage Island
Hoenn
Affected RPers: None

"My god, Raidon, I've been trying to reach you for hours. Where the hell have you been?" Tyrus Hale immediately launched into a tirade after picking up Raidon Makoto's call. Makoto was on a Hellcat, bound and determined to make it back home with his newest acquisition and trauma. "You've missed a lot. Norb is dead, first of all."

Makoto was shocked. For Norb Whitehall to just kick the bucket was something he wasn't expecting. He was sure that he would go out kicking, screaming, and clawing at whatever, holding on just barely long enough to irreparably damage it. He assumed that said "whatever" would have been Aqua-related eventually. "It's going to be awkward to work out funding now..."

"Well, what happened was that Norb betrayed us and tried to use the Hoenn army to ambush the Trinity Armada upon its return to Mirage Island. Fortunately, Reg found out about the plan in time and warned us right after putting Whitehall down," the scientist summarized. "Noah has been working in getting us a foothold in Hoenn in the meantime. The 08th managed to take out Frisby as well. The entire Hoenn government is in shambles, quite hilariously."

Once he realized that Aqua would be fine, Makoto grew disinterested in the conversation, "That's great," he mumbled.

"Something up, man?" Hale asked. "I'll fully admit, Yarvick told me Celebi was involved in your disappearance." The dread lord of the Deathwing could only reply with silence. Hale, realizing he may have asked an inappropriate question, blathered, "Though, I mean, if you don't want to talk about it, that's okay... I just wanted to know if you were alright or not..."

"Tiantus, stop," Makoto said, unwilling to listen to him paint a pretty picture of all the scientist's insecurities about their friendship. "You're my best friend. I need to talk to somebody about this." The dictator sighed. "It's true, I was contacted by Celebi at the tail end of the battle. It kept talking about this deterministic fate I was destined to fulfill. I'll admit I was curious, hoping I could perhaps erase Incident 731 from ever happening. I followed the voice and it led me to the Ilex Forest. There, it pulled me out of time and made me fight in some fucked up Thunder Dome against 11 mind-controlled versions of Kasim Lordran from parallel universes..."

"What the hell?" Hale asked, unwilling to believe the story. "What did you do?"

"What could I do? They were all trying to kill me. I had to kill them all. Slayed where they stood. Yet, Celebi, this motherfucker, released their mind-control in just enough time for them to process that they were killed by me. Each one died with the most betrayed look on their face I had ever seen while groaning out something along the lines of "Why, Raidon?" God dammit, Tiantus... I don't know how I'm going to live with myself." Makoto paused, reliving the horror over and over. "When I killed them, Celebi mindraped me. It kept showing me images of Incident 731, of me killing all the versions of my master, of those that died at Goldenrod, and even atrocities from other dimensions. I watched my wife... my wife... from a parallel universe murdered and desecrated by some... thing over and over and over, all while Kasim screamed in my ear, asking my "Why?"" The commander broke down sobbing over the phone. "Man, I didn't even know this girl, but the fuckinging onion fairy managed to graft my feelings from a parallel universe onto her. I watched a lover I never knew... a woman that loved me with all her fucking heart and I loved back violently destroyed. I wanted to reach into that memory and fuck that thing up, but I couldn't, because it was a memory that wasn't even mine."

Hale was speechless. It was quite the heavy story to dump on the scientist. Despite his dual PhDs, emotion was an undiscovered country from whose borne no explorer had returned to tell Hale about. He was entirely clueless when it came to situations like this. The dread lord didn't care though--he just needed to talk to someone. He knew too that Finch Reynolds would probably have much wiser words than Hale once he told his other best friend.

"But I caught it though," Makoto managed a smile through the tears. "I caught the damn thing and I don't even know if I want it any more."

[XaiakuX]

The dread lord of the Deathwing could only reply with science.

Because science is the answer to everything.

Lance Harper
Goldenrod Hospital Roof
Affected RPers: None

Once Lance had safely closed the doors, he began to change his clothes. He removed the hospital gown, and slid on his underpants and slacks first, so that anyone who ended up joining him didn't have to see anything they weren't exactly ready for. It was lucky, too, as the moment he finished fastening the belt, an elderly couple joined him on the elevator from a higher floor.

The old woman stared at Lance in awe. Captivated by both his incredible physique and the abundance of age old wounds from past fights that no one had the chance to see until now. The first one that Lance explained was the massive bruise on his chest, from where he took the psychic blast from Deoxys that knocked him off of the roof of the apartments. Lance then spoke to the couple about the rest of his wounds. The old man didn't seem so impressed, especially since his wife of so many years was practically drooling over him.

When they finally reached the roof of the building, Lance apologized for making them ride all the way to the top, when they were headed to the Lobby to leave. He hurried out of the elevator to hear the husband practically scream to his wife, 'what the f**k was that?!' Lance couldn't help but laugh as he proceeded to put the rest of his suit on. He kept the jacket off, as he began to wander the rooftop in search of Mewtwo.

He didn't go very far, as Mewtwo found him, and greeted him with an Aura Sphere. Lance narrowly managed to avoid the blast of energy, only to cause himself strain from the fight just before all of this. Mewtwo floated before Lance, tall and intimidating. Lance, unafraid, stood his ground despite being in pain. "Lance Harper, you have proven that your mind is strong, now it is time to test your body. Time to test the will of your heart over the will of your mind. Prepare yourself, for your test begins, now."

"Damn it, all!" Lance exclaimed, reaching for a Pokéball. Since Mewtwo was a Psychic Type, he was ready to use Scizor and burst, yet again. However, before Lance could grab the ball, Mewtwo used its psychic powers to force the jacket from the man's hands. Mewtwo flung the jacket to the opposite end of the roof, putting itself between Lance and his Pokémon.

"If you want to use your Pokémon, you will have to earn your right to use them against me," Mewtwo commanded. He also commanded Lance's respect. His will would not be outdone by a mere human. Lance stood to his feet, and unbuttoned his shirt. As his shirt came off, Lance exhaled and glared at Mewtwo.

"If it's a fight you want, Mewtwo. It's a fight that you'll get," Lance also commanded the respect of Mewtwo. Lance had just faced Deoxys. Mega Deoxys, fueled by an Ancient Burst Heart. Not only did Lance face this entity of destruction, he managed to survive against it. He was ready for Mewtwo.

The two stood their ground, starting each other in the eyes. The icy blue irises of Lance Harper staring daggers into the lavender eyes of Mewtwo. Two bodies of great strength. One of incredible physical prowess, the other of intense psychic abilities. A small gust of wind kicked up. In that moment, a speck of dust was whirled into Mewtwo's sight. For a split second, the genetic beast lost focus. But in that split second, Mewtwo regained focus, to find Lance Harper speeding towards it with his fist reared back.

Mewtwo threw a hand up, and knocked Lance away with the force of its mind. Afterwards, the Pokémon's hand back returned to its original position. Lance stood up, and charged Mewtwo, again. This time, Lance would be repelled by an invisible barrier that became visible when he smacked into it. The Barrier immediately fell. Mewtwo found itself in a brief moment of shock. Very few things have ever shattered Mewtwo's barrier.

Lance stood toe to toe with Mewtwo, and face to face. Unafraid, and no longer shaken by the Legendary presence before him. To Lance, the Pokémon that he was about to K.O was just another Pokémon. One to be caught, and trained, just like any other. Lance was about to do the impossible, or attempt it at any rate. Lance was going to capture Mewtwo.

(OoC: Velocity is now out of this RP, so it is literally Cami and myself. I will post with Giovanni tomorrow as well as Lance Harper, again.)

[Neo Emolga]

Noah "Neo Cottontails" Ashfield
AMS Pure Anarchy Mirage Island, Hoenn
Affected RPers: N/A

Janine was gone by the time I arrived, but another Chimera named Riggs gave me the entire inside story about "Forced Evolution Serum" and that yeah, it was totally capable of evolving Chimeras into bigger, more ferocious Pokémon. The huge dragon guy that I later found out was actually once Derek was solid proof of that.

"She told everyone it was just supposed to be a test," Riggs the Flygon/Nidoking/Aggron Chimera told me. "Then Tiantus came up, went a little apeshit, and she headed back into the lab. Seems like she has the answer, but Tiantus thinks it should be 'rationed' or something like that."

Yeah, knowing Janine, she definitely wouldn't like hearing that. To her, science and nature were her bitch and anyone who thought otherwise could just go piss off.

But I could see where Tiantus was going with this. Derek was huge now, and I could imagine trying to keep that kind of power around would be tough to control. Without a doubt, the higher-ranking officers would need more access to these than the lower-level grunts. That, and we should couldn't have the whole faction go crazy with these things because everything would go haywire. Trying to keep a whole army of hyper-sized Pokémon under control would be a challenge in itself. Not to mention, where the hell were they going to stay? Sure couldn't fit a whole crew of guys like Derek now in the base or in these ships. I could barely even fit through those tight corridors even like this with no evolutions. Unlike Chimeras, I could imagine these bigger ones would need to be reversed or kept in separate areas.

In any case, I was pretty sure I could get my hands on a FES syringe regardless of whatever regulation was put into place. I mean heck, besides Raidon, I was pretty sure I was in a position that could decide who got it and who didn't. I was probably more lenient than Tiantus, especially considering Janine had already managed to create a reversal agent that would undo all the chaos anyway. I highly doubted anyone was going to use these to betray us, because if they did, I knew anyone else on Team Aqua would have them begging for death.

In the meantime, there was still the question if I'd actually go ahead and use this black bunny form for evolution. I knew Janine would probably thrilled, but I was still a little unsure myself. It had a lot of great uses and enjoyed using it. Thing was, I had no idea what evolution would do to this form, but I figured if it sucked, it could just be undone and I'd start anew with something else. There really wasn't much reason to be thinking of the consequences in a nothing to lose situation.

"Damn it, Cottontails, why the hell did you run off like that!?" Lando shouted at me again, obviously sounding like he sure hadn't made much progress on that Ancient Burst Heart. "I'm not doing this for charity's sake! We need this thing untainted by this asshole's voice!"

"You're still working on that?" I asked, nearly laughing. "Lando, give it up, it's like a Rubik Cube from the tenth level of Hell. Besides, Janine actually created chemical agents that can evolve Chimeras. It makes the Mega Evolutions that thing creates look like child's play."

"It's more than just a Bursting device!" Lando shouted back at me. "I'm convinced there's more to this thing that what meets the eye, and you're being a daft, little rabbit by just dismissing it! We tested Bursting with it and the energy resonance it created, but the operator also found Diabora's taunts and jeers very irritating. This Diabora prick is totally interfering with the process!"

So what pray tell did he want me to do about it, tell Diabora he should just go grab some lunch and take a walk in the park? What made him suddenly think I'd have any more success with it than he would? I had already given up on that thing and I sure wasn't surprised Lando hadn't made a scratch of progress on it either.

"Do what I did and lock it up," I told him. "Or give it back to me so I can do that. He made those things and he made sure people only know how to use them, not modify them. If you want to get back at Diabora, don't use it, spoil his fun of watching people kill each other with them by stuffing them in a dark, boring place, and stick with using something else. Trust me, Diabora's fun ends as soon as that thing gets stuffed into a locker and he can't see or feel how they're being used."

I hated to admit I was essentially throwing something I work hard for out the window, but hey, that's life and sometimes it can be a bitch. Of course, sometimes you just need to be a bitch right back at it.

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Janine "Angel" Price
AMS Deathwing Laboratory Wing Conference Room, Mirage Island, Hoenn
Affected RPers: N/A

So... Tiantus and Kaede wanted to have a little "talk" about the FES syringes. We sat down in one of the research conference rooms we set aside in the Deathwing. Right now, Kaede Kuyokisaka was the only one there besides us two. Tiantus felt we needed to "organize" exactly how we were going to use these things. Pft, really? What was there to organize? In the meantime, I hated this conference room. It was poorly lit by the single overhead cymbal-shaped lamp, boring with its empty metal walls, and the stupid metal chairs in this room were always wobbly. Meanwhile, the metal table in the center of the room was colder than death so I didn't even like putting my arms or hands on it. Right now, the only thing on the table was my notebook of research, doodles and all. They didn't let me grab a soda pop from the vending machine!

"Janine, you're obviously a talented scientist, but for crap's sake, one of these days you're going to kill us all with something you conjure up," Kaede told me after she had examined my research notes.

"Oh come on, I always had this under control!" I told her, thinking she was just being a big party pooper about this whole thing. "Why would anyone in Team Aqua not want one of these? They're awesome, you saw what it did to that guy!"

"You mean Derek?" Tiantus questioned me, giving me the name of that really huge dragon guy now. "Are you absolutely sure that can even be reserved?"

"Well, it's a little hard to tell if we're down here just yakking about it!" I shouted at them both. "Anyway, yeah, the reversal agent will definitely work. It may take a little while longer because it'll need to work backwards through each stage of evolution, but yeah, should do the trick."

Tiantus still wasn't convinced. What the fudge, I had made really cool Chimera mutagens that were the stuff of awesomeness and this dude was just doubting it would work.

"Look, what exactly are we discussing here anyway?" I asked him, figuring just complaining about the stuff was nothing but dumb. "You're not afraid of Mega Chimeras rebelling against Team Aqua, are you? Please, I could easily invent something that turns a renegade Chimera into a big bowl of Soup Nasty."

"We're afraid of it becoming too popular," Kaede told me, actually giving me an honest answer for once. "The care and feeding of Pokémon that size can be costly if living arrangements can even be made. We want to make sure we don't exceeding our carrying capacity and can afford the resources necessary to keep them. Therefore, we're proposing only certain officers and captains get access to them."

"I just told you the effect can be reversed!" I told her again. "You'd have to be some kind of special idiot to say 'hey, let's just feed them ten times the amount of food we need' rather than revert them back to humans right before mealtime!"

My gosh, I thought she was supposed to be smart!

"We're convinced that it's unlikely they're going to want to revert back to normal size once they get a taste of the kind of power being a Mega Chimera gives to them," Kaede continued.

"So you shoot them with the reversal agent!" I told her again. "I used a tranquilizer dart for the Chimera mutagen and it worked fine! If they don't want to turn back, you shoot them with the reversal agent and you smack them in the nose for not listening! Here's what I propose. Let anyone who wants to use them use them, but only the Captains, Officers, or whoever's on the top be the only ones that get to decide if they want to stay in that form or revert back to human. Grunts and such have to go back to human at the end of the battles, but the higher-ups can stay if they like. REALLY SIMPLE, RIGHT!?"

Man, this really wasn't a big complicated ordeal! When I suggested that, Tiantus and Kaede looked at each other and wow, it seemed like they could actually agree with that!

"I think we can work with that for now," Tiantus replied.

"I guess," Kaede replied, shrugging. "We'll see how that works. But for all our sake, Janine, keep us in the loop out the stuff you're cranking out."

"We done here?" I asked, standing out of my seat. "Cool. You can go tell all your friends about the new arrangement, and I'll get working on making these FES syringes. Oh, and the reversal agents too."

"We're done," Tiantus sighed.

Man, sure was a relief to get out of that mess. I was sure it would be a whole other story if they had even bothered to try the Chimera mutagens out for themselves. But nooo.

Anyway, I was glad that was over with at least.

[Lord Celebi]

OOC: Meant to say "silence," not "science." Oh well.

Raidon Makoto
AMS Deathwing, Mirage Island
Hoenn
Affected RPers: @Neo Emolga and @bronislav84

The Hellcat VTOL helicopter touched down on the Deathwing's tarmac and deposited Raidon Makoto back onto his home. He quickly walked the airstrip to check out the repairs that had been made in his absence, and impressed, turned to walk towards the Navigations Room of the Deathwing. Once he was there, he sat down at his throne nonchalantly. Absent mindedly, he started tossing the PokeBall containing Celebi up and down in the air, contemplating what exactly to do with the Chronarch.

A welcoming party of Tyrus Hale, a returned Finch Reynolds, and Reg Lando came to greet him in the Navigations Room, followed by three people the dread lord didn't recognize. "Raidon, it's great to see you back in action!" Reynolds said first.

Still sulking, Makoto replied, "It's great to see you too, Finch." He then turned his attention to Lando and Hale, "Likewise to you two as well... And Tiantus, thanks for that earlier."

"No problem, bud," Hale replied.

Clutched in Reg Lando's hands was the Ancient Burst Heart that Noah Ashfield had acquired for Aqua and that Yarvick Xelsez used to decimate Harper Tower at the Battle of Goldenrod. When Lando realized Makoto had noticed it, he said: "We've discovered that the Ancient Burst Hearts are... haunted by a creature called Diabora. I've been working on severing the connection between the device and the monster in order to make them more useful."

Makoto's eyes widened. He flashed back to the images Celebi projected into his mind of Diabora destroying the corpse of the unknown woman. A pang gripped his heart as Makoto desperately replied to Lando: "Give me it." Confused, Lando handed the device over to Makoto, who pocketed it. "Thank you. I will need to investigate this myself."

Lando tried to talk Makoto out of it, "Raidon, you don't know what kind of horror you're walking into."

"I know full well what I'm dealing with. Celebi showed me everything," he explained, showing off the Pokeball to his comrades. Reynolds seemed the most interested, whilst Tyrus Hale tried his best to look unaffected and Reg Lando looked entirely disinterested. Few things really ever phased Lando. Makoto mused that, at his age, the man had probably seen everything at this point. What's another crazy adventure with Chronarchs and Death Gods?

"We also have some new recruits from the Hebijo ninja academy that have pledged fealty to your cause, Raidon," Hale tried to explain. He pointed to the muscle bound warrior in the middle first: "This is Shin. The tall fellow is Roku, and the girl is Raiki." The three nin bowed to Raidon Makoto and each made an oath to protect the dread lord of the Deathwing with their lives.

Makoto forced himself to crack a smile, "More bodyguards, you say? This will make things interesting. Send them to Peter Jennings for training. He's been my bodyguard for years; I think he'll have a few things to teach them." The three bowed and scooted off the deck of the Navigations Room, leaving the two Captains and Chief of Sciences with Raidon Makoto. Makoto crawled down the ladder behind his throne in the Navigations Room into a planning room below called the War Room. Said room was illuminated with screens displayed all kinds of combat data. In the middle was a large glass table with the Aqua A etched onto it. He left the hatch open in the event Noah Ashfield decided to join him.

"I managed to acquire Celebi, but it mindraped me... I'm really not okay right now," Makoto tried his best to summarize without breaking down again. "The Chronarch's main thrust was that we would be facing a challenge together: a creature called Diabora. Amongst other things, it played this image in my head over and over and over again of a woman whom I was led to believe was my wife violently ended by the creature. It was apparently something Diabora did in a parallel universe, but it etched the emotions onto my psyche. I want nothing more now than to wring Diabora's pipe-like neck until it chokes to death."

The three seemed unaware of where this was leading. "In short, I'm going to use the Ancient Burst Heart to fuse with Celebi and see if I can't do... something to Diabora. Right now, it's the only thing I think I can do to stay sane. You three are my closest friends; I'd like you to be here with me for support."

"We have your back, Raidon," Hale summarized for the group.

Makoto smiled--this time it was genuine. "Thanks," was all he could muster. He grabbed the Burst Heart from his jacked pocket and released the Chronarch from its Pokeball. "Okay, Celebi, time to Burst."

<WHAT?> the creature spat out, clearly not okay with the idea. Before it could protest any further, Makoto gripped the Burst Heart and the minds of the two melded into one.

Now it's time for me to do to you what you did to me, Celebi.

[Grassy_Aggron]

Claressa Nissa
En route to Kalos, currently approaching Orre
Affected RPers: @bronislav84, because character mention.
Chips ahoy! …No, wait, I got that wrong…

The salty spray of the sea was something that Claressa didn’t quite like. Well, it wasn’t that, necessarily, it was the utter mess it made of hair and clothes. She had kept her doctor outfit on, admittedly, because of it, and didn’t want to ruin her normal clothes. The ship she was on had survived the battle at Goldenrod out of sheer dumb luck, the JND Maddening Dash was being decommissioned from its long lived military career. Seriously, she heard it had been built well over thirty years ago apparently, and at this point upgrading it was costing more than it was worth. It retained the rusty old harpoon on the front as its sole weapon, which had been made of extremely hard material and launching into the propellers of enemy ships. The purpose was simple, really – the harpoon would shatter the blades and bend the shaft with its impact, and perhaps even impale the ship itself to let water in when it was pulled out. That act in itself did more damage as well, leaving the ship crippled and filling with water.

And this ship was considerably fast. Not as fast as newer ships built to do the same thing nowadays, but it still was a force to be reckoned with. It was almost sad seeing it in its debilitated shape, and the graffiti that had changed its name to “Derpydash” was still being washed off. It currently read “Mepdenyngdash”. There were letters buried underneath it, but at least it was slowly being restored.

The captain was a retired naval officer himself, having been with the ship for a considerably long time. It was ironic he had retired before the ship had, and was in the process of buying it out for personal use. He seemed a bit disgruntled from his age, but she didn’t really feel he was crooked other than the high price he had demanded for his ship’s use. Captain Brooke, he went by, but it was perhaps a little closer to Captain Broke. He had quite the alcohol problem, it seemed, and his second-in-command was desperately trying to keep him sober. There were only a few other crewmates around, helping to keep it running and fishing off the side as they traveled. Surprisingly they were able to catch a few Remoraid, which were going to make excellent food later on.

Beside her, tawny paws and head hanging over the side of the ship, a massive lion was purring rather loudly. His fiery mane was currently warm to the touch, and his tail wagged in a surprisingly doglike fashion. Circus was enjoying the ocean despite being part Fire Type, and she had to wonder if, had they not been moving so fast, he would have jumped in for a swim. He loved water and the fish that swam within it, and was doing quite well in this environment.

Her bag of goodies sat next to her leg, and within it was quite a variety of goodies and necessary supplies. Tucked even further into it was the faulty Burst Heart, as Tony had insisted that even with the negative effects, having a means to protect herself was a necessity and that it wouldn’t hurt to use it once or twice. She had to agree, and since she also knew of the effects, it wouldn’t cause too much risk to herself. At least, that was the theory. Before she had gotten out of range of Johto, Murkiv had informed her he had published her research, and that another similar research paper had also come out from a doctor in Orre, by the name of Amelia Anthony. Claressa shrugged at the name, as she hadn’t heard of them before and frankly, their research was similar but likely had found different effects. She’d have to read it later, but it was more backing for the cause, at least.

In the meantime, she had been researching Kalos and, other than the disturbing legend behind the war, she found two likely culprits for the ones who had contacted her. They went by the names of Xerneas and Yveltal, with the former being known as the “Life Pokémon” and the latter as the “Destruction Pokémon”. She had to wonder why Yveltal wasn’t the one of death, but at the same time, that would create a huge panic and make people try to kill it… which she had a feeling was an impossible feat in its own way. Xerneas was said to share everlasting life, and when it “died” it released what life it had back into the environment, taking the shape of a tree for one thousand years. Similarly, Yveltal took the life force of everything around it before turning into a cocoon for the same amount of time. While there was no mention of everlasting life with that one, she had a feeling he could also grant some form of it… Although it likely wasn’t a pleasant form, however.

Xerneas was said to resemble a deer and Yveltal, a bird. One was a Fairy Type, the other, Dark and Flying. This was a problem if they wanted to battle as none of her Pokémon had any advantage on them. Still, her best bet was to use Circus as he was the strongest member on her team. Herby would be good for putting them to sleep or inflicting ailments, but she had to be careful in her approach. The first issue was just finding the dang things – she had a suspicion at least – and apparently she had to wake them up, and again, she wasn’t quite sure how. Maybe if she just touched them? No, preposterous, it was never that easy.

There was the issue of the third member, Zygarde, who apparently watched the ecosystem of Kalos. If she awoke both of them, would he come too? Or perhaps, since she was waking up opposites, they would neutralize each other and thus, keep everything balanced? Ugh, so many questions… Only really one way to find out. She glanced up as Circus nudged her side, and from where she was, she could see the glittering buildings of Gateon Port.

And yet…why did she feel like something was so wrong? The sun seemed hotter than normal, and her Pokegear picked up reports of earthquakes ravaging Orre, with a location centered north of Pyrite Town. That was odd, considering that town or the areas around it were not known to lie on top of a fault line, and a Pokémon using the move would be rather localized and not felt throughout the region. This heat…even a normal Sunny Day wouldn’t do. Something is very wrong here in Orre… Just what is happening to the world? Those Ancient Burst Hearts…are they behind this?

She had no idea that she was half right.

[Neo Emolga]

Janine "Angel" Price
AMS Deathwing Laboratory Wing, Mirage Island, Hoenn
Affected RPers: N/A

Well, coming up with a compromise finally worked.

Back in my lab, I had created plenty of FES syringes, probably more than we'd need and more than Tiantus would be happy to see, but hey, there was nothing from stopping someone on the top from just locking these up for safekeeping. But I figured I could sneak a few here and there for friends and such.

The reversal agents were being produced on the typical regular schedule as well. Again, I couldn't see how this would be a problem if we just watched over it, but hey, these were Tiantus's orders, not mine. Heck, if it was up to me, it's be free game for everyone on Team Aqua! In the meantime, Tiantus was busy welcoming Raidon back home, so I was working through Kaede.

"See, here you go!" I told Kaede, wheeling the cart full of reversal agents and FES syringes to her. "All set to party hearty. Also, since you wanted to know what kinds of research projects I wanted to work on next, I figured I'd continue work on Chimera evolution."

Kaede was satisfied to see I had paid attention to Taintus's orders (this time), but she looked at me strangely when I mentioned 'continuing work on Chimera evolution.'

"Isn't Chimera evolution complete?" She asked me. "I thought you confirmed it was successful."

"No, no, no, silly!" I laughed. "Chimera evolution to Stage 2 is complete. I'm talking about Chimera evolution from Stage 2 to 3 is what I'm going for. We have Mega Chimeras all set, now Ultra Chimeras are next!"

And then there was a dark moment of silence.

"Tell me you're joking," Kaede replied.

"Pah-leese," I laughed, blowing her off with my hand. "It's not that hard, I figure modifying the FES to administer a larger dose is really all you need! It's essentially the same process, just bigger!"

Ah no, that's not what she was referring to. I had a funny feeling about that, but hey, no biggie.

"Janine, how big do you estimate an Ultra Chimera will be?" Kaede asked me, looking even more doubtful.

Well, I really didn't know for sure! Probably pretty big! I mean, if that dragon... I mean Derek... ha, ha, Derek the Dragon had a funny ring to it! Anyway, if Derek were to evolve again and grow more than double in size, I'd say...

"...Probably 25-30 feet," I told her, acting casual about it. "And please, I know what you're thinking. I thought we went over this! Trust me, we've got it under control. You do, trust me, right?"

"You make it very hard," She replied, sighing.

"But you do!" I smiled. "Cool, then don't go all whoa, whoa, whoa on me! Ultra Chimeras are going to be a whole lot of fun. You see, it's all because you haven't tried being a Chimera yourself, Kaede! Anyone who's tried it seems to really like it! And even if you don't, hey, you've got all those reversal agents right there! Why do you think I made those?"

Duh, basic stuff here! See, the reason why Tiantus and Kaede didn't like this whole idea was totally because they hadn't tried it out. That's like calling ice cream and chocolate unhealthy and fattening without having tried it, and that was so not fair. I mean, if they really sat down and thought it over, they could come up with a great Chimera form of all their favorite Pokémon and I was sure they'd really like that once they took the plunge! Or hey, I'd gladly make one for them if they had trouble deciding! Although I wasn't sure if Kaede was fond of Lopunny. Judging by how she really didn't enjoy the doodles on my research notes... I'd say no.

"Fine, but only Captains should get this exclusive access," Kaede advised. "We don't want to lose a huge amount of grunts trying to take down a wayward Ultra Chimera."

" Kaede, why do you think they'd go renegade, hmm?" I asked her, thinking she was just being paranoid. "They haven't done so yet! Just relax and go whip up a strawberry-banana smoothie or something like that. Anyway, I say let it be free for anyone, but hey, we keep reversal agent guns around just in case. Trust me, they'll turn a big Ultra Chimera back to human, although it may take a little while. But the whole backwards evolution process will make sure they can't attack or have a nutty."

"Fine, but these really should only be used for combat's sake, unless under the use of a Captain," Kaede told me. "In the meantime, I'm not even sure how Raidon is going to react to Ultra Chimeras. He doesn't even know about the Mega ones at the moment."

Wow, I didn't think about that! This was going to be like a double Christmas for Raidon!

[bronislav84]

Karai "Kar" Horoshi
Ruins of The Under, Under Colloseum, Orre
Affected RPers: None directly, though maybe @Grassy_Aggron indirectly

She was spouting flames all over the place now. The heat felt stronger, too. Did Primal Groudon furn Fire type? I bet Amelia was the only one who knew that for sure. I wasn't comfortable with her having a type advantage on me, and bursting with Lappy the Lapras would be a bad idea due to the Drought effect. Ah, I got it. I'll burst with Drago the Hydreigon and hit her with Aqua Tail. Sure it's also going to be affected by drought, but I'll be able to get into the sky so not much of a downside. I decided to distract her with some conversation to give me time to switch Mons.

"So Amelia, where's your lab? Did it get destroyed by all the lava?" I concentrated and ended the burst with Leafy, then recalled him.

Amelia roared at me and spouted fire into the sky. She was either angry or not completely in control of Primal Groudon while bursting. She rampaged a bit and threw rocks at me, but I jumped around and sliced the smaller ones in half with my claws. Need to wait a bit to be able to burst agian. Then she answered me. "You probably didn't notice it while I summoned Groudon, but my lab was swallowed into a protective storage cube I had the Black Market Burst Heart Ring install for me, then the cube slid into the floor. My lab is fine." She explained as I counted out seconds. I really didn't notice when that happened. Keep talking lady.

"Are you sure it's going to survive all the lava?" I asked her. 30 seconds had passed. She shot some more fire into the sky in anger as I slashed her in the head, disorienting the behemoth burst form a bit.

She shook me off and I plummeted to the ground again, using a claw to avoid plunging into an area of lava. "Of course it might get damaged a bit on the outside, but the lab should be fine." My Burst Heart flashed that it was ready and I called out Drago, hanging above lava for dear life. "What are you doing?" She inquired as she roared and shot fire at us, meaning to cause a KO. I'd probably die from falling in the lava if the fire didn't kill me.

I was unafraid as I merged with Drago and knocked the Fire Blast away with Dragon Pulse. "This! Time to end this!" Amelia roared in anger as she stomped around, using Eruption in futility as I flew around.

I now had Drago's main head as a visor, while his secondary heads were gloves on my wrists. His wings had turned into a jet pack and I also had his tail. I was wearing armor that resembled his hide. I concentrated and charged up a water covered tail attack. Though Aqua Tail would be weakened by Drought, I was hoping the force of the hit would make her lose consciousness. Flying at high speed I smacked Primal Groudon-Amelia in the face with Aqua Tail. There was actually a loud thunk as the attack connected. She would probably feel that in the morning............And it worked! Primal Groudon was teetering oddly and flailing around. Amelia shot some more fire into the sky in futility and anger as I hit her with another Aqua Tail to the face, bringing the behemoth down into it's own lava. There was a shockwave as Primal Groudon hit the ground. Amelia was about to de-burst and die from the lava. I didn't have any time! Have to do this fast.

I quickly called out Lappy. "Lappy, summon a Surf attack to cool all the lava!" I honestly had no idea if that would work, but she sent out a lot of water and summoned a wave. Guess it was true that Water types had a water producing organ in their body. Or something to that effect.

Regardless, the lava was cooled and Amelia de-bursted with Groudon. She was disoriented from the fight, having trouble standing up next to the behemoth. Groudon had lost it's glowing yellow coloring and was resting. Amelia recalled it and pocketed the ball in her lab coat shakily.

"It was a bit cheap I think, but we believe you've earned this Ancient Burst Heart. More or less. And it was a good fight. I hope you have as much fun talking to the Voice of the Heart as I did. In my seclusion I was able to learn a lot from him." Enjoy talking to him? I wouldn't go that far. Then she handed me the ABH and I added it to my necklace next to my regular BH, placing the two in my bosom. For now he was quiet, probably shocked at the change of hands. "Now if you'll excuse me, I feel tired from this endeavor. I will go ahead and shut down the other black market bases, except the one in Hoenn since I know Aqua operates from Hoenn." Amelia pulled out a small device shaped like a smartphone and tapped a couple of buttons onscreen. A large metallic cube then slid out from the floor. It was quite singed, blackened, and charred, but more or less alright. The eruptions had damaged the outside. If I had to guess, I'd say her lab was safe inside. She then fainted in my arms as I held her up, still bursted with Drago.

I then called up my squad to tell them our Op here was over. "You guys alright? Our Op here is over. I need an evac for a large cube."

Amanda answered for the others. "We're alright. Drago brought us to the landing point. I'll bring the Hellcat to pick you two up." I could hear the sound of engines as she started up the chopper. "What's this about a cube?"

"Just get here and you'll see." I told her as I hung up. I then ended the burst with Drago and recalled him, sending out Blaze the Blaziken and Leafy the Venusaur while I waited. Soon the chopper was here and Amanda was waving to me in the cockpit. She was very much bewildered about what had happened, but knew I'd tell her later.

"Blaze I need you to lift the cube while Leafy secures it with vines for transport. You two can handle that right?" The three of us moved over to the cube as the chopper hovered above it.

Blaze lifted the cube with her strength while Leafy wrapped it up snugly with vines, severing them from the flower on his back. The whole setup looked like a giant sling. We then attached it to the bottom of the Hellcat, I recalled my Pokes, and we all headed for Hoenn. Together we were five Hebijo ninja-assassins, one passed out scientist carrying one of the world's Legends, and an ABH I didn't even expect to end up having. I hoped all this was worth it. I had to remember to ask Amelia how she even came to possess Groudon and to explain what this Voice of the Heart was.