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[pendantry]

[There's so much to do in one day around Luceti, if you only put your mind to it. Take two enterprising, bored souls, give them a fight scenario and the arena in which to implement it, and enough free time, and bam! Instant entertainment. Two souls engaged in an epic battle to the finish with their strangely elemental animal companions. A champion-strength trainer and a laid-back but motivated beginner. Imagine the spectacle!

So it's much more fun when a very large and colorful bird - with four wings! - comes half-flying, half-drifting down into the middle of your crazy pokémon training, right boys?]


[Voiced, later on]

Hey! What are you-

["You" doesn't acknowledge the protest, choosing to make his announcement instead.]

Hey, hey, hey Luuuuceti! We've got a charming young lady here, and she's got a problem! You see, some dastardly fiend has stolen her clothes, so whoever did that---

[A solid strike sound, when the other guy punches Masaomi in the face.]

Has anyone ever told you about a little thing called manners?

It's all in good fuuuuun, senpai!!!

[The journal changes hands again, to arguably safer hands this time as Silver snatches it away.]

...Give it back.

[[ooc: Raven, Masaomi, and Special!Silver are causing a commotion. Expect threadjacking. Welcome it. Embrace it.]]

Comments

[generalflirt]

Hah! [...However, with all the Gyaradoses defeated.

...Wait the simulation isn't fading. So there's more enemies?

He goes to hop back to land]

1/2

[tsuntrader]

Good job. You would have passed if you didn't use that kunai.

[tsuntrader]

But there's still more. [So try again without the weaponry, Masaomi.]

[generalflirt]

Where?

[tsuntrader]

Focus. Sense it. That's your job as a trainer. I'm not here to give you the answers.

[pendantry]

What's happening here?

[She's too bewildered to be curt with them.]

[generalflirt]

[He closes his eyes, listening. He could adapt to his own sight, but... Okay? Water? It has to be water...]

[tsuntrader]

[Or is it, Masaomi? You don't have to be Toph to feel those tremors. Something's coming from underground.]

[But Silver has a bird girl to talk to, here.] Training. [Surely that's elaborate enough.] You're new here, right?

[pendantry]

I don't even know "here." How far are we from Sharance?

[generalflirt]

Prett...y far--

[...SHIT. He raises his hand up, and in that moment, Linda magnet rises off the ground. Masaomi goes to leap, but he doesn't leap quite fast enough as out of the ground bursts...! A dugtrio. It hits him in the ass and sends him further up into the air. But Linda is unarmed. In mid-air...

This is obviously a ground type. How does he-]

Tail Whip!

[Let's lower it's defenses, at least. Linda floats over to slap it. But hwne he does the Magnet Rise fails and she lands on the ground. And immediately after the Dugtrio is hit it shoots back underground. In time for Masaomi to land on his feet]

[tsuntrader]

You're in an entirely different world. [Focus, Masaomi, focus.]

[pendantry]

[Masaomi is doing something intense and dangerous-looking except the "enemy monster" is three small molethings. Raven gives it a dry, puzzled stare, not registering Silver's words at first.]

What?

[generalflirt]

[How the hell is he supposed to know where it's coming from? There's subtle ground movements, yes, but he's got no idea how to pinpoint there. What if he- ... How could he get Linda to do that.

Answer: he couldn't.] Linda, keep the M.R. [Yes, they developed a shorthand] Up, if you see it- [The open and closing motion of his hand which means "Flash" - tbh Fake Out would be better, but against this thing surprise is obviously not on his side. He's going to --

He needs a bucket.

None of the leaves in the area are big enough, his hands aren't big enough, none of the ice shards from that bridge will quite work... This is where one of those ninja scrolls would be very useful. Either way, he's at the water's edge, looking for something to move the water with]

[tsuntrader]

A different world. [Masaomi, you're doing it wrong, but carry on, the creativity is interesting.]

[pendantry]

Explain yourself.

[generalflirt]

[...Wait if Linda's off the ground...

Even if he doesn't have a bucket-

he's the target. Ele- no, this is obviously a ground type whatever the hell this is. So-]

Linda! Iron tail on me in fiv- Don't give me that look! Five seconds!

[She floats over. Awkwardly because she's still not perfect with magnet rise and movement, but... five

Okay so he just needs to wait for it... four.

Wait, it's closer than he thought-]

Scrap that- now!

[and he is hit by the uprising Dugtrio's dig. And goes flying again, possibly bruising himself (ow) but Linda strikes where he was moments ago with and Iron Tail, hitting the center of the Dugtrios squarely in the middle of the head]

[tsuntrader]

It's exactly what it sounds like. [Now he's getting it. That wasn't exactly what Silver had in mind, but it works well enough anyway.

...Although now he's thinking-] Do you think Linda could learn to carry you in the air with Magnet Rise?

[pendantry]

[Okay she's just starting between both of them now. Getting irritated. If they don't have time to answer the questions that she's putting all this effort into asking then she'll just leave.

It's easier to do that anyway.

Except she turns all around and can't find anything other than wilderness.]

[generalflirt]

[He shakes his head. No, Linda can't reliably lift both of them that long. The dugtrio seems to have been taken out. Linda is getting some rest on the ground. As for Masaomi though, he races past him to go get Raven]

Beauty! Heeey, wait!

[tsuntrader]

[Oh, whoops. He should probably focus on their guest. Right. He'll finally give Raven his complete attention; the simulation is bound to start fading soon anyway.]

Welcome to Luceti. You've been dragged here from another world and can't go home by your own free will. There's a giant barrier surrounding the place that no one can break through, and this is the only village inside of it. People are regularly kidnapped, drafted, and experimented on, and if you feel particularly stupid, you can sign up to do stuff to the guys who kidnap and experiment on us.

On the bright side, everything's free.

[pendantry]

I'm not stupid.

[Most of those things aren't possible. This is no Forest of Beginning and even if it were. These humans wouldn't be here, mostly alive.]

[generalflirt]

Didn't think so, Onee-chan. But we're not fooling, my pal here- [And clapping Silver on the back, perhaps harder than he needed to] is just a fan of being deadpan.

[tsuntrader]

[Sure, it might have been a little harder than he needed to, but Silver doesn't really acknowledge it.] I wouldn't bother making up such a crazy story.

[pendantry]

It doesn't make any sense.

[generalflirt]

Yeah, we get that a lot.