All the World's a Pokemon - IC

[Lord_Jacobus1]

Unova Region - Route 4 <- Nimbasa City

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"NO! You cheated. Aurelia, get up!," Sekibanki said, shocked at the Skitty's actions. "So foolish...," Aurelia sighed. "You're not foolish! Now, use Mud-Slap," Sekibanki ordered, confident that the same trick wouldn't work twice.

[WriggleRid3r]

Unova Region - Route 4 <- Nimbasa City

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Skitty rushed at Aurelia with her body, but was quickly stopped by Aurelia's mud slap. Losing her bearing, she missed her target.

"Skitty! Your fur is ruined!" The Pokefan shouted in horror as she frantically reached for her Pokeball. Skitty was withdrawn early because of the trainer's love for the Skitty over her desire to win battles. "I'll have to get you cleaned up!"

Aurelia grew to Lv. 7!
Aurelia learned Mud Sport!
Aurelia learned Water Sport!

[S121]

Sinnoh Region - Oreburgh Gate | 9:35 AM

John turned his head over to the strange man and stared at him, intrigued by his appearance, but also because this man was obviously not of this world. Hoping to gather some information, John walked over to the man and spoke.

"Are you alright?", John calmly asked the strange man.

[Lord_Jacobus1]

Unova Region - Route 4 <- Nimbasa City

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"You're absolutely pathetic. Time for me to take your money!," Sekibanki exclaimed ominously.

"Wait, wha-," the Pokefan began to say. However, before she could finish, Sekibanki removed her cape, threw it over the Pokefan's head, & reached into the Pokefan's pockets. Um, are you sure this is OK?," Aurelia asked. "Of course it is. Pokefans are no better than Team Rocket, & besides, we need the money more. Join Avenue is very expensive, after all, & I'd like to buy better balls & some potions for you," Sekibanki explained as she withdrew money. A voice piped up. "What about me? I can see what you're doing, after all," the gate guard said.

"Oh, Shamira, old pal, I'll make you a Gym Leader if you join me & don't tell," Sekibanki offered to the gate guard. Shamira was horrified. "No! You can't get your way all the time. This is still wrong, after all," the gate guard objected. "I'd like to join, if it will get me my money back," the Pokefan, whose name was Avila, said, her voice muffled under the cape. Sekibanki smiled. She decided to hand over 3456 of the 4096 Pokedollars she had taken, keeping 640 for herself. "Welcome to Team Willow," Sekibanki said as she put her cape back on. The gate guard was disgusted. "I'm going to see the nearest League authority," he mumbled as he left. Sekibanki didn't care. Her plan to remove Elesa from power had started. All three of them, Sekibanki, Aurelia, & Avila, stepped out into Join Avenue. "Now to find some Pokeballs for myself, some Potions for Aurelia, & some clothes for my new volunteer," Sekibanki thought to herself.

[Major Mario]

Hoenn Region - Petalburg Woods - @Wriggle

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Why do I ask, Sherry repeated to herself in her mind. Well, because A: red eyes are unnatural, and B: where Sherry came from, red eyes were a sign of an infected individual, or someone who clearly wasn't human anymore. If B was true, then that led to Yuuka being superhuman, or possibly a threat to society. However, not all superhumans were threats. Jake, for instance, was a towering martial artist who shot his gun just as often as he shot his mouth off, yet he was capable of more sympathy than most people Sherry knew.

She opened her mouth to speak her mind when she heard the commotion in the woods. What was it with her life and being interrupted by goons when she was talking? Regardless, she felt her blood pumping in her veins as the time to act arrived. She wasn't Leon S. Kennedy, the man who lost enough friends to know that saving just one person could make all the difference, but she was tutored by him. Somewhere, this one person could be at death's door, and Sherry's intervening could mean the world to him or her. With that in mind, the agent nodded to Yuuka and dashed off to find the man, Claire fluttering behind her like a kitetail.

[WriggleRid3r]

Hoenn Region - Petalburg Woods

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Sherry only had to travel a bit into the woods to find a man in despair. He looked as if he was robbed: his backpack torn off of him, zippers open, and contents spilling out.

"Dammit, I'll get you-" The man vowed, but he seemed to have sprained his legs.

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Yuuka went deeper and deeper into the woods to find an injured Wild Larvesta. Larvesta was an larva-like Pokemon with tiny little fiery wings from its torch-like horns, covered by fuzzy white manes that housed a blue, shadowy eyes. The Larvesta looked at Yuuka and Kappa with a spark of curiosity, and then turned away in fear, shuddering.

"Are you alright?" Yuuka asked Larvesta, who shuddered and backed off in fear. "Don't worry, I won't hurt you."

The Larvesta narrowed her eyes and allowed Yuuka to continue.

"Do you understand what I'm saying?" Yuuka asked, and the Larvesta nodded, or what could be considered a nodding.

"Can you speak?" Yuuka asked again. The Larvesta shuffled around uncomfortably and said:

"Yeah." The Larvesta's voice was silky and tender, like a fabric of fine cloth made out of the purest of flames.

"What happened to you?" Kappa questioned, hanging from on top of Yuuka's shoulders. "Did a wild Pokemon get you?"

"No..." The Larvesta muttered but said no more.

"Then what could've injured you-" Yuuka began, but she suddenly felt presence behind her. She turned to find two men dressed like biker gangs, cracking their fists and grinning at Yuuka with malice.

'Shit. Yuuka thought. This is going to be ugly.

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Sinnoh Region - Oreburgh Gate

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"I am okay..." The enigma answered John. "My helmet keeps my head protected from this kind of injury..."

The enigma then silently passed by John. It must've taken John all his mental ability not to jump at the enigma and fight while the enigma merely passed by him and went to the other side of the passage.

[S121]

Sinnoh Region - Oreburgh Gate | 9:36 AM

John didn't know why, but he felt angry at the man, despite the fact that he had no reason to be. The only reason he wasn't provoked into fighting him was because of the training he had received since he was six, to suppress his emotions. Even then, John felt somewhat heated. John wanted to figure out who this man was, and why he felt hostile towards him, so he followed him and asked him a question.

"Hey, who are you? You're not from around here, are you?", John asked the strange man, keeping calm while doing so.

[WriggleRid3r]

Sinnoh Region - Oreburgh Gate

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The enigma stopped. Without turning back, he commented, "Yeah, I'm not from around here. Just like you."

Then he disappeared into the brightness of the outside.

[Major Mario]

Hoenn Region - Petalburg Woods - @Wriggle

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Sherry went over to the injured man and examined him.

"It's alright, I'm going to try to help you," she said, choreographing her intention. "Where are you hurt? Your legs?"

She looked down at the man's legs and winced. They didn't look like normal legs should look, and she couldn't fix them here with her poor medical training. The RICE method would work, but that would require that the man was out of the woods and in the comfort of a building. The best Sherry could do was poke the contents of his pockets back inside before zipping them up, then offering the man a hand.

"Let me help you up," she offered. She wasn't that strong, but she figured she could help shoulder the man's burden.

[WriggleRid3r]

Hoenn Region - Petalburg Woods

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"But my Pokemon..." The injured man grimaced in pain as he attempted to stand up. "The Team Anarchy took my beloved Slakoth..."

[Major Mario]

Hoenn Region - Petalburg Woods - @Wriggle

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Here Sherry was trying to go to Rustboro to take back a captured flag, and now she has to stay and help this man find his pokemon. Worst of all, it was Team Anarchy again, and they were up to terrible tricks again. However, Sherry wasn't about to sigh and drop the whole mission because of one hiccup. On the contrary, having this one hiccup made things all the more urgent. It gave the agent some much needed incentive again.

She helped the man stand up and draped an arm over her shoulders.

"Where did they take your pokemon?" she asked, looking over him like a child would with a broken toy.

[S121]

Sinnoh Region - Oreburgh Gate | 9:36 AM

Before John could speak further to the strange man, he disappeared into the light at the exit of the cave. John as becoming aggravated, but he kept a level head. He wanted to know who this man was, and he wasn't going to stop pursuing until he knew.

"Hey!", John shouted at the man as he ran outside...





Sinnoh Region - Oreburgh City | 9:36 AM

John ran outside into the light and quickly looked over his surroundings, trying to look for the black winged man.

[WriggleRid3r]

Hoenn Region - Petalburg Woods

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"Ey, ey, ey! Look what we hauled up!" The bigger one of the biker gang with a scar on his face grinned with lust. "A pretty little gal in the middle of the woods!"

"I bet ya she's a virgin." The thin one of the biker gang chuckled. "Come here, girl! We won't be too rough on ya!"

"I won't let you lay a finger on me." Yuuka was good with coercion. Probably the best in Gensokyo, even. Even without her Youkai power, her threatening glare was enough to prevent the biker gangs from advancing towards her.

"Listen, bitch. We came here only for this Larvesta." The bigger one calmed down. "We'll let you go, hand over the Larvesta."

"What has this little Pokemon done to you?" Yuuka asked. "Besides, I was going to catch this Pokemon myself, thank you very much."

"That Larvesta is Team Anarchy's, and no trainer is going to capture it!" The thinner one seemed to be more aggravated than the big one.

So these punks are Team Anarchy, Yuuka thought. They're definitely not pushovers... at least in appearance. How will she get out of this mess? Perhaps...

"Why don't you prove that it is yours," Yuuka intimidated. "by beating me in a Pokemon battle? If you win, I'll offer the Larvesta... and perhaps a bit of myself as well. But if you lose, I take both."

"Interesting." The big one accepted. "We'll take up on that offer."

Shit, you've really done it, Yuuka. Yuuka thought as she sent out her two Pokemon. "Go, Lilac, Kappa."

"Get them, Grimer!"

"Swallow them whole, Gulpin!"

Grimer Lv: 7
Gulpin Lv: 7

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"They... they took my Slakoth to their hideout... I heard them cheering about it." The injured trainer panted. "This is a disaster... their Pokemon are too strong..."

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Sinnoh Region - Oreburgh City

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The black-winged enigma was right outside the gate when John called out on him. He turned around with a curious look. "Did you call for me?"

This enigma clearly meant no harm... but what is it that made John so antagonized?

[S121]

Sinnoh Region - Oreburgh City | 9:37 AM

John knew that he felt hostile towards this man, but he didn't know why. The only reason John didn't act on his urge to fight was because he had no reason to, as well as his training. John had to know who this man was, and maybe even get to the bottom of things.

"What's your name?", John calmly asked the man.

[WriggleRid3r]

Sinnoh Region - Oreburgh City

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The enigma cocked his head as he faced John. Then, smiling warmly (and more tantalizing in that way) he answered: "My name is Aatrox. Perhaps we shall meet again, brave warrior."

The enigma traversed through the city towards the South briskly, leaving John in dazed confusion.

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Sinnoh Region - Route 207

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"I don't think I've seen you around here before." The Ponyta said with a cutesy voice. "Let me guess, you're a trainer?"