[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

Tension rises among the sensitive Pokemon. The herds of Mightyena are simply going about their business. None of the wild Pokemon seem to have any sense of anything being wrong...until the sky is set alight with blazing fire.

No amount of ash can darken the brilliant light as the meteor enters the atmosphere. A blazing aurora forms, in orange and blue and silver like the world's most luminous sunrise.



Now the wild Pokemon are looking at the sky, blinking and even whimpering. A noise begins, a terrible hissing and popping like water on embers. It comes from the sky, but no one can tell where this disaster will actually strike.

All you see of the meteor's progress and path is a fireball, so fast that you are mostly seeing its orange and blue afterimage. A line connects the heavens to the earth, striking a point midway between modern Teazel Valley and Botanville. A hundred Mightyena die instantly at impact.

You're miles from the impact site, but you feel the earth rumble and little bits of dirt rain down on you for close to ten minutes. You can take shelter in a nearby ice cave driving into a volcano's foothills, if you wish.

(...)

Howling, the Mightyena and a thundering herd of Mamoswine flee eastward and northward, some passing very close to you. As 90% of them have passed the southmost prong of the Great Divide, a strange whirring noise emanates from the impact crater, along with a spray of laserbeams. Your Psychics flinch. A sudden wall of extremely thick Tall Grass slams upward, cutting off the final 10% of the Pokemon and trapping them here on the taiga.

Oh, and the Tall Grass Shiva has? I think Heart has some too? That grass begins growing, sending roots questing toward the soil.

A dim bipedal figure stands up within the crater, now visible as the dust has settled. It can be seen that it is vaguely humanoid, orange and blue in color, and possessing twin tentacles where each arm should be. This can only be one being: the legendary Deoxys, a sentient, mutating supervirus.

Its chest flashes, its tendrils plunge into the ground. Mindless clones appear and begin shepherding Pokemon about. What their agenda is, you cannot say, but even Terra knows he's witnessing a part of Creshire history that no one has ever, ever theorized before.

Gothitelle has her face buried in her hands. Dizzy and Calam seem to have gone insane, leaping back and forth in a frenzy, completely unsure about what to do, and knowing this has already happened. Delphox, though, is fascinated by the clones and keeps watching them. Sometimes they flash their otherwise-empty gems, communicating in a mysterious fashion as they go about their work. Shiva suddenly KNOWS that staring into those gems is another way to become More Than Human, but what impacts it might have, she has no idea.
(...)

When the sky started to burn and the meteor began its final, fatal descent into the world, Terra knew this to be the disaster the Absol foretold of. He felt the bottom of his stomach drop like a Aron in a kiddy pool as he gazed upon it.....yet he couldn't help but feeling captivated too.

It was a terrifying sight for sure, but it was also strangely beautiful, in a brilliantly morbid sort of way. If only it wasn't a threat to the ALL life within the tiaga, and he was a bit more philosophical, the simple monk might have appreciated it and its significance even more.

The spell the meteor had on him was broken with its impact and the devestation it wrought, causing him to wince and shake his head as he turned to regard the group for a moment. The raining debree didn't phase him much, but he could tell that the rest thought/felt differently + knew that the Wild Pokemon would be/are in an uproar after this disaster, and was about to suggest that the group start moving to a more secure location to 'ride out the event'. Better safe than sorry, even thought its already a pretty sorry -

His train of thoughts was aburptly derailed when lasers stared being fired from the crater. The situation became more disasterious, as nature itself seemingly conspire against the group to trap them in the valley.

Then, Deoxys appeared, and things took an ever sharper turn to the perilous.

Terra didn't have either Nathan's/Shiva's book smarts nor Heart's encyclopedic Knowledge on all things concernign Rare Pokemon, even a simplton like himself had heard the existence of the extraterrestrial supervirus. He became deeply interested in it for how unique and strange the creature was compared to almost all other Pokemon known to mankind, as well as the fact it was a Mythical Space Alien. How could you not find that at least a little cool?

Still, that didn't change the fact it was currently acting in a very frightening and dubious manner, so it was only natural for everyone and almost every Pokemon to freak out and started to make a made dash for the cave.

Everyone, except Terra.

Instead, he started to move CLOSER to the now newly formed swarm of Deoxys.

What in the world?! The man knew the jelly alien was an enigmatic entity that was also extremely likely to be dangerous to him/the group judging by the way it was acting, so why in the hecky was he going TO the jello alien rather than AWAY?

Simple: It was because of the Light. 

That wierd, baffling, unnerving, and yet so very, very alluring Light  eminating from the Deoxys gems, as they communicated with one another in an distinctly alien form of language.

It caught his attention like a Dustox to an open flame, and he quickly became utterly dazzled and entranced by it.

"So......pretty......Must.......get.....better.......look."

He mumbled this under breath, as he slowly trudged onward to do as he said, not hearing Shiva's and Heart's outcry, nor her farewell.

Guess the rugged wanderer's simple mind has been easily hypnotized by the Lights, if his general reaction is to go by. 

Ruh Roh.

Spiritmon

Spoiler

Heart notice the curious look of Terra and talk with him. "Sure mate! Gustav my friend could you please heal Terra Mawile?" While Gustav was using his Heal Cannon, Heart makes a quick presentation. "Terra, meet some pokemon in my team: Gustav the Clawitizer who you already meet before. My young Unovian Dragon Koa the Fraxure. My fighting fire monkey from Sinnoh Rose the Infernape. My brave friend from the Patrat Clan from Mt. Sentry, Patrat the Patrat. My young water amphibian Netune the Mudkip. Kecleon the Kecleon who you already meet. My young eletric Typhon the Eelektrik. And finally, my Delta Pokemon, Delta Onix."

Heart make a quick apresentation. "Delta Pokemon my dear friend Terra its Pokemon with a different typing of their normal species who suffer some kind of mutation, natural or by human intervention. Lets see....Imagine a Milotic instead of be a pure Water-type be like a Flying/Dragon, or even a Haryama be a Dark-type. Some Delta can even have moves or abilities different of their normal variant! The Onix-species is normally Rock/Ground. But my Delta-Onix its Rock/Flying. Pretty cool huh?"


Wowza, was that a joke (Yes, it was)? If not, thems fighting words right there!


(Damn. I dont have much luck in those heal dices   )

  Heart seeing Mawile do not fully recover, offer one Oran Berry to Terra. "Here. This one might help restore Mawile strengh a little. We dont know what might happen if we not prepare."
(...)

Heart when see the big meteor come, he return all of his pokemons back to their pokeballs. "Everyone! Return now!" Then Heart quick return for their to not witness such tragedy. When the carnage end, and see the virus pokemon, he flinch in fear like Shiva and the rest. "No...i-it cant be...its...Its Deoxys...." Heart say with clear shock and fear. "A Legendary Pokemon. Another one. And this one doesnt look to much friendly." When those clones begin to appear, he say. "Everyone. We must run. We can hide in ice cavern and destroy the entrance with our Rock-Smash Pokemon. They will not be able to enter and we can wait the next Lurch comes to takes us out of this place." Suggest Heart trying to calm himself and not fall in panic.

*Flashback!*

Terra took the time to greet each an every Pokemon that Heart introduced to him, handing them any treats that Mawile hadn't cleaned out just yet (and earning a hungry look from her everytime he did so in response), even the semi-rowdy D-Onix, who he regarded without fear but still with plenty of caution/respect as he bowed his head towards. He heard about it from Ven as he described a 'joint experiment' ran between him and Heart centering around it, so he wasn't too surprised to see the flying rock snake. 

Mawile probably didn't care too much about the collector's Pokemon, save for Rose (likely a negative reaction, considering her Fire typing and similar scrappy nature bringing out competitiveness/fear from them), Fraxure (Who she most definitely saw as an easy target/fun victim to toy/bully with), and D-Onix (Hard not to be impressed by it, no?). All she cared about was getting feed, and being treated well enough in her newly 'earned' captivity! The Pokemon's reactions towards Terra and Mawile will be left to Iron, if he wants to continue this scene.

When the pun lover started to explain what a Delta Pokemon was to him, the rugged wanderer raised one hand to stop them with a small smile.

"Nathan and......Shiva already told me about them. No need to tell me again, okay? Thank you, though. *Beat, then nods* Yes, they are. *Smiles playfully* Not good or beautiful as Lovely, but still good snake Pokemon to have."

(...)

The simple monk was a bit caught off guard by the additional generosity on Heart's part, but before he could come to a decision his piercing pixie had already leaned forward to swipe the Oran Berry from the collector's hand and gobbled it down, fully restoring her HP! She let out a *Sigh* of satisfaction and relief and rubbed her belly, as the restorative properties of the fruit healed the last of her injuries and made a tasty treat. That hit the spot!

Terra was quick to give her an admonishing glare for her gluttonous/rude behavior (Which she was happily indifferent towards), before he let out his own *sigh* and apologized to his friend.

"Sorry about that. Mawile still wild and very......tricky. Will make sure it does not happen again. Promise."

For now, this will be...

*Flashback End!*