[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

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Apsis hoses down the gunk around the shadowy form. The gunk melts away instantly when empowered by the sword, but little hard chunks embedded within the gunk float quickly to the sea floor. Closer inspection reveals these to be small Pokemon Eggs.

The shadowy form, of course, could be no other than a Genesect! This one, though withered away, is still mostly intact, though caked or replaced with stony sediment. It walks on four legs, and two more seem to function as arms, like a centaur. It has stubs where wings used to be. All the limbs seem capable of rotating 360 degrees, or would if they weren't petrified.

Its eyes take up more of the arrow-shaped face than in Team Plasma's Genesect, and what light there is down here reflects from their ruby facets strangely.

Oh, and its proportions? It's huge, the size of a Mudsdale or more. You might count yourself lucky you aren't witnessing it with its wingspan intact - they must have spread 20 feet before they rotted away, and been able to rotate like a helicopter.

A discovery such as this...the only way that it could be described is mystifying.  The fossil of a long extinct Legendary pokemon, untouched and almost perfectly preserved in its hidden, isolated undersea cavern...the sight of it raises just as many questions as they do answers.

And so, I feel this piece of music is appropriate:

Ancient Mysteries: Mysteries Within Arrangement 1 - Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon

Nathan can only look at the fossil with wonder at first, wanting to note down everything he's seeing.  A purely unaltered Creshirean Genesect...something that no living human has set eyes on in hundreds of years...Sarimanok and his researchers were the most likely to have seen such a sight last...

Nathan's thoughts drift back to why he's here, though.  Why he asked Ventus and Terra to come as well.

To keep the Scimitars from getting their hands on this specimen and altering it to fulfill their own desires and further their goals...whatever they may be now.

Nathan starts unpacking the excavation tools.  Before they can even think of transporting this fossil, they need to get it out of here in one piece.  ALL of it.  Even the smallest sample of DNA being left behind could be disastrous.  As Mega Syrentide and modern fossil revivification methods have proven, you only need a small piece of the original to reproduce something close to it...

As Nathan goes to start the excavation with Gallade's assistance, though, he notices the eggs.

Pokemon eggs.

He gets out his pokedex immediately to analyze them.  "Terra, Ventus, be on guard.  Where there's eggs, there might be parents."

Is the pokedex able to identify what the contents of these pokemon eggs might be?