[IC] Pokémon Kalos Chronicles: Superstars of Friendship Edition

[Crimson Flame]

André was in his room on his private jet he took from the Unova Region. He was busy studying his reflection in the bathroom mirror, making sure he was presentable before he stepped off the plane. He had to look good at all times, because he never knew where there will be someone with a camera who wants to take his picture. He couldn't afford to have a bad hair day, or else that picture would end up in a magazine, and the tabloids would rip him to shreds. Such is the life of a star. In the end, it was all worth it for the fame and fortune.

Once he finished brushing his blonde hair, he adjusted his necklace like it was a tie, and checked the mirror one last time. "C'est magnifique!" He exclaimed once he was satisfied, he sprayed on some lavender scented perfume, and put on his pink beret. He completed the look by grabbing a pair of pink sunglasses, and putting them top of his head. Just in time too, because the plane landed just in time, they had arrived at the Vanville airport. André grabbed his pink bag, which had a pink satin bow on it. If you didn't know better, it was easy to assume that it was a girl's bag. He went through the contents of his bag, pulled out a Pokeball, and called out the Pokemon inside. Jolie, come!"

In a flash of light a Cleffa with a large pink bow on her head, and a diamond studded collar around her neck appeared at Andre's feet. The small, pink, Fairy type stretched her stubby little arms, and yawned as if she had been awoken from a nap.

"Très bien!" He put the sunglasses over his eyes, took Jolie into his arms, and stepped off the plane.

As soon as André set foot in Kalos, he was surrounded by photographers and screaming fans. Word travels fast that a famous movie star would arriving in a small town, and people clamored to see him.

André was more than happy to take pictures and sign autographs for his fans while he waited for his friends to get here. He was a star, he had to give the people what they wanted. "Merci beaucoup!” The young movie star exclaimed as he dramatically threw a pink rose into the crowd for them to catch. “You are a wonderful audience, je t'aime”

[Rabbitconfusion]

Nikola wore a dress suit and slacks with blue loafers. Large sunglasses and a fashionable scarf obscured her face. These were not things she would normally wear and in fact found them annoying but they served their purpose of keeping her face off the tabloids. It was safe to presume Andre and gained no sense of privacy recently and if she wanted any while in his company she had to provide it herself. She got off the plane and headed to find Andre. This was not a difficult task as people swarmed around him like flies to a corpse. Getting to him on the other hand... She went and got a smoothie instead.

While waiting for her smoothie she took out her phone and called Andre. "Hey. Just wanted to inform you that I've landed. Any suggestions on how to get past the zombie hoard?"

[GubGar]

Gabriel Agate

Location: Kalos Airport, Exterior.
Interacting with: No one, just yet

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Gabriel Agate had arrived about forty five minutes earlier than necessary. It would have been a clean hour, except he spent a lot of time re-reading the messages exchanged between himself, Andre, and Nikola, (Or more accurately, the information Gabriel pried out of two of his flightier friends through sheer force of will) to make sure he had the arrival time correct, and the airport correct. One might think that getting to the airport so early would alleviate someone's stress. But Gabriel found himself Just as tense. After all, what if the plane had arrived unexpectedly early, and he had missed them already? Obviously this was why he looked so disheveled, he couldn't help but worry!

(Gabriel's 'disheveled' look was him still wearing a suit and dress pants, with extremely well-combed hair. The only thing that marked him as at all less professional than usual was that his tie was looser, and a single hair was out of place.)

His mood was spiraling fast by the time the plane was due to land soon, but was quickly saved by-

"Kiii!"

Helper, the Klefki, floated beside Gabriel. It unlatches its noodle-like arms to slide a protein bar (hung on the Klefki's limbs via the punch hole in its wrapper) into Gabriel's hands. He blinks, and something clicks. "Oh, you're right. I did forget to eat breakfast.. Good looking out, Helper." Once he got some food in him, he felt significantly less stressed. Almost as if basic self-care helped one's mind.

As was tradition, after Helper had passed Gabriel something that had slipped from the not-actually-a-trainer's mind, Gabriel passed Helper a Pokeblock as thanks. And while the two ate in silence, the plane touched down. As it turned out, Gabriel did not have to worry about failing to notice his old friend's arrival. Given the swarm of people here to see him.

"..How on earth am I supposed to get to Andre and Nikola through that barricade of fans..?"

[Rabbitconfusion]

"..How on earth am I supposed to get to Andre and Nikola through that barricade of fans..?"

"Yknow I've been wondering the same thing myself" Nikola sipped on her smoothie about a foot exactly behind Gabriel. "except of course I am in fact not on that side of the hoard... sadly" She said with annoyance. She twisted her torso to look at Gabriel from the front, looked him up and down, and adjusted his tie.

[AwesomeZero5]

Siloh had been sleeping a while at the airport. He had arrived prior in the night on a cheaper economic flight. The original private jet to fly him made him feel nervous for the possibility of getting caught up in a crowd should they be near Andre's landing hangar. He didn't want to get directly caught up in that when first landing. Besides, the cost of first class tickets were valuable! And, given the nature of the ticket through a third party, exchangeable. He made quite a pretty penny exchanging the ticket in. Half it was in airline miles, but the other half was cash into the checking account~.
Even airline miles could be useful, he was able to pay for some food at the airport for it, and could make several small flights with it! And stays at certain selected hotels, among a few other quirks.
The last bit was advice from home before he left. Since his dad, and soon to be step-mom did a lot of short range flights and travels themselves.

Siloh & Tazen, had also discussed a bit of an idea the night before. Seeing as they've dealt or at least seen a crowd or two around the Bellamy family before. They ended up writing a sign in large sharpie to help, guide Andre & hopefully stave off the crowd a bit. It likely wouldn't scare them off, but in hopes let the crowd part a bit for André to get moving.

Seemed between Tazen, was right. A crowd of paparazzi and fans passing through the airport earlier had awoken Siloh from his previous sleep! It was time to put the plan into action. Most of which was Tazen's and probably Rummel's foresight.
He'd try to slip a tip to one of the airport luggage cart driver's to follow after, and pick up the group of arriving friends!

Well-...
Having to mess with Gabriel, Nikola.. and maybe whomever else was in view along the way as he'd attempted to free André!

"This way. Part of the cast, part of the crew."
Siloh's voice would speak quietly toward Gabriel & Nikola but in a disturbing, off-key manner.

Siloh did have such a fiendish grin on his face that it spread nearly around his whole head! Rather, where Siloh's eyes always yellow & purple, under the cartoonish hoodie he was wearing?
A pair of large blue eye's with yellow pupil's began moving about every which direction in place of where Siloh's face should be!
A ghostly shuppet would pop free from around Siloh's head to stick its tongue out playfully at Nikola, but especially Gabriel!
Wanting to tease Gabriel especially, as it may, or may not have done in the past~.
As Siloh would walk past in a plain black, and baggy hoodie, and a camcorder wrapped around his left wrist.

But most importantly the key to the mission.
The sign, the sign! Which Siloh, would vaguely gesture at and try to bring Gabriel & Nikola into the fold of the operation as the sign was hefted high in the air! Siloh was only 5'6" so couldn't be that high, he was in need of assistance there.
Slowly trying to approach the crowd of fans and honing on André's attention. Holding up and waving the sign from an closing distance to try and get And

The Sign Read:

Calling Cast & Crew for André's Private Shoot at Château de Bien-aimée

It was an old trick Tazen used.
It wouldn't disperse a crowd, but would help part the 'seas' as it were, so that fans could follow... or check the location later. Lending a credible excuse to get away, and at least a majority of fans would rather join a shoot than get in the way of it. Even more so when it was said to be 'private'. Might help since Siloh did have a camera, but not by much.
He just hoped the cart driver, or any cart driver really would help with the get away.

"This way.... Uh... This way, please."
Siloh's voice was practically a hush. But he bobbed the sign about as if it spoke louder than his words.
He couldn't really push himself to shout over or talk through the crowd however-.
Might make things faster if someone else who was louder, spoke up.
But even among a crowd, it was pretty easy to see André's pink!

[Double]

With all the buzz and commotion at the airport, nobody was paying attention to the stranger walking into Vanville from Route 1 to the north. He was clad in a dark poncho, with its hood drawn in order to protect his eyes from the sunlight. This was someone who had traveled a long ways by foot, all way from the mountainous side of Eastern Kalos. Unlike most people he lacked any sort of Pokemon accompanying him and instead appeared to be truly by himself. This was in fact someone returning to his childhood home, as Kaylan had not been to Vanville since he left for Ninja Village all that time ago.

But it was the letter he held in his hand that spurred the former Pokemon Trainer into returning home. It was an invitation from one his old friends to go on a Pokemon Journey with him. Kaylan still had no idea what to make of this or how he was actually going to respond. He remembered Jiraiya wanting to come with him, but Kaylan had told the Greninja to remain in the village and continue training, unsure if he actually wanted to take another shot at the Kalos League yet or not.

He had to guess that Andre was arriving via the airport, hence all the buzz coming from that direction. Which meant that heading there probably wasn't going to be super helpful and he'd just find himself fighting crowds more than anything else. But what else was he going to do? Just sit at a picnic table somewhere and wait? What kind of friend would Kaylan be if he did that. So he kept on walking made his way toward the airport.

Yup, it was a scene alright. Crowds of Andre's fans were everywhere and Kaylan saw no sign of the actor in question. But he did see a trio of vaguely familiar faces he recognized as his other old friends. So he walked his way toward the sign-holding Siloh.

"Oh brother." Kaylan groaned when he finally spotted Andre's pink form. "We'll be sitting here all day if someone doesn't pull him away from the fans." And after a brief pause he rolled his eyes and started walking forward. If no one else was willing to, then fine, he'd be the one to pour the proverbial bucket of ice water onto this little parade if that's what it took. He pushed and weaved his way through the crowd of fans, inching his way closer to where Andre was standing and signing autographs.

"Hey, Mr. Big Shot!" Kaylan finally said when he was finally close enough to address him, "You planning to spend all day here? I didn't come all the way down from the mountains to watch you sign autographs, ya know."

[InnerFlame]

Beau was up bright and early before sunrise on the day of his Pokemon adventure with friends. Vaniville Town was a couple towns south of Lumiose City, so it was not an incredibly long trip. The long morning routine of washing up, moisturizing, picking out the right outfit for the beginning of the journey, fixing his hair, and deciding on the right hair accessories took up quite a bit of his morning. Adding dealing with swarms of fans as he left his home, the tall blond intended arrival time was delayed considerably. Luckily, by the time he made it to the previous town, he had lost most of his fans. Due to the narrower pathways, Beau was forced to walk the final trip to Vaniville. He didn't mind much and strolled joyfully down Route 1 with his Ciel, his Espurr, cuddle to his chest and Sebastian the Indeedee dragging his rather large suitcase behind it.

It didn't take much effort for Beau to locate André with the crowd of paparazzi and fans surrounding him as well as the many cameras pointed at him. And the gathered people who didn't look like rabid fans were obviously his friends from back in school. He strolled casually over with a simple: "Bonjour les amis, hello friends!" Beau brightly smiled as he waved with a free hand. His heterochromia eyes contact with everyone the best he could. "It's me, Beau Belrose, but of course you knew that. Ça fait longtemps, it's been a long time!" His boisterous introduction drew in a couple eyes from the people at the edge of the crowd. Their eyes locked onto him.

The flamboyant curly-haired man was exuding friendliness and enthusiasm. The little Espurr contrasted the blond with his blank stare, and the Indeedee standing tall a couple steps behind him gave off an air of serious professionalism. Beau didn't register the whole situation with him being one of the last people to arrive, but glancing at them and the sign seemed to make something click in his brain.

"You're trying to get André's attention?" Beau jumped to that conclusion as he scooped up the sign. He held it high over most of the crowd and shouted loudly. "Salut André, bonne journée! We're over here whenever you're done, d'accord?"