Erika was a bit stunned. These thieves really didn't want to battle? All trainers wanted a battle so they must really be a different breed to want to steal and not battle.
"Wait. You guys don't want to battle?" Erika found herself exclaiming in shock as they started to bolt towards her. It was strange but she wasn't just about to let all these thieves leave with the loot and she saw someone in particular trying to stuff as much as he could. He may have also looked the toughest considering both his physical size and the Quilladin he had looked tough.
First thing was first, Erika had a sleepy Sno to assist. She raised her Pokeball and returned her Froslass back to her ball. With a swift exchange she threw a different ball summoning Chic in a glow of energy. "Combusk!" She cheered, eager for a fight.
"Chic! Flame charge on the Quilladin and knock that loot free! They won't be getting away with anything!" Erika commanded with a point.
Chic took the command and embers started flare up around her. She ducked low as she readied. "Coooom..." as she darted in and sought to shoulder check right into Quilladin with the impact causing an ignition of fire from the built up energy! "..Busken!"
Sounds like it could work, but then again, now that Roman’s giving me the green light, I’m planning on making a sheet for the actual Peter, instead, before somebody decides to challenge me for the role. Don’t worry, though, I can make sure that the backstory wouldn’t contradict Silk’s. As for Superior Ock, he’s just gonna be my backup plan if things go south with Peter.
But anyway, do you have the list of every Spidey’s rogue being used for both your posts and Roman’s? Outside of Norman and Kingpin, I guess? Think it could help me figure out which villains my version of Spidey (Peter or not Peter) can and can’t face.
Yeah so I've realized not everyone's in Discord so I should say here that I'm out of this one lol, I basically only thought about applying out of FOMO and then only Spider-Man by committee order anyway, and then got tied up with Silk which obviously stalled out. I'd have to come up with some real juice to bother with the next iteration of these - or at least be in a place where I'm not working 12 hours of my conscious day and wanting to kms for the other 6.
Sorry!
I had a trip and then it turned into madness with school starting and moving... It was a lot for me so I had enough time to post on my easier RP but not enough to really deep dive into this.
Hopefully my absence didn't make it unpalatable to you!
Fair, but considering Silk debuted after Ock’s 1st Superior Spider-Man run, do you think it’ll be ok if I just switch up to Superior Spider-Man? Just wanna make sure with you because I’ve thought of a number of possibilities to make his inclusion work, and some of them involving Ock either using Peter or his clone (obviously not Ben) as his vessel to stay alive, as well as Ock stealing Peter’s DNA during one of their battles and combined said DNA sample with his to make his own clone.
But either way, I believe I need to give both Silk’s and Ben’s backstory a thorough look. See what I can do and can’t do before working on Ock’s sheet and ditching Deathstroke for good.
P. S. Sorry, Slade...
But actual comic timelines wouldn't matter here. I also do not know a lot about comics other than the stuff I looked up to play Silk all these times these RPs come around so I know about her and Spider-Man stuff but not everything!
If you are having someone steal Peter's DNA then that would assume a Peter Parker Spider-Man which there hasn't been any hint at so far. So you'd be stealing DNA from someone that should probably be more prominent but unfortunately isn't. Then again Roman's backstory alludes to a Peter being around briefly so Ben could be cloned from? I guess that would work?
It is open. The only crucial canon that I'll "fight" over is Cindy was bitten by a spider under Reach captivity about 10 years ago. And Martin Li or Mister Negative is tied up with my plan.
Everything else is fairly open for interpretation and I can work with whatever.
Honestly a whole bunch of enhanced spiders being released upon the Reach's fall works. So anyone could have been bit at really any time.
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Cigs and Freshies?
What kind of world had they dropped into? Erika thought as she held her ground with Sno floating back around to rejoin her side. Every single town she had been in so far had been built up for trainers and their adventures. Nobody felt a need to do anything like robbing a place but here people were and using Pokemon for that purpose!
As their fight escalated, the street cleared, a detail Erika didn't miss as she glanced around. Once again, the world she knew would have people hanging around to watch a Pokemon battle but here, were they feared? Did they really have no idea how anything worked here in Bigfjord?
"This place is so strange..." Erika muttered, holding her right arm bashfully. She nervously started this adventure because she felt like she'd be out of place without the snow and mountain air. This place was definitely out of place for her. Should she listen to the explanation of their leader? The others weren't fighting back.
Erika was so sure she was doing the right thing that she had to have been... right?
"I think..." Erika began but paused as she glanced at Ewan and Joshua. The friends she knew and trusted. Ewan was so sure this was right. He had to be right, Erika thought. People were robbing a store and that was the end of it. Close the book. He knew about this place as well so she would trust him.
"I’m not gonna give you time to plan!"
Erika nodded seeing as Ewan had made up his mind. "Right! Let's make sure they think twice about robbing stores! Sno, Icy Wind on Koffing and Chimecho, again!" She called out despite the thieves inactivity. "She's not the only one in trouble!"
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"Oh." Erika frowned at the discovery that Bigfjord City's gym would be a Major and not a Minor. Ewan was right in that level of ability was far beyond her at the moment. Still though, she felt a draw to Bigfjord for some reason. Like there was something to unwrap there still yet for her. "You know a lot about Bigfjord City, Ewan." She'd remark off-handedly without any real thought but was subconsciously latching onto that drive that Ewan wanted to see the city. "Oh well, I'm sure it'll be interesting to see just what Bigfjord has for us!" Erika beamed as she thought about getting to visit another city. Everywhere up to this point had built-in infrastructure for traveling trainers so what about a place like Bigfjord?
Massive spires of glass and metal sprouted along the horizon as the trio approached. There was a slight twinkle of city lights from the skyscraper lights that were on, dotting the spires with much needed color. To Erika, it seemed inviting at a distance as she spent her life in the mountains so much like Worldedge City, this would be new to her. Yet as she approached, the sky continued on in a perpetual dusk and those spires, along with the outliers were looked uninviting with their hard, practical exteriors.
Perimeter warehouses were the first of Bigfjord to introduce itself, bordering the edge of the city to avoid traffic and dispatch to other parts of Isson with their product as fast possible. Streetlights lit their way along the paved roads as trucks roared past, machinery operating as people busied themselves the darkened landscape. It should have been noisy, but Erika often found the noise distant leaving her and friends almost alone, isolated among the greys, browns, and dark washed colors of industry. The only inviting colors coming from the trio and their Pokemon, if they had any out like Erika had Sno out.
"It is a little..." Erika caught a group of Murkrow settling on a nearby powerline, calling out to each other. "...Dark here." She reached out to grab at Sno but her hands passed through, forgetting entirely that she was a Ghost type. Sno looked down at herself then realized what Erika had wanted so she hovered in close to her trainer. Erika didn't think she was scared, but she might have been. Sno, as a ghost, lived on scary so she didn't mind the environment.
Warehouses were soon traded for apartment buildings and commercial stores. The colors were a little more inviting, likely had to be with so many people living here, but it still felt like a far cry every other town. They passed some stores, Erika glancing at each one to see how... mundane they were. Groceries, food, gadgets... all for people just living lives as if there were not Pokemon. It felt strange.
Then Ewan explained Bigfjord City a bit with Joshua following up. Erika believed a little more in Ewan's practical explanation than Joshua's optimistic take, but she still appreciated the cheer of it.
Right as she opened her mouth, however, there was a crash of glass turning all three to face the noise.
"A robbery?" Erika pondered the very idea of it innocently. That concept seemed foreign to her but she wasn't entirely naive about the whole idea of it. People stole things, it just never seemed to happen. Especially using Pokemon as a force against people!
She shot a glance to Joshua before Ewan rushing towards the robbers caught her attention. Her fists clenched nervously but immediately she knew she couldn't let one of her friends rush off on his own. "We can't just leave him, Joshua." Erika took a step forward, freezing as movement in the corner of her eye turned her attention to it. She saw the Noctowl watching, sparing it a momentary glance but wouldn't be persuaded to not help even if she was unnerved about the whole thing.
"Sno, you're up!" Erika hollered as she ran forward. "Icy Wind the Koffing and Chimeco!" Sno zipped across the air causing an icy wind to whip up and blow right at the lookout and her two Pokemon. Since Icy Wind affected adjacent Pokemon, it should hit both Erika thought. Plus the high chance at speed down will only help Sno stay faster than the other two. Erika wanted to call it out that she had the lookout but she got nervous and kept her mouth shut. She wasn't some action hero even if she might have thought that before committing like this!