If you'll make me consider it, then perhaps a bit further away, if so is still safe to a reasonable degree. That particular site might have been under watch because she showed up there earlier, if perhaps someone could sense that. The site of arrival should be relatively safe, hopefully. I'm personally kind of unsure how to arrange that, but Mariette should be more experienced with the Overcity than I am. Heh.
There, posted. Tell me if those concerned have any questions.
Mariette is very aware opening a portal like that might have consequences, but right now she just wants to get them out of there.
I intentionally had extra description because, yeah, massive portal, need to give it the description it deserves so we don't mistake it for nothing special. Because Mariette can't open portals like this all willy-nilly. Hah.
(before policemen arrived) Mariette ignored the rest of the words from Suwako and Alicia. She had a line on her tongue about how “as long as Justine’s a threat, it is my greatest interest to-”, but that would imply she’d turn on them the moment of their victory, so she didn’t.
Later. Eli was first looking a tad curiously at Libby Bibby, considering just how this girl could have developed this kind of personality, then Eli went and shot by a policeman.
‘Yow!’ Eli jumped back and crouched after the bullet plunged straight through her liquid body, wing going to hold over the place where she was hit. Yow, that actually hurt, somehow. ‘Police brutality! Police brutality! I didn’t even do anything!’ she called, though still joking. … Okay, so it wasn’t as funny without Deni around… It used to be the two of them joking back-and-forth… Eli sighed and waited for it to stop hurting.
Then she proceeded to hold on as the craft started moving, as detailed.
Meanwhile, Mariette holding onto a mirror with her tentacles trying to hold her in place while also drawing circular markings around the mirror. The very rapid stop was about to throw her off, but a few tentacles lashed out and hit portals right behind her which led to solid surfaces on the roof so they could brace her.
Mariette felt slight relief seeing that Amber apparently had an epiphany about how to control the place. … And then she quickly spun the portal that was connecting to Amber when the girl blew up her cheeks, because Mariette wasn’t curious enough to find out what she was doing to potentially risk getting soaked if the pirate was intending on sending water into her face. She settled for listening to Sue diffusing whatever that was, and then listening to Amber’s confirmation. Okay, then.
She had no confirmation of where to go, but the ship was done, sooo.
Without another word, Mariette poured in her magic into Asengav’s mirror, through her tentacles, drawing out the peculiar shape her tentacles was making to complete this minor ritual. As the mana surged through her tentacles into the mirror, it projected said magic through unseen space, greatly amplifying it and placing it in front of the ship. There, a portal now took shape.
The frame took shape like a dark serpent suddenly slithering out from nowhere on the right side of the ground. At a speed like a plane sweeping by it slithered through the air in a great arc to create a massive circle, large enough to drive through. Then, the contents of the circle became hazy, then complete darkness. Leaving it dark was intentional on Mariette’s part, borrowed power from Asengav’s mirror, since actually letting people (or things on the other side) see through such a massive portal into the other world could be… bad.
All the same, it meant a portal to the Overcity was open for them. The reflective witch had intentionally placed the other side a bit aways from where she had felt Justine, to ensure they shouldn’t necessarily be ambushed upon arrival to the best of her knowledge. Mariette was holding the portal steady by focusing power on the mirror and using tentacles on portals behind her to keep herself steady against it.
‘Go!’ she called to Amber. A portal of this size and to a separate plane of existence was just a tad more draining than a regular portal, meaning Mariette would rather not have to maintain it for long.
And then there was another detail. Mariette’s portals couldn’t go through her portals. They were etched in the magical energy she had charged into their current location, and her magic energy that were maintaining portals could not themselves pass through the portals. Meaning, these braces she had created to keep her from falling due to this craft’s acceleration? Yeah, those would vanish as they passed through. … Mariette affirmed to herself she’d have her tentacles deal with it somehow.
The three heads looked at one another after Amelia had said her piece. Anger frowned at the other two, while Joy lifted his head with pride looking down at the other two while Sorrow looked back and forth at them, expression unreadable. Then… Anger smirked, as well as a bird can do that, Joy also got an amused look in his eyes and Sorrow nodded a little. Then, all three heads let out a feral cry as the being turned around and dashed pretty far, decently out of sight.
Amelia and Dawkin was left alone, except the regular dangers of Route 6. There were numerous patches of Fletchlings around, sure, and other Pokémon which are always around this route. They were allowed to have a couple of exchanges of discussion if they want to have that. But…
There was a sudden rumble getting audible a bit away. Dust-clouds rising, a sound like an incoming earthquake, and- it was coming right at them?
And in the front of them…
Dodrio, all three heads looking quite amused, was running fast in front of a charging herd of Tauros, before quickly jumping out of the way and watching from the side as the herd-missile it had sent continued careering towards Amelia and Dawkin. It was still some distance to go, the two had at least the better part of the minute before they actually arrived… but that didn’t change the fact that a horde of the angry bulls was currently charging them. The Fletchlings around panicked and flew off, not willing to defend their territory against the likes of those.
‘Bully? No-no-no-no. We’re training!’ Maple defended, looking a bit conflicted by the sudden accusation and the situation surrounding. However, she couldn’t continue looking at Claire because suddenly fighting-Pokémon started dropping at her Pokémon. ‘Ah!’
Fighting-types, working on ways to overcome Roar, had started climbing the buildings and jumped like living missiles at Maple’s Pokémon. Now, they could see them in advance and dodge, but this was a method of attack that Roar couldn’t stop them from doing.
‘Teppy! On the building to your right! Maggy, watch out to the left!’ She suddenly had to act spotter for her Pokémon, while Growly kept roaring and the other three kept shooting fireballs at the incoming Fighting-Pokémon, especially those that were jumping from the roofs.
For clarification, these weren’t the same as the ones on the wall
This left Ellyn alone to fend off Claire and Anise. Anise sent out Mienfoo, making this a straight four-on-four.
Disarming Voice hit three of the opponents, Natu, Mareep and Bonsly recoiling, but Cyndaquil was a bit out of range. They recoiled, with various mildly pained expression depending on the Pokémon, then faced forward again.
However, Ellyn had retaliated, sent a Thundershock and a Rock Throw at Froakie. Froakie dodged the Thundershock barely, but then took a rock to the head and fell back before jumping back onto his feet again.
‘Bird, peck the bug!’ Ellyn commanded, sending the bird after Ritz.
‘Thing, smoke the fairy!’ She then continued, making Cyndaquil step forward a bit.
Unfortunately, the speedy Natu was able to fly out of Supersonic’s path and flew quickly at Ritz for the peck. It’s probably pretty difficult to avoid. Meanwhile, Cyndaquil launched a small black ball from his snout at the various Ralia clones, which burst into a cloud of smoke enveloping their vision and getting in Ralia’s eyes, stinging a little and lowering her accuracy.
‘If we take out Growlithe, we win,’ Anise said, then smirked at the opposition. ‘Still, I believe we can win this regardless.’
‘Mienfoo, Meditate! Froakie, bubble them all!’ At her command, Mienfoo focused and increased her attack, while Froakie stopped and blew out bubbles, wide bubbles that spread over the area, heading forward.
‘Sheep, block the bubbles and shock!’ Ellyn tried to counter, Mareep dashing forward to take bubbles for Bonsly and Cyndaquil. Bonsly was mostly protected by Mareep, but Cyndaquil took a spray of Super Effective bubbles, while Mareep suffered normal damage.
‘Tree, rock the frog!’ Ellyn continued.
So, on each of her four Pokémon, Natu was homing in to peck at Ritz who was probably attempting to dodge the faster bird, Mareep and Bonsly were focusing their attacks on Froakie and Cyndaquil had just smoked at Ralia, and was probably preparing to continue that with fire.
‘Gothi,’ the Pokémon replied to the question if she was looking for a fight, not taking her eyes off Martin. The tone wasn’t giving a conclusive answer. Then Martin called out Nincada, and Gothita turned her eyes to look at the newly called out bug. Martin had Nincada do Harden, and that raised defense. Gothita looked on. Then…
‘Gothta!’ Gothita got a small gleam in her eyes as she charged some psychic energy. Suddenly, Nincada felt some unpleasant psychic touches. Now, it’s hard to say where a bug is ticklish, but Gothita was using Tickle with psychic power (since tickle “does not make contact” I’ll assume that’s how she does it). Still, Nincada suddenly had a very bad case of being tickled, lowering Attack and Defense while also being considerably unpleasant.
‘Ita-ta-ta!’ Gothita laughed a little, apparently amused by its own power. Now, perhaps, was the time Martin would counter… when suddenly Gothita lifted into the air. Of course, this meant the pull on Martin’s shadow vanished and his shadow returned to normal, for Gothita was no longer standing on it.
‘Thita?’ Gothita looked quite surprised by this as she floated into the air, tilting so she was diagonally instead of straight. … Behind her, another form had walked into the alley, a black form that had the very space around it bend by the psychic power it held.
Pokédex Entry #576 – Gothitelle, the Astral Body Pokémon. Space is distorted by its intense psychic power, and viewed through that space one can see stars thousands of lightyears away. It is capable of predicting the future by looking at the stars, and it can see the lifespans of trainers by looking at them. If it cries while looking at someone, it may mean they’re not long for this world.
Well, no crying here. While her eyes were on Martin, she was just picking up Gothita with psychic powers and then pulling her back to herself. Looks like mommy wasn’t having it.
‘Gothita.’ Gothita sounded honestly disappointed as she looked towards Martin even while drifting away. Then, with the assumption that Martin didn’t do anything to interrupt it, Gothitelle caught Gothita in her arms and then turned to walk back where she came from, Gothita making an effort to look at Martin for as long as she could before a building blocked her line of sight.
… So, that happened. So, was Martin going after the Koffing, was it? It’s still floating about over there, looking really happy by the exhaust vent of an abandoned factory.
Lileep was thawed out of the ice, and the flower Pokémon spent a number of moments swinging idly, like it was dazed after a long sleep. Then it turned its head towards Erika, the eyes in the blackness in there locking on her and Gibs, and there it froze, staring at her.
‘LEEEEP!’ it shouted out from who knows what mouth and then suddenly shot out an orange burst of Acid towards Gibs. Gibs had already shot sand back at it, and the two were hit simultaneously. Now, as Lileep is not Poison-type, it didn’t do a whole lot of damage, but that did not mean it was comfortable to be splashed with acid. Lileep recoiled, having turned towards Gibs so it got sand in its eyes, wiggling a bit in annoyance.
Gibs tackled, but found the sea lily Pokémon impossible to actually turn over. It did damage, but the flower was hard, the physical impacts not looking like they were doing more than inconveniencing it. Lileep was firmly rooted to the ground, tackling it to the ground was a no-go.
Notable Ability; Suction Cups - This Pokémon is immune to all moves that force movement or switching out.
… That said. Lileep at multiple times tried to grab ahold of Gibs with its tentacles (Constrict) and shoot Acid at him, but the sand in its eyes were making things hard. It missed, time and time again, the tackles slowly but surely depleting Lileeps health. More Sand Attacks meant Lileeps aim got even worse, and Gibs was able to avoid most attacks beyond the first Acid, perhaps hit by one Constrict that barely did anything before Gibs slipped out the grip.
Eventually, Lileep was completely weakened while Gibs was at around 60% health. Throw a Pokéball?
Hit Lileep with a Pokéball, the sea lily Pokémon flinching as it was hit by something it had no idea what it was. After a flash of light, it was carried inside the ball. The ball dropped to the cavern floor.
It shook once, then twice, then thrice…
click
Erika caught Lileep!
Gender: ♂ Type: Rock/Grass Personality: (Up to player. Keep in mind he has been frozen in ice for an eternity, and he has never seen a human before. Pokéballs are also new, and oddly comfortable.) Quirks/Talents/Aspirations/Other: (Up to player.) Level: 8 Moves: Astonish, Constrict, Acid Ability: Suction Cups - This Pokémon is immune to all moves that force movement or switching out. Held Item: None.
Currently at about 7% health.
New Pokémon caught! Erika earned 2000 P!
Would you like to give a nickname to Lileep?
Erika’s party is full! Select one Pokémon to send to PC.
‘I’m imagining. In just a bit of time, be they months or years…’ Joshua’s voice could be heard behind her. He had just come out from the Frozen Cave proper that was the opening back there, had probably seen some part of Erika’s battle there, smiling as he was gesturing up into the air in a semi-dramatic pose, earphones currently removed. ‘You’ll be a powerful and respected Pokémon trainer, with grace and confidence in her steps while holding a serious yet caring expression. Backed by the strength of your Pokémon, you’ll be a beauty to behold, with people standing in awe looking at your form… while you still retain all the properties that make you cute~!’ … Joshua was going off a rail, smiling widely.
On his right shoulder stood Pikachu, waving happily to Erika. On the ground beside him stood a new thing. A dark-colored standing thing with sharp claws, fierce eyes and red feather-like things sticking out behind the ear and as its tail.
Pokédex Entry #215 – Sneasel, the Sharp Claw Pokémon. It scales trees and ice by punching its hooked claws into surfaces. Naturally vicious, it gangs up and cooperates to lure away the parents while another steals the eggs, which they then eat, though frequently betray their packmates if they can get the food for itself. It uses the shroud of night to conceal its actions.
‘Erika, this is Sneasel. Isn’t he just the coolest?’ Joshua asked, gesturing at the Pokémon beside him. Sneasel, on cue, jumped, spinning 360 degrees in the air, then landed on bent legs right shoulder forward while both hands pointed backwards, in a dramatic pose, while smirking. ‘Niiiice!’ Joshua smirked happily, holding a thumb up to Sneasel.
‘Did it go well for you?’ he then asked, looking to her.
Erika’s reactions and actions?
1. Find Pokémon. Note, there are more Pokémon in the tunnels than here. Unless you’re specifically searching the ice? 2. Talk. This is basically a small settlement. They probably know a bit about mining in ice! 3. Move along. Either out of the cave, or deeper into it. 4. Specify. If you specify what you want to do, the GM will take it into account and tell the result. 5. Trigger random event. Force the GM to use his imagination to make a scenario for you. 6. Notable Buildings. Not many, but there’s a small base here! 6.1. Miner’s Lodge. For maps, getting info or tools and learning how to mine! 6.2. Miner’s Shop. Skip all the hard work of actually mining and buy what the miners are selling! Varies every day! 6.3. Comfy Igloo. If you just want to rest, have a chat, relax, restore health. 7. Area Specific: Mining. People here mine the ice for items and Pokémon caught in the ice. You could too!
Connected areas: Route 5. Exit the mines and you’ll be right there. Frozen Cave. The Frozen Cave proper awaits beyond the mine.
So, using that mental link between one another, Dodrio had a conversation that sounded roughly like this.
Joy - “Tsk. Not worth the risk.” Sorrow - “She’s trying to manipulate us to get us out of her way.” Anger - “Yeah, I don’t like you two right now, but being used like this is stupid.” Joy - “Hey, how about we lure a herd of Tauros at them?” Anger - “Oooh, sounds like fun. Let’s do it~!” Sorrow - *silent approval*
My apologies to Amelia’s heart. Still, I couldn’t have just nothing happen on Route 6.
@Rune_Alchemist Washa, there’s a lot to keep track of in battle circumstances. Yeah, um. If you have questions or statements about what’s going on or how I’m going on about doing it, shout at me.
@Pikmin Eye So, yeah. I do want some of these random events to happen every now and then, just to color the world. Anyways, yeah. Onwards?
@Pirouette I’m just going to say, I roll the levels of the Pokémon excavated from the ice. You’ve been rather lucky.
So, question to self. Does Lileep make noises? … Sure. Why not? XD
Oh, and if for some reason you don't throw a Pokéball, ignore the last part. I just kinda went like "if that's what she's doing, I might as well speed up the process".
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