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[ The feed starts off shaky and wonky and upside down, but it pays witness to a Scizor smashing in the face of a familiar Miltank with one of his pincers. Whitney's scream of outrage and near bloody murder drowns out the poor Miltank's whimper as it sags to the ground, knocked out with a single hit. The camera rights itself and purposefully zooms in on Whitney's red face - it looks like she's been sobbing for quite a while now. She points an accusing finger at her challenger. ]

I can't believe you! You're evil! Evil fraternal twins bullying me with overpowered Pokemon!

I'm sorry. I know things have been busy with those fossils running around, but as it seems to be over and we've been holding off for a while--

Waaaaaaaaaaaahhh!

Will you stop it?

[The camera turns to the other person in the Gym. Ilya stamps her foot and looks quite firmly irritated. Outraged, in fact.]

What kind of conduct is this? You call yourself a lady? You're a disgrace!

Illya, we don't need to aggravate her any further--

Meanies! Evil, the both of you! Here! Take your stupid badge!

[ Despite the huge display of shaking and crying Whitney is showing, she manages to chuck the tiny badge over Xion's Scizor and smack the thing squarely against Xion's forehead. She continues to cry, but this act prompts a roar from the holder of the Gear (which sounds much like a Hydreigon's roar) and her Scizor's wings to furiously flutter. ]

Ow!

Xion! Are you hurt?

[Ilya reaches up to check on Xion's forehead, and after a couple moments of satisfying herself that she's not bleeding from one of the pointy ends, turns back to Whitney.]

How dare you! I have a mind to... to...

[She seems to fail at figuring out what exactly she intends to do to Whitney, just standing there with her fists clenched and her eyes narrowed. At her side, a looming Dusclops glares with its one red eye.]

It's fine, Illya! It's nothing. [ As she says this, she's pulling on her hood to hide the little mark while bending down to pick up her badge. ] Let's go... Wait. Tiamat? Wait!

[ The feed is suddenly flying towards and behind Whitney. There's a Hydreigon head seen before it opens a mouth and bites down on poor girl's butt.

The shriek is almost ear shattering. ]

Eeeeeek! Owowowowowow! [ She swats angrily at the Hydreigon, who flies high up and stares down with the Gear. Then she gasps, looking back up at Tiamat then at Xion. ] It's you! You again?! You're the trainer whose Deino bit me in the butt!

I apologized!

[Ilya is desperately trying to reign in her laughter, but it's not... really working all that well. Meanwhile, her Dusclops is opening its mouth...

Oops, there's a second ear piercing scream.]

Ow ow ow! Orpheus, that was not a challenge to a screaming competition!

Illya, let's just go! We might get arrested at this rate!

[ Tug, tug. Everyone's just screaming and crying and yelling... while Tiamat just laughs her dark Hydreigon laugh above. ]

But I still don't have my badge...

[She does, however, reluctantly allow herself to get pulled away.]

Orpheus! Hepheastus! Come!

[With a roar and a groan, the Aggron and the Dusclops obediently begin following their trainer away from the increasingly frantic gym leader.]

Tiamat! --And please stop recording!

[ Xion realizes belatedly. At the call, Tiamat swoops over while obeying orders and cutting the feed after that. ]

[ Audio that happens half an our later: ]

Whitney's still the same. [ No kidding. Beat. ] If anyone plans to challenge her sometime soon, um... please be careful.

[ And then another audio message filtered to Minato and the Ninja Team: ]

I hope you guys have been okay from the fossil Pokemon attack. I think I'm going to travel with Illya for a bit. She wanted to visit Ecruteak for some information. If you guys need help, though, we could both travel back to you guys whenever we can.

And... sorry I've been quiet. A lot of things have been happening. Stay safe.

[ ooc: Badges approved for both! Whitney and Illya. ]

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[Well that's mildly terrifying.]

Then it could happen again?

Perhaps, but I find that unlikely. That event had some details in common with that strangeness in June, yet this time the locals stayed perfectly normal.

That week... was very odd.

[It's an extreme understatement, but she just doesn't know what else to say about it.]

So odd it was almost nostalgic. Did those strange Pokémon can much trouble where you were at the time?

Yes, but I mostly stayed inside and avoided it. Not that it was a perfect plan, but it worked out okay.

That was the best solution, as far as I could tell at the time. It's a shame it did not work for the fossils.

Oh I didn't really have that option for the fossils. I had to track Xion down.

Was she out there fighting them?

If you know her, that shouldn't surprise you.

It does not at all, amusingly enough. Perhaps I've learned to accept that I'm surrounded by impulsive and heroic people.

That's a terrible combination. [And she should know.]

... Is "self-sacrificing" part of that too? Or does that just fall under heroic?

I'd say so. I've seen plenty of people that were heroic yet not self-sacrificing, but never the opposite.

Most of the "heroes" I've known were would-be martyrs on top of it. You're lucky to have known a few who were otherwise.

Of course, that could be because they had no opportunity to sacrifice themselves in the first place. Plenty of my friends have chosen an almost certain death for the sake of the world, when they would otherwise wish to keep living.

Somehow, "almost" certain death doesn't sound as bad. Taking on almost impossible odds is a bit different from actually throwing one's own life away.

...In most cases, jumping off a flying airship over lava with a bomb in hand would deserve more than an "almost".

Wait, someone you know survived that? Were they under an invincibility spell at the time or something?

[Close. It's called Plot Armor.]

He was under the influence of great confidence and determination. That sufficed.

[And it's even better that Adamant Armor!]

... Actually, that sounds like something that someone I know would pull off.

[Thinking of you right now, Shirou.]

Would that person also be the type to get up and upgrade an entire airship mere days later, instead of staying in bed and resting?

Yes, if he knew anything about- Airship?

[Okay that is officially super cool. And Ilya doesn't think that about much.]

You have those in your world?

Indeed we do. Our airship fleet, the Red Wings, is the pride of the Kingdom of Baron. I even used to be their captain, decades ago.

Used to be? You don't look old enough to have retired. So why did you quit?

[Because that sounds like a pretty sweet job, not gonna lie.]

I was promoted to the wondrous world of politics and administration.

[It was. He still kinda misses the parts of it that don't involve attacking towns.]

Oh, of course. They made you king. I've heard that story before.

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