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The Mawile jumped up in the air suddenly, yelling at Muuma as it launched itself at her, its weird second jaw thing snapping open and shut. The Ghost-type was thrown back a little, but the attack had not done much and she quickly recovered. The Mawile seemed to taunt her when it landed, and she glared at it before relaxing and floating to the side a bit, no longer particularly annoyed but simply hoping to end this pathetic thing soon.

The corner of Leon’s lips twitched as he saw how much this Pokémon was getting to Muuma, but didn’t hesitate with his next command. ”Just use Psybeam again,” He said calmly, and she quickly complied, attempting to blast the Mawile to oblivion. It rolled back as the blast hit it directly once again, wincing this time and having a bit of trouble returning to its feet. It jumped up at Muuma again, turning and flipping its other jaw at her, its fangs gnashing, hoping to sink into the Ghost-type. She quickly moved out of the way, however, and the Mawile soared right by her, landing delicately on its feet and shooting her a look that said, “Hmph!”

”Hex. Finish it off, Muuma.”

Muuma’s eyes began to glow, and the Mawile braced itself for another blast. Muuma’s body was surrounded by a black glow as dark, tendril-like energy began trailing from her body and forming a big orb before her. A glowing red eye appeared in the middle of the orb, and shot out its own blue, purple, and black beam at the Mawile. It turned and tried to run, but the light was already upon it, and crashed into the Pokémon. The Deceiver Pokémon tried to push itself up, but after a moment of struggling it finally collapsed. Muuma stuck her tongue out at it and floated on back to Leon.

He was smirking at her, and she began exploding at him. Litwick floated up in between the two, yelling and giggling as it tried to get in on whatever game they were now playing. Muuma quieted down and hushed the baby Pokémon, who was now circling her happily. Leon watched the two for only a short moment before beckoning them and moving away from the spot they had been battling on.

Mina’s Pansage was still quick on its feet after the last attack and did as ordered, launching itself into the sky with Vine Whip so that it could avoid the oncoming Ember attack. “Keep up the offensive Kokoro, but this time use your special move!” Claire ordered. It wouldn’t be a super-effective hit, but Extrasensory had the added bonus of being hard to dodge since all the Quilava really needed to do was see her opponent to strike.

“Hmph.” Was all Rajasi could mange to say as his Marshtomp slept in the middle of the battlefield. It was amazing how status effects like Sleep could be so effective, even when getting pounded on by an enemy Pokemon. Jon had taken advantage of the opportunity to have his Pansear release a five-hit-combo Fury Swipes attack. Although Marshtomp whimpered, she did not yet awaken.

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Back at the clearing, Shining had calmly approached the spunky Mawile and tried to begin a conversation. But as far as Mag could tell, it wasn’t going well for the Espeon’s side of the argument. After a few more moments of “Nyaaas,” “Wiles,” “Espeys,” and “Mas” the Sun Pokemon trotted back over to Mag. “So now what?” The orange-haired man asked.

”Looks like she won’t let us take the eggs.” The psychic type reported.

“I was afraid of that.” Mag said with a sigh. “But we’re not leaving them--HURK!” Moti said as he was suddenly hit in the gut by a tan and black blob using Astonish. All the man could do was fall over clasping his stomach as the Mawile backflipped over to the eggs, scooping up the tan and black spotted egg protectively in her pony tail shaped jaw-appendage-thing. Thankfully for Mag, his Espeon was quick on her feet, levitating the other egg safely out of reach.

Although it annoyed her that the second egg was suddenly floating beyond her grasp, the Mawile realized she should, once again, cut her losses and make off with the egg she had managed to save from the evil clutches of this Pokemon trainer. The pink cat-thing had put up a good front for him, but Namida knew better than to trust a Pokemon trainer after being surreptitiously left behind by her previous owner. At first she had thought it was a mistake, but after a week of waiting she realized she was left behind for good. And thus the agile steel type made her escape.

Although Shining probably could have stopped the Mawile, she decided to let the Pokemon go and attended to her trainer, slowly lowering the egg so that it was floating level with her. For some strange reason the Espeon knew that only the tan and pink egg was for her master, the other one was supposed to go to someone else and it’d be in good hands with that Mawile until it found it’s proper partner. By now Moti had managed to recover from the gut rending attack and stood up, coughing a little bit.

“Well that was fun.” He said as he exhaled sharply. “At least we got one though. I guess we’ll just have to let the other egg go, no use counting the eggs before they hatch,” he said shrugging. “Let’s get back to the group.”

As Tisyphone squealed and ran away Gigas cheered happily thinking he had won. He held up the V for victory sign up into the air turning to his trainer expecting a big hug and perhaps a treat. Instead he saw the egg his trainer had just caught hatch into a bladed monstrosity. A confused growl came from his maw as he watched the scene unfold.

Kressen likewise, didn't see the attack land on the Nidoran or he would be cheering for his fire type. Instead his attention was focused on what had just come out of the egg. It was just barely under two feet and reminded him of a toddler. A metal toddler whose body was made of blades. Blades that were currently digging into him because he had been hugging the egg close to his body.

Resisting the urge to cry out in pain he carefully lifted the strange pokemon away from his body. The newborn stared at him with red eyes taking in the world. It slowly moved its limbs up and down getting used to them. The newborn cooed happily at its new trainer who just looked at it bewildered. "Well...hi there little guy. Err welcome to the world." He smiled warmly at the little guy cooed again and kicked its legs.

"Oh you must want down." He carefully knelt down and placed the pokemon onto the grass. It promptly took some tentative steps then started to play with some grass. Its bladed hands tore deep gouges in the earth as it tried to pluck at the grass. "I wish I had a pokedex so I'd know what to call you. I think I'll just call you Odin. It just seems to fit you for some reason."

Odin clapped its bladed together happily at the name, while Gigas came up behind him and started sniffing. He was just as confused as his trainer about what had just transpired. "Hey girls come check..." Looking up he saw that both of the girls had also received an egg. Hayley's had already hatched into a green leaf lizard, while Alex's remained unhatched. "What is going on here?"

The surprise over the appearance of her egg began to fade as she glanced around, smiling a little at the serpentine creature Riza had hatched and again at the chinchilla-esque Pokemon the blonde girl had received. She glanced up at the sound of approaching footsteps and noticed another coordinator from the contest, the blonde-haired Crenu, as he had been announced the other night. She smiled again at him but did not think he noticed, remembering him to be quite reserved. This note seemed to hold true, since he only addressed Riza as he approached. Amy glanced down and saw that the blonde boy also carried an egg in his hands. She straightened herself and glanced concernedly at Riza, who did not take as kindly to her new Pokemon as Kasiya did, instead responding with fear.

"Yeah," she piped up, agreeing with Kasiya's statement about giving the Snivy a chance. "Grass-types are usually realy good choices for contests, too." At this, she glanced back at Flora and exchanged a smile with her own Grass-type, as if to prove her point. Their appeal had been incredibly simple together, but she knew that Flora was young and by the time she was as strong as the Meganium she had seen, they would be quite the formidable pair. Amy gently disentangled herself from Riza, giving the girl and Crenu some room as she drifted closer to Karrigan, glancing around at all of the faces. She still hadn't been introduced to the blonde girl, and as she opened her mouth to say something to her, she heard another telltale crack and glanced down at Karrigan and her egg. The redhead's egg seemed to hatch into a cute little bear, the coloring of its fur reminding her of Ice-types. She was pleased for her friend, knowing that she seemed to have a preference for such a type.

"Awww," she said softly, pulling her egg closer. All of the eggs so far seemed to hatch into cute and unique Pokemon, all of them Pokemon she had never even seen before. She seemed to drift in her own thoughts as the conversation went on around her, only broken from them when her egg began to tremble violently. Amy gasped aloud as her egg shook and cracked, practically splitting down the middle to reveal whatever Pokemon she was destined to be with.

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"I'm not complaining," Jade responded easily as she shielding her eyes from the flash of her hatching egg. "If it wants to hatch now, by all means--" She was cut off when she glanced down to find the Cotton Puff Pokemon, who looked back up at her with wide, unblinking eyes. She remained speechless for a long moment, holding the Cottonee in both of her hands and finally smiling a little, pulling it closer in a small hug. "The cutest; cuter than an Eevee, that's for sure," she grinned as she felt Cottonee rustling. The Grass-type cooed happily, appreciative of the affection she was receiving. Jade laughed a little, both at her new Pokemon and at Jake's comment, realizing that she had been right. This Pokemon was pretty perfect for her, except...

"What the hell is it?" she hissed, covering the leaves in the assumption that they functioned as the little fluff ball's ears. "I haven't seen this Pokemon before. Have you?" She tried to let Cottonee go, but she squealed in response and stuck to the girl's sleeve, apparently attaching to the threads. Aquarius waddled up, staring for a long time at his new friend before finally canting his head. He didn't know this Pokemon either. But any thoughtful consideration was interrupted when Jake's egg practically exploded, and Jade turned herself around, shielding the Cottonee with her back against small flying shards of eggshell.

"s**t! What the hell was that, Jake?" She knew it wasn't his fault that his egg was a ticking time bomb, but she had to yell at someone. As she rounded back on the blonde boy, she found some odd-looking creature hovering in the egg's place, flapping with its skinny, weird wings. Jade looked at her Cottonee again before glancing back up at the boy's Sigilyph, wondering if they were hallucinating this whole thing. "God, this is so weird."

Blues’s head had might as well have been mounted on a wheel the way it swiveled around to take in the ridiculous amount of data in the surrounding area. The psychic energy that was pouring in far out classed his, and judging by the living… knife… thing that popped out of the egg that had been conjured for Kressen, it’d conjured them from some far off place, like hell. Whatever that thing was, Blues couldn’t read its intentions at all. It moderately annoyed him, but considering the eerie, baby-like cooing it was doing, it apparently wasn’t an evil mastermind or anything. Still, the flow of energy was powerful, and eggs appearing out of nowhere was… strange..

Then he heard Alex squeak, another ridiculous pulse of energy flooding into the clearing. Another egg? Sure enough, there she was, holding on tight to the tiny white thing, spotted green.

“Wow,” she whispered almost inaudibly, staring wide eyed at the weird little steel thing. “It’s… Sort of cute. I definitely wouldn’t hug it, but...” Alex looked at the adorable creature, cradling her own egg tighter. She could feel the warmth of it, as if there was an odd pulsing star inside of it. Alex knew then that she couldn’t let anything bad happen to it. She’d take as much care of… whatever it was in there as she did with Roll.

Crafty b*****d, the little Abra thought, warily noting that whatever this otherworldly cretin of a god was up to, it was probably dastardly. Forcibly forging links between human and pokemon was a powerful trick. Blues decided that he’d keep a close eye on whatever it was that came out of that egg… Unless it was like that… That thing. What the hell was that thing? If Arceus was real, he had a weird sense of creation. What did he do, tape a bunch of swords together and call it a day?

As Blues waxed poetic on the origins of life, Roll found herself squeaking with joy, dashing over to Alex to see the yummy egg someone brought them for an omelet. But Alex could see the hungry stare Roll radiated, and Alex pouted, turning away from Roll to shield the poor thing inside from her ravenous gaze. “Omigosh, you just ate and he isn’t food, he’s a baby! Behave!” The Larvitar let out a shocked gasp, cheerful expression inverted. Roll pouted and folded her arms, but Alex knew she wouldn’t stay mad longer than five minutes.

Alex blinked after Hayley asked what was honestly a really good question. After all, there weren’t many pokemon present with a penchant for teleportation. The blond glanced over at the seated, confused looking Abra, shooting him a look of equivalent perplexion.“Blues?”

Tch, I wish I had that kinda power, Blues thought dryly. But all he got out was a shake of his head before another mass of energy focused around the only human present without an egg. Why is this… The third egg appeared before Hayley. Of course.

The brunette didn’t have so easy a time catching her egg as the others though. She took a tumble back and hit her head. Alex ran over, more than a little concerned, what with all this weird stuff going on. “Hayley, are you okay!?”

The abra’s eye twitched slightly. He was a little tired of this weird teleportation espionage and he was getting to the bottom of it! Unbeknownst to his trainer, a dull white glow started overtaking him, and he felt power welling up inside. I was getting sick of teleport anyway… Without a terrible amount of fanfare, he’d completed his evolution, grown about a foot taller, and picked up a really wicked spoon. He stood by quietly, watching to see if any more of those strange pokemon were gonna appear. Roll stood close by, eyes wide, staring at Blues’ new form. Her arms clasped over her mouth. Then she poked him, giggling silently and earning an annoyed eye roll from the still decidedly Blues Kadabra.

That wasn’t the only thing Alexis missed though. The crack that started running down Hayley’s egg, and it wasn’t long before there was… a snake there? It wasn’t an ekans, though, it seemed less venomous and far more… leafy. “… Woah, this is getting cooler and cooler…”

Then a crack webbed outward from the top of the egg Alex cradled. It seemed like whatever it was, it wanted out.

"It was another draw." Crenu looked at Riza as she nervously eyed her new snake like pokemon and smirked a little. This was a rather cute moment he thought, though he quickly gave the smirk up for his normal serious expression less he get in trouble for it. But it more importantly, it was he though, their eggs had all appeared out of nowhere. It seemed everyone was consoling her on not being afraid of the little thing so he really didn't need to. Instead he just put an arm around her in an attempt to comfort her a bit and thought for a moment. "It's clearly a grass type from the leaves on its tail. But what's interesting is that it has reptilian qualities. Most grass types are plant based fully, its not often they share animal characteristics and particularly reptile ones. The only ones that come to mind are Bulbasaur Chikorita and Treecko, as well as their evolutionary lines. If the region this one is from shares similar patterns then you might have yourself a very rare pokemon almost impossible to obtain outside of a private breeder, like Eris. You should consider yourself lucky to have hatched it, and besides it can't be a snake if it has limbs. More like a lizard, reminds me of a grass type charmander really." This was more for her sake as the slender body type definitely reminded him of a snake, but that wasn't important. "Trade it if you can't get past its appearance but I'd say this is a good opportunity to grow as a coordinator and trainer. Then again I don't understand phobias, so just do what you want with it."

He looked down at the little grass pokemon who seemed to want to belong to Riza and he thought that maybe she was right about not wanting it. After all they had no reason to trust these eggs or the pokemon, the conditions around them were far to mysterious for his liking. Just then another egg hatched and a little white and blue bear with amor coming out of its nose was born. Looking from it to the snake and to the mouse he couldn't help but notice these pokemon were fairly cute, particularly the one now brushing the dirt from Crenu's feet. He suddenly had a feeling of dread in his gut as it darned on him, what if his egg hatched into something cute too? He just pictured it, something fuzzy and pink was sure to pop out of his egg, and it made him frown slightly, he hated it already. Not veryong after it hatched Amy's egg hatched as well and this time it was a brown crocodile looking creature. Well, at least they weren't all cute fuzzy pokemon, though it wasn't exactly menacing. He nudged the grey mouse with his foot trying to get it to leave him alone, not at all content with the cute atmosphere that had been created here. Taking a cigarette from his pocket he lit it and took a deep drag, his eye twitching slightly as he tried to push it out of his mind. Upset with whatever pokemon was in his egg for giving him a headache earlier and giving him an unwanted mystery AND for being a cute pink fuzzy thing he blew a plume of smoke onto the shell with a huff, and as if reacting to the action it started to wiggle and crack. Crenu set it down by his feet and watched, fighting the impulse in his mind that if it was a pink puff ball he'd punt it. Maybe it was because he had tied again with Surge, but he was particularly irksome right now.

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"Oh? A gym battle? Hmm, I guess that would be kinda cool actually." Jason said with a grin as Roark mentioned it, he wbould probably start getting some badges. Even though he was on a researchers quest gym battles were an important part of pokemon developement as well as a good opportunity to witness Sinnoh pokemon in action. He was sure there would be a lot to sketch after that, but he was brought back to reality when he felt a Sharp jab in his hands. Nyx was playfully poking at his hands with her own, much like a child does, but when your hands are switch blades it becomes something else entirely. He bit his lip and set Nyx down, who didn't protest and instead occupied herself by stabbing at the ground. "Ah buy maybe later. You're right this is an Unova pokemon, and a handful too." He said as he sucked on his new cuts. "Don't get me wrong I love her to bits already and think she's very pretty, but I'm new at this and don't know how to handle her. Or feed her. She was just born outside and I don't know anything about her species. She's a tad clingy....which is the problem." He said pointing to the bloody holes in his shirt. "The people in town seem to have lots of rock types, so I figure this is a rock type gym. I know rock types and steel types are different, but you must have experience dealing with pokemon that are rather rough to the touch and more dangerous than they mean to be right? I'm sure she doesn't realize it but if she's not careful one of these days she might actually hurt someone really bad. I don't know if I should get armor or if I should put corks on her or something." That last one was a bit of a joke as he could never do that so the little cutie. As if on cue though, Nyx got up and looked at Roark, arms wide as she started coming at his leg for a hug.