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 Posted: Thu May 15, 2025 9:54 am
Aile grew hesitant as the bear looked at her growling. She thought that they might have had at least an understanding, and some sort of temporary truce, at least. She braced for impact and was getting ready to dodge…
She felt herself tossed into the air not nearly as hard as she was expecting, landing gently, though not not gracefully, onto the Ursaluna’s back. Scrambling to right herself after registering what just happened, she would look around, turning to the opposite direction they stumbled after the Psybeam attack hit them. Here we go again, this sort of thing is how she came across Kuat. However, there would be no time to stop this time, they needed to push through. She might have stolen Reno’s arm look, but she wasn’t actually interested in attempting to steal his look further. Instead, quickly making sure that the SNAG wasn’t in there, she’d sling the bag off of her back and throw it in the path of the Licktung’s tongue. Maybe some place would find out about certain medicine and protein bars just a bit too early. Better than them getting stalled here and getting taken to another time. The Quilava’s cry came next, with Aile trying to turn around enough to face it. “Merde…” Holding her left hand out, the shape of wit would morph as she conjured up the idea of some sort of barrier, simple, but she needed to just get something to block the flames as they ran. “Ursaluna,” she yelled out, spitting out any strands of hair that got into her mouth from the running. “Just keep running! No matter what! The energy wall won’t keep us in, but we don’t want to leave any body part in here when it finally does end,” she warned, grunting as she forced herself to keep the barrier up. There was some worry about the artifact possibly melting into glass, but that bridge would have to get crossed later. Just get out. That was the only important thing right now.
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2025 3:53 pm
The Lickitung would snatch up the flying bag without a second thought, only acting on the fact that it touched something and wrapped its tongue up with it. That would distract the creature long enough as it immediately went about finding whatever smelled good in that bag.
Aile's shield would defend them both from the incoming jet of flame, the Quilava not having much of a chance to do much else as they kept moving forward.
The mutant Ursaluna wouldn't let this opportunity go as it ran even faster, panting heavily as it over exerted itself. The crackling energy of the dome would get louder and more frequent, Aile no doubt beginning to panic thinking they may not make it even though she could see them getting closer and closer to the perimeter of the dome. Just as the dome began to flicker, getting ready to disappear, the Ursaluna would take a flying leap and in midair would pass through the wall of the dome, the bear unable to land properly and instead tripped on its own feet and was sent rolling, knocking Aile off of its back.
The pair would just have a second to get back in a position to look at the dome and in that moment it collapsed on itself with a flash of light and disappeared, all signs of it having ever been there gone. They made it just in time.
With them out of the dome and safe the bear would stagger up to its feet and snort, looking at Aile for a second before giving off a grumble and turned away from her, beginning to lumber off into the woods. If Aile was going to do anything with it now was the time.
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2025 6:07 pm
Aile would lose any sort of concentration she had once the Ursaluna tripped and rolled, the shield she had kept up scattering into the individual sand grains as she rolled into a tree. "Gah! Ooof..." Ignoring the missing part of her false arm for the moment, she would sit herself up and watch the Space-Time Distortion disappear, giving it a certain single fingered salute as it did. She would drop it once it vanished, looking to her arm and focusing on it, willing the sand back into a hand shape on her arm.
She would frown as the Ursaluna began to walk away though, the reason for the truce complete. It was just going to walk off after all of that? What was the Ursaluna going to do? Now that she thought about it, Ursaluna weren't even seen here, not a single Pokémon in that evolutionary line had been seen here. She wasn't sure if this place could even support this Ursaluna... Reaching inside her pocket again, Aile pulled out the green Pokéball, looking from it to the mutant Ursaluna and back. "Wait a second, please." The woman would stand up and take a few steps forward, holding out her hand slightly. "Where are you going to go around here? I haven't seen any other Ursalunas around, much less Teddiursa or Ursaring, so I don't know how well you would do here. However. If you want to get out of this forest, and you want a constant group to keep you company, you can join us." She'd gently rolled the Pokéball over, deciding to give it the bear the choice. "I think we didn't make a bad team there, in the Space-Time Distortion. You are quite powerful, and I wouldn't mind if we kept this partnership going. I'd be kind of honored, actually. For the most part, I'm time... stable would probably be a good word. There's been one occurrence when that was different, but even then, I made sure all of my Pokémon stayed with me, and we all got back home together." She would take a deep breath and run her right hand through her hair, putting her left hand in her pocket. "I'll leave the choice to you, but hey. Not having to watch your back for more of those Space-Time Distortions wouldn't be bad. I can tell you had been through that whole ordeal before. I've only been through it once before, I could only imagine how many you went through to not be extremely phased by that." Taking a deep breath, she would bring her hand out of her pocket and hold both them in front of her, giving a bow. "I'll leave the choice to you." She made her plea, now it was up to the bear to decide. After this whole thing, it kind of felt wrong to just up and take the choice away form them now.
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2025 2:21 pm
The mutant Ursaluna would peer at her from over its shoulder as Aile called out to it and snarled slightly at her, again eying the Pokeball with suspicion. As Aile spoke it slowly turned around completely, now facing the girl and standing there hesitantly as she rolled the ball towards it. Looking from the Friend Ball to Aile it looked like to the Ground Channeler that it was thinking, that it understand exactly what Aile was trying to convey and was now considering its options. Turning away from the ball it looked to where the Space-Time Distortion was for a second and then looked back at Aile for awhile longer until it dropped down to all fours and gave the ball a sniff. Several seconds would go by before it let out a snort and bumped the Friend Ball's button with its nose, the ball opening and converting the bear into energy as it sucked the Pokemon inside it before clamping shut. The ball began to wiggle...
One...
Two...
And...
Click! Ursaluna was caught!
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2025 5:35 pm
The woman would watch with baited breath, staring at the Friend Ball as the bear made its choice and poked the button on Pokéball. Once it clicked, she let out a long sigh and let her shoulders fall, putting her hand in her hair again. "Arceus, I am dumb some days." Walking over to the orb, she picked it up and smiled. Welcome to the team..." She looked up at the moon, noting that the fog had cleared out after the distortion arrived. "Bloodmoon Ursaluna. Feels fitting, between your forehead moon and tonight's moon. We'll see about getting you a more fitting nickname later, when I'm not ready to crash."
Stowing the Pokéball away, she began to walk through the forest, trying to find the tracks Dagobah left behind, when she nearly tripped over something. "Wha- Hah?" She would look down, not sure whether she should be horrified, concerned, or what. Underneath her was an arm, wearing a familiar blue sleeve with a yellow symbol on it. "...No. Really?" Aile would pull back the sleeve near the wrist, letting out another sigh as she did. "How? Why? A little too late now. Arceus has a sense of humor, I swear... Eh, why not." Bringing out her SNAG, she would take a picture of it, sending it to Sub with one sentence: I think I found my arm. Pocketing her SNAG once it was sent, she would shake her head and continue walking a bit, leaving the arm. It was honestly useless to her at this point, she would have needed it back in Hisui, when they were working on her arm for it to be useful. Once she decided she was too tired to keep walking, Aile would bring out Tatooine again, getting on the dragon's back and the pair taking off towards Mossui Town. By the time they arrived, though, someone would have fallen asleep.
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