The PALLET Team (PLOT)

Boom. BOOM. Boom. The thunder. The lightening. The roaring, shaking, flashes of light, the chaos that was a storm without rain went on overhead. The kitten huddles in a small ball of terror at the bottom of her dirt hole. Blue eyes as wide as moons they can not peel away from the sight above, the black fur of the Arcanine's belly not enough to block the flashes from each bolt of electricity. Make it stop make it stop make it stop. Her heart goes on overdrive, pounding against her chest with each labored beat. Not even the roar of blood in her ears could block the livid howls of the legend. Why are you doing this Zapdos.. The human had only stood there, he didnt attack or try to catch the bird or anything!

The crashes grow louder. The flashes grow brighter. The hole she had dug was suddenly way too small. The walls too close, tightening around her chest as she hyperventilates. I cant breathe. The scent of smoke hits her again, unsure if it was real or not. Die maggot. Trembling paws scratch feebly at the earthen walls, the dirt falling away for a couple swipes before they meet a massive root. The woody thing catches her claws, wrenching them in place as she pulls each paw away. The tree was trying make her choke.
Another flash of light from above and all she can see is white. Cold races along her spine and freezes her blood. Snow? No, its nothingness. There is nothing, the ground is gone, the tree, the tree has trapped her! Arsi wails in panic, tossing and twisting around in the hole like a fish in a net. Oh legends this was the end. This was how she was going to die. Her own safety collapsing on her. Something crushes her tail, her own paw though not to her knowledge, and the cat yelps and clings to the loose wall.

It cant support her though and within a moment she is falling backward. She smacks against the bottom of the hole while all the air is expelled from her body. In that same moment the legends words finally meet her selective ears. "The fucking virus CAME from them. They STARTED it. They KNEW what they were doing. And they TORTURED US TO GET IT!" I someone saw her in that instant they would of thought her to be dead. A still, lifeless body with no chest movement that was coated in dirt. They.. what? Her very core twitches.
BOOM.
It all clicks into fast forward. Panic, terror, confusion, realization, denial.. her blood is cool as the faux snow around her though it pumps through her veins at light speed. "No no no!" The humans.. they, they couldnt. Humans wouldnt..! Arsi backs up, her rump pressed to wall and shes spooked. Trying to dash forward and away from the presence the feline gets a face full of dirt. Her lungs burn as particles trickle down her throat. Stumbling backward she hits the other wall again, forepaws clawing carelessly at her face to clear it of debris. Thin scratches screech with pain but its associated with other thoughts. The humans couldnt of, wouldnt of done this. They wouldnt kill their own world!

You would deny a legend? "N-no! Thats not what I meant!" She says allowed. Refuse a God. "NO! It-its not that, but humans.." The hole slowly comes back into focus and the cat forces her way back to the top of it. A filthy dirt and blood splattered face pops out of the hole. "Humans.. humans are not our enemies!" She yowls at the Legend, loud but full of fear. "I was not a part of that, Zapdos!" Blue defended himself. See, see it was true! Matt and Katie wouldnt of done this. Mankind wouldnt of done this horrible thing. The cat stands at full height beside the hound, terror shining in her eyes but not her stance. Dont lie to yourself. Crawling out from under the Arcanine Arsi shakes her head in denial. "Its not a lie, humans are not evil!" A black shape whizzes past and any bravery she felt was sucked away, the cat shrinking back to the ground once more. "You will not harm him!!" Was he.. was he attacking a legend!? "D-dont do that!"

But it was too late. The bird was being attacked, the human really was its enemy now. Khan is next to flash past and her paws move on autopilot. She.. she refused to believe the humans to be evil but she was useless to help him, against a legend no less. To die for him she.. she just wouldnt. Scuttling forward the cat stands by her companions side, fur fluffed up to appear slightly more threatening. "Tell me more." Khan asks the legend. Yes, they needed this to be cleared. They needed to stop it before Blue got hurt or Zapdos atta- "That cant be true," No no these were not the words she wanted but her lips were moving on their own. "Humans are our friends!" She was so dead.

It all started so... civil. Zapdos bowed his head to the Lucario, and intoned respectfully, "Sounds like you deserve Legends status more than me... Welcome, Khan." The yellow legends head raised, and he scanned the group that had arrived behind Khan. Mew saw his eyes lock on the Human (Blue? He said his name was?), hi visage darken. The sky above rumbled, a dull percussion that set the Psychic's nerves on edge. "A... Human..." he whispered, anger growing in his voice. "A Human!?" Thunder crackled overhead, the wind increasing it's viciousness. "YOU! YOU WILL FRY" The sky was by now beating in the rapid staccato of a dying heart, and the town was outlined in a rough strobe light from above.

Khan was screaming now, his voice lost to Mew, drowned beneath the thunder, and sound of her blood in her ears. Across town, something massive fell with a dull boom, shaken loose by the winds.

Now the Lucario was standing in front of the Human, arms spread out as a shield. The Meowth was running, digging, trying to hide her small frame under the roots of the oak.


Twin pillars of electricity rose from the ground. Mew fell backwards, deafened, her tiny body buffeted by the shockwave of heated air. Zapdos was speaking, screaming, from the look on his face. The human's pokemon were out now, their body in front of his. They attacked, dark energy and razor rocks flying towards the bird. Mew rose, tail throbbing. Her mouth opened, and a scream of rage was let loose. A tiny hand raised, palm open, towards the Lighting Bird. His form was illuminated in a pink light. Upwards he rose, perplexion rapidly replacing the anger. Mew's hand shot to the side, and through the air Zapdos tumbled, his body bouncing off the bark of the tree. The group was yelling now, words drowned out in the white whine leftover from thunderclap. The psychic bowed, folding in on herself, hands flying to her ears. She spoke loudly, slowly, "I... I'm sorry. I don't... we shouldn't hurt one another like that...." She straightened, right paw lowering as the whine began to fade from it. Her left hand remained in place, a small rivulet of blood flowing down from the cavity beneath.

The portal crackled darkly from the midst of The Vale, a foul purple light pulsing from it to illuminate the mist below. The Sigilyph paced, his eyes on the moon above. "Tick tock, tick tock, time is wasting, and you are quite late indeed, yes? Yes." The guildmaster shifted his weight back and forth, nervously eyeing the rift before him. "Enough waste, must intervene. Events must move forward now, yes? Quite." He nodded, floating forward into the vortex before him.

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From forest to village, many trees to one. The portal flashed angrily, and slammed shut behind him. His feet drifted, centimeters above the ground. He spun freely, frictionless. His uncovered eye played over the scene, the human, the attacking pokemon, the bird of legend (now slumped to the ground). The cat, burying itself beneath the tree, and the fighter guarding the human and his team. And there, in the center of the group, the one he came to meet, curled around her stomach, blood running from a single ear. He knelt, toes meeting the earth, "Hello, hello yes, legend. I am the Guildmaster, I am Silas. Why must you delay, legend? We wait for you on the other side."

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[ Skip, my head is pounding too much to concentrate. Zapdos became pissed when hit by Blue's mons, but when Mew attacked, he calmed down. He is silently glaring at Silas, slumped at the foot of the tree, but acting passive out of fear of Mew hitting him again. He muttered "It doesn't matter anymore," to Khan and "Go away asshat, no one cares who or what you are." to Silas ]

((While I am grateful for the extra day Mew gave me, I am still forced to skip a post this round. I am sincerely sorry, Legends.))

Even faster than it had begun, it was over.

Mew had risen and lifted Zapdos into the air using psychic energy. With a cry of rage she hurled the bewildered legend into a tree, where he crashed from the ground. Mew then curled herself up, covering her ears which were no doubt screaming as loudly as Khan's were. "I... I'm sorry. I don't... we shouldn't hurt one another like that...."

"Mew..." Khan had no idea what to say. Even though her actions had calmed Zapdos's fury, it seemed that almost everything she did weakened her. Pity and worry gripped Khan's heart as he started towards her. "Mew, it's OK..."

"It doesn't matter anymore," the great avian said solemnly from the ground nearby.
"But--" Khan felt his chest tighten as his anxiety rose. He wasn't saying ... what he thought he was...? "How does it not matter?! Zapdos, I need to know. Please tell me!"

Just then there was flash from somewhere behind, and a shift in the air, as though something had sucked some of it away. Khan spun round to see the strangest-looking human he had ever seen approaching. He simply stood and watched him, bewildered, until his sensors suddenly jolted to life. The human's aura was ... odd. He couldn't place his paw on it, but it was nothing he had ever detected before. It was foreign, exotic; almost as though human and Pokemon auras had been put into a blender.

He was heading straight for Mew.

"Hello, hello yes, legend. I am the Guildmaster, I am Silas. Why must you delay, legend? We wait for you on the other side," he said, kneeling next to the weakened feline.
Khan bared his teeth as he found himself marching straight up to the newcomer, and standing between him and Mew. "That's close enough," he growled, pointing his spear towards the man's face. He just ... radiated unease for the Lucario. He still had no idea why, but he wasn't about to take any chances. "Who are you? What do you want?" And what are you? he silently pondered.

The cats small form fills with regret. Why did she say that. Why did she say that?! The legend's screams pierced her sensitive ears and rattled around in her head. She had upset a legend, she talking back to the legends, she was defying divine creatures without so much as a proper argument or cause. This is the end. The pink legend's scream deafened all other sounds, squeezing the Meowth's eyes shut and numbing her to the world for a few moments. Each tiny hair on her pelt comes alive from the electricity in the air, her toes flaring out as they feel the massive thud against the ground. The senses blur together without rhyme or reason. Daring to open her eyes Arsi is horrified to find Zapdos as no more then a lump on the ground with Mew soon following.

The legends had just attacked one another. Oh gods why was she witnessing her last hopes destroy one another?
"I... I'm sorry. I don't... we shouldn't hurt one another like that...." Despite how pitiful the kitten was becoming fear still pounded through Arsi's veins. She was weak, useless, and small. Looking at Zapdos a horrible thought races through her mind in full detail- if that had been her she would of died. She could be dead right now. Without taking her blue eyes off the deities the cat slowly stepped away, moving back toward Blue and widening the gap between the provoked legends, Khan, and herself. If she was so much as be in the crossfire of another outburst.. swallowing hard Arsi scuttles up to the the human. His Pokemon were still more then intimidating but she would take them over being struck by a god any day.

"It doesn't matter anymore," Two brown ears perk up then fall flat against her skull. Doesnt matter, what doesnt matter? The humans presence, the fight against the undead, the search for a cure, the cause, us interrupting their meeting? There was so many things that that could mean. Khan was so brave compared to her, daring to speak back to the legend once more when... a strange sensation blurred the air nearby. A soft light and human form waltzed in from nowhere, poise and perfectly calm if not irritated. Thats.. not human. It only took a moment for her to hide behind Arcanine's massive paw. Whatever that thing was it couldnt be good. Looking the creature up and down she could only describe it as eccentric, some strange cross between man and Pokemon that she had never experienced before. Missing link. It looked so.. unnatural yet moved as though all was well, as though fazing in from nothing was a normal occurrence. Even as it coolly walked toward- Mew-!

Making one fluttering step forward the feline fears the worst. It looked human enough and so many had a desire to catch legends. Catch her when shes down?! Instead of a Pokeball though all the man used were words. "Hello, hello yes, legend. I am the Guildmaster, I am Silas. Why must you delay, legend? We wait for you on the other side," Guildmaster, 'other side,' waiting for them? What was it talking about..? Nothing that it just said made any sense. "Who are you? What do you want?" Khan pressed. "What are you..?" The question comes as no more then a whisper. While human jumped to mind it was just too strange to be one. "Go away asshat, no one cares who or what you are." The bird snaps, clearly still volatile. Looking desperately to Blue for answers Arsi asks, "Do you.. know him?" praying that the human could shred some light on the strange one that just joined them.