Pokemon Paramount Ventures! The New Cygrus Region! [IC/Accepting via OOC]

[Dementuo]

Zura Glory and Zura Trancella walked over to Maximillian. "You don't have to destroy to create the perfect world. All that does is put you back in the same miserable spiral." Glory said. "If you really want to make a perfect world, then you have to redeem what you have lost. Celebi has been sealed once more, but who knows? Maybe your wish shall be granted by another being. As Ina ny situation, there is another way." Trancella said. "So now, please stop this. But I will say this: You can help us. You can stop the destruction. And, if everything goes well, thenthere may be a chance... That I can get you back to where you belong." Glory explained.
"Well, I'll be takin my leave now. The Hedrons have been removed for long enough already. I'll leave the return of them to you, my old friend." Trancella handed over the Sky and Pure Hedron to Glory, then used the black Star Hedron to shift back to his base.
"I have to get going as well. He is right, the Hedrons must be returned. So, what say you, Maximillion?"

[Queen-Dragoon]

Kier sheltered behind his Metagross who was using Reflect to shelter him and a group of villagers from a tonne of debris. "Use Psychic to toss that far away from here Metagross." Kier said, standing up.

"Meta!" the massive, tank-like Pokemon bellowed as it hurled the rubble a mile through the air with only it's mind.

After checking the townspeople were okay, Kier noticed that something strange had occurred. The damage was gone, the uprooted trees had regrown and the sky was bright once more. Had time ticked backwards?

He walked to the centre of the hubbub and found Shibi along with several others he didn't recognise. The most startling aspect of this scene was the little green creature floating at the centre of everything. [i]"Celebi!?"[/i] If Kier didn't know better, he could have sworn it winked at him before evaporating.

Of course... He was psychically linked with Metagross now. That was bound to affect other Psychic types. Intriguing...

Walking over to Shibi, Kier smiled. "My new Monferno is itching for that rematch." As though hearing him speak, a Pokeball flashed open and Monferno appeared on Kier's back.

"Monferno!"

[MortalKombatSmoke]

[i]"do you see Dante? You know what to do now, just as we planned. Play along and leave this town."[/i] Him and Dante had gone over this scenario. It was all part of the grandmaster plan. "Fine, I shall join you, but I still wish to change this world, A world that I viewed." Maximillion would play his part well, none would suspect a thing. For in the end, team Nebulus will rule all. [i]"Dante's I'm leaving team Nebulus to you for now. Use it wisely so we can meet once again at the tallest tower of the Space Time Continuum..."[/i]

[Zextra]

"Thanks" Rectus replied. "Zura, I'll be heading back to HQ. Would you mind coming with me?" he asked as he released Salamence. "Good luck to you, Shibi" he said as he got on Salamence and flew off. "Trancella....what is he thinking? I'm not sure what he's going to do next..." he thought next to Zura. Eventually, they arrived back at Evraflow HQ. The two of them made it to -B26, where the grunts were.

-MEANWHILE-

Caden continued his battle with Randy. His Dugtrio was just hit by two powerful combinations: the Triple Focus Blast Twin Nebula, and the Ice Urchin. Dugtrio was now completely encased in ice shards and needles.

Caden looked at the Dugtrio who was encased in ice. "I suppose that's it for Dugtrio" Caden thought, as he started wondering what Pokemon Randy was going to send out last. "It's got to be another ground-type, obviously. Electabuzz can still hold on plenty longer though, so I shouldn't be worried" he continued. "So, Randy, still enjoying our battle?" Caden asked.

-THEN-

When Rectus entered the room in -B26, he saw the two grunts going insane. "Uh, Zura....what exactly did you do to them?" he asked, confused.

[Techi☺]

Randy was lost at thought. Was Dugtrio going to go down? Would Randy's toughest pokemon fall to just one of his oppenents? That would make his opponent by far stronger of a trainer than Randy is. This is what failure must feel like. Randy could hear his father's voice, "Dugtrio is a strong one, he should help you well on your journeys". But Randy never had hear his father say that before. Right when Randy thought it was over, Dugtrio shook the damamge and stood tall. "Dug-!" Dugtrio Barked at the opponent. "Do we have a chance Dugtrio?" Randy asked put didnt recieve a vocal response, just a nod. Randy smirked. "Now Dugtrio! Sand Storm!" Dugtrio began to twirl around as a huge sand storm took place on the shattered arena.

[Zextra]

"Well, that's one strong Dugtrio you've got there, but it's not over yet! Electabuzz, use Rain Dance and dissipate that Sandstorm!" Electabuzz quickly shot up a blue orb which circled into the air, releasing rain. The sandstorm was overridden by the Rain Dance. "Now, Electabuzz, while it's immobilized from trying to create that Sandstorm, strike with Dynamicpunch!" Electabuzz raised a fist, and in a split second, travelled right in back of Dugtrio. The fist turned white and brown, and it was lowered upon Dugtrio. The attack collided with Dugtrio and Electabuzz jumped backwards "See, even if Dugtrio does survive this attack, it will be confused, resulting in it simply destroying itself" Caden explained.

[Dementuo]

Shibi turned to Kier. "Alright, I'll rematch you. Let's go." Shibi made his way back to the Gym.

-MEANWHILE-

When Zura Glory got back to Evraflow HQ, he went over to Rectus. "I have to go replace the Hedrons. In the meantime, take this one, and put it into the pedestal in the forest near here. That's where Celebi was sealed." Zura handed Rectus a shining green Hedron stone. Then Zura rode off on Charizard to go to the Hedrons' pedestals.

-MEANWHILE-

Zura Trancella was back at his base, looking through the window. "What has happaned to this world? There are so many people who would wish destruction upon this place... How ignorant they are... I'd better look into this..." Zura walked to his desk, and started pouring over old files on the Hedrons.

[Zextra]

"Sure" Rectus replied as he sped out the window with Salamence. He headed to the Evraflow surroundings. "Of course, there's no forest around here at this time" he said, referring to Evraflow Forest, which only appears for one week per decade. He stooped down to a river, reached his hand to the bottom, and felt the pedestal. "Here it is" he thought as he placed the hedron on the pedestal. He quickly returned to Evraflow HQ, awaiting Zura's return. "The rest of the Elie 4 has been quite inactive lately" Rectua thought as he sat down on a chair in the conference room. "This doesn't seem to be going well..." he thought. Then, a bit later, he saw a Charizard arrive. "He's back..." Rectus thought.

[Dementuo]

Zura Glory hopped off his Charkzard, and returned it. He walked into the building, and found Rectus. "Ok, I see you've returned the Hedron. Thanks. Also, the grunts down on B26 have been released. They reall. Didn't know anything. However, that's beside the point. I'm curious as to how exactly you came to be Champion? I told you my story before, so please tell me yours." Zura asked.

-MEANWHILE-

Atrus was watching the intense battle, which seemed to be going on forever. "Hm... While I would lime to battle, I'm not sure if I could wait much longer..." Atrus thought. "I am patient, but even I have my limits..." Atrus thought to himself.

[Zextra]

"Me? I became the champion by request. Since I had swept through all five leagues and placed within the Top 2 every time, I was a candidate to replace the retiring champion here. You see, when I first started my journey, I had a rival and a friend who was always neck-to-neck with me, and that motivated me to train like never before. During every league, we both made it to the finals. He won our battles in the Ever Grande Conference and the Indigo Conference, while I won here at the Evraflow Conference and the Suzuran Conference. The two of us clashed in the Silver Conference, where our match ended in a double-knockout, resulting in a draw. He's now the current champion of Hoenn, and I came back here, where I had no intention to become part of the Elite 4. However, as I said before, the retiring champion had requested that 3 people would battle him, and the one who lost the fewest Pokemon would take his place. Though I was not interested, I did it for the thrill of the battle. Unfortunately, he was growing weak, losing to the other trainers at 3-6. However, I was able to beat him only losing 1 Pokemon. However, in the end, what truly motivated me to become champion was the safety of this region. I realized that as the champion, I would be able to watch over it, so that's just what I did. Then, 2 years later, I met you, Zura" Rectus recalled.

[Queen-Dragoon]

As Shibi and Kier walked back to the gym, Kier turned and said, "You're going to have to wait a bit pal. We want to save our biggest surprises for later okay."

Monferno nodded with a laboured "...ferno..." as he disappeared back into his Pokeball.

The pair made it back to the gym several minutes later where they were facing each other across the same field as before. "Let's show Shibi some of our new moves! Vibrava, come on out!"

The large, dragonfly Pokemon whizzed out of it's Pokeball and glinted in the light of the afternoon sun.

[i]"That sun will help Vibrava's Solar Beam and Monferno's fire attacks but otherwise it's a huge pain in the ass. I have to stop it."[/i]

OoC: Hint, hint. . Anyway, does a 1-0 victory to me sit okay with you? Metagross being the one left standing?

[Ｄｈａｒｃ]

[color="#708090"]Dante watched the events that occurred in the forest reverse around him. The craters formed form the Thunder Meteor were back to normal, the trees were fully formed once more, etcetera.[/color]
[color="#708090"]"Hmph...Well, no matter..." Dante then turned to hear Maximilian's plan. "Whatever..."[/color]
[color="#708090"]Dante hopped back onto Altaria's back and returned Electivire. "Alright...Let's go..."[/color]
[color="#708090"]Dante then noticed the kid on the ground below him that had commanded the Aron.[/color]
[color="#708090"]"Hey Kid...Don't meddle in affairs that don't involve you." And with that, he flew off.[/color]
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[color="#A0522D"]Alex rushed back to the gym after the incident in the forest ((OOC: That everyone has now sufficiently explained)) and saw the start of the rematch. "I call next battle!"[/color]
[color="#A0522D"]Alex's thoughts now dwelled back on the forest incident. The man with the Altaria and Electivire would no doubt be a formidable opponent. And that Celebi was unexpected...But most interesting of all was what no one else saw. The dark shape moving through the woods behind everyone. The only reason he noticed it was because it was right next to Celebi in terms perspective. It appeared small, and two blue lights like eyes shone on it. He'd think more of it later.[/color]
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[Zextra]

Caden looked at Atrus. "Sorry Atrus, this'll just take a minute" he said with a smile. "Let's end it, Electabuzz! Use Ice Nebula!" Electabuzz created a Focus Blast and charged an Ice Punch. "Now, use Ice Punch to fire the Focus Blast!" Caden declared as Electabuzz shot an Ice Punch at the Focus Blast. The Focus Blast charged into Dugtrio and exploded into countless fragments of ice and energy. "Now, use psychic to shoot those fragments at it!" Electabuzz used psychic and separated each fragment, covering the air with blue and white light. "Now, fire!" he commanded as Electabuzz aimed all the fragments at Dugtrio. "This is it" Caden thought as each mini fragment shot at Dugtrio, exploding on each one. "Nice work, Electabuzz" Caden said. "But he still has a Pokemon left...and Electabuzz doesn't have enough energy to keep firing attack combinations. I need to recall Electabuzz when he reveals his third Pokemon" Caden thought.

[Queen-Dragoon]

"Cacturne, use Focus Punch."

Cacturne appeared stealthily out from the darkness of the gym arena and, with one swing of it's mighty fist, sent the opposing Arcanine twenty feet through the air. He reappeared next to Sorano with a quiet, "Cacturne."

"Arcanine is unable to battle. The victor is Sorano!" the referee shouted as the darkness lifted.

"I-I..." the young, opposing trainer said.

"Couldn't handle the darkness?" Sorano finished, "With time and training you will. The darkness itself is an enemy. It feeds the fears and doubts that cloud your better judgment. Overcoming that is the path to greatness."

"Why have you not moved further..?" the trainer stuttered, "You're strong enough..."

Sorano turned away. "I'm needed here."

[Serenity the Candyman]

After Soothing boat ride, Caullen has finally reached the Cygrus Region. After a a minute or two he releasied that he is also is lost. " AAArrgghh! I did it again! Larvitar you were supposed to remind me look at the map so we wont get lost again." After saying this, Larvitar popped out and just shocked his head at Caullen. "Oh really!" said Caullen "Well first thing we need to do is find a pokemon center. After confronting alot of people, he finally fins the pokemon center. After a quick conversation with nurse Joy, He actually gets his hands on a map. "Alright onward to...Gradnis Forest!"
After a quick stop a the local mart, Caullen makes his way to Gradnis Forest.

Gradnis Forest:

After seeing much Bug-type Pokemon, Caullen decided that training was definatly needed." Alright Larivitar, Come Forth!" Larvitar sprung out of the pokeball, ready for action. After some time looking for a good, strong pokemon to train, Caullen spotted one hanging there on one of the trees. "Larvitar, use run till run half way up the tree and then use Fire Fang to hit that hanging pokemon."
Larvitar, after hearing the directions started running....and tripped over a sleeping Ralts!

The Ralts was mad now that its sleep was disturbed and use Psybeam on Larvitar. Not reliasing what was happening, Larvitar got hit by the Psybeam.

Caullen, seeing the situation, called out "Larvitar use Bite on that Ralts before it hits you again." Larvitar got up and attacked the Ralts. The Ralts, still half asleep, suddenly felt the something biting its head. It really did damage to the poor Ralts and it fainted. Grabbing a pokeball, Caullen threw it at the Ralts. After a couple of twitches and a ding, Ralts was in the pokeball. Caullen looked over at Larvitar" Great Job but next time watch where you run." and had Larvitar return.

After a couple of days training, Caullen finally headed out of the Gradnis Forest towards Gradnis Village.

Gradnis Village:

"What a nice Village...but its small." Caullen looking down at his map" IS this map correct saying the first gym his here?" Sure enough, signs on the road pointed to where the Gradnis Gym was. Taking in a deep breath, he ran all the way to the Gym, not stopping till he go in through the doors. Once inside, Caullen out of breath, Shouted "I'm...HERE...to....Battle...THE....Gym....LEADER! Where.....ARE....YA!!!!"

[Queen-Dragoon]

Sorano was training near the centre of Graklus Isles with one of his closest friends and greatest rivals. "Tyranitar, use Rock Slide then hold it steady. Fire it now, empowered with Dark Pulse!"

The rocks embodied in dark energy shot towards the opposing Staraptor twice as fast as they would normally. The bird Pokemon used a ludicrously fast Substitute to avoid it.

"Staraptor, Super Close Combat!" Nathan shouted as a counterattack.

Using Close Combat, Steel Wing and Peck in tandem. Staraptor began to deal absolutely enormous damage to Tyranitar with each blow. Particularly as Close Combat was four times as effective against him.

"Blow her back with Sandstorm!" Sorano shouted.

Tyranitar howled and blew the bird Pokemon away with a huge wave of sand.

"That's enough," said Sorano, "Tyranitar, return. Good battle my friend. As for you Nathan, you never cease to impress me."

"Ach... it's nothing," Nathan said modestly, "Everyone knows you could easily be one of the Elite Four if you weren't tied down here my your family."

Sorano was quick to change the subject. "Speaking of family, I heard a familiar face came over on one of the recent ferries. Your brother has beaten Shibi already and should be in Terramean Town by now."

"Really?!" asked Nathan, astonished, "I guess I'm off to Terramean Town. Saddle up Staraptor!"

"Star!"

Nathan mounted his huge bird Pokemon and waved to Sorano. "Later Sorano. I'll tell my brother to watch out for this gym." With that he kicked off into the night sky.

OoC: Nathan will be waiting outside the Terramean gym Zextra.

[Serenity the Candyman]

Gradnis Gym:

Arter recovering his breath, Caullen decided to look around the gym. Noticing that the gym had many plants, he decided the best thing was to figure out if this was actually the gym.

This dosent look like a gym, Caullen thought, It looks more like that6 forest we came out of. I must be in some greenhouse. I mean look at all 6the wonderful Bug and plant type pokemon.

After much thought, Caullen decided to go outside to find out where the gym really was, As he stepped outside, there on the doors said Gradnis Gym. Caullen was getting very confused."I have to get to the bottom of this." After thinking and pacing, Caullen had an idea. " It must be abandoned! I wonder why. Well instead of wasting time, lets go train in this "gym.""

Without any delay, he went back in and started to train, oblivous to the real reason for the forest-infested gym.

[Zextra]

(OOC: I'm sorry, but I had to skip over the rest of the battle for a couple of important reasons:
a.) Zero can have his battle
b.) Queen-Dragoon doesn't have to wait too long)

After a hard fought battle between Caden's Electabuzz and Randy's Sandslash, the battle finally ended in Caden's victory. He sighed as he returned his Pokemon. "Thank you, zelectabuzz" he said. "At least I didn't have to use Milotic this time around" Caden thought, smiling. He received his badge. "Thanks a lot for the battle, Randy, and I hope you start on your dream journey soon" Caden said as he offered his hand. Then, he said goodbye to Atrus and made his way out of the gym. When he got to the entrance, he opened the door and walked out into the sandy town. "Well, that's over" he thought as he started to make his way to the Pokemon Center. However, as he left the gym, he saw a familiar figure standing in the shadows.

-THEN-

Later, after Caden left the gym, Rectus flew by with a man. The two of them walked into the gym, and Rectus said "Hello, Randy. It's nice to see you. Anyways, I have a pleasant surprise for you" he said as the man walked forward. It was Randy's father, the former Gym Leader of the Terramean Gym. "Surprised?" Rectus asked. "You see, Team Draconius were the ones who spread those rumors that your father was dead, but after doing a little investigating around their base, I found that they were simply keeping him in their basement" Rectus explained.

[Queen-Dragoon]

"You've gotten stronger little bro..." Nathan said in a fake solemn voice, "You also fight like you're in a Contest. Do you know how nerdy you look when you do that?" With that, his smile widened massively and he wrapped his brother in a headlock. "It's good to see ya little brother. I've made some good friends in Cygrus but not many openly chatty ones."

Meanwhile...

"Absol, use Sucker Punch."

Absol seermed to materialise out of nowhere in the darkness and blast the enemy Croconaw with a fierce headbutt to the face. "Sol..." he sighed.

"You rely too much on brute force as a trainer... There are other ways of winning a battle." Sorano said.

The opposing trainer simply ran away. There were only two trainers he deemed worthy of a badge thus far... It was going to be a slow year.

[Zextra]

"Ow!" Caden mumbled, trying to break free. "Well, this is a surprise..." he smiled. "It's good to see you too, Nathan. How have you been?" he asked, getting his act together. "Well, I suppose non-chatty friends seem like your type, considering you're not very chatty yourself" he joked. "Anyways, what are you doing here?" Caden asked, mildly surprised. "I thought you were still back at Sinnoh" he said, putting his Poke Ball back into his bag. "And about that contest remark, what exactly do you mean?" Caden asked, unaware of his own battling "style".

[MortalKombatSmoke]

Maximillian walked off away from the tanks and where they where heading, [i]"This plan worked perfectly. I've gotten those fools to trust me! Ha! Now I can roam the towns freely without anyone stopping me! the word will spread and no one will question me in my uniform. Dante will order the team while I send him secret orders via Dugtrio in my PC. Now I will be able to grasp the two items I need, the objects that shall awaken Palkia and Dialga! Not only will team Nebulus continue their reign of terror but I won't be to blame! And I will re create this world into a new and perfect one! One where all can see their loved ones again! One that will be a true heaven on earth!!!!"[/i]
OOC: Go kick ass villain XD

[Queen-Dragoon]

"You combine your attacks much the same way as the battling round of a contest only far faster than anything I've witnessed," Nathan explained, "I mean, I use combination attacks as well. Umbreon's Toxic Faint Attack has won me many a battle... But yours are on a much grander scale than most. Come on, I'll show you to the local coffee shop. A boy named Kier showed me it when I was visiting." Nathan began walking away for a second before he became deadly serious, "Oh, and just a warning. My good friend Sorano, the leader of the Dark gym. He is generally considered good enough to be ranked in the lower levels of this region's Elite Four. He hands out badges by stopping the battle when he believes a trainer to have proven his or her abilities. Be careful when you reach Graklus Isle."

OoC: Go dramatic foreshadowing!

[Ｄｈａｒｃ]

[color="#708090"]Dante landed in Terramean to see two trainers talking. He overheard "combination attacks" and "coffee shop." He originally wasn't going to pay attention and just blow past them so he could find what he was looking for, but he then overheard the name "Sorano." That was all he needed. "Someone like him should probably know if Giratina is connected to this place. And I'm not going to just drop by the Gym, no..." Dante began to walk toward the two people. "Excuse me, did I overhear the words 'combination attacks'? I know a few strategies with those." He didn't know who those trainers were, and he didn't want to. There was no need. They would just get in the way of his plan. To finally get rid of everyone. Especially Maximilian. He was going down.[/color]

[color="#708090"]((OOC:Fixed it))[/color]

[Zextra]

"I understand. If you say he's tough, then you must not be kidding" Caden replied as he followed his brother to the cafe. "You say someone named Kier told you of here? Oh, right! He lives in Terramean Town" Caden recalled. "I wonder how he's doing against Shibi" Caden smiled. Then, he turned to Nathan "I can't stay here long, though. I have to take a detour to Immortafreeze. The Ice Rock is there, and I need to evolve my Eevee" Caden explained as he followed Nathan. Caden hatched his Eevee in Sinnoh from the egg created from his brother's Umbreon right before he came to Cygrus.

[Zextra]

Sorry double post
OOC: we're in Terramean, not Grakus