TEST 8.

[azumods]

FLOW. The feeling of pressure in here is immense. It's stronger than it was with Darkrai, something you can feel down to your core, something that you couldn't shake off even if you tried; there's nothing to do but power through it. Saturn, for his part, either isn't feeling it at all or is incapable of reacting in any sort of appropriate way even if he could; he simply continues to regard you from across the room, his words hanging heavy in the room. It's a far cry from his behavior during the first month you were here; he was civil then, willing to do you favors in exchange for the chance to talk to you. It's plain that he will be doing no such thing today; it may be difficult to know where to start, really. Especially when your Pokémon don't seem to be doing well - whatever's happening here, they seem reluctant, even unwilling, to fight anything in this room. Perhaps it's not surprising; the energy in the room is likely familiar to them, and it's the sort associated with someone deciding to take their spirit away last time it was angered. Whatever the reason, you're on your own for now; whatever happens is your choice, and yours alone.

Comments

[greydients]

[....yeah if you didn't want her to be instantly concerned, you could have said you were doing like. literally anything else]

...we met him, a few weeks ago. He's...

[...]

...I can see why you wanted to work for him.

[azumods]

It's good to know that you understand at least that much. Though I still doubt that all of you are willing to come back to us...?

[greydients]

I'm surprised you'd still want to take us back.

[aka please god, no. She's talking to you, Cyrus.]

Judging by how your master treated us, I would've thought you'd consider us lost causes.

[azumods]

I don't believe in lost causes. Personally speaking.

[niceoppai]

You sure seemed to. Why else would you wanna destroy how happy and alive the world was?

[azumods]

Again, our mission and our vision is one of lasting peace. Such a thing has been secured. That's all there is to it.

[niceoppai]

[She grimaces and shrinks back. She really doesn't want to make snarky comments when they're at a disadvantage, even if everyone else seems to think it's a good idea. They could die????????]

I dunno. Everyone's right, you are different. I know Cyrus said you were all okay, but according to people who knew 'im, even he wasn't acting all right back then...

[azumods]

I have no reason to doubt or fear anything anymore. Everything is as it should be.

[niceoppai]

I mean, uh, no offence, but kidnapping people and torturing gods and taking away free will are not really things that should happen anywhere ever?

[She's looking around nervously as she says this, though.]

I know you didn't like your life before, but...

[azumods]

My life before all this doesn't matter anymore.

[niceoppai]

Maybe not to you right now. But nothing's really gone forever.

[azumods]

I'm not that person anymore. I made a point of ensuring it.

[niceoppai]

You're seriously creeping me out.

[greydients]

[.....]

Do you extend that line of thinking to yourself?

[azumods]

That's for Master Cyrus to decide.

[greydients]

...we've experienced first-hand what happens when he does consider you to be a lost cause, so. You're obviously doing something right.

[...]

What do you want from us, Saturn?

[azumods]

I believe you're the ones that came here...?

[greydients]

We were, yes. We're trespassing. Yet you haven't made a move against us, so I suppose that's something.

[...SHE IS NOT TRYING TO DO A MORAG HERE, BY THE WAY, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTINUE NOT DESTROYING THEM]

I'm just...

[...

Sighing again, Rey looks down at the floor, shaking her head.]

I'm...disappointed, that's all. Seeing you like this, it's...I mean, it's stupid, because it isn't like we're friends or anything like that, but...I don't know. After our first meeting, I was really hoping you'd...come around.

But I'm afraid I'm too late to help you like I promised.

[......]

...like we promised, rather.

[azumods]

I don't need you to help me. Everything that was standing in my way - the imperfections that were holding me back - have been destroyed. All is as it should be, now, and I'm grateful to Master Cyrus for it.

[greydients]

[God, she is really getting sick of all you sad, damaged people-]

What about Toxicroak?

[azumods]

What about her...?

[He's aware of where this is probably going, but you know what, if we're going to do this, let's get it the hell out of the way.]

[greydients]

What about her...?

[Rey doesn't bother to try and mask the incredulous nature of that response-how could he...]

You don't...care anymore? About what he did to her?

[azumods]

I wouldn't say that I don't care. But it's not going to hold me back anymore, either.

[greydients]

[...oh.]

...it wasn't holding you back in the first place. You're the one who told me about how humans and Pokemon used to be so close, how they'd appear in the wild to try and prove they were worthy of aiding us. You made me understand that Pokemon battles...they're not violence for violence's sake, they're a display of the bond between a trainer and their Pokemon.

It's why I wanted to battle you so badly; so I could see...how it is, when a person and their Pokemon have grown up together. I never experienced anything like that throughout my childhood, so...

[God, this is getting horribly personal and she really should just shut up and consider this man a lost cause, but-]

...you're so lucky. To have that, I mean. That connection, that...history.

At least that's something Cyrus can never take from you.

[azumods]

[That's. Mm.

...This is wholly beside the point and not going to assist anything he's doing here, but she mentioned it and he wants to know, so- ]

Were you not close to anyone, growing up? You speak as though you weren't.