Herds On Parade

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Herds On Parade Mar 8, 2019 23:21:40 GMT -5

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Post by truenightwing on Mar 8, 2019 23:21:40 GMT -5

Thunder rolled in from the eastern forests; No one could deny that something was shaking up the land near the academy... But one cursory look to the sky would show a cloudless and bright day! Something else must have been causing the ruckus, as trees in the far distance seemed to be felled at random, and the thundering drew closer. Frankie, at the edge of the campus overlooked the oncoming assault of whatever was on their way. She held her megaphone high, turned about, and called out. "Trainers of Azure Academy! Rally to me, we may have trouble on our hands!" As flying pokemon took to the air, and the thundering drew ever so slightly closer, thoughts raced through the journalists mind.

The answer came quickly, and she only hoped it wasn't as bad as the sound had let on; A stampede, caused by what, who knows, but one thing was certain. Someone had to get out there and either at the very least, divert the herds of running pokemon elsewhere, or try and calm the herds by whatever means necessary. Frankie could never do it alone. Not with just Farsight, a companion who for all his greatness and cuteness, was no hardened fighter, not yet at least. She would need help. Of course, Frankie had her trusty camera at her side, setting it on her motorbike, ready to gather footage of the trainers in action; A dedicated journalist could never be without it.

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Herds On Parade Mar 9, 2019 0:03:37 GMT -5

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Post by erick on Mar 9, 2019 0:03:37 GMT -5

Sage had been studying the properties of plants around campus when he heard a loud megaphone and felt the ground slightly shake. He made his way over to the source of the loud sound, a woman whose volume stood out as much as her hair did. She didn't look like a student, but who knows, Azure Academy is a diverse place.
"What would that be?" he asked, hand on a Pokeball and ready to spring into action.

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Herds On Parade Mar 9, 2019 8:22:47 GMT -5

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For the first time since she arrived many months ago, Summer had managed to find herself some free time between her classes and self study time. "This damn academy had better have been worth attending. S had better know what he's talking about this time." She spoke to herself out loud in her dorm, her voice bitter, as she threw a long, black coat on and headed out from her room into the courtyard.

She looked around at her fellow students as she passed through the courtyard with a look of near disgust in her eyes. "HOW in Arceus' name did I go from being an ELITE to... this?" Summer scoffed as this thought crossed her mind and she quickly shook it off in order to not stress herself out even more. "Well, I haven't really given them a chance yet... I haven't even battled since I got here. Maybe they'll prove themselves yet." A faint smile crossed her mind at the thought of building actual friendships through battle and a shared love of Pokémon with her fellow students. She quickly shook her head in disgust at the idea of befriending one of these people.

She hadn't been in the courtyard long when she felt the floor begin rumbling underneath her. The immediate thought htat crossed her mind was an earthquake, possibly from a battle being held nearby. A quick scan of the area showed no battles in her immediate area and it seemed unlikely it would be this strong if it was coming from far away. She was about to begin panicking when she heard a girl's voice through a megaphone in the near distance. Summer rolled her eyes as the fear drained from her body and she began walking in the direction of the voice. "Of course the intrusive reporter needs us to save her. Why wouldn't she need us to save her?" Summer spoke out loud and with a sarcastic tone to her voice, but broke into a gentle run. The idea of potentially having her name in the local news was exciting to her.

It didn't take long for her to reach the edge of campus where it appeared the girl who had made an announcement, and a fellow student were waiting in anticipation for whatever was making causing the ground to shake. With one quick glance to the sky Summer could see hundreds of bird Pokémon flying overhead. At first, she was confused, but it slowly began to make sense as she slowly walked towards the two. She stopped in the middle of them and looked into the distance to see the trees shakling violently. Hey, redhead, what'd you do to cause that from all the way over here?" Summer spoke to Frankie in a snarky tone without even making eye contact.

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Herds On Parade Mar 9, 2019 19:16:13 GMT -5

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With crossed arms and a slanted grimace, Frankie shook her head at Summers pomp and circumstance that oozed an air of superiority. "For your information miss, I didn't start shit, I'm simply informing you of something certainly quite angry and quite massive headed this way! I had nothing to do with it... Until now." She brought one fist into the others palm, smirking now. "If we don't want this nice little campus getting flattened, we gotta get down and dirty and divert or fully stop this... whatever it is-Seems like a stampede to be frankly." She cracked her neck and hopped into the drivers seat of her offroad bike. "Speaking of frank-Call me Frankie, and are you coming with me or not? No shame if you don't, I can understand the fear. But if you're the finest the worlds really got then we've got a job to do!" Her enthusiasm could be said to be infectious, as she strapped in her helmet and revved up the engine.

"One of you get in the side car, and the other, hop on the back and hang on tight! It might be a bumpy ride!" The engine roared to life, Frankie awaiting a proper response from the two aspirants.

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Herds On Parade Mar 10, 2019 1:36:26 GMT -5

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Post by erick on Mar 10, 2019 1:36:26 GMT -5

Sage didn't really want to ride on the back, he very much preferred to ride in the side car but his mother raised him with manners. He turned to the rather sassy girl.
"Well, it is your choice," he offered while gesturing to the bike. With his other hand he pocketed Mothim's Pokeball, ready to use it if necessary.

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Herds On Parade Mar 10, 2019 7:07:47 GMT -5

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Post by jay on Mar 10, 2019 7:07:47 GMT -5

Summer rolled her eyes at Frankie's explanation of what she was doing but let her finish her sentence. "Hey, Raggedy Anne, it was sarcasm." Summer said before looking down at the side car of the bike and a look of pure horror mixed with disgust crossed her face. "You expect me to get in that? Have you lost your mind? I'll take the back." She hesitated for a moment but eventually walked over to the bike and hopped on the back of the bike, reluctantly holding on out of fear of getting her hands dirty. Before the bike was allowed to move, she leaned into the journalist and whispered in her ear, "By the way, if you ever imply that I'm scared again, I'll show you actual fear." She leaned back out and gave a quick look over to Sage, giving him a fake, exaggerated smile.

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Herds On Parade Mar 10, 2019 16:43:38 GMT -5

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"Hey I paid good money for this rust-bucket! She's a beauty in her own right!" She gave a harumph and sigh, awaiting for the two of them to venture onto the bike. Once they made way, and Summer made her whispered threat, Frankie could only chortle. "Pfft, ok, sure missy, you got me shakin', now get focused! We've got a disaster to avert!" With one final roar and a slight lift off the ground, the bike shot forward down the path and through the woods towards the conflict that waits them. Five minutes would pass as the rumbling grew ever more loud and noticeable, the ride having been a bit bumpier than the Journalist may have let on as she had to warn her passengers several times to duck that they might not get whipped by branches or anything similar.

The bikie came to a screeching halt however at a plateau like overpass with a singular but wide dirt road ramp leading up it and towards the Academy from where they came. A clearing lay below where the road emerged from, and the stampede would soon be upon them. Frankie got to work quick and set up her camera to record the whole of the scene from above while the trio would fight below and divert the issue. "Ok! Dismount and slide on down! Get your teams ready and lets formulate a plan...." Following her own advice with Farsight being tossed out of Frankie's ball as she hurried down the dirt slopes and into the field. Waving down her allies, Frankie called out. "SO! We takin' this on like the unstoppable force and the immoveable object? We changing the direction of the tracks, or we are calming this beast of a herd?"

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Herds On Parade Mar 10, 2019 22:08:59 GMT -5

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Post by erick on Mar 10, 2019 22:08:59 GMT -5

Sage gave a polite smile and nod back to the blonde girl on the back of the bike as he climbed in the side car. Sage did not enjoy riding in the sidecar as much as he thought he would, but it was probably still preferable to riding on the back. The car was a bit small for his lanky frame of 5'11" and the bumpy ride definitely caused him to bounce out of his seat at least a few times. Safe to say, he was happy to be able to stand after the ride.
"Well, do we have the Pokemon necessary to be able to stop all of these? That is a lot of Pokemon, and most of my Pokemon can only take one at a time," Sage responded. "On the other hand, if we can find the cause of the stampede, we may be able to stop it by fixing that. And it will be hard to get the attention of all of these Pokemon," he continued. "None of these options are particularly good ones, but unless either of you have anything better they are our only ones," he finished.

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Herds On Parade Mar 15, 2019 9:26:38 GMT -5

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Post by jay on Mar 15, 2019 9:26:38 GMT -5

Summer remained silent the entire journey with the exception of some audible sighs to let her two accomplices know that she was not happy about being here. When the bike finally began slowing, Summer allowed herself to drop off the back, taking a few extra steps to slow herself to an eventual stop. She quickly joined the other two when they stopped and listened to their ideas. "I say we split it. If we let the herd continue, it runs right into the school." She paused for a minute to slide down the slopes, remaining steady on her feet the entire time as she let the loose stones and dirt carry her down. She landed safely at the bottom and joined the other two once again. "Sage is right that we don't have the Pokémon necessary to take the entire herd on, but I wouldn't go as far as to say we couldn't distract it somehow. One of us distracts and diverts the stampede, while the other two take out whatever the source of this thing is." She seemed distracted for a second as she looked out in the direction of the herd, but snapped out of it just as quickly. "Well, we should get started with whatever plan we decide to use. Decide amongst yourselves." She said and nodded to the other two, showing some sense of teamwork for the first time since she'd met them.

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Herds On Parade Mar 17, 2019 19:43:00 GMT -5

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Post by truenightwing on Mar 17, 2019 19:43:00 GMT -5

Frankie got to thinking fast, humming a tune with urgency as she did so. With a snap of her fingers, Elgyem perked up and Frankie spoke. "Idea! Me and farsight will take the bike and get in front of the stampede, then, Farsight here can use his psychic powers to persuade the leading pokemon to follow us; Naturally the ones behind them will follow too, thinking its the correct or safer path. Then you two, with more battle oriented teams, can take on whatevers got them spooked and hopefully subdue it! Sound good?" She looked to her Elgyem first, who gave a thumbs up in approval. "What do you think Sage?"

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Herds On Parade Mar 19, 2019 22:55:19 GMT -5

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Post by erick on Mar 19, 2019 22:55:19 GMT -5

Sage mulled it over for a few seconds, trying to decide quick.
"Yeah, that plan seems satisfactory. We better put it into place fast, though. It seems to be approaching quite quickly," he said, raising his eyebrows to gesture towards it.
"On your call," he said to Frankie.

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Herds On Parade Mar 20, 2019 18:36:33 GMT -5

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Post by jay on Mar 20, 2019 18:36:33 GMT -5

Summer smiled a little as the duo agreed to her idea, with Frankie adding her own details to it. "Guess you're with me then." She looked over to Sage before folding her arms and walking calmly towards the herd. "Try to keep up, won't you?" She made one last snarky remark as she walked away from the duo.

When she'd gotten a good distance away from the two, she turned nervously to see where Sage was. Seeing that he was lagging behind a little she took the opportunity to stop and really consider what was going on. "Am I ready for this...? My training didn't cover... stampedes." She thought to herself as she began to panic. "What if I mess up? What if I'm the reason this mission fails? What if I'm the reason this herd crushes the school?" She began breathing heavily as the thoughts raced through her head and made her doubt her own abilities; her own training. It took a second but she shook her head and turned once more to see where Sage was. She noticed that he was catching up and decided it'd calm her if they made the rest of the trip together. Summer stood and waited for a few seconds for Sage to catch up, folding her arms again and putting an annoyed look on her face to keep up her facade.

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Herds On Parade Mar 22, 2019 16:55:47 GMT -5

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With the plan made, Farsight and Frankie met eyes and both bumped fists. "Fast and loose friend; We're going in hot and coming out hotter!" "Yeheeem!" With a cheer the two ran back to the bike with a bit too much enthusiasm for a duo that would need to outrun a stampede on a bike in the middle of unpathed woodlands. Maybe she wasn't the most trustworthy of adults when it came to plans but no one could say she wasn't interesting to be about. "Alright strap in! Just like back in Kanto with that pack of Tauros that nearly ran us right over!" "Breheegyemheem?" "No, no, the -other- time!" "Ooooh! Yeheee!" Helmets on. Engines revved. Unnecessary wheelie popped on the way pas the two trainers; Time to drop shock and roll.

The bike came ahead of the two trainers as planned and met up with the oncoming stampede a good three minutes before the proper threat would arrive at Summer and Sages locale. As Frankie and Farsight came over a hill, they could see the herd in it's entirety. Both of them went wide eyed. "GREHEBEGYM!" "HOLY SHIT IS RIGHT FARSIGHT!" There were maybe fifty in total, and of all types. Ryhorns, Nidokings and Queens, Tauros, swarms of bug types such as Spinaraks, Kriketots, Combees and their Vespiquens. Groups of Sudowoodo and various grass types all too came running... From what was unclear, the smoke and dust kicked up by their rampaging made it nigh impossible to see behind them. As the bike came to a screeching halt, Frankie looked to Farsight and called out. "OK! Just like we planned! Try and lure the lead pokemon here! Promise them safety! Tell them to follow the weird bike thing!" "Mmnhrm!" Jumping up onto the back of the bike, the Alien Pokemon placed it's fingers to its head and began to concentrate all of it's power on channeling a psychic message to lead the heard. As the stampedes speed increased, but tehir direction changed, Frankie realized it was working and pumped a fist. "That's it!" She froze briefly then, forgetting to get the bike moving again. "HANG ON! HERE WE GO!" Rubber burned against the dirt and rock hill as Frankie spun around most violently, and headed east, a far right away from where Summer and Sage would be.

Meanwhile, the oncoming threat that spurred the stampede continued its mad rampage straight towards the campus.... They would have little time to prepare.

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Herds On Parade Mar 24, 2019 16:05:12 GMT -5

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Post by erick on Mar 24, 2019 16:05:12 GMT -5

Sage followed after Summer with his normal walking speed.
"Well I suppose I won't be needing to try and keep up if you are going to wait for me," he said with a small smile. When they got to their destination, Sage sent out Grotle and got on its back.
"It will be easier to move around if we use something that is strong enough to counter a rampaging Pokemon headed straight for it," Sage explained as he sat down.

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Herds On Parade Mar 24, 2019 19:52:32 GMT -5

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Post by jay on Mar 24, 2019 19:52:32 GMT -5

Summer stopped suddenly as the two were hunting for the cause of the stampede and turned to Sage with a glare. "I'm the last person in this school you want to make an enemy of, Sage. Keep that in mind." She spoke quickly but made sure he'd hear her words. She turned back and folded her arms before continuing down the path.

Some moments passed before Summer noticed Sage send out his Grotle and hop on its back. She simply turned and rolled her eyes at his words before continuing to walk towards the source of the stampede. "There's no way in hell that Grotle is going to contest whatever's causi--" Summer began speaking but cut herself short when the entire area suddenly darkened around the two. "What the..." Her breathing sped up again as she looked in front of her and saw 3 huge Tyrantrum speeding towards her and Sage. The three giants hurtled towards the two trainers at extremely high speeds, causing the ground to shake beneath them. Summer almost fell to the ground but managed to maintain her footing as she threw her Pokéball to the ground, Luxio forming from a red light beside her.

Summer took a quick look towards the three Tyrantrum, examining them as she tried to decide her next move. As she looked at the three goliath sized Pokémon charging towards her, she noticed some darker patches on their scales, as well as a red, viscous liquid dripping from the monstrous jaws of the Pokémon. "Oh God, is that...?" She began but quickly stopped herself so as to not psyche herself out.

"Luxio, Ice Fang the one at the front!" Luxio moved immediately as Summer commanded him, dashing across the open area to close the gap between himself and the rampaging Tyrantrums. He made it half way and a blue energy began to form in his mouth, the air around him beginning to chill as the ice fang built up in his jaw. He leapt from his position towards the Tyrantrum and connected the ice fang onto the leg of the nearest Tyrantrum. The Tyrantrum simply cried out in annoyance before flicking his leg to knock Luxio off, sending him flying back into Summer's arms. She managed to catch him but was knocked off her feet onto the ground behind her.

"Maybe this won't be as easy as I thought it would be..." She said, gasping for air between her words as she watched the three Tyrantrum near them with every second.

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