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Who: Rise Kujikawa and Minako Aino
What: Two ditzes go exploring
When: After they're performed/Soulfasted out
Where: The Ancient Battleground
Summary: Rise and Minako owe each other a break from hectic Union stuff, so they go exploring some sweet ruins.

Wanting to offer Minako proper transportation (and to make it exceedingly clear to her friends she was taking a break for a while), Rise brings her Gyarados along as flying transport for both of them. It's nice to travel in style, and Namazu is happy to really stretch her wings.

Rise's happy to get out herself, but she frowns looking out over the landscape. "Man, it's kinda bleak out here," she says. "I hear there's a lot more interesting stuff underground, though. Wanna land and look for a way down?"

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"Underground?" Minako looked down. Flying wasn't a bother for her anymore, thanks to having flown several times on her own flying types.

She was curious, though.

"Alright, yeah. Let's try that."

Rise asked Namazu to land near one of the ruins with standing walls remaining, trying to avoid sinkhols, and hopped down to the scrubby ground.

"Yeah, supposedly a lot of ruins wound up underground, like in the Swamp. I'm not sure if that's because stuff tends to sink over time or if it was built down there..."

"You know... I always wondered about that." She chuckled a bit as they landed on the ground. "Like... do they get buried by dirt piling on top of them? Or like you said, do they sink? Were they built underground to begin with?" She shrugged. "It always seems kinda weird."

She looked around.

"A place like this, though... Usually ruins and battleground sites have lots of ghost Pokémon. We'll have to avoid using Normal type moves."

Rise nods. "Yep! In fact, most of my usual team's kind of at a disadvantage here, but at least I don't have to worry about Ghost attacks, and you can pretty much beat up any Dark-types that try to eat me..."

She fiddles with her Warp Band. "Although speaking of both of those...how are you around Spiritombs? I uh, figured I'd bring mine and scare off all the smaller ghosts."

"A Spiritomb?" She considered it. "That's a ghost/dark, right?" She shrugged a little. "I'm okay with that."

For her own purposes, she had picked her Sylveon and Aggron. Hopefully, Aaron wasn't feeling too lazy today. She also had her Staraptor, but he might not do well underground. But the Persian and Dragalge should be helpful. She also brought her Chingling, but she needed to make sure the little bell Pokémon didn't panic at the wrong time. She was hoping some of their training recently would help with that.

"Do you think I should switch out Rico for something else? Something that isn't a flying type?"

"Depends how much he likes to spread his wings, I guess. I know Namazu isn't going to fit down there."

Rise concentrates on her Warp Band, and then she's backed by a hideous amalgamation of departed spirits who are quite keen on getting the local wild Pokémon talking about their relationships with their mothers. A Spiritomb's gotta eat, and Himiko sparkles at her whenever she tries to get food from things that aren't psychoanalysis.

"Actually...something to carry us down in there would be a good idea too," Rise says, looking out for the nearest sinkhole. "No one said anything about stairs..."

Minako nodded.

"Yeah... I'm not sure. If no one's been here in a long time, then the stairs might just be gone."

She held her own Warp Band out, and, sure enough, Rico was there. The Staraptor was much smaller than the Gyarados. He could carry one on his back and another with his feet. For dropping down into a hole, that wouldn't be terrible.

"Do you want to ride on his back?" Minako would at least offer the more comfortable travel method to Rise first.

"You sure you don't mind?" Rise asks. It suddenly occurs to her that neither of them were really anyone you'd expect to find diving down into a cave. The power of the promise of meeting new Pokémon, she guesses. "Well, if you're fine..."

Rise gives Rico a pat and a brief introduction before climbing up on his back. "Ready when you are."

She nodded.

"It shouldn't be too bad. He's carried me like that before." Granted, that was mostly just in urgent situations and in their stage routines, but whatever... "Ready, Rico?" He nudged his head against Rise's hand. He certainly didn't mind another pretty lady riding on his back! He hoped all those lady flying types were watching... right? right? He glanced about as she climbed on, only mildly disappointed there wasn't anyone around to impress with his prowess. Once Rise was settled, he spread his wings and lifted off. Minako reached up, and they grabbed each other, hand in talon, and he was off down the hole.

No worries! He was gentle!

Namazu is a lady Flying-type, bro, but you probably wouldn't want her attention even if she hadn't been warped out.

The lovely duo and their bird companion drop down the nearest pit in the ground and into a voluminous tunnel system with enough room for Rico to spread his wings. Similar to the Ruins in the swamp, the walls are clearly manmade and seem almost like buildings that sank into the earth rather than something that was built below ground to begin with.

"See anything you want to look at?" Rise calls down. She can feel Pokémon - nervous, aggressive, territorial - all around, but had difficulty seeing any of them in the dim light of sinkholes and the cluttered, ruined floor.

"Hm." Minako looked around as Rico landed next to her. "Well, we can follow down a bit to see where others have been and check for anything that looks like it hasn't been explored, yet." Everything in the immediate area looked like it had been recently explored. They would likely need to go deeper.

"I brought a light with me." Since she didn't have a Pokémon with Flash, Minako often carried something with her to light the way when she explored dark tunnels. "Do you need one?"

Rise shakes her head, warping in her Vulpix, who cheerfully yips and starts glowing like a torch. "Inari here sheds enough light for me, especially in a fight. I've got Kaneda to brighten the place up too, but he doesn't like caves as much. Or ghosts."

"Oh, wow!"

Minako was impressed. She'd never actually seen a Pokémon do that before just to light up an area like that. She really needed to get one of hers to learn it.

"Is that Flash?"

"Nope!" Rise says. "That's me cheating with an ability that summons bright daylight. Inari picked it up while we were in the Dream World once."

"It'll fade out after a couple minutes, though, so we should look around quick."

"Oh, neat. Good idea." Minako nodded.

"Maybe split up a bit, but not too far." She nodded to Rico, and then tuned her own band a bit to summon Artemis, her Persian, and Eros, her Sylveon, setting them off to explore a bit, too, around the area they were currently in.

"Right," Rise says.

"I can use my Englightened powers to keep track of where we are and talk to you over a distance, if you don't mind me thinking at you," she offers.

Whether Minako's alright with that or prefers to use Warp Bands instead, Rise will take the high road, investigating a tumbled-down rockslide/ramp that might lead back up to the surface.

"Thinking at me?" Minako looked curious. She'd never done that with someone before. "Would you be able to hear me back?"

Yep! Rise says telepathically by way of demonstration. Just sort of think about talking to me and then form the words in your head. It's really handy for missions and exploration stuff because we don't have to yell.

!!!

"Oh wow! That's really cool!" Minako concentrated, maybe trying a little too hard.

Like this?

No need to shout, but yep, you've got it!

Oh! Sorry... She toned it down pretty quick. Better?

Perfect! Also, you should sorta be able to talk to your Pokémon this way using me like a radio tower, she says. Or that's how it works for bigger groups. I don't translate, but you can think at them like you'd normally talk to them.

Oh cool! Okay.

She nodded.

"So, I'll head off this way, and we can meet back here once we're done." She considered for a moment. "Maybe count off about a hundred paces or so?"

"Sounds good," she says. I'll think at you if I find someone or something interesting.

With that, she heads off with her glowing and shadowy companions, checking over one of the rockslide-ramps leading into the tunnels to see what it might have once been.

Okay!

Minako headed off the other way with her flashlight and companions. It wasn't long before she squealed loudly and they came running back from that direction being chased by a blue rock person that looked like it was wearing a martial arts outfit.

Edited 2016-02-06 03:52 (UTC)

What a coincidence. Rise's running in the opposite direction being chased by a Mightyena while her Pokémon just sort of follow along trying to figure out why Rise's running.

Ah! Uh, wanna trade?

[Minako was a bit surprised, but sure!]

Okay! Let's give this a try.

[She pointed to her right, indicating she was going that way, and then dodged.]

[Rise, mostly through practice working with certain other actresses, dodges to her own right, making a smooth juke with Minako...then getting slammed into by the wild Sawk.]

Ow. Right. Part Normal. Not resistant. Ow.

[The Mightyeana, for its part, just sits down and looks confused at Minako. Play?]

Huh?

[Minako stopped at seeing the Mightyena pause.]

What's this?

[But Eros, her Sylveon, caught on right away. Play! The Fairy-type bounced around suddenly, crouching and trying to invite the other dog-like Pokémon to play around.

Meanwhile, the Sawk in question was a little punch happy... even if it wasn't aiming at Rise, it just... liked punching things.]

Edited 2016-02-27 06:18 (UTC)

[The Mightyena snuffles and starts getting excited, bouncing up and down. Not a lot of Fairy-types here.]

[Meanwhile, Rise carefully stands up, rubbing what's going to be a nice bruise but otherwise not turned into a paste.]

...uh. You think these guys are just happy to see people?

It seems like it, right?

[The Sawk came back towards Minako and punched the wall next to her. She squealed, ducking under a shower of dust and pebbles. The Pokémon wasn't trying to hurt her. It looked more like it was trying to impress her.

Eros bounced around the Mightyena and gave a playful nudge.]

[The Mightyena bats back, also playfully, before licking himself for a moment.]

Minako...I think we found dorks.

[She straightened back up and dusted herself off, giggling a little.]

I think so, too.

Do you think they want to come with us?

[Eros tilted his head. Heeeeyyyy... what was with the washing?

Sawk looked about ready to punch something else, but Minako didn't want it to destroy the place! These were still ancient ruins, after all, and others might be interested in finding wall paintings and things.]

Oh! You can stop now!

[And, surprisingly, it listened.

Minako looked surprised.]

You talk to the punching guy and I'll talk to the uh...confused one using Lick?

[She gestures with her Warp Band.]

Mm! [Minako nodded.] That sounds like a good idea!

[She lifted her Warp Band as well, focusing on the rock-like Pokémon, and started to talk to it gently. It definitely seemed receptive, and, in a few moments, she had a new friend.]

It's called a Sawk.

{OOC: Sorry it took so long to respond. I had a lot going on and I wanted to focus on the game events. I think this is close to wrapping up, anyway. ^_^;;}

((Absolutely no problem. And I think we've kinda covered this.))

[Rise is not entirely comfortable with her Warp Band conversation results of the Mightyena flopping over for a belly rub, but you know, she'll take it.]

Aaaaand this scary-looking guy acts like every other dog Pokémon. We're good at this.

{OOC: Agreed. ^_^}

We were lucky, I think. [Relatively speaking. Not that they weren't good at the bonding, but they seemed to have ended up with dorky but decent Pokémon in the process.] Do we want to head back?

I think we can look around a little more, but it looks like the main attraction here was the Pokémon...

[She chuckled a little.]

Alright. How about this way?

[And there was definitely more exploring to be done before heading back!]

{OOC: Call it here?}

((Yep!))

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I'm just gonna switch to her new account now, sorry continuity

no problem :)

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