Sweet Dreams, Timaeus

[tiredcharmer]

Who: Tyzias and a very special guest.
What: Dealing with power creep.
Where: Wilderness of Route 17
When: December 1st

Deep breath in, and out. In, and out. In, and-

Tyzias tilts a millimeter to the left, avoiding a Pangoro's furious Bullet Punch by a literal hair's breadth.

Out. Stronger, she needs to get-

She slides out of the way of its Hammer Arm and with a single, smooth motion, drives her own fist into its gut. The Pangoro stumbles back, stunned.

-stronger. She has to. She should've easily been able to beat that Beedrill back in Galar, and it nearly took her out. Why-

The Pangoro charges, attacking with a flurry of Close Combat punches that are almost too fast to track. Tyzias deflects each of them, almost bored, before jumping on the Pokemon's arm and sidekicking it right in the jaw. It faints, and Tyzias is left alone.

-isn't she strong enough? At this rate, she'll never...

Or so she thinks.

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[fallers_npcs]

The presence is all Tyzias would get as a warning, as it fills the entirety of Alola as a form drops down, floating in mid-air. Impassive, silent, judging.

"Tyzias Entykk," resonated the voice through her mind like a sharp dagger. "Child, your reckless actions and power have brought attention to the gods of this world. And you have been marked."

Mewtwo floated there, his hand outstretched, his expression impassive. "What must be done, must be done to teach you what the bonds of nature proclaims."

smite me o mighty smiter

[tiredcharmer]

Tyzias stares at Mewtwo, thoroughly unimpressed. It doesn't seem that she's gotten the memo about Mewtwo quite yet. She sighs, dragging her hand down her face. "Look, if this is about what happened in Galar, I didn't know- okay, yes, the Calamity is not a fucking toy, I know, but still that Beedrill had me on the ropes. I needed to do something."

Smiting Commencing

[fallers_npcs]

"Your actions," deadpanned Mewtwo, if one could deadpan even through telepathic communication, "threatened this worlds delicate fabric of reality. Thus, the gods of this world have deemed your presence to be difficult at best. Doing something, does not mean relying on such power."

His eyes flared as raw power, power with a capital P flooded the land, and for 20 minutes all across Alola, those with the sensitivity, could feel it. "The Deities of this Land have judged you, and have sent I, their sword to speak for them. Your powers will be stripped bare for all there is to be seen, and you will start anew."

Multiple violet Master Balls appeared, too numerous to count as they filled the night sky. "Your power will be contained, restrained, and removed. Your task, to regain it is to learn the ways of Alola, fill yourself with its light, and return to us with a new understanding of what True Power really is."

Mewtwo's eyes glowed as he gestured and the Master Balls surged forward.

"Prepare Thyself."

[tiredcharmer]

"Alright. Pony up, bitchboy, because there's no way I'm going down that easy," Tyzias growls, extending her arms to summon her blades to her side... only for nothing to happen. Damn. He meant business with the power draining thing, especially if he's managed to get to her iMog. She doesn't have a lot of time.

Fine, then. Time to bring out the big guns. Tyzias snaps her fingers, willing a [Holy Blade] into existence...

...and nothing. Shadow Flare and Lancet are also off the table. This might be bad news. Desperate, Tyzias thrusts her hand forward, summoning the Calamity Miles, then the Red Miles when she feels the power of Bahamut leave her. Nothing.

One last, desperate attack. Tyzias charges at Mewtwo, rearing back her fist- only to trip over herself. What's... wait, why can she see out of both eyes? Where did her scars go? Her calluses? Her...

She looks down at her arm, only to find it withered back down to a puny stick of a limb rather than the powerful, musclebound appendage she's grown accustomed to.

Then, all of the changes catch up to her at once, and Tyzias faints from the shock.

[fallers_npcs]

"It is done," said Mewtwo, the multitude of Master Balls floating towards him as he held his hand out, the Master Balls condensing into a single orb which formed into a singular Master Ball.

He floated into the air as the four Tapus appeared. "I have done what you have asked," said Mewtwo to the four.

Tapu Koko trilled at him. "Yes," said Mewtwo. "Her power is here. I have set out the guidelines to retrieve it."

Bulu rumbled.

"If she wishes to reclaim her power, bit by bit, then she must earn it." said Mewtwo. "There is little I can do but rely on your guidance in these matters."

Fini tinkled and Lele tilted their head. "You think it might backfire? What do you propose?"

Koko gestured down as two forms emerged from the bushes. Mewtwo nodded in understanding. "I see."

Dropping a struggling form, a Galarian Meowth grumbled at being hauled all the way from Galar to Alola, but he didn't protest as the two guardians of Galar nodded at their counterparts before fading deep into the woods once more. "I see your guidance. With any luck, these two misfits will grow strong together. I expect many things... and hope that my return will not be for another year."

Taking his leave, and the Master Ball with him, Mewtwo flew away, as with the Tapus, leaving the unconscious Tyzias, and the Galarian Meowth to sit waiting for her to wake up.

[tiredcharmer]

As soon as she recovered from dying, Tyzias was whisked off to Galar. And as soon as that whole mess was over with, she was roughing it in the wilderness fighting wild Pokemon hand-to-hand for all of two days before getting KO'd by Mewtwo. So she never actually got the chance to meet her gracious host.

Which is why when Tyzias wakes up in an unfamiliar bed with a steel weight keeping her pinned to the mattress, she panics, flailing her limbs in a comical display. It's only when she realizes that said steel weight on her chest is purring does she relax. Tyzias idly scratches her Meowth's ears for a moment before she panics again.

"SHIT!" Her powers! Nothing from her god-tier, nothing from her fragment of Bahamut, nothing from her asterisks, nothing from her spells... And to top it all off, it seems like she's lost her legitimately-gained strength and even her improved sight, judging by the fact that everything is weirdly blurry for the first time in sweeps.

Groaning, Tyzias splays out on her bed, as her Pokemon nuzzles her with its iron brush beard in its sleep. Great. Just. Great.

[fallers_npcs]

"So you're awake," said a young voice belonging to the Kahuna Hapu as she tended to the stove nearby in the small house Tyzias was staying in. "When Tapu Fini literally dragged your dumb butt in here, I didn't know what to think. Glad I'm housing a dumbbell."

She looked over at the Troll for a moment before adding, "You're a sight for someone who went toe to toe with the literally strongest non-god Pokemon in the world. You're lucky you came out alive and he wasn't here to just teach you a lesson. Meowth, let her up and come get some radish soup."

[tiredcharmer]

"I would've beaten him too, if he wasn't a dirty-" Tyzias pauses, then sighs. "Okay, I cheat plenty too. Pot, meet kettle, etc. etc." She isn't above being a hypocrite, but Tyzias will concede that Pokemon had her beat underhanded and dirty, which is how Tyzias conducts most of her fights.

As Meowth scampers off Tyzias's chest, she rolls out of bed, stumbling as she gets used to being all skin and bone again rather than a musclebound hunk. "What was that thing's name again? Doublenya?"

[fallers_npcs]

"Mewtwo," replied Hapu, spooning up some soup and placing it on the table before gauging Tyzias. She was definitely the kind of person not to accept help to get to the table that was for certain.

"The most powerful Pokemon on the planet, next to the Deity Pokemon in all of the Regions. They say he was engineered from the genes of Mew, the original Pokemon whom all life was born. With many unknown powers, he grows stronger every time he is sighted. The last time he was sighted was in Ryme City, about six, maybe eight months ago when a industrialist used his powers to merge people and Pokemon together."

"Eat," said Hapu. "Regain your strength. You've got a long day of training ahead of you with your new Pokemon. Tapu Fini didn't just bring you to me for no reason other than to push past your obvious weaknesses."