Season 2, Episode 6: Far, Far Away

[etranger]

Aether Paradise is a manmade island that normally floats on the seas of Alola.

'Normally'.

It's currently neither on the seas, or in Alola. Surrounding the pristine white buildings of the Paradise are an overcast sky and a ruined landscape - this is the world of the Ultra Ruins. A small team of trainers in hazard suits is flying in on a variety of Pokemon, looking around the out-of-place Paradise.

As the leader dismounts from her Hydreigon, she allows the small Pokemon she's carrying in her arms to float freely as the other two Trainers with her return their Braviary and Mandibuzz before releasing a Sawk and a Throh.

The strange bottle clipped to the side of her suit bounces against her hip as she walks up to the front door of the Paradise and knocks.

"Hello? Is there anyone in here?"

Comments

[improvking]

The Spirit's eyes flick between his helmet and the unconscious Zahra a couple times, before he tosses the helmet to Mako. "These things have radios. No idea if anybody else with one survived that, but might still be useful. S'not like I need it..."

He peels off a few other pieces of the armor (dropping them unceremoniously) as he moves to join Kaiba. "The fuck set them off? Your double show up again?" He might not remember any of them much, but it still feels uncharacteristic of Zahra to just... explode. Explode and then keep on exploding,,

He isn't sure if he's worried exactly, but something is Very Wrong and - "Where's their Pyramid-thing?" They're always wearing it, what happened. That's gotta be tied to whatever went Very Wrong.

...He has an uneasy feeling there's way more Very Wrong here than he really wants to deal with. He decides to ignore that.

[inadvertentdadfigure]

The other door screeched open, considering it had no power and from the upper levels, a pair of armored hands ripped the door open. For a moment, there was silence as Tony pulled himself out of the lower levels, having come up through the lower levels, followed by Faba who looked exhausted, Peni and SP//dr who clambered up after him.

"I checked the bottom rungs with Faba and Peni and no sign of Lucy and oh I didn't know we had guests," said Tony, his armor retracting. "We have a rescue team now?"

"Oh thank god," groaned Faba, looking at the Ultra Recon Team with gratitude as he accepted a clean canteen of water from one of the medical people who bundled him in a refractive blanket and ushered him through one of Hoopa's rings.

Looking at the others, he asked, "What'd I miss?"

[lucky_peni]

"I'm guessing we missed a bit," said Peni, taking a few parts from SP//dr's arms and sending the mecha on through a ring with a reassuring pat on the arm. "I'll go on ahead Tony-dad. I'm sure I'm gonna be just in the way and someone's gotta keep Faba company. Hey, hey Seto, c'mon let's hustle! Zahra's gotta start getting heavy sometime!"

[improvking]

The Ring-Spirit realizes that uh. ...Zahra. is still wearing their Pyramid-thing's chain. Just no Pyramid-thing. What. happened...

...

The Ring-Spirit already has Ryou's complexion, but now somehow he's managing to pale more. That can't be healthy.

[etranger]

...Lusamine isn't here, huh. Well. That's.

Ominous.

Mako will just. Help organize.

[blue_ice]

"All right, then. I'm coming."

Seto responds to Peni's prodding with a snort and lugs Zahra forward, though not before he notices the spirit's staring. He looks down and...ah.

"The puzzle..."

Noa. He swallows hard and quickens his pace before anyone can see that glimmer of inconvenient emotion. Let them rest, and then he's figuring out what he has to tear apart to reassemble that puzzle.

[etranger]

Pause to consider.

"Mr. Stark! Is there anything particularly critical that needs to be evacuated?"

[inadvertentdadfigure]

"We need to get downstairs, get Alice's Arc out of storage." said Tony. "It's locked up and it'd better stay locked up. I can fly it out of there but I need another sealed box to put another box into just in case."

[etranger]

"Hoopa! You got everything set up?"

The Pokemon nods, giggling again, before floating over.

"Lead the way, Mr. Stark."

[inadvertentdadfigure]

Tony offered a shoulder for Mako to take before flying them down the chute and into the secure vault. "Fortunately there's still emergency power," he said, opening the vault and eyeballing the dangerous people-eater weapon in the box.

"I hate that thing, it gives me the heebies. Do kids still say heebies? I'm gonna toss it into the box. Friday, set repulsors to magnetize."

[etranger]

"Wiggins is old fashioned, and heebies is about a generation before that. I think we're currently at chicken skin?"

Pause.

"...so, uh, what was in that other open box? Because I'm guessing it wasn't a postit note."

The Post-it in question just says 'needed it back! phym'.

[inadvertentdadfigure]

"That would be her little kid's people-eater weapon. I seriously hope she doesn't bring it to breakfast at Guzma's table." said Tony with a groan as he magnetized the box and pulled it free from the broken moorings to drag it along the ground. "Got a box I can shove this into? I'm not opening it."

[etranger]

"They actually eat people?"

As Mako asks that, the box moves from an impact from inside.

"...forget I asked."

[inadvertentdadfigure]

"YEE-EP! Which is why I want this box locked down in your most secure facility." said Tony.

[etranger]

"Right. Hoopa, ring to the Inner Vault, please."

Hoopa nods, a little uneasy, and sends the box through.

[inadvertentdadfigure]

"And that takes care of that. Let's get back up top before anyone does anything dumb. And then you can tell me where the heck we are." said Tony with a deep sigh.