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[AcetheKidd]

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Male|17|Location: Violetport City|Tags: Percy(?)

"Excuse me, patron me! oh man, i think late.." Indeed he was late. In fact, Micheal missed Milli's little speech. Well, not all of it. He heard her say something about clones doing something across the region. By the looks of it, sounded like the region was in a pickle thanks to these clones. Micheal's best bet was to go around and ask people what was going on. It was his own fault really, Micheal was exploring the city, trying to get a map for the region, Normally what people do when they come to a new region. The young trainer had forgotten about the speech, he was so excited that he manged to lose track of time. Oh well,He'll figure out what's going on soon. However, people where surprisingly rude. They either told him to figure it out on his own, told him it was his fault for being late, or just ignored him.

"Geez..these trainers are rude. Now what are we going to do Jolteon?" Micheal glanced down at his partner, who seem to be scanning the area for someone else who could help them out. The pokemon soon spotted someone in the distance, looked like he was just watching the others. The man didn't look like the nicest person in world, but it wouldn't hurt to interact with him. Besides, you shouldn't never judge a book by it's cover." Wait Jolteon, where are you going?" Micheal soon found out that his pokemon lead him to trainer that he studied for a moment." Oh ummm..hey there. Hate to bother you but..would you mind telling me what that speech was about?"

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Male|26|Location: Violetport City|Tags: open

The new region seem promising, he could already tell that some strong trainers rested here. That was good, Calem was ready to face them all. His goal was to improve his self, not make friends are any of that stuff. To him it was cheesy and having friends only slowed im down. Well, he only thought that because he has been alone most of his life. Didn't no one look after him but his self.Maybe...his view of having friends and those you could depend would change soon. Of course he didn't think anything was change, but if he just meet the right people...maybe his closed heart would open. Anyway, friends or no friend, Calem would most likely be alright on his own. He's gotten this far without anyone

As the man continued to explore the city, he noticed that a group of people where flooding into building. He was Curious in what was going on..maybe a battling contest? heck yeah, he totally was going to enter. However, it wasn't no contest...it was a cry of help. Calem decided to stay and listen, he had nothing else to do." Leader of the region and a team? she must be a strong trainer." he snorted abit. Help the region? become a hero? nah, he didn't do a hero thing, but fighting those clones she mentioned sounded like fun. Yep, he was game, but he was only doing this to test his pokemon's power." Clones. Alright. This should be a simple test for my pokemon. Afterwards..i'll conquer this region's league with no problem."

[dinolover519]

Kit Holly
Female/Scientist/17
Location: violetport debrief backroom
Tags: open

Kit handled the coffee carefully from hand. She thought that perhaps she had prepared it too warm, as it was starting to burn her palms. Adjusting herself, she got her foot caught in the chair and tripped herself up, the coffee flying from her hand. Just as the previous caffeine almost spilled onto the floor, the drink and drops stoped, floating two inches from the floor. Kit turned and grinned. “Thanks Hecate.”

The shiny Umbreon telekinetically fixed her trainer’s error and handed the cup to her. “What would I do without you?” She rubbed her partner’s fur happily, who purred in response. “Bre!”

Just like a human would change their clothes day to day, the eeveelution changed her outfit as well. Today she was wearing one of her favorite costumes, a witch hat and cape decorated with emblems of the moon. Even though it made both Hecate and Kit look childish, the shiny Umbreon refused to part with it, and insisted on wearing it at least twice a week.

Kit patted her lap and her Pokémon leapt up into it, rubbing against her trainer happily. The comfort of the blue and gray creature helped calmed Kit’s nerves. Hopefully the coffee could achieve something similar with her boss.

Ruby
Female/Hex Maniac/ 18
Location:route between Moorhead and Brooklyn’s
Tags: open

Ruby walked in complete silence. Master Darkrai had wandered off into the shadows, likely following her from close behind. She didn’t dare request that he show himself and simply continued on her way. The plan had only been lightly told to her. Begin in Moorhead, head to Lorhill, and then on to wildecoast city. As she walked along, she seldom saw another person. They’re all too afraid of the clones at Moorhead... She let out a small shudder, flashing back to that horrible night when she had- She stopped herself, aware of Darkrai’s eyes on her, and continued on.

Lillie
Female/Trainer/17
Location: violetport debrief
Tags: open, Millicent,Caelan

After debating to herself for a moment, she decided the best course of action would be to ask a few questions. Lillie waited patiently behind another trainer. She tried her best not to eavesdrop and instead pulled out a small novel from her pocket and began reading. Soon enough, she had tuned out the others around her, completely absorbed in the fictional world of her book. When she read the novel, her green eyes lit up with excitement, her mind in another world of its own reading. Fiction or nonfiction, she would devour any words that passed past her eyes.

Andrew
Male/Trainer/14
Location: violetport (Street)
Tags: open

Bud trailing behind him, Andrew walked over curiously, eavesdropping on the various trainers who were walking from the large hall. As he travelled he caught snippets of conversations. “-help with the clones-” -“can’t believe-“ “-distress call from Team Clone-“

Whatever the mater was, tons of trainers from around the globe seemed to be gathered in this city. “Hey Bud, I don’t think we’re in Kanto anymore...” he joked to his partner, who rolled his eyes in response.

[M2627]

Suzume Murasaki ~ Alolan Champion ~ Tags; Blue
Location; Violetport ~ Team status; 6/6 healthy ~ Active; Kasumi(Shiny Umbreon)

Suzume had stayed near the back of the crowd during the briefing. She had decided to come just to help out with the clone issue to keep Alola safe. Or at least, that was what she told the Elite Four and the kahunas. In reality her main reason was that wanted to get away from the League. It got exasperating being called to the League as soon as she sat down with a cup of tea every time. Her attention was drawn back to her surroundings, her eyes followed the Team Clone leader as she spoke for a moment. That smile seemed fake to the Alolan Champion. And the garish pink shirt she was wearing made Millicent impossible to miss, even from this far back. The colour of that shirt was the most hideous colour known to man, in Suzume’s opinion. Shaking her head, Suzume moved to the side and away from the doors as the rest of the trainers left the building. Suzume was going to wait until everyone was gone and the doors were no longer a congested mess she’d have to suffer through. No, she’d just wait it out and then leave as soon as it was clear. Leaning against a wall, she glanced around the room, noting a few had remained. A small orange form running down a hallway caught her attention, a Flareon, possibly, and moments later she spotted the person who probably owned it. What were they doing letting their Pokémon just run loose like that? Staring at the figure for a moment, she recognized him almost immediately, though she had to admit it was weird seeing him without the black shades he wore nearly all the time in Alola. He had actually looked a little cool in them... Suzume shook her head. Why was she even thinking that? Turning her gaze to the woman at the podium, Suzume made her way across the room when the Team Clone leader wasn’t looking and towards Blue, her umbreon following her closely. Of course she was careful not to let him see her as well. It was extremely tempting to tap him on the shoulder and say “boo” just to try scare him, but the look Kasumi was giving her deterred the Champion from doing so. Instead, she spoke in a hushed tone as soon as she was standing behind him.

“Is Viridian’s gym really so boring that its own leader is barely ever around? A shame. I was thinking I might try beating it if I ever visit Kanto. It’ll be hard to challenge the gym leader himself if he’s always out like this.” She wasn’t that surprised to see him here on Acrea. As far as she knew, he was always looking for some excuse to get away from his gym. To be fair, she sympathized with that. The League was a hassle to manage, and most of her time went into it. Though she still wanted to beat him in his gym in front of everyone, and that would be difficult if he wasn’t around. “So... what are you doing back here?” If she wer to a wild guess, she’d assume he was sneaking in and sending his Flareon ahead. That was stupid though. No one outside of Team Clone was supposed to be back there. On the other hand... there could be some useful information to find back there. It annoyed her that Team Clone’s great leader hadn’t shared more information about the clones with them. Maybe something else was causing the clones to go berserk, like the Millicent woman had said. But at the same time, maybe the cloning process was what did it and Team Clone was lying, most likely to protect their reputation. Whatever it was, it would be nice to know. Of course, she was getting ahead of herself. She didn’t know for certain that he was doing that. ”Everyone else’s is long gone, but you don’t seem to want to leave just yet.” Suzume glanced over at the woman standing on the podium. She was currently talking with a strange man, and another girl was standing close by, her nose in a book. That was a relief. It probably looked suspicious, standing here, but no one had even seemed to noticed. “Where’d your Flareon go, by the way? I saw him running off down some hallway.” Come to think of it, wasn’t that hallway one of the ones that lead to the team’s base? “He probably shouldn’t be back there.” Glancing at the far hallway for a moment, and then the people on the podium, she slipped past Blue and into the hallway, muttering under her breath. “What trainer just lets their Pokémon run loose into a possibly dangerous situation?” Kasumi sighed in exasperation and beckoned Blue to follow before jogging after her trainer.

[Ploegy]

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26 | Female | Location: Violetport City | Tagged: Caelan & Lillie

Compensation. Now someone sounded greedy. Sure he went on to say he wasn't against doing something for free, but to even think of such a question spoke volumes to his character in her eyes. It wasn't as if she had forced anyone to come here to help them nor was she forcing them in any manner. All she had done was ask for help yet she was being asked if she was going to provide compensation. He did realize how many she would have to do such for, right? It'd be impossible to make sure everyone was rewarded once this was all over. Hearing him continue on, Millicent quirked a brow at his next question. So he was curious about what they had cloned, but more specifically focused on Mewtwo. She supposed there were tied that could be pulled from the Mewtwo case to this, but this case was quite different than the Mewtwo one as well for they did not keep clones trapped within a lab like it had been said Mewtwo had been. Clones were released into the wild as soon as they proved to be in stable condition. Of course that wasn't the question though. He wanted to know whether or not she had cloned an already existing clone. For that she had a very simple answer, though she could not give it just yet since he continued to ramble off yet another question and gave her no time to answer either of the previous ones. Crossing her arms over her chest as she listened to the final question, Milli finally rose to her feet. In a way it insulted her that someone would think Acrea needed such supplies. Even with the issues at hand, the region still was standing on its own in terms of supplies. There were only a few locations that truly were struggling, but it'd be impossible to directly import supplies from elsewhere without running into said problems in the process. Even so the Acrean people were doing their best to keep supplies arriving in said locations.

"It is quite bold of you to be asking about compensation when a region is asking for aid. Making sure every trainer that even helps in the slightest would be nearly impossible and others could lie by saying they assisted when in fact they did not," she finally began, dropping her arms from her chest and placing one on her hip. Of course she wasn't against repaying trainers, but in this situation it was something that seemed impossible to do thus she had no plans of it. It might make her seem evil in a sense, but there was only so much she could do to repay those who answered her call. Besides, she knew heroes stepped up in other regions before and weren't rewarded for the work they did. They simply went on with their lives. Sure some became champions in the end, but others lived simple lives. They were never given anything for what they accomplished. Those were the kind of trainers she was hoping to attract to her own region. "As for our clones, I can say no. There is no Mewtwo. It is quite difficult to clone a clone. Besides, DNA is needed for cloning so there aren't many legendaries that we have cloned up to this point." Shifting her weight, she was more than ready to be done with these questions by now. None of these really were ones she was expecting to have thrown at her. If anything she thought some trainer would ask where the worst locations were and where they should start, but she supposed she had thought wrong. "And to round out these answers, no, you do not need to do that. Our source of supplies has been just fine in most of the region. Those affected greatly by clones would be nearly impossible to reach otherwise without the problems we already have so it would prove pointless. Now, if you'll excuse me. I have others to attend to."

Looking past Caelan, Millicent's eyes landed on the girl that stood behind him. Her focus was on a book she had, but she figured that it was just to past the time until she was able to ask whatever questions she had. Hopefully it wouldn't take too long. She figured once she was done with this one she could make her exit and return to her work. It didn't seem that many other trainers were sticking around anyways. That was fine by her. Taking a step past Caelan, she approached Lillie and looked down at her with a smile upon her lips. "And what can I help you with today, little one?"

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21 | Male | Location: Violetport City | Tagged: Suzume

Scoffing softly as he heard mention of his gym, Blue knew exactly who had approached him without even needing to look. "Bold of you to assume that the gym doesn't stay open even when I'm away," he replied plainly. He had his ways of running his gym though he knew she wouldn't know such a thing. Besides, very few trainers came by with seven badges so it wasn't a big deal that he wasn't always there. Plus it hadn't been his own idea to come here. He simply took up the offer that had been given to him. "And who says you'd even beat it anyways? Just because your a champion doesn't mean you are inherently stronger than me." That was something that irritated him. Sure he may only be a gym leader, but he too had been a champion at one point in time. He was definitely not pushover like some tried to make him out to be. Giving a small shake of his head, he finally shifted his gaze to look towards the Alolan champion though he still didn't leave his place leaned up against the wall. Hearing her fire yet another question, he gave a small roll of his eyes. He thought she wasn't one that liked talking so why was she being so nosy with what he was doing. Why else would he be in this place? "Why am I back here? I'm guessing you mean, why am I here and that answer should be obvious. I'm here to deal with this clone issue like everyone else." His words were cold and straight to the point as they always were. He never was one that would beat around the bush. Besides, he wanted to be left alone at the moment. The less attention he had, the better, but of course what he was planning had to be put on hold until he was able to shake Suzume off. It was times like these that he wished he had Red around rather than anyone else. At least he didn't bother him and would go off and do his own thing. He supposed not everyone could be quiet like his rival though.

As she continued to talk, Blue was beginning to wonder why she even cared what he was doing. He wasn't acting suspicious or anything else. For all she knew he could be waiting until nobody was with the Team Clone leader. It seemed that she only had her mind set on one thing though and it was that he was somehow being shady. What an annoyance. When she questioned about a flareon, he gave a quirk of his brow. How would she even know he had one to begin with. It hadn't been with him in Alola nor had he used it since his early days in Kanto. Most of the time it had stayed with his sister that was until recently when he decided to add it back to his team. "My Flareon? Don't you know I use an Arcanine, not a Flareon?" he questioned, but by the time the question had even escaped his lips she had already taken off in the direction his pokemon had gone several minutes ago. Did she really not know how to keep her nose in her own business? Glancing in the direction she had gone off in, he knew better than to immediately follow. That was why he had let Flareon go off on his own first. It would draw less suspicion that way and it wasn't as if this was the first time it had been sneaking around a base either. He supposed Suzume wouldn't know about that though. Most people had no idea he had even been involved with the Team Rocket fiasco years ago. Sure he played only a small part, but he still had been there. Red had just done most of the work.

Pondering whether or not he should follow her, Blue let a soft sigh escape his lips. This was going to be annoying, that was for sure, but he wasn't going to let her try to mess with the plans he already had. Moving his gaze towards the makeshift stage, he noticed Millicent was still preoccupied by some trainers that had approached to ask questions. He might as well take this as his chance to sneak around. Pushing himself off the wall, the Kanto gym leader finally made his break for the back hall in silence. Up ahead he could see Suzume already there, but he paid her little mind as he glanced towards the doors he passed. It was hard to tell what was inside and when he tested the knob on some of them, it was clear that they were locked. That was to no surprise at all. After a moment longer, he finally caught up with the Alolan champion and looked towards her with narrowed eyes. "You're chasing after a pokemon that you don't even know who it belongs to. For all you know it could be one of the Team Clone member's pokemon and you just walked into a dangerous situation without thinking," he pointed out, refusing to say that it was his own companion.

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17 | Male | Location: Dragonlea Island | Tagged: Kichirou

His attention was immediately drawn from the figure he saw up ahead when the sound of a screech came from behind him. The detective didn't even have to turn to know what it was. He could infer it for himself. Surely it had to be a clone of some sort though based on its cry, he couldn't directly place it. He could assume it was a dragon type to match the island name. That was the least of his worries though. Up to this point he really hadn't come into direct contact with a clone. He had seen them from a distance, but hadn't gotten up close with them for obvious reasons. He should have known coming here would change that. The man running the ferry had warned him of such yet he pushed off such things in order to further his own investigation. That was the risk he had to be willing to take to solve the mystery that had been laid before him. Alfonse was about to whip around and begin a counterattack of his own when he noticed a dragonite speeding past him in the direction of whatever was behind him. Glancing back where he had previously seen the figure, he noticed it was no longer there, but instead running towards him. Clearly it had spotted the danger and possibly thrown out their own pokemon to protect him before he even could do anything. Was he becoming slow already? That was a shame. He was sure Raiden or even Lucius would have been ready to fight whatever clone had come to attack him. At least he wouldn't need to try and slow it down then. Allura would be enough to assist the dragonite. Glancing over his shoulder, Alfonse finally took in what exactly had been coming to attack him. A salamence. Just as he had expected, a dragon type. It was quite befitting.

Nevertheless, he figured he should lend a hand. Looking at Allura, he gestured it to leave his side and to move towards the salamence. "Use nasty plot and then follow up with a psychic, got it?" he told the legendary. Giving a small nod of its head, Allura took off from its trainer's side and off to assist the dragonite. Having no worries that azelf would be alright for the moment, Alfonse shifted his attention back in the direction of the person that had been coming towards him. Now that it was close he could tell that it was a male and one that was older than him at that. He had no clue as to why he might be on the island, but he had no desire to ask such questions at the moment. Those could wait until the threat was taken care of. "No need to worry too much about me," he finally directed towards Kichirou as he tucked his hands into the pockets of his jacket. For being in immediately danger, the young detective showed very little concern. It was something he had learned to deal with in his time in the trainee program. Besides, it bothered him that this other felt the need to help him. If there was one thing he hated it was getting assistance in a battle situation. The only kind of help he wanted was others giving him the information he sought from them.

"Given that you jumped into action right away, I can safely assume that this is one of the rampaging clone pokemon, correct?" he decided to ask. It was bad timing, but unlike the other questions he had, he figured it had to do with what was at hand.

[Feral Fangs]

Caelan Blake
Male
Trainer/Team Rocket Executive
Location: Violetport City
Tags: Open

Caelan smiled lightly, "You've answered all my questions, and I'm thankful for your time. If there's a specific place you'd like me to start, I'll be on my way. Otherwise, I'll just head off and see how things work out." Caelan waved goodbye as he turned around and head back out of the building. He looked at his arm and tapped his watch, bringing up a holographic feed. "All right boys, good news and bad news. Good news, there's no Mewtwo clone. Bad news, we don't get compensated or need to import supplies. That being said, Team Rocket will still be operating in the Acrea Region, but for now, we help the natives out, that's all. Caelan out." before the holographic feed cut off and Caelan continued walking out of the building

[dinolover519]

Lillie
Female/Trainer/17
Location: violetport debrief
Tags: open, Millicent,

Lillie flinched at the term “little one”. Her hand shook a tad as she tucked away her book. Little one. She could practically see the face of her mother right before...She nodded politely to Millicent as the other trainer pushed past. “I-i...” She cleared her throat and pushed her memories aside. “I was curious if you had any data I could look through. I understand if it’s private and you must decline, but I’m much faster at combing through information than wandering in the wilderness looking for clones.” She thought for a moment. “Really, any form of list, or structured, no, even unstructured data, could help., population demographics of clones, list of all current clones, specific behaviors to look out for...” she trailed off and then focused back to Millicent. She brushed a strand of her bangs from her eyes awkwardly. No other trainer had approached the leader to ask about this and she silently hoped she wasn’t stepping out of line.

[Ploegy]

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26 | Female | Location: Violetport City | Tagged: Lillie

Seeing the girl flinch at her words, Milli could only assume that she either had taken her by surprise or she was not comfort with what she had said. Maybe her habit of calling those visibly younger than herself was something she needed to try and snap. That was something to think of for another time though. For now she needed to focus on the new question she was posed with. What the girl requested was something interested and it seemed she had an understanding that some things would be unattainable which was nice. However, she figured she could help her out. She was asking for useful information for the average trainer so she saw no reason to deny it from her. "Hold that thought for a moment," she responded as she turned back to the stage and stepped up onto to it to make her way over to the podium. Flipping through the many sheets she had brought out with her, she found the kind of information that might help Lillie. It may not exactly be what she was looking for, but it would give her an idea of which locations were the worst in terms of clones. Such information was what she had prepared in advance in case this had come up. With the sheet in hand, the Team Clone leader made her back back towards the teen and carefully stepped down from the stage to hold the sheet out to her. "This information should help you with the demographics and which places have been effected the most by clone activity," she said. "As for the other information you are looking for, well, we do not have a compiled sheet for that, but I can answer that verbally instead. Clones that have been effected act in a violent manner and often will attack on sight of a trainer or any human passerby. They also seem to be able to sense the difference between clone and regular pokemon and will often attack regular mons as well which is why wild pokemon have begun going into hiding."

Now she felt like she was rambling, but if there was one thing she enjoyed it was sharing her research when she could. That was why she had starting clones in the first place. It was her way of showing off what she was capable of though she had much more to offer than just her advancements in the science world or so she thought. Others might disagree with such a notion. Nevertheless, she figured she should stop rambling for now. Surely the young girl would only become bored if she continued on and she was sure that with this new information, Lillie would want to be going as soon as she could to either study the sheet or to be off with whatever plans she had to deal with clones. "Is that all you needed from me? If there is anything else I can do for you, feel free to ask. If not then I will not keep you here any longer."

[guar]

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| form | male | tagged; michael|

Percival was about to turn on his heels and walk elsewhere until the crowds died down enough for him to slip back into the building, but instead he found himself being approached by a Jolteon. At first the Team Clone member could not see where the Pokémon had come from, there were so many newcomers to Acrea that were supposedly going to be helping resolve the issues with the rampaging cloned Pokémon. For the first few moments of seeing the electric-type approach him, Percival was hoping to just ignore it and hopefully it would leave; maybe it was just lost? As long as it didn’t become his issue, he didn’t really care about the situation that the Jolteon was in. Sadly for him, though, soon after he noticed a person following the eeveelution. Great. So he wasn’t getting out of this day without interacting with strangers he really did not fancy having to talk to, it would probably all be about the same thing, anyway; Team Clone. Maybe about the clones, what Pokémon had been cloned, where were most of them found, where were the most dangerous areas on Acrea after the activity of the hostile clones. There were plenty of questions that Percival could think of that might be brought up.

Grunting softly, he finally turned his attention towards the person who had approached him, his eyes were narrowed as he briefly scanned the stranger up and down. Would you mind telling me what that speech was about? Percival internally groaned at the question he was asked and folded his arms over his chest, averting his gaze and rolling his eyes. ”What? You couldn’t be asked to listen?” He sighed and shook his head, ”I left it early anyway, but it’s pretty obvious that it’s going to be about the cloned Pokémon rampaging around and overrunning towns and cities all over.” His tone was blunt while he offered a vague explanation, briefly waving his arm as if to gesture to Acrea as a whole when he mentioned towns being overrun all over the region. A slight exaggeration, perhaps, but if the situation was apparently bad enough to call for help, then a little exaggeration wouldn’t hurt. ”You’re here to help ‘till we figure out what’s up with the clones.” His gaze returned to the trainer, ”Was there anything else you needed to know? Or are you ready to go and do what you’re here for?” Percival questioned.

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| form | female | tagged; gold |

At first, when Gold was silent after she introduced herself, Gracidea could feel nerves beginning to build up and worried thoughts plaguing her mind. Had she said something wrong? She couldn’t think of anything that she said that could have been considered offensive. And she was pretty sure she hadn’t acted rude at all. While she was worrying over what she could have done wrong, she almost missed the fact that Gold had began speaking. Breathing a sigh of relief, a smile returned to Gracidea’s face when the champion introduced himself, even though he really didn’t need to. While that was the case, it was always polite to introduce yourself regardless of whether or not the person already knew you, it wasn’t like she personally knew him, after all. She bobbed her head politely when he finished with his introductions, and she began mentally debating with herself if she should offer a handshake or not, eventually voting against the idea. Usually people would offer one when they introduced themselves, right? That time had passed for her already, and it was pointless if she introduced herself yet again. ”It’s, uh, it’s a pleasure to meet you, Gold. Personally, I’ve never been to Johto but, er, I’m sure it must be nice there. It certainly does sound nice, from what I’ve heard.” She paused and gestured towards her Primarina, ”Primarina and I are from Alola, have you ever visited? I’d really recommend it, but I guess I’m pretty biased.” Gracidea chucked and scratched the back of her neck.

Once the champion explained that he had visited Acrea to do something like helping with the clone situation, Gracidea tilted her head curiously. Of course, she didn’t want to start prying and poking around for more information, but she admittedly wasn’t sure what reasons there could be other than answering the call for help - especially since he was in the briefing that explained the issue with the hostile clone Pokémon. She decided to leave it at that, unless the topic came up again. Instead, she decided to focus on the question she was asked. I caught her by surprise, honestly, since she never considered the idea that she would need to give a reason why she asked if Gold was going to be helping with the clone situation. Frowning thoughtfully, Gracidea simply shrugged her shoulders. ”Well...I guess I thought if we’re working towards the same thing we could work together? If these clones are really as bad as they sound, you don’t want to be caught alone with them, huh?” She responded, a smile returning to her face. ”Not that you’re not already capable but I just...figured it would be nice? Better to be safe than sorry, after all!”

[CorvusSchnee]

Tai Reikotsu considered himself several things. He was a strong trainer, so strong in fact that he had been recognized as one of the five strongest trainers in Acrea, earning himself a place among the Elite Four despite him not being native to the region. He was a loving trainer, caring for his pokemon like he would his family and earning the same love from them in return. He was a good trainer, helping others out even if it didn't benefit him in the end. What Tai did not, however, consider himself was a friend to Team Clone. While they had not personally brought harm to Acrea, he could not help but feel that they might as well have been responsible for all the troubles. If they not created the clones, had not simply released into the wild and hoped that they would be able to find their place in the world on their own, then none of these problems would ever have existed. So in a way, Tai felt that all Millicent was asking of the trainers that had gathered was to help clean up the mess her organization had created.

However, he knew he was going to help anyways. Not for their sake, but for the sake of everyone else in Acrea. Before Team Clone made a mistake they could not reverse, before they could create something they might not be able to stop.

He didn't plan on doing it alone, either. For the longest time, ever since he was a young child, Tai had possessed a certain empathy. It was this empathy that had allowed him to bond with his pokemon in the way he had. It was this empathy that he would later learn was a sign that he possessed an innate talent for harnessing the power of Aura. An innate talent that his Lucario, Byakko, had aided him in advancing to the point it was now at. And it was this empathy that drew him towards a particular individual, a young girl with blonde hair. So Tai waited. He waited nearby for her to be finished conversing with Millicent(he never had made his disdain for the woman a secret) so he could approach her.

[Agent Maine(Meta)]

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{Fern -Venusaur, Gekigami-Raikou, Tsuki-Alolan Vulpix, Thunder-Luxray, Amatersu-Flareon, Godzilla-Tyrantrum★}
[Kanto] [Trainer] [Violetport City - streets] [Andrew]

• As Marry wondered about the streets, her Luxray picked up on a few familiar words and instantly yowled a bit to get his trainers attention. The abrupt sound startles marry but she looks at her luxray. "Whats wrong Thunder? Did a ratatta scare you?" She asks playfully, even as the massive electric feline rolled their eyes. Gekigami never got this kind of teasing. "RRRRaaaay!" The pokemon yowled before turning and walking away. Marry got the idea that Thunder wished for her to follow him and thus did so.
  
  
• The luxray guided her to another trainer, a year or two younger then her at least and with an all to familiar starter. She smiles brightly when she gets the idea. "Okay thunder, i get the idea! Have a break, i'm sure Fern will love see'ing a baby." She stated, returning the Luxray into their poke'ball. She then approaches Andrew, smiling brightly as she pulls a ball from her belt, the seal button having a petal decorating it. "Hi there! I'm sorry to bother you, but i couldn't help but notice you have a bulbasaur! Do you mind if perhaps my own partner comes out just to talk to them for a bit?" She asked curiously, not wanting to impose or come off threatening to the other trainer. Merely wanting to inspire.

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{Mark number #002 - Normal Varient}
[Type: Null] [Mt. Emerald] [open]

• Its so close to the top when one clawed forefoot gives away, causing Null to slide down a small slope. A frustrated cry escaped the large chimera but they manage to get to their paws for a few moments before the snow beneath them shook. A light blue glow illuminates before a large claw bursts from the snow and slams into the beasts stomach, lunching them into the air and several feet away. Null laid there for a few moments, recovering from the ice punch while a crabominable pulls itself from the snow. The large ice/fighting type smacks its two massive claws together before approaching Null who drags themselves to their paws, shakes themselves out, only to be hit again with an ice hammer followed by several swift jabs from a close combat. Null roars in frustration and attempts to go at the ice/fighting type with Iron Head.
  
  
• The crabominable cries out at the attack before starting to pound their claws into the ground, starting an avalanche. This makes Null hiss before turning and quickly running away to avoid getting caught in the fall of snow. Their claws pound heavily into the snow, leaving deep marks that are covered by the falling snow behind them.