Everspring Exploration [Event]

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Valen had flown to the very edge of the boundary between Everspring Vale and its surroundings. He couldn't stop looking into the dungeon - it was one of the most breathtaking places that he had ever seen. Near where he was, there were several hills, and farther in the distance, Valen could see a great waterfall rushing down. And nearly everything was a deep, beautiful green from the trees everywhere in this land of spring.

It wasn't just to look at the scenery that Valen had come here, however - hopefully at least. He had heard a story - the legendary Pokemon Zygarde had said that their final recruit is "Betwixt Winter and Summer." Valen had thought about it and come to the conclusion that the season being referred to was Spring - and this was the dungeon that had endless spring, like Fallen Leaf Copse was forever Autumn. And if that final recruit was found - that could be the end of the war between the deities and the return of the world to normal. Saving the world was a good thing, of course, and the idea of adventure strongly appealed to Valen in particular.

But it was also a weighty task. Valen was a generally confident Pokemon, but even he strongly doubted that he alone could help a god - especially as given the other stories he had heard, this could entail a physical encounter with another god. Most ordinary Pokemon, in Valen's experience at least, wouldn't do this task even if it was to save the world. But there were still many other explorers. Were some perhaps here right now to find this recruit as well?

...What... is that smell? Valen thought. He had been unconscious, but now... Valen did not have a very good sense of smell, but what he was smelling was very near him - it was an Oran Berry! Need to fight... Regigigas... was Valen's next thought. He hastily tried to go eat the Oran Berry, but it ended up falling out of his beak.

Valen then tried to move his legs and wings, and found that he could do so somewhat. He then noticed the TMs and the Green Gummi, which happened to now be near his feet. Using his legs again, he managed to move the items into his Bag. It might not have been very wise to focus on that when Regigigas was still rampaging around and Valen wasn't in the air, but at the moment, he hadn't been thinking very clearly - he just had a vague idea about items being helpful to fight Regigigas.

Nevertheless, he couldn't move away as the red thing came towards him.

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The sea otter's dazed panic made him unable to focus too much. He wasn't sure about Valen's current predicament, but the huge Regigigas just couldn't make him calm down. He just couldn't calm down no matter what he tries to do.

He pawed through his small bag to check what he happens to have, but a simple Oran Berry can't exactly help with panic and dazed dashes. He didn't pay attention, unfortunately, and fell onto the ground. He reluctantly turned around to see the huge Regigigas in full view, as well as the two lights. One going for what he assumes to be Valen, with the other heading straight for him. ...Are these from the Regigigas? is it their attack? How much would it do? Would it... end them? It's too late to dodge, so he simply closes his eyes and braces himself, using his scalchop as a shield...

"Here I coooome~ To save the daaaay~!" a voice sang from the red streak just as it snatched Valen and his belongings right off the ground. One minute he was on the ground and the next he's tucked away in the arms of a much larger flying pokemon going who knew how fast.

A similar fate met Tempo, though the voice from the blue gave an exasperated groan in response to the red wonder's jovial tune. The forest and mountain around the small party became a blur as they were swept away and above the treetops. All along the while, the odd red dragon hummed a ferocious and confident tune all to herself, complete with a full set of lyrics that she recited within the confines of her mind...much to her brother's relief.

The blue dragon, on the other hand, kept his eye on the colossus that ravaged the forest. Decisions were made, quick and calculative. "Over there," he spoke to the red dragon with a nod towards the top rim of the expansive valley. Only a split second later, were the oshawott and the pikipek being lowered onto the ground gently and carefully.

Once they were released, a pulse of warmth was pushed onto the two, as they were given a healthy boost to their strength-should they choose to accept the Heal Pulse from the courtesy of a latias...

Valen was still unable to resist as the Pokemon who had picked him up flew away with him. Normally, he would have greatly enjoyed moving through the air at such a speed, but in his current state, and the fact that these were Pokemon whose motives he did not know - he mostly felt sick and worried to his stomach.

And then he was being put on the ground... and suddenly, he felt warmth spread through him, and not only did his worry start to diminish, the pain of his injuries did too. He was able to look around some more - thankfully, Tempo was nearby, apparently having been picked up by the other Pokemon, similar to the one that had carried Valen but blue instead of red. Those Pokemon...

Valen was still wondering what was going on, but he wasn't nearly so scared anymore. They healed me, and hopefully Tempo as well... and if they were hostile, wouldn't they have attacked us already? They must have been trying to rescue us from Regigigas! he thought. And there was something else... certainly he had never met these Pokemon before, but somehow... did he know something about them? He still couldn't remember it clearly at the moment. But anyway...

"Thank you!" he told them.

Tempo opened his eyes a few minutes later to see... they were flying? What happened? Where were they? He looked around the area and noticed that he was on the back of... some blue thing? He couldn't recognize it from where he was. He still seems dazed by everything, but he sees nothing attacking him. He looked over and noticed a red figure, seemingly similar to the one the Oshawott was on... and it seemed to hold the dazed Pikipek! Are they... saving them?

Eventually, he heard the figure he was on telling them to go to a valley, before they finally landed there. Tempo got off and landed on his feet, although still somewhat dazed from his previous hysteria and the damage he took from the quakes. Although he did feel much better once a wave mysteriously came over him, instantly making him feel better... "Hm? Wh... What was that? And... who are you two? I mean... thanks for helping, at least..." The confused otter said, tilting his head.

The red figure squirmed restlessly in place, zipping ever so quickly an inch to the left, then two to the right with a little bit of elevation. The blue figure descended almost to ground level, slowly and cautiously as his eyes focused on the two.

"What on earth are you two doing?" the blue dragon's eyes narrowed sternly as a firm demand for answers was issued. Despite his question, he continued, "You could have been killed out here, didn't anyone tell you to stay away from here?"

"Ooooh, calm dooown! They're fine~" The energetic one chimed, "No harm, no foul, right? Oh! Oh! They didn't die right away, maybe they could help us!" Her eyes widened at the realization, sparkling brilliantly with a devilish hint of plotting.

"What-" the blue figure barely managed a word before his friend cut him off.

"Hey! Yeah, you guys. I'm Latias, that's my brother Latios. Big deal, I know. Awesome right? But ANYWAYS-do you guys know if you could like...do that again? But not immediately die? Maybe like...a minute...thirty seconds...or ten minutes? Ten'd be great!" Her gaze shifted between the two with a joyful smile, clearly confident in the two's ability to...not...die?

"Um... well... we wanted to do something... save the world," Valen replied, but even as he said it, thoughts about how ridiculous that statement was crept into his mind. Though Valen really did not want to think about it, well... the blue Pokemon had a point, didn't he? They actually could have died, and they hadn't really done much to Regigigas at all. How could we have thought we could do anything? Valen wondered.

But then, the red Pokemon seemed a lot more optimistic, and said that Tempo and Valen could somehow help. And then... she said she was Latias, and her brother was Latios, and Valen now remembered exactly where that familiarity came from. Those were Legendary Pokemon! Valen loved reading about Legendary Pokemon, enough that he actually could remember the basics about most of them. He was, in fact, a bit worried that he had not remembered earlier, when he had actually seen the two for the first time.

That made Valen think of a question. He had been wondering why Zygarde had apparently just asked other Pokemon to do something without otherwise helping them... but could Latias and Latios be the help after all? "Umm... Did Zygarde send you?" he asked.

He shook his head a bit to get everything confusing out of his head. The red, seemingly female one did seem a bit... excited for such a dangerous situation that, oh by the way, NEARLY KILLED THE TWO BASE-FORM POKEMON! Just... "...she's... excitable... How do you even deal with her?" The otter asked the blue, seemingly male figure.

Wait, that shouldn't matter, right now. What matters is the huge white and yellow figure destroying the forest, right now. "So... Wait, you're Latios and Latias, right? Those Eon Pokemon I read about in those books? What are you doing here, are you trying to calm this large, panic-inducing giant!?" Tempo said with a distressed tone. They're Legendaries, sure, but that thing's multiple times their size, combined! "And- I'm sorry, you want us to go back out there, as small as we both are, and risk getting crushed or worse!?"

It's clear this is getting too much for him... Why did he bother doing this? He can't be a hero of the world when he's so inexperienced. He can't even use his species' shell sword move thing! It looks cool, sure, but he still needs more practice out in the field before he can even get a grip on the damned thing! "...I... I don't know... I... I don't know if I can handle this... I... I feel like I should..." He didn't know what to say... He didn't know Valen all that well, but he knew him enough to just abandon him... To disappoint him by giving up... It's clear the Pikipek wanted to do this, but if he isn't careful, that's it. "...Valen? Are you sure you want to do this?" Tempo said with a soft and worried tone, putting a paw against his wing...

"Lots of patience..." and internal screaming, but Latios wasn't about to admit that. With a heavy sigh, he looked over to his sister, expectant of her to do all of the speaking. He was not disappointed...yet still somehow disappointed at the same time.

"WoahWoahWoahhhh there, Mr. Oshie, Piki hasn't at all said whether or not he's going!" the latias laughed, "But I appreciate your low-key enthusiasm~"

"I don't think he-"

"But no! We came on our own actually. We kiiiinda just need all of this big spooky stuff to go away and decided this would be more fun-fun-fun!" the latias sang with a quick twirl to indicate her excitement. "Oh-and because Latios is paranoid about the other offers, but I think he's just being anti-fun...though I guess if the whole world was peaceful then there wouldn't be much fun?? And if there was total anarchy then it wouldn't be the fun kind of fun...?" The latias mused off in her ramblings, as if in the process of some revelation about what she was doing. Her voice faded into concentrated mumbles and grumbles as she thought to herself. Fortunately, this gave opportunity for the sensible one to step in.

"We're not trying to calm it down, we've been ramping him up...but also trying to do it without causing more damage and anybody else getting hurt. He's kind of a big dolt, so sometimes he doesn't see things in his way..." The latios looked between the oshawott and the pikipek, deep in thought for a moment longer. "If you don't want to face him again, which is very much understandable, you could help those in danger and keep them away while we focus on him instead...? Oooor you could do the smart thing and go home."

"But that's boooooooooooooring!" Latias chimed.

Valen had actually been planning to tell Latias and Latios that he wanted to leave. Sure, there was still a part of him that wanted to stay and try to find another way to defeat, or at least damage, Regigigas, but he now seriously doubted that anything Tempo or he could do could possibly matter. Not that he wanted to give up on anyone, he was thinking, but Latios and Latias were Legendary Pokemon as well, and must be far stronger than he was. They were the ones who could fight Regigigas, while he and Tempo - Tempo, who now did not really seem to want to do this either - returned to safety.

However, then Latios suggested that they could help other Pokemon who were in danger, without actually fighting Regigigas. Valen, who wanted to help somehow, thought it might be a good idea, even if the very safest course of action would probably be to just leave. "Tempo," Valen began, "I'm... sorry for bringing you into this. Fighting Regigigas only put us in danger and didn't help, I know now. But, you know, if we helped others evacuate, it would be safer and we might be able to actually do something... What do you think?" Valen was personally hoping that Tempo would agree.

The Oshawott seemed a bit down, and also a bit... annoyed by Latias's annoying... personality, so to speak. This was impossible for just two small Pokemon to deal with, after all... It's too dangerous to battle them even with the two Eons, as well.

He looked over to see Valen seemingly speak up, seemingly with a hint of worry in his voice. Looks like he agrees with Tempo. He didn't think they were fit for this, at all. "...Yeah... We can't fight them, at all... We should just focus on rescuing the others before it gets out of hand." Tempo replied. It's the least they can do, after all, if they can't fight the main target of the mission. "Think you two can handle the Regigigas?" Tempo asked the two Legendaries.

The red dragon fell into a pout. "Awwww... That's no fun." She chimed, zipping a bit closer to the little water type. "Oh well! It was really, really brave of you guys to try and help save the world! We're gonna get back on that before anyone else gets-" She waved her arms in a frantic motion, as if searching for the word. "-smushed!"

"Brave's one word for it." The other sibling mused. "But at least you know your limits. You'll be helping us by keeping others out of the line of fire. The less time we have to spend rescuing bystanders, the more we can use to keep the big guy busy. He'll burn himself out eventually..." Latios winced as a large tree was overturned in the distance, sending a group of bird pokemon flying for cover. He heaved a sigh as he considered the Oshawott's question. Could they handle him? Probably, eventually. As long as they didn't get careless.

"Don't worry about us. We can keep going for a long time, and we've been surviving so far."

"And with me looking out for him, we'll be A-okay!" Latias chimed in helpfully, clapping her hands(?) together. Was that a trace of a smile on Latios' face? Hard to say, because the red dragon had already spiraled off into the sky with an excited battlecry, a red streak flickering and disappearing into the distance. "Woooooooooo! Let's go kick some butt!"

"... and that's my signal." Latios sighed, shaking his head. "We might not be able to come help you again if you get into trouble, so steer clear of Regigigas and be careful."

The second dragon vanished in a twin streak of blue, and both of the two were gone.

Valen stared as the two dragons vanished into the distance. Now, which way should he and Tempo go? The sensible choice was probably in the opposite direction from the one which Latias and Latios had flown off in, he thought. The really sensible choice might be to just get out of this dungeon as fast as possible, as Latios had suggested, but they had agreed to help in the end, after all.

Somewhat absentmindedly, he took an Oran Berry out of his bag and nibbled on it. That made him feel a bit better emotionally as well as physically. What an adventure this had been! Even if he and Tempo couldn't fight Regigigas directly, at least they had something they could do. The idea of asking the Oshawott to actually join his guild team came into his head again. Later, he guessed, I'll ask when we're leaving the dungeon, probably.

Valen started to move in a direction away from where the Legendary Pokémon had gone - and the tree that had been overturned earlier, for that matter. "I guess we can move on now?" he mentioned in Tempo's direction. He was thinking about finding Pokémon to rescue, probably landbound ones, but he couldn't help but think again about whether the Oshawott would be useful or a hindrance if he joined the team...

[Energy: 0 (Furret rolled earlier, forgot to note then) + 10 (Oran Berry) = 10]

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Shield carried out 9 launched of one Everspring Vale :

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Tempo simply stood in place, watching as the two dragons suddenly sped off with lightning speed. He grabs an Oran Berry and eats it again, the entire scenario that happened before taking quite a lot out of him... At this point, they should probably cut their losses and run for the hills, but they agreed to help out the other Pokemon still in the area. Hopefully they won't be too hostile, now that there's a huge threat stomping through their home, but it helps to be careful...

Tempo thought for a bit about their plan... Should they split up to cover more ground? Or stick close in case a threat appears? He and Valen might have used some Oran Berries to help, but they're only temporary solutions at best. "Let's gather a group as fast as we can, then... Unfortunately, I doubt we can go on for much longer without pushing ourselves past our limits... Berries can only do so much." He brings up, also checking his bag. He had a few more, sure, plus a few Sitrus Berries for more serious wounds, but he'd rather save them for future adventures... He feels like the worst is yet to come... He runs off in a random direction from the two dragons, searching for anyone to help...

DJOshawott carried out 10 launched of one Everspring Vale :

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