[INTRO] X-ing over to a new land!

[closedbond]

[WHERE: The entrance of Gilterrace Town.

X is taking a step forward only to stop. There's a dumbfounded look on his face as he's very obviously examining his surroundings. Slowly but surely his expression is becoming less and less expressive. While he doesn't say the question that's weighing his mind, he can be seen through out the town. His steps are on the quick side, as if looking for something or someone.]


[WHEN: Afternoon

X can be found on route 1--with a Pokedex in hand. There's an group of Ulternian Sunkerns frolicking about, minding their own business. X here just seemed absolutely baffled as his Pokedex not only recognize the Pokemon before him--but they were registering as a normal Sunkern.

Why was that...?

He seemed to be engrossed with his Pokedex, even with a Kangaskhan sitting directly behind him.]

[WHY: was he here?

Stubbornly refusing to return to town, X is setting up camp over at the Shrouded Woods. By setting camp it's more like he's found a hollow tree trunk and sitting there, not moving. He's tired, and he's given up on walking. Surely no one would come to look for him inside a tree trunk. No one suspicious, anyway.]


(ooc: come pester X from PokeSpe! He's a little bit before the epilogue but he shouldn't be as anti-social as he was near the start of his journey--)

Comments

sunkern

[domeinion]

Fascinating, aren't they?

[Alice only knows one Calemface from home, and he's blond, but she's got enough experience with lookalikes that she looks him over and ponders whether this is actually Calem or someone new. That aside, she turns back to the Sunkern.]

Ultern is full of regional forms like that, but these are the least recognizable I've seen outside of a randomizer.

[closedbond]

......

[He takes a moment to regard Alice from over his Pokedex. Why was she approaching him? Was she just genuinely curious about the odd looking Sunkern? He gave a brief glance to his Kangashkan (Kanga), and back to Alice.

"Regional forms". That was new, along with "Ultern". He really wasn't in Kalos?]

This place...where are we, exactly?

[All the while the Sunkerns are stretching their little sprouts as if trying to catch all of the sunlight beaming down on them.]

[domeinion]

Ultern! It's a region subject to a strange phenomenon in which people and Pokémon alike are pulled through the stream from different points in spacetime. Parallel counterparts are common, as is coming upon scenarios you've never seen. The locals are used to strangers appearing, and a lot of them have been kind and accommodating. And the Pokémon population is very interesting to study! The Sunkern here, for example. Their behaviour is familiar even if their appearance isn't. Whereas the Dunsparce here... Well, they're significantly more aggressive.

[closedbond]

Ul...tern?

[It didn't sound familiar in the least. Yet the trainer in front of him was being helpful. Was she someone he could trust? To do so he'd have to put his foot forward (figuratively). At least a tiny bit.]

What do you mean by pulled through a stream? Like by a Pokemon?

[It sounded like something a Legendary Pokemon could do. They were powerful, and full of mysteries.

Putting the Pokedex away, as it refused to acknowledge the current peculiar appearance of the Sunkerns. Said Sunkerns seemed to be swaying along with the gentle breeze.]

[domeinion]

It's possible. We don't know. I haven't found anything to prove it one way or another, but we have had a rash of incidents as of late where mysterious and powerful Pokémon have appeared for some purpose and then gone back to where they came from! I do know it's not the Voices, if you've got that legend where you're from. Or at least I haven't seen any sign of them, and they're hard to miss.

[closedbond]

[Mysterious and Powerful Pokemon showing up out of the blue? That almost sounded like Team Flare was behind the incident. He's frowning to himself while watching a Sunkern tripping, and rolling over. Yet it didn't seem to mind too much that it had fell as it's sprout is upright, and reaching for the sun still.]

I don't think I've heard of any legends about any voices. All I know are the ones about Xerneas and Yveltal. Two Pokemon that "give" and "take"... but that's about it.

[Half true. The less Alice knew, the better anyway. Especially if Team Flare was out there, lurking somewhere.

He's lowering his Pokedex now to watch Kanga (his Kangashkan) moving to help up the Sunkern that's fallen down. There, there!]

[domeinion]

Oh, we have those, too! Though I think our legend might be a little different from yours, given the patterns that -- oh! [She smiles.] Your Pokémon seem very nice. You must work well together. Do you battle?

why

[disarmingvoice]

[...You know, Calem has seen a lot of weird things in Ultern, but this? This might...actually take the cake--it's not really even him necessarily that finds something weird, he's walking about with Gorebyss ever at his side and she's apparently sniffed out something familiar and darted off--Calem close behind and trying to tell her to slow down.

The first thing that X is going to be greeted with is the over enthusiastic snout of a Gorebyss poking her head into the tree trunk and saying hello. He might hear a voice that's familiar calling after her--]

Gorebyss, darling, will you please get your head out of there? I haven't the faintest of clues what you've found but you need to stop--

[It's once he gets set on removing her, holding her like an unruly child, that he sees what she was looking at--it takes a few seconds for his eyes to adjust but...that's...]

...Hello? [he'll. he'll deal with the rest of this in a second but--] Are you...quite alright in there?

[closedbond]

[X is stunned from the sound of a vaguely familiar voice (because not a lot of people recognized their own voice from the outside, really) to the sound of Gorebyss approaching. His hand out of habit reached for one of his Pokeballs the moment an enthused Gorebyss barged into his current living space.

In a brief second his mind flashed to Team Flare. Of course, this had to be one last ditch effort plan--but it's cut to a halt almost she's pulled away by her trainer. He's slowly moving his hand away from his Pokeballs until he saw Calem's face.

He's staring. Staring even longer before impulsively reaching out to grab for Calem's hand.]

Emma?! Emma why are you-!? I thought you got out of the suit? Why are you looking like that?

[disarmingvoice]

Emma-?

[...Okay, Calem is now just straight up bewildered, congratulations--]

Now, you hold on just one moment! [Yes, yes, grab his hand, whatever, his other hand is going right to his hip as he puffs his cheeks out. The most acting of his age he's done in years.] My name is Calem, thank you very much, and I'm not even close to sure why I look like this?

[Beat.]

If anything, I should be asking you that. I didn't realize this fashion was so...popular? I know Kalos focuses on trends above all else sometimes, but...

[closedbond]

What...?

[There's so much confusion in both his face and voice. His hold on Calem's hand immediately released as he stared. Now that he took a look at Calem--while they looked a like, the other seemed a little older. Not by much but a few years, maybe.

At the mention of his clothes he glanced down to them. They weren't as neat and clean as they had been, having gotten a little battered from many battles against Team Flare but it was true. They were dressed alike...]

......they're clothes a friend picked for me. You're...you're really not...

[This wasn't Emma, stuck in the Essentia suit? No, that's right. It couldn't be. He saw her return home with Cassius. The suit had been destroyed too, so the functionality to imitate another person's look should have been gone with it.]

...who are you really? Why are you here?

[disarmingvoice]

[There's a lot to process here. Calem tries to wipe the indignant look off of his face in the process, clearly so utterly confused and just...not even close to sure what to make of this.]

...Is that so? My mother picked mine out. It would seem that your friend and she have similar tastes.

[Even so--]

I already told you, my name is Calem. A fashion designer under the tutelage of Miss Valerie. And I haven't the faintest of clues why I was called here, when I was supposed to be on a boat to Paldea...

But this place has a tendency to take those from their homes, drifting them here. This place seems to have come about as a result of many people being drifted, perhaps.

[Calem's head tilts, though. Gorebyss just kind of stares at the two of them while she does so.]

Now, will you tell me who you are? I do believe we have established that we're very different people, from the sounds of it.

[closedbond]

[X averted his gaze from Calem. At the comment of his own Mother, X didn't know what to make of it. His own Mother never came home and was always overseas, busy because of work. He froze when Calem mentioned Valerie's name. While he wasn't close to her, or any of the Gym Leaders (except maybe Viola-) they stood up against Team Flare and helped them. Valerie was a part of that.

Lifting his gaze back to Calem, he's quiet. He wasn't sure just how much he should tell the guy in front of him, but...]

...I'm X. I was on my way home but I ended up here. I got tired of walking so I decided to sit here and then your Gorebyss showed up.

Sunkern

[radleyslittleevie]

Evie the talking Eevee is sitting on the fence. "Hi!" she greets. "They're neat, aren't they? I love meeting new friends!"

[closedbond]

Oh it's an Eevee. He's seen Eevee before, as one of his friends had caught one--

wait.

Did that Eevee...just talk? No way that's possible. Surely it has to be someone really tiny, in an Eevee costume.

...who was he kidding, that was very obviously an Eevee. That talked.

"Uh, I...guess..." he really wanted to question how she could talk, or why. Was he dreaming? His Kangashkan--Kanga glanced over to Evie, but she did nothing as she didn't see Evie to be a threat of any kind. Instead her baby, Li'l Kanga popped out from the pouch to let out a little greeting.

[radleyslittleevie]

Evie happily greeted both Kangashkan too!

"Have you been here long? There's so much to see!"

[closedbond]

X doesn't respond as he was fine in watching Kanga and Li'l Kanga interact with Evie. However he'll notice Kanga glancing over to him, expecting him to respond. Well...talking to a talking Eevee (however bizarre and concerning) should be safer than a strange adult, right?

"It's been a few hours, I think. How long have you been here?" He questioned, while wondering just how much Evie knew about where they were. Or if she had been in the same predicament as he has.

[radleyslittleevie]

"I've been here for several months!" Evie said. "I'm looking for my person!"

[closedbond]

So Evie wasn't a native? How did she end up here? Just abruptly, without any warning like he had?

"Is that so? I'm looking for someone too." At least they had that in comment, X thought to himself. He couldn't help but stare at his feet at the idea of Evie separated from her friend (trainer?). "What's their name? Do you know it?"

WHERE

[goingallout]

[Hey, isn't that Calem? Ash wonders as he watches him move, noticing the other boy has something in his mind. But after a short while, Ash knew he couldn't just stand and mull about it when he could ask.]

Hey Calem! What are you doing?

[closedbond]

[Someone was calling out to him--"Calem"? He didn't know that name. Yet that person who called out to him sounded young. Around his age, perhaps? He turned to Ash at first curious before masking his expression.

He was quick to look over the boy standing nearby and his Pikachu.]

Do I know you...?

[goingallout]

Huh? What d'you mean, it's me Ash!

[Unless... Ash is quick to figure out one possibility, given how this place works...]

...Wait, could it be that you've just drifted here?

[closedbond]

[Ash...that wasn't a name he recognized. That and the fact Ash's accent...he clearly wasn't Kalosian. While pondering this it seemed Ash too had came to his own conclusions about him, which made X frown.

He really didn't enjoy being in the dark, and not know where any of his friends were.]

What do you mean by "drifted"? Where is "here" anyway?

[goingallout]

[Ah, as Ash thought... he's only just drifted. He knows it won't be easy to explain the kind of situation X's in right now, however it's only fair that he has to know.]

Wherever you were, you're not there anymore. This is Ultern, a region in another world far away from ours.

[His expression softens before continuing.]

The "drifted" is what everyone in this region calls us here. You're not the only one drifted here. Both me and Pikachu aren't from here too, y'see. And we don't really know how or why we were brought here to begin with.

[closedbond]

[Ultern. He's never heard of a region by that name, but the way Ash explained it and from the look on his face it gave X pause. It didn't seem like the other was lying, and yet...

He couldn't believe it. He didn't want to believe it. After everything he and his friends went through, he was somehow ripped away from them? No, that couldn't be. Y and the others had to be close by!

Without another word to Ash, X immediately turned away. With a sudden fervor in his movement he's back to his search.]

Y! Y, where are you!? Answer me! Give me a sign! Anything-!