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GAME OPEN - INTRO MINGLE
| INTRO MINGLE: BOUNTIFUL BUFFET | ||
 | NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK | |
New arrivals will continue trickling in as time goes on, always arriving close enough to the Obsidian Fieldlands base camp to be spotted and shepherded back to the safety of Jubilife, or in the vicinity of a material-gathering party who can gather them up as well. Characters are given a spare set of clothes once they arrive at the village. It's usually something resembling a casualwear kimono and trousers, fitted to them specifically. | ||
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| PLANNING PHASE |  | |
| As the new arrivals begin to show up in force, the Galaxy Team's leader, Kamado, makes more and more visits to the Wallflower. Soon after, the Wallflower's chef and owner puts out a call for help: Ingredients, of all varieties, and extra hands that can prepare and cook food. It seems a big buffet is in the works - and the whole village is invited! OOC NOTES: ❧ The in game length of the gathering, prep, and meal phases totals 4 days, but feel free to thread well beyond that. ❧ Wildcards and additional prompts are absolutely encouraged here! ❧ Characters who arrived during the TDM may consider those threads canonical to the game if they wish. ❧ Have fun! | ||
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 | GATHERING PHASE (DAYS 1-3) | |
The request goes out in the early morning on Friday: Ingredients! Food items! As much as you can carry! The reward, the green haired maestro of cooking assures you, will come in time. Though if you can’t be convinced to work for free, he’ll turn over some coin with minimal grumpy mumbling. The ingredients he’s looking for are all easy to locate in the Obsidian Fieldlands - a variety of berries, the ever sweet combs of Dazzling Honey, and the savory Springy Mushrooms that grow at the bases of trees. There are other herbs and plants on the list as well, so feel free to make some up as you go. | ||
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| MEAL PREP PHASE (DAYS 3-4) |  | |
| As loath as he is to admit that he needs help, Beni is allowing folks into his kitchen to slice, dice, and sauteé in preparation for the big day! Ingredients need to be washed, sorted, prepared, and stored safely. Wood needs to be chopped for the cooking fires. New additions to the pantry are still being accepted. Whatever you can contribute helps, Beni assures everyone. If you’re feeling like there’s too many cooks in the kitchen, tables and benches need to be set up outside. The tables inside need to be washed and set up as well. Decorations are discussed - maybe some colorful lanterns or banners…? | ||
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 | FEAST (DAY 4) | |
When the day comes, tables and benches are set up in front of Galaxy Hall and filled to the brim with food. Rice, great big hotpots of ramen, plate after plate of mochi - potato or otherwise - and a truly incredible selection of clay pots containing quality teas, brewed fresh for the occasion. And that’s just scratching the surface! Between the Agriculture Corps tireless work on harvesting food and all the new arrivals’ hard fought spoils, the feast is truly grand. | ||
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| GOOD OMENS (NIGHT) |  | |
| After the feast, as night begins to fall over the village, characters may look up to see that in the clear starry sky, a meteor shower has begun. The shooting stars come in all colors, too, filling the night with a cheerful rainbow incandescence. Locals stop and point, the superstitious among them exclaiming that this is a good omen. A sign that things are looking up. They say there’s an old legend about this sort of meteor shower - that if you make a wish on the colorful streaks in the sky, it just might come true... | ||
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Yuzu Hiiragi +3 others | Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V
[1] New
[ Alright, full disclosure... Yuzu wasn't exactly ecstatic about the idea of ending up in another dimension again. Yet, here she is...KidsGirls on the Block (Day 1-2)She's at least a little glad that there may be some time nonsense going on... she'd rather her dad doesn't worry himself to death for the second time. Though... she is admittedly upset at the same time about her friends and family not knowing she's gone.
Well, she's at least not completely alone in terms of others from her world. A little perk that comes with having three other girls inside your head... for better or worse. You may catch her in the apartment she's now sharing, or even just at the wallflower just... sitting there, her eyes closed and her eyebrows creased in mild frustration like she's thinking really hard.
Then, suddenly... ]
Of course I'm trying!!
[ If she's at the wallflower, she now has to deal with the various glances and stares directed her way... along with any whispers questioning her state-of-mind. If she's in the apartment, at the very least all she'll have to deal with is looking like a crazy girl to you. ]
Clearly not enough! Nothing's changed!
N-Now now... it's not like this was going to work on our first try...
We get that, but...
[ Oh how much more sense it would make to others if they could hear the voices in her head. She can't really complain about anything they're saying... they're their own people with their own lives, and they want to be able to move around in a body again... not just as a voice in Yuzu's head. She understands that and she's been trying her best, but...
They just don't know where to start on learning how to swap control. ]
[2] Gathering Phase (Day 2-3)
[ One good thing about having three other souls inside yourself... somehow, it's pretty much like having multiple sets of eyes. Good luck sneaking up on her when she basically has eyes on the back of her head. ]...those rocks just moved.
Huh!? It's just a bunch of rocks, they can't just move on their own!
But they did! I saw it!
Now, now...
[ ...okay so it isn't foolproof, Yuzu thinks, but whatever. She turns around to face the rocks the girls are bickering about now, and... ]
Ah...
[ She caught it just as they moved... three rocks with eyes. ]
...oh right, didn't one of the Security Corps members warn us to watch out for moving rocks? Called geo... something.
[ Geodude is what they're called, and yeah, that would've been nice to remember like... two seconds ago. Because now Yuzu is... ]
KYAAAAAH!!
[ ...running downhill while the three Geodudes chase her using Rollout. Of course, at a downhill trajectory, the Geodudes are going to catch up no matter how fast she runs... so she does try to think of something, but instead her head is suddenly flooded with the panicked voices of Ruri and Rin... plus Serena shouting options like some kind of coach. ]
[3] Good Omens (Night 4)
[ Whoa... a colorful meteor shower... Yuzu's never seen anything like this, and judging by the feelings of the other girls inside her head, they're just as amazed. ]A good omen, huh...?
[ She wishes for the health and safety of all her friends and family back home... and wishes that she'll be able to see them again. She can probably guess what the other girls are wishing too, but she doesn't ask.
Instead, she makes another wish... that she'll be able to help them regain some of the life they had stolen away from them.
As she stares up at the shooting stars, her bracelet starts to faintly glow... growing stronger by the second. On top of this, her hair and eyes start to change... almost like LED lighting, shifting from pink to blue, from blue to green, from green to purple, and from purple to pink...
She seems to be in some kind of trance. ]
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You know how it is with wildcards! Plot with me at1!
[ Anyway. This poor girl apparently isn't very used to the pickle she's in yet. ]
Sorry to but in, hun, but y'know the locals can hear you, right? You got everything under control in there?
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[ She quickly realizes she spoke out loud... quite loudly, actually, and her face flushes. ]
Y-Yeah! We're—I mean, I-I'm fine!
"In there?" The hell does that mean?
Does he... know we're here?
No way. He probably just thinks Yuzu's losing it a bit.
[ Yuzu grimaces a bit at that... thanks for the vote of confidence, Rin. ]
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If you're not used to it, I can help a bit. It's kinda my job to help folk in binds like yours.
[ Well...they shrug a little and shake their head. ] Well, not- it's not that exactly, but I've helped a lot of people like you. If you've got goin on what I think you do.
[ They pause for a second, trying to get their words together right. ] You said 'we', right? You're not alone in there?
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...yeah.
[ She nods and responds quietly. ]
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Well, I'm probably not gonna be your best option for it given, uhhh....we're all outta water here, I s'pose, but at the same time. [ Shrug. ] There's a certain someone I'm assigned to protect elsewhere who's usually caught in the same boat. But anyhow--
[ They motion for her to sit with them at one of the tables set up nearby, hoping it will at least offer a little more of a shroud of normalcy for them to talk things out. Leading a stranger into somewhere actually private is something they reckon could go badly on all sides. ]
Is this a, ehh...were you separate before? Or is this more of a "how long have they been here" kinda situation?
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It's... complicated.
[ And she can't help but wonder if she should even elaborate to this person they just met... so she asks everyone else mentally. ]
Should we...?
Nn... may as well.
Mm...
Nothing to lose...
[ Well then, with that decided... after a brief pause, Yuzu continues. ]
We uh, used to just be one person... then we got split into four, and somebody tried to put us back together to bring the original us back.
[ She awkwardly scratches her cheek. ]
It... it almost worked, but she's gone now. It's just us.
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Not that you have to, to be clear. [ Very important. ] But I'm just tryin' to get a feel for if this is, say...an internal process or an external one, y'know? The mechanisms are different, depending.
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N-No...
[ She puts her hands together and clenches tight. ]
S-She's gone... and we're not her, we're not Ray...!
[ She can feel everyone else's emotions spike, showing all of it in Yuzu physically. What would happen if they became Ray again? Would they simply... cease to exist? That's what it felt like, back when they were Ray... however incomplete and brief that was. ]
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H-Hey! No, you're absolutely right, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to...that is, I don't think at all that it's a good thing to go through, at least not for everybody in situations like yours? I just, ehh...
[ How by the lines are they going to fix this? ]
Let me explain a bit. The...person I'm supposed to look after back home, let's say, they had to go through that themself. A good six or so very different folk all ended up as one new person, with a whole lotta baggage attached. My point is that for them, it was a magical process, no undoing it, an' the, uh, therapy has to be pretty unique for them.
But there are folk who are in situations like this for non-magic reasons. [ They gently tap their temple, trying to keep casual but for once actually hard-pressed to keep the worry out of their manner. ] Some brains just get wired to do that, one way or another. I'm not anywhere close to suggestin' you go back to...Ray. Poor Sunny's in such a bad spot from it that quite frankly I'm not a fan of the idea of anyone doin' it if they can avoid it. But if you an' the others, ehh, have the potential, there might be some, yknow, frameworks you can use to make all this easier on you?
[ They sigh and shake their head. ] This all probably sounds like utter nonsense to you, doesn't it? I'm sorry. Point is, was this a spontaneous thing or, y'know, a process?
beware the MASSIVE LORE DUMP
It was... a process. Sorry, it's a long story... do you mind listening for a while?
[ Is it time? Time for an Arc-V lore dump? Yep. She takes a deep breath... we're gonna be here for a while. ]
See, where I'm from, there was once just a single dimension... we'll call it the Original Dimension. It was incredibly advanced technologically, and a major part of that world was it's most famous game... Duel Monsters. In Duel Monsters, you summon monsters using cards and 'Duel' another 'Duelist' until one of them drops down to 0 LP, life points. It was a game... a fun game.
...in that Original Dimension was us, Ray Akaba. She was a duelist too, and it was around the time she started to rise in the rankings that her father, Leo Akaba, started to try and further-develop the Duel System.
See, in duels, you summon monsters using Solid Vision... which projects lifelike holograms. The Original Dimension, however, had something greater... Real Solid Vision. Regular Solid Vision just produced holograms... three-dimensional images, but while shockwaves could be generated to an extent, everything was just a hologram... you couldn't touch or interact with them.
But Real Solid Vision was different... it created hard light projections, holograms you can touch and feel. It was already used for a variety of purposes... advertisements, business, and so on.
What Leo Akaba did, though, is that he managed to implement this Real Solid Vision into Duel Monsters. Effectively, he gave the monsters we summoned real bodies... but they were still just Duel Monsters, right? Just a game, right?
...there was an old wives' tale in that dimension, stating that Duel Monsters well and truly have souls. Leo Akaba considered it when, during testing, one of the monsters would react slightly to external stimuli and even give off faint signs of body heat... but it was ultimately brushed off. After all, it was just an old wives' tale, it was just superstition, right?
Leo Akaba's work with Real Solid Vision revolutionized duels... you could now run alongside your Monsters, ride them, feel them, and experience the impact of monsters with actual mass battling. Duel Monsters wasn't just a game anymore... it was a sport. In fact, the Real Solid Vision system took the the Dueling System better than any other version of Real Solid Vision before. It was more real than ever...! And down to the last hair... it felt like it even had life within it. The passion people had for dueling rose higher than ever before.
...among the rising duelists wasn't just Ray, there was a boy.
A Duelist who simply wanted to entertain the cheering crowd, win, and become stronger. His name was Zarc.
He didn't initially stand out, but he kept winning... rising rapidly in the ranks and quickly qualifying for the biggest Dueling Tournament in the world, where he continued to win again and again. He was a fan favorite... and he commanded four powerful Dragons, each representing the four Summoning Methods of Duel Monsters, and when he dueled... it was like he was in perfect sync with his Monsters, like he was one with them.
He even claimed once that he could hear the voices of the Monsters.
...during one duel, though, there was an accident. One of Zarc's attacks caused his opponent to be severely injured. He was horrified at first, but then... do you know what the crowd did?
They cheered.
It was brutal, it was intense and exciting. It was... entertaining.
As far as we know, Ray... never knew Zarc personally. We can't say exactly how quickly it happened, but... something changed in the way he dueled after that.
His opponents would frequently end up hurt by the end of each duel, their injuries increasing in severity over time. The way he started dueling... he started to do it in a way that was violent. Intentionally moving in ways that would cause the other duelist to end up hurt.
Even worse, in order to promote themselves, other duelists started to mimic him... and the violence of each duel continued to grow and escalate.
The crowd cheered every time. His duels were more intense, more brutal, more exciting than any other... and realizing that this was what pleased the crowd, he kept doing it, carried along by the current that he had created.
Ray's memories are still foggy in our head... but when she was watching one of his duels, she said that his monsters were... crying.
He kept answering the demands of the people, turning duels into genuine battles with intensity you could never find anywhere else.
...eventually, there was nobody left. Zarc, leaving the battered bodies of duelists behind him, reached the top of the Dueling world. He was the strongest champion, the undefeated duelist... commander of all four summoning methods and the finest dragons from each one.
Out of all of Ray's memories, this one is the clearest... hearing what he said on top of that podium, proudly declaring himself the strongest and wielding all the strength he needed and more to back it up.
"Is that all!? Is there no one left who will fight me!? I'm not satisfied yet! I want to continue to battle, to continue battling more fiercely than ever!!"
...the crowd agreed, agreed that they weren't satisfied yet. They wanted him to continue showing them greater and greater duels. They wanted more.
"Good! It is your cheers that will give my monsters strength! Just as you wish, we will become even stronger!! Enough that we will be able to destroy everything in the world...!! Yes, we will continue winning! Just as you all desire!!"
[ She takes a moment to take a deep breath before continuing. ]
He summoned his dragons... everyone was cheering, they all thought it was just a show... but he really was stronger than anyone could ever imagine. His dragons attacked with a destructive force nobody had ever seen in a Duel before. Everyone ran for their lives... and some didn't escape.
We don't know enough about him to understand where his mind was at... what possibly went through his head that would lead to such a dramatic change... but he went berserk, and his Dragons responded in-kind. At that point, they weren't even being controlled by him... they were genuinely angry. Ray was able to tell... that they were lashing out in rage at the people that caused their Master to change, who encouraged the increasing violence.
Duel Monsters have souls... what Leo Akaba had brushed off as superstition turned out to be as true as possible. The consequences were immediate. The monster's real bodies gave them a physical avatar to channel their rage, and even the Original Dimension's modern weapons did nothing to them.
They destroyed faster than anyone could even begin to imagine. By the time they realized how bad things were getting, it was too late. Everything was in ruins, and the destruction caused by Zarc's monsters only continued to expand.
Then, amidst all of the destruction... they stopped and returned to Zarc. Ray was there when it happened. None of them were satisfied, not Zarc, nor his dragons... and then he said that he would become one with them, and in doing so... obtain supreme power.
Impossible, right? But it wasn't... Ray saw him summon a Monster that had the power to do that. He... he well and truly became one with All four dragons... and became what they could only describe as the Demon Duelist. Supreme King Dragon Z-ARC.
It only got worse from there... he had power that could rival that of gods. Nothing could stop him... the only way we could stand against him was with Duelists. But still nothing worked, he was well and truly unbeatable... but Leo Akaba, Ray's father, didn't give up. Because he was the one who developed Real Solid Vision for Duel Monsters, he felt it was his responsibility as the one who ultimately gave rise to the Demon Duelist, to stop him.
While the world desperately fended off destruction, he traveled. If humans gave rise to this power, then he would find a power that surpassed humans. He sought to harness the power of nature itself into cards... and despite all odds, he succeeded. He created four cards with the power to counteract Zarc. When he was about to face him, though, we—no, Ray—stepped in. She stole the cards... because she believed that her father was someone the people needed for the future.
[ She suddenly scoffs, muttering under her breath: "Look how well that turned out..." ]
A-Ah, sorry... so after that, she stopped her father from chasing her, and went to face Zarc by herself.
By the time Leo Akaba managed to catch up to her, it was too late... she used the cards, channeling their power into her own body, which...
[ She holds up her arm, a silver bracelet with a pink gemstone embedded in it on her wrist. ]
...created four bracelets, one for each card.
It worked, Zarc was finally defeated, and the four Dragons that had become one started to forcibly be separated again. But... that's not the only thing that was separated. The cards were too powerful... too much for any human to fully handle.
Zarc's four dragons were split and returned to their original forms... and the Original Dimension itself was also split into four, becoming dimensions separated by Summoning Methods. Zarc was split into four as well, with one of his fragments each reincarnating in one of the four dimensions with their corresponding Dragon.
[ A pause. ]
And Ray... went through the same thing. Four dimensions, four boys each with one of four dragons, and then four girls... each with one of four precious bracelets.
And so you have us. Yuzu of the Standard Dimension, Serena of the Fusion Dimension, Rin of the Synchro Dimension, and Ruri of the Xyz Dimension. Four girls with the same face.
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His little basket is filled with an assorted mess of juicy Oran berries and iron ore. It's getting hard to carry but Yuga figures he can pick up just one more batch of iron ore. He can do something with it if he can just pry it out...]
Huh?
[Yuga turns around and yelps, seeing Yuzu and her pursuers. He scrambles to his feet with his basket in tow.]
Ack! Aren't you supposed to send out a Pokemon against other Pokemon?
[Yuga's not one to run in the face of danger though. He hurries over with an Oran berry and lobs it at the Geodude, hoping a berry in the face would at least get one off Yuzu's back.]
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THERE'S TOO MANY...!?
[ Fortunately, the lobbed berry does startle one of the Geodudes, and it's rollout stops as it looks around for who just targeted it...
Still, that's one of her pursuers off her tail... she's not sure if her Eevee can win against two at the same time, but maybe she can chase them off or at least find an opening to get away...
Is what she wants to focus on, but she's also worried about the kid that's just helped her. Still! She's out of thinking time! She skids on her feet and turns, sending out her Eevee. ]
Go...!
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[There's a flash of colour and out comes Yuga's Rotom, shrieking loudly as usual. The berried-Geodude immediately turns to the newcomer and roars back, flexing its muscles in intimidation. Yuga wracks his brain quickly. Would electricity work on a rock? Probably not... right?]
Okay... Let's use Astonish!
[The Rotom disappears for a split second, then leaps up at the Geodude. It yelps and flinches as it's hit by the meagre move but it doesn't look too damaged.]
How you holding up?
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At the very least, it's not too different from Action Dueling, right? That being said, uh... she's still learning about how types and Pokemon Battles work, but... ]
This... feels like a bad matchup.
[ Eevee only knows Tackle as far as Yuzu knows and... whatever Yuga's Pokemon did... it didn't do much. ]
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Yuga has picked up on the exact same thing as Yuzu but he tries to hold his ground. Someone else needed help. It's not like he could back down.
The Geodude that Yuga's facing roars as it takes a new stance, shifting so it takes a strong-looking position. Then, with a hiss, it grabs the dirt and hurls it at Twozo. The ghost yells as it's hit, the dirt simultaneously stopping its electricity and concealing the Geodude.
A bad matchup indeed.]
... Fine... Hahahaha....
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Kh...! Tackle!
[ Aria digs in her feet before charging at one of the Geodudes, who responds in turn by curling up and starting another Rollout...! ]
Bui...!
Ahh!!
[ She tried her best, but Aria was immediately blown back and into Yuzu's arms... and the Geodude is still rolling, too. ]
Gyah...!
[ Fortunately, after Yuzu catches her poor Eevee, she's able to quickly throw herself to the side and dodge the Geodude, letting it roll past... which fortunately leaves it rolling a good distance away because of the downhill slope, but there's still another to deal with.
At the very least, though... she's closer to her helper now? Though she questions whether that'll help much with both of their Pokemon injured now. ]
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I think we should run.
[Yuga immediately returns his partner and pockets the ball.] Run up hill! They might not be able to catch up.
[They're rocks. How fast can they be?]
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[ SHE AGREES WITH THAT!! She returns Aria to her ball as well and starts to run. Uphill is tiring for sure, but they definitely can't roll as fast as they were when they were going downhill...
But!! As they hover slightly above the ground somehow (this is not the time or place to be questioning that, but Rin yells something about it being absurd inside Yuzu's head), it... doesn't leave them completely in the clear. With their Pokemon returning to their balls, their attention shifts to Yuzu and Yuga again.
For a bunch of heavy rocks, they sure float fast. Not that it isn't an improvement from a downhill rollout. ]
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[They're surprisingly fast. And while Yuga is okay running in short burst of speed, he's no marathon runner. Yuga's lack of endurance is painfully obvious. He huffs and puffs as he begins to run out of steam, falling a little behind Yuzu. But he keeps running.
The third Geodude is gone so there's just two left. And they're bound to get bored of chasing them... right? Right? ]
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[ She reaches into her bag while running and her heart sinks... didn't they say something about Dazzling Honey attracting Pokemon...? She did just manage to nab some earlier... ]
Are they after the honey...!?
Ah! He's falling behind!
Hah! The kid's out of shape.
Help him???
[ "How" is Yuzu's immediate question to that. ]
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I dunno! Maybe! [Yuga groans. His mind races as he tries to think what they could do. However, he's a little stumped trying to figure out how they can outrun floating rocks. Though... it looks like they go up, float a bit and then go down.]
Is there a river we can jump over? I don't think rocks can swim.
[Rocks can't swim... but neither can he. But maybe they can jump from bank to another? He only has so many ideas... but they'll cross that bridge when they get there (if it's hopefully there!)]
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I-I don't think they like water!? Worth a shot!!
[ Big maybe... she thinks she heard something like that!? Rock-Types not liking water... and well, if that's not a Rock-Type, she doesn't know what is. ]
Oh, just pick him up and run then. He looks small enough! Maybe...
[ Yuzu, baffled, shoots back out loud... ] We'll be caught!?
???
[ She gets that Academia training is crazy, and well... Yuzu is pretty athletic, but she doesn't see herself carrying Yuga and not slowing down enough for the Geodudes to catch them.
Fortunately... they do come up on a river. Yuzu is actually rather confident she can clear it if she sprints as fast as possible... but Yuga... ]
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The sight of the river is relieving for Yuga, up until he realises that it's way too wide for him to hop across. He looks up at Yuzu and he grimaces.]
Go! Jump!
[Yuzu can be free. She can definitely avoid the Pokemon's wrath if she just leaves him and hops across. Yuga hopes she listens to him and tries to devise a plan. Maybe run alongside the riverbank until there's somewhere more safe for him to cross. Or if he collapses in exhaustion, maybe the Geodude will leave him alone.]
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[ That's not...! She can't just leave him!! Everyone actually fully agrees on that! While she, Rin, and Ruri all panic, though... ]
JUST GRAB HIM!!
[ Yuzu's eyes briefly flash from her own blues to Serena's greens... and as they reach the riverbank, she—rather roughly—grabs Yuga, lifts him up, and fully throws him across the riverbank. ]
HHHAAAAAAHH!!
[ And following that, just as one of the Geodudes is about to reach her... she takes one more step... and jumps over the river.
She just barely clears the distance. ]
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