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Fighting 3.4: Cognitive Test Meredith [09:18:40] It’s not even the afternoon and you’re already tired. You’re always tired. Doesn’t help that you spent the last week at the edge of Route 2 in ad hoc ten-hour shifts, paranoid that every non-existent shadow held an Ultra Beast. You didn’t even...

I updated the zoroark entry to be about Hisuian zoroark rather than Unovan.

Fighting 3.3: Lies and Lyra Genesis “Excuse me, Genesis.” Your eyes flick away from Reshiram—Reshiram!—to see the man behind you. There’s a human-like pokémon with yellow stripes beside him. Wait. “We met in Heahea, right?” He nods. “We did.” “You been following her?” Kekoa asks/growls...

Fighting 3.2: The Truth Cuicatl [00:00:00] [HUNGER] The Voice crashes into your skull like a cannonball. Everything else, all those tiny little thoughts and feelings and dreams, gets compressed and pressed out, bleeding through every square inch of skin. You hug your legs and arms to your...

Feraligatr (Totodile, Crocodile) Rostraserrantia thomsoni Overview The first records of something akin to an island challenge or gym quest come from the Persian Empire. Children who showed great promise were sent to the various satraps of the empire to learn from different political...

Mission Three: Fighting “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, o make you everybody else- that means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” -e. e. cummings Fighting 3.1: Blacklight Selene [-00:00:21]...

Dewgong (Seel) Overview Dewgong is one of the few ice-types in Alola, and one of even fewer that does not primarily live in the area around Mt. Lanakila. They are still not a recommended choice on the island challenge. To start with, the Alolan dewgong is critically endangered. Some orphans...

Electric 2.8: The Lessons Not Learned Kekoa [-00:03:21] You meet up with Cuicatl right as she walks away from the nurse’s counter. She’s facing away from you so you can’t read her expression. Win? Loss? Are ties possible? You tap her shoulder and she jumps a little. Shouldn’t have done it. At...

Whiscash (Barboach) Overview Whiscash are one of the most prolific pokémon worldwide, boasting over scores of subspecies on six continents. They are an important food fish in some parts of the world. Several species are valued in the aquarium trade. But, like most wholly aquatic fish, they are...

Readers with a soft stomach may want to skip the illness section on this one. Nature can be viscerally upsetting. Magikarp (Gyarados) Overview Magikarp barely qualifies as a pokémon. It boasts one of the lowest energy potentials of any known pokémon and survives mostly on the basis of its...

Jynx (Smoochum) Overview Even by the standards of true psychics jynx are strange creatures. They possess a limited ability to temporarily discard or entirely reform their body from moisture in the air. Rather than feeding on emotions jynx feed on general brain activity of creatures they are...

Reading this on a screen reader? Head over to AO3 for a more accessible version. Electric 2.7: (In)efficient Unit001_101110110 [-6:17:17] [Unit100_110010 Summons Unit001_101110110] Alarm Lvl 1: Mistake Probable [Unit001_101110110 Alerts Unit100_110010 of Alarm Lvl 1] [Unit100_110010...

Throughout the month of July voting will be open for a bonus entry of this story. The options are Alcremie, Charizard, Rotom, and Typhlosion. Where do you vote? Well... in this thread, sort of. Or the one for Broken Things. For every 100 words in reviews you give to any of my fics you'll earn...

Electric 2.6: Eventually Genesis [-14:13:33] You wake up to the sound of Cuicatl hissing below you. No, not hissing. Words. Cursing? Not in English. Weird. You glance down right before the lights flash on and force you to close your eyes. “You okay?” Kekoa asks. “Oh ****,” they answer. You...

I've got some bad news for you about the real cotton industry.

CN: Child Abuse, Eating Disorder Electric 2.5: Life Goes On Cuicatl Ichtaca [-15:03:11] The air feels like rain again. You’d hoped that being in the States would bring a real winter and summer and not just wet and dry seasons. Of course, you weren’t so lucky. “I’m sorry, ma’am, but pokémon...

Whimsicott (Cottonee) Bombacio whitney Overview Whimsicott have been tied to many of the greatest triumphs and tragedies of the modern era. The first factories were made to process their fluff. The cottonee industry led to the mass produced pokéball, but also serious human and pokémon rights...

Electric 2.4: Spiderwebs and Lost Souls Kekoa [-24:08:40] Before you take out lunch you kick your boots off and stretch. Downhill was supposed to be easy. Instead it was a thousand controlled, halting steps to keep you from tumbling down. Did bring you to a damn nice lake, though. Perfectly...

Lilligant (Petilil) Tulp manie eiland Overview Most pokémon, and especially most popular pokémon, are essentially just animals with slightly odd biology and the ability to harness elemental powers. Many of the exceptions lack any carbon-based biology. Then there are pokémon that are...

Electric 2.3: Gods and Kings Genesis [-28:07:15] There are two types of museums: the ones filled with dangerous lies spoken into the world by Yveltal and presented as fact, and the ones that actually present facts. The true ones are wonderful! This one has a bunch of pictures of the power...