March - April Test Drive

[indigo_league]

➞ Post with a character you wish to test drive in this game's setting.
➞ Tag other people's starters and thread out shenanigans!
➞ Invite your friends! Try out new characters! Come play with us!
➞ Have fun!

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JOHTO | KANTO | SEVII ISLANDS

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[ironchef]

[He gives her a big hug in return, using that heft of his to briefly pick her up off the ground and then just squeeze (honestly he thinks she's just being gentle). He rests her feet back on the ground and grabs her shoulders.]

Are you okay? You-

[But she looks okay, right? She seems perfectly fine and happy.]

....Wait, okay, I need to check. You're not like some Allura native to this pokeplace and you don't think I'm some Hunk that lives around here and just returned home, right?

[This is a very real possibility.] I'm from Earth with cows and chickens and things like that. [Just have to double check things like that nowadays.]

[heartofalioness]

[A soft chuckle.]

No, Hunk. I'm from the reality where both of us are Paladins of Voltron. [Legs unite!] This reality tends to bring people in and out of their own realities in a similar fashion. All of the team is here save for Coran, now that you're here, as well as two Blades of Marmora and an Altean named Romelle, do you know of her?

[Because Allura is from just after Lotor saving their butts at Naxzela, so she first learned of Romelle's existence coming here.]

[ironchef]

[It would have been nice to be the head once, though, right? Right?] I figured out that much at least, I just didn't realize anyone else was here. [And he doesn't know what to do with that. Were they all the same universe? Did they all have the same successes and failures? Did their presence here mean something bad for the universe?]

What's happened in your reality so far?

[He decides to check and be sure.] Oh oh, right. I do know Romelle. And probably the Blades. Keith's friends? Right? Just a wild guess?

[heartofalioness]

[A light nod.]

In a way... Thace and Ulaz, to be more precise. [So uh... Blades that are already quite deceased by their timepoints...] As for myself, my last memory was a little after the battle of Naxzela. Not all of us are from the same point in time; some are from my past, some from the future.

[ironchef]

Huh...

[Well, in a strange way, that now makes him paranoid that he's going to die soon if he goes home. But, you know? He'll worry about that existential crisis later, or successfully push it entirely out of his mind because, genuinely, he's just really glad to see Allura again after all this time.]

So there's the Paladins but no Lions, huh? Where is everyone? [Honestly this place was so big he'd probably have to make a pretty good journey to go visit other people. But now he wants to find them. He thought he was alone here. But the paladins are his second family. It makes everything a ton easier knowing they're here.] Are they around here? [If they're here? Everyone is getting milkshakes at some point. But he wouldn't be that lucky, would he?]

[heartofalioness]

[HUNK NO, it's okay, you live and get to fulfill your dream of being the single best chef in the universe!]

Not all of us. Keith and I are currently traveling the Johto region to challenge the League Gyms; Romelle is traveling Johto as well at her own pace. Shiro, Pidge, and Lance are currently at our house in the Sevii Archipelago, and to be honest, it has been a while since I caught up with Thace and Ulaz.

[Meanwhile, Coressa gives a soft, almost regal bark at Allura's feet. Friend?]

Ah, of course. [Her smile returns as she rests a hand on her Pokémon's chilly white fur.] This is Coressa. She is an Alolan Ninetales, as opposed to the ones native to Kanto and Johto. She was the Pokémon I first received when I arrived in this would.

[ironchef]

[Sometimes his brain just goes to the worst-case scenario. At least he's around cute animals and that helps.]

Wow, that one actually seems to suit you perfectly.

[They have a whole house already, though? Hunk's expression is a little dumbfounded as he stares at her.]

How long have you guys been here?

[heartofalioness]

[Yes, indeed, cute animals definitely help. Where's Hunk's cute animal?]

Keith and I arrived at roughly the same time, around six months ago. Ulaz arrived last month, but the others have been here longer, up to a few years. [And before Hunk panics...] This reality seems to be temporally separate from the others; whenever we're returned to our realities, it's to the exact moment we left, and with no memory of this place.

[So no shattered timelines.

[ironchef]

[He doesn't panic at all, actually. Well, not yet.]

So... you guys have been building a whole life here and you just have to forget it? [Because that seems very tragic. Especially knowing what he knows now. They could have such happy lives here! In fact Allura does look happy.]

[Hunk hesitantly removes a pokeball from the back of his belt and tosses it. And out comes a Nidoran. Who is... sleeping. Just laying on the ground in undignified snot-bubble level of repose.]

I have a Nidoran. I named her Shay.

[heartofalioness]

[Ah... she hears the unspoken thoughts and rests a hand on his shoulder.]

It isn't perfect, no, but it is a welcome respite while we have it, and the idea that we don't need to worry about our timelines being corrupted or the war continuing in our absence does help.

[At least that's how she sees it. But then Allura smiles as Hunk brings Shay out.]

Oh how cute! I actually received a Nidorina from a friend of mine, her name is Nikki. Once we get to a PC, I can show her to you. She is... a bit feisty, though. [VERY feisty, considering she's a high-level "traded" Pokémon and already had a fierce temperament before coming into Allura's care.] I'm honestly surprised yours is so calm.

[ironchef]

Well, she does get grumpy sometimes. She just doesn't seem bothered to do much about it.

[He picks Shay up under her little Nidoran arms and holds her out in front of him, towards Allura, and after a little gentle shake as if she were a floppy ragdoll (nothing that would hurt her) Shay slowly wakes up and stretches in midair where she's being held. Then smacks her lips as she starts absorbing her location, eyes heavy-lidded.]

But, sure. I mean, let me go tell the people I was with I'm gonna go on with you for a little bit. I'll catch up to them later.

[He puts Shay under his arm, carrying her like a basketball. Her little limbs dangle and she 'Nido's a bit, wondering where they currently are.]