friendyousohard | 5th Spell: [Video/Action for Ecruteak Pokecenter]

[It's late night when a set of images, clearly pictures in an old book, flicker by the gear. First one of Entei, then Raikou, then Suicune.

After the third one, the gear turns to show a very tired-looking Twilight Sparkle, bags under her eyes and all. She yawns, but shakes the sleep-fog out of her head.]

Given the current situation this may seem like an odd time for a question like this, but it's very linked with this town and my curiosity is just eating me alive here. Can anyone tell me anything about these three Pokemon? Particularly if anyone's been lucky enough to see them, I'd like to hear the story.

[She sighs and rubs one of her eyes.] Really glad the Centers have their own generators. Hope someone gets the Power Plant up and working again... anyone know anything about what's going on there? I'm guessing not since it's out of the way, but it's bugging me, so I thought I'd ask.

Thanks in advance.

[Private to the PGC]

[As soon as she's got the filter up, Twilight starts looking more alert, wary, and worried. The bags under her eyes are still there though, so it's obvious she is tired, just full of nervous energy.]

This is a message to the Pokemon Guardian Corps at large from Squad Seven member Twilight Sparkle. I believe I may have discovered the source of the recent weather phenomena, and although my research into this issue isn't yet complete, this is important enough that I have elected to share this with all of you immediately.

As you may have guessed from the content of my post before now, my theory revolves around the three Legendary Beasts of Johto: Entei, Raikou, and Suicune. The legends I've been researching all agree that Suicune has the ability and, presumably, the desire to purify tainted waters. I think it's obvious that if that's true, the recent events would have awakened it. This explains the cold weather and the brief mist we experienced earlier, as these are signs of Suicune being on the move.

The full fury of the storms we're dealing with now would be the result of Suicune's influence mixing with Raikou's and Entei's. As to why Raikou and Entei would have been roused, I can only come to one conclusion: Suicune must have been lured into a trap and captured, and the other two are attempting to rescue it. I think it's obvious who would be behind a trap like that.

I feel it's necessary to point out that this is all only a hypothesis. Without visual confirmation of any of the Beasts it's impossible to prove. But everything seems to point to this chain of events. If I find any more evidence to prove or disprove this, I will let you all know immediately.

As to what we can do about this if it is indeed the case... that, I'm afraid I don't know. If any of you have suggestions, I'd appreciate hearing them.

Thank you for your time.

[OOC: For the curious, this is how Twi figured out what was going on. Thanks for the help, Carmen and Robin!]

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Of course. But we need to actually stop it next time. We can't just let it get as far as it did this time.

That would require earlier knowledge about their plans, a wider intelligence network to tell us quicker when they're on the move, and probably more members than we have. We can and will try, just like we tried to stop their garbage plan, but we can't guarantee success in time.

That's not to say we can't take steps though. Train your Pokemon, maybe study some strategy, and if you aren't sure what else you can do, ask Lightning and Ventus. They're our leaders for a reason, after all.

Yeah, I know.

We definitely need to get stronger. I'm going to keep training my pokémon; and I'm going to be heading to Goldenrod soon to by some TMs to expand my pokémon's known moves. I only had one super effective move during that trash pokémon thing.

Keep me and the other members of the squad updated when you head out. I'll do the same when I end up leaving Ecruteak. We should all try and keep in touch with each other.

Oh, and what Pokemon do you have? My current team is a Dragonair, a Kadabra, and a Heracross, and I'm hoping to find a Magnemite soon, if I get lucky enough.

Don't worry, I will!

And I have an Umbreon, Prinplup, Charmeleon, Bayleaf, Togetic, and Pidgetto. At least, those are the ones I usually use a lot. I have a few others that got from friends after they left, though I don't think they'd listen to me as far as battles go.

That's one impressive team. Almost all of those are very rare and potentially very powerful Pokemon.

They really are? I didn't even realize. That's... pretty good to know.

*And considering she lucked into all of them as eggs, pretty surprising.*

Point of fact, every one of those except for the Pidgeotto evolves from a rare Pokemon. I'm amazed you managed to get them. Where did they come from?

[Seriously, Hikari, you have three starters, a Togetic, and an Eevee evolution. You are one lucky girl.]

Well... remember that time around Easter when we all got eggs in our bags?

... I mean the Easter around a year ago? And then someone was delivering more eggs to people?

That's... kinda how I got them.

Sorry, I've only been here since last December. And we don't celebrate a holiday called "Easter" back in Equestria. So I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about.

But I think I get the gist of it. You got them during a holiday when everyone was getting Pokemon eggs, right?

Yep!

I'm just glad that I ended up only getting one egg this past one though, I don't know how I would've managed another four baby pokémon.

That would be pretty difficult... though I guess that would mean you'd be sending four off to the storage boxes, too.

I don't really like doing that though. I end up swapping them all out if I'm in a city so that I can take care of all of them.

I can see that. I haven't gotten enough Pokemon for it to be an issue for me yet, but my friend Fluttershy feels the same way you do.

Yeah. I just can't not take care of them. It's not right.

5th Spell: [Video/Action for Ecruteak Pokecenter]

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