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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All working in unison? That's an extraordinary amount of cohesive effort for wild Pokemon, from what I understand. Was something agitating them?

Nothing, unless our mere presence was enough.

Charming. But it hasn't happened since, right?

Thankfully not. They were rather stressful days.

Still... if something like that could happen once, it could happen again. Imagine a group of fire-types getting angry and banding together, they could burn down whole cities. Or psychic-types could do things to our minds I don't even want to think about...

[Great, now her imagination's running wild.]

I think we'd be in less danger now. Few trainers had reached Goldenrod, by then; we have much stronger teams, with wider type varieties.

I suppose that's true. It's still a very worrisome thought though.

Still, I guess we dealt with the onslaught of poison-types well enough.

Indeed. I've not heard of any civillian casualties.

If you limit "casualties" to mean "deaths" that's true, but I think a few people might have been sent to the hospital.

Or maybe those were due to the storm. I'm not quite clear on what's happened outside of what I've been directly looking into.

The few injuries I've heard of were storm-related. Everyone else was mostly complaining about the smell.

I see. Well, that's actually kind of reassuring in a strange way.

...Perhaps because we expect the local weather and terrain to attack us by now.

In Johto, that's basically good survival instincts.

Ones that even newcomers have to learn surprisingly quickly.

Distressingly so. But what can you do?

...Break a leg climbing a ledge, but that seems less common than it used to be.

The fact that it was ever common really confuses and worries me.

There was a time when we knew very little about this world. Ledges included.

Well, I suppose the way they work isn't exactly intuitive. I'm still kind of unsure about jumping down them.

That's perfectly safe. ...Unless you somehow fall off instead.

So I've been told, but it just doesn't feel like it. Maybe it's the fact that I can't land on all fours like I used to.

...Ah, yes, that would modify your balance quite a lot. You could try sitting on the edge and sliding off?

I suppose that's worth a shot. How much travel time do they cut off?

That depends greatly on the road. A day or so is common.

Worth the effort, then. I'll figure out something.

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