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"Avery?" The mew hovered there for a second, surrounded by narrow stone on either side. Though at their size it felt several meters away, it couldn't really be more than a meter. Quinn's transformation had robbed him of any sense of scale. "Part of me wonders why they never gave me a different name," she said. "Lost kitten whose irresponsible parents left her while they did their terraforming work. Has delusions of being human. But Avery didn't annoy them much. My…-
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Lane realized she was being watched not even halfway to the cabin. She saw more than one set of little eyes poking up at her from between the flowers—but she didn't think much of it. She couldn't think of anything beside her burden, or else risk dropping the delicate human she carried. No matter how much she might want to stop, she just couldn't. Elisa was shivering constantly now, which Lane recognized dimly as the first symptoms of hypothermia. Soon her shivering would stop, then they…-
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Lotus stared up through the broken wreckage of one window. She was still trapped somewhere in her truck, its body now crumpled and crushed beyond recognition. She'd been thrown from her seat, though by some miracle that hadn't meant shattering her whole body through the windshield.Sound rang through her ears, and her mind struggled to focus. Everything warped and melted, with only brief moments of clarity. A stone pony towered above; its glowing eyes fixed on her."Not... sure what I expected when we got to…-
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Quinn's plan took a lot of time, but what was time to a Celebi? It wasn't as though he had to worry about missing deadlines or failing to defend his thesis. His whole civilization didn't exist yet. None of them would be born for a very, very long time. The worst part wasn't finding food, or shelter from the near-constant rain. It wasn't even occasionally dealing with the territorial wild Pokémon. Lucky for him, most Pokémon had no interest in fighting. They seemed able to sense…
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Lane and Elisa did not even have the luxury of a slow trip back to the surface to try and make sense of what had just happened. No sooner had the mythical Pokémon vanished from ahead of them than the ground began to shake. More lightning arced from the sphere, reaching closer and closer towards them. Lane lifted up into the air, flying as fast as she could through a set of oversized bulkhead doors and dragging Elisa along behind her. No sooner were they through than the doors slammed shut behind them.…
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Lotus trotted along behind Iron, keeping pace with him despite the debris. She kept her horn at a low, constant light, the same as she would've done for a flashlight if she still had batteries. Even after all this time on four legs, she wasn't quite coordinated enough to trust herself with a gallop, not in such close quarters. The last thing she needed right now was to faceplant her horn into a wall."He thinks it's the police?" she prompted. Somehow, she managed to keep from losing her breath. But then she…
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As he soon learned, tracking Avery down wouldn't be as simple as flying to a specific place, or even a direct teleport there by one of his powerful new friends. The cats kept a tight perimeter around their primary settlement, and would capture him long before he got close. Even traveling through time would do him no good if each era had similar protection.. But he didn't have to find Avery in Starfall. He had already told her where to meet him. All he had to do was leave something behind for her…
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They followed Dominic’s scent as best they could through the ruins of Starfall. They passed more than one of the oversized machines that Lane had been afraid of, and she slowed to look between them. She couldn't shake the fear that her friend had fallen into one of the complex mechanical devices and been squashed to paste. But they found no corpses squished into the ruins, or any sign that Dominic had suffered critical injuries. "I've never even been this far," Lane said, after…
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Lotus watched the flashing lights speed past outside. They came much more frequently now, at least a dozen she had counted so far. The police zipped down the highway from both directions, converged on the gas station—then split up again. Some shot down the farm road connecting the old asylum, others weaved their way down its other tributaries.Gus snored away in the other room now, content that “someone has to be awake, but it doesn't have to be me.” So, it fell to Lotus to pace back and forth next to…
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"My friends escaped containment and 'treatment' in the Starfall hospital. They had already watched friends die, or suffered permanent injuries at the hands of the ones trying to 'save' them. I had to get them free. Of course, if the place they escape to gets destroyed, that isn't very helpful either." "You know this death is coming, but you're still here," said Azelf. They bobbed up and down in front of the map table, only occasionally looking back at…
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