#Astra has new sprites!

[bagelzest]

ok I've been writing down every code I could find and what they do for thisisnotawebsitedotcom in my notes app so here's what I've found so far:

• tjeckleburg - NEVER MENTION THAT NAME AGAIN

• bill - eye of providence wiki page, then sesame street jazzy triangle meets a square square (same result with cipher)

• bill cipher - triangle wiki page

• weirdmageddon - gravity falls gossiper newspaper

• soos - letter from soos

• pinata - bill piñata gettin beat

• mabel - stickers on everything till 'LAB NOW FULLY MABELIZED'

• dipper - note from bill telling dipper to stare at the sun for 13 hours, enter multiple times for a retina burning sim

• mason - letter from dipper

• pines - A GOOD FAMILY TREE

• stan + stanley - brass knuckles ebay search, keep entering to get wheel of shame page

• ford + stanford + sixer- ford's polydactyly diagnosis + report

• pacifica - letter from pacifica

• wendy - note from wendy

• waddles - pigplacementnetwork.org

• gideon - sweat resistant bolo ties google search

• fiddleford - cotton eye joe mv

• dippy fresh - burger king kids club r/nostalgia

• axolotl - YOU ASK ALOTL QUESTIONS

• tad strange - bread slicing

• alex hirsch - flannel google search

• blendin - TIME AGENT LOST AND PRESUMED INCOMPETENT

• robbie - text chat between robbie and Thompson, pic of them being taken by bill

• gravity falls - NEVER HEARD OF IT

• mystery shack - confusion hill

• blind eye - eye test, colour code at bottom- euclmjiannrepttgccvisignnsupervisionn I think?? EDIT wtf was I on that is obviously not what it says

• reality - IS AN ILLUSION

• the universe - HOLLOGRAM

• deer teeth - FOR YOU, KID!

• fuck - I get told to wash my mouth out with soap :(((

• book of bill - HIDE IT UNDER SHIRT DURING PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

• giffany - enter multiple times, computer tries to block, SOOS, I STILL LOVE YOU, giffany appears on screen, downloading file IM NEVER LEAVING! file has all her sprites, a doc called ILL ALWAYS BE WITH YOU SOOS which is text in the shape of giffany

• euclydia - DIMENSION NOT FOUND

• portal - PORTAL.EXE HAS BEEN DELETED. I BET YOU COULD BUILD ONE

• toby determined - google search restraining order

• journal 1 - THE JOURNAL OF FUN

• journal 2 - THE JOURNAL FOR YOU

• journal 3 - THE JOURNAL FOR ME

• babba + disco girl - recording of dipper singing and listening to babba

• gun - OH YES OH YES OH YES THEY BOTH

• abuelita - best vacuum for walls and ceilings yt vid

• weird - weird al trapped in the computer

• xyler + craz - jem and the holograms theme song yt vid

• triangle - TRI HARDER

• theraprism - blue sign - IN CASE OF [the old one] DO NOT USE ELEVATORS

• yes - WHAT'S MCGUCKETS FAVOURITE SODA? (I tried putting in pitt cola and variations and nothing worked)

• no - YOUR LOSS...

• vallis cineris - creepy vid of baby bill held by static parents with voice saying why did you do it

• disney - RAT.GIF CENSORED FOR YOUR PROTECTION

• love + marry me (don't worry about how I discovered that) - pic of the love triangle book, click it and it plays an audio audiobook of it

• death - LIFE'S GOTH COUSIN

• life - LIFE: 72% COMPLETE. NOW LOADING: DEATH

• blanchin - how to blanch vegetables yt vid

• divorce - o' sadleys logo (aka the bar bill was at after "losing sixer" oh my GODDD)

• season 1 - SEASON -1: ANTIGRAVITY FALLS

• season 2 - SEASON 1

• season 3 - SEASON 2

• help me + save me + god - vid of axolotl swimming infront of a little bill statue

• ad astra per aspera - 2 journal pages starring ford and mabel, pls read them it's so good

• trigonometry - bill's attempt to have plato build the portal

• cray cray - mental health wiki page

• who are you - I COULD ASK YOU THE SAME QUESTION

• lies - bill talking about lying and nerds

• morality - fun game!

• R34LITY - henchmaniacs polaroids

• ducktective - DUCKTECTIVE STARS IN "LOVE, QUACKTUALLY" COMING TO: "OI, ITS THE COCKNEY CHANNEL INNIT?" THIS FALL

• question - ANSWER

• answer - QUESTION

I'm editing this post when I find new ones, feel free to add any you find!! please look at the replies to this post because people have found more codes!!

EDIT I'm probably done with updating this list, these are just the ones I found after goofing around on the website for 4 hours. other people have definitely made lists of all the codes found so far so make sure to check them out !!

[doubleddenden]

Continuing my posts of "what if" teams, I decided to continue my train of thought from my last post and do another Dray and Hanna set. This time through Eldiw, the region from Xenoverse: Per Aspera Ad Astra, another of my favorite fan games, and one that people really should play at some point.

However, truth be told, I don't really think there's that grand of a story as last time nor a lot of involvement with the story, as that'd be a bit too coincidental. I think Instead these two just so happened to take their honeymoon to another region and went through it on a normal adventure. I think maybe they encountered a few things here and there related to crimes or the dimensional rifts, but overall their adventure would be set in an AU where things really didn't get TOO serious, and the worst was already handled by the time they got there.

more under the cut. As per usual, I made and edited my sprites with my usual resources just for fun, but the fakemon presented come directly from the game files.

I imagine Dray came to Eldiw about a year after the events of Tandor, and since then he got married to Hanna. The two would come to the NORMAL Eldiw, where the events of Team Dimension did occur, but they were quietly dealt with by your average teenage protagonist- If we were to somehow connect this to my AU Ashnime where Ash became involved with the plot of Xenoverse, then Ash got sent to the version more closely resembling the game's plot. Otherwise, the two probably never knew the other was there until maybe towards the end of both of their arcs when Ash is popped back out to the real world, and only in a slight "Wait, was that-" sort of passing way.

On his own, though, Dray has pretty much become way more confident in himself and is happy to have a quieter adventure with his wife. The ceremony was held back in Tauraro with all of their friends and family present (or in some cases, at least through video call), and of course their Pokemon from all over. How else would they celebrate their honeymoon than by another adventure together somewhere entirely different?

Their adventure through Eldiw was pretty nice, and for old time's sake, Dray took on the gym challenge while Hanna did research on the region- However, due to the 8th gym leader still being absent, he was no longer able to finish his challenge. This actually didn't bother him much, since apparently Eldiw doesn't have a "League" like the other regions per se. The more exciting parts of their journey came from taking in a rich new culture and from the heavily unexpected X Pokemon that spilled over from other dimensional rifts.

Overall they probably befriended Aster the professor and were offered pokemon to help explore the region and befriended the gym leaders and such. Probably spent some time at the university, exploring the canyon, exploring the pyramid, helping GEIST, and I think that the last of the journey ends with a Wallace Daddy concert, and then a week spent at Sakura Paradise.

So the team he had to explore with

Scaleon (Dragon): Dray of course couldn't resist the opportunity to adopt another Eevee, and this one evolved into the region's Dragon type Eeveelution. Scaleon was a very serious Eevee, and the same can be said about when it evolved. Dray initially got the idea to evolve it into Scaleon after seeing Cardinal Abraham in action once, and also on the suggestion of Hanna, who decided to evolve her Eevee into the other regional exclusive Eevee. As serious as Scaleon is, it's a bit selfish with how much attention it wants, and expects to be constantly given head pats.

Croakraze (Fire/Ground): The fire starter that Professor Aster chose to represent his region, and a bit of a show off. It sees itself as cool and badass, always showing off way too hard to the point that it burns through energy much quicker than usual. But when it wins, it wins with style. Water types absolutely scare it, though, revealing a somewhat cowardly side.

Skravroom (Steel/Sound): One of the regional exclusive Sound types and Dray and Hanna's main ride across the region once it evolved. It absolutely loves cars and vehicles and ever since it was a young Vroombug, it aspired to be the fastest motorcycle in the land. It quickly evolved and vowed to achieve its dream while whisking Dray and Hanna across the region at breakneck speed- stopping was harder to train, however

Sharpedo X (Water/Ghost): one of the infamous X pokemon that appear in Eldiw, this particular pokemon was a member of a school of X Carvanha that tried to sink a paddle boat Dray and Hanna took together. Since then it has been a bit defiant and rebellious, but quick to mind when facing a strong opponent. It can serve as water travel in emergency, but it's ferocious and reckless nature make it a better battler than anything. I imagine by the end it finally learns to bond with Dray and respect him.

Tyranitar X (Rock/Bug): Although the major parts of the Team Dimension plot never happened in this dimension, Dray and Hanna did still find labs left abandoned by the thwarted gang in their dimension, and in one they found a sealed away Tyranitar that had been experimented on to have the X genome. At first it was a rabid beast hell bent on destruction, and yet Dray never relented abd vowed to save it and give it a better life. It took a lot of doing, but eventually Tyranitar came to understand it was safe and surrounded by people that cared about it, and accepted them as it's family. It became one of Dray's aces from then on.

Mega Raikou (Electric): the dimensional rifts didn't just spit out X Pokémon, but several rifts to strange dimensions from past, present, and future. One such Pokémon was Raikou, and it was infused with Furious Energy that allowed it to Mega Evolve. Although it was highly dangerous and a legendary Pokémon at that, Dray saw the damage it was causing a city and knew something had to be done. Through a furious battle, Dray finally won and earned Raikou's respect, calming it immensely. Raikou willingly gave itself to Dray, including a Mega Stone. Dray is still in disbelief about it, despite the fact he was Dracomeha's chosen back in Tauraro. Raikou, despite being a legendary Pokémon, is a bit dimwitted. It behaves much like a large cat, purring aggressively to Dray and Hana, butting it's head for pets, and screaming for food- in Raikou's case, this summons thunder and lightning, so the two are pretty prompt with feeding it.

Similarly to Dray, Hanna is much more confident the more time she spends with her husband. Her people skills have improved so much that she's now even better than Dray with self introductions. I think I covered most of what happens to her in the Dray blurb tbh, but I think she takes particular interest in Newtron University and its Daycare facility, taking some classes and eventually enrolling into a program for it. As of now, she's certified to open and run a Daycare Center back home. She also is a fan of Wallace Daddy's music, getting Dray and her backstage passes to meet him and several indie bands.

She's also taken a larger interest in the dimensional rifts, finding very odd rifts that hold what are called "Vintage" pokemon. Not a lot of information is known about them, but some are entirely new species and some are variants of other species.

So, her team:

Bandeon (Sound): the Eldiw exclusive SOUND type Eeveelution that evolved roughly the same time as Dray's Scaleon. Bandeon and Scaleon are brother and sister, with Hanna taking to the runt of the litter that would eventually evolve into Bandeon. Bandeon is a very gentle and carefree Pokemon that will actually sing when it is happy- which is often.

Vesperfum (Grass/Dark): Hanna picked the grass starter provided by Aster. It fancies itself as Hanna's personal body gaurd and retainer. Highly curious of noises.

Rapidash X (Storm mode: Electric): Hanna found a Ponyta X wounded in the wild and carefully tended to its injuries. It was newborn as well, so she had to bottlefeed it and care for it like she were it's mother. When it evolved, it became fiercely loyal and powerful.

Platinum Lucario: although it looks different, this Lucario is more or less identical to others. Hanna found it in the Sakura Paradise and befriended it with cookies. For some reason, Lucario has interpreted this as a kindness that he must repay and immediately joined her. It's serious in nature, but has a soft spot for Hanna

Beta Wooper: Hanna accidentally tripped and fell into portal to another dimension, finding this strange but loveable Wooper. It noms on things it is curious about, and sprays water at people it likes.

Bombseal: another Pokémon from another dimension, this time one that neither Hanna or Dray has ever seen, but feel as if it's from the old days. Bombseal likes to balance things on it's nose, and is EXTRAORDINARILY good at it, even balancing Hanna on its nose with relative ease.

Anyway that's all. I think next I'll be working on a newer fakemon game.

[askstar-andbolts]

Event: Stargazing

You are looking at the stars one night and accidently trip on something

You look down and see a girl laying on the ground looking up at the stars with a notebook in hand.

They look up at you "uh sorry am I in the way? I can move it was just so easy to see the stars here"

Tagging : @shiroganes-closet @ask-ultimate-mortician @human-monokuma

[toughaqua777]

FNF Mod Concept: Night in the Woods

Ok so I have an idea (unless someone has done this already and I didn’t know). FNF except it’s NITW. Hear me out. [Freeplay Stuff below the Read More!]

Story: I don’t have a fleshed-out story (might not even need one), but basically Mae, Bea, Gregg, & Angus go to the Party Barn for band practice only to find a NITW-styled BF & GF already there doin’ their usual thing. BF challenges them, the band goes “eh fuck it” and since Angus is their vocalist, he goes for it. After three songs they all chill out and have a pizza party lol

Main Gameplay: Would have a layout just like the band sections in the title game, except symbols/letters/whatever that appear are Angus’ notes while BF still has his arrows and the player must hit the latter and not the former lest it counts as a miss. Screwing up causes everyone, not just BF, to react (like in NITW). Game Over is still BF blueballing.

Main Songs: Probably a remix of the actual band songs, in this order: “Die Anywhere Else”, “Weird Autumn”, & “Pumpkin Head Guy”. BF’s vocals are there, though I’m not sure if Angus would receive his own unique vocals.

Main Style: BF’s a cat in his usual outfit (he’s still small lol), and GF’s a goat in her usual outfit (if you get why I made her a goat, you win a cookie!). The layout has Bea at top-left, Angus center-left, Mae bottom-left, GF top-right, BF center-right, and Gregg bottom-right. Just to let you know.

Freeplay: There’s a bunch of song ideas I had in-mind, though the only one I’m confident about is the first one listed here.

“Killer”: This song has you play as Mae up against that statue in her first dream sequence. The style also matches with said sequence while adopting the setup of FNF (Mae on the left, Statue on the Right). Mae has her own voice and is wielding a baseball bat. Might consist of her swinging at the statue. Game Over causes Mae to dissolve into shapes, like she does at the end of most of her dream sequences.

“Uncaring”: Play against The Sky Cat, though whether you play as Mae or as NITW-style BF I don’t know. Either way, the style would be like the dream sequence. Game Over would also be dissolving into shapes. To make it creepy, don’t give the Sky Cat any sprites. They’ll just...sit there. Staring. Observing. Uncaring.

“Shapes”: Play against the Deep Hollow Hollerers in yet another dream. Probably play as either Mae or NITW-styled BF. Game Over is same as the above two songs.

“Tower Trek”: Play as Pixel BF (not NITW-style) and go up against the MC of Demontower, Palecat! Or play as Palecat and go against the final boss, the Blood Thief. Either way, I guess. May consist of dodging attacks/attacking back. Game Over is the same as in Demontower.

“Lost Constellation”: Play as NITW-style BF and go up against the MC of the game that shares the song’s title, Adina Astra! Or play as the latter and go against someone from the same game. Either works, I guess. Not sure how the Game Over would go.

Other Ideas: Exactly what it says on the tin.

vs. Eide: What it says on the tin...again.

Longest Night: Either a name for a new “mode” of sorts or a name of a song. The mode might be something like a “Nightmare Mode” or something.

Tutorial Appearance: Looks like NITW bass practice, except BF & GF are there instead of Mae.

A RIP to Alec. idk if the allegations against him were true or not, but c’mon, the man offed himself. Gotta treat the dead with respect, y’know?

Maybe a cover of a song consisting of the characters?

Maybe a random comment on how Mae and BF are wearing similar shirts? /hj

And that’s about it. I would make the mod, but I have no skills, no resources, no time, and overall no anything that could make it work. But if this gives anyone ideas, let me know. And if a mod like this does appear (provided there isn’t one already), let me know about it plz (and if you make it, credit me if you use any of these ideas, provided you got them off of me!)

[ut-sudden-changes]

Entry #6 - Concept Art

The story of Premonition is inherited from the first person to ever commission me. The title “Premonition” even came from their original project.

Before the human was given their current name, his name was “Wander”.

Wander would have been the playable character, and there would have been 3 main routes titled; traitor, adviser, and friend.

The story included other characters such as Gerson and Toriel, and a mysterious fortune teller. Asgore’s father would also make an appearance, known as King Astra. The fortune teller would have been a Lich, a monster close to being human.

The lighting would also change based off of what route you were on, with the final room either being a sunrise, sunset, or midnight.

Eventually I updated the sprites since the direction of their project had changed. Eventually the project just fell to the wayside, but I was a big fan of the concept and asked if I could continue with their blessing. I certainly have taken it on it’s own path.

Originally the Premonition I planned to release would have solely taken place on the mountain. The threats were irrelevant, the only important event would happen at the very peak. This was the version where everything was a hue of red.

I then decided to make this a fuller experience, with 3 mini areas instead. I knew I would need new characters to fill in this space since having only Asgore and the human I felt would be a bit boring. The two were given a yellow color to reference the intro slides but also to make them stand out from the backgrounds.

The first character I thought of was a human, inspired by another project I was working on. His name was Sir Aph. Through experimentation I eventually developed the style for all the NPCs other than the duo for Premonition.

Eventually I cleaned him up, and here’s his current overworld sprite.

Next came our little pumpkin buddy. He came to me as a random NPC sketch. You may not know this, but I am a spriter on the Dreemurr Reborn: The End’s team.

I sprited him also! However Fatz decided ultimately not to use him for The End, but I absolutely loved his design so I developed him further.

Looking in the concept art book, I even saw there was a pumpkin version of Vegetoid which was scrapped! I thought it would be neat to include that also.

I then put him in the style of the other NPCs and then cleaned him up- giving him his eyeless design.

This one was just a straight out rip from the concept art book. Nothing really special here. This one actually took the most clean up too feel “right”.

A RP buddy of mine who I interacted with when I was running Spout’s blog let me use some of their creature sketches to make NPCs for Sudden Changes based off of them.

This design was especially striking to me. Sure it looked like a giant hulking shadow tentacle monster, but it had a degree of elegance to it that I felt showed intelligence. A leader figure.

Eventually that design became this sprite and eventually I cleaned it up to make the current version.

The Pumpkin’s name is Squashbert.

The Harpy’s name is Shane.

The Shadow has no name.

[randomfuturetone]

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- "...An orphanage? I don't want to!"

- "We are sorry kid, but there's no one that is able to take care of you.  Besides, this is not an orphanage, it's a medical center where you can meet a lot of friends!"

- "Why should I stay in a hospital? I don't understand!"

- "We’re sorry kid... But when your chest hurts, you need to tell us immediately, ok?"

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- "Mom... I miss you so much... I wish you never left me... You left me alone... I don't want to tell the adults, but my chest really hurts. Mommy… please mommy, be with me, mommy..."

- "Heyy what's with the long face?"

- "Leave me alone… Oh. I'm sorry I didn't see you before."

- "Ahh, come on, I'm just a girl in a wheelchair, no reason to be scared. You are too lonely here, dear, maybe you need a friend."

- "Leave me alone..."

- "That attitude won't make you smile. What is your name? Or, better said, how should I call you?"

- "My name is.... My mother says I'm a... Am I... Sta... Ar... Star.... A...star... A... -

- "Nice to meet you, Astra."

- "Astra... It sounds awesome! Yes... I'm Astra, what is your name?"

- "I am... "

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Act IV

"L'Ultima Cena"

The rep mod house has two special guests tonight, Poppin and Maia are in the kitchen as everyone waits in front of their plates. Front to front, the girl in white and the girl in black share an eternal, full of tension eye to eye contact. Ignoring absolutely everything, a silly girls appears with two big bottles of soda.

- "Pretty sure they don't have these in the future, haha! So, what do you prefer, Astra, Coke or Sprite?" Asks Maia. Astra says nothing, just keeps staring at Lunny. "Ohh I get it, black clothes are Coke, and white clothes are sprite." She continued. "Here Astra, coke." She says, serving it to her. "Here Lunny, sprunk, haha, like the video game." No one says anything, Astra and Lunny stay the same way "...Someone please help me" Maia says. Lunny stares at Maia 's hands.

- "Hey... What's with the band-aid?" Lunny asks, staring at Maia's fingers. Maia hides her hands immediately.

- "Nothing, nothing, nothing!" Maia says desperately.

- "Hey Maia, we have a new friend we think will get along with you." Bunny says. Lunny takes out a Clock and it turns into Takoko who jumps onto Maia. She accidentally punches the bottle of Coke, making it fall to the floor then explode, leaving her clothes wet.

- "My name is Takoko!!!" Takoko says after leaving a complete disaster.

- "What a place this is." Astra says trying to hide her laugh and remain serious.

- "Well well well, time's up, let's eat!" Poppin says, bringing the plates, everyone is about to eat.

- "Hold on, hold on." Bunny interrupted

- "Yes yes wait a minute everyone." Chuchu says.

- "I'm hungry." Shiteyanyo says

- "What is it, girls?" Poppin asks.

- "We'd like to announce something important." Bunny smiles at Chuchu.

- "Who is going to say it?" Chuchu laughs.

- "Me... No, you.”

- "You.. No me.”

Both laugh nervously. Finally, Bunny drops the bomb.

- "...We're gonna get married!" She says, as both of them show their hands, with two shiny rings on their fingers, respectively.

Natassha claps, and everyone smiles and celebrates except Astra, she doesn't seem to understand what is happening.

- "Whaaaaat, we have to invite everyone! I'll talk to Furry immediately. We have to wear a nice dress for the wedding, and we have to dance. Which song is gonna play when you walk? And what..." Poppin starts to hyperventilate.

- "Calm down everyone, there's a lot of time for it, so let's enjoy this moment!" Bunny says, smiling.

- "You all are really dumb, aren't you?" Astra says with a serious voice.

- "Astra... I refused to have you here, but I accepted your presence because I have manners, please show some respect." Poppin says.

- "Shut up, liar. You shouldn't be here in the first place." Astra says

- "Why do think we are dumb, Astra?" Chuchu asks.

- "We talked about it a while ago, didn't we? You know the world is going to end. Everything is lost, sooner or later we all are going to die, the Nova Wars are inevitable, and yet we are here laughing and eating- and you want to get married in such a cruel world?" Astra says, and there's a moment of silence.

-"You are one to talk. You don't know anything but stealing data, you don't know about love, and now you are here. When all of this ends you're going to pay for your sins." Lunny says staring at Astra.

- "What you know about love, rebel scum.”  Astra says.

- "I loved Misha." Lunny says.

- "Misha... Misha??? How do you know that name??? YOU KNOW MISHA???" Astra approached Lunny and took her from the neck. Poppin and Maia quickly separated them.

- "You are not here for this, Astra." Natassha says, staring menacingly at Astra. "Don't make me regret what I did." Natassha says. Astra looks at everyone.

- "The truth is... I need your help." Astra says, looking at Bunny.

- "Finally." Chuchu says laughing.

- "It is hard to admit... but the only ones who can stop Nova are all of you." Astra explained.

- "Now that’s a turn of events." Poppin says.

- "Kinda predictable tbh.." Maia says.

- "Look at me... you need to explain." Bunny says to Astra.

- "I'll bring all of you to the future to stop Nova, only you are capable of it, you defeated The voice, and you can do it again.”

- "Astra... I heard you said Nova was your fault... I want to believe... Misha said there was still good in you... But I need to know..." Lunny says.

- "Who do you think attacked the original Nova AI in the future?" Astra says, and continues. "A demon you already faced at this time. Something I created... But now, it is sleeping, and it will awake in the future, becoming one with Nova."

- "You are talking about..." Chuchu says.

- "Yes..." Astra says.

- "Yes... My nemesis..." Bunny says.

"...The storm.”

[roxywashere]

Neon

Sequel to “Eighth Wonder”

Rey Walker recuperates after an intense battle.

Rey Walker’s first fight as a member of the most prestigious superhero group in the world had been a hard-fought victory. Though there had been considerable civilian loss of life, the death toll had been a mere fraction of that of the last time the group, much younger and unprepared then, had faced this same villain. Once the Demon King had been hauled off by the Archangel to be imprisoned somewhere beyond the bounds of this world, Astra’s League had immediately transitioned to providing disaster aid to the people of New York.

Rey wasn’t very good at this part. Her plasma-manipulation based superspeed had no real use outside of a fight. Her friends Hilda and Shailene, on the other hand, were very useful. Hilda, who could duplicate herself and anything she holds effectively infinitely, and Shay, who had an almost unparalleled telekinetic strength and skill, were very easily proving their utility to the League, by shifting debris and caring for injured survivors. Even Elle, with her fulgurkinesis, found use stop-gapping broken electrical lines and keeping the power on in the area.

Rey sat on top of a building and watched as the rest of the 42-person Superteam did their work.

One of Hilda sat next to her, futily trying to comfort her friend. “Look, Aradia tells me that her father was never of much use during the clean-ups either, and everybody still loved him anyway.”

“Aradia’s father? Isn’t he the one who mysteriously disappeared and everyone assumes died?”

“Uhhh...” Hilda stalled while one of her other bodies asked Aradia. “Yeah...?”

“Shows how great he was.” Rey sighed. “I’m gonna head home.”

“What, you’re just gonna fucking walk all the way back to Danesville? You’ve never even gone a fifth that in one go before, you’re gonna completely wipe yourself out.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll stop to catch my breath when I need to, maybe grab a drink somewhere.”

“Well, be careful. Call me if you don’t think you can make the whole trip, I’ll ask Aradia to swing by and take you home.”

“You’re not my mom.” Rey activated her plasma-propelled superspeed, and ran down the wall to what remained of Times Square. She looked around, tried to orient herself, and then ran south a couple blocks, and then west until she hit the Lincoln Tunnel. She followed the highway west for fifteen minutes, and by then she was well into Pennsylvania.

She was also, as expected, exhausted. She pulled off to the side of the road, panting. She looked around at nearby signs, illuminating the late night with her rapidly depleting collected plasma, and saw one advertising a quaint roadside dive a few miles down the road. Rey shook off the sluggishness, and slogged the short few seconds it took to get there. It was still open, fortunately, a flickering neon sign advertising this fact.

Rey pushed through the front door of Baby’s Diner and saw a retro-styled red-and-white tiled interior, and for a second wondered if she had stepped 140 years into the past, to the 1950’s. She slumped into a booth, the neon sign hung up in the window next to it, and picked up a menu. She stared at it idly for a minute, before looking around the restaurant, wondering where the staff were. She spotted an old-fashioned plasma screen TV in a far corner, showing a news report of the fight back in New York, and spotted glimpses of herself in the footage they were showing on loop.

She realised something, and then then patted herself down looking for her phone. She pulled it out of one of her pockets, and quickly scrolled through her contacts. When she found the one labelled “Mom”, she double tapped it.

Rey silently cursed when the call went straight to answering machine.

“Hey, this is Trip’s phone, I’m obviously not here right now, but if you wait a while I might pick up before you’re done leaving a message.” Beep.

“Hey, ma. I don’t know if you’ve seen the news yet, but in case you did and saw me I just wanted to make sure you knew I was fine. Um... speaking of news, I’ve got some pretty big to break to you. I was inducted into Astra’s League, about an hour ago, and I’ve already helped save the world. So, that’s pretty cool. And it wasn’t just me. Hilda, Shay, and Elle were inducted too. Aradia Furst called me to her tower, and all of the League was there when I got there. I...”

Rey was interrupted by her mother picking up. Without even saying hello, she immediately asked “The Archangel, did she see you?”

“The- wait, what? How do you even know about her?”

“Did she see your face, Rey?!” Trip demanded.

“Well, I mean, yeah.”

“Goddess be damned...”

“Mom, what’s wrong? What’s going on?”

“Now she knows we’re here, Rey. I risked my neck escaping her wretched clutches and you went and handed yourself to her on a golden platter!”

“Mom, what the fuck are you talking-” Rey was interrupted by her mother hanging up on her. She stared at her phone in confusion and incredulity. “What the hell was that all about?” She put her phone down on the table, frowning. She looked around some more. “Where the hell is the waitress?” She sighed, and glanced towards the neon “Open” sign, which was still flickering. She briefly activated her power, and traced her finger along the tube that was flickering, until it returned to a strong, stable glow, though in doing so she drained herself of the last of her plasma, making her powerless until she could restock. She quietly smiled to herself.

A woman wearing a disheveled uniform walked out from the back of the diner. “Well I am so sorry,” the woman, whose name tag read Debbie, apologized. “We didn't hear your car pull up. How long have you been sitting out here?”

Rey peaked past her into the kitchen and saw another woman with a pocket mirror cleaning up her noticeably smeared lipstick. “Just a couple minutes. Did I interrupt something?”

“Hm?” While Debbie merely feigned ignorance, the woman in the kitchen scowled at Rey. “Would you like something to drink?” Debbie asked, forcing the conversation forward.

“A Sprite’ll be fine.”

Debbie turned to the other woman, and motioned her towards the soda fountain.

The other woman grumbled and stopped fixing her make-up, and then went to pour a glass of Sprite.

“Would ya like anything to eat?” Debbie asked Rey.

“A burger will be fine. Just cheese, I like them plain.”

“Comin’ right up.”

Debbie went back into the kitchen to start making the burger, and the other woman walked up to the booth with Rey’s Sprite. Her nametag read Felicia. “I was gonna get laid tonight,” she whispered. “I hope you’re happy.”

Rey pulled out her wallet and counted out a $10 advance tip in ones. Felicia raised an eyebrow. Rey counted out $10 more. Felicia subtly nodded. Rey handed over the wad of ones and took her Sprite in return. She had also slipped in a scrap of paper with her name and phone number on it, one of many she kept in her wallet so she could hand them out like business cards.

When Felicia double checked how much she had been tipped, she scoffed at the forwardness of the gesture.

“Just, keep it in mind,” Rey explained. Felicia shook her head and walked back into the kitchen. Rey’s phone started ringing, and she answered. 

“Great, you're still alive,” Hilda said.

“Did you expect me to have died walking home?”

“Honestly, I never know with you, Rey. You're always pushing yourself harder and harder and I always gotta be there to carry your unconscious ass home. Anyway, Aradia said she's going to be holding a press conference in Danesville right after the new year ticks over there, which, need I remind you, is in like ten minutes.” 

“Shit, really? I'm definitely not going to make it back by then.”

“Ya don't say. Where are you, Aradia is just gonna cast a portal and pick you up.” 

“I don't know, somewhere in the middle of Pennsylvania, just off of Interstate 80, called Baby's Diner.”

“Alright, she's casting the spell, she'll be right there.”

Rey glanced out the window, and saw the glowing sigils indicating an incoming portal appear in the air in the middle of the parking lot. They were shortly followed by the portal itself, a circular rip in space outlined by a dark violet glow. Aradia stepped through it as soon as it opened, and it closed as soon as she did, only having been open for a second total.

She walked up to the diner and silently pushed open the door, and smiled warmly at the old-fashioned stylings of the place. “So,” she said to Rey, “You ran out of plasma, didn’t you?”

“I used the last of it to make the open sign stop flickering,” Rey told her, indicating said sign.

Aradia took her seat in the booth with Rey. “How kind of you. How far does a ‘full charge’, for lack of a better term, get you?”

“I don’t know, actually. I’ve never been able to reach ‘full charge’. I don’t know about you, but it’s pretty hard for me to get my hands on large quantities of high-quality ionized plasma. Cheap stuff, sure. I got a supplier that just just ships me tanks of gases that I can pump through electrodes and ionize myself, but it’s real low-quality.”

“Well, that’s where I think I can be of great use to you. Because, in fact, I do have a source of high energy plasma. The Archangel is a divine craftswoman of the highest order, and she has built for me fusion reactors that consume no fuel and are small enough that they can be carried in a backpack. If you were to have such a device, I believe your capacity would become effectively infinite.”

“I want to say such a thing is impossible,” Rey started, “But that’s a dumb thing to say in this day and age, so I’m not gonna. But I will ask: What’s the catch?”

“All that I ask of you is that you keep in close contact with me. Keep me updated with the goings on of the street-level crime, and keep fighting it.”

Rey considered the offer for a moment, and then held out her hand to shake on it. “Alright. Let’s make this happen.”

Aradia shook Rey’s hand, and at the same time Felicia walked out from the back with Rey’s burger.

“Oh, my, god,” Felicia exclaimed. “Deb, get out here, Aradia Furst is in our diner!”

“What?” Debbie replied. She poked her head out of the kitchen and likewise exclaimed “Oh, my god.”

“Would you either of you like a photo?” Aradia asked. “Or an autograph perhaps? Both, even.”

“Yes!” Felicia said. “Could you sign my phone? I know it’s not the latest model, but you make them so reliable I haven’t needed a replacement in like 7 years.”

Aradia, summoning a gold sharpie from seemingly nowhere, replied “Never a finer endorsement than one from somebody who hasn’t needed to buy everything I sell. What's your name?”

“Felicia Kyle.”

Aradia took Felicia’s phone and signed it with one of the most ornate and complicated signatures Rey had ever seen. “Now, don’t worry about it wiping off, this ink is specially formulated to bond perfectly with the material of the phone. The only way it’s coming off is by belt-sanding the entire back of the phone off.”

Debbie then stepped in with her own (non-FursTech manufactured) phone, and took a quick selfie with herself, Felicia, and Aradia, with Rey in the background.

“Now, I believe Rey and I have a press conference to attend,” Aradia said.

While Aradia started casting another portal, Rey dug in her wallet to pay for the burger, pulling out $7 and slapping it down in Debbie’s hand, and then taking the burger from Felicia and slamming the rest of the Sprite.

“You two,” Rey told Debbie and Felicia, “Keep an eye on the news.” Aradia finished casting, and a portal into a dark room appeared. Aradia stepped through it, and beckoned Rey in after her.

Rey stepped through, and the portal shut. Rey heard only a low rumbling, and then Aradia snapped her fingers. Holograms started appearing across dozens of workstations, showing gauges and binary status lights, and then a spotlight illuminated a metallic orb bristling with copper pipes, sitting on a pedestal.

“This,” Aradia explained, “Is a recreation of the first Holy Device the Archangel ever built. She called it The Heart. Unfortunately, I cannot give this to you, because it is too delicate in its ancient state to function. However...”

Aradia turned to a human-sized flat disk of gold embedded in the wall. With her finger she traced upon it a wide circle with a pentagram inside it, and inside the pentagram traced the Kabbalah Tree of Life. The disc on the wall split into seven fragments that irised into the surrounding wall. Within this vault was shelf upon shelf of stacks upon stacks of large golden coins, and in the middle of the room was another pedestal with another orb on it, except this one was a plain sphere glowing from within with a powerful white light.

“This Heart is sturdy enough to be worn, even by a superspeedster.”

Aradia then used her metallokinesis to draw from the golden coins, and constructed a backpack around the Heart, and a coil of flexible metal pipe.

“Go ahead, put it on.”

Rey hesitantly walked into the vault, and up to the backpack, and slowly slid it on. Aradia walked up behind her, and slid the pipe under her collar and down her right sleeve, coming out just below her palm.

“Do you feel the plasma, writhing within its containment?”

Rey shut her eyes, and focused, and felt the dense mass of energy on her back. She tried to draw from it, and she felt it snaking its way through the pipe, until she felt the bare heat of it in her palm. She opened her eyes and saw the bright white sphere of plasma, and then absorbed it into her veins.

She had never felt so energized in her life, and struggled to keep her superspeed from activating on it’s own, her fingers twitching and the rest of her body vibrating slightly. She clenched her fist, and stilled herself, halting the overcharge from overtaking her.

“I think I found my practical full charge level,” Rey confided. “It’s not a hard limit, and I’m sure it will go up as I gain mastery, but I think that’s it for now.”

Aradia summoned a small hologram of a clock, which indicated that it was a handful of seconds from passing midnight in Danesville. When the New Year ticked over, Aradia quietly said “Happy New Year yet again, Neon. Now, we must be getting to that press conference.”

Aradia cast yet another portal, and the pair stepped into the front lobby of one of the four FursTech buildings across America. But Rey noticed that they weren’t in the Danesville FursTech building.

“Why are we in New York again? I thought you said the press conference was in Danesville?” Rey looked back at Aradia, who had silently cast one last portal and stepped through it.

Aradia turned to Rey, and said “I did indeed. I’ll be introducing you in about five minutes. I hope to see you there!” Before Rey could snap out of her bewilderment, Aradia gave a small wave goodbye, and closed the portal.

Rey, half seething and half laughing, shook her head. “Well, let’s see what a full charge of top-quality plasma does for me.” Rey activated her superspeed and bolted through the city, feeling a rush of speed that she hadn’t felt since she first started experimenting with her power.

[lynnetendo]

Aaaaahhhh! Did someone beat me to it??? I really wanted to do a Winter’s Envoy FRobin and hurried up so much once I had the design! So here’s my Christmas FRobin!! I actually have the other three necessary artworks already prepared in my mind, so I hope I can do these soon too. Sweet Tactician: Robin has mediocre HP, overaverage Atk, excellent Spd, underaverage Def and alright Res. Also I just really want a Sword Robin tbh She actually has an entire set of skills etc... But what I made her have is exactly the kind of set that would definitely not be S Tier, and what’s more, everyone would probably replace her default set with more useful things, haha. Well, the set’s under the cut, as well as alternative options I thought about! (oh yeah Swap Slide is obv a made up positioning skill but I really wanted her to have a weird original set that’s all lmao)

I’m not even sure about the name “Sweet Tactician”. I mean, I’d rather keep that name for a... uhh, bakery/kitchen themed banner, haha. The word “Christmas” isn’t supposed to be used though, much like “Halloween” in the Trick or defeat! banner, and MRobin already has the “festive” part in his name, and since both are different units they can’t have the same name...... Anyway... First off, if I was going to give her a skill, it’d probably either be Luna, or what I’d love for her odd set, Galeforce. But Galeforce is preceded by Night Sky and Astra and... I don’t like these skills much; though I guess my Robin would be quick enough to be okay even with those. A: Flashing Blade | or | Distant Defense (I actually don’t remember if close-combat units can have that...) B: Vantage | or, if not Flashing Blade as A Skill, | (new) Long Guard (Dunno what I can call this made-up skill, but it’d be like Guard, except Long Guard 3 only needs ≥ 50% HP to slow enemy Special charge down +1) C: (new and lame) Boost Spd 3 grants allies within 2 spaces Spd +3 through their next actions at the start of each turn. alternate weapon skills for Candycane+ were: - Effective against Infantry units. Grants Res +3 when being attacked. - Spd +2. Grants +10 additional damage when activating special. (Wouldn’t make much sense if my Robin had Galeforce)

[inthedusksynria]

*politely knocks on IS place*

*wiggles eyebrows*

So, in order to make December Special^tm, why dont we do a dream legendary banner? ;)

WITH A SELECTION OF: BOOK 5 OC(green bc cmon i think the only green free unit we have is....Anna), FREYR(blue) AND NEW LEGENDARY(red and fire).

LISTEN LISTEN *CONSPIRACY HAT* WE HAVE A SHIT TON OF LEGENDARYS AND 6 BIZARRELY EMPTY SPACES ON DECEMBER. 

AND SAID PLACES HAVE. PEONY(AKA INVALUABLE DANCER IN LIGHT), CELICA( GREAT NUKE AND FODDER) AND PLUMERIA( AKA INVALUABLE DANCER IN ASTRA) = NO DUPE COLORS

(with the exception of grey that has Duma, and while YMMV, i think IS accepts him as a dupe)

ITS ALL COMING TOGETHER FOLKS

this is just a conspiracy theory (bc my ass wants Freyr bc HOLY SHIT THAT SPRITE, ALSO NEED MORE BEAST UNITS AND BEAUTIFUL ART) but can you imagine if that actually happened? the sheer chaos.

also gonna throw it out in the wild: fire legendary is gonna be either Lilina or Rhea. thats my bet.

-yes i know freyr is highly incredibly most likely to come out on january but i am impacient unfortunately, i want to make an all book 4 ocs team-

[spacecollaborative-blog]

Final Edit

Introduction to Doctor Jane Healy’s Essay on the Ian McKinnon Logs.

The daily logs of Doctor Ian McKinnon were found among the rubble of the Astra 27 three days after it plummeted to earth in the April of 2067 after a failure in the electrical wiring. These logs, since then, have been heralded the most convincing piece of evidence supporting the movement to end solo space travel since the first Astra took flight in 2037. The logs support the argument that ships as technologically complex as the Astra model can not be manned alone, and that machine failure cannot be overcome alone. But I believe the logs provide substantially darker evidence as to why solo space travel should be abolished for good.

Log 1.

I think that I should perhaps do a little introduction. Hello, my name is Ian and I’m 34 years old. Goodness, this I’ve made this sound like school. Hi, I’m Ian and I’m 34 and I like TV and the colour yellow, when I grow up I’d like to fly to space. I’m rambling. They don’t make it clear what we’re meant to be reporting in these logs. I suppose some sort of progress report. Right, well, I’m heading to space and that seems to be going rather well so far. Astra 27 all intact, no malfunctions yet, at least none that the Astra deems necessary to warn me of. It’s all quite exciting. Until tomorrow!

23rd May 2067, Post-Mortem

Upon careful examination of the body of Doctor Ian McKinnon it has been discovered that the cause of death was electrocution. It has been deduced that the most likely cause of this was the deceased’s attempt to correct the faulty wiring of the ship. This deduction is being contested due to the unlikelihood of the scenario, due to each astronaut’s teachings not to touch the motherboard of the ship. Further tests are being run.

Log 61.

It seems horrifically ungrateful, doesn’t it, to say that space can get boring. I spend each morning staring down at the Earth in the same way I would stare at the stars as a boy. I could name every constellation, pull out all the important stars and attempt to make friends by listing them off to any poor child that made the faux-pas of standing too close to me at Scout Camp. Sirius, of course, was my favourite. But if anyone asked it was Vega, for it’s blue. But I knew it was Sirius, quite simply because it was big and in the dog constellation, two things that excited my prepubescent brain. And now, I stare at the Earth. I watch as it turns and each day I wait to see the tiny slice of Europe and wonder at all the little boys and girls who are just getting to sleep after spending the night looking up into the sky. How many, I wonder, will tell their friends they had seen a shooting star? I’m sure they knew, as I did, that it was really a helicopter, but their friends didn’t need to know that. But here, there is no one to tell about the slice of Europe I can see every day.

There were no malfunctions in the Astra today.

20th April 2067, The Telegraph

A night of speculation and panic has reached a devastating end this morning as the bright lights that streaked the sky in the early hours of the morning are revealed by NASA to be the Astra 27 plummeting back home. After a severe malfunction in the wiring, it appears that British astronaut Doctor Ian McKinnon tried to return the rocket to the plains of Colorado, USA, to save the £25 million machine and his own life. Yet, terribly, to no avail. Though the atmospheric shields remained secure through both the Thermosphere and Mesosphere, saving the Astra from combustion, it shut down entirely just a cruel 55km from the Earth’s surface. In a plead posted on the NASA website as dawn broke, we are asked to take a minute’s silence at midday to honour the deceased Doctor Ian McKinnon.

Log 76.

Outside the right window, you can see nothing. A static screen through the rectangular glass. It reminds me of being young again, the black with white flecks, often curtained with soft grey. But this time without the potential mystery of a unidentified flying helicopter. Perhaps, from this window, nothing is a bit harsh. In the clean, unaffected glass I can see myself. The grounding reminder that I still exist.

Log 80.

You left me a booklet that I consult every single day. It tells me about the importance of routine in maintaining your sanity. So I read it every morning as soon as I wake up. It stresses the importance of remembering your past self, your self on earth. Little tics, little habits you have to maintain. As well as new routines to integrate into your new life. So, after checking the booklet, and my pocket-watch, I go to the motherboard.

2nd June 2034, NASA interview posted to their website

We are honoured to reveal today the next revolution in battling the final frontier. After decades of innovation, experimentation and exploration, Professors Amelia Hudson and Alijaz Guildenstern can now reveal their Astra, a rocket that can not only fly itself to and through the universe, but can also repair itself if it should encounter any technical malfunction.

‘It will completely change our idea of space,’ says Hudson, ‘No longer will it be an unattainable image, but a reachable destination that any person can visit.’

That is not to say, however, that the Astra can be flown by your average man. But this is a solid step paving the way to the human race’s conquering of the stars as space travel becomes more accessible and safer by the day.

Log 95.

I woke up to bright blue lights. Small, glowing beams of iridescence, burning onto my eyelid. As I closed my eyes the image of them glowered on my eyelid from the clinical blue to a fuzzy red and when I opened my eyes again they were gone. But when I closed my eyes again they were there, but fading quickly. And the more I blinked the quicker they left, until I was quite unsure whether they really existed in the first place. I wish there was someone here, to make sure I’m not going crazy. I have checked the Astra status and there has been no reported malfunction. I have reasoned with myself and have come to the conclusion that when my eyes went from black to this sterile white interior my brain must’ve confused itself, forgot its function, forgot how to process. This makes sense to me.

As for space, it remains the same. When I stare out the window I can see the same stars, and they all look the same. Until tomorrow.

Log 129.

It doesn’t quite make sense anymore. My theory doesn’t quite play out. The blue lights are here in the day. And god how they taunt me. They dance around me but I can’t follow them. They burn onto my eyes and I can’t blink to make them run away. I think they’re maybe in my brain now. It is cruel. But who can I tell? I can look down onto the earth and see the piece of my home and scream at them, hoping that my cries will make it through the machine, the vacuum, the spheres, air, bricks, into home. But I’m not that crazy yet. There has been three alerts in the rocket today, the wiring has been damaged but it is being fixed.

Log 135.

I have spent the day investigating the blue fairies. They’re just how I imagined the sprites in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck a whirl of blue, causing mischief and praying on those who are alone, changing their psychology and their desires. Now when I wake up I don’t really see him, but I can hear him a little, his clanging in the engine room echoing into my room. I see him later though, when I check the motherboard. Not properly, of course, just a quick flash. The machine is working hard to repair the wiring.

A clipping from James Goodwin’s 2086 award winning non-fiction novel on Ian McKinnon.

On a small metal spaceship, with thin, empty corridors, sharp corners and smooth walls, any sound you might hear, you will hear. Sometimes, Ian would tap one of the metal pipes and listen as the sound reverberated through the hallways, bouncing off the sterile, steel walls until it reached him again. It was nice, for Ian to have those little conversations with the walls. It made him forget quite how alone he was. And for hours at a time he would tap, sometimes a little pattern, occasionally the tune to a simple song from home, but mostly just single taps, waiting for them to come back before he’d reply again. It became part of his routine. He would wake up to the bright blue lights, check the motherboard, then talk.

Sometimes, if Ian was lucky, he wouldn’t have to start the conversation himself. He would hear a knock, or a pattern, or a little song from home, and stop what he was doing and knock back. It never particularly crossed his mind who he was talking to, it was just nice to have someone there. In fact, it wasn’t until Ian heard him talk that he had even considered meeting him.

“Hello?” Ian said, when he heard the voice. “Who’s there?”

The man was sitting in the control centre. His hand, which was resting on his lap when Ian first saw him, was now gliding over to the motherboard. He didn’t speak when Ian saw him, although he did hear him on several occasions after though he only saw him once more after this day. He was older than he was, with receding hair and deep lines on his forehead. He wore a well-fitting grey suit, and he had with him a briefcase. He made Ian feel small, in a lovely way. Ian quite liked looking at him, he was comforting and he liked having someone there with him so he wasn’t quite so alone. His hand, which had a few freckles covered with long, curling grey hairs, ran over the buttons and wires. He ran over them in a circle, like he was memorising the pattern. He gave Ian a comforting smile, picked up his briefcase and left.

2nd June, 2067, The Telegraph.

In a disturbing progression of events, Doctor Ian McKinnon’s Captain’s Logs have been found amongst the rubble of the Astra 27. Doctor Ian McKinnon has now been honoured and mourned by the nation for his tragic death two months ago, but the public now has a new tragedy to adjust to as the logs reveal the leading weeks up to his demise were not spent in the jovial state we had all naively but rather a state of increasing paranoia and insanity.

Last Log.

I have finally accustomed to life on the Astra. I had a moment of enlightenment this morning, about the loneliness that I think eats at us throughout our lives. I have spent over 100 days staring at the Earth, the Earth in it’s entirety and I think that this gives me rather broad understanding of the people that mill there below. They’re all alone. Every one of us is alone. And here, if I make no noise, all I can here is my little pocket watch, a token from home. It’s rhythmical ticking, dimmed by time. But it reminds me that I’m alone. I can remember the moments in my life when that was all I could hear. Moments when I was physically alone. But I have come to the realisation that it doesn’t matter whether I can hear that ticking or not. We are all alone. Alone in our heads, in our thoughts. I think that maybe these are what these solo missions on the Astra are about. I think I understand it all now.

Rhiannon Whale

[doubleddenden]

Continuing on with this fakemon AU thing, I decided to try a what if team for Ash if he visited the Eldiw region from Xenoverse Per Aspera ad Astra, aka Pokemon Xenoverse. This one was kinda tough all around because there aren't really a lot of new Pokémon. However, sticking with how he usually does things, I decided to just do my best.

As per usual, I made Ash's sprite based a bit on the design for the male MC from the original game. The Pikachu situation is rather interesting this time, but like the other sprites used, I found it in the game's files. I'll elaborate on this below.

But before I do, yall, play Xenoverse. It and Uranium are probably my favorite fan games, and Xenoverse is insanely high quality all around.

Now let's go to cringe town

So the way Ash comes to Eldiw I think will be different. This Ash is on his way to another region via a boat and happens to get caught up in some weird Xenoverse distortions that unleash Sharpedo X upon the ship. It's a massive incident where everyone is saved merely by being caught up in a dimensional portal by Dielibi and taken to another dimension. Upon waking up, Ash finds himself and Pikachu in an unfamiliar place saved by Aster, Kay, and Alice, and most importantly, something is weird about Pikachu after this happens.

Ash learns about the X Pokémon breakouts in the Eldiw region and decides to help out and do some adventuring and gym challenges, all while discovering strange things that are different from his dimension, and searching for a way to go home.

I imagine he travels with both the MCs and Aster, and Pikachu gets along well with both of their X Pikachu from conflicting dimensions. He is determined to help Kay find his missing father, and along the way they meet certain strange Pokemon.

Pikachu (Retro), was afflicted by X energy from the Xeno wormhole that opened and the trip through dimensions. Other than a changed color pallette, Pikachu remains largely the same, except he now has access to a sort of "soft evolution" to a strange creature called Gorochu, in which he gains a massive power boost but loses control of his own power. He is able to transform back, but only after being totally exhausted. In places that weigh heavily with Xenoverse energy, Pikachu can turn somewhat feral, but does his best to fight this. He's still the best boy.

Trishout, Fire/Sound, capable of shifting through Earth, Xeno, and Astro Forms. Kay already has Shulong from childhood, Alice eventually finds Shyleon, and Ash finds Trishout trapped in a hidden Team Dimension hideout where he is rescued. Trishout is a bit of a naughty boy that enjoys pranks and is highly curious about everything. Trishout, as well as Shulong and Shyleon, can ascend forms and become stronger, but still retains this playfulness in battle. He likes to ride Ash's shoulder in base form and gets along famously with Pikachu, but seems to have strange secrets with the others.

Vesperfum (Plant Bat, Grass/Dark) is the reliable flier of the team and decent in a fight as well. Ash caught it after a quick detour to Dorado village, and Aster seems to have taken interest in its line, as well as the lines for Swelephant and Croakraze. Vesperfum in particular is crazy for fruits.

Swelephant (Elephant man, Water/Fighting) started out timid, and even as a fully evolved Pokémon he is afraid of small Pokémon, particularly rat Pokémon, even Pikachu. Vesperfum is more or less Swelephant's emotional support friend, but Swelephant will absolutely wreck things if it needs done or someone is in danger.

Whisteract (Ghost/Fairy) saved Ash and co from a haunted forest by lighting the way. It is very affectionate and acts as sort of the team mother. It especially dotes on Swelephant, and will emphasize the Ghost in ghost type to those that threaten or harm her friends. She came through for the gang during the G.E.I.S.T. incident

Honchen (Dragon) tried to destroy a village after being exposed to too much Xenoverse energy, and Ash just barely managed to catch it to save it. It turns out that Honchen is rather agreeable when in its right state of mind. It is slightly bigger than average, but is actually a tad weak and is a bit insecure. That being said, it has won very important battles, and everyone loves him.

Other than these, I imagine he would have caught a Sharpedo X for Aster to study.

Again, just for fun.