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Hop To It - Adventure 11

[Big]

A lot of people thought Big was stupid. They looked at him and his big belly and beady eyes, and heard his dopey-sounding voice, and they made up their minds about him pretty quickly.

Big thought that most other people were the silly ones--silly, not stupid, because he'd never think something like that about anyone--because they spent all their time running around, worrying about money and jobs and appointments, while he, Big, whiled the ...

Hop To It - Adventure 10

“So rings make you faster,” I said, as we walked back towards the cape. “And Robotnik--”

“Eggman,” both Amy and Humi said at the same time.

“Whatever.” I rolled my eyes. “So Doctor Mustache uses the rings in his robots to… do what? Do they generate power?”

“Fweet! Twee!”

Amy held up a hand for the bird to sit on. “Birdie says that Flickies like power rings because they energize them.”

“Chirp.”

Amy’s eyes widened. “Reall...

Hop To It - Adventure 9

[Eggman]

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​Metal Sonic was already as fast as current technology could make him. Well, no, that wasn't quite true, Eggman could conceive of ways to create a faster robot, but the engines it would need wouldn't fit in a Hedgehog-sized machine. Maybe someday. No, Metal Sonic didn't need any further speed upgrades as of yet, and so the testbed model didn't have any to give it a boost. Mecha Sonic was not slow by any means, but its primary streng...

Hop To It - Adventure 8

SB | Ao3

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[Amy]

Amy dropped down from the balloon with a worried sigh. "That was a close one, but we finally gave that big lug the slip. Hopefully it leaves us alone from now on." She walked back into the lobby, edging a...

That's the Spirit! - Chapter 22

[Fenton Works]

Runerigus’s head popped out of his body like a periscope, taking in the area with one sweep. Four--no, five humans. One of them was the girl that tricked him. All dressed… bizarrely. Jumpsuits?

Pointing weapons at him.

He unfolded, his stone arms slamming into the ground and cracking the tile. His tail pushed off the floor, flipping him over until he was upright and facing the humans who dared to draw weapons upon him.

The...

That's the Spirit! - Chapter 21

[A Little Earlier than That]

“It was, it was September
Winds blow, the dead leaves fall
To you, I did surrender
Two weeks, you didn't call…”

“Tucker, will you turn that schlock off?” Sam groused. 

She reached out to grab his PDA, but Tucker avoided it. “Lay off, Sam, it’s a good song.”

The two of them left the detention room--again, man, sooner or later their parents were going to start asking ...

Mini-Chapters: Numbskulls and Impounded

[Meanwhile]

While Hala was organizing cleanup and Danny was meeting Corsola again, two particular individuals retreated away from the threat of being put to work, and ended up in an alley behind the rec center.

It was a frequent hangout for Team Skull, though it was only the two of them today; a minor mismanagement of construction and renovation had resulted in the back door to the rec center being bricked over, and the alley was enclosed by obscuring w...

That's the Spirit! - Chapter 20

[Melemele Sea]

Kukui’s Empoleon looked over the wrecked tugboat with a frown. “Hard to believe he just did that.”

“Honorless cur,” Hala’s Poliwrath agreed. He placed a hand on the wounded coral supporting the boat and sighed. A few bubbles drifted to the surface. “Such pointless violence.” 

He chopped a large piece in half with the flat of his hand and passed it over to Empoleon, who cut it smaller w...

That's the Spirit! - Chapter 19

[Hau’oli City Harbor]

“Hehehe… Take that, Captain. This is what you get for kicking me off the boat tour… Bothering the tourists, am I? Well what do I care about a bunch of hokey tourists hanging around where they’re not wanted?”

Yoma muttered to himself continually as he defaced the tour boat. So far, he’d painted the Team Skull logo in three different colors, a cartoon Wimpod looking mean, and was currently attempting to come up with a p...

That's the Spirit! - Chapter 18

[Melemele Island]

“...and that’s when I found a magic puddle, and a big scary snake popped out and dropped Danny in front of me and told me to take care of him, so I got the Professor. And that’s that.”

Zorua yawned. Technically, he was nocturnal. As much as he liked to stay up past his bedtime, he wasn’t really adjusted to staying up all day yet. His story told, he curled up on the wooden deck and tried to get a quick nap in before whate...

That's the Spirit! - Chapter 17

[The Black Keep]

“I want to watch a battle!”

“No no, let’s spy on the Champion, he’s funny!”

“Which Champion, dearest, there’s several,” Dragapult asked calmly, placing a paw on the mirror. The image warped, again and again.

Forest. Desert. Open ocean. Ocean. Ocean a third time, there was a lot of ocean. Forest--

“Ooh, that looks like the fairy wood!” Dreepy-Left said, pointing a cl...

That's the Spirit! - Chapter 16

[Melemele Sea]

“Corsola!”

“Cor, cor!”

“Laaaaa~”

The seas around Alola were brimming with life of all kinds. From the schools of Fish Pokémon, to the Staryu and Starmie, the Crabrawlers trying to catch a nap, the Krabby, the Tentacool, and so many more besides, the shallows were just as lively and colorful as the jungles beyond the shore.

The reefs were home to so many Pokémon, and many of them were friendly. They were all...

That's the Spirit - Chapter 15

[The Black Keep]

Bad. Bad. Everything was bad.

Rotom immediately lost its way after fleeing the castle. It had no idea where it was, but it knew that it wasn’t anywhere good.

It knew it had been several days since it fled, but the sky had not changed. There was neither sun nor moon, just an endless expanse of thick, swirly clouds, in either green or purple flavor. And once, red. That had been the worst of all. Rotom never saw a...

That's the Spirit! - Chapter 14

[Alola Route 2]

The Route 2 Pokémon Center wasn’t far from Verdant Cavern, but the road got much busier as you got closer. Busy enough that there was a line for the counter as they entered, so they went to the café first.

Danny settled down with a cup of the excellently named Tapu Cocoa, and was given a small biscuit and some fist-sized beans for his Pokémon. Zorua and Robin had taken a bean each, and Rick was rapidly consuming the re...

That's the Spirit! - Chapter 13

[Verdant Cavern]

Rattata were among the lowliest of Pokémon. They were too common to be prestigious, too weak to be sought after, and too rat to be considered cute. There were always trainers who caught them anyway, as a stepping stone to greater things, and even a rare few who loved Rattata as they were and tried to make them great. But by and large, a Rattata’s life was one spent living on the fringe of human society, digging through trash ...

That's the Spirit! - Chapter 12

[Hau’oli City]

“Tell me, Danny, what do you know about the Normal type?” Ilima asked from the opposite side of the battlefield, out behind the Pokémon Center.

Danny frowned, thinking. He’d done some more research on Types, but there were so many and it was like Rock Paper Scissors on steroids. “Uh… immune to Ghost and vice versa… weak to fighting… a lot of them are brown.”

Ilima blinked, then chuckled. “Yes, I suppose that’s...

That's the Spirit! - Chapter 11

[The Black Keep]

Jazz Fenton was, to her frequent embarrassment, her parents’ child.

Sure, she didn’t share their sheer, overwhelming, horrifyingly intense enthusiasm for ghosts, but she planned on going into the sciences. She was intelligent, logical (thanks Mom), driven (thanks Dad), and most importantly: when she had a goal, she put everything she had towards achieving it.

Her parents actually had a greater quantity of positiv...

That's the Spirit! - Chapter 10

[Amity Park]

The wind blew through his hair. Real wind, that didn’t chill the bone or make him look over his shoulder. The roar of his bike didn’t echo oddly, or sound dull like the noise died as soon as it left the engine; it just roared, like a lion set free from its cage. Even the sun, the sun, oh it was glorious. The light of day didn’t warm him like it did when he lived, but it was still more that the everpresent gloom of the...

That's the Spirit! - Chapter 9

[Melemele Island]

Danny was well aware that he didn’t have a normal life. His parents were scientists in a field they might as well have made up, and they spent every waking moment working on something that, now that it was working, might upend the science world as a whole for all the different avenues of exploration it would open up. Assuming Mom and Dad thought of any of that and didn’t hyperfocus on the ghost part.

He wasn’t stupid. Once upon a...

That's the Spirit! - Chapter 8

This story already had seven chapters up, and can be read here: SB | Ao3

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[The Black Keep]

Giratina flew, slightly unsteadily, back down to the Keep, and set six ...

Oogway's Little Owl - Chapter 28

[Forgotten Shrine]

“Test 113, Temporal Reversion, commencing.”

Queen Administrator smashed the brick into five pieces, cracks radiating from the center of mass. Smaller castoff detritus was noted and determined negligible.

It reached inside itself for the esoteric energy that Ally: Sloth referred to as Chi. Every time it reached for it, the process became easier.

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