Guess who missed her own FF anniversary!!
I'm not even kidding (insert laughing emoji here because Fanfiction forbids emojis on mobile)
July 27, 2018, the glorius day this forsaken site was cursed with my accursed prescence.
I know y'all may not care, but I felt like sharing.
TO THE CHAPTER!!
*Thoughts*
"Speech"
"Telekinesis Talk."
Disclaimer: If I owned Pokémon...two words: Amusement Park.
O/O/O/O
"No, that won't work either."
Rayquaza let out an annoyed groan, folding up the peice of paper and flinging it away.
"Latios, you have rejected every idea so far. PLEASE make up your mind so that I can get a girlfriend in the next ten years!!"
Latios, who sat across the table, gripped the sides of his head and shook it.
"No...no rollercoasters either..."
Rayquaza raised a brow.
"Rollercoasters?"
The blue dragon reached out and snagged another peice of paper, drawing a really weird diagram.
"Maybe if we get a firetruck involved..."
This bothered the green dragon.
"A firetruck, Latios."
The other continued to ignore him, ripping the paper in half and grabbing another.
"Fireworks? Fireworks."
Rayquaza's eye twitched.
"Latios!!"
The younger dragon's head snapped up.
"Yes?"
The giant snake sighed.
"What are you talking about?."
Latios blinked, then looked back down at his papers.
"The plan, of course. What else?"
The snake blinked.
He then let out a groan and rubbed his temples.
"Latios, listen to yourself. Firetrucks and fireworks? Really?!"
Latios rubbed his chin.
"That sounds like some sort of pageant for firemen."
Rayquaza paused.
"It does, doesn't it?"
"...But it's not the point of this conversation!!"
He slammed his claws onto the table.
"Latios, you sound like a crazy person. Which, all things considered, you probably are, but still."
The blue dragon raised a brow, crossing his arms.
"Really?"
"YES!!" Rayquaza threw his arms in the air.
"Normally you would sit back and silently judge the stupidity of everybody else, but now you've become crazy yourself it seems!!"
His companion tilted his head to the side.
"I'm just...worried about you, Latios. You've just...you've never acted like this before. At least, not before that..."
He went into thought, trying to place when the dragon's odd behavior had begun.
And then it clicked in his brain.
His eyes went wide.
"...Internet Challenge Business..."
Latios didn't seem to understand.
The elder dragon wagged his head back and forth.
"Like I said, I'm just...concerned."
Latios nodded.
"I appreciate it, Rayquaza."
He began gathering up his papers.
"How about we discuss this another time? You seem a bit pale."
Indeed, the color had drained from Rayquaza's face when he had hit the revelation.
"Oh, do I? Then perhaps it would be good for you to come back another time."
The blue dragon nodded, saying goodbye and exiting the tower.
Rayquaza rubbed his temples.
O/O/O/O
"--and then I noticed that he was getting pale, so I left."
Latios finished recounting the events to Zapdos and Mewtwo.
The three were in Mewtwo's cave, sitting around a table and gorging themselves on some leftover cake Moltrés had given Zapdos from some tea party she had thrown.
"Well, that's odd." Mewtwo quipped, wiping the place where his mouth would be with a napkin.
"I know. I'm still confused as to what he was saying about me being different. I mean, I still silently judge everybody's stupidity."
Zapdos then proceeded to burp so loud it shook the cave; however, he still had cake in his mouth, so he then choked on that, so Mewtwo had to perform the heimlich manuever on him.
Luckily, he ended up swallowing it.
Latios stared.
*Especially yours, Zapdos.*
After Mewtwo dumped him back on the table, and groaning a thanks to the clone, Zapdos piped up.
"Wait, so y'all're tryin' to help each other get chicks?"
Latios rolled his eyes and nodded.
"I'm helping him out with my sister, and he's helping me out with..."
He trailed off, not wanting to say it.
The other two rolled their eyes.
"MissingNo."
He went wide-eyed.
"Ya 'member how after we all got drunk that time and did that seancé thing, we all ended up in the same room with hangovers?"
He nodded.
"You talk in your sleep."
"...Oh."
Silence for a moment.
Then, Latios narrowed his eyes.
"Wait, I like MissingNo, Mewtwo likes Articuno--"
Cue growling from Zapdos.
"--Then that leaves one of us, doesn't it?"
He and Mewtwo both turned to Zapdos.
"...What?"
"Well, who is it?" Mewtwo asked.
"Who's wha?"
When the others stared at him, it clicked.
"Oh, that. Well, actually, I'm a member of the "We're-Gonna-Die-Alone-an'-We-Know-It Club"."
"...The what?"
"The "We're-Gonna-Die-Alone-an'-We-Know-It Club"."
The other two looked at each other.
"It's kin'a weird sometimes, but mos'ly 'cause of the members."
"The members?"
Zapdos nodded.
"Y'see, every meetin' is a disaster, because after we're all doin' what we usually do, somethin' gets thrown across the room and sets ev'rybody off."
"Well, what do you all usually do...?"
"Eheh...well, it's kinda a mess: Suicune stands on a table and screams about how 'e shouldn't be there and why don't the ladies love 'im, etc etc;
"Deoxys stands in a corner and eats whateva snacks we got out and silently judges us all and endures 'is own inner turmoil;
"The Dragon Trio sing sad songs with Phione and Jirachi while doin' complex dance numbers;
"Three o' the Regis--y'know, the tinier ones--all sit around a table shakin' and tickin' while makin' this real high-pitched siren noise that ya can barely hear, but ya can, and its weird;
"Meloetta and I pretty much just sit at a table and chug until we can't see straight. Oh, and Victini sits in a corner wrapped up in a blanket an' just...cries 'is eyes out. Like...the whole time. Even after we all snap an' start throwin' stuff at each other."
The two stared at him.
"We meet once a month, if yer wonderin'. Just ta, as Suicune puts it, "Purge ourselves of our inner loneliness an' despair"."
He was met with blinking.
"Uh...you twos alright?"
"I'm not sure if that's just plain sad or if you all need serious therapy." Mewtwo stated, still blinking.
"Eh, both, prob'ly."
He took another chunk of cake.
Latios cleared his throat.
"Well, Zapdos, putting your...apparently absolutely depressing future and future bedside aside, do you two...I don't know...have any advice? You know, for me and Rayquaza?"
The clone and the bird looked at each other.
They then nodded in unison, looking back at Latios.
"Speedboats and firecrackers."
A grin spread across the dragon's face.
"I knew I could count on you two."
O/O/O/O
Rayquaza lowered the binoculars, a completely and utterly terrified look plastered on his face.
"Well, I was right about one thing: It's those two's influence that's destroying his brain cells little by little. And now I need to go destroy every speedboat in Hoenn. And possibly get all firecrackers banned."
He glanced around.
"Aaaaaaaand I'm talking to myself again. Great."
Don't feel bad Ray, we all do it at some point. Some of us *cough* me *cough* just do it more than we probably should.
If you're wondering about why Rayquaza was stalking Latios, it was because he expected him to go to Mewtwo and Zapdos and was scared he would take their advice. Which he did, hence the last few lines.
And, of course, he's scared of the influence of the crazies.
If you're wondering why Meloetta is in the WGDAAWKI Club, she refuses all love after Mew's brother and since he's dead, she's technically dying alone. The others were happy to take her.
If you're wondering anything regarding MissingNo's--or heck, anyone else's--ships, just keep mind:
I am an absolute nutjob and shippings are just the tip of the iceberg.
WPFOTD: In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, you can do a really, REALLY complicated glitch to get either Darkrai or Shaymin. It's overall the same process, only going in another direction and different steps after said direction depending on which one you want.
I once tried for Drakrai, but it turns out I'm crap at tweaking and couldn't get past the first step XD
But hey, I didn't wanna risk my file anyhow. Love my babies too much.
Thank you to CryoPotato for reminding me of this fact and distant memory.
See y'all next Chappie!!