17 Works by the_zork (swiftishere)
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Pyre Phoenix by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
02 Jun 2024
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Akari dies during the day of the red sky, fighting her way, alone and without guidance, up to a storm of divine wrath, determined to prove herself worthy for people who should be worth so little to her, determined to save the people who refuse to save her, the warden of the cliffs finds her body, black hair slick like oil in a pool of blood, crumpled at the bottom ofYoung Akari is fine. It would be absurd to imply otherwise. Look at her, she’s standing right there, isn’t she? Perfectly healthy and safe. Her eyes were always that shade of almost-luminescent lavender ice, yes. Just like Ingo’s. Quirk of rift travel, perhaps. Everything is fine. Absolutely everything is fine. Shouldn’t we be worrying more about the sky? And speaking of Warden Ingo, what’s keeping him, anyhow?
An apocalypse, and a relit candle, and eight hours that Akari can’t remember.
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- Part 9 of Pokemon AU Bin
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Ounce of Prevention by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
25 Dec 2023
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If one suspects strangers of causing the apocalypse, one generally should not allow them to continue to roam free. They should ideally be restrained until their innocence (or guilt) can be proven. Even if one of them is a child and openly sobbing at the thought of her only family hating her. Even if the other one's absence is probably going to be noticed by a very large, very dangerous Pokémon.
Elsewhere, the rift spits out a man in white. He's not her Warden, but Sneasler will take all the help she can get in finding him.
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Symbiosis and the Spark of Life by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions
17 Jun 2023
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Ordinarily, selling off the treasured possessions of one’s family is frowned upon. Especially if said family have yet to actually die. Ingo sold his brother’s soul to a Chandelure when he was ten years old, though, and it has yet to be a point of contention. Maybe because he threw his own into the bargain, too.
But a lack of argument doesn't necessarily mean a lack of consequences—which he discovers rather quickly in Hisui, having forgotten the terms of the deal he made in the first place.
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- Part 8 of Pokemon AU Bin
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It's Not Personal by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game)
12 Jun 2023
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Sinensis Cyllene, captain of the
SecuritySurvey Corps, is no fool. She's perfectly rational. She doesn't get attached to ridiculous people who push into her life and have little to no tangible value to offer her.Three separate occasions where she stuck her neck out for three such people might beg to differ.
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- Part 5 of Jubilife Slice-of-Life
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Little Gifts by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game)
05 May 2023
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Akari remembers how to make friendship bracelets.
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- Part 4 of Jubilife Slice-of-Life
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if i ask for too much by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions
05 May 2023
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Surely he would adjust eventually. Surely. Whatever piece of him remembered would eventually work out that it wasn’t coming back, and give up on waiting for it.
It couldn’t keep getting worse forever, after all. Could it?
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Sinnoh is Silent by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game)
23 Apr 2023
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The Temple of Sinnoh welcomes a new guest—but nobody's around to welcome her. The Warden of the Cliffs finds a lost traveler, and, as is his duty, vows to see her safely to her destination.
The only problem is, she's not actually sure what her destination is.
Looks like he's in for the long haul. That's fine. He certainly doesn't mind company.
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Nonbelievers by mysteryswift (swiftishere), the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Mystery Skulls Animated, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game)
14 Apr 2023
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Almost simultaneously, the front half of the train dislodges from the first and completes its nosedive to the bottom of the ravine, and the back half explodes.
This, the train decides, has made its point.
Two people climb out of the train wreck in unfortunately opposite places. Lewis encounters Ingo's doppelganger, and Ingo encounters a young man who somehow manages to top his own penchant for saying inscrutable nonsense with a straight face.
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- Part 6 of Pokemon AU Bin
- Part 18 of MSA AU Bin
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don't let yourself go hungry now by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game)
08 Jan 2023
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From stranger to family, in one simple act of mane-cleaning.
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- Part 5 of Pokemon AU Bin
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Covalent Bonding by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game)
23 Dec 2022
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As part of Almighty Sinnoh's gift to its ten noble bloodlines, it granted them an ability that would bridge the divide between them and their human wardens: to become one in body as well as spirit, to share a mind and form as one. A gift the humans termed fusion. That gift became a requirement: to prove they had the ability to work together, a prospective Warden must spend a full day-and-night cycle in this fusion with their Noble, doing their duties as normal.
Irida, forgive her for saying, is getting a little tired of finding every offered Warden to Lady Sneasler dismissed and discarded, even the ones that had made it through every previous trial. Which is why she has little hope that a stranger from the sky will succeed when others have failed.
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- Part 7 of Pokemon AU Bin
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Fantastic Reception On These Things by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions
12 Dec 2022
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Above him, the white lightning of the tiny rift crackled.
It landed on a few more announcements of missed messages and calls. Frowning in thought, he clicked one of the buttons on the side to see if it would do anything now.
The text disappeared from the screen, and was replaced with a single message. Attempting to reconnect: Elesa…
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- Part 3 of Pokemon AU Bin
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A Short History of Starter Pokemon in Sinnoh by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game)
12 Oct 2022
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Like most of the modern trappings of Pokémon partnership—Pokéballs, the Pokédex—the idea of a starter Pokémon is believed to have begun in Crisis-era Sinnoh, with Jubilife. Prior to this era, it was not unheard of for people to form partnerships with Pokémon, but such relationships were considered the exception rather than the norm—particularly for children—and those Pokémon were still largely wild creatures that simply walked alongside humans.
...Here’s a fact that might surprise you! The first Pokémon type ever to have been domesticated and raised by humans is believed to be Bug-type. They’re easy to catch and easier to raise, as any bug fanatic will be able to tell you!
(Or: in pursuit of trying to solve the mystery of why Wurmple evolves, the Survey Corps builds a bug house. They never do figure out the Evolution question, but they do discover something arguably more important.)
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- Part 3 of Jubilife Slice-of-Life
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Copy Corruption by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game)
25 Aug 2022
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Emmet follows his brother into Hisui. They stick together, watching out for each other in this strange new world, adding to each other's strengths like they always do.
Not that anyone would know that, because he's a Gligar.
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- Part 2 of Pokemon AU Bin
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Fate of a Lost Comet by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters: Diamond & Pearl & Platinum | Pokemon Diamond Pearl Platinum Versions
06 Aug 2022
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Team Galactic has gained an ally. A shadowy figure known as the First Commander, difficult to predict and impossible to defeat, carrying out alone operations that would have taken months for a full team to deal with. But Cyrus himself, behind closed doors in Veilstone, seems ever uncertain about him, even as he relies on him as his right-hand man. Their alliance is tenuous, and temporary.
Subway Boss Emmet is on vacation. Don't call.
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- Part 4 of Pokemon AU Bin
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Window Shopping by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game)
04 May 2022
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Pokéballs... they almost sound familiar. Frustratingly so. Ingo pays the new village a visit, trying to sate his curiosity. Jubilife doesn't quite know how to treat a warden that isn't overtly hostile about their Survey Corps.
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- Part 2 of Jubilife Slice-of-Life
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Nobody Writes Them Like They Used To by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions
23 Apr 2022
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(...so it may as well be me!)
Volo's been around the block a few times, but the world still finds ways to surprise him. Case in point: he gets delivered a newspaper from Unova, sees a ghost, and takes an unplanned trip to Nimbasa City.
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- Part 1 of Pokemon AU Bin
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I'm Miserable, Ignore the Smile by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game)
31 Mar 2022
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Cyllene, and Laventon, and Rei, and Akari, and Akari’s team and Rei’s Pikachu and whichever “friends" had decided to barge in without asking—
Skies above, Cyllene was never going to have a moment of peace again, was she?
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- Part 1 of Jubilife Slice-of-Life