WAAPT:Current events/2018-08

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August 1

• Tagg is texted by PEFE!Every to come help over on Mt. Lanakila, who he finds stuck under a Drampa, who she catches soon after.

August 2

• [Meta] AbsentCoder turns 17.

August 3

• Colton defeats Roark and earns the Coal Badge, while Amaterasu in diguise defeats Gardenia and earns the Forest Badge.
• [TS] Round 3 of the Criminal battle.
• Kala and Kael find a room on the Stormchaser that they quickly commandeer for themselves.

August 4

• Cleo meets a man by the name of Edouard, who is revealed to actually be named Livius and in league with an Aura Vampire going by the name Carmilla.
• Shaun catches Nero.
• Colton defeats Maylene and earns the Cobble Badge, later on catching Mae.
  • Later on Sylveon defeats Crasher Wake and earns the Fen Badge.
• Kai mentions to Brie that they're starting to shift more towards they/them pronouns.

August 5

• Shutter and friends go on a night out at the town, leaving Scout with a camera strapped on her to roam the Stormchaser at her leisure.
• Kai officially announces to the J-Team that they're going with they/them pronouns for the time being.
• Colton defeats Fantina and earns the Relic Badge, while Human!Helmsman defeats Byron and earns the Mine Badge.
• Soleil goes shopping at Midori's Herbal Garden.
  • Midori is revealed to work alongside a Fennekin named Ewan, and a Sky-Forme Shaymin named Tressa.
  • Soleil reveals that her, Semigloss, and Cynthia's team adopted the Justice Cabal name.

August 6

• [Meta] Keys2tkingdom's 35th birthday.
• Lily Thane's agent follows up on an minor dimensional rift.
• Ren turns 35.
• Colton defeats Candice and earns the Icicle Badge, and later the Beacon Badge, Warner evolving to Staraptor in the process.
• In the future, Aria and Oscar Clavis find an artifact bearing the symbols of the Temporal Dragons.
• Caretaker is nicknamed.
• In the present, Aria and Oscar crash the artifact into Ren's pool and reveal who they are to him, delivering Ren's annual unsettling birthday news.

August 7

• Lila beats Hala's grand trial, obtaining the Fightinium-Z and a Z-Ring, with Whimsy evolving into Gyarados in the process.

August 8

• Nothing much happened.

August 9

• The Nierplot group attempts to escape some crazed cultists.

August 10

• Supervillains convene in Lumiose.
• [TS] Elizabeth and co find themselves within the Abandoned Megamart.
• Kala falls asleep in the halls of the Stormchaser.

August 11

• Kala is caught/helped by Lita.
• [TS] Shutter eats while hosting an interview between his boss and his grandfather.
• Colton challenges the Sinnoh Elite Four, Mae evolving to Luxray in the process.

August 12

• Garrett comes to visit Channah, who asks Tagg for help dealing with him.
• Kael "terrorizes" Route 5 in Kalos.

August 13

• Shutter spots Tommy Petersen in a dumpster while searching for his pidgey Scout. Tommy had been spying on the supervillain meeting and spent the previous few days in garbage. Shutter assigns him to interview Kael and Kala.

August 14

• Laundry Day! Tommy and Shutter end up stirring a rather profound discussion on weremon kidnappings after meeting with a few folks at the laundry room. Also, Shutter alerts Julius of the whereabouts of a lost Whimsicott.

August 15

• [TS] Colton challenges Cynthia, but loses.
• Shutter visits the Lumiose City Gendarmerie and presents his analysis to Officer Jenny of the doctored footage to clear Kael's reputation. Meanwhile Tommy is stuck on transcript duty and is on the phone ostensibly for editing assistance and to ask odd questions like "what does J- in J-Team stand for?"

August 16

• Julius makes an announcement via the Stormchaser's PA system. Hilarity ensues.
• Shutter comes back from Channel 8, which now clears Kala and Kael of any implication of rogue activity... while Kael looks for the head offices to give Julius a piece of his mind.

August 17

• Whiptail and her accomplices carry out a heist at the Lumiose Game Corner.

August 18

• Shutter visits the Interpol office and discusses matters with Shun regarding the heist from the previous day.

August 19

• [TS] The Bwahliance battles a ghostly Exploud.
• [TS] Shun and Shutter meet up with Tommy and Gimbal, who share with Interpol high-resolution images of the heist.

August 20

• Lucius Cain asks Ever for help dealing with his fae problems.
• [TS] Shun warns Tommy and Shutter about the J-Team and their shenanigans.
• Sylvestra and her husband are planning something.

August 21

• On their 21st birthday Kai encounters Carmilla the Aura Vampire, who pressgangs them into their service on pain of becoming their newest meal.
• Noir and Bonfire turn Cleo into a were-Purrloin.

August 22

• Hank and Tommy arrange e-mails to organize an interview with EVP Krete of Battle Company. Tommy also pledges to help Shun with apprehending the jewel thieves.
• Kai is given their first mission, to find a shiny Murkrow.
• Joseph doesn't feel like himself.

August 23

• Onabarrak requests to join the Phantom Force, before revealing himself to be none other than Kaius back from the dead.
• [TS] In 2008, Hank Harvey publishes an article on [the transfer of the Pokefutures assets to PEFE] and how it pissed off the Battle Company, LLC.
• Tommy and Shutter read that article.
• Cambria makes a wish, which Coyote overhears.

August 24

• It is revealed that Coyote granted Cambria's wish by invoking a Musical Episode spell upon the wedding proceedings.
• Ren and Cambria get married.
• [TS] Shutter and Tommy are called to help Julius and Alisher look for Galiya.
• On holiday in Alto Mare, Reynard Albright livestreams the conclusion of the Clavis wedding while dabbing.

August 25

• [TS] The Clavis wedding.
  • Renard and Cambria's wedding reception begins.
  • A lot of Legendary Pokemon show up at the reception.
  • [TS] Kai meets Amanita again for the first time since their PWT battle.
• Shutter accepts Jetta's invitation. He sends Tommy to battle her while he documents and officiates the match.

August 26

• [TS] Reynard takes an awkward selfie with Merlin at the halls of the hotel where the Clavis wedding reception is taking place; recognizing the situation, Shutter and his father Richard are exasperated at the prospect of what would happen next.

August 27

• After he blacks out after drinking so much at the wedding reception to cope with Ilya appearing to regard him with annoyance, Colton wakes up from his blackout to find Realism, Insecurity and Inferiority in his mindscape.
• [TS] Tagg finally tells Channah how he feels about her, but she doesn't quite compute it.
• Dr. Multiman has Mobius invade Lumiose with a host of Pokémonized superbosses in order to get the J-Team.
  • The Memito Complex is attacked by a mysterious person who teleports them to the universe run by Pokefutures.

August 28

• [TS]: Prior to the Battle of Lumiose, Shutter and crew send a package but sees for themselves the extent of the greater story that they sought out to document, while Tommy and Tobi agree that Arachna-Guy and Aranos are outmatched by the Mobius Society and choose to help as civilians until the need calls for more.
• [TS]: Reynard agrees to aid Merlin retrieve something from the Macrauls while recalling his time as a young deliquent.
• [TS] Memito's Horrific Quest
  • The Complex teleports into what would've been Kyogre's chamber in the OU, only to find that the surviving humans have re-purposed it into a place called Wellspring Town.
  • Upon leaving, they're caught by Pokefutures agents who offer to take them back to their home verse before figuring out their true identity upon recognizing PEFE!Every. Combat breaks out upon negotiations breaking down via attempted murder.
  • After getting stolen away again by Troy, PEFEvery is confronted with this universe's version of her mother, going by the alias of Mary.
  • Brie and Amanita have a heart-to-heart over the latter feeling relatively useless compared to her fellow Memitos.
  • PEFEvery learns that her counterpart in that universe died trying to stop Pokefutures from using her Dunsparce and other mons for Drives.
• [TS] Mobius Raid.
  • Dr. Multiman confronts the J-Teamers in the Stormchaser directly for the first time and gets into a verbal sparring match.
  • Following Echo revealing herself to him, Multiman looses it and unleashes Mobius' secret weapon, a power amplifying Z-Crystal-esque structure.
• Kai finds a shiny Murkrow to give Carmilla.

August 29

• [TS] Mobius Raid.
  • After discussing it with Echo, Tagg decides to call for the rest of the J-Team to fall back to the Stormchaser and retreat.
  • J-Teamers are sent codes for the Multi Carrier.
  • Team Locke makes their triumphant return to the OU alongside Grandpa Max and Evelyn, and shatter the crystal.
  • Dr. Multiman and co retreat after the superbosses are defeated, but Izaya shows up via screen to give the J-team a cryptic message about his future plans.
• [TS] Memito's Horrific Quest.
  • Leah decides to nominally side with Ever, and tells the tale of how she got involved with Pokefutures as well as the general state of the world as well as about Mary's existence.
  • Ever's attempt to try saving PEFEvery goes poorly.
  • Basket gets summoned from the OU to help create a virus capable of transforming humans into mons to help restore Earth's biosphere.
  • The dying Ever goes inside their own Mindscape to gain the ability to use Mega Evolution.
  • After getting their Tiara aspect to come around, Mega!Pleth makes short work out of Mary.
  • Leah gets turned into a Bulbasaur by Basket's virus and bids the Memito Complex and Basket farewell before they head back to their home verse and she destroys the portal between their worlds.
• Lily Thane gets the drop on Pentigan and steals his items from him.
• [TS] Shutter's live coverage of the Mobius Raid led to a concerted livestream by Tommy and the Kalos division of the Geographic Society. He reunites with the company only to find that Tommy had left two of his Pokemon at the Stormchaser.
• The J-Team arrives at PEFE HQ in order to lay low for the time being.
• Pentigan tells Jared about how he got mugged by Lily.
• Ever texts Tagg to tell him that they'd managed to make it out safely.
• Vi and Daydre spring some of PEFEvery's traps before meeting the trap maker in question.
• Grandpa Max and Evelyn reunite with Evan.
• Marlowe is nicknamed.
• Following an awkward conversation regarding feelings, Tagg and Channah share a kiss, which Sol finds them doing.

August 30

• Within Channah's Mindscape, Truth plots with Ira.
• Tommy sends an e-mail to Tagg telling him about the stowaway mons.
• Ludovic and Lowell Macraul reconnect.
• Aphrodite, with Rod and Laura in tow, visits Tagg's office to tell him about Echo's role in making Dr. Multiman the way he is in the present.
• Shutter receives new equipment from Yggdrasil and Clavis Sciences.
• Kai tells Holly about the deal with Carmilla they're currently stuck in.

August 31

• [TS] Aphrodite tells Tagg about how following Echo's betrayal of Mobius, Rod's twin brother Corey was lost in an accident while testing time travel technology.

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