WAAPT:Current events/2016-08

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August 1

• [TS] The Serpent's Cage group is met by a quartet of hostile Gyarados.

August 2

• Etran challenges Crasher Wake for the Fen Badge.
• Westar is tracked by Tagg and Fenrir, before confronting them at the Great Marsh.

August 3

• Sarah challenges Palace Maven Spenser and wins after Ria proves victorious against a sudden appearance by Oblivia's Suicune.
• [TS] Ask reveals to Yangverse!Xerneas that Loki has already acquired the Jewel of Life, and he informs the party about his true origins.

August 4

• [TS] While trying to track down Waka to help figure out the power of the tickets, using the power of Gil's Natu, the group manages to figure out that he and the Ark of Yamato are in Phenac.

August 5

• Kyle Warden arrives in Pastoria in search of an artifact hidden at the Pastoria Gym.
• Maria and Philip get attacked by a wild Onix while searching for treasure underground, who she ends up catching.
• Officer Sherles gets attacked by Thames and Magatsu-Izanagi while they search for information. Lilith and her team confront Thames and Magatsu-Izanagi, but are defeated. Thames then steals some files and escapes.
• Diane and Vierr get into a fight for seemingly no reason.

August 6

• [Meta] Keys2tkingdom turns 33.
• [TS] It is revealed by Sherles to Lillith that Thames stole copies of files pertaining to the Contractors during the attack on the Pyrite Police Station.
• Ren turns 33.
• Lillith informs Tagg about what happened the previous day, and he decides that while he'll inform the Contractors, to prevent Thames finding out he won't tell the rest of the J-Team.
• [TS] Diane manages to beat Vierr in their fight.
• Des catches a Croagunk.

August 7

• Nothing much happened.

August 8

• [TS] Sleipnir is defeated.
• [TS] The Velvet Room attendants arrive to save the Contractors from Shadow Ren.

August 9

• [TS] Yangverse!Xerneas explains that the Yangverse is starting to be subsumed by the OU, and attempts to contact the others stranded there via linking their psychic powers.
• Due to Glitchiness, the Ridley battle resumes, then finally ends.

August 10

• Newscasters report increased Glitchy activity in the Sinnoh North.
• Marianne Heiden attempts to get Wilhelm to assassinate Lane and Samantha for being such thorns in her side.
• The mecha group is attacked by ghostly Unown swarms.

August 11

• [TS] After the Velvet Siblings defeat Shadow Ren with the combined power of their Personas, Ren attains his Persona, Abe no Seimei.
• [TS] Tagg convinces the unglitched Westar to go join up with Crewe's organization.
• During the Powersave Base battle Kylo Robin assimilates Hux Titania in order to become Neo-Grima.
• [TS] The combined Yangverse groups find the Ark of Yamato sitting above a Glitched fallout bunker.

August 12

• Blitz finds Myra inside a GameBoy playing Super Mario World.
• [TS] Within the Glitched Ark of Yamato, the Yangverse party comes across a recording of Team Umbra's encounter with a Glitch inside the fallout bunker.
• [TS] The Contractors fight Fenrir, only for him to get mysteriously defeated by a massive steel hand dragging it into the snowy abyss.
• [TS] The party finds Yangverse!Darkai and a Glitched Waka, the latter deciding to attack them.
• Robin, following a brief struggle with Dave, is freed from his Glitch corruption.
• Iggy catches Pillion.
• Zoe and Revan talk following her sparring session with Seth.

August 13

• [TS] After being freed of Glitchiness, Waka explains Team Umbra's circumstances to the party.
• [TS] Tagg and Eugene figure out that Loki wishes to use the Cathedral in order to realize his plans of getting rid of humanity.
• [TS] Eskay confronts Sarah over the Purple Sword, and ends up losing his Heart of Gold as a result of infuriating Ho-oh by using his Rainbow Wing for such a petty purpose.
• [TS] The Contractors in Dune's Dungeon fight Ymir.
• [TS] Upon reaching the Cathedral, the party fights not only Loki, but also his minions, the Order's Chosen.
• Dave and Robin are transformed into a Palkia and shiny Rayquaza via the power of the Tickets and the reality warping power of Powersave Base to assist in its destruction, while Arika's party discovers that Prometheus was actually Lina all along.

August 14

• [TS] The battle between the Order's Chosen and the Yangverse party continues.
• Glitched!Lina explains how Hux Titania was merely a glitch mote of hers containing a portion of her consciousness, before transforming into a new form.
• [TS] After Loki seals off everyone from Blitz and Ask after his other allies are defeated, the former's Mew powers come back, and they have a duel.
• The Oblivia Beasts appear in Pastoria.
• The Contractors in Deziree's dungeon fight Glasyabo.

August 15

• [TS] Loki is defeated upon the Jewel of Life being restored by the power of the Cathedral's Aura Nexus, and the Yangverse visitors are sent back to their home universe, while the Aurocalypse party is stripped of their Auric powers.
• [TS] Blitz discovers that they may have suffered some side effects of their transformation.
• [TS] The Yangverse visitors settle back into things in their home universe.
• [TS] Lina becomes a viral Groudon through the power of Lovecraft's racism.

August 16

• Jason challenges the Pastoria Gym
• Ever is challenged by the Pastohreeuh Jim. After escaping that debacle, he is reunited with the Oblivia Beasts
• [TS] Lina goes full edgy, but Arika realizes the mighty power of memes can defeat her.

August 17

• Waka confides in Tagg about Kurow, who he used as a vessel in order to entrap a remnant of Yami.
• Lucius decides to head out to Pastoria, where he encounters Oblivia!Entei. With Lucius's help, Entei calls Palkia, who has been trapped in the Pacer Test for ages.
• Lina is brought back to normal with the power of memes, and Robin uses the power of the Tickets to go Mega and destroy Powersave Base.
• [TS] Waka reveals that Muninn and his sister were behind the creation of the Demon Mutagen.
• After encountering a mysterious person in Cipher Peon armor, the Antumbra group spot a massive Salamence.
• Not shown, but Maria turns 23.

August 18

• Nico turns 18.
• The Salamence, Niddhogg attacks Chundona Village.
• After infiltrating a Cipher base, Lilliana and Dane find out that Prometheus wishes to Shadow the Celebi of Antumbra Isle.
• Arika proposes to Chrome, Umbra is finally tracked down to a field in prehistoric Sinnoh, and the Tickets are used to return to the present day.
• Team Umbra, Mia, Dave, and the Rextance members end up in Twinleaf, where the Rextance decides to get absorbed into Nico's X-Nauts, while Winston and Nandi (re)join Robin and Arika's parties.
• Team Umbra shows up right in the middle of the victory party.

August 19

• The Glitchstuck Wars epilogue.
• Joseph suffers Heart-bleed.

August 20

• [TS] The Glasyabo is revealed to have taken elements of an old experiment idea of Deziree's known as "Kecleos".

August 21

• Sarah turns 19.

August 22

• Sarah and Lucius talk about Kieran.

August 23

• [TS] Chrome and Arika ask Dune and Deziree for advice.
• Jason's egg hatches hatches and he names the Pichu Zero.

August 24

• News reports cite Glitch activity at Snowpoint Temple.

August 25

• Tex and Sergey have a battle.

August 26

• Jason and co battle and snag Shadow Undine.
• Ray tells Alyssa the truth about the relation between himself and Linnéa.

August 27

• [TS] Ho-oh decides to take a vacation from legendary duties.
• Efreet tells the story of his and Undine's original namesakes in Ransei.

August 28

• Blitz catches Rocket.
• Lucius and Blitz go on a date to the Old Dunsparce Bar, where the former squabbles with Psyche enough to have her teleport him into the Great Marsh.
• Zrone and Cid discover a rip in spacetime.

August 29

• Lucius meets up with Lissa again.
• Beekay uses Robin's phone to summon the J-Team to a meeting held between the Stormchaser and Ark of Yamato.
• Ren reveals he has earned his required ribbons to participate in the 2017 Sinnoh Grand Festival And has earned the Coal, Forest, Cobble, Fog, Mine, and Fen Badges offscreen.

August 30

• [TS] The meeting continues.

August 31

• [TS] Ho-Oh's meeting continues.
• [TS] Ren informs the group about the Contractor's adventures in the CU.

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