WAAPT:Current events/2021-08

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August 1

• [TS] Bela takes the immediate memories of the mess with Mallory and Molybdenum out of Neodymium's mind.
• [TS] Molybdenum threatens to burn the Stormchaser to the ground if Merle and Narrow refuse to help her find her wards, and departs after finding out their location.
• Vana is forced to tell her scientist handler about Hoops.
• Tagg remembers how he met Iridium/Chiyo the first time, and she reveals to him the existence of the side effects common to Schoolchildren due to the School's creation process, including their generally shorter life expectancy.

August 2

• Gabriel murders a Vanadium and Titanium sibling duo while testing out his new clone forces.
• Dr Lazarus discusses liquidating Mercury and three of their fellow Schoolkids with Firebrand.
• Tagg arrives in the Crown Tundra.
• Axis catches Puxiki.
• [TS] Following his change of heart, Owen whistleblows on Best Berry in his confession, and decides to go find the J-Team in order to find a certain person.
• Cam and Muddy meet for the first time.
• Tagg is revealed to have caught Tyl.
• Owen and Jacqueline enter the Stormchaser, only to be met by its defenses, including Trojan speaking for the Stormchaser.

August 3

• A near-frozen Kamon arrives at Tagg and Channah's guest house, much to their pleasure.
  • He appears again the next afternoon, his presence managing to displease Channah so much that she snaps.
• [TS] The Thieves mull over how to deal with Daniel.
• [TS] Owen asks for Alonya's whereabouts, only for Trojan to tell him that Alonya hasn't been aboard the Stormchaser for almost two years and that they lack knowledge of their current whereabouts.
  • They are directed to find Mason.
• The Defiant Wing is upgraded.

August 4

• [TS] Owen meets Neon, who he has to convince to help find Alonya.
• Alice and Kai discuss the Rosemaster fight and Alice's argument with Kahlia during the Aurabolts party.
• [TS] Kamon reacts poorly to Tagg's attempts at defusing the fight.

August 5

• [TS] Kamon takes off.
• Dr. Azala discusses morality with Radon.
• Azure and Tabitha talk, primarily over how the former feels overlooked by their trainer.
• Percy exposits on the School, Neodymium reflects on her day and her future, and Ever reaches out to Logan, Abilene, and Hiro.
  • Axiom explains Mallory's history, but is interrupted by the arrival of Adelinde the Scythe.
• The Riolu Rebels are formally assembled.
• Vana is sent to kill Hoops.
• Tagg and Channah discuss the Alakagross.
• Kai summons early J-teamers to talk about a TM recovered from Pokefutures.
• Gale recaps her time in Ikoria.

August 6

• [TS] Hiro discusses the possibility that the School may very well be suppressing knowledge of the J-Team being a safe haven for escaped Schoolchildren.
• Tagg meets and catches a Galarian Ponyta.
• [TS] Kai demonstrates the Twilit nature of the TM to Tagg, Ever, and Pentigan.
• [TS] Tagg and Channah meet Calyrex, who directs them to track down more legendaries in the Tundra.

August 7

• [TS] Mallory's group manages to escape Adelinde, whose attempt at threatening PEFE!Every falls flat as they're missing their belt.
  • They get it back after threatening Janie with the deaths of everyone in the immediate area.
• [TS] A Livejournal blog reports Kamon coming back from the Crown Tundra in ill shape.
• [TS] The Counselor dresses down Ferrum for his failure to secure Aurelia.
• [TS] Calyrex give Tagg and Channah special carrot seeds to get back their steeds.
• Tagg informs the rest of the J-Team about the Oasis.
• Ian and Evelyn challenge the Circhester Gym.
• Kai tells Brie that Kahlia will no longer be an issue.
• Apple-A-Day's true identity is revealed.
• [TS] Channah challenges Bede for the Fairy Badge, and wins.

August 8

• Marco witnesses a Schoolkid named Ynos get stabbed, and after helping them out against the Templar Trace the Shatterer, watches as Ynos beats their face in, killing them.
• Apple-A-Day's civilian name is revealed to be Nasreen.
• Kai changes their look before going on a date with Kahlia at the Forest of Focus.
• Percy is revealed to not need sleep.
• Tagg tells the J-Team about common Schoolchild physical traits.
• [TS] Following a catty argument with Molybdenum, Ferrum takes Neodymium and Bela with him for their next mission.
• Said mission is attacking Kai and Kahlia in order to take the latter back to the School.
  • Kai chooses to bluff by claiming to be a Schoolperson
• [TS] Anthony thinks about his death.
• Adelinde decapitates Dr. Powell when he threatens to inform the School about her plans to leave the escapees alone for the moment, and threatens Lutetium into compliance
• Yvan presses Odin into watching over Owen.

August 9

• Owen meets Odin and asks him for help finding Alonya.
• Tagg and co discuss Spectrier and Glastrier.
• [TS] Bela is revealed to be a clone of Kahlia to both her and Kai.
  • Kahlia attempts reasoning with her clone, only for it to fall on deaf ears as Bela starts taking her memories.
  • An enraged Kai starts draining Ferrum.
  • The School party chooses to withdraw due to Bela's mostly successful memory extraction, and Avada teleports Kai and Kahlia to the Stormchaser, plus Ferrum's hammer.
• Axis Hunter catches Letina and Axollo.
• Tagg talks with Mason regarding what he learned about average Schoolchild life expectancy from Chiyo.

August 10

• Owen and co figure out that a number of people they know have gone missing over the past year or so.
• [TS] Kahlia finds that her brain is still scrambled from the attack.
  • Kai goes over the abilities of the Schoolkids and Templar they'd fought.
• JD and Fox discover a mysterious serial killer.

August 11

• [TS] Channah challenges the Spikemuth Gym, and wins.
• [TS] Tagg and Channah come across the Galarian Legendary Birds, including Zapdos, who agree to test the two by departing to places throughout Galar.
• Silas and co raid a Sakura Genetics facility somewhere in the Coronet mountain range.
  • After defeating two Burst Heart using enemies, Silas frees Khan the Type: Null.
  • Silas asks the rest of the J-Team for help.
• [TS] Hoops loses their battle with their old team.
• Owen and co find that Coil and Iris have become Team Yell hooligans in their absence from the J-Team.

August 12

• Puxiki evolves to Wigglytuff.
• [TS] Kec takes back the stipulation that Hoops give up training if they lost, but still refuses to rejoin their team for the moment.
• Mason meets up with Percy again.
• [TS] Channah challenges Raihan for the Dragon Badge, and wins. Andy evolves into Alcremie and Korexis evolves into Hydreigon after the battle.

August 13

• Molybdenum attempts to enthrall the Stormchaser, only for it to blow up in her face.
  • Ever tells her that they're aware of her surrogate daughters/younger sisters, which causes Ramona to attempt to strangle them with her bare thumbs in retaliation.
• Akira covers up the successful assassination of a defecting Templar.
• Shun encounters a Rainbow Rocket Grunt, who following a brief skirmish, introduces herself as a Faller from another Kanto named Jade Arens before explaining how the Team works.
• As Vana decides to kill Hoops, assisted by Nitrogen and Ferrum, the trainer in question challenges the Hammerlocke Gym.
• [TS] Louis accompanies Gaspard to J-Con.

August 14

• [TS] Hoops challenges Raihan for the Dragon Badge.
• [TS] Following Misery managing to stop the strangling, Ever talks to Molybdenum about their self-deluding tendencies.

August 15

• [TS] After Ever grills Ramona some more, the School Alumnus tries deflecting, only for her to get temporarily disarmed by Ever hugging her.
  • While in the midst of continued self-denial while laying out her motivations, Ramona asks Ever Homestuck questions, which manages to throw them off enough that she's given an opening to retreat.
• Evelyn has a vision of Hoops getting attacked, and she and Ian go to warn them.

August 16

• Ever tells PEFE!Every about their encounter with Molybdenum.
• [TS] Shaun is attacked by his alternate universe counterpart Orpheus, which he texts the J-Team about.

August 17

• The Aurabolts start assembling in [Venice] in order to intercept a smuggling deal.
• Molybdenum breaks down over what she's learned.
• Odin and Owen learn from Coil and Iris that they were originally Pokefutures experiments.
  • They also meet Rose, who decides to screw with them.
• Tagg tells the J-Team about his plans to visit the AU for the 10th Anniversary of the Battle of Cellafron.
• Tobias examines the results of the Sakura Genetics skirmish.
• Kai mentions the symbol that their alternate self had, while Tagg mentions their similarities to a Team, deeming them J-Dan.
• Tommy receives a mysterious viscous fluid from Des, which he attempts to analyze by tasting.

August 18

• Mason talks about what he's been up to, while Percy talks about the Phantom Classmates she's pretty sure are dead.
• Chiyo and Dactyl mull over the future.
• Neon asks Professor Yew about Kuroi Kiri, an Aura Vampire, and finds out from Beck that the artifact he was sealed in is currently in the possession of the Macrauls.
  • Beck talks about the evil of the Macrauls and how he's aware that a certain Haunter may be owned by their matriarch.
• Chiyo and co are forced to fight off two Templars and their forces, killing one and critically injuring another.

August 19

• Tagg and co enter the AU and head for Celadon.
• Chiyo Gaiden.
  • Following their departure from their flat, Chiyo and Dactyl are attacked by Louise the Sniper.
  • Following a battle Chiyo manages to subdue them, but decides to spare their life out of pity/compassion for their apparent youth and it simply feeling wrong to kill someone while they're unconscious, though she does leave a message for them while unconscious before leaving.
  • Nicky and Kendra's quiet evening is interrupted by an injured Chiyo showing up and get her to tell them what happened.
• [TS] After Kec decides to rejoin Hoops' team for the duration of the Gym Battle, Kit evolves into Thievul and decides to go by Vul from then on.
• Mason and Scarlette discuss the concept of being regional Champion.

August 20

• Victor visits the Librarian in order to get genetic samples and ends up obtaining a bit of Victini's fur that Molybdenum managed to snatch from them.
• [TS] Hoops defeats Raihan.
• [AU] AU!Jackie and Gino appear to Tagg and Channah, alongside AU!Pentigan.
  • Tagg decides to head to the Celadon Pokémon Center.
• Chiyo Gaiden.
  • Chiyo and co head to the Opelucid Planetarium, where they end up getting acquainted with Ovis, Azumarill, and Anguis.
  • The combined group ends up in Aspertia to watch the stars, where Nicky and Kendra decide to invite Chiyo and the others to join them on an expedition.
• Adelinde appears at the same Poké Mart Logan is in and starts interrogating them.
• Daydre is revealed to have caught Flipnote offscreen.
• Shun gets blown off by Interpol when he tries telling them about the dangers of Rainbow Rocket, so he decides to direct Jade to the J-Team for help.
• Daydre Gym Montage.
  • Daydre challenges the Circhester Gym, troublesome evolving to Copperajah in the process.
  • Daydre challenges the Spikemuth Gym, Kazma evolving to Cinderace in the process.
• [TS] Nitrogen compares the differences between the Phantom and Freshman Classes to Ferrum.

August 21

• The Hydrogens appear in Hulbury on the advice of a farmer.
• [AU] Tagg has a breakdown upon visiting the site of the Celadon Pokémon Center and starts praying for the fallen.
• Chiyo Gaiden.
  • Chiyo and co go diving through a dark cavern once Nicky opens a rift.
  • Nicky and Kendra discuss the nature of the numerous subplanes between the main Nine Realms.
  • While helping mine for crystals Chiyo and Azumarill discuss the former's love life and her issues with entering an official relationship with Nicky and Kendra.
  • After ending up in a different village subplane to trade, the group discusses getting Tagg's help to get the Deep Alloy they obtained properly refined.
• After defeating Raihan Hoops is met by Vana, who signals Nitrogen and Ferrum to attack them.
• [TS] Shun tries contacting Tagg for help, only to get Ever instead.
• [TS] Ian and Evelyn challenge Gordie and Melony in a double battle at the Circhester Gym.

August 22

• Chiyo Gaiden.
  • Chiyo and co are ambushed by the School, with Chiyo splitting off from Nicky and Kendra in order to prevent their capture following the latter's attempted use of Goldvoice to cease hostilities.
  • Tagg's mons arrive to help out.
  • Following the mopping up of the School forces, Templar Gerald sends out a cyborg made from the corpses of multiple Schoolkids known as Project Hekatonchires for them to fight.
  • During the fight, Chiyo reveals her Fire sub-element.
  • Project Hekatonchires is defeated by Chiyo, but Gerald reveals that he managed to have Nicky and Kendra captured anyway.
  • Tagg's mons enlist Draca's help in reaching Gerald's Air Train.
• [TS] Shun explains to Ever why he's calling.
• [AU] Tagg talks about how the fight with Lanius' Praetorian Guard went with Channah, including Helios' use of Heat Shield.

August 23

• Chiyo Gaiden.
  • Chiyo on Draca's back assaults the Air Train.
  • As Chiyo and co drop down to the airship, Gerald sends Hortensia to deal with them.
  • As Nicky and Kendra work to get themselves free, Chiyo battles Hortensia the Spider, who is revealed to be an Aura Vampire.
  • Kendra Goldvoices their way past their guards and finds a number of captured School prisoners, who Trojan helps free.
  • Hortensia is revealed to also be a Burst Heart user, and gets the upper hand over Chiyo and Dactyl.
  • Nicky and Kendra come across the fight and are captured despite their mons best efforts, but between them and Tagg's mons serving as distractions, Chiyo manages to get herself free and burn the Templar to a crisp.
  • Chiyo and co reach the bridge and the former plus Dactyl battle Gerald the Caustic after he separates them from the others, who is revealed to have a Poison-subtype.
  • Draca manages to destroy a major structure, but Gerald manages to obtain the upper hand over Chiyo.
  • Upon seeing the lunar rainbow after Draca blasts a hole in, Chiyo reveals the full extent of her power and kills Gerald with it.
  • Chiyo and co evacuate the Air Train as it crashes into the ocean.
• [TS] Shaun is attacked by an Ace presumably from Orpheus' universe.
• The Hydrogens are attacked by a Templar using mannequins.
• [AU] Tagg explains to Channah how the Lanius battle went.
• Victor learns about Project Hekatonchires' demise but perks up upon learning about the combat data obtained.
• [TS] Kamon talks to Rockstar about meeting Ira as a kid.

August 24

• Mason acts out a scene from his childhood in a fit of insomnia.
• Tommy describes the effects of the polymer substance set to him by Des.
• Chiyo Gaiden.
  • Chiyo, Nicky, and Kendra tell the rest of their Oasismates what happened.
  • The Gaiden ends.
• While remembering being born, Molybdenum finds out about Ferrum making a new hammer out of their metal.
• Owen catches Pie and Pizza.
• Ludmilla learns from Altera that the School of her time named their children using the Taoist elements.
• [AU] Tagg participates in the water lantern ceremony for the fallen of the Battle of Cellafron.

August 25

• Upon returning to the OU Tagg learns from Trojan about Chiyo's adventures and goes to talk with them about it.
• Silas sends a report on Gabriel's clone soldiers to the rest of the J-Team.
• [TS] Logan sends the rest of the J-Team a text showing a picture of Adelinde.
• While at the supermarket to get some tea, Chiyo is spied upon and meets Percy and Nasreen, the former originally mistaking her for a Templar.
• Maurice obtains a sample of Munna DNA from Yumi.

August 26

• Owen finds Hortensia's Burst Heart in the wreckage of an Air Train car.
• [TS] Following getting teleported to the vicinity of the Stormchaser, Chiyo and co discuss their separate deals.
  • Following Percy telling her about how Adelinde nearly killed her, it is revealed that Chiyo and Adelinde have fought in the past.

August 27

• [TS] Chiyo discusses her hopes that despite the School's power, they may finally be in a position to be defeated.
• Rose is accosted by the Rainbow Rocket duo Frankie and Costello.
• Louise mulls over Chiyo's words while still recovering from their last battle.
• [TS] Shaun convinces Not!Ace to stop trying to murder him once Orpheus shows up again.
• Tagg goes to Jacqueline's store Mushraiments.

August 28

• Channah obliquely tells Iris and Coil about her trip with Tagg to the AU and gets the list of missing people from them.
• [TS] Tagg finds Jacqueline and Aislinn having an argument.
• [TS] Chiyo introduces herself to the Stormchaser and goes into her line of work.
• [TS] Hiro identifies the Burst Heart Owen obtained, and the Ariados inside tells them about Chiyo's existence.
• Pentigan finds themselves within the Meat Palace.
• Victor obtains Mew DNA from Bartelby at a book signing.

August 29

• Hiro and Owen arrive at the Air Train car the latter obtained the Burst Heart from.
• [TS] Frankie and Costello are sent blasting off by Fitz.
• [TS] Chiyo and Dactyl talk about how they met, and also discuss with Percy their immediate actions after escaping the School.

August 30

• [TS] Hiro notes the non-crash related damage to the train car.
• An invitation allegedly made by Julius is sent to the J-Team text chat.
• Ann is revealed to have caught Makoto offscreen.
• [TS] Hoops attempts reasoning with Vana, who finds herself unable to kill them.
• [TS] Ever arrives in Ballonlea to assist Jade and Shun.
• [TS] Tagg notices the remnants of Aislinn's injuries from her battle with the Yamask and the Dialga-masked person, which she tries to pass off as the result of her fighting off a mugger.

August 31

• [TS] After Tagg calls out Aislinn lying about the source of her injuries, Jacqueline tells him what happened.
• [TS] Due to Vana finding herself unable to do it, Nitrogen decides to help finish the job, assisted by Ferrum.
• [TS] Orpheus decides to cut his losses and flee.
• [TS] Hiro and Owen meet an enemy Schoolkid in the ruins of the Air Train.
• The J-Teamers at Parfum Palace find the place mysteriously deserted.
• Tagg and co return to the Crown Tundra to check on the Shaderoot Carrots, only to be met with an angry Spectrier.

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