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That is my Question & Fallow-up to previous threads I did

Like in season one finale Tari sorta looked like a wizard meanwhile in the season after that Warp powers animation took big upgrade with Tari looking like a robot

Then the seasons Two & Tress after that Tari matched art style of the Game she Warping to I think Tari still looked the same when Warping to Theo game in season two to maintain continuity

What do You Think Tari would look like Warping into different games like Mario or Megaman

In Mario I imagine she look a lot like she looks like in SMG4 in like Megaman probably something similar to that Robot game she went in

Oh in Kirby probably similar to Mario but with brighter eyes like Adeleine

Oh The Legend of Zelda would be interesting depending which art style its going for

But thats me how do you imagine Tari Warping to different games?

Bonus Question: how do you imagine Tari Warping powers would be like in hypothetical Season Four?

(Part 2)

(Just a heads up, this part of the chapter is the largest one so far without me realising so I tried to do my best to work around the maximum word count Grab a hot drink while you read if you want lol)

Slide 1: Back in Pocket Gakusei, MD-5, Tari, and Terapagos coming up with a plan on how to proceed in which Sofia says “Ok, so if I can get into a TASCorp access point at the arena, that should give me a back door through the firewall with my Pokémon. We’ll still need to make a connection with my phone somehow though”. Terrin then follows up by saying “Right, it’s not going to be like last time with Operation: Silent Giratina where Tari and her Pokémon have to do a game breaking glitch but instead just hop into the arena’s access point from the get-go? Seems like it’ll be easier this time if it’s like that”. Masa then responds to Terrin’s take with “Good point Terrin but there are still hurdles that can stop us but we’ll get onto that in a bit”, and then turns to Tari and Terapagos to say “Tari, Terapagos, since you’re the ones at TASCorp, you have insider knowledge about most of this. However, for this plan to work, we need you to get the phone off Belle. Any ideas?”. Tari and Terapagos begin to talk with “Well-“/“Pag“ but they suddenly disconnect from the game, leaving everyone shocked!

Upon leaving the game, Tari and Terapagos gasp suddenly as they wake up and the Tera Crystals surrounding Tari who was in her Tera-Warped state break and dissipate! While feeling dazed, Tari mumbles “What…the…” and looks down at the phone with Lamar’s Pocket Gakusei render freaking out while saying “Tari? Terapagos? What’s wrong?! Tari?! TAAAAARIIIII!!!!”.

Slide 2: Just then, Belle and Armarouge appear with the former snatching the phone out of Tari’s hands! Tari and Terapagos react in shock while saying “Belle! Armarouge! What are you doing here?! And why do people keep snatching things off me?! First Evelyn, now you-!”/“Pagah?! Terapagag-!”, with Belle and Armarouge replying with “Shhh! Keep your voices down. We’re just here to talk.”/“Rooouge. Arma”. Following this, Belle then says “I… don’t think you and Terapagps killed Lucinia, or Zayla.”, to which Tari and Terapagos responds in confusion “Well, that’s what we’ve been trying to tell you. Why would I kill your friend and my mother anyway?”/“Pago, tepag pagah pagos?”. Belle reacts while feeling flustered and saying “Ugh, I know, I know! But I don’t know! I-it’s just… us two have learned some things recently about Lucinia, Zayla, and the incident, and…

Slide 3: …Lucks lied”. Tari and Terapagos just look at Belle in confusion to which Belle continues on with “(sigh) You two don’t understand. Lucks is a shady guy, but he was always good to his Meta Runners”. Upon hearing that, Tari then says “Well, that conversation he had to me in the trip home to TASCorp after that match where my Quaxwell evolved into Quaquaval would disagree with you”. Belle responds to this casually with “For the record, you two actually played very well during that but Lucks is just full of looking for specific statistics and stats to care about anything else. Getting back on track, he was always good to us despite his flaws, to the TAS Elite Four, me, Lucinia, Masa. Agh, Masa! Why didn’t I listen to him? Oh, he’s never going to let me hear the end of it”.

Tari then shuffles closer to Belle to ask “Uh, are you ok? Also, I keep on hearing you mentioning this “TAS Elite Four” but what is it though?”. Belle replies to this with “Yeah, I’m fine. It’s just really hard for everything you know in life to be turned upside down like that”. Tari sympathises with Belle by saying “Well, I woke up in a lab one day with weird connections to the Terastal Phenomenon, Terapagos, and no memory of who I am and our past. So, I can kinda sympathise”. Belle chuckles to this and says “So you can…. As for the TAS Elite Four, Lucks designed this system for the best 4 Meta Runners and their Pokémon teams that focused in a single Type to be in a special group with a one more Meta Runner and team pairing being stronger than them all like a traditional Elite Four. The thing is, me and Masa were in it. To go from weakest to strongest, it went:

The Dark Type specialist, Ray Faraday. Before he joined TASCorp and was even a Meta Runner to begin with, I believe he was a rogue street racer from Kanto when he was a young adult at 19 but he wanted to switch it up and change himself for the better by being a Meta Runner at TASCorp at 22. He only lasted a year and a bit due to him heavily disagreeing with TASCorp’s morale of giving up and chucking out any Meta Runners who didn’t meet the strict threshold. Stronger than him in the TAS Elite Four was actually your weeb friend Lamar Williams, the Poison Type specialist. He was a similar story to Ray where he disagreed with TASCorp’s system but he stayed on for a few months after Ray left. Lamar was also great friends with him as well but I don’t think it’d be wise to ask him about it now as he is probably got all of that past suppressed now. Next up was me, being the Fire Type specialist obviously. And lastly the strongest of the Elite Four being Lucinia, the Ghost Type specialist. However, the champion of this Elite Four if you will, was Masa with his team being miscellaneous in Typing. Me, Luce and Masa were holding things together in regards to this system if you could even call it that at this point until the lab incident happened and we were all disbanded”.

Slide 4: Tari and Terapagos take this all in with the former eventually saying “Woah… I wouldn’t have guessed you had such a strong group in terms of power and camaraderie here with how corporate it is here, especially with Lamar, I wouldn’t have guessed he was with you lot as he was making out that he didn’t have anything to do with the TAS Elite Four. I’m so sorry for you all that it didn’t work out”. Belle replies to this with “Your good, it’s all swept under the mat now”. Tari nods and then asks “Right. Since you and Armarouge are here from out of the corridors. I remember asking you initially why you look up to my mother Zayla so much?”.

At that exact moment, the Zygarde Cell that’s been with Belle secretly suddenly appears on Belle’s shoulder! Before Belle got to answer, Tari and Terapagos say in surprise “Huh?! What’s that green thing on your shoulder?!”/“Pagopa?! Pagos?!”. Belle then looks to see the Zygarde Cell on her shoulder and reacts in shock while saying “What the?! Mini Mistress?! What are you doing here?!”. Tari then reacts to Belle’s reaction in itself by saying “Mini…Mistress?”. Belle gets back on track by saying “Oh! Yeah err… long story short but this little one and I met up in a corridor back at Galvantula Tech Stadium six months ago after that night and it had this look in its eyes that it wanted to be with me. So from there I let it stay with me for it to appear and disappear out of sight when it chooses to. But I think it appeared now because you mentioned the name “Zayla”. I call it “Mini Mistress” as a nickname to reference your mother being publicly known as “The Outgoing Ecosystem Mistress”.

The Cell suddenly hops onto Tari’s bed and over to Terapagos while happily looking at it with Tari smiling while watching the two. She then says “You know, Terapagos here is actually Terrin’s-my dad’s Pokémon and I think this little green one here is linked to Zayla’s treasured Pokémon partner, Zygarde. In a weird way, it’s kinda like Terrin and Zayla’s spirits through Terapagos and Zygarde are reuniting right now after all this time which is so sweet to think about…”. Belle doesn’t seem surprised by this at all to which Tari questions, Belle responds with “After thinking for a bit the night me and Mini Mistress met, I had a feeling it was linked to Zayla’s Zygarde. I've heard stories that Zygarde sends out these little blobs to monitor the ecosystem for any abnormal behaviours, but I’ve got a feeling this one knew that I admire Zayla so it wanted to be with me. I like to think it’s as if Zayla is by my side and watching over my shoulder to keep me company in these weird times”. Armarouge reacts to Belle’s take happily with “Armara!”.

After a moment, Belle then continues with “The reason I look up to Zayla so much as a role model is because of her passion, determination, and resilience that makes her… her. The lengths that she goes to to succeed is so inspiring. When it comes to the sustainability of the Silica Metro Area and Lumiose City as a whole, or personal goals. For instance, she’s kinda a gymaholic but in a healthy way. However, she’s also quite competitive too. At the gym, I know that she mainly focuses on running and boxing but one time, she actually competed in her one and only proper boxing match that took place in Lumiose. I saw it live on the TV with Lucinia 5 years ago.

Zayla ended up winning by knocking out her opponent so hard, that they ended up like they were snoring on the mat. (*Chuckles*) Following that, I remember Zayla teasing her opponent after the match by mock snoring at them right then and there and me and Luce laughed our asses off seeing that karma live on TV! Her opponent was a right douche to her, throwing personal insults and everything. They deserved to be mocked as karma, despite it being a little cheeky and unprofessional, and no, this wasn’t a charity or “staged” match so all of the emotions and blows were genuine. Zayla definitely does have a sense of comedy and humour, but she doesn’t go overboard with it like some others do. However, Zayla also took some heavy blows, as well as receiving a scar to the right of her forehead that she keeps hidden by her hairstyle.

That didn’t stop her from quitting boxing though. She doesn’t box for combat but she does for fitness at the gym alongside her Pokémon, mainly being her Excadrill and Hitmonchan training their moves beside her. The fact that she kept going on with an exercise that knocked her down, literally, but she stood back up and fought on gained a lot of respect from me along with others too. I’ve also seen and heard that she gets given boxing stage names by her fans as if she was fighting for combat. Her favourite one is said to be “Le Serpent Verdoyant”, being “The Green Serpent” translated from French, which obviously links to her connection with Zygarde. Despite not being a Meta Runner or a gamer, I’ve been so inspired that I exercise with weights in my room when I’m not gaming because of her influence. The fact that someone whose outside Silica Metro’s society of gaming as influenced me, a full time Meta Runner, speaks volumes on how great her influence is…”.

Tari and Terapagos are amazed by Belle’s appreciation for Zayla with Tari saying “Wow, I can’t believe my mum was so ambitious to influence so many people in Lumiose, including yourself and Armarouge! But to not remember about something as intense as her boxing interest, especially from my own mum is so surreal. Lucinia and her definitely didn’t deserve to be involved with what happened at the lab after how morally good they seem. That just makes me want to find out more and help”.

Slide 5: Tari then looks away to think but then looks back at Belle and Armarouge to say “Speaking of the lab, you said that you found out some new things about Project: Meta-Stellar Genesis and the incident as a whole, what exactly? I’m asking this because your knowledge of this info could help me and Terapagos remember something to help you two”. Both Belle and Armarouge are a little suspicious but they both agree with the former saying “Look at you asking all these questions. Okay… I don’t know how this can help exactly but here you go”.

Belle then plays the Project: Meta-Stellar Genesis file that Theo and Ogerpon helped to retrieve from her Meta Runner Arm for Tari and Terapagos to watch. They notice Lucks and the TASCorp crew searching out an abandoned lab but then they look over to the to the scuffed outline with wings levitating under a dome with sparkles. She and Terapagos both react in slight surprise when then Tari reads what’s under the outline “PROJECT: META-STELLAR GENESIS: SYNTHETIC META FORMS”. Instantly following this, Tari and Terapagos both become very distressed with them saying loudly “Agh! AHHHHHGH! Oh god! WHY IS THAT IMAGE HURTING MY HEAD?!”/“TERRRAGH?! PAGGGAGH?!”, all while Tari’s Meta Runner Arm is releasing the strange aura again! Belle reacts to Tari and Terapagos’ reaction with concern by saying worriedly “Yo, what’s going on with you two?! What do you mean it hurts?!”.

Tari and Terapagos look the away for a good ten seconds to calm down. Tari then replies to Belle’s initial concern “I-I don’t… know why, b-but seeing that messy outline made me feel like I was having a migraine! I think I did the same for Terapagos as well…. Sorry for the scare but we literally don’t know anything to do with this. (To herself) Then why were we in pain-?”. Belle and Armarouge then say in suspicion “Well, judging by your reaction to it, there’s definitely something but I’ll let you be the judge of that. No need to jump to conclusions, I would’ve jump down your throat if I was how I was six months ago from seeing your reaction.”/“Rouge…”.

Tari then protests to Belle and Armarouge by saying “I don’t know or remember anything about this! I want know about what Project: Meta-Stellar Genesis is, and how it involved Lucinia and Zayla. Me and Terapagos want to know as much as you two do, along with our past”.

Slide 6: Belle scoffs and answers back with “Yeah, promising to help you and Terapagos figure out your past was the only way me and Armarouge could convince Coconut Boy and the Ogre to help us look around the server for that file”. This makes Tari and Terapagos perk up and ask “Wait, you know how to get to Theo and Ogerpon?!”/“Terapago?!”. Belle replies to this in slight confusion to Tari and Terapagos’ reaction with “It’s hard but… yeah?”. Tari and Terapagos excitedly respond back with “Well that’s great! We can work together then! You let my friends, my dad, and I focus on transferring Sofia’s phone data out of TASCorp, and you and Armarouge can be the ones to save Theo and Ogerpon!”/“Pag! Terapag! Pagos!”. Belle just chuckles at Tari’s suggestion and says “Your kidding, right babe? I don’t know if we can still get to them”. This causes Tari to adamantly say “Me and Terapagos are not leaving without them. I’m sorry but, either we save them, or we’re not doing this at all”. Terapagos nervously follows up with “Tera…”.

Belle strictly replies to Tari in annoyance with “We’re trying to take down one of the biggest corporations in the Silica Metro, and hell even Lumiose at that, and you’re going to jeopardise that to save a video game character and a Pokémon that was coded to specifically be in that game? They’re just computer programs! Who cares what happens to them?!”. Tari and Terapagos feel personally attacked by Belle’s words that Terapagos begins to aggressively growl at both Belle and Armarouge!

Slide 7: After a brief pause, Tari replies strictly with “WE care…”. Just as Tari said that, her Quaquaval and newly evolved Florges send themselves out of their Pokéballs just to stare angrily at Belle and Armarouge sternly along with Terapagos doing the same! Without hesitation, Tari continues on without faltering with “And these two that just came out just so happen to be from the game that Theo and Ogerpon are based in. So, if you’re want to dismiss my friends, computer programs or not, you’re going to have to get that point across all four of us!”. Following this, Quaquaval and Florges both say in a disgusted tone “Quaval!…”/“Ges!…”. Both Belle and Armarouge are caught off guard by Tari’s other Pokémon getting involved, especially with Florges to which Belle asks in her head “Since when did her Floette evolve?!”. Belle reluctantly replies in annoyance with “Fiiiine! I’ll bust Coconut Boy and the Ogre out! Jeez!”, to which Tari passive-aggressively says “Thank you” and then her Quaquaval and Florges return themselves to their Pokéballs.

Slide 8: Belle then responds in irritation with “Y’know, I liked you and Terapagos a lot better when you were pushovers”. Tari replies to this with “Well, I like you a lot better when you and Armarouge aren’t kidnapping us both”. Belle and Armarouge chuckle to this with the former saying “Yeah, well, we’ll try and cut down on that in the future. You definitely got grit inherited from your mum when needed. I can tell you that”. Belle then hands the phone to Tari and says “Here, tell Masa that me, Armarouge, and the rest of my team are in for whatever you guys are planning for the showmatch”. Armarouge reassuringly tells this to Terapagos too and both he and Tari look at Belle and Armarouge with confidence.

Meanwhile at the MD-5 hideout, MD-5 are all still wondering what’s going on with Tari and Terapagos disconnecting out of Pocket Gakusei in concern. Lamar then says in a worried tone “I’ll bet Lucks caught Tari and Terapagos and took their game away. That monster’s probably deleting her waifus in front of her very eyes!”. Terrin then says to Lamar “That’s if she had time to get any before meeting us in there to begin with. I wonder what they’re like?”, with Sofia reassuring them both with “Seriously Terrin, is Lamar’s waifu obsession rubbing on to you?…. Regardless of all of that, let’s not jump to conclusions”. Tari and Terapagos both then get back online to say “Hey guys! We’re back!”/“Tera! Terapagos!”. Lamar responds in relief with “Tari! Terapagos! There you both are, we were worried sick about you two!”.

(CONTINUED IN THE COMMENTS, P.S. sorry I have to do it this way due to going over the character limit)

DISCLAIMER

Characters and themes that are present in this fanfiction are not my own, apart from the OCs that I have created. They belong to Nintendo, Gamefreak, and Creatures Inc. (Pokémon), along with Glitch Productions (Meta Runner). This fanfiction is solely a heartfelt fanmade project made by me and is just a story that I have created about my two favourite franchises and in no way an attempt to illegally infringe any copyrighted material for personal and financial benefit belonging to Pokémon and Meta Runner’s respective owners.

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